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WEDNESDAY. AUG. 9, 1882.
Sunday School Lesson Nolo
BT REV. J. O. SHERUURN.
Aw. lath: Prayer and Forslveni-Hark 11 :H 31
Tho beginning of this lesson is bat a
continuation of the application Jesus made
of bis marvelous work in withering the
fig tree. Tbe power to perform such won -tiers
lie declared eame through faith.
Hore he speaks still further of faith in pray
er, as an element essential to success
therein. The direction is very plain and
tho declaration positive and unmistakable.
The broad scope of the promise given has
attracted the thought of the Christian
world ever since those words wero spoken.
But it is proper to notice thnt Jesus does
not sny, all I hings ye ask for when ye
pray, but all that you really desire. This
must, of course, be understood to mean
that our highest and most intense desire
is for those things we ask. Any one may
have desires that nre secondary or condi
tional, as I may greatly desire to spend a
week from home, but I more desire to be
at home, if I may better serve the dear
ones there by romaining. So I may much
desire somo boon or gift of providenoe,
bat I desire more to bo made most efficient
for the service of my generation and my
Master. Hence this very blessed and
encouraging promiso of our Savior is not
to be understood as a pledge that every
sentient being that prays will be granted
if only prayer is offered in confidence, bnt
all things which the sin-cleansed nnd
grace-controlled heart desires. Such de
sires are always made sub-servient to tbe
divine will and our best good, we desire
even more than the things wo may be
asking in prnyer.'that God may be glorifi
ed to the greatest possiblo extent And wc
made holy and useful.
With this understanding of tbe lan
guage Christ uses hero, wo come to the
grand and inspiring teaching he gave us.
Boliove, ho says, that yo rooieve those
things which yo desire. Tho New ver
sion has it, boliovo that yo havo reoeivod
them. So indeed yo have as far as all the
plans and provisions of mercy are con
cerned. The blessings are at hand, nigh
thee, only bulievo nnl havo them, Hore
then is one element ia successful praying.
A consistont.downright confidence in God
and his willingness to do for us those
things we desire, and a confidence that
when we ask wo have these things.
But Jesus introduces another important
factor. It is not simply necessary that we
should come to God with trusting hearts,
we must also havo forgiving hearts.
When praying, forgive, if ye have aught
against any. It ought to answer all ques
tions with us that Christ declares this to
bo a necessary condition to success in
prayer, but our own senso of tho right and
fitness of things will show us its necessity.
Our prayers are cries for mercy, we ask
grace, favor. But, as Shakespeare has it,
' That same prayer doth teach ns all to
render tho deeds of mercy." If we ask 'of
God what we are not willing to accord to
our fellow men, we prove at once that we
are unworthy of tho thing we ask for.
Christ illustrates the matter just along
this line. A certain debtor, hopelessly
involved, comes to his creditor nnd ac
knowledges the obligation, declares his
poverty and prayos that the debt may bo
remitted ; having graciously obtained his
request, he goes out to oppress and abuse
one who owes him some little debt. Christ
only voices the cry of natural justice when
he says, "His Lord was wroth, and de
livered him to the tormentors till be should
pay all that was duo unto him." But not
only is it unfitting that man should receive
of God what he is unwilling to grant his
fellow man, but there is a moral impos
sibility in the matter. While tho heart is
unforgiving, it is not in a state of condi
tion either to ask aright or to believe aright.
The very temper of hoart in the unforgiv
ing man prevents him from coming into
harmony with his all meroiful Heavenly
Father, and it as effectually prevents his
exercising that oonlidence in God which
alone brings desired good. These teach
ings were doubtless givon to tbe disoiples
on the walk from Bethany to Jerusalem.
The scene now changes and Christ is
walking in the tomple, probably in the
porch or center court, teaching and preach
ing the gospol, s Luke tells ns.
Here bis old enemies assail him once
more. They bad often plied him with
their questions before, and with all their
snbtility, had uniformly been worsted.
They coma now with a question that
might naturally bo understood to apply io
his teaching in tho temple, driving out
buyers and sellers on tho previous day.
Tho craft of tho quostion, however, lay in
this; if Christ acknowledged that his au
thority was of mon they could claim high
er authority than ho, if he said it camo
from God they wore ready to accuso him
of blasbhemy, if ho refused to answer
they would construe his refusal against
him. Thus they supposed that they had
cunningly caught him. But Jesus adroit
ly turns upon thorn with tho very weapon
with which they had thought to wound
him. They too could bo troubled by a
dilemma. So be asks them concerning
the babtism of John, (a question that real
ly involved their own) for if John was
what ho claimed to be, thon was Jesus
tho Christ, and his authority in tbe templo
was unquestionod, was it from Heaven or
of men ? Now those who had hopes to
ontrap the son of man find their own feet
snared In the net thoy had woven for him,
In vain tlioy confer togethorfor an answer.
They might boldly declare that John's
ministry was a mere human matter,
probably that w, mid best suit there desires,
but s multitude are listening to their
words and all hold John as a prophet.
Tbey dare not sty that his ministry was
of men. If thoy say of God, thon they
have yielded all tho ground to Christ, and
are really bound by their own acknowl
edgement to yiold to him and own him ns
the promised Messiah. This they will
nut do and eo thoy say wo cannot tell.
Again Christ is Iriiiinpuirct, and his ene-
VOL. XXXIX.
mies are put to confusion. They no
longer ply him with crafty questions, bat
having procured false witnesses they seek
by a plot of falsehoods to soourtj his con
demnation. What will not the porvera
human heart devise rather than accept
the truth ! The case of tbo Jewish
rulers is not alone; every age has a class
walking in their steps, and tho rage and
craft and malignity of hit first accuseds
are repeated in every generation.
Temperance Mass Heel in?.
As previously announced, the temper
ance mass meeting, under the auspices of
the state temperance camp mooting asso-
ciation, was held in the grove at Lyndon
villo. The grounds are well adapted for
such purposes, being those used for the
St. Johnsbury distriot annual Methodist
camp mootings. Diligent work had been
previously done by the executive commit
too, by tho many friends of the cause and
by the pastors of churches in tbe vicinity
while the railroad officials had granted
them every possiblo facility for the
prosecution of their work.
The exorcises on Wednesday afternoon
were under the auspices of the Caledonia
county temperance association. Rev. II.
F Cushing presided, Rev. W.J. Johnston
offered prayer. Rev. II. W. Wright of St.
