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Ned Quits Boot-Blacking.
“Shine your boots? Five cents a
shine. Shine your boots?”
Ned had tried his best to get work,
but no one wanted his boots cleaned.
He wondered why it was. When
mother was alive, how often Ned
begged her to let him set up as a boot
black! “They make lots of money,
mother,” he would say. But she
always shook her head and said, “ Keep
at school as long as you can; you’re
too young yet. As long as lam
spared I don’t want you to try it.”
But the poor, hard working woman
had overtaxed her strength, taken a
fever, and died. Then Ned, left alone
in the world, with nothing but a
couple of neat, but much-mended, suits
of clothes and five dollars, resolved to
set up as a boot-black. For a wholo
week he had tried it. Some days he
got two or three customers, but now
for two days not one person had let
him shine his boots, liis five dollars
were almost gone ; whatshould he do?
Ned was almost desperate, and in his
desire for a job asked a lady who was
passing if he could shine her boots.
Perhaps she had little boys of her own,
and made it a rule never to pass a
poor boy without a kind word for
their sakes. At any rate, she stopped
and said, “ Not here, my boy ; but if
you will walk a way with me, I’ll
let you clean them, for they are very
muddy. Perhaps, though, yon will
lose some work by leaving your place?”
“ No, indeed ; I’ve not had a chance
to-day.”
“ That’s bad,” said his new friend,
“ifyou need the money very much,
as I suppose you do. But you look
so neat and nice, I think you have a
good mother.”
Ned tried to answer, but his throat
swelled and tears filled his eyes.
“ There ! there ! Don’t fret, dear !
here’s the house. Wait at the area
and the cook will let you in.” Soon a
pleasant-faced woman opened the low
er door and told Ned to sit down by
the kitchen fire. The kitchen was
full of the odor of soup, and you know
how that will make you hungry even
long before dinner time. Ned, who
had had no soup since his mother had
last cooked their dinner, snuffed the
air and remembered sadly how good
his mother’s soup used to taste.
“ Mary,” called a voice that already
sounded familiar, “give the boy a
bowl of soup. I can’t come down at
once, but here are the shoes ; he can
clean them after he has eaten. Put
plenty of bread in his soup, Mary.”
“ Shure, I was just longing to do it,”
muttered the girl, hastening to fill a
bowl for Ned. “ Here,” she said, “ draw
up to the table and eat.”
Ned -was too hungry to remember
his mother’s instruetionsas to washing
his hands, but ho did not forget to bow
his head, saying the grace he had said
at every meal since he first began to
speak : “ I thank Thee, dear Lord,
for this nice food; and help us to be
Thy good children, for Christ’s sake.”
Mary stood still in astonishment.
“ That's the first grace in this kitch
en,” she said to herself, “ but I’m
bound it shan’t be tko last. Ivebeen
a forgetful creature.”
The soup finished, Ned polished the
shoes ; such nice buttoned boots he
had never handled before. Just as he
was giving a last touch to them he
heard someone come in, and saw the
lady who had brought him, standing
talking to Mary.
“ Thank you ; they are very nicely
done. But if you only get one cus
tomer a day, you’ll not get on well.
Who takes care of you, my boy ? Try
to tell me about yourself. What is
your name ?”
“My name’s Ned Titus, ma’am.
Nobody takes care of me—nobody but
God. Mother said He’d never forget
me. Mother—mother died—last—”
But lie could not tell of that. The
lady’s hand was on his shoulder, and
she was drying his tears with her own
handkerchief. “ I’ve tried boot-black
ing, but I don’t think I can get enough
to do. Oh, ma’am-—" and the boy
again broke down. He was so neat
anti clean that Mrs. Denny drew him
close to her, soothing him as every
mother knows how to soothe and com
fort. But her heart was troubled for
him. Truth to tell, she had no money
to spare, and could do but little. She
had only lately moved to the city,
and had few friends there. What
could she do to help him?
Suddenly, Mary, who had been
looking on, full of sympathy, and re
membering their country life and
plenty there, said “ Send him to the
country.”
Mrs. Denny’s face became brighter :
“ Why, that’s a good idea, Mary ! I
do believe Mr. Ackerman would be
glad of just such a boy. Would you
drive cows and learn to milk and help
about the house, Ned ?”
