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SOUTHERM SEWS ITEMS.
There in small-pox in San Antonio.
Small grain crop* are promising in all
sections of Georgia.
The colored Baptists of Atlanta arc
organising a seminary.
A rein o pure stone coal h&a been
discovered in Conccah county, Ala.
A soldier has arrived in At’anta under
sentence to be shot for n murder committed
fourteen yean ego.
Recently there have been deposited in
the st eat. * cf North Carolina 2,000,000
young shrd.
The trr.mfM ere fleeing Texas, having
got the idea that a bill to put them to work
h id passed tbe state legislature.
No wonder cur iawyers are poverty
stricken. One !e si genllernan receive'!
only >IIO,OOO for his service* in tbe Vander
bilt will eve.
Danville ( Va ) Times: Tobacco plants
plentiful and doing well. In two weeks
2.279,f*50 pounds of totacco were sold in
Danvil'e. rhe cash paid for it amounted to
A peti'ion asking that equal political
right* be conferred on women was presented
to the Lotii-Una constitutional convention
Ksturday. It ia numerously signed by tbe
most prominent men and women of New
Orleans.
Michael Propst, of North Carolina,
waa married to Nancy Angel before he vol
unteered *s a soldier in the war of 1812.
They had eleven children, and all are living
to-day. The oldest is seventy-two years of
age and the youngest fifty.
Register : Fifteen car-loads of tobacco
passed through Columbia yesterday, on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad,
on their way to Savannah and other south
ern cities, the cause of the large shipment
being the reduction ot the tobacco tax.
A correspondent of the News and
Couriei says an exodus of negroes from the
other South Carolina counties has begun
nto the county of Beaufort, some 1,600 hav
ing already arrived. They talk of concen
trating on the coast and forming a sort of
negro republic. They have not grasped the
Kansas idea.
A Raleigh paper says : The revival of
religion begun iu this city in the Edentoa
street Methodist church, by Mrs. Moon, still
continues, and so great is the interest that a
meeting was begun last week in the Person
street church, by Mrs. Painter, a sister of the
former lady. Both churches are crowded
every night.
Weldon (N. C ) News: On Saturday
last several hundred negroes met in town to
discuss the question of going to Kansas.
Several speeches were made pro and con,
and a committee was appointed to ascertain
particulars and report. No definite action
will be taken until more is found Out in res
gardto the advisability of emigrating.
Galveston News: Intelligence has been
received from Lynchburg and San Jacinto
that the water was five feet higher than
during the overflow from the storm of Seps
teruber, 1875. Many families are represented
as having lost everything they were pos
sessed of, and unless relief be afforded a
great deal of suffering will be the result.
The Chinese merchants of Augusta,
Ga, pay their liquor and tobacco taxes
promptly and willingly, whereupon the
News remarks that they say the Chinese
must go, but their industry and business way
of conducting aflairs is very striking. The
revenue collectors say they are among the
promptest paying, and are always correct in
money dealings.
Charleston News and Courier : C. C.
Leslie, the well known fish merchant, re
ceived yesterday from one of his smacks a
curiosity in the shape of a monster leather
back or trunk turtle, whose shell measures
six feet, and which weighs about 500 pounds.
It was caught Off Cb trleston bar, and is the
first of this particular species that has ever
been caught in these waters.
Rockingham (Va.) Register: For
more than a week the mountains east and
west of us have been on fire. We do not
know that we have ever seen such extensive
fires as prevail in the Alleghany and North
The light at night is grand in
the extreme. For more than sixty miles in
length there was a continuous stream of
fire, sweeping over knolls and down in the
gorges,
The London World ssy3 the famous
privateer Shenandoah was, after the war,
bought at auction by Nicol, Fleming & Cos.
—a firm that has earned a notoriety in con
nection with the failure of the City of Glas
gow bank—for tbe sultan of Zanzibar. After
remaining idly at Zinzibar for some years
she was sent to Bombay tor repairs, but
foundered off Socotra, all hands being lost
except one Englishman and a few Lascars.
For the present the “ Kansas fever”
among the southern blacks seems to have
subsided, but the movement will start afresh
and with greater force in the autumn. The
planters are so well convinced of the gen
eral disposition of the negroes to move
northward, that ail of them who are able
ere already making arrangements to supply
themselves with Chinese laborers from San
Francisco. Many contracts have already
been made, it is understood, very low rates
of fare being secured for gangs of thtee
hundred.
An intelligent correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune concludes, from
extensive observations in Mississippi,
that there has not been as yet such
an alarming stampede of negroes as one
would infer from the many newspaper re
ports, Here and there you can learn of a
few families that have gone, and on close
investigation they are of a class who are
behind with their merchants for supplies,
are shiftless and very poor workers, and
scarcely ever accumulated anything, and
hence, from their very character, are of lit
tle benefit to any community.
A few days ago the Bazar market in
New Orleans was takeu possession of, and
tbe court afterward held that the city’s
creditors are entitled to four thousand of
water-works stock, which were seized some
time ago. Noticing these things, the Times
adds that “ the younger generation of law
has discovered an elasticity in the law
which was wholly unknown to the older
members of the profession. It will not be
surprising, therefore, if the parks, city hall,
court houses and public squares are gath
ered in by the city’s creditors, iu the same
way that the Bazar market and the water
works stock were.”
