| HE BRECKINRIDGE CASE BRINGS UP. 1 A New DISCUSSION. ! tik Be Zhe Religious Views of Congresssiic n—Sen- a ator Voorhees Lapsus Lingum -- States. |. men Who Attend Church Regularly Tao | Well Known Clergymen Interviewsd, : : : [Bpeeidl Corresponde noe. } : - WasnrvoroN, March 29. —The rman. pers and morals of congrossmen aro very | ‘much in discussion just now, and al- though the Breckinridge case has not | "yet given rise to so large a volume of | jokes and off color poetry as the Beecher | it probably will All it noods The wits arc at work, and « y gmioking Sa. nts of he pd cars anil hoto and all the places fr i spted Ly éom- mercial drummers and the ir social con | gemers will resound with the angler Fiver nim WATER el elicited hy poetry in the old familiar COpmensYe: “0 There wa Wie eat Eiiver ton: gned an J erhnue i {ARG 20 Tork, and i Thisfoxy eld mun a! © A Te rfunclory Ce poo Oo hi of religion nid sport in ia an stank gd 1omentoin my /: 74 |: i ctovsly. He re ip vou} rd are hing. in dispote, a i 2 beney of the presidential office Garfield was a very constant attendant at the lit- tle Christian church on Verpont ave- nae, as to which 211 tho world has heard much. The li ttle wooden ‘edifice was originally bons aht of a Methodist congréghtion, rut oa wheols abd takes protty brick church: : "A Clergyman Interviewed. . Being somewhat wearied af the alto. gether too terse and pointed replies of members to questions a3 to their reli- | gions beliefs, IT took a torr nmong the preachery, and the most interesting one i [ interviewed was the Rev. Dr. W. A | Bartlett of the New York Avenue Pres : byterian church, who said: *'] do not just now recsll cae instanced of a con- | gressman bringing his letter and trans- | ferring his membership fromm home to Washington, and it ban't riidnral that they should do en. Yon see they have | been members at home for plany years, Ly do not know that they ns a role, and ! will remain here more than two years t U'The home church is prond of its memn- ber, of ednree, and holds on to him tna Hy there and generally tthe aor a he ve, Bat yo i od to learn how litweal some maom- Se itor MoMilian, who is re- = near the richest man in t I won't sny anything He oo ye rar is a mammificent man in. is un very liberal giver Brice. Mra Brice is not a Fberal giver, but un energetic 6G wery rospe: EY Bn id Senator on aly aporker. Brice and MeMillen goave $500 TOR PEFFER AT A MOODY AND SANKEY MEETING. : one begins to inquire and take a the two houses ho finds a great of unexpected difficulties, and, p Clark says, an article on the SORERSasinien sight SppropHs. famous chapter on the in Ireland, which oon- words—namely, “There are Bo snakes in Ireland * It is troe that both houses open with prayer every day, and the members present stand in most reverential attitades, pondering proba- bly over the whacks they are about to ' give each other, but there is only too much reason to believe that this cere- mony is perfanectory, like the prelimi- nary handshake of pugilists in the ring, 1 as of yi i hing B ity. , i AN the clergy of Washington have “had their laugh at Dan Voorhees, and his bad break may be taken as a tolera- bly fair illustration of the readiness of statesmen in religions data Whes Daniel was taken info the Episcopal church zt Terre Haute, there was a very Jong line of converts admitted, and by mere accident Daniel stood zt one end and at the other Hon. Bayless Hanna, late minister to tho Argentine Repub lic. The well known zntecedents of both “men set the local wits at work, and the “two wery thereafter known as the “two end men'' of the Episcopal church Hanna has since passed tothe great ma- jority. Mr. Voorhees was probably guilty of nothing worse than a mere lapsus lin- gam when he moved that the senate ad- over the first holy day in Lent, “an it is Good Friday,” but it gives _ point to the wit cf the clergymen as to an Episcopalian who does not know the difference between Ash Wednesday and : Catholies In Congress, There are among older members many of the so called ‘“Chris- statesmoen’’ of the Credit Mobilier , and there is some real tho statement a : radical Protestant Sate ; and control the appoint- ments, and that there are about 100 Ro- Catholics in congress.” The stu- Active In Religious Work, Laying all opinions aside, it remains $0 be said that several well known con- gressmen are locally as eminent for J JAoRY and active ruligions work as they a eso Bester Pelle; who has had 3 ok exporience as a teacher, farmer, . but is on occasion a Oe ost anc raher powertal preach aswell as an editor and writer on re- and moral topics. During the y and Sankey meetings in this city he took very acive snd efoto part leading in prayer, exhorting among cdngregation and otherwise working in the interest of religion. i 1618 8 foot alio yasth noting at this ‘that all our presidents save two ‘made some kind of Xeligions pro each for the cnterfainment of the gen- Leral assembly, which was twice as much a4 wo ask ced of thet or expected. They | give becanse they love fo give as well | a from considerations of duty. i Never Misses a Service, | “Paking it one year with another, I | find an avenge of about 20 congressmen attending my church, mnmong them Brige and McMillan, Gorman and Frye —the latter has never midsed a service morning or evening sinco | camo hero so far as I can remember—-Faulkner of West Virginia and others General Gor- don is an occasional attendant, and so | are both sénstors from i$ Madyinad Rep Repte. Martin of sentatives ought to set Mr. Hateh down rather