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On the N,l . R -Canadian Among the
4 Helena, Mont, deepatoh gays : A
aeraous .wreck 000urred on the North°*n
Pacific Road on Tuesday afternoon. Net, ,
the Neale fast train, wag nearingPl nrrt-
mond, fifty miles, west of this city, when
two else ra were thrown down a thirty-
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Ilett car wenn .thrown violently 'from their
O Beate and huddled into a mass, while those
in the second fared but little better.
Visa May 0. Carson, Fort Sherman,
Idaho, wits injured eo badly that she died
within an hour. A dozen, others were in-
jured, the moat gerionely hurt -being A: ISL
Otto, Northern Pacifico Express- auditor,
'who had bia arms broken andbedly bruised;
7dra. Cir, D. Howe, Faribault, Minn., lege
• injured ; Annie Benson, -Waterville. Wash-.
stilgtota, shoulders injured ; Jnmeo Slocum,
a. awes = mum. .'.i :'
injured ; Mre. John Lalley, New York, face
and head out ; Mrs. A. Sine, Kingston,
Oat., internal injuries ; her child was also
• njnred S K -Maley, Port Towneend,-
Washington, head hart ; Elijah Smith, New
York, -hands out and ahouldera hurt ; W.
-L. Patch, Minneapolis, arm hurt ; Yrs.
V. L. Patch, face, bead and arme
lacerated.
The sleepers were badly smashed.
Severalofthe wounded are dangerously
hurt,
e m.utphysicians say no more deaths
will The wounded were taken tothe Northern
Pacific Hospital at Missoula, where every-
bbing•is being done for them.
A TEXAS CLOUD-BUBST.
A Train Flood -Bound by the Washing Out.
of Ties.
A Van Horn, Tex., despatch of last. night
'says:: A remarkable olond-burst on the
- Iountaine has stopped traffic. terenorarily
on the Tease Pacific railroad to -day. The
noon train out of El Paso, eastward bound,
had three coaches, a sleeper, and the
speciall. palace oar Mayflower, containing
the Frank Leslie's Weekly Newspaper party,
including Mr. Bussell Harrison.' It was
moving along about . 8 O'olook to -night at
high speed, when at this pointit soddenly
ran into an enormous flood of water, spread-
ing for over eight miles along the valley
'a latiagethe titeett%Tv ee-/The-sc
was instantly slowed, but the flood from
She mountains increased so rapidly that
the ties were washed ont from under the
track and the train stopped to await devel-
opments. The extraordinary nature of the
oload-buret is shown by the fast that fif-
teen minutes before the train approached
Van Horn the track was perfectly dry. Be-
fore tbie there bad been no rain at Van Horn
for many months, though there had been
occasional small olond-berate. The Leslie
party remains. on the oar as the track is
out oft from the mainland by the water,
the ropring of whioh oanbe heard fodmiles.
A. HI SB* 1D'8 VEZ1[>iw.
Dangeronaly Shoots SL Stott Wife and
Then HIM Himself.
A New York despatch says ; John Lutz,
a Hungarian, this morning, while in his
cups, ,entered .the. aperlmenta on Clinton
street of his second wife, who left him some
time ago, and who had been en porting
herself and her '18 -year-old dancter__ley
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him away, and they did not meet again
until this morning. Lutz found hie wife
this morning in bed nursing a baby.5 days
old. There was also present a midwife.
Lutz at once began calling hie wife names,
axed -,-n n-her-refueing to -allow flim to kies
the baby, he drew a revolver ,tnd told hie
wife he was going to kill her. She arose
from the bed, clasping the baby over her
left breast. The little daughter threw her
srnra around hen mother to protect- her.
The midwife ra
GOUT TOMO'
Declares That -Marriage Was Not Asti -
tided by Ohrist.
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woman's body, but ebe escaped from .the
room with the baby and reached, a neigh-
bor's apartmente. Lutz then fired two
shote into -his left breast,- killing- --himself.
instantly. Mrs. Lutz'a wounds are danger-
ous, but she may recover.
THE FATAL SHFABie.
A Drunken Husband Stabs His Wife to
the Heart.