FOREIGN.
The Bombay government reports
great distress imminent iu the Deccan be
cause of the failure of crops. Five thous
and famine-stricken refugees from Kutty
war have entered Bombay.
A correspondent at Rome says in con
sequence of the undue importance attached
to General Garibaldi’s manifesto, the gov
ernment has sent a circular to other govern
ments. declaring that it will rigorously re
press any attempts to disturb the harmony
between Italy and other nations.
A serious riot has been going on in
Cork for the last few days, arising out of a
difference between two rival bands. Sev
eral houses were wrecked Saturday. The
• asterbonces were renewed Sunday. The
rioters were dispersed by the police. Forty
of them were treated for scalp wounds. A
policeman’s skull was fractured.
A dispatch from Calcutta says nearly
a million pilgrims who assembled at the
Ilurd war fair have carried cholera in various
directions. Outbreaks of the disease are
reported from Delhi, Wrumitzar, Rawed*
pendee, and elsewhere. Some cases have
occurred among the European troops. It is
asserted that of 80.000 persons who went to
the tair from Cumaton a quarter are missing.
This mortality has been caused by tbe po
!ice forcing them to travel desert tracks. It
is probable the story is much exaggerated
Bismarck, in the reiebstag Saturday,
during a debate on the tariff, said he would
not enter into the question of free trade or
protection, but one thing was clear, that
through the widely opened doors of its Im
port trade the German market had become a
mere storage place for the over-production
of other countries. They must, tberelore,
shut their gates, and take care that the Ger
man market, which is now being monopo*
iized by foreign wares, could be reserved
for native industry. The countries which
were enclosed had become great, and those
which remained open had fallen behind.
The longest subterranean construction
is in the mines of Freyburg, in SaxoDy. A
series of galleries, which were begun in the
welfth century, reached in 1835 a length of
123 miles, and had yielded an immense
quantity of silver. In 1833 anew gallery
was commenced, which was finished a year
ago, and is eight miles long.
VOL. XX. NO. IT.
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C* <VY
poetry.
a nates a nm fob a> that.
Is there, lor honest poverty,
tV ha hangs his head, and a’ that 7
.The coward-glass, we paw him by,
We dare be poor for a’ that.
For a* that, and a’ that,
Our toils obtcuie, and a’ that,
The rack ia but tbe guinea ttamp,
The man’s tbe gowd for a’ that.
What tho ! on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hodden gray, and a’ tl at.
Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a’ that.
For a’ that, and a’ that,
i heir tinsel show, and a’ that -
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a’ that.
You see yon birkie ca and a lord,
Wha struts and stares, and a' that—
Though hundreds worship at his won),
He’s but a coof for a’ that.
For a’ that, and a’ that,
His riband, star, and a’ that—
The man of independent mind,
He looks and laughs at a' that.
A prince can mak’ a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, ana a’ that -
But an honest man’s aboon hia might,
Guid faith he mauna fa’ that I
For a’ that, and a’ that,
Their dignities, and a’ that—
The pith o’ sense and pride o’ worth
Are higher tanks than a’ that.
Then let us pray that come it may,
As some it will, for a’ that,
That sense and wor h, o’er a’ the earth,
May bear the gree. and a’ that, *
For a’ that, and a’ that,
It’s coming yet for a’ thst,
When man to man, the warld o'er,
Bhall broihers be, fox &’ that.
—Robert Burnt.
A q.V q.V
Stories '‘'or the Fireside.
H *1
THE ARTIST'S BRIDE.
In one cf the splendidly decorated sa
loons at St. James’ was assemblfd a
group of young and lovely girls, whose
delicate fingers were busily engaged in
different kinds of ornamental needle
work, which, under their skillful arrange
ment, formed bouquets which rivaled
nature in the brilliancy of their colors
and accuracy of shades. They were the
queen’s maids of honor, and between
their gay chatteiing and busy fingers
employed the t me while waiting for her
rising. The only grave person in the
assembly was the dowager Duchess de
Alby, the chief of the ladies of honor.
Among the blooming group the
youngest was lemarkable for simplicity
of dress and the quiet modesty of her
whole appearance. Her attire was a
dress of black velvet closed to the
throat, but of which the skirt, open in
front, inclosed an underdress of white
satin ; the sleeves came just below the
elbow and coquettishly cisciosed the
arm and hand of the most dazzling
whiteness. A plaited tucker encircled
her graceful neck, on which hung a
chain to which was attached a large
cross, and the luxuriant hair, simply
parted o the forehead and confined by
a large scarf, completed her costume.
This was the daughter of one of the
most illustrious families of Scotland.
Her father, Lord Ruthven, to a princely
fortune claimed a pedigree of which he
was more proud than of his wealth.
Lucy, his daughter, had secretly arrived
at the English court on her appointment
to a post in the queen’s household, there
to complete the education which had
been carefully guided by her father. Re
tired and simple in her tastes, her mind
instinctively sought the sublime in the
works of nature and art. She excelled
in painting, and her genius had created
a world of her own in the daily contem
plation of the productions of the best
masters, which adorned the galleries of
her father. Paul Veronese, Guido,
Rubens, were of the number of her
friends, and she vowed them eternal
gratitude for the light their talents shed
on her solitude.
