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I HZISBS*.
I : in « hammock I swing,
I think-think of anything
I Jar \ h r £ ami then I think
I « uiade of pa . per and ink:
I « the of no earthly use—
I ffS,;-
lOf eW’l’’ uj^nie/and'the'people’ I've missed •
I tXthcpwP^ 1 , if j l ha ve kissed;
F ! Saur times I’ve been in debt.
I cause -
I 1 th f nk M n Vwoiw^'•'and’u'm man’ I have been ;
I sinking into life’s shade.
I 9k- vntmH I have studied aud read,
I sf a blind man ’ a eri PP le ‘ n bed »
I of in idle a uil purposeless youth,
I And 3 think. “ Have 1 found out the meaning ol
I u . n ftiwiisangry, 111-humored and swore;
I oi hoi mm pebbles are washed on the shoft;
I% b S SinVactions I've done that are good ;
I sis haw many herrings you’l find in a wood ;
I of tbimrs that bore me; of things that I hate -
I o an afternoon dance which breaks up at eight;
I Os how many times I have wasted my cash, .
I And spent lots of money on nothing buttrash,
I Os how many times I have wished you were here;
I Os how many wishes I’ve wished in a year.
L I ms smukilig a pipe, unless 1 mistake;
■Hiw iomr have 1 aleut and when did I wake?
me Commands of the Empress.
A Story of Rtnaian neepotiam.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS
To believe the following story, which
is recounted by a French historian, one
must remember that the word of a Rus
sian Emperor or Empress has always
been a very different thing from the
word of an English King or Queen ; and
that where—as in this case —the British
cabinet would decide that her majesty
was temporarily insane, the Russian
lady would be considered only a little
| more severe than her predecessors.
" In the time of Catherine the Second,
there dwelt in Russia a gentleman
named Sonderland, who, though English
by birth, had become a Russian subject,
add also a great favorite with the Em
press. She loaded him with favors ;
made him immensely wealthy; gave him
a palace to live in, and embraced him
publicly.
What more could a sovereign do to
show her affection for a subject ?
Her partiality was so well-known that
the greatest people at Court sought his
favor and feared his frown ; but he was
a very pleasant and good-hearted per
son, who thought more of his dress ap
pearance. and the effect he produced on
the fair sex, than anything else ; and it
was rather a benefit to the community
than otherwise that he should have the
eai of the Empress. He, himself, was
perfectly h#ppy, and spent a great deal
*>i his time in writing verses expressive
of the charms of the Empress, her gyod
fiom -
One morning he had just finished a
most flattering poem in several cantoes,
setang forth the story of her condescen
sion to a poor old soldier to whom she
ad really been kind, and was reading it
’ a se ‘ e et audience, when a servant
entering the room, announced to him
that the Chief of the Police, whose
name was Reliew, desired to speak with
pr^ haVlng a messa e° from the Em-
The poet instantly threw down his
|>aper, and, delighted with this proof of
vou idence on the part of the sovereign
excused himself to his friends, and hur
ried to the room where Reliew was wait
tag tor him.
in f h<3 k ll of PoI ’ CG sat leaning back
B?hited^l Qr ’r W,t r ? Very grave fuce > aud
• i ted the Englishman as a jailer might
jamtea prisoner whom he was about ° to
lead to execution.
asked^nn/ 511 ! 1 lid° I i d ° for you > R eliew?”
HoW erland ’ Y lth a c °ndescending
in t? , hIS
at once °
usual vest}, Express was kinder than
moru " est lday ’ aild ex P res sed herself
E ', 0 fl 10 “ J ™««»»
;„ d n BX" e; J 0 ?'"?," 0 tea,s - 1
best friend.’’’ 1 COnsidei you my
fully .fiV he Chief of PoH °e. doubt
friendshin f 1 amve ?’y sure I have a true
h,v? r’i ;; y ° U; '; Ut Iregret to say I
Utterly hi t he7 ° r y ? U ‘ Y ° U ' laVo
yuur s y so loL th T s W llch has bceQ
not qnestio?th tb °ugh I may
Vrrib y “i' udate > lßuffe "
h -vpa!o iT g T y °Vt e 860
S'nfeUa* "it™ r«®«a«ir ..lea
'alien. The Uled *y you nre mis
s r-'l:ead 1 ~' m P reßß kissed me on my
Cour?- ‘ ,Btevew ug before the whole
Bi ?lS lle!iow Seß < t p e . r f ) lVOr of royalty, ’•
8 Pretty wonmn/’^ 8 &d *
"Thlr'' r?pbed Wonderland.