asa worker. Vics President - Stevenson and his family, Secretary Gresham and fam- ily, Hoke Smith and family and several others, promilent officials, are tolerably Justice Harlan is one of my church home. But I need not enlarge. We have always had many congressmen Whoeutsilersd our church thoi religions home and took a very active part in church and Sunday school work “Now, all this stuff in the newspa- pers, and particnlarly their calling this the ‘Breckinridge church,’ is simply nonsense. W. C. P. Breciinridgeisnota member of this church and never was an attendant, and I never saw him in the church that 1 can recall. I am pret- ty positive, too, that ho never had any- thing to do with the Briggs case, as some of you ' men have said. In facet, he conldn’t hays, for be is only a layman. His cousin is a tolerably reg- inridga We have thn largest church membership south of New Y for only 1,200. Since I came from Indi- two churches, inclading the famous Church of the Covenant,’ A Flea For Tolerance. My next call was upon Father Wal been fix months trying to get a place worth only $40 a month for a poor wom- an, six men in whose irnmediate family served in the Union army, and three of them were killed, including her father and brother, and I can’t get it Iam out of patience with these lies, and we will pot nottes theny I ara an Amer- jean from the start, My grandfather CHURCH when I am stirred np over this bigotry I sometimes wish he hadn't fired a shot It is a disgrace to thc United States But we cannot stop to notice the lies ut-. tered about us by some men who call themselves preachers. would not wipe my shoes upon them and considerably mare of the same sort. “In conclusion let it be said that there are not to exceed 30 Roman Cath- tainly not more than 80 Protestants of noted religions standing, and that while the great body of our statesmen respect all religions, yet in their proper persén they sreneither religions noe irveligions ‘nor antireligions. They simply say noth- ing whatever ou the subject and make BO pretensions either way.” ‘ J. H Bramiz i that place, where near stands quite a is expected to pdve Hberal- dws, and it] 15, | WO uld I be too sanch to expest him ta do a would bo sare. A or Yotuam, Missouri Denaouot attendant and a Sunday school trastees; a iio Tt his ss | the sun. ular attendant, and go is General Breck- | is a superstition which says that the Fork, exoept marks and spots on the monn’s face are one mission church in Philadelphia. i the outlines of the traitor, Judas Iscar- We have over 1,100 miombers and seats i fot, boiding his band over his face while i Sneezing Ju anapolis in June, 1882, we have sent off | Thia | Prankish legend, which says that there | was no spot on Lana's bright face until Christ, ters of St. Patrick's, be being the oldest | = tho timo of bo A a iat Catholic pricst inti ¢ity. He denounced | gor § A : with greatvehemeneonfl the recent state- | tHe och, while another ments in the paper and said: *‘I have olics in both hous of congress and cer ; porsidocsispe pont ep siraredh Dr. James W. Walk, in a lecture on +“ Defectives” before the University of Pennsylvania, defined the defectives as those mer bers of society having serious nientxl or physical defects, cither con- genital or acqoired. This group com- prised six classes— first, the blind; sec- ond, the deaf mutes; third, insane; fourth, the fecble ipiided, or idiots; fitth, the inebriates— where drunken- pess has become a discase—and sixth, the epileptice. Dr. Walk took op each of these clnes. | os and stated what ho believed to be the best wiiy to deal with them, Of the blind and deaf he said: Blind, and feeble minded chiiidren bave as | much claim to an education a3 others, and #ince their defects prevent them from receiving it in the ordinary public gchiocls it is only just that they should | be instenetad in schools « especially adnpt- | ed to their condition, also a most economical investment of | public money, for by means of the train- ing they Blind and deaf mutes become self sup- porting in adult life, **To fit itind children forsell anpport it is necessary white at school shold be od the few music, which are open ‘to them, eros i138 managers of the best schools for the | blind now insist upon this rigid train. ing; and in anderstand their real motive. “For those of the wdult blind who cannot maintain themselves in open compétition with normal workmen there should be founded. in” each state | industrial bomes where they may reside | and labor, the deficiency in their earn- ing being supplied by benevolence. Where such bomes are well conducted they are nearly self supporting. **Under the stimulos of the popular interest excited by the eloquent ad- dresses of the great philanthropist, Doro- thea Dix, Pennsylvasia many years ago ‘undertook to mike adequate provision for the insane at public expense. The first institution for their care in the commonwealth was the insane depart- ment of the old Pennsylvania hospital. We have now many asyloms for these | people, but not emough yet to accommo- date them all. Asylums shoald be so regulated that the inmates can work ‘and be self supporting Dr. Walk thonght that idiots, or the feeble minded, should not be permitted to marry. Of epileptics be thought the same, as their defocts are hereditary. Inebriates should be confined for a long period, during which they would be forced to abstain totally. ment, he said, results often in perma- nent cure.