1k sitar Ii Wm II
M. Assassin m Carnal!“ Isssll
Min-Islfiwmasdlwms
clinician-ladies»
I. C. Benedict has purchased the
WI club grounds at Greenwich!
sampling mveral acres. A handsome
summer house is being suited on the
its. It is said that President Cleveland
audits family will spend some time
than the («luring summer.
Hrs. [Janie E. Arnold. of New lia-
vcn. has been unanimously elected pres~
that d the (Bonuscticut Women's Re-
lief Corps by the council of administrac
lieu. to succeed lire. Mary E. Matthews“
resignedthe ' ition on accounto
maids hf . mold is one of the
best known and most popular Grand
Army workers in the store. She is fifty-
nias years old. .
The summary of The Commercial Res
curd for the current week makes the
following showing: Real estate sales,
New Haven and Westfiaven. ‘23; Bridge-
0; Hartford. .903. Waterbury. 9;
n. ll: New Britnin. 3: Norwich. 8:
New fondon. 3; Danhpry. 2; Norwalk, 3.
WRealmesitge mortgages, Ville: 3“?an
'0”, t '. n t I.
000: Hartford?) fill: o: Waterbury,
5,700; Meriden. t 8.!00: New Britain.
.200: Norwich. 07,285: New London,
{1380: Dsnbnry. $1.075z.‘ Norwalk.
A meeting of the committee chosen
bythc oystcrmen and property owners
of Fair Haven to represent them in pro-
testing against the location of an oi:
distributing station in that place. was
held inthe office of H. C. Rowe d: Co.
It was voted to communicate with Mau-
Hodgkins. the representative of
Oil company. informing
him that the committee was willing to
make an investigation of conditions ex-
isting where other stations were located.
but that the location of a station as pro-
would be dangerous not only to
the oystermcn's interests, but to the
proper”?~ near by. Es ial mention was
made the danger rom co deflation
from apossible istribuiio of oil alouii
the shore. The report the the Standard
Oil company had reached a decision to
locate an oil station in F ‘r Haven is
dcniedhyllianager Hodgkins: - » \
It is expected that three hundred mom:
hers of the Grand Lodge. 1. 0. O.P‘.,will.
attend the annual session which is to
hold in Norwich, May 20. The tot.
membership of the Grand Lodge is about \by
1.500. There are seventy-nine subor-
dinate lodges in the jurisdiction with a
membcrhipofabout 15,000. David R.
Ailing. of New Harlem-present grand
master, will retire with the present
term; It is expected that Senator Lucius
K. Fuller. of Putnam. deputy grand
master, will be promoted to the position
of grand master. Mr. Alling will in
elected mprcsentntive to the Supreme
lodge, which meets at Dallas, Texas. in
September. Frederick Bostsford. of
New Haven,will undoubtedly be re-elect-
ed grand secretary, a pesition he has
held for twentycseven years. The meet
ing of the trustees of the Odd Fellows‘
Home at Groton, will be held the even-
ing before the meeting of the Grand
Lodge The trustees will have a very
satiszctory report to make. The Houu
lain aflonrishmg condition and its es-
tablishment has thus far bee attended
with complete success. /
DON'T WANT TBOLLEY STOCK!
lddpe llsll Says the Consolidated Has no.
Bought ills Bridgeport Traction.
Judge .1. M. Hall positively denies
that there is any truth in the rumor
that the Consolidated railroad had pur-
chased the Bridgeport Traction com-
pany. He says the company has not
even secured the controlling stock. nor
a share. Judge Hall added that the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad had no desire to buy the trol-
leyline. _
The story was that Judge Kruger, of
Newarkmnd President Radel had parted
with stock which, with that of Colonel
Heft, the head of the. New York. New
Haven and Hartfordirnilroad electrical
department, and former resident of the
Tractiongcompanyympul give the road
control. ' 1n, vi",
Ten
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Caporal
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Knowledge of the Age.
