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.M. L. THOMAS, Publisher.
RED CLOUD, -
XEBKASKA.
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"NO MAN'S LAA'D.
Who called It fo? What accident
Tho wnr phrase nevleilr
".Vhntwnnderinj- fancy thllhcr went.
And HnKcrcd there, hunrHed?
Ah. no man's land! oh, wcet estate,
inimitably fair.
No mM8iire. wall, or liar or pate.
Secure in sky or air!
No irrced. no m!n: not wild or boujrht,
(Ji marred by name or brand:
Not d earned of. nor desired, nor nousut.
Nor viKloiied, -no mini's Innd."
fc'uns set and rife, and rife and set,
"Whole Miinmcrs '-oinc and bo:
And winters jwy the Minuner s debt.
And years of west wind blow:
And harvests of wild recd-tltncs fill.
And ced nild fill inruin:
And IiIoshmih Mooui at blossoms' will,
Hy blossoms overlain:
And day and nljrht, ami night and day,
Uncounted nuns and moons.
By silent shadows mark and -tay
Cnrcckoned nights and noons:
Ah, " no man's land." bat thou a locr.
Thy wild nwcct charm who M.cf
The stars look down: the tilnls ily ocr.
Art thou alone with these
Ah, "no mnn's land," much died thy lover.
Who left no trace to tell .'
Thy Kecret wo ehnll not discover,
'ihc centuries keep It well!
Scrfhncr's MonUdy.
ECCENTRIC WILLS.
, The readers of English novels (and it
is from novels that most of us now-'ir
tlavs derive our knowledge of other
countries) are aware that the London
Repository of wills has been called for
ages Doctors' Commons. It ha? ceased ,
to exist Some time ago, the huge col
lection of wdls which it contained wils
transported to a newer and larger re
ceptacle at Somerset House, where am
Ele room had been provided for them,
'odors' Commons had been outgrown,
and its precious contents were trans
ferred with as little cercmouv as the
carmen of Wall street convey cartloads
of gold.
! This collection of wills, probably the .
largest in the world, occupies a range
of rooms two hundred feet in length,
containing several miles of shelves idled
with folio volumes of wills which have
been proved and executed." Wills un
t proved are kept in lire-proof vaults.
Tho business has grown to wonderful
proportions. During tho reign of Eliz
abeth, one very small volume sufficed
for the wills of live or six 3 ears; but at
present wills accumulate at the rate of
nine thousand a 3 car for London alone;
and, for the whole kingdom, about
twenty-six thousand.
In this repository are preserved and
shown to visitors the wills of Dr. J din
son. Nelson, Pitt. Burke, Wellington,
LI ikon and Shakespeare. That of
Shakespeare, which consists of three
folio pages, is placed under an air tight
frame 01 oak and plate glass. 1 have
had the pleasure of looking upon this
interesting relic. The writing looked
small, dim and crabbed in the not brilliantly-lighted
room where it was for
merly kept. It was drawn', however,
with the greatest care, as if by a teta
tor who knew the va'uc of propcrt3",
and had maturely considered its distii
bution. m
It is a strange thing that some of the
wills which have given rite to the great
est amount of litigation are those which
distinguished law ers and judges have
drawn for themselves. This may have
been from carelessness, but, more prob
ably, from excessive caution. It has be
come so common of late years for im
lortant wills to bo disputed, and to
icuclit no one so much as the lawyers,
that men of large possessionsseem dis
posed to avoid making a wilirand to let
their property go as the law directs in
such cases.
An English author has published a
rare collection latel3 of testamentary
curiosities, most of which he discovered
is. the Search-Room of Doctors' Com
mons. We find from his work that it is
as diilicult to be or.ginal in folly as in
wisdom, for there can scarcely be found
an eccentric or ridiculous will which is
unique of its kind. A few years ago,
the gas man of the Walnut street
Theater in Philadelphia, which he had
served for forty-four years, bequeathed
liis head to the theater to bo convet ted
into a skull, and to be used to represent
the skull of Yorick in the fifth act of
Hamlet Man3' other pet sons have dis
posed of their heads in similar profes
sional way. A noted phrenologist of
Cincinnati left his head to one of his
lady pupils as au i lustration of the
science to which they were both dc
1 otcd. Several professors of anatomy
have left their heads or their whole
skeletons to museums. The illustrious
tjeremv ueniuam iienucaincu jus uouv
to he dissected, and the skeleton may
now be seen in the Museum of Uni
versity College, London.
A Quaker physician of London tried
to distribute his bod by his will, leav
ing his heart to one, his lungs to an
other, and his brains to a third, all of
which were to be preserved from de
composition. And he added:
'If these gentlemen shall fall faithfully to
execute the-?e last wishes In this icijuest, I
will eomo. if It should bo by anv imans pos
sible, and torment theai until they shall com
ply." The three gentlemen had tho courage
to decline their legacies. This bequest
was not so eccentric as that of Sanborn,
the halter of ilcdford, Mass., who be
queathed his body to Harvard Universi
ty for dissection by Dr. O. W. Holmes
and Prof. Agassiz, and ordered that his
skin should be tanned into leather, and
made into two drum heads. This i:e-
culiar drum ho left to one of his towns-j-aud many of them so!d-but mostly, to
men, a drummer of note, on condition distant parties. Good prices were paid,
that, on every anniversary of the battle and now the. Assessorsof Gloucester ro
of Bunker Hill, he shoulil ascend that eeive frequent letters in which wonder
"height at sunrise and beat the'tune of , is expressed that thc3' do not receive tax
Yankee Doodle. On ono of the heads bills for the house arid other lots' oJ
of tho drum was to be written Pope's
Universal Prayer and on the other the j
Declaration of Independence. A great .
number of these bodily wills have been
made, but not so inanj' have been exe
cuted. Somejrentlemen appear to have taken
pride in leaving extremely short wills.
The "English millionaire, Cotts, wrote
auswui ontiaitasneet o: paper: ana,
among other curiosities of this kind in
the London Will Office, -there is a will
drawn by a merchant who left two mill
ions of dollars to his wife'and children
by a few lines written on'the inside of a
common envelope. The shortest will,
perhaps, in the whole collection, was
proved as late as November, 1878. It
consisted of eight words:
"Mrs. Smith to have all when I die."
This will was found sufficient An
other testator, upon being informed
that it xvas no matter whether he wrote
his will on paper, parchment, canva3 or
"wood, chose to write it upon his door;
and after his death his executors were
obliged to have the door taken off ts;
hinges, and brought into court It is a
thing of frequent occurrence for zealots,
whether political or sectarian, to seize
the opportunity which writing their
will presents to give emphatic utterance
to their most cherished opinions. A
.Baptist clergyman of England, whose
will was proved in 1879. after disposing
of his property, which was considerable,
indulged in a most energetic declara
tion of his religious belief:
"1 de6lre all posterity to know that William
Hill was a conscientious Trinitarian Baptist
aioteter, and that e believed infant sprinit
lifwtobefromals Satanic Majesty, the key
stone of Popery, therefore the parent, of un
BUBbcrcdiernble evils."
