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‘I don’t know but what you’re right, for—’
‘It’s jest as black as a pile of cats, and the s
ar mounting aren t ther satest place ter be er ^ on g lie j n motion by relating the wonderful
travellin’ when yer can ’t see yer hand before yer j Btory . r ' Curtiss was also called a>vay for a time,
face, I kin tell yer.. to make arrangements for their future journey
But he could net have remained without in- i aIlC e, and he secured the ready assistance of
terfering had notthe caravan of travellers, whose | powerlul capitalists, a His nndertakihgs had
coming he had. predicted, at that moment ar- c i,i e fly relation to the Spanish and Portuguese
rived, giving him lull opportunity ot keeping j C0T , ritr i e s, in wiik:h he ultimately exercised grea
THE PLEDGE PURSE.
‘That must be so
‘Bersides, I’ve er nuther fancy in my head,
and that is, that we’ll have company mighty
early in tner mornin’, that it’ll be well ter stay
, and attend ter.’
‘Not Indians?’ asked the woman, fearluliy.
‘No, marm, but somebody that may help us
er long on our Journey. That is, el yer don t
calkerlate ter become squatters here fer life.’
‘Most frequently, I pray so,’ answered Cur
tiss. ‘How we are to get away trom here has
been my greatest anxiety—next to the loss, of
my darling. But what makes you think so?
‘Wal, as I whar er cornin’ down ther hills, I
saw—ef I haint most mightily mistaken, and I
arrangements
In this he was successful, and on his return the
little camp was speedily deserted, and they
were all once more ‘ Westward Ho !’
It was some time, however, before the mys
tery of how and why the wolf-woman came wan
dering in the mountains was explained, and
then it was related by her to Buffalo-Hoof, and
by him to the eager listeners around the camp
fire.
How she first came among the Indians she
could remember but little. Something of beiDg
saved from death, she told—saved by the Great
Medicine of the tribe, and by him adopted as a
daughter, and taught all that he himself knew.
And thus she had remained until within a short
influence. He was well known to foreign exiles
' and was much cQurted by Prince Louis Napo-
j leon, but Goldsmid was not allured by the
' blandishments of the prince, and declined to
assist him in his schemes.
| A great principle with Mr. Goldsmid in his
foreign loans was to obtain a specific fund as
security. This he carried out in his loans to
Portugal, Brazil and Turkey, and the success of
his operations was greatly owing to this arrange
ment. He received the Order of the Tower and
ET EMMA GARRISON JONES.
Sword of Portugal, and the Prime Minister of
that country subsequently gave him the title of
Baron, the estate oi Pulmeira, to which it is at
tached, having been purchased for him. He
cared little for the titles himself, and his ambi
tion was satisfied by an Engilsh baronetcy; but
he considered it useful for the Jews to add an-
, . , ... , „ - p* --— : ... i other patent of nobility to those already held by
light of erbout er ball er doz P , ” protector had died, and, in order to save herself | j ew i s h families on the continent. A succession
a hull lot of men and crit eis er roun • from being the wife ol one she both detested to g aron y was secured to his eldest son, Sir
‘Then, inaeed we can see our way out ol all aD{ j f eare fl t s he had fled, disguised herself, and, | p ranc j s Goldsmid.
onr trouble. , . , .. . j adopting the character of a witch-woman—being | gj r j saac Goldsmid was offered the agencv
•There can be no doubt about that ar, and, as j perfectly f.. miliar with the snperstition-she , of the BrazilirtD Government for the payment
we all seem ter be tired, I reckon we had better |j a( j detection. Something (it must have - -- - - * ~ -
turn in, so as to be ready fer an arly start. been ‘ natur,’ as the trapper interpreted the
„ Good advice, and such as chimed well with j rec jf R i) drew her to the side of Lowell after she
hain't apt ter be erbout sich things—I saw the J n ate previous to her having been rescued. Her
their feelings, and very soon the fire was extin
gnished anu ah was silence. And so it remain
ed till dawn. Then a hasty breaklast was swal
lowed, and one of the teamsters and the trap
per were about to set out in quest of Lowell and
the Indian, while the other was to remain with
Curtiss, and welcome the strangers, whom they
could all now see, coming towards them—a long
t ra i n when they heard a shout above their
heads, and looking up, they saw Buffalo-Hoof
descending with the wolf-woman in his arms,
and hers twined around his neck, while the
white man followed slowly alter.