Wamruros. limb lit—Newspaper
row. as it is called hers in Washington.
the long row of slices connected with
prominent journals throughout the land,
pcysso much attention to Dr. Tahnags
they may be glad to hear what he thinks
of then while he illnesses a subject in
“ ssv.
llistsxtstoday were,“Audthewheclswcrs
full of eyes" (tackle! x. is), "For all the
A tbsulans and strangers which were there
spent their time in nothing else but either
to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts
xvii. ill).
What is a preacher to do when he finds
two tests equally good and suggestive!
in that perplellty I take both. Wheels
full of eyes! What but the wheels of a
newspaper printing press? Other wheels
are blind. They roll on. pulling or crush-
ing. The manufacturer's wheel—how it
grinds the operalcrwlth fatlgnes and rolls
over nerve and muscle and bone and heart.
not knowing what it does. The sewing
machine wheel sees not the aches and
pains fastened to it—tlghtcr than the band
that moves it. sharper than the needle
which it plies. Every moment of every
hour of every day of every month of every
year there are hundreds of thousands of
wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise,
wheels of hsrd work. in motion, but they
are cyelass. .
Not so the wheels of the printing press.
Their entire business is to look and report.
They are full of optic nerves, from axis to
periphery. They are like those spoken of
by Ezekiel as full of eyes. rihurp eyes,
nearsighted, farsighted. They look up.
They look down. They look far away.
They take in the next street and the next
hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, eyes of in-
vestlgntlon. eyes that twinklcwlifl mirth.
eyes glowering with indignation. eyes teu~
der with lore. eye! of suspicion. eyes of
hope, blue eyes. black eyes. green eyes,
holy eyes. evil eyes. sore eyes. political
eyes, literary eyes. historical eyes. religious
eyes, eyes that see everything. "And the
wheels were full of eyes." But in
my second text is the world's cry for the
newspaper. Poul describes a class of peo-
ple in Athens who spent their time either
in gathering the news or telling it. Why
especially in Athens? Because the more
intelligent people become the more inquis-
‘ltlvc they arc—not about small things.
but great things.
What Is the News?
’1‘ question then most frequently is
estlon now most frequently asked,
the news? To answer that cry in
x for the newspaper the centuries
hallo pu . their wits to work. China first
succeed l and has at Peking a newspaper
that ha been printed every week for l,000
years, Rome succeeded
" nblisbing The Auto Dlurnn. in the
same column putting fires. murders. mar-
riages and tempests. l-‘ranoe succeeded
by a physician writing out the news of the
day for his patients. England succeeded
under Queen Elizabeth in first publishing
the news of the Spanish armada and go-
ing on until she had enough enterprise,
when the battle of Waterloo was fought,
deciding the destiny of Europe. to give it
one-third of a column in the London
Morning Chronicle, about as much as the
nervspaper of our day gives of a small fire.
Ainericusuococdcd by Benjamin Hurrls'
first weekly paper, called Public Occur~
rences, published in Boston in 1090. and
by the first daily, The American Adver-
tiser, published in Philadelphia in 1784.
The newspaper did not suddenly spring
upon the world, but came gradually. The
genealogical lino of the nevvspnper is this:
The Adam '0! the race was it circular or
news letter created by divine impulse in
human nature, and the circular beget the
pmuphlet, and the pamphlet begut the
quarterly, and the quarterly begnt the
weekly, and the weekly boast the semi-
weekly, and the semlweekly begnt the
daily. But. alas. by what a struggle it
come to its present development! No
sooner had its power been demonstrated
than tyranny and superstition shackled it.
