HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-10-26, Page 2October 26, 1882.
A. Treasured
In my darkened room I'm sitting, amthe twilight
shadows fall,
Weaving webs of light and darkness on my
humble parlor wall; •
And the visioned past is rising, long forgotten
thoughts return, - •
While nay wearied soul the present and the
future seems M spurn.
• All ray little store of irinkets in my lap is lying
And I turn them idly over as I rest my fevered
brow;
Recollection's rushing tide to me doth hosts of
memories bring," -
As I lift this shining band of gold --nay mother's
-wedding ring. '
Time will heal our deepest sorrows, blunt the edge
of keenest woe, •
Teaching many a wholesome lesson, to us as we
older grow,
Chastens all our earthly longings, bears the fairest
prizes by, '
Till our soaring aspirations scorn the earth and
seek the sky, ,
Thus were all my young ambitions crushed and.
shattered one by one ;
Clouds oWseured my lifeei horizon, lurking
shadows dimmed the sun ; -
Now her blessed teachings ballet me, to my bleed-
ing heart they cling, •
While I breath a prayerabove it -o'er my
mother's wedding -ring.
Now the tears are thickly frona a
stricken heart, -
Through the mists of grief I see ,her ---may her
image. ne'er depart!. `
Best of friends, your loving counsel oft my way-
ward steps would guide,
Saved me oft from storm and shipwreck since I
sailed life's troubled tide; .
Deeper shadows Waver o'er me and. the stars are
peeping out,
_ But the star of hope is breaking on my soul, dis-
pelling doubt,
While a heaven-sent petition swift its upward
flight doth wing, -
As I place it in Its casket; dearest mother's
wedding ring.
WOMAN'S KINGDOM.
Love, Courtship, Matriknony and Surround-
ings Discussed -
HOMES WITHOUT CHILDREN.
Latest Gossip Regarding Fashions, Queer
. happenings, etc.
(Compiled by Aunt tate.)
hoer to Pop the Question.
On the all important, euhject ofwhen to
pop the question, a ledy.correspondett is
kind enough t� give bashful bachelors the
-hallowing 'useful' hints.• "Never Make a
proposal, in the. 'morning. Novelists fre-
quently into the ;error Of engagitig a
-hero Or a heroine before breakfast.. When-
ever you find such a situation lay the book
aside, for the author is at fault nn the
fundamental prieciplee of .human -nature.
Priniarily, even a enan will, pot- atMrept
love -making in the morning. The opera-
tion of sleep has draevuthe-blood from bee,
brain ane his imagination iestagnane. At
'suoli a time he is pueotual , and pet -roman-
tic, and any Woman of the world will tell
• yon that, however ardent ,.hen lover .riaay
have been the evening before, is an'un-
ronientie biped,before,breteldest. To accost;
a woman at such a timels Feticide."
The Word " Wile."
Mr. Iluekin says :• "Whit do you think
the beautiful word ! wife' comes from ?
It is the great weed in which the English
and -Latin languages cengtiered the French
and Greek.' I hope the Freneh will ,some
day get a' word for iteinetead• ofthat df
femme. But what 4o you think ''comes'
from? The great value of the Saxon weeds
is that they mean something. • Wife means
aveavere—Youemust-eithersbe-housewives-
. or house-mottles:remember that. In -the
deep sense, yeti - Must either Weave men's,
hotlines and emlaroiclei them, or feed upon
and bring them to, decay. Wherever atrue.
*rife comes, home is always: around . her,
The stars May be over her head, -the 'glow-
worm in the nighteecold. 'grass -May be the
fire at her feet;- but home is wherashe is,'
and foe' n noble woinikea it etretolies far
around her; better :then houses ceiled with
,oedar, or painted 'with, vermillion, shedding
its quiet light for those whe'elseeire home-
less.. This, I'believe, the wennte's true
• place and pewee." • •
homes Without
A humane writer remarks e. A home, how-
ever luxuriant, without the 'esong'oe voice of
eifildren is incomplete,. and, its hematite lose
the sweetest lemons; Of 'life, While it is
true that kao ohildien .ever 'quite' take th'e
place in the hearts of the -husband and wife
like those born to themeyet, in a multitede
of instances, • childless homes have been
'gladdened during the Waning years of life
• by the adoption and' kindly nurture of
some•orphan child. .Shall we, do this? late'
doubtless beeninehe,-Minds and ,disoilesed,
in 'many it honie where it has never been put
in pkactioet one of fear, of annoya,nee a,rd
inereeu3ed .respoi3sibility. . That it will in -
cream responsibility, _ and give often 'teem
porary annoyance, is doubtless' true; but
when wisely selected; with. knowledge of
blood and parentage, nsuch of this can be.
averted. That children inherit , the vices
of intemperate parents; and of tee :the
bodily diseases, is true, and, for the speasee
and odrafort of the future,thereshould be
careful discritiaination. , But for •:stiele
reason there Jacked be no failure t� plant en.