Relief to ld me nothing,” said
tne her’cnS * ID F whatever - She gave
plish them „“ and8 ’ and l )ft de me accom-
Orland. 110 be Beßt away “kedj Son
?tiler T% V ° r u? iapPy in Rome
ing y on fi. Q . y ‘ d should not dread giv
‘‘Am I ? ? WR - r plied
ed to Siberia ask < d
P°pe of you/comin 1 ? i? be 80me
], ew . r coming back,” replied Re-
? h & n ’withtii?? Ve ’l B l ' I am to be
derland. J B’ghed Son
ki,b; U ansS; e g ? tl oTe r tkaS; it seldom
4 Then she wanfl Eossian, moodily.
said Son-
? "tW fe a e D t
t". B-
anything Vou * l4 i 3 worse
• 8 you imagine. The
Ooltoo Argils
Empress has ordered me to have you
stuffed.”
“What?” cried Sonderland.
“To have you stuffed,” replied the
agitated Reliew. “Listen, my pool
friend. This morning she sent for me
“ ‘ Reliew,’ she said, ‘ you saw to the
stuffing of my favorite horse, who died
last month ?’
“ I bowed and assented.
“ ‘ Send Sonderland to the same tasi
lermist and have him stuffed, in an atti
tude of supplication—begging, you un
lerstand—and placed upon a stand in
my private apartment. Let the stand
be elegant and bear his name with these
words: “The Favorite of the Em
press.” ’
“ - Your majesty is good enough to
jest,’ 1 said, humbly.
“She flashed a fierce glance at me.
“•!amin no jesting humor. I valued
him,’ she said. ‘ Look, I have even shed
tears ; but go. I do'not wish to see him
again. Take him to the taxidermist this
morning. I will write my orders for
him ;’ and she gave me this paperand
he handed to poor Sonderland a paper
on which were written these words :
“Stuff Sonderland very carefully and
set him upon mosssin the attitude of
begging. Begin your work within the
hour. Great as was my affection for
poor Sonderland, his beauty was his
greatest charm. There are others as
faithful and as affectionate, and I shall
now always have him to look at; he is
certainly a splendid creature. Go and
make all speed possible. Have the words
‘The Favorite of the Empress,’ in letters
of gold on a black pedestal three feet in
height.”
“There, my poor Sonderland, you
see,” said the Chief of Police, “it is not
I who have gone mad.”
“ Then it is the Empress,” said Sonder
land. “Unhappy sovereign, she has lost
her mind.”
"“All the worse for us,” sighed the
wretched Russian.
“As soon as I felt sure of her real
meaning, I fell on my knees and begged
her not to intrust the terrible news to
me; to reconsider her intention. I hardly
knew what I said. For answer she
nointed to the door.
“ ‘lf Sonderland is not taken to the
taxidermist within an hour, you shall be
knouted and sent to Siberia,’ she said.
“Wretch that I am, I am here with the
news.”
“Let me see the Empress; let me
know what I have done. Let me write.
Take a note to hei- from me. ”
“I dare not,” said the Chief of Police.
“1 have a wife and seven children. You
are dear, but they are dearer to me.”
Sonderland began to hope that the
Empress only wished to play a practical
joke upon them, and pitying his friend
for his terror and the grief he suffered,
after a few moments more, arose and
offered to go with him' at once. Wrap
ping themselves in their furs, both men
jumoed into the sleigh at the door.
Meanwhile he had written a letter to
the Empress, and calling a servant, dis
patched it by him. As yet no one
guessed at the reason of this visit from
the Chief of Police, and the servant had
no fears concerning the safety of his er
rand.
Meanwhile the two getlemen pro
ceeded together to the house of the tax
idermist, Gottschekoff, Sonderland yet
hopeful—for an Englishman could not
believe that such a command could be
given in earnest—the Russian half mad
with horror. In fact, in delivering the
command of the Empress he lost com
mand of his voice and fainted away.
The taxidermist himself grew pale.