There is nothing that despotism so fears
and hates as a printing press. It has too
runny eyes in its wheel. A great writer
declared that the king of Naples made it
frusafe for him to write of anything but
natural history. Austria could not. endure
Kossuth‘s journalistic pen pleading for the
redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, try-
ing to keep his iron heel on the hooks of
nations, said, “Editors are the regents of
sovereigns and the tutors of nations and
are only fit. for prison.” But the battle
for the freedom of the press was fought in
the courtrooms“ of England and America
and decided before tlils century began by
Hamilton's eloquent plea for J. Peter
Zengcr’s Gazette in A nicricannd Erskine's
advocacy of the freedom of publication in
England. There wore the Murahton'snd
Thermopylm in which the‘freedoni of the
press was established in the United States
and Great Britain. and all, the powers of
earth and hell will never again be able to;
put on the handcuffs and happier: of fit-
erary and political despotism. It is nota-‘
bin that Thomas Jefferson. who wrote the
Declaration of American Independence,
wrote also, “If I had to choose between a
government without newspapers, or news-
papers wlthout a government. I should
prefer the latter."
fabrication coming to us in print. wecolne
to write or speak of the unbridled printing
press. or. our new book ground up by an
unjust critic, we come to write (ii-speak
of the unfairness of the printing press, or
perhaps through out own indistinct-noes of
utterance we are. reported as saying just
the opposite of what we did say. and there
Is a small riot of semicolons, hyphens and
commas, and we come to speak or write
of the blunderlng‘ printing press, or, seeing
a paper filled with divorce cases or social
scandal. we speak and write of the filthy
printing press, or. seeing a journal through
bribery wheel round from one political
side to the other in one night, we speak of
the corrupt printing press. and many talk
about the lsmpocnery, and the empiric.
ism, and the sails culottism of the print-
ing press.
A flood newspaper.
But i discourse now on a subject you
have never heard—the immeasurable and
everlasting blessing of a good newspaper.
Thank God for the wheel full of eyes!
Thank God that we do not have, like the
Athenians, to go about to gather up and
relate the tidings of the day, since the
omnivorous newspaper docs both for us.
The grandest temporal blessing that God
has given to the nineteenth century is the
newspaper. W0 would have better appre-
sistlcaotthlsblpcisg if we knew the
mossy. the brain. the losses. the conspira-
which the whole country is intumstsd.‘
Stung by some base ‘
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bores Or-
if:
i.
sryycsrsnisrthc ‘
durllfltbslsstfswyssrsanE-has
disc “everyday. The is
Manic. 'i‘bs lsrcsr papers sivsllcw t
mialler ones. the is taking down so
minnows at one . With races than
moo dailies and weakne- in the United
listen and Canada. there are but to a
half century old. Newspapers do not
average more than five yssrs' saistsacs.
The roost of them die of cholera infantum.
is is high time that the people found out
that the roost successful way to sink
money and keep it suck is iostarta news-
paper. Thsrc comes a time when almost
every oasis smitten with the newspaper
mania and starts one, or have stock in one
he must or die.
The course of procedure lssbcnt this:
A literary man has an agricultural or scl-
cutlflc or political or religious idea which
he wants to ventilate. He has no money
of his own-literary men seldom have—
but he talks of his ideas among confiden-
ilul friends until they income inflamed
with the idea, and forthwiththcy buy type
and press and rent composing room and
gather a corps of editors. and with a pro-
spectus that proposes to cure everything the
first copy is flung on the attention of an
admiring world. After awhile one of the
plain stockholders finds that no great rev-
olution has been effected by this daily or
weekly publication: that neither sun nor
moon stands still; that the world goes on
lying and sin-sting and stealing just as it
did before the first issue. The aforesaid
matter of foot stockholder wants to sell
out his stock, but nobody wants to buy.
and other stockholders get infected and
sick of ilowspupcrdum. and an enormous
bill at the paper factory rolls into an ava-
lanche, and the printers refuse to work
until back wages are paid up. and the
compositor bows to the managing editor,
and the niauuglng editor bows to the cdl~
for in chief. and the editor in chief bows
to the directors. and the directors bow to
the world at large. and all the subscribers
wonder why their paper doesn't come.
The world will have to learn that a news-
paper is as much of an institution as the
flank of England or Yale college and is
not an enterprise. if you have the afore-
said agricultural or scientific or religious
or political idea to ventilate. you had better
charge upon the world through the col-
umns already established. it is fully hr
any one who cannot succeed at anything
else to try nowspaperdom. if you cannot
climb the hill back of your house. it is folly
to try the sides of the Matterhorn.
