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INTERNATIONAL LESSONS.
• T *v. K. r. ROUM>. D. I.
MARCH 20.
hesson 12.
REVIEW.
Qoivtn Tut —"Tlo. I>) w|.rliiic from on high hth
Tttlto.l i."— Lot I I:7S.
Central TVulh: —God with us.
In this paper we are to review the
quarter's lessons. They are all taken
from the tiospel by St. Luke, anil they
include the first seven chapters. I.uke,
the author of this Gospel, was probably
a Greek, a native of Antioch. a physician
by profession, and a man of general lit
erary culture. Yet very little is known
of him, as with the exception of his own
references to himself in the Book of
Acta, there are only three passages in
the New Testament in which he is men
tioned, viz., Col. 4 : 14 ; I'hil. 24, and 11.
Tim. 4:11.
His Gospel was written in Greek, and
probably either at Cwaarea or Koine, A.
I>. 57-M. As a life of Christ, it begins
with his birth, and goes as far as his
ascension, giving us much which the
other Kvangelists do not record, proba
bly "because it did not lie within their
own personal knowledge." Thus, as a .
biography, the Gospel by Luke is more j
comprehensive than any.
Six of this quarter's lessons are taken
from chaps. 1 and 2, which are peculiar
to St. Luke, and which present the facts
in a most graphic and interesting form.
Probably no account of the birth of j
Jesus has been found so attractive to
the young.
The first lesson, Jan. 2, was
ZACOARIAS AND ELIZABETH.
I.vas I stt-17.
And it presents a beautiful picture of a
pious household, where the heads of the
family are described as "both righteous
before God, walking in all the com
mandments and ordinances of the Lord
blameless."
To these godly people a most welcome
announcement was made bv an angelic :
messenger, that a child should be born j
to them, whose birth should be an ocoa
sion of joy and gladness, and whose
gracious work it should lie to turn many
of the children of Israel to the ]<nrd
their God. He was to be the forerunner
of the promised Messiah. Coming "in
the spirit and power of Kbjah," he was
to prepare the way of the Lord ; and by
his stern and awakened ministry, John
the Baptist did arouse the consciences
of the people, and thus prepared them
to welcome the coming Saviour.
Lesson second was
THE BONO Or MIRY.
1.1 (I I 4<V-A.V
This sacred ode is called the "Magnifi
cat," and is always used in the evening
service of the Church of Kngland. "It
is the last Psalm of the Old Testament,
and the first of the New." I'nder the
influence of the Holy Spirit. Mary, the
mother of Jesus, was inspired to sing
this lofty and beautiful ode, and to
"bring the approaching Messiah the
fragrance of the noblest flower of He
brew lyric poetry."
It is a song of high ascription and
praise to God for his personal holiness
and his mighty deeds, embodying the
very spirit ot high devotion, and taking
a very exalted rank in • 'hristian poetry."
Lesson third was
THE I'ROI'IIEcr or EACH ARIAS.
t* a* t:
This also is a poem, known as "the Ben
edictus," and it is also used in the ser- j
vices of the Kngliih Church. Its form I
is that of a thanksgiving ode, and it is I
in honor of the Messiah and of his sav- I
ing work for his people.
Thia Saviour was heralded by the
child of Zachanas, and his praises were
sung by John's venerable father in the
temple many centuries ago, and they
have been recited ever since by the
Church of God in all ages.
Lesson fourth,
TIIE HIRTII or JESYS.
Lraa 2: s-ju,
gave us the sweet and blessed story of
the Nativity ; the divine announcement
to the shepherds; the journey of Jos
eph and Mary to Bethlehem; the hirth
in the manger; the chorus of the an
gels ; the visit of the shepherds, their
joyful praises,—all these are the circum
stances which surround the greatest
event which the history of the world
has ever recorded.
Lesson fifth was
SIMEON AND THE CHILD JESUS.
Lru 2:'Jft-V>.
Simeon, or Simon, was a holy man, dis*
tinguisbed by God by the gracious prom
ise that he should live to see the Sav
lour. Thia lesson gives us an account
of how the promise was fulfilled, and of
the interesting scene in the temple,
when the aged saint, taking the infant
Jesus in his arms,chanted the beautiful
■train of the "Nunc dimittis," prophe
sied the coming glories of Messiah's
work, and pronounced a benediction
upon Joseph and the Virgin Mother of
our Lord, to which the Christian ages
hare ever responded, Amen !