•By the Big Beaver!' shouted the trapper,
•q^ar they come, now,—the hull kit and boodle
on ’em—Indian, paleface, wolf-devil and all!
There were no others, however, who gave ex
pression to their thoughts—they were too much
interested in the solution of the mystery for that,
and the time seemed so long before they saw
Buffalo-Hoof come stalking proudly into the
camp.
‘One would think yer had brought er she
angel in the place of a she devil, by ther
way yer hold up yer head,’ blurted out the
trapper.
‘So I have.’ replied the Indian, and walking
straight to Mrs. Curtiss, he laid his burden at
her feet, and slipped the shaggy covering from
her shoulder.
‘My God !’ exclaimed the poor woman, nearly
wild with hope, ‘My God ! Her flesh is white!"
‘And there is the arrow—the totem of tkeDa-
cotahs, that Buffalo-Hoof stamped there ten
long years ago !’
‘My dangtiter! my long lest daughter !’ and
the mother lell weeping upon the neck of her
strangely-discovered child.
CHAPTER XI.
THE CLUE TO THE MYSTERY
Had a fire-brand been thrown into the little
camp—a-bolt of lightning fallen—a mine explo
ded, or a band of Indnns painted and armed for
murder, rushed down from the rocks upon them,
it could not have produced more of a panic than
the announcement of the Indian and the excla
mation of the overjoyed mother. But next to
the parents the excitement of the trapper was
the greatest. He knew- not what to say or how
to act. His terrible wolf-woman—devil, every
thing that was feariul and dangerous, to turn
out a simple girl, and one of while blood at that,
was more than he could bear, and as soon as
possible he called the Indian aside to learn from
him what it could mean.
“Few winters ago,” said Buffalo-Hoof, “the
daughter ot the pale lace was stolen, though we
all thought her dead. Now she has been found.”
“And is that all?” asked Fisher, sadly disap
pointed.
‘All that I know now,’ was the reply; and Buf
falo-Hoof again returned to the side of the res
cued girl, seeing that she was tearing herself
away lrom the parental arms, looking wildly
about, and evidently premeditating escape.
His presence was indeed necessary. The girl
had entirely lorgotten the language of her early
days, and Jmew no other but that of the red
man. Do what they would, she could not be
brought to submit to their embraces, or approach
them without fear.
‘For Heaven’s sake,’ implored the poor moth
er—all of her recent joy being buried in anguish
at the thought of her being disowned after so
many years of mourning—• for Heaven’s sake,
Buffalo-Hoof, tell her w ho 1 am !’
‘I have,’ replied the Indian, sadly; ‘unless you
can bring her memory back to the time when
you held her in your arms, she will never look
upon you except as a stranger.’
‘Merciful Bowers ! Is this—must this be so ?’
Tell her again.’
The Indian did as he was requested. He talk
ed long and earnestly, but without avail. She
would have nothing to do with any of white
blood, except only Lowell, and even ot him she
was very shy. Insisting that she was the child
of the red man—that her name was She-de-ah,
or Wild-Sage—that she had never dwelt away
from the wild prairies and wilder mountains,
the Indian saw what a difficult task was before
them to convince her to the contrary. Various
artifices he tried, but without effect. Her large
black eyes flashed wildly—her hands were
clenched, and her lips compressed, when any
other than Buffalo-Hoof addressed her.
At length, however, accident accomplished
what skill and study failed to do. The poor
half-distracted mother had taken her youngest
child into her lap, and while pressing it to her
heart and scarcely conscious of what she was
doing, her lips moved with song. Instantly the
attention of the giri was arrested. The fierce,
wild light began slowly to disappear from her
eyes—she crept forward and listened earnestly.
‘ Sing on,’ whispered the Indian, ‘sing some
thing she used to hear in early days.”
‘This was her cradle song,’ was tlie reply.
‘ I have sung it to her thousands of times,’ and
she commenced again and sang the simple
strain over and over.
It was like the first dawning of intellect in a
child, or the awakening from a long trance.
All were satisfied tLat recollection was turning
—but ah ! how slow ly—that over the long waste
of years, these of her childhood were beginning
to assert their power. An hour passed, and
then her own lips moved and took up the tune.
