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gtorttasUtH gwflVfS*. LADIES’ DEPARTMENT. WOMAN’S INFLUENCE. We will go back and unlock the doors of the years in the sixteenth century; that age so remarkable for its great women. The two wo men most conspicuous for the evil and the crime they accom plished on the stage of that century, was Catharine dc Medici and Ma ry Tudor. The one under the lil lies of France, the other under the Lion of England. They were alike the shame and curse of the nations they governed. At the door of one, lies the awful night of St. Bartholomew; at that of the other, the fires of Smithtield. Catharine de Medici, the Italian Queen of Henry IL, ofFrancc, with all her grace and winning chain of manner, that fascinated all who came within the spell of her influ. ence, was false at heart. Her dark, subtle, scheming brain was always at work with plot and in trigue. She had reached the very summit of her ambition. As re gent during the minority of her son, Charles IX., she had ruled France. But she feared the pow er she so prized was about to pass from her. The Protestant reli gion wasspreadingall over Europe, and Catharine was a Catholic, the niece of a Pope. Still she pledged her faith to the Ilugenot leaders, and gave the youngest, fairest of her daughters to the Protestant King of Navarre. It was to cele brate the royal marriage of Valois and Navarre, that all the great lead ers of the Ilugcnots and the chief tains of the Protestants, were as sembled in the gay city of Paris. When her daughter had been the Protestant King’s bride only five days, and his vast train were sleep ing, unarmed, anil secure at the palace, Catharine de Medici pre vailed upon the King to give the order for the slaughter of all 11 u genots in France. The world still shudders at the deed—the massa cre of St. Bartholomew. When we think of the early girlhood of Mary Tudor, and her wrongs and sufferings, we feel something like pity for the misguided woman. But she stands at the bar of histo ry, and the judgment it has pass ed upon her, is, to brand her with the uam n of “ Bloody Mary.” The unhappy circumstances of her ■youth, no doubt, gave a strong bias to the wo"S’"' moral tendencies of her nature,and exerted an unhappy influence on her career during the five years she sat upon the throne of England. She inherited the fierce passions and self-will of the Tudors, and the narrow bigotry and ohstinancy of her Spanish an cestors. The infamy of her name, and its dreadful significance, still clings to her. Let us leave the dark picture and pass on. Anoth er name looms up before us, con nected with the history of France. Madame Roland was the ruling spirit of the French revolution, 'flic genius displayed in her sa loons, among the great minds who assembled at her bouse, (luring the stormy day of France, amounted to enchantment. From a child, she held communion with the sages and heros of every age, and peopled her world with the ideal creations of her own fancy. At first, she fol lowed the teaching of her Christian mother, hu:, afterwards, site im bibed the misty infidelity of her father. She was betrayed, tit last, by those she had trusted, and her last words were. “Ah! liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name.” We have presented woman as an evil genius—shown the worst side of her character. We have pre sented her yielding to her own sel fish, cruel hatred, with no thought of her responsibilities to God be fore her, and making ambition and worldly honors the shrine at which she worshipped. We wi 11 now show a better picture: Highland Mary was the inspira tion of the plow-hoy poet, Robert Burns. What is more touchingly beautiful than his own description ofhis betrothed. In imagination, we see the crystal stream, the hawthorne’s bloom and fragrance, the open Bible, and the ruddy face of the young poet, and Highland Mary, with her beautiful face and golden hair. We have never read anything from the most cultivated poets that could equal Burn’s “Highland Mary.” and “ To Mary in Heaven.” Beautiful record of a love that lived beyond the dark portals of the tomb. But the do mestic circle is the true theatre of woman’s power. Here she sits en throned, and no true woman will ask a higher position. The Chris tian wife and mother’s influence cannot he overestimated. I pity any home where the mother is not an humble Christian. Religion should bo the corner-stone in every house hold; and woman should attract by the magic power of love. Man is the creature of ambition —woman of affection.