Lesson sixth was
THE BOTIIOOD or JESUS.
LITIS 2 40-. ". J.
This lesson tells us all that we know of
thirty years of our Lord's earthly life.
The silence of the sacred narative is
most impressive. The journey to Jeru
salem with the child and the remarka
ble scene that occurred there with Jesus
and the doctors is the principal feature.
A consciousness of his relation to his
divine Father seems now to be dawning
on the wonderful child's mind, while be
"increased in wisdom and suture and
in favor with God and man.'
Lesson seventh was
THE rXXAUHINO OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
Li-si •: T-M.
We ere here told of .John's characteris
tics as a preacher, the rousing and sol
emn tone of bis message, and the
marked effect which it produced on his
hearers. In him Mosea snd Isaiah
seemed both combined, lie was a
preacher of repentance, this stern pro
phet of the wilderness, and warned his
hearers to " flee from the wrath to
come." But he pointed them to a
higher and better preaching, to which
his wns introductory—the preaching of
the Gospel by the Messiah, who was
mightier than he—and thus teaches us
that "the Law is our schoolmaster to
bring us to Christ."
Lesson eighth was
THE PREACH INO or JESUS.
I.llS 4 14-21.
Wo are now introduced to Jesus as a
preacher, and to the character of his
message. He unfolds in his sermon the
nature of his mission, so different from
John's, and teaches us that he comes
with good news for the poor, with heal
ing for the broken-hearted, deliverance
for the captive, sight for the blind,
comfort for the sorrowful, and a pardon
ing God, ready to accept and save sinful
men. So, after the reprover of sin,
comes the preacher of pardon; after
the threatening! of the Law, the good
words of the Gospel; after John, Jesus,
the loving, sympathizing Saviour.
Lesson ninth was
CHRIST HEALING TIIE SICK.
l.Ukl &: 12-21.
This lesson presents Christ as a healer
of the sick, and of one who in the na
ture of his disease, the leprosy, illus
trated the pitiable cose and terrible fate
of the sinner whom Jesus came to save.
The paralytic also mentioned in this
lesson was a type of man diseased and
helpless,yet saved through faith in Him
who is able and willing to save to the
uttermost all that come unto God by
hitn.
Lesson tenth was
WITNESS or JESTS TO JOIIN.
Leas 7: ltt-SS.
This lesson shows us the bold and fear
less forerunner of Christ, a captive in
the gloomy Castle of Machierus, hard
by the Head Sea, which he was to leave
only for the grave.
He is nnxious to know whether he
whose fame has reached bis dungeon is
indeed the promised Messiah, and he
•ends his friends to ask of Jesus himself.
The answer conies duly back, un*l when
John hears the wonderful story of what
Jesus does, ho recognizes fully the
marks of hi* divine mission, and is
ready now to seal his testimony with his
blood.
Jesus, in turn, speaks of John in high
terms, and gives hitu his proper place in
the sacred history.
Lesson eleventh was
TIIE SINNER'S FRIEND.
L< IS 7 SS-M.
The last lesson is a very sweet and at
tractive one. It shows Jesus stooping
to pardon and bless a penitent sinner,
whom others scorned, but who was
deeply conscious of what she owed to
him. and gave him back the grateful
love of her heart. It shows us our Sav
iour .just as we all need him, willing to
cleanse and purity the deepest stains,
anil ready to forgive and bless the very
chief of sinners.
THK LAST ACT.
SPEAKER R 4 ND 41.1. LAV* DOWN TIIE GAVEL.
In the House at Washington on
Friday, the 4th of March, Mr. Conger
•aid that it was with pleasure he was
permitted to offer the following reso
lution : "That the thanks of the House
are due and tendered the Hon. Samuel
.1. Handall, the s|>enker, for the ability,
I'uirnesH and courtesy with which he
ha' presided over its deliberations dur
ing the Forty-sixth Congress." This
resolution was adopted, the only nega
tive being east by Mr. Young.