Then the Indian again whispered:
‘ Hold out your hands and call her by name.’
had accidentally discovered him, and a strange
de6ire to have a companion had induced her to
carry off her little sister. Of the serpent and
wolft that had been found in the cave, the first,
she said, was a harmless one that had been
trained by the Medicine, and the latter was a
cub she found nearly starved, and had kept it
to carry out her character, and also to warn her
if any one approached.
‘.Jest ask her, Bnffale-Huff,’ said Fisher, ‘how
she managed to get up and down the mountings
so quick, when it took us so long a time.’
‘That was easy enough, when one knew the
paths,’ was the half-laughing reply.
The Indian had told her all about the fears of
the trapper, and it was fun to her to learn how
much he had stood in awe of her—a simple
girl.
‘And ask her ergin,’ he said, ‘how it happened
that I came to miss her arter takin’ good aim,
and with silver bullets at thaij?’
That was beyond her power; butLowell solved
the mystery by explaining that the shot was a
long one, and the slugs scattered.
Every evening the subject was renewed, and
the poor girl tormented with suspicions. Her
manner of living, too. had to be told over and
over again, simple as it might appear to one
having any knowledge of Indian life, and how
skillful the girls were in snaring game.
But there was one thing more difficult than
all, and that was to teach her the language of her
fathers. This, as the one being the best educa
ted, devolved upon Lowell; and, truth to tel!,
he was a fond teacher, and she an apt scholar.
By degrees she learned, and at the same time
both learned another lesson far more easy, for it
sprang directly from the heart.
‘It war all according to natur,’ said the trap
per, when, three years after, the fairest bride
I was given away that ever stood upon the banks
of the Oregon.
All the dark olive—the taint of sun and wind 1
—had disappeared, and nothing save the grace j
of motion, the jetty hair, and midnight eyes re- i
muined of the once wolf-woman.
I of the dividends. He shared the agency with
his friends Alderman Thompson, M.P., and
j Messrs. T. and V. King. He became also a
! member oi tL^ South American Bondholders’
j Committee, ar: * Chairman of the Mexican Bond-
| holders. Id 1810, he joined Messrs. Rothschild
in the £8,000,000 famine loan; he was frequent
ly consulted on financial matters by the Treas
ury Ministers and Chancellors of the Exchequer
of both parties in Parliament, and he received
many marks of their esteem.
The fact of the Turkish Embassy occupying
a house in Bryanston Square, belonging to
Baron de Goldsmid, brought him into contact
with the Turkish functionaries. According to
their laws, Mussulmans may eat at the table ot
a Jew, though not at that of a Christian. A
friendship was established between the Baron
and the Turkish Ambassador, which the former
used as a means ot exercising a beneficial in-
i fluence in lavor of the Jews of Turkey. He was
“George, dear,” said Mrs, Prescott, looking up
from her basket of mending, as she and her hus- !
band sat by their fire-side one winter night. “ has j
it ever occurred to you that it is time our boys ;
were signing the pledge ?”
Mr. Prescott tossed aside his paper with a !
laugh.
“ There you go, my dear ; and I *reallyexpected j
it. The wonder is you haven’t caught the fever
sooner.”
“ What fever, George?”
“ Why. this temperance fever that seems to be
crazing everybody just now. The town’s full of
it ; every second man I meet wears a gay rosette
in his button-hole, and every church is converted
into a temperance hall ; but the thing won’t last—
such spasmodic movements never do.”
11 is wife’s bright eyes grew wistful, and a cloud
crossed her pretty, fresh face. She was a happy
little woman, the mother of three promising boys,
always busy and full of plans for the comfort of
her family.
“ It is a good movement, George,” she continu
ed. “ i trust it will be more lasting than you
think; and it would,” she added, with spirit, “ if
the known men of the town, the strong, reliable
men like yourself, George, would take hold o fit.”
“ Much obliged for the compliment, my love,”
laughed her husband; “but L don’t think I’m in
any danger of becoming a drunkard.”
“ Nor do I, George, but you are not a tempe
rance man, and there’s always danger in having
aught to do with sin.”
