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IN RELIGION'S REALM.
Expressions From the Various Re
ligious Newspapers.
The Eoliirlons Thought of tbe Day as
Expressed in the Sectarian Press—
Some Matters of Interest to Both
Ministers and Laymen.
Discussing the question of church
unity, the Living Church (P. E.) of Chi
cago says: "New difficulties await us
when we ask, what is truth? How shall
we attain it? One answer is this: Let
representative men come together and
begin the prayerful study of the Bible,
putting aside ail prejudice and opening
the mind to what is there revealed.
Strange as it may seem, this is the very
method out of which ail sectism has
come, and it is not likely that it can be
cured by the same means, taken by itself.
The quarrel is over the interpretation of
the Bible, not the Bible itself. Men have
not divided Christendom by deliberately
departing from the Bible, but because
they thought they had discovered a truer
interpretation. It is evident that here is
the point which must be settled rirst, the
criterion of interpretation. Until this is
settled, no progress whatever can be
made. No one ia an assembly of repre
sentative men, such as we have irnag
inged, could possibly be accepted as a
referee, whose decisions on disputed
points should be rinal; that would be
to establish a papacy with all the attri
butes of infallibility. It remains, how
ever, that there must be an authority
somewhere suilicient to indicate to us
what the teachings of Holy Scriptures
are in tbe things which concern the sal
vation of the soui. The modern denomi
nation is obliged to confess that it has
taken its interpretation of the truth of
God from some individual man, like Cal
vin, and it must admit that, however
able and devout he was, the founders of
other sects which deny his doctrines were
equally learned and equally devout. The
result is that in the long run there must
needs grow up a lurking doubt whether
their own founder was more right than
others. In some such way as this, much
infidelity has arisen."
"The Bible and the church," says the
New York Churchman, "teach that hu
man life, individual and social, is to be
led under the guidance of faith and con
trolled bsr religious sanctions: the zeit
geist of the nineteenth century wishes to
regard human life as directed by the
lignt of the reason, and as owning no
sanctions save those furnished by scien
tific investigation. Each of these posi
tions is intelligible, but they are sep
arated by a chasm that has never yet
leen bridged, and will not be to-morrow,
or the day after. In an age like the pres
ent, when there is a passion to find a ra
tional explanation for everything and to
blur deep distinctions by some 'cheap
and hasty synthesis,' it seems important
to put this matter plainly. Men and
women who wish to commit the keeping
of their souls to God under the teaching
of the church's :aith must be prepared to
allege as grounds of conduct religious
sanctions which are 'foolishness' to so
ciety about them. To fall back upon
lower and insufficient motives as justify
ing their actions is weak and cowardly."
"If we would know whether men can
come to God except through Christ," says
the New York Outlook, "we must ask the
history of the world, the nations unto
whom there has been no Christ revela
tion. Now, no nation has ever believed
in the Fatherhood of God except a Chris
tian nation ; no religion has ever
woven on its banner the motto 'Father
hood of God' except the Christian relig- I
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ion. Confucius knows do God: primi
tive Buddhism knew no God; Brabmin
ism knows a God, indeed, but a God that
is far away, remote, dwelling in perpet
ual unconsciousness, uninamfested; Mo
hainn>edauisin knows nothing but incar
nate law. And although in pagan litera
ture you. will tiud sometimes the word
'Father' applied to God, it is always to
God as the author of our being, not aa the
the kindly guardian, the personal coun
selor, the individual friend, the pro
tector. No man cometh to the Father
except through Christ. It ia as we see
the diviue in Christ that we draw near to
the divine in nature, the divine in his
tory, the divine interpreted in our own
hearts. This is the glory of our Chris
tian faitn. It brings the Divine Father
close to us."
"There ia a universal religion of life,"
observes the Christian Register (Unit.) of
Boston, "but that life manifests itself
through special forms of belief and char
acter, and it is not a misfortune or mis
take, but God's own order in the world,
that has established these different house
holds of faith for the beueht of all ranks
and classes of men. All of them have
been founded, as it were, through a spe
cial diviue opportunity; and, no matter
how great may be tue need of it, no per
manent bond of fellowship and associa
tion in religion is ever made by a set of
resolutions. Generally, it is the com
manding influence of some oue great
man, the like 01 whom is seen but once
in many generations, which is the begin
ning of a new spiritual movement. Every
name of consequence in the religious
world may be traced back to a personal
ity of quite unusual force, and it may be
safely assumed that, where no such
leader appears, no enduring brotherhood
of souls will be formed."
