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J. A. NASH,
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Yes, I must leave you all, dear ones,
My truest friends on earth,
For childhood days and riper years
Make plainer still your worth.
Oh ! feeble. faint, and trembling still,
Are all the words I say ;
When my full heart seems btrrsting, then
For you, dear ones, I pray.
Father, you're growing old. No more
The firm, free footstep's thine ;
And on thy head, a glorious crown,
The silvery locks now shine.
Father! thy daughter loves thee well ;
Though erring oft, yet give
Thv blessing ere I leave thy home,
In a new home to live.
Mother 1 with reverent lips I speak
The holiest name I know—
Oh, thou art true, though all forsake
They daughter her below !
Mother, forgive they tears I've caused
From thy fond eyes to flow,
And with thy trembling lips now bless
Thy daughter, as I go.
Sister ! I leave you all. And now
A faithful memory brings
Some bitter memories back to me,
Upon her darkened wings.
I Lave not loved as !ton have loved ;
Forgiving all the wrong,
So gentle still, with all thy faults,
You've loved me well and Jong.
Brothers 1 upon life's stormy sea
I've launched my trembling barque ;
Oh, let forgiveness from you all,
Make its dark waves less dark I
It is a stormy sea, God knows,
And dark the clouds above;
Yet there arc golden streaks that gld—
These are—forgiveness—love.
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And now it comes at last. Farewell,
The loved and true of home ;
Though oft within your sacred walls
Your Mary still will come,
Yet not as in th?. days gone by,
4.1 s one of you to live;
But give a kindly welcome still,
And all the past forgive.
Life's battle must be fought, and we
The victory must win ;
Yet not with folded hands, but with •
Brave hearts the strife begin. •
New homes we all must make, you know,
And happy, if we will ;
By loving, working, we can all
Our destiny fulfill.
Farewell I My seat is vacant, now ;
Another bids me come,
And, with a cheerful, loving heart,
Make light within his home.
You know I love you all—my heart
Still clings to its first love ;
Have faith in God, and tie will keep
A home for all above.
(Tijc torß—triftlicr.
OLD ELSPA.
I was alone in the world, or I thought
I was, which amounted to pretty much the
same in its mental and moral effects. My
mother died when I was so young that I
had only a shadowy remembrance of a pale
face and a long, last clasp to the loving
heart. I bad been my fatherriet and
darling, and now he was dead, too, and his
will had consigned me, just like a bale of
goods, to the care and guardianship of his
brother, a doctor, whose home lay amongt,l
the picturesque mountains of Cumberland.
I was "toe impulsive," said the-will and
would "throw myself and my money away
before I knew the value of either, if I had
no one to take care of JIIC ;" and so when
my poor father died in the south of France,
where we had gone to winter, Uncle Ritson,
who came barely in time to ay him in the
foreign grave, carried me off at once to his
house on the bleak hillside, gave me a kiss
as he lifted me out of the stuffy vehicle
which had conveyed us from the station,
presented me to my aunt and cousins with
a 'Well, here's Adele!" and told me to
consider myself "at home."
It was the beginning of January, in
tensely cold. The sudden change from a
warmer climate had sensibly affected me;
I was chilled under all my furs and per
baps more chilled by the restraining influ
ence of my father's will, having pondered
the "too impulsive" all through the :our.
ney."
Certainly, I was not "too impulsive" on
my entrance to nay new "home."
Aunt and cousins had met me on the
threshold with warm welcome, pressed to
remove my raps and make me comfortable.
There was a huge fire blazingon the hearth,
a tea-table piled with north country lux
uries, and all that should have made me
feel at home ; but some4hing was wanting,
and instead of responding to their greet.
ings in my own natural fashion, I dropped
into a seat, after my first glance around,
and, covering my face with my hands,
burst into tears.
I have small, thin, quick ears. I over
heard aunt Ritson whisper ,to Beim and
Winnie as she drew them back :
"flush I. It's but natural, poor bairn
Leave your cousin alone, lasses; she will
come to herself all the sooner."
And I did come to myself; but whether
my tears had fallen frostily on their hot
hearth, or we travelers had brought a chill
in with us, or my own manner did not in•
vite effusion, a certain air of restraint
seemed to grow upon us; and when I was
shown to the room set apart for me, and
left to myself, I flung myself upon my bed
and sobbed in passionate grief for my dead
father, declaring that I was alone in the
world, utterly alone.
