SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
General Puller has given .r,000 to
ViUiams College for a gymnasium.
Of tlio Bishop of tho Cburch of
England three are over eighty and nine
over seventy years of age.
The. Georgia State Uuivorsity ex
pects to create a separate department
for military "trill and discipline, "and
place a first class man nt tho head of
it."
Mr. John IV Mf Muster, author of
the "ili-tory of the American l'eople,"
has been ele.-teil to tin; professorship of
history in the l'niverity of Pennsyl
vania. The census of missions to bo taken
next, year will, it is said, show an in-
-eiisc of '),), IKK) native Christian in
India, ( 'eyloti tnd liurmah for the last
ten years'-5( 'd.O(H) in all.
The 1'nited Breshyterian Church of
Scotland, winch has been reporting a
decline in numbers for several years,
will this year he able to report a large
increase. The net. pain is between
1.7(KI and l.N(K). This gives ti.P. de
nomination the largest m !. p it
ever had.
He'k ions services in Arkansas are
sometime-attended with incidents. A
party of vis tots with Winchester titles
walked into a church in the west part
of the Mute hist Sunday, stopped the.
sermon, made the minister read a paper,
threatening the lives of several men in
the congregation and quietly departed.
The sermon was then resumed. Chi
tjto Journal.
Mr. John Thome, son of the late
Colonel James Thorne. of New York
City, returned recently from China
after an absence of t wenty-throe years.
For five years Mr. Thorne has heen in
the service of flic American Bible So
ciety, and in (list time has traveled
more than twenty thousand miles,
chiefly on the Yangtze Kiver and its
tributaries, going as far west as the pro
vince of Sze-Chuen.
. During the month of June the
missionaries of the American Sunday
School I'nion in the Northwest under
t! c direction of I'. (I. Knsign, Superin
tendent, Chicago, organized ninety new
Sunday-schools and brought S.'l.l teach
ers arid 2,771 scholars with them.
Since March. 1, the beginning of the.
new year, they have established 274
new schools, with 1,047 teachers and
X.WO'.I scholars, and aided 361 old
schools, which contain 2,0!H teachers
and l'.i.oH'.l scholars, held 796 meetings,
visited :t,:toi5 f imilies. distributed l,:i"2
Bibles and Testaments, cir dated
i'H worth of good reading, aud traveled
4.j,2:il miles. Chieaqo Tribune.
The New York Tribune says:
"Some time ago it was stated in these
columns that a novel experiment was
about to be tried in the Nebraska In
stitute for the Deaf and Dumb, at
Omaha. The semi-deaf children of the
institution were to be taught to hear by
the use of tlio audiphono. Kecent re
ports show that the experiment has
v en a complete success. The method
consists mainly of object-teaching and
an exaggerated plain pronunciation of
words by the teacher, whose pupils
gradually become accustomed to the
sounds or words used to designate vari
ous objects; and in time they succeed
in hearing and pronouncing these wor'"
themselves.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
The home-stretch the morning
yawn. lioon Coitri-r.
A no-table event is a picnic where
one must sit on the ground to eat. A'.
V. I'ienune.
"Mamma, what does M. I), mean
when it comes after the doctor's name?
D k s it mean money down?'' Hirper's
Bazar.
"Ma, which milkman gives the most
cream, the one that has the bmtcows?"
"Hardly, my child! It is the one who
has the best conscience." Yonkers Ga-ii-He.
A London oculist says that culture
diminishes the size of the eyes. Now,
lust listen to that. Everybody knows
that small i's are a sign of the entire
s 'isenee of culture. Vliicao Tribune,
Several cases of burglary have re
1 1 nt ly occurred at seaside resorts, and
the .sojourners for the summer now have
'.i satisfaction of looking out forbreak-
i r.i bv night as well as day. Boston
Ciurir.
A New York darkey who furnished
blood for transfusion and so saved the
l ie of one Okcnberg, who was a'
ii. ith's door, now sues for !2")0 dam
,'.;; ;s. A nice little bill to pay for being
n -pulsed. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Longfellow said: "In this world a
nihil must be cither anvil or hammer."
I.ong.ellow was wrong, however. Lots
of men are neither the active hammer
nor the sturdy anvil. They are nothing
l ilt Im-Hows. 'AiV'tfle'pAirt News.
A Peruvian living in Milan has made
r. c!n Ic cu'i "ely out of bread. In this
rvitify ma'iv persons are trying to
make iirca I out of paper, but they have
only b -en partially successful. They
complain that subscribers won't pay up.
Nnrrit'own Herald.
"Who held the pass of Thorniopy
1 r tigainst the Persian host?" demanded
the t nchcr. And the editor's boy at
the .i, .i uf the class spoke up and said:
'j'V: I reckon; he holds an annual
on every road in the country that runs
ii p's-sMiger train." 8 in Franeiseo
Anj irl nil.
When the miiiis'er is pretty severe
r 1 1 ' ri human shortcomings in the pul
pit, e ery man leans baek in his pew,
smiles, and says to himself. "Now he's
giving it to "cm." Satisfying thought,
isn't it, that the minister always has
reference to somebody else? Chicago
nli r-Oe an.
The inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn.,
seem to have acquired the American
power of invention. One of them savs
that he was out in a thunderstorm,
wheeling brush on a wheelbarrow,
when there suddenly descended a ball
of tire. When his da,led eves could
see there was nothing left of the wheel
barrow or its load but a twisted tire.
