NEWS OF THE WEEK
—Danlel and louis Mann killed
Marshal Campbell and wounded Officer
McCormick at Bartow, Florida, on the
15h, and on the same evening were
taken from the jail and lynched by a
mob, James Jemison and Charles
Jones, colored barbers, quarrelled j in
Chicago on the 15th and Jones nearly
severed Jemison’s head from his body
with a razor. Victor Colquitt, 385
ears of age, was found on the street
In Jersey City on the 15th, with his
skull factured, and he died while being
taken to the hospital. It was reported
that he had quarrelled with two canal
boatmen, and that ove of them had
knocked him down.
-A man named Glenn, just arrived
in El Paso, Texas, from Sonora, Mex«
ico, gives an account of the atrocities
of Geronimo and his Apaches in So-
nora and Southern Arizona: **The In-
illians seem encouraged, and are more
bloodthirsty than for several months,
and Mexicans and their families, as
well as the Americans, are indiscrim-
inately butchered when found. Three
surveyors who recently went into the
mountains have disappeared, and no
traces of them can be found, There
is no doubt they were butchered.
Northern Sonora is terribly excited
over the report that a body of Mext-
cans, numbering fifty men, have been
surrounded in the mountains and are
in danger of being massacred.”
-—A number of men gathered at a
house at the Cliff Mine, near Pittsburg,
got into a fight with Weston Butler,
colored. Butler drew a knife and
plashed Howeroft, who called for help.
The others wished to stop the fight,
but Butler, slashing right and left with
the knife at all who got within his
reach, succeeded in escaping. Five
and Joseph Yates, perhaps fatally,
— While two sections of a train carry-
ing Forepaugh’s circus was going up a
railroad on the 14th the first section
broke in two and dashed into the other
were severely injured,
—By an explosion of hot metal in the
converting department of the Bessemer
Steel Works at Johnstown, Penna., on
ly injured. All are expected to recover.
—~Chesley Perkins, aged 41 years, was
found dead in bed with his throat cut,
at Pittsburg, New Hamsphire, on the
15th. One year ago his father died,
leaving bum $75,000,
~—Patrick Reddington, city marshal
of Shannon, Illinois, was killed
Charles Lashell, on the 14th. Red-
dington was trying to arrest Lashell,
who was drunk, when the latter cut
him in the neck with a razor,
—The Cincinnati Art Museum, built
through the munificence of the
Charles W. West, who gave $150,000
upon the condition that the citizens
should give a like sum and who after-
wards gave $150,000 to endow the
musenm, was thrown open to the public
on the 17th. The ceremonies included
brief addresses by Mr. M. E. Ingalls,
President of the Art Museum Associa-
tion; A. I. Goshorn, director, and
Amor Smith, Jr., Mayor, and vocal and
instrumental music. The building is of
limestone, is fire-proof, well lighted
and entirely isolated except that a
kindred purpose stands near it. The
Situation 1s one of the highest points in
Eden Park. There is already a very
the new building.
—Mrs., James Collins was on the
17th found murdered in her bed in
Hoboken, New Jersey. Her husband
has been arrested for the crime.
wife of Theodore Charland, of Levis,
Quebec, was found murdered in her
house on the 16th. Her husband,
who was the only person in the house
at the time, has been arrested. A
telegram from Danville, Virginia, re-
boris a desperate fight at Martins.
ville on the 17th between between
Colonel P. D. Spencer and the Terry
brothers, J. K. Terry was killed, and
Spencer, Tarleton Brown, Hugh Dyer,
fearfully if not fatally wounded.
~Colonel “Bart.” Jenkins, Sergeant-
at-arms of the Kentucky Senate, quar-
reled on the 17th with his son William
at a botel dinner table in Frankfort.
and the latter red a revolver at the
‘ather, but neither was hurt.
~The latest reports of the tornado at
~elina, Ohio on the 15th show that
“hree persons were killed and seven in-
ured. Three of the latter were not ex-
»cted to recover,
~—An unknown, well-dressed man,
ander forty years of age, who said he
was from Camden. New Jersey, and
had family troubles, committed suicide
on the 17th by juping from a bridge
it Pittsburg,
~-At Joliet, lilinois, on the 17th, Al
bert Miller, 26 years of age, and Mrs
Black, a widow of 45, were found dead
in Miller’s room, each with a bullst
hole in the head. Mrs. Black had lived
with Miller some time. She was twice
married, and both her husbands died
suddenly.