And this feeling grew upon me. Look
ing back, I am conscious that it was much
my own fault that I had not responded
with sufficient warmth and gratitude to
the relatives who had made room in their
household for one they had not 9cen since
she was a baby, and had met with open
armq and hearts.
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They had heard that I was gushini , and
exuberant, a creature of impulse, and find
ing me reserved and languid, concluded
that I, accustomed to elegance and luxury,
could not brook the homeliness and retire
ment of my new life. I was rich, and
they were not. They mistook my morbid
melancholy for pride, and ceased to press
their society or attentions on me, lest I
should attribute to them mercenary motives.
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I see it all now, but then I was blind.
I had another grief at my heart besides
sorrow for my dead parent, and I fear
whenever my thoughts flew to that lonely
grave among the Pyrenees, I questioned
the policy which had so isolated me from
the world—the world in which my hero
lived and moved—and prisoned my free
soul among those unresponsive walls of
stone.
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In this rhapsody I did not apostrophize
alone the four walls of the solid stone house
that, set against the mountain side, with a
background of pine, larch and mountain
ash, looked so cold and gray, staring with
its many lidless eyes from its rocky perch
above the straggling lake village, on the
steep. unguarded roadway in front, and
The Last Night at Home
BY MARY N. KIRER DILWORTII
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR
the narrow strips of garden ground stretch
ing like green arms on either side.
No, I held converse with the mountains
They were to me the barrier between love
and life and happiness, but it was only on
their solitary heights I felt free to give
the feeling utterance. The thrifty house
hold ways of my aunt and cousins, which
kept them ever busy, were strange to me.
My dainty fingers had no acquaintance
with rolling pin or paste beard. It was
not I who kept so bright the mirror in
which I saw my own beauty—aye, and my
own unhappiness—reflected. I was sup
plsed to be mourning, and with mistaken
delicacy, was left to do—nothing.
Had Uncle Ritson known it, or how I
spent my time, he would have shaken me
up like a bottle of physic, and I should
have been the better fbr it. But whether
on foot, or horseback, or in his ancient
gig, lie was off in the morning, and fre
quently was absent all day. His patients
were scattered, and his rounds extended
I, having no occupation for hands or
energies, feeling myself something apart
from the rest, was off and away up the '
breezy hillsides to the lon?ly margin of the
lake, or into the most secluded g'eas, my
only companion my faithful dog; and
there, where there was only the wind to
answer me, I poured forth all the pent-up
feeling of my heart; and oft my gusts of
passion found utterance in song. At times
I took a pencil and sketch-book with me
in these wanderings, but there was ever
one figure in the foreground of the must
picturesque scene, and often enough the
picture was there alone, the adjuncts all
forgotten.
At first Bella or Winnie had borne me
company, but I think they saw my longing
to be alone ; and I had my way, not with
out many cautiops from my aunt.
What were perils to me, chaffing against
the restraint of my father's will, crying
from the depths of my utmost heart for
the banished love, who would never find
me in those solitudes, and longing for
wings to traverse land and sea until I found
my home on his faithful bosom ?
Lost in abstractions, all danger was for
gotten, and I had paid the penalty but f,r
a guardian angel little dreamed of.
My first peril was from the mountain
mist, which came down and around me
with bewildering suddenns?ss, blotting out
the landscape far and near.
Still I thought I knew my way, and was
stepping onward, though with caution,
when my dress was clutched from behind,
as I fancied by some hush ; turning to dis
entangle it, I was confronted with what
seemed an awful apparition looming through
the misty veil, and with a suppressed cry,
I stood still in affright.
• I saw a woa►an's form, bent with age. a
face intersected with lines and wrinkles
like a map, from which nose and chin
stood out like mountain peaks, and the
sunken eyes gleamed like fiery depths of
two volcanic craters.
"Stop, my !eddy !" she cried, "the gates
of death are open hef)re ye ! Take my
baud and le me lead you ; titan!: God, my
bairn, that Elspa was near you in your
I had heard . of Flspa as a woman wh , )
dealt in herbs and simples, but I had beard
Of her as one with an uncanny reputation.
was spoken of as "the wise woman,"
btt.ther words were uttered as if they meant
"witch."
I 'Jobless I was half afraid to accept her
guidance, but she stampd her fo)t, and
by gesture strong as words gave me to un
derstand that I had been walking toward.;
a precipice, and three steps farther would
have borne me to destruction.
