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GKKEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN MONTPEL1ER, VT. Office lu fUc Brick Block. Head of State Street TEKHi: $zm if paid id advance; otherwise, 5 50. ' Payment may be made by mail or otherwise lu 3. W. WHEKLOCK, Editor and Proprietor. The Fueemax. urnler the recent law of Congress circulates free in Waehintrton County, On all paers Bent outside Wanhitivton County, tbe postage la paid c the publisher at the offlK iu MuutpeUer . AO. oO. MONTPEMF.ll.VT. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 11. 1873. VOL. XXXV. MOMTELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1878. The Colonel's Sentence; Mory. An r.v HAYID KElt. Family Troubles. Nearly every family has its own trouble. The " skeleton in every closet " is not al together a ho:ix. Human nature is frail ami seldom are all hearts and minds in a household so adapted and adjusted onu to another that no word will bo misspoken and no wound will ever bo given. In all families there are things to " hear and for bear." Xo imperfect being should expect it to bo otherwise liut there is a great dilll-renco in fami lies in their management of their troubles Somo wisely make no mention and give no siem abroad of ills at home and others never " hold their tongues " In every community a few families are the " town talk " because of their variances and in discretion. In onr pastoral work we have been called to listen to many a story of household alienation and so wo write not altogether in ignorance. Every alienation grows worse with pub licity. The more a family trouble is spread abroad the more difficult is it to harmon izo the parties concerned. Talking with others always makes a bad matter worse. No outside friends can como in and settle any homo quarrel so well as tho family can do it alone. Tho telling to others puts tho tell-tale ill a position where lie cannot so well seek or welcome reconciliation. Very few "friends" are "faithful" enough to so counsel the tell-tale as to les sen tho feeling of alienation. Almost all find themselves not so muc h relieved in telling of their home griefs rather they are more set in their own ways therebv A little retailing of these things puts a person on his own defense. If he says any thing at all he mii?t needs make his own side and view of the difficulty fair to his auditor. In family troubles as well as others there is usually more than ono at fault, and tho less faulty have reason enough to be silent. Tho tongue alono can euro no family trouble. Xo stranger, though saintly, is capable of restoring the banished clove of peace. If a family trouble is ever settled the troubled family must themselves do the good work. And tho work must be wrought in the heart. Many a family would find their troubles disappearing if themselves would cease mentioning them. Many families need only this in order to peace and love and harmony to conduct themselves when alone as well as they do in the presence of respected guests. Nobody should be asked or expected to keep another's family trou ble a secret. And only as a very bid resort should anybody carry tho tale of trouble at homo to any outside parly. The world slowly . learns tho art of love and happiness at home. It consists very much in forgetting each other's whims and foibles and faults and keeping most in mind each other's excellences. If one shall allow himself to dwell much uputi another's failings he will soon become blinded to his good qualities. Tell no tale of family trembles in human cars. Such secrets are never perfectly safe. Once mentioned iind the re is the beginning of strife and such strife :is sel dom ends. Self-respect forbids telling others of homo troubles. Tho least desire for puaco and harmony again should prevent such tale-telling. It is had enough to have trou ble in tho family, but it is worse if the public is made a spectator of the scenes and so a participant in the strifes. Ttmiporary or permanent separations are manifold better than retailing to the wor-ld the ills and mMiaps of home. There are heroic men and m ist royal women whose companions are seen to be what they ought not to bo and whose bnmesare known to be robbed thereby of joy, but they go and come expressing no complaint abroad ami the communities in which they live feel forbidden to pry into their family griefs and the world feels bound to respect and pity such men and women. Algerian howling and flourishing their knives at mined in Saxony, Bohemia, in Hungary once under his very nose. To tell tlie and Transylvania, at Konsberg in Norway, J ' plain truth, he was frightened nut of his iu Spain, in Mexico, along the Cordilleras j wits, and the only thing he thought of in Smith America, and in parts of this I was how to shift the responsihi'ily on to country, notably in Nevada, California, I vo known manv clever fellows iu mv somebody's else's shoulders as fust us pos- Utah, Montana :rnel Colorado. Churls ... . "'!,,. t i! i. . j, . I ir. time, said law liupont, rrcncu sous- siuie. ,-sei uc sain tunei u was very nichy u win n, tn iniijm a. . lieutenant, in the th of the line, as he nc did, as it turned out) that l.utour, being . sat sipping his coffee in front of tho Hotel , in government employ, must be tried by i. lt,.SII ASI, Simple Attire. One who! ile lu liege-nee at Algiers, "butbj far the military law ; and so he packed them all wrju-g in an Eik'HsIi journal on "Clothes"! cleverest man I ever met was our colonel, ' off to the commandant, who, as I've told j ,1t.,irej ti,.lt mc!n ,' but ask to see their ' Henri de Maiet. Peoplo said ho ought to you Deiore, was no other than Colonel ite m(), .,.,, Ri,ters and swee'hearts daintily have Lcen an nvoent, but that was giving, Malet. . Ii,,.in j ti.ir arringempiits and ap- him but half his due. for I'll lie bound he " It was no easy matter for the colonel ..:...., .,,i tn the pvq mi 1.1 1 1 1 .. !... fi frnt nt tlm Tint., rf tlia ,..,cn f. nil tin. . l , a J , coum n;nu uuuiaim.u mi j lanjci ui.i.i . "'" "-'""" , . i moelesiv and moderation will perinii. eVd WOIO a gOW U. in HIS 1UUOI liays lie i.-;e-.iis am luwiif; en unu;, eii iiiu-i' i always went by the name of 'Solomon the ! than another; but at last, bit by bit, he Second,1 and if you care to know how he ! managed to get a pretty clear idea of came by it I'll tell you. what had happened, and then he said very " Before ho came to us De Malet was solemnly : ' A French officer does his duly, luili-.arv commandant at Oran. and it was ! let it be what it will. You have come here there that he did one of his best strokes for justice, and justice you shall have.' ol triumph Uhirix of A Fa.mii.iah Hymn At the ..cent nnnihetic conference in New York, the Itev. Mr. Reynolds explained the ori-i0f gin of the popular nvmu - iviieu jesus Conies." The late 1. 1'. Bliss was visit in" at Mr lfcynohls's house, and one even they talked about Christ's coming until late The next morning Mr. Hliss went to the piano and played and sang Hie hymn he hail composed during the night, lie could not sleep lor thinking of the coming of Christ. The western fanners talk very cheerful ly of the condition of their affairs, and so ,io the business men of the largo cities, m that part of the country. There have been two abundant crops in succession, which iind a readv market, and both producer and tralliekcr have acquired from the ex perience of the past live years a whole some horror of long credits. Never beloro have sales been made so largely for cash ..! on short lime. The revival of business in tho south from the stagnation caused by vollow fever has been rapid, and many western dealers. have all they can do to till orders from that section. Tho venerable Thuilow Weed made some remarks at a Murphy meeting in Now York a night or two since. Ho said : I have not strength to say much now, but that after long years of effort to inlti rate the evils of temperance, a bright day is dawning. 