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Coffee Cake cup sugar, hal
kup butter, two eggs, half cup molasses
iaH cup cold coffe (very strong,) one
,feaspoon soda in the coffe, one tea
ktpoon cloves, mace and cinnamon.
Black Pudding.-One egg, one cup
wsrm water, one cup currents, one
hall cup black mola; ses, one teaspoon
taoda. Two cups -four. Steam two
khnurs; serve warm with sauce.
Ftiehoke Pickle.-Scrape we'll
a few hours in cold salted water.
vinegar, adding coriander seed,
ZEE. mustard seed, black pepper, all
ce aud a few cloves. Pour this
the artiehokes boiling hot. Cover
well
Molasses Cookies.-One pint butter
smfIk. one pint New Orleans molasses,
bne5eup lard or butter, two tablespoons
soda. one tablespoon ginger, same OF
3ayoyes. -four to make still Dough
olfone fourth inch thick, and bake in
hot oven.
when o man begins to do wrong ne
snnot answer for himself how far ne
6ay be carried on. He does not see
eforehand, he cannot know where he
ifll and himself after the sin is COM
fitted. One false step leads to anoth-
|er: one evil concession requires
|8p0ther. = -.
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Amt Dolly Elmer.

Aunt Dolly Elmer was little ole
woman who, nearly a hundred years
ago, lived all alone by herself in
country town in Vermont.
The little girls in the neighborhooC
used to go and sit with her, and she
taught them a great many useful les
sons. Indeed, Aunt Dolly found 8
le> son in everything. Was she reel
ing yarn, she would say, perhaps
this skein of yarn is like our daily
lives; some of the time it runs swiftly
and evenly without a break, then
comes snarl, or knot, or a tangle
and it often arises from our haste, OF
impatience, or a freak of temper; and
if we are not careful, it makes us much
trouble, and leads US into difficulty"
| One day, when Anna Simmons
happened to be sitting with Aunt
Doll y the dear lady was called away
to 70 in haste to see a sick neighbor.
She hung the skein of yarn she was
about to wind, over the back of her
chair, and went out. -,
"There!" thought Anna, "I will
wind that yarn myself. l know how
well enough and l have right to
do it for she is to knit it into stockings
for me-"
So she managed to put the skein OF
bright red yarn upon the long arms of
the swift, and began to wind. She
found an end, but it would not be per-
suaded to wind off evenly. and soon
she had broken it in several places.
When Aunt Dolly returned, the
whole skein was in q sad tangle.
20, my child" she said, "you began
wrong. You put the skein upon the
swift wrong side up, and then you
were in such haste to begin winding
that you did not take time to find the
right end. Your work is like a day
begun without prayer. The time saved
runs us in difficulty of some kind,
we lose our temper, and make an
unkind speech, perhaps, that hurts for
q long time, as the knots in the yarn
will 60 into your stockings, and may
cause discomfort as long as the stock
ings are worm"
Aunt Dolly and all the little gills
who Vi sed to visit her have long since
passed away, but some of their chill
dren, to whom her wise lessons are
repeated, think of them still.
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Opportunity and Character.
BY GEORGE D. HEBRON, ID.

1t is not opportunity and the lack of
opportunity, not ability and the lack
Of ability, that make the difference IN
The power of human lives for good. 1t
is faith, character and the lack of char
acter. 1t is conservation and concen-
tration, and the failure to consecrate
and concentrate. 1t is courage and
selfdenial over against cowardice ana
selfishness.
There is a potential hero Of faith, a
possible prophet of larger truth, in
every soul. The door of supreme OPP
portunity swings open to every man
and woman, church and nation. In
some great moment God stands before
each and says: "Now is thy time! Show
what is in thee Show the world thy
vision or thy blndnsssW And what
makes one great and the other small
is that one grasps what the other pass
es by. One enters the door of oppor-
tunity which the other fails to enter
because of the cowardice of unbelief.
One looks at himself and fails; while
the otherlo looks God and His universe in
the face and dares to trust, trust IN
spite of the stupidity OF the church,
the mockery and unbelief of the world,
the misunderstanding of friends.