He also put on record in the same
document a solemn denunciation of
...t J?u:.. r.mtv,o,1 in tlio Ttrirlil
a!? railed iiDon Heaven to "dash all
,, error, an aadthedevilfromtbo earth."
rjiotfcing is more common tnan ior uie
aUstxior to bq lruwweti uy
his jpr'ani no doubt tho time will
outrffj when we shall be obliged to do
as tho English people have done, insti
tute a court for the express purpose oi
preventing this. A curious circum
stanco occurred many years ago. when
a testator left two thou-and pounds to a
friend, but with the eondit on that one
half the sum should be buried with hira
in his collin. The legates took advice
on this matter.
' Where is the moncv now?" asked
his fri -ml.
In the bank." was the reply.
'All right." said th sage adviser,
"you write a check for a t lions nd
pounds, and put it into the old gentle
man's collin drawn to his order.
We should naturally .Mippo-e that n
man in the act of ma.in.r his will would
not be in a humor to gratify his resentment--.
Vindictive wills, however, arc
by no means uncommon. One of the
old wills in the London collection is of
a certiin Earl of Pen broke who took
the opportunity of his will to deal in
.ulLs and abuse among friends and foes.
He left to Oliver Cr.miwell "one of his
words, ficcinir that he hath neer kept
anv of hi own."
Many wil a, too. leave property ham
pered with inMihing conditions.
A sensible will was that of Grorge
Watts, a bachelor without relations,
whose properly consisted of a number
of small cofages and tenements in au
English county town. He left each of
these houses to its occupant
England is covered all over with pe
culiar charities, for which there is now
no occasion. and some of which have
become both injurious and ridiculous.
The oldest church in London, called St
Hart holomew the Great, has an endow
ment that seems too absurd for belief.
Every Good Kridav the rector is re
quired to place twenty-one sixpences
in a row on a certain grave-stone, from
which they arc to be picked up by
twenty-one widows, who shall come
from the church afterservicc, and kneel
by the side of the stone for the purpose.
Another old London church has a tund
for giving on every Good Friday a
bunch of ra sins and a new penny to
sixtv boys of the I'luc Coat School
Anoth r Good Friday bequest presents
a loaf of bread to a certain number of
the poor of the parish, and a bun and a
penny or two to the school children.
Hundreds of these eccentric and ob
solete endowments could be ment oned,
a large u umber of wnich have been in
recent 3 ear.s abolished or changed by
the court alluded to above. It is ex
tremely diilicult, and perhaps impossi
ble, to leave money for a "permanent
endowment which will not at least re
piiie modification in one or two cen
turies. Human so -iety is progressive:
no moital can loiesee what men will
need, or think, or do a century hence.
Even in this young country, many en
dowments hae become Useless, if uot
obstructive. Jama Varlon, in A'. Y
Ledger.
The Lost Boy's Brother.
The other day a boy about ten years
of age entered the Twelfth Stieet Police
Station and informed the Sergeant in
charge that his little brother was .lost
How old is he?" asked the officer,
as he prepared to write out a descrip
tion. How old? Why, I never asked him
how old he was," was the astonished
replv.
""Well, what do you think?"
1 guess he's moic'n half as big as I
am, and ma says she'll tan his jacket
good and stout for getting lost."
" Wl.aVs the color of his hair?"
"Hair! Less see? I don't belicvo 1
ever took notice, but I've heard tho
boys call him red-head go to bed.' "
" I'll put it down red, then. How arc
his eyes? '
One of 'em squints, but 'tothcr one
is all right."
Are they blue?"
"I don't know; this is the first time
he ever lost himself."
"Did he wear a hat or cap?"
"I don't know. He generally goes
around bare headed, and ma says ho'll
get sun-struck yet"
"How was he dressed?"
I know he had on some clothes,"
was the hesitating reply.
"Does he wear coats?"
"Sometimes."
"And pants?"
"Yes."
"Was he barefooted?"
" I guess so."
" And what is his name?"
"He's got lots of names, but I gucs
ma calls him Jimmy most of airy thing."
"Well, I guess" we'll know him,"
said tho Sergeant, as he laid down his
pen.
" Oh, you'll havo to know him if he
cots in here. Ho calls names and
howls and makes up faces and
know him fust enogh. I'd let 1
you'll
him get
lost all he wanted to if I owned him.
but ma seems to kinder want him back
aqd so I came to tell you. If vou havo
to lick him whilo he's hero you must
bend him over a chair and whack him
with a horse-radish grater. Ma has
tried every other way, and this is the
only one that gives satisfaction." De
troit Free 1'rcss.
A Paper C'ty in Massachusetts.
A correspondent writing from Glou
cester, Mass., to the Boston J'ost, saj's:
" There is a curious bit of history con
nected with a wilderness region in tho
western part of this city. Certain Bos
ton pirties bought it fora song, and
laid it out as a CU3 on paper. There
was the Pennsylvania, the Washington"
and other avenues; there were squares
and boulevards with hiyrh-soundimr
Lnanies. Tho citv lots svero a'drertised
ground the own in Gloucester. 3Thcso
letters come from New Orleans, St.
.Louis, jN ash vine, etc. Ihe truth is.
this wilderness land was never
out up
into lots; it was never touched for anv
purpose, except bv an caslc who mav
.have rcsteiLon. a limb of one of ittrees.
The tract bos no market value, and if
oflerod at auction would not bring fifty
aoiiars.
The Term Torte.
The term "Porte," xvhich is used to
denote the administrative Government
of tho Ottoman Empire, and includes
the Sultan, the Grand Vizier and the
Great Council of Stite, had its origin in
this way: In the famous institutes es
tablished by the famous warrior Sultan
Mohamed II., the Turkish body politic
was described by the metaphor of a
stately tent, whose domes rested upon
four pillars. The Viziers formed the
first pillar, the Judges the next,. the
Treasurers the third and the Secreta
ries the fourth, Tho chief seat of gov
ernment was figuratively namedthe
"Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent," in
allusion to the practice of early times
when the Ottoman rulers sat at the tent
doors to administer justice. The Ital
ian translation of this name was " Le
Porte Sublima." This phrase was mod
ified in English to the Sublime Porte,"
and finally the adjective has been
dropped, leaving it simply "The
Porte."
Says the Utica Observer: "Two
weeks ago George Klein, a Cleveland
boy, had his skull sawed open in a ter
rible manner at a pail factory in that
eity." We are glad the Observer stated
that it was in a tenable manner. There
are, we presume ways of sawing open a
bov's skull which, instead of bein? ter
rible, are really lots of fun for the boy
ana v.e might nave tnougui; mis joa
was donc that style. -Jiosign los'
A System for Rasata? All the Clocks
of a City.
llcccnt
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invention has nndc it possi
ble to move and regulate the clock of
a whole city b means of comprescd
air furnished from central station.
Householders arc thus able to always
have the exact time, and arc saved the
trouble and annoyance of attending to
their clocks themte vea. The pne-t-
matic clock, therefore, promises to be-
come, like tho telephone and the tele-1
graph, of great puonc use, anu an ira- j
ponani audition 10 ian conveniences 01
modern life.
At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 a very
ingenious contrivance for the pneu
matic distribution of time attrdcted
much attention. The inventors. Messrs.
Copp and Kesch, had previoualy-cxpwr- f
iineircd vmn meir cjocks iu icnna,
but they had not then perfected their I
arrangements for moving and regulat-
Jnjr them- When they applied to the
city authorities for the privilege of
distributing timo as a monopoly for
fifty years. the3' were, therefore, un-iblc
to get the concession. Since that day,
however, they have so improved their
system, and the exact time furnished
b' them has become so useful to the
public, that the municipality are now
willing to grant them what thc3 for
meri' asked for, and they have under
taken to do the work on a large scale in
Vienna.