Near to tbsraople.
To publish a newspaper requires the
skill. the precision. the boldness, the vigi-
lilfli'il, the strategy of a commander In chief.
To edit a newspnpcrrcqulres that one be a
statesman. an essayist, a geographer. a
statistician and, in acquisition, encyclope-
dinc. ’l‘o loan, to govern. to propel nnows-
pnpsr until it shall be a fixed institution,
a national fact. demands more qualities
than any business on earth. If you feel
like starting any newspaper. secular or re-
ligious. understand that you are being
threatened with softening of the brain or
lunacy, and throwing your [moltetbo’ok into
your wife‘s lap start for some insane asy-
lum before you do something dupe-race.
hlcnuwlilleas the dead newspapers week
after week are carried out to burial all the
living newspapers give respectful obitu-
ary, tolling when they were born and
when they died. The best printers' ink
should give at least one sflckful of epitaph.
if it was a good paper, say. "Peace to its
ashes." If it was a bad paper, 1 suggest
the epitaph written for Francis Char-
treuse: “Hero cnntlnnoth to rot. the body
of Francis Chnrlreuso. who. with an in-
flexible constancy and uniformity of life.
persisted in the practice of every human
vice excepting prodlgnllty and hypocrisy.
ills insatiable avarice exempted him from
the first. his mutcliless impudcnco from
the second." I say this because i want
you to know that a good, healthy, long
lived. entertaining heirspnper is not an
easy blessing. but one that comes to us.
through the fire.
First of all. newspapers makoknowledgc
democratic and for the multitude. The
public library is a haymow so high up
that few can reach it, while the newspaper
throws down the forage to our fuel. Pub-
lic libraries are the rworvolrs where the
great floods are stored high up and away
off. The newspnpe is the tunnel that
brings them down the pitchers of all
the people. The chief usc of great libra-
rius is to make newspapers out of. Great
libraries make a few men and u omen very
wise. Newspapers lift whole nations into
the sunlight. Better have 50,000,000 peo-
pic moderately intelligent than 100,000
solons.
A false impression is abroad that news-
paper knowledge is ephemeral because
periodicals are thrown aside. and not one
out of 10,000 people files them for future
reference. Such knowledge, so far from
being ephemeral, goes into the very strnc~
ture of the world’s heart and brain and de-
cides the destiny of churches and nations.
Knowledge on the shelf is of little worth.
it. is knowledge afoot. knowledge harness-
ed. knowledge in revolution, knowledge
winged. knowledge projected, knowledge
tbundcrbolted. So far from being ephem-
eral, nearly all the best minds and hearts
have their hands on the printing press to-
day and have had since it got. emancipated.
Adams and Hancock and Oils used to go
to the Boston Gazette and compose articles
on the rights of the people. Benjamin
Franklin. De Witt Clinton. Hamilton.
Jefferson. Quincy, vvuro strong in newspa-
perdom. Many of the immortal things
that have been published in book form
first appeared in what you may call the
ephemeral periodical. All Macaulny's es-
says flrst appeared in a review. All Car-
lyle‘s. all Ruskiu's. all McIntosh’s, all
Sydney Smith’s, all Buslitt‘s, all Thack-
eray's, all the elevated works of fiction in
our day. are reprints from periodicals in
which they appeared as serials. Tenny-
sou's poems. Burns' poems. Lougfcllow's
poems, Emerson's poems. Lowell‘s poems,
Whittisr‘s poems, were once fugitive plwes.
Yoncunnot find ten literary men in Chris-
tendom with strong minds and great hearts
but are or have been somehow connected
with the newspaper printing press. While
the book will always have its place, the
newspaper is more potent. Because the
latter is multitudlnous do not conclude it
is necessarily superficial. If a man should
from childhood to old age see only his
Bible, Webster’s Dictionary and his news-
paper, he could be prepared for all the da-
ties of thlslifc and all the happiness of
the next.
A Useful llr‘ror of Life.
