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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL. DESPEltANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XII.
HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAKCH 23. 1882
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Look Up, Not Down,
Ilfe to omo is full of sorrow
Half is real, half tliey lir.rrow;
Full of rocks and full of lodges,
Corner sharp antl cut tin); odges.
Though the joy bells tusy bo ringing,
Not a song you' 1 hear tl.'cra singing:
Seeing never makes tliom wise,
Looking out from downcast eyes.
All in vain tlie sun Is sinning,
Waters sparkling, blossoms twining;
They but aeo through these same sorrows,
Sad to-day and worse to-morrows,
Beo t'ne clouds that ur 1st pans over;
Hco tho weeds aniMii? the clovor
Everything and anything
But tlie goll the sunbeams bring.
Draining from the bitter fountain,
IjoI yon mole-hill teems a mountain;
Drops of dew ami drops of rain
Bwell into tho mighty main.
All in vain the blessings shownr,
And the men-ion foil wuhpower;
Claiheiimf fluff, ye Irani the wheat,
llii-h and loyal, 'iwlh your fcot.
Let it. not bo so, my neighbor;
Look up, as you love and labor.
Nut for one alouo woe's vials, '
Every one has cares and trials.
Joy and pain aro link-d together,
Like the fair and cloudy weather;
Slay we h ive -Oh lot us pi ay
Faith and patience for to-day.
Advance.
Elsie's Three Offers.
Tbe last tonch was given to the dainty
toilet, and escaping from tbe hands of
mamma and maul little Elsie Baird
went slowly down the polished stairs,
buttoning the last plove as she went.
" Just a little while more and it will
begin," she thought. "What fun it is
to be grown up I 1 am glad now that
mamma wouldn't let me go to the Rogers
ball in the spriug. It's a great deal
nicer to have my own the very first, and
not Oh 1" with a sudden scream of de
light, as the turn of the binding brought
into view thehnll below, lamp-hung and
flowe'-festooned, with orange-trees and
white-budded Liurestines veiling the
corners; and screening the musicians'
stand a tall bank of fair and rose-red
camellias, to which Cousin Robert and
the gardener were at, this moment putting
tbe last touches. All these wonders had
been evoked air ce EMewent upstairs
for her preparatory nap. No wonder she
cried, "Ou I '
" It is fairy-land 1 It is too beautiful
to be true I" she called down over the
balustrade.
" Just so," responded her cousin from
below " quite too beautiful to be trjie,"
looking admiringly at the slender
vision in fleecy white as it came sweep
ing down, and noting each point, the
dimpled shoulders, the tender bloom,
the fluffs of golden hair which played
aronnd that sweetest face, in which child
and woman seemed to blend so won
derfully. Well, Ksie, I call that well
got up. What I three bouquets I How
are yon going to manage with them all,
may I ask V '
" Do I look nice ?'' said Elsie, twist
ing her head round to Burvey her train
that long delightful incumbrance
which to her imagination seemed the
visible badge and diploma of young
ladyhood. "I am glad yon like my
dress, Cousin Robert. And isn't it
fun? about the bouquets, I mean. Tbey
all came while I was asleep. This big
one is from Harry Blount Did you
ever see such a monBter? He must
have cut every flower in his mother's
greenhouse. And such a note as came
with it! 'Dear Elsie, wear it for my
sate, wow, uousin K bert, imagine
my weaving sucu a thing 1"
"It is rather like a prize cabbage,"
remarked Robert, surveying tne huge
bouquet witli a critical eye. "Well,
who sent the others?"
" This one I am really proud of,"
said Elsie, dimpling with satisfaction.
" Major S:rauge sent it, and it's exactly
like the bouquets which all the other
girls have, and makes me feel really and
truly grown np; only it is a pity that
none of the flowers have any stems. And
I hate those wires; they look so cruel."
" And tbe third, which you are hold
ing so tight?"
" Now that one really is remarkable,"
said Elsi, blushing not a little.
"Mamma would hardly believe it. See
how exquisite it is I all white rosebuds.
with just this little border of heliotrope
to give a color. So appropriate don't
you think sor
"Highly appropriate to a child's
funeral, remarked her cousin, grimly,
"You needn't show the card; I know
the fellow "
" I don't believe you've guessed right
at all, pronounce. I ljlsie, waving the
card triumrjhantly above her head
" The Rev. Cvnl Forsythe.' There I
Did you ever ? I know, of course, that
it's all . meant as politness to me and
mamma, but it s great fun all tbe same.
Bouquets, and engaged already for the
geraan I What will come nest i Cousin
Robert, what if I should have an offer I"
" Do Yf'U particularly want one to
( night, M'idgot ?"
"Oh, no, not to night; but some day
I think it would bo nice to have one.
Now what shall I do with my flowers?
I can t carry tnem all."
" It's rather like coals to Newcastle
to give you another when you can't dis
tjosj of those you have already," said
Robert. " Still, here's a posy which I
had brought you myself."
"Charming I" cried Elsie, throwing
her fragrant load on a table and seizin;
the dewy mass of scarlet bloom which
he held out. " You always hit on jubt
the nicest thing. Those are the only
ones thut look at all well with my dress.
Bee 1" h o'ding the flowers against her
snowy bodice with great t fleet '-Mayn't
I carry these, Robin dear?" eoaxingly;
" M u.m so much the best."