the home a Young life. , In, beery city of
the land tbere are epeultittedes . of these
heipless waifs, ,.purely the creatures of
life's misfortunes, without taint neorally.or
physically, left without a guide, n love, or
a comfort. If they coald. early . be,. trans-
planted into the childless nobles, with a
mother's love and -e father's care to direct
them, who'can doubt but that itwould be
a mutual *Being? • ' • ' •
(single women. •
- •
A clever old:meld once "Said that it was
far better to be laughed .at, because -you
were not married than -not be able to laugh
because you were. There is -sound logic in
that. . It is well for woman to marry if eihe
me,ets a good, true man, who loVesaker, and
whom she loves ;' but if she be net suited,
better that she remain single. Many old
maids are helpfulelovable and sweet tem-
pered, end fill their allotted niche as excepts
ably as do their married sisters. Are they
not more . to be honored than they would
have been had :they married merely for -a
home or position? Our young ladies have
erroneous ideas- uponabie subject. They.
feel elknost disgraced if they nave arkived
at a mature age and are not able to write
"Mrs." before. 'their names. Their whole
ambition is to get a hpshand, by hook or
crook, but get him somehow they. mesa
• ,Consequently.they take elie fleet men. Who
offers himself, whether he reellYeerits,therd
or not. Nowegirls, donee matey en haste.
Get the, best education possible, eelp. about.
domestic affairs, and, enter 80D30 trade ,or
prefession for' which you have a taste and
master. it. Skilled labor is aleveyie wfl
Don't spend . your time repining
because you cannot pee, the cominepeate
It you never see labia yeti .0am live, ugefule
happy lives. :
Chats on Flif4liollSt lEtt.
She was Mart' girl when:merited at 15,
so as to have her gelclerreeveddinge When it
' would do her some good. •
____Autonenipa,ves will be defied ,eeteeeiel.)Y.„.
this fall for decoretive purposes. : A bride
this month is to have the drawing -regale
and church on her wedding day entirely
deeorated with autumn leaves and golden
rod. This will give color and back -ground
to -the bridal party in white, and be a relief
from the pretty but monotonous and tire-
some smilax and white roses. Necklaces,
composed of natural moeo rosehudo, small
violets and eimilar flowers will again be
fashionable this season.
Four white mese may be seen among the
decorations of a fashionable bonnet which
is on exhibition in a window of a New York
epta,blislament. Another bonnet bas on it
three newly -hatched chickens ; another two
white birds, and another two blue birds.
Many bonnets, adorned with single birds of
rare tropical !species, are displayed in the
ame window.
The dandelion is destined to 'become a
greater favorite this winter than last. It
will be used for the hair, corsage and dress,
but not for the table or house. A debutante
of the coming season has arranged a dress
with these ftowers, which she expects will
create quite a sensation. It is composed of
black tulle over bleak moire, arid the entire
dress, including the long train, is studded,
with small dandelions about an inch and a
mearter in diameter. The square -out bodice
is bordered with a row, and-thr--ashoreeedisiseves
are ,finished in the same manner. A
• facetious admirer wlao 138.W the dress said
it would be a ".most heavenly and starry
night when she donned it." •
The trousseau a a belle of New York
city, who is to be married this month, is
said to , have cost e125,000, and was all
made in America. One of her morning
gowns is exceedingly beautiful. It is
made of fine white Chinese silk enprincesse.
About the bottom and up the side of the
front extends a box plaiting of palest -blue
satin, overlaid by -lace of a soft creamy`
• tint to mitten the white of the dress. •The
sleeves are made a la Chinoise and triramed
in the same way, while inside sleeves of
the Chinese silk fit the arm tightly and are
embroidered in a serpentine design with
gold braid. A small, white silk and lace
mob cap, and dainty blue satin Slippers,
complete the toilet.
Talk of the inferiority of woman( Why
a woman will run Out for a five -minutes'
call, and when she comes homeshe will be
able to tell you everything that's going on
in the village -that that • freckledaced
Smith girl has got a husband at lag-, that
they do say that young Snooks drinks
awfully, and that Mrs. Brown's baby's
teething, and all about Mrs. Robinson's
new dress, Miss Pinkton's bonnet and the
latest spat up to the Browns. But a man,
the stupid! will be gone all da, and he'll
COLCIe home and sit down withais pipe and
paper, and if you get as much as a grunt
•
out of lima you're luokly.
Queer Suicides.
Being deserted by her husband, Mrs.
Isaao Solon:Loh, of Kenton, Ohio, swellowed
morphine.
Despondency from being out of work drove
Edward Cody, of Wapello, Iowa, to drown
The wife of Adam Elling, of Union
'Deposit, Pa., lay .down beside her dead
Island and cut her throat.
George Foster, a printer, killed him.'
self in.the jail at Syracuse on account of
_sharneeatehis inaeaaketion.
111 health caused J-no.Mayerle,of Dubuque,
to shoot himself through the heart. •His
young widow is insane. .
•
Bronco Sam, of Laramie City, committed
suicide through jealousy of his Cherokee
bride. He however, shot her dead fleet.