Johnsbury told something of the forty
seven years' work of the association, and
that while most of tbo original ofiioors
and workers had passed away, the spirit
of the founders had been perpetuated and
ho trusted would be handed down to
successive generations intensified and
inoreascd.
Bro. Cushing said he wanted no one to
be discouraged because tbo attendance
was small the first day, and related an
instance of a camp meeting in the wost
where the attendance was small, the inter
est comparatively Blight, and when but
one conversion occurred, and that of
tin peddler, but that tin peddler was he
whom the world has since known as the
celebrated eduoator and divine, John
Dempster, D. D. He then introduced as
the first speaker of the day. Rev. B. M.
Tillotson, pastor of the St. Johnsbury
aniversalist churoh, who took as his theme.
How shall our young mon bo saved from
tho vioo of intemperance?" Tho import
anco of the thomo was potent to all. We
oan save some, but not all of them, by
training and educating them right from
tho very first; great powor in early train
ing and home influences. " As the twig
is bent tho tree's inclined," though some
limes n tornaao may come ana swoop
away the twig. We may savo somo, but
not all, by enlisting them in temperance
work. This will give thorn occupation
and bias toward the right. We may save
some, but not all, by strengthening public
sontiment, since publio sentiment will
uphold them in their efforts to abstain
But tho only absolutely effbjtual way to
savo thorn is to stop tbe manufacture and
sale ot the liquor, there is no way to
stop the burning of trees in a forest lire
but to extinguish tho fire. To slop sheep
from being killed wo should not doctor
and teach the sheep, but kill the animal
thai kills the sheep. The first thing to be
done to secure this end is to pledge all
congressmen staunch temperance men.
That time was not far distant, he hoped,
when, in order to gain victory, a party
must nail a tempcrnnoo banner to thoir
mnst. The second thing to be done is to
have regular temperance campaigns like
those in Kansas and Iowa. Temperance
has come to mean business an 1 is mote
ban a sentiment. The third thing to be
dono is to enlist tho women in the causo.
When tho women are thoroughlv enlisted
success is secured.
Rev. F. B. Phelps, pastor of the Con
gregational church, East St. Johnsbury,
then read a poem on "The Second Deluge. "
This was a spicy description of the work
of rum and tho dillorent crafts which are
in tho wators endeavoring to make part.
The poem was listened to with interest
and attention, good judges pronouncing
it a fine production.
Rev. E. W. Culver then followed with
an address on the " Duty of tbo church
and ministry in tho temperance enter
prise. Ho commenced by saying that
the subject assigned him was an implica
tion that was either a libel or a scandal.
If it implies that tbo church is overzealous
and should be restrained It is a libel, nnd
if it implies that the church is remiss it is
a scandal. He thought tbe libel was not
true at all and the scandal only in part.
But there is an ominous silence in too
many churches on this subject. If we
could banish intomperanco wo could
banish all other evils, hence tho temper
ance work is a legitimate one for the
ministry. Some clergymen aro afraid to
lower thoir dignity by engaging in tbo
reform, and they resemblod the man who
would not rescue his son from drowning
because be did not want to got the starch
out of his new shirt. A olorgyman who
doos not ongngo in tho temperance work
from this reason is in morals below many
outside the church. Many do nothing in
the matter because they fear thoy will hurt
some ono's feelings, but it is a part of a
minister's duty to hurt bad people's fool
ings. On tho contrary, wo should dignify
the pulpit by giving it tho load in every
great reform. The pulpit should take the
proclamation of the temperanco oanse
from the itinorant tramps who are sent by
no one and are often a scandal and dis
grace to the cause. Tbe clergyman is sont
by God with tbe diviuo revelation and
has tbe power of Heaven to sustain and
supplement him in his efforts for the
cause. In one Sunday school of this state
forty out of ono hundred Sunday sobool
scholars becamo drunkards; tho churoh
there was remiss In ber duty and terrible
was tho result. Suppose Elijah had
thought it might lower his dignity and
hurt the feolings of the people if ho assailed
Idolatry. Would that the clorgymen of
to-day had the fearlessness of the Old
Testament prophets. It is tbe duty of the
ministry to antagonizo whatever hindors
tho gospol and to do this without apology.
Intemporanco had been on trial long
enough. Throe thousand years bad borne
testimony to tho damning influeuco of
mm, nnd no man ought now to npoligizo
for attacking the traflio. He thought that
temperance should includo abi'Jnenoo
from tobacco, and that tho new dispensa-
'ion should do away with tho smoke and
incense of the past. Ha thought that
temperanco men should vote for prohibi-
tlon and should show their colors every
where. He appealol to tho ladies to aid
ia secuting this vote and, if they cjuld
accomplish tho work in no other way, to
do as did the lady in Windsor, Vt., who,
whon hor husband voted for Tilden, put
him on short rations, made him a bed in
the garret, and gavo him no peace until
he promised to voto tbe other tiekot next
time.
A (iood Time.
Fairer uioniing never dawned than tint
of Wednesday, July 2G;h, 1882. Between
the hours of 'J and 10 a. m., of that lovely
day, a merry company of old and voting
(I mistake, nil were young that dnv, I
think,) gathered ia front of an ancient
dwelling, in tho pleasant villago of Cud
sea, and very soon numerous baskets, pails,
bags, shawls, etc., etc., wero stowed away
in tiie roomy carriages which stood at tho
gateway, and the boys and girls, ranging
in age from eighty years down to six
months, followod. The drivers givo the
word, and wo wero off for a picnic, on the
old farm, on which Harry Weedon Hatch
and his wife Henrietta Maria lived for for
ty-throe years and a day, on which thei
family of nine children wero born and rear
ed, from which all wont forth to the battle
of lifo, one soon to yield in the struggle,
the rest to gather occasionally nt the old
homestead till tho father passed over the
rivor, and tho doar home becamo the
property pf strangers. Twelve years since
that sad day, and now, six of the eight
living ohildren, with relativos and friends,
were to revisit the scones of thoir ohild-
bood. A pleasant ride of a iittlo more
than two miles, brought us to tho lovely
grove by the hillside, every tree of which
was familiar to some of the party. An
hour or two spent in chatting by tbe elder
ones, (not old remember,) in merry games
and romps by the younger, with a nap in
tho swinging hammock for baby Roy, dur
ing which timo reenforcements reached us
from Norwich on the Connecticut, and we
gathered round not tho board but tho
hospitable cloth, and did ample justico to
the many good things provided for tho oc
casion. Then, farther up tho hillsido. lu
tho thick shade of the maples, wo sat and
listenod to recitations and songs from tho
Misses Addio and Eva Foazie of Somor-
ville, Mass., Misses Doncio and Addio
Hatch of Norwich, Vt., Miss Cora and
Master Herbert Hatch of Modesto, Cal.,
and Misses Lacy and Flora Cirwin of
Chelsea, Vt.