"The growth which Episcopalianism
experienced in Massachusetts up to the
death of Bishop Brooks is commonly
traced by Episcopalians to the influence
of his personality and teaching," says the
Watchman (BapU) of Boston. "Strangely
enough Dr. Brooks' lines of power were
exactly those which are not characteris
tic of Episcopacy, and the qualities of his
spirit and doctrine which commended
him to the community, instead of being
those for which the Episcopal Church
stauds, were those which iind their ex
pression in the genius and Reaching of
other communions. The Episcopal
Church in Massachusetts, during the last
year, has not loyally followed the lines
of Bishop Brooks' example and teach
ing. There is toleration for his spirit
and doctrine, but it is only toleration.
His mantle has fallen on no one, and
there is no commanding personality to
assert his positions. As a religious body
the Episcopalians have distinctly lost the
note of leadership. They are returning
more and more to their exclusive secta
rianism. Even their ablest organ, the
Boston Herald, in its regular editorials
on Episcopal matters, speaks in a minor
key when it refers to the present outlook
and policy of the denomination."
On the subject of the new Presbyterian
League the Interior (Pres.) of Chicago
has this to say: "The brethren are clearly
within their constitutional rights both as
to the manor and the matter of their
seeking. But we are opposed to leagues
for polemic purposes, and regret the ex
istence of this one. We want the new
short creed ourselves, and we are sure
tbat mixing this question up with others
which have no relation to it will be a
serious obstacle in the way of promoting
it. Let every question stand by itself
and strictly on its own merits. The brief
ireuic creed is not a party question, and
to make it such is to defeat it, or at least
to postpone it indefinitely. As to re
versing recent judicial decisions, that is
impossible. As the facts now lie in the
minds of the people it would be regarded
as an abandonment of fundamental doc
trine, on which the whole superstructure
of revealed truth rests. The brethren
would not wish such an impression to be
given, even though they may believe that
.the impression would not be correct. If
it should appear in the course of further
light and thought that tbe suspended
brethren's postion do not invalidate the
Scriptures, the rectification will coma
without observation, debate or formal
action. It will be an increase of growth
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-tHSTIOISr, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1894.
and of light which man does not cause
but only recognizes. If the present im
pression of the church is confirmed by
the indubitable logic of events, no one
would ask tbat those decisions be re
versed. As for the other matters of the
platform we do not think they are of suf
ficient importance to warrant special
championship."
Concerning the indecencies of part of
the daily press the New York Observer
(Prea.; remarks: "It is high time that the
church of the living God should waken
up to a sense of her duty in this matter.
Her members are tbe custodians of pub
lic morals. They are the light to banish
the darkness and tbe salt to preserve the
savor of society. It is nothing abort of
betrayal of a sacred trust for them to re
main inactive in presence of an evil
which is playing havoc with character
and corrupting purity of thought through
out the length and breadth of the land.
Surely something can be done to stem
the tide of tilth, and if it can be done
it ought to be done without one moment's
delay. Apathy in God's cause is both
cowardice and troachery to eternal rigut.
If lottery advertisements and the news
papers which contain them are legally
excluded from the mails and ostracized,
why should not newspapers containing
the not less harmful details of disgusting
trials be placed under an effective legal
bar? Here is a golden opportunity for
the exercise of the moral power lodged in
the union of evangelical churches in de
termined elfort to suppress a crying evil.
Some time ago the Nonconformist con
science of England, speaking through
the united endeavor of the Baptist, Con
gregational, Presbyterian and Methodist
Churches, revolutionized the political sit
uation by its ringing utterances on social
purity, making it impossible for an emi
nent statesman, who had flagrantly sinned
against purity, to occupy a prominent
position in the government of his coun
try. Why should not a similar power
for righteousness be brought to bear on
the newspaper press of America?"
Names for Freedmen.
At last a meeting was announced call
ing the men to decide upon some uni
form method of choosing surnames.
When they came together there were
many men of many minds. One old
patriarch called "Uncle Demus" thought
tnat they had no more use for last names
than "de 'postles an' de prophets." But
the younger men did not agree with him,
and one of them cried, "Dem Bible falks
hadn't come to freedom days, an' we
has."
