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'omnaaietl bv tb iiifflu f theaaiaer; not uacea
artly fi r r'it'lioatttn, bat aa aa sldeucs of goui
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,ng umn and dates, to liate las letters aaJ Ogarei
plain una anttiuct
THE YOl'Xtt FOLKS.
1 h V-liooluiAMtcr'a Sleep,
isster waa weary,
Wa wear, old and Kray ;
And heaviness came o'er hiru
I t on that summer day
A beavluees of spirit,
Ami nameless aenae of pain,
lli' struggled hard to banish,
1 . niggled all in vaiu.
Tl." drowsy school-room ninrninr
!! hoard, and, In hlN trance,
He knew hla school were watching
Bil face with stealthy glance.
v, and, for a moment,
B n UMd himself again,
' t lie ntupor
-... a liin weary bralu.
In vain : for, with the effort,
ad dropped on hi breast,
Bil i MM faint and fainter,
B he nank to runt.
A 1 UMS urose an uproar !
ndleai wu the lee
An B thOM little scholars,
1 master to see.
Tiie tnaat trie all his antics,
His ;i nit stare and grin,
T . i : '-. -unt of laughter,
And multiply the din.
See. how lie point hla finger
A' ::ii- master's face so white,
And rolls his eyes and chatters,
With ludicrous affright I
A: J ftU rle little urehins
And maidwi shout with Joy;
A:. '. with tlsl tears of Inuxhter,
Crj, " What a fuuuy boy ! "
Al Bi w was passing,
And still the master slept ;
A: . .r-.itt r tfrew the tiunult
Tbl -v .-rholurs kept
Dntil a Kttle maiden,
Wj watched the haggard fiioe,
H I graYe i one ra and wonder,
MM ttijf from her place
s' -cftly to the master,
And ti -.My touched his head,
A -mi:. 1 back IB terror
hoolmtuttf mm (mi .'
A and n n n .
A ahort diatanee beyond the pluee
where Kate had been left there was a
small by-path ; and when, still oare
fully carrying her gun, she reached this
path, Kate atoppecL Sere would ba a
good place, she thought, to wait for
game. Something wotud surely come
into that little path, if she kept herself
concealed.
So she knelt down behind a small
bush thai grew at a corner of the two
paths, and putting her gun through the
bush reet .i the barrel in a crotch.
The gun now pointed up the by-path,
and there waa an opening in the bush
through which Katu eould see for some
distain'r.
Here, the::, she watched and waited.
The first thing that crossed the path
was a very little bird. It hopped down
from a twig, it jerked its bead about, it
peeked a1 M me1 hing on the ground, and
then flew up into a tree. Kate would
not have fihot it on any account, for she
knew it waa not good to eat ; but she
could not help wondering how people
ever did ib t lirds if they did not
"hold still" any longer than that little
creature did.
Theu there appeared a small brown
lizard. It came very rapidly right down
the path toward Kate.
"It it comea all the way," thought
Kate, M I shall have to jump."
But it did not come all the way, and
Kate remai aed quiet.
For some time no living creatures,
except bntterlliea and other insects,
showed themaelvet. Then, all of a sud
den, there popped into the middle of
the path, not very far from Kate, I real,
live rabbit.
It was quite a good-sized rabbit, and
Kate trembled from head to foot. Here
was a chance indeed !
To carry home a fat rabbit would be
a triumph. She aimed the gun as
straight toward the rabbit as she could,
haviug shut the wrong eye several timea
before she got the matter arranged to
her aatiafacth n. Then she remembered
that she had not cocked the gun, and
so she had to do that, which of course,
made it neceaaary for her to aim all
over again.
She c i 1 'iily oic -hammer, and she
did it so gentily tnat it lid not frighen
the rabbit, although he flirted his ears
a little when he heard the "click, click!"
Everythi ig was so quiet that he prob
ably thought he heard some insect,
probably b j rang or ignorant cricket
that did not know how to chirp prop
erly. So he Bat very still and nibbled at
some learei that were growing by the
side of the path. He looked very pret
ty as he s.it there, taking Lis dainty lit
tle bites and jerking up his head every
now and then, as if he were expecting
somebody.