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
“ Indeed, 1 would, ma’am, and take
my brushes and black their boots for
them.
“ Once a week is all they black ’em,”
said Mary, with a laugh. So it was
arranged that Ned should come back
in the morning and Mrs. Denny would
give him a note to the farmer. She
offered to pay his way, but Ned said
he had two dollars left and could buy
his own ticket. Mrs. Denny was
pleased with his honesty, and felt sure
that such a boy would succeed.
The next day Ned was off for the
country. All his treasures were easily
packed in his mother’s old bag; and
Mrs. Denny advised him to leave that
at the depot when he reached Farring
ton and walk out to the farm without
it, as, if the farmer kept him, he could
easily get it. Ned found the farm,
and hearing voices at the back door,
walked round that way and asked for
Mr. Ackerman.
“He’s in the barn,” said a pleasant
looking girl. “ What do you want?”
“ I’ve a note for him.”
“ Well, go right over.” Ned deliver
ed his note. The farmer read it, and
then, without saying a word, went on
with his work. Ned felt rather dis
couraged, but seeing a pair of boots
in one corner, set to work and polish
ed them. This took some time, for
they had never been polished before,
L fancy. Then Ned put up his brush
es and slung his box on his back ; he
had better go back or try somewhere
else. The farmer was just going up
to the loft, but as Ned slung his box,
he said, “ Come here, my boy. You
can work; I see that. Are you will
ing to work for a home?”
“ Yes, indeed, sir.”
“ Got any clothes?”
“ Two suits, sir.”
“ Any money ?”
“ One dollar and fifty cents.”
“ How much time do you expect to
have to fool around ?”
“ Can’t tell till I try to do the
work.”
The farmer was pleased with the
bright, truthful face, and said, “ You’ll
do. Go in the house and tell ’em to
set you to work—chop wood, draw
water, do anything, till milking time.”
So that was how Ned’s boot-black
ing ended. He lives on the farm still,
but he is taller than I am. Mrs. Den
ny comes out to see her old friend
sometimes, and is always as glad to
see him as any of the rest ; and, next
to God, Ned loves the lady who let
him shine her boots. — Sabbath School
Visitor.
The Old Brown Silk Dress.
“ Mrs. Harper at such a grand wed- j
ding and in her old brown silk dress! |
She has had it for the last six years. |
“ I know it. The idea of a person
I as well off as she is keeping a dress
that length of time ! But she looked
well. The dress was altered to suit j
the present fashion.”
“ But such meanness ! I do not call j
it economy, but meanness! lam tired j
of seing her wear that dress. If she j
were not able to get anew silk, it
would be different. I wish I had the j
money she has, I would show people j
how to dress.”
“ Girls,” said their grandmamma, j
“ 1 am afraid that you are not culti- j
vatirig very charitable dispositions. !
As the brown silk dross seems to in- !
terest you, let me tell you a little j
affair connected with it.
“ Abont two weeks ago Mrs. Har- |
per called on me. 1 had just prepared '
to go out to do some shopping. She t
proposed to accompany me. On our !
way home she informed me that she
intended to purchase anew dress. !
While we were in the shop examining I
some silks, Mrs. Winslow came in. 1
Seeing Mrs. Harper, she informed her
of the destitute condition of a family 1
she had just visited. The father had j
been sick and unable to work. The j
mother had been toiling to support
her family. She was now sick, and
three of her children. One was lying
dead in the house. They were so poor
that they had not a sufficiency of fuel
or food. Their rent should have been
paid in advance, but on account of
sickness the father had been unable
to do so. The landlord had consented
to wait until the end of the month.
The father was still unable to pay, and
the family were threatened with be
ing turned into the street that very
day.
“ Mrs. Harper asked if they were
worthy 7 people. Mr. Winslow assured
her that they were, and giving their
address, she urged Mrs. Harper to
visit them. Mrs. Harper had just de
cided to purchase a dress pattern
from a costly piece of silk. ‘ I will
not purchase the dress now,’ she said
to the shopman. And turning to me,
she remarked : “ I feel it my duty to
visit these poor people and supply
necessities before buying anything for
myself. Will you accompany me ?”
