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IWBITTXX TO TH BIsraTCB.1
Near the end of a village close by the
forest liTed an old -widow and her step
daughter Meta. The little brown house
made a pretty picture with its woodbine and
climbing roses, and shaded by larce beech
trees, whose overhanging branches almost
touched the moss-grown root. Many flowers
bloomed about the door, and the sours of the
forest birds and the murmuring of the brook
were to be heard at all times. "Within the
cottage all was t.o neat and comfortable that
it seemed to be the home ot very happy
people. But such was not the case; for the
stepmother scolded from morning to nicht,
and in her rough, harsh Toice was constantly
complainintr. Although her daughter tried
hard to please her, nothing seemed to suit
this cross, ill-natured woman.
Jleta was a good child both at school and
at home, but she had one great fault. She
had received as a present irom her teacher a
small pearl-handled penknife, with which
her mother had forbidden her to play, lest
she might cut herself. But in spite of her
mother's commands, Meta would take the
HEALING THE
knife from its place in the drawer, and
with it steal into the forest, and there, to
her heart's content, cut at sticks and twigs.
Although she had often been severely pun
ished for her disobedience, the little girl
still continued to enjoy her forbidden pleas
ure. One day it really happened that the
knife slipped and cut a great gash in her
finger, from which the red blood flowed in
laree drops. As she entered the cottage
door her mother cried, "What is the matter
with your hand that it is so red?"
Fearing an outburst of wrath, Meta
answered: "I have been in the garden pick
ing strawberries."
But her falsehood was soon discovered, for
the blood poured thicker and faster from the
wound, and no effort'of the mother or neigh
bors was of any avail in stopping the flow.
Finally the mother went to the village to
consult a physician, and during her absence
Meta sat pale, trembling, holding the still
bleeding hand over a basin of water.
Suddenly there stood before her a tiny
creature with smiling face and long golden
hair, who said: "So you have cut your fin
ger at last. I thought you would, and X am
not the least surprised to see you looking so
pale."
The little girl was too astonished to (peak,
and the stranger continued: 'We do not
usually help naughty children, but as this
is your only fault and you have tried in
every other way to bo good, I shall give you
a remedy. Here is a costly pearl ring.
Place this on your finger and the blood shall
cease to flow. " As soon as you remove it the
wound shall again open, but every drop of
blood that flows shall become a shining
gold piece."
The fairy then disappeared and Meta was
very happy over her new treasure. She at
once tried "the effect of the pearl ring, and
when she placed it upon ber fincer the
wound was healed, hut t hen she drew it off
the blood began to now, and as the drops
fell they became pieces ot gold just as the
fairy had said. When the mother returned
Meta eagerly told of her visitor and showed
the ring. And now a wicked thonght came
into the stepmother's heart, and she waited
for the night to carry out her evil
plans. When the little girl had
fallen asleep and was dreaming of
the fairy whom she had seen that
afternoon, her mother stole softly into the
room, and, gently drawingthe ring from her
finger, placed it carefully in the drawer.
And now the gold pieces fell almost faster
than they could be picked up, and soon sev
eral large bags were filled, and yet the
avaricious woman was not content and still
continued to gather her gold without a
thought of her daughter. Suddenly the
falling of the gold pieces ceased, and the
mother glanced at Meta, and seeing how
still and white she lay, thought she must be
dead. Fearing lest the neighbors would
discover her wickedness, she carried the
little girl into the lorest and dropped her
into a deep veil. She then put the gold
into coarse sacks, and, having loaded them
on a cart, told her neighbors that she was
going to drive to the city with a load of po
tatoes. The pearl ring she placed upon her
finger and was very careful not to lose it. As
she never returned to her home, the village
people, busv with their own affairs, soon
forgot the widow and ber stepdaughter.
When Meta awoke she found herself in
one of the loveliest sleeping rooms imagina
ble. The bedstead was ol pure silver and
gold, while the covers and curtains were of
finely spun silk, and were as white as
freshly fallen snow. The little girl sat up
and looked curiously around. Through a
glass door opposite a crystal hall bright
with many lights were seen. In the midst
was a table, around which sat hundreds of
little elves drinking wine and eating dainty
fruits. Near the bed stood her friend of the
day before, who greeted her kindly and told
herol her stepmother's actions. ".Now,"
she said, "you must go to our King. His
commands are that you come to hiin as soon
as you are able."
Meta arose at once and followed her guide
to the tairy throne. The King had many
kind words for the little girl; but he was so
small that Meta was obliged to kneel before
him in order to hear him speak. He told
her she should never return to her cruel
stepmother, and that they would care for
ber as long as she wished to remain with
them. But Meta was much grieved when
she learned that from having lost so much
blood she must always remain pale.
In the meantime the stepmother jour
neyed away to a large city. There she
bought houses and lands and pretended to
be a great Countess. She gave great feasts
and banquets at which even the King was
sometimes present But one day .she dis
covered that all her gold had "jbeeh con
sumed, and she knew not bow to procure
more. Finally she allured a poor beggar
child into her house, and, having put ber
asleep, cut her finger and then placed upon
it the pearl ring. When she removed the
ring she was rejoiced to hear the gold pieces
fall to the floor. In this way several inno
saeent children perished, until at last none
?Mrould approach near the house, although
nihB 'tried many ways to gain their confi-
dence.