The habits and manners of Lucy con™
trasted strongly with those of her com
panions, who had been habituated to
more independence and liberty. Gentle
and timid to excess, she scarcely at
tempted to answer the sportive and often
mischievious sallies of her companions.
The large clock in the saloon chimed
the hour of teu. AH eyes were directed
to it, and several voices exclaimed “ He’s
very late!” just as a domestic announced
“ the painter, Van Dyck.”
The announcement caused a general
agitation among the smiling group.
Each one changed her position on her
velvet seat, re-arranged her dress and
composing her countenance sought to
give additional grace to her aspect. The
young pupil of Rubens, albeit accus
tomed to the spirit of beauty, could not
suppress a murmur of admiration at
finding himself in the midst of this bril
liant circle.
The old duchess, supposing the young
painter’s embarrassment to be caused by
her own imposing appearance, to encour
age him, addressed him in these words :
“ I am told that you have talent young
man.”
“ Those who have so informed you do
me too much honor, madame. Doubtless
they judge me by my intention-; but I
have as yet produced nothing worthy of
attention.”
There was as much confidence and
noble pride in the reply of the painter
as there had been arrogance and im
pertinence in the address of the noble
dame.
■ .ucy, who possessed the high spirit of
her country, was shocked at the insolent
tone of the duchess, and now blushed
with pleasure at the reply of Van Dyck.
As her toft eyes rested approvingly rn
his face he understood her feeliugs, and
thanked her by a look for her generous
sympathy.
“ Well, well, we shall see. Her majesty
wishes to renew tbe ornaments of her
chapel; so you will be fully employed.
A residence will be assigned you in yon
der monastery, where you will copy un
disturbed. In summer also you shall
have a fit residence, besides a pension
from the government. This, I think, is
paying an artist pretty well.”
“Art can not be paid for, my lady
duchess, and if I purchase the talents to
which I aspire, the favors which you
boast could not purchase them.”
“ This ia all very well—you are proud
arid we are noble, but, nevertheless,
these honors are conditional. You will
be chosen painter to the queen if you
succeed in gaining the prize which is of
fered for the most perfect head of the
Madonna.”
“Ah ! madam, if the patronage of her
majesty is offered me only on those con
ditions I shall not obtain it.”
“And why not ?”
“ Because I shall not gain the prize,”
replied he, with au expression of sadness
which was instantly reflected on the face
of Lucy.
“ Why do you refuse this honor ? Do
you fear to fail?”
“ No, madam ; but how shall I repre
sent as she should be represented, the
mother of the Savior ? Where shall I
find a model?” Ashe proncuncM these
words hia eyes rested on the angelic face
of Lucy. “ I have hitherto sought in
vain the combination of mildness, sweet
ness and candor which should character
ize tbe queen of heaven.
The fire of genius which illuminated
the handsome countenance of Van Dyck
elicited the admiration ot all observers.
“ But I should imagine that there
would be no difficulty in obtaining mod
els for painters.”
“ The models which can be obtained
for hire, are beautiful, without doubt.
I have sought in vain for the dignity and
purity which I have never seen united
but in a noble lady wha would disdain
to sit to a poor artist.”
The animated and ardent glance of
Van Dyck embarrassed Lucy; it told
her that he had at last found the object
his fancy had depicted. The duchess,
however, had not observed it, and
asked :
“ Who is this noble lady ?”
“ The virgin herself, madam I” Bowing
profoundly and giving a parting glance
at Lucy, he added: “ If I gain the prize
you shall see me again, madam; if not,
I leave England.”
He took immediate possession of bis
apartments, where he cou’d at the same
time paint his madonna and copy the
frescoes for tbe chapel. With his mind
full of the celestial face he had just seen,
he seized his pencil and endeavored to
trace her lineaments. But the extreme
sensibility so useful to art when time
has calmed it was now his chief obstacle.
He felt too deeply to succeed in express
ing the idea which filled h s soul. The
day passed in fruitless attempt and the
night surprised him, dissatisfied and de
spondent.
In the meantime Lucy had suffered
severely for the preference shown her by
Van Dyck. The envy and jealousy of
her companions found vent in imperti
nent sarcasm; so that, on separating for
the night, her mind was filled with his
idea, and after her nightly prayer, his
name was the lastpn her lips.
It was midnight. The heavens shone
with a thousand sparkling stars, and a
dark light spread itself on the old abbey
which stood solitary and alone among its
ruins.
A window of the palace opened, and a
shadow passed slowly along the balcony
and staircase, crossed along the court and
reached the monastery.
It would be difficult to say how this
figure had left the palace and penetrated
so far; but she must have been well ac
quainted with all the turnings, for in a
short time she crossed tbe long avenue,
and, arriving at one end of the galleries
of the chapel, she found herself in the
painter’s work room, and, passing lightly
on, seated herself, without looking
around her, immediately in front of his
easel.