A yesterday's New York deepatoh says :
Mrs. Hester Loppy, aged 40, was found
dead to -night in her apartments on the top
floor of No. 227 Christie street. She had
been stabbed through the heart with a
pair of shears, and her hneband Martin ie
under, arrest charged with her murder. A
year ago Loppy had a fight with a woman,
and was struck on the head with an iron
kettle. He lost the sight of hie left eye,
and his mind became affected. For the
last year be has done no work, and his wife
snppoited him by working in a tailor shop.
Loppy drank heavily. This' afternoon
Ithos. Weir galled to see, Loppy, but heard
the latter and his wife quarrelling and
went away. Afterwards he returned; and
had to knock ten minutes before being ad-
mitted. Weir then saw Mrs. Loppy'° body
and accused Loppy of killing her. Weir
hurried out in the street to get away, and
Loppy followed and told a neighbor that
his wife was dead. The neighbor called a
Ybeman, and Loppy and ei were
arrested.
THE COMPANY'S TURN.
Being for Sums Out of Which an Agent
Swindled It.
A New York , despatch of Wednesday
says : In the snit of the Union Insurance
Company, of Philadelphia, against the
Continental Insurance Company, of New
York, a verdiot was given to -day for the
plaintiff for about $77,000. The suit in-
cluded 28 oanses of action, and 16 counter
claims. The plaintiff based its snit on the
fraudulent practices of Lorenzo Dimiok,
general agent of the defendant company,
at Buffalo. Dimiok, who represented
several main insurance companies, vio-
'timized other ^companies for the benefit of
hie own by transferring every risk drawn
against the Continental Company to an-
other concern as Boon as he reoeived notice
of lose. He was sentenced to five years'
imprisonment for perjury, but was ad-
mitted to bail pending an • appeal, and he
fled to St. Catharines, Canada, where he
died. There are eight other snits, for Rime
t' 2 int the Conti-
nental
onts
aggregating $ 00,000, against C
nental-Company..on the. -same -grounds..
A Bad Man to Mob.
An Alexandria,Va., despatch says : Police-
man Ticer this evening arrested a man,
when his prisoner was rescued from him by
Fred. Lee, a negro politician. Lee knocked
the officer down, but Policeman MoCnen
coming to his rescue Lee was arrested.
A crowd' of negroes gathered and became
threatening. - Tioer fired two shots, almost
inatantly.kiiling Lee and mortally wotind-
ing another negro, George Tine. The
mob diapereed, but reassembled around a
saloon to which the officers had gone, and
there negroes were haranguing the others
to take revenge, when a equad of police.
men captured the speakers and broke np
the throng.
A Society Belle Charged With Forgery.
A New York despatch says : Mies Nettie
Clark, of Providence, R. I., was a prisoner
in the Jefferson 'Merkel Court to -day,
charged with forgery. She is a stately
brunette and bas moved in the beet society
of that city. She pleaded guilty of forging
a cheque for $6,000, whioh she cashed, and
was held to await the arrival of requisition
papers from Providence. It is said she
affixed the name' f Joseph L. Tourtelot, a
retired mill-ownkr; and an intimate friend
of her family, to the cheque on the Me-
ohanioe' Savings Bank of Providence.
Death Preferred to Poverty.
A Hoboken, N. Y., despatch says : The
body of Mrs. Franz Wentlandt was found
in the river to -day, an& clasped tightly in
the arms of the woman was found a four -
months' ' old babe. They had been dead
only a abort time. Wentlandt is missing,
and it is believed he and hie wife com-
mitted suicide together on account of their
poverty, as, Wentlandt sent d note to hie
pastor this morning saying nnoh was their
intention. Wentlandt was a German jour-
nalist, but had been unfortunate.
The State of Michigan will holds its
second annual International Fair • and
Exposition in Detroit from August 26th to
September 5th, and $100,000 will be
bestowed in wash ,premium(' upon the
breeders, manufacturers and skilled pro-
ducers of the United States and Canada
Whose eahtbits shill fie deemed worthy. It
is to be hoped that the enterprise will
,.;atiil ,all -„.11a epoatationB :o�tB-ldberal�.
minded projectors.