In Paris, too, since 1878, a large num
ber of householders have had the time
transmitted to their residences b3' the
pneumatic process, and numerous pneu-
matic clocks have been put up in the '
streets. At first pipes through which
"tho compressed air could bo .ent were
laid down in the sewers of the first
second and ninth arrondisements of
the cit. There was, however, no dis
tribution of time to'private residences.
Soon, however, a company, known as
the Corrtparjnie Uimr.rafe ties Uijrlog&x I
ruennatifues, was authori.ed to per-
lorm mis service.-anu ia year ago lasi
March it was reaily to begin the work.
Six miles of pipes had been laid down,
and four clocks, which received the
pifcumatic time from the central works.
were fixed on lamps on the boulevards. famous conVent of Mar Saba is worth a
I h-jse public clocks came to be of gre it journuy to Palestine. For thirteen cen
tre. Their time was always correct. , mrinj tlmt wmli.rfni ttr.w.n,r,. 1, ...
and people got into the habit of regu
kiting their watches b them. Subsequently-
the system was further extend
ed, and now there are sixteen miles of
pipes laid down in the sewers, and
2,009 pneumatic clocks in 500 houses
are connected with the central works
and are receiving the time from them.
Tho number of public clocks in tho
streets has also been increased to four- J
teen, wun ininy-iiireo mats.
The S3 stem has worked so woll and
has proved of sogrcaptTbTTc"eotivcTi
ience that of late, wo are told, the pat
entees havo obtaiued-n concession from
the Prefect of tho Seine which will en
able them
Jlo vastly extend their ar
rangements for distributing the time.
Their plan is to la' down pipes through
which they can send compressed air
which will actuate all the clocks of
Paris, if necessary. 1
This is the way in which the time is
scnt: At the central works there is. a
great clojjk, whiclrjontrols the whplo
S3 stem. " It is' a pendulum clock of "re
markable precision and perfection of
mechanism. To it is connected a pe
culiar contrivance. In means of which a
vnlo is opened and .shut cver3 minute.
When the valve is opened compressed
air furnished b3 steam engines woi king
air-compressing machines is admitted
into the sy'stem of pipes, and all tho
clocks connected with it are actuated
at tho same time. The opening takes
place at the sixtioth second of each
minute, and tho air Mows for twenty
jceonds. when the valve is closed. This
space of time allowed is the result of
the machinery in detail; nor shall wo
attempt to explain the mechanism of
tho clocks worked by the pneumatic
system. It is enough to say that as tho
central clock moves so move all thoso
connected with it In this way exact
and uniform time is furnished, and
when the Pneumatic Company take ad
vantage of their concession, which gives
them a monopoly of laying pipes for
fifty years, it will he-supplied through
out Paris. The cost, too, is so small
that the people generally will be able
to have it. Thus, tho charge for a sin-
gle clock is only one cent a day, and if
there are more in a house the price for
each is much reduced. This price,
however, includes laying the pipes ami
supplying the clock, or, ifdesircd, fitting
works to existing clocks. Since tho
pneumatic sy-stcra. saves the household
er from all care about his clocks and
all expense for their repair it will bu
sccn that the cost is at least no greater 1
than that 01 maintaining me oiu nrae -
pieces. Byit, too, he can always be
sure that he has the correct time.
The pneumatic clock, therefore, is a
great spun, and is likely to be intro-1
n 1 : :: YU 4'.l
that not only Paris and Vienna, but also ,
St Petersburg and Madrid and two
1-irge towns in France, are soon to havo
timo distributed by tho system, and
that it is to be introduced into England.
M Y. Sun.
An Egg that Hatched a Wedding.
"Yes, it is true," said Mr. James
Lynch, yesterday, as he stood in front
of his produce market at 152 Grand
street, Williamsburgh. "An egg was
the cause of it all, andit'.s the first time,
.. Bui .-. -fo w,. ..v.- ..
match-maker. I don t nnnd tellmgyou
I ffuess. that an esre ever acted as a
the circumstances, hat I prefer notgiv
'ingtheriame 'of eUnfer the girl or her
intended,-for J know thoy.would not
like it, and the facts are just as mter
TBStmcrwithoDt them -
" It waiTon" Saunlav night, I think,
about two .months asro. lherc was a
experience, ami may tie varteu accora-1 for siCCI,ing. and like Pat " pay alien
ing to the distances through winch the t5on to it" so closely, that I was able to
compressed air has to travel. defy e veil the lloas" and mosquitoes of
It is not necessary for us to describe . iu.,r c..hn nv ,i..vli-i,t. tlm t.ovt mum.
great ruslrof customers, and oar. girl, ofdifferent kinds of second-hand busi
who'is very handy, .came dowiustairsto . nes3 r0-m3: ou aU ,he time and oreneral-
help us in the store, Sho of ten did this,
for the upstairs work, which she is cm-
ployed to do, is not very heaVy, and on
most ovonings she irat leirurc. J ell,
that day-1 had bought hvc barrels of
oggs from-comaiisttoa house on Duanc
;strcer, , .New lorfc. ,1 hey" had come
asxn 'I Miivn?nA Its A IIIIHHIII f 111 II II
up when the" girl came
nuui juiucni.u ao uM.i.K.1. n.iuu
down, and I had
'just opened another. She began toell
rom this barrel. AOout nve minutes
later I heard her laughing., and saw(her
holding an egg-to the light She looked
ati -t1s in,lntly that,1 dreTr near .and
asked her if it was bad.
Oh, no,' sheyanswered. It's too
good.'
"Shc handed me th&egjf, pointing to
some words-written upon it in a clear,
business-like hand. They were as fol
lows: " -
Will the rouiur lady la whose hands this
CZCg may fall open correspondence wita
, County, Tennessee?
"I read it aloud, and a lady who
chanced to be present said, How ro-
manticP I thought so, too, and we all
had a good laugh over it After the
shutters had been put up, I told the
girl, just for the fun of the thing, to
comply with the request on the egg and
send a letter to Tennessee. Before
going to bed she did so. She is well
educated, and writes an excellent letter.
She was brought up in a convent in
Ireland- She said she had no idea that
she could get an answer, but I guess
that she anxiouslv watched forthe nost-1
man during the following week. At
the end of five davs a letter came di
; . .-.. . .-..-iv.
rected to her and postmarked Tennes
see. It didn't take her long to open it,
and Tm pretty sureshe read its contents'
as quickly. A reply was sent, and
other letters came and went Photo-
graphs were exchanged before -three
weeks had expired. "The girl after th'13
jtfused to show any more of tier letters,
a4 W4 began to imagine that natters
were becoming wriou and tcxc! her
a great, IeaT about JiSr cirrcjiponitetiL.
ell. to make a long story nhort. ha
proposed by letter, and w.i axptcd.
On Thursday LiAt ho arrived from Tca-
riesaee and saw her for the 1 rst tiraa.'
"Tby were wtitu-tflv pleased, and the
' wfcdd n dayWra.4 ct foriwrae titst in
uj n,,ddle f Xagut Jt Ls a ood
nwtch, and Ihopc theT will be happy
tojfelher." Jr ' ,
js our friend from Tennessee in
good circumstances" asked the re-
porter.