Harlan Page, pressed with business
cares, battling with ill health, led a
hundred young men into the ministry
by consecrating his personal Influence
to Christ; yet every business man III
New York had the same Christ and
the same opportunity. John Wesley
became the apostle Of new dispen-
sation of divine grace to the world; yet
every student in Oxford had the same
opportunity to gather about him hall
dozen fellow students for prayer and
Scripture study and divine guidance.
Tie noble daughter of William E.
Dodge has consecrated herself and
wealth and time to solving the problem
ofthe Door in New York city; yet many
rich mems daughters have the same
opportunity. George Muller, begin
ing in poverty, has built up those or
phan homes in Bristol, England,
which are a miracle of prayer the un-
belief Of the world cannot gainsay: yet
there were other students in the Ger
man university where he studied upon
whom the same spirit of prayer was
pressing. Time would fail me to tell
of the many who through faith have
seen the purposes of God in their day
which the pride and unbelief of the
world would not see, and have made
them their opportunity.
1t therefore behooves US each to be
about our Fathers business, watchful
for our opportunities; for the night COM
eth, in which no man can work. In
an hour when we think not the Son
of Man may come to us, in the su-
preme moment of our life, and find US
sleeping on the threshnold of a match
less opportunity. 1t is Gods part to
estimate the value of our service; 1T Is
our part to serve and question not. -
The Advance.
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what to DO with the Hands.

Have YOU sometimes more hands
than you know what to do with? do
they at times reveal your nervousness
and trepidation when you wish most
to appear at ease? If so. peruse these
helpful words of the Bazaar, which Will
show you how to train the unruly mus
cles:
MY dear fellow" said society wo-
man of great candor to an awkward,
timid young Harvard graduate whom
she was to present, "you have any
amount of talent, you have position,
you have money, but you will never
show at your best, until you know
what to do with your hands and feet.
You must lose them, forget them, be
unconscious of them."
This is easier said than done; and
yet it is possible by the persistent use
of few exercises which bring relax.
alton and feeedom from stiffness, and
others which encourage fexibility and
strength of muscle. Cultivate the
habit of letting the arm fall and. place
themselves as they will when standing
or sitting without occupation. Learn
to swing them, one at a time, back and
forth, like pendulum hanging from
the shoulder, the elbow-joint straight
and easy, but not laut. Lift the length
Of the arm rs q weight from the shoul-
der very quietly and slowly as high as
it will 90, and bring it down in the
same manner. The muscles across the
back are wakened to wonderful de-
gree. Try this movement siDgly, and
again with both arms, fifty or hum
dred times day. With the arms
hanging at full length, elevate the
shoulders slowly, and turn them in q
rotary motion towards the back.
i A daily practice Of such simple
movements call ones attention to the
varied actions and use of joint and
muscle; the idea of using the arm
from the shoulder is understood, and
the habit of bringing different sets Of
muscles into play in alienation and
succession becomes second nature.
This is the numbering Of ones forces,
and training them to do each Its own
part. It is q kind Of personal massage,
the virtue of which lies in the minute
search for weakness, fiabbiness, and
|. lack of development in the smallest
muscle, and the daily gentle manipu-
lation which strengthens it by action.
No woman wants that close knit sinew
and knotty, woody fibre that many
men seek to obtain from athletics. 1t
is entirely opposed to the offices Of life
to which nature calls her; she does
want firmnes with flexibility, staying
power and endurance.
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The Universal schoolmaster.

The Carolina Spartan says: when
you come to Hawaii you will please
pronounce it Ha-wi-e with the accent
on the second syllable. The "a has a
broad sound"
Thanks, awfully; We have been
fiounderlng around the Ha-wi-ean Is
lands for a long while, and were oppo-
sed to annexation until we could get
the right pronunciation. Now tell
US about "Liliuokalaui," if you were
acquainted with the duskY queen, and
you can 60 to the head of the spelling
class.
The above is from The Greenville
Mountaineer. The pronunciation o.
the queens name is ''Lil-i-u-o-ka
lave" and it must be pronounced
trippingly OH the tongue A little
practice will show Bro. Hoyt that it l.
easy.
