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.xs&?f?q-?M -s J "5w-' sSi-.. J 4VXRRP T-? JJ. -- " r-L-xl g.wf? -. -. .."' il Tf If ?! ? .A H M M i r ' THE LEAVENWORTi- EKLI IT ? v- I Society. J - TD1ES '; ' 1' WE. ? i I M . f ' r 3 i " " i M 11 Nf 'fit A -. "S .. l i? Established. W5S. .,. I Vol. 24. So. S tjSfocltljI iwtcs THURSDAY. JAXUABY 3, 1S78. JOIIX BSIGIITOVBIIITIH INDI Mr. John Bright delivered a .owerful Fjieech at the recent great meeting in Man chester, which abounds in interesting facta in- rclatiou to England's Indian Empire. He said there were probably 250,000,000 men, women and children in India sub jected to Queen Victoria. Briti-h domina tion there began little more than a century ago, by means which hae been instrumen tal, he feared, in building up almost all great empires by ambition, crime and con quest. A population equal to one-sixth of the whole population of the globe ws now held in Mibjection by a handful of English men, backed up by an army of CO.000 Ilrit ish troop- and a revenue of fifty million-, sterling, gathered from the jieople in the Bhaj of taxes, with a large sum from the opium monopoly, was annually expended in this India. The na tives have no voice in the manage meentof thirown affairs, are never con sulted upon any matter connected with the government ef their country. His opinion was that India should be devilled into four or five separate Presidencies, wholly iude jiendent of each other, and that the native should be gradually trained to govern them selves a contingency, he suggesteel, which ought to be taken into account, and which might occur sooner than was cxiectcd, for famines were frequent in India. In lfcsJT-S there was one which affected 8,000,000 JK.r. .cms, .jKlO.IMlO intensely, and with hiss of . life to S00.OO0. In 1M50- there was anoth er famine, alu-cling 13,000,WXi of people anl destroying over a 1,KW0U0 of them. In 1808- S another vi-ittlioii of this sort occurred on the HalijiNiwlana and sur rounding districts, an area of one hundred thousand square nile. and the government ailmitttil that l,ij0.O(M) persons had perished of hunger in that fitiiine. Of these terrible instances England had heard little, at that time, except by odd paragraphs, now and then, from Indian paers. In the present year it was known that over five hundred thousand .-rsons had died from alike cause, and this did not represent the entire mor tality. Accompanying these famines was the loss of cattle, terrible in an agricultural country, the losofpnduce,and revenue. But the loss of human life, .",000,000 in the last ten years, was the greatest evil of all. Va there a .ossible remedy 7 The famine was declared to ari-e from drought. There was Mill, there was sun, there was rain but tl e rain did not always come when it was needod. Soil, sun, water and human lahur would produce rich harvests throughout In dia. Irrigation must be cm plowed to sup ply the occasional want of watcJ, and this had been used in mcient times in most Ori ental lands, and it would be humane as well as prudent to exjiend for this purpose twenty-five or thirty millions sterling for this purjiose within the next few years. In this manner England might endeavor to make amends for the original crimes ujion which much of her power in India Lad been founded, and for many errors of judgment made by governing lersons whose inten tions were probably good. Mr. Bright's speech excited an unusual demonstration of feeling throughout England. On the morning after its delivery the lima devoted a leader nearly two columns long to its con sideration. HOItttOKS OF W.IK. A Consthntinople letter to the New York Inbuilt, writing of the condition of affairs near Plevna, site an idea of the horrors of the war, in the following paragraph : An English senile nin Just li Horn the Plevna roael says lie couimM -to uViid Isslle-s. of IwlgariHiislylnsbytlie roadside in u dis tance of sixty miles. The statement uimieto lilm whs tit it the-e men were peasants trom distant wrt of ttie country, whose trams had beeu prt-sI Inbt the servicejlor arinv transportation. Th.y had salely made Hie journey to j'levim, and. fer S" J1 charneel.whilesinicslbn; nlonu thejroail on the luiiu-wardjouruty. they had beeu shot one at a lime, by Turkish refugee? ho lsliml to i.s- the trains in their nigh before the Russian iid.ance. Tlie honors offtbi war am absolutely limitless. Three hundred, nnd sixty Jew lsh refugees have arrivedJBere viaAuslri.i and Rouiiiania, froinjUulIia. They lia e ls n subjected to . verv insult aad, outnige by tlie Ilulisirliu Ciiristions, and liHefssiieil t tli TurUs lor satety. The llulcariaiisjustlfj tlieirs-agery toward the Jews by ch.in.lnK tlu 111 with acting as spits, and the Jews ilct.-nd tiulr conduct bj charging previous outraceson the Bulgarians. It is a series of criminations and recrimina tions that tiae ncltlier beglnuiug uerend. PRUVlUiiTI.4L. The Chicago Inter-Oemn of the 27 th gives the folllowing .as an illustration of ilr. Ijncolns faith in an overruling Provi dence: When Mrs. Lincoln was residing on West Washington street, in this city, shortly after lier return from Washington, .some friends who had known her Intimately at Spring Held, called upon her one evening, and in the course of the. conversation she said that the one thing which Beemed to trouble Sir. Lincoln shortly before his death was the vast amount of the national debt. But he said he belleed the same Pnnidcnce that had permitted It to be created In abolishing slavery had provided In the vast silver mines of Neada and the West, the means for Its payment; and he added, that when his term expired he thought he would go out there and see If he could do au thing to aid In developing the same. Mr. Lincoln did not sem to have great faith In either his own wLsJupi or that or other men, ut when he was In trouble and perplexity he thought or that Providence to which he so reverently referred In the last words lie ever uttered In Springfield. 3 BIG FOB XOTUIU. AMammoth advertising sheet entitled The Trade of the West," iasued at Chicago, is a good sample of the many ways in which business men advertise not wisely but too much. It is a great, big, unwield ly pamphlet, filled with displayed adver tisements and puffs. It is printed on cost ly tinted paper, so heavy that it takes seven Cents to send it through the mails, conse quently the advertisers must have paid roundly for their space, while the benefit they derive from it is represented by ro. Business men ought to be shrewd enough to know that ninety-nine times ont of a hun dred, such publications find their way to the waste basket unopened. Judicious ad vertising will make a fortune for a man in any business, but there is about as much money wasted in wortless advertising as is paid oat for such as will do good. BEcexciL-iATiex. The Chicago Trikate makes the announce menton the authority qf Secretary Evarts that th differences are about to be healed that hare divided the President and the Bepublicans in Congress, and that the restoration of harmony is near at hand. Nothing is foreshadowed as to the basis of the negotiations or the terms and conditions of the compromise, but the Tribune thinks it is a reasonable presumption that the TiuiJstil will recede from the untenable position taken by him in reference to the New York nominations. It does not ap pear that the retirement from the Cabinet oflfaErarBBj I Mr. Scharx is among the Mr. Erarta gives so tko Cabinet, denies that he has now or has heretofore had any thought of resigning. TIII.S.KS ITsi : l. A.ND WAMd .TORE or IT. EunroitTiMfs: I have read your arti cle on itinerant merchants and consider it j'u-t. It is a step in the right direction. And why not make a more general applica- tion of the principle involved tnerein; Suppose, for in-tance, we apply it to the "traveling doctor," as do our neighbors in Illinois. There the itinerant practitioner of medicine ami surgery is required to pay one hundred dollars per month for license to practice in the town where he tempo rarily abides, llcsides he must show either a diploma from a reputable medicil col lege, or a certificate from the State Board of Medical Examiners. We ought to have, and probably will have such a law as this before long in Kan-as. A Tax-paying M. D. tiii:v uc aiii:ai of vs. We have the con-olation that is to be de rived from the fact that there "her towns in the country worse off in t. t of mud than we are. Iporte, lu-nana, mut be entitled to the "blue ribUm" for mud, according to the following dL-patch which we find in the Chicago Thiiuie of the 2Slh: John Decker, of this city, together with fle more citizens celebrated the holidays to-day by riding down M'lin street In 11 boat draw n by a soan ol mules. The mud is so 1 p (Ix-lug otcra fot in depth) tluit a IsMt will rldeeasily. The roads throughout the coun try are in some plces utterly Impassable, ow lug to which but little produce and grain Is brought to m-rket. Farmers In different partsottheeouniy complain that the com Is sprouting In tin- cribs which were left ex posed to the weather, aud unless It turns cold boon a lars' amount w III be uttt-ny ruined. .to s,i:hioi;s ri(n;iit.r- Gen. Escobedo, late Mexican Minister ol War, expresses the opinion that thedisturb-' asoes on the Kio Grande will not result in any serious disturbance between the two countries. The order issued by the Diaz Government, directing Mexican troops to puisue Texan marauders to the frontier! has been rescinded, and, as for any other difficulties, there were none except such as had existed for a long time without giving rise to war. Tlie ex-Minifter says that honors are about easy, so far as cattle thieving is concerned, that pastime being indulged in by the Texan rangers as well as bv the greasers of his own land. filtAI. La-t Wednesday morning the 20th the Chicago elevators containdd 1,484,772 bushels of wheat, 507,547 bui-htls of corn, 153,931 bu-hels of oats 85,250 bu-hels of rye, and 002,400 bushels of barley, making a total of 2,S5,yl5 bushels. 