" To find rest," said Bernard Creamer, of
Baltimore, "1 -swallowed this Ounce of
laud saintee" eeed-bee-eieeririlleliellt Oil or
Mee. Ellen Frazer, of Toledo, to escape
the pains of neuralgia, committed (suicide
by hangieg herself . over the table in the
dining•room .
,
Katie Dufieldethe 20 -year-old daughter
:of Henry Dufield, of New Orleans, drowned
herself because her mother insistedeupon
her washing the dishes before going to visit
a sister. ,y •
Jesse W. Banks, a iaemer',55 years of
age, near Decatur, Ill. could not live' hap.
pily with his young wife. and so he hanged
himself. He had twice before tried poieon
and the raior. '
. In drinking the health of the nominees
elinervah Craig, a, Democratic politician of
Marshall County, Ill.; beearile eo intoxi-
cated that in his delirium be took a fetal
dose of morphine. '
An'Oxfoid, Ind., boy, 35 -years of . age,
fell into aetreek and -ruined his clothes.
,His mother said he Ought to have stayed in
the creek. Because of this remark he -shot
himself through the heart. "
John Dill, a.farin laborer at Cedar City,
upon being discharged spent a day in card -
playing and drinking, then went eo-his late
•ernployer's residence -and in sight of the
family blew out hie brains.
As Carl Heinine, a poor jeweller of Den-
ver, wee refining el2 worth of goll dustat
a stove it was lost by the breaking of the
refining glass. He instantly washed a cup
clean, filled it with poison, swallowed the
dose, and in an hour was dead. "
- One of the most terrible and determined
of suicides was that of Louis Kempf, a
powder maker, of Alameda County, Cal.,
who blew, himself , up with a cartridge,
which he made for the purpose. He „ pro-
bably laid it upon hiE neck and then fired
it. Neer his remains was found a tern
letter, whieh Was plainly written by a
child: It read : "Dear Pape -When are
you coming back ?, I am very good., have
'my 'five cents yet. Is there inu.ch fruit ripe
in the countty ? " '
After taking a look at the mon, George
Farrant and Eliep Hickman stooel on tbe
banks of the ,river in London ready .to
drown themselees. 'Relatives -had thwarted
their. proposed marriage and they deter:
knitted to die together. George tied les
wrist to -Ellen's end they jumped in. They
were rescued, though unconscioue. , After
being resuscitated they were imprisoned.
At the trial 'their relatives relented, a mar-
riage was arranged, and the. judge dis-
charged the pair vvieh a reprimand.
Terrible Results oi the Dreaded
A Chadian (Va.) despatch of, last (Thurs-
day) night's date soya : The ravages of
diphtheria, in this section is dreadful end
hecoMing more alarming daily ; hundreds
�f Ofteeel are teeth:dated. There were 200
deathsen two months, 9 out of every 10
families lost 1 to 5 children. Twenty -ono
deaths occurred in four families: Four
graveyards in one neighborhood have 18 to
20 new graves each. One school lost 20
pupils. On Sunday three persons were
lying dead in one house. Most of thos,e who
died have -black vomit and sorne are covered
with running sores..The doctors are unable
to accotint for the terrible fatality, and
home think it ie searlet fever and diplitherie
combined. The eystems of ' those who
recover are badly shattered,
Francis and George, Darivin, the sons of
the great naturlist, are about to Move from
the old Down Reese to the ;vicinity of
Dambralge,_ where...they-will-establish-a-
large fectory for making plailoeophical
ihstruments. ' '
SCOTCH SOLDIERS OF FORUM
Romantic Record' of thef Seotte au
France.
, . •
HOW GALLA.NTRY WAS REWARDED
It was the policy of the Frentsh sov-
ereigns to reward the 'foieignere richly
who had proved their gallantry on a
hundred fields of battle, and whose fealty
was guaranteed by their chivalrous honor
and eaprit de corps. Each lance hadets
"furniture," to use the language of the
period ;.• catch private life -guardsman his
personal following; they- had bandsmine
pay sed liberal -allowances ; and when the
Stateeichequer was drained by, war end
extravagance, still the - Scots Were paia
one way or another. Thedands that were
forfeited by rebellious nobles were diyided
by the more distinguished of thoee luchy •
mercenaries; and .many ' a youth
who had sailed from Leith • whit
a lean purse died. iu possession et
townie castles and , manors. AS for
the' leaders, no honors in the French realm
were heyeade_their reach. Stewarts; whe
canes,' orethe Scottish blood royal, were
repeatedly marshals of France; those of
the Lennox branch were created Dukes of
A.ubigny, and a Douglas, whit lead covered,
himself , with glory, became Duke of
Touraine, the fairest Presence -of France
and faMous for its rape chateaux. And
the extraordinary privileges of the favored
corps continued down -to times compara-
tively recent. Thus. it is specified, arneng
other things, by, an- edict of Henry 1V.. -
that the captain of the -Scots -Guard shall
always bear the title of the firet captain;
that he shall 'stead nearest to the king
during the coronation ceremony, and that
he shell receive from the royal, hands. the
keys of the towne so soon as they have
been • formally delivered over to the
sovereigM Further, that while the king is
in residence in any town the 'Soots shall
have the keeping of its keys; vehich are
brought to thena by theartaberaof the gates.
