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VACATION DAYS.
Bab’s Common Sense Advice to Mid
summer Pleasure Seekers.
Leaving the Hot City Behind—Do Not
Take an Apothecary Shop Along to
the Country—Friends Who Throw
Out Ridiculous Suggestions as to
Mural Diversions—The College Girl’s
Idea of Pastoral Recreation—Chas
ing Butterflies, Manufacturing
Shawls, Star-exploring and Land
scape Painting.
New York, June 30.—There are times of
the year when a combination of the
weather and the poetry written about it
would make a saint lose her temper. The
newspapers get up and quote about the
rareness of a day in June as if it were a
boiled leg of mutton, and to save my life
I can’t see that it is any rarer than a day
in September or any month without the
odd number. There are thirty June days,
and they are calculated to make people
cross, quarrelsome, and get them in
such conditions that they lose their
chances for a cool hereafter. The Ist of
June is usually wet, miserable and gray;
then everybody regrets the open fires,
but, because it is June, sleep without
blankets and become victims to influenza.
About the middle of the month the sun
sets like a bright red ball some evening,
and the next morning humidity and heat
combined own the town. One’s con
science and one's linen alike are limp; no
body is quite ready to go to the country,
and the getting ready is something too
dreadful to think about.
RARE JUNE DATS,
In a store buj ing becomes a series of
penance; and it is not surprising to see a
woman weep, simply because she is so
warm and so tired and so cross, that she
has forgotten what she came for. Even
thing feminine is buying new slippers
and confining the use of them to admira
tion rather than wear, for who could en
dure new shoes in June? People talk
about June brides—l should think the •
girl who got married in June woulfi be
divorced before December. The last of
June finds us given over to blousiness—l
,did not say blowsiness—and we are
wondering how we can make the
skirt and the belt meet, and, after
twitching in every direction in an effort
to see the middle of our backs, we come
to the conclusion that we don’t care, and
go out with a yawning, void of which
various strange women on the street are
willing to tell us. I can perfectly sympa
thize with the people who don’t like any
one to tell them that their belongings are
put of order; one can’t make a dressing
room of a pavement, so that one had bet
ter be in blissful ignorance until home is
reached, and the trouble, whatever it
may be, can be remedied.
There are times in one’s life when one
wants to take the whole world into one’s
confidence; that is my state of mind’now.
I have been ill and 1 am going away, and
the willingness of my friends to advise
me is only equaled by the .indignation
which they show when they feel that Ido
not appreciate their unasked-for-kind
ness. The first woman who came to see
pie kissed me in a very sepulchral man
ner, leaning over me exactly as if I were
stretched out in my coffin. Then she said
in a funereal voice:
“WHERE IB SHE POING?”
The family said, “To a quiet country
place.” She announced that she thought
this would be very nice, and then in
quired afbrxut my various aches and pains,
and said that she knew the sort of things
that were needed tn the country, and that
as I didn’t, she would help me out by
writing a list of them. She headed the
list with one dozen mustard leaves 1 She
filled two large sheets of paper with med
icines that were necessary in an emer
gency ! Then she had a list of bandages
and splints, for, as she very truly said,
I might break my arm! And, after
that, she wrote that I had better wear
flannel all the time and perspire freely.
She kissed me good-by again, with an air
of its being the last time, and we all
wept. And when she had gone, I looked
at the list, and to prove that I was aright
long ways off from death, I announced in
tones of suppressed anger that I
wouldn’t, to please anybody, become
either a traveling apothecary shop or nut
on clothes that would make a grease spot
of me.
After this fiend had disappeared, a
chirpy little friend of mine arrived,
whose only weakness is her.liking to sug
gest things. She made me laugh by tell
ing me she never saw me looking better,
and then she inquired cheerily to what
nice place I was going for a change. The
family gave the now time-honored an
swer. “To a quiet plade in the country.”
She laughed again when she heard this,
and said, “Well, now, if you take my ad
vice and want to keep well, you will take
a lot of things to cheer you up. Os
course, the dogs are going?”
“No,” answered I, “they are not. I,
have no right to take dogs into strange
people’s houses who mayn’t like dogs.”
FOOLISH SUMMER REST NOTIONS.
My visitor looked a little crestfallen,
and then she said: “Well, anyhow, you
will have company down from New York
every week, won't you?” To this came
the response that I was leaving New York
to forget my iriends. While she was still
there, an artist 1 know appeared, and he
immediately proposed that, to fill up my
time, I might take up painting acain;
cary along a stool and an easel and a box
of paints, and then I could have a very
jolly time. Ho also suggested that a
steamer chair, with a reading lamp
' screwed on to it would be useful, and that
if the family were inclined to be sick in
the night, I had better carry my own
brandy.