What landmark she had I know not,
but I think she seemed to feel her way
with her feet. /U all events, after about
an hour's cautious stepping, we stood be
low the mist, the blue lake gle•lining like a
mirror farther down, and my uncle's house
within sight. Conscious of the service she
had rendered, I did not confine my thanks
to words, but was liberal with my coin.
As she took "the shier," she scanned
my face curiously, then seized my hand,
peered into it closely, while a sort of creepy
sensation (excusable in a girl of 19) stole
over me.
Once, twice,
thrice ! Three perils, my
bonnie leddy. One is past. The ithers
lie before. Perils of your ain seeking.
The gates of death stand in the path of
your true love. Open them not with rash
or heedless hands before the year be out,
or love may mourn for love that couldua
bide. The air of mountain and of lake is
na gude for ye, bairn. Koep mair at hame
and dinna he misdoubtin'. There's a gude
God above a' ! Remember!! One danger is
overpast. Tae' heed ye see not the ithers ;
and dinna scoff at old Elspa's warnin words"
The old woman trotied off with her
basket on her arm, a rusty black bonnet
on her head, garments poor but clean, and
only a small check woolen handkerchief to
protect her from the chilly mountain mists
I had scarcely decided whether to laugh
at her maunderings or to yield to the su
perstitious feeling she had awakened when
I opened the house door to find all within
in a state of excitement.
It wai long past the dinner hour and
my absence had alarmed them. Of course,
I explained the cause of delay and it was
only by Aunt Ritson's agitation that I
fully comprehended the danger I had es
caped. I think her motherly concern made
me more communicative than u.tial.
We were still speaking of Elspa when
my uncle came in.
!" said he as Winnie helped him
off with his overcoat, "ah ! my , dear, you
might thank your stars Elspa was on the
mountain side. I dare say . sha bad fol
lowed you. The old scotch woman ►s
shrew and fir sceing ; she has turned her
eighty years' experience to account, has a
good practical knowledge of common nil
uients and curative simples. I should lose
my own credit or I might do worse than
take her as an assistant ;" and he laughed
"Then she can read character with any
physiognomist in the world, and the silly
folk think her prophetic, when she is only
clear eyed."
I think my uncle was using an invisible
probe. I know I colored and he laughed
again, but said nothing—nor did I.
The excitement had all been on my ac
count. Bella has received an invitation
to spend some months with a newly mar
ried friend in London, and good natured
Winnie was in high glee. Even aunt ac
knowledged it was a chance not to be miss
ed, if possible ; and I saw her glance fur
tively in Uncle Ritson's face, which I
fancied was graver than usual. Still, pos
sibilities were not discussed in my pres
ence. It was not until I had retired to
my own room for the night that I over
heard the sisters discussing the problem,
unmindful of the thin partition between
the head of my bed and theirs. I found that
money—or its scarcity—stood in the way,
and heard the chances of the matrimonial
market calculated with a balance greatly
in favor of London.
DAY JANUARY 24, 1879.
;Money! How I hated the word ! I
would have given every shilling I possessed
to be assured that Edgar Neville was true
to ape and would seek me out when the
peiied of probation prescribed by my fath
er pas none
by. But where could he seek
lot me ? orrespondeuce had been for
bidden. He knew not my address, and
14 father had withheld Edgar's from me.
Ah, how he repented before he died ! How
giad he would have been to have left me
in these strung protective arms !
I soon bridged the monetary difficulty
over in spite of my uncle's opposition. and
I think I showed something of my old self
in the spirit with which I entered into the
needfdl preparations for Miss Ititson's
launch on the sea of London society, little
thinking what might be its import to my
self.
ft was May when she went. I suggest
ed'that she should lighter, mourning, be
ing about to visit a bride—a hint she seem
ed glad to take, for her pretty lavender
bonnet set off her face much better than
her heavy crape.
She kissed we very heartily before stie
got into the gig beside her father to be
driven to the station to which her boxes
had already been dispatched, and I felt
more satisfied with myself than I had done
singe I har crossed the Cumberland border.
]getters filled with the wonders she had
seen and the places she had visited broke
up the monotony of our lives. Then came
on%from Hastings, in which she told of
her introduction to a Mr. Neville.