On, ves." replied Mr. Ltnch. "I
forgot u tell you. He own considera
ble laud and is quite well-to-do. He is
alfo a largo flupoer of produce, and
just-out ol Inn he wrote the menage on
the-fatal ct. He knew the ?' Mould
be shipped to New York, butthernttzht
jiave oocn scnt Irou, u,j,citvto Europe,
or anywh6re eLse. Hcwoj"so plex-ed
with the an-wer to his mc-ago tint ho
ma,jt. up hto- mind to marry the girl who
naj wr-,Ut.n it, if hcrappiniuce tdca-ed
him. It would have been strange if it
hail not. for she is a remarkably hand
some girl, not -et 1 wen 13 'ears old,
with a line complexion. Itru brow n
eyes and a gracetul figure. She is alo
as amiable as she is pretty. He is a
line-looking man about thiny ears of
age. and .hey make a handsome couple,
lean tell 3'ou."
Is th" girl still living at x'our
house0" the reporter inquired.
"Yes, and she will remain with us
until the wedding tnkca place, when she
will 'o to Tennes-ee with hr hu-b'iud.
'probably over the amc road that
brought
lirniK'lit. 1 lir rrr tlimnirli vvliii'ti -lli rit
her lover." A. Y. Hun.
The Head Sea.
-
Our afternoon's march over tho bleak,
treeless ami brown mountains of tho
j wilderness wa- inexpressibly tireomo
until we c:
u ja,- o,i,rj
ime in sight of the Dead fcca.
ay i.too feet Iieluw us a mirror of
silver, set among the violet mount litis
of Moab. More precipitous des cuts
over rocks and sand brought us. b'
snndown. to the two towers of the mos't
nnimio ntriiiAafnrir mi tlw rloti. Tim
hung against the walls of the deep, aw
ful gorce of the Kidron. It isaco ossal
swallow's nest of stone, built to thw
height of three hundred feet against tho
precipice, and inhabited by sixty monks
of tho Greek Church genuine Mtuii
cheans, and followors of St. Saba and
St. John of Damascus. No woman's
foot has ever entered the convent walls.
l3tead of women s society they make"
love to the birds, who come and feed
oil the monks' hands. Kvery evening
they toss meat down to the wild jackals
in the gorge below. At sunset I
climbed over the extraordinary building
was shown into tho rather handsome
church, and iuto the chapel or cave of
St. Nicholas, which contains the ghast
ly sku'ls of the monks who were
slaughtered by Chosrocs and his Per
sian soldiers jnd ga.ed down into the
awful ravine beneath the convent wall.
Some monk in black gowns were
perched as watchmen on the lofty tow-
er; others wandered over tho htone
pavement in a sort of aimless vacuity.
What an attempt to live in an exhausted
receiver!
Tho monks gave us hospitable wel-
I comcsold us canes and wood-work, And
furnished us lodgings on the divans of
two large stone parlors. One of tho re
ligious duties of the brotherhood is to
, keep vigils, and through the night bells
were ringing and clanging to call them
in to their devotions. The vermin in
the lodging-rooms havo learned to keep
up their vigils alo; and as the result
, our party with one exception hail a
! sleepless night. I havo such a talent
ing we heard the great iron door of tho
convent clang behind us like the gate
of tiunyan's "Doubting Castle," and
for five hours we made a toilsome de
cent of the desolate cliffs of the shore
of the Dead Sea. That much maligned
sea has a weird and wonderful beauty.
Wo took a bath in its cool, clear
waters, and detected no difference
from a bath at Coney Island, except
that the water has such dcnsit3 that we
iloated on it like pine shingles. No fish
from the salt ocean can live in it: but
it is very attractive to the eve on a hot
noon.,iav. scorching ride we had
across the ban en plain of the sacred
Jordan which disappointed me sadly.
At the place were tlic Israelites crossed
and our Lord was bapti.ed it was about
one hundred and twenty feet wide; it
Hows rapidly and in a turbid current of
light stone color. In size and nnpear-
anco it is the perfect counterpart o the
Muskingum, a tew mile
above anes-
VilIc g 1 watcrs ought to bo
turned oft to irrigate its barren valley,
r wh:oh mu,ht be ciianged into a garden.
For besiutv lnc Jordan will not compare
wlt,r RKfihV hronk Chnrith. wiuw.
... . . .
bright, sparkling stream wont Mowing
past our lodging-place at Jericho. We
lodged overh?ght in a Greek convent
(very small), and rode next morniiiirto
sec the ruins of the town made famons
by Joshua, Elijah, Zaccheus and the
restoration of Iiartimeus to sight
Squalid Arabs liaunt tho sacred -spot
Thco. Ctfykr,'injhc Sew York Evan
gelist. m
Odd Wajs of Making a Living.
For that matter, though, there seems
to be nionev in all sorts of things in
.xew iorK. Anerc, ior instance, is mo
SCCOnd-hand furniture trade, which has
New York. There, for instance, is tho
grown to enormous
proportions, and is
now one oi the leaning lines 01 business
in the city. It is hardly worth while to
mention the fashionable second-hanT
clothing trade which every one knows
everything about that js worth know-
inrv AeiJa frkw ttioen tlim om ilA7nno
; ly at a larse I)roUt to lhe dealers. Wo
have one qJ of mftJ1 dealing in old
Jea(L another in old iron, another in old
' brass another irtjold. building material
of all sortSf anotuer in broken glass.
. and so on through a lonrr list of thinrrs
l that seera to have served'their only ur-
" ... . .
, noe and to be no lonGr oi anv u.sr to
nft riithunn ni.i nrc i;n.i wi
, pa"per of course, a lame business in
j,sclft aad a profitable one. too. The
lategt industry is that of collecting the
small tln are thrown out fter
their contents of preserved fruit meat
or vegetables, as the case may be, aro
used. The tin is of scarcely any value,
but it pays to melt down the cans for
their solder, and this is now done as
regularly as sending rags to a paper
mill. Gathering up cigar stumps around
the hotels is an old business. The
chewed and nicotine-soaked ends are
dried, broken up and utilized either for
tillers in makin; new cigars, or worked
in with the cheaper kinds of smoking
tobacco- There arc thousands of men
in New York who make a living by
merely gathering up the refuse of trade
aad of the household, and putting it in
shape to be utilized over again, and
some of them not only make a living,
but get ahead in the world, too. X. Y.
Cor. EartforpL Times.
British India supports a populatioa
of 243 persons to the square mile,
asrainst 180 in France and 200 in En-
-- .. ...
eland. Wherever the population ex
ceeds 200 to the square mile it ceases
to be TuraL. and has to live to a greater
or less extent'By manufactures, mining
or city industries. Keepiag in view
that ninety per cent, of theTaral popu
lation of India lire more or less by the
tillage of the soil, itr is easy to under
stand that, owing to the extreme den
lity of population, the struggle for ex
istence k extremelj .kartL
I - - .1 -J --- w UVSV 'BB
Orirln ef Fas-UIar rhra.
-3fc. m .
The Last Feather Which Break lb
IIor Back." Thw phrase wa tint
written by UramhaH fn 1615, in coaxs
qucrifce of a conversation tiwrt;a
HobtxR and himself, but wis not pub
lished until 16-5. The paraTaph. In
whirhJt appear (Abp. Iirtnhall s
" Vtndicatlnn of True Liberty Aa3nl
j.Mr Uobbe.V) b as follow "The
lasl'dlctite of the jndjrnicnl concerning
the good or bad that may follow on any
j action is not properly the whole cause,
i but the last part of "it and yet may bo
f atd to produce the effect necosarily In
' 5Uh wanner a iho last feather nut b
,nid to break a horse's bock, when
there were io xnanv laiil on before a
there wanted but that U do it."
