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THE PITH OF THF, NEWS
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PIQUANT PARAGRAPHS FOR POPULAR
PERUSAL.
Being a Summary of the Principal Happen
ing# and Noteworthy Event# of the
Tast Week, Boiled Down for
the Hurried Header.
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Wednesday, .Ian. 88. j
Texan farmers are p.o viag. i
A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Val
paraiso i
Great religious revivals in the 'owns about
Reading Pa'
Typhoid fever is quit*» prevalent at Bel
Jail e o and *.f a dangerous ivpa !
Mltippi levees solth of vSburg are in
•SÎE*- Melville W*waj!
W,U ,
A state dynamite bill similar to the Ed- j
munds bill was presented in tue Massachusetts j
senate and referred. j
Colorado silver men, in session at Denver,
will oppose legislation tending to reJuce the
rate of silver coinage. |
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ihaft fell, fatally injunug two miners, Wm. ;
Bomback and Christ. Clink. j
The Moody meet ngs at Scranton, Pa.,
have resulted in a subscription of i:i>,UC0 to
the building fund of the Y. M. C ' A ' 1
The run <.n the Neu Havpn (Conn.) Savings i
bank has ended. Over $2n0,UU0 were j»aid (
out, and more was on hand. ;
Fred. Douglass gets a $20,0(0 life interest i
in Miss Attilis Assig's will. The money a'- '
Fred.'s death will go to the New York 8. P.
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Chief Engineer Melville of Arctic fame,
proposes another expedition to the North
Foie by wav of Franz J.*sef Laud. He has |
volunteers for every position, and only j
wants a patron of the enterprise. J
Ti e New York socialiste do not respond to
the overtures of the New York anarchists to j
get up a Sunday demonstration in commora
tion of the London dynamiters. i
An attempt to import foreign laborers into \
the District of Columbia by an Italian labor
agency in New York receives no encourage
ment from the district authorities.
Thursday Jan. Ä9.
t», T, „ 1 . «.„„land's rata of discount has
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been reduced to► louijper c u
Tarentum, Pa., prescripttonal glass stamp
ed have won their strike.
Edward Perry was killed by an engine on
the Wabash road at Danville, Ind.
Theodore Hapenny, the Pittsburg gambler,
worth at one time $100,000, is dead a pauper.
John H. Inman, the cotton broker of New
York has purchased the elegant Newport
villa owned by C. C. Baldwin, of New York,
recently president of tne Louisville and Nah
ville railroad. Mr. Baldwin has not occup.ed
It since he was so badiy "squeezed" in Wal
street about a year ago.
Joshua K. Osgood, the well known temper
ance reformer and the father of the "Refortn
Club" movement in Maine, is dead.
Mrs. Judge Jas. L. Cole, a Plaqueinine,
La ,widow, found in be l, murdered by burg
Ism, who took her jewelry.
H. H. Warner, the safe kidney advertiser,
of Rochester, N. Y., an old Ohio man, is a
candidate for governor of New York.
Charles J. Rogers, penitentiary warden,
Portland, Ore., was hanged for murdering
another warden last October. Died game in
eieJeii iL'milfeà V
Riley Pile, a Pickett county, Tenn., moon
sbiniug desperado, is iu the mountains hiding
from a band of lynchers. He has killed a
deputy U. S. marshal.
The roof of the Mount Carbon coal shaft,
two miles east of Sharon, Pa., fell in. serious
Iy injuring two miners named William Bom
back and Christ Clink, the latter fatally.
A drunken Hungarian at Penn Haven
Junction, Pa., set the eighteen-months
old baby of his landlady on a red hot stove,
for breaking his pips. Jailed.
Friday, Jan. 30.
Pennsylvania will hereafter whip wife heat
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No new# yet from Conant, Harper's missing
wlitor.
A woman suffrage bill has entered the Ohic
legislature.
Wheeling nail-makers have raised the pri«
five cents a keg.
E. M. Haines is finally elected permanent
■Deaker of the Illinois house.
The common council of Cincinnati has do
elded to visit the New Orleans exposition
C;P. Huntington is elected to the stock ex
n . ti , a Kv-ia fami'v whc
Three memb#r* of the Kxaie rami.y, wnc
mysteriously poisoned at Reading, Pa.,
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Tuesday, Jan. 27.
The iberty beH fi ts ratche t New Or
leans.
The a -my appropriation blU provide# for
$24,43>.»3
The B 3 lt V ' p'.i >ne patent has been voided
in Canada fi>r negligence.