"linnet wait till he's done eating,"
thought Kate. " It would bo cruel to
shoot him now."
Then he stopped nibbling all of a
redden, as if he had just thought of
something, and as soon as he remem
bered what it was he twisted his head
around and began to scratch one of his
long ears w i t li his hind-foot. He look
ed so fuiinv doing this that Katt came
near laughing ; but, fortunately, she
remembered that that would not do just
then
When he had finished scratching one
ear, he s va'. to consider the question
whether or not he should scratch the
other one : but he finally came to the
conclusion that ho wouldn't. He'd
rather hop over to the other side of the
path and see what was there.
This of course made it necessary for
Kate to take a new aim at him.
Whatever it was that he found on the
other side of the path it grew under the
ground, and he stuck his head down as
far as he could get, and bent up his
back as if he were about to try to turn
a somersault or to stand on his head.
" How round and soft he is 1" thought
Kate. " How I should like to pat him.
I wonder when he'll find whatever it is
that he's looking for ! What a cunning
little tail r
The cunning little tail was soon
clapped flat on the ground, aud Mr.
Bunny raised himself ui and sat on it.
He lifted his nose and his fore-paws in
the air and seemed to be smelling
something good. Hia queer little nose
wiggled so comic illy that K ite again
came very near bursting out laughing.
" How I would love to have him for a
pet I" she nanl to herself.
After sniffing a short time, the rabbit
seemed to come to the eouehuiou that
hfi was mistaken after all, and that he
didnt really smell anything so very
good, no seemed disappointed, how
ever, for he lifted up no of his little
fore-paws and rubbed it across his eyes.
Bui perhaps he wasn't so very sorry,
but only felt like taking a nap, for he
stretched himself out as far as lie couhl,
ami then drew himself up in a bunch,
as if he were going to sleep.
"I wish he wouldn't do that,' thought
Kate, anxiously. " I don't want to
shoot him in his sleep."
But Bunnv wasn't asleep. Ho was
thinking, rfewas trying to make up
his mind about something. There was
no way of finding out what it was that
ho was trying to make up his mind
about. He might have been wondering
why some plants didn't grow with their
roots uppermost, so that he could get
at them without rubbing his little uobo
in the dirt ; or why trees were not good
to eat right through trunk and all. Or
he might have been trying to determine
whether it would be bettor for him to
go over to 'Lijah Ford's garden and try
to get a bite at some cabbage leaves, or
to ruu down to the field just outside of
the woods, where he would very likely
meet a certain little girl rabbit that he
knew very well.
But whatever it was, he had no
sooner made up his mind about it than
he gave one big hop and was out of
sight in a minute.
"There!" cried Kate, "he'sgono!"
"I reckon he thought ho'd guv
you 'bout chance enough, Miss Kate,"
sanl a voice behind her, and, turning
hurriedly, she saw Uncle Braddock.
" Why, how did you come here V" she
exclaimed. "I didn't hear you."
"Beckon not, Miss Kate," said the
old man. "You don't s'pose 1 was
agoin' to frighten away ytr game. I
se.-d you a-stoopin' (town aimin' at
sornethin', and I jist ereeped along, a
little a time, to see what it was. Why,
what did come over you Miss Kate, to
let that old bar' go? It was the puttie.st
shot I ever did see."
" Oh, I couldn't fire at the dear little
thing while it was eating so prettily,"
said Kate, letting down the hammer of
the gun ns easily as she could; "and
then he cut up such funny little capers
that I came near laughing right out. I
couldn't shoot him while he was so
happy, and I'm glad I didn't do it at
all."'
"All right, Miss Kate," said Uncle
Braddock, as he started off on his
Way through the woods ; " that Miav be
a worry pious way to go a-hunting, but
it won't bring you in much meat."
lit in Har.v came back from hunting
for the bee-tree, which he didn't find,
he saw Kate walking slowly down the
path toward the village, the gun under
her arm, with the muzzle carefully
pointed toward the ground. From
What Might Hav Been JSxpeoted,
by Frank R, Stockton, in S't. Nicholas.
The .Mouse uixl the Ittmihle-llec. .