Oh, surprise ! Oh, joy ! this being, so
calm, so beautiful, is Lucy! The
desponding artist who had been unable
to retrace her features on canvas now
beheld a living model before his eyes.
What idea could have given her the
courage and resolution ? He threw him
self on his knees before her, but Lucy,
motioning him to rise, pointed to his
pencil. Her look penetrated him with
a flame so pure that he forgot the reality
of his vision—his astonishment seemed
to him a want of faith. Transported by
imagination to an ethereal sphere, he
seemed above the earth, and in the midst
of the sublime c ncerts f angels, he be
held Mary environed by divine rays.
He was no longer the powerless artist
who had just thowu at his feet his uu
successful pencil—the artist replaced the
man. .Mute and breathless, inspired by
mysteiious strength, he seizod his pal
ette. His colors gave the form and his
soul the liie—in a few hours he created
the most beautiful and the most pure of
virgins.
When the young girl saw that after
tracing her features he was occupied in
imparting to his picture the soul which
animated him, she rose silently, ard
with a calm and assured step left the
monastery by the same road she had
come.
Van Dyck, with wondering eyes and
oppressed breathing, made not the
slightest effort to detain her. In his
eyes she was n© longer mortal, and in
her departure he thought he saw the
Madonna returning to her native skies.
Enchanted by his execution and excite
ment, he fell asleep in his arm chair.
CARTERS VI LEE, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1879.
On awakening, his first thought was to
examine the canvass. Trans parted with
joy at his success, he thanked the angel
ot woman who had so-favored him. In
vain he endeavored again to impart the
ideality which existed in bis imagina
tion. He had so combined the thoughts
of the Madonna and of Lucy, that he
determined to discover the truth, and
wrote tbe following billet to the young
girl:
Tell me if you are indeed an angel, if you
do not wish to deprive of his senses the poor
artist to whom yon have consented to ap
pear this night, tell me if you are a virgin
or a mortal.
It was part of the duty of the dowager
duchees to open the billets addressed to
the youDg ladies confided to her charge.
What was her astonishment at reading
this epistle 1
“ Horror !” cried she. “ A child of
high family to violate her duty in seek
ing a painter at midnight!”
She rang and sent for the guilty one,
but her rage redoubled when Lucy, with
her customary gentleness, denied all
knowledge of the cause of her reproaches.
The duchess, who expected to witness in
her great confusion or a candid avowal,
would listen to nothing. The alarm
was given in the palace and it was de
cided that Lucy, disgraced, should be
sent home to her father.
Her prayers were of no avail; a single
night of respite was alone accorded to
her, and she was compelled to sleep in
the apartment of the duchess to avoid
further scandal.
At midnight, Lucy rose as before ; the
duchess was aroused from her unquiet
sleep, and called all the ladies to witness
the confirmation of her suspicions. With
a lighted flambeaux, the duchess, at
tended by a numerous suite, followed
Lucy, who traversed again the long hall
and numerous passages and arrived at
tne door of the monastery. Her culpa
bility could no longer be doubted; but
they followed her even to the painting
room, where she was already seated
before the easel. The noise around her
and the brilliancy of the lights awoke
her in a fright. She waa a somnambul
ist.
Thus unconsciously had she served as
a model to tbe artist, who lully repaid
in love what the bad given him in re
nown. He obtained the prize and was
loaded down at the court with honors
and riches.
A few days afterward, there was cele*
brated at St. Paul’s, the union of Van
Dyck and Lucy, the daughter of the
noble Count Ruthven.
Fifteen Cents Off.
A young man who dresses well and has
a reasonable share of good looks had oc
casion last week to make a trip to the
country, and one night he found him
telf at a farm-house, at which a party
was to come off’. He was invited to par
ticipate in the festivities, and after he
had consented the old farmer took him
around the corner of the house and
said:
“ The young folks are mighty fond
of any game with kissing in it. They’ll
get up some thing and fix it to make
you kiss the handsomest gal in the
room.”
“ Well, I’ll kiss her,” was the prompt
reply.
“ Yes, but hold on a little,” continued
the old man. “ There’s my gal Emma.
We thinx she’s as purty as any of ’em,
but certain folks around here kinder
sniff at her ’cause her nose crooks a bit
and her hair is a trifle high-colored.
Now, I want you to kiss Em for the
handsomest gal in tbe room. It’ll do
the ole woman good, do Em good and
kinder set these ’ere sniffers back a lit*
tie. I don’Bask you to kiss her for noth
ing, but if you’ll do it I’ll throw fifteen
cents offn your bill in the morning.
What d’ye say ?”
The youcc man said he’d do it; and
the father continued:
“That’s the checker. Don’t have any
make-believe about it, but kiss her right
pop out, so that we kin all hear the
smack!”
The game was played, the young man
was “ fixed,” and he kissed “ Em ” like
the pop of a pistol. He felt all the hap
pier for it that night, seeing how great
ly the old woman was pleased, but next
forenoon as he jogged along he had to
run the gauntlet of a score of farmers’
sonsjwaiting in fence corners to lick him
because he passed their “ gals ” by lor
“Em.” He was struck by thirteen stones,
six clubs and about a bushel of potatoes
before he got out of the neighborhood,
and when he came to figure up he real
ized that fiiteen cents was no inducement
at ail.