Fourteen persons have been killed by an
avalanche of snow at I viva, Italy.
Commander George D. B. Gülden diel of
consumption at Cambridgeport on Sunday.
The police of ILunbui g have been warned
of a plot to b i"W up the Bourse by dynamite.
Suspicious tin box found in Montreal post
office. Dynamite suspected, but no one dare
open it.
An ocean rate war is in propre» between
the Hamburg, American and North German
Lloyd.
Capt. Eads will get $10,000 for every foot
of water he will secure on Galveston bar,
$3.000 from Uncle Sain and $10,000 from the
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city.
inuianapolis saloonists will make a fight
before yielding fa) the police commissioner's
11 o'clock law.
Tennessee will investigate rumored peniten
fciarv outrages anti ^eaeral loust*ness of her j
prison management !
The Berlin progressists are arranging for
an imm- use meeting to probst against the
proposed increase in the duties upon Ameri- .
can grain.
were
have died.
The judiciary oommtttee of the Texai
house of represenUtive* have reported a biU
against gambling.
John J. Crawford, of Ohio, has been ap
pointed chief of the inspection division of tin
postoffice department
Six dynamite cartridges exploded at Feetb,
Oat Three men were fatally injured, and
on# other seriously hurt.
Bennett 1'arsoue. of Jonesboro, Ala., wax
murdered, and his wife and daughters an
charged with the crime.
Vicksburg wants the Yazoo river turned
and brought through that city at an expend
of f300,000 to Uncle 8am.
A valise containing diamonds and jewelry
valued at $5,000 was stolen from a New York
drummer in Covington, Ky.
Three iceboats with mails, fifteen crew an I
seven passengers are missing. They \
(vertanen by a storm after leaving Prl
M ward's Island for Halifax, N. S.
Gallipolis, O., is experiencing religion, Ml
tonverts by the thousand are flocking to the
-hureh. The saloons are closed and earthly
meine» is generally suspended for the
teavenly. —
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Th" president, vii-e president and cashier of
the Planters' and Mechanics' Bank, of Peters
burg, Va., were acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy. j
It bas been discovered that white women i
in San Francisco s<?ll their illegitimate female
offspring to the Chinese, who train them for
the harem. !
An anthracite coal stove in Cincinnati ex- j
p'oded, breaking the windows of the room, |
T"'o«Her „lenitor, o. » M Jÿ,
S'eT'Se'^Lg .h~ ere coolier.l ;
beyond recovery.
The city clerk, an ex-assistant city sur
vevor and a number of couucilmon and alder
men of Rochester, N. Y., have been indicted
for official bribery.
Monday, Feb. 8. I
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ever. |
Gen Jas Chestnut, ex United States sena- ]
tor from South Carolina, is dead. j
Evangelist Moody is proving a great at
1 traction at New Brunswick, N. J. !
i authoritie8 ojen every tenth bar
( * .. , ' ,_clouds.
; rel ISova bcoUa ai ' l>lt ' S look,n K for ,1 - vua '
i nuth ' ^ ,, , ....
' Jas. Culhane was stabbed to death m a
Detroit saloon by Michael Harrigau, an ex- j
convict
Porter C. Bli*s, journalist, and formerly in
the diplomatic service of the Unite! States, ,
| died in New Y ork.
j Haines, speaker of the Illinois bouse, pro
J poses to be senator from Illinois. He refuses
to vote for anybody but Haines.
j a prominent cattle man from Trego county,
Kan., says that the ground is covered with
i gnow several inches deep, and that range cat
\ tie are dying at a fearful rate.
i A valuable silver convoy, en route lietween
\ T ,^] uca and Cuerravaea Mexico, was attacked
j d tureil by organize j bandits.
^ J 6 .of
Si McGrath's six-year old daughter died
from a brutal whipping of her school teach
; e r, near Reading, Pa. He will prosecute.
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I The Lutheran rfmrch objects tot he incor
• poration at Philadelphia of the followers of
j Anna Meister, a deceased female crank who
taught that she was the Holy Gho9t.
Salvation army captains disaffected be
cause of an order from headquarters that
only English born will be commissioned, have
organized at Akroa,Ga., a gospel temperance
army.