Later came the climb of tho very cte.-t
of the hill, nnd over tho lino fonce to the
place where Josoph Hatch built his log
house on tho now land to which he had
slowly journeyed from his far distant
home in Preston, Conn., and whore his
son Harry was born in 1800. Tdo old
doorstone nnd chimney j imb contributed
to tho enjoyment of tho day, by a genor
ous supply of relics, and after a lingering
look at the long line of Green Mountains
and distant hills, ns lovely a view as
many which nre so noted in foriegn lands,
the company wended their way down the
hill, part of tliom making a call at the old
dome itself, and finally, as " tho sun went
westering ", bade adieu to tho loved and
familiar scenes and drove back to tho vil
lago, stopping at tho gateway before dis
persing, to sing Homo, Sweet Home, to
tho dear, aged uiothor, too feeble to be
one of tho party. Many absent friends
wero remembered with wishes that thoy
might bs with us, but with all that wo
missed it was a rare day, ono to be
romemberod from Vermont to California
via. Massachusetts nnd Connecticut.
Osk of Them.
Personal.
Miss Susan B. Anthony will givo a
sorics of lectures in Texas.
Only ono thirty-eighth of tho people of
borlin, Prussia, attend church.
Bethel Congregntionalists have called
Rev. Mr. Bugbee of Bridge water to preach
for them a year.
Rov. Mr. Titus has just been ordained
and installed as pastor of the Congrega
gational chnrch nt Wilmington.
Martin Gilmore, the sculptor, Is to
make a 810,000 bronze statue of Daniel
Webster for tbe oity of Concord.
Rt. Rev. Bishop DcGoesbrinnd preached
at Milton last Wednosday at tho groat fes
tival of St. Anne, tho mothcrof the Virgin.
King Humbert of Italy has sent mes
sages of condolence to President Arthur
and to tho family of the lato Minister
Marsh.
Roman Catholic . Bishops of England
do not allow tho parents in thoro dioceses
to send thoir sons to eithor Oxford or
Cnmbridgoni uvcrsities.
Tho pulpit of tho Congregational church
at East Burke was occupiod on a recent
Sunday by a son of the Rev. Dr. Hulbort
of Lyndonvillo.
Rev. Drs. O. F. KOttell, F. S, Delloss
and others participated in tho laying of
tho cornor stone of tho new eighteenth
streot, Brooklyn M. E. church.
Rev. W. C. VanMclor, D.D., formorly
a missionary from Rome, latnr of tho N.
city mission, spoko at tho Baptist
church, St. Alban3 last Sand vv.
Rov. Dr. Copoland, principal of Wyom
ing conforonce seminary, is spending a
few days in visiting his brother, Dr. J. W.
Copoland of Lyndonvillo.
The rocent glorious tomporanco victory
in Iowa Is largely duo to the efforts of tho
clergy. It is claimed that not a Motbo.
clist pulpit was counted out.
The venorablo and much loved Dr.
Robert Moffutt still resides in London.
He has reached the age of eighty-five but
is still In the enjoyment of good health.
Rutland Mothodists have raiiod over
$500,00 for tho repairing of thoir church.
Their pastor, Rov. D. It. Lowell spends
his vacations nt Capo Cod, Martha's Vino-
yard.
A curront item says, Auiorioans arc
groat scribblers. Even the lunatics ou
Black wells island edit and publish a
MONTPELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1882.
paper. And they are not tho only lunatics
'engaged in tho business,
j
I &Ilss Ma''' Mitchell, professor of as-
) tronomy In Vassar college has receive I
from Hanover collogn, Madisan, Ind.. the
degree of LL I) , biing tho first lady
who has ever rccoived this degree.
lliv. J. (i. llm, in alnuim of tho
Montpelior seminary and of Weslcyan
University, ut present the popular and
successful pastor of the M. E. church i
Bornardslon, Mass., is spending his vaca
tion among tho mountains of Vermont.
Alary Cleminor writes to tbo lutlcpea
il'.nl that thu scandalous stories ahoai
President Arthur's spending the sabbath
in sleeping off the debauch of the previ
ous mgUt aro false, that she sees him
every Sabbath quietly wending his way to
bt Luke Episcopal church where ho is a
devout worshipper. Sh- also intim ites
that nearly all tho other similar stories
about him are false.
Tho Rutland Ikrald topes (and so do
we) that when Middlobury college comes
into posessiou of its newly acquired Neva
da silver mine it will bo more careful in
the conferring of honorary degrees. At
the l ist commencement it conferred the
degree of D. D , on Henry M. L add who,
when in Yale thoological seminary, plagar
ised an essay which he put In competition
or a prizj .
l'rof. E. C, Smith gives iio-ico that
meiu win no no instruction lor a junior
Class at Andover theological seminary
the coming year. The trustoes desiring
to take timo to satisfactorily fill tho va
cant Hebrew and Greek professorships.
toimt additional lecturers hnvo been an-
cured, among them being Bishop Hunting
ton, Episcopal bishop of tbo diocoso of
central N. x ., I'rof. G. H. Palmer of liar
vard colloge, Hov. Goo, Harris of Provi
dence, C. L Goodoll. D. D.. of St. LonU
and J. F. Durgee, D. D., of Boston.
A distinguished minister said in our
presence last week: " If matters go on
ns llicv have done, decent and honest nnn.
plo will have to get out of the churchos to
preservo thoir reputation. Wo havo
already reached the point whero church
niomuersnip raises no presumption of good
moral character." It is nretlv stronrr.
but there is enough truth to frighten us to
action. Let the books be pursed. Reform
or expol your immoral members. The
Maiioaisi.
Tho comfort of the aveniao homa de
pends entirely upon the woman who is the
mistress of it. Whethor sunshine shall
enter the rooms, whether the parlor shall
bo used nnd enjoyed, whether the table
shall bo invitingly sproad, whether bright
lights nnd bright fires shall givo warmth
and cheer on winter nights whether, in
brief, a homo shall bo an aggrecabhi or a
disagreeable place, is usually what wom
en determines. Men are powerless in the
matter.