“This is my sentence of death, as
well as yours,” he said to Sonderland,
“for I do not know how to stuff a man,
and I know what Empresses are. I
shall have to try. of course, but I don’t
think it can be done.”
“lam sure it is only a jest of our
sovereign’s,” said Sonderland.
The Russians shook their heads. But
at this instant a loud tramping was
heard, and armed men entered, seized
upon the Chief of Police, Sonderland and
the taxidermist, forced them into a
sleigh and drove madly away to the Roy
al Palace.
Sohderland still kept his courage. A
man knows well enough when a woman
really likes him, but the Russians knew
that if the Empress had lost her senses,
her maddest mandate must be obeyed.
Perhaps they would now be all stuffed.
Led into the royal presence, they
found Catherine furiously pacing the
fioor.
“ Wretched madman,” she shrieked
to the poor Chief of Police, “ what have
you been about? ”
The poor fellow fell upon his knees.
“ My Empress,” he cried, “endeavor
ing to obey you, though it broke my
“And you, beast?” she cried to the
taxidermist.
The taxidermist also prostrated, him
self with his teeth chattering in his
head.
“ My Empress,” said Sonderland, of
fering her the paper she had written,
“ here is your royal mandate. There
were some difficulties (purely profes
sional) in the way of stuffing me.
Otherwise I should have been already
in an attitude of supplication on a black
marble pedestal, I make no doubt."
“Great Heaven!” cried Catherine.
“ My friend—my most faithful and most
earnest friend—how dared you believe
me capable of such a thing ? And you,
idiots, get up.” And she spurned the
crouching men with her royal foot. “It
was my dog, my favorite spaniel—whom
I had named after this dear Sonderland
because he was so handsome —that I
ordered you to stuff. He died last night.
The whole palace knew that. Good
heavens!”
The absurdity of the mistake forced
itself upon the royal mind at this instant.
Catherine, in the midst c-f her rage, be-
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1883.
ran to laugh, and ended by growing
jood matured.
“Amusing idiots,” she said, “go, and
always obey me as well as you have
done to-day. I see, at least,'that you
meant well. ”
And thereupon the Chief of Police and
the taxidermist crept away, thankful for
their fives, to convey tbe dead dog to its
destination. And Sonderland went to
lunch with the Empress, who leant upon
his shoulder as they walked together
through the Palace.
A Solen tillc Home.
That admirable organization, SoroUs,
discussed a momentous question at its
meeting on Tuesday. It was: “Will
home-making ever become a science?”
three erudite papers were real on
the subject, and a learned discus
sion followed in which Rev. I’hmbe
Hanaford participated. We regret pro
foundly that neither the contents of the
papers nor the points of the arguments
used in the discussion have been pub
lished. We are left in the dark, there
fore, as to what sori of a place a home
construed on scientific principles, as
they appear to the feminine mmd,
would be. The information is also
lack ng as to which side had the better
of the argument. Apparently the
question was not put to a vote, and the
organization ad ourned without decid
ing whether home-making woqld e er
become a science or not. This throws
the discussion open to the public, and
gives the men a chance to express their
views on a question of vital importance
to their happiness.
Let us suppose for a moment that
home-making will become a science,
and that we shall shortly have a com
pany organized which will guarantee a
thoroughly scientific home to all sub
scribers. What sort of an institution
would it be? The ideal home is, of
course, a haven of rest wdiore the hus
band and wife both have their own way
in everything; where the children never
cry: where the servants are models of
honesty and industry; where the dinner
is nev.r late and is always well cooked;
where there is no perceptible washing
day; where the sweeping and dusting
are done when nobody knows it; where
selfishness and bad temper are never
known; in short, a little Heaven upon
earth, inhabited by thoroughly angelic
n ortals. Homes of that kind con
structed upon a scientific basis, and
served hot, like steam through subter
ranean pipes, would meet a long-felt
want. Nearly every family in this great
city would subscribe for one. But if by
a scientific home is meant a place where
“intellect” j erpetually reigns; where
the constant effort is “to make home
interesting by making it iu-tructive:”
where “happiness” is served out like
cough medicine in a spoon an I accord
ing to receipt, we are afraid the demand
will not be great History te Is of a
man “blessed” with such a home,
who, as he sat listening to the fam bar
words: “Home, sweet home, there is
no place like home,” remarked with
deep feeling that he was “thundering’
glad there wasn’t.