It was evidently the sense of the meet
ing that surnames were necessary, but
the problem was how to choose them,
one suggested that some of the colored
people in Beaufort had taken the names
of their old masters.
"Dat might do in Bufort," said Marcus
rising slowly to his full hight. He had
been thinking very carefully upon this
subject since his wedding day, and he
gave the results of his cogitations. "Yes,
dat might do in Bufort, where no maussa
hab over ten or sebenteen slabes. Dat
wouldn't be such a big fambly by the
same name. But s'poae we do it here,
dar would be morn'n one hundred an'
Jifty Popes, 'bout de same number of
rEustises, au' 'most three hundred Coffin*
from de ole Coih'n Point plantation.
Now, I motion dat ebery one take de
name he likes best. I's gwine ter be
Marcus Washington, an' my ole 'oman
she'll be Susaunab. Washington. Bred
ren, I done said my say."
Uncle Marcus' motion was unani
mously adopted, although very few were
prepared to announce tbe name of their
choice. Many laughable incidents oc
curred before all were supplied with
names. In some cases husband and wife
could not agree upon the same name,
and would appeal to the teachers, who
gave them names from Yankeelaud.
Thus it happened that on the same street
Washingtons and Jeffernons lived next
door to Adamses and Bradfords.—Dora
E. W. SpraU in Lippincott's.
Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
Travelers in the alkali districts of the
West have noticed that a few drops of
Horsford's Acid Phosphate render the
use of alkali water harmless.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE SOUTH.
How to Ameliorate the Condition of
the Working Men.
Institutions Should be Established to
Zduoato Girls In Domestic
Duties.
[Special Correspondence of RECORi>-TJNioy.l
Atlanta, Ga., / June 20, , 1§94.—1t is
naturally impossible to recognize a sharp
line of demarkation '. between the region
j known as the Southwest and that other
region which we call the South, although.
we may be clearly conscious that the tra
ditions and characters of these regions are
unlike. Going eastward from El Paso, I
finally: reached a town which I knew be
longed to the South. They were hanging
"a negro. The affair was said to be strictly
private, yet as r -' many persons had been
admitted to the jail as could find stand
ing-room, and the adjoining streets were
filied v with an eager mass of people of
such sorts and conditions as the country
afforded.;, There were young./ men on
horseback from the rural districts, old
men in wagons and boys perched on
posts and roofs and every elevated object'
available, all gazing intently at the win
dows to get some indication of the move
ment within. This was a plain legal
execution for murder. But ; it is
not /-executions/of . this kind which"
are ;at present > provoking unfavor
able comment i, on ; the v; 3 civilization
of & the | South; i rather those & which \{ are
held somewhat frequently without the
observance of the , forma of law, and not
always for murder. 7. *
; Probably i no "7 reasonable : person :. will
hold that the lynching ; habit is a desir
able acquisition' for any community, still
it is possible that some of the condemna
tion of it as it has appeared in the South
has been unwarrantably severe. ;'- It goes
without saying that in establishing pun
ishment it must be adjusted to the social
significance :of crimes, and; also that the
social significance of a given crime varies
as the conditions and forms of, society
vary. It is, therefore, impossible to fix
by law r a definite, : uniform j punishment
for a crime which shalr^be equally appro
priate and just under "all the different
conditions of society./ In an old and
thickly/ populated community, devoted
to manufacturing and '?.••• commerce, the
crime of stealing cattle is of little signifi
cance, since it is impossible for it to be
carried so far as to threaten the existence
of : the society: in % question.' ' But in a
region { where ; the raising of cattle fur
nishes ; the essential material basis of,the,
society, that without which it cannot
stand, the crime of stealing/cattle has a
far-reaching : social significance. / The:
security of, the herds is absolutely neces
sary,: to ' the ;, existence 'of:': the / society.
Consequently;-,the;:punishment which
would be just and appropriate in one place
might be entirely inadequate in the other.-
The need of estimating: differently the
same act in the two cases has been clearly
recognized by the members of communi
ties having the characteristics.indicated.
It is, in recognition of this distinction that
the raisers of cattle "on- the ; " plains have
often insisted', on capital 'punishment,,
either with or without the sanction of the
law, for any one guilty of stealing'cattle.
