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Columbia jjmitinel.
HARLEM GEORGIA
PUBLISHED EVERY HHRSDAY.
Bnllnrci «*, AtUlnoon,
PMOMUSrOB*.
A BARBERS WISDOM.
A Tonaorinl Arllm Unlock*
HliKnowl'«i<|t! Box.
How Hair* Turn Gray anil Why Men Got
Baliibnaelod Az! vice to Women.
A biirlx-r who dresM-d n Brooklyn
Union reporter** hair r< << tills hud th'
usual < onvcniutioiial ability of the pro
fe»*ion," but it ran in a different vein.
Be didn't remark alxmt the weather, talk
indefinitely of politics, or even xugg'-t
the pro|>er kind of hair re-torer the* <us
turner should use, foie hail, jierforee, of
him.
“You have an excellent head of hair,"
■aid be.
“Yet," wax the gratified response of
the customer.
“Hut it is growing gray,” was the next
remark.
“Um," grunted the customer, guessing
What would next lie said; but hi: wax
mistaken. I'here was no suggestion of
hair dye,
“Thu reason I aay ao is, Ih ciium- if you
■IW careful in live years you will have one
0t the finest hi ads of gray hair a man
would wish, and I think nothing is finer
than a thick growth of gray hair, it is
not the sign of weakness that many think.
Rome of the healthiest men in the city
grew gray young. You mustn't cut it too
often, though.”
“Why notl”
“Because that will make you bald. It
i* often wondered why men grow bald
and women do not. Some claim it i* be
cause the men keep their huts on con
atantly and sooverhiat their heads, while
women wear light hats This is incor
rect. Men keep their huts on very little
more than women. The trouble is the
men generally have their hair cut con
stantly and short, It's just like keeping
a lawn mower going frequently over the
grass The roots burn themselves out
and the plant dies. Hair is nothing more
than a plant so fur as that is concerned.
“1 beg your pardon, does that hurt you /”
and the burlier dmtcp'U«ly removed a
munlx r of halt' wfileli Lui ggtlett be ;
t«i< u the customer's collar and his neck. >
"Ito you know that those little hairs
might obtain growth there if you left
th-"i abow'f They would. I’ve hud
' liuirS grow th on my arm or hand
and it was just n« if 1 had been inoeulat- 1
cd with virus. Then was irritation and
inflammation. This wouldn't be the case
with one’s own hair, of course."
“I giiC" you didn’t get nil that hair
out,” »aid the customer. “There seems
to Is- - nnr crawling around there yet.”
‘You're right about the crawling.
Hairs are covered with scales fnevel one
way They’re like flat, round, or three
■orm red Illi-. and the teeth fasten them
•elves in the skin so that tin; can almost
crawl. 1 cun easily tell which end of this
hair tin ' risit is on," said the barber as he
rubied a hail between his thumb and
forefinger. and it lx c-an to move out of
his hand. "That is how hair* get tan
gbsl. These teeth fasten in each other.
The people who pull nt them only hurt
themselves and tighten the grip worse.
If they rubbed the tain-led spots between |
tln-ir finger* they'd loosen it without
hurt."
t ‘‘You think women are wise in not cut
ting their hair?" asked the reporter.
"No. 1 don’t. Tiny should hive
their hair trimmed <x - asionally, lawausc
that would aid its growth When hair
(fro** to a certain length it splits, and
that weakens it. I'm often surprised,
though, that many women have
any hair at all. They draw it up so
tightly it ought to strain it out by the
root*. I (relieve they give themselves
their nervous liendai In s |>y straining the
nerve* nt the Ims. of the brain in doing
their hair up They certainly expose the
tenderest part of the head."
After this information, given withou
interfering with his work, the burlier pro
ceded with a phrenological examination
of his customer's head, detailing the vari
ous excellencies of character shown in his
bumps, until he wax puffed up with pride
and paid the extra .’> cents demanded for
bay ram without a murmur.
Big Bequest*.
