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2 jfanutn lic;tbtng. 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 monthlies or weeklies is sent with The Living Age for a y r ear, both post paid. Littell & Gay, Boston, are the 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. The Latest Styles of j 00n9 * anl ' y reCt ' VC 'b * LARGE STOCK always on hand. FASHIONABLE HAT EMPOEIUM, AND UM B RELLA MAN UFACTO RY. Umbrellas of my own manufacture, better and cheaper than imported ones. Umbrellas, Ac., Re paired or Re-covered, neatly and promptly. ENCOURAGE HOME MANUFACTURE. August 6-4 mo NATIONAL HOUSE, 353 KING STREET, (Between George and Liberty.) BOARD $1.50 PER DAY. MRS. H. M. BAKER, Proprietress October 12-Gmo NEW SCHEDULE—CHEKA W DAR LINGTON R. R. —Commencing Monday, No vember 20, 1878 : Leave Cheraw....10.30 a m.(Leave Florence.3.ls p. m. Cash’s 10.55 a. m. Palmetto ..3 35 p. m. Boe y Hi11..11. JO a. m. Daningtoni.OO p. m. Do\e’s.. .12.15 p. ra.j Floyd’s, 4.20 p. m. Fioyd’s.... 12.35 p. m.i Dove’s 445 p. m. Darlingtoul 00 pm.! Soc’y Hi11..5 15 p. in. Palmetto.. 1 20 p. m. Cash’s 6.45 p. m. Ar.at Florence...l. 45 p m.j Ar. atClu*raw 6.15 p. m. B. D. TOW.VSEND. President. 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.