When for the second time her supply of
gold was exhausted she tried the charm
spon herself, and her desire for wealth was
satisfied. But when she placed the n
upon her hand in order to stop the flow of
blood, she experienced so severe P
her finger that she screamed aloud and
placed her hand in water to ease toe burn
ing, but in vain. She then tried to draw off
the ring, but it seemed to have iiowntohe
finger. Her shrieks became so loud that all
the servants ran to her assistance. Many
learned physicians were callea, but none
could give relief, and after many days of
extreme torture the unhappy woman died.
When Meta heard or her stepmother s death
she went to the city to look once more on
the face of the woman who had treated ner
so cruelly. When the people assembled in
the church to hear the funeral sermon read,
Meta, pale and beautiful, walked down the
long aisle and knelt before tne altar. The
appearance of the lovely stranger excited
great surprise among the people, who took
her for some grand Princess.
The Crown Prince, who was present, was
so charmed by her beauty that he wished to
take her at once with him to his palace.
The fairies, although grieved to part with
their little friend, willingly gave their con
sent for her to become the wife of the noble
Prince. When the wedding was being cel
ebrated with great splendor a hundred or
BLEEDING FINGER.
more little elves, bearing gifts of gold and
precious stones, entered the palace and
bowed in homage before the little lady.
Meta afterward became a great Queen,
much beloved by the people, and, although
ever beautiful, she always remained pale.
Paysie.
EESOES ABOUT CHTHHETS.
A Well-Known Glnuworker Thinks Their
Toughness U One to Lack.
A well-known glassworker who has been
making lamp chimneys for one of Pitts
burg's big firms for a long time expressed
his amusement the other day at an account
of an old Southern lady who had used the
same lamp chimney for over eight years,
and who attributed its toughness to having
boiled it in salt and water. "This idea if
as funny as it is old", said he, "for water
cannot be made hot enough to penetrate or
melt glass. Another curious idea is to chip
a fragment out of the chimney so as to
enable it to expand more readily. In chip
ping out the piece half the time a small
crack is made, and the first excessive heat
the glass endures terminates its existence.
"Although I have been making lamp
chimneys a good many years.I confess freely
I don't know how it" is some are so much
tougher than others. At home I have a
thin, cheap chimney that I have ufed regu
larly for at least two years, while I have
used up three 'unbreakable' ones in one year
on another lamp. I am inclined to think
that there is more luck than salt water about
toughened glass."
AMERICAN GOODS ABROAD.
Difference of Opinion na to the Quality of
the Fucltlnc Uied.
In explaining why American cities are
getting more trade from the Bitish colonies
than of yore, the Australian Ironmonger
says, after stating that American goods are
cheaper, quality considered, than the
English: "American manufacturers are
more inclined to put a gilt edge on their
goods by superior packing and better cases.
The effect is remarkable."
This is in strange contrast to the complaint
of the Mexican merchants that while
American goods are the best the packing is
so interior to the English that the latter are
preferable.
A HEW PEOPELLEH.
How an Old Ohio Rlverman Propose! to
Revolntlonlze Navigation.
Mew York Snn.l
On the stocks at the west end of the Erie
bridge in Newark is a new propeller, which
the projector thinks will revolutionize navi
gation in all countries. It is a twin-screw
propeller, 100 feet long and 20 feet beam,
with an unusually long overhang stern, high
bow and shallow draught. The boat is be
ing censtructed on plans made bv B. M.
liable. The frame and planking' is un
usually strong, for the boat is intended for
seagoing excursions, and is to be used by
the Atlantic Steamboat Company of Atlan
tic City in connection with the Pennsylvania
Bailroad Company's excursions. Mr. Buble
is the inventor ot a peculiar screw, which
he has used successfully on the Onio
river, where he began his experiments.
The screw consists of fonr blades firmlv
rlvetted to a buoyant and air-tight cylinder
ot boiler iron having conical ends. Two of
these screws, each six feet in diameter, will
propel the new boat, Mr. Buble thinks, at
the rate of 23 miles an hour. The pecu
liarity of this form of screw is that it is not
intended for total submergence, but will lie
partly above the surface, one-half or two
thirds being submerged. The inventor says
his wheel, running in this manner, will not
churn, and will move with one-fifth of the
power seeded to run an ordinary screw.
The Ruble Wheel
Sr
THE"
ANSWERS TO PRAYER.
The Objections Strewn Along the
Pathway of the Believer.
t
WHAT THE ATHEIST HAS TO SAY.
A Conflict With the All-Embracing Bystem
of Natural Law,
FRAMING THE PETITION IN WOEDS
rWRIlTUI VOB TH DISflTCB.1
The argument for God, as I am trying to
present it in these papers, proceeds by three
stages, meets three great difficulties, and is
followed by three main inferences. The
three stages are indicated by the words
cause, nature and man. The three difficul
ties are represented by the words material
ism, agnosticism and pessimism. The three
inferences are the inlerences aa to praper, as
to miracles and as to revelation.