Chicago Herald.
Speak gently; especially to the big
man with a round head and a square
Deck anil two big fists like ancient
stone hammers. Speak gently to him.
You may touch some long hidden chord
of sympathy in his hardened breast
that may cause him to pass you by un
erushed. But the little white-faced
man on crutches oh, you may sass
turn all the way round the block.
tiurlington Hawk-Kyc.
A fashion item sayg that "swallows
cow decorate many articles of feminine
attire. They appear painted or em
broidered od drosses, enamelled on
buttons and jewelry, and the real
article is seen on bonnets." Hereto
fore "swallows" have principally deoor
jitt'd the masculine nose, and in some
Cases have garnished the windows of
homes with old huts. The new uses to
which they are devoted is a gratifying
Change. A'orristown Herald.
Vletinis of Strabismus.
"Wat cii that waiter," said the doc
tor, as he indicated by a jerk of his
thumb a black frockcit, white-aproned
servit.ir wlio was pursuing an unsteady
e.nirsc througn the maze of tables and
chairs at the further end of tlio res
Vni'Miit. "Notice the way he carries
his head. See how he twists his neck
nway to avoid looking any one in the
eo. 1 suppose von think I am going
to t dl tun that tlie man is a refori led
cut -throat or a fngitivo New Jelsey
bank oilicial. Hut I am not. Ho is an
innocent, moral man, for all that I
know to the contrary, lv.it he is terribly
alllicled. He needs pity and obscurity.
He would be more at home on Selkirk's
Island than on Broadway. Ho is cross
eyed. "The pathology of this disease," said
the physician, as he lighted a cigar and
settled himself in his chair for a talk,
"is two-fold. It Is both moral and
medical. The mental, as well a the
physical, qualities of the victim are in
iluenced by this serious allliction. I
know of no disease, deformity or malady
which produces such, marked effects on
a man as strabismus. It is human na
ture to cover up ono's defects, but
nothing can hido a pair of cross-eyes.
The eyes have been called windows of
the soul. They are the most express
ive part of the face. They denoto a
man s passion, his feeling, his senti
ments. You always look into a man's
eyes when he talks to you. You may
never see how he is dressed; but if the
expression of his eye is bad it is seen in
a second. And this not the worst of it.
If a limb is so crippled that it attracts
your attention tho victim may not hap
pen to notice your scrutiny, but if yon
look into his crooked eyes he detects
your glance instantly. It requires more
than natural politeness to look a cross
eyed person in the face nnd not to indi
cate by the slightest sign that his deform
ity is noticed, and very few people have
been able to accomplish the feat. There
is a fascination about cross-eyes. Y'our
ga.o is drawn tj them unconsciously.
You can't avoid them. Your curiosity
is excited. You are constantly wonder
ing with which eye he is looking at you.
The cross-eyed man cannot escape his
notoriety. I was cross-eyed myself
once, and for years life was a burden
to me. On street-cars ill-mannered
men would stare at mo, girls looked
at me and giggled, children would
move around directly in front of me
and inquire, so as to be heard all over
the car: "Mamma, say, what's tho
matter with this man's eyes?" I neg
lected society, walked instead of riding
in tlio cars or stages, and was fast de
veloping into a recluse, when I had my
eyes straightened by an operation. 1
was engaged to bo married, when I
was beginning my practice, to a beau
tiful young girl, who entered into all
my hopes and ambitions. She was good
and generous and so self-sacriticing
that she was willing to link herself to a
cross-eyed man for life. My atlliction
broke off the match. We were both at
an evening company. It was only a
month betore the day which was ap
pointed for the wedding. We were sit
ting in one corner of tho room facing
another pair of lovers, who were en
sconced behind a screen of flowers in
the other corner. Tho band was play
ing and we were listening. I was think
ing about the great happiness in store
for me. when my dream was rudely dis
turbed by the young man opposite He
crossed the room, cams to my side and
whispered loudly enough to almost
drown the band: 'if you don't stop
staring at that young lady I will flatten
your watch chain against vonr back
bone.' I trie I to explain, i told him I
didn't intend to stare at her; that I was
looking and tiiinkiug only of the fair
creature by my own side. But it was
no use. Ho didn't believe ms, and my
intended was so mortified by the dis
turbance and confusion that when I
o lie re 1 to release her from her promise
she gladly accepted the oiler. She mar
ried so in afterward a club-footed
grocer, and lives around the corner
From me, and I have as straight eyes
now as she has." A'. Y. Time.
Why Cochineal and Carmine Are se
Costly.
The Ironmonger, London, explains
why the beautiful cochineal and car
mine colors are so expensive. It says:
One of the best aud most powerful ani
mal dyes used in tho arts and manu
factures is the body of the female cochi
neal inse 't, dried. This insect exists
on a species of cactus, and when alive
is about the si.o of a ladybird, or per
haps a triilo smaller. It is wingless,
rather long, equally broad all over, and
is marked behind with deep incisions
and wrinkles. It has six feet, which
curiously enough are only of use di
rectly after birtn, and secures itself to
the plant by means of a trunk which is
found between tho fore feet, and de
rives its nourishment from the sap.