~The President has signed the bill
granting the Kensington and Tacony
railroad the right of way through the
Arsenal grounds at Philadelphia,
~At the recent term of the U. 8.
Court at Jackson, Tennessee, twelve
persons were convicted of perjury,
forgery or other violations of the Pen-
sion laws, by which various sums of
money were wrongfully obtained, in
many instances on forged pension re-
ceipts, in the names of deceased pen-
sioners, Of twenty-nine indictments
returned for these offences seventeen
went over to the next term of Court,
~At Buffalo, on the 18th, Lorenzo
Dimwick, General Agent of the Conti.
nental Insurance Company, who was
convicted of grand larceny in trans.
ferring policies into other companies
after losses had occurred, was sen-
lenced by Judge Childs to five years
n_Asbum Pelion, A stay of pro.
ings was granted, pend an .
peal to a higher Court, . 9
~Plymouth White, alias Frauk
Parke, alias *Plin”’ White, a notorious
“confidence man,” died in Reading,
Vermont, on the 16th, He was about
67 years of age. It is said that during
the last thirty-five years of his life
he swindled business men, grangers
and confiding women out of sums
amounting in the aggregate to $1,500,-
000; that he crossed the ocean sixteen
times to escape arrest, and that he was
a higamist, two of his wives having
lived in Boston at the same time.
This consummate scoundrel was highly
educated, and refined in appearance
and manners.
—There was severe frost in New
Hampshire and Vermont on the 17th.
In some places early vegetables were
killed, and the fruit prospect was
seriously affected,
-—0One of the buildings of the Penn
Hardware Company at Reading,
Pennpa., was burned on the 18th. The
loss is estimated at about $25,000. The
barn of G. W, McPherson, at Dromore,
Lancaster county, Penna., was de-
stroyed on the 17th, by an incendiary
fire, with its contents, Loss $5000,
—Deputy U. 8. Marshall Andrews
and a posse of three men were all mor-
tally wounded by William Pigeon,
whom they were trying to arrest in the
Indian Territory a few days ago. Pig-
eon had killed twelve men, and a large
reward was offered for his capture,
dead or alive,
—A fire broke out in a hall in which
“Uncle Tom's Cabin’ was being per-
formed at Westerville, near Columbus,
burned
were or
mill at Kittanning, Penna., burst on
t was reported that six tramps were
| buried in the ruins, but their bodies
{ fire during a performance of “Uncle
| Tom's Cabin in Westerfield, Ohlo. on
| to recover.
—The house of Mrs. Mary Mooney,
{a widow, near Akron, Ohio,
| burned on the 18th, and her four chil-
dren, whose ages range from 4 to 12
years, perished. Lawrence Mooney,
dangerously, if not fatally, burned
{ while trying to save the children,
—Frank’s chemical factory, in Ho-
{ burned out by a fire which was pre-
sion. Three men in the third floor—
Edward Terry, John Hoffman and
Joseph Heiser—were terribly burned,
{ and are not expected to recover,
—There were four incendiary fires in
Little Rock eariy on the 18th, none of
which did much damage. It is sup-
to draw people from their dwellings and
then rob the houses,
~In Lincoln county, West Virginia,
| on the 17th, Mrs, Margaret Doonan, a
widow, insane from religious fanati-
cism, cut the throats of her three
12 years, and
plunging ti
then killed herself by
ie knife into her heart.
received from Connecticut
turers what is called a “‘riot gun,” for
use by the city police. It is a centre-
fire weapon, with a spring needle, and
shoots six times without reloading. Its
six shells each hold nine buckshot a
little larger than a twenty-two-c:
ball, “It operates rapidly, and is sai
to be very efficacious in scattering
crowd.”
James Whitney. a street-car driver,
{ was shot dead while turning his car
at a street corner in Denver on the
19th, The murderer is unknown. It
'is though. robbery was the object.
“Hal.” Geiger, a notorious colored
politician, was dead by O. D.
Cannon, Prosecuting Attorney, in the
Mayor's Court at Hearne, Texas, on
the 19th.
shot
language to the Prosecuting Attorney
‘and advanced towards him threat.
| ingly, Cannon thereupon drew a re-
volver and fired five shots in rapid
| succession into Geiger, each shot tak-
| Ing effect,
| 18th, John A. Flowers shot his wife
| and mother-in-law, Mrs. Decker, and
in an attempt to shoot bis brothec-in-
| law, Lester Decker, killed himself.
Flowers and his wife had been sepa-
rat and he called at her mother’s
to induce her to return to him.
