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In Memoriam.
Mrs. S. R. McKee, died at the resi
dence of her husband, Dr. J. A. Mc
Kee, in this city, on Tuesday the 26th
inst., in her 80th year.
In early life, and when she was
quite young, she felt it was her duty
to devote her lile and services to the
advancement of the Christian religion
among all with whom she might come in
contact. To this end she gave her
time and attention to such duties in
her school days as would most effec
tually qualify her for the duties which
God in his Providence had called her
to perform.
Circumstances, no doubt Providen
tial, called her from her native home
in Massachusetts, to what was then
considered the western frontier of this
country, And at Hanover, Ind., she
took charge ot, and conducted a high
school for young ladies, in which en
terprise she was eminently successful,
and many aged and Christian women
ot that country remember her faithful
services, picus walk, and godly life,
with veneration and respect. While
thus engaged, she made the acquain
tance of her husband, who was a
student in Hanover College at the
time, and, who, influenced by the
like motives and purposes, had en
tered upon his studies for the purpose
of entering the ministry, under the
auspices and guidance of the Presbyte
rian church. There was a harmony of
intention and purpose between ihese
two young people. They had like
motives, feel.ngs and purposes, and
drawn to each other by an affinity
which the writer thinks was heaven-
born, they were united in marriage,
and for half a century they have
walked side by side through prosperi
ty and adversity at various places and
under varying circumstances.
And wherever and whenever the
dental; and-'instruction to the you!
and consecration to his service, she
was always foremost in the work. Her
death was peaceful and pleasant, there
was no struggle. She went into the
arms of Jesus, her savior, like a child
would go into the arms of a loving
mother, and calmly and peacefully,
and with a Christian fortitude and
calmnpss which) challenges the admi
ration of the world, she took her de
parture for the skies, escorted by
angels and heavenly messengers to
the mansion prepared for her.
We shall see her no more with our
mortal £yes. She has gone from her
place in the earth to the higher realms
of immortality. She is lost to the
church, to the missionary society, to
husband, home and friends. But she
is to-day experiencing jn her heavenly
home what the apostle meant, when
he said: "We know not what we shall
be, but when we shall see Him, we
shall be like Him, for we shall see
Him as He is.”
It was on the outer lines' of advanc
ing civilization, shedding its rays of
beneficent Christian light over the
waste places, that she did her most
effective work. Plain and unpreten
tious, she contributed to the develop
ment of the country and the perma
nent establishment of society upon a
Christian basis. Her duties to the
church were never neglected nor
evaded, and in her private life she ex
emplified the beautiful virtues of her
religion. With a faith that never
faltered nor grew dim, she met death.
It had no terrors for her. She crossed
the river in the arms of her loving
Savior, and met the great Judge with
a conscience void of offense towards
God and man. She left life without a
blot or stain to mar its fair page, and
in every relation of lile, proved her
self a true, sincere and Christian wo
man.
"All along the pathway of her life
are scattered the jewels of charity,
that will finally be gathered home by
the angels in eternity.” As a neigh
bor, she was always kind; as a friend,
always true; and as a wife, very de
voted. Next to her God she loved her
husband. Her life was great, her
death sublime.
A Friend.
Bainbridge Democrat please copy.
• (Written for the Times.)
People and Things in New York.
Since Mrs. Bryan's return from the
South, last Thursday, pressing de
mands upon her time haye constrained
her to deny herself to people. It has
been my good fortune, however, to
meet her twice during that time. Once
at her home, I found her writing up
her trip to Florida, Thomasville and
Atlanta. She had then only three
days to prepare a volume, as it were,
of manuscript for the next issue of
her magazine, for Mr. Munroe hadde
dined to accept a line from any one
in her stead. Her pliant tempera
ment seems impurturbable in encoun-
terment with the mountain of work
before her, which, as fast as she di
minishes it, rises up again, like the
gifts of fairies, in the good old times
that come again no more.
And yet, no gifts 0/ the gods them
selves, is better than the privilege of
pursuing with enthusiasm a congenial
occupation. No person is more mis
erable than one whose ‘ occupation’s
gone,” excepting one who has never
found the niche that he should fill.
Although literature is a severe task
master, many rewards and joys of it
have been showered upon Mrs. Bryan.
Think of writing a complete novel
every three months besides editorials
and other articles innumerable; and
imagine what it is to create so many
characters, almost simultaneously;
that you must have a compositor who
can recollect for you, at any moment,
the color of their hair and eyes, and
helpyou keep their history in proper
shape, chronologically.