'I'he failure of former temperance labor is to be regretted. I attribute the failure to the methods ttdopt el After the mistakes of half a century, I have reached tho conclusion that the drunkard is only in the influences at work here. Religion only Ins pow r to win and keep the unfortunate victim of intemperance. 'i'i,mv n gimii" sentiment throughout i, .,mt1i in favor of Diittniir the whoh of miarantino anainst yellow fever in tho hands of the national govern mont, instead of leaving It to me comiici ing regnlations of states and muncipalilics. There seoms no doubt that congress pos sesses tho power to establish such a t-.ys-tem under the authority vested in it by the constitution to regulate commerce between tho several stales, and the rest of the country, which is only less interested than the south iiself, will be apt to fall in with tho idea. Tho favorite plan is to establish a national quarantine, beginning on the 1st day of May every year, nnd ending about November I'Uih, and to conlide iis execution nnd enforcement to the navy department. outgeneraling a camel driver from 'I an gier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes: "Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a Moor." Now this Tangerine, when pulled up for some offence or other, swore that he wasn't Mulcy, tho camel driver at all, but quite another man; and as his friends all swore the same, and had managed to alter his appearance u bit before ho was arrested, ho seemed sure of getting off. Hut our colonel wasn't to be done ill that way. He pretended to dismiss the ease, and allowed the fellow to get right out into the street as if all was over; ami then he suddenly shouted after liim, 'Muley, the camel driver, I want to speak to you.' Tho old rogue, hearing his own name, turned ami came back before he could recollect himself, und so he was caught iu spile of all his cunning. ' The fame of this exploit went abroad like wildlire, and it got to be a saying among us, whenever wo heard of any very clever trick, that it was 'one of Col onel ile Malet's judgments;' and so, when he Was traiii-fcn'cd from Oran to Al giers, It was just as if we all knew him already, although none of us had ever seen him before. Hut it wasn't long be fore we got a much better story than that ibutil linn : for one night a man dined at our mi ss who had known the colonel out in India, and lold us a grand tale of how he bad astonished them all at l'ondichcrry. It seems that some things had been stolen from the officers' quarters, and nobody could tell who had done it. The first thing next morning the. colonel went along the line at early parade, giving each of the native soldiers a small strip of bam boo; and then he said, very solemnly, ' My children, there is aguilty man among us, and it has been revealed to mo by Hrahiua himself how his guilt -is to be made clear. Let every man of you come forward in his turn and givo me his piece of bamboo; and the thief, let him do what he may, will have the longest piece.' " Now you know what superstitious hounds those Asiatic fellows always are; and when they heard this announcement they all lookeef at each other like children going to be whipped. The colonel took the bamboos one alter another, as solemn ly as if he were on a court martial, but when abeiiit a dozen nen had gone past, he suddenly sprang forward and seized ono o f them by the throat, shouting at the full pitch of his voice, ' lou are the man! " Down went tho fellow on his knees and yelled lor mercy, confessing that he was the man, sure enough. As for the rest, they looked as frightened as if all the gods iu the caverns of Elephanta hail conic Hying elowu among them at once; and from that day forth tliey salaamed to the very ground at tho mere sight of the colonel hall a mile oil'. " ' How on earth did you manage that, colonel?' asked the senior major, a great fit fellow, :is stupiel as a carp. IVliv this iiiilortaiiah( Ihh slloiiM liu so ilMin- iniislieM I luvaMieivor lie-e-ti alilei to le-aeli, but tlie aj nitf la iimvm.s:il in lite i-icuiai iiniiy. " Nothing simpler, my dear fellow,' answered J)e lUalel laughing. ine strips were all exactly the same length, and the llni'l, leaiing to get tlie longest piece, betrayed himself by biliiuj off the end: This, as you may think, added a good de-al to the colonel's reputation; and when we had that ullair with the Bedouins at l.airhouat we soon saw that he could fight as we'll as main uver. in the thick ol the skirmish one of the rogues, seeing De Ma let left alone, Hew at him with a drawn yataghan, but the colonel just dropped on his horse s neek anil let thu blow pass over him, and then gave point and ran the fed low right llil'imgli tile body, as neatly as anv fencing-master could have done it. You may be sure we thought nono the less of him after that ; but all this was noihihg lo what was coming. ' Well, J)u Malet hail been with us about a year when the railway was begun from Algiers to Blidnh, and the directing engineer huppeneel lo be one of the great est li ii nil-i, l-.ugi'iie 1ilour, as gooet a let low as I ever met. It wees quite a fete with us whenever he dined at mi'ss for his jokes nnd gooel stories kept every one brisk : anil then to Hear linn sing ! run fui it was wonderful ! Ono moment some rattling re frain thai seemed to set the very chairs to danciug.anil then suddenly a low, sail air that fairly brought tears into your eves. Ihi'v were m nvne', 1 know, every time I heard him sing those last two verses There was a great roar from the crowel, and poor Eugene look ed as blank as a thief in the Salle ile la I'olieo. "'Before I pass sentence, however".' pursued De Malet, ' I w ish to n.-k this young man,' (pointing to the son of the ilead Arab, who was the ringleader of all the mischief,) 'whether ho will accept of any compromise.' " ' No, no! ' yelled the young brigand life for life!' "'So be it,' said tho colonel gravely ; and vou, by Mussulman law, are your father's destineel avenger. 'Jherefore, h i tho engineer lie taken hack lo the very spot where his victim was standing, and do you go tip to the top of the p arapet and jump down upon him! ' Jonncrre dc cie; : when a roar ol laughter there was! Tho very Arabs couldn't help joining in. As to the young villain uimselt, lie stood stoi'k-still l"i' a memie'iit. anil then Hew out of the court like a mailman: and that was the last of him. We gave Eugene a famous suiipi-r that night at the Cafe Mililaire iu honor of his escape; anil the story was iu all the' papers next morning, beaded, 'A Judg ment of Solomon.' Ami from that day to the end of his lite Colonel De Maleit ne-ver went by any oilier name among us but Solomon the Second.'" l.ippineoll's. eel Ue-ieiK tmpoHHblu lo IcililiT Di:ad Lktteu Cluiiisitii s. S nno of the curiosities of the 10.