There was once a bumble-bee who
used to go every day to gather honey,
and as he was most f the time away
trom home, he could not keep his house
neat and tidy. So he got a motherly-
looking old mouse to keep house for
him. The next day, after the mouse
had finished her morning's work, and was
out of doors to get a breath of fresh air,
a muddimber came along. He said,
" Good morning, Mrs. Mouse! What
are you doing here ?"
She answered, "I am kcoping house
for Mr. Bumble-bee."
" Can I como and livo with you?"
said the muddauber.
" Oh, HO I" she replied, " We cannot
have any one who daubs mud around
the house. So ho went away.
Then came a rat. "How are yon,
Mrs. Mouse ?" said he, "I would like
to livo with you."
" No, Mr. Bat, you cannot," said the
mouse, " for you will eat our cheese
and gnaw our table-cloths." So the rat
went away.
ne hail just gone, when a large grey
hen came along. She also asked the
mouse if she might live with her.
Then the mouse said, " What can you
do, old hen ?"
The hen said she could lay a fresh
egg every day. So the mouse told her
she might stay. The hen soon found
some straw and laid an egg. The mffnefi
went to a neighbor's house and got some
cheese. Just then the bumble-bee came
home with some honey. So they had a
fresh egg, sonic cheese and honey for
dinner and they were all well pleased.
St, Nicholas
Dangerous Playthings.
The Alps are dangerous playthings,
and yet all tourists insist on playing
with them. Every one wants to go a
little higher than anybody has ere
been before. The ladies are particu
larly venturesome. Captain aud Mrs.
Loekhart, of Scotland, were spending
the summer in the Swiss Alps, near thr
Itosegg glacier. There is a kind of
flower, called Bidelweea, which grows
only at about 10,000 feet above the s.
level. It grows on a steep and rugged
height near the hotel where tho Look-
harts were staying. Mrs. Loekhart
wanted one of these flowers. No lady
had ever been able to get one. She
slipped away from the captain one day,
aud in company with a daring lady
friend ascended tho height. She
slipped and fell from one precipice and
rolled to the next until she was out of
her friend's sight. The frirnd raised
an alarm. Mrs. Loekhart win found
lodged against a bush which overhung
a fearful chasm insensible, but alive.
She was rescued, all bruised and bleed
ing, but it is thought rue will recover.
It will not be long before somo other
woman will want to get a flower which
no other woman ever reached, and she'll
go for it.
Wicked Inokntity. One of the sub
tle methods of catching fish, employed
for years by poachers iu England, is to
fill a largo sUuie bottle with quicklime,
then to pour in water enough to nearly
fill the jar, and cork it up, securing the
cork to the neck of tho bottle by copper
wire. The bottle is thrown into the
water, and tho pressure, caused by the
working of the lime, explodes the nettle
and stuns the fish, which then flo at
helplessly on the surface of tho water.
Household Hints.
Oood Cakb. Two cups of sugar, one
half cup butter, two eggs, one cup of
raisins chopped, one-half eup of milk,
one-half teaspoouful soda, one tea
spoonful cassia and clove, and one nut
meg. A Disn fob Breakfast. Tuke a
sheep's brains and scald so as to set
them ; when oold, divide each lobe like
a kidney, egg and breadcrumb, aud fry
a nice light brown, with little rows of
bacon as an accompaniment.
Coooanut Pib Delicious. One half
a cup of butter, one cup of powdered
white sugar, four well-beaten eggs ;
beat whites and yelks together ; one
cup of grated ooooannt, one quart of
sweet milk ; mix butter ana sugar to
gether, theu add wgs and coooauut, and
lastly the milk. Bake in a lower crnst.
Eat when oold. This quantity makes
two pies.
How to Make Cake. Do not leave
the oven door open, or change the cake
from one oven to another, except in ex
treme cases. If it hardens too fast on
the top, cover with paper. It should
rise to full height before tho crust forms.
Except for gingerbread, use none but
white sugar. Always sift the flour.
Be accurate in your weights and meas
ures. English Breakfast Bolls. Roll a
quarter of a pound of butter into a
pound of flour ; then add a tablespoon
ful of good yeast, and break in one egg.