"Robin dear" demurred, though
lie kissed ihe little- gloved hand as a
token-of gratitude for the preference.
It was finally settled that all the bou
quets should lie together on a little
table, and that Elsie should give each
an airing in turn during the evening.
With an inaudible sigh Robert
Baird watched his darling as guests
arrived, and the musio began to sound
from behind the camellia screen. Tbe
soft round cheeks he loved grew rosier;
the sweet, delighted eyes glowed with
excitement; Elsie, his pet and treasure,
was fairly launohed on the fair but
treacherous sea of society, and a sense
of loss and, deprivation seized, his
spirits,
The old homestead, of which he was
joint owner, had never looked upon a
prettier scene. Outside, the moonlit
piazzas were sweet with honeysuckle,
the gardens beyond twinkled with
Chinese lanterns, across the soft dusks
and shadowy vistas forms in white flit
ted, gay laughs broke the dewy silences.
Dear little Elsie had done the honors
prettily by mamma's side; but now the
tide of incoming guests slackens. Some
one offers his arm. She is going off to
dance at last, thinks Robert. But no;
the young rector is surely cot a dancing
man. On his arm, his ilowers in her
hand, Elsie vanishes. And Robert, with
a face which is a little pad and not a
little savage, turns away, and spurs
himself up to his. hospitable duties.
" It is very good of you," said Mr.
Forsythe, softly, as they gained tho
piazza, " to give the first dance-time to
me. It is better than anything else
could be to be here in this starry silence,
under heaven's arch, and with yon I"
Elsie was much awed and impressed.
Was this the way in which clergymen
talked to young ladies ? How nice it
was 1 She had been a little afraid that
be would ask her about her soul, anil
Elsie did not know much about souls as
yet.
Still, she was a practical little damsel,
and having gazed upat " heaven's arch,"
and seen only tho piazzi roof, she ven
tured to soy; " Didu't you ever care
ubont dancing, Mr. Forsythe ?"
He looked down serenely at her from
his height of six feet two, but did not
seem offended with the question only-
saintly which Elsie noted with relief.
"JNot very much," he answered,
gently. "And my time is so full of
other and graver duties that it is small
matter of regret to me that the church
has set the seal of her disapproval on
such pleasures in the case of her or
dained servants, whose life work is. or
should be, solemn and engrossing."
is tnere really a law against danc
ing, then ?" asked Elsie, timidly.
" cioi lor sueli as you. To a fatr
young life like yours such amuse
rnents, when pmaken of in modera
tion, aro natural and Larmiers. And
for myself theie are niuny cc nipenta
tions the privilege of ministering to
the aged and sorrowful, of shaving
their joys and consoling their griels,
and, sweetest of all, the close relation
which I bear to my flock."
Elsie murmured an assent. She felt
a little as though she were in church.
Still, it was undeniably gratifying.
"Yes," continued the low, fervent
voice, " it is a world of contrasts. This
evening I am here sharing in this scene
of gsyety amid all that makes life eu
jojuble. This ufternoon I spent by the
tiedside of a dying woman, glad to ff.ld
ber tired hands and rest af or tho
burden of life, even though she left bet
children to struggle on alone. I hope
I was able to support and strength "
" Ob," interrupted Elsie, "that must
have been poor Mrs. McOranl Is sho
really dying? Howsony I anil Mamma
is going to take one of the children to
keep as our housemaid, and she hopes
to get little Jenny into the Florae. Oh,
I am sorry Mrs. McCraw is dying on
the very day of my party 1"
"Yes, dtar Miss Baird, it is a world
of contrasts, as I said. Death and life,
sickness and health, poverty there,
luxury here, and heaven over all."
" I am so sorry," cried Elsie, bewil
dered. " I can t help it. I au young
and happy, or I was before you tallied
so," she added, with a little pout.
" But I don't forget that there aro
sick and poor people, and mamtra
never does. She is as good as sho can
be to them; really she is, Mr. For
sythe." "Indeed, dear child," in a tender
tone, " I know it well. Your mother is
one of my precious helpers and frieui' s;
and I would stake my life that you, in
your maiden bloom and happiness
which heaven forbid I should in any
way seed to shadow will also give
yourself to every good and holy work.
I have watch- d you grow up under my
eye a polished stone of the temple, and
no fairer vision has ever been pi-anted
to cheer my lonely life. And Elsie,"
he added, still more softly, " there is
no hope so dear to me as this for jiva
me that I speak of it; I cannot refrain;
the wish is too near my heart that in
the future, which seems at this mo
ment so near and so fair, you may for
ever lean as now on my arm. Suffer
me to lead and support you. Gome and
brighten my home with your lovely
presence, and be to me the best gilt
that. God ever bestowed on man."
Elsie drew her band away and stared
at the young divine with frightened
eyes.
" An offer I" she cried, breathlessly.
" Are you making mo an offer ?"
" What else, dear child ?" ho respond
ed, with some heat. "And in return
will you tell me"
" Oh, please don't please,'' she
cried, in horror. I don't know any
thing about such things. I'm so little
so young, I mean. Mamma wouldn't
like it. I know she never allows me to
talk about offers."