Before he left, a college girl appeared,
and gave her opinion how I ought to
Upend the summer. Said she: “Takeup
a serious course of reading; keep your
mind on it, and get some one wbo'will
write notes to you about your reading,
and then you can write back your opin
ions. and in tnis way you will have a
lovely interchange of thought.” Her
mother, who was with her, said: “Now
is your time, dear child, to learn to knit
some of those heavy comfortable shawls
that are so useful in the hospitals during
the winter; you could give your mornings
to the reading and your afternoons to
the shawls, and by strict attention I
think you could manage five during the
summer; so good-by, dear, I will send
you the wool over early in the morning.”
FRIENDS SOMETIMES TIR? US.
They went out. and a friend of the
family came in. He is greatly interested
in the position of the moon toward the
Flanets Just now, and so he proposed that
should, study astronomy from books
during the day, and from the sky through
a small telescope which he volunteered to
give me, during the night. Gradually,
they went away, and 1 threw myself on a
lounge to try to forget them all. I went to
sleep, but wakened up in time .to hear, in
the timo-honored tone, the time-honored
answer, “At a quiet place in the country.”
Then a voice said; "As she is going to
rest, why not let her hunt butterflies and
get up quite a collection of them.
I confess this did make me angry, and
I opened my eyes and said to the sug
gesior, "I think I see myself chasing
around in the hot sun with a net after
butterflies. Why can’t people let me
alone? Why should my friends suddenly
become my enemies.’ 1 haven’t the slight
est intention of improving my mind dur
ing the summer, nor ao 1 intend to make
hot shawls. I don’t care whether the
earth is close to the stars or not, and I
am not going to sit up at night to watch •
to see if it is. 1 intend to live along my
life in my own way; I intend to take a lot
of frivolous novels with me, and some
cool clothes, and if anybody sends me a
medicine chest, I’ll throw it out of the
window. As for taking up my painting,
when I had finished a picture I didn’t
know what it was myself, and how could
I expect anybody else to know? What is
the reason that everybody is so ready,
especially in hot weather, to give advice?
I I WANT TO BE LAZY.
I want to be worthless and I want to be
ignorant. In summer time all three of
these states are desirable, and as for my
friends, if they don’t like me they can—
oh, well, they will like me just the same.
This one disappeared with a significant
tap of the finger on the forehead, at
which I laughed and which made the
family angry.
The summer days, my friend, are bet
ter adapted to the loafing spirit than any
other. In me this is well developed and
bliss is represented by an easy chair, a
cool get-dp and, if money will buy it,
somebody to fan me. Fanning one’s self
is a great mistake. The exercise involved
tends to make one warmer than ever be.
fore. I once had a prize in the way of a
fanner. She was a small darky girl
known as “Minta,” but whose full name
was “Araminta Arabella.” She wove her
wool into twenty-one little pigtails, that
all stood out as if they had received
an electric shock. For ten cents
she would fan you until you were as cool
as a cucumber, and the lovely part of it
was that she could fan asleep as well as
awake, and that, seeing her standing up
asleep and fanning, with untiring even
ness, had a soothing effect on me that was
beautiful, and always made me go to
Ueep. Minta wanted me to buy her, and
I would have done so with great pleasure,
but, as her mammy said: “Dere ain’t no
freedom aroun’ nowadays: I’s got to take
care o’ all dese lazy niggers, when if times
wuz free I might get a few dollars for
some of ’em, ’specially dat dere Minta.”
Minta was far and away ahead of an elec
tric fan. There was quietness in the
waves of air that she controlled,.and her
palm leaf fan moyed as if it were directed
by a soul and not by Mr. Edison. lam
always hoping to find a successor to
Minta, but alas! my hopes are never real
ized.
. ABOUT SUMMER FOODS.
You ought to have had some of the ad
vice that had been give . to me on the
subject of eating. If I did as people tell
me to do I would upset any well-regulated
house. One woman said I ought to have
five meals a day and force myself to eat.
Another that I ought never to touch
water, and confine myself to vegetables
and oatmeal. As I regard oatmeal as an
invention of the evil one, I wouldn’t touch
it with a pitchfork, and I don’t even give
it to the dogs. A woman who is dieting for
her complexion has advised hot water in
sips, and fried beefsteak; and another
one who believes that you grow spiritual
through your stomach said that if I be
gan by having a cup of tea on Sundays
and nothing during the rest of the week,
by August I would be able to go without
eating at all, and that the material
would be entirely under the control of
the spiritual. I am sure it would, but
I am also certain that the dogs would
be wearing black ribbons, and that the
family would be discoursing about my,
virtues.
QUEER FOOD IDEAS.