Mix with a little warm milk poured into
the middle of the flour ; stir all well to
gether and set it by the fire to rise ;
then make it into little dough, aud again
set by the fire. Make up the rolls, lay
them on a tin, aud set them in front of
the fire before you put them into the
oven aud brush them over with egg.
To Clean Wimxav-Olass. Nearly
all the paper now made is composed
largely of straw, and when it is used to
brighten the glass in windows, it pro
duces a multitude of scratches which,
though not visible to the naked eye,
cloud the glass. Nice tissue paper or
a piece of chamois skin are better to
polish the windows with after cleaning
them. Tho chamois skin should be laid
away in a drawer, where it will not get
dusty.
Rnrn.VRR Vineoar. Drain off tho
first water from rhubarb when it has
stewed five minutes ; evaporate it to tho
requisite degree of sourness, and use it
instead of vinegar for the table and for
cooking. It is an agreeable acid, and
in many cases it can be used instead of
lemon. It is a natural acid, and
therefore much more wholesome than
vinegar formed by tho decay of sweets
or by any other chemical process. It
may be evaporated (by gentle heat) to
an intense degree of sourness, and kept
iu cans or in bottles for future use, and
reduced with water when wanted.
Some Facts About Leather.
The President of the Boston Com
mon Council, in a recent lecture upon
leather, said that, during the yearlSTO,
there were in the United States 1,2:7
tanneries and o.OK'J currying establish
ments, employing :$(),811 men and using
1,256,840 cords of bark.
A capital of Sfio,0'24.'29() was invested
in the business, and the aggregate sum
of SI 2, 088, 530 was paid as wages to
workmen. While the value of the iron
business iu the United States iu 1870
waa less than $100,000,000, of the cot
ton trade less than 8178.000,000, of
woolen goods less than 5208, 000, 000,
tho value of tho leather business ex
ceeded .JS'i,000,000.
The tanning business in Massa
chusetts was only surpassed by New
York and Pennsylvania. In the cur
rying business Massachusetts was vast
ly ahead of all other States, employing
more than one-third of the men, and
engaging more than one-fourth of the
capital in the business in the couutry.
Of 196 currying establishments in
Massachusetts, 4v were in Salem and
184 were in Teabody. In 1873 New
York and Boston received 3,444,778
hides, including 147,347 from domestic
ports, principally from those of Texas.
In 1878 Salem received 17.327 cords of
bark, and Peabody 14,077 cords, re
quiring 2,530 ears, or a train 17 miles in
length, for transportation.
In currying hides they are handled
no less than 81 times beforo tho leather
is ready for the market.
An Old Church.
A famou old church of London is in
danger of being destroyed. The Eccle
siastical Commission desires to remove
All HoUowe, Bread street, to which on
Dec. 28, 1(508, John Milton was carried
from the tavern of the Spread Eagle to
be baptize d. A tablet records the fact.
This building around which many his
torical associations are gathered, was
erected in 1305, destroyed by the fire
Of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher
Wren. Fortunately the church register
was saved from the great tire, and the
original record of Milton's baptism is
still to be seen. Among the old monu
ments the church contains is one to the
memory of a former rector, the Be v.
Lawrence Saunders, who in 1555 was
burned to death for persisting in the
reformed faith. Tho resident parish
oners now number only fifty, the aver
age congregation is nine pereone and a
sermon once preached every Thursday,
for the support of which a legacy was
left the church in 1020, was given uu
some time ago because no one came to
listen. This last is even worse than
I ean Swift's dearly beloved Koger."
When the removal is effected the
records, monuments, etc., will be sent
to the Church of St. Mary-le Bow.
The Chicago Ledgw is growing to
be one of the most popular family news
papers in the country. Its cheapness
places it within the reach of all, and its
circulation is said to be increasing at
an enormous rate. By the way, the
company that publishes tho 1'. ,hf, ,
must be engaged in the manufacture of
sewing machines, as they are offering
thousands of these useful articles as
premiums to gctters-np of clubs. The
Lwdgm is beyond question a cheap
paper. It contains forty-eight columns
of choice reading ma'tter, including
stories, anecdotes, sketches of Intel!
po, try, etc. etc., and is furnished at
the extremely low rate of $1.50 per an
num. The imbUahera arc offering the
most liberal club rates. Ih troit Journal.