This shows that the newspaper is .
universal schoolnaster and very et
fec,ive one. A good teacher will reacl
forty pupils yearly. A good paper, lik
lThe Mountaineer, will reach severa
thou sand readers. This affords
wonderful opportunity for the edito
TO teach spelling, pronunciation, pune
tuation aud the use of the right word
in the right place. If Bro. Hoyt will
look over his exchanges and stud.
their style, he may be somewhat Sui
prised to see how few of them come u
to the high standard required of them
We believe very few editors clearl
understand their power, responsibility
and influence. -,
The editor should use clear, forcibl
, and correct English, even In writing
local about turnips, or the best metho
= of raising ducks. When there is SOM
! public interest directed to remot
and unknown place, the history, ger
graphy and condition of the plac
should be given. Many people wh
read papers have no dictionaries, er
, encyclopedias or gazetteers. They Dc
) pend on their single weekly paper fo
all information about the world ou
side their neighborhood. Many {
. them depend on their country pape
: for religious news. They do not tax
church paper. So the editor of
weekly paper is sort of priest as we
as schoolmaster. He should never fol
get that he is a teacher.-Carolin
Spartan.
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themselves by a pretentious title as
the professed ministers of the loWly
Jesus.
Peter and Paul were right reverend
men, but they would have been the
last to have called themselves so. No
sensible person does reverence us one
jot more because we assume the title.
IT certainly is in some cases a flagrant
misnomer, and its main use seems to
the pestilent one of keeping up the dis
tinction of clergy and laity.
We wonder when men first soug nj
out this invention and from whose
original mind did the original sin en-
mate? We suspect that he lived IN
the Roman Row of Vanity Fair, al
though the Rev. John Bunyan does
not mention him. One thing is pretty
certain, he did not flourish in the day
of the Rev. Paul, the Rev. Apollos, ol
the Rev. Cephas.
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Tnble Manners for Ch ildreu.

Drink from the cup-never from the
saucer.
Teaspoons are left in the saucer, not
in the cup.
Little children only have the nap
kin arranged as bib.
Making noise, either in eating or
drinking is vulgar.
Always cbeerfully defer to older
people and to guests.
Eat slowly, and do not fill the mouth
with large quantities.
Eat the food served, or quietly leave
it upon the plate without remark.
Never initiate rude or uncouth act,
even if committed by an older person.
Avoid drumming with the fingers or
the feet; it is the height of impolite-
ness.
If in doubt at any time as to what is
proper, follow the example of others
of more experience.
Patiently await the coming Of your
turn; do not follow with the eyes the
food served to others.
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State s.. 8. convention.

The State Sunday School Con Ven-
ton of South Carolina will be held ut
Abbeville, 5. o., April 4 to 6, 1893:
The usual subjects and discussions will
obtain. Besides the presence of dis
tinguished Sunday School workers
within the State, Professor Hamill, OF
Illinois, and Mr.. J. w. Wallace, of
Augusta, Ca, will, according to the
programme, have much to do in max
ing the proceedings of the Convention
Interesting and profitable.
Mr.. Charles H. Carlisle, Spartan
burg, S. CO. chairman of the execu
tive committee, announces that specia
rates have been granted over the rail
road lines In the State.
Entertainment will be provided fol
all who will notify MIR. A. b. Morse
chairman committee OIL entertainment
at Abbeville, S. G., on or before Marci
30,h.
1t is hoped that the Sunday Schoo
interests Will be greatly advanced b..
the meeting at Abbeyille.
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DRESS REEoRM.-Some young ladies
of Indianapolis have donned the Co
lumbia dress suits, initiating the dres:
reform that has been pushed by theil
elders, desiring the short skirts. The
suits are of blue cloth, the skirts fall
ing just below the knee. A Short
Skirt League has been formed in Eng
land under the auspices of Lady Hor
berton. 1t is proposed to have the
skirts five inches from the ground.
First Step toward Evangelization.-
Madam Loyson, wife of Pere Hya-
cinthe, now on a visit to United States,
puts as the first step toward the evan
gelization of France the prohibition OF
Intoxicating drinks, and says that '.in
France the wine cup is the god of the
masses" 1t is stated that thare are in
France 440, 900 establishments open for
the sale of Intoxicating liquors. In
Paris alone there are q 900.
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Good.Humored Courtesy.

No other qualification serves man
so well, perhaps, in his daily inter-
course with other men as q good-hu-
mored courtesy, which can turn aside
the sharp edge of ilhnature by witty
lest. A prominent American states
man is noted for this trait, and owes
to it much of his popularity.