(JW letters daily opened at the dead-letter office were maele public in an interesting lecture recently delivered at Washington by Carlton Hughes, who drew on his experience as a clerk in that office. The first ele-ad-letlcr of which there is record was held for post ago, nnel was mailed at Georgetown, S. C, Nov. 22, 1777, to tho Wilmington (X. C ) collector of customs, to whom John Coelell announced the arrival of the schooner Dispatch. Lack of postage einel wrong directions still cause most of llie-dead-letters, and on one occasion the whole day's mail of a bank came to that end through the failure of some one lo stamp the cnveleipes before the-y were plae-cd in the post office. One letter containing $1500, that an absent husband sent home to his wife, had no address, and when it was opened was only signeel "George,"' and announcing his determination to go further south. Following this slight clue the postmaster of the city where the hutiT was mailed had tho hotel registers exam ined, and found thirty-two Georges, te-u of whom were resielents, while six of the others went south, one of whom eareh'ssly signed his name without staling where from ov whither bound. A bootblack of the hotel was found lo have been intimate with tho George, and he furnished infor mation by which his SU,j(i() was re-slon-d. In another case a New York widow. uameel Smith, semt $5 to her boy of four teen years, who hail gone into the interior of the state for work and fallen sick, bill the letter came to ttic eleail-lietli'i- olli -e in- dorseel " neil funnel-'' It was ilNc.overe lhat the envi'lopo used was one previously polled anil then turned wrong sele out md diri-cted again in niiutlier hand. Ther was also a monogram on the envelope with a surname carelessly written, anil reference to a directory showed the name ind initials to tie those of a well known Now York lady. She remembereel spoil in" the envelope and throwing it out the window; but who picked it up? the story w:,s told in the presence eil a se'i'vant, nnel she remeuilieroil to have seen a woman living in a tenement near by piel it up. This proved to be the wiel -w llieey were searching tor; but her boy had at reaely been sent home by kind friends am had died. Among the superscriptions o: these stray missive's was erne that ri'a I Postmasters, please deliver to the young lady living in the lirst house beyond tin wallet factory that wears a black ehes mil sack, white straw hat and brown face trimmings; ami atieether adve'i-liseel Sal, it you want to hear from your be you had heller cum an g.t this li'ite r." There is something really charming in ttfls picture, simple as it is. " Daintily clean an. I fresh in all their arrangements.'' We may eouecele that, for great oe'Ceisions, la lies may clahurato a little on this basis, but say for tho breakfast table, or for all ordinary home occasions, how delightful it is to see our womanhood arrayed in tiesli anil simple attire no crumpled hedr in unwholesome reminder of last night's elabeirate coiffure, no silks or other costly fabrics; now spoile-et and dilapidated; no formidable' wrappers, loud of color nnel wonderful of pattern; no twice useel linen; no slatternly shawls, that horror in un-lasie-ful households; no touch of dishabille in llie slightest or least suggestive degree. Unhappily, this picture is much tew rare, there arc many 'persons who persist in wearing at tho morning meal, anil upon other elouii'Siic ocuasions, old geiwns, or append that lias been banished from the elr.iwing room. Now a laely may bo dress eel iu more rich anil ceistly fabrics at one lime than another, but there should be no degrees of neatness, of purity, or of fresh ness. The morning dress may be a wholly inexpensive one, but a grease stain eer ei re'iit is just as much an offense at breakfast us 'at dinner. In fact, if there must be a slain, we woulel rather see it on the evening silk than on tho morning mu-lin, which should always have the supreme sentimi'iit of freshness and elain-tiness. Many wome n have little ieleas of how greatly they sheiek the tastes and really ..'inlaiiger the nueelieins ol their husbands v their unseemly domestic apparel. There not a man ol sense' and refined leeling inywlii'i'e who would not prefer some simple and chaste adornments for his wife in the morning to any extreme splendor it the evening ball. Let a woman oy all means dress brilliantly on those occasions that render it proper ; wo have net desire to nbrielge her privileges neir baflltf her instincts in this particular; but we claim that it is important for her, if she values tieer housi'liold serenity, that she should ve equal heed ta her customary attire. The leinale who goes about thu house untielily eieesseel has no right to the title of woman. We re'C'ct the notion that a person can really bo a woman who is without theise dainty instincts lor sweet unl pure apparel that truelitionally pertain to t ie li'ininnui sex. Such an individual li is lost the char.ieteu'istieis, the qualities, the iclinoinenls, tho elislingitisbing ele- ini'hts of thee daughter of Eve; anil, as she has not bv this elimination gained any liuracleristiu of the inaseuiine sex, she videntlv belongs to soiilu as yet utlele- seribed variety of the human family. Ipl'Idoii'K Journal. TIIK UNO. The eewrse of the weuleat river KmU in the great gray sea; Tlie ae:orn, lor ever and ever, Solves tqewaiel to the tree The rainbow, the sky ailorninir, Shine promiio through the storm ; The glimmer ol coming morning Through inielniKht glo'ien will form. Ity time all knots are rircn, Complex althotigit tliey bo, Anil pence will at lae-t be given. Hear, both to you nml mc. Tiicu, though l!io p llh may be eheaey, Louk onward to tlie g-al; Though tho heart and heael be weary, Let faith inspire llie soul. Seek the right, tlicugh tho wrong be templing! Speak trech at any cost; Vain is all weak exempting When once llie gem Is lost. Let strong hand anel keen eye be reaely for plain and ainbushieel foes; Thought earnest and feincy steady Hear bee-t unto tho close. The heavy clouds may be raining, Hut with evening comes the light; Through the dark aie low winiU complaining, Yet ihe sun-ehinc gilels llie height; Anel love has its hielelcn treasure For the patient and the poor; Anil time gives Ills fidlost measure To ihe workers who endure ; Anil the Wont that no law has shakeu Has the ruluro plcelge supplicel; Cor we know tint when wo " awaken " We shall be " satislied." TinMlei' .lf(iin:er. are so certain and so long, there are so many changes anil so many partings, lhat this is uiuloubteilly true, even of the gen eral anniversaries those that belong to , the world anil neil the persein. Wo laugh j with tears in our hearts, if not in our ryes; nnel thi're grows to bo a good deal of make-believe in onr jeiy. Anel yet, after all, anel notwithstanding ! all, this is a blesi'd world, anil it is a good thing to be alivo in this last quarter of the , nineti'cnth century so gooel a thing that I we will wipe our eyes, thank Heaven, and lako courages even while at the beginning of this New Year we' pray with Tiny Tim, " God bless us, every one! " Mrs. Julia C. II. Dorr, in the College Hearth. The Conscript's Farewell 1 th'uilil to gain rich spoils I've gnincel Ol bullets hull' el HeMU'e-; I iliuiif-Uit lo conic back corporal 1 sluell e-,iiiic bae k no moi-c. Keo'l my po"i' 'l'n I lM'ay the-'!', Itose, And with ti mi gi'iille lc; llei'll hum In master for el while Adieu ! reincinb ;r me tf triiis isa laraiilnii'ii i .etthir Hi in a translation thee p itol.