"iJurajicj Via'-"- Thb hterary will-o'-the-wi'p
hai lcen tracol t Burn
and Smollett It originally apjioared.
' however, in Johno-' Frojart" Ue
I scribing the capture of Jt Venaut In
1 1.H8:'. by the trops under the command
of the Mi shop x Norwich, hrouvsart
.i that Sir William de Melle. uho du
feuileii tho place, was permitted by hi
captor to return to France as a priiner
on parole, "according to the manner
in which all trench and English gentle
men behave to one another in similar
cao-; but not o the Grmau. who.
whenever theyMafce a prisoner, throw
him iuto durance ile. loaded with
itous, in order to gain a more consider
able ntn-oni."
"Thug." The word "thug." now
so generally tiM'd to denote the ""dioul-lor-hittersr'
and thieve- of our cities
is derhed from the Hindoo thugii t, to
deceive.
.Maon and Dixon Line " On tho
1th of Augu-st. 176'l. Tiiotna and Kich
ard Pen 11 ami Lord Hallimore. being
together in London, agreed with
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dtxou.
two surveo.s. to mirk, run and settle
ami fix the boundary line between Mary
land on one hand ami Delaware and
Pennslvania on the other Thev ae
complNhed their work to within thirty
mk inilcH. ix chains and fifty link-,
when they wore told by their" Indian
escorts that it was the will of the S.ou
nation that the surveys should eeaiii.
and they terminated accord ugly. M 1
son d cd in Pennsylvania 111 177; Dix
on died at Durham, Etur.. in 1777.
'Emerald Isle."- The epithet, as ap
plied to lre!atid. was firt used b Dr.
Wil iam Dreun.nn, author of "Gen
dalloch," and other poems, who was
born at Belfast May 1'. 17.il. Tho
phrase occurs in h s beautiful jtoeni en
titled ' Erin." from which a stau.a Is
quoted below:
.Arm of Krln! prove snn;r: hut to !.'entla
as tiru.e.
.iil, upl (ted to strike, xtlll le ready tc
cuvu:
Xr out leellii'f f eiijreanctf p'esutne ic
l.-tlld
Tl.e ca'je. or the men. of tbo I'menitd U;"
To the words " Emerald I-lo" Dr.
Drennau ha added the following note:
"It may be puerile to lay t la m to a
priority of application in the ue of au
epithet; but poet, liko bees, havo a
very strong sense of propriety, and
both are ot that irritable kind as to le
extremely jealou-. of any one who lobs
them of their hoarded nwccIs. 'J ho
sublime epithet which Milton used in
his poem on the Nativity, written al
fifteen years of ae, His thunder-clamping
hand,' would have been claimed by
h m as his own even aller he had hii
ishe l Parad so Lost' And Gray would
prosecute, as a literary poocher, tho
daring hand that would presume to
lneak iuto his orchard and appropriate
a smg'e epithet in that line, the most
beautifully descriptive which ever was
written:
"Ihe ttrcezy e-.ill of Ineense-hre.ilhliiir inoni."
'Peter's Pence." Olla, a Saxon
Prince, to ingratiate himself in faor
of the sovereign Potitill". engaged to
pay him a yearly donation for the sup
port of an English college at Koine;
and, in order to raise the sum, ho im
posed a tax of a penny on each lioiuo
possessed of thirty pence a year This
imposition, beinsr" afterward levied on
all England, was commonly denominat
ed " Peter's Pence."
"True Blue." Tho first assumption
of this phrase was led by the ( oven int
ers, in opposition to tho scarlet badge
ot Charles I., and hence it was taken
up by the troops of Leslie and Montrose
in 10:1!). The adoption of the color was
one of those religious pedantries into
which the Covenan'ers, iu n pharisaical
observance of the scriptural letter and
the usage of the Hebrews, distinguished
themselves. And thus they named
their children Habakkuk and Zertib
babel, and their chapels Zian andEben
ezcr. They decorated their persons
with ribbons, beeau.se the following
sumptuary preecpt was given in the
law of Moses: " Speak to the children
of Jsrnel. and tell them to make to
themselves fringes on the borders of
their garments, putting in them ribbons
of blue." Numbers xv.. J5S.
"Old Harry." -The popular attri
butes of the evil one were a human
form, with horns, tail, and a cloven
foot 'I hese arc very probably derived
from the Grecian fables, and from the
representations of the Greek satyrs ami
Koman fauns the gods of the mount
tains and jrroves: and it is also probable
that "Old Harry" was originally "Old
ntr." Tho satyrs were said to have
ha'r like goats. "Shock" is a head of
rough hair -a rough-haired dog. bo
there is doubtless an affinity between
"Old Harry" or "Old Hairy." and
"Olil Shock." tho .English name given
to the demon supposed to haunt roa I
s'des and wild pathways. "The Lord
Harry" may allude to the scriptural
terms, "the god of tho world." tho
I prince of the powers of darkness.
"Just the Cheese." This fam'liar
vulgarism, used in commendation of a
thing, is a mere orientalism, meaning
"just tho th.ng." from cheez, Hindo
stance for "a thing."
"Gone to Pot The phnvse comes
from a tailor in Saraarcand, who, living
near a cemetery, had an earthen vessel
on his counter into which he cost a peb
ble whenever a corpse was carried past
and thus kept count of the daily inter
ments. At lat his own time came,
and his neighbors on inquiry after him
answered. "He has gone to pot, also."
"To Go the Whole Hog."- General
ly set down as an Americanism, but
undoubtedly of Irish origin- Previous
to the year"lS2j). when the Irish metal
lic currency was completely assimilated
to the English, tho silver shilling circu
lated in Ireland was equivalent to thir
teen copper pennies, whereas a silver
shilling ot England was of the value of
twelve pence. In Ireland the shillinij
"was sometimes calle I a thirteen."
from the number of pence it contained,
and was sometimes called "a hog."
When a man had a convivial idea of
spending an entire shilling on a friend,
which figuratively meant that he would
not be chary of expense, he was said to
"go the wh'ole hog." SL Louis Globe
Democrat. m
A new German industry consists in
making plates, dishes, etc.. of wood
shavings. ge!atine and soda-waterglass.
Selected plane shavings are bound into
bundles, and steeped in a bath of weak
gelatine solution about twenty-four
hours, then dried and cut into suitable
lengths. Plates are cut of strong paper
or thin pasteboard, of the size of the
articles to he produced, and these aro
moistened with a liquid consisting of
weak gelatine solution witn'soda-water
glass, and pressed in heated metallic
molds; after drying, the pressed paper
objects are coated on both sides with
an adhesive material made of five parts
Russian gelatine and one part thick
turpentine, the shavings being then ap
plied to them, and the whole subjected
to pressure. Some sxall finishing pro
cesses follow, such as cutting, "trying
and vanishing, and the' articles thus
produced are said to possess ever
seeded quality.
rEKMJNAL A5I LITER I RY".
A Iran r-sb'bltxtn of pcian-
Sbakwpeartsin subjects 1 now trpco at 1
Jstrai ordou-Aroo j
U hb tfre draA of bb a. Sir Percv
ti.!t ,ii.. ..11 .--tti.