A Weston man, not q member Of
Congress, who felt injured by some de-
cision which he made while Speaker
of the house Of Representatives, sought
him, in q rage, to "free his mind"
One or two lookers-on followed, hop
ing to see the Speaker lose his temper
They met him on Pennsylvania Av-
enue.
"Mr. B-,n broke out the irate
stranger, II don't know you! But I'll
take the liberty of telling you you are
a fool p'
Mr.. BIS eyes twinkled. II won-
der now" he said, quietly, "if you
had been an intimate friend of mine,
what you would have taken the lib
erty of saying"
Some rude fellow, provoked at Sgd
ney Smith, barred his path one day,
saying, II never give way to block
head y
"I always do," said the clergyman,
quickly passing around him.
Thomas Moore, the gr lndson OF the
great High Chancellor, tells, in his
quaint old English, of the "pleaysant
witt" with which he turned the anger
uf his foes into admiration. On one
occasion, having reminded debtor Of
his obligation, the man grew abusive
and bade him remember that he was
likely soon to die, when money would
count for naught." He added, "Mem-
ento morieris." Remember that you
will die.) :.
"Ay, truly you have chosen a good
motto!n said Sir Thomas. "Memento
mort aeris" Remember iMore's mon
ey.)
The habit of saying gay and pleas
ant things can be cultivated as well as
that of perpetual complaint and sar-
casm, aud it certainly add new, fine
flavor to life.
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Scarcely any of the Chinese are reg
istering in accordance with the in
famous anti-Chinese law. There isn'
money enough available to punish
them for their quiet protest against the
legislative crime.
The present roll of the United States
Senate shows forty-four Democrats,
thirty-eight Republicans. one Populist,
one independent, one Farmers ALI
ance and three vacancies. The vacan-
cies are one each in Montana, Wash
ington and Wyoming.
John B. Roden storekeeper at Bir-
mingham. Ala, after listening to a
sermon on the evils of card playing,
made a large bonfire Of the cards in his
store, valued fully at 5000.
Says the Protestant Methodist a:
"Prof. Townsend, of Boston is authori-
ty for saying that the U. S. Navy is
already so far Romanized that confess
sional boxes are now built in some of
our men-of-war."
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Macaroni and Cheese.---Wash a
dozen sticks of macaroni, and break
them into pieces of uniform lengths;
boil it in plenty Of water until tender.
Arrange alternate layers of the boiled
macaroni and cheese-s0me CRATE the
cheese, others only slice it very thin.
Lay slices of butter over it; salt to
taste; cover with sweet milk or cream.
Bake in u moderate oven fifteen min
utes. Serve hot.
Lemon Cookies.-Four eggs, two
cups white sugar, one cup butter, one
teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking
powder. The grated rind and juice OF
two lemons, flour to make a stiff
dough. Beat the sugar, butter and
eggs TO cream; then add the grated
rind and juice Of the lemons. Sift
soda and baking powder with the
flour. Bake in quick oven. These
are very nice.
"Make Christ your most constant
companion" Be more under His in
Auence than under any other influence.
Ten minutes spentin His society every
day, aye, two minutes, if it he face to
face and heart to heart, will make the
whole day different. Every character
has an in nward spring; let ChIist be it.
Every action has keynote; let christ
see it.
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At the Kentucky Conference (M. E.
Church, South) this occurred, as re-
lated by one of the young preachers:
"After the committee had passed US in
our examination, one of the commit
tee called the class into room, and
after giving US advice which we will
never forget, led in prayer asking that
we might 60 forth with the baptism
of the Holy Ghost. For two hours we
prayed and rejoiced together, giving
in our experiences. No class meet
irg was ever more spiritual. God was
never nearer us than in those precious
hours. Ifother committeeman should
take such delight in the spiritual de-
velopment of the undergraduates as
did this brother, what wonderful
ministry we soon would have Ken
lucky Methodist.