A memorable episode in the annals of the
Scats adventurers in•France • was the death
of Henry IL. in the hits of the shivered
lance of Montgomery. .The unfortenate
titter Was a tall and handsome youth. eon
of the captain of the SboteGuards. He had
handled the King roughly -in their first pas-
sage of arms, and was most reluctant to
run a second bourse. . Henry,' however,
would take no denied ; charging 'him -on his
allegiance to remount. Bothelaneee. were
early splintered but Montgomery neglected
to throw away the broken teutedheon. It
atreck the King on the head, and a eel -inter
entered the brain. Montgomery, through
his carelessness seemeto have been in 'some
Measuie., answerable for the accident,
although disgraced; was euffered. to go in
peace. He withdrew to his.eetatee in'Nor-
mandy ,; afterward travelling in ,England-;
and finally, when the Wars of religion broke
Out, he. took service with ethe , Huguenots:
He:surrendered. with -the Castle of Dona -
'front, which he had bravely defended ; but
his end, (literal), was a tragedy. He was
executed as a rebel and a heretic , in the
Palace de Greve: -
• With religious divesione and: th-escenver-
sion of the Scotch nation -to Pretestantism,
the -French alliance declined:. 'Naturally
the followers of' Knox and Hendersoi-i-had
little eympethy with the- pereeouting
Valois thesanguimery Guises, or the illus-
trious. pervert Henri Quartre ; though we
find .Nornaan Lesley:the master of Rothes,
wheeled beenexpatriated for the Murder
o Archbishop • Beaton, serving with dis-
tinction in the Treneh ranks under the
-Admiral Coligey, and failing in a desperate
encoenter with 'the Spapiodese on- the -
Flemish frontier. At the siege of Renee;
with- thirty of his emintremen; fie had•
„ . ,
charged sixty, Mounted musketeers and
had unhorsed five. His lance . being then
splintered; he rode among theta, sword in
hand, and wounded several- Of adver:
series, without heeding in the least the'
shote aimed et latna. He fell Oovered'svith
wounde arid- glore, and, died. after he had
been a fortnight in the heeds: of the sur-
geons, the Prince of Conde, toed the Duke of
Enghien --being awarded the pelni of aalor..
Another still more distinguished 'Scottish
captain, the gallant and sagacious Rirkridy
of :Grange, bore arms in the same cam-
paign, although,. fortunately for himself; be
wawabsent on Ante when hisdriend -Lesley
.wasslain. But when Louis XIII. sue,
ceed.ed ' his illustrious, father, the Soots.
Guaidsevere renionstre.ting against the lees
of privileges; Their. privileged corps were,
being largely recruited from keenehmen
of goo e hloodand small 'means' ' end it is
signifigant, be the Way, that not the slight.
est ,nieritio-n is med.° of:the Scots who had
filled.- the foeenaost pieces- at all the cOurt
pageants -though Dumas, being. a typical
"Fremilathait, may have been somewhat
jealous -in the stirring series' of 'the suc-
cessive historical romances in which D'Ars
eagnan end his comrades df De Treville's
musketeers, conic :to . the front.. Still,
Louie -XIV., Who' 'loved state and lavished.
Money,mairitaitecl the 'men-at-arms :and
the guards, ' and seems to have restored
them their privileges, if he did hetWeed
their, ranks of the Frenchmen. They still
took PeecederiCe of the roe:Ca:the .arnay, in
virtue of their-senitiritya privilege Whiobj-
as" we may well believe, caused great dim
content among the French. They fought
at the hes.d of the Frenelearenies in all the
great bettlee of the reign, Minden being the
Dines.• ' • •
la,st field on which they figured. -London
Prayers tor Punishment.
A Dallas (Texas) despatch says: -Major,
the evangelist, during revival at Alexander,
peayee for divine punishment -on the die -
tether of themeeting, end immedititeiy a
Man dropped dead..Last night et Larnpeso,
Tenn made 'a sineilar-petition, and a young'
lady at once upset a lamp and Was burned'
to death. ' lnakikedietely afterwards a
tornado blew over the 'Gospel Tent and
fatally injured' a young lady and hurt many
°there, musing a. feared panic. 'The. tent
was flooded with water to the depth of two
feet.
Latin is a dead language, and that is why.
.
,dootore use it for writing out their preserip-
tione.--.Nye's Boomerang. . •
Lieut. Danenhower has recovered the
sight- of one' of his eyes, Mit. stip wears
-blue glasses. . ,
Daniel O'Connell; the Irish -orator, was
applied ;to by a friend for Ms autograph, to
Which hoe-01)nel : "Sir, I never seed auto-
araphs.-Yoere, DANIEL O'CONNELL."