The Tichbome claimant has now fallen so
low that he appears in a provincial variety
company, and takes his turn between an aero
bat styled, "The Human Serpent ami the
Comical Mule."
i Immediately after finishing a waltz at a
ball Sunday morning, Lizzie Kaufman, a
servant girl of Cincinuoti, arose from her
chair, and walking a few steps forward, foil
on the floor dead. '
The people of Thomson, Ga., and vicinity
are considerably excited on account of the
appearance in their midst of a disease which
the attending physician pronounced to w«
virulent type of chicken pox.
j An Alleged Faith Cure.
j Utica, N. Y., Jan. 30.—A faith cure is re
ported iu Morris, Otsego county, and vouched
| {oT by reputable people. For twelve years
Alice, daughter of George Benjamin, has
been an invalid on account of spinal injuries
received by being thrown from a wagon,
jjogt of the time she has been confined to hex
bed. Nothing that physfoians could do fox
her yelped her. Six weeks ago it was thought
ghe could not live long. On January 16 she
began to pray for restoration to health. A
week later she walked to a neighbor's house,
several rods distant, ate a hearty dinner and
walked home. The same evening >he rode a
mile and a half, took j art iu a church meet
lug, assuring her astonished friends that sh«
was perfectly well. 8he has since attended
daily to household duties, and to all inquiries
answers that her recovery is due to God's
goodness. She is about thirty ye ars old.
on the Hudson
q v v F h •» Tz*w rum.
Whitk N y Feh. 3- -Low runv
bling sounds like distant thunder, o o e y
a very perceptible trembling of ®
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cwued by anything ®* cep a S enulne
n i1llk < , The frequent recurrence of thee«
^ rthquakea in Westchester county are very
alarmingtoihesuperstiti .ua
Saturday, Jan. 31.
John Berry, suspected of barn burning.was
Wrested at Lexington, Ky.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the arrest
>f the Covington (Ky ) diamond robbers.
Irwin Farabee, near Juanita, Neb., killed
Hurrlsou Young by a blow of the fist, break
ing his-neck.
Alex Anderson and Charles Weckstrum
srere killed at St. Paul, Minn., by a caving
lank of earth. •
Julius Noglefeld and wife, of Detroit, were
poisoned by drinking peppermint tea, au 1
(he husband died.
Speaker Carlisle has called upon Mr. Cleve
land in obedience to a summons Inn Cleve
and for consultation.
The Spanish consul pen'ral of New York
jas rendît*) . $10,000 for lue relief of sufferers
from earthquakes in Spain.
A. J. McIntosh, of Salem, and sheriff of
Washington county, Ind.. made an assign
ment, with $•?*.). 135 preferences.
The health board of New York claims to
save discovered that quinine is adulterate 1
X» an enormous extent by druggists in that
.
The number of failures for the week ended
January 3J. according to R. G. Dun & Co.,
was *>4. as compared with 411 the preceding
French and Chinese Eight.
Fa.hu, Jan. 30. —A dispatch dated Shanghai
states that it is rumored in that city, and
goneraUy believed, that the French fleet un
der Admiral Courbet, and the vessels com
prising the entire Chinese fleet met off Mat
sol, and a sanguinary naval battle, lasting
sei- oral hours, took place. Confirmation oi
denial of the report is anxiously awaited.
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DYNAMITE IN NEW YORK.
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ATTEMPT OF STRIKERS TO BLOW UP
A DRY GOODS STORE.
Two ItuildiugH Damaged, but No One In
jured - l>r. Wilson Create# Some Excite
ment in Masonic Circle»—Sixty-three
Degrees Added to the Order.
New York, Feb. 2.—The first criminal use
of dynamite in thia city greatly excited the
people here on Sunday. The exnlmioa took
place at a very late hour and one or two
morning papers made second editions giving
the news. The explosion was at Garry
Brothers' dry goods store, Grant and Allen
streets. At the time a number of persons
were passing the spot, but none of them wet e
injured. Captain Allaire and a squad of of
ficers guarded the premises of Garry Broth
ers. and of ltidley Brothers, the windows of
whose establishment were also ih titered by
the explosion.
Shortly after the explosion four men wern
found in the shadow of the Rivingston street
station of the elevated road, one of them,
Charles Henry, a laborer, who said he lived
at Williamsburg, with severely cut head and
face. The others, Wm. Britton, a waiter;
Jas. Daily, a clerk, and Jos Lamb, a painter,
were binding Henry's wounds
arrested and remanded. A lad
was arrested, charged with experimenting in
dynamite, at the corner of Grand and Essex
streets, where he succeeded in dislodging a
portion of the horse car track. It could not
bo connected with the other explosion,
The bomb or cartridge used in last night's
explosion must have been placed immedi
ately underneath the framework of the win
dow of Garry Brothers' store, the window
casing ami sash being entirely demolished.