Whether it is that lam simply human
or not, or whether I am possessed by
something, who can say? But I cer
tainly do like indigestible food. I have a
weakness for hot corn bread, I am de
voted to coffee, and I like deviled crabs.
It is true, I don’t eat cake, and only the
Insides of pies, but my daily bill of fare
would unt satisfy my advisers. Did you
ever see a woman who was on one of
these queer diets? She is generally a
wretbhed. miserable-lOoaing soul, appar
ently not longed for either by heaven or
man, as neither seems bidding for her.
The hot water and fried beef-steak
one is usually the color of a lemon,
with eyes that look as if the water
had settled around them and made
them shrivel up. I believe, if the
good God meant that people should live on
hot water, it would nave been served to
them in that way from the brooks and
the wells. I think the best thing to do on
the eating question is to select a dish
which pleases your palate; if it makes
yo\i ill. which I doubt, then don’t have it
anymore, but don’t get cranky on the
f ood question. Good eating is especially
desirable for women. It makes them
loving and amiabled and all-around agree
able.
What did you say?
“To a quiet place in the country?”
Thank you very much for your kind in
quiry, and for the fact that without
giving any advice, you have merely
wished that a good time will come to
Bab.
Burnt Zulus Dreaded the Ice.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
“The natives of tropical countries are
seldom so much astonished as they are
when they are first introduced to snow
and ice,” said E. A. Forster, of Chicago.
. “While the world’s fair was in progress I
saw a joke played upon two members of a
Zulu band which was greatly enjoyed and
appreciated by all present except the
Zulus themselves. The manager of their
tribe, whom I knew intimately, knowing
that none of the Zulus had ever seen any
ice, thought that it would be great fun to
see how they would act when brought in
contact with it. He accordingly told two
of them that he wished them to go down
town with him. He informed me what
he was going to do, and invited me to ac
company him, which I did. We stopped
at the office of one of the large breweries,
and, after explaining our errand, were
readily granted permission to go through
the ice house.
“On arriving oat the door of the ice
bouse, we all entered, the Zulus, who
were barefooted, following close behind.
All along the walls inside great cakes of
ice were piled. My friend, the manager,
climbed up on top of the cakes and
told the Zulus to follow him. They obeyed.
When the cold cnill of the ice first struck
their bare feet they didn’t know what to
make of it. They looked at one another
for a minute and jabbered something in
their outlandish tongue. They stood it
for about a minute, then, giving vent to a
yell, they sprang to the ground, and,
rushing to the door, threw themselves’ on
the ground outside, where they lay writh
ing about, nursing their feet and insisting
that they had been severely burned.”
Victoria’s Reign.
From the St. Louis Democrat.
In her fifty-seven years of power Vic
toria has seen every throne in the world
vacated at least once, and some of them
several times, and high executive sta
tions in all the great nations filled and
refilled repeatedly. The post of pre
mier in her own country has been held
successively in her day by Viscount Mel
bourne, Sir Robert Peel, Earl Russell,
the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Aberdeen,
Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Bacons
fleld, William E. Gladstone, the Marquis
of Salisbury and the Earl of Roseberry,
and by some of these men several time's.
All of these are dead except Gladstone.
Salisbury and Roseberry. Sixteen men,
beginning with Martin Van Buren, have
tilled the president of the United States
during her service, and of these only
two, Cleveland and Harrison, are living.
Host—“ Are you in debt, young man?”
“No.” “Have you a mother-in-law?"
“No.” “Married?” “No.” “Himmel
kreuzdonnerwetter! Why, then, do you
drink only three glasses of beerFlie
gende Blatter.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894.
RALLY ROUND THE BANNER.
Christian Endeavorers Will Crowd
Cleveland From July 11 to 15.
Reception on a Mammoth Scale—The
Great Buildings to Be Used for the
Meetings—The Official Programme.
White and Gold Souvenir Badge.
(Copyright.)
New York, June 30.—1 n the words of
the Christian Endeavor committee, “All
things are now, ready.” What is ex
pected to be the greatest convention ever
held by this powerful organizatian, will
be opened at Cleveland, 0., on July 11,
and will continue its sessions for five days,
until the 15th. From one end of the city
to the other, meetings will be conducted;
and throngs of busy men and women,
most of them wearing young, bright
faces, and all of them with a pretty white
and gold badge on lapel or dress, will
hurry from hotel to auditorium to par
ticipate in the in the lively meetings that
will be carried on from early morning
until late at night.
□The arrangements for the comfort of
the many thousands that will arrive at
Cleveland all that week, have been made
on a grand scale. Secretary J. Willis
Baer has had his hands full; and the
committee of ’94 has been obliged to make
prpvisions for a very much larger number
of delegates than usual.
The committee of’94 is as follows: J.