South American Arrow Poison.
At the last meeting of the Boston
microscopical society, Dr. A. N. Blodgett
read an interesting paper on curare, the
South American arrow poison, which is
now used to reuder lower animals un
conscious during surgical operations
It has been found, Dr Blodgett asserted,
that curare produces insensibility to life,
and supplies a need that the medical
profession have long felt, in that it does
not require watching when administered
as do ether and chloroform. The exact
derivation ot curare does not seem to be
definitely known, but it is said to be
prepared by scraping the young bark of
two plants belonging to the same species
ns that from which strychnine and com
ing indicus are derived. The bark is ex
hausted in water, mixed with other
vegetable substances, and evaporated till
it forms a thick paste. It is more ener
gectic in its action on some classes of
animals than on others. Birds are more
profoundly affected than quadrupeds,
and reptiles are poisoned for a much
longer time than birds. It is generally
administered hypodermically, in exceed
ingly minute doses.
JOHN HALL ON INFIDELITY.
Thr Oailoah of ( tiriallanlty—Views of An
1 ml tit-m I’rnbjlrrlati llfrrj min.
New Tork Graphic.
Taere has been much discussion of late
in respect to the prospect of Christianity
in its conflict with modern tendencies.
It has become a theme of frequent ap
pearance in popular magazines and news
papers. It can not fail, therefore, to be
of interest to know the views of those
who are most at home in the sphere to
which the subject belongs, whose life
pursuits render them, to a considerable
extent, an authority in regard to such
inquiries.
One of our reporters, a few days since,
called upon a distinguished clergyman
of this city, the Rev. Dr. John Hall, for
this purpose.
Asa preacher and theologian Dr. Hall
occupies a foremost place in his own
religions body and the clergy ol
the country. No one could be chosen
better qualified for a representative and
exponent of the present status of the
evangelical church to voice its hopes
and fears. The conversation ran as fol
lows :
“ It is known to you, doctor, that there
appears to be something like a feeling of
distrust in these latter days in respect to
the progress of Christianity. It is pre
dicted, even, by some, you are aware,
that it is destined, sooner or later, to be
superseded by other modes of life and
thought. I should like to ask you £ow
you regard the situation. Is there any
real ground for such apprehensions as I
have indicated on the part of Christian
people? I suppose that you nave no
esoteric convictions as to the subject—
none that you wish to conceal or are un
willing to make public ?” “If you
desire to anow my views in respect to
modern infidelity, I can tell them very
quickly. Ido not hesitate to say I have
no respect for it whatever. I regard it
but as the shallowest pretensions so far
as it attemps to compete with or set up
superior claims to the divine revelations
of Christianity.”
‘‘Do you not think that Christianity
is more imperiled through the rational
istic influences of the present than those
of [any former period? ’ “No. The
ehurdn has always had to contend with
infidelity. Every age has its particular
form. The infidelity of the present is
simply that which the circumstances of
the time cause it to assume.”
“ Does it not strike deeper in our time,
more directly at the fundamental doc
trines of Christian faith, on which the
church has been built ?” “In what
way?”
“Particularly through the influence
of scieice.” “ The claims of science
are muth greater than can be verified.
The positions of Huxley are only the
old, crude arguments ot Hume revived.’’
“ Would you say the same of Tyndall
and Spencer ?” “ Oh, Tyndall is a lec
turer —a popularizar of science. Much
of his reputation is due to this fact. This
is also true ot most of the other leading
opponents of Christianity of the day.
They are prominently before the public
as writeri and speakers, which tends to
give an undue importance to their state
ments and opinions.”
“ Thenyou would say there is no reason
for serious a'arm to the friends of
Christianity from the influence of such
persons V “Np ; because it is counter
balanced by ithat of equal reputation
as scientists, as, for example, Prof.Guyot,
Dana, Piincipal Dawson and others.”
“ You would hardly agree, I suppese,
with the recent article of the Rev.
Phillips Brooks in the Princton Review ?”
“ Perhaps not. In what particular ?”
“Well, he seems to consider the
dangers irom skepticism greater than
you do; its effect upon the Christian
system more damaging and swooping. ’
“If any one is disposed to be discouraged
on account of the assaults in tbe present
day upon Christianity, he may take con
fidence by a comparison of them with
those of former days. In the time, lor
example, when Voltaire and his asso
ciates led their assault there was far more
of the educated mind enlisted in such
hostility than now. There was far more
of strong public sentiment on that side,
while the religious life was dead as com
pared with its present life and vigor. I
have no inclination to depreciate the
labors of tbe students of natural science.
I rejoice in all they have done and are
doing to enlarge the domain of human
knowledge, but tcience transcends its
sphere when it seeks to interpret and an
nounce, through its methods and instru
ments, the deep things of God—of the
soui—man’s spiritual life and destiny.”
“ You think, then, the doctrines ol
inspiration and those of the church,
usually accepted by evangelical Christ
ians, rest on too secure a basis to be
undermined by science?” “Most cer
tainly. Science can only discover phen
omena. It runs along a line of cause
and effect, but sooner or later it must
stop. It can go no farther. It can not
go behind the cause. What is law?
