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THE DAWNING LIGHT.
Keep working on for what is right ,
And God. will shed around his light ,
As daylight follows after night ;
Then all , at last , the dawn shall
see ,
And know the will of God shall bo
To make our souls sincere and free.
While only truth and love shall stay ,
To usher in life's glorious day
And teach mankind the heavenly
way ,
To find God's kingdom bright and
fair ,
Where souls are free from mortal
care
And find sweet peace , beyond com
pare.
MAKTIIA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT.
Moorestown , N. J.
ANOTHER RICHMOND.
Today ( April 8) ) is the thirty-sev
enth anniversary of the evacuation of
Richmond the most disastrous day
in the history of the city , associated
as it is with surrender after four
years of war , the burning of hundreds
of business houses and the collapse of
the Confederacy.
For years each recurring anniver
sary of " evacuation day" was a day
of gloom in Richmond. Bitter were
the recollections of our people , and
their feelings were intensified by the
parading and jellifying which the
neeroes were then accustomed to in
dulge in. But a new generation has
arisen and we live in happier times ,
and most people have their faces
turned to the future rather than to
the past. Richmond Dispatch.
LESSON FROM "BATHHOUSE. "
"I'm appreciated , " said Alderman
John Coughlin , of Chicago , surnamed -
named the "Bathhouse , " when he
was asked to explain his re-election
last Tuesday by an increased major
ity. The hardest fighting in the
whole city had centered on Mr.
Ooughliu. What are known as the
reform forces in Chicago brought
all their batteries to bear on him.
Every available weapon was used ,
even to bringing in the college
athletes to counterbalance the
toughs. And when Mr. Coughlin
was asked to tell why he had won ,
his answer was , "I'm appreciated.
Because why ? Because whenever any
one wants anything done I do it
"courteously. " Perhaps some re
formers could learn a lesson from
tne "Bathhouse" and acquire the
art of doing a thing "courteously"
when they are asked. The alderman
from the First ward of Chicago ap
pears to * find that method of doing
business profitable. Philadelphia
Press.
JEFFERSON AS A TARGET FOR AT
TACK.
The private life of Thomas Jeffer
son has boon a subject of bitter con
troversy beween his admirers and his
critics. No man was ever subjected
to such a hurricane of slander and
abuse ; and none ever paid so little
attention to it. Only twice , it is
claimed , did Mr. Jefferson over take
the trouble to contradict or even
notice an attack upon his reputation.
Once when a Connecticut clergyman
accused him of squandering in dissi
pation the * funds of a widow and her
children , left to him in trust , he ex
plained that such a thing could not
possibly be true as he had never had
any such funds entrusted to his care.
Again , when a mulatto named Hen-
ings , at Columbus , Ohio , claimed to
be his son he showed by his diary
that such a thing was impossible.
William E. Curtis has been engaged
for several years in running down
these and other stories of Jefferson's
immorality , and in "The True
Thomas Jefferson" has collected
much interesting information con
cerning his private life and habits
that has never been published.
CELERY CULTURE.
We have received one of the
"Farmers' Bulletins" of the depart
ment of agriculture on the subject
of celery. We have often wondered
what there was in the celery busi
ness. It is rather a recent affair.
Twenty-five years ago celery cut no
figure in the grocery trade , nor in
the bill of fare of the ordinary fam
ily. Today nothing is more common.
It seems from this bulletin that
there is money in raising it. The
department says an acre ought to pro
duce 1,600 dozen bunches , which at
only 15 cents per dozen would bring
$225 for the gross return. It seems to
be a rather ' expensive crop to raise ,
requiring fertilizing of the soil in
most cases , and a good deal of care ;
but $125 ought to cover rent , labor
and all , leaving $10 for the seasons
profit , if the experts' figures are re
liable.
There' is a good deal of celery
raised in Nebraska. We have some
times feared that the coarse kind ,
almost as tough as cornstalks , which
prevails of late , is the Nebraska pro
duct. Maybe our soil is too rich
for celery.
ABOUT FICTION.
The libraries in many small towns
are troubled because they can't sup
ply their patrons all the novels to
read that they could consume. But
there is another kind of library that
has trouble with novels in a different
line. The large libraries of the
world , which claim to get and pro-
servo a copy of every printod" book
that appears .anywhere , find it in
creasingly difficult to accommodate the
novels that are poured upon them by ill
the hundred thousand. The state of
those , libraries is worse than that pf
the first. For while one may got
along with too few novels , since
there are other ways of passing time
when novels fail , to bo confronted
with a mountain of now novels every
dav would tend to make one despair
of the usefulness of novels in gen-
oral. There are good novels , of
course ; such as deserve a place in
any library , and well repay any one's
reading ; but they are few. For the
sake of the small libraries it would
be a blessing if Mr. Carnegie's rule ,
of buying no novel unless it was still
talked of at three years old , could bo
made effective. And for the good of
the world at large it would be a
fine thing if some such rule could be
applied to books before they "are
printed.
ABOUT BIRDS.
The dear women think they are
now entitled to come back at the men
on the bird question , because a large
number of pigeons were killed at a
shooting competition in Kansas City
last week. They think the men
can't say anything about the dead
birds on their hats after that.
There is much reason in this , the
writer does not think very highly
of the practice of shooting birds for
sport ; cannot in fact enter at all into
the spirit of those who cannot see
any pretty wild creature loose in the
woods without wanting to destroy it.
Wo even go further , and disapprove
of the picking of every wild flower
that dares show its head in the
spring. Many kinds of wild flowers ; ,
once common , have been exterminat
ed in the east by this vicious
habit.
'But shooting pigeons for a score
and killing songbirds for headgear
are different in one practical respect.
The pigeons are raised by men for
that special purpose , and the wild
birds are produced by nature for a
very different purpose. Shoot ten
thousand pigeons , and the" breeders
will mamifacture ton thousand more
on short notice. Kill a thrush or
cardinal and the world is the poorer ,
and the breed that much nearer
extinction. As far as the future is
concerned , the shooting of pigeons
at matches is no worse than the kill
ing of pigs at packing houses. That
is vvliat they are in the world for.
STOPS THE COUGH AND WORKS OFF
THE COLD.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure
a cold in one day. No Cure , no Pay.
Price 25 cents.