They recognize that!: crime must be pun
ished in accordance with its social signifi
cance. But the law is usually made under
and for given \ conditions," and presumes
for any given crime uniform significance
in all -the communities within the juris
diction .of the ■ Legislature" This, how
ever, does violence to the facts, , hence
there is sometimes in some places an ap
peal from ; the terms of I the law to the
direct judgment of the law-makers,vwho
in this case ; happens to ; be; the . people of
the community./;
•Something of this, kind is' at present
happening in the South with reference to
the; outrages committed 'r by negroes. In
view of: the fact that larg*6 numbers of the
negroes are almost exclusively under the
domination of ;;powerful .instincts, and
that I they have never been taught the ne
cessity, of restraint, either by. example or
precept, it might be expected; that some
of the i most -essential conditions of civ
ilized; life would be frequently violated.
It might also be expected, 1 in view of the
frequency ■ of : these [- crimes; that ;: ; there
should arise the thought: that the estab
lished law, with its uncertainties and in
adequate punishments, is incompetent to
stem the force of undisciplined passion,'
and render a ' sufficient;protection to vir
tue. And the maintenance of this end is
conceived fto; be essential to the contin
uance here of civilized society, and more
than!balances,' on the side of the good,
the evil of Irregular executions.';..
V If ■} it is ■ true that in one section of the
country many criminals 'are punished
without due process of law, it is not clear
that this fact indicates a worse social con
dition than the fact that, by due process of
law,- in another | section ; many' Criminals
escape punishment altogether.: ; ; ,:, .'
; It is expected that visitors in the South
will be impressed with the magnitude of
the so-called negro problem.* % But it '. may
readily happen that the unprejudiced ob
server will conclude that the negro prob
lem appears difficult % because a : certain
preconceived \ solution is desired, and be
cause % there is z little or uno I prospect; of :
reaching that particular solution. In its
progressive changes,' society is not likely
to ) follow - the . preferred ■', plans tof any
group or class, since these are generally
constructed rather on the basis of wishes
than on • the ; recognition 1; of* the 5 forces
: which ' are working *to effect a modifica- '■
tion of '■ the V society in ■; question. The
white people ■ of ;, the South have had defi
nite programmes ■: for? the • social changes
which they hoped to see realized, but the,
events have not indicated that these pro
grammes were to be speedily carried out;
and because the movement has not been
along their predetermined line, they have
conceived the problem Ktoi\ be ? attended
with enormous difficulties. r They have
not stopped vto consider that, after all,
perhaps : the j problem as ; they have • con-,
ceived it is not the real problem l that: is
to be worked out here. ':'■ ■ ? V-.
w The task which the'- two races have be
fore them in producing harmonious com
munities is ■ not ■ to } be •■ belittled, but )itJ is
unduly magnified by the members of the*
English stock, because its settlement will
involve a departure | from? their '. previous
practice of sweeping I away the alien and
ruling alone. ;;' But it is not more difficult
than the Indian question in Mexico. 'In
some respects these two social and politi
cal questions « may be compared. S The
Indians, as well as the negroes, have been
the slaves of the white s race. Both > bear
the burdens of the ordinary labor of their
respective communities. Both' sutler
under the prejudices of dominant classes.
The i. negro » has a the ! advantage, however,'
that it is easier to arouse in him an am
bition to rival his social superiors, and in
this he is aided by his desire and power
to imitate others. As fast as the barriers
agaiust him are removed, his wants tend
■to 1 increase,"! and these increased wants
furnish a powerful incentive to continu
ous work; and when a rude people has
been made to feel the need, and adopt the
practice, of continuous labor, it has taken'
the moat important of all- steps upward
toward civilization. ;; Where tne negroes
are distributed in not too large numbers
among the .whites, as in the border States,
they seem to acquire this \ incentive; but
in some parts of Louisiana the barrier is
held so i firmly ; against > them % that com
paratively few of them are moved to imi
tate their white fellow-citizenB.f Not only
is } there comparatively ?; little imitation,
but % the [antagonism t of | race f appears jto
have overcome all curiosity on the part of
one race to see v hat the other is doing.
