Che Centre democrat. ♦ BELLBFONTE, PA. The Largsst, Cheapest and Beat Paper rUBLISUKD IN CENTRE COUNTY. from tli Nw York Obaaper. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Fourth Quarter. St AST. SISSY M. USoCT, . D. November 6. Loaaon 6.—The Day of Atonraiont. I.STITICVi 10 S IS—3O. Odium Ttxr—' *' al*> joy In Ood (brutish oer Lord Jesus Christ, by whom *• bars now roreWrd tbs sloosmsnt."—Ruin, ft: it. Central Truth .—By his one sacrifice on fhe cross Christ has obtained eternal re demption for us In the round of the Jewish year the great day was the "Day of Atonement." The Feast of Tabernacles, the grand harvest festival, closed the festival cir ele, and—since rightly to rejoice in the gifts of God one must be at peace with him—the Day of Atonement immedi ately preceded that joyous feast. Hut there were special things which made it tbe greatest day in the year. * The truths it taught and the lessons it brought borne were of the very highest importance. It kept alive and impress ed the supreme facts of the holiness of God, the evil of sin, man's need of atonement and pardon, and the com pletenessof the pardon offered. These thiugs were more than hinted at in tbe other sacrifices, and in some of them were unmistakably Uught. But in the rites of this day they were expressed with peculiar distinctness and force. The day was one of "holy convoca tion" or solemn meeting. On it no work was to be done "from even unto even." From the command that every Israel ite should "atHict his soul" it has been ioferred that it was kept as a fast, tin this day the sacred rites were all per formed by the high priest alone, and there was something significant in the fact that he laid aside his usual splendid \ robes, embroidered with threads of gold, for a garment of simple white, thus im pressively symbolizing the perfect puri ty with which one must enter the im mediate presence of God. The day began and ended with the usual morning and evening sacrificee.at which the high priest wore bis ordinary drees. Tbe morning sacrifices being ended tbe high priest bathed his entire person and put on his garments of white. First, with a bullock procured at his uwn cost he made a sin offering for himself and his associates in the priesthood. Tbe bullock having been slain Its blood was left standing in aba ■in, while the high priest, with a censer of live coals from off tbe altar in one hand and handfuls of incense in a gol den vessel in the other, proceeded to the Holy of Holies. Lifting the veil be east the incense on tbe coals, and at once the place was filled with fragrant clouds of smoke. Returning, he took the basin of blood and again entering the most holy place sprinkled first the mercy seat, and then before the mercy ■eat on the ground. This was his atone ment for himself aod tbe priests and for tbe more sacred parts of the taber nacle iu their relation to the priest hood. Next followed the atonement for the people. This was a complex rile for which the two goats were already in waiting. One of these was slain and its blood was sprinkled, as was that of the bullock, on and before the mercy seat in the most holy place. This was the atonement for the people and for the tabarnacle in its connection with them. The next thing was the cleansing, with the mingled blood of the bullock and the goat, of the altar of incense in the holy place and of the altar of burnt offering in the forecourt. The atonement was now complete with the exception of a single rite, which was, however, most expressive and im portant. It was the part for which the other goat was in waiting. laying his bands upon iU bead the high priest made confession of all the sins of sll the people, thus symbolically putting them upon the goat, which was then sant away to Azasel, supposed by some to be "tba most desolate wild" of all the wilderness. This was not a ceremonial by itself, but a completion of the atone ' ment already made. The two goats were in effect one victim; the two being Is made use of to express a complex idea I wbich could not be conveyed by one. ft Together they expressed the truth that I ain, when cleansed by blood, is not sim- I ply covered but borne far away. It was I the fulfillment beforehand of the prom I iae, "As far as the east is from tbe west! I so far batb be removed our transgrea- j B tions from us." Tbe parts of the bullock and of the B first goat not destined for tbe altar were I now "burned without tbe camp," and ■ thus the oeremonies peculiar to the day Hwere completed. I The great things signified by all this Here too plain to be mistaken. God is ■holy and man is a sinner. Have aa bis ; ■sin is covered or atonement is made for Hit he cannot enjoy the blessing of the Hnivine favor. Nor is it enough to find Hm offering Ibr special errors and trsns ■gressioni. As a sinner in all that he j ■a and does be needs atonement and To his ancient people God sent borne by the special sin offerings of Bltii great Day of Atonement, assuring by means