1 11 addition to the aliove the vcs.-els in the harbor were loaded with 0045s bu-liils of wlaat, 292, 817 bushels of com, and 4C.477 bushels of oats. Total stock of grain in store and alloat here, 3,249,007 bu-hels. Milwaukee elevators at the same d ite contained 870, 494 bushels of corn, 10 1S9 bushels of oats, 01,197 bushels of rye, and 372,315 bushels of barley. FII.I.S Ul. San Francisco is in trouble aliout her narbor, and begins to have serious fears that she may soon Income an inland town. The several rivers cinpting into the bay come down from the mines heavily charged with earth from the washings, and a very large proportion of this load is dropped at the jsiint where fresh and tide water niett; and as this lluvial depo-it is continuous and very great, it is giiinr rise to a great deal of trouble. Around Mare Island, within five years, tlw depth of water has b tn di minished by twelve feet, and in other por tions of the bay soundings hae 1l1t.rej.-ed to an extent almost as great. Miivr uitoi's." The report of the Director lmws that during the last fiscal year the mints of the I'nited States receh ed and operated llinin 197,311,739 of gold an.l silver bullion. 'I he out turn from the-e deposits consisted of -44 07&199 in gold coins, $9,102,900 in trade dollars, S19,3S7,035 in fractional sil ver coins, and 62,163 in minor coinage. The mints also prepared $7,lG3,4iU in gold aud S9,505,97S in silver bars. Altogether, the work of the last year was the largest in the history of the mints. The mints earned "during the lisc-il year 1S77, 3,539,G17, and expended ?1 752,023, showing a baijnee on the rigUUside of the ledger of 51,71k 94. "the dm;j;of death." The New 'York UeraUia an article which we copy elsewhert oppose. Mrs. Gen. Sherman's crusade" against the waltz and thinks that lady is ninnece-sanly alarmed, because, it s-iys, the charming young man whose talent" lie in his heels, is always a harmless lcp ature. It thinks dot ing mammas may safely intrut their dar ling to these whirling, cavorting idiots," as it calls them, because they don't know enough tojdo any harm ! ISut keep a sharp eye on the awkward fellows who step on your dress at every turn, and are "such horrid dancers !" J HOSE WOOD. To-nigTit Ko-e Wo- will appear again in her new play "Led Astray," which is pro nounced her very boL Full houses have greeted her and her company, notwithstand ing the rain and the mud. At the unani mous request of tho-e who were present last night, Miss Wood appears to-night, and all who desire to see the best theatrical com pany that ever visited our city will at tend. FBO.H BOSTON TO XEtV VOItK. Boston must look to her laurels. The "Hub of the Universe" she may continue to be, but if things go on at this rate much longer, she will soon have to give up her prouder title as the "Modern Athens." One after another of her literary works have left her during the past few yeanvuntil now the Sortk Avuricnn i?eri which is sup posed to stand on the very top round of American literature has quietly folded up its manuscripts, and betaken itself to Xew York. - a voxDcnriiL isrEJmojr. Wonders never cease. An eminent elec- ..:.:. .nnnim. thathehas nearlv perfect- J .n invention called the electroscrope. It . ., - is constructed on the ttieory oi transmission of waves of light, as waves of sound are transmitted by electricity through Bell's telephone. Persons separated by any dis tance over which it is possible to transmit waves of light and waves of sound may not only converse with each other by means of the telephone, but see each other in the act by means of the electroscope. FOR IIOJS EST JieXET. A hopeful sign of the times is the fact hat mny eastern papers which have hith erto been "on the fence" in regard to the enrrenev question, are now coming nut sauarely in favor ot the silver dollar. Straws show, etc TUB BUina CAHAL. . De Lessens has a new plan for the much talked of Dariest CbmL According -v- mm. to his plan the canal, aataajfe the tm1.J7ftZZ-nJ'mmim Tuyra from the Pacific tetae Isle of Alii-' Chucunaque near the mouth of the Tupisa; continues "up the Chucunaque and Tiat, and by a canal or tunnel reaches to the Acant and Tolo, flowing to deep water at Port Gandi. The tunnel is expected to cost 5120,000,000 ; and Lieutenant Wyse, who explored la.-t year, is returning to com plete the work. OT DV'IU OUT. It seems now that the popular notion of h Indians dvinff out is a mistake, the Commissioner ol Education has been col lecting facts about the loor Indian, and finds that he is not so poor ir numbers as is tusually supiKjsed. Major C'ark, of the Bu reau of IMucation, reports to Gen. Eaton that the rate of decrease is much less rapid than is generaliy believed, and that the theory of the sieedy extinction of that race must be greatly modified. STAM.ES EXPEDITION". The exjiense of Stanley's great African journeys, just concluded, have been about SI 15,000, borne equally by the 'ew York Htrald and Ixmdon Tdtgmp more than any previous exiedition, private or govern mental, and giving for that matter, more complete and important results than any other. i WHO IS CAOX FAKKAMl 1 The I-ev. Dr. Frederick William Farrar, Canon of Westminister, whose sermon against Hell has made such a sensation in the religious world, is 40 years old. He is the author of a number of works of fiction, philology, and theology, but is best known by his "Life of Christ," which for several years has been considered a biography of un doubted ortholoxy. DOESN'T LIKE IT. "Vice-President" Hendricks doesn't ap prove of the present cabinet, and we copy low his opinion, that President Hayes ay see what he thinks about it, and fix things up: Suih a Cabinet as Mr. Hayes has gathered alsjut him would weaken. If not destroy, the best administration. In the i-erson of the executive, that ever went Into the White House. MTM. MAID. The Kcw York 'tribune has arrived at the the conclusion that there is a growing im pression in the public mind that the coun try could stagger along and be comfortably happy with about ninety-nine er cent, less of news about Texas. There is a weary lack of solitude about the Lone Star state. EVTERPitlM.X.. The Xew Year's issue ot the Enterprise Go zeftr, now at hand, i afine paier, and speaks well for the enterprise of the publisher as well as fot the publisher of Enterprise. It contains a number of good illustrations, and is an excellent advertisement for cen tral Kansas. A CiOOD I DEI. At the late session of the Illinois State Teacher' Association, one of the sjieakers advocated the introduction of the daily newspaper into the schools to serve in part the purjioscs of a text book. nVI'.K TWO-TIIIUDs, .Senator Kernan says he has "counted noses" on the silver question, in the Senate, ami finds fifty in favor of it, to Twenty-four again-t it -or more than a two-thirds ma jority. Out of the way of a veto! LET lis HAVE PEACE. The two paers of Platte City are quar reling as to w hich is the religious iirgan of the town. Peace, brethren ; since Brother lleecher let down the bars, we think we can find room in-ide for all of you. :i:rri ur.rrv.n. Sara. Bowie-, of the Springfield Republi can is steadily improving, and his friends now have strong hopes of his jiermanent recovery. UVl.M.UOES. Did j ou ever know a time, before, when the clerk of the weather had nzrylodyt con sent to freeze things up? The Chicago' man who undertook to ea fortv quail in forty days broke down on tlie sixteeenth day, and clamored foramore varied diet. Au Implied Doubt. Chicago Times.) With the compliments of the alleged sea son. tbr FourWircat Powers." In oblo. Cincinnati Times. The Democratic quadrilateral Pendle ton, Ewiug, Morgan and Payne. Wliy not be Cuntiiieui About it. Now York Com. Ad. Since Ceramics mu-t be pronounced "Keramics," why not call porcelain "pork elain?" " SatUfactorilr Accounted (or. Hiawatha Herald. The re eon why we are having our Indian Summer, is because Chief Joseph is some'er in Kansas. . A Feature of the Chicago Baby KhsW. Inter-Ocean. 