At the com 111 en cement exercises of the
New Orleans University, a?; school lor
negroe3, besides two or three instructors,
I was the only white person in the large
audience. Under these conditions of sepa
ration two results appear. One is that the
negro, In the course of his education, de
velops the thought that his ■ _ race has \ a
cause of Its own, and that his most con
spicuous duty |as| an educated man is to
be the champion of that ! cause. Drawing
the lines sharply against him, he becomes
an advocate not of American citizenship^
but of the negro race; an apostle militant,
with no lack of confidence that his cause
will be triumphant. Another result ap
pears to be tke return of the negro to tne
purity of his stock, giving him a stronger
hold on life, increasing his powers of
physical endurance, and apparently put
ting oil" the day of his disappearance,
which a distinguished divine has just in
formed me is to be the solution of the
negro question in the South.
Making a trip by steamer from New-
Orleans into Bayou Lafourche, I had
some opportunity to observe the power
and endurance of the negro as an ordi
nary laborer. The main business ot the
steamer is carrying freight between New
Orleans and the towns and villages and
SUgMr plantations along the bayou. The
freight cousists chiefly of grain, potatoes,
sugar, pork, machinery and Hour, and
about forty negroes are shipped each
trip to load and unload it. The
trip up the Mississippi is made
in the night, but after entering the bayou
at Donaldsonvillo early in the morning
the whole force is constantly on duty for
forty-eight hours. It is essentially con
tinuous work, for the intervals between
the landings are very brief, and the labor
is carried on under high pressure. It was
necessarily exhausting, but through it all
the negroes appeared to remain romarka
bly cheerful. Their songs, however, be
came less frequent toward the end of the
lone watch. Nature was somewhat sub
dued. Yet, considering the fine physical
development oi these men, their endur
ance and recuperative energy, the basis
of tne divine's conclusion that ihey are to
disappear is hard to find, except, per
haps, in his wish that it may be so.
It is significant that in Louisiana, where
there appears to be the largest surplus
population, the people are organizing a
systematic effort to provide themselves
with good domestic servants. Tie difii
culty iv the North has sometimes been
thought to be a lack of such surplus, or,
'in other words, the ease with which per
sons of all sorts have been able to attain
such a degree of independence as to per
mit them to give up domestic work for
othors. The members of this
class in' New Orleans are described
in the editorials of the leading
newspapers as, with rare exceptions,
lazy, dirty, dishonest and unreliable,
wandering from house to house, and
seldom serving out their month, working
only when it is necessary to do so, and,
in the case of housegirla as nurses of
children, capable of desperate crimes, it
is noteworthy that in the hotels and
restaurauts the service is very largely ia
the hauds of white persons, while farther
north, as in Washington, both domestic
and hoOel service is almost universally
performed by negroea. The explanation
of this state of things may be a tendency
on the part of the negroes to become de
generate where they constitute a very
large element in the population; or it
may be that negroes, like other persons,
are likely to live up or down, as the case
may be, to the estimate in which they are
held in the community; In other words,
that the consideration with which the
negro is treated in some places stimulates
him to become worthy of such consideim
tion; while the old-fashioned cursing
which is bestowed upon him in other
places tends to convince him that he is
what he is represented to be, and makes
it appear to him absurd to attempt to act
up to any other character.
Whatever may be the cause of this ditli
culty in one place or another, there is an
evident need of training. The young
uegresa coming up from her parents' rude
hut ia the country, or from her home in
the slums of New Orleans, is entirely un
prepared to undertake any part of the
work of a properly managed household,
and the same is iv a large measure true
of the girls or young wonjeu woose
homes are in the squalid parts of the
laryo cities of the North. They have need
to serve an apprenticeship before they
will be fitted to take up domestic work,
yet no means are provided for such an
apprenticeship. But if there are reasons
lor devoting either public or private
funds to teaching boys to become work
ers in wood and metals, there are equally
potent reasons for devoting a part of these
or other funds to teaching girls those
things that will fit them to take up with
credit domestic work. If it is said that
these things should be taught at the
homes, it may be reulied that a
large proportion of the homes of
the poor in our great cities are not
places where these things can be
taught; in these homes even a knowledge
of them is wanting. The ladies of Now
Orleans, therefore, in calling for an es
tablishment for preparing young women
for domestic work, are doing what
ought to be done elsewhere. By giving
to nurses a systematic training, that oc
cupation has been raised almost to the
diguity of a profession. By giving sys
tematic training to the other workers in
a household, their occupation may be
raised above the contempt under which
it seems to have talleu. The experience
of the South is a pointer for tbo rest of
the country. It is not euou<^ to have a
surplus of people iv order to get tue kind
of workers we wish. There must be also
training; and if the conditions under
which this might bo had privately have
passed away, it must be given publicly.