-e lit tlie ol ex.iiilj-. " Well, as I was s tying, Eugene had been put over the work, and 1 don't know where thi'V could have fotiml a better man for it. Whether it poured wiih rain or ...line on hoi enough to cook a cutlet with out lire, it was all one to him ; there ho wa-. ai ill;- poM, ntuMit lima uu-iliihi, with bis eye s ill ten places at once. Y'ou mav think that under stich'a chief tho la borers hael no enance oi lining, aim every thing was getting on splendidly, when. One lltorillllg. US lie wees .-.e.mooi -ju mi; oarapi't of a bridge, bis loot slipped, and down he went, I don t know how far. Ihe fall would have kllleel 111 ill oiitriglil it, liy good luck there haeln t happened to bo an 7'rab underneath (tho only time that an Arab ever was of any use, I should say), and Eugi'iie, alighting upon him, broke the force eif Ills own tall linn the iscuouins neek to boot. " Now, if there had been nobody there to tell talcs, this wouldn't have mattered a pin, for an Arab, more' or le ss, is no such great matter; hut, as ill-luck would have It there were three or four mora of the rascals near enough to see what had hap pened, and of course they raised a hue anil cry directly. And when it was noised abroad that a Christian dog (us they po litely call us) l.iul killed a Mussulman, you should have rich what an uproar there was! 'I'he pe ople canio running together like vultures whe n a caned drops down in the dei-ert, anil there was a yelling and dancing and shaking of fists that made one's very heael turn round. Poor Eugene ivonlel have been torn to pieces on the spot if Ihe guard hadn't fonnoil reiunil him ami el' feeilcd him; and the cnly way we coulel pacify the mob was lo promiso them pistico llolll llie llisuict magistrate; -o awiiv ti the magistrate wo all went. " Now I dare say Mr. Mngistralo was a very gextd fellow in his way, and I ileino ua'iii lo snv a word tigninst him, but still it. must be owned that ho wasu't exactly , i. t. i.wl r,r man lo stand firm in the midst of a rabble of wild Mohammedans, nil I scatter Ol it Sll.VKU Moi xtains. One of these mountain ranges, looking west to the' snow capped Sierras, with their zone's of black pines, ami gazing at the glistening deserts on the east, split and lorn with deep canons, pitted with the traces of vol canic disease, alike valueless to hcnlcr or farmer bus become famous the world ove r. anel lias niaeiei toe nation i ii-n. ej.ni'r ran(1res, still to the east, have won a lesser fanie nnd smaller wealth. Here in this waste nnd stricken leinel, anel among these' mountains, are cities, active populations anel vast works; nature gone mail in stony despair that wooels and lielels and smiling meadows are not; civilization living in spite of nature, autl wholly giving up day and night to a more insane toil, knowing no Sabbalhs, no rest, no night. Tho ex haust steam from hundreds of engine's waves its white baniiir in sunlight and starlight alike: the respiration of a gianj by day, ihe fluttering ghost of toil by nie'ht. These cities, with every appliance of modern science with hotels, theatres, water works, schools, gas mains, and every luxury have not sprung up lu re because of the beauty or convenience of the situation. There is no river, no sea, to brins commerce and tho arts; no springs of health, not even farms. These towns live and grow on tbe most illusive and mi stable of foundations. They we're built on a hone, and live on an expectation. Ihe ir hopes have been realized in a nii'asure past dreaming or expression. Their ex pectations may collapse in a night. The very foundation beneath the houses h shiflv nnel unstable. 1 ho gas mams in the street bend and snap unihu-groiiiiel, for tho very mountains groan and travail be cause of tho greed of men. Some day the town will sink inlo the grave thai lies sei dee'U beneath its stree'ts, or tlie people w lice away to more reasonable lands, leav ing hotels, halls and dwellings empty in tint wilderness. All this these cities, this science anel enginery, this gigantio oapuai ppe-nt, in constructions more singular, more ceiui iu eared, and more effective than any niaediin erv of a like nature in the world -has but one excuse: ine nieiai mo in uio ucuri in tho mountains. These men livo out Ihen weeks and days for a metal at once the most universal, llio most singular in it manifestation, anil the most useful. These gloat engines anil vast works are fur tin winninei of a metal that swims in every trillion of sen water; that may hang invis fble and dissolved in a glass of aciil; that becomes black at the merest glance ol the sun: that is now black, now while, now minor, and then a picture a tit charm to wiml about less stable charms, und then ,n,l,li.d to baso metals in menial duties. IS totliul nssoeiaii'ei The l-iiiitr on the Waves. Tho fol owing is the el, iqui'iit conclusion of Dean Stanley s sermon preached ill New York, unl priuti'd in the Tribune: "May I close these remarks by an illus tration which 1 once hcarel from the lips of a rough seafaring man one ot the lew survivors of a great shipwreck which took place' some years ago in the Hay of Biscay? As soon as those who hael escaped from the sinking vessel found themselves in the small boat ill which they had taken refuge, in the midst, of the raging sea, they lound iln-ir chief danger came not from the solid in.a-sive sweep of waters, but from the ane'i v breaking waves which, from time to lime, descoiuleil upon them, and against liie-h every eye anel hand hail to watch with nnabateel attention. As the similes ol evening came on, so thei survivor tolel me, their hearts sank at the thought that in Ihe darkness of the night it woulel he impossible to see those iusiiluous breakers, and lhat sooner or later they would be caught anel engulfed by tliiun, But with the darkness there came a corresponding safety. Every one of those dangerous waves as it rolled toward- them wa- crested with a phosplior I'seent light which showed its coming far oil', anil enablcel the seamen to guard again-t it as carefully as if it had been in the full light of day. The spirits of the little e.ivw re vived, nml those whir, from 'time to 'time tho cowards ami despera-eleie-. among them were for turning back i to the shin, we're guided by thi'Sti corrus- eati.ins through the night, and in tho early elawn they caught view of a distant vessel. I bv which they were saved. M irk th it crest of phosphorescent light. Outwitting a Cannibal. One of the wealthiest settlers in New Caledonia isn gentleman from Australia we will call him Mr. Brown for short who went there some ten or twelve years ago with but a small capital, nnd has be come enormously rich by raising cattle for the markets of Noumea. Mr. Brown was on bis way through the brush from ono of his outlying cattle grounds to another, when he lost his way entirely; wandered about till near night fall, and then came upon a largo native village. Here he was hospitably received, well fed and most deferentially treated by Ihe old chief whoso village it was the chief Atai, I think, whom some persons regard as tho chief mover anil leader of this year's revolt against tho French. Atai was all courtesy to his white guest, and when night had fully como conducte I him, himself, to tho hut set apart for his night's repose. Fortunately, Mr. Brown was acquainted with the customs of