0.ie of the saddest things to be seen at the Tabernacle is the lonely father who en ters his babe as a competitor for one ot the priies, hoping then by to get means to buy necessary comforts for his sick wife. Verr Little CiralmCoawlajrtoAarket. Wichita Beacon, ai-1 The roads throughout the country are said to be in a very bad condition. Very little wheat or com has been marketed dur ing the Dast week. The streets never were so muddy, in, the history of Wichita, as they are and have "been for the past week. A Tough e.n timm for Besaumptloat- St. Iinnls Times, 27. With 300,000,000 bushels of wheat and 1,300,000,000 bushels of corn, produced in one year, (1ST!.) in this free country, it seems strange that so many people are with out bread. Will the resumlionists please rise and explain. Graas Beconcillatloa Banquet. Cincinnati Gazette, 26. The friendship now existing between Blaine and Conkling is of so tender a char acter as to call for some kind of public demonstration.by the admireas of those great men. It is announced, accordingly, that a grand reconciliation banquet will be given them upon their return to Washing ton. m rt--' A Fox-Hore Baaawar. ?.- fct. -'T tWyandotte Herald,2;.l r - A four-horse team attached to one of the transfer company's busses, ran away about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. They took fright at the head of Bluff street, and m,Aa nnd time to thshndce. where they were stopped by one of the street car-dri ere. One of the horael fell down, and was dragged about three hundred yards, lnjur inghim badly. Nearly all the male pas sengers jumped ont and roUed in the mad. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. ,la Baabsj avs so wasw saw "HaatUo" . St. liools Journal, at Oates is coming next week. We callher rv-.- iMn w are in doabt as to waat the handle of her name is. It used te-; Urs. James A. Oates, then it got sawit around to .Madame auw a " ly became Mademoiselle Oates, J"'fw: emblaxoned on the KU-hoanls a. Miss AW - jmKH. sr.s. . . --"-- . Oates. In order to avoia f-!?;-' ' distressing faax pas, and, PSJ, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. LOVE S0.f.s OF ALL, AATIWXS. lOVK'S rXOWEE. (Imitated from the Russian of Khovansky.) Tlie infant poetical literature oi ltassia iiau .t.ikknt.utantnr. Tn due time It will its birth but jesteniay. In due time it will til. ... i .....ni !,. lunn Interestluz task to compare the maturer charms of Ssclavonic 1-oni? with these Its earliest years.--.Sir John Uorcnny, 1S21. When the calm and quiet gloamlns IJt the woodland's uinsk-,1 bower. Through their leafy alleys roamliie. Gathered I Xxe' votive tlowers; And for one who sways my liosom Twined a chapel in the urot : Bu' one sweet suc?-tive blossom, ' sleeking still, I gathered not. Wanderina all that tranquil even Through tlie for--l's floral ways, That wee hud, as blue us hcateu, fetM cscaied my anxious gaze. Disippolnted, disenchanted. Home wandered through the nlsht; When, behold I the flower I wanted, By the rill-eidemel my sight. And I learned no more to question Weary thought awhile my lot, Bj ttiat flow'is-l's swset sui;rt.tlon It wa. Lome's Forget-me-not! MAUUlCn DA VIES. WO.ni. AD WIAE. J.bn.11 We Offer Mroujr Drink to Sew Ycur'fc Caller i It is scarcely unfair to a.sume that in moot of the houses opemd for Xew Year receptions, wine, egg-nog, punch or stronger intoxicating liquors will be furnished for the refreshment of the guests. This not only in homes where tyrannical politicians, as husbands and fathers hold sway, and sternly utter the liat -no wine, no reception, but where women alone have dominion, or where they may at least be supjiosed to have a voice in the arrangements of the day. The wine bill will add at least half to tlie cost of the entertainment; ttiereiore, H is mean not to incut it; beside, horror of hor rors, to those in the least dubious of their own social standing, it is unfashionable not to have wine. So white hands will hold out the wine cup, and sweet smiles will lure young men perhajw to their ruin. It must be a weak head that cannot stand a few glasses of win? on Xev Year's day, and if they do get druuk w hat" Barm? Society will condone the offense. And sip after sip is taken until after the last fash ionable call the callers go reeling to parker orgies iu haunts which Fashion does not know, and thence still later to homes which are ashamed of them, to mothers and wives, who, though wrung by heartache, forget that they have them-ehes contribut ed to make some one else's sons and hus bands even such as they blu-h for. It is on woman that the heaviest curse of intem perance falls. Even now there are women in this city with shoulders bruised and sore by blows trom arms nerved with drink ; children hungry and naked becau-e the money which should have bought them food and clothing has gone for drink; while in wealthier homes women who know not hunger orcoid.dreadthe sound of the latch key in the door, and children shrink a prehensively from the home-coming foot plejis of their father. Yet, as we once heard an Iri-hwommi say, whose armswere bared to the woshtub, ex losing bruises lift by the blows of a drunken hubanil, "he is j'good man when the drink is not in him." No legislation will ever overrule drunken ness. Be it original sin or uat not, prohi bition with the average man is of it-elf sufficient to incite desire. But when drinking becomes unfa-hionable, when it is as disreputable to be tisy with champagne as with M)theen, then we shall witness a reform. Once a year woman holds the jiower in her on hands; once a year she can, if she pleases, make wine unfashionable. And trust us, comparatively few of the callers will complain. A cup of good coffee or delicious chocolate, or a glass of lemonade, will readiU be accepted instead, an I no man will the less honor a woman liecau-c she raises her voice against what has al wavs been the foe of her race. The first lady of the republic has, at all events, done her" tart, and we know thai on the 1st of January, 1S78, there will be no wine in the White House. So there is not wantinga fugelman for the new baud. You know in your own hearts that no man who drinks i "tit to be tru-ted with the happiness of any wouian ; know, perhaps sonic of ou also, how much any man drinks makes his wo men suffer; how wife aud children, honor and truth all go down before the thirst of strong drink. You have no call to lead a crusade, to head a teniperauce movement; your work is solely within your own gates, and vou can do or leave it as you choo-e. The DlKOwloa on Hell. Philadelphia Times. The attention which has been drawn in the newspaiers to some remarks Uion the use of the word "hell" in the English ISi ble, made by a preacher of considerable reputation iu a recent sermon at Westmin ster, furni-he a remarkable example of the prevalent misconception against which those remarks were directed. There ar pears to have been a good deal in Dr. Far rar's sermons to excite controversy, but the secular papers have plunged into the dis cussion with a leal that is scarcely accord ing to knowledge, assuming that he had an nounced some startling novelty oi aocinne, whereas, so far as concerns the passage es pecially under dispute, he siniplysaid what every biblical student knows and has said again and again, that the word hell, in its modern popular acceptation, does not ex press the meaning of the words which it is used to translate, or even the meaning that it had in the minds of the translators. What is the "orthodox" doctrine upon fu ture punishment it is not our province to discuss, but there is nothing in literary criticism more certain than that the popu lar idea now attached to the word hell has little or no connection with its etymology, ef with the sense in which it is is most frequently employed in the Bible, this, like many other old words, having acquired in modern times a special significance that did not belong to it three centuries ago. The word itself is Anglo-Saxon, and its associated verb is he lan, to cover or conceal. Luther's Bible has Hoelle, which is nearly the same as the German Hoehle, a