Mr. Randall, at high noon, said ;
"The work of the Forty-sixth Con
gress is done. Before uttering the
tiiuil words of its adjournment, pre
cedent justifies a few appropriate re
flections. In 1874 the Democratic
party, after a long interval, obtained
control of this House. With the close
of this session it is again in a minority.
At the outset it had to fare a financial
crisis almost unparalleled in our his
tory, labor unemployed, trade depress
ed, commercial distress, wide spread
gloom everywhere. It stopper! ex
travagance, established economy in
administration, restore*! confidence,
and now with gladness it beholds the
republic launched on a career of un
exampled prosperity. It found gold
at a premium aod the notes of the
government at a discount. It leaves
the credit of the United States better
than ever before and unequalled in
i the money markets of the world. It
J has witnessed the removal of sectional
j distrust ami the restoration of perfect
unity within our borders. It has
given birth to a new era of fraternal
concord. Men of all classes and
every section seem now to strive who
shall best serve the common weal.
With the expenditures of the govern
ment lessened, and the payment of in
terest reduced, the crowning triumph
of Democratic administration was the
effort to refund the public debt at
three per cent. [Slight laughter on
the Republican side.]
I am sincerely grateful to the mem
bers of the House ou every side for
the vote of thanks with which they
have honored me. lam sensible how
much I owe to the generous forbear
ance and active go*>*l will of my fel
low members. Tnrice elected to an
exalte*! position, it may be personal
pride for me to remark that no deci
sion of the chair has ever been over
ruled, but it is of higher import, and
the renown much more enduring to
the House of Representatives, that iu
fair fame for that entire period is un
stained. Members have differed wide
ly, and yet, manifestly acting from a
deep convictiou of duty, tbey have
won mutual esteem. For myself, I
shall retire from the speaker's chair
with no unkind feeling towards a soli
tary member. Wishing you one and
A! 1 a safe return to jrour homes, it
only remains for me, in obedience to
the mandate of the constitution, to
declare this HOUHO adjourned without
day. [Applause on floor uml galler
ies.]
♦ -
HNOW.
Kroiu t)i Chicago Tribune.
Once upon a time a man, or u wo
man, composed several stanza* in
eulogy of the beautiful snow. The
author of the poem aforesaid became
very enthusiastic on the subject and
indulged in much ill-considered, ex
travagant praise of snowflakes, fully
justifying IxK-ke's remark that "En
thusinm is founded neither on reason
or divine revelation, hut rise* from the
conceits of a wurnied or overweening
imagination." Poets are not usually
highly gifted iu the munncr of corn
inou sense, hut our snow eulogist
knew enough to conceal his or tier
name from the public. The poem has
been much udmired iu summer time,
with the thermometer above i>o de
gree*, by perspiring, sufl'oeatiug mor
tals ; and upon these occasions many
would-be literury thieves have pre
ferred claim to its authorship. Rut
the rogues have never been believed.
The public have waited rather impa
tiently for somebody of the Kpartan
type of character to ap|*>ar in mid
winter, with the thermometer ut 40
degrees below zero, and file a claim to
the authorship of "The Beautiful
Know." It were better, however, for
that man or woman that he or she had
never been born. The public are
looking for that author now; they
want to snow him in ; they agonize to
bury him under tons of his "Ixautiful
snow they want to hold him face to
the storm until he is congealed into mi
icicle ; they want to plunge his good
right baud in the deep, deep snow uml
hold it there until the jen with which
he indited so many beautiful lies
nlwjut "the beautiful snow" drops from
bi* nerveless fingers, frozen stiff a.* u
marlin-spike; they want to imprison
him in a snowhouse without a root and
feed him on icicles, and snowflak-*.
and snowbanks, and snowballs. Tbe
railway men want to lnh him to a
snow-plow, and, putting on all steam,
plunge him, head-foremost, at sixty
miles an hour, into the deepest snow
drift between the two oceans. The
beautiful snow, indeed ! Docs any
man court martyrdom? Is-t him an
nounce himself as the author of one
line, good, bad, or indifferent, in eulo
gy of the crystallized vapor called
snow, and he will speedily become
f<*nl for worms.