“Why, Lizzie, how much in earnest you seem-
You’ve caught the fever without doubt. You al
ways had a weakuess for running after fashions-
But really, child, I’m in no danger. I’m not a
total abstinence man, I’ll admit; ever since I can
remember I've had my drink or two a day, but 1
never was intoxicated in my life, and I never ex
pect to be.”
“I trust, not, George, but you have sons, and
“8ay nothing, George. I kept my pledge-purse
for an hour of need, and that hour has come.
Pay the note that troubles you, dear, and then
get well and stiong at your leisure.”
Her husband was silent, but the three hoys
leaped to their feet, and shouted, “ Hurrah for the
pledge 1” until the room rang.
RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
Non-Sectarian—All Churches and all
Creeds.
ri ♦ t ui -j finnn whuu he ! t ‘ iere s 110 telliug into what errors your example
asked to give aid to Turkish finances, when he ,? J F
contracted tor the first open European loan, I ^ e a hen V .
taking a specific security for the interest and | ‘ ' V h ?< L '^- r do y° u mean t0 sa y 1 set
redemption of the debt. As a reward for his a bad example.
THE END.
Jewish Princes of Finance,
' Mattie.
The name, so long unspoken, caused even the
the mother to thrill as she repeated it,
and the effect upon her to whom it of right be
longed was truly wonderful.
‘Mattie, darling, won’t you come to me?’
But still she stood, uncertain, although her
manner had entirely changed. Again and yet
£ gal j* A 6 ? ame ., w , as repeated. Then tears
flooded the beautiful eyes-the stone was rolled
away from the door of memory—she was a child
again, and fliDging herself upon the ground by
the side of her parent, she murmured-
‘ O-gee-moi! O-gee-moi!’
. “ otber ,! My mother 1’ interpreted Buf
falo-Hoof, and from that hour nothing could
part them.
‘ May ther Lord be thanked !’ burst with sol
emn earnestness from the lipB of the trapper
, T*bo stood—wonderful, as it seemed to all—a
silent spectator, and trembling with anxiety.
IV.—SIR ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID.
ilc-n in f prominent position ’n thfc financial
world justly inspire interest among their con
temporaries. Success in obtaining and accu
mulating money commands onr sympathy, be
cause it is an object we are all desirous of
achieving; but trie annals ol money-making
800n weary, and the mere capitalist is speedily
consigned to oblivion. In Sir Isaac Lyon Gold
smid, Bart., Baron Goldsmid and Da Palmeira
we behold a man far above the range of mere
gatherers of gold; he was endowed with a high
order of intellect, and his name will for ever be
associated with some noble institutions which
to a great extent he called into existence. He
first saw the light in London on the 13th Jan
uary, 1778, and was the eldest son of Asher
Goldsmid and nephew of Benjamin and Abra
ham Goldsmid. He received his education at
a good English school in Finsbury Square,
under Dr. Hamilton, where he acquired a fair
knowledge of classics and mathematics. In his
studies and in the formation of his character he
was greatly influenced by his mother, Rachel,
daughter of Alexander Keyser, and a woman of
noble disposition. His liberal studies did not
end with his school days, but he pursued a
regular course of instruction, which may be
said to have lasted until the latter part of his
life. He was well versed in Hebrew; he took
great interest in the higher branches of philoso
phy, and he bestowed particular attention on I
political science. His financial training in the
technicalities of his father’s business and in
the operations of his uncles, gave him a sound
practical knowledge of facts on many abstruse
points of currency; and afterwards his associa
tion with David Ricardo made him familiar
with the theory of the leading questions of
political economy. |
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid became in due course a j
partner in the firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid, ;
bullion brokers to the Bank of England and to i
the East India Company. Only twelve Jewish !
brokers were then allowed in the City of Lon- !
don, and to be one of them was worth a fortune. !
In youth he speculated on the Stock-Exchange
but was not fortunate, on one occasion losing !
£10,000. He seems after this event to have :
avoided mere speculation, and contented him
self with steady business as a jobber, adding
thus regularly to his capital. In time various
inheritances fell to him, but bis large fortune
was chiefly formed by his own exertions. He
married in 1804 his cousin Isabel, his uncle
Abraham’s second daughter, a choice which
resulted in happiness. He lived moderately
himself, but at the houses of his uncles he met
more nobles and princes than any son of Israel
had ever gathered under his roof in this coun
try before, and perhaps since. As we have al
ready said the munificence and liberality of the
Goldsmid family were proverbial.