Four of a Boating Party Drowned.
A McKeesport, Pe., despatch says ; This
afternoon Jim.Thompson, his wife and 14 -
year -old girl, Bessie, and Richard Smith
and wife and three ohildren started to row
aoross the Youghiageny River here. The
boat was old and rotten, and in' the middle
of the river it gave way. Both men sank
instantly, and Bessie Smith and Annie
Thompson followed,after rising three times
to call piteously to their mothers to save
them. Robert, an 18 -year-old' 'son of Mrs.
Thompson, dragged his mother to the boat,
and she and her infant child were sup-
ported by the boy until help arrived. Mre.
Smith saved herself by clinging to the boat.
The bodies of the two men and their
daughters were recovered.
A Disastrous Pleasure Trip.
A Rochester, N.Y., despatch says : A sad
boating aooident000urred this evening at
Ontario Beach. W. W. Frye, a travelling
man of Bradford, Pa., was out boating
with Mrs. E. M. Wiener and Mrs. J. E.
Hammond, of this city, when the boat
capsized. Frye pulled the ladies on to the
boat three times, but they were so ex-
hausted that they could not hold on and
both sank. Both leave husbands, and Mrs.
Hammond leaves a boy 15 years of age.
The bodies have not been recovered. Frye
was saved. '
Accident or Murder ?
A New York despatch says : A boss
trnokman, David Dillon, was shot through
the, heart and killed this evening • by
•Edward Citterton. Citterton claimed the
shooting was accidental. He had stepped
np to Dillon to prevent him from striking
his (Citterton's). brother Frank. Citterton
held a revolver in his hand whioh had been
used in the Fourth celebration, and it went
off. Dillon rind Frank Citterton were
drunk. Edward Citterton was sober. All
were young men. •
Striking Oloakmakers Hunt for Trouble.
A New York despatch of Thursday night
says : Abraham Rosenberg and a orowd
of thirty other strikers visited the tailoring
shop of Samuel Dillet, in Eldridge street
to -day, and began an indiscriminate attack
upon Dillet, bis wife and the workmen in
the shop. Dillet defended himself with 'a
revolver. He fired into the orowd and
shot Rosenberg, inflioting a. probably fatal
wound.
Fell 140 - Feet.
A Lexington, Vie, despatch. says : This
morning, at Buena Vista, four men entered
a nage for the purpose of descending into a
mine when, withbnt warning, the oar fell
140 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Eli
Painter, John Montgomery and Lippe
Snead were instantly killed. Floyd Marion,
one of the party, is still alive.
Yon needn't talk about keening one's
word,” said a husband to his wife daring a
alight misunderstanding ; " when I first
asked yon to marry me you declared that
you wouldn;t marry- the beat man in the
world." " Well, I didn't," snapped the
First tramp—What day of the week is
it ? Second tramp—Sunday, I pose—
everybody is going in the back door of that
saloon over there.—Jura/.
" Have yon been to hear Stranes ? "
" Yee ; couldn't hear a thing." " Why
not ? " "The ushers clothes were too lend."
—New York Sun.
A woman went 'recently Into a bookeei-
ler's shop to purchase a present for her
hneband, and the assistant in charge sug-
gested a set of Shakespeare. The would-be
purchaser met this proposal, however, with
the prompt remark : " Oh, he read that
when it first oamo out." --New York Star.
The beautiful Duchess\ of Marlborough
wears three gold braoeletn,from whioh three
gold keys hang ie pendant. One opens the
look of her grace's jewelbox,the other be-
longs to her writing folio and the third to a
Sons In A
he Author of Tile Erne ser Bon
Reply to Critics Advances a Startling
Theory, Which Terrified Him Until
His Reason and Conscience Told Him
That Celibacy is Right and Marriage
Wrong.
(Treastateri fru n Connt.Tolstora ma'i"'ctipt.)