The shock was felt several hundred feet. A
lamp on a shelf in the Eldridge street house,
three hundred feet away, was thrown to the
floor. Dishes in tenement houses in the
neighborhood rattled, and the iron stancions
0 f the elevated railroad, near the store.
looked as though they had received violent
blows,
There is no evidence that the cartridge was
applied to Ridley's store. Had it not been for
the heavy elevated railroad structure which
runs up Allen street between the two stores.
however the probability is a good part of the
west ÿe ££
; 'be »«com. of .0. emk. of Oerry Krotten,'
employes. _
New York, Feb. 1—Masonic circles in
New York City have been stirred to the
depths by the antics of Dr. Darin# Wilson,
I wh o 'Wir«*! t 1 'T'tn nn thi ^fv*ror# rf Ma-rnrY
froiiVwie time uonontd thirty-third to the lm
| posing ninety-sixth.
] Old Masons have died happy in the thirty
j third degree, and many brethren are now
living on that eminence which, according to
! Dr. Darius Wilson, is down in the valley,
eompaml to Royal Masonry's perch above the
Dr. Darius Wilson, V T, thirty three de
grees, ninety degrees, ninety-six degrees, as
his title reads, is a Boston man. The rest of
j bis title is Most Illustrious Grand Master
General of the Sovereign Sanctuary, U. S. A.
In forming the order he took upon himself
, the burden of the highest office in the gift of
himself.
At the latest meeting# of the various corn
mancleries in the Masonic temple in this city
many eminent sir knights were surprised to
t leir names signe to e o owing circu
Dr Dar j OU8 Wilson:
Sir: A large number of Masonic brethren of
"'is city and vicinity desire to hear your explana
« on » f new'y-named "Royal Masonic Rite "
.of which they have heard in a report of a con
vention held in Boston in December last, and
hereby invite you to address them in the lecture
room of the Grand opera-house, corner Twenty
third street and Eighth avenue, on r riday even
lng , January ueZ
qj the thirty-three names signed to this let
man y 0 f th e owners indignantly deny
having authorized their use, and they were
willing to vouch for the denials of the ma
jority of the remainder. Some of them de
j nouueed the Bostonian in very lively
j language. Among the names used on the
! letter were those of the Rev. Dr. Deems, the
Kev. Stephen H. Tyng, J. W. Bouton, J. J.
Little, 1 heophilus Pratt and Jerome Buck,
Dr. Wilson hastened to obligethedistin
guished New Yorkers, and named Saturday
evening as the date of the exposition, free to
Master Masons. He added that he had
planned to be in Montreal to attend the
carnival and to participate m the sessions of
the Grand Lodge of Quebec and the Sovereign
Sanctuary, thirty-thin , nmetieth and ninety
sixth de g™»es'Of f
ma^ onr y r • i • it
so many eminent Maslms, couffi not
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Mr. ^Rawson. of the Methodist Book
Concern, who is a son-in-law
Laura Keene, introduced Dr. "Wilson,
The lecturer then proceeded to give the
origin and history of high degree Masonry
an( j the proof that there was separate work
ail d labor for every one of the ninety-six de
grees which were claimed for the Egyptian
Rite of Memphis, and that the only legiti
mate source of authority to confer these rites
must come through either a king or priest
He must give the dates nffien certain kings,
and particularily Jesuit priests, conferred
twenty-five degrees of Masonry, and wound
g p an interesting and well memorized lecture,
f u U of dates, by exhibiting a number of char
ters and patents from various Grand Lodges in
Europe granting authority to confer these '
' high degrees in America, among which was
on0 froia ^ Grand Orient of France, with
the signature of Louis Napoleon.
Mr. Wilson then informed those present
' that B lodge would be opened in the Grand
opera house building, when any mastermason
^ receive R degree in the an cimt rite
y . wit h ou t an y charge whatever, and extended ;
« the invitation for all master masons to be ;
P resent i
their names to the Wilson inviUtion to
w frwtamitv * Httl« wmiinA
jjjj of £ c ^ nt j ohann ^ order. Still it
Is believed that other masons stand behind
Darius Wilson with a well-conceived conspir
acy toward a mastery of the governing bod
ies of the ancient Yoik rite or the formation
of rival grand bodies.