thu country, anil, among them, knew the common mellioel of putting an end to travelers preparatory to feasting upon them. It is as follows: The traveler is kinellv received; nothing occurs to shako his oonfnlence in his host ; he is allotted a cabin to sleieqi in. Tho na tive huts have usually but one opening, which serves as a door and window both. When the traveler is supposed to bo well settled in his cabin, this ono entrance is set on lire. Being thatched and maele wholly of lightwoeid, it burns very rcaelily, and tho traveler is cooked as well as kill eel. Then the feast commences. Being acquainted with these details of Caledonian life, Mr. Brown knew the cab in to which tho venerable Atai so courte ously 1 d him might probably become for him both a tomb and a cooking stove, un less his wits could save him. Ho entered the cabin of the chief, meet ing courtesy with courtesy, till they were both fairly within. Thou Brown, in the prime of life and athhetic, anel Atai olel anel intirm', the Englishman knew he was more than a match' for the savage. lie closeel the door within the hut, planted his hack lirinlv against it, anil seated thus with his Ininel on his revolver, und his Deseiitei) Villages. A young man who used to lie i ng.iged In business in the oil country, during the palmy days, after a recent visit, writi'S the following: While roaming through the oil country, our in terest was excited by having certain local ities pointed out to us as the place where once stood a small city. Perhaps no part of the oil region shows this as much as that situated between Oil City and Tilus ville, unit no place so much as Petroleum Center. We stand amazed, anil almost doubt the truth of our informant, when we are told thai this is the Pe troleum City of ten years iigo. At that time, as the name implies, it was the center of tbe km! of grease. Surrounded by the best oil pro ducing country, it could not bo otherwise. Vast numbers of houses, stores, machine shops, etc.. w ere erected in a short time, anil in 1HGH it was a city of 3,000 or 4,000 inhabitants. Everyboely in oihloin knew Petroleum Center." The city bad banks, immense hotels, large business houses, and could boast of three or four line churches. Tho whole country around the plaeo was a city. At night it was almost impossible to get through the great crowds of people collected fur all kinels of pleasures. What a change. Nothing can be compared to it exce pt tho distraction of war. Instead of the lint! resiliences, the ground is now used for potato patches; a road marks the place where the principal si reet was ; the churches still stand, but nobody attends them. Per haps there are 100 inhabitants in tho town now. North of Petroleum Center wo were shown the place where in 'CO anil '117 was the famous Beuininghoff Run. There remains not a sign of anything having bee n there. As many will remember, this was one of the best oil territories in the country at the time On tho northern part of this farm was a small town by the name of Dublin. It had 200 inhabitants. and was the terminus of the Benninghoff Run railroad. Not a single house remains. In fact, one would think, not knowing any better, that it hail never been cleared. Many towns like this have gone the. same way. But perhaps tho next in importance is Pilholei. Like Petroleum Center, it is nearly gone. When C. B. Duncan, who died in Glasgow some years ago, made his will, he loll tei a church ol rillioie sl'd.wu. During the legislation which followed, a committee was sent to hud tho church. They returned and stated that no such buileling existed, nor coulel they find any one who ever knew ot it. ine- lacts are, when Mr Duncan was in Pitholu tho church existeel in a nourishing conelition But it had disappeared long before the commilleu wen! thore. On The Right Soiit ok P.ei.kihin. We want a religion that goes into the family, and keeps the husband from bein. spiteful when the dinner is latc.und keeps the elin uer from being late; keeps the wife from fretting when the hush and tracks the new-ly-washed Hour with his muelely boots, and makes the htisbauil mindful of the scraper anel the door mat; keeps the mother pa tient when the baby is cross; amuses the children as well as instructs them; wins as well as governs; projects the hon eymoon into the harvestmoon, and m ikes every hour like tlie eastern fig-tree, bear ing in ils bosom at once the beauty of the tender blossoms anel the glory i'f the ripen ed fruit. We want a religion that bears not only on the " sinfulne ss of sin." but on the rascality of lying ami stealing. A religion that banishes small incisures from counters, small baskets from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from piqiper, sand from sugar, chie'cory from coffee, beet juice from vim-gar, alum from cream, lard' from butler, strychnine from wine, anel water from milk cans. The religion that is to sanctify the worlel, pays its elehts. It does not ceins'nlcr that forty cents returned for one hundreil d-nts given, is according to gospel, though it may bo nce-onling to law. It looks on a man who has faileal iu trade', an I who eeintinues to live in luxury, as a thief. It loeiks upon a man who promises to pay fifty dollars on demand with interest, and who neglects to pay it on demand, with or without interest, as a liar. TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. F.ir one npiare of la UnMor less of Airmtft tvpe, one ilirt.-rtl"U. fl ew: lur e ll snlH,-,lent luncrtlnn, 86 rU. I'iiI,". the utuulM-r ,il iiiHt-riioeiN are mrk-d on the ftd V. Hisi-im-iit ll will Ite C'ilitlliili-il UlUll ordered out. I.ile-r-Jl di-e-oeitit made to luere hauts and otliert adver lifiiiir lo the.' uir. Probate and c'JiouiiBSioners' Notices, tluo each. K'T Neitie-es of Lilieratlon. Fedraya. tli Formation and iMrtrtohitinn ,f e: ,rtiien,liiia. &c, tl i6eae-b for Hire,- iui.erll"ii8. 11 tent ly utali llie luoney must ae conifany the letter. N'otl,-r in news rolitmnie. tOi-eula wr line each lu Berlleiu, but no e-harirea uielele ol leu Uiau all centa. Ntior-ii of IVathftanel Marrlaireii inaerter e-ratii.bnt exieiiii, .I ohil.iar) Niptn ea e,r Coetry will be tbarireti at eli- rale- ul live- i-enta per line. The Dki.igk. Dr. Campbell, in ids note to the seventh chapter of (Jenosis, says: "The Hood b'gan one thousand, six hundred and fifty-six years from the crea tion, so that Noah had lived tlnough a largo portion of the whole period. It is plain from verse ninet0"nlh tint the flood was not partial, as some have urged, but universal, wrapping the) whole globe in one sheet of water. Even where- the tl 101! was the most shallow, still the depth was twenty-four fevt, showing the cxai'tne-s with which tho supply of waler co-responded wilh the ileuiands of tliei gleilii'. Shells and skeletons ol li-nis .ire. now found on the tops of tho highest moun tains in the world. The lowest computa tion which has been maele of tho popula tion of the earth at that time is so great as. to those who have not eolisieleri'd the suliji'ot, woulel seem fabulous. It h is even been entimuteit as tng'i as two millions ol millions. The inhabitants of all clinics commingled; animals, natives of Ameri ca, have been found buried in India; ele phants in England, eroe uliles in (iermany and shell fi-h in tho midst of islands ami contine'nts. To disbelieve the doe-trine of the deluge is to lcnel a deaf ear to the voico of universal nature. It