I think my pulse stopped as Winnie
read out the name. I know aunt asked
me if I was ill—if the heat was too much
for me. But I drew myself together, said
"nothing" was the matter, and tried to
convince myself that the name was a corn-
DIM) one.
Again and again we heard of this same
Mr. Neville, and my heart began to be
torn with doubts and suspicions, and a very
demon of jealously _seemed to take posses
sionof my breast. I felt assured that Bella
was . in lotto with him, and that he was the
Edgar Neville of my adoration ; all that
she' tated of his appearance and family
were convincing.
At length a letter came. addressed in a
manly hand to Uncle Kitson, with Edgar's
well ;known crest upon the Beal. It was a
proposal for my cousin's hand.
head swum around, but I sumnionA
courage to ask Mr. Neville's Christian
name. lie had merely signed J. E. Ne
4, that was it, sure enough—John
Edgir
I bad my back towards my uncle, stand
ing s jn the doorway, as I asked. No one
notteed bow l staggered into the hall, or
howl snatched my hat from the stand and
dartk up.the mountain side to cool my
feveiteetbrow and still my throbbing pulses.
Elowl went or where I went I could never
rem per. I have some recollection of
falli as I bounded across a beck, of old
Elspgti face bending over me, and then
no ciieire, until I found myself in my own
snow Lod, with Winnie watching me and
an a - i : of physic bottles on the wind'w
seat.
Elspa had found ma where T had fallen,
half in and half out of the stream. Una
ble to drag me thence, she had summoned
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help with a peculiar' listle she kept sus
pended to lir. gird the shrill note of
which no shepherd red to disobey.
It brought a couple of shepherds to the
spot. My limbs were lifted out of the
stream—she lqd already bathed my brow
arid had plastered up my temple—and
then I was carried slowly down to inter•
rupt the answer Uneie.Rition was sending
to Bella and Mr. Neville
My fall and the immersfon were accred•
ited with the prolonged fever which almost
baffled my uncle's skill. If any one sus
pected otherwise it was old Elspa, but she
was too "wise" to revert to the subject
when she came to see me er&'my conva
lescence.
Very slow was my recovery, retarded no
doubt by the scraps Winnie read to me as
pleasant news from her sister's letters It
was now "Eddie" this, or "Eddie" that,
and as I shut my eyes and ground my
teeth, the better to endure, I felt indig
nant that my noble-fronted Edgar should
have a pet name like a baby. To me he
had the majesty of a monarch. How could
she address him so?
I was down stairs before the Christmas
came, able and willing to assist my aunt
in her multitinduous preparations, and tried
to smile and look gratified during the
Christmas merry making.
I heard, but hardly seemed to realize,
that Bella was to be married early in the
new year, and that she and her husband
would come to spend the honeymoon with
us, and I was doing my best to nerve my
self tbr the meeting
The old year was closing in. Elspa—
who else ?—came up to the house with a
letter she found lying in a byroad. It
should have been delivered some days pre
viously ; and it was supposed that the
Postman had taken more drink than was
gond for him during the .Claristmas "card
'and dropped it by tiai.way.
Goodness ! how that ittipr stunned me !
Bella was by that time married_ She and
her husband was to be ,With us on New
Year's Day, and they should brio.. ' with
them a New Year's gift . tbr Cousin Adds,
as a thank offering firs bringing them to
gether. Their photortivphs were inclosed.
I only saw one. Ye , it was Edgar's.
There was no mistake.
The house was at once in a bustle of
preparation. Again slipped, out to hide
my agony and prepare myrielf for the coin
inr•
Dreamily I went along. I saw nothing
beFore me but that meeting oriihe morrow
and the revelation it was sure to bring - .
My mind seemed a chaos, in which thought
was lost.
All at once I found myself on the reedy
margin of the lake, as the silver circle of
the moon was rising ablve the mountain
tops And there I stood, looking on the
dark waters, while something seemed to
whisper to me that t.here was peace, that I
need not meet the proud bride and my in
constant lov, r unless I chose ; that I might
hide my sorrows and secrets there, and
none to be the wiser.
Ny foot was on the brink. There was
a step on the stones behind me. I turned;
and I think my half formed purpose was
visible in my face, as I once more confront
ed old Elspa, weird and witch-like in the
moonlight, a warning finger held up
Sharp were her words, sharp as my need.