~-5irs, Alice Pendleton, aged 061
years, wife of ex-Governor Pendleton,
of Ohio, and present Minister to Ber-
lin, was thrown from her carriage
while driving m Central Park. New
York, on the 20th, The result was
compound fracture of the skull and
concussion of the bram, from which
she died ten minutes after the accident,
~The Glendale coal breaker, near
Scranton, Penna., was struck by light-
ning on the 20th and totally destroyed,
Loss, $35,000; insurance $19,000,
~In New York on the 20th, Alder.
man Jachne was sentenced by Judge
Barrett to nine years and ten months’
imprisonment in Sing Sing Penitentiary,
A temporary stay of proceedings was
obtained from Judge Daniels, and an
order to show cause why the stay should
not be made permament pending ap-
peal. After hearing the application
Judge Daniels denied the motion, and
Jaehne was taken to Sing Sing,
—Julius Frankel, 32 years of
was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday,
charged with forgery. On searching
his rooms the police found bonds, mort-
gages and stocks amounting to half a
million dollars, which he claims are all
legimate property, The case will be
investigated. ’
~All the saloon keepers amd drug-
ists in Marshall, Illinois, have been
ndicted either for selling liquor with-
out a license or selling to minors,
I A ——
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
SENATE.
Frye eatilod up the if peo Bien
up the House
abolishing tte fees for measuring. ton.
nage, for issuing licenses, registering
A
it, as a new section, the provisions of
the bill recently reported by him from
the Committe on Commerce authoriz-
ing the President to issue a proclama-
tion, whenever he may deem proper,
denying %o vessels of foreign countries
such privileges as are denied in guch
foreign countries to vessels of the
United States, The amendment was
agreed to, and the blll as amended
passed, Then, on motion of Mr. Frye,
a Committeee of Conference was ord-
ered on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses upon the bill. The Peusion
bill was considered, pending which the
Senate went into executive session and
when the doors were reopened ad-
journed,
In the U. 8. Senate on the 18th, a
motion to take up the Staten Island
Bridge bill was lost—yeas 22, nays 2
—but the bill was permitted to retain
its place on the calendar. Mr, Coke
spoke in support of the Labor Arbi-
tration bill, which had been received
from the House, The Pension bill was
discussed. Mr. McPherson sald the
the Treasury. In order to
information as to the
amount, he moved that the bill be re-
committed to the Committee on Pen-
sions,
on the motion, the Senate went into
get some
were reopened, adjourned,
In the U. 8B. Senate, on
Staten Island Bridge
the 10th,
bill was
an amendment providing for a tunnel
instead of a bridge, He speke in sup-
went over, The Pension
hen came up, the pending ques
bill to the
to
committee,
instructions submit to the
be Incurred
motion was
would by its passage,
rejected —yeas
4 to 14, and goes to the
g
House, The Bankruptcy bill
In the U. 8. Senate on the 20th, the
and Mr. McPherson's amendment pro-
5, nays 40, The bill was then passed
with au amendment
Secretary of
alteration
sary, to avoid
of the bridge
obstruction to
neces
he expense of the owners,
two years the right to build shall cease.
The Bankruptcy bill was taken up, and
the Senate adjourned,
HOUSE
In the House a number of bills were
introduced and referred under the call
of States. The Urgent Deficiency bill
The rules were suspended
selling
Oth and 8th of June for the
the Committe on Pacific Railroads
The rules were suspended and a Senate
bill was passed —203 to S5—to provide
for the study of the nature of alcoholic
drinks and narcotics, and of their
effects upon the human system, in con-
nection with the severaldivisions of the
subject of physiology and hygiene by
the pupils in the public schools of the
Territories and of the District of Co'-
umbia, and in the military and naval
academies, and Indian and eolored
schools in the Territor f the United
States, Mr, ONeill, Missouri,
. from
pend the rules and adopt a resolution
setting apart the 3rd of June and sub-
sequent d for the consideration
of business presented by that commit.
tee, The resolution was agreed to.
te
Adjourned.
ys
from the Waye and Means Commiltee
reported a blil to reduce the penal sum
‘ .
of the bonds of cigar manufacturers to
$250, with an additional 850 for each
|
making cigars, Mr,
the Committee on Territories, reported
adversely a bill to regulate the manu-
in the Territories Laid on the table.
and the House went into Committee of
the Whole to consider them. Pending
debate on the mail subsidy clause, the
commitiee rose and the House adjourn-
ed. .
