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Buried Gems.
How many genu ol thought beneath
The dust ol toil lie buried;
How many o'er the bridge ol sighs
To silent tombs are carried,
And never Bee the light ol day
Tho' tliLir'a is matchless beauty;
For hands that hold the richest gifts,
Must closest cling to duly.
llow mnny hands ne'er dare to pluck
From lile (he wayside flowers;
How many loet mutt bleed and ache
In tMs bright world ot ours;
VVhilo others sing the gayest songs,
And pluck the brightest roses;
For thorn the opening of each hour,
Some new lound ioy discloses.
How mnny sweet songs well to lips
That may not pause to sing them ;
And sweet bells chime in many a heart,
Hut there's no ono to ring them,
(iod pity such whose round ad years
Are rilled with enre and trials,
Whose daily lile is constantly
Mn Jo up ol sell-denials.
For those who toil in faith and hope
There must be rest at last ;
For those who weep there must be joy,
When all these tears are past.
And there'll bo gems for those who bear
Aloft tho cross ol duty
Whore tho unlettered tongue shall sing
'Mid love, nnd joy, and beauty.
Mrs. M. J. Smith.
QUIET RUTH.
She wns very quiet, ray friend Ruth
Earle. Repose was in every line of her
graceful form nnd every feature of her
pretty face. The soft waving hair,
brown in the shadow and decked with
pale golden gleams when the shone
upon it; the solemn blue eyes, the
straight brow all very quiet to in
tensity. She never blushed, or trem
bled, or. went into ecstacies of admira
tion or fear or fun ; her smile rose on
her face and lit it. as the full moon does
the sky on a still summer night, and
every tone of her voice was low and
musical, ome called her cold, but I,
who knew her so well, would have
laughed at them. In one sentence she
could embody the sentiments another
girl would have spent an hour in delin
eating. In one glrnce she could reveal
a temnest of joy or love or scorn; but
the glances were rare nnd words rarer;
but "Ruth's heart was usually a sealed
casket to all about her. A quiet interest
and sympathy in others' weal and woe,
a peauelul sort of happiness only those
were on the surface, and the torrent of
c ii tion roiled on silently beneath.
Why, of all the men on earth, Ruth
should have given her heart to my
cousin, Chnrley Cauiph?ll, I could not
guess. How he lieryand emotional to
a degree, acting on impulse altogether,
loving everything that dashed and glit
tered and made a noise, adoring martial
ruuie and passionate poetry, and always
smitten by talkative, black-haired,
waltzing, coquetting belles ever tell in
love with quiet Ruth Earle, was still a
stranger problem. When one fine Au
gust evening he bounced into our par
lor, where I was sitting alone, and in
formed me, without parley or preface,
that ha was engaged to Ruth, I, in my
astonishment, exclaimed: "I should as
soon have imagined a mad bull engaged
to a ring-dove!" and was very sorry
afterward, it was such a foolish, singu
lar speech. Still, it did describe my
feelings exactly.
Every one wondered. Young girls
"wondered what he could see in such a
3uiet girl;" young gentlemen "won
ered how she could like such a wild
scapegrace." But when, at last, she
came to me one day, with b th hands in
mine, and said: "Mary, you do not
know how dear he is tome he is my
life," I wondered no longer, for I knew
that Ruth had given him one of those
irresistible, unconscious glances of hers,
and shot him through the heart.
I think they were very happy all that
bright autumn, and wnen the winter
came the quiet contentment of Ruth's
face deepened, and every evening he was
at her side, reading-, or singing or talk
ing to her in soft, loving whispers.
Was she taming down my wild cousin?
Could mortal woman do such a seem
ingly impossible thing? Were all the
wild oats sown all the scrapesoverP It
seemed so.
The careless boy was maturing into the
high-brea man, passionate and lnipul
sivc still, but with higher aims and
higher principles.
The winter rolled away, the bright
spring came, and when the fragrant
apple blossoms were upon the trees
Ruth told me that the day was fixed for
her bridal, and we rode out together one
morning to purchase satin and lace and
muslin for the bride's attire. Go'ng
Jiome logetner witn tue parcels stowed
away in the bottom of the vehicle, we
met Cousin (JharJey, his cheeks aglow
and his eves dancin r with suppressed
merriment. lie waved his hand to us
and we paused.
"Take me in won't youP" lie said,
pleadingly. "I have been to call upon
you, and of course found you not at
Home. You have a seat for me,
know."
I signified my approval, and he
jumped in and seated himself beside
Kuth.
"The Petral carae in to-day," he said,
as we drove along. " Did you he r the
funs? She is a fiue vessel, just from
ndia, with a set of the yellowest na-
sengers you ever saw. Liver complaint
is as common among them as among
French geese, and pepper is the chief
article ol their diet, buch tempers as
they have, too! It would puzzle Ruth
herself to keen auiet among tliem."
" How do vou know so much about
them?" I inquired.
"Oh, I've been to breakfast with one
of their number." replied Charley ; " an
old nabob who is as rich as he is ugly,
and who has the handsomest wife ,
By the way, an old schoolmate of yours,
Mary."