With the last paper the actual argument
for God came to an end. What was the nse
of making it at all? For nobody comes to
believe in God by argument. Else nearly
all of us would have to be atheists. And
the argument, even if it were considered to
be well made and a man shonld accept it,
does not after all amount to religious faith.
The accepting of such a course of reasoning
is not the faith to which is attached the
promise of salvation. It is only the assent of
the reason. Why argue, then?
Why, for two reasons. First, because al
though it is true that nobody comes into
belief by argument, it is true also on the
other hand that many are in danger of los
ing belief by arguments on the unbelieving
side. There is need that minds who are ex
posed to this danger should be fortified
against it It is well that we should know
jnst what the arguments which we read and
bear against religion really amount to.
They all have reasonable answers. Faith in
God is not in the least danger of being
blotted out, or battered down.
And although faith is more than an assent
of the reason, still it rests most solidly upon
a good, sound basis of reasonable assent.
From this one may go on. The next step
after reasonable assent is faith in God, not
as an abstraction like the old philoso
pher, bnt as a Friend and a Father. Faith
is an absent which is' simply willing to com
mit itself to the result ot argument.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
In a certain mill there was a workman
who, having dipped his hand in water,
dared to put it into a kettle of molten iron.
But the other workmen, who looked on and
saw that done again and again, had not the
courage to venture. The thing was demon
strated before their eyes, but they held back.
What they lacked was laith.
If the argument is true, and a man as
sents to it, then let him commit himself to
it; let him follow it into its inlerences.
Since God is, certain inferences must be
made and held. The reasonableness of
prayer is one; the credibility ot miracle is
another; the fact of revelation is a third.
We begin with prayer.
Unless God exists, prayer is the most
foolish of humau actions. If there is any
doubt about the existence of God, or about
the nature of God, if there is any question
as to the personality or the love and care ol
God, then prayer is strnck dumb at once.
But everybody who really believes in God,
prays. Prayer, to the believer in God, is
perfectly natural and reasonable. About
us and above us is a Being, our maker, our
preserver, the guide of our whole lite, all
wise, all-holy, all-loving. What better can
we do than put ourselves into communica
tion with Him? When we kneel and pray,
we are not speaking into empty air. We
are addressing, an unseen Being. "
Thus prayer is universal. Everywhere
are altars and temples and people praying.
Everywhere men are bowing down before
the unseen. There are two elements which
enter into all religions: The spirit of de
pendence and the sense of relation. But
these mean prayer. They find their most
natural expression in the voice of prayer.
Prayer follows reasonably upon the fact ot
God's existence. There are two things
which I want to say to-day about prayer:
That it is helptnl, and that it is effectual.
The argument for God is an argument lor
the helpfulness and the effectualness of
prayer.
COMMUNION AND PETITION.
Prayer is partly communion and partly
petition. When we think ot prayer as com
munion, we say it is helpful. When we
think of prayer as petition, we say it is
effectual. Prayer uplilts, because it fills
the mind of him who prays with the high
est and worthiest thoughts which a man can
think. The highest fact about ourselves is
the fact of our personal existence. It lies
in the pronoun "I," that means the soul.
The highest fact about the world in which
we live is the fact of God. In prayer theso
two supreme thoughts meet. The sonl ap
proaches God.
Ot course, when I speak here of prayer, I
mean real prayer. There are people who
say their prayers as they might recite the al
phabet or the multiplication table. But
that is not prayer. I am speaking of
Erayer. Whoever has really prayed knows
ow prayer helps. He knows what peace
and strength come into the uplifted heart,
Out of the place of prayer comes one who
has really prayed, as Moses came from
Sinai, with face illuminated. He has talked
with God.
All this, however, is true whether prayer
is answered or not. Prayer, indeed, in the
highest sense, is answered in the act of pray
ing. Like the doing of good, its reward goes
with it. Prayer is communion with God.
That is the best part of it. Who will think
that the Master, in Hislong nights of prayer
upon the hills and beside the sea in Syria,
was setting out before His Father some long
list of His wants? He was communing with
God. That was the prayer He was praying.
THE LIST OP TVANTS.
But prayer is petition also. Prayer M
the act of asking ior something. Here we
meet with difficulties. Let us look them
squarely in the face. Can God answer
prayer?
Because there are so manr prayers!
Think of it, this single day, the world over!
By the bedsides and betore the altars, in
tne cities where the noise of the streets comes
into the windows and in the country where
the birds sing among the branches
of the green trees, in Pittsburg
and in Allegheny, in New York and Lon
don, from the 'orests of the equator to the
icefields of either pole how many prayers!
Can God hegall these prayers, ereryone of
them?