Even when a victim of a typo
graphical error, that would appear 10
be naturally annoying, Mrs. Bryan’s
equanimity maintains itself. Laugh
ingly she told ot something she had
written in a very pathetic strain, of
wbjsh; the end was: “And that,, jpight, ...
he went to rest in potters’ field.’’ But above the Delt« apFan** the reign
fate, in the form of the hopeful printer,
made ‘‘the end” much more comforta
ble, "And that night he went to rest in
Trotter’s Hotel.”
In spite of the really great troubles,
also, that have fa'len upon Mrs.
Bryan's life; the darts of pain and care
that have pierced her heart, the sun
shine of her nature seems only to grow
stronger. She is one of those blessed
with the “car of faith” for the voice of
the universe, that "doth impart au
thentic tiding of invisible things; of
ebb and flow, and ever-during power,
and central peace, subsisting at the
heart of endless agitation.”
I met Mrs. Bryan again yesterday at
Mrs. J. C. Croly’s (Jennie Junes),
where a number of ladies gathered to
take preliminary steps towards organ
izing a woman's press club.
Mrs. Croly was suggested as presi
dent. Mrs. Lippincott (Grace Green
wood), as vice-president, Mrs. Bryan
vice-president also. Absolute ap
pointments and important decisions
were deferred until next meeting
Thomasville still has a friend in Dr.
G. Q. Colton, who expects to go down
this winter earlier than usual. He has
recently published “Questions Propos
ed by a Liberal Chiistian Brother,”
which many intellectual persons and
personages are interested in reading.
Indeed, it is noticeable here, how
many great minds find Unitaiianism
more satisfying than other forms of
religion. True religion, absolute
truth, is, of course, always the same,
as divine principle and the cieeds of
men that do differ, cannot make it
variable. All have some insight for it
When men discover a clear under
standing of what they believe them
selves, it is seen that their differences
are more in words and phrazes than
in basic beliefs. One Sunday I went
to the Unitarian church in the morn
ing, and to an Episcopal (old Trinity)
in the afternoon. Bolh sermons were
broad, teaching how to look at life in
a large way. The texts were similar
and similarly treated, on the brother
hood of man, and the power of love.
A few days ago, remembering that
several young ladies of Thomasville
had spoken of entering the training
school for nurses attached to Belle
vue hospital, I visited the school and
hospital. The school is tidy, well
lighted, and not at all uninviting, in
appearance, whereas the buildings that
compose the hospital, being of dark
stone, with iron stair cases on the qut-
side, from floor to floor, like the wards
of prisons, are very somber and dis
mal on the outside, and more so on
the interior. It is well known that
board, uniform, text books and laun-
drying arc furnished to the pupils in
training. But immunity from expense
does not make the labor any less
onerous and stringent. It is a hard
life. The requirements are for those
ot strong constitution and robust
health, for they must study a great
deal with very little lime for it, besides
doing all kinds of work in the wards,
night and day, and for patients of all
sorts and conditions.
Art schools are increasing contin
ually here, and the number of pupils
growing largitr. There are now as
many as 3,000 young people studying
art in this city. They come from all
parts of the union to reach this, the
art center of America.
A larger number than usual come from
the South this year. I will write more
about the schools at some future time.
Alice Jennings.
New York.
Sweden’s Handsome King.
Precisely at noon, says a Stockholm
letter, the sound of military music
was heard from outside the hall, and
we knew that the King had come.
The audience rose and remained
stauding as he came in, bowing to
right and left, followed by the Crown
Prince, the President and Secretary
of the Congress, the Courtmartial and
Adjutants. The involuntary expres
sion which came to every one’s lips
was: ‘‘What a splendid man?” His
handsome, florid face is set ofT by
gray hair and beard, and his broad
shoulders, erect and large figure, well
become his office. Trained at sea, he
has the bearing of a captain who
treads the deck with full confidence
in his own powers of command. He
wore the splendid uniform of an Ad
miral, over it the broad blue sash of
the Order of the Seraphim, stnrs and
decorations in quantity, and immense
gold epaulets. As soon as King
Oscar had put on his eyeglasses he
rose and read in French his address
of welcome—or rather shouted it out
as though he was giving commands
from the bridge in a gale of wind.
A man of fine culture, which seems
to be hereditary in the Bernadotte
family, he is considered the best
speech-maker in his kindom.
Roman Enterprise.