" Angelic diffidence," replied her tor
mentor. " You are right. It is to
your mother that I should have ap
pealed, ion permit, then, dearest,
mat i enoum make ber tbe judge be
tween us, and come at another time for
my answer? You can whisoer it in
mother's ear, in the shelter of mother's
arms, can you not, little startled bird?
Buall it be so, then V"
" Oh, yes, yes 1" cried Elsie, frantio
to escape. " Mamma will tell you all
about it. Don t say any more to me."
Off she dashed out of the starlit,
rose-scented evening, into the protec
tion of tbe glare, the crowd, little reck
ing of tbo long, black, tightly buttoned
figure with clasped hands an.d eyes
raised to " heaven's arch " which she
lift behind. She was prettier than
ever, with her Hushed cbeeks and shy,
dazzled eyes, and was seized on at once
by a series of expectant partners.
Dance succeeded dance. ' Young
Harry Blount, sulking in a corner, and
watobing his rivals witn a pair of clow
ing, jealous eyes, suddenly gave a great
start. He saw Elsie lay down tbe white
bouquet wnicn nan aaectet mm as
soarlet affects a bull, take op his flowers
yes, his I and carrying them in her
b.an.4 approaoU Ws lurking-plaoe. fche
made a saucy little courtesy, and said:
" Mr. Blount, I believe this is our
dance."
" Elsio, what a fool I am I" criel the
boy, ready to kiss her white-slippered
feet in his revulsion of feeling. " Have
I really beeu hanging about here like a
tramp, and forgotten that?"
" You really have, Harry," replied
the little belle of the evening. " You
have neglected mo shamefully, and I
feel dreadfully about it. Now to atone,
don't let ns dance at all, but just sib
down and rest." Then noticing a look
of blank disappointment, she added
quickly, "Or rather let us have a t-horfc
walk, and then go and hide somewhere
and have some coffee if mamma isn't
looking, that is."
" So we will," paid delighted Harry.
" I know of a capital seat on the south
piazza."
" Auywhore else!" cried Elsie. " I
hate that piazza. I never want to see it
again."
" That's a good one, when you've
been there half the evening with that
parsonl Did ho bore you so dreadfully,
poor little Elsie? I always knew he
was a prig."
"Mamma like3 him," responded Elsie
demurely. " And so do I in the
pulpit."
Tbo two children for they were lit
tlo more enjoyed their walk, and then
sought a refuge behind tbe curtains of
tho di ep buy window iu tho hall. Elsio
sank back on tho cushioned seat with
a sigh of fatigue, too weary for more
than half attention to Harry's talk. Ho
was paying her outrageous compliments,
she vaguely thought, but she was used
to Harry's nonuense, and sheidly picked
his bouquet to pieces while meditating
on her late extraordinary interview with
Cyril Forsythe. Suddenly she came to
h-rself; Harry had taken her hand.
When? She didn't remember. Had
she been half asleep? Ho was say
ing, in a strangely agitated voice:
"I know they will ali say we are tio
young, but I think that's tho best of it.
It is lovely to begin young, to spend
oar whole lives together; atd I am al
most ready for collego, and after that I
hhall (itep right into tho business, and
very soon there vi'l bo plenty for m
both to live on."
Elsie star-d. " V'by, limy, I don't
understand yon. V, imt nre you contid
ing to mo? It sounus like a love atTair.
Who is the devoted damsel who is to
v.-ait till you get through collego, and
Lfive something to livo upon V"
" Elsie," cried the mortified Harry,
" yon are perfectly unfeeling."
" I'm notunfeeiins a bit. Bat really
and truly, who is it? You haven't told
rue brr name."
"I thought you understood me,"
t-aid tho boy, humbly nud bitterly.
" You looked so pleasant, and never
paid a word to stop me. Of course you
know that I never cared a button for
any girl in the world exiopt you. I've
beeu waitiiip. over so long tor the right
time to spei-.k, and to-nighfc you looked
ko stunning homehow, and so kind
Now, Elsie" pathetically " don't
tease me any longer, but tell me that
vou will."
" Will what?"
" Wait for mo, care about me, marry
mo some day," blurted out the luciless
lover, appalled at her changod look.
" Hurry Blount," said Elsie, awfully.
rising in majesty to the full height of
her five feet two, " I never was treated
so iu my life, i'ou have all conspired
to make me perfectly miserable at my
nrst ball. Her bosom beijan to heave.
"If you say another word of the kind
I'li never speak to-yon aj?ain;" and with
blazing eyes 6ho swept away, leaving
her boy-lover crushed in a heap behind
the curtains, and wondering whether
noose or poison were the speediest way
cf getting rid of his wretched ex
istence. After this the evening was a weari-
ness, but supper came at last, and fol
lowing supper tbe german. Here
things took on a brighter aspect. It
was impossible not to enjoy dancing
witu sncii a partner as Major strange,
hero of all tho girls of tho neighbor
hood, and when, at its close, Elsie, a
bewitching paper cap on her pretty
head, little flags and ribbons fluttering
from various parts of her dress, and her
arms laden with ilowers, stood exchang
ing gay good-nights with the departing
guests, .sue was ready to allow that life
was not all a burden or balls a failure,
and that being a grown-up young lady,
though it might have its drawbacks,
bud also its advantages and indisnuta-
ble joys.
la the midst of her contentment,
however she became aware of a i rm
hovering outside the door, a face of
muto, reproachful wretchedness, and
her heart smote her. Sliuiinsr from
mamma's side, she made her way to
poor Harry, uud put out her hand.