Early in the century he took interest in the
promotion of several projects for public im
provements, and among these we may name
such varied undertakings as the Croydon and
Merstham railroad, the London Institution, and
the London docks. He was greatly concerned
in negro emancipation,fin Mrs. Fry’s prison
schemes, and he was a devoted advocate of the
cause of education. He was the friend of
Brougham, James Mill, and the most eminent
educationist in the country, and he even became
interested in the plans of Robert Owen, by
whose well meaning and disinterested exertions
he was much impressed. He used strenuous
efforts for the restriction of capital punishment,
until the barbarous penalty of death lor forgery
and theft was finally abolished. In the crisis
following the mania of 1824, he met with some
losses, as at this time he was connected with
various joint-stock undertakings. The Conti
nental Gas Company owes much of its eventual
success to Mr. Goldsmid’s indefatigable exer
tions and skill while a member of the Direction.
The liberation of South American States led
to many financial transactions, in which he took
small part at first, but which afterwards gave
him scope for the extension of his fortune and
reputation. In course of time he began to carry
out a series of operations of the greatest import-
I services, the Order of the Medjidie was confer
red upon bin; by the Sultan. When he reached
I the age of sixty^ he retired from active oocupa-
I tions, and travelled on the continent with his
| family, making over the bullion business to his
; youDger son. On his return from abroad,
| Baron de Goldsmid was drawn into a variety of
j transactions, .each of which was of considerable
• extent. As iears rolled on, he further closed
j his operatjGss, and made important invest-
! wents in land and consols, instead of foreign
j securities. During his life he was beset by
! schemes too numerous to mention, and he was
I more importuned by projectors than an editor
j is by intending contributors. In his closing
; years he was haunted by strange delusions, and
I he died in 1859, at the advanced age of 81.
i It would be impossible to do justice to the
j character ot a man like Sir Isaac Lyon Gold
smid within the brief limits ol this journal,
j He was not only a great financier; he was really
■ a philanthropist and a benefactor of mankind,
j He infused practical spirit into his charity;
i his subscriptions to institutions were not
| heavy; he preferred selecting a field of exer
tions’ for himself, in which he could do more
j than merely sign a cheque. One of the first
( charities with which he was connected was
j the London Hospital; for many years he
I collected together at the annual festival a
, i. uiiilitir**; flU! guests and a handsome
! list ol donations. He contributed to all
I Jewish charities, but the Jews’ Hospital and
J the Jews’ Infant Schools were his especial
| favorites. One of the greatest works ot
; his life was the foundation of the University Col
lege, originallv called the University ol Lon-
j don. When lack of cash had stopped the build-
! ings of the College. Mr. Goldsmid induced Mr.
Martin Tucker Smith and another friend to join
him in a guarantee of £40,000 each to find the
remaining funds. His wealth was not enormous
at that time, and indeed it was a noble effort on
his part. He also took an active interest in the
well known Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge. In private charity, his good works
were felt without being seen. He administered
quietly and unostentatiously to the wants of
many, and he was happy if he succeeded in ob
taining permanent employment lor those whom
he desired to help.
Baron de fioldsmit was one of the most earn
est worker, .n the cause of Jewish Emancipa
tion. He struggled and strove for years in its
behalf, he used his personal influence in its fa
vor, and it is difficult to estimate how much his
unwearied exertions conduced to its final tri
umph. We may say, in conclusion, that his
great wealth was well known, while his intellect
ual gifts were little understood. Wealth was the
least of his titles to public respect and admira
tion.
Familiar Quotations.
“The sione that is rolling can gather no moss.”
Tusser.
“All’s fish they get, that cometh to net.”—
Tusser.
“A man’s house is his castle.”—Coke.
“Corporations have no souls.”—Coke.
“He had a face like a benediction.”—Cervan
tes.
“Every one is the son of his own works.”—
Cervantes.
“There is an end of it.”—Cervantes.
“Every one is as God made him, and often
times a great deal worse.”—Cervantes.
“Now, blessings light on him that first in
vented site!'.”—Cervantes.
“Don’t put too fine a point to your wit for
fear it shouM get blunted.”—Cervantes.