SKNATOR LOtJAX.
flla Mperrh at Indianapolis -An Able Dts
r nation ul the keattlna (Question llc
fore the Count r A Coiuparlaon or H -publtean
with Democratic Aliiilni
tratlona.
Hon. John A. Logan recently ad
dressed an immense audience at Masonic
Hall, Indianapolis, on the political
issues of the day. Thu Senator said, in
substance, that in a country like ours,
where the people govern, it is a duty of
all citizens, at each recurring election,
to canvass every ponding question and
its causes. The best government is that
which bears the most lightlvand equal
ly upon all and protects all. Ours is
such a one. It is founded upon just
and free principles ; was born in revo
lution against oppression, and will last
wliile these principles are maintained.
To maintaiu it those who administer
it must sincerely believe in these prin
ciples. A free people are always divided
into two great parties, and these based
upon contrary theories. The Bepub
licau party is organized on the princi-
Eles of universal liberty and equality
efore the law, and tho protection
of all. Applause. If liberty is good
for one man, it is a good thing for all
God's creation. Tho Bepublican party
is the vindicator of equal political
rights to all persons. Its members are
not so selfish as to denv to others rights
they claim for themselves. Every ob
jection to this is based on prejudice.
To-day the American flag covers only
free men, and this is the beneficent
work of tho Bepublican party. Ita
theory leads to good government and
tho happiness of mankiud. Tho theory
of tho Democratic party is that
men are in part free and part
not free, aud it leads right to
the degradation of men. Its power
was exerted for a long period for the
maiuteuanco and extension of slavery,
aud since slavery was swept away the
Democratic party, preserving its old
spirit, and going as far as the Consti
tution will allow, would deny to millions
of citizens the right to equal protec
tion, the right to education, worship,
travel, burial, even to be protected from
murder. Its theory and spirit are the
same still, and can only be carried out
by physical force, and lead to
revolutions. Bepublieanisni is lib
eral and needs not violence. The
fact that the Democratic theory has
not been successful does not change the
fact that this is its nature. The re
sult has always beeu the same, and its
last result is violence, murder, insur
rection, and the overthrowing of State
governments. They claim the right to
limit tho laws of others; but if men
may deny to five citizens the right to
vote, why not to fifty, and then why not
to all others than themselves? The
Democrats object to the Civil Bights
bill that it allows all an equal right to
burial, to go to theaters, to schools, to
church, and to hetels. That bill does
not say that they must all go to the
same schools, but gives each one our
equal rights to education, and who is
so baae as to wish to keep others in
ignorance? Our government will be
destroyed, if it is ever destroyed, by
ignorance. If the people are educated,
the government will stand unshaken
through every trial. Men who would
violate the rights of man can only be
restrained by the st rong arm of tho law.
That bill was necessary because the
colored people were treated with every
indignity by the Southern Democrats,
kicked from the cars aud murdered like
dogs when freedom had been conferred
upon them, and denied the privileges
which had been allowed when
they were slaves. I hope that
bill will be passed. If we do not
intend to defend the rights of tho col
ored mam, we should not have given
him any rights. We must do it. In
Texas, out of 000 murders, not one has
been a Democrat, and no man is pun
ished. There they have been accus
tomed, according to the Dem
ocratic theory of physical power
for governing, to regard the slave's
life as subject to the will of the
master, and they still regard the
colored men in the same way. When
sixteen were wantonly merdered in
Tennessee the other day, aud the
President proceeded against the mur
derers, the Governor of Tennessee pub
lished a protest. Iu Louisiana they
have defeated insurrections.
Mr. Logan recited the fact in regard
to the Kellogg election and the action
of the Senate, when he thought that
there was no election because of fraud,
but it having been settled by the State
court and Congress aud the President
that this was the existing government
of Louisiana, he considered an attack
upon it as insurrection. They have
beard from the President, and the only
fault to be found with his action there
is that Penu was not arrested and tried
for treason. Shall not our sympathy
be excited by the sight of hundreds of
our people murdered like dogs? Are
these Democratic murderers aud in
surgents fit to govern our country ?