— Blot love out, and dark, indeed, will be the universe of woman’s heart. Woman’s love! Poets have sung of it, painters have pic tured it, hut the reality far ex ceeds the representations of fancy. “ Man’s love lives but with hope, but woman’s heart still echos to the music of the past.” Few men succeed in life who do not owe their elevation to some true wo man’s love and influence. History teaches many sad lessons of the in stability of human greatness, that has not for its foundation, the “ Rock of Ages.” Let us profit by its lessons. Our stations in life may be very humble, but still we will find work, earnest work, enough to keep minds, hearts and hands busy. Estelle. THE BISHOPS TO BE SPARED. VERY WELL —BUT HOW ABOUT ANOTH ER OFFICER STILL MORE HARDLY WORKED, AND STILL MORE IMPOR TANT? The last General Conference mercifully released the Bishops, in a great measure, from attending the District Conferences. This was necessary. Four years will go far to determine the position of the District Conference in our Church machinery. If the presiding elders arc able to throw interest and life, variety and power, into their Con ferences the common people will crowd to thorn, and demand their continuance. Tf however, these Conferences sink to only tedious, long-drawn Quarterly Conferences' they will lose their interest and their hold on our average members. But our object now is to cal' attention to an officer, largely con tributing to the success of these Church assemblies. We mean, in plain English, the Cooks. Cannot something he done for these over worked friends of the Church? Do we not expect too much from them ? Some churches do manage, so they say and think, to get along without Bishops. But no Church has yet tried the fearful experiment of holding its usual or unusual as semblies without Cooks. It would he invidious to compare the men tal strain of a Bishop with that of a Cook. But the bodily strain, the exhausting demand on hands, bodies, nerves, with the tempera ture of our District Conference weather the harder portion is surely born by the patient, per spiring Cooks. I have often heard votes of thanks to the Bishop who presi7io(T~t)ut I was never present at a District Conference where any one had the gratitude and good sense, to return thanks to the much used, much abused, much-slighted Cooks. Did you ever think what would be the comic and tragic results, if, at a crowded Conference, the Cooks should strike? After a splendid sermon, when the great deep of all hearts lias been stirred, all in admiration, all withdrawing from the church under a spell, in. vited to various tents, houses or c images, when lo ! the astounding discovery is made, “ Cooks all on a strike !” I do solemnly fear, that the effects of the grand morning sermon would all vanish. How often has the patient Cook denied herself all attendance on the popular services of the meeting, hoping to gather as her reward, a few crumbs from the table-talk of her guests, for whose comfort she had been the untiring drudge for days and nights before. Well, perhaps she picked up something in that way, and perhaps she did not. Too much attention is paid to creature-comforts on these occa sions. Too heavy demands are made on pantry and poultry. Let good sense, moderation, and Chris tian self-denial, come in to check this great evil. You have kindly relieved a half dozen famous, noble old men. Here are hundreds, thousands of harder-worked, unknown, suffering women. Oh, preachers, delegates, and guests, “ It isn’t chickens you arc eating up, It’s human creatures lives !” Martha A. Cook. Wesleyan Christian Advocate. ...A subscriber wrote to a jour nal to make some inquiries about the next world’s fair, whereupon the wicked editor replied that he was under the impression that the next world wouldn’t have any fair. .. At one of the schools in Corn well, England, the inspector asked the children if they could quote any text of Scripture which for bade a man having two wives. One of the children eagerly quoted in reply, the text, “No man can serve two masters.” ...Why is love like a canal boat? Because it is mi internal transport. CORINNES MISTAKE. Three merry girls entered the cars at the terminus of a city road. They were bright-eyed, intelligent, and full of fun. “ Oh, I do hope,” said Aune Welsh, arranging her skirts and her hooks comfortably, “ we shant have a single passenger from here to Haight street. I just want to talk and laugh, and act exactly as I please, without the presence of a critical fourth.” “ Unless it should happen to he a very nice young gentleman,” laughingly supplemented Corinne Baker. “ Anything but that,” said the first speaker, with a grimace, adjust ing veil and curls, however. “ I am brimful of mischief, and in such case I know I should do something detestable.” “I do hope we shall he alone, though,” said little Lottie Deal ing, the youngest of the three, as she placed her hooks on the cushion at her side, “ It’s such fun to have the car all to one’s self, or selves.” “ I’m afraid the fun must go by the hoard, then,” exclaimed Anne, “fori see the funniest, plainest, homeliest old woman coming right straight this way. O, misery ! she will spoil every thing.” “And, look at that antiquated hand-bag—a century old, at the very least,” Corinne cried. “Did you ever see such a relic of Noah’s ark! And how ridiculously she is dressed! I’m not sure but we can have our fun after