explains facts, slupeniloiis and innumerable, to be accounted for in no other way. Young people, therefore, must not be misleel by a godless geology. That science, rightly untlerstooel, is one of the prime corrobora tor of Revelation. Moses, so demonstra bly true in his account of tho deluge, may well be trusted in his account of creation and all that followed." Wo expected it would c mic. When Dr. Duryea said: " In the main, I Iind that mint nf' Calvinism is a fem e on one suit) of the this, more than anything else, Mr. D. was thought to have been caazy when he maele his will. other weapons openly displayed, continued his conversation with the chief. The situ ation remained unchanged through the night. A terrible night it was, ho doubt, for tho Englishman, and almost us bad for tho old chief, who again and again ro- euie'sted nermission to withdraw, hut Mr Brown as otten eieciareu mai no miuin nm part with him ho should not be safe ex cept in his company. When itayligut was iniiy come. .m. Brown felt asstireil that Atai would not venture to allow his people openly to at tack an individual so well known to the unlives as himself, and both issuing tortn together from the hut, ho gladly accepted the escort of a native guide, anil was safely conducted to tho French settlements, where Ins adventure was me inuum 01 mni'h talk. Correspondent San Francisco Bulletin. ();i the toll of llie.'sei breaking billows is the 1 i . 1 1 1 of divine grace, the compensating of oroyide'iie'ei. In the dai'Knoss ol this mortal life nnel on tho wave of this ronblesonie worlel, our perplexities und lani'eis and grii'fs bung with them mav brimr with them, their own remedy. On' each bursting wave of disappointment toil vexation there may lie the grace ol tvenlv light which reveals the perils. unl shows the wave anil giuiles us through lie roaring storm. Out of doubt may iinii' faith, out of grief may come hope iml to the upright and godly disposed there rises light from darkness. With h new temptation there may como a way lei escape, wun eacu new oiniciiiiy there may come some new explanation. s life advance's It eleie'S intteeil some n mi's !'.ecni tons as a vessel going to inue-us, is though wo wore only fragments ol a u'eiken slop or ot a solitary sum on tne wide waste of waters, but so long as our mortal existence lasts we 111111 not give on the ilulv of hoping. The sense that keoit 11s back iu youth from all intemperate l.-ielni'ss lhat same goon instinct loroius unpioliiable sadness. Wo must persevere until.tlie morning breaks, inn spec on the tlistant. horizon may bo tho vessel by which wo will shape our course-, for ward, not backward, must we steer. Ihe peck become s a mass, anel tho muss be- e'omi'S a slup nave puueneu ami pe-ine-verance, and believe thai there is still a future bi'foro every one, und sei wo shall it last reach the havon where we should meet. Aim- of Swimming. Men are drowned by raising their arms above water, the uubuoyeil weight of which depresses the head. Oilier animals have neither notion nor ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into deep water, lie will riso lo the surface, and will continue there if ho does not elevate his hanels. If he moves his hands under ihe waler in any way he nh'ases. his heael will rise so high as to allow liim free liberty to breathe; and if ho will use Ins legs as in the act ot wulK- ., i. in. Ll- lne' for rattier 01 walking up suiusi, ins shoulders will riso above tho water, so ho iiniv use the less exertion with his hanels, or apply them to other purposes. These plain directions are recommended to tho recollection of those who have not learned lo swim in their youth, as they may be found highly advantageous in pre serving llie. ccicmtjis antertean. road and ArminiunUm a fence on tho other side, nnd almost nobody walks on the fences, while tho greater majority go on the highway between," it nceelcd 110 pro phetic foresight to tell that tho heresy hunters would soon bo after him in full erv. To be sure, Jesus said, '-1:11111110 way," anil left, so far as we have any rec ord, no will anil testament authorizing Calvin or unv other man to fence up the way of life, or set up their private- toll gate across it. But to proclaim a prefer ence for the highway Instead of the fence's is flat heresy according to the Presbyterian Banner, which says: ' If Dr. Duryea has really left the Culvinistie enclosure ami gone out on the highway, it might be wedl enough to march under the proper colors." that 1 1''lis is lno wa-v I'0110'' l"-'lle '1' V0IJ1. n mile. Judge not thy neighbor. Thou shalt not calumniate. Thou shalt not excite quar rels by repeating the words of others. In elulge not in ielle, vain talk. Speak not words which nre to no purpose but harm. Hiidilhid Commamlmlnts. . Every blade of grass in the fie-Id is meas ured; the green cup3 and the colore-! crowns of every flower aro curiously count i'p; the stars of Ihe litmumcnt wheel in cunningly-calculated orbits; even the storms have their laws. They who remember the benefits be stowed by parents are too grateful to re member their faults. They nre happy who can return to father and mother the care they received from them in infancy ; still happier are they who can return their smiles and caresses, anil feel for them tho same love they have received. Old age sometimes becomes second chihlhood ; why shoii'il not filial piety becomo parental love? Chinese. Iu 18 10 our population was only 17,000, 0ul, while now it is nearer 50 than to tho .W.nOO.OOO of our census of 1870. Mr. Elliot of the bureau of statistics, in a paper inserted in Wilker's Statistical Atlas in lfS7l, proji-e-ti-il tho lino uS ascent of the probable population of tho United States from 1870 to lH.si). His computation makes onr population iu 1878, 47,983,000, nnd in 18'!), .Ol),8-")8,00!). llEi tXEMEXT and Poveiitv. There is no lease in why llie brown h.inil of labor should not hold Tennyson 113 well as tho sickle. On anicntul reading shelters nnel even strengthens tho growth of what is merely useful A cornfield never returns a poorer crop because a few wild flowers bloom in the hedge. The rolinement of the- poor is the triumph of Christian civili z etiun. Grandma Wilson an old negress sell ing pt-intv- at live cents a glass on the streets of New Oilcans is a heroine in disguise. Ever since the yellow fever epi ele'iuie of 1SL!7 she has been regularly on hand to nurse the sii-k and soothe the dy ing wherever the plague has broken out. At New Orleans, at Norfolk, at Savannah, at. Shrevcport, and in this last visitation, Grenada- and Memphis, as well as else whe'ie, she has been hailed as a guardian angel. Hers has been a life of faithful nursing, and when hardly any remained at Grenada lust slimmer, her withered hands were welcomed to cool burning brows and close dying eyes. No sooner, however, was the danger past than the bent olel Wiiman returned to her peanut stuiiel to earn a scanty living, proving her self as honorable in every-day life as she is noble in life's most distressing periods. Srii.uv lou Fuel. The Russian Men noiii'o settlement in Nebraska has taught Aine-rieans ono trick worth knowing at least. Usually in the prairie slates of tho wi'4 lhe-ro is consielcrablo suffering in extremely cold weather from lack of fuel. Farmers have been known to burn their coin from necessity. People have frozen to death in some of the terrible prairie storms. But