Mr- J. P. Groom, mayor of Hazle*
htirst, dropped dead on the streets a
few days ago, from apoplexy.
All were
Masonic Circles Excited.
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TREATING RESOLUTION.
"I'm going to bind myself," ehe said,
'<To read no more romances
For six long months, and clear my brain
Of all my ailly fancies.
But just this one, a gift, 'twould be
A pity not to read it. "
She read that one, but, sad to aay,
Full twenty more succeed it.
" 'Tis true," he said r "tobacco may
My constitution mar,
i'll smoke once more and then I'll say
I're smoked my last cigar '*
That one was poor,—it was unfair
To t"d with such » *
He iriod once more—his Aim resolve
Became a broken reed.
"I've long bemoaned," the lady said,
•'The ease of social lying,
And now to speak the simple truth,
I'm firmly bent on trying.
Just one more üb, and then I'll stop,
This truth would be too rude."
That one last lie to others led,
And changed the lady's mood.
"It is a stupid, foolish thing
To lose one's self-control.
1 envy even-tempered men,
I'll strive to reach that seal.
Bat ihere is Jones, who injured me;
To him I'll speak my mind."
But Jrom that day his constant sin
More closely round him twined
"I'll play no more," the gambler said,
« 1 oflener lose than win.
This thirst for play will kill my soul,
Anti drag me down to Bin.
Jusl one more throw and then I'm done ' '
lie lost—his weakened will
Condoned another throw , and he
Remains a gambler still
".'ll never drink another drop,"
A drunkard said, when waking
From out his levered, heavy sleep,
With head and conscience aching.
''I'll take one glass to tone me up,
Then sign the pledge to-morrow. "
Alas ! one glass drowned his remorse.
For him there came no morrow.
Believe me, all who would begin
A better way of living,
Begin when you resolve—to self
No last indulgence givin \
Put hand to plough and look Not back
A course of èelf-denial
IP gun with yielding one last time
It never worth a trial.
Newton Centre.
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It is wlliiYy that wci
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echo throU.^u "-S' 5 ""
It is whlSKj tlb* t "X<!
a( .g for u
11 IS whi- s ky that U':i fSfK# rose Vine
' cotUfif# floor »lid
"° m • *t*»u irto a hut nr
drives Its inmate. H, jPy *
hovel
It is whisky tbs
f 00ts teps of innocent
, n „ths of Sill aild
the patW ' ?» ; au "
; It IS whlähj ,
; stain his hai.ds with
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ESSAY.
Head at the Meeting of the 'V. C. T. U.
Sun ay Evcdiug, Jan. 1 til, 188),
by Miss Mattie lu tier woo I, of Area
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INTEMPEBANÇ».
Since the first dawn of light upon
the world, vice, in its varied forms,
has existed ; marring the happiness
of man, ar.d many times extinguish
ing, in total darkness, lights of su
perior usefulness aiui hrilli tncy.
One nation or age lias not been
more fa voted than attoter; but
when a wail of woe has ar sen upon
one continent, its reSpon ave echo
1 as been heard upon the o her, wid
ening and deepening in its cadences.
And why, 1 ask, ia-l thus
God, in las gooJieM, las given
us a lovely land. Her i lountains
are grand, her »alleys siril* in rich
if verdure, her: streans ripple
laughingly along ove* .her shoals,
her soil g"i ves back to thé laborer a
bounteous r*?'irn fiir hi» toil, her
agonist proteetion to
ktryw lore, in r mstitu
Iiess <
governmeil (
her citizen«
tions of lea ruing are çpen t ) the un
educated tf every race aid color,
and her church privileges are free
tO ül • ; t
Still, there is a waat of prosper
ity—Xortl, South, a id West.
And why? Is it that uei lia —or I
may more plainly sty, laiiness—is
laying her »and upon ta# v heels of
thrift? and retarding them in their
revolution: ? To a great extent,
this is true ; it is a grievous fact that
many indi uiuals w < • k U o little;
but a rnigli ier moat to a toore hid
destr iëtive demon that
at panhz'.s
.
eons,
ness—the >ne, too,
man's end 'V, ami degrad« him to
the stand»! * of the bruu . i Intem
perance, the love oUjT"
in ardent spirits. WM
Whisky! h die deadly
ilder that il
u!
In'Ut, tkt
1 Ol'hrd i«
&ugs me
\ lie very
poisonous i
the spark 1 ug cup.
fastening i iemselves u
vitais of those who qu^k t rop, and
oe, theft,
a in its
scattering poverty, igo
murder, misery and
the in
might
s the pal
la.
