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V Continued from 2d. page. ‘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. Quinine and arsenic form the basis of many of the A"ue remedies in the market, and are the last resort of physicians and people who know no better medicine to employ for this distressing complaint. The effects of either of these drills are destructive to the system, pro ducing headache, intestinal disorders, vertigo, dizziness, ringing of the ears, and depression of the constitutional health. Ayer’s Ague Cure is a vegetable discovery, con taining neither quinine, arsenic, nor any deleterious in gredient, and is an infallible and rapid cure for every form of Fever and Ague. Its effects are permanent and cer tain, and no injury can result from its use. Besides being a positive cure for Fever and Ague in all its forms, it is aso a superior remedy for Liver Complaints. It is an elcellent tonic and preventive, as well as a cure, of all complaints peculiar to malarious, marshy and miasmatic districts. 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