The male cochineal is like the female
only during the larva period. It
changes into chrysalis and eventually
appears as red llies. The female de
posits some tiiousands of eggs, which
she protects under her body until they
are hatched, and on the appearance of
the young ones tho parent dies. While
the young are in the larva state their
s ex cannot ho determined. They lose
their skins several times, and while the
female fixes herself on the plant, the
male, after getting over the pupa state,
is winged. Two or three months is tho
extent of the life of these liulo insects.
They are gathered before they lay eggs
and are then rich in coloring matter.
Carmine is prepared from the cochi
neal insect, tlie Cocins aeii, which is
collected by brushing the branches of
the cactus wit'.i the tail of a squirrel or
other animal; this is very tedious work.
They are killed by immersing them in
boiling water, and this has to bo done
at once or they would lay their eggs,
an I thereby lose much of their vaiue.
There are many prooesses for prepar
ing tho carmine. The French process
may be takcu as an example: one pounl
of the powdered cochineal insects is
boiled for fifteen minutes in three gal
lons of water; one ounce of cream of
tartar is then added, and the boiling
continued ton minutes longer; then one
ounce aud a half of powdered alum ia
thrown in, aud the boiling continued
for two minutes longer. Tho liquid is
then poured oil and net aside lor the
carmine to settle down. la other pro
cesses carbonate of soda or potash U
usea.
George Anderson, of Anno Arun
del County, Virginia, took lunch and
nlaved a iramo of cards "uist for fun.
When he saw he was swindled out of
eight v-tive dollars he arose, grasped one
swindler 'witu each brown paw and
shook them until their teeth rattled like
castinets and his money fairly jumped
out of their pockets. When they had
tied ho discovered that they had (lis
gorged live dollars more than he bad
lost, which was just about enough to
take huu back to the green pastures 01
Anne Arundel. Ctaeago Herald.
Controlling Bees.
A BTcat drawback to bee-keeping is
the fcarof the bee's sting by persons not
familiar with this industry. Many farm
ers would keep a few hives, enough to
furnish honey for their own tables, at
least, if they only knew just how to con
trol the bee.
Decs retaliate injuries nnd interrup
tions by nn attack and sting, heneo
everybody who is called upon to make
a near approach should understand tho
'hings that anger these insects. All
quick motion are offensive to them,
suidi as running, striking and the like.
The practical bee-keeper, as a rule, is
safe, for he moves in and about the hives
with slow, cautious stop.
A sudden jar, such as mny be made
by carelessly moving tho hive, is re
sented by the bees and usually the in
stant a hive is touched they aro on the
alert and ready to bring down their
sting upon head or face. In adjusting
the box and frames bees are liable to be
crushed and otherwise injured. Their
surviving comrades appear to remember
this and as soon as an opportunity oc
curs make an attack.
l.ecs alsu appear to become irritated
bv the breathing of a person into the
hive or among a cluster of them, espe
cially if the person uses liquor or to
bacco, liees do not make an attack
while in search of honey or on their
return until they have entered the hivo.
It is in the hive nnd its immediate vi
cinity that they manifest this irascible
disposition.
liees do not always give warning be
fore niakingan attack. On the contrary
the majority of attacks are made with
out tho least intimation having been
given.
There is no doubt but that a timid
person who shows fear by dodging and
evading every bee that flies near is more
liable to be assailed than one who is
quite fearless. As interest dispels fear,
the enthusiast makes the most success
ful beo-kecper. When one has not
sufficient confidence to walk boldly in
and out among tho hives it is wise to
use some means of protection to insure
confidence. This protection is especially
necessary when handling hybrids.
Long rubber gloves and over-sleeves
of cotton cloth, held firmly in place by
an elastic on each end, will protect
hands and wrists. Bee veils, to guard
the face, are made of mosquito netting,
tarlatan or lace. A veil recommended
by Quiraby and adopted by many bee
growers consists of a piece of netting
a yard and a quarter by three-quarters
of a yard sewed together, with an elastio
in one end, to be adjusted over the hat.
Four or live inches from the top insert
a piece of coarse meshed cloth 6x9
inches. At a suitable distance from the
bottom attach a narrow tape to tie
about the neck. Stout black bobinet
lace is sometimes substituted for the
wire cloth.
Smoke is the controlling agent uni
versally employed in the apiary. It
has a stupefying effect upon tho bees
which enables the bee-keepers to handle
them without fear. The burning of
partially decayed wood, without a
blaze, is now employed in place of to
bacco, for smoking bees. Progressive
apiarians for the most part, use one of
the many patent smokers on the mar
ket. These differ in some minor details
of construction, but are based on the
same essential principle, nearly all
having adopted the upright bellows and
tube.
To operate the smoker the tapering
fart of the tube is removed, a piece of
ight decayed wood put in and the tap
ering part replaced. The bellows is
worked with one hand, directing the
smoke to any part desired. By a judi
cious use of smoke at the right moment
the bees' conibativeness is subdued and
their anger turned into submission.
Their impulse is to fill themselves with
honey, after which they are more peace
able. Various remedies are employed for
stings. External applications of am
monia, soda, or salt and soda mixed
and slightly moistened are perhaps as
efficient as anything. Whether nny
remedy is employed or not, it is neces
sary that the sting be removed as soon
as possible. It may often be scraped
off with a knife-blade and the part
squeezed a little to force the poison out.
Care should be taken in removing the
sting not to force any more of tho poison
contained m the sac attached to the
sting in the wound. Ar. Y. World.
Utllizing Things in Egypt.