"Who is she?" I asked.
He replied by another question : " Do
you remember Kate Glvnn?"
m "Kate GiynuP Yes. Is she tho na
nob b wileP"
" Of course she is. I met her coming
on me Doat this morninar. She knew
me at once. We had a desperate flirta
tion long ago. She is one of the mad
cap girls I used to like before I met my
snov, bird here, and mv face remained
in her memory. She introduced me to
h r biitband. and he invited me to
breakfast. J revenged myself for the
spices which burned my tongue by
burning the old fellow's heart with jeaf-
ousy, and talking mysteriously of old
times. Ho did not invite me to tall
again; but she did, and I am going."
" Charles Campbell, I am ashamed of
you," I said
" Oh, it's all nonsense, Mary," said
Charley. " Here is my safeguard," and
his arm stoie nbout Ruth's shoulder so
decidedly that I was obliged to change
places with him immediately on ac
count of the publicity of the street.
Throughout that ride he seemed to
overflow with merriment. He imitated
the old man's manner, his conversation
and his frown ; told extravagant stories
of the lady's smiles and attentions, and
made us laugh by a description of the
saucer eyes of the nabob's black serv
ant who waited behind his chair.
Ruth smiled placidly upon him all the
while, and seemed perfectly contented
with his account of the flirtation.
"What shall I do when you elope
with the nabob's ladyP" she said, as we
alighted.
"Follow me and shoot me througli
the head with a revolver," answered
Chaney.
" It would be easier to elope myself
with the nabob," returned Ruth,
quietly. "You would not be worth
shooting."
"Well spoke, Ruth," laughed her
lover. " You would never break your
heart over me, snowbird." And, some
how, a sort of dissatisfied tone was in
his voice as ho uttered the words at
least, I imagined there was, but it was
gone before lie had handi d us out of the
carriage.
We we re working on the bridal outfit
slowly. Day by day the dainty gar
ments grew beneath our fingers. We
sat together in a quiet little room, look
ing greenward, which Ruth called her
own. The window opened inward, and
a red rosebush without fluttered its
leaves and fragrance in vpon us. Soft
lace was looped about it and about the
bed. The floor wns covered with white
matting. There was a great "sleepy
hollow " of a chair in one corner, nnd a
marble stand against the wall. Over
the mantel hung the picture of a sleep
ing child. It was a quiet room, just fit
for quiet Ruth, and as she sat in the solt
shadow of the fine branches, sending the
needle in nnd out of the snowy muslin
and humming a low, plaintive tune, I
used to think that I never saw any one
eo beautiful.
Charley ea.iie every evening, and as I
watched the two sauntering arm-in-arm
by the river side, or sitting by the piano
singing together or listening to each
other, I used to please myself with fan
cying the happy married life which lay
before them. And still the wedding
day drew nearer, and the orange flowers
winch were to deck Ruth's hair were
budding in the conservatory.
Chariey's old uncle, a wealthy bache
lor, who had adopted him in his boy
hood, was often with us. He seemed "to
take an almost fatherly pride in Ruth's
gentle beauty and purity. And I know
of a rich trousseau which was in prepa
ration for the coming day. How peace-
miiy nappy we nil were! i nave olten
wondered since that there were no
oiuen3 in the sky, no whispers in the
air, no black clous anywhere, to warn
us of the coming storm.
I stood on the veranda one night look
ing at tue moon. Charley had bidden
dieu to Rulh, nnd was going away
own the path. At the gate he paused
for me. Wrapping my shawl about me
I went down and stood beside him.
Xever in my life had I seen sorrow
seated beside Charley Campbell, but she
was with in m now. His eyes were
heavy, his cheeks flushed, his head
bowed upon his bosom. I looked at
mm m terror without the power ol
uttering a word. He spoke first.
" Mary." he said, " do vou believe that
Ruth loves me?"
As her life," I answered. " I am sure
of it."
He shook h's head. "I am not." said
he. " When a woman loves she blushes
and trembles; she can never wear so
cold and placid a lace, so unperturbed a
mien; she is quickly jealous quickly
moved to tears. The passionate love of
warm-hearted woman passes all
things. Mary, I do not believe that
Ruth ever loved me, or will ever love
any one."
"Have you had a quarrel?" I asked,
breathlessly.
"A quarrel? Xo! I wish we had. A
quarrel would show some feeling to bo
touched. Ruth is a beautiful, lovable
creature, too good for a wild fellow like
me; but a man might ns well worship a
marble statue. She is freezing. She
chills me."
You are speaking blusnhemv!" I
gasped. "Buth is an ange l."
"Well, no matter. I'm a fool, perhaps.
Good-bye, Mary. Whether Ruth loves
me or not, 1 have loved her. I suppose
that should content me.11
He was gone anions the shrubherv.
and I went back to Rulh with a deadly
norror at my neart. w nen he came
again lie was the same as before, aud
seemed to have forgotten the conversa
tion utterly.