Again, a good newspaper is a useful
mirror of life as it is. It is sometimes
complained that newspapers report the
evil when they ought only to report the
good. They must report the evil MWcll
as the good. or how shall we know what is
to be reformed. what guarded against.
what fought down! A new per this
picturssoniv the honesty-nil anus
M
w. shill. H.
sillsfairsadrlntshihsmofld. sad
wheathcygunntiniu'lt willllsss
purely to ml. th it as a
child w is thrown into the middle of the
Atlaatlcaml old to learn how taswim.
Our only complaint 1s when do is mm
attractive and morality dull. when rice is
killed wlih great hiding. and good
deeds are put in choose corners. iniquity
set up in great and righteous-ms
in nonparcil. in h loathsome; makslt
loathssnnia Virtue is beautiful; make is
busutiful.
it would work a vad hnpcovsmsut if
all our papers—religious, political. literary
~should for the must run drop their lin~
pcrnnsllly. This won do better justice
to new per writers. Many of the stron-
gest an best writers of the country live and
die unknown and are denied their just
fame. The vast public fluvum \:ho
they are. lost of them are on ooinpuative
small income. and after an bile their hand
forgets its cunning. and they are without
morons. left to die. ’d‘hy not at least
have his Initial attached to his most ini-
poriant work? it always gave additional
force to an article when you occasionally
saw added to some significant article in
the old New York Courier and Enquirer
J. W. W.. or in The filliuno ii. (3.. or in
The Herald J. (l. 1)., (I in The Times H.
J. ft, or in The Evening Post W. C. ll.,
or in The Evening Express it. if.
While this arrangement would be a fair
and just thing for newspaper writers it
would be a defense for the public. it. is
wiuctimes true that things dsiiiaging to
private charmitcr are said. Who is respon-
sible! It is the “we" of the islltorlsi or
reportorlal columns. Every man in every
profession or occupation! ought to be re-
sponsible for what he den No honorable
man will cvsr write that which he would
be afraid to sign. But thousands of per-
sons have suffered from the ancrsonaliiy
of newspapers. What can one private cit-
luu wronged in his reputation do in a
contest with misrepresentation multiplied
into 20.000 or 30.000 million! Au injustice
done in print is llllmltuhly worse than an
injustice done in private life. During loss
of temper a man may say that for which
he will be sorry in ten minutes. but a
newspaper injustice has first to be written.
set up in type. then the proof taken on
and read and corrected, and then for six
or ten hours the presses are busy running
off the issue. Plentyof time to correct;
plenty of time to cool off; plenty of time
to repent. But all that is hidden in the
impersonalfty of a newspaper. is will be
u long step forward when all is changed
and newspaper writers get credit for the
good and are held responsible for the evil.
“no“ Wham
3, nether step forward for nowspsperdom
r“ .. l be when in our colleges and universi-
tiu we open opportunities for preparing
candidates for the editorial chair. We
have in such institutions medical depart-
ments, luw departments. Why not edi-
torial departments! Do the legal and
healing professions demand more culture
and careful training than the ”editorial or
reporterial professions! I know men may
tumble by what seems accident into a
newspaper ofllcs as they may fumble into
other occupations. but it would be an in-
ncwspnper life had an institution to which
they might go to learn the qualifications.
the responsibilities. the trials. the tempta-
tions. the dangers, til) magnificent oppop
tnnltles. of newspspci’life. Let there be a
lectures-hip in which there shall appear the
lending editors of the United States telling
the story of their struggles. their victories.
their mistakes, how they worked and what
they found out to both» best way of work-
ing. There will be strong men who will
climb up without such aid into editorial
power and efficiency. So do men climb
up tosuccess in other branches by sheer
grit. But ii We wnlitienrncd institutions
to make lawyers and artists and doctors
and ministers we much more need learned
institutions to make ditors. who occupy
a position of influence hundrcdiold grout-
cr. I do not put the truth too strongly
when I say the must potent influence for
good on earth is a good editor, and the
most potent influence for evil in bad one.