It is curious in how many respects
the boldest works of modern engineer
ing were anticipated by the enterprise
of the ancient Romans. The plans
of checking the inroads of the sea by
plantations of perennial plants was
trjed 2000 years ago on the southern
coast of Spain. B. C. 300, and again
about A. D. 96, rulers of Egypt tried
to connect the Mediterranean and
Red Seas by a canal that seems to
have reached the Nile some 30 miles
of Nero a force of workmen was en
gaged to cut the Isthmus of Corinth
almost exactly along tfie ship canal
which is now approaching completion.
as
signs of a Hard Winter.
The crop of hickory nuts is unusu
ally large, and we must look for a
hard winter. The moss is growing
high on the north side of the trees,
and this forebodes a hard winter. The
corn shuck is quite thick, and this is
another sign 0/ a hard winter. The
goose bone look like a young leopard,
and that means a hard winter. Our
weather predictions are always wrong,
and that meqns a warm winter. Now
pay your money and take yourchoice.
—Salisbury (Mo.) Press-Spectator.
The Evolution of the Trotter.
From the Gnlvestion News.
It is not many years since the qiie.H
tion was asked if the tiotting record
would ever go lower than 2:10, and
there were not many to venture an
affirmative answer. The record has
been reduced to 2:08J, and Senator
Stanford has expressed the opinion
that the wonderful 3-year-old filly
Sunol will reduce the time of Maud
S. by at least four seconds. In this
connection the record of famous trot
ters will be interesting. Flora Tem
ple’s record of2:19| stood for eight
years. Dexter lowered it to 2:181 in
1867. In 1871 Goldsmith Maid
reduced it to 2:17, and three years
later to 2:14. She urns queen of the
turf till 1878, when Rarus trotted in
2:13J St. Julien followed with 2:12J
in 1879 and 2:lljin 1880. Then
came Maud S. with a record ot 2:10J
which she reduced half a second in
1881, lowered to 2:09} in 1884, and
to 2:08J In 1885. No other horse
has over trotted below 2:10, though
Jay-Eye-See has equaled that figure.
Notes About the Needle.
It is impossible to say who were
the inventors of needles. At a very
early period rude attempts were mode
among various uncivilized nations to
form such an article out of bone,
ivory, or like material, in order to
stitch together their clothes. Doubt-
ess our first mother employed such
an instrument along with the fibres
of plants, etc., as thread. But fine
needles of metal were in common use
among the more refined nations of
antiquity, as the Hindoos, Chinese,
Egyptians, Assyrians, Hebrews,
Greeks and Romans. Pliny mentions
the ladies of his day as having needles
of bronze for sewing and knitting;
and numbers have been found in
Egyptian tombs that must have been
made 4000 years ago. The steel
needle was first manufaesured in
Spain, where the process of making
it was long kept a secret, whenco it
was first imported into England in
the time of Queen Elizabeth. In
1650, Christopher Greening, at Long
Creedcn, in Buckinghamshire, erected
needle works, and thus began the
manufacture of an article for which
England is feared throughout the
world,
According to a foreign publication,
‘•it is quite likely that wc may witness
this year, the unusual, though not un
precedented spectacle of an export of
potatoes from Europe, and even from
the United Kingdom, to America.
The chief sources of supply for the
United States are the New England
states and in all these, except Maine,
the crop is undoubtedly a failure
Even in Maine it is believed that the
yield will be very poor, although the
accounts are not yet quite conclusive
The production of that state is, how
ever, larger than that of any other in
the Union, and if the adverse esti
mates now current should be confirm
ed, there can be no doubt that imports
from the other side of the Atlantic
will be required.”
We have just re
ceived 12 pieces of
Dress Goods in all
the leading colors.
These; goods are
36 inches wide,and
we offer them at
the extremely low
price of 25 cts. per
yard. At this low
price we expect to
close them all out
this week.
10 new rolls ot
Carpets, entirely
new patterns, just
received.
Levy^s
Mitchell House Block:
A farm jolirnal asks; “Why do
the young rush to the towns and
cities ?” The answer is easy enough.
It is because they are anxious to get
there. And the fact that there are
no farms in the city, may have some
thing to do with it.—New York
Ledget.
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Legacies to the amount of $9000,
left by Benjamiu Franklin and John
Scott to be expeuded upou public
improvements, have amounted by
investment for nearly a century to
about 8110,000. Of this, $100,000
will be devoted to the erection of a
large public bath in Philadelphia,
while the remaining 810,000 will be
laid aside for another hundred years.
It is said that it doesn’t take a
Northern invalid very long to eet well
in Florida. When the first week’s
hotel bill is presented, he generally
says: “I guess I’m well enough to
start tor home this afternoon.’’—Louis
ville Western Recorder.
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