A great deal depends upon the char
acter of the scientific home, and that
po'nt must be clearly explained before
any opinion as to the success or failure
of the scheme can be formed. As for
the men. there is little doubt abo t the
kind of a scientific home which would
Ve popular with them. All they want
is a home where they can ha\ e their own
way always, where the meals are al
ways good, always fresh in variety and
always served on time; and where the
wife is so accomplished an economist
that when she asks her husband for
money and he says: “Where is that
five dollars I gave you a week ago?” she
will be able to reply, sweetly: “ I have
bought both the children a pair of
shoes, myself a new bonnet, and a car
pet for tlie library, all out of that five
dollars, and have a dollar and a half
left.” That is the kind of scientific
home the average man is yearning for,
and if Sorosis or anyotner organization
can supply it, the sum of human happi
ness will be enormously increased, - -AC
F Tribune-
Tlie|Gaino of Geogniphy.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented
a game for facilitating the study of ge
ography by children. This new game,
approved by the Paris Society of Geog
raphy, consists of a large planisphere
map of the globe, accompanied by nu
merous objects representing animals,
plants, flags, costumes, towns aud land
scapes. These objects of painted card
boards stand upright when the small in
scription accompanying them is folded
back ; they carry, moreover, a number
corresponding to one on the map.
Placing each in its proper position, the
child becomes acquainted with the sub
ject ; if it be a plant, he knows the
place which produces it and its use;
if a town, he knows its population, its
position, elc. The map is folded, and,
with its various objects, put into a box.
Counter Irritation.
Uncle Mose and Parson Ble Isoe were
taking a walk along the beach when they
perceived a youthful Zulu disporting
himself in the surf, who turned out to
be Parson Bledsoe’s boy, Abram Lia
kum.
“ Dat ar boy is gwino to catch cold,”
said Old Mose.
“Hit’s a warmness he is gwine tir
catch.”
“I means a cold in his head.”
“And I means awarmtiesssomewharr
else.”—
A surgeon in the German army calls
attention of all who have to do with
horses to the danger of using the pock
et-handkerchief to wipe away any foam
which may have been thrown upon their j
clothes. Glanders have been comni'im- ,
cated in that way.
Over-Feeding and Under-Feeding.
There are thousands of dollars wasted
annually by farmers simply by under
feeding. We hear a deal of talk among
farmers about pigs being “over-fed,”
“stuffed to death.” We have seen pigs
intended for breeders that had been fed
too much starchy, heating food, but
none that had been over-fed on the
muscle-forming, bone making feed, in
stances are on record of children that
have died of starvation on a purely
or farinaceous diet. Many a pig may
have been hastened to the block or
grave from similar unwise feeding, it was
fed to death, but not because it had too
much to eat. On the other hand, it was
starved for want of albuminoids, as
found in clover, grass or oats, or oilcake
meal.
When the rations are mixed in scien
tific proportions, so that there is a har
monious development of tissue, muscle,
bone and adipose, there is no danger
from over-feeding. The animal will not
eat of such feed more than it can digest
and assimilate. As long as this kind
of feeding can be secured there will be
rapid and healthy growth, and little is
to be feared from disease. The animal
in vigorous health is able to throw off
disease that would overcome the poorly
or unwisely fed mate. Scientific feeding
adjusts the amount and kind of teed to
the condition and uses of the animal.
The race-horse is not to be fed on rations
suited to the bullock, nor the milch cow
on the rations of the fattening hog or
steer. The racer wants feed for the
production of energy and force as well
heat. The bullock'wants feed that will
develop heat, and muscle and fat, or in
other words, the flesh formers.
We thay under-feed our stock while
we are placing so much straw or hay
before them that their bellies are dis
tended and they stand knee-deep in the
refuse feed. On the next farm may be
animals that are plump and full and
even in outlines, with glossy coats and
stomachs not abnormally large, to which
not as much feed is daily
given. Animals thus fed are making
profitable growth, and are not over-fed
or under-fed, since the wants of the ani
mal economy are met in the variety and
quantity of' feed set before them. The
farmer who expects his cattle to live
around the'straw-stack this winter will
waste winter feed and lose the flesh
that the young cattle have now on them
made on good pastures. Another a lit
tle less foolish vzill occasionally give his
cattle a “lock of hay,” along with
straw, when it is not hay that is wanted.