I had not called on the nabob s lady.
nor she on me. We never suited each
other. But I caught a glance of her
carriage otten, and three times had 1
seen Charley s face looking out of the
window as it rolled by. And, at last, a
faint breath of scandal reached my ears,
and I heard the name of that bold.
handsome woman mingled with Charley
Campbell's in a way I did not like.
Ruth heard nothing of it, however, and
the wedding day was close at hand.
It came at ast. the guests were
there. Music and flower perfume filled
the house. In her own room Ruth
Karle, dressed in her floating robes and
veil, waited for the bridegroom's com
ing. 1 heard, as 1 sat by the window,
the quick roll ol a furiously-driven car
riage. It paused at the gate. Some one
leaped out, and rushed along the path
and up the stairs, The door was dashed
wildly open and Charley's uncle stood
among us. lie held a written papet in
his hand, and bis eyes started from his
head with passion.
" He is gone!" he shouted "Gone
with that wicked woman. He has dared
to write and tell me so. I have disin
heiite him, and I curse him with every
curse that can light on man. May be
I eg his bread from door to door! May
oh, God!"
The wild voice broke, and he fell with
blood starting from his lips, full length
upon the floor. When we raised him
he was dead. In the letter clutched by
his uncle's stiffened fingers we read the
words:
" When you read this I shall be far
away. I fly to-night with the only
woman who ever loved me. For me
the has left home and honor, aa I have
for her. Tell Ruth poor Rutb ! whom
I have used to ill that I ntver deceived
her. I loved her truly, but her cold
love froze out mv affection, pure, as I
knew it was ; while this erring, passion
ate heart with which I flv is mine en
tirely. She will soon be happy with an
other I know happier than I shall ever
be a-.d wi'l forget, ere long, that there
ever breathed one so unwortny ot ner
thoughts as I. Charles Campbell."
There were screams and tears and ter
ror in the house : but there, upon the
iui in tuc ijuioc, uuv Micic, uuun buo
floor, set Ruth, pale and motionless, her
bride's veil dabbled in the dead man's
blood, and her eyes closed as though she
wished never to open tnem.
People said she bore it bravely, when
they saw her, in a littlo while, quietly
and busy as before. When the wi 11 was
opened, and it was found that Charley
Campbell had been disinherited, and all
the property was left to Ruth, they
spoke of it as an act of justice, and
thought that all was over; but I, and I
only, knew of the canker worm eating at
the young heart night and day.
Six months passed by, and we heard
nothingof the false lover. We never
spoke of him to Ruth, or among our
selves, and all the love I ever felt for
him had turned to scorn.
At last one day a letter reached me.
It was postmarked C , and was from
a comparative stranger, who had writ-
en to me as Charley's only relative,
UUI what a tale was recorded in those
lines. I can only give the substance.
The two had fled to Europe at first j
thence, when dread ot pursuit was over.
they had returned to this country.
1 hen tor the first time tney had heard
of the loss of Charley's fortune, and
poverty seemed staring them fully in
the face. Their debts accumulated, and
the change in circumstances brought
chance ot affection. Ihey quarreled
madly, each reproaching the other, and
the white hand of the woman was often
raised against the man she once pro
fessed to love. Sin-branded, beggared.
poor Charley Campbell paid the penalty
of his crime, and worse was yet to come.
They were in a carriage one day,
driving toward a dwelling place, for
debt had turned them from the old one.
They were quarreling in suppressed
voices, and looking hot hate into each
other's eyes, when a sight arose before
them that struck them dumb with hor
ror. There, m the middle of the road.
stood the woman's injured husband.
with a pistol in his hand, aiming straight
at them. Whether he meant to fire at
her was never kn.-wn; but the ball en
tered her heart, and she fell forward
with a scream. The explosion of the
pistol frightened the horse ; he became
unmanageable, and dashed forward
down a hill, crushing the driver be
neath the wheels, and stamping on nnd
mangling him. " We think him dying
now, ' the writer continued. " liis
ight arm has been amputated, and he
prostraied by pain and loss of blood.
He has need if the friends whom- he
ias so much ouended; yill you forgive
liin and come to him?"
The letter fell from my trembling
fingers. Ruth had stolen to my side un
seen, and had read it also. Down at my
feet she knelt, and buried her face in my
lap as might a grieving child. Neither
of us shed a tear, but we sat thus for an
lour in utter silence. At last she spoke.
' I have a favor to ask, Marv.
Promise me that you vill grant it."
"Anything, darling, 1 replied.
" Let me go with ycu,"she murmured.
Let us nurse him it he is suQ'ering.
nnd be with him to the last if he should
die. He was almost my husband once
my dear. Oil, take me with you!"
"Do you remember how he has
wronged you, Rulh? ' I asked.
Mary," she answered, rising to her
feet. " do not misunderstand me. I
would not let him know of my presence:
l no not seek to nnng myseii to his
remembrance. I will go with you as a
maid or nurse ; a coarse dress, a servant's
c:ip, nnd the curtained Jightof a sick
room will ueep me irom his Knowledge,
It lie recovers he shall never know that
I have been near him. I only seek to
see him once again, and do him what
little good I can. for I loved him dearly."