of these symbols, of not less complete than if he bad Hacast all their sins into the depths of Hpesask" And yet all these were sym- HK'IS only. Tbe real efficacy was not in Hfaem; it was in that greater sacrifice they prefigured, in that one eoatly Hod precious offering made in due time Hn toe croes. It is and ever was the of- Hiring of tbe "Lamb slain from tbe Hmndstion of the world" that truly ef- Hct# atonement and procures pardon. Hf that offering the ancient Jewasaw ( Bfci.t the shadow ; it is our greater joy to Bfi seen the substance. H fiat there is one other special point : Hpt to be overlooked. It wae "a statute Hrcver," a solemn ordinance, that on day every Israelite should "afflict HtnL" This does not merely mean Hat hshould fast. It is not at all cer- Hin that in these words there is any al> lusion to fasting. It specially points to a humiliation of soul under the memory of sin ; to that godly sorrow with which ■in should ever be remembered. The plain and important teaching of this was that needful ua atonement is, and free as is the pardon offered through it, there is yet one indispensable condition of its benefits. Not only is it to be re garded with faith ; there must also bo true repentance. Itather, sincere faith is repentance,or has it for one of its ele ments. The laitb which offered or ap propriated the atonement was an bum tile faith. So must ours be if we would so rest in the one sacrifice of Christ as to be sharers in bis eternal redemp tion. raacticai. sccossTtoMs. 1. Sin is base and defiling. Not only priests and people, but the sanctuary and altar with which they had to do, had need of cleansing. 2. The very best men need an atone ment, just as the high priest had first ol all to make an offering for himself. This is to some a hard saying. Never theless it is a primary truth of both the Old and New Testaments thut as none are too had to be accepted through Christ so none are so good wt to be ever saved without him; "for ail have sinned." 3. We see how compissionate God is. So holy is he that he cannot save the least sinner without an expiation, and yet lie has made ample provision for the greatest. 4. The Old Testament sacrifices were but shadows. In Christ wo have the substance. All pointed to him, "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." 5. The live goat sent lar into the wil derness. beariug the iniquities of fhe people, is a striking symbol of the com pletenesA of snlvation through Christ. In him is fulfilled the promise, "I will remember their sin no more." 0. The high priest carried the blood of atonement to the very tnercy seat; so Christ has passed into the heavens, hearing thither the merit of his own blood, and ever liveth there as our in tercessor. 7. The sinner who comes truly to Christ comes with godly sorrow for his sin. lie needs no stern command to af flict his soul. His desire to be freed from all sin is a part of bis faith in the atoning Saviour. 8. The sacrifice on the cross arailed not only for all the past but for ull time to come. Our Saviour's next appear ance will be not only "glorious," but "unto salvation." SENATORIAL ORATORS. i .1 Deeeription of the, Methods of Some of Our Distinguished Senator*. The Senate i* aoon to meet ngain, and the expected presence of the So lons here inspires us to say that there are very few men in either house of Congress who speak upon any import ant measure without having made the ! most elaborate preparation. The li j brary is ransacked for books, old news ! paper files are brought from their i no >ks, and cords of pajx-r are used in | taking noics. These notes arc filled out, put in order, and then yon have a set speech. David Davis, pcrhnps more than any other Henator, indulges in manu script, preparing even a five-minute : speech with great rare. This is his in ! flexible rule ami has been since he en j lered public life. After hadelivers | his speeches, or them, he hands his Murphy, the t*euate stenogrJfmcr, •ends it to the government printing office. The compositors never have any anathemas for the judge's writing, which is large, distinct and full of character. Edmund* never uses note* and once a speech is out of his mouth he doesn't bother bis head about it. During all the year* he has been in the Senate he has not revised a single speech. He turns everything in his mind before hand and he never rises to address the -Senate without having weighed in the scales of his great mind what he in tends saying. lien Hill will speak for three hour* without a scrap of paper. The only preparation he makes is marking ref erences or passages in this book or that I have seen him time and again thunder away for two hours without stopping even for a glass of water. He revises his speeches, however; makes additions and corrections in a clear hand, much like that of a col lege boy, and gives the printer* little trouble with his proof. Hill has an astounding memory, and no man iD public life except Edmund* has such imperturbability. The