Meteorologists, it i* said,distinguish
by means of the microscope six hun
dred varieties of crystal* of snow, some
of which, it is pretended, are extreme
ly beautiful. )u nn ordinary winter
season not more than fifty or a hun
dred varieties of the snow crystal ex
hibit themselves to mortals. In this
year of grace, 1 *Bl, every variety
known to the meteorologists ha* al
ready made its apj* arnnee, anil there
is good reason to expect a record of
new discoveries to the extent of-sev
eral hundred fresh specimens. I'is-ts
and scientists may delight to magnify
snow crystal with a view to detect
new manifestation* of the beautiful,
but we tremble for the fate of that
rush man who is detected in the act
of magnifying snowdrifts during the
month of March, I*Bl. Imagine the
righteous indignation of the pedestrian
wading through throe fret of snow,
who by chance encounters n meteorol
ogist in the act of magnifying the
drift in hi* path a hundred fold in the
effort to discover a new variety of
snow crystal ? Ivct him lieware of the
wrath of that pedestrian with his
mouth, ears, eyes, and nose full of the
"watery particles congealed into white
crystals.' It were Ix-ttcr for the fool
ish meteorologist "that a millstone
were hanged about his neck and he
were east into the sea."
"As chaste as snow," is a favorite
*imile of the j>oots. Nothing could he
more alwurd. Does not every crystal
of it "fall?" And it no sooner falls
than it is stained by every base con
tact —a vile thing to l>e trodden under
foot of men. Its coldness is a mere
pretense. At the very first tempta
tion it melt*, and then, disgraced and
shamed, it hides its guilty head in the
dust of the earth. "The lieautiful
snow" of which the poet sings so rap
turously is a* cruel as the grave. It
penetrates a thousand crevices in the
abode* of |iovcrly, chilling their thin
ly clad inmates—half fed children,
with hare legs and arms, huddled
about scanty fires in wretched hovels,
and old men with pinched faces and
white hairs clothed in rags, crouching
in the far corners of fire I ess attics. In
mockery of suffering and misery the
beautiful (?) snow crystals, reduced to
fine dust like grains of sand, steal on
the wings of the wind into leaky tene
ments, spread themselves noiselessly
over the earpetless floors, and as noise
lessly drift into heaps on the rude fur
niture. Beautiful snow, indeed I It
is rather an angel of wrath whose
breath freezes and whose tears drown.
It is an insidious monster which de
scends upon the earth in little particles
of aerial lightness, only to combine in
vast masses of an impact so solid as
to be resistless. It blocks all the
gates of commerce. It covers the
iron track of the railway mountains
high, aud, ingulfing the puffing and
screaming locomotive, chills it to
death with its Arctic breath. It stops
the postal car, pulls down the telegraph
wire, freezes the electricity out of the
telephone, and so isolates mankind,
holding them aloof from one another.
It envelopes the careless traveler in
its fleecy folds, blots the path from his
eager gaze, freezes the very marrow in
his bones, stifles his last despairing
ery for help with a fiendish shriek of
its ally the wind, and buries him on
the trackless waste where he fall*.
Out upon the wretched poet who af
fronts the common sense of mankind
by a eulogy on snow ! It is a cruel,
relentless fiend, whose every crystal
part is a menace of death and de
struction. It bus but one redeeming
feuturc—it is more than a match for
the railway monopolists. It has abol
ished unjust discrimination iu rates,
put a stop to [looliug, aud reduced the
consolidators and their locomotives to
silence. Now let the author of "Beau
tiful Know" be brought forth aud cru
cified.
IIOKATIO SKYMOf It's VIKWS.
HOW TIIE DEMOCRATIC I'AHTV MAV ACHIEVE
SUCCSSS IN THE STATE AND NATION. *
The Syracuse Qjurier publishes an
interview with ex-Gov. Horatio Sey
mour on the political situation and the
importance of the coming campaign
in his Slate. The (Jovernor was found
at the residence of Senator Conk ling
iu Utica. On account of over exer
tion uud exposure during the cam
paign last fall, the Governor ha* been
com|Ndled to forego the pleasure of
out-door exercise for nearly four
months. On Saturday week he ven
j tured to ride in an open sleigh for the
first time this winter. He was very
( much gratified to find that the ride
I did him good, and has since enjoyed a
| sleigh ride on several occasions. After
a rambling conversation on various
topic* the ex' Jovernor said :
"It seems to me that the policy of
the Democratic party is a plain one.
It outnumbers the Republican orguui
| zation, a* is shown by the returns.