The most hideous form in which the
utilitarian spirit of modern Egypt has
shown itself, in making merchandise of
her once honored dead, has been in sell
ing them to merchant vessels at so much
per ton as a manure for foreign fields.
1 robablv this vile trade has now become
illegal, but until very recently long
strings of camels were employed to
carry human bone-dust from the tombs
near Memphis to vessels in the harbor
at Alexandria. Largo quantities of
these human remains were brought
from the ancient sepulchres and cata
combs, which honey-comb the rocky
ridge near Alexandria itself, and cargo
boats were openly employed in fetching
this so-called "brown guano." Various
foreigners visited the spot while this
was going on, and saw human bones,
glass tear bottles and earthenware
lamps, all shoveled up together with
tho brown dust, which was carried up
the ship's sides in baskets, thrown down
into the hold, and then conveyed to En
gland, there to be sold at 6 10s. per
ton, a price which would give the manu
facturers ot manure a very targe protit,
on mixing it with the guano of Peru.
So vain iiave proved the most success
ful ellorts ever made by human beings
to immortalize mortal bodies. After all,
it is in the irreverence of selling this
precious dust to enrich foreign fields
that the sting lies. We felt no great
shock when we learned that tho very
same thing had been done in London,
when not very many years ago it was
decided that the vast cemetery at the
back of the National Gallery (wherein
only two centuries ago nil the victims
of the great plague were cast wholesale)
should be dug up aud the rich soil (in
cluding many bones still undecayed)
should be spread over Kensington Gar
dens to fertilize its roes and, lilies
Conlemiorury Hevieiv.
Little cakes, called "love knots,"
aro nice for tea: live cups of Hour,
two of sugar one of butter, a piece of
lacd tho size of an egg, two eggs, hree
tablcspoonfuls of sweet milk, half a
teaspoouful of soda; rub the butter,
sii"ar, and flour together line, add tho
other ingredients, roll thin, cut in strips
one inch wide and live inches long, lay
across in true love knots, and bake in
quick oven. Toledo Blade.
Quito a romance occurred in East
Rome, N. Y., recently. A young man
waded into the Mohawk with the evi
dent intention of committing suicide.
Jealousy was tlie supposed cause. His
girl went to his rescue, and he wad
Bivcd from a watery grave.
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For Young Readers.
GRANDMA'S STITCHES.
Ornnrtma siiv wr little wltotio
Nuke herihep no nmiiy studies,
l.niiL'hinir. nil she fnirly ptnikes.
t our eninks; hut ahr mi'-lukea
l-or when I liioiiuht my Ititle Imskct
(.lust lnj self. p)it .lidn t nsk ill.
To liunl Iter Rtltehes on the tloor
(A liozen lroiMil. he pill'l. or innro),
There w iisn'1. one, tlml t cnulil tlmll
I'oor KTiuulma must he (rcltinif Hiit-l.
Our Little Ono.
CHARLES BILLER'S BRAVERY.
-The
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Charles Biller, a lad of thirteen, was
rowing down tho Passaic Kiver, near
Rutherford Park, one summer day in
1877, when he saw a Hat-bottomed bonl
with four girls in it struck by another
boat containing three boys. Tho col
lision stove in the side of tho scow, and
tipped over tho boat, so that both par
ties were thrown in the water. Quick
as thought Biller threw off his coat he
had been bathing, and his shoes w ere
already off and jumped in after the
girls. His companions were younger
than he, nnd too terrilied to do anything
but sit in the boat and stare.
Two of tho girls were about his own
age, and tho others a year younger.
Biller himself was used to swimming,
and grasping two of the girls, he struck
out tor the shore which was one hun
dred nnd fifty feet away. Reaching it
in safety, ho left his freight, and went
for the others, who were still struggling
in the water. Some boatmen hnd mean
while gone to th8 rescue of the boys
who had caused the accident, and one
of these caught one of the remaining
girls, while Biller saved the fourth. For
this brave exploit, the boy was rewarded
with a gold medal from the Humane
Society of New York. When, some
time afterward, he came to go into busi
ness, his courage nnd manliness were
not the least of hi recommendations.
The boy or man who does one brave
deed very often has the opportunity to
do another, and although in the case of
Charles Biller the oppoi tunity was de
layed six years, he was quick to im
prove it when it came. One bright day
this summer he started from bis home
in Newark, N. J., for a day's ex
cursion to Coney Island, and was walk
ing from Brighton to the Iron Pier, a
distance of about a mile.
As he trudged along Biller saw ahead
of him a carriage standing on the sand,
and near by a girl, who. as he gazed,
suddenly ran down to the water and
plunged in. She was not in bathing
costume, and the unusuhl sight excited
the lad s wonder and curiosity. At the
same moment he saw a gentleman get
hurriedly out of the carriage, using a
crutch to help him in the descent, and
then hobble down to the shore, where he
stood waist deep in tho surf, wildly
waving his hands.
By this time, persuaded that some
thing must be wrong, Biller had run to
the spot, nnd now lie saw, far out in
the surf, a little head, toward which the
girl was bravely swimming. I daresay
his thoughts went hurriedly back to the
Passaic Kiver, nnd the day, six years
before, when almost the same scene
went on before his eyes. But he did
not stop to think. Kicking off his shoes
and throwing aside his coat, he ran
into the surf, dashed by the man and
swam for the girls, the elder of whom
had already caught and was buoying up
the little one.
"Keep her head above water,"
Biller called loudly as he drew near the
girl, who was as brave and plucky as
he.