It is remarked in connection with the
Vanderbilt charitable liequesta, that
Stephen Girard left the bulk of his fl.
500.000 estate to charities in and around
I’tiiladelphi v. and for other good pur;xw
e>. Tin A't rs gav. to the Astor Libra
ry |I,OOO,IKW. John Hopkins gave
000.000 to found a gnat school; Leland
Stanford *10,000,000 f..r a similar pur
•Me; Ezra Cornell *2. .Vxi.tgio to Cornell
University . Asa Packer *1,000,000 to
la-high Vniversity , J. C. Green *1,500.
000 to Princeton College; James Lick
,000,000 ill tli<- name of benevolence,
and lUn veil >pcnt $1,000,000 in
founding It mm-wit in New
York. The Pvnbody fund, the Slab r
fund and Peter Owprn ffift* are well
remembered*
“Nelli! ok Ventured, Huthinic Gainet*”
Mortal iw n* *** idly witting,
Waiting fOf m I*-ttrr day.
While wo faat f ho- hour** an- flittin
Flitting rapidly away
Knnw yr not it m by biiior
That mH bk-oo’irign an- at tai nrd
!/'nm thou thb, aim! Uu h thy nrighlior:
“Nothing ventured. nothing gained!"
Batter time titan no* I a* never,
Or will never, to tta**’ come!
Now'w Um- tin*** for grand endmvor—
Ktrilce the nail, and drive it borne!
Strike the blow wh<me wlk**4 ringing
Khali I*- I wan I a/T<M» tlw land
Blow by blow, that whaD b* bringin;
Benefit front »»ut thy hand
Re deceived iu4. if thy brother
Tell thee of to morrow m <-liner;
!>o not Mw-d him. for another
Day inay r-*nne an<l thou nut here.
Htepby Htep go on and upward,
Day by day new height* attained;
I’nb* him who <ian* ii» given
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained!',
Zs,/ llrlen A. Manrille in Ovr Yftnth
KEEPING HIS WORD.
A THI E HTOItY.
Hour thing u little liki u romance hap
pened not long ago in the office of Hus
wdl Sage the millionaire. Yearn ago
1 when Mi. Sage lived in Troy and repre
sented that district in Congreiw, liefore
he knew mm h of Wall street, and befon
lie wax nob d for his money, ho had in
his employ n num with whom he had
been a whoo! fellow and for whom he
entertained feelings of warm friendship
Hut temptation fell in the clerk’s way,
and he was not morally strong enough to
resist. The ambition to become rich sud
denly overcame him and stifling honesty’s
instincts, he turned thief. His crime wa
not detected till, goaded by his shame, [
he himself made a clean breast of the !
w hole stoic, mid pleading for compassion |
upon his wife and child, gave himself
wholly upto Mr. Sage. .Several thousand
dollars had bemi embezzled and every
|x nnv of it was gone, frittered away in
short sighted spcciilnt ions. The mercy
he asked in the mime of w ife ami child
was given. Hussell Sage was never
called a hard mini in those days, and the
innocent woman in danger of suffering
through this ain had been one of his
childhoial’s play mutes; thus for the sake
of the inma ent, the thief was forgiven
mid his wrongdoing never exposed.
He promised much in the way of npu
ration; he would pay buck to the very last
cent, he said, the money that had been
stolen. But his pledges never bore sub
stnntiul fruit. He did seem to struggle
hard for a time to regain lost footing,
but endeavor brought no satisfactory re
sult, and within ix year thd appetite for
strong drink had laid a heavy hold upon
him, and from bad to worse he went
headlong till the end was a pauper’s
grave. Mr. Sage and some others pro
vidcd awhile for the support of the widow’ .
and orphan left behind, but friendly as
si'tanee was not long of consequence to I
the broken hearted woman. A fever, I
whose fires w. n kindled by shame- and
sorrow crackling in her proud soul, did
its work quickly. The husband had not
been dead a month ere a grave was need
ed for her also. And a c hild, the son of
a dishonest father, a waif without a rela
tive in the world, was left behind left
w ith ii bunion other than its ow n support
to bear, charged with n duty pointed out
by dying mother, the duty ahead of all
other things of repairing the w long of his
erring father. And the child's word was
given as he wept in his boyish fashion
alone with the brave woman who for
another’s siu wasoveivome and sacrificed.