No ! when their theory is wrong
and their action is rebellious aud
murderous. The Southern States are
said to be in a bad condition. Who is re
sponsible? They say the cause of this
is the " carpet-baggers." No ; it was
tho Democratic rebellion. Who are
carpet-baggers? They are ex-soldier
boys in blue, who went South to fight,
and, liking the country, remained there.
They are Yankees, who wenttherr to aid
in civilizing and restoring the South.
Southerners call them thieves, Lincoln's
hirelings, and cut-throats. They have
a fondness for such names and mean as
little when applied to these men as they
did when applied to our soldier boys.
It is no more an offense to move from
Indiana to Louisiana thau for Southern
ers to move iorin. at new party nas
arisen, calliug themselves, Independ
ents, which is attempting to establish
itself upon questions of transportation
and other similar questions. They say
both of the old parties are corrupt, but
they intend bringing a pure party.
Now, as all our people belong to one
party or the other, and if both are to
tally corrupt, how can a third party
make of itself a pure p irty ? Can you
make a pure thing out of two corrupt
tilings. Two negatives make an affirm
ative ; can two corrupt parties
make a pure party ? They claim
further that they will defeat
th. se old parties. They cannot d feat
the Democratic party, for that is already
defeated. If you defeat the Bepublican
party, what do you destroy ? The party
of progress ; the party which has saved
the Union, and the party which is will
ing to bo progressive. Take the trans
port at ion question, who has suggested
an improvement in this direction save
the Bepublican party?
He then reviewed at length the work
of Congress upon this subject, main
taing the right of Congress to regulate
the commerce between the States. Shall
Congreas, having the right, assert that
right? It is plainly its duty to do so,
and thus far the Bepublican party alone
has striven to devise means by which
transportation can be cheapened and
improved, and the Democrats in Con
gress nearly unanimously opposed them.
Will you leave the Bepublican party to
seek vour remedy? But our Demo
cratic brothers say that the Bepublican
party is so ooirupt. and the Independ
ents join in. Now I do not deny that
there are corrupt men iu the Bepubli
can party. There waa never an
organization where corrupt men did
not creep in. Christ found a corrupt
man among his twelve disciples. There
are corrupt men in every organization,
and even in the church, the great civil
izer of the world. The thieves must go
somewhere, aud it is not surprising that
some of them should get into the Be
publican party. But I could point out
two dishonest officials in the Demo
cratic party to every one in the Bepub
lican party. I could point out two
frauds iu the Democratic administration
to ono in that of the Bepublican party.
He then referred to tho frauds which
occurred under Buchanan and other
Democratic administrations. Have you
forgotten these? Will you turu away
from a party which has saved the couu
try and take up with those who never
exposed the offenses of their own offi
cials as the Bepublicans have constantly
done, but robbed and buried up men ?
They complain, too, of hard times.
Were there never hard times under a
Democratic adminstratiou ? Have you
forgotten 1837 and 1857 ?
The speaker then compared the two
parties for equal lengths of time, asked
his hearers to weigh well the question
that lay beforo them, and, finding the
path of duty, follow it fearlessly.
An Important Religious Movement.
A movement is now on foot in Europe,
iu the religious world, of more than
ordinary importance, looking to the
union of the Old Catholic, the Angli
can, and Greek Churches, not material
ly, but in a mutual recognition of orth
odoxy. The conference, now in session
at Bonn, has devoted its entire atten
tion to this great work, and has already
made decided progress. Among these
present are Dr. Dolliuger and Bishop
Beinkeus, the leaders of the Old Cath
olic movement ; the Bishop of Winches
ter ; Dean of Chester ; Canon Liddon ;
Dr. Kevin. American Chaplain in
Borne ; Dr. Laugdon, American Chap
lain in Geneva ; the Bev. G. Broade,
British Chaplain in Dusseldorf ; and
Prof. Mayor, of Cambridgo, represent
ing the Anglican Church ; and M. Kerief,
Aid-de-Camp of the Grand Duke Con
stantino, who is Secretary of the Eriends
of Spiritual Enlightenment in St. Peters
burg ; and Prof. Bhosiu, of Athens, rep
resenting the Greek Church. The gist
of the proceedings of this conference
looking toward reunion is contained in
eight propositions submitted by Dr.