only man who could well worry Hill or excite hi* wrath in debate was the late Matt (Jarpenter. How it tickled Carpenter to put some adroit question at the Georgiau and get him confused—a hard thing to do at any time, but Car penter often succeeded. And it was more the result of an irresistible pro pensity for fun thau anything eise, for never was man who had less malice than Malt Carpenter. He had a heart as big as a mountain. He was exceed ingly particular about his speeches when they were upon legal questions. After he got the proof from the fore man of the "Record" he would hack it to pieces and send the corrected proof back, get a second and treat it in like manner. His writing wa* character istic, hard to read —a rollicking, ha rum-scarum sort of fist—and a study to the prioters. He used to say "The shortest road is the best road when you are in a hurry," and though he could write a fine, full, round hand he dashed off everything at lightning speed. Another Henator who, like Ed munds, never revised n speech was Thurman. Occas : oually he spoke from manuscript, but the stenographer took down every word bo Maid, as tho old gentleman would forget hia mauuscript ' and drill into extempore eloquence. J Thurman, though never t a graceful speaker, was always forcible. He was, beyond all doubt, tho ablest of tho Democrats and their leader from the time be entered the Senate. Bayard works bard at his speeches, and tfiough ho writes them out and fol lows his mauuscript closely ho revises after proof is taken. Ho makes few changes, however, but holds the proof very often until 2 o'clock in tho morn ing, as bo spends bis evenings gener ally in social circles, lie is a good penman, writing a medium-sized run ning hand. Lamar is a great reviser, cuts proof into tatters and writes a horrible baud that tries the soul of a printer. Occa sionally he goes down to the govern ment printing oliice to look after his speeches, which when published are vastly different from the stenograph er's report of them. Senator Conk ling seldom made a correction of his utterances in the Sen ate chamber. lie is perhaps the best extern|>oraucous speaker in the United States, and even his remarks in run ning debate are indices of great abil ity. During the extra session of the Forty-sixth Congress he delivered a speech upon the Army Appropriation bill without note, papers, book or reference of any kind. When the Vice President announced "The Sena tor from New York" up rose the state ly form of Ruscoe Conkling. Never before or since had Senator such an audience, lie spoke for four hours. Before the adjournment of the Senate one hundred and fifty thousand copies of his speech had been subscribed for. Kvery printing office in Washington sent to the Senator its lowest estimate. In a very short time Oyster, one of the best living typos and foreman of the "Congressional Keford," had the proof of the great speech ready. He took it up to Wormiey's about 9 in the morning aud asked for Senator Conkling. "He is not up yet." said the private secretary; "the Senator breakfasts about 11 ; however, as you arc in a hurry and wnnt to see after the speech, I shall call him." "Tell j Mr. (lyster to come in—ah ! how do you do, .Mr. Oyster?" and I>ord Ches terfield was never more polite than *i> Conkling in his nightshirt. After rub bing his eyes he looked at the proof, made a few changes and struck out fhe "Hon." before "Ibwcoe Conkling." | You will never find it prefixed to his j name in any speech intended for gen ! eral distribution. After he received the speech he wrote his thanks very kindly to Foreman Oyster as fol j lows: t\ S. Srsatk ('ramus*, May 7, 1879. Dear Sir: I t.cg you to rccive ray | thanks (or the bound speech and for your kindness throughout. 1 am glaeaker is enough to nerve one for n bore. Demosthenes was right when he said "Oratory is de livery—delivery—delivery and de livery is killed by manuscript. . Jones, of Florida, always a hard student, labors diligently at a set speech. He is passionately food of hdmund Burke—knows his works as we never knew any one to know them. He has a memory equal to Blaine's or Ben Hill's, and time and again have we heard him repeat page after page of Burke's immortal speeches. It is the same with the speeches of Phillips, Grattan, Outran and O'Cooneil. Jones is a very able man. His Democracy is extreme, but out of politics he is one of the best fellows the world over. Davis, of West Virginia, though an old member of the Senate, has made but one speech and that on agricul ture. It was printed exactly as it was written. His remarks are left to the tender merries of the stenographer. Beck, Davis' colleague on the Com inittee of Appropriations, is the most rapid talker in cither house of Con gress. Well for him that the Bcnate has such a stenographer as Dennis Murphy, whose hand travels over pa per like lightning. We doubt if nis equal could be found anywhere. Beck is an uutiring worker, has the consti tution of