" Do forgivo mo, Harry," she whis
pered. "I was perfectly horrid, and
arx ashamed of mrself; bat you don't
know how much I had to vex me this
evening. Shake hands, and let ns be
friends again, just as we used."
Under the gentle pleading eyes
Harry's rancjr and misery melted in a
moment, and " hope sprang eternal " in
his breast, for "just as we used"
meant a great deal more to him than to
Elsie. He nearly crushed the small
peace-making hand in his vigorous
grasp, and Elsie went back smiling nnd
ndtevisd, only to moet another hand, a
terribly expressive pressure, a pair of
eves bent upon her from an immense
height, and to hear the fervent murmur,
To morrow, early to morrow, I shall
see yon. Till then good by, and Gud
bless you, Elsie, my bent treasure I"
Elsie grew white as a ghost. Really ?
Wjs to-morrow really to bring this
dreadful fate upon ber? Ilud she
prumi-ed without knowing it ? Could
nothing save her?
"Elsie I Eisiel" cried somebody,
and Elaie flew like the wind out of the
room. She had no courage left to face
eyes and questions. "Where on earth
can the child be?" queried Mrs.
Baird, perplexed and ann yed, as the
lust guest departed. " Robert, please
see if you can find her, while I attend
to having the house shnt for the night"
Robert's eyes were keen. He had
watched the fluttering exit, and went
straight to tha piazza. Nothing was
visible at the first glance, but a little
sob smote upon his ear, and making
one stride to the darkest eorner he
lifted npa poor little white heap, and
saw Elsie's faoe wild and wet with
tears.
"Elsie, darling child, what is the
matter?"
"Ob, Robin, Robin dear! do take
care of me," cried Elsie, hiding her
face in his breast. "Don't let that
hateful man come to-mcrrow and tell
mamma that I like him, I never did;
I hate him,"
"Whatman? Don't cry so, my pet.
Nobody shall teaso you so long as I am
ali vo. What man was it ?
" Oh, you know the man who sent
me that ridiculous bouquet."
"Harry Blount?''
"No, no," cried Elsio, with a lialf
bysterical giggle. " Ha did it too. Bat
I soon made an end of liim. It was the
other horrid creature Mr. Forsythe,
you know. He declares he'll, go to
mamma to-morrow, aid she'll" be so
displeased with me. He'll tell her I
said I would marry him, and it's a
story. I never did, and I hate him and
his churoh and everything about it.
Oh, what shall I do?"
"I'll settle that young man," replied
her cousin, cheerfully. " And I'll talk
to mamma. So don't fret any more,
little heart. So you had your wish to
niirht, Elsio four bouquets and an
offer."
" Two," corrected Elsie, with a sob;
"that ridiculous Harry."
Cuusin Robert laughed aloud.
" Ob, don't I" piteously. " It was
all so horrid I Bat I am quite com
fortable again, now that I have you to
take tare of me, Robin dear. Thorn's
nobody like yon. If I had only bad hold
of this good old coat sleeve all tho even
ing none of tbeso unpleasant things
would have happened. Oil, Rabin, do
devise somo way so that I need never
go out of your sight again. I hate being
a young lady. Offer, indeed 1 As if
any man in the world were worth your
oi mamma's little finger I C m't you ar
range it so that I need never huvo an
other offer, Robin?"
Robert stooped suddenly and kissed
tbo little upturned faco. " There is
this war, darling," he said; "I'll make
yon an offer myself, and if you sr.y
' Yes,' no one else ever shall."
" Aro you in earnest ? Do you really
menu that? Isn't it, just because you
feel sorry for me? For really and truly
thotii?h I never thought of it before
this is just the one thing in the world
I thould like."
-"Do you really mean that, mv dar
liutr? ' cried Robert, unable to bsliovo
iu his good for:uue.
"Of course I do. There never could
bo any one in the world f rr me to cara
lor ns L do for you. It is just perfect.
Wamina and you und I, ou and ou, a-4 it
has always boon, only a thousand times
better."
Five minutes later and Mrs. Baird
appeared on tbo scone. "Wiuit is the
matter?'' sheexclaimed, in a peremptory,
agitated voice. "Elsie, how you look !
Aro you ill ?''
" Sit down, Marian," said Robert,
holding out a warm, brotlurly hand,
but by no means unloosing the little
clamping arms of his newly w n treasure.
" I will tell yon all about it. This
poor littlo thing has had a horrid time.
She never wants to go to another ball,
nor to ihurch either. Sho has had four
bouquets and three offers; nho has ac
cepted them all, and now sho doesn't
know what to do. So the long and
short of it is you will have to give hot
to me."
Tableau!
'iBut she is so young?" queried tho
anxious mamma, as, the first shock
over, the pro3 and cons began to troop
bofore her mind s eye, muc'.i to the ad
vantage of tho pros " so very youujj.
and she has had no experience."
" Oh, yes I have terrible experi
ences this very evening," protested
Elsie; "and I never expect to feel young
again."
And with her mother's laugh the
compact may be said to have been
sealed.
On a Mexic in Farm.