hollow ; a dark, hidden place. Ilalla, or Walhalla, is the abode of departed heroes. In short, our English word bell corresponds as nearly as possible with the Greek Hades, the Latin inleri, the obscure abode of departed spirits, the un known land beyond the grave, and this is precisely the signification of the won, which are commonly translated "hell'' in the authorized version. The Hebrew Sheol is used very vaguely and in a variety of connections. It is doubtful if it ever signifies a place of torment, and often it is properly trans lated as the grave. Jacob, for instance, says : "For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning." Here and in the corresponding passage, "bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave" the Hebrew word is precisely the same that is everywhere tran-lated heH, theGreek Hade. Sometimes it has very plainly its etymolog ical meaning as when Job says : "O that thou wouldst keep me secret till thy wrath be past." It is doubtful, as has been said, whether Shoel, in the older books at least, ever expresses a place of torment ; it is nther the nlace of detention, the interme diate state between death and the final con summation of all throes. It was alter the exile that the idea was formulated among the Jews which find in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, of a separation between the "prison-bouses" of the good and the bad. lntheew lesument, uenenna, inename of the place where the offal and rubbish of the city were cast, ana wnere nres were kent burning to purify the air. and which was consequently employed in popular metaphor, occurs irequenuy, uui u is trans lated in our version precisely as the still more frequent word Ilades, and it is to this promiscuous use oi tne worn neii tnai biblical students like Dr. Farrar have long objected. There are still other words in both the Old and the Xew Testaments which are rtmleted in English alike, to the evident confnctoa of the popular mind. The sense in which the word was more com monly employed than in any other by the transistors of the Bible is the same in wkJefcfil is" media the creeds: katekUn en Bait; Jacmmt ad, mfmrn; "he descended hate hell." As Sc Paul expresses it: "Xow that he aweaaed, what is it bat that .he ant tato la lower parts ol what it ia thepaalaM -, i? he e tawMwm Bottle fci now attaches to the word in popular use, and that as a matter of literary accuracy, apart from all questions of doctrine, our acrepted translation could be improved upon revision. What Canon Farrar, or anybody el-c, may choose or refue to teach i ulK)n thi or any similar subject on which the lliule and the ancient creeus are aiiKe ob-cure, is not a subject for discussion ' ere;, but arguments whiGh are based upon Bible texts ought to be made with an under standing of Bible words. 1I1I1K TWAIN'S fUSSV SPEtTM Emerson, I...ii;f-llt ..lid IIoliuc lo u ."e- I.ilu. Tlie following is Mark Twain's seech at the Whitticr banquet : Mr. Cii human: This is an occasion e culiarly uieetfor the digingup of pleasant reniinisct.net concerning" literary folks; therefor I will drop lightly into history mys If. Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its biggest literary billons, I am reminded of a thing which Iiapinded to me fifteen j ears ago, when I had just succveded in stirring up a little Xevadian literary ocean-puddle myself, who-espume-ll ikes were begining to blow thinly California ward. I srarted an in-rection tramp through the southern mines of California. I. was callow and conceited, and 1 resolved to try the virtue of my nom de plume. 1 very soon had an opjHirluiuty. 1 kuoiktirat a miner's lonely log cabin in the foot hills of the Sierras just at nightfall. It was snowing at the time. A j ideil, melancholy man of .10, banlootcd, ojeu to me. When he heard my nom de plume, he looked more dejected than lufore. He Itt me in pretty relunct antly. 1 thought and, after the cu-tomary bacon and lie-ms, black coffee aud a hot whi-ky, I took a pi. This sorrowful man had not said three words up to this time. Xm he spoke up aud s?id, in the oice of one who is secretly suffering: "You're the fourth I'm a going to move." "'1 he fourth what?" said I. "The fourth literary man that's bttn here in twenty four hour- I'm a going to move." "You don't tell me I" said 1 ; "who were the oth ers?" ".Mr. LongftMow, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes dad fetch the lot!" You can easily believe I wjas interested. I supplicated three hot whi-kies did fne rest -and finally the melancholy miner be gan. Said he: They came here jtist at dark yesterday evening, and I let them in of cour-e. Said they were going to Yoseniite. They were a rough lot but that's nothing every body looks rough that travels afoot Mr. Emerson was a seedy little bit of a chap red headed. Mr. Holmes was as fat as a baloon he weighed as much as 300, and hail a double chin all the way down to his stomach. Mr. Longfellow was built like a prize fighter. His head w as cropped and bristly like as if he had a wig made of hairbrushes. His no-e lay straight down his face, like a finger with the end tilted up. Theyhad been drinking-I could sec thaLAnd wha't queer talk they u-ed! .Mr. Holmes in spected the cabin, then he took me by the tiuttou hole, and says he "Tlnough the deep caves or thought 1 bear u olce that sings; Build the. more stately mansions, Oinj soul!" Pays I, "I can't afford it, Mr. Holmes, andmoreover, I don't want to." Warned if 1 liked it pretty well either, coming from a stranger that way. However, I started to get out my bacon and beans, whin Mr. Emerson came and looked on a while, aud then he takes me aside by the button-hole and says: "nle iiieasstesformy meat; Cie mecMU'haridsto eat; hroiiiuiruiid oceans bring mefoojs, From all zones and altitudes." Sivs I, "Mr. Euierson, if you'll excuse me this ain't no hotel." You see it sort of riled me 1 wara used to the ways of littery swells. lfestote.nt on a-swe'aring over my w ork, and next conies Mr. Long fellow and bctton-holes me and interrupts me, Says he "Honor be to Mudlkeewis ! You shall hear how I'au-l'uk-Kecwls " But I broke in and says I, "Begging your pardon, Mr. Longfellow, if you'll be so kind as to hold your yawp for about fice minutes and let me get this grub ready, you'll dome proud." Well, sir, after they'd 'filled up I set out the jug. Mr. Holmes looked at it, and then he tires up all of a sudden and veils: "Flash, out n stream or blood-ml wine! For I would drink to other daj." Ily George, I was gettiug kind ol worked up. " 1 don't deny it, I was getting kind of worked up. 1 don't deny it, I was getting kind of worked up. I turns to Mr. Holmes and says I, "Ixxiky here, my fat friend, I'm running this shanty, and if the court knows herself, you'll take whisky straight, or you'll go dry." Them's the very words I said to him. " Xow I didn't want to savs such famous lettery people, but you see they kind of forced me. "There ain't nolh in"onrea.sonable 'bout me. I don't mind a pxssel of guests a tread'n on my tail three or four times, but when it conies to standing on it. it's different, and if the court knows her-elf vou'Il take whisky straight or you'll go dry." Well, between drinks thev'd swell around the cabin and strike attitudes and sh)uL Says Mr. I.ongfello: "This Is the Krest prinieal." Savs Mr. Emerson: "Here once til- embattled farmers stood. And Ilrtsl tho shot heard run nil the world." Sa s I, "O, blackguard the premises as much as you want to it don't cost you a cent." Well, thev went on drinking, ami pretty soon they go out a greay old deck and went to playing cut-throat euchre at ten cents a corner on tru-t. I begun to notice some pretty suspicious things. Mr. Emerson dealt, looked at his hand, shook his head, says : "I am the doubter and the doubt" And calmly bunched the hands and went to shuffling for a new lay-out. Says he: "They reckon HI w ho lent e m- out; Tlie know not well the subtle wajs 1 keep. I pas and deal agiun ." Hang'd if he didn't go ahead and do it, too! O, he was a cool one! Well, in about a minute, things were running pretty tight, but all of a sudden I ce by Mr. Em erson's eye that he judged he had 'em. lie had already corralled two tricks and each of the others one. So now lie kind of lifts a little in his chair, and says: "I tire of xlobes and nces ! Too long tho g-ime Is played !" and down he fetched a right bower. Mr. Longfellow smiles as sweet as pie and "Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend For the lesson thou hast taught 1" and dog my cats if he didn't down with an otlur right" bower! Well sir, up jumps Hol mes, a war-whooping as usual, and says : "God help them It the tdnpest swings The pine against the palm I" and I wish I may go to grass if he didn't swoop down with another right bower! Emerson cla his hand on his bowie. Longfellow claps his on his revolver, and I went under the bunk. There was going to be trouble ; but the monstrous Holmes rose up, wabbling his double chins, and says he : "Order gentlemen ; the first man that draws I'll lay down on him anil smother him V All qniet on the Potomac you bet you! ' ' They were pretty how-eome-vou-oo-so, now, and then begun to blow. Emerson said: "The bulliest thing I ever wrote, was Barbara Frietchie. Sara Longfellow: "It don't begin with myJBiglow Paters." Say Holmes: "My Insnatopsis lays over em both." They mighty near ended in a fight. Then thev wi-hed they had .sonie.niore com pany and Mr. Emerson pointed to me and says: v "Is vondersqualld peasant all ' Thai this proud nursery coahl oreed?" He was a-whetting his bowie on his boots, so I let it pass. Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they. would like some music; so thev made me stand up nd sing, "When Johnny Cosjes'Marching Home," till I drooped at thirteen mmu es past 4 this morning. That's what I'ye been throuch. my friend. "A hen; I woke at 7, .!,. or losvimr. thank eoodness. and Mr. Lonzfellow had my only boots oa, and his own under his arm. Says I, "Hold oataere, EV.Ti;n what are vou going to do with them?" He says, "Going to make, tracks with 'em; because "Lives of ereat men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And departlns. leave behind ns Foot prints on the sands of Time." "As I said, Mr. Twain, you are the fourth in twenty-four hours and I'm agoing to move I ain't suited to a littery atmos- P T said to the miner: "Why, my dear. ak, these were no .horn ws aad th amaaahotaage air, these were not the gracious singers to aaa taa wur .lv rtd- tbese were impositors." with a were they? areyou.' " I did not pursue the subject ; and since then I haven't traveled on my rum dejiume enough to hurt, .ch was the retninisence I was moved to cou"5;u ute, Mr. Chairman. In my enthusiasm. I may have exaggerated the uttail a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I lelieve it is the tint timethat T have ever dellected from the ierps--ular fact On an occasion like this. INcritsOMl l.' THE BIIW.I-. '1-rom the 'Vias.hnston Tost. k- fttst r"isrter uopjed in on Colonel - - kersol .f'r-vu'iV, "villi the request j .sxcu . little light on the great qite-i"j md death. The Col onel, thouv -iu't' ."? consented to be in terrupted, aii i? tciiag his chair round, said: "Fire away with your questions." As an ujiening shut the icpoiter asked : "Colonel, are your views of religion based Uou the Bible?" "I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as 1 do most other an cient books in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense." "Have you found any other work, sacred or profane, which vou regard as more relia ble r ' . , "I know of no book less so, in my judg ment." "You have studied the Bible attentively, have vou not ?" "I fiave read the Bible, I have heard it talked about a good deal, and am sufficient ly well acquainted with it to justify my own mind in utterly rejecting all claims made for lLs divine origin." "What do you base your views ujion ?'' "On reason", observation, experiuice, up on the discocries in science, uou observed facts, and the analogies properly growing out of such facts. I have no coniii dence in anything pretending to be outside, or indeiiend'ent ol, or in any manner above nature." "According to your views, what disKMi tion is made of man, after death ?" "Upon that subject 1 know nothing. It is no more wonderful that man should live again than that he now live; iqion that question I know of no evidence. The doc trine of immortality rests upon human af fection. We love, therefore new ish to live." "Then you would not undertake to say what becomes of man after death?" "If I told or pretended to know what be comes of man after death, I wouhl be as dogmatic as.are theologians Uion this ques tion. The difference between them and me is, I am honest. I admit that I do not know." "Judging by your criticisms of mankind Colonel, in your recent lecture, you have not found his condition very satisfactory?" "Xature, outside of man, so far as I know, is neither cruel nor merciful. I am not sati-fied with the present condition of the human race nor with the condition of man during any leriod of which we have any knowledge. I believe, however, the condition of man is improved, and this iin provemeat is due to his own exertions. I do not make nature a being.. 1 do not as cribe to nature intention." "Is your theory, Colonelthe result of in vestigation of tliis subject ?" "So one can control his own opinion nor his oan belief. My belief was fortvd upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in anyway touched me. I believe, in this' worhL I have no confidtnee iu any religion promisc ing joys in another world at the expene of liberty and happiness in this. At' the same time, I wish to give to others all the rights 1 olanu for myself." "If asked for proofs of your theory, what would you furnish?" '"?- "The experience of every man who is honest with himelf, every fact that has been discovered in nature. In addition to the-e, the utter and total failure of all re ligionists iu all countries to produce one particle of evidence showing the exist ence of aiiysiiematural power whatever, and the further fact that the eople aranot satisfied with their religion. They are con tinually asking for evidence. They are ask ing it in every imaginable way. The sects are continually dividing. Thtre ino real religious serenity in the world. All relig ions are opponents of intellectual liberty. I believe in absolute mental freedom, lteal religion with me is a thing not of the head, but of the hcirt; not a theory, not a cate chism, not a creed, but a life." "What punishment, then, is inflicted ujion man lor crimes and wrongs committed in this life?" "There is no such thing as an intellectual crime. Xo man can commit a mental crime. To become a crime it must go be yond thought." "What puni-hment is there for physical crime?" "Such punishment as is necessary to pro tect society and for the reformation of the criminal." "If there is only punishment in this world will not some escaie punishment?" "I admit that all do not seem to be pun ished as they deserve. I alsoadmit that all do not seem" to be rewarded as they destrve; and there is in this world, apparently, as great a failure in the matttrof reward a in the matter of punishment. If there is another life, a man will be happier there for having acted according to his highest ideal in this. But I do not discern in na ture any effort to do justice." "Are you generally received as flatter ingly in'your lecturing tours as you were here" lat" Wednesday etenini;?"' "Yes. At the same time, I was greatly flattered by my reception here." "Then y-our views are not so unKpular as might be siiposed from the abuse jou receive." "It is my popularity they abuc. If my views were not topular they, of cour-e, would care nothing about what I say. I have no quarrel with the clergy. I am s?r fectlv willing they should preach their opinions. All I ask is the privilege to do my own thinking and to express my own thoughts." "Do vou care to make onvcrts to your theory?" "Yes, I would like to see everybody of my opinion in this ; I would like to see everybody per'ectly willing to give the same liberty to all others which they claim for themselves." "I wish everybody believed (as I do) that free labor gives us wealth and free thought will give us truth." The ltfict of Face. The library in Mr. Trevelyan's elegant country residence wasoneof the pleasautest apartments imaginable; and on that bright summer morning seemed the embodiment of coolness, shade and fragrance from the dark green carict that covered the floor like a sheet of emerald velvet, the lighter green silk curtains and damask furniture to the gleaming marble statuettes, the white and gold calf-bound volumes in rows of shelves from floor to ceiling. Outside the sun shone, and the birds were holding a perfect carnival of song in the warm, fragrant air. Everything seemed so pure, so peaceful, so strangely at variance with Mr. Travel van's aogry, clouded face, as he stood, straight and haughty, with one hand on the green cloth of the center table, and his eyes looking down on Kaymond Sautelle's face a face perfect in its bold, manly out- linM. "It is the most outrageous breach of gen tlemanly honor I ever had the misfortune to know, and I am the more astonished, Mr. Sautelle, that I.had always previou-ly, held you to be a suitable man to occupy the nnsition of tutor to my sons. But this to tal disregard of every law of etiquette, hon or decency if I may be allowed so strong an expression this open-faced, presumptu ous attempt at flirtation with a guest of Mrs. Trevelyan's, is is offensively disgust ingtome."" " " The young man a eyes blazed as he lis tened patiently to the quiet intense insult and you could" see how trem.