Although the latter party had the as
sistance of nearly a hundred thousand
office-holders, besides tbe support of
large numbers who voted for its nomi
nee* for the purpose of promoting
plan* in which they are interested, liotb
Mr. Hayes and .Mr. Garfield not only
received less than a majority of the
votes of the American people, but tbev
were actually beaten n* regards the
number of their supjKirter* by tbe
I Democratic candidate*. The contro
versies in the Republican party are
more widespread and deeper than
those in the Democratic party. Noth
ing more is needed to the success of
the Democratic party than a firm and
steady adhesion to its principles. It is
true that these have been too fn-quent
, ly lost sight of; but many scheme*
will IK* developed by the liepuhlicao*
under the teaching* of Mr. Garfield
that power gravitates more and more
into the hands of the general govern
ment, for which Mr. Garfield rejoices.
Hi* speeches upon this subject are in
vitations to all manner of schemes to
liesicge the rapitnl. This will arouse
the public mind to the necessity of re
turning to a constitutional policy.
While there are dissension* in both
partn-*, the long-continued power of
the Republican* ha* engendered con
troversies* throughout the mass of this
party while the trouble* in the Demo
cratic rank* art? mainly local and
more easily cured.
"It is certain that the fate of the
Democratic party depend* upon the
addition to it* member* of the young,
the unselfish ami the active. Old
men and their quarrel* are the great
cause* of the destruction of political
1 organization*. A* lam one of them,
I have a right to speak freely. In
the natural course of events, a large
share of those who now disturb the
Democratic party by their quarrel*
will have passed away, and most of
the others will Ire rendered inactive
by old age and physical infirmities.
Age and experience have taught me to
admire the unselfish and enthusiastic
action of young men, and I believe
that the Democratic party must be re
stored to power through their efforts."
"What about the division* of the
Republican party in this Ktate ?"
"I think that tbev are wide and
j deep, and cannot be healed over.
The division* grow from differences of
I principles and purposes, a* well a*
from controversies about offices and
1 |>ower. The adherence of great num-
IHT* to the Kepuliran organization is
unnatural and cannot be lasting. They
do not agree with its principles or its
purpose*. They will gradually desert
from its ranks. They cannot follow
the lead of Mr. Garfield in favor of
the centralization of power and the
usurpations of the general govern
ment, The passion* and the preju
dices which have led them into the
support of the Republican organiza
tion are dying out, and they will be
compelled by their convictions to with
draw from its ranks."
"How should the Democratic cam
paign iu this State be conducted this
fail r
"It should be conducted by a firm
and temperate discussion of all public
questions. The principle* of the Dem
ocratic party should never be disre
garded or lost sight of. The princi
ples which underlie the forms and
structure of our government must be
kept uppermost iu view, whenever the
prosperity of the poople, irrespective
of parties, depends upon their main
tenance. There must be harmonious
action. Local controversies ami side
contets for power will not only im
peril party success, but will dishearten
tbe people to whom that Prty looks
for support. Broad and liberal views
should henceforth characterize tbe dia
cuwion of every topic, arid these dis
cussions should not lie marred by any
display whatever of passion and prej
udice. I have always believed that
the Democratic party is most closely
allied to the people, uod that it most
nearly represent* their interests, and I
have faith that I shall see it restored
to |Kjwcr in our national councils."
MOW IT is DOVE*
Tiir. MODUS 01-ZUANDI or TIIE SEW VO*K
STOCK BXCIIAMOC.
From Hi* ISmt'in ll*i|i|.
Ihe details of Wall street operat
ing are a mvstery to those who have
not taken a band. The person who
wants to speculate does not know
where to begin or how to take the
lirst step. How much money must
he put up as a margin ? What does
the broker do, and how much must
the broker Is- paid for muking the
purchase* ? These are constantly re
curring questions. Dozens of letters
are sent to New York ncwspa|x:rs on
the subject, and the writers seem to
imagine that there is something very
mysterious about the whole business.
As a matter of fact the reverse is the
truth. Nothing is simpler than a
purchase for a rise. Selling stock*
short is just a trifle complicated to a
novice, but is easy to understand.