We are in the midst of a level vallev,
with gently sloping mountains on all
the boundaries. Tuo leading crops are
maize, barley and maguey. The tlachi
quero goes around every day, with his
donkey carrying wiuo skins, collecting
the sweet sap from the maguey to make
the pulque. He pours it into vats of
skin iu his dt-partment to ferment,
treats it in his own way for a fortnight
or more, aud then it is ready for saio.
We see sometimes forty plowmen come
in and unyoke their teams of an even
ing. The agricultural implements of
tho larger sort in use aro American, but
plows, sp- dos, picks and the like are
manufactured at Apulco, near by,
more cheaply. There are interesting
homemade wooden forks and shovels
yet remaining. Among Ihe rest the
veritable liyptian piotv, ot wood with
but an iron point, is much more in usu
than the modern sort. And for its pur
pose of turning shallow furrows and
plowing between the rows of maizo it
appears, to tell the truti', not ill adapted.
Tne ground is treated by irrigation, no
less than eleven largo dams, ono ot
them creating a lake two miles long,
being formed for this purpose. The
portions of land used for cultivation
are taken irregularly in various parts of
the estate, aooording to their proximity
to tkese. Each has its name, as Lac
Animas, San Antonio the Larger, San
Antonio tbe Loss.
But it is a grazing country, and the
chief industries are the raising of ani
mals and the making of butter and
cheese. The greater patt cf the cattle
are hornless, which is effected by asiin
plo process of searing the tender horn
when sprouting, after which it does not
increase. Tbe idea is worth attention
by American farmers and those who
have to do with the transportation of
cattle. The calf here remains with its
mother under all circumstances. It is
a quaint sight at milking-time to see it
lassoed fast to its mother, whose hind
legs are also lassoed, waiting, by no
means patiently, tbe conclusion of th
ceremony. Each of tbe departments is
under tbe command of its own chief,
and an accurate supervision and record
is made of the wholfytlarpet'tiMagatint
SCKDAY REAIllSG.
A Uappr Custom.
It is related by travelers, as an in
stance of how little the customs of
E litem nations have changed daring
many hundreds of years, that in the
fields of Palestine the very same words
may bo beard now as in the days of
Boz and Ruth.
When tbe master enters the harvest
field, he salutes his reapers just as Boaz
did:
" God be with you."
And tho peasants respond always in
the Fame wordi:
" God bless thee."
It is a happy custom, that may well
see no change. Wo should all do well
to use this ancient salutation:
" The Lord be with thee."
Religious Iutolllaence.
The British Wesleyan Missionary
society appropiiatos annually $2,500 for
tho support of evangelistio work
France.
Seven hundred conversions are the
result of seven weeks' revival work in
Cincinnati under the leadership of the
Rev. Thomas Harrison.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey have been
in Glasgow, Scotland, where they have
held large meetings and have met with
great success in their work.
In August next the Moravian Brethren
will celebrate the third jubilee of their
mission among tho heathen, 1732 being
the year in which Leupold and Dober
sot sail for St. Thomas and the West
Indies.
There are eeven Baptist associations,
with ono hundred churches, in Canada.
Only 181 baptisms are reported, being
less than two for each church. This is
tho smallest number of baptisms re
ported since 1853.
Dr. Hartzell, of Louisiana, made tho
statemeut in the Chicago Methodic
ministers' meeting, that near Houston,
Ti'xas, there are half a million colored
people without a tvinglo school of any
kind under the guidance of any church.
The Fresbpterian synods now con
form to State lines. "That' of Penn
sylvania heads the list with 131,(151
eommun:cati"n; that of N iw York h-is
J3H374; Ohio has 6S 3i0; New Jersev,
do 057; Illinois, 42,280; Indiana, 27,
078; Iowa, 20,812.
In the first decade of ihe Methodist
Episcopal church thero was one minis
tor to evory 190 members; in the fifth
decade the proportion was ono to 281
Tbe present propoi tion i3 one minister to
117 members, against 112 in tho ninth
and tenth decades.
The National Bible society, of Scot
land, have placed in the hands of Dr.
Somerville, at present ou an evangelis
tic tour in Germany, Co.OOO copies of
portions of the New Testament for
Hi-atuitous distribution. Dr. Sorner
ville declares that tho supply is con
siderably smaller than the demand.
From the " Baptist Hand Book for
18S2'' we pather.that there aro now in
tlm United Kingdom 2 C8G churches,
3 393 chapels, 1,101. SGI sittings, 293,
0J5 nienbers, 4(1,321 Sunday-school
teachers, 433,801 Sunday-school schol
ars, 1,833 pastors in charge aud 3,217
evangelists. There has been a decrease
in pastors and evangelists of lato jc-.tts
iu tbe denomimtion. According: to tiio
grand totals, there aro now throughout
tho world 28,505 churches, 17,083 pas
tors or missionaries, and 2,473,t;88
members. Upward of SI.OOO.HOO bus
been spent in Great Britain during the
yesr upon new or improved places of
worship.
WISE WORDS.
isalief is not in our power, but truth
fulness is.
Some men's attack is safer than their
protection.
True wisdom, in general, consists in
energetio determination.
Tbe grumblers never work, and the
workers never grumblo.
Devote ejeh day tothe object then n
time, and the evening will tied some
thing done.