-ndous was the force wilfc which he kept himself in check you saw it so plainly by the tenseness of every muscle in his lithe, handsome frame, br the compression of bis lips under his drooping amber moustache, and in the in- lense, irignuuuj .u. ww.w. .v.. -.-. he answered, with his blue eyes never flinching from the cold, gray ones opposite him. "Yon have made a most unwarrantable assertion, sir, which, for Jliss eldts sake, I regret which, for my. own, I care as lit tle as I regard the truthfulne-s of it, as" .Mr. Trevelvon interrujied hint by a sud den blow with his fist oalheUiUe. "You dare teU me Top hired a teacher ia this house, that 1 aliar that Saatslm did. ot'Ma'ae aaaallast at- 1878. there was something in his eye that made the gentleman pau-e suddenly, and then Sautelie went on, quitely as before, with that unnatural quiet that precedes terrible temiests. "There is "no occasion to introduce the iauys name agatu;l simply say I have never paid her any attention beyond w hat is due to a lady Iruin a gentleman ; that I should pay to an empress of the blood roaal if the occasion required it, or any other woman. You have seen fit to misconstrue, and from the moment vou branded mc as unfit for the losition of tutor to your son, however false the accusation was. you ceas ed to be my employer. Mr. Trevelvan, there is no need to prolonz this interview." He bowed with the cold, polished ease of a sociely-Usaged man, aud went leisurely from the library to his room, with that same compression of his handsome liH, but with the lire in his blue eyes giving place to a bitter, dreary woe. "To think she is the first woman I ever met who could quicken my pul-es by a glance of her bright, beautiful eyes and I am insulted because I dare to converse with her I, a tutor on a salary, she a darling of fate and fortune!" Down in the library where Sautelie had left him, Mr. Trevalyan paced to and fro. "The insolent, infeiendent puppy, with his face like a god's, and his manner the manner of a prince! It is time he took his conge from Trevelvan Park when he bids fair to le a fo.-midalile rival to my son l!u iert in Ida Veldt's favor. I am not blind; 1 sm not a fool; I have seen the girl's mag nificent eves look at him with a light in them I'd willingly give a check for a thou sand to see in them when she laughs with my boy." And, ju-t within one of 4he deep, du-ky recesses of the library, hiddtn y flowing silken drajiery, as fair a girl as ever lived, with liitrous dark eyes all aglow, and cheeks as pink as a morning glory, stood quiit ami breathless until Mr. Trevelvan had left the room. "The grand, glorious fellow ! Why he's a very prince in di-guise ; 1 wonder I wonder if oh, dear, of course it is only chivalrous courtesy Mr. Sautelie feel', and I won't be a fool if he has got the most heavenly smile and the handsomest eyes 1 ever saw, but I'll see him again before he leaves, and " But Ida Veldt did not see him again be fose he left Trevelvan Park, for Mr. Sau ttlle did not remain over one train, and when Ida returned from her gallop over the breezy country roads, with her cheeks glow ing, her hair wind blown over her face, like a mist of spun gold, and her bronze dark eyes, eloquent with the strange, half sweet, half sad thoughts she could not understand, Kaymond Sautelie was separated "from her, by late and railroad, so many miles that' ever to meet agiin seemed even less likely than the finding of a needle -in a haystack. "But, Kaymond, there is no use in your being so obstinate . about it ! You have fever, andjour eyes are as glassy as a cat's in a dark cellar aren't they Mrs. Sau telie?" Harry Livingston reached out to take Kaymond Sautelle's hand to feel the throb bing, irregular pul-e. "Don't be a fool, Harry ! I tell you I am not sick at least, beyond a trifling cold although I won't be rcsponsibleforan attack of brain fever if you and Aunt Amy don't quit codding me." s "You see jut how it i, Mr. Livingston, I can't do anything with him. He's been just that contrary ever since he came home the other night with a chill, and 1 coaxed him to take hot lemonade." The little bright-eyed old lady looked anxiously from her boy's flushed face to Livingston s half-earnest, half-mischevious one. "He always was headstrong, you know. Don't you remember how disagreeably mul ish he wis when he came home Irom Treve lvan Park a couple of years ago, and refus ed to go into society at all, even w hen he had come into the snug little legacy his grandmother left him f Sautelie turned frowningly to Living ston. "If you knew how it annoyed me to hear you talk" Harry arose promptly, laughing. "All right, I'll call again when you're in lietttr humor, Kay. -Mr. Sautelie, you promi-ed to show me vour pelar goniums, I think ' The conservatory door hail barely closed on their hetls when Livingston's levity vanished. "Mrs. Sautelie, Bay is a much sitker man than vou have an v idea of. Can't vou see tbe ttrrible state of irritation he has come to? Crossness and Kaymond are not Kissible, as you know, and if you will take my advice and send lor a doctor you may save him a sickness, and erliap Ins life Send for Dr. Tremainor Dr. Winter, and tell which ever one lakes thecae what you and I have so often imagined that ilav has some trouble on hi mind." Little Mrs. .-autelle was in a condition cf almo-t helpless alarm afttr Mr. Livingston had gone. It had never occurred to her that Hay was threatened with anything wor-e than an influenza, and Harry Iivingston was ac tually hinting at the brain trouble. she flew back to Kay's dainty little sitting-roomthings had changed so with Kay since he had come in for live thousand a year determined to tell him a doctor must be sent for and to ask him who he wanted. She went in, in nervous alarm, to find him I ting, white and still, on the lounge. In the panic that emergencies always arc sure to create in nervous, loving eopIe, Mrs. Sautelie breathlessly ordered her sei vant maid for her jihysician. "Bun run to Dr. Winter's, Annie, as fast as you can, and tell him Mr. Sautelie is living. If he's not in, go for Tremaine Hoar anybody only some one mu-t come at once! Hurry, Annie I"" And faithful, zealous Annie tore wildly round to find Dr. Winter out, Dr. Tremaine out, and Dr. Hoar out. "What be I goin' to do about it, and him a-Iayin' as white as the piller, and the mis sus crazy ? I don't know. Ma'am, can you tell me where there'll be another doctor?" It was a sweet, thoughtful face Annie had seen, and stopjied to question the own er of a daintily-dressed lady, with the darkest, saddest eyes Annie had ever seen. She smiled slightly. "Can I be of any use? If you are in search of a physician and can find none you are looking for, you can take me; I know something ot medicine." Annie's eyes were a sight to behold. Always big, greenish blue and bulging, they grew bigger, more greenish blue and more bulging. "You, miss ! The likes qf you be able to cure him !" The lady had stepped into her phaeton beside a spruce-looking boy. "Shall 1 go or not?" Annie gave her a despairing look "It's a man sick, miss you'd not care nor be afraid up at Eglantine place.'' A silvery laugh from the charming little ro-ebud mouth as she gave the boy the order-1-Eglantine dace. "Xeither afraid nor ashamed, I'll see what I can do foryour master." m bhe nodded pleasantly, and the ponies and phaeton dashed off. And so it was ordered-by the powers that be that when this charming, beautilul lady saw Kaymond Sautelie raying in dehrlom, and made such, a common-sense diagnosis of the case, and gave such practical "advice to be followed until Mrs. Sautelle's physi cian should arrive to take charge, in a plow of enthusiasm Mrs. Sautelie begged her to call and -see the sick man occasional ly. With very unwarranted, uncalled-for blushes the lady agreed to do so, and as day after day her'pheatoo "Ide," shSaaid she was stood for an hour at the door of Xo. , Eglantine Place, Mrs. Sautelie and she were fighting a hanl-to-hand fight with Azrael for Itaymond-a sake, until one day Aunt Amy caught the girl in her arms and kied her ardently. "To think you have saved him, under God's goodness! ML Ide, can I ever thank you enough? If you only knew how I love vou and so will my boy when he knows Low much he owes you." Cnn-ciousness had returned to the sick man, and Amy had told him, as soon as she dared, of Ide her sweet, tender skill, her devotion, her