In the House on the 19th, Mr. Dib-
ble, of Son’ Carolina, from the Com-
mittee on tue Laws Regulating the
Election of President, reported a joint
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment creating and defining the
office of Second Vice President of the
United States. It was placed on the
calendar. The Senate amendments to
the Post-office Appropriation bill were
considered in Committes of the Whole,
the subsidy clause beng discussed
at some length. Finally general debate
was closed, the committee rose and the
House adjourned,
In the House on the 20th the Legis-
lative, Executive and Judical Appro-
priation bill was reported and referred
to the Committee of the Whole. The
House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Senate amedments to
the ost-office Appropriation bill, The
foreign mail subsidy claus having been
reached, Mr. Blount, of Georgia, mov-
ed non-concurrence therein, Mr. Bur-
rows of Michigan, moved concurrence,
with an amendment providing that not
more than $400,000 of the amount
($800,000) appropriated shall be paid to
existing American steamship Haes,
“and that so much of the balance as
may be required shall be expended in
Increasing the frequency of the postal
service of sach steamship lines, and in
the establishment of postal service of
such steamship lines, and in the estab.
lishment of postal service by American
built and red steamships between
the United and such porta of the
foreign countries herein named, not
gh connected with She Yaited States
nerican steamship lines, as the
Postmaster (General may elect, includ-
mi Ayres and Mentevideo,
A DAY SPENT IN GENEVA.
Life as Seen in the Great Stronghold
of Protestantism,
A ——————————————
Geneva 18 a thoroughly protestant,
though not a puritanical, center of
thought. Despite the presence among
them of a few thousand of free-
thinkers or atheists, the vast ma.
jority of whom are foreigners,
the people have a strong, robust
faith in Christianity of the Lutheran
school, I found, however, in nearly
every class of society a certain exclu-
glveness, which struck me as being
who number here
small fraction of the population.
a very
Prot-
he
ists in Geneva detest almost everybody
Pastors are here, *‘thick
leaves in Vallambrosa,” and the
There are, of course, many religious
promi-
nent one, A stroll through the town
on Sunday would show one how the in-
ficing one to the exigencies of the other.
In the forenoon we have the calm and
tranquility of the Sabbath, Silent
along to the different
places of worship, which are usually
very well attended, All the shops are
closed, and the tolling of the cathedral
and other bells reverberates solemnly
through the half-deserted streets, Ounce
however, the mid-day meal is over the
pearance. Jewelers’ shops and drapery
stores are open, the rush and roar
tusiness go on everywhere, and
cafes become filled with gay pleasure-
Ia no city 1 have visited did I
as
It
ia.
it,
as
the
Last Sunday 1
¥
Ui
here in the space of an hour or so.
bad in the morning far more of the
gubrious aspect of London about
while during the afternoon it was
banks of the Seine,
made my way to the brasseria de la rive
one of the largest drinking saloons in
Gréneva, in order to see what cafe life
The establishment was of
but ordinary width, but measured more
than six ordinary dram shops, On en-
first time, looked
tering it for the it
rors arrayed from floor to ceiling along
the walls, At the end of the salle was
playing
gay and rollicking selections from Off-
Around the tables were
women and children,
Seale
drinking
the
very pictare of delight and contentment,
I was seeing ladies
and gent umbers, but
I was, 1 amazed
beholding romping
wiping from their
yuds of cigar smoke that
told
currence,
ed men,
white wine and beer, and looking
wt surprised at
suc n
rather
ng babes and
the tears
lemen In
confess, at
toddli
gamins
eyes and the cl
filled the atmosphere; but I
that this was an ordinary oc
as it is the custom
families to spend the Sunday afternoon
in such a fashion.
Geneva was at one time the
Was
for
home of
French communists, till the late am-
nesty relieved the citizens of their soci-
ety. I was pointed out the table, in =»
cafe near Rhone, Henri
Rochefort, whe exile, used to sit
+) jr
wie fiapg
the where
n in
and write his articles for oO
Paris. Here the celebrated
would be surrounded by his faithful
friends and
ianterner
ory. Here also Jules Verne would pen
in the insurrectionary
bobtail of socialism t¢ which Switzer-
land affords a not over-willing or gen.
erous hospitality.
As
The Czar in the Crimea.