It is said that tho bombardment of Alex
andria is without a parallel in tho celerity
with which the news of the act was spread
over Europe. A record of tho aotual
hring was published nnd read in London
threo hours from the time it was ttlo
graphed from the Invinciblo, 800 yards
ou sncro. j'.aen event, ns it ocurred, was
at once maun known In London, nnd men
in Malta, 1000 miles away, actually hoard
tho firing of tho cannon through a tele-
puone auixea to tne cable, tho press
messengers oruveu. cveryining, and resort
ed to every expedient to collect "Early
iNOWs," ana in their success ;went ahead
of every former record.
Tiik "Catti.k ok tub I'khiok '' is
Ameiiica. A Scotch gentleman nt pres
ent in Amcrcia, writing to the North Btit
ish Agriculturist, complained of what he
believed to have been some "crooked"
bidding nt a recent Aniorican sale of Short
horns, nnd says -We havo had too much
of this work in Short horn business already.
But the cattle of the period are tbo black
polls. Evorjbody wants them, and they are
paying fancy figures; but tho (1 mm' will
die out shortly'. Tho editor of thu Aijri
cu'lurist hardly thinks it will.
a i ub-iiuiu-ajUNOiMATlox. s ome time
ago a man came into a Baltimore lawyer's
office in a state of great excitement, and
asked him to commence proceedings for a
divorce. Mr. Dobbin heard him through
ai d then said. " 1 think I have somothlng
that will exactly suit your case. Sit still,
and I will read it to you."
The man romaincd seated, all ear, sup
posing he was to listen to Blackstone or
Kent, whan Mr. Dobbin hegan to read
' Betsy and I aro Uut." By the time he
bad ended the man's eyes were full of
tears.
" I believe I will go home.'1 he said.
And ho and his wife have lived happily
ever since. Harper's Magazine.
The Toy Pistol Harvest. The barv
est of tho toy pistol for this vear is about
ended, and a more than ordinarily serious
crop of fatal accidents is laid away in the
granary oi experience. The most prolilic
soctions seem to have beon in tho neighbor
hood of Boston and Chicago; not that tho
youth of tho3e two cities were more addict
od to tho trcaohorous toy or riper in folly
for tho fatal plucking, but probably because
there is something in tho nir of thoso places
which predisposes to lockjaw, hydrophobia
and kindred nfJiclions. Now York bos
contributed a fair quota, whilo Philadel
phia, by the graco of a mayor possossed
of common senso, escaped with but ono
fatal casualty rosulting from tho use of the
toy pistol. Thus far this eoason over 1,'0
fatal cases have been dovolopod from acci
dents of this nature. The most dangorous
of tho instruments is a cheap pistol which
uses a blank 22-calibre onrtridge. Tho
lock speedily gets out of order, and in
fumbling with it nothing is more natural
than that the boy should placo bis band in
front of tho niuizlo. Tho hammer drops,
and tho charge is driven Into tho baud,
lacerating tho nerves and poisoning tho
flesh. Tho suffering of thoso who have
died from tho lockjaw which suporvenos
in such cases wero ngonizing in the ex
treme. This species of totanus. caused hv
ragged wounds of tho nerve centres, is a
spasmodic disoaso, marked by paroxysms
of muscular contraction, which succeed
each other at varying intervals until the
patient is beyond the reach of pain. Its
accompaniments aro Inflammation of the
spinal cord, high favor nnd extreme ex
haustion, lollowod in acute cases by death
in from two to five days. No one attack.
od by lockjaw has been known to recover.
ISotoro another juvenile carnival of pistol
and powder takos place legislation should
stop In nnd provide effectually against
further inroads of the toy pistol among
the youth of tbe land. Already In several
cities ordinances against tho use of this
fatal plaything have boon adoulod. 1'hila-
Mphia Keconl.
Ilmno-Made Bread.
'Shu's an old darling.' said Grace Crax
all. 'and I moan to help her all I can,
I'vo cot a receipt for chocolate oelaires.
and on Friday evening I'm eoing there to
make up nil lean, so that tho school chil
dren h ill buy them on Saturday. I know
how Io make cinnamon apple tarts, too,
and lemon-drops amd cocoa-nut balls.'
iiraco t do believe you have taken
leave or your senses,' said Modora May.
'Une would think it was disgrace enough
for Aunt Deborah our own mother's sister
to open a horrid little huckster's shop,
without our mixing ourselves up in the
nu nr.
'But Aunt DAby must live, you know,
said Graco, who was perched, k tton fash.
ion, on the window-sill, feeding the canary
wii h bits of white sparkling sugar. 'And
cousin Nixon couldn't keen her anv lonsr-
er and her eyes aro aot strong enough
for lino needle work, nnd her education
has not fitted her to be a teacher and her
poor old rheumatic bones keep her from
going behind a counter or entering n fac
tory. I suppose you wouldn t bo willing
to have her come here nnd live with you?'
i : erica nieiiora. no you suppose
that I want to proclaim to- the whole
lown that 1 have such a dilapidated old
relation as that?'
'1 would tako her quick enough,' said
Gruce, -if -I didn 't board with Mrs. Ilowltt,
and share the little np-stnirs back bed
room wiih tho two children. Just wait
until I marry some rich man, sho added
with a saucy uplifting of her pretty auburn
brown eycs.'nnd thon see if I don't furnish
up n Btato apartment for Aunt Dobby.'
'Don't talk nonsense,' said Medoro, acid
ly. It's very likely, isn't it, that a factory
girl.ike you is going to marry a rich man f
Grace Craxall laughed merrily. All
through her lifo she and her cousin, Mo
dora May, had ngroed to differ on most
points. Grace, seeing no other career
before her, had, on the death of her last
surviving parent, cheerfully entered a
fuctory, whilo Medora, taking her stand
on the platform of a false eentility, had
dono fine sewing and silk embroidery on
tho sly to support herself, putting on all
the airs of n young lady of fashion tho
while. And now Aunt Deborah Mav. to
the infinite disgust of hor nristocratioally-
uuiiiieu uieco, uaa aciuany opened a
little low-windowed shop in a shady street
just out of the main thoroughfare, and, as
Medora dosiiairintifv expressed it. 'irone
into trade.'