She managed to do as she was bid,
and then Biller directed her to take
hold of his shoulders, at the same time
leaving his nrms free to carry them both
in-shorc. The man meanwhile had
dropped his crutch in his excitement,
and when Biller, having lauded the two
fills, looked around, lie saw the crip
ple swept away by the treacherous surf.
It was only the work of a moment to
pldnge in again; but the man was now
us far out as the little girl bad been
when Biller first saw her, and every
moment was carrying him further
away. With a few rapid strokes Biller
neared him, but, afraid of coming too
near, tried to grasp him by the hair.
This, however, was too short, und when
Biller took hold of the drowning man's
neck, the other turned and fastened
on the swimmer his deadly clutch.
The lad swam as well us he could in
the man's terrible gra-p, but lost con
sc ousness just as they reached the
shore.
In the course of the same afternoon
Killer's employer in Newark was
shocked by receiving a telegram an
nouncing that the young man had been
drownedat Coney Island while cour
ageously endeavoring to save a Mr.
Benedict and his little girl, w ho were
perishing in the surf. The father was
sent for, and the sad news communited
to him. But before he left the office to
convey it to his wife a second message
came, reading as follows:
Don't lie alarmed. Was senseless for n
time, but mil nil riRht luruiu, unit on my wuy
Iiome. Ilii't the kooiI luck to suve lteneillet
unit two ituuuhters: wus rewunlcil with H ditt
luuud rintf, sold wutcu, unit oilier presents.
" C. H. Hn.i.Llt."
Biller's unconsciousness had lasted
for half an hour. When ho came to
himself he found the gentleman and bis
daughters anxiously awaiting his reviv
al, unit insisting that he should ac
company them to their cottage, where
he was fitted out with a dry suit of
clothes, and overwhelmed with tl anks
from Mrs. Benedict for the preserva
tion of her husband's and children's
lives.
The father pressed unon the lad a sum
of money, and when thi was declined,
compelled Biller to accept the gold
watch and chain which he find carried
in his own pocket, nnd a valuable dia
mond r ug, as nn expression of his grat
itude and regard. These the young
man shows to any one who may be in
terested in tho affair, though lie does
lot fancy the publicity it has brought
him. " I have nail so much said about
mo lately in the papers, and it was
merely an accident," he remarks in
letter I have just received from him, and
which 1 am sure he will pardon me for
quoting, for the glimpse that it gives of
his character.
Some one, trying to be witty, has said
that absence of body is better than
presence of mind, but this is the way
the coward looks at it. One who is
brave will try to be prepared when the
lunger comes, and w.ll not shrink from
meeting it. A little boy in the school
panic the other dav helped his teacher
by dragging other boys, who were try
ing to escape from tlie window, back
by their legs.
A young lady -I mention this inci
dent for tne sake of the girls was rid
ing horseback near ber country home
last week, when the animal took fright
and ran away. TJie girl clung to his
back, knowing that to be her only
chance, though he dashed with terrilic
speed down a long hill, ut the foot
which she knew there was a river and
a bridge. The road, moreover, makes
a sharp turn just before it reaches the
bridge; and when it came to this point
she saw to her horror that the horse
win headed for a narrow spuce, not
more than three feet wide, between tb
side of tho bridge nnd a tree.
If he struck either the tr"c on the onp
bund or the bridge on ti e other she
would be dragged oil' and killed, while
if he lcnped that seemed to invite n more
terrible death on the rocks twenty feet
below. Still she clung to his back while
the horse leaped. lie landed, not on
the rocks, but in a poo just beyond, and
was so hurt by the fall that he hnd to
be shot. The rjrl escaped without
harm, except for the shock to her nerv
ous system. Had she not kept her self
possession and retained her scat on the
horse's buck, mid guided him as well
as she was nlile, sho must certainly
have been killed.
Had Charles Biller waited to see if
some one ele would not jump in the
water his opportunity for heroism would
have been lost. It is the boys and girls
who are ready when the opportunity
comes that Ao the gallant deeds anil
win the prizes In the sruggle of life.
KIM McConnick. in harper's Young
l'eople.
A Warm Bedroom.
I
It was a winter's night. Topsy, the
gray pussy, sat purring on the kitchen
hearth. Sarah sat down by tho stove
nnd warmed her feet in the oven before
she went to bed.
Topsy was left alone. The fire went
down, and the kitchen began to grow
cold. Topsy woke up. She wanted to
go up-stairs and jump into Sarah's bed.
So she tried to open the door vit& her
paw; but Sarah had latched it.
Topsy mewed with vexation. She
went back to her plnce on the hearth.
The moon shone into the room. Topsy
saw the. oven door open. She purred at
this. "I have it now." she meant.
"I'll sleep snug and warm."
Into the oven she crept. She rolled
herself into a ball, put her head on her
Ipnws, and purred herself to sleep.
jm sxt. morning &aran came aown be
fore light. It was washing-day, and sho
was in a hurry. She shut the oven
door, and did not see Topsy. Then she
made her fire. Topsy's bedroom began
to prove too warm. Poorlittle eat! She
tried to push the door open; but she
could not. "Mew, mew," she cried.
The fire snapped and crackled, and
Sarah did not hear her. She scratched
the door, and mewed as loud as she
could.
Spot, the little dog. ran in from the
barn. Ho wanted his breakfast.