Dolliuger, all of which were accepted
and adopted without hesitation. These
eight propositions are substantially as
follow : 1. That the apocryphal books
of the Old Testament are not of the
same canonicity as the books contained
in tho Hebrew canon. 2. That no trans
lation of the Scriptures can olaim an
authority superior to that of the orig
inal text. 3. That the reading of the
Scriptures in the vulgar tongue cannot
be lawfully forbidden. 4. That 'the
liturgy should be iu tho tongue under
stood by the people. 5. That faith
working by love, and not faith without
love, is the means and condition of
man's justification before God a point
which was involved in the Patton-Swing
controversy. 0. " Salvation caunot be
merited by merit of condiguity, because
there is no proportion between the
good of the salvation promised by God
and the good of man's works." 7. That
the doctrine of ojtera sviH rcroyalionis
and of a tin satin uu ritorum sancto
rum L 6., that tho overflowing merits
of the saints can bo transferred to
others, either by the rulers of tho
church or by the authors of the good
works themselves is untenable. The
last proposition we give entire :
Eij1ith(a) We acknowledge that tho num
ber of sacraments wax tirat tixed at uovon in
the 12th ceutury. and then was rec ivod into
the funeral teaching of the church, not M a
tradition MMniug doWB from the apOHtlen or
from the earliewt times, but sh the result of
theological speculation, (h) Catholic theo
logiani (fi. 7.. liellarmine) acknowledge, and
wo ackuuwlwdgo with them, that baptism and
the Eucharist are rincijn!in. ptxxipua cr
(mla mil u tat is nuxtnv mcraimnta. Chicago
Where the Brushes Are Made.
Lansingburgh, N. Y., has for a cen
tury been celebrated for its mammoth
brush manufactories, which to-day sup
lily nine tenths of the brushes used in
this couutry, the other tenth being
made iu Boston and Philadelphia.
There are, largo and small, sixty odd
brush factories in Lansingburgh. Some
of these employ from two to three hun
dred hands, including many girls who
draw brushes at home.
The steam machinery used in large
factories for shaping brush blocks,
boring the holes for the bristles, aud
finishing the backs and handles is
wonderful. Huge white birch logs,
thirtv feet loner and two feet in diame
ter, arc fed into machines which rapidly
cut and shapo the unwieldy mass in
brush blocks, varying in size from a
lady's toilet brush to a barber's peue
trator. Each machine is adapted to
the manufacture of a particular kind of
brush. Thus, every style, including
hair, cloth, hat, shoe, paint, whitewash,
horse, window, scrubbing, flesh brushes,
etc., is produced only by its particular
machine.
A San Fran is o -Judge has put into
practice an old English ruling that
misrepresentation beforo marriape is
Rood ground for divorce. One Mandler
Vretski complained that his wife Eddel
had practiced fraud upon him by false
ly representing before marriage that
sue was a sound and healthy woman,
when in fact she was subject to insanity
whereupon the Judge granted his peti
tion of divorce.
i 11 ajajjaj of tmk oiiAasuioppKK
BKIUAUC.
Half a league, half a kaRue,
Half a leafiir ouward,
Uiglit froai th west tuey came,
Mr thau sii hundred
Out from forest aud glade :
" Cliane Pm the corn !" thejr said.
Theu for the fields they mads
Mure than all huudred.
Fields to the rli(ht of them,
Fields to the left of them,
fields iu f runt of them
Pillaged aud plundered ;
Paui(ht could their numbers tel
Duwu uu the rropa they fell,
Nr left a stock or shell
More thau alx huudred.
Flashed all their red legs bare,
Flashed as ihey turued iu air,
RobMafi the faraiers there,
Charging au orchard, wUile
All the world wondered !
I'luiiKeti in the amudtfe aud smoke,
ltlght through the turn they broke
Hopper aud locust :
Peeled they the statka all bare,
Shattered aud suudered ;
Theu they went onward but
More thuu six hundred.
Pith and Point.
A tea never indulged in by gossips--Charity.