all.” Meantime, bowed down by some infirmity, dusty with a day’s ride, and really antiquated in garb and manner, the old lady drew nearer, nearer to the car. When she had gained it, her face brightened visi bly at the sight of the fresh young girls, and in the kindness of her heart she nodded, as much as to say, “My dears, you are all stran gers to me, but I am very glad to see you.” They did not, however, return the nod; but one by one they smiled, looked in each other’s faces, and at last tittered audibly. The poor old woman seemed shock ed at this incivility, and drew her self as far from their vicinity as possible, while the turned her keen eyes, that almost disproved her years, so large and black they were, from their faces to other objects outside. Suddenly Corinne, pos sessed, as she had said before, with the spirit of mischief, took up one of her school-books, and with a wink aside at Anno, began to read in a low tone — “ She was the scrawniest, weird cst-looking object, with a wart on the bridge of her nore, and a crinkle crankle bonnet of ah uncertain age, like' iis owner. AlLjshc needed was a broomstick and a mack cat to make a veritable witch.” Here the mirth of the thought less girls became so audible that the reader was forced to put some restraint upon her fun-loving pro clivities, and lay the book aside. “Here’s Haight street,” said Anne. “ Corinne, I never thought to tell you, Uncle Hal brought us two Spitz dogs yesterday, white as wool, and as cunning as they can be. Come home with me and see them. It won’t take five minutes more, and, perhaps, I will give you one of them.” “But mamma expects company, and—” “O, bother! I tell you it won’t take five minutes longer. Come, there’s a darling?” and the old lady sat looking after them, as the girls tripped away in high spirits, a sad expression on her care-worn face. “ Corinne!” she murmured. “ 1 thought 1 knew the face. I hope it was only thoughtlessness,” she added, and her lips trembled. “ But, perhaps, I looked for too much from Corry’s child. And young folks cannot be expected to enter into the feelings of the aged. But it is hard to be so disappointed” —and she shook her head dejected ly- Meantime Corinne had seen and admired the dogs, and the girls were about parting. “Come over to the house, soon.” said Corinne to Anne, as they stood upon the steps. “ I want to intro duce you to one of the grandest old ladies—my mother’s aunt. I have never seen her myself, but I know I shall love her, for she saved mamma’s life, at the risk of her own. Mamma has often told me about it—how that she was in the third story of a burning house, and when the strongest men drew back, this aunt, then an invalid, ran through the flames with wet blank ets, and dragged her out of a hor rible doom. She was fearfully burned, and sick for years after ward from the effect of her exer tions: and mamma thinks all the world of Aunt Eunice. So do I. By the way, it was mean of us to make fun of that old lady. What possessed us?” “I couldn’t help it,” said Anne, laughing, “ though 1 knew it was wrong.” And the friends made their adieus, and parted. “ Has she come, mamma?” cried Corinne, flushed and breathless from rapid walking. “Yes, dear,” said her mother, smiling, “ but she was so tired T persuaded her to lie down, so you won't sec her tilj dinner time.” 1) in n c < 1 lady a with a wart on the nose. No wonder Corinne turned pale and sick at heart, as her mother intro duced her, with a loving smile. Not but that she understood that low and gentle, ‘Kever mind, my dear,’ which reached her ears alone, ns the old lady' kissed her and pressed her hand.- Never before had she felt so hu miliated; and now that Aunt Eu nice had cleared away all traces of the dust and fatigue of the journey, she saw how noble and sweet was the face, spite of the disfiguring wart, and how really grand was the spirit that illumined it, and that led her to say, in manner at least, that all was forgiven and would be forgotten. Corinue has never failed, from that day to this, to treat old age with respect, no matter whether she meets it clad in purple and fine linen, or in the garb of poverty and misery. Onelesson was enough for a lifetime; one recognition of the beauty of Christian forbearance under great provocation sufficed.— Youth's Companion. FACET IF. ...The first duty on T—Don’t forget to cross it. ...Be perfect and you will never die. No perfect man was ever known to. ...There iz lotsov pholks in this world whose only importance kon sists in their beingexklusive. ...An editor in Cincinnati, puff ing airtight coffins, said: “No person having tried one of these coffins use any _ “Ayoung died i hcnstl^^H^^Bxieati"".” ci Mini “ The his death by- excessive producing apoplexy in the of the jury.” ...A French writer has described a young lady as a creature that ceases to kiss gentlemen at twelv e and begins again at twenty. ...“ What’s the use of a man pain ting his uame on his sign twice?” said a gentleman Its ho pointed to a sign which read, “J. E. Weller, Jeweller.” ...Gentleman (loq.)