Moreover, if a philanthropist wishes to
do something to ameliorate the condition
of the coming generation of working
men, let him establish an institution in
which the girls who aro to become the
wives of these men will be taught to
cook and properly care for a house and
children.
If the cooking and economical domestic
ruauagemeut of tbo French people were
substituted for the present domestic
regime of the middle and lower ranks of
the United States, it would be equal to
doubling the family incomes of about
two-thirds of this Nation. The tradi
tional poor white of the South, or his
modern relic, illustrates the degeneracy
that may come from improper lood. His
vapid talk, his want of resolution, his
emaciated figure, reveal his general
worthlessuess. The poor Mexican thinks
with pleasure of his hat; the Italian is
proud of the graceful manner iv which
he can throw his cape, however ragged,
over his shoulder; but this unfortunate
son of the South has apparently no
pride in what he is, what he does, or
in anything about himself. He appears
to have inherited a broken spirit,
but, in fact, he is the victim of genera
tions of improper feeding. His sons
stand about him, copies of the original,
with no evident mission in life but to
lean against the fence and wear freckles.
The impression of hopelessness which
these people make on oue is not agree
able. They seem to stand at a certain
stage in a movement downward from a
better condition of their ancestors. The
French Creoles of the bayou region of
Louisiana may. have also fallen some
what from their original estates; they are
certainly largely illiterate; but their gen
tle manners and soft Bpeoch suggest at
leasi refinement and cultivation.
Herein a survival stands to
their advantage. The last thing a
Frenchman is likely to forget is his
characteristic outward bearing. So this
French colo ly, isolated among the
swamps and bayous, long separated from
the national life of its native stock, has
lost much that distinguished its ancestors*.
has tailed to keep pace with the modern
world* interest in education. Yet it re
tains the forms and manners of cultivated
life, which reminds one that it still enjoys
in a certain measure its national heritage.
There are few negioes in this couutry,
which, at first sight, appears more at
tractive than the lands which the French
Creoles occupy alone the bayoua. They
have much of the beauty of the landscape
of Holland. The cultivated lauds have
always the rich foliage of a semi-tropical
forest as a more or less distant back
ground; and the meandering bayou not
only furnishes a way of communication,
but forma a remarkably picturesque ele
ment in the scenery. That the war did
not sweep away everything is seen from
the fact tuat the great houses of the sugar
planters are still standing as memorials
of the earlier time. The immense
plantations to which they belong,
extending from the shore back to the
forest, with a sugar mill and a little vil- j
lage for the laborers in the center of;
each, constitute a characteristic feature I
of the country along Bayou Laofurche.
Here the big plantation stands, as
a kind of monopoly in its region, limit
ing in some respects the holders of small
farms. By its store for supplying the
wants of its laborers, it curtails also the
opportunities for the development of an
independent commercial life. By devot
ing himself exciuaively to the production
of sugar, and by importing almost every
thing needed to carry on the plantation —
hay from Kentucky, grain and fertilizers
from farther north—tbe planter sets an
evil example for the small farmer
who persists from year to year in
putting all of his eggs into one
basket. Some parts of the South will
never be especially prosperous till the
price of rabbits rises, for the lands will
produce nothing else. But with a prop
erly diversified cultivation the country
among the bayous of Louisiana might
realize most of our dreams of a land of
beamy, independence and plenty.
BIiKSAKiI Mo.iES,
GREELEY'S MANNERS WERE BAD.
Bat They Were Forgiven for the Fine
Speech lie Made Afterwards.
Horace Greeley stories being in order,
in view of the unveiling of his statue a
lew day9 ago, I will tell one that I heard
in New Orleans. The genial old philan
thropist went there after the South had
taken him lo her heart iv grateful recog
nition of his action in goiug ou the Jeff
L>avi3 bail boud, and tho people ware
auxious to show him every attention in
their power.