The charming Uttle watenng-place of
Yalta, called the Crimean Naples, has
become almost unbearable for ordinary
visitors since the czar's arrival at Liva-
dia. Everybody is watched and annoy -
ed by the host of spies, detectives, and
secret police. This extraordinary sur-
veillance is exercised without the knowl-
edge of his majesty, whois averse to
such excessive precautions, This was
shown during his visit to the Polish cap-
itol, when he broke loose from the re-
straint, evaded his guardians, and, with
the empress and only two attendants,
launching of two new war ships at Se.
bastopol at the end of the present
month,
~ A handsome bonnet {8 made entire
ly of jet, and trimmed with shaded
velvet tosas in tints of red. Over these
a veil of thinnest red gauze isdrawn, as
well as over a great part of the jet,
The effect is inconcelvably light and
ty, and extremely becoming, A late
ancy that is all the rage in New York
isthe riding hat. tis exactly like
a gentleman's high hat, ex. that
the crown is not so tall, It is shown in
black only. A Sry bonnet
TOWS upon ro «tinted pearl
beads had a Lot fnura
strings of gauge
ADULTERATED WINES,
Honest California Wine Growers Pro.
test Against the Adulterated
Product,
A correspondence has just been
printed In pamphlet form between the
chief executive of the California Viti-
cultural Commission and the Interne
Revenues Department with reference to
the use of sprits in ““fortifying’ native
wines, The correspondence shows a
leak in the revenue service of quite
extensiye proportions, an adulteration
of wines which is destrctive of the
pure article, and a danger to health,
which should be guarded against by
| strict laws.
|all alcohol other
from grapes is
than that distilled
deleterious to wine,
{hols are usually taxed, and that ex-
ply to alcohol distilled from the grape
when used to fortify wines,
{ fornia Commissioner shows that only
| those wines which contain saccharine
| matter, and which must be treated by
| €Xposure the atmosphere,
| contain distilled spirits, Dry wines,
{ other than sherries, need contain
| distilled spirits, and should not
| recognized as genuine if fortified,
10
upon the market is a fraud. The hon
{est sweel-winemakers demand the
| right to use untaxed their own pure
| wine spirits to preserve their product,
and when the winemaker is net—as ke
| should be-—a distiller i
| he should still, under proper
{ cure, free of tax, such wine spirits as
he may need in fortifying sweet wine,
What the honest wine producers are
i
i
i
| some relief from spurious winemakers,
| They charge the latter with fortifying
i
| “streteching’’ native wines w
143
iL
i water,
i
| both salicylic acid and the aniline dyes
{ are used to color clarets and wines of
|other grades. They object, further.
| "
| to the entry from abroad, under a low
which, at San Francisco alone, seventy
{ thousand gallons were imported last
| year.
These fraudulent “fruit
are
10 RE
juice
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A man who cannot command his
temper should not think of being a may
of business,
The faith of immortality depends on
a sense of it begotten, , On #1 Argue.
ment concluded,
Where we are ignorant,
where we stand blindly i
is in the light,
Life has no wretchednes
iil-assorted marriage it is th
of the heart, haunted by
past affections and hopes gone forever.
It is injurious to be in ; and
delay is often equally 80; he is wise
who does anything In proper time.
Tard and precipitation are ex
tremes equally to be avoided
It has Leen well said that no
ever sank under the burden «
(20d is wise
fn the dark, He
ir
iNess
man
Ue Gay.
3 #dded
’ 5
oh
ght
It is not necessary thou shouldst con-
Let
the inquiry of thine offense Le made in
let this judgement be
£200 Bee
anol
«one
the confession,
Let grace and goodnes be the princi-
pal loadstone of thy affections. For
Ave an end,
whereas that which is founded on true
rears tl
gentle
Lhe warm sunshine ang the
zephyr may melt the glacier which has
pest: so
touch the
subdue,
he voice of kindness will
h no severity could
Honor a trues
when
his
THicaLry
others to enter upon
continue them as he would
Ihe noblest spirits
nog i
that ¢
for the cloud
BOT-
he lark,
3 to disperse,
native
Visita
but in
wait
y thelr
Two persons came to a ¢ rgymen to
have a dispute settled. Each believed
ng. After he
iL in this way: *‘Let the in
ocent for-
All argument and effort are forever
LY
y
precious; so precious, in the
that
Vila
; alan 1 . ‘ § fy }
the alcohol contained in them
With
water
| matter another,
reduced with
‘ colored still
wit} acid, dealers can buy do-
wines at fifty cents per gallon
and retail them at thirty cents. There
is doubt adulteration of
| wines
i salicylic
mestic
1,
no A large
r
government exercises a strict supervi-
sion over all wines consumed at home,
wines for exportation are allowed to be
doctored at the pleasure of the manu-
facturer,
—————————— —
A Piano's Age.