“I did so. We found the family in
great distress. They were Christian
people, and had been praying to God
to send them help. Mrs. Harper im
mediately 7 paid the rent due, and an
other month in advance, besides order
ing fuel and food. She has since sent
them many little articles of comfort.
‘ I feel better,’ she said, ‘than if I had
bought anew dress. I will make
over my old one and wear it at the
wedding.’
“ And this is why Mrs. Harper wore
‘ that old brown silk dress.’ She is
not mean, but a noble, self-denying
Christian woman. And I can safely
say there is no one that I am acquaint
ed with who gives so freely as she
does.”
“ I had never heard of her being be
nevolent before.”
“ She gives quietly, not noising it
abroad. There are many 7 families who
owe the necessaries and comforts of
life to her bounty.”
“I am glad y 7 ou told us, grandmam
ma. The old brown silk dress will
look beautiful to me hereafter. And
it will preach me a lesson of charity—
charity in judgment and charity 7 ,
which is love toward the poor. — Day
of Days.
Bee Hive.
[Edited by Busy Bee , care Southern
Christian Advocate.']
Numerical Enigma.
My 1,2, 3is an article of food.
My 4,6, sis a kitchen utensil.
My 7 3,2, 4is used at school.
My 5,6, 7is used in selling iron.
My 7 whole is the name of a South
ern patriot. C. Greaser.
Word Square.
* * *
* * *
* * *
My first is an animal, second a num
ber, last a verb. Reben.
Numerical Enigma
My 1,4, 4is an article of food.
My 7 3,2, 2 a stopping place.
My 5, C all good children love.
My whole is now before you.
Dick Freer.
Cross-Word Enigma.
My 7 first is in wet but not in bell,
My second is in cart but not in sell,
My third is in preacher but not in
dew,
My fourth is in row but not in few,
My fifth is is rowdy but not in
tramp,
My sixth is mV date but not in
scamp,
My seventh is in cart but not in
wagon,
My whole is a preacher that will do
to brag on. Johnnie Reb.
The Young Astronomer.
NOVEMBER 2.
A few weeks ago, in the miscellany
columns of the paper, a short sentence
announced “ the discovery of a planet
of the eleventh magnitude, in one
hour and six minutes Right Ascension,
four degrees, eighteen minutes, North
Declination.”
Young readers may wish some in
formation on several points in this
paragraph. Between the large plan
ets, Mars and Jupiter, there was a
vacant belt of very many millions of
miles, in which, the astronomers of
the last century could find no planet.
They were persuaded, according to
the general law of distribution, which
seemed to obtain among the heavenly
bodies, that some planets should be
there. They agreed to look more
carefully. And on the first night of
this century, one small planet was
found. In a few y 7 ears three more
were found. These satisfied the world
hunters of that day, and they almost
quit hunting or expecting more. About
1840 the search began afresh, and not
a year has passed since then without
the discovery of one or more planets.
For the last few years the new plan
ets have been nearly one a month.
They now number up to about one
hundred and eighty. They are all
very little, so little that several hun
dreds of them all rolled together
would not make a world as large as
the one we live on. Astronomers
think it probable that there may be
hundreds more to be discovered. If
this be so, you may expect as long as
you live, every now and then to see
an item in the papers telling of an
other new planet discovered. They
are all farther from the sun than Mars,
and nearer to it than Jupiter, that is,
they are all in the belt between Mars
and Jupiter.
“ Eleventh Magnitude." This means
that it is far too small to be seen with
the naked eye. The sixth magnitude
is the smallest that the naked eye
can see.
“ Right Ascension and North Declin
tion.” This answers to latitude and
Longitude, and enables any one with
a celestial globe to put his finger on
the spot where the new planet is lo
cated. Or any astronomer, with a
good telescope, seing the “ Ascension
and Declination ” given, can turn his
glass at once to the very spot in the
sky and see tho new little world for
himself. Turn to a globe and you
will find that the place for this planet
is near the western edge of the Con
stellation Aries.
Several American astronomers have
been very successful in finding plan
ets. One has found more than a doz
en, and is not satisfied yet.
For several years astronomers have
suspected that there is a small planet
nearer to the sun than Mercury. Dur
ing the eclipse a few months ago, close
search was made, and before long we
will know more about it. But all this
is about planets that cannot be seen
with the naked eye. Next week some
thing will be said about planets that
you can see with your little bright
eyes. J. U. C.