brave, relentless war with his illness, her patience, her purity, until Kay mond. with a smile on his pale, handsome face, asked why Ide had not beetr to see him since nis convalescence. Amy told him Ide had assured her. that her presence might disturb the Batieot.at first, bat that she would, see. hjjj-Jhrfore long. , Ti--,t&& Alter tae nmratrr: strides, until even Ide, with glowing cheeks and strangely-lighted eyes ueciareu ner in tention of seeing him again, and one lovely afternoon Mrs. Sautelie show el her into .1 1 I t. . Ts.. sKinl inrt lik tne uaintv invauu ciiauiuct, iii,u.. ..... accomplishment of an unwritten romance 1.0 o7.n li.,1.. .Innkinrs- ...... ..u .., .... , her pretl "1 cannot jerinit vou to become so exci ted, Mr. Sautelie. "fes I, Ida Veldt, who. abbreviated my name on the impulse of the moment, when I saw who my patient was because I His face was lighting up with perfect jov. "Iiec-use what, Mi- Veldt?" She flushed like a wild rose. "1 I positively forbid any more conver sation. There was a pleading look in her eyes as she looked into his. He closed both of his hands over one of hers. "And 1, as your lover, forbid you to re fuse to answer any question 1 ask! Ida Ida, was it becau-e vou loved me? Tell me it was, my darling?" nd we presunieshc did, since nevcrwere patient and physicianonsucheffectionately intimate terms as were Miss Veldt and Kay mond Sautelie after that, in the halcyon days when they two agreed that upon the story of their fives had been written from time immemorial, the word "Kismet."' Tlie Unuce of ttealb. From the Xew York Herald. Some young ladies are passionately fond of waltzinir. We do not remember to have heard of many secitic cases of the aban donment of the fascinating excitement on the part of its fair votaries in consequence of the publication of the sprightly little volumne called "The Dance of Death," which received so much indorsements "from many fashionable ladies, like Mrs. Sher man) as well a from clergymen of every denomination. ,We can pardon a gay, blooming girl for adorning the waltz, with iu fascinating music, its blood-stirring ex ercise and its pleasant degree of dependence on the strong arm and ample chest of a male partner. There is something delightful, no doubt, in the tickling of the masculine beard as it plays with the cheek confidingly nestling beneath it. Empresses and peas ants, heire ses and sewing girls seem to enjoy round dances with equal zest. Even the staid and prudent'Desdemonawho never gave the unreasonable Moor any real cause for jealousy, was an inveterate waltzer; at least we have right to judge so from the words of Othello: i j Sir. she can torn, and turavjiand yet co on und tnrn again. -' " We do not look with qaiteso favorable an eye on waaseja-oi tne opposite sex. The man who is "alch a love of a waltzer" we somehow associate with the idea of the young gentleman who sells laces and taes behind a linen draper's counter. We should at no time be surprised to find him dancing with a yanl measure down his back to keep his figure straight. Of course there are young men of wealth and good family connections and osition and all that who waltz, and if they were not to be lound at our society balls all the ladies would I in despair. Talk about home without a mother, what would a ban room uevviuioui its nice vouns man who is such a?Jeautilnl dancer? Mich youths are harmless, too; for the niniMeness ol their lilt is gt nerally bal anced bv a want of activity in the tram. ,V prudent mother should always rather trust her joung daughter with a finished finikin waltzer than with a rough, awkward fellow, who only knows enough to take her in his arm-, and is compiled to raise her off her feet and to stop a dozen times during the dance to make ajiologie-s for treading on her dress. A male waltzer that is to say, an ordinary male waltzer may, tliere--fore, be tolerated on the score of conven ience. Iut what can be said ol the whirl ing twirling, cavorting nnois wno wauz against time, kicking up ineir neeis ami turnimr round and round for eight, ten or twelve hours, ju-t to exhibit their jiowers of endurance. And yet this h the latest pha-e of athletic insanity that has turned up in Xew York. e reler to the challenge and erformanccs of Prof. Cartwheel and Prof, llarrenhead, with which the papers have- been tilled receuily. We can understand why a humming top. if it were a reasoning creature, might love to spin round on its eg, because it makes a dreamy soothing noi-e wnne so engatii, looks pretty, and en "go to sleep" whin it plea-es. "But why a sane human bung should find a plea-ure in twirliii" hiin-tlf round like a inadmin, catehing up first this partner and then that, now siezing Us,n a male, now nn a temale and now ' goinir rT nlone, until his brain is dizzy ami his uti weary, we are at a lo-s to eolieeive. e er tainly no uood can Is? accomplished by sueli a senseless exhibition. It is not likely to add to the scientific knowledge ol the world, to advance the cause of religion, to improve the civil service, or to settle the excise mud dle. The stones which danced to the nni-ic of Aniphion's lyre did some good, becau-e they chasseil into their places, see 10 ineir partners, and finally tunned a wan arounu 1 lubes. But tin "champion waltzer with whom we are inflicted now-a-days, can le put to no conceivable u-e, and their stupid exhibitions would have sufficed to draw an extra shower of bar from the eja of Ani phion's wife had they been attempted in the days of that worth;, eouple. The waltz has been called the "I 'aiice of Death." 'Hie ti tle is not inappropriate, even whenits in dulgence is limited to a sca-on's fashionable balls. Jn the case of these twirling, cavort ing idiots, it might be called the "Suicide's Gallop." However, the "champion waltz era" no doubt believe they are spinning themselves into fame, as they assuredly are into the grave, and as they covet noto riety we bestow this notice unh them on the principle that "one g, od turn deserves another." Bow Amiin: !ci- York I.pUconal- rhlladelphla Inuv. Letter to tlie llsr.l Xew York The High Church Epi-copalians are in dulging in some characteri-tically plain talk about the irregular methods resorted to by the Church of the Holy Trinity to re lieve itself of the mountain of elebt with which it is loaded down, and which Mr. Kimball l endeavoring, in his own i-cn-liar way, to remove. '1 he allegation is that Bev. Mr. Tyiig, in dis.n-ing with the reg ular services last Sunday, in order to let Mr. Kimball have his way, has laid him self oien to an admonition trom the Bishop, i ft . i. . .i ..:n i. .... i.,i- Well, Bavmond reached out m nan.i, uoi, i- .r..... - - and the girl" took it, with a strange shyness ow ne ol work and driving horses n the verv unusual in her ordinary manner. large cities, ''".PV1, S f lm "I am so glad to see vou looking better, ' raise them, annually buy lndittb of boh Mr. Sautelie." i cU of carn ' raanS1. wur.-:1-' -"""I. "Ide! Miss Veldt! Is it possible? Oh, etc to be led in connec " "'"" can it be true? Mi-s Veldt do you know I to their horses and they are wel assured inmv delirium I eonstantlv thought you of the profitableness o f iw: ng 1 1". ' were'with me? And vou a're-vou were !" , animals are always sleek, lat, and glossy m She smiled, then frowned demurely, with apj-earance, and never ..s, .... i.;., ...,:. nrsickiv. icesnecp,e-auic, .mu ., , ltu.s.1 -s mi uu Miauls I of influence brought to bear ujion the Dio- and seeded them as part of the dessert for ctssn to have the admonition enforced. In , the dinner on the occasion. eenexal C am contradietinction to these methods of the , ri.n, if he reads this jiaragraph, will rc-all Church of th Holy Trinity, attention is ti,e incident, as he ate a portion of the fruit, e-alleel to the fact that only a'few week v and al-o. examined the tree on the day re the Church of St. Augustine illou-ton fared to which contained it. This, as an anu, ii rejiori uc line, eueic mu n- .. .... street), which cost S2.30,(rx. was con-ecrat-td and made a free church forever, with out having a single cent of debt placed up on if. They say that was a High Church enterpri-e exclusively. It is true the money came out of old Trinity, but it is contended that the church would have been built all the same if churchly means had been re sorted to, and not these sensational meth od. There is thus a deal of trouble in this world, and churchmen, as well as the politicians, have their share of it. There Seeni lo Have lleen Some "HhriBkaare" lo tbe East, too. St. Louis Journal,:;. Another savings bank has failed. This time it is a Massachusetts concern, located at Taunton, and it ha3 suffered from the shrinkage 'of property on which it had From reading the Xew York mnrtira"e-e. rrom readme --- ,-&- - . . .s.., ... , . Timer, wo were ol the opinion mat oniyin the West had property declined so ruin ously as to destroy the value 'of mortgages. It seems, however, this 3Iassachusetta bank found that propertyjias depreciated in the East. . "' It :navaea av Casta Baal at DiScrencc, ToaKaaw. -. - jfit.lJoanepubllam,'Dec.Zr.l . Xo yet-througk with the Hell 3ateim prorement, llav government U clsaJorojasJy begged to spcai a million or two"cfotsr in Lf-fiHijau. lirir nlft nt iKu v.tn.1 creekWco,separat-S Xorkr frnm-Westcaeater oaBBir. vaaai is a rttUoaatat-cssaaj- w,, . . - . jls.:i. .l . men of the wrtustVaajr; srasabUng; hot Ike expaBsbtan r without mat exptaUianaa; of, money. on the Mississippi isiiaasiiiHikU. .. ,lw.. Ljfa.j!i7sslT. -- .. n: n n.l vt- intend cordiajito, the f fonservnitvc E.HtnbllshMl by i I. 11. Aulhoiiy, January, IsoX l'AlSJI OTl. Itoots tor Mock I"ccd. Boots have become a necessity with pro- . r ..