• •-e-An easy titne qf it.-" I don't Want any
man's, advice"- seid the maisuelith a big
burnt, of- self-esteire, . "I do My , own
thinking." " murmured Fogg. "1
should thinkyou might end not be greatly
overworked either." '
• Prince Bismarck, who has long been one
of the neost deeokated personages in, Claris -
tendons; has just received an addition to
his decorations in the Order of the Chryee
anthernuna, conferred uPoie bee,the
Mikado of japan. He bas no* forty-five
decoiatiens: •
On Thursday. night an old man named
Milligan registered at the Police Station in
--KingrAereealleds_108.y.e,ars.ofeagesand,-has,
resided in Canade, since 1810, for 60, years
in the neighborhood of Bathe
ArgiONCli THE CHIJECII/ES,
Latest Acittiogis Front all Ports , of
.
chreiteneeim.
There is only one Congregational Church
in Baltimore. -
The Salvation Army holds in different
parts of the British Islande 6,200 services
every week. -. ,
There axe •610 names of Chineanen on
the rolls of Sabbath Schools in New York
and Brooklyn, and the average' attendance
is 331. - •
During the past century the population
of the United States Fleas inereated eleven
fold, and 1 tee Churches have increased
thirty-seven fold.
The eThitedPresbyterian Foreign Mission
Board hes dir,eoted its niissionaries W he fled
-to England to return at epee to their work
in Egypt. .
Rev- R. Dickeon, of Galt, has
successfully passed his ex arninatidn in the
first depertipe t for B. D., inhe Montreal
Presby terianbollege.
At Rheinfelden, Germany, the Catholics
offered the use of their church to the Pro-
eteejemetefor_tae inatikelatendof itessepastor_
eked nieey of thebs attended the service.
There is as merked increase of attendance
at religious services m Edinburgh since a
leading Preebyteriau preacher induced
many employers of laber to give mechanics
a half -holiday on Saturday.
The young people of the South Church
of Springfield, Masa., turn "their church
*Arlon ou Sunday afternoon, from 5 to
730 o'clook, into a free reading -room sup-
plied with religions papers.
"Woman has too long been a mere
hanger on -a camp -follower of the Chris-
tian bost," says Mrs. Melissa A. Stanley,
who favors a wider field' of work for her
sex in connection with the Church.
The `revietid• edition of- Luther's Bible,
,
wIdeli hue justbeen completed in Germany,
is_ to be subjected to public criticism
for two yeare, when a, second revision van
be made and an authorized version printed.
A brother of the lateBishop of Brechin
believes that the Scotch Presbyterian
Church will be disestablished within five
years, and that the 'connection betweeu
tAwhnivvouorchye ehhnraaibsupot raiSn j4aip.tneyvt iehn.artERsgn.r.age gllaaotancti dmih. tewyar.gielel wwnwoebetr en,e nct but
he
oet-
MIICh longer.
left -it last year there were over a dozen
Christian churches with a. member ship,of
oyer 1,000.
Rev. Dr. Chamberlain says: " There
is a tremendous upheaval going OD all
through India at the present time, and I
fear that Hinduism is going to fall to
pieces before the Church of Cheiat is ready
to seize the fragmenteof the ruins and
build up the temple of the Lord."
PastorGeyser, of Elberfeld, it man' of
great learnitig and a champion of the
Evangelical faith in Gernaany, is dead. So
great was his interest in the Free University
of Amsterdam that he dame to Holland
expressly to attend its opening and recited
a Latin poem on that oecasiou.
The Census Commissioners in their
recent publication of the statistics of
County Antrim and the borough of -Belfast,
north of Ireland, thus Classify the religious
denonaniations : Presbyterians, 43.6 ;;Epie-
, copalians, 233; other Protestant denorai-
nations, 10.4; Roman Catholics, 22.7,
A famous North Carolina clergyman,
while preaching a few' Sundays -ago from
the text, "-He giveth his beloved -sleep,"
steeped in the naiddle of the discourse,
gazed upon u na-ber fcg &Tag re-glit
and said: " Brethren, it is harffto realize
the unbounded love ;which the Lord appears
to have for a Marge portion of myauditory."
" The borderland of the creeds is widen-
ing every theta" says the Jewish Messenger.
" It is beginning to be understooealia,t the
universals of honesty, , virtue, :purity,
cement men more firmly arid kindly than
the particulars ' of doctrine and litany.
which drive men apart and produce it vast
number of meeting -houses for the misinter-
pretation of the Bible and the caricature
of the Divine."
"Unitarianism," says the North American
Bevieui, "bas not a single greet name in
pliilosephy 'or theology. It found expres-
sion in a school of literature, but bas
never shown at any point, With all its
beautiful and practical intermit in the
amelioration- Of humanity, anything like
the religious strength and invincible pure
pose of the religious cemmonwealth from
which- it sprung."