a Kentucky racehorse, and no amount of labor is too heavy for him. He is not much of a reviser, go ing on the priuciple of Pontius Pilate —quod scrijwi, scripsi. He is as blunt as Joey Bugstock and as good-natured us Mark Tapley. As there are no "leaves to print" in theßenate no Sen ator can publish a speech without hav ing at least read it from manuscript. The first page of the "Record" is quite a desideratum as the place to air the title of a speech, and many u grave Senator who would willingly sit at tho end of McGregor's table is loath to have his speech hidden iu the middle of the "Record." In vain to attach Solomon's theory about variety ! Unhappy Homes, RI-T. Dr. Hcoddcr. In a country of the Knst the bride and bridegroom cat u quince together to sweeten their breath. What a pity that all brides and grooms could not eat some sort of fruit whose fragrance would remain to make them sweet voiced ami sweet-tempered all their lives. What a pity that all the newly wedded could not remember that from the apples of discord is expressed the vinegar of hate, while from the sweet tcmiH-red grape* of kindness is distill ed trie wine of perpetual bliss. Look at that man who has just shut his gate with a hang and is scraping his feet at the door. What a pity he could not scrape his heart, too, before he o|>cu* the door. There is as much dirt and defilement on his heart as on his boots, ami the effects will be far more serious. The selfish, sordid, cross, ill-tempered, pitiful little soul! His devoted wife dare not a-k him for a dollar. She would rather have a tooth pulled any time. He is always grumbling. He is a chronic growler. He thinks the world was made for him and wonders it was not made bigger on his account. He is like an old he hear that goes snarling after the mother bear, and if she chances to drop the little cub that she is tugging along in her mouth he gives the toiling creature a grim and ugly bite. I saw just such an old Bruin near Halt Lake once. A husband and wife emerged from a ear. Hbe was loaded down with the baggage and bis overcoat and he was hustling along and hurrviug her up lest she shold fail to catch the train. I wanted to interview that man for about two minutes. There is in the countries of the Fast a specie* of black j ant that suddenly attacks articles of furniture. Their work is insidious , ami unseen. Hxtcrnally all seems right, until suddenly the whole thing j collapses in a cloud of dust. Ho it is where discord and harshness exist in domestic life. It will eat out the very life of home. Heaven is transformed to hell. The angelhood of earth is ex changed for demoniacal sorrow ami sin. It alwavs takes an angel to make a devil. That which is most beautiful is made most hideous by unworthy trans ition. The Magnitude of the Rag Trade. Few person* have any adequate conception of the magnitude and im portance ol the rag trade in this coun try. Rags seem to be so cheap aud in significant a commodity that it is sur prising to learn that, with the excep tion of the staple products of the West, they are more largely transpor ted by railroads than any other article of merchandise. At Chicago the Michigan Central railroad has erected a special building for this kind of freight, and it is estimated that not leas than one hundred carloads of rags leave and enter Chicago daily. A good idea of theexteut of the trade was re cently given a Chicago reporter by a wholesale rag dealer. Hnid the latter: "There are fifty millions of people in the United States, and it is safe to pre sume that every one of tbem discards on an average five pounds of clothing every year. That give* us two hun dred ami fifty million pounds of rags to start with. Then there are the tail oring establishment*, big aud little, whose cuttings are not much less in quantity in the aggregate than the cast-off clothes of the nation at large, while their quality as rags is greatly superior. Then there ore the carpets and bedding and curtains, aud other domestic articles of cloth of some kind, which make up a goodly bulk in the eourse of a year. The different arti cles combined make up another two hundred and fifty million pounds of cloth material which has been discar ded from use and which eventually finds iu way into the ragman's bale." Thf.iik is nothing new under the sun—especially in the matter of joke*. Mark Twain has an anecdote of (t Scotchman who enters an eating house on Holborn Hill and calls for a penny half. Then he says that he has chaoge-l his mind, and lhat he will have a pen nyworth of beer instead. This pro cess he repeau twelve times, and be is then going on his way, rejoicing aud full of beer, when the conkabop keeper demands payment for bU beer. "I gave you a penny loaf for each of beer," answers tho canny Scot. "But you have not paid for the loaves," continues the incensed Boniface. "But I had them not," replies the Hoot. This story is to be found in an old cheap book published late in the sev enteenth century ; and it