For Auut Dobbv in her bewildered lona.
liness, had scarcely known what to do
until Grace Craxall came to the rescue
with hor hopeful courage nnd straight
forward common sense.
'I only wish it wasn't sinful to tako a
good hig dose of laudanum and put mysolf
oui oi uio way, signed tne poor old lady.
iww mini veooy, mat uoesn t sound
bit like 'you,' said Graco, cboorfally.
'liut what nm I to do?' said Aunt
Dehorali.
'WliLtcan you do?' said Grace,
'I don't know as I am soodforanvthino'.
said ihe old woman, with a quiot tear or
two 'except to help around tho house; and
I nin't strong ennugh for regular hired
help. Your uncle nlwavs used to sav I
was a master nana at making broad.
'Then mako it,' brightly interrupted
urce.
'En!' said Aunt Dobbv
'There's a nice iittlo storo to let on Bav
street,' went on Grace, 'for ten dollars a
mon h.
But I havn't got ten dollars a month.'
loi'biy interrupted Aunt Debby.
'I'll lend it to you said Grace, 'out of
the wages I havo sa?ed. and thoro is a
pretty bed room and sitting-room at tho
back ol tho shop, and a clean drv base
ment under it where you could bake your
nreau , i Know, lor me sister oi tne lady
whero I board is looking for dress-makins
rooms, and I heard hor speaking about it.'
'Do you moan to open a bukory?' said
bewildered Aunt Debby.
'Not exactly that,' explained Grace. But
if Mrs. Ilowitt, or Mrs. Taylor, or any
oilier oi the ladies round here, could get
real home made bread, such as you niado,
do yon suppose that they would put up
with tho sour stuff that "they get at the
oal-ei s shopsi' And you couid easily got
up a reputation ou your raisin cakes, and
mod crullers, and New England pumpkin
pics, now couldn't you?'
I ho old lady brightened up a Iittlo.
'I used to bo pretty good ut cooking,'
said she. 'And if you think I could sup
port myself so '
'I mil sure of it !' cried tho cheerful
Grace. 'And I'll go thore with yon this
vary day lo look at tho place, and will
engage il for three months on trial. And
I can paint you a sign to put over the
door. 'llomo-Mado Bread by Mrs. Debo
rah May.' AndPll hem you sonic curtains
and arrange tho shelves iu the low win
dow! I almost wish I was going to be
your shop girl,' she added, merrily, ,but
1 ran help you evenings, you know.'
Grace Craxall's prophecies proved cor
rect. Annt Debby's delicious home-mado
bread, whiter than any powdered lilies,
sweet as ambrosia, soon acquired a repu
taiion, and the old lady could scarcely
bake it fast enough. People came half a
dozen blocks to buy the delicious pump
kin pics and applo tarts; children brought
their hoarded pennies to Invest in choco
late sweet-meats, vanilla caramels, nnd
cream cakes with puffy shells and deli
cious centers of sweetness. The little
money drawer grew fat with coins and
Aunt Debby's dim eyes grew bright and
hopeful again.
And ono day Mr. Herbert Valance,
walking by with Medora May, stopped
and looked in.
'Isn't that your cousin Grace, said ho,
'behind that counter?'
Medora turned crimson witli vexation.
My cousin Grace?' she cried. No,
indoed! We are not in trade.'
What possessed her to utter this del ibcr-
ato falsehood, Modora could not have
afterwards told, partly tho sting of falso
shame, partly disinclination for Mr. Her
bert Valance to know that all hor relations
wero not, to use hor own expression,
ladies and gentlemen.'
Mr. Vnlanco looked up at tho sign over
tho door.
Tho naiuo is May, ho said indifferently.
Yes s lid Mecora May, angry nt horsolf
lor mushing so doeply, 'but wo are no re
lation.
Mr. Vahinco thought over tho uialtor;
nfturwnids ha mot Miss May nt an cvon
ing parly given by a friend, whero pretty
Graco Craxall was also present. Ho had
taken rat hor a fancy lo tho bright blue
eyes and dellcnlo blonde beauty of tho
former. Valance Hall, on the hill just out
of the city, was solitary enough now that
his sisters had all married and gonoaway;
and perhaps a man might flnofa less at
tractive and graceful wlfo than Modora
May. But ho could not bo mistaken, be
thought, in Grace Craxall's identity.
And so thu next evening nt about the
same timo ho sauntered into tho shop.
Grace was behind tho dainty, clean Iittlo
counter, taking some nowly-bakod maple
caramels off the pa ns. She looked up
with a smile.
Good evening Mr. Valanco, said sho.
('So,' ho throght, 'I wasn't mistaken
aflor nil, and the Iittlo bluo-eyod seraph
is mortal enough to tell a lie, in spito of
her angelic appearance!')
But he lookod serenely at Grace.
I did not know that you were in tho
trade,' said he.
Didn't you? Well,' merely rotortod
Grace, 'I am my Aunt Deborah's shop
girl just nl present! I always camo here
in tuo evenings lo Help nor. uocause,'
she added, with a sweet shade of serious-
uoss coming ovor her face, 'Aunt Debby
if
was Old and poor and she didn t quite
know how to maintain herself in indepen
dence. And unfortunately my wages at
the factory aro not enough for us both. Sa
I advised her to open this business. Am:
she did. And she's doing very well. And
she bakes tho most delicious bread and
pies you ever ate, so,' with a smcy twink
le nndor her eyelashos. 'if you know any
customer, you will recommend our firm?
To be sure I shall.' ho answered, in the
samo spirit. 'And I am verv ?lad. Miss
Craxall, to see that you are not ashamed
of being a working girl.
'Of course am not,' said Grace; 'wbv
should I bo?'
'But your cousin Modora is.'
Graco gave a iittlo shrug of her should-
ors.
Verv likelv.' s lid she. 'Medora and T
differ in many things.'
Mr. Valance bought a pound of caramels
and went away.
"She is a beautv.' he said lo himself, 'and
she is a sensiblo beauty iuto tho bargain
One of those rant, aocs in our country, a
thoroughly well-balanced girl.'
Ho must have beep very well pleased
with bis purchase for ho camo again the
next evening just in lime to walk home
witn urace craxall, and they talked over
Aunt Deborah's affairs, and concluded
that as flour was low just then it would
be a favorable opportunity for the old lady
to lay in her winter's stock through Mr.