Z. Tyler, chairman, 38 Streator avenue;
Miriam C, Smith, secretary, 853 Doan
street; A. E. Roblee, finance and treas
urer, 212 The Cuyahoga ; J. E. Cheesman,
hall, 322 Hickox building; N. E. Hills, en
tertainment, 372 Sibley street; F. Mel
ville Lewis, printing, 287 St. Clair street;
S, L. Darsie, music, 265 Franklin avenue;
R. B. Hamilton, Press, 245 Superior
street; A W. Neale, reception, 212 The
Cuyahoga; J. V. Hitchcock, auditing, 87
Euclid avenue; R. A. George, ex-officio,
706 East Prospect street.
The very largest buildings in
Cleveland have been secured for the
purposes of the convention, and a
great number of churches have hos
pitably thrown open their doors. The
principal convention hall, the Sangerfest
building, stands on the corner of Scovill
and Wilson avenues. Five minutes’ walk
from there brings one to the mammoth
tent pitched on the corner of Cedar and
Wilson. Two large churches, near by,
have been secured for overflow meetings;
and fifteen other large churches will be
opened for the welcome meetings on Wed
nesday evening. July 11. There is also
Music hall, seating 5,000, which will hold
meetings for the business portion of the
city.
Everything has been arranged in these
auditoriums and churches looking to the
comfort of the delegates. The conven
tion hall is a large, square wooden struc
ture. It has eight entrances and
exits, and the ventilation is of the
best. More than 100 large win
dows, hung on pivots, admit the refresh
ing lake breezes, and keep the tempera
ture down. The seating will be so ar
ranged that no one will be more than 125
feet from the speaker.
A series of small rooms for committee
meetings, conferences, literature tables,
etc., will be provided. A novelty will be
the large room set aside for “State Bulle
tins,”. where notices will be posted of
conference meetings, news items and ap
pointments. The building has eight toi
let rooms, and electric call bells connect
ing the platform with all the doors and
committee rooms.
Arc and incandescent lights are in every
room. The building will be decorated
with the white and gold colors of the
convention, with the stars and stripes,
and with the union jack. This building
seats 10,000 persons.
The second large edifice, the main audi
torium, seats another 10,000. This mam
moth tent has it chairs arranged amphi
theater style, and is lighted with elec
tricity. It is so coql and attractive that
many will prefer it to the hall.
The hospitable reception of that great
tnrong has been carefully looked after.
Delegates may board either at a private
house or a hotel; and many will stay
with friends. Hotel rates are all reduced.
The delegates are spared all the
trouble of securing quarters. All they
need do is communicate with the mana
ger of their own state or county, stating
what kind of accommodations they pre
fer, and what price they wish to pay.
Then, upon arrival at the headquarters
in Cleveland, they register, and are im
mediately assigned and escorted to their
homes by members of the reception com
mittee. This committee will be distin
guished by their white yachting caps
trimmed with gold.
The convention souvenir badge is a very
delicate and pretty affair. It is a dia
mond-shaped bodklet, containing twelve
pages of exquisite half-tone views of the
Forest City inclosed in finely engraved
celluloid covers. No one will be admit
ted to the meetings, who does not wear
one of these badges.
There will be a chairman in charge of
each depot and steamboat landing in the
city, and he will be responsible for the
Quests arriving at his station. He will
ave under him a large committee of
young men and women whose duty it will
be to escort these guests to the proper
street car lines, and to the various state
headquarters, where they register as reg
ular members of the convention.
The programme is so varied and full of
interest that the delegates will find it
difficult to select from the great number
of subjects. Gov. William McKinley will
deliver the address of welcome,
at the convention hall, Sanger
fest building. The musical portion of
the programme is particularly attractive.
Two large chorus choirs, composed of a
thousand voices, and two orchestras will
lead the music. A chorus of native Afri
cans, from the mission fields will render
strange and weird sougs. The music will
be selected from the new Christian En
deavor hymn book, compiled by Ira D.
Sankey. It is expected that the famous
Moody quartet will be present, as well as
the cornetists—the Park sisters, of New
York.
The official programme is as follows:
Wednesday.
Noon—Hotel. Stillman—l2:oo. meeting
of the board of trustees of the
united society, for prayer,. conference,
and transaction of business.
Evening—7:3o. Fifteen simultaneous
meetings, in fifteen of the largest churches
of Cleveland. Speakers: Rev. Pleasant
Hunter. Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. An
thony Comstock, New York city; Rev.
George Dana Boardman, D. D., Philadel
phia, Pa.; Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, New
York city; Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.
D., Chicago, Ill.; Rev. Tennis S. Hamlin,
D. D., Washington. D. C.; Rev. p. s.
Henson, D. D.. Chicago. Ill.; Rev. J. T.