MoBt of our misery comes from our
fearing and disliking things that never
harpencd nt ell.
If anything is possible for man and
peculiar to him, think that this can be
attained by thee.
What is really momentous und all im
portant with us is the present, by which
tho future is shaped and colored.
Thero are persons who do not know
how to waste their time alone and hence
become tho scourge of busy people.
He who troubles himself more than
he needs grieves also more than is
necesBary, for the same weakness which
makes him anticipate his misery makes
him enlarge it too.
H'J that does good to another does
pojd also to himnelf, not only in tbe
consequence but in the very act ; fur
the cout-ciousuess of well-doing is in
ithelf ample reward.
Life is a book of which we have but
one edition. Let each day's actions, as
they add their passes to the indestructi
ble volume, be buch as we shall be will
ing to have an assembled world read.
The (ilossotrraph.
The London journal, Iron, gives an
account of another addition to tho
many soientitio wonders of recent years.
Hurr A. Gentilli, of Vienna, has in
vented an instrument named by him
the glossograph consisting of an in
genious combination of delicate levers
and blades which, placed upon the
tongue and lips and under the nostrils
of the speaker, are vibrated by the
movements of the former and the
breath flowing from the latter. Tne
vibration is transmitted to pencils,
which transcribe the several signs pro
duced by the action of tongue and lips
and tho breath from tbe nostrils upon
a btrip of paper moved by a mechanical
arrangement. Similar to shortbun 1, a
special system of writing, which may
fitly be termed glossography, is pro
duced, based upon the principle of
syllable construction and combination
of consonants.
ifL mrumii j
There are tome aoula who, plodding on their !
V- T- I ..
way, .-.
Strive wearily to see the path they tread,
An t fear each stop they tike from day to day,
Biuco they mutt blindly walk where they are
led.
Among this wonry throng I moved one day t
The ryad enomod long and drear ; I could
not see ;
My foolish hfart was sad bocauao tho way
Was veiled in Gjd'a own blessed luystory.
Tlinro came unto my tioart a message lo I
A "still email voice" withiu the voicola
night
"Ptaool Follow Ho," not knowing whore I
Co ; -
an blameless Mastor surely leads aright.
Now fearless on I go, still toward th goal,
Not knowing whut awaits mo, yet content,
Since I knotf, past all djubting, thit my soul
Is going on tiro way the Master went.
HUMOR OF T11K DAY.
Ono touch of malaria makes us all
nthin'. ;
The paper-hanger's business is very
stuck up.
Eternal virilance is oft9n the price
of an umbrella.
Crows never complain without caws.
That's where tbey nre sensible.
Inquirer Where is tbe best place to
leurn to- sing? The desert. Boston
Post.
Lent ought to pass very rapidly
there are so many fa3t days in it, you
know.
When a con pty make up their minds
to pet married, it vx'xy ba called a tie
vote. SomcrviH'; Jonrliili
"I occasionally drop into noetry," as
tbe man said when he feH into tho
editorial waste basket. : ... .
The Cincinnati 8.Uwd'ty Xight ha3
discovered that priZi--fightcr3 aro ad
dicted to hoiding "Pound Socials."
" There' mtisiij iu tho heir," s irrow
fully exclaimed tho young lnnband, nj
he reached for tlu paregoric bottlo.
Sho told him that bin coull read his
mind like at open b wlt.aud thou softly
i l.iiul, " blank book." Chicago Tri
bune, The most popular book aprent lives in
Philadelphia. When snubbed, he gets
mad and immediately goes olf", saying,
" I'il nt ver i-peak to you again."
Philadelphia Nctrs,
"Can't you trust me, darling ?' mur
mured Spilkins to tho daughter of
Moneylender. "Not wi'hout roil es
tato security," replied I-abella, absent
mindedly. ICeo'yuk Gale CUy.
Tbo English lanyu ige is supposed to
cinsist of uboiit Gil,(,0 ) distinct words.
O; these, otdinary peopleuse only from
000 to 3 000, croal orators porhap3 as
many as 10,000, and lightnin ,T-roti agents
and directory canvassers 59,903, Mid
ilielown Tram-cri't.
A Roat within a courtyard ch '.need
Ju-t as from win-low IV-ll
A le-il tome, his gualshin glanced,
n, 1 gin-hied i' pull-ruell.
"Tha. Ik ast it liku to Tennyson,"
Qiio'h a.j uf pithy pam. "
" Why V"' un:d i.uothei-. " 'Cause," said he,
"It ia tho ,aw 'o atu."
i.'ome Sentinel.
Caphiin Percival, a Capa C d mariner
of the old si hool, was once awakouod in
bis bunk by a shipmate with the
announcement that the vessel was going
to otetnit.y. " Well," replied tbe
captuin, "I've got ten tr lends over
there to ono in this world; let her go."
. nd ho turned over nnd wont to sleep
again.
Fori lines i" tha Barings,
Tbo Barings bnvo baou among tho
most famous of English bankers. They
arc of German Btook. There is a kind
of ecclesiastical flavor about them.