How we are forbidden, by the conditions
of onr argument, to reler to revelation. We
have a single fact to draw inferences from
the fact of God. We refer to agnosticism
and evolution. They will answer this ques
tion for us well enough. Remember what
it is that sgnostif ism teaches about God
that the truth about God goes beyond all
human comprehension; that God is all that
we can conceive of, and infinitely more;
that the choice is not between the ideal man
and something lower, but between tbe ideal
mou and something infinitelyhighcr. But
great men do not overlook small things.
One element of greatness is a power to see
to vast distances, and to perceive the value
and importance of little things, and have a
wide and comprehensive knowledge.
And remember what evolution teaches
about God that God is not one who sits
away off somewhere in the clouds upon some
inaccessible gold throne, with the great blue
curtain of the sky drawn between Him and
us. God is here beside us touching the
world in every smallest part ot it, guiding
all growth, so that we cannot go out of His
presence anywhere. The telescope cannot
find a world so far awaybut God is there,
nor can the microscope discover an atom so
minute but God is there.
PRATER AND LAW.
God, at least, can hear prayer. We are
not ready yet to say that he can answer it,
for here is law. We live in the midst of a
great, interacting, all-embracing system of
natural law. So nnescapeable is. law that
we are told that the child who desires a fair
day, and wishes to have it though the day
would haTe otherwise been raining, asks for
PITTSBtnRG ' - DISPATCH,
nothing less than an entire new universe.
The great, close-twisted chain of cause and
effect would have to be snapped. The an
swer of a single prayer which should be a
change in the working of the law of nature
would bring the world to a sudden and dis
astrous end. Law, some think, is like the
macic statue in the fairy stories, and an
answered prayer like the enchanted arrow
which lies beside it. Down goes the hero in
the story into a dimlv-lighted cavern.
There stands a statue in the midst of a
splendid hall; beside it lies an arrow. The
hero seizes the arrow, shoots it at the statue,
and with a crash the root falls, and there is
an end to everything.
Now, I will have something to say about
law when I come to speak about miracles. I
am content at present to set down here the
testimony of two men who are admitted to
know something about natural, law, and
whom nobody will accuse of having any un
due bias in favor of theology.
HUXLEY AND TTNDALL.
Prof. Huxley (Pop. Sei. Monthly, Jan.
'88): "The supposition that there is any in
consistency between the acceptance of the
constancy of natural order and a belief in
the efficacy of prayer is the more unac
countable, as it it obviously contradicted by
every day experience." And Prof. Tyndall
says ("Fragments of Science"): "The
theory that the system of nature is under
the control of a Being who changes the
phenomena in compliance with the desires
of men, is, in my opinion, a perfectly legiti
mate one. It is no departure from scientific
method to place behind natural phenomena
a Universal Father, who, in answer to the
prayers of His children, alters the current
ot the phenomena."
If these two eminent and learned and
critical professors find in natural law no
hindrance to the answer to prayer, we may
conclude that the objection lapses. So fair
as law is concerned, God can answer
prayer.
It remains to consider certain objections
to prayer which arise partly from the nature
of prayer and partly from the nature of
God. Prayer, considered as the act of ask
ing for an answer, is of two parts, an outer
and an inner, the word and the wish. There
are difficulties which attach themselves to
both these parts. First, concerning the
word ot prayer: why speak at all? God has
no need ot speech. He hears the unspoken
whispers ol tbe heart. Nothing is hid from
God. The word ot prayer tells God nothing
which He did not know before. What,
then is the use of it? And as
for the wish of prayer: why
wish for anything? For consider the matter
a little. What we wish for is either the
best or the not best. If it is the best, then
God, who is all-wise and all-loving, will
grant it, without our praying for it. If it is
the not best, then the all-wise and all-loving
Father will not grant it, no matter how
earnestly we pray. Why pray, then? Why
use either words or wishes?
THE ANSWEB IS SIMPLE.
The objections have a formidable look,
but we inter at once that they are not so
formidable as thev seem, from the fact that
they are not onlv recognized but stated dis
tinctly in the Bible and the Prayer Book.
"Your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of before ye astc Him." That "is what
Christ said abo'ut the word of prayer. "Thy
will be done." That is the preface which
he set before the ideal prayer, making that
the condition under which the wish of
prayer is uttered. Such a prayer He
prayed: "Not my will bnt Thine be done."
Indeed, there is no intelligent Christian
who will maintain that words are necessary
to prayer so far as God is concerned, or that
prayer is a desire that things shonld be
otherwise than as God wills. And yet
prayer goes on devoutly and continually.
Let us see what answer we can give to the
objections.
As to the objection concerning the word of
prayer, we may say at once that while words
are not necessary so far as God is concerned,
they are absolutely necessary for us. No
reasoning is valid which is founded upon
any unrealized ideal. All true reasoning
must start from things as they are. And so
far as we are concerned wish it otherwise
as much as we may it is the
nnbroken verdict of experience that feeling
needs expression, and that without expres
sion, feeling and emotion die. Sympathy
must find words, love must be pnt into
speech, the spirit of dependence must be
voiced in prayer. We are dependent upon
God. It is for our spiritual'good that we
should realize this fact of dependence.
Such realization is the right attitude of man
toward God. Prayer is the expression of
this spirit. It needs words.
SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL.
As to the objection concerning the wish
of prayer, let us think: what the things are
for which we wish. We wish for things
material and for things spiritual. But the
wish for things spiritual, as for grace,
strength, patience, light this means readi
ness. God's blessings come only into the
open heart. God, indeed, having given us
free will, can bless only the ready.
There is no other way by which
we can gain spiritual blessings except by
that readiness of heart of which prayer is
both the expression and the inspiration. A
desire for things spiritual is the indispensa
ble condition. The natural expression of
that desire is prayer.
As for prayer for material things, as for
example for recovery from sickness, such
prayer is a recognition of God as mind and
will and love, Because God is, therefore we
can appeal to Him; and because He is God,
tberelore He can answer.
I appreciate the difficulty which lies in
the reconciliation between God's infinite
love and wisdom and God's answer to an igno
rant nian's prayer. It is in line with tbe
reconciliation between God's omnipotence
and man's free will. It is too hard for us.
It is "beyond the circumference." We
have not the brains to make it out
It presented no difficulty, however,
to tbe mind ot Christ. He taught
that God answers praver. And there I am
content to leave it. Only this ought to be
said, that there are two kinds of prayer for
things material, one right and one wrong.
The maxim of wrong prayer is, "Not Thy
will, but mine, be done." Tbe maxim of
right prayer is, "Not mine, but Thine.""
To have our hearts ready to receive the
benediction of God, and to recognize and
realize our relation to Him as children to a
father this is the highest purpose of peti
tion. When God's will "is done, man's
prayer is answered. George Hodges.
BOTOD ARMS AND LE03.
Tbs
Wonderful Font a Natatorial
Artist
Will Perform In Ent BIrer.
Some years ago Prof. Balbo, a profes
sional swimmer, succeeded in swimming the
East river at its narrow
est point with arms and
legs tied. This was con
sidered, says the New
York Sun, quite an
achievement at the time,
but there is a young Mis
sourian in town who pro
poses shortly to knock
the professor's perform
ance into a cocked hat.
Balno swam with his
hands tied behind his
back, but the rope was
bound in such a manner
as to allow tbe hands
plenty of latitude, suPI
hcient to keep him afloat.
Tbe ambitious newcomer
will be bound as por
trayed in tbe illustra
tion, 125 leet of rope be
ing used in the opera
tion, in connection with
the two strata. In each
hand will be a dumbbell
to convince skeptics alter
tbe performance that the
bandVwere not in use
during the swim. This will be sufficient
evidence, for It is obvious that if the swim
mer opened his hands during the transit the
iron weights would join McGinty at the bot
tom of the "say."
"Original Gene" Mercadier is the name
of this natatorial artist, and while a
stranger in the North, he ia quite famous in
the sunny Boutn,
rosn
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fOEMSOUTOFJPLACE.
Unique Epitaphs Collected From the
Country's Cemeteries.
THET WERE ALU WELL .MEANT,
But in Theia Modern Times Excite Levity
Bather Than Badness.
VERSES THAT TELL OP TEAGEDIES
rwurrriw ron thi sisrATca. l
In one of the finest cemeteries in the coun
try a division is set apart for those persons
who persist in carrying out their own ideas
in the arrangement and decoration of the
graves of their kindred. When a man pur
chases a lot and begins to tell how he would
like to have it beautified, he is shown the
"home-made corner;" if he be a person of
ordinary intelligence, the utter lack ot
harmony resulting from so many conflicting
notions makes him willing to leave all de
tails to the director's judgment,
A similar plan in regard to the inscrip
tions on tombstones might be adopted with
beneficial results; at least a visit to almost
any graveyard is enough to convince one
that the epitaph business of, the country
might with great propriety be placed in the
charge of a competent poet. The lines
quoted below were collected trom all parts
of the United States during trips made in
recent years in the interest of science; and
while few of them are as absurd as those
manufactured ones that are floating aronnd
in the newspapers, they are more interesting
because they are genuine and certainly
rid icnlousjenoagh.
First in the list may be given one to be
found in this city:
Erected by voluntary subscriptions.
x To tbe memory of those who were killed
by the explosion at Allegheny Arsenal.
Sept. 17. 1862
Tread softly. This Is consecrated dust.
Forty-live pure patriotic victims He here,
A sacrifice to Freedom and Civil Liberty. A
horrid memento of a most wicked Rebellion.
Patriots. These are Patriots grates. Friends
of humble honest toil, these were your Peers.
Fervent affection kindled these hearts.
Honest industry employed these hands.
Widows and orphans tears haTe watered
this ground. Female beauty and manhood'i
vigor commingle bare. Unidentified by man
known by Him, who is tbe resurrection and
tbe Life. To be waked, known and loved
again, when tbe morning come to."
An epitaph in an old churchyard at Alex
andria, Va., has excited much comment, as
no name is given in connection with it:
To tbe memory of a
female stranger
whose mortal sufferings terminated
on tbe 14th day of October 1810.