Simply a mode ot the manifes ation of
the author of nature, that is all It we
find the bible and science do not Bgree,
it is not the fault of the book, but be
cause we have misread it. Just as if
you would go away from me, and mis
represent what I said. I should say, p
you were an honest man—and I trust
you are—that you have failed to under
stand me.”
“ There has been much attention of
late years to Oriental studies. I mean,
especially, comparative mythologies and
religions. Analogies have been discov
ered through the translation of ancient
sacred doctrines, ceremonies and even
moral teachings of Christianity. It is
claimed that these militate against the
special authority of the bible and the
Christian revelation. The discoveries
of George Smith and other archieologists
in the east have greatly confirmed the
bible. The analogs to which you refer
between Caristianity and other ancient
religions, instead of tending to weaken
may serve to strengthen belief in the
divine nature of the former. I main
tain it is more reasonable to suppose
that these various Oriental religions
derived these maxims that have been
applauded,it seems to me rather extrav
agantly, from an original revelation, at
a very early period in man’s history,
than that they represent degrees of evo
lution.”
“ There are those who exhibit a good
deal of anxiety on account of Roman
Catholicism in this country.” “It is for
the most part simply a shitting of popu
lation from the old world to this.”
“ Do you feel hopeful, doctor, in re
gard to the church, the future of Christ
ianity ?” “ Most certainly I do. It is
spreading in heathen lands. Look at
Australia and many such countries;
compare them to-day with what they
were one hundred years ago. Christ
ianity is really stronger to-day than it
ever was.”
“ You think, then, the church will
eventually subdue all to itself. Will it
be the triumph of a single sect—your
own, for example—or of Christianity in
general ?” “In general, I think. In
these days many persons have allowed
themselves to drift away from the high
and holy influences of religion. They
have lived so long apart from it that
they have lost the power of spiritual
discernment and of understanding such
things. It is said that ‘if any man
will do the will of God he shall know of
the doctrine’—which is truer than some
are apt to suppose.”
“ You would, then, commend religion
and worship as the great specific for
skepticism and unbelief?” “ Yes.”
The entrance here of visitors brought
the interview to a close, and the doctor
accompanied the reporter to the door
with a friendly parting.
A Marvelous Feat.
Pall Mall Gazette.
A certain Countess Blavatsky has, it
appears, been doing some marvelous
feats in India as a spiritualist medium.
The Indian police were disposed at first
to look upon her companions of a so
called Theosophical party as a number
of Russian spies; but if the trick which
she has contrived to play with a glove
does not convince them that the countess
herself is at any rate a far more extraor
dinary person than any spy, they must
be very. skeptical people. The story
itself, like other wonders in the same
scientific field, rqads almost like a hoax ;
but a sober letter from a “ Barrister,
son of a well known Liberal M. P.,” in
the Standard shows that to him at least
the affair is serious enough. According
to the Indian papers the countess
brought with her from England a pair
of gloves. On the 17th of February also
a pair of gloves was seen by Colonel
Alcott in Bombay. About this there is
no question, and the countess informed
the colonel that she had been requested
by “an English barrister, president of
the British 'lheosophical society and son
of a liberal M. P. whose name is well
known throughout India”—the gentle
man who writes in the Standard, in
short—to send him one of these gloves
immediately on her arrival, in order to
improve his father’s eyesight. The
scene changes to London. On the same
day the barrister found a telegram at his
chambers in the temple from a lady
medium in London, sayiDg that her
“ spirit” had received a message from
Mine. Blavatsky in Bombay. Needless
to say that the “ message” was the glove
sent off from Bombay that very day,
with “ the well known signature on the
inside of ths kid the leas known and less
decipherable symbols above it.” It was
received by the gentlemen full in the
face in a darkened room, and he now
gives evidence that he is quite satirfied
that the transition of the glove was
effected by the Countess Blavatsky in
Bombay and the less powerful medium
in London between them. Earnest seek
ers after truth in Bombay have begged
the Countess Blavatsky to send h rme
their overland trunks by tbe same route,
offering any reasonable pi ice for the
accommodation. So far, however, she
has accepted no contract; though we
believe this is only a question of time—
at least that seems to be the op.iuon of
the Indian papers.
Wliat the Lawyer Said.
Tney were trying & case in which*ev
eral criminals were engaged, and one o
the prisoners, as prisoners often will do,
endeavored to lead the jury astray by
putting himself forward as the principal
actor in the tragedy. But tbe vigilant
and experienced counsel for the people,
is not to be humbugged by auv such
shallow pretense. “ No, gentlemeu,’'
he cried, in summing u:>, “you will not
suffer yourselves to be imposed upon.
Look at those features, that stupid eye,
and tell me if there you can perceive
any indications of tbe energy, the
courage, the fertility of resource, tbe
intelligence, the fire of ganius necessary
for the conception and execution of the
masterly murder we are discussing.”
..The Bradford Era recommends, in
order to get rid of your old fruit cans
that have accumulated during the
winter, instead cf throwing them into
your neighbor’s back yard, t© tie them
together, attach a clothes-pin and snap
them on ihe tail of some cur. He w
be sure to take them out of the neigh
borhood on a can-can gallop.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
WHEELBARROW IDIOCY.