- ... . ...1 r.. .rwt ,fr...,. . ,. ,,ir and their great value m tin connection should commend them o those who have gres-tve larmers as a. iuie-t muu -" come in" for a share of the roots in winter. and no farmer who has a right to be caned one should think of neglecting the cultiva tion of roots for his different kind of stock. MAIZE COn JIEAI I have used corn, ground in the ear, for feeding all classes of stock for ten years, and never found anr ill effects from it. In fact, I think it more healthy to grind with the cob,it the meal is to lie fed alone tostock. The cob gives more bulk, separates the particles of meal, and prevents the meat Irom going into the stomach in so compact a form as when the pnro meal is fed alone. I have fetl working horse upon 't lor a grain ration, almost exclusively tor three to live vears at a time.with as gooel a re-ult as can be attainesl with this single grain. But in this case, clover hay was led with it. Tho clover was cut in bslf-ir.ch Itnghls, moisten ed, and the meal nuvd with, it Hcg do well upon it are heartier than on pure meal, because les cc neentratcd. Have fed it to calvts and colts with sati-facion, in connection with other lood. tver feed meal alone to aDy stock, except hogs an,l to them only in the final fattening wricd. But it still remains to fix the real value of the cob as food. Chemistry will determine this comparatively. Practically, it is not so easy to fax the value of the cob, because it is never fed alone; but we can compare its food constituents with straw and hav- and get some idea of its relative valne. Corn cobs have 43 A per cent, of digestible food, and this is more than either wheat, barley, rye or oat straw or corn fetlder, and that only timothy hay exceeds it in carbony dra'tes. It has not as large a oition of ash as either kind of straw, but has more Kit ash and less silica, which improve its val ue as a feed. The phosphoric acid and lime to grow the bones are equal to straw, and only surpassed by the timothy hay. When we consider its mtchanicol advan tage as a separator of the particle of meal, and the labor it save in shellin, the i-olic may be-considered, when finely ground, to be as valuable, according to weight, as hay Of course the hay i some what more nu tritious as a single food, but Mlie other ad vantages in grinding corn and cob together will balance thi. Every hundred bushels of corn has about l.lbO- jsunds of cob, and if we count it worth one ha!f cent T pound, it would make the cobs worth seven cents per bu-hcl, T tofrift Had T:isl In Itultrr. The disagreeable taste given to milk and butter when the urns are ltd upon turnips may be effectually corrected b the use of a little common nitre (orsaltittre,i but the common mode of u-ing this preventive is not the list. It has bet u usual timta lump of saltpetre iu the milk pail. It will sometimes hap'i, however, that il. nitre remains undissolved and the niiit. r, i irs the objectionable flavor. Instead .t,tlu make a strong solution of raltetu -ay .1 pint of Isiiliug water uisin an m ie ot alt Itlre and when thoroughly dissolved, P"' in a bottle and stand in a tool plait. I fore milking put into the milk aP. a l"'n fill of thi solution, or more, act,r.''i g i. the quantity of niilk elit ted, am! "I mp flavor will bo destroytd. Tin j: .. substance will al-o, in a great degrie, de stroy the bad flavor givn to but'i r l the vellow erowsl'oot or butter tup. '11,1- ha lieiii tries! and found serviceable. ntlicr dan, equally it not elhcutit, i to -c ild-the cream after "the saltpt U-e ha been insert ed. Feeding Itte. A writer in the 1-oiulon Cvtlmje (.mtlentr savs; "A trial ot many j ears ha com inted me that no more excellent fissl lories can be made than good w holesonie sugr thor oughly dissolved in water without boiling. I find that half a pint of I t water will dissolve one (annul of sugar m a few min ute after careful stirring. 1 generally pre pare a canful at a time, which holds five pounds of sugar ami two and a halt ,,iintls of water, it is made and ready br i.- in a few minutes, and is nut tin 1" -s wlu.it some if given to tin Iti while -I'll i I ii-tel alwavs to ln! t'.e -uzar. I ,i I that there was no cvrum.y n- I' n si-lencv of the svrup. .-uittiuie- ,' s tl.lt Is, overboiled .11 I ni, and a' "'"' r ' It was tt thin. -Now it is alwavs i.i.i i the same. I may add that I ril a i; t lit nt moist sugar tor :l r ioui. !-icetlv- clean and wholesome. Aunt I.i .io Home. Missouri Uruniiwittlier , "DesCtor, is 1 pit to go'." "Aunt 'Liza. ii re is no hope fi,r iui "Bres the rtat M astir fur his go.-;ms. Ie ready." The elector gave a few dim-turn to the ci,l..red women that sat around 'I.iza I eel, am! starttel to leave when he wa res ailed 7 . . t i I . .. -i i ,.,. otilturntinn. r.ven me by the old woman, who was dr.! out with the till.-. "Marse John, stay uid m til. n - r I wants to talk nb e'le old tnius. I ki ul vou when a boy, long 'fore you went ml lien a elis-tor." 1 called you Marse- John den; I call you de same now. Take tie o!e mammv's liand, honey, and hold it. I lived a longtime. Ole mar-ter ami ,-i missus hab gone before, anl de elnlli.n ... x.i lie ole place i scalier ober de- w, r' I Pel like to sec 'em 'lore I starts mi journey to-night. My ole man's jjoii. and all de chillun I missed at ilin breast has jn.mr, too. De-v" waitin' for elere miiddi-r on de gulden shore. 1 bre-s de Ivord, Mar,e John, for takin me to meet 'em dar. Ise fought de j goisl fight, and I-e not afraid to meet de . Saviour. Xo mo' wo'k for sjor ole niani- mv, and no mo' trials and tribulations hold my hand tighter, Mar-e Je.hn ladder, madder marsterniLssUsthillun Ise a gwine home." The soul, while pluming its wing for the o fight to the Ureal l!eyond, resteds ou the face of the Ietjr, and the watchers, with Isjwed head, wept silently. She wasdead. I'enche Plucked un Christina. I Iarrlsbunj Tele grajjli.. Discussing the balmy weather of this win Itr a gentleman in Ilarri-bnrg as one cf" our oldest and most successful Im-iniM men, :.ow- located on Third street, sta-ed to u this morning that he plucked js-aihesona ir. i. mi bis uri ubciia I hristiuxs ilay, Iv -2, incident of past propitious winter weather, lias not ofte n U-en surjasscd in the fruit line in this latitude. The I.eariif-d ISIacksniltJi. Chicago Trlbune.a.1 One of the remarkable men of the age i now Iving at the jioint of death. The title of "the learned blacksmith," which vas be stowed upon Elihu Uurritt as. long ago as 1&S0, is peculiarly indicative of "the man and of his claim to the position which few will ieitate in accon..ng 1 .r. V. i'Jioiit natural talent, and almost deprived of ed ucational facilities, he yet ucix. ut- It the mere force of dogged ptr.-ev eraace m ac- unusual knowledge f math- I ..,... -.r,.! fnrpifn Ian"ua"es. and in lifting (juirin an ' l,,,j..If ui from ob-curitv and Iswerty into J a position of social and lolitical influence. His example has been, and will always he, of incalculable benem to tne youm oi me country- A Uool I'aper in liood iuarter. . St. Joe Chronicle, J7J Yesterday the first Lsuc of the Chronicle was made" from our new offices, corner of Fourth ami Felix strccLs, over the state Ratings bank. Our counting room, editorial offices and comiiosing room arc in the bank building, in the hall formerly oc cupied bv- the old city library, while our pre, room is with ."VSS tablishment ol .uessrs. ai;ui u. u....0.j. .sTa-...i.S A-.-vwats? laTTTl -JVe have now o he.w.u"I?' k i i . -,.-l nffio? in Missouri, ceo-. .e.iv.Tv 'department tkorog!y -core1' r- - . - . .-l r.. ... t- 'fM and w pientuu ruuuiug e aiasd f " ii-st, Jeaav--,, Jstsm witkAe hi r i i mi ! flusi steward hMttk t?--i - , -.. rsa.fi Jr ;?.-i i-- T L .EZ ' -'- ti-aa