She bade me go down on my knees, and
thank God that he bad sent her to save me
from my third peril—the peril of body
and soul. What was I pulling over ? What
right had I to fling away the life that was
given for the service of others ? How
dared I tempt death, loving the creature
more than the Creator ? She had heard
me raving to the winds when I thought
myself alone, and had kept a watch upon
mc.. And she bade me go back home, and
pray to be forgiven, and "trust the Lord
to make his dark ways plain."
Sho took my hand and led me back like
a penitent child ; said to my aunt drat she
thought. I was mot well, and, by her leave,
would watch me through the night. Some
thing, too, she gave, and I slept.
When I awoke a chaise was at the gate,
and before I could fasten my dress with
my trembling fingers Bella had burst in,
radiant with happiness, and flung her
arms around me.
"Come, Ade!a, make haste !" said she,
"Edward is al iniptienee to see you and
show you our New Year's gift"
"Edward !" I gasped.
"Yes, my dea . .. Edward ! Did you not
know his name ?"
It was all a tangh% I followed her to
the living room below, where the great
holly bush was hanging, and there stood
a stranger who was introduced to me as
James Edward Neville, my new cousin—
and surely, too, Edgar, my own Edgar ;
for he held out hi, arms and caught me as
I was falling. _ _
He had been best man at his cousin's
wedding, and Bella had only seen him a
few days previously. The postman must
have lost another letter, one Edgar had
sent me. The photograph had been inclos
ed by mistake. The other would be in the
lost letter.
Old Elspa kept my secret well But I
never forgot the lesson bhe had taught we;
and though Edgar carried me away from
Cumherland as proud a wife as Bella, we
took good care of old Elspa for the rest of
her days.
sclert glisttliang.
A Man-Baby.
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF A MAN 22
YEARS OLD WHO IS STILL AN IN
FANT.
From the New York Times.)
In the second story of one of the low
rickety wooden buildings on the east side
of Chatham street, in humble apartments.
there lives nne of the most curious of hu
man monstrosities. It is a boy, or man, 21
years and six months old, having been born
in 1857, that in all respects, physically and
mentally. he is nothing more than an over
grown infant. Its parents are Mr. and Mrs
Jacuet Jenu, of 165 Chatham street, in
dustrious French people. The child was
born on the 10th of June, 1857, and was
christened Jule. Up to his eighth month
he did not differ from other children ; but
at that age he was taken sick with measles,
and for six months it was thought that be
could not live, one childish disease follow
ing rapidly upon another. His last ailment
and the one to which his parents ascribe
his deformity, was one that baffled the at
tending physician, and is described by the
father as •‘the English disease." Both
physical and mental growth seemed to he
arrested by this disease The boy is not
quite three feet high, but measures four
feet around the Waist, being inordinately
corpulent.. His head is well shaped ;
looks much too Tarr for his body, being
more than two feet in circumference. His
hands, and feet are exceedingly small, like
those of a. one year-old infant, and he
weighed' 160 pounds. Every effort has been
made to educate him, but he is not capa
ble of leirning anything. When he was
ten Years old he was scarcely two feet high,
but weighed almost 100 pounds. The phy
sician who attended at his birth predicted
that he would not live to be 14 years old.
but he is now in good health. The boy's
skin is remarkably soft and white, like a
baby's. All of his habits are childish, and
he can speak only a few words, such as
"papa," mamma," 'yef-," and "no." His ex.
trcuie corpulence prevents him from walk
ing, but he is very active with his hands
and feet. He amuses himself with child
ish toys, and is very shy when strangers
are about Ex police Surgeon Baker, who
has watched the case very closely for sev
eral years, says it is the most wonderful
case he ever heard of. 'the boy has been
examined by a number of scientists who
have all came to the conclusion that. he is a
perfect baby in mind and body. His fath
er has been approached by many showmen
who were anxious to add the boy to their
list of attractions, but Mr. Jenu has de
dined every offer, not desiring to have his
son exhibited to the public.
Elephants.
Elephants have hitherto been shot down
rather too freely in India, and rather too
much so in Africa and Ceylon, and it is
only of late years that their true value has
been recognized. Within the last few
months steps have been taken by Col.