"What good does' it do a man' like
Snorer to go to church,' I should like to
know," said the deacon. "-There he sits
off in the °peeler -and node and nods all
through the services." " Well," replied
the parson, "where he sits the • truth
reaches him in an oblique line tui xtdoesn t
seem to affect him much ; but I have hopes.
I pounded the pulpit so bard I wolie him up
this morning."-
An old negro prefessed to be indiffereut
as to a future state, belieVing that " dey'll
make niggers work elsenein heaben." A
m
clergyan tried -to- argue him out of bis
opinion by representing that there Was no
work for him or any One else to do in
heaven. " Yoe go 'way, melees," was his
reply: ".I know better! If dere's, Do
oder work for culled pussons up dere, dey'll
make him ehuls de clouds along! " -*
„ee,Dr. ,Barnardo is one of the most active
ariTsiaccessful city miesionaries ha London.
Hie mission is to the most degraded,and
he depends on voluntary' contributions for
the means with which to carry it on.
Recently he was much in need of fundsesA
lady who was an entire stranger to him'
called to make some inquiries about elle
MiFiSi011, and the Was so well Satisfied with
whae.sheeleitrned about it that she gave -him
three e1,000 Bank of England notes -
e15,000. She, declined to give her -name.
The courage of an English preacher was
recently displeyed in the midst of au open-
air Hendee. Mr. Vivian Dodgson, etude
date for ordere in the Episcoptd Church,
was preaching to tie erovsd of men and
children upon the beach at an English
watering place, when loud cries for help
were heard fiem the sea, where a boet-con.
alining five persons had overturned and all
were struggling for their lives. Without e
moneeet'e heditation, with an unfinished
sentence of his Harmon on his lips, the
preacher rushed into the water and swam
out to the drowning -create/es and saved
them.
The wit -of iltergeant- Ballantine appears
to be of's. 'eery caustic character. :When,
sorne years ago . a distinguielied journalist
was forced to appear irk the witness box,
the sergeant, juetebefore cross examining
him, etitirely deprived him „ef his self-
possesinon by cooly observing, " The -re is
flour on youi nose, Bir." On another
occasion he publicly rebuked Mr: justice
Efewkins-then Me. Hawking, Q. C. -for
hes inveterate love of Accumulating 'wealth,
aesuring him othat he had much more
•money than be Would ever need ill this life,
that he could not possibly- hype to take the
surplus away with him, and that if he did
it would most certakeysenelt.
Mr. A.rchilsald Forbes, While lecturieg in
Australia, bag made over e60,000.
" lifilrOiVel PET BRA /t11."
The Bloat Ftemarkable Instance of Nerve
The people of a little town in Warwick
County have been hanging right over the
brink of a fragrant church scandal, but are
not aware of the feat t)or will they beuntil
this copy of the Argus reaebee its readers
over there. Just before the close of the ser-
vices last Sunday, a good brother rwalked
forward to the pulpit, handed the minister
an announcement, as he thought, and asked
him to read it to the congregation 13efore he
dismissed them. Just before tune was
oalled on the Doxology the minister said
"Brother Bramley has handed in the fol.
lowing note," and in,a clear voice be read
the note, which ran as follows:
MY OWN 'PET PRAM, -Are you never coming to
see me again am dying to eee my 'darling
once more and gaze into his beloved eyes, The
old' mammy that calls herself your wife' will
never Mid it out. How can you endure her ?-
Come, darling, to One who truly loves you. 'Your
own and only . , DIAny.
The goodebrother had handed"- in the
wrong announcement. At' the close of the
reading the minieter looked horrorestriclien.
The congregetion stared at Bramley with
chid, hard stargesaadshies_wife rose ..up -in
her seat -and glanced at-hira like a tigress.
He was equal to the occasion, hovvever, and
risingesahnly, and, with a look of perfect
resigna,tion on his face he said:
"Brothers and Sisters, -It may appear
strange to you that I' should, ask our be-
layed pastor to read such a -terrible thing
as that ?rem the pulpit, but the lserit way
to fight the devil is to fight him -boldly face
to face. The writer of that vile note is
unknown to me, but it is evidently some
depraved child of sin who is endeatoring to
besmirch my Christian reputation. I shall
use every endeavor to ferret out the writer,
and if discovered will fearlessly proclaim
her name, and hold her up t� the contempt
of all good Christian people." ,
He eat down amid a murmur of appro-
bation and sympathy, and his wife wanted
thug him right before the congregation.
•That evening he told the writer of the note
what, had °courted, and remarked with a
grin that it was the closest call he ever had
in his life. -Evansville Argus.