This stone is placed here by her disconsolate
Husband,
in whose arms she sighed out her
latest breath; and who under Ood,
did his utmost, even, "to soothe tbe cold
dead ear of death."
How loved how valned once avails thee not;
To whom related or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee;
'Tis all thou artl and all tbe proud shall be.
With acute commercial instinct tbe cem
etery authorities have published and placed
on sale a small pamphlet in which they re
late the particulars of the interment, but re
veal nothing as to the identity of the parties
concerned.
In a cemetery at Amsterdam, O., is the
following inscription:
My wife dear has gone away
To lire with God in endless day,
Wbile 1 am left alone to weep
And together my children keep.
In strong contrast with themourntul tone
of the above, is the joyous alliterative jingle
of the next:
The worm may waste
Tbe withering clay.
When flesh and spirit
Sever, my soul shall see
Eternal day, and dwell
With God forever.
In Bipley, O., a woman was heard to fall to
the floor, and some one hastening to her side
lound that life had departed. Her sudden
death was thus recorded:
In health she dropped and died so soon
Gone bafore we could reach the room;
She llvetb now to (lie- no more.
With Christ, who took from death its power.
The most unfeeling in the list is one from
Little Bock, Ark.:
'Tis better to haTe loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
While this may be true in the abstract,
yet a man who places it on his wife's head
stone has an air of congratulating himself
upon his good luck in securing a wife at all,
even if she did die early; his satisfaction at
having been more fortunate than some of
his acquaintances is mani 'est.
An old man in Dover, Ky., ended his ex
istence by poison. The following may be
seen on his tombstone, but it is not known
whether he elaborated it for himself prior
to his demise, or whether some friend thus
attempted to express the decedent's prob
able opinion of his condition:
"John Schubert, husband of Hedwig Gehrt"
Again I've lost the battle!
I am a slave once more!
Of that destructive Tempter,
Of which I was beforel
Farewell, my dearest children!
My wile and All, Goodby!
My hopes are lost! I cannot win!
My trust in God: I'm doomed to die!
In the midst of the Sunfish Hills, in Pike
county, O., miles trom any town, and in a
country whose poverty of soil and rough
ness of surface is unequaled in the Ohio
Valley, an old log church stands on the.
snmmitof one of the highest peaks, and is
in plain sight many miles in every direc
tion. Possibly their elevated situation has
given its members ideas correspondingly
elevated, for they seem to be quite philo
sophical in their testimonials. For example:
Lire is a span, a fleeting hour,
How soun tbe vapor flies,
Man is a tender transient flower
That even in blooming dies.
The next indicates less resignation:
Alas how changed that lovely flower
Which bloomed and cheere
My last fair fleeting com
forts of an hour.
How soon were called to part.
Another, which may beseeu, sometimes in
a modified form, in various portions of the
Union, contains some information, not new
but wholesome:
Children dear this place draw near
Your fatber's grave to see,
Not long ago I was with ynu
But soon you'll be with me.
On the road between Zanesville and New
ark, O., near the county line, a sign posted
at the entrance to a large burial ground
notifies us that "We the undersigned are
Prepared to clean Tomb stones on short
notice those desireing our service will do
well to give us a call give us a call and learn
our terms satisfaction guaranteed."
Although in tbe church near by, a minis
ter advocates the literal truth of every word
in the sacred volume, one of his congrega
tion thus expresses his doubt as to the "res
urrection of the body:"
This body in the dust lies down
And all flesh after him must go
And his dear Remains must lie and sleep
And God bis soul will safely keep.
The skeptical effect of this is counter
balanced by one next to it, which reads:
Farewell my wife and children dear,
I am not dead bat sleeping here:
My debt is paid. My grave you see,
Prepare for death and follow me.
Another of the faithful thus expresses his
belief in a literal resurrection:
do home, my friends, and dry up your tears,
1 will arise when Christ appears.
A neighbor, pleased with the sentiment,
adopts it in a slightly different shape, thus:
go home my friend
And dry up your
Tears for f shall rise
'When Christ apars.
An admonition to a life without reproach
is found in the advice of an old pioneer:
Luek on this as you pass by.
As you ar now so onst was L
As I am now so you must be,
Prepar for death and follow me.
One inscription"!! strongly suggestive of
aea-slokness:
This languishing head U at res.
1890:
Its thinking and aching are o'er
This pale anoVlmmovsble breast
Is heaved by affliction no more.
Probably tbe writer of
Lo ! where the silent marbla weeps,
A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps;
A Heart within whose sacred cell
Tho peaceful virtues lore to dwell,
would be indignant!! the lady were accused
of being hollow-hearted; but he intimates as
much in the third line.
Infant mortality seems to be exceptionally
large in the vicinity, as very many young
children are buried here; the favorite epi
taph for such seem to be:
Bleep on, sweet babe, and take thy rest,
For such as thee our Savior blest.
It appears on more than a score of head
stones. On the grave of a child which lived
only one day is the appropriate verse:
How short tbe race
that mannel run
Cnt down in all bis
bloom.
Tbe course bnt yesterd
ay begun
Now finished in tbe tomb.