Gordon Pasha to acclimatize the Indian
elephant to equatorial Africa, and it
appears not improbable that this expari
went may lead to the removal of what has
hitherto been the chief obstacle to the
opening up of that wondrous continent—
the question of locomotion. An idea of
their value in India may be formed from
the fact that a herd of :55, caught in one
day, was estimated to represent a profit,
after deducting expenses, of £4,000. After
this the Government will do well in the
interests of the Indian finances to prohibit
the indiscriminate slaughter of this useful
beast by roving sportsmen. Sir Samuel
Baker's spirited biolis on elephant shoot
ing in Ceylon showed how far more ex
citing than lion-hunting such sport was,
and what a much stronger claire to the
title of the king of the beasts the elephant
enjoyed. Mr. Sanderson has gone further;
he has studied the habits of the beast with
professional interest and even affection,
awl the pictures he draws give an insight
into the idiosyncrasies of the Indian ele
phant which has never hitherto been ob
tained. English readers may probably be
surprised to hear that twice round an ele
phant's foot is his height, and there is
probably no elephant in India which
measuresas much as ten feet at the shoulder.
On the other band, what the elephant
lacks in height he makes up in longevity
The general opinion of experienced natives
is that in captivity he usually attains
eighty years, and one hundred and twenty
years in exceptional cases; but our author
believes that the elephant attains at least
one hundred and fifty years. The ques
tion, "Where do the elephants die ?" is
apparently as far from solution as ever,
for Mr. Sanderson, like Sir Emerson Ten
neat, confesses that he never came across
the carcass of one that had died a natural
death.
HAPPrNEss closely resembles a very
popular disease—one bright day with a
day of chill and fever on either side.
SOLOMON truly sayeth: "A merry
heart doeth good like a medicine; but a
broken spirit drieth the bones."
Round Pegs in Square Holes.
Hollidaysburg Standard ]
There are a great many of them. No
young man's hair would turn while from
age while in the search for one. No old
man, though he had but a winter day's
lease of life would need despair of finding
one, if duty demanded such a task in his
last moments. They are everywhere—ex.
cept in heaven and the grave They are
self perpetuating and are as prolific as
slander itself. You run against them every
hour of the day—at every corner, in every
calling and vocation of life. They are
positiv 4 .! facts; though in must cases they
may as well be phantoms for all the use
they are. They are real flesh and blood
though, and as they go blundering through
life, doing good neither for themselves nor
f-r others, one looks at them in pity, while
thinking with indignation of somebody s
mistake
Before proceeding with this artic'e it
..may be well to say that in what, follows we
are dealing with a clms, and not with in
dividuals. Doubtless some unfortunate
being who finds himself a round peg in a
square hole, and who would fain conceal
the discovery from a smiling world, will
. get into a passion with this article. But
we solemnly declare that, so far as possible,
individuals have been driven from our
mind, and we have only in view a (lase., of
whom what follows is said in the hope that
some word or thought may prove helpful
to a parent who is about to decide the
future calling of his son. Or, mayhap,
the boy himself, reading this, may gagne
his own mental calibre and guard against
a fatal mistake—a mistake which might
wreck his life.
No man will deny that the two learned
professions of law and medicine are over.
crowded Further, while there comes up
from the theological seminaries of the
various denominations the' cry that the
number of young men who are preparing
for the ministry is constantly decreasing,
it is also a notorious fact that there are to
day thousands of ministers in this country
who are sitting in the market places with
folded hands because no man has hired
them. On the other hand it is au equally
patent fact that there are thousands of
congregations without the aid of a pastor.
All of which goes to prove that in the
highest and holiest calling to which man
can aspire there are many who have mis•
taken their own notions for the voice of
God. But that will suffice as to the min
istry. It is not the province of a secular
paper to discuss theological problems, and
the abode is only brought in here to show
that even in the ministry there are many
round pegs in square holes, while a good
many pegs, both round and square, are in
no holes whatever, and vice versa.
It is admitted that the learned profes
sions are overcrowded ; that there is a
growing indisposition to muscle toil upon
the part of the rising generation. Why ?
There are various answers. In the brief
space allotted a newspaper article it is-im
possible to even name all A hurried
glance at one or two mast. suffice. It is
asserted that mar common school system is
largely responsible for the
.growing aver
sion to honest labor. The argument is
that our methods of instruction are such
that the young man,.as he gains a smatter
ing of knowledge, finds his self esteem
growing to enormous dimensions. He
cuaclucies that manual labor is dishonorable,
and the words which fall from the lips of
his teacher confirm his growing opinion.