’Till-lad. scarce in Ids teens, gave his
wiord solemly. One thrii e his age could
not have n nlizvd more fully than he
seemed to do the grave words of the
mother as she told the tale of his father’s
wavering, his peculation*, and their se
quel in his’downfnll, and when she con
jured the boy to be.ir always fonnost in
his purposes the aim to make goixl the
bad roeord ofthc past, his "I will” had
the ring and the truest fervor of manli
ties* in it.
This was many’ years ago. Russell
Sai;< Mxni lost sight of th, stripling. A
farmer near Troy gave him a home for n
time, but in a year or two he drifted
away. What became of him thereafter
nobody ever could say. He himself mud
the mystery plain the other day. John
ni< McCann, Mr. Sage's private secretary,
was holding his regular matinee in an 1
outer otlii e with a throng of put and call
brokers, when a strange: intmded. ask
ing to la 'lb 'ih into Mr Saul ’s private
office. The put and call army leenal;
S-cretary McCann explained that Mr.
Sage was busy, but there was an earn, -t
--ness in the caller's manner that induced
special consideration, and as he was turn
ing away the secretary volunteered to
take in his card if it would lx* a favor.
The visitor wrote a name upon a bit of
IKqxT. Evidently Mr. Sage did not
nx'oguire the name as that of anybody in
w hom he had the slightest interest, and
Mr. McCann was obliged to explain that
Mr. Sage had too much business on hand
to permit interruption. At 8 o'clock the
millionaire buttoned up his overcoat and
made ready to go to his Fifth avenue
home; but he had not taken more than a
st, por -wo in the outside hallway w hen
he was brought to a halt. The visitor
who hail Ixx n denied admittance during
business hours hail waited to interrupt the
magnate homeward bound.
“I want to see you for a little while,"
•aid the stranger. ••You have forgotten
, my name, I suppose, but you rememlx i
’ John Blank of Troy, who was your
' clerk.”
“Y<s. yes!” ejaculated the puzzled
•pe< ulator.
•■Well,” was the calm remark, “1 am
John Blank's non, and I’ve come to pay
■ you his debt.”
Russell Sage was late at dinner that
i night. Hours went by ns he sat in his
office and listened to the -tory of this
man who had sought him on an errand -<•
out of rhyme with the regular order of
things in thia world of ours to-day. It
was an entertaining talc that summed up
the career of this young man a career at
1 wa, in western mines, ami elwwhcre,
: tinged with adventurous experience.
I Since he had been old enough to earn a
1 penny he had hoarded it aacredly, he
1 said, to obey his mother’s dying injunc
tion to pay back what hb father had
taken. Once he hail almost completed
the sum required, when bad luck forced
| its utter loss, but he had not failed to
pluck up courage am w. and cent by
I cent, dollar by dollar, he began a new uc
; cumulation, and now he wan come to New
York finally to wipe out the “debt,"
[ principal and interest. For some
j years past he had been a railway en
< giueer on a Western road. A few months
ago a bit of bravery -a mere nothing, so
'he averred won him the gratitude of
. passengers on his express train, who, but
for the risk he took upon-himself, might
nil have lieen killed; their appreciation
hail been shown by a well-filled purse of
of money, and biter by a handsome watch
with an inscription testifying to his
bravery ami devotion. He had now come
East bringing the contents of that purse,
his own savings, and that watch to give
them all to Mr. Sage, asking only that
the watch should be held for a little while
till further.savings shouhi be accumulated
to buy it back. The debt was paid now
in full. If mothers who are dead can
still know of the good that theirchildren
do, there was exaltation in one angel's
heart that day, a- the two men, soulless
millionaire ami fatherless engineer, sat
and talked by the window where the
early falling shadows veiled quickly the
harsh, begrimed stones of old Trinity’s
churchyard just beneath.