Valance, who was acquainted with one of
the groat Now York grain merchants.
uniy a lew weeks had elapsed when
Medora May was elcetrifiod wiih nraazii-
ment to learn that her cousin Graco was
'engaged.'
To some mastor baker or iournevman
confectioner, I suppose,' said sho contemp
tuously. '.No,' said draee, with eyes roguishly
sparkling, 'To Mr. Horbert Valance.'
'I don't bolieve ft.'said Medora. crow-
ing red, then pale.
nut it is really so, said Grace. 'And
we are to be married in throe months.
And Aunt Dabbv is to come to the Flail
and live with mo as soon as sho can dis
pose of her business to advantage. And
dear Medora, I hope you will coino often
ami visit mo mere.
Medora May did not answer. Sho could
not. But in her secret heart sho rccogniz
ed how infinitely more successful in life's
list had been Graco 's true, frank lionestv,
than her own subtle and dovious course."
Like many another, however, tho lesson
had oome to hor too late.
Mas as ax Amateuk Cook. Thoro is
one drawback to the dolights of camping
out (writes the Now York Times.) There
mo uisues wiucu muse no washed, and
man is so made as to be unable to wash
dishes with any success. Tho unwashed
dishes of breakfast, dinner, and supper
nunc over me camper out to use a meta
phor of probable Irish origin liko a dark
cloud, and seriously obscure tho bright
ness of his daily lifo. It is remarkable with
what eagerness men. will assume every
camp duty except that of dish-washing.
It is not that tho task is folt dograding, nor
solely bocauce it is a difficult one. There
are dishes, such as ooffee cups nni knives,
which can be oosily and quickly washed,
und which any enorgotic man would be
pertectly willing to wash. Tho real reason
of the usual hatred of dish-washing nmonor
men is tho utter impossibly of getting the
grease oui oi itio irying-pan. It may be
asked by superficial thinkers or by those
who havo no experimental knowledge on
the subject, why is it there should bo so
much difficulty in removing a given quan
tity of grease from a given utensil? The
truth lies in the self expansivo powor of
Hiuusu u peculiarity oi mat oiiectionabte
substance known only toscientilic persons
and campers out, and capaple of driving
tuo most, anie philosopher to despair and
mo uso oi strong language. A given
quantity oi grease could, ol course, bo re
moved irom any trying-pin wero it to
remain agivon quantity. When, however,
maiino moro grease the dish-washer ro
moves the more there is still left to be
removed, the hopeless nature of his task
pecomes apparent. Professor darkness, of
tne smitnsoniau institution, has nrovod bv
actual experiment that lard.whcn brought
in contact with a frying pan, expands to
four times its original bulk. He undertook,
when camping in China, in connection
with tho national transit Venus oicnic. to
fry fivo small fish in an ordinary fryin"
pan. Ho placed in tho frying pan half a
pound of lnrd, fried the tish in it, and after
wards drew the fatal lot which compelled
him to net as dish-washer. Ho labored
for an hour and thirty minutes at that
frying pan. during this period ho dis
tributed lard all over his clothing and
over a largo portion of tho province of
Hoang -Chin. Uo also lilled two pint cups
with lard tnken from tho frying-pan, nnd
when he finallycoased theefl'ort to wash that
exas)erating utensil, and called for a pair
of scales, it was cvidenl to every observer
that there was a great dual moro lard in
that neighborhood than there had been
two hours earlier. The testimony of tbe
scales showed that thoro was half a pound
of lard on the professor's clothing, another
half-pound in tho two tin enps, ami another
half-pound still in the frying-pan, whilo it
was estimated that at least a liko quantity
was distributed over tho surface of lloang
Chin province. Thus the original amount
of lard had quadrupled itself, and render
ed tho effort to cleau tho frying-pan un
successful. Professor Harkncss tried tho
experiment six consecutive times, and
was thus enabled to ascertain that the
lard, when placed in a frying-pan which
is afterwards subjected to tho washing
process, expands until it is 1 ti7 timos its
original bulk.
How to Bisuomr Indkpenplnt. Lar"o
savings invariably originate in small
sums, just as money embarrassment
arises from Iittlo extravagences. Very few
pcoplo of ordinary honesty deliberately
set to work to mako largo purchases which
they cannot nfford.and yet numbers spend
just as much in tho long run in little
things that they scacely think nro of no
tice. It is very difficult to fully rcnlize
the value of small sums. Littlo savings,
if made at all, must bo niado in porsonnl
oxpendiiuro. What is spent upon this
household is generally needed, but tho
small personal luxuries which cost so lit.
tie, aro not. And when any saving is
mado in this way, tho money should be
put asido and savod.lnstoud of being mix
ed with tho spending fund, and additions
mado to it as frequently as possiblo; that
will mnko you understand as soon ns any
thing, what small economies amount to.
When money is put aside to bo saved, it
should bo put i n somo placo whero it can
not bo directly got nt tho savings bank
for instance The very fact that a littlo
trouble nnd formula has to bo gone through
with before it can bo oblainol, many a
time provonts it being spent, when it cer
tainly would havo been ivoro it close at
hand. To secure indopondeuco to our
selves is roally worth solf denial.
No doubt tho Ameroian ohceso trade
will be greatly injured by tho extension of
the adulteration from butter to cheese.
says a writer In the Mark Lano Express
of England. Lately ho saw a gentleman
purchasing a liieco of cheese. He was
shown some nice looking "Aiuorcian
Cheddar," but ho would not have it at
any price, as lie said ho was nfraid to
purchase any Amcrcian ciieeso, lost ho
should get some of that adulterated with
lard or oleomargarine
NO. 32.
Snsi'cslioiH for Emergencies. .
Nearly every ono knows what to do
cao of injury or sudden sickness, hut
often happens that und.r the excitement
attending suehcircumstances they b come
contused and target all they knew ab mt It.
The following suggestions might bo pasted
upon me inside oi tne closet cr book cas-
uoor, woero tney could hj referred tt
promptly:
.a lanspoonim oi ground mastarJ in a
cup of warm water is a promtand reliable
emetic and should bo resorted to in cases
of poisoning or cramps of the stomach
frcm overeatiug. For stomach cramps
ginger ale, or a half Jciispoonful of the
tincture oi ginger In Half a glass of water,
in which n half teaspaor.ful of soda has
ooen dissolved.