—“I say, waiter, I’ve just cracked this egg. Look at it.” Waiter—“ Don’t look very nice at that end, sir, I must sav. Try the other.” came gSTT to have such a short nose?” asi<f<l a ciiy of a country- yvould not he poking it into other people’s business,was the reply. ...Mr. Ross says it has cost him SBO,OOO not to find his lost Charley. A good many men would gladly lose all their hoys for half the money. ...The man who made a shoe for the foot of a mountain is now en gaged on a hat for the head of a discourse after which he will manu facture a plume for general intelli gence. ...A couple of fellows who were pretty well soaked with bad whisky, got into the After floun dering about forhw minutes, one ofthem said: let’s go to another house —tS hotel leaks.” “What wo wantjis work, and pay- for doing it,” said the tramp, “What kind of work?” asked a by-stander. “ Unloading schoon ers,” replied the incipient Com munist—“ beer schooners.” ...“Each heart knows its own sorrow best,” thought a pious far mer as he sat down on an egg which he had forgotten to remove from his coat-tail pocket before go ing to church. At bed time little Willie was saying his usual prayer on his mother’s knee, anil having got as far “If I should die before I wake,” hesitated. “ Well, what next,” asked his mother. “ Well, I s’pose the next thing would be a funeral.” ...“Johnny,” said a sporting third ward father, “Johnny, what have you got in your fist?” “ Two pears,” said Johnny. “Good hand,” said the absent-minded parent, “take the pot —” then he blushed, and pointing to a brass kettle, ad ded, “to your mother.” —Boston Traveler. ...They had been engaged a long time, and one evening were read ing the paper together. “Look, love,” lie exclaimed, “ only fifteen dollars fora suit of clothes!” “Is it a wedding suit?” she asked, naively at her lover. “ Oh, no,” he replied, “ it’s a business suit.” “ Well, I meant business,” she re plied. ...It is not always a successful operation to teach a two-year-old child its prayers, however old it may be. The other day a young mother was showing off the early piety of her offspring to some cal lers, the result being muchly as follow: “Gnrbesspapa, Gorbcss mama, Gorbessbaby, avyergotany canday?” That infant thought religion was sweet anyhow. A MEAT HISTORICAL VIBE. The Pictorial History of the World, embracing full and authentic ac counts of every nation of ancient and modem tinus, and including a His tory of the rise and Jail of the Greek and Roman Empires , (he growth of the nations of Modern Europe , the Middle Ages, the Crusades, the feudal System, the Reformation, the discovery and settlement of the New World, etc., etc., by James D. Me Cade. Th.rc has Ion" liccn ugrent and univcrually ■ .li want of a Hiatory of the World auitahle for general use. Thin want Is now supplied by The National Publishing Cos , of Philadelphia, pa., Chicago, 111., St. Louis, Mo., and Dayton, Ohio, who have issued a handsome volume, entitled “ The Pictorial History of the World,” by James O. 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TRAIN EASTWARD. Time* of Time of /frrivftl. Departure. A. Af. P .1/. 2 40 .1 TLA XT A 5 25 5 2 Oat Lula, with, the Northeastern rail roa tl for A then < 7 4S 7 49 at Seneca, with Dine Ridge railroad for Wtdhalta and Helton, Pendleton and Andcr son court-horse. 9 OB (free unite, .S’, ,h u (• reenvilfe anti Columbia ret*l r<oid for Williamston, Helton, JHonca Path, Due Went, Hodges, Cokesburg, Abbeville, (7 rn uwood, Xinig-six, Xcw berry, Alston and Columbia. 10 5 * 10 56 - t Spartanburg , wi t h the Spartanburg, Union tfc Col umbia railroad, for Union, Stiatuck, Alston and Columbia find the Spartanburg and A xhville rui frond, for Try on Mountain, connecting here with stages for Flat Dork, Hendersonville, Ashville and 117 mil Springs, X. C. A fine and we! I finished hotel at the foot of this mountain. 114 1 15 at Gaston, with Chester and Lenoir Xtirrow (lunge rail rati- oad, for Dallas,Pleasant Ridge, Yorkville and Chester 2 20 at CHARLOTTE irith the Car- Hna Central railroad, for • Afunroc, Wadcsboro, Rocking■ ham, Hamlet, Lnmbcrton, Williamston, Lineoltvn, Shcl bg. Wilmington and interme diate points. With Atlantic, Tenn • <0 Ohio railroad for Statesville, Xewton, Hickory, ATorganlon, Afar ion, Henry's Old Fort. 2 30 at CHARLOTTE, with the Richmond and Danville rail road for all points North, Fast and West, and for Vir ginia Springs. 0 40 6 56 at Greensboro with Fastern lUnison X. (J. railroad, for Company Shops, Hillsboro, Durham, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Kingston, Nncbern and Ru fort, and Salem Branch rail road, for Salem and W’i'ston. XO 2.— MAIL TRAJX— WEST WARD. Time of Time of Arrival Departure A. M. A. M. 110 AIR LINE JUNCTION. 1 IS CHARLOTTE. 12 O') at ATLANTA, connections with the Atlanta and New Orleans Short Line, (A. <t* IV'. 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