"Mew, mew," cried Topsy. Spot heard
her. "Bow, wow, wow, barked Spot.
1 le pulled Sarah's dress with his teeth.
He ran V tho stove, aud looked at
Sarah and barked. She came nnd
opened the oven door.
Out jumped a very smutty pussy. She
was a very glad pussy, though; and she
rubbed herself against Spot, and purred.
It was pussy's way of thanking him.
Afterwards, Sarah looked in the oven
mornings before she made her fire.
IHir Little Unes.
Odd Moments.
In almost every life there are mo
ments of waiting, when there is noth
ing particular to be done. In some
cases these may be properly improved
by rest, so that our work, when it comes,
may be the better done. In many in
stances, however, these odd moments
may be best improved by having some
thing to do a book to read, or some
light labor to perform.
It is surprising how much may be
done by using a few moments at a time.
Of course, they can not properly be
used for all purposes, sinco there are
some duties which require continued
npplieation-for a long time. There are,
however, many kinds of light labor, and
many subjects of study, which may be
followed qu.to successfully by taking
only u few moments at a time.
It is said that El hu Burritt, who was
known for many years as "the learned
blacksmith," was in the habit, when an
apprentice-boy, of having a grammar
of English or of some other language
fastened before him on the chimney of
the forge, so that while he was blowing
the bellows he could get an occasional
glimpse of his book.
Ben Ji hnson, a celebrated poet who
lived over two hundred years ago, was
in early life a bricklayer. It is said
that he always carried a boi k in li s
pocket, nnd while waiting for the labor
er to bring him mortar or brick he im
proved tlie odd moments in studying
his book.
Let our young friends try the experi
ment, and they will be surprised to see
how much can be done by rightly usin
a few moments at a time. You need
not take time from sleep to do this.
Have a time for everything, nnd what
you do, do thoroughly, whether it be
sleeping, enting, working or playing,
for all these are, in the'r respective
places, right. A". Y. Examiner.
A Startling Theory.
of
Americans have been congratulating
themselves that even under the most
favorable circumstances the cholera
now raging in Egypt could not reach
this side ot the Atlantic before the cold
days of winter would be ready to freeze
it out. There is a possibility that this
is another case of exultation before be
ing fvpe from the shadows of the tim
ber. There is a theory held by some
scientists that disease may be trans
mitted by electricity, and that over the
wires cholera can pass from Egypt to
Europe and from Europe to America.
Prof. Hardin, of Baliol College. Oxford
who is here on a visit, was asked abou.
this theory, and answered:
"I think that a power which trans
mits sound, movement and heat might
also transmit certain impalpable inilu
euces of disease, but this is at oomplete
variance with the germ theory. Some
have gone so far as to hold that cholera
could come from Egvpt on the regular
telegraph wires; but he can not conceive
such a thing possible. In the first place
the operator at the Egyptian end of the
wire would hnve to be suffering from
cholera, which could hardly be if he
were at work. The only one affected,
too, conceiving such a thing as this,
would be the operator on that particular
line, and he could not transmit it any
further, unless he should go on working
his instrument, whim he is taken sick.
Any cut-oil would eud the circuit by
which disease might be transmitted. I
don't think it possible that electricity
can spread disease under any known
circumstances."
A Pittsburgh physician, who was
asked for an opinion, said: "You don't
expect me to oppose the views of a man
like HardinP 1 should be laughed nt.
All the same, I have been studying this
new theory, and I am hulf inclined to
believe it. Electricity is so strange and
is so little understood that nothing
about it would surprise me. The ideas
about the contagious nature of cholera,
however, have changed. You could
wear the clothes a cholera patient died
in without a biCbf danger, and I don't
think it can ever become epidemic- in
tho United States or Europe again. Il
is too easily checked by, and yields toe
rapidly to, cleanliness, I'itttburyh Cw
merctul Uuztttc,
Religious Miscellany.
MY WORK.
Thnt G1 hnth nro.l of cvrn mo, I know;
Alr Ho pinim His pHlnccp t Tint rlw
In wfiitnly Hplomlor to tln flhhilnir Bktcs,
.Aadriii? ly dtiy, ntore pthikI, inoro jm (Vet
prow;
Whit1 I, In llf1ni-k qiinrrirft. tiillfnij )nw,
Hew tho minliujH'ly tttoncH, tlmt yvt no
frnlsn
minify wrnr to my (Hni, wnnry rypn
Ntntli my rudo touch no errncc nor (rlory
phnw.
ElM'whf-rf phnll hands more skillful curve
Hnd piiild
My rough hewn Mocks, till they aro meet to
bo
A port of thofo tirltfht walls ttmt Ho doth
build.
Therefore, O, doul, be all try murmurs
Ptllled-
A plnce to work for Him. He (rlvrth theo,
And to thy poor Udl, Immortality.
( ;i(rf ijat ionattst.
THE "UNRULY MEMBER."
Among all the sinful habits to which
men anu women in all grades of society
are addicted, probably there is not one
so deep-seated nnd universal as that of
evil speaking. The tongue is called in
Scripture the "unruly membor,'1 nnd
it is no small part of self-conquest for
a man to gain and maintain a perfect
control of its utterances. Might ly cm
ployed, it may be the means of untold
good, but wrongly used, it can accom
plish vast results in unhapplness and
disaster. Wo do not realize how great
a proportion of the unlnoken friend
ships, scattered families, social dissen
sions, and even the sad records of lives
that are crushed down in despair are
due to evil speaking.