I have reoeived, and still continue to re-
ceive, numbers of letters from persons who
are perfect strangers to me, aeking me to
state in plain and simple language my own
views on the subject handled in the story
entitled " The Kreutzer -Sonata." With
work of looking for, ohooexng, end'winniQg
the Weak- de eirabletafbjeeilat Af .103tetetianYabittlt
parpee° lying and fraud aro held to 1)QT: to
exoneeble ; those of the women and girls
in alluring men and deco/lug thew into
liaisons or marriage by OA mold gaeetion-
able means oonoeivable, ae an iusteuoe of
which the present fashions in evening drees
may be cited. It am of opinion that this ie
not right.
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been exalted by poets and romancers to an
undue importance and than love in its
varione developments ie not a fitting object
to consume the best energies of men. Peo-
ple set it. before them and strive after it,
became their view of life ie as vulgar and
brutish- as- ie- that- other- -ooneeption- ire'
guently met with in the lower stages of
development, which gees in inactions and
abundant food an end worthy of man's beet
efforts. Now, thisis not right
and should not be done. And in
order to avoid doing it it is only
Ind Ibat the men and women of onr so-
piety have, a ._oeremony__verforrnod by the
clergy to whioh they give the name of sac-
ramental marriage; they then live on in
polygamy and polandry and giving them-
eelvea np to vioe, in the belief that they, are
praotieing the monogamy they profess.
CHRISTIAN MARRIOES A FRAUD.
Now, there is not and cannot be such an
institution as a Christian inertia e, just as
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liturgy, Batt., vi-, 5.12 ; John, iv , 21) no.,
Christian teachers, nor church fathers
-Matt., sails., 8.10) nor Christian armies,
Chrietian law oourte, nor Christian States.
This is what was always taught and be—
lieved by .true Christiana of the Arai hind
following 0enturioe A Christian's ideal -is
not marriage, bat love for God and for his
neighbor. Consequently in the eyes of a
Christian relations in marriage not only do
not constitute a ` lawful, -right and happy
state, as onr society and our churches
comply.
My views on the question may be eno-
oinotly stated lig follows : Without enter-
ing ..into__dwetetil_e...it_.inay_ eLgenerally..ad,
mitted that I am accurate in saying that
many people condone in young men a
course of conduct with regard to the other
sex whioh is incompatible with etriot
morality, and that this diesolutenees ie
pardoned generally. Both parents and the
government in consequence of this view
may be paid to wink at profligacy and even
in the last resort to encourage its practice
I sen of opinion that this is not right.
It is not possible that the health of one
class should necessitate the ruin of
another, and in consequence it is our first
duty to turn a deaf ear to snob an
essentially immoral doctrine, no matter
how strongly society may have established
or law protected it. Moreover, it needs to
be fully recognized that men are rightly to
be held responsible for the consequences of
their note, and that these are no longer to
be visited upon the woman 'alone. It 'fo1=-
lows from this that it is the duty of men
who do not wieh to live a lite of infamy to
practise such continence in respect to all
women as they' would were the female
society in which they move made np ex-
clusively of 'their own mothers and sisters.
A more rational mode of life should be
adopted, whioh would include abstinence
from alcoholic drinks, frogs excess in eat.
ing andfrom flesh meat..pn the ono hand,
and recourse to physical labor on the
other. I am not speaking of gymnastics,or
of any'of those occupations whioh may be
fitly described as playing at work ; I mean
the genuine toil that fatigues. No one need
go far in search of proofs that this kind of
abstemious living is not merely possible,
but far less hurtful to health than excess.
Hundreds of instances are known to every
one. This is my first contention.
CUPID TO BE SHUNNED.
In the aeoond-plaee, I think that of late
yeare, through varione reasons into whioh
I need not enter, but among whioh the
above mentioned laxity of opinion in
society and the frequent idealization of
the subject in current literature and
painting may be mentioned, conjugal infi-
delity has become more oommon and is
considered less reprehensible. I em of
opinion that this is not right. The origin
of this evil is twofold. It is due, in the
first place,. to a natural instinct and in
the eeoond to the elevation of this instinct
to a place to whioh it does not rightly
belong. This being so, the evil can only
be remedied by effecting a change in the
views now in vogue about " falling in
love'.' and all' that this term implies, by
educating men and women at home
through family influence and example, and
abroad by means of healtby publio opinion,
to practise that abstinence whioh morality
and Christianity alike enjoin. , This is my
second contention.