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Mtcuc. wm w . tu v,w ....
Brc. bat flfrdfts)tdtl ot hnwro? f
I Jlr (ilvUtomj ixaaitfd "Kockof
Arcl' latdltuir aad H nnz by
monk.1 In many coatnou a tb o"U- f
Cent
Mr. Gcorir- lUncruft divide hU
time preUT eiuallv bcttsrn hbnt-f
lnj. his r and feb horcbiak tier
cie at cn'rart. I"hv vHcraW htU
riau will t eJghiv o In CK-tocr.
' " Hie New Testament lor a pen
nv. is a d to ha fiumd alrridy SS.- I
tM") urrxter In EaIanL, The pub-,
Usher luUuiii U i-ue a Vreuch o.l '.'. a; j
for a x-u, for cirv uUiam in Kranwu j
-Helfch lluni (Mr. Jackson) lrfl !
New England a jrale. ddieat invalid.
and now In her Colorado home h
wci-h 1" pound. h l ,oga2sd on
Iter work ctnc:raing tbo lndia.
Koviuth will tlnbh the third rtduroo
of hit memoir, and will write no more.
He has mtterml to extend the wtrk i
twenty wunies. but he will leave it for
lua otit to treat at the) thmV iest
llmo lionheiir. thsrle4)fatrHlrtUt. -is
ti ty-eight )ciu ohL Not Infr-
qucatlyU;M.he been paul for hrr worki
at the rate of .V a dav llerftrst
piclurd was ruccjvod at the al.on when
she was but nineteen years of age.
auuiel J. Tilden it takl to bo the
keenest collector f uluttratcd bookt In
Amenea and ha a collection inferior to
none. It includes, to mention one
thing, an illustrated Mitm evtended to
si groat oltiiuo. ilh all the platot of
all the great editions from Stothard In
the last centnrv to Dore in thlv
President KIm t. of Hananl Ol-,
lege, onee said that when ho w-a called
to the head of th.it iiiititution h was ,
tiei'her t D I) nor an I.L. D.. but that '
Williams College promptly stepped in
and conferred the latter tlegie upon
Ituii. l'roddeiit-oleet Carter, ot ill-
mills, was in nhoiil the tame position till
L'mon College recently gave him tho
longer title.
Curly le. as a young man, could not
find a pm esa on. .shrinking from tho
church, nd inclining rather to the law.
beeaite. as he said. " no mean com
pliances are requisite for prospering in
it " Th lnc ot settled employ iitetit
t ankle I, and in l.iL he wrote to his
brother Johu "It Is a shame and
misery to me atthisaeto be gliding
about in strenuous Idleness, with no
hand in the gamu of life, whero I have
jet so much to w.n, no outlet for the
restless taeulties, which are up m mu
tun and slaying one another for lack of
fair enemies.'
iirjMKors.
A pig was net cr known to wash,
but a great many people have suen tbu
pig iron.
-A nobleman that ought to bu ahlr
togivoa good blow-out the Earl ol
Fl. -'c on (Aturicr.
Perhaps there U one, after all. It'j
hot enough, any way " lob Imjrrsotl,
in Chicaio Trti une.
The lecturer who was pelted with
aucicnt eggs had no dilllcully iu ascer
taining the scents of the tneeting.--Ihtrol
Free I'r.s.
How do uniformity of action, tlio
abiding place of talent, and man's intel
lect, resemble onch other? The hrst is
homogeneous, the second is homo o'
genius, and the third homo genius.
il'if awl II i.tluin.
Ilrush. the electric light man, pre
dicts that electricity will soon be stored
for family use. Think of sending your
oldest boy to the grocery .store for a pa
per of salenittts ami a two-pound cm of
electricity. Ac r nv ltcyuttr.
Iu a r.ii'roud coMi-ion theothorday
a young lady's old tyle bonnet was
crushed and dented in Seventeen differ
ent places. he took it home, put a
(lower and two yards r.bbon on it,
and now she lias a bonnet of the latest
styie, worth eleven dollars and a half.
A'nrri"(uirn IUriilil.
You will observe th.it the man who
has waited three hours in the dreary
desolation of a railway waiting-room
never complains that tho train is !ow,
after he gets on. A construction train,
backing along at seven miles an hour
Fceius like the sweep of a cyclone to
him. ri 'vj'rm Hmokt ':
An able-bodied tnmp stopped In
front of a well-known eiticu of Austin
and said, iu a whining oire: " Please
sir, give me some assistance. I hao
n o friends or family. I am homrlcss
and friend less." Vou are? Well,
then, if you luye no Mends to borrow
money from you, and no family to sup
port, you are better off than I am. Vou
might have money to lend. 1 say. lend
me a quarter. but themanwithoutany
responsibilities passed on without con
tributing a cent Tcxiis Sifttnyi.
The corruption of the ago is some
thing perfcit'y frightful. It has ex
tended even to the turtuno tullors. A
ladv on Natoma street went to an ax.
trofogcr the other day one who. by
the way. had been her family ootb
sayerforsix years, and who had hither
togiven entire satisfaction and paid
two dollars and a half for a hrst-clas
fortune. We think she paid cash,
though it might have been charged on
the regular account, like as not The
A No. 1 family article was dealt out to
said customer at nce- She was prom
ised the rC'-cipc of a large sum by let
ter, and the lifelong devotion of a re
tired plumber with a blonde mustache.
So far from these promises being kept
the lady had just heard that her un
married uncle, who had been gas In
spector six years, has married a widow
with four children, and last night a
burglar hid in the refrigerator, ate two
pounds of butter, drank all the milk,
and. final'y, walked off with the hat
rack and little Johnnie's new ulster.
Thus it is that in tho hour of adversity
our sheet-anchors fad us and even fu
turity gives- us tho cold shake. vKin
Franzisco lotL
A Freak of (madaatioa.
A di-pensary cafe which the report-1
ers were not allowed to get hoiu of
created some stir a sho't time ago.
The officer on the beat found the mas
in a half-faintinrr condition at the steps,
and. ascertaining thai be baa been
stabbed between tho shoolders, lagged
him in for treatment Tho stranger
story, when he was sufficiently recov
ered to tell it. was to t'HJ eSect that he
had been sittinjr on a bcer-keg otitaide I
a saloon, when he became drowsy and
one whom he could cot identify, and.
in fact did not gel a good view of.
came up the street and. in passing him.
stabbed him in the bade and made hi
escape. I he wounaea man a once
started for the dispensary, but fainted J
fromloisof blootl on reachiug the door. J
l l.,1o tha iTrwm-a vcirt vmftrin I!i
clothinr somethinz dropped on the
. . .... ... ..-.-.- ....- .....,
floor, which the quick e e of the peeler
caught and. as he stooped to pick itnp,
he remarked the man haa also been
struck with a glass, and here's a piece
of it It did not prove to be glass,
but a piece of icet and further examina
tion explained its presence. The
patient was entirely unhurt but had
been made the victim of s practical
joke- Seeing him dozing some wag
had slipped the. ice down his back and
struck him between the shoalders
Suddcnly arossed. aad feeling the blow
and the ice melting, he at oscc jumped
to the conclusion that he was stabbed,
and the force of imgiaatioa was sees
that he fainted and .iMcaoe sick at the
stomach. Both he mmd the oScer who
had expatiated on the. severity of the
(ttab. looked rather crestfallen, and slid
anletly oat while the physicians roared.