The beginner usually Marts his specu
lative career by purchasing 100 share*
of stock, although a less number may
lc bought. He seeks a trustworthy
broker, arid is told that to purchase
100 shares, he must deposit with the
broker X or 10 per cent, of the par
value of the stock. Dealings in the
New York Kxchange arc so scaled
that 10 jar cent, nieaas SI,OOO, and
most brokers require this sum from
stranger*. This deposit is called the
I margin. The broker then oja-us an
account with him by placing $1,001)
ito the credit of the customer. The
j next step is for the customer to select
a stock that is likely to advance, and
having made up his mind that Krie,
for instance, is the card, he simply
savs to the broker: "Buy nie I<H)
shares of Krie." < iff goes the broker
like a shot to the Stock Kxchange,
where he dives into a crowd of one
thousand other brokers. The floor of
' the great room has upon it a score or
more of knots of men, pushing, surg
iug and yelling at the top of their
lungs. Due knot is the St. Paul
clique, another the Ib-ading clique, a
third the Krie crowd. Dur broker
rushes into the Krie coterie, elbows
men out of the way, holds his right
hand high in air, and knowing that
; the one man about whom the crowd i*
i surging ha* some Krie stock to sell,
and hearing a dozen other men, with
their hands in the air. yelling
lie jum|>* up in the air higher than all
the other* and yells " 40." Thereujon
the eeutrc of the group makes n rush
at him and shouts, "Sold." All this
means that our broker has offered to
pay s4<i a share for I'M) shares of Krie,
and the other man has sold it to him,
the other brokers having bid only
$39.87} for it. The two brokers jot
down the transaction in their memor
andum books, ami the broker who
sold it rej>ort* the sale. Instantly is
flashed over the wire and into every
broker's office in the citv the new
quotation for Krie of 40. The broker
who sold rolls up 100 share certificates
of Krie and sends them to our broker,
who puts them in his safe and sends
back a cheek for $4,000, the price of
the stock.
Our new customer then " holds 100
Krie." He may " hold" it as long as
he please* so long a the price of Krie
advances. If Krie is in demand the
price will advance.. When it is quoted
at 41 it has advancer! $1 a share, and
our friend is SIOO ahead in the trans
action, that is, he would he were it not
for the broker's commission, which is i
per cent, for huving and 1 for selling,
a total of i for hotli buying and sell
ing, which to our friend would be $25;
heuce tbe net profit at 41 would be
$75. At 45 it would be $475. If the
stock is held longer than tbe day of
the purchase the customer roust pay
interest on the $4,000, the cost of the
stock, at 6 per cent. When tbe cus
> tora< r decides that he has made suffi
cient profit from the transaction he
simply says : " Hell my 100 shares of
Krie," and the broker sells it If the
sale is at 45 the customer is credited
with the profit, less commission and
interest. He then has 1400 and some
odd dollars, which stands for margin
in his next transaction ; or he may
withdraw all his money and close the
account After two or three such
operations his capital has doubled,
and then, instead of 100 shares he
may purchase 200. Mauy a beginner
has increased hit origiual'of SI,OOO to
$2G,000, and even $50,000, aud then,
becoming less cautious in his opera
tions, has found himself with 5000
shares of stock on hand, when there
came a crash and he lost ail. Stocks
go down so much easier than they ad
vance that the profits of a twelve
month may be wiped out in twelve
hours. The beginner invariably oper
ates for a rise. He can understand
that paying 40 for Krie and selling it
for 45 means SSOO profit, less com
missions. But selling stock to buy it
again at a lower figure and deliver to
the person to whom be sold confuses
him. Nevertheless it is a saying of
Wall street that more money is made
on the short than tbe long side of the
market, and shrewd operators work
the market both ways.
IrtLKifRM is not a vice; it is a nest
that destroys all virtues.
A I'K.WHVLVANIA BOY.
Nearly forty yearn ago, > South
Huntingdon township, Westmoreland
county, say* tin Pittsburg TtUymjth,
lived John llinton. He wan an orphan
boy, rude and uneducated, and had
wandered there from the neighborhood
of Masontown, Fayette county.