In the third plaoe, I em of opinion that
another consequence of the false light in
which " falling in love " and what it leads
to are viewed eta aur aooiety isthat the
birth of children has . lost its pristine
si nificance,I and that Modern a marrlage
s
are conceived lees and lees from the.
point of view of the family. I am of
opinion that this is not right. This is my
third contention.
CHILDREN OVERFED AND SPOILED.
In the fourth plane, I am of opinion that
the children (who in our society are either
an obstaole to enjoyment—an unlucky
accident as it were) are educated not with
a viewto the problem whioh, they will be
One day called on -to fade and to solve, but
solely with an eye to the pleasure whioh
they may be made to yield to their parent].
The consequence is that the 'children of
human beings are brought up for all the
world like the young of animals, the chief
care Of their parents being not to train
them to such work as is worthy of men
and women, but to increase their weight,
to add a cubic to their stature, to make
them spruce, sleek, well-fed and comely.
They rig them out in all manner of fantas-
tic costumes, wash them, overfeed them
and refuse to make them work. If the
children Qf the lower orders differ in this
last reapeot from tbose'of the well-to-do
classes, the difference is merely formal ;
they work from..sheer necessity,, and not
because their parents reoognize work as a
duty. And in overfed children as in over.
fed animals, nenenality is engendered un-
naturally early.
Fashionable dress to -day; the course of
reeding, plays, mesio, dances, luscious
food, all the element of onr modern life,
in a word, from the pictures on the little
boxes of sweetmeats up to the novel, the
tele and the poem contribute to fan thin
sensuality into a strong, consuming flame,
with the result that sexual vices 'and die.
elms have come to• be the normal condi-
tions of the period of tender youth, and
often continue into the riper age of full-
blown manhood. And I am of opinion that
this is not right.
It is high time it ceased. Tho children
of 'human being° should not be brought np
as if they were animals, and we should set
np as the object and strive to obtain as the
result of onr Iabors something better and
nobler than a well-dressed body. This is
my fourth contention.
LOVE OVERRATED.
In the fifth plane, I em of opinion that,
owing to the exaggerated and a roneone
signifioance attributed by our society ,to
love and to the idealized states that accom-
pany and succeed it, the beet ane"rglee of
our men and women are drawn forth and
almellgatohellebrae taboundr-,in-=whicsheehe ,exhsaisted-.
keeps her loose money. period of l
truly deserves to be held np as a worthy
object of man'h striving and working,
whether it be the service of humanity, of
-one a.country,..of-soienge,_ ,oL.arta .not - .to.
speak of the service of God, in far above
and beyondthe sphere of personal enjoy-
ment. Hence it follows that not only to
form a liaison, but even to contrast mar-
riage is, from 'ft Christian point of views
not a progress, but a fall. Love and all the
states that accompany and follow it, how-
ever, we may try in prose and verse to prove
the contrary, never die and never can facili-
tate the attainment of an aim worthy of
men, bat always makes it more difficult.
This is my fifth contention.
How about the human race ? If we
admit that celibacy is better and nobler
than marriage evidently the human race
will Come to an end. Bat if the logioal
conclusion of the argument is that the
human ra will become extinct the whole
reasoning wrong. To that I reply that
the argu _ nt isnot mine ; I did not invent
it. That it Issinoambat on mankin T so
to strive and that celibacy is preferable to
marriage are troths revealed by Christ
nineteen hundred years ago, set forth in
our catechisms and professed by ue as fol-
lowers of Christ.
MAN NATURALLY CHASTE.
The same troth la confirmed by our
reason, which tells us that the only sold
tion not repugnant to the sentiment of
humanity of the problem o%verp� opu a-
tion is afforded by the systematic striving
after chastity whioh, though distasteful to
animals, is natural to man.
It is a most extraordinary thing when
you come to think . of it ; Maithnsian
theories can be broached and propagated ;
millions of children may be allowed to die
every year of hangerand want ; millions
upon millions of hainan beings may be
butchered in war ; the State may strain
every nerve to increase and perfect the
means oflalling people and Tool upon
this as the main aim and object of its ex-
istence—all these things .may be done
under our eyes without striking ns as in
any way dangerous to humanity, but let
some one hint at the necessity of celibacy
and immediately the cry is raised that the
human race is in danger.