A sense of complete satisfaction in the de
crees ot Providence Is expressed in the fol
lowing, which sounds more like a jig than
like a diree:
Early dead early blest.
Best In pcacef nl slumber real.
The extreme activity of a Licking county
Infant may be known? from this:
Little baby he is happy.
With tbe angels far away;
But we miss our darling Bertie,
For he Is at rest forever more.
Another did not seem to require "rest" so
much as pedestrian exercise, tor:
And then on time he closed his eyes
To walk in glory In the skies.
Botanical possibilities, in a future state,
are well shown by the information that:
A lovely bud hatb faded.
But, ah! 'twill bloom again.
At New Paris, O., a physiological phe
nomenon is indicated, as follows:
Sweet little Iamb,
For earth too fair.
Has gon& to heaven
To unfold there.
A Iamb in the process of unfolding might
be an interesting sight. At tt country grave
yard near Dublin, O., a writer has made sad
havoc with the grammatical second ferson:
We mourn thy loss for you wart dear.
Bnt why so selfish as to wish thee bear:
Here we tbe ills, of troubled life endure.
There you art safe to feel those ills no more.
This, this alone, thy partner chears.
And joy wips off the briny tears.
Near May's Lick, Ky., on the upper por
tion of the headstone is represented a woman
of most grotesque figure, with what was in
tended as a smile enlivening ner features.
One arm rests on an altar; the other hand
points to an inscription which reads: "My
kind husband is dead." Below this is
carved:
Lord! be was Thine and not my own;
I cbarge Thee not witb wrong,
But thank Thee for the gracious loan
Afforded me so long.
Phillips. Maysville. Fecit.
At Mount Gilead, Ky.j a widower, who
evidently was fully convinced that marriage
was a success, and had no idea of long re
maining alone, placed over his wife's re
mains:
A loving wife, a devoted mother;
Where can a roan find such another?
By thus making it known that he was in
1 the market, be soon secured another spouse.
in Cambridge, O., is one suggestive of good
food and wet weather, along with an intima
tion ot celestial equality somewhat at vari
ance with tbe ideas ot modest people:
"Now she has ascended high
Her smlllne savour for tosee
To rain with him above the sky
From time to all eternity."
Near it is the most sensible epitaph I ever
saw concise, expressive, truthful, making
no claims to transcendent moral qualities,
or supernatural knowledge of future condi
tions; giving no advice as -to how survivors
should conduct themselves: but only a plain.
matter-of-fact assertion that cannot be con
troverted; simply
Farewell; I'm off.
In unfavorable contrast with this is the
following from Falls Church, Virginia:
Weep not for me that is dead and gone
Bat for your sins pray daily mourn
My race is rnn my grave you see
Prepare for death and follow me.
In St, John's churchyard. Bichmond. Va..
is a very full nnd explicit account of a
young man whose friends were desiroas he
should not be lorgotten:
Here lies the body of
Mr. Danlbl Denoon,
Gunmaker of this City, who was
Shot by James McNaught. 27th Feb. 1828,
after being in his employ
8 years, 3 months ana 15 days.
Aged 22 years, 2 months and IS days.
Lament, O ye bis friends yonr loss deplore.
For virtuous Daniel is alas no more;
And you to whom each social merit's dear,
Drop o'er his grave a tributary tear;
For each loved attribnte his soul possessed,
And now in heaven enjoys eternal rest.
One interesting point is omitted why
should such a good young man be shot?
The many good qualities of a buried hero
are duly enumerated in this graveyard and
the account concludes as follows:
This stone
Is a monnment ot tbe devoted affection
of his bereaved surviving widow.
Imagine the unfortunate gentleman's
plight if his widow had preceded him to the
spirit land!
Beneath the name of a very young man is
written:
His genius fled up to the stars
from whence it came, and
that warm heart of tbine
with aK its generous and
open vessels compressed
into a clod of toe Valley;
That is tbe end of it; the writer had evi
dently attempted a flight of imagination
that carried him, also "up to the stars," and
so we may never know what it was all about.
Ky. Q.
A TYPICAL EKGLISH W0MA1T.
Stanley's Lndy Love and Dllllnli Fiction
Tbat Made Her Famous.
Before very long Miss Dorothy Ten nan t
will write her name "Mrs. H. M. Stanley."
There is just a possibility that she may be
Lady Stanley li Henry M. gains a baron
etcy.. It there is snch a thing as a typical
woman, Miss Tennant is a typical English
woman. She is tall, largely built, with
fine gray eyes and dark brown hair. It
would be gross libel to accuse her of being
'owe. voung to raarrv yet."" Her best fame
was attained in 1869 and 1870. It was a
year later that Sir John Everett Millais ex
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Not"' Of this Miss Tennant was model and
heroine.
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1071 THE POWER BEHIND THE THBONE.
Copyright, 1830. by EL R. CbadbournJ
D.M.H.
1072 KUMEBIOAI. E5IOMA.
1 to.
Describing qualities my name is oft
Applied to what is gentle, mild and soft;
Tbose who are first are ne'er engaged in broil;
Their voice and words are always smooth as oil.