It is something richer in nitrogen. The
steer or sheep or colt that goes into
winter quarters plump ought to come
out of winter quarters next May heavier,
or it is evident there has been loss of
feed and time and interest on cash value
of the animal in the fall,when it went to
the barnyard from the pasture. There
is also a loss of pounds of flesh that it
will take one or two months at good
pasture to regain. It damages, too, the
character of the animal and places it in
the serpb form, when, if it had been
scientifically fed, it would have been
babv beef. Evidently such feeding, or
stuffing with straw, is under-feeding,
and most unprofitable.
Tnere are ten t lousand steers in the
country to-day shivering around straw
stacks, and on frost-bitten, short pas
tures, that are losing flesh from want
of an addition 11 grain ration, to where
there will be one stall fed steer off his
feed from too heavy grain rations. Both
are unscientific methods of feeding, and
unprofitable therefore extravagant.
Parsimonious care of farm stock is not
economy. It is meanness and cruelty,
the result most likely of ignorance or
false reasoning.
Since it is unprofitable to feed young
‘ cattle only corn or meal, and since corn
and meal are salable, and straw is not,
therefore the unwise man concludes the
cattle must live on straw and the corn
must be sold. The men who make for
tunes raising cattle, hogs and horses,
do not think corn, oats and mill feed too
good for their stock. The straw and
fodder are fed and with them enough
nitrogenous feed co keep the animals
warm and their energy up, and give
them time to sleep and rest. The ani
mal at the straw-slack quits eating when
it can not stand the labor of eating any
more, and not because its hunger is ap
peased or the wants of nature satisfied.
Its stomach takes in its burden and
grinds it through and is weak and weary
and unstrengthened.
This is a bad case of a sort of over
feeding, with consequences very much
like those following under-feeding, and
that is what it is. The animal has not 1
enough to eat to keep up heat and ani- '
mal force, and nature is compelled to 1
consume tne tat which had been stored
in the carcass during the days of warm
sunshine and plenty of grass. The fact
is, there is cheaper feed than that warm ,
fat. i
A large daily feed of grain with straw
and corn-fodder will prevent shrinkage
and cause growth. The worth of those
pounds of fat lost or burnt up would
nave bought corn enough, or oil cake
and meal enough to have saved that
grass fat, and added pounds of muscle,
bone and tissue in addition, and brought
the animals out in the spring, thrifty
and prepared to make rapid growth on
grass.
Under-feeding and over-feeding are
two sources of loss that the truly wise
farmer avoid. The merciful, kind
hearted man can not rest well beside his
warm fire or tucked away warm in his;
feathor bed, when he thinks of the stock'
shivering in the fence corners, hungry,
vet surfeited with straw and ice-water-
If ho don’t know enough to give the
iihilosophy of an addition of nitrogenous
i jght time for feed.
Straw and corn-fodder make valuable
feed, but far more so when enough
grain, or meal, or oil-cake is added to
make a ration that meets the wants of
the animal.
The man who has fat steers, fat pigs
ami sleek, plump colts, is not one who
is out of conceit of farming. Thrifty,
well-fed stock and a good bank account
usually belong to the generous and wise
feeder.— Cincinnati Commercial.
Clothing for Little Folks.
It is said a great many babies die
ivery year for want of sufficient cloth
ng. Children do not need heavy clothes,
but they do need warm, light flannels.
Little children are on the floor a great
dea l , and are more exposed to colds
than grown persons. W hen not too
small, they should have flannel or meri
no underclothes. Two suits will cost
less than a doctor’s visit, and if your
babies are not properly protected from
the i old you will be very apt to have the
doct r visit you a good many times.
Babies too small for underwear can be
made comfortable with flannel diaper
drawers the color of the stockings.
Three pairs are reeded. From half to
three-four!hs of a yard are required.
1 hey should be cut halt handkerchief
shape, and then hollowed out to lit
around the legs snugly. A little cro
cheted edge of zephyr or Saxony finishes
them neatly, l ive buttons should be
on the pointed part. 'The top button
holds both button-holes on the band
around tbe waist.