“I have a sweetheart,” said the young
er man. ‘‘but till I had paid you what
belonged to you I could never think of
.marrying.”
“Couldn’t you I” said the other, half
musingly. “Boy, you had a good
mother; for her sake I want to make you
a little present.” There was a tremor in
the voice of the man whom the world has
learned to call hard ; there was a fevor
almost boyish in the handclasp that he
gave the rougher hand of his visitor;
and then with an air that had resolution
in it the roll that a little while before had
been laid upon his desk he picked up
and jammed down deep into the over
coat pocket of his old clerk’s son—
jammed it so hard that the cheap and
well worn materials of that overcoat
seemed almost ready to give way into
tatters.
It does me good to write a story of
of this sort of Russell Sage. The very
novelty of it is pleasing. His Wall
street training has not tended to develop
overmuch generosity in his nature; men
have never arraigned him as a s|>end
thrift; but here once spasmodically at
least—he has acted the part of a man
with a heart— Xeic Tori' Timm.
The Sew Member of Congress.
To be one of 400; to be ignored by the
multitude, snubbed by hotel clerks and
insulted by cab drivers; to be set down
like n convict as ’’No. IDS,” or “31(1,” to
be unknown by the very servants who
wait and found only by reference to the
House diagram; these are the ( nngres
sional honors which fall to many persons
who have suffered mentally, phy ieally
and pecuniarily to get a scat in the Capi
tai They fall inevitably to a large num
ber of very good and very able men. By
the very nature of the case, the majority
of the members of the House of Represen
tatives must be known only by the num
ber of their seats, and heard only by their
“yea, yea," and "nay. nay." For men of
ambition and of sensitive natures this
must l>e very humiliating and aggravat- I
ing. 1 have seen men chafe and fret un
der the restraint of circumstances a good
many times. The mere demagogue can
find various ways of satisfying his con
stituency of his personal importance and
efficiency here; Imt the honest legislator
often finds it difficult to satisfy his own
conscience. The majority of memherx of
the House* of Representatives rxe too
•hort a term to lx* of service to themselves
or their constituents. The men who have
made their mark in the legislation of the
country and left the impress of their per
sonality upon the laws of the land have
bwn men who have been d< \ ek>;x*d by long
service, and who have built reputation
and influence upon th, foundation of ex
perience. Pick out the leaders of any
Congress and you w ill find them men of
long service. If you want to learn the
sections of country that have most profit
ed by national legislation and hx*ome
most powerful in national affairs, pick
out the states and sections that have
had the ablest and most experienced rep
resentatives at the national capital.—
PiUtburg PispatcA.
RiDAI.TVS IKK’TORS.
Etiquette Which May Have
Cost a Queen’s Life.
How a Russian Rule Was Broken and an
Empress Was Saved.
T.uey Hooper in one of her recent Paris
letti-rs say»: It was a matter of wonder
to many ]x-r«ons that Dr. Fauvel, the
great French s|*-ciaJist in throat diseasi s,
mid not been summoned to attend the
King of Spain at the commencement of
his malady, especially as Dr. Fauvel had
always attended Queen Isabella and her
children during their residence in Paris
for any troubles of that nature. But
such a proceeding was forbidden by the
strict rules of Spanish etiquette, which
prohibits One of the royal family of Spain
from being attended by any physician
who is not a Spaniard by birth.
At the time of the last illness of the
young Queen Mercedes there resided in
Madrid a German doctor who was espe
cially famed for his treatment of typhoid
fever, the disease from which the Queen
was suffering. He had recently saved
the life of Mrs. J. R. Lowell when she
was suffering from a violent attack of
that terrible inaiady. A few days before
Quoin Mercedes breathed her last her
Spanish doctors sent for their German
colleaguivand requested him to prescribe
for their patient without seeing her. This
he positively refused to do, saying that
he must examine into the physical condi
tion of the Queen before prescribing for
her. But that could by no means be
permitted.