Thus it comes that his distaste for honest
labor grows with his growth and strength
ens with his strength. When he reaches
the proper age he gravitates into some law
or medical office, and that without the
slightest reference to his ability, and in
due course of time is inflicted upon some
community a fifth rate lawyer or physician
If his opportunities do not allow this, he
grows up in idleness, which rapidly de
generates into dissoluteness and crime, and
he becomes a criminal and the father of
criminals, entailing enormous expense
upon the commonwealth whose false system
of education has made him what he is. If
this statement be true, one may well shud
der at the terrible sins which must be laid
at the door of the common school teacher.
But is it true ? In some instances,
partly. In most cases, no. It is a con
venient way human nature has of shuffl
ing off its sins on the back of its next
neighbor. The school teacher makes a
very convenient scape goat, but for all
that he will not bear the entire burden on
the final day. It is granted that there are
many unwise teachers, who, by injudicious
attempts to stimulate a false ambition by
lying flattery, in order to gain and retain
the good will of selfish patrons, by neglect
ing to give the true mental measure of
their pupils, do assume a portion of the
blood guiltiness. But it is not just to lay
the sins of a few inexperienced or un
principled people upon the shoulders of a
class of men and women who are honest in
their efforts to do good to the young by
giving them right conceptions of the re
sponsibilities and opportunities which the
future is bringing them.
The home is the fountain of most of the
evils which trouble the country. The
fifth rate doctors and lawyers and preachers
come, not from the schools, but front the
homes. They are the products, not so
much of our system of public instruction
as that more subtle and more powerful in
struction which they get around the family
hearthstone. No man who takes the
trouble to keep his eyes and ears open but
will come to this conclusion. The homes,
are the great fountains of blessing and
cursing The influences which they wield
are potential, and from them will issue the
men and women who will either purify
and save the Republic, or rend it into a
thousand fragments. Let us look hurriedly
into a typical home or two.
Hon. Mr. Dash is an eminent lawyer.
His fame is not limited to local bouudries.
Ile is a man of unquestioned ability. He
is a leader of men His success in his pro
fession, to say nothing of politics, has
brought him a competence. But he is Ilgt
noted for his business shrewdness, and the
probability is that his death will leave his
family practically destitute. He is the
father of a son. The boy is entirely unlike
his father. His tastes are dissimilar. He
has no fancy for book knowledge. He
possesses no fluency of speech. He is not
devoid of sense, but finds it impossible
either to write or deliver a speech. He is,
in fact, nearly a failure. There is a chance
that he might make a respectable mechanic.
What does the father do ? Does he ap
prentice that boy to some master mechanic
that he may be taught some useful trade?
Not at all. That would be considered dis
graceful. What I the son of Hon. Mr.
Dash a common mechanic ! Never. And
the boy is forced through school until he
has graduated in some shape either at a
loge, t
legal or medical col sod is turned
adrift with a profession, *
without the
ability to use it. What hake result ?He
drags out a miserable existence, often
shortened by excesses to which he is tempt
ed by his consciousness of failure and by
the difficulties which crowd his pathway,
and finally dies, bequeathing to the cold
charity of the world a helpless family.
We should like to present the case of
the successful physician, the wealthy pro
fessional or business man, whose incompe
tent children are treated in precisely the.
same way and sent forth to swell the grand
army of humbugs. who are crowding each
other for a precarious foothold and a pre
carious living, and who are humbugs, not
through their own faults, but because of
the foolish pride of their parents .
One more example must be given to
complete the picture. Here is honest Mr.
Blank's boy; what shall be done with him ?
Mr. Blank is a hard-working mechanic or
farmer. By industry and economy he has
laid a snug little sum by for a rainy slay.
And now his boy has grown from babyhood
to youth. Something must be done for
that boy. What shall it be ? Of course
Mr. Blank loves him and is proud of him.
He sees possibilities lurking back of that
fair young brow. He calls to him his good
wife and they talk of the boy's future. He
shall not follow his father's calling; that
is certain. He shall not be a mechanic or
a farmer He shell have a good education
and then he shall be a lawyer. They have
the money and it shall be thus applied.
There shall be at least one gentleman in
the family. And so the matter is settled,
and the boy knows that he is to be a law
yer when he grows to be a man. And he
despises farmers and mecharttite according.
ly and looks with awful reverence upon
all the lawyers that pass within range of
his vision. Now, the truth is that the boy
is a very ordinary boy. There are thou
ands much brighter than he who will nev
er dream of the law. He lias not the in
tellectual calibre to achieve saccees. He
may make a pettifogger; be can never be
a lawyer
We have not had space to enumerate
these pictures. But are they not tree ?