the Mennonites introdticeel simple furnaces for burning straw. One of these furnaces only costs live dollars for thei iron work, the" rest being made of brick or clay. By proper use a ton of straw will go more than half as far as a ton of coal for fuel. The Mennonites twist the straw into hard rolls, or press it into hard cakes, su that it burns as wooel anel gives oil' as much heat. Ono of these furnaces, supplied with fuel only three times a day, will keep a Mennonito house warm the whole twenty-four hours, besides doing tho conking. As coal is costly and wood still more so, and as most western farmers have heretofore wasted their straw, tho Mciinotiite plan of preparing anil using it, fen- fuel is an economy which will prove of great value to the prairie stales, and it is rapidly extending among tho Americans. Of course American invention will speedi ly supply handy machines for pressing tho straw into cakes, anil improved stoves for burning il. -Detroit 'lelujraph. Tlie Anniversaries. The remark is frequently hoard that it is the 1110-t gifted, the " generous follows who are most apt lo fall into intemperance. I'he saving is neither line) neir uselul. However it may have been tormerly, 11 has come to pass now that, as Prof. Twing sti"i'e-.sts, the temperance reioriu nas lehe'd first tho ininels that are most "ifte-d. ' Many years age),' ho says, "it was my good fortune to serve my country by being secretary of a temperance soeio iv. anel in that ollicial dignity I adelressed letters of inquiry to pre-siilenls of oil leges and professors, to ask what was tho quality of the veiling men who, in those days. marreel their college ocurso by the use ol ar.lent drinks. Hong letters came from President Woolsey, of Vale, and Iroui tloi-ae-e- Mann, then of Bei-lein, und from Prof. MolTitt, of Princeton, nnd they all bore testimony Unit genius ill their col lei'es nnel schools drunk Jess than stupidi tv; that whiskey was passing away from the liiglnT oriler of mind and was to bo found only in possession of the mure sens ual and less bright. " Atlcoculc. Ju Z most, common Ihings-ire.n, eon- p 1 will b-Um to any one s convictions but ,, .nlnhnr. antimony nnd lend. It is pray keep yeur doubts to yonrsoll. scattered widely oyer the worlel. nml is plenty ol my mvn.-uocinc. I have How do tho anniversaries como 111 groups, jostling each other, and crowding together, as the years go on, till, as I said, life erets to be made up of wmiversaries! Is this not true? lou can answer me you, sir, or you, inauam, who nave tin.--' ed the glael 'meridian heights and aro on the elownwarii snipe, mo n-'j. i,-iuaj-, is the nnnivurbarv of your graduation; this, of your entrance upon somo lielel ot labor no matter wiieuii r n-oe a wiuo one or a narrow one lor wnicit you nan eagerly prepared yourself; Ibis, it may be, Ol yOlir Ill'St Communion, wmai ll, ae-ciue-ei to you. in your hour of exultation, that God had set His seal upon your forehead and whispered "Peace;" this, of your happy betrothal; this, of your wedding day, with its solemn joys, ils trembling hones, iis tremendous vet half-felt respon sibilities. Yesterday was the birthday of your ehlest son. lie is a man grown, per hapsbut you think of him as your boy still, tho little fellow whom you loveel and scolded twenty years or more ago. To day, a twelve month since, or five, or ten, as tho ease may be, you gave your one sweet daughter lo bo the light of another man's heart, tho joy or another man s home. You wonder how you ever diel it ; anel you think, for thu fiftieth time, that of all cool proceedings on the lace ot the earth, the coolest is when somo young fellow, in all tho self-assurance and bless ed audacity of youth, steps up to a father and quietly asks him to pluck the heart out of his bosom and place it in his hands! Just t icnty years ago to-tlay, it may tie, your baby died tho little one that had not learned to know his nanio. Ho would be a tall, manly boy now if he hail lived. You wonder bow it is in the land to which he has mmo. Is he still a babe? or has he grown to the full stature of manhood P Who can tell? But it docs not matter. Your heart, your father-heart, your mother-lioart tells vou lhat in this world or the next, bo he cliihl or man, ho " cannot drift beyond Goel's love anel care." If Whittier hail written no single line hut that, you woulel bless him to your dying day. Yesterday was the anniversary of your white-haired father's death; and ono day last week your lirst awakening thought was that lor just so many years your wife, or your husband, or your mother, had known Ihe secret of the eternal yours. As we grow older tho gravestones multiply in our paths till wo can scurcyly see the wnv for the shadows Ihev cast. But there are bitths as well as deaths then) aro smiles as well as tears, there are words of joyous congratulations as heart warm as (hose of sympathy. Ono generation crowds upon tho heels of another; and before you know it, you nre keeping tho anniversary of your graiulseni's birth, and pledging the now-eemie-r in a cup of colli water, if yon pre fer it. Tho king is dead-long livo the Lino' Wh at was the proposition with which I i Min.lti Tied, ns wo arrow older, anniver saries inevitably take on a tinge of sad- Coininonly a good reputation and a good character go together; ho who is calleel worthy is worthy. But a man sometimes has a 'better reputation than his real char net or warrants: anil again a man's repu- laiionisnnt so ereiod as ho deserves If tho choice must be made, it is f-etter to have a gooel character with a bail reputa tion, than a biel character with a gooel reputation. Yet that is not the popular view of the case. Most persons aro de sirous of being thought well of, whether they de-servo well or not. There are few who really prefer to guard their characters at the cosl of their reputation; who will yield tho good opinion of all their fellows rather than swerve in the least from the ri-'ht lo appear to advantage in the sight of the worlel. Seimo who admit that "a o-ooel name is rather to bo chosen than groat riches" fail to realize that it is u.iter to deservo a gooel name than to have it. No gooel name is deserved unless it rests on a gooel character. Character is tho groat thing. Let that be sought tit every cost the cost of even reputation, if need bo. Gooel, rugged, grand old Thomas Car ry le! It is refreshing to reael ainul the mawkish sentimentality of this latter day such a healthy utterance ns this from his sturely pen: " Le.-l wastefulness, idleness, improvidence lake the fate which God has appointed them, that their opposites may also have a chance for their fate." As it is, our philanthropists try to make us be lieve that the special business of a thrifiy man is not in any way to enjoy the fruit of his nrudencu and enterprise, but to shielel the shiftless people around him from the results of their own imprudence and im provieleiiee. 