“How long will
a piano last!
a reporter recently, of a
and repairer,
“You can bang a good one to death
in five vears: you can treat noder-
music of it for
the
4
iv
ariel rip? 1"
and get out
Was answer,
exercise
: t ch for the
| Of course the make of
Of an average
ter duration,
he piano, ex-
Pe
day of
na
1a
0 1 ial
t
4
strength,
when found, incur
the utmost hazard.
It cannot be too impressed
Lhe price
ns, and
aout it
t without
seeds,
Lestimony is ¢ Tow shot from a
bow: i force depends on the
strength of the hand that draws
Argument is like an arrow from a cross-
sthier
$4
The crown of man’s manhood is some
that
ian
tage he
of
he must 14
somewhere, spiritually or is
upon the things of God.
To aim at excellencs in one
a
14 dectually,
thing,
many, 10
and those few
with a whole soul, will greatly help to
ward off the tyranny of care,
here are moments in a man’s life
At such
elena af
Ciose al
#¢ has in the world is himself.
hand and should be listened to.
T™ rT . 2 ~ ov 2 pg fa aa
10 endeavor 0 drown sorrow is as
ourse of
sun to
Suid,
Nature must, and
have its way.
riorht
QuUgaL
If counteracted in her
{ Here 18 an old Pleyel grand piano
which has been in use for twenty-seven
years, It cost, when new, about $1200
in Paris, and could not be duplicated
now for less than $1100. I have just
made a contract to repair it for $150,
after which it will be as good as ever it
was and it will Jast just as long. Not
more than $250 could be realized on it
if sold, so that you see how wise 1% is
to have pianos repaired instead of sell.
ing the old and buying a new one. Es-
pecially so with a piano of this make
and form. There is little or no sale
for grand pianos just now and even the
square are out of fashion. They take
up too much room. By the figures
of twenty-seven years ago and now for
a Pleyel of this kind you will see that
there has been but little depreciation
In price, the action then was as good as
now, and some say that the old make
Pleyels are better than the new.”
“You've never known a piano to last
longer than this one #**
“No; and this is a rare instance. It
evidently never had any boarding-
house or boarding-school experience,
has been well treated and is of the best
make. Whenever you hear anybody
say anything about a piano having been
used for over twenty-five years you may
rest assured that for a number of these
years there has been no music in it,
The large majority of pianos give out in
less than a score of years, By that
time moderate use has so cut the felt
of the bammers which strike the
chords that the notes are sharp and
harsh, and refelting at least is neces-
sary. The felt with which we do this
repairing comes in sheets of graded
thickness to correspond to the chords,
80 that we have only to fit 1t on,"
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A UNICAGO Y woman Has her hair
match her The horse is
or later from the offender.
it is
DO Snail
a secret kuown to bul few, yet
use the conduct of hfe,
a man's conver-
t thing you ould con-
sider is whether be bas a greater incli-
you should
Tr
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bear him.
Keep the tongue from unkindness.
Words are sometimes wounds, not very
deep wounds always, and yet they irri-
tate. Speech is unkind sometimes,
when there is no unkindness in the
heart. So much the worse, that unin.
tentional pain is caused,
Common sense is looked upon as a
vulgar quality, but nevertheless it is
the only talisman to conduct us prosper-
ously threugh the world, The man of
refined sense has been compared {0 one
who carries about him nothing but
gold, when he may be every moment in
want of smaller change.
In the memoir of Dr. E. N. Kirk it
is recorded that some one asked him
how a Christian should best show him.
self a Christian in society, His reply
was, “1 always put myself in this at-
titude before leaving home: ‘Lord, give
me an opportunity to honor thee, and a
heart to embrace the opportunity,’
This is all our Lord requires.’
It is not the “‘flesh,’’ nor the “‘eye,'’
nor the “life,”” which are forbidden,
but it is the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
It 1s not this earth, nor the men who
inhabit it, nor the sphere of our legit-
imate activity that we love, but the way
in which the love is given, which con-
stitutes worldliness.
Nothing seems to teach us that God
is all on our side, 1t has taken men
6,000 years to find out some part of the
provision for our good which He has
laid up in the material world, and is
seems 1b will take us even longer to dis
cover the provision He has made for
feeling and thought and for spiritual
strength and joy.
Ir you wish to give an extra touch
to your cottage pudding, after itis in
the tin ready to bake put little lumps
of butter on the top and scatter sugar
and cinnamon over it,
A NEw Yong farmer states that