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A Noble Woman.
A wealthy lady of New York has
signalized her name and done her s r *x
a lasting honor by an act of benefi
cence which can scarcely be over
praised. Tourists ascending the Hud
son river have observed on the high
banks at West Point a commanding
structure, which has been pointed out
to them as Cozzeh’s hotel; and visitors
to this classic region have not failed to
sojourn for a period within its bespit
able walls. A short time since its
popular proprietor died, and since that
time the hotel has been unoccupied,
no suitable successor having Deen
found. Now, however, a change comes
over its destinies. It has been pur
chased by the lady to whom we have
referred, to be converted into a hospi
tal, or sanitarium rather, for conva
lescing patients in the New York hos
pitals—those who are recovering from
fevers or other illness, and need above
all things else fresh air and a change of
scene; whose convalescence is delayed,
and whose spirits are depressed, by the
S loom of sickness around them at the
ospitals there, and who too often re
turn to their pursuits before their
strength is sufficiently restored. It is
specially for this class that the spacious
hotel on the banks of the Hudson is to
be transformed into a health-giving
paradise. The purpose and the place
are suited to each other. The situa
tion is one of the most beautiful in
America. The airs are balmy, the
hills are lefty and inspiring, the scene
is historical, the associations delightful
—all the conditions, in fact, are emi
nently suitable for the design in view.
Thetli ought is an admirable one, and
the beneficient inspiration—for it is no
less—is worthy of the appreciative ad
miration of all people everywhere.
The Economy of Vegetarianism.
A writer in the Quarterly Journal
of Science makes a trenchant criticism
of the arguments usually employed by
vegetarians in support of their system
of diet. The author considers the
question from the economic, the moral
and the hygenic points of view, but we
have not space to give more than an
epitome of his remarks on the first of
these topics. One hundred acres of
good land, say the vegetarians, will
support a greater amount of hum cn
life if planted with wheat, potatoes or
other crops directly consumed by man,
than if laid out in pasture or set with
vegetables intended for the food of cat
tle. This is true, but all land is not
S ood; in every country there is abun-
ancc of land that is unfit for tillage,
and \£hich, nevertheless, yield excel
lent pasture. Under a vegetarian re
gime such lands would cease to supply
the food market. So too the produce
of the forest and moor—game—would
cease. More serious still, the waters
would no longer contribute their share.
It might be said that poor lands could
still be usGd for pasture, and the pro
duce of flocks and herds (wool, butter,
cheese, milk,) utilized. But if the
grazer cannot sell the meat, it would
be unprofitable to keep animals, unless
he could get, for the products above
named, prices a hundred fold higher
than those he gets now. Besides, the
use of butter, milk and cheese, is in
consistent with vegetarian principles.
In a strictly vegetarian country, tal
low, hides mid hair could scarcely be
procured. Again, the refuse of’the
fisheries is rising into importance as a
manure equal to Peruvian gu :no.
But, if fish might no longer he cap
tured, the supply of this fertilizer
would he cut off, unless, indeed, the
destruction of animal life for purposes
ether than food receive an exceptional
sanction. Even then the cost of the
raw material would be greatly en
hanced.
CHURCH MATTERS.
Jonx McCullough, superintendent
of the American Sunday-school union,
sends us the followiug summary of fif
ty-two years’ work in the south:
There have been 10,556 new Sabbath-
schools organized, numbering 71,534
teachers, atiu 597,520 scholars; aid
has been given to 20,200 old schools,
and the foundations of thousands of
churches is new reckoned am on" the
results of this work. During the past
year the missionaries have organized
390 new Sabbath-schools, numbering
2,034 teachers, and 15,969 scholars;
aided and addressed 729 old schools,
numbering 41,677 teachers and schol
ars ; distributed 2,757 Bibles and tes
taments, delivered 1,397 addresses,
and visited 3.222 families. Mr. Mc
Cullough adds: There is not a more
aud countenance are very expressive
varying-'with every sentiment. The
hymns are well selected, and much
tact is exhibited in the whole service.”
Thomas Paine.
In the journal of Stephen Grellet, a
noted and most worthy minister of the
Society of Friends, I find the follow
ing record, made in the fall of 1809:
“ I may not omit recording here the
deatii of Thomas Paine. A few days
previous to my leaving home on my
last religious visit, on learning he was
ill and in a very destitute condition, I
went to see him, and found him in a
wretched state; for he had been so
neglected and forsaken by his pre
tended friends, that the common at
tentions to a sick man had been with
held from him. The skin of his body
was in some places M orn off. which
greatly increased his sufferings. A
ing, has recently returned to her St.