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dies the
lood into
man to
tod of hia
icense to
c of his
It is whisky ttu
woman's oheel
sends the silvef
golden tresses.
it is whisky tin
pnie-it love inb> t
breaks the conti'
and covers it in an
It is whisky tfe
-very existdl^#
tne rose on
rematurely
s '»long her
It woman's
and
eart
, „
bÄj man's
a nd it is
hate,
l og h
i
of
whisky that shuts him out
heaven.
Young man, turn away trorn the ruby wine !
Taste not of the sparkling bowl,
For wine is a mocker, touch it not,
it
is
Oh, my friend, beware,
'Twÿll lure thee by its sparkling glow,
Then lead thee to despair.
Touch it not, ever though
By fair ones offered thee.
There's poison lurking in the bowl,
'Twill sure thy ruin be,
Cold water is best It*r the* »
There is no agent of vi<:e Bo de
structive to happiness and prosper
ity as Intemperance ; and since wo
man is the innocent sufferer -there
by, it is her imperative duty to her
self, her children and her country,
to make every possible exertion to
drive it from the land. It is true,
she is not el ithed with the power to
make laws prohibiting its distillery,
she can not take the drunkard from
the ditch and tell him he shall not
drink again, hut she can persuade
him gently "not to look upon the
wine when it is red," she can ask
him to abstain from a single drop,
and when kind entreaties faii, she
cat* and should avoid his society as
she would that ot a felon. Some of
my sex have thought that the way
to reform a drunkard was to marry
him. What a hazardous undertak
What a fatal mistike ! What
ing!
presumption on woman s part to en
tertain the thought for a single mo
ment. I would rather be a toad and
feed on the vapors of a dungeon,
than undertake such a Herculean
task.
O that everv girl in our Abstinence Band
Would be careful of giving her heart or her
hand.
But say, when you are wooed, "I'm a foe to
wine,"
And "the lips that touch liquor shall never
touch mine."
But if a man has not self pride
sufficient to keep sober, then woman
should wield her influence, and, if
possible, prevent him filling a drunk
ard's grave. Would that she had
the power to reform every drunkard
in this broad land.
Aside from the debauchery inci
dwm, to intemperance, the practical
thought of laying by something for
old age suggests itself, when we
plainly see that plans of economy,
necessary for a sure support, must
be broken when the tippling glass is
turned up daily. All over our land,
little children are looking up into
the wan faces of miserable mothers,
and asking for bread, when there is
no bread to give. No bread in this
land of broad fields, covered with
golden grain, do f hear you say ?
Ah, yes, there is bread enough and
to spare, but the last five cents in the
father's purse was spent for whisky
—it was cheap—only five cents a
glass, and the drunkard's child cries
for bread.
Do» any one think
ID
"Five cents a glass!
That that is really the price of a drink?
"Five cents a glass," I hear you say,
"Why that isn't very much to pay."
Ah, no, indeed ; 'tis a very small sum
You are passing
thumb,
And if that were all that you gave away,
It wouldn't be very much to pay.
'twixt finger and
over
I jet him decide
The price of a driuk ?
Who has lost his courage and lost his pride
And lies a grovelling heap of clay,
Not far removed from the beast, to-day.
The price of a drink? Let that one tell
Who sleeps to-night in a murderer's cell,
And feels within hint the fires of hell.
Honor and virtue, love atid truth,
All the glory an<l pride of youth,
Hopes of t« f n baod,
High endeavor ami noble aim, . .. . * .
These are the treasures thrown away
As the price of drink, Irom day to day.
"FiVe cents a gi% '" U< «r Hat*-, laughed.
As -aver the bar thé young man quaffed
'The beaded liquor ; for the demon knew
"fhe terrible work that drink would do ;
And before morning the victim lay
With his life-blood swiftly ebbing away ;
And that was the price he paid, alas!
For the pleasure of taking a social glass.
The price of a drink ? If you want to know
What some are willing to pay for it, go
Through that wretchod tenement over there,
With dingy windows and broken stair.
Where foul disease, like a vampire, crawls
With outstretched wings o'er the mouldy
walls.
. Therepoverty dwells with her hungry brood
Wild-eyed as demons for lack of food ;
There shame iu a corner crouches low ;
There violence deals its cruel blow ;
And innocent ones are thus accursed
To pay the price of another's thirst.