Who could withstand hcrP We were
oft" next morning by the first conveyance.
Ruth already wearing the servant's dress.
and hidden further still beneath a close
bonnet and veil.
I had thought that nothing could have
softened my heart to Charley Campbell,
but I was mistaken when I saw him
lying before me. scarred and maimed,
the shadow of his handsome self. Mv
tears fell fast, and I gave him my hand
as in the old times, when I trusted in his
honor and virtue. He was thankful for
my presence, nnd whispered a faint word
ot welcome, but Detore night Jell lie was
delirious, and knew no one about him
Oh, the long days that followed! I
shall never forget them. And through
all Ruth never left his pillow. When
all the rest shrank from the wild ravings
and the upraised arm o delirium, she
never wavered ; no tol , no vigil did she
spare; and when, at last,. he lay quiet
and weak upon his pillow, her hand
brought the invigorating draught and
lifted up the weary, helpless hand.
And this was the heart he had deemed
cold!
One day we sat together, Ruth and I,
beside the window, ana Charley seemed
to sleep. Suddenly he stirred and
called to me. I bent over him in an
instant.
" Mary," he said, " I have something
to say to you something which lies
very heavily at my heart. If I should
die without uttering it, my soul would
never rest. Mary, you remember when
I left Ruth, x ou know how I felt then.
I believed her cold. I thought that in
the hot passion of the woman I fled with
I had found true love. I must have
been mad, I think, for oh, how bitterly
I have rued that belief. Mary, when
vou see Ruth Ear.e tell her this, and
tell her, too, that long, long since I have
discovered that she was my only love
that in throwing away her pure
womanly afl'ction I lost the richest
iewel iii my life."
The words were uttered sottly, but
Ruth's ear had caught them she stood
in the shadow, where he could not see
her. ana listened.
"Through all my fever I have thought
of her," he went on, "and at times I
have thought she stood beside me. Then
I would strive to ask her forgiveness,
but the sweet vision always faded, and
a strange nurse wa- there instead. Mary.
do you think that Ruth hates me? She
should, for 1 deserve it."
Oh! the mute appeal of those clasped
hands and streaming eyes on the other
side oi the couch. I knew their mean
ing, and I answered as they bade me
" No. Charley. I know that Ruth has
lorgiven you."
"Forgive me I vet: lor she is an an eel
Dut never, never can she love me aeain
never shall the link my own hand has
broken be reunited. A mutilated beg
gar, scarred in face and heart, even were
the past blotted out, she never could be
mine. on. Ruth I my injured, pntient.
loving Ruth, I would give all the world
beside to hold you for one moment to
my breast to press your soft lips to
mine but once again."
She had stolen from the shadows shn
crept toward the bed ; she outstretched
doiu arms toward him. as a mother
might seek to clasp once more her lost
child; and still something held her
iiiiiu , uiiu BLiu auuieiuing nem ner
back from the bosom where she longed
to nestle.
Again he spoke, and this time be ut
tered her name "Ruth, Ruth, Ruth!"
Dut not tears were in his eyes, and they
broke the spell which keDt her from
him. The coarse cap lay on the ground,
tue kviucu linn iuii uvei iiei wuibt? lore-
head in heavy elittering masses, and
with a low. tremulous crv she cast her
arms about him, pillowed his thin cheek
on her bosom, and gave back to Charlev
Campbell the quiet heart he had so well
deserved to love forever.
He has it still, and it is very dear to
him, so dear that I believe no words
would tell its value. Since the hour
when the words were spoken which
united them forever, each has trusted in
the other to the uttermost, and there are
no happier people in the whole length
and breadth of the land than Charley
and his " Quiet Rutb."
A Wasp of Brains.
Ever since I was a little bov I have
frequently noticed that th9 nests of
mud wasps when broken in upon,
would shell out a lot of dissected
spiders and other like insects in smaller
proportion. I had always supposed
that even so formidable an insect as a
wasp would hardly want anything to do
with a good, full-grown spider, for I
knew enough of the combativeness of
the latter to presume that he would not
meekly submit to the sacrifice ol his
progeny to satisfy the appetite of a
wasp. But one day I saw a little de
monstration which made the whole
thing very clear to me. You know of
the careful manner in which the spider
builds and incloses the nest in which
his young are brought fortli and reared ?
Well, I was observing one ot these nests
one morning, when 1 saw a mud wasp
come buzzing along and alight within
an inch or two ot it, on the side op
posite the opening. After all was quiet
he proceeded with his little game of
strategy.
Creeping noiselessly around toward
the opening or entrance to the nest, he
stopped a little short of it, and for a
moment remained perfectly quiet. Then
reacHing out one of his antennas, he
wriggled it before the opening and
withdrew it. This overture had the
desired effect, for the boss of the nest,
as large as one ordinarily sees, came out
to see what was wrong and to set it to
rishts. No sooner had the spider
emerged to that point when he was at
the worst disadvantage than the wasp.
with a movement quicker than a
wink, swung The rear portion of his
body around and thrust his sting
through the body of his foe, killing him
easily and almost instantly. The ex
periment was repeated on the part ot
the wasp, and when there was no re
sponse from the inside ho became satis-
lied, probably, that he heid the fort. At
all events, he proceeded to enter the
nest and slaughter the young spiders,
which were afterward lugged off one at
a time.