Mothers - keep evil literature out
of your boys hands. Don't prohibit
and scold but warn kindly, and insure
obedience bv cultivating taste in
him for something better. Don't
discuss sensational newspaper headings
and the last murder cases in his pres
ence. Capt. Jack Crawford says:
"Many Of the young men in the
penitentiaries of the Western States
and Territories assert unqualifiedly that
they were brought to their present
shame and disgrace through reading
dime novels. They longed to be he
roes or highwaymen or noted robbers,
and their first attempt at crime in
variably led to their imprisonment
for long term.
Open q can of peas, drain, and lay
them in cold salt water for half an
hour. Boil them soft in three pints
of hot salt water, with slice Of onion
and stalk of celery. A sprig of mint
improves the flavor. When soft, rub
them with the water in which they
were cooked through a collander; put
over the fire and bring to boil. Add
two heaping tablespoons of butter roll
ed in three heaping tablespoons of
flour; one-half cupful Of hot milk; a
small tablespoonful of sugar; salt and
pepper to taste. Simmer and stir for
five minutes, and turn into tureen in
which is some fried bread dice. e.-Ameri-
can Farmer.
"A correspondent requests the pub
lication of the following paragraph
from the Scientific American as a
matter of interest: "In case af dip
iberia raw onions should be placed in
cloth and beaten into pulp. and
the cloth containing the onions,
juice and ally bound about the throat
and we'll up over the PATIENTS ears.
Renewals to be made as often rs the
mass becomes dry. The effect is
almost magical, the deadly pain yield
ing in short Time"
Always spread large clean cloth in
your clothes basket before putting in
the clothes. Pass clean, damp cloth
along the clothes line to free it from
dust. A galvanized wire clothes line
is the best, as it neeh not be taken
down, besides freeing ones mind of
the fear of breakage or slipping of
knots with the direful attendants of
such contingencies. a clothes pin
apron, which is made by facing a
large piece of cloth on the outside for
pocket, is much more convenient
than basket, as it allows the free use
Of the hands.
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French Military Law.

A French soldier, who picked up a
cigarette end in the Bicetre military
prison, where he was undergoing pun.
ishment, was ordered by the sergeant
to throw it away. The man became
abusive, and struck the sergeant with
his fist. A Court-martial sitting In
Paris has condemned him to be shot.
The incident il All apt illustration ol
the difference between citizen law and
military law. A blow with the fist
entails fine under the one, but under
the other death. Such are the amenl'
ties that might be expected in an In
stitution whose mission is to slay.
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God can overlook ten thousand mis-
takes on the part of any man who is
trying his best to do right, but he has
sworn that he will never forget the
sins of those who are dishonest with
their fellow-men.
TIE kindly act and thought, the
angry look and speech checked, the
small errand done, the stitch put in;
all these are the small things iof daily
life in which we may serve our Lord.
The Secular Union of the State Of
Washington, are petitioning against
the exemption of church property
from taxation Oh the old cry Of
"Church and State"
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The International Lessons for Sun.
day Schools might well be superseded
by series of catechisms-say l, 2, 3,
Extending from the infant class Oh
up to adult graduation. II our memo.
ry is not at fault two or three General
Conferences of the M. e. Church South
within the last twenty years made
moves to have such series published
but if any thing was ever done after
wards it has escaped our notice. IL
the catechisms there should be Script
ure references in support of the an
swers given to the questions and the
shol lrs required to commit them t.
memory. Only in this way eau oul
young people have an intelligent anc
systematic comprehension of the teach
ings of the Bible.
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A Penitent Females Refuge having
been established in Boston, the Tran
script wants to know why Refuge fol
Penitent Males has not also been es
tablished. Ut would be most unfort
unate," it says, "if all the long years
the penitent males have been wanting
publicly to avow their penitence, but
cannot because the good people have
failed to furnish a Penitent Males Ref
uge. BY all means let US lave one
with sign so big and plain that he
that runneth may read, and gather
the males within. ."-Woman's Col
umn.
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Do not try to rest OH the airy foun
dation of mere speculation, but rec
on Christ the solid Rock Of Ages.
There is only one way to get on this
foundation, and that is by obedience
and faith. A mere theory without O
practical experience will not put you
here.
1t was the Saviour who said: "Pray
for your enemies; do good to those
that despitefully use you" No mans
heart Is right until he cherishes a
spirit of forgiving love, and would
rather suffer himself than cause
another pain.
Let your right hand know what
your left is doing and pull together.