The New Comet. •
The opinion attributed to Prof. Swift tha
the new comet die:levered by Schmidt a
Athees on Subday Is a fragment of eb
'great comet broken off at ite
ion passage seems likely to mese mis-
apprehension. The great comet, although
it went yoreclose to . the sun, did
not strike it, and • if any •-separation ha
taken place in its' nucleus,: wheeeby-
new comet has been formed, it is net
the result 'of a. condole -with the sun,
but of the trertaseedoes forces to
whiela it was subjected in its rapid
swing around the great centre of gravita-
tion of the solar system. The comet -did
undbubtedly pass ,theougn the peter atmo-
sphere of the sun,. but - that could only
retard its progress,' not shatter it, and it
,..might even have gone. thousends of miles
I beneath the'visible surface of the sue with-
] out encountering any solid body, for the
nucleus, of. the SLID bsbelbbved to lie far
beneath the, surface whibh we see. In that
case,e however, the erebet would have been
,
absorbedinto the Sinn and so have 'disap-
peared fer,ever.-N. Y. Sun.
illapPi,Consunimation.
. Discovered, the means* by which any
lady may wear slippers or shoes one or two
sizes smaller than usual. Everyone who
has used Putnam's Painless Corn' Extractor
is pleased with the result. -Very few per -
_sons are exempt from suffering great dis-
comfort and pain from corns, bat corns a.re
of small importance when' they may be re-
moved by a few applications of Putnam's
Painless Corn Extractor. Beware- of sub-
stitutes and bad counterfeits: Sure,
prompt and painless. Sold everywhere by
druggists.
Queen Olga of Greece carries with her
on her travels a lap dog of that rare breed
so often represented by 'Sir Peter Lely in
his pictures of the ladies of the Court of
Charles II.
Extravagance
ie a crime ; and ladies cannot afford to do
without Dr. pierce's "Favorite Prescrip-
tion' " which by preserving end restoring
health, preserves and restores that beauty
which depends on health.
Pauper lutacy is largely on the increase
n Loudon. The greatest difficulty is
experienced in finding accommodation.
Beautiful women -
are made pallid and utaattractive by func-
tional irregularities, which Dr. Pierce's
" Favcrite Prescription" win infallibly
cure. Thousands of testimonials. By
druggists.
He who is never dissatisfied with him -
'elf or others, and never -discontented with
things around him, cannot be expected to
make any etrenuous efforts at inaproveruent.
He may live out a life of ease ante serenity,
but it will be the ease of torpor and the
serenity of indolenoe.
The consumption of alcohol in 11 ehorne
of " bitters," tinder the .liseudonym of medi-
cinal tonics, is a crying evil and a fruitful
source of iatetaperance. Much of the un-
controllable inebrity we seeamong the cam-
pitratively young is attributable to heredit-
ary' impulses, derived from mother's who
have been led to use these pernicious drinke
for increasing strength during geetation and
nursing, and have contracted a fatal habit
and transmitted it to the offspring. A
physiological form of energy, better than,
stimulants to sustain :,he vital forest( when
extra demands are made on the system, is
the tissue Phosphates, as combined in
Weir,nemes Beim OP PHOSPHATES AND
CALISAYA.
The Bishop of Saskatchewan is in • Lon-
don, Ont., en route to England, where he
will be most of the winter.
4 A. Smart Man
is one .vvho does his work quickly and well
This is what Dr. R. V. I'ieree's golden
Medioal Discovery" does as a blood -purifier
and strengthener. It aroeses the torpid
liver, purifies the blood, and is the best
remedy foe consumption which is scrofulous
diseese of the lunge'''. ,
, Let no American face -powder manual.°
eurer advertise thus in any play or concert
bill : Dear, Mr. Pettriface : I' charm
nightly by eirtue of your Oriental Bea:la-
thier for,Anglo-Sa,xou Complexiobse Please
tend nineteen boxes. Gratefully yo,era, Mrs.
-Langtry." No; let no men believe that
he can make it trusting public think he
"can paint, the Lily.' For has she not ao-
eounted for be complexion in flee wise?
"As the only sieter of six,stout brothers, I
shared their outdoor e sPortel in a most
boyish fashion. • My life in Jersey had,
been spent sin:test entirely in the open air,
and, as Mr. Langtry was 'very fond of
segliting,Ibecameeeneeempere yeeletess
woman, aa was very fond of ,all eorts of
qutdoor. eeeroisee •
,
A PLEA FOR A. PEST.
An lEdnented horde of Blouse Plies Des
The Return of Our Wises.
• It was in a horse car. She had been
away for several months aml the children
had gone to the depot to meet her. They
chatted away merrily while she patted
their little heads -and smiled interestedly.
"How's Mary ?'she inquired, when they
both &topped for breath.
"Ob, she's well. She's taking her naic
lessons right along." '
" And Harry ?"
"He's going to BC11001. Started last
we'e`Ak.n"d papa ?"
" Hee; well to. He's having a bully
time. He said. be didn't care if you didn't
come back for a year."
The paesengere roared.
Grabbing the children with both hands
she ru'ihed• tor the door with an I'll-get-
even-with,him-fonthis exOession on her
face. Heaven help hini.-Balthnore Day.