Their English founder was a Bremen
pastor, who set'li d in this country. His
i?rand-on married the niece of an Eng
lish archbishop. One of hts descend
ant became bishop of Durham. The
money was origiuully mado in the riob.
profitable clothing business in the weM
of England. Ashburtou gava a title in
the peerage to tbe chief of tho house
of Baring. It has been a rnlo in
tbo houso that wheu any one of
them has gJt a tith hi goes out
of the bu-iuess. Sir Francis Baring,
the first great banker, who, dying in
1810, left a fortuno of 2,000,000, had
three tons Tuomus, Alexander and
Henry. Thomas Micjt ediug to the
baron; cy, gave up the business. Henry
Lad a i itber romantio reputation as a
lucky (rambler, who was fr, quenily able
to breu:-: tho bunk of a gaming table.
He was the amnztfment of beholders
v.-hon he would hit down at a gaming
table at the Palais ltoyal bofore such
tables wero happily abolished with
piles of gold and note before him.
The reputation of a successful gambler
was hardly suited to tbe intense
respectability of tha fi;m,and Mr. Henry
was ijdncfcd to rutiie from the busiuess.
Alexander liariie;, often known as
' Alexander the Great," sustained and
extended the fortuno of the house. He
went to America, and there, the richest
banker in England, marritd the daugh
ter of the richest citizen of the United
States. Oue of hi-i magnificent transac
tions possess a historical importance.
After the conclin-ion of the great
European war he paid down a sum
of 1,000,000. by whie-h France
was freed from tho occupation
ot Russian, Austrian and German
armies. ' There are six gient powers
in Enropo," sjid the Duo do lticheiieu
" England, Frauo, Kussia, Austria,
Prussia and li ning Brothers '' In 1835
ho was made Lord Ashburton. Two of
his sons held tbe tiiK, and each suc
cessively retired from tho busiuess. The
head of the firm, Thomas Baring, be
came chancellor of the exchequer iu
Lord Melbourne's ministry, and an
other member, Lord Nortbbrook, has
been g'uruor general of ludia. Lin
dun Suciety.
The newly erropleted observatory on
Mount Etnit u 0,000 feet above the sea
level, aud tha clearness, of the atmon
phere at that lloigbt teals ast'ono
merg to expect uoine important obser-v.ttong,
! FOKTI-SiiYENTH IURLSS.
'A report was made in rpgtrd to tho extent of
the sutleiing in tho Mi-wissippi vallev, and
hill approprhthig 1100 UU0 wai pum-cd to aid
those in distress. ...Mr. Call addressed the
Senate upon Chili-fern tnatteis, as present
ed by his pendiug resolution in lavor of
a settlement ot tho controversy by tho
United States, and rccernmundiiig a conqress
of governments of North, South nnd Ccn'iv.l
America in Washington to sionre some j tf-t
mothod of pettlerneut of all questions b twui-ii
them, claiming that our commercial iiitoies'.H
were to bu substantially benefited by inlervcn
tion to prevent the disinlegi ation and praciio ii
extinction of Pern.
A bill appropriating 120,000 for a monu
mental column to commemorate tho tattle oi
Monmouth was parsed. ...Mr. Garland epoke
on tho niceesity of a lmee system along the
Mississippi river. Mr. Jona, pp- aking in. re
gard to the extent of the present 'nundation,
S.lii that a rongh calculation lie bad tnnde
showed that the lands in Missis-ippl, Arkansas
and Louisiana now t.nder water or
in daily danger ol being eubmerpod
produced in 1880 a total of 750,U(i3
bales of cotton, the valuo of which, at
the ordinary market rate of $15 a bale, was
J33,752,835. As to tho sugar crop tho water
would cause its total destruction throughout
tho inundated region. Ho favored tho appro
priation of $15,000,000 to rebuild the levees.
Tho bill was sent to the committoo ou the Mis
xiippi river and its tributaries.
Several petitions relating to the Mormon
question, the floods in tho Mis itsippi valley
and civil ncrvico reform were pieat-mel and
referred.... Mr. Garland, from the committoo
on the judiciary, reported a hill amemiing the
statutes relating to a quorum of tho HUpivme
eonrt of the United Suites; calendar. It pro
vides that a majority of the court shall consti
tute a quorum, instead of s i Justices, as at
present, and prohibits any justice f om sittiug
on a case on appeal on which ho has acted in a
circuit court,
Tho House amendments to tho Senate Joint
resolution making a further appropriation to .
relieve the sufferers by the Mississippi overflow
were taken up, and tho first, increasing the
appropriation by $50,000, was concurred
in. The other, which directs tho uso
qf a portion of tho appropriation for the
hire of laborers to etretig.hen threat
ened levees, was non-concurred in Mr.
Logan addressed the Senate upon the meas
ure introduced by him to appropriate ana
expend the entire income derived Torn the
internal revenno taxo.4 on the minuiicturo
and i-ale of distilled spirits tor the education
of all children living in tho Unitol States.
Ho taid the proposition wa3 to distribute!
pro rata to the several States anil To -riinries
according to population as shown by tho cen
sus returns, an imotint aggregating under tho
present rate of taxation "about $ji',000 000 a
year. Tito proposed distribution on the basis
of population, he SHi I. would givo tlie Southern
'Uatus ncHrly 10,060, 000 iv year for their
M-hools. The bin, was referred.... On mo ion
of Mr. EdmnujUs the .'sjetiato, by a vote of 40
yeas lo 13 naysasi-ed aii amendineiit to tho
postoffu-o appr..uiiaMoir hill restoring tho
iraiikm-j privilege-to seisattirs ana iieprcjccta-
I
itfse.
