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OllDEU 7o I Abbott waited anxiously at Mr. Sparks' house to learn tlio results. There was a lar;o gathering at the auction, as the in strument was a first-class one, uiul man' desired to obtain it. , If money will buy that instrument, I am going to have it," said Mr. Heartless to himself after examining it inside and out, though he knew no more about a piano than a Hottentot. It being moved into the street, the auc tioneer mounted the instrument and began his cry. The bids at llrst seemed low and Sir. Spnrks hoped they would not run too high for his limited means. But present ly a person ran it up to a price beyond his reach. Mr. Heartless for a fabulous price then bought it from thu purchaser. Mr. Heartless, with his piano uud flue now residence, is now one of the person ages of the town. As his daughters can no more play than the' can move the Booky Mountains, he gives parties and employs some poor music teacher to play. Fashionable crimes are thought to be polite. THE BIBLE IN OUR SCHOOLS. And now comes the Bcv. Dr. Patton of Chicago, and Bov, Dr. Spear of Brooklyn and join with the venerable Pros. W(.olsey in condemning as "unwise, impolitic and unjust" all religious exorcises, including Bible reading and the like in our Public Schools. And, so, sooner or later, will work its way into the heads of the most bigoted a pel suasion of the monstrous injustice of taxing all the people of the Stale for the support and maintenance of an' system of religion, whether Jewish, Mohammedan, Christian, Infidel, Confu cian or any other. And so, finally will come an end of the great warfare, and in every respect the adulterous connection of Church and state, so long maintained in defiance of decency, justice, reason and common sense, be stopped forever more. Then will all our people be able to enter our Universities and other schools for the legitimate purposes of education, with out having their honest convictions insult ed on every head, or without being sub jected to inlluences that they can but do ploro, or else being regarded by self-righteous bigots as " outcast an alien " from the home of a common mother. ORDER. In every organization, great or small, in every successful enterprise, in every grand and noble achievement, there is one essential element worthy of notice. It is order. This being molested the whole structure falls to ruin. In a school room, a place for the education and development of the mind, much depends on the order and system of its management. If disor der prevails, t becomes a place of con lam inating and degradating. Order may well be said to be the marked feature of civilization and prog ress. Nations are'weakened and strength ened according to the order maintained among them. Negligence, confusion and disorder mark the savage and barbarous nations. As they advance and become en lightened, they put on system and form. Disorder is a type of weakness, reck lessness and vice. Order, of knowledge, wisdom and power. Ono represents the rude, awkward, untrained and undisci plined, the other the gentle, refined and graci-ful form. Ono is loathsome and disagiceable, the elisor ' (uitiful and fair. Bailroad corporations, steamship lines, mail routes, telegraph Hues and all means and sources of travel, commerce and com munication, connecting the whole civi lized world are examples of order. In all these we lind it the vital chord, without which they could not exist. But order should not only be practiced and protect ed in great bodies of enterprise. Every society, every family and every individual succeeds, thrives ami nourishes in propor tion as they develop-and cherish the fac-