Bocklei’, D. D., Philadelphia. Pa.; Bishop
Samuel Fallows, D. D., Chicago, Hl.;
Rev. J. F. Cowan, Pittsburg. Pa.; Rev.
Canon J. B. Richardson, London, Ont.;
Rev. H. B. Grose, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. W:
H. Pennell, Washingion, D. C.: Rev. Way
land Hoyt, D. D., Minneapolis, Minn.;
Rev. H. C. Farrar, D. D., Albany, N. Y.;
Rev. W. H. McMillan, D. D., Alle
gheny City, Pa.: Rev. M.
Rhodes, D. D., or. ixiuis. Mo.; Rev.
Gilby C. Kelly. D. D., Owensboro, Ky.;
Rev. William Patterson, Toronto, Ont.:
Rev. James L. Hill, D. D., Salem, Mass.;
Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, Boston. Mass.
Rev. M. M. Binford. Richmond. Ind.;
Rev. David J. Burrell, D. D. New York
city; Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney and Miss
Anna M. Edwards, Cleveland, O.; Mrs.
I. M. Alden (Pansy), Germantown Penn.;
Rev Ralph W. Brokaw. Springfield.
Mass.; and representatives from the
Young Men’s Christian Asso elation, the
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, the
Christian Endeavor work among the
life-savers and ligh t-houses, the Travel
lers’ Union of Chfistian Endeaver, and
the Floating Societies of. Christian En
deavor.
THURSDAY.
Morning, Sangerfest Building—lo:oo.
Address of welcome on behalf of the
state of Ohio. Governor William McKin
ley.
Address of welcome on behalf of city
pastors and committee of ’94. Rev. J. Z.
Tyler, chairman.
Response on behalf of the board of
trustees of the United Society of Chris
tian Endeavor and delegates present,
Rev. E. R, Dille, D. D., San Francisco,
Cal.
Annual report of the general secretary,
John Willis Baer. Annual presentation
of state banners.
Afternoon—2:3o. Denominational ral
lies in churches, announced as follows:
Evening, the Tent.—Rev. H. T. Mc-
Ewen. New York City, presiding. 7:30.
Annual address of the president, Rev.
Francis E. Clark, D. D. Address, “Heroes
of Faith,” Rev., A. C. Dixon, D. D.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sangerfast Building—7:3o. Address,
> “Glorifying God,” Rev. Maltbie D. Bab
cock. Baltimore, Md.
Annual address of the president, Rev.
Francis E. Clark, D. D.
FRIDAY.
Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning
prayer meetings in ten churches.
Sangerfest Building—Good Citizenship.
—10:00. Free parliament on “The
Pledge,” conducted by Rev. G. H. Sim
mons, Louisville, Ky.
“Address, “Christian Endeavor vs. the
Saloon,” Mr. John, G. Woolley, Chicago,
Presentation of gpbd citizenship banners
and diplomas.
Address, “Christian Citizenship,” Rev.
Smith Baker, D. D., East Boston, Mass.
The Tent—lo:oo. Open parliament on
“What Has Your Society Done to Pro
mote Good Citizenship?” conducted by
Mr. Edwin D. Wheelock, Chicago, 111.
Address, “Christian Citizenship,” Rev.
E. B. Chappell, D. D,, St. Louis. Mo.
Question box, conducted by Treasurer
William Shaw, Boston, Mass.
Address, “Christian Endeavor vs. the
Saloon,” John G. Woolley, Chicago, 111.
Afternoon—A school of practical meth
ods of committee work to be held in
churches to be announced on the final
programme.
Conference on work of Senior and
Mothers’ Societies of Christian Endea
vor.
Y. M. C. A. Building—Room B, confer
ence of officers of state, territorial, and
provincial unions.
Lecture Room—Conference of officers
of district and city local unions.
Society Hall—Conference of correspond
ing secretaries.
Evening, the Tent—7:3o. Address,
“The Correlation of the Religious
Forces,” Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D.,
Wilberforce, O.
Address, Rev. J. K. Dixon, D.D., Phila
delphia, Pa.
Sangerfest Building—7:3o. Address,
“The Claims of an Educated Life,” Pres
ident William J. Tucker, D. D., Hanover,
N. H.
Address, topic and speaker to be an
nounced later.
SATURDAY.
Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning
prayer meetings in ten churches.
The Tent—lnternational and inter
denominational Fellowship. 10:00. Ouen
parliament on “What Are the Benefits of
Interdenominational Fellowship.”
Brief reports from the denominational
conferences.
Address, “Christian Endeavor Among
the Germans,” Rev. Theo. F. John, New
Albany, Ind. - . • , ,
Presentation of the Interdenominational
Fellowship banners and diplomas.