The hardest thing to deal with An
old pack of cards.
(Undertaker's motto Circumstances
alter burial cases.
Breach of good manners For ruin to
stare you in the face.
Why is a screw in tight like a screw
in loose ? Because it is in-secure.
The coal merchant's favorite apho
rism One good ton deserves another.
A nrrTLiE girl said of her ill-tempered
uncle : " Ho hasn't got a single laugh
in his face."
"She dyed for me," said the young
husband when he beheld her dark locks
gradually returning to their original red.
TnE beet has its admirers, and there
be those who upheld the merits of the
cabbage ; but all agree that the onion is
a soup herb production.
The Sturgis, Mich., Journal keeps
the following two items in close prox
imity to each other: "Bustles are the
style again." M Old papers for sale at
this office."
Father Chaucer was sound on
the main question. Witness : " What
is better than gold ? Jasper. What is
better than jasper? Wisdom. What is
better than wisdom? Woman. What is
better than woman? Nothing."
A Saoinaw poet writes of his native
place :
WouVt the red Injun here took their delights,
Fish't, fit aud bled.
Now BsOsi of the iuhubitanta is whites,
With uary red..
A promisino youth of nine summers,
in Western Massachusetts, at a school
recently relieved his over-burdened
mind as follows :
Lord of Love, look down from above
Upon us little scholars;
We hare a fool to teach our school,
And pay her twenty dollars.
Hearing that his pastor intended to
preach on the recognition of friends in
heaven, a parishioner suggested that he
should preach on the recognition of
friends on earth, since he had been sit
ting in his pew twenty years without
being recognized by the occupant of the
next.
She saw him on hi bright blue steed
A duxting clown the road,
Aud pit a pat and pit a pat
Her little heartlet oed ;
And soft she eobberea to herself,
"Though swift his paces be,
He umi'it kite so f:int but what
My heart keeps up with he."
An exchange, ridiculing the country
fairs, which make no effort at good
shows, says that one in Vermont con
sisted of a calf, a goose, a pumpkin, and
a horse. It rained so hard the first
night that the goose swam off, the calf
broke loose and ate the pumpkin, and a
thief prowling about mounted the horse,
aud drove the calf before him, and so
ended the fair.
A Savannah paper says : " If a pail
of water be placed within six inches of
either side of the stem of a pumpkin or
vegetable marrow, it will in the course
of the night approach it," etc. A still
more extraordinary phenomenon has
been observed in Buffalo. There is a
man in that city who will approach a
barrel of whisky either by day or night,
even if it were placed six feet away from
him.
A story is told of a San Francisco
woman who was in tho habit of receiv
ing frequent castigatious at the hands
of her husband, and who one day read
the Bible story of Samson and Delilah.
When next her consort was prone in
sleep sho sheared him so completely
that every spear of hair disappeared
from face and head. Bousing from his
slumber like a giant refreshed, he speed
ily comprehended the situation, and
reached for her. Such a caressing as
she then received she never dreamed of
before. She did not even have the usual
grip on him. He was fined, but she
declared her utter disbelief in those Bi
ble yarns.
Hints to the Marines.
It must not be thought that marines
know nothing of wine because they are
willing to accept M any port in a storm."
There is no hair to be found on the
mast head. The mast is one of the bare
polls which the ship scuds under in a
storm.
The bight of a rope you may find, to
your sorrow, has a smart taste, 11 you
take it tliat it means a mouthful.
Don't ask tho first mate why he has
the sails " set" and the rigging 41 stand
ing "
It would also bo impudent to inquire
the time of day by the larboard watch.
The boatswain's pipe will not be
lonned to you to smoke.
It is not uecessary that you learn tho
art of self defense i'u order to "box the
compass." . M
It may bo right to infer, when the
wind has changed "two pints to the
east'ard," that it is in a new quarter.
Don't imagine that you can steer
a boat because you have been a tiller of
the soil.
You need not be afraid of getting shot
because it is M blowing gr"at guns."
The cook does not kondlfi hia tirewnli
chips from the shir's log. .
The best way to learn what sea life is,
is to go to sea yourself ; be a son of the
nea for a sea-son. Dotton Commercial
Bulletin,