"Five cents a glass!" Oh, if that were all
The sacrifice would, indeed, be sm*M! .
Bat the moneys worth is the least amount
We pay} and Whoere* will keep account
Will leans the terrible waste and blight
That follows the rainons appetite.
"Fiveeeols a glass?" Doee any one thiflk
That that is veoäly the price of a drink ?
U
Maj. Venable, of Gen. Stonewall
Jackson's staff, is in New Orleans at
the Exposition with the General's
is war horse, now thirty years old.
•g»Jka'
I ' "***
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
It is axiomatic, that the teaeher
makes the school. Buildings, fur
niture, maps, charts, books, and pu
pils, too, may all be in place ; but
without the teacher, there is no
school. Simply to ^ Je*t boo
questions and receive text-book an
mm is noAthe «oie wer», nor even
the most important work of the $
teacher. Scholarship, though es- J
sential. is not the only requisite
qualification oj .the teacher. Many
eminent scholars are very poor
teachers; while, on the other hand,
many men of comparatively limited
attainments are excellent teachers.
Yet it may be well to state that ig
norance does not increase one s
"3ng ability, and that »elf con
ceir, an invariable concomitant of
ignorance, is rather an impediment
than a help. .
A love of one's work is an esse a
äffÄÄ
who expects to abandon the school
room so soon as preparation has
been made and means procuic 1
some other vocation, or .or matri
mony, lacks interest in the work,
and longs for the time o come when
it can be given up; and the» natural
consequence is, that but little good
is effected. .
Ihe office of the teacher is not
merely to aid the pupil is acquiring
knowledge with the two fold pur
pose of storing up usefu informa
tion and promoting mental discip
line, but also to develop character.
Hence the qualifications ot the
teacher should, in addition to schol
astic attainments, include that as
semblage of personal qualities and
accomplishments which will render
his influence in all respects effec
tive and salutary. Trustees and
superintendents who ignore the
moral character of the teacher, are
criminally derelict. As a rule,
patro P^ ^L.l?Pi.! !.u tl yÆ^rt?r
morarquaiiftcations of xtœ^tmcùet.
Sometimes, however, even those
who are themselves immoral and
grossly wicked are careful to select
teachers of purity of character for
their children. A patron of the
writer was once approached by a
rival teacher, who asked : Why do
you send your children to Mr. ,
in preference to me, when he never
darkens your door, but I visit you
frequently ( Ihe reply was, I
patronize him because he never
patronizes me. The patron was a
saloon keeper, but yet he had the
good of lus children at mart.
leaehers should cultivate the
spirit of improvement. J hey
should teach better this year than
last. To this end, they should seek
a knowledge of the best methods in
all departments of their work.
While, on the one hand, they
should not be servile imitators, they
should not, on the other, disregard
the wisdom of the great teachers of
the past, nor fail to study the meth
ods devised and practiced by them.
But let it be remembered, that the
most approved methods can not ben
efit a teacher who has not mentally so
appropriated them as to reproduce
them according to his own individ
uality and adapt them to the pecu
bar wants of his pupils and to all
the circumsunces of his school ; for
all teaching should be at last the
natural outgrowth of the teacher s
personality, if it is to perform its
proper oäL« m the work ê
ucation. * „ , t . |
Teachei-s can not tell when to give
instruction, nor bow.much, nor what
eharacter of information^ to impart,
unless
NO. II.
TI1K TEACHER.
if
is
is
?
a
.
which they operate, the several tae
ulties that are to l>e awaken«* ««4
developed, and the proper order in
which this is to be done. Teachers
can not give just the proper infir
mation and in proper quantities,
unless they know that with which they'
operate ; that is, become masters of
the subject matter they-propose to
teach. Teachers can not tail fre
quently to find themselves pursuing
methods direeilv antagonistic to na
ture, unless the^\make themsehes
acquainted with the true and natura
methods, the methods that harmon
ize with the natural order of awak
ening, developing and strengthening
the intellectual powers.
In a subsequent article, occasion
may be taken to point out certain
methods prevalent in the schools ot
Mississippi, which essentially con
the natural modes ot mental
X. Y. Z.
travene
growth.
i
The sale ofimCense tracts of land
to foreigners is becoming so large
that an effort is about to be made in
Congress to stop U. A few noble
in England own 21,000^1
—Ex. And the effort should
mçn
acres.
succeed. The land of Anwrica^fc
to America, and should
held by Americans for America
Here we are intensely American.
at
Ion
JUDAS VINDICATED.