Chastity and celibacy, it is urged, cannot
constitute the ideal of humanity, because
chastity would annihilate the race which
strove to realize it, and humanity cannot
set up as its ideal its own annihilation. It
may be pointed oat in reply that only that
is a true ideal whioh, being unattainable, ad-
mits of infinite gradation in degrees of
proximity. Such ie the Christian ideal of.
the founding of God's kingdom, the union
of all living creatures by the bonds of love.
The conception of its attainment is incom-
patible, with the conception of the move-
ment of life. What• kind of life could
subsist if all living creatures were joined
together by the bonds of love ? None. Our
conception of life is inseparably bound up
with the conception of a continual striving
after an unattainable ideal.
THE RACE DOOMED ANYWAY.
But even if ` we suppose the Christian
etian
ideal of perfect chastity
- realized, what
thein ? We should merely find ourselves
fade to face on" the one hand with the
familiar teaching of religion, one of whose
dogmas is that the world will have an end ;
and on the other, of so-called science, whioh
informs ne that the eon is gradually losing
its heat, the result of whioh will in time be
the extinotion of the human race.
If the lives of ns Christians are charac-
terized by such a frightful contradiction
between our consciences and reality it is
because we fail to understand the doctrine
of Christ, whioh pointe to an unattainable,
imperishable ideal, and in consequence
allow eoolesiastioal presoriptione, wrongly
called Christian, to be substituted for the
Christian ideal. This has been done in the
matter of divine service of apostleship, of
power and of mnoh else. The same thing
has been done in respect of marriage.
Christ not only never instituted marriage
but if we searoh for formal precept on the
subject we find that He rather disapproved
it than otherwise. (" And every one that
hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wits, or
children, or lands for My name's sake,
shall receive an hundred fold and shall in-
herit everlasting life."—Matt, xix., 29 ;
Mark, x., 29, 30 ; Luke, xviii., 29, 30.) He
only impressed upon married and unmar-
ried alike the necessity of striving after
perfection.
The ohnrohes, however, by endeavoring,
contrary to.Ohrist's teaching, to establish
marriage as a Christian institution failed'
to greats re solid institution, and yet de-
prived the people of the guiding ideal set
up by Christ. The upshot of this ill ad-
vised effort was that people flung away the
old before ereoeiving the new ; they lost
sight of the tree ideal of chastity pointed
out by Christ rind embraoed outwardly the.
ecclesiastical dogma of the sacrament of
marriage, a doctrine that leas been built np
upon no foundationswhatever and in
which men do not really and einoerely be-
lieve. This affords as a eati'afaotory ex.
planation of the faot, whioh at fleet sight
morns a strange anomaly, that the prin.
oiple of family lite and its basis (conjugal
fidelity) are found to be more firmly rooted
among peoples who possess clear and min-
ute external' religions preaoriptions en the
subject --among Mohammedans and Jews,
for instance—than among so called Chris.
Mains. The former have a node of clear,
detailed external precepts respecting mar.
riege, whereas the latter have nothing of
Stich ' a thing as Christian marriage never
wee and never could be. Christ did not
marry, nor did He establish marriage ;
neither did His- disciples marry. -- -But if
Christian marriage cannot exist theelkis
such a thing as a Christian view of arr
riege. And this is how it may be formu-
lated : A Chrietian (and by this term 1
understand not those .oho oall themselves
Christians merely because they were
baptized and still receive the sacrament
once a year, but those :whose lives are
shaped and regulated by the teachings
of Christ) a Christian, I say, cannot view
the marriage relation otherwise than as a
deviation from the doctrine of Christ—its a
sin_ Tibia isolearly laid down in Matthew v.,
28, and the ceremony called Christian mar-
riage does not alter its oharaoter one jot.
A Chrietian will never, therefore, desire
marriage, but will always avoid it.