You see this accounts fully for the
spider linings which we always see in
the nests of mud wasps, and makes it
all as clear as if that particular wasp
had told me beiorehand just what he
proposed by his strategy to p.ceomplish
Now it is just such demonstrations as
this which must convince us ot the in
telligence of the lower animals, differ
ing onlv in degree nnd development
from the intelligence of man. Of
course, much of this goes beyond my
comprehension, but 1 understand more
about it now than ever before, for I
have taken pleasure in observing and
studying not only the habits of fish, but
ot many other creatures interior to man,
which are popularly supposed to be gov
ernrd in their actions by instinet.-
Seth Qre.cn,, in the Rnc.hcji'cr Democrat.
A Brave Indian Scout.
There has been received at General
Sheridan's headquarters a communica
tion frtm Colonel E. B. Beaumont, ma
jor in the Fourth cavalry, dated Fort
Reno, Indian Territory, asking that a
pension or some other suitable reward
be given to an Arapahoe Indian scout
bv the name of " Ch ilk." who displayed
distinguished gallantry in a fight which
the troops had in Indian territory in
1878. with the recalcitrant Northern
Cheyennes, led by Dull Knife, Little
Wolf and Hog, then on their flight
through Kansas. Lieutenant D. N. Mc
Donald, ot the t oun u cavalry, whose re
port of the affair is enclosed, says that
when the command started in pursuit
there were some fifteen scouts with the
expedition, but after traveling some
twenty miles or so, nnd tearing ambus
cade, they commenced " feeling sick,"
and one after another dropped out of
sight and returned- to the agency, with
the exception oi two, " Chalk " and
Sitting Bear." These two Indians be
haved splendidly, and were excellent
scouts and trailers. On the morning of
September 13, 17B, these Indians, who
were in advance, discovered the hostile
Cheyennes in position awaiting the com
mand, and it soon became evident that
in point of numbers they were greatly
superior to the pursuing troops, -who
were soon surrounded. A small knoll in
rear of the position occupied by the
troops which was held by a squad oi
one sergeant and three men, was vigor
ously attacked by a party of Indians.
J. he sergeant ana his sou ad were in dan
ger of being overpowered.when "Chalk,"
borrowing a revolver from the white
scout who accompanied the command,
and jumping upon one ot the cavalry
horses, made a desperate charge into the
midst of the hostiles. creating such a
diversion as enabled re-enforcements to
reach the beleaguered party, and the
enemy was repulsed and driven back. In
this charge " Chalk " received a danger
ous wound in a very tender part of the
body. The next day, as the command
were away from water and beleaguered,
it became necessary to make a retreat.
and to do this the command had to cut
its way through the lines of the hostiles.
" Chalk." who was being carried on a
litter, seeing the dangerous position of
the soldiers, torn the men who were
carrying him to " go and tight," and get
ting off the litter, managed by crawling
upon his back to keep up with the re
treating soldiers until camp was reached.
The result w that he is a cripple lor me
General Pope commanding the depart
ment of the Missouri, in forwarding the
report, earnestly recommends favorable
action in the case of this faithful and
deserving Indian.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
IU OrlRln-Ita Method of Work-What It
Has none.
Persons who have had access to the
English journals during the past two
or three years, have been frequently
struck with the graphic descriptions
given of the doings and progress of a
queer religious organization known as
the "Salvation Army." Now that a
detachment of the army has come into
our midst, with ways and methods ot
work so sharply in contrast with our
own modes of evangelical work, and as
they are likely to bo an object of in
creasing interest for at least some time
to come, it may not be amiss to give the
readers of the Evening Mail a brief his
tory of the origin of this singular organ
ization, with some account of what it
bat i a ready done, and w JJJtpP;
ui uo in counecuuii nu iib visit iu mm
country.
J lie lounder ot the organization ana
the present head of it, or generalissimo,
is Rev. William Booth, an ex-Wesleyan
Methodist clergyman, of London, Eng
land. He is a man of rare tenderness
and sensibility of heart, and was deeply
moved for the degraded and criminal
classes which crowd some parts
of the city, and whom it seemed
impossible to reach through any
of the ordinary methods of the
church. So deep was his interest in
these wretched classes, and such his de
termination to do something for their
salvation, that lie requested the confer
ence to make this a special work, and
assign him to the charge of it. This,
however, the conference declined to do,
and assigned him instead to a country
charge. With his whole soul absorbed
with this one idea the result may be
easily anticipated. He withdrew from
the conference, and, alone and unaided,
took up the work upon which his heart
was set. He went nmong the lowest
slums, he visited freely the vilest dens,
and to the most wretched and degraded
refuse of humanity so steeped in vice
and crime that all semblance of hu
manity seemed to have faded out of
them lie freely offered the salvation of
Christ to all who would accept it. Ihe
vile, the criminal, the besotted in sin and
wretched, the refuse of the alleys and
dens heard with astonishment, lor the
first time in their miserable lives, words
of sympathy and kindness. They could
hardly trust their ears as this new lan
guage leu upon them, iney crowaea
around him by hundreds and thousands,
and followed him wherever he went.