The best way to re-enforce and improve
the nmspnpor is to endow editorial pro-
fessoratos. When will Princeton or liar-
vard or Yule or Rochester lend the way?
Another blessing of the newspaper is the
foundation it lays for accurate history of
the time in which we live. We for the
most part blindly guess about the ages
flint antedate the newspaper and are de-
pendent upon thc prejudices of this or that
historian. But after 100 or 200 years what
a splendid opportunity the historian will
have to teach the people the lesson of this
day. Our Bancrofts got from the early
newspapers of this country. from the Bee
ton News-Letter, the New York Gazette
and The American Rag Bag and Royal
Gazetteer and independent Chronicle and
Massachusetts Spy and the Philadelphia
Anorra accounts of Perry's victory and
Hamlltop's dual and Washington's death
and Boston massacre and the oppressive
foreign tax on luxuries which turned Bos-
ton harbor lnto a teapot and Paul Revere's
midnight ride and Rhoda Island rebellion
and South Carolina nulllflcntlon. But
what a field for the chronicler of the great
future when he opens the files of 100 stand-
ard American newspapers, giving the
minutiae of all things occurring under the
social, political, ecclesiastical, internation-
al headings! Five hundred years from
now, if the world lasts so long, the student
looking for stirring, decisive history will
pass by the misty corridors of other can.
turlcs and say to the libraries, “Find me
the volumes that give the century in which
the American presidents were assassinat—
ed. the clvll war enacted. and the cotton
gill. the steam locomotive and telegraph
and electric pen and telephone and cylinder
presses were invented."
A Christian Press.
Once more I remark that a good news
paper is a blessing as an evangelistic in-
fluence. You know there is a great change
in our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers of the day—furl am not speak—
ing flow of the religious newspapers—all
the secular newspapers of .the day discuss
all the question of God, eternity and the
dead, and all the questions of the past,
present and future. There is not a single
doctrine of theology but has been discussed
lathe last ten years by the secular news-
papers of the country. They gather up all
the news of. all the earth hearing on reli‘
glcus subjects. and then they scatter the
news abroad again. ,
The Christian newspaper will be the
right wing of the apocalyptic angel. The
cylinder of the Chrisilanlzed printing
press will be the front wheel of the Lord's
chariot. I take the lnuslc of this day. and
I do not mark it diminuendo; I mark it
crescendo. A pastor on s Sabbath preaches
lo a few hundred or a few thousand maple.
and on Monday or during the week the
printing press will take the some sermon
and h it to millions of Is. God
specs?» pristine Dress! G savsths
.-._.._ .-
l
the luau-ins
calculable advantage" those proposing a :
that. sitting or standing in with“
such great launches. may site all
that influence for God the bum
badbaoonis heiress to a large property.
and that fragment of a newspaper lifted
her from paupsrlsm to sanction. And I
do not know but as the thread of time on-
rolls and unwlnrls a little farther through
the silent yet speaking newspaper may be
found the vast inheritance of the world's
rulcmpilon.
Jesus shall reign where'sr the sun
Dons his successive journeys run.
Bis kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set on more.
wafi "we...
flora Are Mill 8... Isa-snot“.
To the student of political institutions
perhaps the roost characteristic thing
MN!" the history of the German empire is
the example that it gives us of the revival
or unfilrinatlon, so to spank. of the princi-
pic of monarchy. That. principle has re-
ceived sinus rndc shocks in recent yeun
The «taillishment of the French republic
was one, and the deposition of the emperor
of Brazil was certainly another. Both
events gave great encouragement to re
ublloan ideas. Kingsblp In the old abso-
ute sense had long been on the wane.
The French revolution almost shattered
the foundations of the old monarchical
rule. in England the old klngshlp re
solved its final blow when George 1" sur-
rcmlcred his position on the question of
the emancipation of the Catholics. So at-
tempt has since been made to impose the
royal will upon a reluctant ministry or
parliament. in France the old kingsblp
disappeared when Louis Philip the cit-
izen king. was summoned to c throne.
for the monarchy of J nly was built on
strictly constitutional lines. Even in
Prussia a very restricted constitution was
reluctantly conceded.