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f'nvoM. shows an ctcotlrut "y of cl-
Imr nnf to tucu irnilty of
pmUNo
.iwennnirth!-
We have often mpolrn kindly ainl
in .inlet touet t iktMe who err.wfAr
nig Almost without jepton Unv
have n'C-tit?d the lprttof In the ..
spirit In wluvli it w.11 gtoti, th"
, whlspcriHl wonlt. "Skip the hard word.
' plea e.' coupled with a kindly, quint
glatieeof the eye. hat altno.t alnnt
eonquetnl
We havo had this l I
' perienrc among rough men. and snn.
'turn's itt wtfil. d.sjignrHi plaer. It
hat unit aito oeen the iuer ng wn.iSw
almost rui often of . wsnl or two .( In.
.ttion to join u In the Journey to me
lteinr mini.
I "Anion; tho ea,sc of lltu latter kind
I which we h III mind was that of a
' ttae dfler I'll Uie trontiur Y at
beside him on his .ht-h eat The
twilight nrt mpidly d'tqwuiiig. Dark
clouds, iiicrnvatilfy ut hi iiml light-
11111. won rolling up. ami pait 01 Mint
magnificent thunder as s no dotu hennl
except iu the fr Wtt were rrrorberat
ing in the air. Tho Urn or was a Kind
hearted. MK'lnblo fellow. It it there wat an
Intensity and fro jiien- y of his uuinoict
of oath posltn eh uuupin We might tav
he hid n ginlilfiir wear. tig. h was
m eutiiutiasiK-ally profane Our ad
mrmtfon of bona, especially of his
.s'detidul four-indiiiiid.' was genulnn,
und won tho way to his heart We
filially rukc I h m, in an easy otMiand
way. to iij.im tit uy klpi .ig the hani
w-.ir.ls. He iirom. ll. both ihniikrtl tit
and made an apo'ogy. conlially 0l11n-1 mailer how a man tnlk. It Is h
leering. tho admit, on that It was all j Iioim, hU Wo. that ti for g-Ml ( r
wrong. ' He was then VeiMly fnr'atnU I evil He cannot decoUo th- tt j-l
about mother, homo and Lea vou. lie ! world, talk ho over o umUlr.
limtn ed to nso a llible hit mo'lir will otlmattt hitu at nlnxtt l r
had given him on hi hitritig home, i value Tulk t ono thin. a.
and to attend religious Innltutd of b ir- j another - Nethatul lUrrUr
room services. AIo to road any good j What tho world nonsli uir Uw
iiax.r wo .should send him. Wo took ' any thing ele -more than tho jfiflo (
his adduce ami nflecward mailed him j mount . rtiJos, jMiel:-. lUnnt m,
read'ng mitter which we hop has ml- ganirations is tho rettral nt ttmm
tivated the eed (town. t aenev; tho toueh of a !iaM. Uh gfam
Anothrr case was In a crowded of an oto tho lone of 1 tttico. il.e m
street ear in Philadelphh. rn nule to I pathy of warm. lorlux JowfU. eknrjffwl
the great Cetiteun al Exposition. The witli'all hoo'ing liittuoiiroM. u -Um
pro!antl) of one of the passiHigers. who denolate wildenm.s tluitklt witts Uk
wan conskbTiibly under ihoitiMiinticn of jml nvml of tlio Llnjfdont Wo wish
liquor, was so terrible and who etnje as tho miwnr to go forth a'oiio. and. ky to
to cniie cpreiioiis of pa noiitho faeos ' (firiditnt oonbiel with tin oU f !
of nil the ladies within eunhot Word i world, lo remedy It by tho ni(it-o of
of disapprobation were beard also from personal fadh and Mrlng for. '-
both ladles and gentlemen, botint of mm
the latter sahl-i-gtto oce -h otiht j What romnrkablo motnwrto -'
to be put out of the car Ho looked. pv.ple hi to bo rm. Thr h r
however, like a man to make violent j member, to a dnv. when ytni tfttiiiMtt'l
work if that were attempted. Soon a I an error, or made a hi 'mko. and Um
compntiion of h etprnsteU a w h, ' are nut content with nononiWrto
which wo overheard, to know tho tune thetnseires, thwy aro dotormlol
of day. We promptly consulted the ott nhall remember it too, and rr
watch. -mil gae the detir-ul Informa-1 roiivetiiontoppirUnlty and thot innVr
tion. This ojwned the wa for a ple.is 1 it convenient pilte often the twit yxi
nnt wonl with both parties. Then, of It. fhuv dollght In thus domjr. imi-I
le.tunig over, nd nh Is pr red In the oar if thH twitting U done in thw nnntit
of the trunblcsnmo one. to know If a 1 others, their delight i miirh grnaUr
favor might In akd without giving of- ' Hut th"n. thoso twitters, althowb Uht
fen. That granted, the request was ( annoy for tlio moment, ean do ho lrrt
ma Uituouiit words thnlgavn us pain. and It Is not worth wJdl Ui .tk
'Hivre was nta anotlier rosigh ord l rom them. MrUtolitt llcortUr
that man on tho top He and his as j nio way to promote wwr.bo.lrk
MK-tate son followed this act of pohtf-. i t!M, 0jjUrvh j, ff.r oft.. mmht,r wl fc u.
,.,' i: " . r " .'i-
had long been stand ng. and by their
listening to sugsentions or how we all
may find wisdom ways' thoso of
jilcAsantncss."
A Naflen at Prayer.
An infidel writer, in a periodical just
issued, says tint a "pro'ound chtnge
his tiken plnre In the world of
thought" Ho imagines the "change"
to be from faith to un telursf: ho pre
tends to thinx that this Nation Is losing
its fn th in religion, and a heism is prevailing-impulses
are rfteo b-lUr tsts of
character than obr calculation. A
ainn'rnay' foBVra'ehlralf that it I
gryxl policy to do good, but if ho nxshrs
to do it without pausing to calculate Its
alue, he obeys what wc call1- good im
pulse. - k
An infidel in dasher at .e4 is rirt
cdas praying. " O God. if thcru m a
(Jod, mvc my-j-vwil If I have a soul."
Instinctively in the hoar of pvril he
prayed- The atlrieif"atheitt does not
jir.y. The infidel who writes of thn
great "change tb.-it,Las.cpme over the
warJitpftiOilgut wpuM Jit bees a
tonuhd If the whole country hai not
cone down upon iu knees in pnyer to '
Goo. when the lile of Ibe rrcsid'jrit was
hanging by a thread!
The first secular iiewjpsjer that wo
saw after the awful attempt at assaui-
rtatiortpi-iiCiMlwUkla tlkee Swtrt, tjde
ah appeal to the- copl to go "to th
throne of liriae grace." Tfaes-5 wonls
were used, "and pray that the life of the
President may be sparel." It is to be
expected that religious peop. TBtttUxnn
and chuxcae evtirywhere, would pray.