Edmund Spenser—“The noblest mind the
best contentment has.
“A bold, bad man.”
“As the great eye of heaven shined bright.”
“And is there care in heaven?”
“To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares.”
Raleigh—“If all the world and love were
young.” ^
The New York Home Journal announces in its
Society Columns all engagements in high life.
Wishing to keep up with the times, and to make a
live paper, we proposed to do the same, but find
our Atlanta jiancees and fiances strenuously object,
pleading that there’s many a slip between the cup
and the^lip. We are led to believe they wish to
leave a loop for slipping the noose, if they take a
fancy to before it is tightened into the knot hyme
neal. Doubtless, also, they have more than one
string to their bow, and if one of these should be
publicly sounded, the other might be heard from
privately in a way that might produce a discord.
We know this to be the case with one fiance, who
has a very delicate ear for harmony and goes into
fits over a discord.
Mr. S. Ono, a Japanese medical student now
in Philadelphia, delivered on March 6, a lec
ture in the First Presbyterian Church of North
ern LibeftSfis, on the introduction and develop
ment of Christianity in Japan. The lecture was
delivered in the Japanese language, and inter
preted to the audience by Dr. J. C. Berry, of
Bath, Me.
The churohes at Borne are—the Waldensian,
the Free Church, the Baptist, the Methodist,
the American Southern Baptist and the “Breth
ren,’ ‘ in all seven.
■ No, George, there never was a better hus
band and father than you are, but you teach your
boys to drink intoxicating liquors. We have wine
on the table occasionally, and almost every morn
ing the boys have their toddy. ”
“ And you have always mixed the beverage, my
dear, and shared it around to us.”
“ I know it, George, but I shall never do it
again. In the first place, it is a waste of money.
The liquor used in this house costs every cent of a
dollar a week.”
“ That's not much, Lizzie.”
“No; but it counts up. And how much does
your private drinking amount to, do you suppose?”
“ Bless ir.y soul, Lizzie, what has come over
you ? Ten cents sometimes, never more than a
quarter.”
“ Each day ?”
“ Yes. You don’t grudge me that trifling
amount, do you?”
“ I grudge you nothing, George, that will make
you and your boys happy,” cried his wife, her
eyes filling with tears ; “ but I wish you could see
this matter as I do. Let me give you an illustra
tion. The Ashford boys were here an evening or
go ago, and they wore their blue temperance
badges on their jackets.
“ ‘ Larry, why don’t you fellows sign the
pledge? It is so awfully jolly,” said one of them.
“ Our Lawrence laughed, just as you laughed
at me a uiiuiue ago, Geoige. He is bis father's
own son,’ my handsome Larry, anu it would break
my heart to see him do wrong.
“ ‘ It’s jollier to drink your social glass, and
have your hot toddy when you feel dull,’ he re
plied. ‘ My father thinks the pledge a humbug,
and so do I.’ ”
“ Did Larry say that ?” asked Mr. Prescott.
“Those were his words, George, and they cut
me to the heart. Now, husband, you have never
denied me anything since the day you made me
your Phappy wife—don’t deny me this. Let’s
banish all sorts of intoxicating drink from our
house, and do you take your boys by the hand
and make them sign the pledge. As their father
does they will do willingly.” And the little wo.
man put by her sewing, and crossing to her hus
band’s chair, took his head in her two hands, and
laid her cheek against his face. “ Now, George,
dear, surely you’ll not say no to me for the first
time, will you ?”
There was silence for a minute, and then the
husband drew the pretty faee down and kissed it.
“ I couldn't say no, Lizzie, if I wanted,” he
said. “No man could withstand such a witch as
Thirty American Bishops will attend the sec
ond Pan-Anglican Synod, to be held in London,
| in Jane.
St. Bartholomew’s Chnrch, in New York City,
cost about $400,000. It was recently dedicated
free of debt.
! Mr, L. H. Eaton has served for thirty years aa
superintendent of a Brptist Sunday-school at
Alleghany, Penn., and is still at his post.
It is announced in the English papers that
the Rev. George Whitfield, D. D., has beeD re
ceived into the Roman Catholic Church in Eng
land.
Seventy years ago there was but one Lutheran
church in France, and that was in Paris. There
are now ten churches in that country; with 13
ministers.