The Kindred of the Pt.(onian Kxpedl
tlaau
Cleveland Ileruld.
* “ It’s an old and true saying that ‘One
fool|makts many.’ It isjscarcely necessary
to cite illustrations of this painful fact,
for a surplusage of them must occur to
every reader of the tcwspapera during
the last three or four years. In an
evil hour it occurred to cn individual
with more courage lhau common
sense to cross the Atlantic in an
open boat. His success stimulated an
other fool hardy fellow to repeat the feat
in a smaller boat, accompanied by hig
wife. The experience of this pair was
sufficient to extinguish s.ll desire on their
part to repeat the undertaking. But
Paul Boy ton eclipsed them by making a
of himself, and though he has not
attempted as yet to cross the Atlantic,
he has sailed and paddled himself across
the English channel, and has for some
weeks been floating down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers like a stick of drift
wood. To be sure, there is method in
Paul’s madness, the object of his
converting himself into something be
tween a marine animal and
a canoe taking the form of a bill introo
duced in congress to compel all mer
chant ships to b 9 provided with a iuit of
his life-saving wearing-apparel. Wes
ton’s appearance on the road, whipping
his calves and striding along toward a
goal he invariably failed to reach on
time, started up a host of tramps in
tights, breeches, or short skirts, and
broad-soled shoes, whose performances
have nauseated the public and made life
a burden to newspaper men. When
Pergeant Bates limped from one end of
the union to the other, carrying the
American flag over his shoulder, the
derision which greeted his absurd and
wholly unnecessary ‘ test of loyalty ’
should have been enough to discourage
any further demonstrations of that char*
acter. But it was not. To Bates and
his flag succeeded Potter and his wheel
barrow. The sergeant, whose skull was
stuffed with patriotic zeal to the exclu
sion of brains, was followed by the Al
bany numb-skull whose head had no
room for brains or anything else. Bates
undertook by his tramp to demonstrate
the attachment of all parts of the coun
try—south sni north—to the stars and
stripes. Potter merely desired to prove
his abi'ity to push an alleged wheel
barrow from Albany to San Francisco.
Why the hostile Indian! of the plains
or the white thieves of the unsettled
regions of the west permitted him to go
through in safety for the further afflic
tion of mankind is one of those mys
terious dispensations that it is useless to
discuss. It is enough—more than
enough—that he reached San Francisco
jn salety. As if that was not sufficient
misfortune, the wheelbarrow man is on
his way back, and there are two of him.
On the eighth of December last, Potter
set out from San Francisco on [his way
to New York, pushing his wheelbarrow
before him. At the same time one
Federmeyer started for the same place,
also driving a wheelbarrow, the two
being on [a race for a puree of fifteen
hundred dollars, offered by some San
Francisco sporting man to the one who
reaches New York first within seven
months from the time of starting. At
Battle mountain, Kansas, Potter fell
behind, and when Federmeyer reached
St. Louis, May Btb, exactly five months
from the time of starting, his competitor
had not been heard from. The foremost
wheelbarrowist expects to win his wager
with ease, and then got up another match
to wheel his way back to the Pacific
slope in five and a half months. To
quiet the nerves of our readers, we are
happy to announce that the route of the
tramps does not lie through northern
Ohio, as they go by way o; Cincinnati
and Pittsburg.”
Confessions Concerning tne Ex
odus.
The iNew York Tribune continues its
interesting aud instructive confessions
concerning the exodus. This is the lat
est: “ This week’s reports show us that
the negro emigration into Kansas n set
tling down precisely as any rational ob
server could have foretold at the outset.
There is much suffering among the emis
grants, and there will be much more
when next winter, with a climate and
privations of which they know nothing,
is upon them. There is scant welcome
for them in any of the towns ; naturally
no struggling community wishes to be
drowned in a flood of pauperism. There
is a great deal of windy sympathy r or
them among the people who make it a
point of conscience to indorse the neg-o,
right or wrong, but so far very li. le
money or practical help has been sent
trom this class. * * * All south su
ers are not L’grees. There are kiud,
just, Christian employers in Mississippi
as in Kansas, and these working-peo. 'e.
if they know any such, should have
stayed where they were or go back as
soon as possible As for the politicil
association in Boston which now claims
to have been the motive power in tend
iog these hordes away from their oppres
sors, what is it doing to eed ani eir- 4 ’ e
them now that it has set them adiit ?
Money was always forthcoming when
needed to flood the south with agents
and circulars, tut now that these help
less creatures are starving and dying of
disease, we have not heard of a do .. r
contributed from that source.”
. .Mrs. Shoddy’s views are interesting
to ihote who are thinking about keep: g
a carriage. She says she has thought ,t
all over, and come to the conclusion li st
brooches are almost too large; that these
’ere coupons are too shut u, but that a
nice, stylish pony phantom seems to be
just the thing.
TIIE MIRKN I*LB.
Evening’s purple glory slept
Upon peak ted cliff and stream,
And the voleelte* waveLl erept
To the shore with lingering gleam.
High a bore the cedar grove.