Nor was it the " bread of life" alone that
he gave them; like the Divine Master
who, nearly nineteen hundred ears ago,
went about doing good to the bodies and
souls of men, so he dispensed also, when
it was needed, the bread that perisnein.
The result was that in a short time hun
dreds were converted.
It now became the great question how
to secure these converts and utilize
them in the further advancement of his
great work. It would be of no use to
bring into operation tho ordinary church
machinery in their case. It would not
hold them a single day. ihey were a
" peculiar people," had led peculiar
li ves.and had peculiar modes of thought.
Their lives had been different from the
lives of other men and women. Their
very modes of life had made them sen
sational and prone to tne extravagant,
the startling and the out-of-the-way,
and so it was necessary in their case
that some extraordinary nnd novel
method should be devised to enlist and
hoidtheru. It is easy to see how to a
mind and temperament like that of Mr
Booth, who, in the course of his work
had many a hard fight wUhthearchad
versarv. and whose mind was lull of the
militant figures of the Scriptures, the
idea of a military organization, or a
fighting Christian army should suggest
itself; and so gradually the organiza
tion grew into the Salvation Army
with its battalions, detachments, it-
processions and banners and music, its
captains and companies, its orders and
proclamations, nnd all the attractive et
ceteras so calculated by their very
novelty to draw the attention of those
to whom all ordinary attractions had
become blase. The success of Dr.
Booth's organization is evidenced by the
fact that the Salvation Army now con
sists of 125 corps and stations with 179
olhcers wholly employed in its labor,
while privates are numbered by tens
of thousands. Its headquarters are
in the east of Ijondon, in White-,
ehapel street, consisting of a largo
building containing a large hall for pub
lie meetings and smaller halls for busi
ness purposes connected with the work.
Latterly the organization has rapidly
extended over all the principal cities and
larger towns of England, Ireland and
Scotland, and it has the hearty support
of many wealthy and influential perso. s
both in and out of the church, who
freely advance the funds necessary for
the prosecution of the work.
It is claimed that through the lajors
of the Salvation Army the character of
the whole population of South Wales
has been changed for the better, that the
charge sheets of police courts have been
greatly reduced, the liquor trallic almost
suspended, and whole counties roused to
spiritual concern. The same good re
sults have been claimed for it in the
principal towns of Great Britain in
which it has operated, and. it must bo
confessed, with a considerable degree of
truth. At any rate, th re is one great
lesson being taught the church, and
Christian philanthropists generally, in
the rise and success of the Salvation
Army, and that is, if the lower classes
are ever reclaimed and brought to
Christ, it must be by going down to
them with the gospel, lhe angel must
step down into the pool before the
waters can be troubled. And another
truth taught is, thit even the lowest and
vilest can thus be reached : that they
thirst for human sympathy, long for
something better, and are ready eagerly
to accept it when honestly offered and in
the right way. New York Ecening
Moil.
Of the 577 British peers. 478 have
seats in the house of lords. 431 bv per
sonal right and 44 by election, 10 by the
Jeers ot bcotiand and wi by the peers ol
reland ; while the 143 peerages of which
tho holders are uot legislators at present
are distributed among the peeresses and
peers ot Scotland and Ireland.
The agricultural department estimates
the increase in the value of the crops
raised in the United States in 1879 over
those of the previous year at $413,000,
000. The price of real estate has been
enhanced during the same time about
9 1,000,000,000.
If your lamp is heavy a bit of long,
narrow oaoer will make alamo llahter.
Marauion lnaepcnaent.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The enormous sums received by popu
lar actors are thus stated : E. A. Sothern
gets evjry year $150,000 as Lord Dun
dreary, and John C. Owens plays thirty
weeks annually for $90,000; Joe Jeffer
son plays forty weeks as Rip Van Winkle
and earns $120,000, and Margie Mitchell
earns from $30,000 to $50,000. Dion
Boucicault has just finished a season as
"Shaughran," etc., at $3,000 a week,
and his managers scold him in the pub
lic prints because he would not
play longer at the same price. Miss
x- i 1 Aiennnn nnH
IUIISOII IllltKrs uvci ip a jcu,i,
while Fanny Davenport earns $1,000 a
week every week she plays.
The Countess Panine. lady-in-waiting
1 , I . n TMnw.r.M a( Dunn!. lina liflnn !!
qneBtedtorwIim and to travel abroad.
lu nf ,.,,.; f,.n en A
some
times received guests of whose character
she was not fully aware. Among them
was a young student, who, warned mat
the police were about to search his
rooms, fled to her house with his papers,
and, being pursued to her room, hid the
papers under her pillow. The police
discovered them and arrested him. That
the Nihilists, however, have mends in
high quarters is shown, not only by the
cipher document found on Deutsch,
killed in the secret pres ntiair, out Dy
letters found on a Russian doctor and
refugee at Paris, who either threw him
self or was thrown into the Seine.