It is a sad illustration of human sin
fulness and depravity that the ear
catches more eagerly reports qt ill than
records of good, and that the tongue is
more ready to utter reproofs than to
speak words of hopefulness and pity
when some erring one has gone astray.
By tho family hearthside, in the social
circle and in the thoroughfares of busi
ness, evil reports nnd slanderous tales
are greedily heard and quickly passed
from mouth to mouth. Yet often do
we see companions meet, pnss pleasant
hours together, and part apparently in
the deepest, truest friendship; and yet
when once separated each may select
and discuss every fault of the other, and
display every imperfection in the eyes
of an eager, curious and gossiping
community. This is social treason as
unbecoming to upright manhood as is
treason against the Nation. The influ
ence of the slanderer is not only insid
ious, but poisonous and powerful, and
while he seeks to blacken the fame of
others he feeds his own evil tendencies,
and becomes more and more destruct
ive. We shudder when we see this evil in
its worst forms, and behold its worst
results, and yet it can not be denied
that it is known in many Christian
homes. It is sad to think that one who
bears the Christian name may have ut
tered some word which has given a
pang of sorrow, or perhaps added to
the sting of remorse or the desperation
of despair. How careful should we be
to "keep the door of our lips" each
moment, that no word may pass which
shall cause us regret or others pain!
Let us recognize this evil tendency in
our nature, and cultivate the habit, in
speaking of others, to say only such
things as are lovely and of good report
concerning them.
Another, and perhaps worse, form of
evil speaking is the idle, vulgar and im
pure language that may be heard at al
most every place where men are wont
to meet. False and silly stories are
told in the social groups, and pass for
witty jokes; phrases of vulgar slang ure
used by the otherwise cultivated and
polite; and impure words are passed
around regardless of even common pro
prety. These seem but little thing-',
yet in result they are vast bevoud
measure. Tliev poison the fountains r.f
thought; they narrow and demoralise
the intellect; nnd, falling upon tho
yielding nature of childhood, they sully
its innocence nnd soil its beauty. Fort
unate, indeed, are they who from youth
up have been shielded from the dangers
of evil speaking: and strong and manly
is he who has learned to resist and re
buke this sin, and who strives to keep
his tongue from uttering words that are
idle, low and vile. "For he that will
love life and see good days, let him
refrain his tongue from evil and his lips
that they speak no guile."
But what shall be said of blasphemy?
We talk of National morality and prog
ress, but what Christian man will not
shudder when he retlects that a holy
(iod bows down His ear to a Christian
land to hear His name hurled about in
oaths and curses more frequently and
more loudly than it ascends in prayer
and praise! Strange problem of hu
man nature, that one man can mock at
and abtise those words and names
which others breathe only with the
deepest reverence and love that the
name of Him in whom we live and
have our being should be heard in vul
gar mockery in the hellish dens of
drunkenness nnd vice! The wisdom of
earth can never solve for the profane
swearer the profound and awful mean
ing in those words: " The Lord will
not hold him guiltless," but every
Christian may "refuse to listen to
blasphemous talk, and may guard his
own lips lest they utter irreverently the
holy name of Cod.
finally, let us keep pure the fount
ains of speech. Let us strivo for high
and holy thoughts and aspirations. Let
us cultivate the love ' of beauty, in
nocence and charity. Let us seek to
scatter here and there along our path
way words that shall come with heal
ing to some faint and wounded soul,
or, in tho fertile soil of some youthful
mind, spring up by and by to crown
our lives with blessing. Let us bear
ever in mind the great responsibility
which the very faculty of speech puts
upon us; remembering that Christ has
said: "By thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt
ha ,..1...,,,1 I, .!,., IJ..I
THE "UNRULY MEMBER." Why Not ?
Hamlet's sword, reaching the heart
of Bolouius through the hangings of his
mother's chamber, transfixed that pru
dence which is only another name for
cowardice; the prudence which d.strusts
principles and trusts to policies. Il is
only the true man who can be really
brave; only the righteous man w ho can
walk through the darkness, and face
tlie mystery ot lite with a Moreno soul.
Mean men, unrighteous nieu, small men
like Bolouius see what is right and
know that it ought to be done, but are
too cowardly to Uo it. They distrust
tho eternal power of truth aud of the
God whose life it is; they hug the shore
and are wrecked on reefs and shoals
whore the. bold man, strong in faitli and
resolute in purpose, sets his prow to tho
farthest horizon, and. with God's sea
under keel and God's heaven overhead,
leaves the perils and dangers of tho
treacherous coast far behind. If Colum
bus had listened to the prudent counsels
of tho wise men of his generation his
sails would never havo tilled with the
breezes of the new ooiitiueiv'-; ho dared
really, and ha we am vf tithily Ug
splendid crown of fame which the w?rl4
has set upon bis brow.
Half the anxieties and perplexities ot
life would disappear if We only believed
enough in Cod to take Him at his word
and trust Him with our earthly hopes
and fortunes. If wo cast, pnul. iico t
the w ind w herever principle was in
volved, and held to the thing that wa
right in the face of all manner of possi
ble calamities, we should tind ourselves
involved in no mesh of compromise,
weakencdand paralyzed by no conscious
ness of unfaithfulness to great trust
and high opportunities. The bold way is
almost always the safe way. At tho bat
tie of the Nile, when Nelson ran his tleet
between the French squadron and the
shore, his apparent rashness was n
grand institution of leadership; it is thr
great soul which looks over the whole
field of conflict and divines by instinct
tho daring movement which snatoho?
viotory at the point of greatest peril.