is very prob ably a survival of some media-vat joko current among the schoolmen, since iu humor hinges on a false premise in ,ogic * , Hunting Alligators In Florida. From Jurkibiivill* Cor. fiavuiitali Forties are hunting the 'gators way down on the Caloosanatch*c and Kiss immo rivers, aud upon the numerous lakes in that region. Nothing is used except the skins upon the belly and legs, the rough, seally plates upon the hacks of the animals being rejected. The heads are cut off and buried for a few days until the tusks can be de tached. It was announced some days since that one person had collected alligator teeth to the umount of three hundred ami fifty pounds. This fact ulone will give some idea of the de struction now going on among those creatures. On the Ht. John's river a new method has been devised for the successful pursuit of this game. A •lark lantern with a powerful reflector is used on suitable nights, and no dif ficulty is experienced in approaching the quarry. The animals ap|>ear to lx- perfectly bewildered by the strong glare, and make no effort to e-cajK*. Ihe gun is held within a few feet of the head, a touch to the trigger, and there is a 'gator less in Florida. This new process is very effective, as the huuters are enables] not only to kill but to secure the prey. It is said to reflect that the race of the saurian* is in danger of being extirpated. Thou sands are slain annually by tourists and others for amusement merely, iu | addition to those slaughtered for j profit. Thousands of baby 'gators are stuff |ed as specimens or sent off alive a* curiosities, while myriads of eggs are j blow n ami di|>o*cd of by dealers. | Amid all these causes combined the ] brute seems in a good way to In-come . extinct. This is somewhat unfortu nate, as the beast is a constant source j of interest to our northern brethren, I and every hunter from that section eagerly craves the distinction* of an : alligator scalp to hi* list of trophies. If their wholesale destruction con tin | ue* it will be. necessary to call on the j fish commissioners to restock our lakes and rivers with those valuable animals. The Star Route Frauds—Mr. Tyner'* Statement. First Assi-tant Postmaster General i Tyner sent in hia resignation a few ! days since. It was not unexpected. ' After the statement made by him re j ecntly in relation to the Star route j service his retirement was a foregone i conclusion. According to his owu ac count as far bask a 1879 three per ous in official position in Washington I were aware of the Star route service frauds. These were Mr. Tyner him ! self, who made at that time a personal investigation of them; Postmaster < icneral Key, to whom he submitted a written report of the result of his inquiries, and President Hayes, whom he afterward consulted in relation to what should lie done with his discov eries. According to Mr. Tvncr the Postmaster General and the President Imth advised the suppression of the re port, the former on the ground that if it was published "there would be a row," and the latter from the fear that it would injure the partv. In compliance with their wishes Mr. Ty ner, like a dutiful public servant, hid j away bis report ami never allowed it to see the light until now, when he produces it simply to vindicate him self from the suspicion of being in league with Brady, the Third Assist ant Postma-lcr General, who had the f'ving out of the contracts. That Mr. yner should have charged that Post master General Key and President Hayes had knowledge of these facta and counseled their suppression was a declaration so remarkable that manv would have hesitated to give it cred ence had not ex-Postmaster General I Key since admitted that so far as he was concerned Mr. Tyner had told the troth, and thst the report was sup pressed at his instance and for the rea sons stated. But whwi shall be said of the conduct of Postmaster General Key and Mr. Tvner, his first assistant, who being cognizant of these frauds were not only silent about them but allowed tbem to proceed up to the time that Postmaster General James look the office, and found the rumors that had long been current completely established by the investigation that was then ordered f If the two highest officials of the Postoffice Department could be so derelict in their duty as to conuive at these frauds, even though they may not have shared in the plunder, it could scarcely be matter of surprise that other officials subordi nate to them should profit by their op portunities and that the favored con tractors should feel they had secured immunity from punis'luneut. The whole history of this Btar route mail service is a sad commentary on official morals. It leads to the belief that the support of a political party is in these latter held to be paramount to the public welfare and the honest ad ministration of a public trust. Brady and some of the worst of the contract ors with whom he is charged to have been in collusion are to be brought to trial, but