These documents were sewn in his
trousers 1 ning and were handed over to
the Russian embassy, who forwarded
t . em to the St. Petersburg detectives.
Mr. A J. Severance, of San Fran
cisco, says that the diamond ctnii nas
plaved a very important part in devel
oping the mineral wealth of tho West.
The first great treasure house which
these drills opened up was that known
as the Consolidated Virginia and the
California Honanzas.which have yielded
$107,000,000, ot which the stockholders
have received S4.000,0(K) in dividends,
One of the owners of the mines told Mr,
Severance that the diamond drill had
realized for him $5,000,000. All of the
princii al Comstock mines, and many of
the largest mining properties located in
California nnd .Nevada, use these drills,
They are also extensively used in Col'
orado ; have pushed their way to most
of the Territories; have been introduced
and opf.rated in New Mexico, old Mex
ico and Australia, lhe Japanese gov
ernment hare also been supplied with
them.
A case of what may be called dual
existence lias been discovered by tho
Louisville Courier-Journal in the little
town of Millersburg, Ky. A pretty girl
about hlteen years old, who had some
trouble with her spine, is the interesting
object. When she is awake she acts
like a sedate and modest maiden; out
when she is in one of her bomnambu-
lstie trivels she is a wild, romping,
forward hoyden. In the former state
her nerves are suner-sensitive. and even
to touch her is to give her pain. In the
alter stale her nerves are entirely cat
lous. Naturally, she likes to read seii
ous literature; abnormally sue wants
nothing but Mother Gooses melodies.
She writes with her right hand in the
ore case and with her left in the other,
That her eyes are entirely closed during
tho somnambulistic Ircaks is vouched
lor by several physicians, and that hers
is really not another case ot hysterica
deception is atlirmed by Dr. Eads, who
has attended her since her chi.dhood
She. ot course, does not, or pretends
not, to remember what sue did in her
abnorma I condition, and when told she
will not believe it.
Then and Now.
Owing partly to the improvement in
tools ami shop appliances, and partly to
the system of subdivision of labor, there
is no parallel by which the workingman
of to-day can bo gauged or compared
with the workmen of thirty orforty years
ago. Then the apprentice was taught
crudely, perhaps, but still taught all
tho mysteries ot his ea ling, irom the
preparation ot the crude material to the
llniMi ot the completed result, lhe
rnrpenter heweu his timber from the
tree trunk or limb by means of chalk
line nnd broadax. He bored, nnd mor
tised, and cut tenons, trected tho frame
of the building, boarded and shingled,
and clap boarded and lathed, lhe black
smith shod horses nnd oxen, tired
wheels, made bolts and nuts, chipped
and filed end drilled, forged and tem
pered axes and chisels, and performed
numberless jobs of a variety of forms
and tor a variety ot purposes, lhe ma
chinist sometimes made his, own pat
terns and often his own tools, worked at
the vise and the plainer, the lathe and
the forge, and was ready to undertake
iny job. from repairing a broken stove
to building an engine.
The Boston Journal of Commerce re
members when the above practice was
universal. JNow timber is sawed and
not hewed; mortises and tenons are
machine cut ; houses are built by the
shinglcrs, the lathers, and the joiners,
as well as by the carpenters ; and the
doors, windows, window and door
frames and sashes are factory built. The
horseshoer does nothing else. The forger
of steel seldom works in iron. The tool
maker is nothing but a tool maker. The
machinist is a bench man, a lathe man,
a planer, a fitter, or he has a specinity
in cotton machinery or woolen, or never
works but on steam machinery.
Beavers Coasting.
One of mv friends in Iowa sends word
that when ner brother now a general
in the United States army was a boy,
he was very fond of hunting, and a great
favorite with the grown-up hunters.
One of these took him on a bright moon
light night in winter to see a strange
Bight.
The pair crept through the cold, clear
air to the home of some beavers. At the
dam which the beavers had built, the
moon was reflected from the ice with a
great glare, and. in this light, the look
erf-on saw the beavers have a splendid
game of coasting down a long slide, from
the top of the dam to the ice covered
stream below. The old beavers gave
the young ones rides on their broad, flat
tails; all Blid down as gravely as judges,
an ' then climbed up to have another
They kept it up until one ol the watch
ers sneezed At Ibis, the beaver senti
nels sounded the alarm, and then all was
still excepting that the lookers-on went
away laughing heartily at what: they
bad teeB.&. Nicholas.
There's a Gain for Every Loss.
For every wound there is a balm,
For every loss a gain,
And waning tumult ends in calm,
While rest is born ot pain.
Those souls who highest pleasure teel,
Sink olt in doepest woe,
While grief, which eye nor lip reveal,
Preys on the heart below.
To those who mourn, a day of joy
Begins when life shall end,
And bliss, which has no base alloy,
With brighter hopes shall blond.
But not on earth surcease is given
To sorrow, suffering, sin;
And pertect peace this side of heaven
Thou canst not hope to win.