Louis home after a long residence iu
Europe. Speaking to a friend of the
difference between the social usage of
the old world aud the new, she said:
“ The fact is, my dear, there is no place
in American society for old women.
I don’t mean women of sixty-five and
upward, but those on the shady side of
forty and the sunny side of three score.
Women who are too old to indulge in
the follies of fashion, and yet too young
to want to enter a coffin or a convent.
What enjoyment, pray, does America
provide for them t
Dom Pedro.
Dom Pedro is referred to in the Al-
manache de Gotha as “Jean Charles-
Leopold-Salvador-Bibianc Francois-de
PauIe-LeocadioMichel-Gabriel-Rapha-
el Gonzague Pedro, the second of Al- pullough adds: There is not a more
cantara, emperor of Brazil.” His “biting field for Christian effort in the
father, the first Pedro of Alcantara, wide world than is open to-day in the I mcreaseu ms sunermgs. a
died in 1832, after having been excom- suffering and desolated south, where nurM} was provided for him, and some
municated by the pope. When Pedro millions are starving for the bread of needful comforts were supplied. He
the Second was fourteen years of age bfe. was m ? stI y in state of stupor, but
(in 1841) the chamber of deputies . How shall we reach the masses ? I something that had passed betu’een us
made him a man by law, and he as- M 8 t^ e way most of us have been in the bad made such an impression upon
cended the throne. A number of pet- babit of emphasizing this question. As him that sometime after my departure
ty rebellions were then in existence, if hasn’t been satisfactorily answered he sent for me, and on being told I
and the entire country was in a state y et >.the interior suggests a transfer of was f> 0D e from home, he sent for an-
of turmoil. Brazil is to-day one of the italics to another word in the sen- other Friend. This induced a valuable
the most prosperous and peaceful tence by asking, Mow shall we reach 7 0l } n g Friend, (Mary Rascoe,) u’hohad
countries in the world. The rebellions fc h e masses ? This comes nearer home, resided in my family and continued at
were all quelched before the close of Possibly it is the line on which to work Greenwich during a part of my ab-
1842. Dora Pedro finally abolished P ut the problem. For after all, who sence, frequently to go and take him
slavery in Brazil iu 1850. " In 1851 he are the masses, and who are we? Are some little refreshment suitable for an
entered into an alliance with Uruguay not men brethren ? Perhaps it be- invalid. Once when she M as there,
against Resas, the Argentine dictator, comes u s rather to ask ourselves. How three of his deLstical associates came
who was conquered and put to flight I shnll we draw toward our fellows! to the door, and in a loud,, unfeeling
in 1852. In 1865 Dom Pedro entered making the responsibility on our side 1 manner, said : * Tom Paine, it is said
into another alliance with Uruguay, somewhat more personal than “we” you are turning Christian, but we hope
the Argentine republic being this time have heretofore been willing to make y° u will die as you have lived,’ aud
a third party, which resulted, in 1871, i<: \ °V r Ch icdgo neighbor clinches then went away. On which, turning
in the defeat and death of Lopez, the this P oint t vigorously, though, it may to Mary Rascoe, he said: ‘ You see
dictator of Paraguay. A recent dis- be, not with quite that gravity of lan- what miserable comforters they are.’
pute between the governments of Bra-1 £ ua g® which Presbyterian usage would Once he asked her if she had read any
zil and the Argentine Republic was sanction. “ Imagine Paul,” it says, °f his writings, and on being told she
settled amicably. Dom Pedro was scratching his head with the tip of the had read but very little of them, lie
married on the fourth of September, P ear l handle of his gold pen, so as not inquired what she had thought ofthem
1843, to the Princess Theresa Christi- Jo disturb the graceful architecture of adding: ‘ From such a one as you f
[aria, daughter of Francis, king of h« barber, and writing to his fellow I expect a correct answer.’ She told
^ Their only child, Isabella, I apostle: ‘My Dear Doctor Simon him that when very young his‘Age of
rn in 1846, and was married in *eter—How shall we reach the mass Reason ’ was put into her hands, but
1864 to Louis, Count d’Eu, son of the p 8 ?’ How such a question shrinks to that the more she read it the more
duke of Nemours. The Princess Isa- 'J 3 proper proportions when quoted by dark and distressed she felt, and she
bella acted as regent during her fath- tlie side of the majestic words of the threw the book in the fire. ‘I wish
er’s visit to Europe in 1872-73, and is faster, deep and grand: ‘ Go ye out all had done as you, he replied • ‘ for
now acting in the same capacity dur- i n t° the highways and hedges and it the devil has ever had any agency in
mg Dom Pedro’s visit to this country, compel them to come in, that my any work, he has had it in mywritim?