Address, “Interdenominational Fellow
ship,” Rev. John H. Boyd, Charlotte,
N. C.
Sangerfest Building—lo:oo. Open par
liament on “The Junior Society.” con
ducted by Rev. Cornelius Brett, D. D.,
Jersey City, N. J.
Address, “International Fellowship.”
Question box.
Address, “Interdenominational Fellow
ship,” Rev. P. R. Danley, D. D., Spring
field, 111.
Afternoon, Sangerfest Building—Rev.
James L. Hill, D. D., Salem, Mass., pre
siding.
2:80. Grand Junior Christian Endeavor
rally. Addresses by Rev. Cornelius Brett,
D. D., Jersey City, N. J.; Rev. H. W.
Pope, New Haven. Conn.; Rev. A. W.
Spooner, Camden, N. J.; Mrs. I. M. Alden
(ransy); Miss Pauline Root, Madura, In
dia, and others.
Evening—Receptions and rallies of
state, territorial and provincial delega
tions in churches used as headquarters.
SUNDAY. '
Morning—6:3o. Ten early morning
prayer meetings in ten churches.
10:30. Attendance upon the regular
church services throughout the city of
Cleveland.
Afternoon, the Tenth—Missions and
ministering. 2:30. Address. “Systematic
and Proportionate Giving to God,” Rev.
E. E. Baker, Dayton, O.
Address, “Movement Among the Jews
Toward Christ,” Rev. Hermann Warza
wiak. New York city.
Address, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D.
D., Albany, N. Y.
Sangerfast Building —2:30. Address,
Rev. N. D. Hillis, D. D., Evanston, Hl.
Address, “The Christian Endeavor
Missionary Extension Course,” S. L.
Merson, Chicago, 111.
Note. It is also hoped that Rev. J.
Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland mis
sion, and that Bishop Thoburn, of India,
will both arrive in this country in time to
address the convention. They have both
consented to speak, if able to reach-Cleve
land at that time.
Evening, The Tent—7:3o. Convention
sermon, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D. D.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Consecration meeting, conducted by
Secretary John Willis Baer.
Sangerfest Building—7:Bo. Conven
tion sermon, President B. P. Raymond,
D. D., LL. D., Middleton, Conn.
Consecration meeting, conducted by
President Francis E. Clark, D. D.
“The teacher says your Freddie wastes
a great deal of his time at school.”
Mother—“ Well. I’m glad to hear it, for I
was afraid he didn’t go half the time.”—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
She—“ You have met the beautiful Miss
X., have you not? What do you think of
her?” He—“ She is one of that sort of
woman that any man could die for, but
none could live with.”—lndianapolis
Journal.
Cuttan Thrust— That young Dum
leigh has got more money than sense.
Dulham Bluntley I didn’t know he
was rich. Cuttan Thrust— He isn’t.—
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When Frank Van Haltren took the
morning boat up the Hudson on the
Fourth of July, fully determined to offer
his heart and hand to the vivacious Miss
Louise Kimball, it is possible he expected
that, like Rosalind, she would be “in a
holiday humor and like enough to con
sent.” If he did he miscalculated woe
fully. He certainly found her in a holi
day humor, but it was Independence Day
she was celebrating, and that made a
world of difference. The holidays they
bad in Arden were probably of a less
boisterous and more amatory character.
Her greeting on his arrival at her
home in Hartskill was disconcerting to
begin with.
“I don’t know whether I should say I
am glad to see you or not. lam celebrat
ing the glorious Fourth in the proper
spirit, by being independent of everybody
and everything. I haven’t asked for a
favor to-day.”
“Didn’t you even ask any one if your
hat was on straight?”
“No, sir! I am wearing a yachting cap
to-day and you know it looks much more
fetching when a trifle away.”
He did not realize at first how much
she was in earnest in her independent
mood; but when she walked nearly half
a mile to look at the hall clock rather
than ask bim the time by his watch, it
began to dawn on him that he was in for
a day of it. Try as he might he could not
get a chance to unburden his heart.
When he wished to sit down and talk,
nothing would do her but to go to the
village to see the games, and when they
went out canoeing she absolutely refused
to rest in the shady nooks. What made
the canoeing trip particularly exasper
ating was the fact that she insisted on
doing all the paddling.
“I am too independent to-day,” she
said, “to let any one paddle me about.
Besides you have come from your office
for a rest.”
So he had to kneel in the canoe, watch
ing her as she skillfully propelled it about
and all the while he was longing to be
kneeling before her on the parlor carpet
or anywhere else where he could plead
his case. The exertion of paddling, more
over, made her more bewitchingly beauti
ful than ever, and her tantalizing re
marks and actions increased proportion
ately.