“Then,” he said, “let me merely see
her—let me go to the door of her room
ami look at her without crossing the
threshold.”
Even that concession was refused.
“Then, gentlemen,” he declared, “I
can do nothing. I will not attempt to
pre-cribe for a patient that I have not
even seen.”
He withdrew from the palace, and a
few days later the young Queen was dead.
But the sacred laws of Spanish regal eti
quette had been preserved without in
fringement. A similar affair, but with a
different denouement, took place a good
many years ago in Russia. The late
Czarina, the mother of thepresent Emper
or of Russia, was shortly after her mar
riage attacked with a serious affection of
the stomach. Up to that time no physi
cian eould’approach the bedside of one
of his lady patients of the Imperial fami
ly nearer than ten feet. The Empress
grew worse and became alarmingly ill.
The Emperor Alexander gave orders that
a famous physician called Botkin, of
whose skill in such cases he had heard,
should at once be sent for. Botkin came,
and, to the horror of his colleagues, he
walked straight Up to the bedside of the
Empress and took hold of her wrist to
feel her pulse. He was instantly hurried
from the room and loudly remonstrated
with on the impropriety of his conduct,
being told that his imperial patient was
to be looked at from a distance and that
he must not approach her, much less touch
her. Botkin listened in silence to all
that the other doctors had to say, but
when the report of the consultation was
drawn up he refused to sign it. The
Emperor, who was exceedingly anxious
respecting Botkin’s opinion, sent at once
for the report, and on noticing that the
name of the new doctor did not appear in
it he caused him to be summoned at once
to his presence.
“Your Majesty,” quoth Botkin, frank
ly. "I can not pretend to treat a patient
that I am not permitted to examine. The
Empress is, 1 learn, in a very critical situ
ation. I think I can save her. but to do
so I must lx: allowed to go to work in my
own way.”
The Emperor rose from his chair, took
Dr. Botkin by the arm and marched with
him into tin- sickroom of the Empress
and straight up to her bedside. “There,
doctor," he said, "examine your patient,
and if any one pretends to interfere with
you remember that you are obeying my
commands." The course of treatment
prescribed by the great physician proved
successful. The Empress was saved and
that particular rule of imperial etiquette
was abrogated forever.
A Second-Hand Tombstone.
In the village cemetery stands a monu
ment of economy which we think has no
counterpart in the country. It is a tomb
stone. the present owner of which pur
chased it of another who had erected a
large monument, and of course the sec
ond-hand tombstone went cheap. Hav
ing made the singular purchase the pres
ent owner, who, by the way, is the female
head of the family, proceeded to have
the inscription altered so that it would
,do the duty she intended for it. As the
result of her efforts the inscription now
I reads: "In the memory of C
' B—-—, wife of R B . We
I an* both here.” The very unimportant
part which the husband tills in his family,
as indicated in this inscription, is only
exceeded in its absurdity by the fact
that both of the parties the tombstone
informs the reader lie there under the
sexi are alive and promise to be so for
many years to come. As an economic,
or rather a parsimonious, transaction,
this deal in a seexmd-haml tombstone
stands up head.— Cattotill (A”. K) Mail.
THE FAMILY FHYSK’IAM.
I Mrful Uinta.
A little Sixia water will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion.
Powdered rice is said to have a great
effect in stopping bleeding from fresh
wounds.
A good gargle fora sore throat is marie
of vinegar and a little red pepix r mixed
with water.
To keep in good, sound health, one
must take a certain amount of exercise.
Exercising one part of the body and not
another, in about the same degree is
i wrong.
Win n putting glycerine on chapped
] hands first w ash them thoroughly in soap
and w ater, and when not quite dry nib
in the glycerine. This process will be
found much better than the old one.
Dr. Von Galihorn, who had been great
ly troubled with insomnia, tells us of the
method which he has found effectual for
two years in curing it. It consists in
bandaging one leg up to the knee with
several layers of wet calico, and covering
| these with a sheet of waterproof cloth.