And are we not. convinced that the grow
ing contempt for honest labor originates,
not in our schools, but in our homes 2-And
may it not be traced largely to parental
affection ? It will be remedied when law
yers and doctors and teachers deal with
the utmost frankness with such misguided
parents. Yon are a lawyer. A father
brings his son to your office and enters
him as a legal student under your instruc
tion. In three months time or lees you
have gauged the young man's ability. Yon
know precisely how much chance there is
for his achieving success in your profession.
Suppose he has no ability; can you not,
as an honest man, go to the father and
say : "My dear sir, your boy will not make
a lawyer. There are peculiar qualifications
required for success in the legal profession,
and he does nattliirtiera. Take my ad
vice and put hipkat %rattling elsewhere
where his chances for suecesttwill .•
er." This may seem MS!! B%ay
first, but the parent isiltlkisike yon
end. Let, physicians dio the'same
Let teachers cease to fletteraseesistal
ity by giving Johnny v' Mtge
, •
which he does not poe e's . In'short, in
the spirit of truset charity, 10 the exec*
truth be told always to ail men, and
though vanity and selfesteem may get
many an ugly wound, ttier4 will be fewer
round pegs in square .holes.
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A Gambling Incident.
I once found myself on a steamer going
down the Alabama river. These itemery
have on the saloon deck, a very 1(41i/cabin,
and at one end of the cabinis a bar where
liquor and cards are sold. One evening,
for the voyage oceuied several days, a
passenger asked me whether I would play
at whist; I asiented, and a whist party
was made up. 't soon perceived that I
and a decent looking, old man, who was
one of the players, were being
by the two others, but I played Rniutbrea
until overy one except the captain, who
was seated at the other end of the cabin,
had gone to bed; then my brother victim,
rafter paying his losses, wbioh amounted
to several hundred dollars, went to leis
cabin. I took the cards in my hand and
asked what I owed. It was two or tree
hundred dollara. -Captain," I said, "be
good enough to come here; I've been
cheated." Up jumped the gamblers and
asked me whether I wished to insult them.
The Captain, a sturdy yoking man, was
now by my side, so I banded him the
cards and requested him to examine them.
They were marked, in the manufactory,
the stars on the back of each particular
color being made either higher orlower at
the corners. The gamblers swore they
knew nothing of' it, and had bought them
of the bar keeper. Half a dozen citizens
were at once palled to act as a jury, and
the bar-keeper was interrogated. After
same shilly-shallying„ be owned that one
of the gamblers bad given him some packs
to sell. Th:s was enough; the engine was
topped, and the gamblers landed on a
swamp, where they probably died, for it
was a long way from any habitation, and
as the Captain said, a place where only
snakes could live.
WHERE THIS TIMBER GOEB.—To make
shoe pegs enough for American use con
sumes annually 100,000 cords of timber,
and to wake our lucifer matches 300,000
cubic feet of the best pine are required
every year. Last and boot trees take 500,-
000 cords of birch, beech and maple, and
the handles of tools 500,000 tnore. The
bekin. 4 of our bricks consume 2,000,000
cords of wood, or what would cover with
forest about 50,000 acres of land. Tele
graph poles already up represent 800,000
trees, and their annual repairs consume
300,000 more. The ties of our railroads
consume annually thirty years' groth of
75,000 acres, and to fence all our railroads
would cog $45,000,000, with a yearly ex
penditure of $15,000,000 for repairs.
These are some of the ways which Ameri
can forests are gging. There are others.
Our packing boxes, for instance, coat in
1874 $12,000,000, while the timber used
each year in making wagons and agricul
tural implements is valued at more than
$100,000.000.
A PATHETIC LITTLE
Wiley Hurst, of Four Mile, Kan., told
his wife he wished to be buried oa a cer
tain hillside, under some locust trees. Af
ter his death his wife, not being certain of
the exact spot he had requested to be bur
ied in, went out to see if she could Identify
it from his description. As she approach
ed the locust trees she noticed two white
doves sitting in them. The doves did not
fly away at her approach, but flew down
from the tree and lighted at her feet. One
of them stood still and the other walked
off about the length of a grave fro® ita
bate and stopped And under the exact
spot thus measured off was Mr. Hurd
buried,
NO. 4.