If the light of truth dawns upon a Chris-
tian when he is already married, or if,
being a Christine. from weakness be enters
into marriage relations with the ceremo-
nies of the Church, or without the e
has no other alternative than to abide "ib
his wife (and the wife with her husband,
if it is ebe who is a Christian) and to
aspire together with her to free themselves
of their sin. This is the Chrietian view of
marriage, and there cannot 'be any, other
for a man who honestly endeavors to shape
hie life in aocordanoe with the teachings of
A TARRIBLE CONCLUSION.
To very many persons the thoughts I..'
have entered here and in " The Kreutzer
Sonata " will seem strange, vague, even
contradictory. They certainly do contra-
dict, not each other, but the whole tenor of
our lives, and involuntarily a doubt arises,
" on whioh side is truth—on the
side of the thoughts whioh seem
true and well founded, or on the side
of the lives of others and myself." I, too,.
was weighed down by that same doubt
when writing " The Kreutzer Sonata." I.
had not the faintest presentiment that the
train of thought I had started would lead
me whither it did. I was terrified by my
own conclusion and was at first disposed
to reject it, but it was impossible not to
harken to the voice of my reason and my
conscience. And so, strange though they
may appear to many, opposed as they un-
doubtedly are to the trend and tenor of onr
lives, and incompatible though they may ,
prove with what I have heretofore thought
and uttered, I have no choice but to accept
them. " But man is weak," people will
object. " His task should be regulated by
his strength."
This is tantamount to saying " My band
xis weak. I cannot draw a straight line—
that is, a line which will be, the shortest
line between two given points -and so, in
order to make it more easy for myself, .I,
intending to draw a atraight, will choose
for my' model a crooked line."
The weaker my hand the greater the
need that my model ehould be perfect.
LEON TOLBTOI.
' The Pastor's Lot.
Folks go to the pastor with their troubles
end ask hie help about things they ought
to fix themselves without anybody's sesiet-
anoe. They tell the minister stuff they
ought to be ashamedto repeat to them-
selves in a whisper' at the bottom of the
well, and yes this man they hire for
thousand or two dollars a year most do
their preaching and be the confidant and
arbitrator for the whole parish 'beside°.
Ministers needa vacation every year if
only for a ohenge. Churches should bo
glad to give it to them, and all co cerned
will bo direotly or indirectly bene ted.—
Utica Press.
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Unavoidably Detained.,
Managing Editor—What do you mean by
this : " Mr. Prindle was unavoidably de-
tained "? Why, now, Prindle's dead.
New Writer—'S that ea ? What shall
I do?.
M. E.—Well, it won't do to any he's dead
in so many words. Use some enphemistio
expression. .
N. W.—Ob, yes, I understand. (Writes) :
"Mr. Prindle'wee unable to .attend, hav-
ing gone on a long visit to the Sulphur
Springs.
" He is a very original boy, that son of
yonre. I think he is bound to rise 'n the
world ?" " I don't know. We hard
thing to get him to rise inthe morning."
Mrs. Millais, the famous artist's wife,
and the ex-wife of John Ruskin, lives like a
royal princess and has a staff of artistically
dressed servants, who care for her every
desire. - She is beautiful, eoco4npliehea
and captivating and is regarded as her
husband's mascot. Her Greek armee are
poems and her pones the perfection of
grape. She hes oriental couches in all her
apartments and ie said to be the happiest
woman in all. Europe. Her 'husband in
worth $1,000,000.
'The largest single dook in the world wale
opened on Marsh 12th last to the waters of
Port Jaokson in Sydney harbor, New
South Wales. It has taken in one steamer
of 6,990 tone and had room to spare
The celebrated German remedy for barns
consists of 15 ounces of the beat white glue,
broken into small pieces in two pints of
water and allowed to become, soft ; then
dissolve it by moans of a water bath and
add two ounces of glyberine and six drama
of carbolic acid; -continue the heat until
thoroughly dieeolvod. On cooling thio-
inge thoenpat °=proinising =theeleind.--raiteo le over-deseery=4neignifk==bardonn-toran.elastia-:maes eovred-'with"' r-`ra
fe.; those of the men in the sant fraction of the unions which they con- shining, parohment-like skin,
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