A dmuer seemed to be the proper thing,
and tho markets of New Orleans, than
which there are few better in the world,
were ransacked to niaka the occasion as
notable for its viands as for the distinc
tion of its guest and the diners. Judge
Walker, the veteran editor of the Ptcay
une, presided. He was a great gourmand,
and, after the manner of gourmands,
wished none of the fine points of the
dinner to be lost to the guest for the lack
of commentary,
"Mr. Greeley," said he, "these oysters
are tho best that come to our market, and
wo think they vie with those of Norfolk.
I observe that you are not eating them."
"Well, no," replied Greeley; "the truth
is I never could abide shell fish," and he
passed.
Then came some delicious green turtle
soup, which Judge Walker explained
was prepared from the finest fat turtle
the Florida bays could afford.
"No doubt, no doubt," was the reply in
Greeloy's peculiar whine, ''but cold
blooded animals are an abomination to
mo."
The pompano, imperial tish that it is,
tsnd fresh Irom the Gulf, was open to tho
same objection, despite Judge Walker's
eulogy, and that, too, was passed. Mr.
Greeley barely tasted the accompanying
.Parisian uaiuty, and shook his head rue
fully at the idea that anybody would im
pair his digestion by eatiug cucumbers.
Shrimp .salad, another New Orleans deli
cacy, proved no more tempting; shrimps,
he said, looked so much Ukq worms that
they alwas give him the creeps.
"Ah, here is something you will like—
a homely dish in name." said Judge
Walker, "but nt for the gods. It is a
Galicia ham." Aud then he went on to
tell how the hugs from which these
hums were obtained were led only on
chestnuts, making the flesh luscious and
delicious.
"Perhaps so; very interesting indeed,"
observed Grealey; "but do you know,
Judge, that there is so much talk of
trichina nowadays that I wouldn't dare
taste a bit of pork."
The Judge gave up in despair. The
only things in all of the array of dainties
wbicu had been provided which Mr.
Greeiey would eat were bread, potatoes
and cauliflower, aud he feared that he
might be overloading his stomach at that.
But when it came to the speaking,
although ho had drunk nothing but cold
water, he spoke as one inspired, and with
a fervor, eloquence and tenderness that
nobody at the table could ever forget.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
FOOLING THE FISH.
Au Appurutus Intended to Foul the
Finny Beauties.
There aro many devices for ensnaring
the gullible fUh. William K. Lamb 01
East Greenwich, li. 1., has invented and
patented a new one.
The principle of Mr. Lamb's invention
is to cause the lisli to see himself in a
mirror behind the bait, whereupon imag
ining that the bait is to be snapped up by
another tish hastens to secure it himself,
and the hook at tho same time. At pres
ent there is no testimony as to the value
of Mr. Lamb's invention in pructice.
The Invention, according to the letters
patent, comprises a mirror, preferably of
a circular or oval form, attached to a
tishline by means of a riug'fast to the
frame of the mirror. A horizontal arm
extends a short distance in front of the
mirror aud has at its outer end a ring to
receive a branch line, the upper end of
which is made fast to the main line. A
hook is made fast to the end of the branch
line, so as to come about opposite the
center of ihe mirror.
In using the apparatus a bait is put on
the hook and let down into the water
with the mirror, which acts as a sinker,
until its lower edges touch the bottom.
In this position the lish, when ap
proaching the bait, will see the reflection
of himself in the mirror. He will imag
ine another hungry fish after the same
bait, and will be made bolder by the sup
posed companionship and more eager "to
take the bait before his competitor seizes
it—at least this is the theory of the in
ventor. The fish will lose his caution
aud take the bait with a recklessness that
greatly increases tho chances of his being
caught on the hook.
The reflection of light from the mirror
in the waler will have, in some degree,
the effect that the light torch has in some
well-known kiudsof fishing, of attracting
tish to the bait, and the light reflected by
the mirror upon the bait will make it
more conspicious.
The mirror may be made in two parts
and secured together at an angle, the one
to the other, so as to have the effect of
making two or mora reflections of the
same nsb, and it may be made double, so
as to rellect on two sides. It may also be
made in the form of a triangle or square,
with a mirror on each wide aud an arm
with the hook and bait before each re
flecting surface, and in the form of a
cross, which would produce a multi
plicity of reflections.
All this is the allegation of the in
ventor.—New York World.
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