Children's shoes are apt to have very
thin soles until number four’s can be
worn. After cold weather comes on,
cut in-soles of paste-board a little small
er than the sole, and cover with Canton
or woollen f’annel. An old, felt hat
makes a good lining for little shoes.
•Shaker flannel is the m st sensible for
children's wear, as it does not shrink in
wasliiirg. is warm, and wears well.
There is a qnjd.ty of scarlet fl: nnel (it
is all cotton) which has a very short
nap, close’y resembling Shaker flannel,
which sells at sixte n cents per yar L It
is said to wash without fading. 'This
will make pretty and cheap skirts, if it
is fast color, and a very pretty edge
in shell stitch can be croehe ed on the
edge by first doubling the Saxony in a
zephyr needle and button holing the
edge after it is hemmed. Make the
stitches a quarter of an inch long.
When you Imve been around once, com
mence crocheting, using only every oth
er one of the button-hole stitches. But
four stitches in the first, row of shells,
four in the secund, and five in the last.
I am not familiar with the terms used
in describing crochet, work, but, any one
who understands the simplest Stitch can
readily do this. Any number of rows
can be knitted, but i think thee makes
the trimming deep enough for a little
child. -Work a vine in double herring
bone stitch, with white linen thread,
above the hem, and y ui will find it a
great improvement.
Warm, little hoods, of Saxony, are
knit in the shell stitch I have described
above, and lined with merino or silk.
The < ost is a trifle. A cut of Saxony
will knit two. Glengairy caps in ear-
dinal are much worn. I hey are
crocheted at first just like a mat, and
when the desired size is reached, de
crease one stitch every row till the cap
is small enough for the head, when knit
half ado cn rows plain. Finish with a
shell edge, and on top set a zephyr ball,
steamed and trimmed into shape.
Very durable little dresses for chil
dren are made of small, shepherd’s
plaid, or plain gray flannel. They
should be lined. A good way is a
simple, close-fitting saeque almost like
an apron, with a four to six-inch plait
ing set up on the dress. Brighten with
Scotch plaid bands, or rows of bright
colored worsted b aid, or some easily
executed embroidery in zephyr or Sax
ony. Short-sleeved, low ne -ked aprons
of white goods over these little, dark
dresses are very pretty, and can be made
of tho cheapest materials. One lady
whose children are always prettily
dressed makes use of the five cent
pique. She says it wears well and does
up very easily. The woven Swiss trim
ming is prettier than embroidery, wears
very much better, aud can be had in
handsome patterns at from fivetofi teen
cents per vard. A very pretty quality
of cross-barred goods can be got now
that it is out of season for fifteen cents
per yard. Economical mothers can find
many bargains now in summer goods
which have not yet been put away; and
as most such goods are remnants, most
merchants are willing to dispose of them
ata bargain rather than carry them
over. —Cor- Louis title Home and Hire
tide.
Joan of Arc.
It has been strongly doubted whether
Joan of Arc ever suffered the punish
ment that has made her a martyr, though , i
details of her execution and lust mo
ments grace the civic records of Rouen.
Several books have been published dis
cussing the question. A Belgian lawyer
is the author of one of !le con
tends that the historians—who have
done nothing but copy each other in the
narratives of her deutli—err exceedingly
in saying that it took place on the last
day of May, 1473, the fact being that
she was alive and well many years ufU r
that date. There are good grounds, too,
i for believing that the pretty story ol
Abelard and Ileloise is a pure iictiou.
11 l» ll»—■ • ““” •
The theory that a submerged body
can bo raised by firing cannon over d
was recently prove. 1 m ?
I .lumber named Leonard 1 j
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TERMS: SI.OOA YEAR
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
■ —Ninety years ago the first English
missionary offered himself, and now the
whole number of evangelical foreign
missionaries is 5.000, and they are the
leaders of a native hostof 30.000 helpers
of all kinds.
•—'l he foundation stone of the mag
nificent Church of the Savior, at Vienna,
which has been under construction for
twenty six years, and is the expression
of a national thanksgiving for the pres
ervation of the monarch’s life, isa block
of marble < uarried on the Mount of
Ol ves, Jerusalem. The church will
cost •’J1,875.000.