Literary Notices and Notes..
The National Repository for Novem
ber, Daniel Curry 7 , New York, is upon
our table, with avery 7 interesting bill
of fare. “Knickerbocker Literature”
is a very interesting sketch of the lit
erary celebrities of New York during
the first half of the nineteenth cen
tury. “Along the Riviera” is an ex
ceedingly graphic picturo of Italian
travel. Italy 7 is always fresh. “Ev
erywhere has someone lived whose
homo we would not pass; everywhere
has someone died whose grave we
wish to seo. And where we do not
care to trace tho hand of history 7 ,
that of naturo has made the land so
lovely, or so grand, that we cannot
let it go unseen.”
The numbers of Dittell’s Living Age
for the weeks ending October sth and
12th, have the following noteworthy
contents: Henri Greville’s Sketches
of Russian Life, by W. R. S. Ralston,
Nineteenth Century; Cyprus, Macmil
lan ; Mr. Fronde’s “ Life and Times
of Thomas Beckot,” by Edward A.
Freeman, part IV., Contemporary Re
view; The Chinese as Colonists, Nine
teenth Century ; An Indiscretion in the
Life of an Heiress, a Story 7, by Thom
as Hardy 7, New Quarterly Revievo; The
Public Career and Personal Charac
ter of Francis Bacon, by 7 James Row
ley, Fraser; Child’s Play, Cornhill;
Selling the Soul, Contemporary Re
view; A Fetish City 7. Blackwood;
Sark and its Caves, Gentleman's Mag
azine ■ The, Relation of Motnory 7
Will, Spectator; The Habit of Read
ing, Saturday Review; Garden Par
ties, Spectator; An American Zollve
rein, Rail Mall Gazette; and choice
poetry and miscellany.
These are the first two numbers
of anew volume, and are good ones
with which to begin a subscription.
For fifty-two such numbers, of sixty
four large pages each (or more than
three thousand pages a year), the
subscription price (88) is low ; or for
810.50 any one of the American 84
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The Living Age for a y r ear, both post
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publishers.
While the Greek text of the New
Testament is now based upon tho large
number of MSS. still in existence, some
of them reaching back almost to the
times of the apostles, the Hebrew
text of the Old Testament is not based
solely on MSS., as there are none of
the Old Testament older than the
tenth century A. D. The text of their
Scripture the Jews have guarded with
jealous care for many centuries. This
we can prove by comparing it with
various versions of very ancient date,
some of them reaching back to and
before the time of Christ. These ver
sions, therefore, represent a text far
older than the oldest Hebrew MSS.
now in existence, and from them
scholars are able to ascertain the cor
rectness of the Hebrew text, and
could detect any errors, had any wor
thy of notice or seriously corrupting
the text accidentally 7 found their way
into their and our Bible. There are
some manifest changes of single let
ters or vowel-points, which have been
so corrected, and any others will
doubtless be altered as the revision
goes on. Upon this subject, “ The
Various Readings and Renderings Bi- \
ble,” edited by the four English cler
gymen, says : “ The ancient versions
afford invaluable aid in restoring or
der and sequence where the Hebrew, ;
as we possess it, appears involved in
much confusion. Purely arbitrary
emendations are, of course, inadmis- j
sible; but there are many passages j
which become at once intelligible on a j
slight alteration in the form of one or j
two of the letters.”
Mr. Editor: An amusing paragraph
in a late issue of the Advocate may
serve as a pretext, if you please, for
an occasional article under the above
head, kindly inviting the attention of
our brethren, in the ministry and else
where, to such errors as from inad
vertence or misinformation some of
NOV. 2,
• them may be in the habit of com
! milting. And, that I may give my
| brethren a good opportunity of charg
ing me with egotism, I will assume an
egotistic pseudonym, will write in tho
first person singular, and will begin
my series with a paragraph on “ my
| self.”
| This word, and its twin sister “your
! self,” are very 7 often used instead of
| the simple pronouns “ I ” and “ you.”
j They 7 belong to a small class of words
; called compound personal pronouns,
[ which are to be used in only 7 the fol
-1 lowing two ways :
I 1. Emphatically: as, “I, my 7 self,
will come.” “Lot them take us out,
themselves.” In this case the simple
pronoun is generally used with tho
compound.