I notice an article going the
rounds of the press charging Judas
with having on one occasion signed
a petition to eatabli.h a saloon in Je
rusalcm. I don t know where the
author of this charge got his lnfor
mation, I think 1 have seen every
j n t ke Bible, and I don't re
member to have seen any statement
*11**» non So
there to w**»«* the all« ption. »0
$ rise in behalf of the much abused
J U üas. For centuries this man has
handled severely for the dark
sin of betraving the Son of God,
...
which was a most terrible mistake,
no one will deny. And now, alter
m0 re than eighteen hundred years,
f rau „ b t with anathemas on his name
° . . .. ,
for betraying innocent blood
worse charge is brought against the
miserable man.
Yes, for the following reasons!
, betraJ . ing Prince Emanuel ,
SÄ
iSÄS the
oftho&3 who W(MlW crucify him .
JuJa9 tbough t, possibly, to simply
f urn ish the Jews an opportunity to
tribute to tbe
wkhout ;• t0 the Lords Christ
^ 0 ne else. That he hung
himge ( f when he saw the Savior
wQU j ( j be put death, serves to
show, the betrayal didn't terminate
he cted / The idea that *
nocent b [ 00 d WO uld would flow from
act overw helmed unfortunate
d mistaken j uda s, an( i through
de gt remorse he took his own
g fe P Now if j U(ias had signed
wblgk petition, he would have done
80 knowing that shedding of blood
an( j death would ensue. He could
haye j ooked at t h e results of liquor
g l[ and discovered this fact. He
wou ] d have known that to assist in
eatab ij 8 hing a saloon in which men
^ drink aud die> wou j d have
made him à murderer. Thisrespon
8lbditv be could not assume. I
don't ' believe Judas was- mean
b to sign % w hi 8 ky petition.
S ^ 5^ a ^ ^ He dld
do busines8 Qn a creditf or teke
h on anyt hing. When he did
iece of work , he knew just
wl f at he would be paid for it. Judas
^ a man of soum i mental faculties,
a , therefore> knew t h a t a saloon
, w add not hing to the legitimate
businesg of j erusa l em . He knew
f urt h er more that the business pros
I rky 0 f hi s town was just in pro
^ ^ efficient pro ductive
f ndustry 0 f every one who traded in
the city, and he knew that whisky
lessened every man's capacity, who
dr j nkg t0 pro d U ce wealth. He
k eve ry time a man spent fifteen
^ for a J drink, his chances for
^ amount would have been good,
. j. tbere bad been n0 sa l 0 on in town,
j£ e knew that a saloon meant higher
texat i on an d danger to life andprop
AIT these things being Due,
tQ * ba e j u jas with having signed
& wbisky pet i t ion is equal to calling
and j don > t believe he
There is nothing in the record
indicate it.
g rj be re8U ] ts 0 f the liquor busi
nesg are want? poverty, beggary,
t heartaches, widowhood, or
ha ' crime, bloodshed, jails,
p nite J tiarieSi bangings, eternal
Jj aranation . Ican'tbelievethatJu
das was m ean enough and j«natic
0 h to have petitioned for all
s tbe8e & horrible results to come upon
»eople with whojn he lived and
*fe.|^!jn e d as well as himself. Only
| m en who love whisky, and men ivho
fc ^ u are so lost to self-re
-■*
a
A worse charge !
power
hands
common fund,
m
a
m if community morally, socially
and finançai! >. The fd» W
that saloons build up a town, lies >n
the face of all facts and records. No
fluff .tndas was «
in conclusion, I say it cannot be
proved that Judas signed a. whisk»
petition. He was above such a
thing. If he had helped to estab
lish a salooh, lie couki not haye
summoned up courage enough to
have looked into tha» faces of the
women and children ot Jerusalem.
I insist that dead men shall not be
charged with infamous deeds that
they would have scorned to stoop to
in life.
Copiah county, Ja u^ 188o.
Fixed Hy Lightning.
The following is related of a com
dany ot labor« s who were struck by
lightning whlie sitting anders tfree,
eating their dinner: f ' ^
i>Re had a dog in his lap. m
meut the lightmn" 'fill- «
caressed t he.
with thf;
in
of
to
na
ot
man can prove
liar.
Justice.
land
in
one
it a'
ad. Both
petrified, as it were,
Z The paralyzed h
i\
ion on the animai';
% say, "Give me some
* give me some moreJi^j