Herbert .Spencer is in New York, still
illeerarts weak,Hi ConcomplainingditiOnsee of:
t obeinabilityeri outs°.
menace. ,
Now is the time when the averagehouse•
-
fly begins to realize that he has wasted the
golden clays of glimmer in riotous living
and dieeipation. He feels old age and
rheumatism grow upon him, and ask Ins
half-dozen feet stick to the window pane
he murmurs, "Will they miss me when
I'm gond 7" in topes that ought to melt a
heart of stone. No more for him to daily
with the sunbeams, that stream in through
the bed -room whadow. No more for him
to feast upon .the good things'. in
elle kitchen, to 'revel tbe glucose
bowl, to dodge the repacioes spider,
and give a wide berth to the seduce —
five • fly poison. Having • safely passed
through dangers that might easily appal
the stoutest heart, he now succumbs before
the ravages of time. Cold weather and old
-age have clairned hire for their own. What-
ever his other faults may be, the house -fly
, certainly does not lack in perseverancea-
and,the. season' is now at hand when his
-natural inflexibility of purpose is coupled
with a desperation -a sort allied fury, as,
it wereee_whieban.skesehineelegable terrible.
to the human race. He pereitits in lighting.
on your nose, and, although cuffed off a,
dozen times, returns to ,the charge with
'a frenzied zeal worthy of a better cause.°
He develops biting propensitiee not bes
fore suspected, and thus takes the place*
of the guileless and ukahappy DIONtlitO,
Whose erstwhile tuneful vMee is now
hushed indeath. And as the end draweth
nigh,the dinner table gives painf ul evidence
of the disintegration aerie on' 'at every
hand. Not' a dish but has SOMe relic of
the, kitchen- combat -a leg here, a Wing
there, or maybe aewhole corpse in a more
or less advauced stage of dernoralization,
and thus it is that the fly, Beeson of 1882: '
ceneeth to an and. The fle is the only ,
useful dothestic animal Whose Lk:write are
not appreciated. Unlike the cookroiteli
• and •the' bedbug, -scienee says he has a:—
mission, to fulel as a public scavenger, ,
and bald-headed, geegle-eyed professors ,
lay the score can be -cited to show that
the fly is a beast of no little value to the.
community in which he dwells:- In- view
of these facts it 38 painful to see the
warlikepreparatiops that are naerle for his
ooming. 'each sprints, and to knew that -
chemists and hardware men have burned
their midnight oil all winter long devising
means for his ' destruction. Listead of
being left in his present uncivilized and .
barbarous condition, the fly should be
admitted to the eamesprivileges enjoyed by
the cat and dog, and unless his inna.teintee .
ligeuce has beeu over-estimated, it will not
be long before a, well•educated and thor-
oughly trained body of flies' will bus mimeo
of pride- in every household. Who will
lead in this great work of reform? What
housewife desires to have her name handed
clime to posterity as a benefactor of the
race? Don't speak all at once, ladies.
Biome ot Evangeline.
Moving westward the country . improves,
rapidly from an agricultural point of view,
• and the..traveller 20011 finds hinaself in the
district of Horton, the home of Evangeline,
and one of the .richest and" loveliest spots
which it has ever been our fortune to visit.
It is said that Longfellow never visited the
place which he selected for the. opening _
eoene of his great poem:. If thisbe so hie
description of Grand Pie, etriking under.
any circumstances, becomes 'simply won -
derail. The "vast meadows stretohed
to the eastwardp affording "pits.
lure to flocks without number,"
"dykes that the hands • of learners
had raised With labor incessant," the
" orcbardsaand-cornfielde " lying- to the
"south and west," with " Blomidon on .
the north," -and the' mist from the mighty •
Atlantic looking on the heppy valley," all
are still oliaresteristie of thrice beautiful
*Arend , Pre. A different race has long 'inhabited the place : the snorting steam,
engine bounds over the meadow e where
once " in ponderous ,wains the Acia,di8,u
women drove their bousehold goods to the
seashore;" but etill the place is tlie Ramo.
Ever blooming,' ever fair, -time has written
ne wrinkle dn' the brow of the banks of the
Gasperaux.-Cor. P. 11.1. Examiner.
7-7
Meateet;
(PROM BRAZ/1-)
The New Compound, won-
derful affinity to the -Digestive
Appara.tus and the Liver, increas-
ing the dissolving' juices,.reliev-
ing almost instantly the dreadful
results 0/Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
and the TORPID _LIVER, ma lay;
ZOPCSExen cver,y clay ne cessjty Le
eve2y- house.
It acts gentlY and speedily- i,22
B.iliousness, Costiveness, Head-
ache, Sick Ireada,c12b, Distress al=
f,ter Ecktipg, Teeleed on the Stomach.
Heartburn, Painsin the Side and
Back, Want of Appetite, Want. el
Energy, I,ow Spirits, Poul ,Stom-
ac12. It invigo.r,ates the 'dyer, car-
ies off all surphzs bile, .regulates
the I3owels, and gives' tone to the ,
whole system. -
Cut this 'out and take it to yens!
--Dzyggist-and-,rera"10'eent-SaMple,-
or a large bot,Oe for 75' cents„ and
telbirour neighbor about it.. •• •