Now, there are few things more ex
hausting than carrying around a nicely
worded proposal without getting a chance
to utter it. It is even worse than going
to a banquet with a carefully prepared
spontaneous speech concealed about your
memory and not being called upon to
utter it; for at the banquet you get a
square meal before the disappointment
comes and have plenty of wine to cheer
you afterward. But it is impossible for a
man with a proposal on the tip of his
tongue to get any nourishment past it,
however much he may need it. So as the
day wore on Frank became rather de
pressed. He had been looking forward
to this holiday for weeks past as a day
when he could get away from business,
aad, on account of the celebration at her
home, having a good excuse for taking a
trip up the river to see her. But of course
she didn’t know this, and hadn’t the
faintest idea that he wished to propose.
When it comes to blindness in matters of
the heart, Cupid’s sightless eyes are twin
Lick telescopes compared with the laugh
ing eyes of a charming girl. She never
knows that a man is in love with her,
even though every time he looks at her
his sighs strain the buttons of his vest.
And her surprise when the fated mo
ment arrives and he, forgetting his
nice little speech, stammers out his
confession! Well, after all is said
and done the foible is so delightful it al
most raises hypocracy to the rank of a
virtue.
Tnere had never been any talk of love
between this pair, though they had been
friends for years. He had danced with
her .at her winter home on the avenue,
chatted with her in the family box at the
opera and had even taken her for drives
in the park, but they had never talked of
love. In fact, he did not realize
that he cared so much fpr
her till she had left the city to spend the
summer in the family residence in Harts
kill. If she made any discovery at the
same time she did not allow herself to
cease being merry long enough to let any
one suspect what was in her heart. It is
true they corresponded, but their letters
were slightly formal and of the chatty,
frothy sort young people write to each
other before their love-making has be
come realty serious. Humble self-analysis
never had appeared in them and the coin
ing of epithets of endearment had not be
come an end in life. When she noticed
that Frank was beginning to look dis
spirited she did not ask the nature of his
complaint, a circumstance which makes
the observant but very respectful chroni
cler doubt the reality of her blindness.
Instead, she began to rally him.
“You, a citizen of this unparalleled
republic,” she exclaimed, striking an
oratorical pose, “and yet daring to look
glum on such a day as this. Do you not
realize that our nation is now celebrating
the—the—Pshaw! I never could remem
ber numbers—anniversary of that ever to
be remembered day when our fore
fathers threw off the yoke of
the foreign tyrant and like the
imperial eagle rising to greet
the morning sun of liberty, we soared on
ward and upward on that path of en
lightenment and progress that may yet
culminate in the parliament of man, the
federation of the world. From this in
spiring event wave after wave of resist
less progress has surged westward with
the star of empire till from the turbulent
sides of the lay of Fundy to the golden
sands of the blue Pacific, from the mighty
and legend-haunted waters of Superior to
that great gulf whose beneficent stream
bears proudly across the bosom of the
broad Atlantic the fleets of the mightiest
commerce the world has ever known.
To-day almost 70.000,0000 f people are shel
tered under the flapping folds of the
star-spangled banner, whose enfranchis
ing shade makes tne humblest toiler the
equal of the proudest monarch of decay
ing Europe!”
“What are you laughing at, sir? Don’t
you know that is part of the oration papa
delivered amid thunders of applause this
morning. O, I assure you I didn’t act as
his secretary for nothing.”
“Were you really only his secretary?”
asked Frank, still laughing and longing'
madly to kiss the flushed cheek of the an
imated orator. I suspect that you really
wrote the oration for him in its entirety.
The formation of tne sentences and the
clearness of the metaphors show a really
feminine touch.”
“Now you are laughing at me and I
object.”
it was now Louise's turn to be glum.
Could it be possible that she feared she
had driven that proposal from his mind?
Out of charity this must not be suggested,
but it is quite certain that as Frank
grew cheerful and began to chaff her she
became demure and tended to be silent.
And it seemed as if her glib outburst had
loosened his tongue and made him a trifle
more inclined to spar with her in the bat
tle of badinage every incident provoked.
Her youngest brother was dancing
about the lawn setting off fire-crackers as
they approached the house, and they,
stopped to look at him.
“I should think girls would think more
of fire-crackers than boys,” he remarked.
“Why” she asked, unsuspectingly.
“Because they pop so readily.”
“Yes,” she replied, viciously, “and
there is another point of resemblance.
The popping usually ends in smoke.”
At this point he thought it expedient to
show her brother how he used to set off
fire-crackers when he was a boy and she
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went to her room to dress for dinner. It
would be impertinent to follow her there
to discover if she indulged in a real good
cry. At the dinner table she had re
covered her spirits, but did not dare to
urge him to partake of the various deli
cacies provided for fear some one should
notice how sparingly she indulged her
self. But she kept up her show of inde
pendence and refused even to ask for
what she wanted. She helped herself
and declared her independence of custom
as well as everything else.