This procedure dilates the vessels of the
leg, and by diminishing the amount of
blood in the head induces sleep.
The treatment of chilblains is both gen
eral and local. The health must be most
carefully attended to. Tonics may be
1 freely administered—cod-liver oil, iron
j and quinine are all very bcnificial—com
bined with a liberal diet. The parts
which are the seat of chilblains must be
kept thoroughly warm, and the child
should also be encouraged to take as
i much exercise as possible. The stockings
I must be woolen, and the boots or gloves
warm and roomy, so as not to compress
I the hands or feet. The parts may be fur
! ther stimulated by rubbing, and it is
| often advisable to use some mild stimu
lating liniment, such as soap liniment, or
ammonia liniment. Spirit of any kind,
such as brandy or gin, may be employed
for rubbing the part. When the chilblains
become broken, the parts must be kept
at rest, and it may be necessary to apply
poultices or warm water dressing for a
time until the discharge has ceased. The
best dressing for them after this period is
any mild stimulating ointment spread
upon a soft rag. Resin ointment or oint
ment of the oxide of zinc are both very
useful.
“Brown Bread.’’
An Italian astronomer claims to have
discovered that Mars is peopled with in
telligent beings. He ought to sign the
pledge.
Doctors are beginning to warn mothers !
that babies should not be kissed upon the
lips, but the small boy is still at the mer
cy of the lady’s slipper.
A medical man says the easiest way to
take a pill is to place it under the tongue
and take a drink of water. This sugges
tion would have no value in Kentucky.
The. velocity of light has been meas
ured and recorded, but the rapidity with
which a woman can scatter bad news
over a neighborhood is still a matter of
guesswork.
The fate of a nation has sometimes de
pended on the color of a sovereign’s hair,
and too much saleratus in the biscuit has
more than once been the cause of war.
It is said that red cheeks can be pro
duced by rubbing the face with ice. It
has long been known that red noses could
be produced by rubbing the lips with
glass.
A gun that will shoot nine miles with
considerable accuracy is now used in the
British navy, but it is still as hard to hit
a cat in a neighbor’s back yard with a
boot-jack as it was when Jacob was
hunting rabbits with a bow and arrow.
A scientist has advanced the theory
that, taking size as a basis, the molecules
of which a block of granite is composed
are as far apart as the planets of our solar
system, and yet some women can’t under
stand how it comes that it always takes a
man a good while to find his hat. CAi
ago Ledger.
Love on Snow Shoes.
A novel marriage took place near Sil
verton, Col. Miss Millie Conners, of
Lake City, and Mr. O»car Olsen of Ani
mas Forks, were married on the summit of
the divide, at an altitude of over 13,000
feet, the party being on snowshoes.
Miss Conners agreed to meet Mr. Olsen
on the summit, bringing her friends with
her, and Mr. Olsen was to approach the
summit with his friends, coming up on
the opposite side of the mountain. The
bride left Lake City, accompanied by her
two brothers, and Olsen left Animas
Forks at the same hour, accompanied by
the Rev. Father Ley, of Silverton, and a
few friends. The only way of scaling
the snow covered mountain was on snow
shoes and the climbing was fatiguing.
The groom and the minister arrived first
at the designated meeting point; but they
did not have long to wait, for the bride
and her brothers were soon observed near
ing the spot, trudging along cheerily.
Miss Conners seemed less fatigued than
any other member of the party. After a
short rest. Father Ley performed the
wedding ceremony with as much impres
siveness as if it had taken place in a
church. The minister, the bride, the
groom and the witnesses of the marriage
grouped themselves together as close as
the Canadian snowshoes would permit.
Colorado Beaton.
F Just for To-day.
i Jx>rd, for to-morrow ami its needs
1 do not pray I
Keep me. n!y God, from stain of six
Just for to lay.
Let me lioth diligently work
Aud duly pray;
Let me be kind in wont and deed
Just for to-day.