King Frederick William IV vowed that
he would never let a sheet of paper inter-
vene helm-en the God in heaven and his
subjects, but even he was forced at. last to
yield to the spirit of the age. and. as Bis-
marck plciurcsquely put it, the crown itself
throw a clod upon its mtlln. The ltnliau
slates and t-‘pain were for long in a condi-
tion of chronic. revolution. and either coll-
sfltutions were extorted or republics were
established. it almost seemed as though
the principle of klngshlp was doomed are
long to disappear. But the history of the
German empire has done much toward the
restoration of monarchy to its old illustri-
ous position—Macmillsn's Magazine.
linenlflvatcd Ideas.
The testimony of educated deaf mules
.regardlng some of. their ideas before in-
i structlon is very interesting. Some fan.
_ ohd the wind Won blown from the month
i of an unseen being. A number supposed
lllillf. rain and lightning were caused by
1 men in the Icky pouring down water and
firing gdni't. ‘ duo whli ha‘d hen Iou'rfnllv
ing in a mill thought that snow was
ground from a mill in the sky. Some
thought the stars were candles or laiaps
lighted every evening by inhabitants of 3
the heavens. Only one said she had "tried
to think“ about the origin of the world
and its inhabitants. All had a great for-
ror of death and being put in the grave. '
One had been haunted by‘fear that she
might awake in the grave and be unable
to call for help. One thought death was
caused by medlclue administered by the
doctor. Deaf motes have refused to go to
bod ill from observing that sick persons
have iakcn to their beds before death.
Those who Wem taken to church by their
parents said they had little idea before
education of the purpose of this assembly.
Une testified. "i thought that the people
wars in the church to worship the clergy-
man of the greatest dignity and splendor."
They had no idea of any being more also
and povvnrful than man and no conception
of the soul or of any spirit whatever.—
New York Herald.
The Russian Policemen In Podolh.
Polish gentlemen in Podalia have since
the last rising in 1863 been hemmed in by
so lnany restrictive laws and subjected to
so inauy disabilities that it. would be ill.
most. impossible for them to live on their
estates were the police to insist on the
strict execution of the laws. Nor would
the officials themselves have a happy time
of it. They are isolated among a Polish
population. for from any Russians except
the police under them and are very ill
paid, so they, too. Would furo badly unless
a inodus vlvendl were establlsbed with the
Polish gentry. To the credit of both sldu
it is. I believe, a fact that no money bribe
ever passes directly between them. but the
Poles have many ways of rendering life
more pleasant to the solitary official. 2
Presents of gains, fruit and wing gm]
loans of skilled labor. which in manv jarge'
districts is only’ found among in}; em.
ployees on the estates, are considered 138:".
mato oflerlngs of good will. It is also a rec-
ognized thing at Polish houses that these
officials are, if possible, to be allowed to
win at cards. They cannot but enjoy.
too, the various charming gatherings to
which they are invited, for such is the in.
cute courtesy of nPolish gentleman that I
never saw the slightest indication that
these representatives of a bated govern-
ment were not honored gaunt—Black-
wood's Magazine.
me of Mill}.
Illustrating the mind's training asouth-
ern paper tells of a little girl 4 years old
who happened to be sliding when she and-
denly fell heavily and was evidently badly
hurt. At the sound of her who a friend
rushed to her assistance and caught her in
her arms. “You poor little thing. and
to. did you follt" The mite raised her
head and replied between her robs. “Ver-
tically." So much for kindergarten trail».
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“In writing to a man,” said Mrs. Caus-
tique to the young womnn she was piloting
over social shoalsand quicksands. “ wheth~
_ “r hols married. single or semlattacbed,
cep strictly to this rule: Write nothing
you wouldynot'be entirely willing to have
his wife read, supposing hento be some
other woman than yourwlf."
correct. \
“What timedoes thc train leavcf“asked
the traveler. And the gatekeeper at the
Boston depot gave him a haughty look
and replied. "When the reed quits busi-
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