—ln response to the complaints of
Karents of the overwork of pupils n the
ew York City schools, the 1 oar I of
Education has under consideration a
material reduction of the. ourse of study
by a revision, throwing out some re
quirementsand making others elective.
•—-V. B. Times.
—Dr. Dana, o F St. Baul, made a pil
grimage of -100 mi es to preach the ser
m n at the dedication of a Congrega
tional church at Winnipeg, Manitoba,
recently. The church and parsonage
cost • 15,000. and $30,000 of the amount
was obtained by twice selling lots pur
chased as a site for the buildings, the
city’s growth sending the price of real
estate upwards rapidly.-- Chicajo Jour~
nal.
—One of the sons of the Brince of
Wales is to Le given an ecclesiastical
training. His illustrious uncle, the
Duke of Albany, was designed for the
church, but did not possess sufficient
vitality for that call ng. It has been
mauv years since England has had a
primate who was a Brince of the blood,
but the next generation may possibly
witness a royal incumbent of the Sec of
Canterbury-
—Mr. Goble, a missionary of the
American Baptist Union, is said to be
the inventor of the jin-riki-sha, the pop
ular Bullman-car, so generally used in
Japan. As in Tokio alone there are
between -10,000 and 50,000 giving em
ployment to that number of men, and
bringing in an annual income of $75,000
from that single city, it can be inferred
that the missionary has been of some
material benefit. Christian lVcck-.li/.
Hannibal Hamlin addre-sed the
st dents of Colby University, in Water
ville, Ale., a few evenings ago, on the
“ Importance of Era tice in Extempore
‘peaking.” At the conclusion of the
addre s he presented to the c liege an
oil paint ng, a copy of the portra t of
Christo her Columbus in the A a al
Museum at Madr d, believed to be the
most a thentic 1 koness of thegreat dis
cover: r. The portrait will be placed in
tbe library for the present.
At a late meeting in London. Gen
eral Booth, the lea ler of the Salvation
Army, made the surprising statement
that the offerings for susta ning the
operations of the ainiy amounted to
8600,000 per annum. Ho strongly ad
vised the local corps to purchase a Lon
don theater whi h had been offered
them; “for, by doing so,” he said,
“they would be killing two birds with
one stone. This would shut the devil
out an t let God in.”
Saved His Life.
In a stairway on Woodward avenue
Monday sat a man who looked the
picture of sadness, and every now and
then he pulled out a red handkerchief
with many holes and rents in it, and
wiped tears from his eyei. By and by
a pedestrian halted and asked:
“Say, stranger, what ails you?”
“Oh, I dunno. I guess I feel sad.”
“You shouldn’t feel bad on New
Year’s Day. It’s the day on which to
brace up and swear off.”
“That’s just the point!” replied the
man, as he brought out the handker
chief. “I haven’t anything to swear off
from.”
“Don’t you drink?”
“Not a drop.”
“Nor smoke, nor chew?” •
“Neither one; nor do I swear, gam
ble, bet nor lie.”
“Well, you must be a pretty good
man.”
“Oh, I am —I am, I’m too good. The
rest of you can resolve to-day not to rob
or steal again. You can swear off on
whisky and tobacco and lay plans for
economy, but I’ve got to plod right
along in the old track.”
“Can’t you think ol one single point
for reformation?”
“Not a point —not a one. I’ve sat
here for a whole hour trying to find
one single weakness, but I can’t do it.
Stranger, it makes me sad, and vou
must excuse these tears. When I realize
that I am so all-fired good 1 am half in
clined to commit suicide.” „
“I’L tell you of a point, old man. _
“Will you? Thanks! thanks! What
is it?”
“Why don’t you resolve to get your
hair cut, wash your face, clean out your
nails, and put on a clean shirt?”
“Why don’t I? I will! Thank Heaven,
there is a show for me after all! I m
not as good as I thought I was. i es,
sir, I’ll do it. Shake with me! >ou
have probably saved my life, and my
gratitude is unbounded.”
And then he cried some more, but
they were tears of joy.— Detroit tree
Press.
—A New Jerset squire received . 32
cents for uniting a couple m the
of wedlock. The re i thlDk /A b a e^
l l!ld too little
' ant service he
I'rof. Eggloston jnore beautiful
-, a ; diamond was but Tetamed its
lillianoy only for ate J
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