With no known relative*' he wan
| kicked from one family to another till
i manhood, enlinting then in the war.
i At it* close he helped to eacort the
,< :berokeea beyond the Mississippi,
j From Indian Territory he went to
New Orleaue and shipped an a com
mon sailor on .a Vessel bound for the
Fart Indie*. At the bay of Madras,
on the western shore* of the hay of
Bengal, he deserted, and cnlited in a
British regiment He nerved many
yearn, and during the memorable Se"-
txiy rebellion wan noted for hi* daring
bravery. At hi* discharge he wa*
presented with a gohl medal by the
Governor General iiimaelf.
He in next b<*ard of traveling in a
caravan from wot wh rd acroas
the Indus river, through Afghanirtan
and Persia, to Turkey and hack.
I In time, from trading, he became
immensely wealthy, and was the owner
of five caravans containing over 13,-
000 horses and camels and fifty eie
phauts.
In IK. 1 )-! he vis ted ( abul, the capital
of Afghanistan, for copper, great
•juantities of which arc there mined
and smelted. His magnificent retinue
attracted the attention of the Ameer,
, and he was invited to an audience—
an honor never before received bv a
Christian. A present of a hundred of
j his Ix-st horses and a three tusked ele
phant made the Ameer his eternal
friend. When, yearly, it wa- followed
by similar present*, beside camels and
merchandise, .John llinton gained the
! mono|o)y of trade from the summit of
| the Hindoo Kosh Mountains to the
I confines of tielochistan, and in real
jsiwer is second only to the Ameer
'himself. A taut I*7o he was made
Military Commander of the District
of Herat, and in FiC suppressed a
local rebellion to the great satisfaction
of hi* soven igti. Trained in the arts
of war among the savages of North
America, and among the sujxTstitious
' native* of India, where he became
thoroughly familiar with British sol
diers and resources, together with his
year* of service a* the idolized com
mander of the Mohammedan trilie* to
tens of thou-and* half-civilized men, he
is to-day the ablest soldier in Asia.
A Maiden's Itaid I pen the Treasury,
The following story of a determined
, little woman I* told by a correspond
ent in Washington of the Atlanta
(a. Itrpullioan : "One bright morn
ing la-t spring the Hon. John Sher
l man was sitting in his office, when
suddenly a brigbt-hain-d pretty girl
dashed into his presence. She was
apparently lfi, and had about her an
air of business which even the cold
gaze of the Ohio statesman could not
! transform into maiden fright or flurry.
Deliberately taking a seat, the girl
saiil, 'Mr. Sherman. I have come here
to get a place.' 'There are none va
cant," was the reply. 'I know you can
give me a place if vou want to, and I
am a* much euli tied to it as anybody.
My father spent his life in the t'nitod
State* artny. and when he died he left
nothing. The responsibility of the
family i* on me, and I think I've got
as good a claim a any one else on the
government.' 'What kind of a place
do vou want?" 'I don't care what it
i*. but I mu*t have work at once.'
1 Mr. Sherman assured her that there
were ten applicant* for every one
i place, and there was very little chance.
| She very deliberately told him that
' such an answer wouldn't do, and de
clared that if he would allow her *he
would come up every day and black
his shoe* if he couldn't do better for
her. The Secretary wa* *truck with
her determination and charmed by her
bright face and her *prightly manner.
He told her to come back. In leu*
than a week *hc had a good place in
the trea*ury, which she still hold*.
Every morning *he walk* to the de
partment with the *tcp of a business
little woman who i* proud that her
delicate little hand* can be the*upport
of other*. She receive* a sl'*> a
month, and *upport* in comfort her
mother and #i*ter. Thi* brave, bright
young woman i* May Macauley, form
erly of Atlanta. Her father wa* a
lieutenant in the Eighteenth Infantry."
Ciiwtmhtaxceh alter cases: "Yes,"
said the young lady, who wa* going
sleigh riding, to her maid, "I will put
00 leggings and my thick overshoes.
1 don t care about my cardinal hose.
Mr. Griff is a careful, driver. He
never upset*."
Si'Rl'RtsK parties are coming into
vogue again. The person who is to
be surprised issues the invitations
through a friend.
A woman cannot become a success
ful lawyer. She is too fond of giving
her opiuion without pay.
Ktirtxo on a turnpike is a sure way
to obtain information. At every gate
you arc tolled something.
Thk reason people are afraid of
lightning is because it makes such a
thundering uoise.
Tttc ice crop this year will be large
enough to warm a great tnaoy pocket
books.