76-10-9.
Fart of a kingdom once my name Implied,
O'er which an English earl might rme in pride;
But here I am a portion of a State,
O'er which no lordly earl can dominate.
1 to 10.
I am tbe man whose soft seductive ways
May stir your envy, or elicit praise;
And yet an artf nl person he may be.
Full of deceit and vile iniquity.
NKMOHTAW.
1073 CHABADE.
In times of battles and of war,
The "times that try men's souls,"
Tbe bugler's fir at is beard afar;
O'er bill and dale it rolls.
Zatt speak of battles and of war
In "piping times ot peace,"
Brings scenes to mind which ws abhor!
Oh, tbat all war would cease.
Our total, then, is plainly this;
"Let arbitration sway.
All scenes of blood we'll gladly miss.
Much pain will pass away.
H. C. BUBOBB.
DOUBLE ACBOSTIC.
Words of Sight Letters.
L An Isolated farm or farmhouse. Z Gener
al. 8. An idle, ragged person. 4 An alloy of
gold, silver and copper, of which an Inferior
quality of jewelry is made. 5. To take from a
barrel. 8. A sudden transference of property
in land by tbe death of Its owner. 7. Cinnamon
stone. 8. Gritty.
PrimalsA. famous legendary Oreek hero.
Finals A famous legendary Qreek hero.
Albert S.
1075 TBANSPOSlTIOir.
As I was seated in a one
Looking things over Just for fnn
Old garments tbat bad had their day
And now with rubbish cast away.
In an old box of cast-off shoes
I fouud a pair of ancient twos.
Embroidered with the nicest skill.
The silver buckles on them still
There lay they in a heap of tow,
A relic of tbe long ago.
And musing there I chanced to sea
Another relic, 'twas a three.
A little simple implement
Used in the kitchen bruised and bent
Which aided once the pastry cook
To make things good which all partook,
Bat 'mid tbe trumpery 'twas tossed.
And with the rest forgotten lost.
AXDTXk
1076 STNCOFATIOIT.
To strike together as in pain"
Seems not to make the total plain.
By persons wbo of teeth have none
1 should not think it could be done,
Tbose wbo in fight with swords or knives
Seek to destroy each other's lives
May get of lasts perhaps a number
Ere they sleep their final slumber.
NElSOITCAir.
1077 SQUARE.
L An imaginary belt in tbe heavens. ZA
city of .Portugal. 3, Grammars (Obs.). 4. A
village of Austria. L To expiate. 6. To fondle.
H. C. BTTBSOXB.
1078 ANAGBAM.
Sweet vocal musio brings delight
To every listening ear;
Tbe hours of dullness it makes bright
By its enlivening cheer.
But singing la a boisterous way
Does not the soul rejoice.
Nor cultivated taste display
'Tis but a "strain ovoioe."
Tbe public speaker who refrains
From declamation loud.
Is such a one as al vays sains
A'tention of the crowd:
While be who tones bis pitch too high
Disgusts us with his noisel
"Vehement utterance and outcry"
Is useless "strain of voice."
NXLSOXIAIT.
1079 DECAPITATION.
Good Patrick McCann
Is a comical man:
Tbe war he does second an "r"
Is so very complete
Tbat laughter does greet
His remarks, and their gravity mar.
Bitteb SWExr.
1 080 TBANSPOSITIOIT.
There is vrimal final hidden
Oft within the brain ot man;
And an earnest application
Coltnres. trains it, if aagbt can;
Though 'tis primal, yet developed
Wbat a power it proves to be.
For the final is God-iven,
Given to all in some degree.
, H. C. Buhqkb.
AN S WEES.
1083 Sword-fish, pipe-Ash; saw-fish, sun-fish,
globe-fish, moon-HJb, butterfly-ash, drum.-nsb,
gar-flsh, cuttle-fish.
lOSt Earth, heart, Herat.
1065 Felicity, veracity, simplicity, rusticity,
mendacity, voracity, rapacity, ferocity, lo
quacity, velocity, elasticity, electricity, capac
ity, scarcity, sagacity, pertinacity.
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1069- NEATEST
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1070 Step, pets.
HEARTS IN JEWELRY.
A Pretty Fashion That 11 Conn t V
From Over the Sen.
Everything is going to hearts in jewelry.
The fashion comes to us from England, and
seems destined to be as popular here as over
the water. Tbe lover now gives his sweet
heart a moonstone heart, set round with
diamonds, which she wears next her heart,
pinned ou beneath the corsage.
He.irts appear in every kind of jewelry
in lace pins especially. Very beautilul is
one made of two hearts, ot rosy-tinted conch
shells set in diamonds and united by a true
lover's knot studded with brilliants.
Another pin bas two hearts of filagree gold
wreathed with delicate blue forget-me-nots
and marzuerites, and these, too, are tied
together by a lover's knot. There are others
of turquoises surrounded by pearls, moon
stones and diamond: a carl with an en
ameled pansy and dew-drp diamond center
each and all united by fee inevitable true
lover's knot. t
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