Kut that is not the point wearemsklnr.
great people turn intuit relr to the ear
of Heaven, aad m'x ( UA for h'u faror
11 ii) unci fci-; HJitcnw DcanQi lilt
at such a tme as this? If an cm i
J change had coo over the public wind
j jryeirird"to the valnc of prayer, would -
matter of praying to praying people. I again. beaeToleflt folk who malt d
epially to tk cUrzr aad the nations aad ha.ru J?r n-.m ..-i.. kl
churches? Was it ever known In the
history of this country, ia war r is
ix-if" that tb (iormiriftr n( mm
of the States took counsel with their moth-e. For my part, I hate o
the Governors of the other State f teataikm. I remeaaber once, when I
regard to a day of phlic prayer, aad wa trarelisg through a tcction of the
received frost all qwtrters the JBot couatry where I was not known. I cany
hearty concurrence of all? The ftsea npos a lonely little way.tstio3 where.
of the sacred -wrrnee eessi obrioas to ia the waitin-rooas. there wa fastned
every msL There were ao aeta- to the wall a coatnbntioo box for the i
tioss. or coadttjotM, or ofejcctiow; bat benefit of the Serer thnwh thitk
from State after State, fra 31alse to cest latwdaUo. There wa2 not a f
Caldorsi-, there w the ooaaos. cor- there-sot a po ia the noghbor
dia, rel-jpotM respoae, "Le the pco- hood kaew f mr wwaceorwaj ao
plepray. gardstedwith asr"aae.aa4 I west aad
This proves, beyoad a jreatare. dropped a iatshi into the bo and .iipced V
thXturKtesoaghadeaHyJathe awar aaee. sakaowa. Xow. nr. what w'
heart of thw coaatry to make it a factor I coatead k that y secret oaeris- wa
j& the calcalatioa of expedieaey whea a asore Bieritorioa one. latriaiTea-rr
pabbcraeaarecoaatjsjfthe corA of a coasidered. than if it had been asadcln
popnlar mere. The few atheiiu a jmMIc HihcriBtfcm Jfot, wkk a load
there are make a greii setee. We Eosrish of ttaasBets.
have oaeia this coostrr as they hare, -Yoa arl eke rirht. sayioseof
.. - - . ... w
"-"- - it oymjo utcj
raaaage to ocrpy ia the public at tea- 1
uoa wotua convey ta imsreacos taaf.
!tV.
A tomir in itnf ?s.t
1.
j very dlSarrot 1S ri w
I two trtr m yAf " -
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tl ih rreI h " t m
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f- alt ttlivla at ttAl. 4.
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m rt-ML. Uf 1W
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Liwl Vtr4 Iwii- Mt !
j (rif Is kr.Aed orTisl t It t
Um nia ih sTTn U "!? n i
t) fcOv. b4 th Ur wtnlr "?
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TTk" mhI M Sirvl. t-Hls k! (
KftMt nitkfi Ut fcrm. I
wHthl It Kaw ssbmsJ. xmtl Ilk
l.lr-tAt luuvh at h ' lr
tmk tt tJ 4a f ta r nwrrfy f
tl aid f U hkB....
Kmh1 taolr Uesr b4. 4
f lp-r istf u fMtl f trf
I bmMiau Isejran t lrto. t
' Wos tk oj4 t i
I rdtd rrartm-n H m. mm W
iho tiuntta ihs-tiiissit all - -"
v4tl Btsr Js-W t-W slr
mnrt UwH 'l h1'
rtlj;Uu itK-mKsxv, a tfe tm4mm
remairj to a ;rtAicr r
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J tiif lh tr.nUnnUiu, Um sr
rmm r
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litt nru-vrbtal JUHtfUlll 4
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jtil, Ihmit Jtdul U4
v,y HtwoW Hiaa. wIwohhiW ymp-tst
mtk Ikv -fitlttU id rtMtKt s4b
of a ho mrunitW-. l Umm
at!a to eero f an Infiu-mew liwl i.
! 4t,rwM4 barn Wtn tst Hut Ml m1
u tj,tt mPa n a jKtor nlH w
4ancW;- n ttmig hi pA-4
'm a 1 tU io llWrnl w m ( iW
' j lowYaU. jojJ m Uki U-
lity tllM,l rmmT.r th Mry !
Kammwl nnd tJin imninUiH. rw -,l
j llo ,.rmtr ftvtoiii and JNnliT t
, vtrn. nl t-.pejllr. mMm
! loins and HP. l'ru tal
; nn jire-.cluri. anI orHrtl teanwrk!
uork Itaro iHldt up
birt nnd .
eoiigreijiil
boll rlnir
is. ami hh ms
this tuorniHjf Hsu NsVU
iiuirfl nt tlin lro4ji. Aiol the UtrtMltft wt
M
j widldrad lntrtilnt hmXtm
' im'OoIo w endlttir Hn-4r Way to dtaV
will bonr witnass thatUnt rtNnfa !
day lift rtt fcv tor.iWft lnatl fills.
J.atttrnh IfomUL
('holer Kttractt.
The man w ho is thrt h1 wrttaiit
of his strength In tntupUttott ahm
the Irl to fall whon toiiijtittsl t W
w rong
A pern hi may talk aUosit t'lagwu fet
s'txuiiiost tortus may ninko a Uh
fesslou. but It his !!fo eonefH.sl,
t w lh It It wH amount to HHlhtir, .
- uctermine to b" oteil I bat Is t r
If each ono will afro to Iks gnttkil
plmant kindly diprtedtownrd,-T
i4; sX
ono nU, thro will Iw nhapp. latmHtr '
exfKjnence among thorn all Thw
peron whoo ditty U is lo imtki a4
vances towards the iihy arwl orlT a"
fjlialnted ones who fall to ilo tlinir dot
'Ihr forget or nogleot it. or It h
work n contrary u their taste Ut
they will not undertake it Th? am
to be blauiod. Hut the ehlef la
ret, after all. on thoso who, by llsfc
nej. drynow, or oven bv a rnpoiltot? .
pirit hinder tho kindness that vmhl
be gladly shown them. Vntlml 'rf
tcrt'tn.
A trjndcr conseienro stands lit lw
way of a rreal deal that wrmi natoy
I able and to bo desired. The rain wbo
is unwilling to do wrong U at an -parent
dita-lrjntaxe In the wrhf. th
in the strugaln for urres In Mlo aw
itt the purntiit of jT"niU happsassst
This t an unwolcrrme truth that h u
pft faced by the clt-donr It is hrJr.
not easier, to get along in the world
with a warm heart &ad a ;nitJt rn-aclenc-
"A cold beail and a cold?
heart make many things easy," v sC
Charles Kingdey. Go'n'f down hill
require no wich efTort as clarrtrrlig
up hilL or even a resisting tho t-pto-tion
to 1m go aad sli-1 Hut who
would take thnr ewr and tako tl
cooscquencc of exr-2oin It U
bot-
tr U lo right at lU ure cost of irz
tn Hf1lt r,1fl 'din ts ,rtrrritim WW W
comfort oy wrong doing or faardis of
I heart A. 8. Kmc.
BrajrslBr, After H.
People who rebuke paraded goodns
should nrer fell their own good dwl
mIm theT are obll-.'e.l to. tin bo-
I comes ridiculous ai a reproTer as nw
I a Ls fxstravs a conceit ihrM. fc U tkJ
saod-! to tv. lrn.fi.rmi
They were J15jcuslag charity In j
drawiBg-roora. aI one of tbw geaU-
(in the pafHrrj-
" Nearfr all charitable acts." he 3yV
lnntua.lv .l-w ..;.i i .to
....u-.a. ,, u.s uikm mu nn 11 it
us VY-sta-arTS. ATiat
stodest
was treauin.
4 I doa'twrHMlerlha
ycxi br-
'y
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