Ilea per led the starry world,
Sheduiag the tweet light of leve
on a land In slumber lurled.
Twilight'* weird and mystic rail
Lay on rock and wave and lea,
Whea we drop, with viewless tail
Into the enchanted tea.
Knew we then the Siren’s shore,
With it fatal melodise—
Bat the wind no whisper bore
O er the dark seductive seas.
Gated we through the gathering shades
Fear-bound, as if on the grave—
But the Siren sister-maids
Saw we aot beyond the wave.
It eras well no whisper broke
On the tiienee over all,
That no music magic woke,
Weary spirits to enthrall.
ipaifs
.. Excuse baste and a bad pun.
..In spring time charity begins to
hum.
..The weigh of the transgressor is
fifteen ounces to the pound.
..“(Greatly to his credit”—A bank,
deposit.
..Buckskin gloves are dear because
deer is the buck’s skin.
. .Old topers recognize that just as the
elbow is bent the appetite is inclined.
.. “ Pride in a woman destroys all sym
metry and grace,” says a preverb. If
this is so, it occurs to us there's lots of
symmetry and grace demolished every
time anew spring bonnet comes up a
church aisle.
..A worthy Baptist minister in the
west gently rebuking his flock for their
extravagance in dress, used the word
“garbage,” supposing it to be a more
elegant form of “gaTb.” Wild hilarity
in the choir and horrible consternation
among the devout portion of the flock.
.. A western paper wants to know
“where the next world’s fair will be
held ?” I don’t profess to know much
about the next world, but in these dig
ging# Sunday night is the favorite tim
for holding this world’s fair.
. .“He is poor and friendless and there
sno chance of Baving him!” are the
words found in a dispatch announcing
the conviction of Felix McCann for
murder. What a satire on justice are
itbese two lines!—[Terre Haute Mail.
..“Stop sending to me your jernel
enny more, ass you didn’t notis the bigg
hogg me husband butchered Sunday,
and it don’t fit my pantry shelves enny
how.” The hush—no, the “hogg” eighed
887.
..“ Did you hear her in that beautiful
cantata ?” said an enthusiastic admirer
of one of our prima donna. “ Phat’s
that?” exclaimed Mr. Terrence Magilli
cuddy. “ Phat’s that ? Can’t ate her,
is it ? Faix, an’ I cud do that same,
the darlint!”
. .The following testimonials of a cert
tain patent medicine speaks for itself:
“ Dear sir—Two months ago my wife
could scarcely speak. She has taken two
bottles of your * Life Renewer,’ and now
she can’t speak at all. Please send me
two more bottles. I wouldn’t be with*
out it.”
.. There appeared to be some irresis
tible force endeavoring to impede his
progress as he would shakily advance a
step or two, and then execute a retro
grade movement, bringing up at the
starting point. He was undoubtedly as
drunk as a lord, and the ground appeared
to roll ben- ath him like unto the wean’s
restless waves. All at once he was seen
to reel, endeavoring to catch himself
and then sink heavily into a heap on the
pavement, and when the bystanders ran
to his assistance, he said: “ ’Atsh she
verest shock fan earth quake ever speri
enshed, 'n I’ve bin on ish coast since ’SO.
Mutsh damage done, y’ reckon [Cali
fornia 1 aper.
Bees on the Wing.
When a swarm leaves for the woods
they are off before you fairly know it.
They drift away from the hive in a
wide-spread and apparently aimless con
course, they suddenly gather up their
skirts, draw together their forces, and
away they go, a humming, flying vor
tex of bees, the queen apparently in the
center and the mass revolving about her
as a pivot, over orchards and meadows,
across creeks and swamps, or woods and
deep valleys, straight for the appointed
tree, slow at first so that you can keep
up with them, but presently with a
speed that wuld tire a fox-hound. In
this flight the individual bees do not
move in their right lines, or straight
forward like a flock of birds, but round
and round like chaff in a whirlwind;
unitedly they form a whirling, revolving,
nebulous mass fifteen or twenty feet
across, that goes as straight as a projec
ts to its mark. They are not partial
as to the kind of tree—pine, hemlock,
elm, birch, maple, hickory,— any tree
with a good cavity high up or low
down. A swarm of mine ran away from
the new patent hive I gave them and
took up their quarters in the hollow
trunk of an old apple tree across an ad
joining field. The entrance was a mouse
hole near the ground. Another swarm
in the neighborhood deserted their
keeper and went into the cornice of an
out-house that stood amid evergreens in
the rear of a large mansion. But there
is no accounting for the taste of bees, as
Samson found when he discovered the
swarm in the carcass (or more probably
the skeleton) of the lion he had slain.
Sure Signs.
To meet a funeral is a sign of death.
To dissipate to day is a sign your hair
will pull to-morrow.
To kiss a pretty girl sgainst her will
is a sign you'll get your face scratched.
To take home a piece of beefsteak is a
sign there will be a broil in the family.
To see a dog fly at a farmer’s leg is a
sign a misfortune is going to befall the
calves.
To see a man loafing around a bar
room is a sign he’ll drink —if you ask
him to. '
To see your sweetheart kiss another
fellow is a sign you will be disappointed
in a love affair