Swallowing saliva often relieves sour
stomach.
Hot, dry tl mnol, applied as hot as possi
ble, for neuralgia.
Whooping colli; h naroxvsmsarc relieved
by breathing the fumes of turpentine or
eaiuonc aciu.
tor cold in tho head nothing is bettor
than powdered borax snuffed up the nns
trils.
A strong solution of bioarbonato of
soda (baking soda; taken frequently is a
reliable remody for diarrheal trouble?,
particularly those arising from acidity of
the stomach.
A standing antidote for poison by dew,
poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful
of quicklimo, dissolved in water. Let it
stand a half an hour, thon paint tho pois
onod parts with it. Three or four appli
cations will never fail to euro the most
aggravated cases.
If children do not thrive well on fresh
milk, it should be boiled.
Powdered resin is tho best tiling to stop
bleeding from cuts. After the powder is
sprinklod on, wrap the wound with a soft
cotton cloth. As soon ns tho wound begins
to feel feverish, keep the cloth wet with
cold water.
For burns, sweet oil and cotton aro the
standard remedies. If they aro not nt
nanu, sprinmu uie Diirnou part with, Hour,
and wrap loosely with a soft cloth. Don't
remove the drcsring until the inflammation
subsides, as it will break tho new skin
that is forming.
For nose bleeding, batho the face and
neek with cold water.
If an artery is severed, tie a small cord
or handkerchief tightly above it.
For bilious colic, soda and gingor in hot
water. It may bo taken freely
Broken limbs should be placed in natu
ral positions, and tho patient kept quiet
until tho surgeon arrives.
Nervous spasms are usunly relieved by
a little salt taken into the mouth and
allowed to dissolve
Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomach
aro promptly checked by small doses of
salt. The patient should bo kept as quiet
as possinic.
Sleeplessnoss caused by too muoh blood
in tho head may be overcome by applying
a cloth wet wii h cold water to tho back
of the neck.
Wind colic is promptly relieved by pep
permint esseuco taken in a Iittlo warm
water. For small children it may be
sweetened. Parcgorio is also goo.l.
Chlorate of potash dissolved in water is
a standard remedy for sore throat, partic
ularly if tho throat feets raw.
Tickling in tho throat is best relioved
by a garglo of salt and water.
Pains m tho side nro most promptly
relieved by tho application of mustard.
Indigestion is the prolilic cause of
colics, diarrhea, hoadaches, constipation,
and many diseases of tho bladder. Food
that is not digested ferments nnd becomes
a powerful acid, causing irritation and
intlmmation wherever it touches. Many
levers aro caused by it. fepsin is the
best remedy, if taken immediately after
eating, If pepsin is not taken, tho aridi
ty should bo controlled by bioarbonato of
soda or potash.
In every house there should bo a little
nook in which a few simple remedies are
kept. Among them should bo extracts of
ginger, pepermint, chloride of potash,
bicarbonate of soda, sweot oil, paregoric,
camphor, arnica, cotton, old muslin for
bandages, some sticking plaster, a box of
ground mustard and some ready undo
mustard plasters. Always striko a light
when you go to got any of these in thu
dark, and bo sure you have tho right ono.
Avoid purgatives and strong physics
as they not only do no good, but aro posi
tively hurtful. Pills may relievo for a
timo, but they seldom cure. The pill tak
er's latter end is always worse than his
first condition, ammacn letters are a
snare, and ouly create a desire for stimu
lants.
Eat only such things as will agree with
you, nnd not too much at a time, liy
needing the warnings ol your stoinacn
many doctor's bills may be avoided. Shun
feasts and big feeds. Givo children plentv
of milk nnd bread, graham or oatmeal
crackers, and good ripe fruit. Tbay will
not only thrive on this diet, but keep
tioalthy.
An observance ol these suggestions will
pay well for the trouble.
Sprains and bruises call for an applica
tion of tho tincture of arnica.
Sickness of the stomach is most prompt
ly relieved by drinking a teacupful of hot
soda water. If it brings the offending
matter up all the belter.
Years ago, when tho Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher was pastor of a little church in
Indianapolis, he was disturbed ono Sun
day evening in tbo midst of a long prayer
by a suilacn commotion in the congrega
tion, followed by an almost preternatural
stillness. Of course his eyes were closed,
but tho silence soon seemed so sepulchral
in its intensity that ho could endure it no
longer, so he oponod them. Not a living
soul was In tbe church. An alarm of nre
had sounded down the street, an engine
had come thundering by, and every man,
woman nnd ohild had rushed out to "run
with tho machine."
A Ciikai' Filtei!. Thoro is a great
deal or sickness caused by drinking im
pure wator. One only need look at tho
foul matter collected in a filter to discover
tho faot. A very choap filter can be manu
factured from a largo flower pot. Fill the
hole at the bottom with a sponge, then
covor with two inches of pulverized char
coal, two inches of sand, nnd fill tbe pot
up with pebbles, washed cloan. Let the
water run for an hour or two, nnd nftor
wards it will bo fit for uso. This filter
has ono advantage over many which are
manufactured. The purifying contents
can lio changed at option of tho usor.
Thore is no patent on filter.
How Uuuiieb Balls a he Made. The
rubber balls used in games nro made in
Ihe following manner: Tbe sheets of
rubber are cut into strips of doable con
vex shape, or like the rind of an orange.
Tbo edges of these strips nro moistened
with a liquid, mado ol rubber and naph
tha, by which thoy are joined firmly to
gether. This part of tho work is done gen
erally by girls, who soon become skillful
workers. When the strips are joined the
ball is about tbo shapo of a bra all nut.
Before the last opening is closed, some
carbonato of ammonia is put Inside. This
causes the rubber to expand and fill ont
the ball mold. The molds are iron plates
of tho required shapo. The ball is placed
in its mold, and then, being Heated, is
dressed round. Sometimes explosions
occur 111 molding, tor rubber has consid
erable expansive force
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A Palch 1111 Roth Knee.
Wl.en I w.vs a boy, il was my fortune to
breathe, for a long time, what tome writ
ers term the " bracing nir of poverty.
My mother light li tho turf uoon lha
winch one; iuc'o'o.l her sweet and gentle
miiit! was what is called an ambitious
woman r thi t quality which overturns
hroncs, and supplants dvnastles, finds a
legitimato sphere in the humblest abode
hat the shadow of poverty ever darkened.