Abraham was a rash and imprudent
man when he forsook the pleasant land
where his Hocks had multiplied and his
good increased, to trust, through long
and homeless wanderings, the guidance
of an unseen Bower; Moses sacrificed
a fortune and the highest political
opportunities when he exchanged the
palace of a King for the tents of an un
grateful, undisciplined and half-civil-lzed
race escaping from slavery; Baul
was nn improvident man w hen "ho cast
away the advantages of his position as
a Jewish teacher to become the wander
ing preacher of a despised and rejected
Gospel; Luther was a foolhardy man
when he left the peace of his cell at
Erfurt for the seething turmoil of the
Reformation; all men who set tho im
press of their personality upon history
are imprudent men; they defy the pre
cepts of a timid prudence, and throw
themselves boldly upon the everlasting
arms that uphold the universe.
If you are in any kind of temptation
in which prudence and policy draw you
on one side and principlo on the other,
risk all for principle; if you aro in por
plexity or doubt, if past unfaithfulness
has involved you in a network of em
barrassment and entanglement, take
the boldest and shortest way out; God
is pledged to help vou, and as He
guided Abraham, Moses, Baul and
Luther, so Ho will direct your path.
Christian Union.
"The Mistakes of Moses."
It is understood that great numbers
of persons are still reading that purblind
mass of erudition known as the " Mis
takes of Moses." Does tho author
of that book know what the Jewish
system means when you get down to
the soul of it? Does he loll you thnt
its key-note is mercy, and that its
method and aim are simply those of de
liverance and freedom from the actual
ills of life? Does he tell you that it is
a system shot through and through with
great redeeming and liberating forces ?
Does he tell you that it takes a nation
of slaves, ignorant, barbaric, besotted
in m nd and degenerate in body, and
by a shrewdly adapted system of laws
lifts it steadily and persistently and
bears it on to ever bettering conditions
and always toward freedom? Does be
tell you that from first to last, from
centerto circumference, it was a system
of deliverance from bondage, from dis
ease, from ignorance, from anarchy,
from superstition, from degrading
customs, from despotism, from barbar
ism, from Oriental vices and philoso
phies, from injustice and oppression,
from individual and national sin and
fault? Does he tell vou that then the
nation was organized in the interest oi
freedom, planned to rescue it by a grad
ually unfolding system of laws, educa
tional in their spirit, aud capable oi
wide expansion in right directions?
Nothing of this he sees, but only some
incongruities in numbers and a cosmog
ony apparently not scientific. Ilev. T.
U. Alunger.
Gems of Thought.
Most of our comforts grow up be
tweon crosses. loung.
Seeming difficulties generally van
ish before faith, prayer and persever
ance.
The clouds above us can not lona
cone 'al the heavens beyond them.
Lawiira II igglcsworih.
Flies spy out the wounds, bees the
flowers; good men the merits, common
men the faults. Hindu.
It is better to believe that a man
does possess good qualities than to as
sert that he does not. John Franeih
Davis.
The end of learning is to know
God, and out of that knowledge to love
Him. and to imitate Him, as we may,
by possessing our souls of true virtue.
Hi Aiiattstinc. .
Love is the main principle of Chris
tian life. Herein consist Christian
liberty; a Christian is freed from tho
law, yet he does what the law requires,
and more, because his obedience is not
of the letter but of the Spirit. Exclumge.
Would to God that our men could
see that there is nothing on earth so
regal as a true, pure manhood noth
ing so really great; that they would do
spise the miserable scramble lifter of
fice that disgraovs our country, aud aim,
not at becoming position-occupiers,
mere oflice-holders, but cultivated, holy
men, an attainment that is not depend
ent on the accidents of society, but up
on themselves, their own energetic en
deavor, persevering industry and the
blessing of God. Ilea. O. C. Baldwin.
A Nest of Young Eagles.
The attention of passengers on the
pleasure steamers from New London to
Block Island or Watch Hill is always
attracted to the spindle on a reef just
outside of the harbor. Years ago a fish
eagle took possession of the big iron ,
cae that surmounts the iron spindle
rod, and has built a nest aud reared a
family there each season since. It ia
known far and wide among visitors to
the shore as the " Eagle's Nest," and
at almost any time of the day one of tho
birds luav be seen perched upon the,
cage, while the mate is prowling around:
Fisher's Island Sound looking for tish
Lato in June this year Frank Sevin, a
Norwich boy, while sailing, stopped at
tho Eagle's Nest, and determined to
reach the top. Ho climbed up the
straight rod, which is about ten feet
long and perfectly' smooth, aud then
pulled himself over tho iron slats; of the
preat basket so that he was a:ue to look
into it. Ho found three feathered vounnr
birds In tho nest. While he wag mak-.
ing tho ascent the old bird wheeled
savagely about his face, uttering shrill
cries of raga and terror, and when ha
rea bed the summit of the cage sho
darted about to closely that her wings
almost brushed his face. Young Sevin
is said fo be the first person who ever
reachi d the top of the spiudle. On last
Friday tho young ones, which wer
nearly grown, were soeu sitting witU
the parent birds on the top of the cagi
soberly looking into the water, IAuU
J'orU CouranU i