if the rumors afloat about the revelations they are capable of making he onlv partially true the chances of their being adequately pun ished are remarkably slight. Ilorae Talk. The American Irorse Foxhall won the Cesarcwich Make* at New Market races, in Kngland, on the 10th instant. Fox hull is a three year old-bay colt of good size and fine nniHcular devel opeiueut. He was bred by A. J. Alex ander at the Wood burn farm, in Ken tucky, and was bought by Mr. Keene's agent in 1870 for sooo. Ilia sire is King Alfonso, the son of the imported stallion I'hii-ton, whose sire was King Tom. King Alfonso's dam was Cap uola, a (laughter of Vandal. King Alfonso was foaled in 1872, and was an excellent race horse, hut was in jured and retired early. He is the sire of Grenada Fonsco, Alfambru, Istvaeia and other well-known racers, as well as Mr. Keene's two coltsfFox hull and Don Fulano. Fox hall's dam is Jamaica, a daughter of l>cxiugtou '•y I'anny Kudlow, she by imported iv-lipse out of Mollie Jackson. Thus hoxliall s breeding combines the choic est strains. He was sent to Kngland last year, and won his first race at Newmarket, October 13, when he won the Ilcdford stake. The next day he was second in the Ashley stakes, and on Octolier 28, he won the llret by Nursery Hadicap. This year in the City and Suburban Handicap his per formance in running second to Bend (tr wa considered so good that Kug lish turfmen gave him a high place, among the 3-year olds. By an unfor tunate oversight Foxhall was not en tered for the two thousaud guineas, Derby, or St. Ix*ger, but on June 12 he won the Grand Prix de Paris alter a gallant contest, in which nine other horses took pert. In this race the struggle toward the finish was very exciting, Foxhall treating Tristan only by a head. Fiddler, who ran third to day, finished fourth. Foxhall's sec ond apjsarance in Kngland this year was at Ascot Heath on June HI. when he ran in the race for the Gold Cup a distance of 2) miles. The favorite, Itobert the Devil, won by five lengths, Foxhall never standing higher than third and fiuishiug fourth. On Sep tember 23, at the Newmarket Ist of October meeting, Foxhall had better luck, winning the Grand Duke Mich ael stakes from thsee competitors, and the second place being secured by his half-brother, Don Fulano. Pharaoh'* Daughter. The statement in boldly made that among the mummies recently discov crcd at Thebes is that of the identical "Pbaraoh'a daughter" who rescued the infant MOM from his dangerous hid ing-place in the cradle among the bul rushes. The body is that of a lady of rare iicauty, and is so perfectly preserved by the cmhalmcrs' art that it appears as if only recently laid away. The coffin is decorates! with mosaic work of costly stones, some of which has been chipped off by curiosi ty seekers. Rameses the Second, the father of this lady, is said to have had many wives, and to have been the father of more thau one hundred and fifty children. It is supposed that many of his other sons and daughters are similarly embalmed, and that their mummified bodies will be found among the treasures of this descrip tion which are now being brought to light Dreary Places. Of all the dreary places, deliver us from the dreary farm-bouse which many call home. Bars for a front gate, chickens wallowing before the door, pig pens elbowing the house in the rear, scraggy trees never cared for or no trees at all, no flowering shrubs, DO neatness, no trimness; aud yet a lawn, and trees, aud a neat walk, and a pleasant porch, and a plain fence around, do not cost a great deal. They can be secured little by little, at odd times, and the expenae hardly felt. And if the time comes when it is best to sell the farm fifty dollars so invested will often bring back five hundred, for a man is wrong who will oot insensibly give a higher price for such a farm, when he thinks of the pleasant surroundings it offers bis wife and children. Druijto the past year the progress of discovery at Pompeii hu been rap id. Several very important house* have been opened for the first time since their memorable closing up in the early years of imperial Rome. One of them is built aud furnished on an entirely original plan. Some of the statues found are of bronze, and are said to he of exquisite workman shin. Furniture discovered is also of high excellence. A NRORO went home from a Geor gia mmp meeting in a state of ervtacy, declared that he waa going to Heaven hy way of a tall tree that grew in the yard, climbed to a height of seventy fret and then undertook to fl? the rest of the journey. The fall killed him. As Illinois man, with a foresight worthy of a better cause, popped the question on a rail rand train, and now the maiden is at a loas to decide as to which county she had better com mence proceedings in for a breach of promise. "BHK was a daisy," but she nut her liule French heeled shoe on a banana peel, and in a flash waa transformed into a lady slipper, and then arose blushing like a peony.