0. IloUand. When you hear an evil story of one you know to be good, discredit it. and say so. Grapes are not gathered from thistles; neither do thistles grow upon a grape vine. The fruit tells vou from what tree it came; but you know also what fruit a tree is likely to bear. One you know to bo gooel ami kinil anel sweet and noble is not likely to have done hael or cruel or spite ful or petty things. Why should you be lieve a tale of bun that is, alter all, merely the culmination of tho game of scandal? Manv are willing enough to wound who are yct ufntid lo strike. The SejOTiai Pf.oim.k. No armed le gions are required to keep them royal. There nre probably not two thousand eol- elicrs this day in all Scotland, and tliey are there merely for recruiting and keeping a few of the fortresses in order. The popu lation to-day is barely up to four millions, ami w ill tirobablv never be greater, for the young men and women in the lower walks of lilo immigrate to tho colonies, where many riso to distinction anil accumulate fortunes. Bengal is said to belong to tho Scotch, on account of the many offices or cupietl by them. Ihey are a hard work ing people, remarkable for their skill in farming und gardening; but they huvo a mortal aversion to sweeping streets on digging mud, and yet they will ' work eighteen hours out of tho twenty-four on their own firms in thu long days of sum mer anel autumn, mere is piouauijr iiui a simple Bcoicuman uus nay tjiiii-iu.yi.-ii at a street sweeper in any of our large cities. Those who aro too proud to work enusi as soldiers rather than dig or beg. Tho re lation between tho nobles nnel the people is very friendly, csp -chilly in the High lands," where tho poorest, who boar tho names of their landlords, claim kinship with them, and h ive tho claim allowed. Not a landlord has ever been shot or mur dered in till Scotland during the past two hundred yours by bis tenants. DisoovKKK'ts or Ameiuoa. A strange fatality attenileel Ihe early discoverers of America. Columbus died broken-nearo-u. Heillin anel Bobaelillu were drowned, Ovunda was harshly superseded. Las Casus sought refuge and consolation in n eowl, djeda died in extreme poverty. Eu cisco was deposed by his own followers, Nictiessa perished miserably by tho cruel ty of bis party. Vasco Nunez de Balboa was disgracefully behcude'd, Xarvaez was imprisoned in 11 tropical dungeon antl af terwards died of hardship, Corlez was dis honored, Alvarinlo was assassinated, Al niugro was gurrote .1, Pizarro was murder ed and bis four brothers killed. AnotJT the Indian". Lo! the poor In dian ! When he goes homo to his cherish ed wienvam in Ihe evening he lias no dime ..nlluitli which to while away tho weary hours, no friend next eloor to como in and talk politics; no medical aimanacsioiei.ei, no Now York papers with full proceedings of the racy Vandoruitt will case; no money in a safe for masked rooui rs iu mesm imu and steal no civilized pleasures of this kind. He simply hangs up the bloody sculps he has captured during the day, bents his squaw with a club, wraps a buf falo robe around him, and lies down to pleasant dreans. If a pale-faco comes within half a mile of his wigwam, the slumbering red man snuus nun mm, awakes, and goes out and shoots him full of arrows .Vi)rrs!ow Herald. SfKCiMEXS. III a recent oration, a Ver mont speaker rather lost track of himself ami remarked: " When we pass over these mile-stones of life, it behooves us to steip and take our soundings, and see where we are drifting." This is oven bitter lli in the Indiiiiia republican who in 187i3 lold his uu.lieiK-0 " to gaily shoulder their axes and to ' blaze ' such a path through the forest that their political sails cotilircatch tile conquering breezes and enable them to reach tho oasis of good times in the Sahara of dubeily which stretched its Briareus-liko arms on every siile-." Eirlier in Indiana, as fur back as lSjO, Governor Wright spoke of the elem e;crutie party " being founded 011 a rock, am! that llie gates of he'll could not prevail against it." To which wickeel Thomas H. Nelson rejVuiod in an illustration showing " tbe deni cratie party, Icel bv Governor Wright, marching straight up to the gates of bell, anel the'V not prevailing against it. but swinging widu open at its expected and welcome approach." But il remained for a republican after all to outelo anybody on mixing his metaphors. Saiel Congress man Mullens, in lSIS'.l, in a eulogy on a friend, "Mr. Speaker: I refuse to give way at the request of Logan and here I'll stand till Gabriel snaps his resurrec tion gun. Our friend is dead. We shalfmeet him no nioro, until the chaotic touch of destiny lights to living conscious ness the universal dome, anil wo see our selves us others see 11s ill that bourne from whence no traveler returns." Albnnn Ar-'J"- Nor A Plnxv. Tho nephew was a typi cal nephew of the comedies and novels: the uncle, the typical uncle. The former ge! himself in'o debt; the latter had to help him out of debt. But llie most loug-siilVering of men must at hist lose patience, and one tine day tho undo writes to his dear nephew that all is over between them. Not another pen nv' 'The nephew Hies elown to his uncles country scat nnd fills at his venerable relative's gouty feet. " Uncle Peter, deal Undo Peter, just this once. Aid mo to straighten out tins snarl in my finances and I will never, nev er come to you again." "Oh, Koland. I know you too well. My sister's son my only sister's son," says tho old man, wiping away a furtive tear. "All, your heart is touched; yon will assist 1110 once more?" says the young ncss? Tho world is so wide, separations ripl. Said Mr. Erarts nt dinner, Thanksgiv ing day: " If you Iind it not incompati ble wiih the multitudinous and necessari ly mrnlcxing duties demanding with ur gent importunity each ils poeulinr and pertinent claim on your unconscionably overburdened temporal availability, would you allow nio te press on your alleiuion the insignificant fact that tho transference of an inlinitessiui il partido of the richness that is bestowed within thu interior of tho ornithological coinestiblu to the creamy white dish that is now before mo would be well received by him who, with due consideration of the honor involved, has tho pleasure of ii.lelrossing you by the en dearing nanio of wife." In other words, ho wanted somu ntufling. Iloiton Trans- " If vou Want a thing well done, do it yourself," is an old adage which docs not lose its power with the passing yours. A grout many things must be left for others to do; nut wnuvo n H"""- .!,; Mfliirn !in IliiliOrLllIll Linn", uniiumi'' aibmttoii it. is follv to lav oil a sense of nnrannnl 1'eSPOnSlhllltV 101' US UOIllg. JIS Mr. Spurgeon has put it, " The best com mittee is a comniiuet) 01 uueu, . i of them ill in bed." It is waiting for other pooplo to do their duty mat inniicis me Lord's cause at the hands of His people. This keeping back of thoso who won t movo forward-after tho fashion of pick ing Boats in lho prayer-niccling is the j death of go-ahead activity. man. " Listen." said his aged relative; "have you a rule?" " A which?" " A rule a foot rule." "Why should I have one? I ain't a carpenter." "Go and find ono immediately." Tho young man, puzzlod but hopeful, goes, and at tho end of half an hour re turns and says : ' Uncle dear hero is 4he foot-rule." " Very well ; niousuro this room, length, breadth and height, so as to ascertain its cnbio dimensions. Tho young man, more puzzlod than ever, sets about his task, and at last makes his report. " Uncle, tho room contains :,0 10 cubic feet." " You tiro sure of that?" " Absolutely." " Vorv well." savs tho old gentleman. vising to his feet and speaking in a tone of thunder; "and now, sir, if this room, which contains 3,(J4U cumo lect, were filled with doublo eagles so tightly that you couldn't ram, jam or cram a three cent piece inlo it, 1 wouldn't give yon a penny. Git!"