A select committee on women suffrage, con
sisting of Messrs Camp. White, Sherwin, r-toue,
Hepburn, Springer, Vance, Mnldruw mid ShauK
'lford, was appointed.. ..The speaker pre
fcnted a nvmoiial of the kgidative as
s iiubiy of 1'taU complaining of tho ba-ia-!
'! and monstrous exaggerations un
iler which the peop'o of Utuh are
placed iu jeopardy ana throateuod with the -
(privation of tho right of loeal self-government;
saying that tho aim of the persons who
li iv-i started til, so rumors, is to gain coutiol
of the wealthy and prosperouu ierritoiy of
Utuh, and to manipulate its finances, "and
iliat they have suceee.fo I iu nrousing the iro
of the clergy al throng. i thotu tuo auger
"f many people, agan-t ti e rsn nnjority
of tho people of Utah ; and urging that it is ini
; iiiu and misUtcsm.l'iliko to oi-ai-.nligo tho
o oli r-'ul machinery of the uuinmuii.teauii iu an
tfoit to punish tho ullegod olleii-et of a
iw individuals. Con0iu-a is therefore
asked to suspend action ii on Utnh ullairs
until, by a committee cf iuvcsticauon, the
fc a aro learned and a tangihlo foiimla
ti m is laid for rational proceedings. The
l i-morial was relerred lo ihe coruuiitt e on
j i'!ii!iarv....Mr. liiuterworth, from tho appro
priations committee, ripoited the urmy aj pro-
naiioii bill, appropriating $27.431, G'.Ki. .. .Mr.
0 ix, of North Carolina, priseired a mil propos
ing a cin-ttitutional aiucininiciit to pro vent
bigamy and polygamy with n ti.o Slates.
ihe Senate anti-polygamy hill was passed
"ft r u sharp dohate by a vote of 1UJ yeaa to
i2 i.ays.
Tho Senate bill ma'ting an appropriation for
!he rclitl ot tho stiflerers by iho Mi-si'sipni
liver floods was amended and pa.-ed. As
.urended tha bill aj propiialos $1 j'J t toil, and
anthoiizcs the secretary of war to i xp- ml Vuch
p ii t thereof as he may ileeni udviallo lor labor
only in strengthening ltvi es of tho Mis-i.-sinpi
here thero is tlan-or of immediate bieaksat
J, .ill's iti his disere ion," etc.
Mr. Willis spoke in favor of and Mr. Taylor
in rppositiou to tho anti-Chinnso bill. ... Upon
motion nf Mr. Belmont a resolution was passed
'hat "tho commitfeo on foreign ntf irsj lie
1 rrcted to dotuaud from Jacob 1!. Hniph-ird,
of N?w York, copies of all corrcspoii leueo bo
tween himsulf and any person or persons w hat
soever, an 1 all other evi.lcnee in his rios-ies.
sion tending to show wh it sai 1 Shipherd did or
attempted to do to enforco tho claims of tho
IVruviiiu company or to induce me United
fates to enforce those claims agaiiiht l'em."
What a Volcano Can Do.
Cotop.-.x , in 1833. threw its fu ry
rockets 3,000 feet above its crater, while
in 1851, the blazing mans, struggling
for an outlet, roared feo that its awful
voice was heard at a distance of more
than COO miles. Iu 17U7 tho crater of
Tnugurangua, one of tho prentest peaks
of the Andes, flung out torrents of innd
which dammed up the rivers, opened
new lakes, and in valleys 1,000 feet
wido made deposits COO feet deep.
Tbe stream from Vesuvius, whHi, in
1337, passed throuo-h Torre del Grot o.
contained 32,000,000 cubio feet tf
solid matter, and in 1703, when
Torro del Greco was destroyed a
second time, the rotts if liva
amounted to 45,000,000 cufuo feet. In
17b() Ltna poured forth a fiord whic'a
covered eighty-four tquare miles of sur
f ipo and measured nearlv 1,000 000,000
Lio'iu jei't on luim oecuKiun tne tmna
and fcoria formed the Monte Eo-iini,
near Nicholosa, a cone two miles in
circumference and 4,000 feet hivh. Tho
streum thrown r. u5 by Etna in 1810 as
in motion at the rate of a yard a day
for nine months after the ei'uption; and
it is on record tbat the lava of the same
mountain, after a terrible eruption, was
net thoroughly cool and consolidated
for ten years after the evert In the
ei uption of Vet-u ius, A. D. 79 the sc-oria
ond ashes vomited foith far exceeded
the entire bulk of ti e mountain; while
iu 1C00 Etna disgorge d tw nty times its
own mass. Vesuvius has teuo i:sa h(s
as far as Constantinople, tiyria and
Egypt; it liur'ed stoneH eight pounds
in weight to Pompeii, a distance of sit
miles, while similar m sses were tossed
np 2,000 feet alx.vo the summit. Coto
paxi has projected a block of 100 cubic
yards in volume 4 distance of nine miles;
and Sumbawa, in 1815, during the most
terrible eruption on record, sent its
ashes as far as Java, a distance of 3j0
miles.
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