Lilla JV. Vuthman, in Merlden Recorder
1TXS OF INTEREST.
A paper "mill "The fight between
publishers and manufacturers.
The main support of many a newly-
started paper is a long purse. After
a while it is the publisher's face that is
long.
The young man who wants to get up
with tne sun must not sit up too late
with the daughter. .
Time is money, and money is always
an object in a newspaper office. Long
winded bores should stick a pin jusf "
here. Rochester Democrat. - .
One of the youngest compositors in .
the country works in the otlice of the
Lisle (N. Y.) Gleaner The youthful
type-setter is not yet five years old.
"Pr.per bricks" are spoken of as a
Western article. We have 'cm here
fellows that pay their subscription in
ad vance. Boston Commercial Bulletin. .
There is some difference Jjetween
"cheek" and " brass." Cheek asks for .
anything any time without the sign of a
blush, urass coa.es up ana takes it
without asking.
Beads are again in demand as orna
ments, bhouid the summer prove extra
warm, beads of perspiration will be all
thego when pedestrians map theirfore
heads. New York News.
A paper in Caldwell, Ohio, runs its
Campbell press with the gearing of a'
threshing machine, the power being fur
nished by a horse. Its contemporaries
call it a one-horse concern.
A Tennessee farmer who owns a good
deal of property within five miles of a
railway has never seen a locomotive.
And he has no idea what a steamboat is.
He is eighty years old, nnd he is intelli-
en.t-
loung ladies who wish to have small
mouths are advised to repeat this at fre
quent intervals during the day : " Fanny
tinch tried hvo floundering frogs for
Francis Fowler's father." Andrew.
Queen.
Poland has fifty-four newspapers and
reviews, ot which fifty are published at
Warsaw. There are ten daily newspapers
printed in the capital, but the number
of subscribers to those does not amount
to more than 50,000.
" Mtiny a gem of purest ray serene
Tho dark, unlathomed caves ol ocran
bear"
Many a harassed editor, I ween,
At times will rave and utanip nnd tear his
hair. .Monthly Union.
"Good morning, Mr. Mercha-t, how
are garden seeds this year?'' "Oh, ihey
are higher; coming up every day
"That's good; those I bought of you
last year didn't more than half come
up." Marathon Independent.
Colonel Ingersoll says he doesn't sec
" how it is possible for a man to die
worth $5,008,000 or $10,000,000 in a city
full of want." . Nor do ve. Editors
should club together nnd resolve not to
die worth $5,000,000 or $10,000,000.
We would rather not die at all than to
leave this world worth that much
money. Norrinlown Herald.
There is a man in our town, and he is
wonelrotis wise; whenever he writes
the printer man he dotttth all his i's.
loiedo Cmnmereml. And when lie s dot
ted all of them, with great sanglroid and
ease, he punctuates each paragraph, and
crosses all his t's. Meriden Recorder.
Upon ono side alone he writes, and
never rolls his lea'es; and from the
men of ink a smile, and mark " insert "
receives. Cincinnati Commercial.
Flat-Bout Life on the Ohio.
During the past winter there were
from thirty to fifty families, comprising
about one hundred persons, residing in
what are known ns " family botits, at
Cincinnati. These dwellings are flat
boats, which, ha ring served their orig -nal
design as freight-carriers, or, may
hap, trading boats, have been purchased
a a low price, and after being cevcred
in have become the homes of a people;
occasionally they are floating still, but
g nerally they are t be found where
the high water has left them, here and
there on the river bank. A touramong
these unique residences develops much
that is interesting. A family boat, st
its best, is by no means a comlortless
d welling. At its best it is high and dry,
shored up." so as to bo level, as a
tight roof, and is divided into two roomf,
lighted by half-windows. Of course it
is warm, lor tho shore is strewn with
drip. wood ; and to be the possessor of a
good axe is a guarantee of comfort from
a good tire. But a good boat is not the
rule, and tho heavy rains, or a freshet in
t he ri ver, finds them but poor substitutes
for homes.
There is scarcely a family without a.
least three children. They are alt from
either rr.rts. Several are from far up the
river, one or two Irom west Virginia, a
number t orn Kentucky, while several
have chosen this mode ot living because
it i3 economical, " no rent to pay." and
in summe-r time far preferable to back
rooirs in tenement houses. Sometimes
a family in Pennsylvania, intending to
emigrate, will purchase a boat, place in
it their household goods, and start down
the river. Whatever their original
destination, they may " beach " the boat
and stay from six months to three years
at fnvac point Between rutsourg ami
Louisville.
Asa rule, the boats are merelv placed
of residence. Occasionally a boat de-l
voted to the bone business touches tin
Hhmv When this is the case, it is us
tiallv accompanied bv a second eralt
for ihe me of thefamifv- a home amen
tho bones picked up along the shores o
tho river not being considered lavoiaoi
ri digestion.
In all these clusters of family boaU
thu-ois the "Sunday-school boat " n
wti i! i sermons are preached and relig
ious instruction imparted on l;io S iU
bath, under the auspices of some uUkiui
at the placs oi woauoa.
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