I he struggle between the wish to kppn nn
appearances, and Ihe pinching gripe of
necessity, produced endless shifts and con
trivances, at which we are told, some
would sniiln. and some In whom wnnl.I
sigh, flat let mo not disturb thn v-ill of
obiivion which shrouds from profane eyes
uv ujiiwweu mysteries 01 poverty.
On ono occasion it was necesir i
send mo on nn errand to a neiglibj'r in
better circumstances th an ntirsrlvno on, I
therefore, it os advisable that I should
be presented in the best bos.sible n-peet.
Great pains wero nccordinglv taken to
give a smart nupparaneo to mv patched
and dilapidated wardrobe, and In nono-il
die rents and chasms which the envious
tooth of time had made in them; and by
way of throwing over lav couioment
certain savour and sprinkling of gcniilitr,
uij iei and lon-nsroencd Hands wero
inclosed in tho unfamiliar casings of a
pair of gloves, which belonged to my
mother in dsys when her vear won. Uw.
or and her heart lighter.
I sallied forth on my errand, and on
my way encountered a much older snd
bigger boy, who evidently belonged to a
family which hud all our own dragging
poverty, and none of our uprising wealik
of spirit. His rags fairly fluttered in the
breeze; his hat was constructed on the
most approved principle of ventilation.
and his shoes, from thoir venerable antai
ti.. 1. , , . 1 .
uny, wiKui imvu oeen ueemed a pair ol
fossil shoes the very ones in which Shem
shullbd into the ark. He was an impu-
ient varlet, with a dare-devil swapper in
his gait, and " I'm ns good ns you " leer in
I1I3 eye; the very whelp to throw dirt
over a well dressed horseman, because he
was well dressed to 'oar a boys ruffljs
because ho was clean. As soon as ho saw
mo his eye detected tho practical inconsis
tencies which characterized my couuime.
and taking me by the shoulders, turning
mc rouud with no gentlo hand, and sur
veying mo from head to foot, he exclaimod
with a scornful laugh of derision:
A patch on both knees nnd gloves on!''
I still recall the sting of wounded feel
ings which shot through me at tbese
words. To parody a celebrated lino of
tho immortal Tuscan, " That day I wore
my gloves no more." But the lesson so
rudely enforced sank deep into my mind
and, in after life I have had frequent occa
sion to make a practical application of
the words of my ragged friend when I
have obsorved the" ridiculous Inconsis
tencies which so ofton mark thecondnctof
mankind. When, for instance, I see par
ontscarefully providing for tho ornamental
education of their children, furnishing
them with teachers in musio, dancing and
drawing, but giving no thought to that
moral and religious training from which
tho true dignity and permanent happiness
of lito can come never teaching them
habits of self sacrifice and self discipline
aud control, but rather, by example.
instructing them in evil sbeakintr. unchnr-
itableness, in envy, and in false-hood I
think with a sigh ol the patch on both
knees and gloves on.
When I see a family in cold. selfish soli
tude, net habitually warming their houses
with a glow of happy faces, but lavishing
that which could furnish the hospitality of
a whole year upon the profusion of a sjn
gle night, I am reminded, of the palch'on
both knees, nnd gloves on.
Whn I see a houso profusely furnished
with sumptuous furniture, rich cutains,
luxurious carpets, but without book3, or
nono but a few tawdry annuals, I am
reminded of tho patch on bath kneos, and
gloves on.
When I see our public men cultivating
exclusively these qualities which win :i
way to ofli ;e, and neglecting thoso which
will qualify llieui to fill honorably the
posts to which they aspire, I retail the
patch on both knot s, and gloves on.
When I see men s-ierilieing poaco of
mind and health of bo ly to thn iusann
pursuit of wealth, living in ignorant!,! of
the character of their children who ni
growing up around tbcm, putting them
selves off from tbo highest antl purest
pleasures of their natures, and so pervert
ing their humanity that that which w:is
sought ns a means insensibly comes to b.
followed as an end, I say to myself, "A
patch 011 bo h knees, and gloves on."
And lastly, wlnn I see thousands spent
for selrishuess and ostentation, and nothing
bestowed for charity; when I .s-ie fiac. la
dies bestained and bejeweled, cheapening
the toils of dressmakers, and with harsh
words embittering the biitcr bread of de
pendence jwhcii I see the poor nunc 1 away
from proud houses, where th crumbs of
the table would bo to ihe.iu a feast, 1 thinii
of the patch on both knees, and gloves on.
A muthkh tt lwOVic. A private
letter
brings us this singular story:
A widowed lady in Now York give her
only daughter in marriage to a physician
who lived in California. The mother and
daughter wero deeply atta ched to each
other, and had been inseparable compan
ions for years.
After the newly married couple had
gone, the mother, who was an invalid,
sank suddenly nnd rapidly. Telegrams
were sont afuir them urging tbem lo re
turn but, as their exact course was not
known, the messages failed to reach
them.
Tho mother grew worse. Hor uraver
was that she might live to see ur chili
again, if but a moment. Oa the acrnoon
before ber death she was left aluno for a
few minutes, and when her a attendant
returned Bhe was found sitting up in her
bed, her cheeks flustrated, and her face
illuminated with delight.
"Have you seen Charlotte?" .she asked.
"She has just gone into tho other
reoni."
" Charlotte has not como," they
said.
"Oh, yes" she replied, smiling. "I have
had her in my arms, I kissed her. God
has been so good to me, to bring her
back in time!" and so talking she sank
into an exhausted slumber from which
she never awoke. ,
Now on this s (tor noon the daughter was
in Omaha, totally unaware of her moth
er's illness. Hor husband afterward wrote
that on that afternoon, being in their pri
vate parlor in a hotel, sho suddenly sank
into a deep sleep which lasted nearly an
hour. From this she awoke pale and
sobbing, saying she had dreamed she was
with Dor mother, who looked stranere v ill
and exhausted. The expression soon
passed away.
the coincidence, of course, can easily
be explained on natural grounds, and vet
one almost wishes that it could not be
so explained. We would like to believe
against reason that tbe mother's love
would be strong enough to bring back hor
ohild for that brief moment to ooso tbe
pain of death.
Rov. Dr. Muller, pastor of the M. E.
church in Erie, Pa., has been offered the
nomination to congress with the verv
strong probability of elootion.He declined
on the ground that ho was doing a great
wore ana toe wots ought not to cease
whilo be left it.