After dinner the family and the guests
trooped out to the lawn to see the fire
work display Mr. Kimball had provided
for the occasion. Frank and Louise sat
side by side on a rustic bench and a
practiced ear might have differentiated
the {occasional sigh »from the |“ah-hs”
that greeted the sublime explosion of
every rocket. Perhaps it was the ex
citement caused by the whirr of the pin
wheels that made her fail to notice that
he had hold of her hand most of the time.
Whenever a bomb exploded she invaria
bly started nervously until they got so
close to each other that.when she leaned
back to watch the flight of a rocket her
head almost rested on his shoulder. When
the display drew near to an end their
conversation had dwindled down to a mere
repetition of those aforementioned
“Ah-hs” that might have been occasioned
by surprise or might merely be the ex
pression of overch? rged hearts.
When the supply of red and blue fire
began to run low and the explosions of
fire-works to become somewhat intermit
tent she shrugged her shoulders and com
plained of the dew. That was the signal
for returning to the house and they
climbed the little parterre that rose be
tween the lawn and the varanda. As
they moved slowly through the shrub
bery which surrounded it he suddenly
mustered up courage.
‘•Miss Kimball,” he stammered.
“Louise.”
She stopped short.
“I-I want to tell you. I came to-day to
tell you but—but somehow—er—will you
be my wife?”
“This is a great surprise,” she mur
mured. Then the spirit of Independence
Day returned to her and she exclaimed:
“The idea of asking me to-day. Do
you imagine that 1 would consent to-day?
That I would make a declaration of de
pendence on the glorious Fourth?”
“Dont laugh at me!” he cried, “or you
will break my heart. If I could only tell
you how I love you. I will work
for you, slave for you ”
He was now getting hold of his prepared
speech, and there is no knowing when he
would have ended had it not been for a
little accident that interrupted his flow
of eloquence. A rocket that for some
reason known best to itself refused to go
upward, as all well-conducted rockets
should, flew sideways along the earth and,
whizzing past her head, stuck in a clipped
fir tree beside her. WLh a scream of
terror she flung herself half-fainting into
his arms. The straggling villagers and
guests heard the scream and, looking to
see the cause, saw for one glorious mo-
ment the tableau revealed by that flaring
torch.
Frank and Louise did not need to an
nounce their engagement.
Os course the rocket had really nothing
to do with it, but with the fatuous logic
of lovers they are still pleased to think it
had, and in their home there is an orna
ment an the wall made of two rockets
crossed like fencing foils that will proba
bly remain there till the children grow
old enough to play with matches.
P. McAbthvb.
A Famous English Criminal.
From the San Francisco Call
Howard Northrup, a Scotland Yard
man of London, is in the city in company
with a party of English gentlemen who
are now making a tour of this country.
In speaking yesterday of celebrated crim
inals of England, Mr. Northrup said that
in his opinion Charles Peace, now dean,
was the most famous of them all. “He
was the inventor of an ingenious ladder,”
said Mr. Northrup, “which, when not in
use, was folded up, and the casual ob
server would be willing to swear it was
simply a bundle of kindling wood. When
opened up for use these bits of wood
were the steps of a rope ladder thirteen,
feet long, and the rope was concealed
from view when the blocks were bunched,
together. Peace left Sheffield in 1876,
after ‘cracking’ two mansions and.
securing a lot of plunder. His
description was posted all over
England, and it told specifically
that the burglar was minus one finger of
his right hand. This was relied upon to
identify him, but the fellow’s fertile mind
conceived a scheme to avoid detection on
that score. He made a dummy arm with
a hook at the end of it, and on this he
hung a violin and travelled aboutlocating
places for future visits. Once he dis
guised himself as a clergyman and visited
Scotland Yard, where he made minute
inquiries about himself. He carried off
an inspector’s watch as a keepsake. He
had a country house at Peckham and
kept two housekeepers, two servants and
a gardener. He lived like a gentleman of
independent fortune, and was noted in
the neighborhood for his passionate fond
ness for music. In his house was a piano
worth 200 guineas, and the furniture in
his drawing room cost at least 1,000
guineas more. His equal has never yet
lived in England, and we hope he never
wUI.” '
“I lost my best friend the other day,”
said the cheeful idiot, “Indeed? Who
was that?” asked the sympathetic man.
“Myself. I was out hunting and lost my
self in the woods.”—lndianapolis Jour
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The bust of yice President Stevenson by
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the vacant niched of the Senate chamber
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It is three feet high, including the base, and
is made of the best Italian marble. The bunt
was modeled from sittings.
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