2. Reflexively 7 , that is, as the object
of a verb or verbal expression whose
subject is of some person or thing; as,
“John loves himself.” “You will
hurt yourself.” “I am ashamed of
myself.” “A man will take care of
himself.”
Instead, therefore, of saying, “My
wife and my 7 self are well,” say “ My
wife and I.” Instead of “ Let John
and myself go,” say 7 “Let John and
me go.” Instead of “ Yourself and
I,” or “You and myself,” say “ You
and I.” Ego.
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Cash’s 10.55 a. m. Palmetto ..3 35 p. m.
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QOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Charleston, March 1. 1878.
On and after Sunday next, the :i instant, the Pas
senger Trains on this road will run as follows :
FOR AUGUSTA.
(Sunday morning excepted.)
Leave Charleston at 9.00 a m and 7.30 p m
Arrive at Augusta at :..5.00 p m and 6.55 a m
FOR COLUMBIA.
(Sunday morning excepted.)
Leave Charleston at 5.00 a m and 8.30 p m
Arrive at Columbia at 10.50 a m and 7.45 a m
FOR CHARLESTON.
(Sunday morning excepted.)
Leave Augusta at 8.30 a m and 7.15 p m
Arrive at Charleston at 4.20 r m and 7.45 a m
Leave Columbia at 6.00 p m and 8.00 p m
Arrive at Charleston at......... 12 15 Night and 6.45 a m
SUMMERVILLE TRAIN.
(Sundays excepted.)
Leave Summerville 7.40 a m
Arrive at Charleston 8.40 a m
Leave Charleston 3.15 p m
Arrive at Summerville 4.25 p m
ACCOMMODATION PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAIN.
(Daily except Sundays.)
Leave Columbia at 5.30 a m
Arrive at Hranchville at 12.25 noon
Leave Hranchville at 12.50 noon
Arrive at Columbia at....- 7.00 p m
Breakfast, Dinner and Supper at Branchville.
CAMDEN TRAIN.
Connects at Kingville daily (Sundays excepted)
with Aecornmodat.on Train from Columbia aDd
with up Day Passenger Train from Charleston.
Accommodation Train connects at Branchville with
up and down Augusta Day Passenger Trains.
Day. and Mght Trains connect at Augusta with
Georgia Railroad, Central RailroaG, and Macon and
Augusta Railroad. This route is the quickest and
most direct to Atlanta, Macon, Montgomery, New
Orleans, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago,
St. Louis, and other points in the Northwest.
Ihe Trains on the Greenville and Columbia and
Spartanburg and Union an 1 Blue Ridge Railroads
make close connection with the Train which leaves
Charleston at 5 a 51, and returning they connect in
same manner with the Train which leaves Columbia
lor Charleston at 6 p m.
Laurens Railroad Train connects at Newberry on
I uesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Charlotte, Columbia aed Augusta Railroad con
nects closely at their crossing near Columbia with
the train which leaves Charleston at 5 am, and with
the train which leaves Columbia at 6 p m.
lhis is the Quick Route to all points North from
Charleston.
Leave Charleston at 5.00 a m
Leave Columbia at 10.40 a m
Leave Charlotte at 45 p m
Leave Danville at 10.30 PM
Leave Lyuchburg at l 05 a m
Arrive at Washington at s.io a m
Arrive at Baltimore at 9.30 am
Arrive at Philadelphia at 1.45 p m
Arrive at New Yora via ‘ Limited I 0 Irt , „
Express,” | 3 10 r m
Arrive at New York via Regular I , „ „
Train, j 6 - 10 p M
ONLY ONE NIGHT ON THE WAY.
Close connection. No Omnibus transfers and no
delays. Pullman cars from Columbia to Washington,
Washington to New York.
'lhis is the only route connecting with the mag
nificent Sound Line Steamers out of New York for
Boston, every afternoon.
Passengers desiring to go from Danville via Rich
mond will arive in Richmond at 6,05 a m. and in New
i ork at 10.05 p m same as the route via Wilmington.
S. S. SOLOMONS,
General Superintendent.
S. B. PICKENS,
August 6 General Passenger Agent.