Dom Pedro was made a correspond- house may be filled. ’” that book.’ When going to carry him
mg member of the French academy in Whittle and Bliss and their meth- some refreshments, she repeatedly
187 8 - pds do not appear “ altogether lovely ” heard him uttering the language, ‘ Oh,
English Estates in tl J e ej es of a Selma Baptist corres Bord,’ ‘ Lord God,’ or * Lord Jesus
gusn Jisxates. I pondent of the Atlanta Index and I ha ve mercy upon me.’”
Thus the poor infidel, M'retched in
>dy and mind, received at the last
„ n j AO -aa | » *iui. participating: I Ris °my ministrations of comfort from
and 42,500 oum 100 acres and up- I have attended two services. The hands prompted by hearts filled with
wards, one-third of the land is held first was ‘Bible exercise.’ Ruth was the Io ve of the Lord Jesus, whom he
oy people who own less than 5001 expounded as the ‘book of redemn- had denied and reviled.—N Y TV/,
acres, and the rest belongs to the great I tion.’ The interpretation was far- ^imc.
hereditary estates. This showing is not fetched and fanciful; the type was 77
s .° bad as the general representation, confounded with the illustration. The V k0 ^. 60R Merriman prophesies
Actually, one person in twenty in doctrine was sound and apparently I „ m, 11 ? te “. thousand years the
England b a landholder. Thus, in I earnest. Second service u-as held t<> j CeaU W1 be rolling one thousand feet
spite of the vast estates held by single I night; singing and sermon on Cain ° VGr An ? enca > and that a beauti-
proprietors, tlie proportion of people and Abel. The exposition was good fu “ ew continent will appear in the
Mho have a proprietary interest in the but conjectural. The whole service I soathern hemisphere. This is very
oWnH qUlte p°u J. ar SC “s itisin Massa- was a sort of religious drama- with sa \ C01ni . n S 88 11 does when many of
Islaild - H is true scenery and costume it would’ have u 8 haVG Just got settIe d in our new
that sixty-eight men own about forty been very like a real theatrical n Jr. homes ‘
per cent, of the land of Scotland, but I formance. Are such exhibitions o$he a r- " ’ ~
and^lSOATi^ 132 ’ 000 kndholders, gospel lawful and expedient? One 1 is f a s™ h business af *
and 130,471 own an average of over reminded of the ‘miracles and mvsie. ?*** W f J be first “"portance to any
ten acres. One householder in every ries ’ once invoked by Romanism 'and * armer> A reputation for being a
three owns the • I .v - ^ “j xwomanisra. and "rower r.f • P
. Lo l uis Republican is respon
se for this story: An intelligent and
& I Ju 0b8erv “ g , woman » u P° n whose
head the snows of age are lightly drift-
three owns the house lie occupies and
the land it stands on, though one man
owns an estate of 1,176,459 acres.
The accumulation of such enormous
estates would be far less objectionable
were they well cultivated and turned
to the public advantage. But in most
cases only a small portion of the land
is cultivated, while the rest is left
wild or turned into parks and game
preserves. The average rental on
land in England, according to the
lxrndon Times, is about one-thirtieth
of ite value, which is less than is gen-
orally charged for it in our eastern
and middle states. ,
the use ot pictures, Statuary and eruci- *“ lUwrda ?» fruit ls worth as
fixes still employed by th'at church.
We may look out for the day when the
scenes of the crucifixion, dramatized by
Longfellow and others, will be em
ployed to present the gospel in real
theatricals. I do not, as yet, comprc-
hend the animus of those evangelists.
Mr. Bliss sings with great pathetic and
expressions effect. Whether the pa-
thos is animal or spiritual I can not
teU, possibly a commingling of both.
There is, to me, a painful absence of
solemnity and awe. The preacher, Mr.
Whittle, appears candid, frank and
aonest; the singer fervent. His eye!
~ 1 ao nunu us
much, yea more, than the crop itself,
it such a comparison is permissible.
A fanner noted for growing fine fruit
and for putting up nothing but fine
trait for the market is ala-ays in mar
ket at highest rates. Indeed, the mar
ket seeks him and pays him a bounty
for his care and honesty. A good rep
utation is a good thing. A farmer
who grows fine w-ool and cleanses it in
the most thorough manner, and offers
nothing but fine wool, is known among
all manufacturers through their agents,
and his product is worth a premium.
Mis reputation makes a market at his
door.—Detroit Tribune.