The debt of the Rutgers Presbyterian church,
New York City, of $40,000 has been paid. The
principal contributor was a lady who had freed
other churches from debt.
Revivals are progressing in the Indian Territo
ry, and quite a number of old men and women
of the Indian tribe have united with the church,
causing great rejoicing among the Christians
there.
During the ten years of its existence, the Brit-
ish-American Book and Tract Society, of Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, has employed seventy colpor
teurs. Their aggregate time-of service has been
ninety-six years.
The Pope, on receiving parish priests, recom
mend them to preach Jesus Christ, his life and
teachings, and to guard their flocks against the
infidelity and immorality so generally prevail
ing, the result of a corrupt press.
Rev. Charles Phillips, of the Methodist Epis
copal Conference, N. C., and with him his wife
and one or more children, was drowned recent
ly while attempting to cross the swollen water
of the Uwarrie River, near Charlotte.
A Union Missionary Conference has been held
at Abai, Mount Lebanon, in which most of the
Protestant missions in Syria were represented.
There were present 37 native Syrian delegates,
and 4 British and 10 American missionaries.
Rev. Dr. John Brown, rector of St. George’s
Protestant Episcopal Church, Newburg, since
Dec 24th, I8L5, has resigned, owing to the in
firmities of age, and been elected Rector Emeri
tus. Dr. Brown is in his 87th year.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church has in
Texas four synods, seventeen presbyteries, two
hundred and five ordained ministers, and about
one hundred and fifty licentiates and candidates
for the ministry, and about 20,000 church mem
bers.
The Educational Commission of Texas has se
cured the services of Elder J. B. Link, editor
of the Texas Baptist Herald, to take the Gener
al Agency to secure the sum of $250,000 for the
endowment of a Central University for the
State.
The Swedish and Norwegian governments are
having erected a very imposing-edifice at Pensa
cola for a seaman’s bethel or church. It is a
large building, and very substantial!}' built, and
has a reading room in front connecting with the
church.
you are.
On the following day Mr. Prescott and his three
sons signed the pledge, and the boys took great
pride in their gay badges.
Intoxicating drinks were banished from their
home, and no one seemed to be one whit the worse
for it. If the boys had a cold their mother ad
ministered hot mullein tea, and she found the
remedy even more efficient than the toddies used
to he. The boys seemed more speedily relieved,
and had fewer attacks.
Three years went by. Times were hard, and
money searce, and Mr. Prescott’s business was
dull. To make matters worse, he had a long spell
of sickness, and a heavy doctor’s bill.
“ 1 can’t see my way out of it,” he remarked
sitting in his arm-chair, one evening, his pale
face seamed with lines of care, “ the building as
sociation stock will have to go, and I do hate that
tremendously.”
“What is it, George, dear? Maybe I can help
you.”
The sick man smiled at the little wife, ever so
ready with her help.
“ No, dear, y»u can’t help me in this; I wish
you could,” he said. “ It is a note, which must
be paid before the tenth.”
And to-day is the eighth. What is the amount,
George ?
“ Three hundred and fifry dollars, and 1 have
not fifty to spare. If it hadn't been for this con
founded fever—”
“ Hush, my love. Wait till I bring my pledge-
purse,” and his wife darted from the room.
In two minutes she was back, a heavy purse in
her hand.
“This is my pledge-purse, George.”
“ Your pledge-purse? What do you mean?”
“Why, you see,” and the little woman’s face
fairly glowed as her boys left their lessons and
crowded round her, eager to hear, “ the day you
and the boys signed the pledge, George, I made
this purse, and called it my pledge-purse. Every
day 1 have put in ten conts, and every week a
dollar, because that much used to go for nasty, in
toxicating drink, that did my boys and their fath
er more harm than good. Sometimes, when I
had a little spare change, I threw that in too.
Larry, my boy, sit down by your father and count
over the contents. I hope there may be enough
to pay that troublesome note.”
Larry obeyed with alacrity, his father looking
on with eager eyes as he assorted the dollar-notes
and piled up the quarters and dimes. When all
was told, the amount was four hundred and six
ty-five dollars.
Mr. Prescott looked at his wife, and his eyes
filled with tears.
“ Why, Lizzie—why, little wife, what can I say?”
lie began.
She caught his head to her bosom.
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