Let me lie slow to do my will,
Prompt to obey;
Help me to mortify my flesh
Just for to-day.
1 Let me no wrong or idle word
Unthinking say;
Set thou a seal upon my lipa
Just for to-day.
Let me in season. Lord, be grave,
in season gay;
D't me he faithful to tliy grace
Just for to-day.
So, for to morrow and its ueeds
I do not pray,
But keep me. guide me, love me, Lord,
Just for to-day.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Blinded Eye*.
The iron smelter can gaze long and
steadily into the heart of the glowing
furnace, and see clearly the various
changes the iron is passing through; but,
if he turns his eyes away from the fur
nace, it is some time before he can dis
cern objects that are near him clearly,
though they be revealed by the light of
the noonday sun. The glare of the fur
nace has dazzled his sight; for the mo
meat he cannot see ordinary object!.
Scientists gaze upon the splendors of na
ture untill their dazzled sightfails to see
the light of the glory of God as it shines
in the face of Jesus Christ. “But and
if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in
them that are perishing; in whom the
God of this world hath blinded the
minds of the unbelieving, that the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, wbn
is the image of God, should not draw
upon them.” Good, bright, and really
noble lives, the genuine fruit of Chris
tianity, are facts as patent as any facts
of science, and they are discerned by all
clear, healthy and unbiased minds; they
are as truly the fruits of the Christian
life in their estimation as that the blos
som is the product of the root of the
plant that bears it; and yet, because the
Christian life has a method peculiar to
its own nature of appealing to the mind,
and is incapable of being tested by the
processes of the laboratory, it is rejected
by many as unworthy of their acceptance.
They make light of it.— D. Rliy»
JenJri 'o
The Ideal Sabbath.
The ideal Sabbath is the Sabbath at
home when the head of the household
farmer or mechanic, merchant or lawyer,
capitalist or operative—enjoys his week
ly rest among those for whom his six
days of labor have been spent. Whether
the Sabbatic institution was or was not
created by the fourth commandment,
there seems to be in those words,
“Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter
nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-ser
vant,” a glimpse of the restful enjoy
ment which the day of rest, in the primi
tive conception of it, would bring to the
families that keep it.
The day of rest, being rest and not
revelry or dissipation, and being there
fore a day of home enjoyments, bring*
with it opportunity for sober thought and
conference. A Sabbath-keeping people
will become a thoughtful people, and
such thoughtfulness is manliness. All
men, and especially the busy million- ia
an advanced civilization like our own,
need for the mind’s sake, not less than
for the sake of wearii <1 nerves and mus
cles, the seveuth-day intermission of
their ordinary work. A true Sabbath is
something far more restful than a day of
noisy jollity. In its calm air the mind
rests by thought, not thoughtlessness—
by quiet musing, by conscious or uncon
scious retrospection; perhaps by consid
eration of what might have been, pet
haps by thinking of what may yet be,
perhaps by aspiration and resolve toward
something in the future that shall bebet
ter than what has been in the past. Th*
home in which Sunday is a day of rest
and home enjoyment is hallowed by the
Sabbaths which it hallows. In the Sab
bath-keeping village life is less frivolous,
and at the same time industry is mor*
productive, for the weekly rest. A
Sabbath-keeping nation is greater to
peace and in war for the character wl. 1 u
its tranquil and thoughtful Sabbath*
have impressed upon it.— Rec. Dr.
A good conscience is better than tw«
witnesses. It will consume your grief *•
the sun dissolves ice. It is a spring when
you are thirsty; a staff when you art
weary; a screen when the sun burns yOW
•nd a pillow in death.
Whether perfect happiness would I*
procured by perfect goodness this world
will never afford an opportunity of
ciding. But this, at least, may be main
tained, that we do not always find visib' e
virtue.
Whnt sculpture is to a block of marb • •
education is to the human soul. Th
philosopher, the saint and the hero, t ?
wise, the good or the great man, ' r -'
often lie hid and concealed in a plebian,
which proper education might have
interred and brought to light.