— Philadelphia Press. The Man In thie Moon. According to Pratorius, the man in the moon is the Patriarch Isaac, carry- ing tive bundle of sticks which were to be lighted to sacrifice his own body on the mountain top. Dante believes him to be Cain, carzving a bondle of thorns, the meanast offering hia lands afforded, an ap af toGod. In Iceland the peo- | phe clai.an that they can see the lice of Adam in the mwoa and that of Eve in Among the Frieburgers there 1st prior to banging kimself, last heliaf accords with the old after the time of the crucifixion of Still another story tells os that sreation God threw is to the effect | that the morn witnessed tho creation of Adan. and Eve and took an impress of their féatures cn his surface, intending to people his own land with similar be- ings. Whan he essayed to imitate God's works, be raade nothing but a slimy ser- pent, which since that day has contin- ued to fold and gnfold its mighty coils ip full view of the descendants of the God created beings... Loais Repub- He. Millepeds. The little creature which possesses the distinction of having more legs than any other animal is that which belongs to the family of insects known as mille- peds, or thousand footed. There are ‘several different species of these, but they all possess the common character- istic of having segmented bodies, each segment of which is provided with its own pair of feet. These are set so close- ly along the body as to resemble hairs, and when they move one after another ‘with perfuct regularity the effect is pre- cisely the same on a small scale as that | of u field of cats undulating under the influence of the wind. Some species of millepeds have as mc ry as 330 separate and distinct legs. They are all per- 1 fectly harraless, unlike the centipeds, which freqaently have the power of in- Eictisg poisonous wounds.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Olid and the New. Powerful and large as are the great- est of modern United States warshipe, they are all of low stature compared with the towering structures of 80 or 70 years ago. The United States steam- ship Pennsylvaina, built about 1528 and supposed at the time to be one of the largest warships ever launched, was 220 feet long and 58 broad. She carried 220 guns and towered aloft with five decks, Her complement of men was 1,400.— Detroit Free Press. : Hard to Distinguish. Auntie— Well, did Uncle George tell you an interesting story? Little Niece (from Boston)-—Yes, auntie, it was full of delightful won- ders, bat some visitors called, and I badn ttime to inquire whether it was a fairy tale or a thecsophical Bypothesta, —{3e0q News. Sm —— deaf | Sach schools are | give the great majority of the | that their discipline | gid, so ns to i impart thoroughness in the practice of | industries, such as weaving and | tisin way sometimes incur | gnpopalarity among thoss whe do not | This treat- | this time?’ gr” YOutic QUIEN er agente Atos im Heke Nott of | the King’s Demise. bishop of Canterbery and Lord Conyng- bam were dispatched to inform the Princess Victoria of tke fact. It was 8 warm night in June. The princess was sleeping in her moth e's room, hér cus- | tom from childbood, snd bad to be sam- i moned ont of ber sleep. The weasen- gers awaited ber in the long, unlofty room, separated only by folding doors | from that which was inkabited by the { Duchoss of Kent and yer daughter. Tha yonng girl entered gone, in “her night- dross, with gome linea wrap thrown hastily about her. Tie moment sho wis yddressed as ** Your pajesty”’ she put | sut her hand, intimating that the lords | who addressed her werd to kiss it and | thereby do hom FA | ber instincts wore edmirable from the t first. Rolf pos seaion combined with | porfect nity came natorally to her. A fow honrs later, at 11 o'clock in oy morning, the child gqoeen met her | council. In ths earidor at Windsor thers is a picture which commemorates | the event. Never, it has been said by | an eyewitness, was anything like tbe first impression she produeod or the chorus of. Janis and admiration which was raised aboot hor manher oh 0 havior, cerainly pot without jostice, Her extreme youth and fy exper enc ! and the ignmreoce of the wo ancérp- for sho had lived in comets excited interest and carios: ing her- i peclusion- ity. Aakad w hether she would enter the !rooin accompanied by the great officers of state; she suid sue would come in | alope. Accurdin gly when all the lords i of the privy connsil were assembled the folding doors were thrown open, and the queen éntered, quite plainly dressed and in moarning, and took her seat for the first timo, a young girl among a crowd of men, ineluding al the most famous and powerful of her subjects. She bowed and read ber speech, handed to bet by the prime minister, Lord Mel- bourne, in a clear and firm voice and then took the oath for the security of the Church of Scotland. : Immediately the privy councilors . were sworn, the royal Jokes of Cam- berland and Sussex first by themselves. It was observed that as these two old men, her uncles, knelt before her, swear- ing allegiance, she blushed up to the eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their civil and nataral relations. Her manner was very graceful and engag- ing from her chair moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who was too infirm to reach her.— Fortnightly Review. : Doves 0 great sonic of boredom is to be - found in two leading qualifications. A | bore must be unable to find amusement in himself. and ‘be must also be anable | to find amusement in any one else, He - must depend for his amusement neither on his own mind nor on the minds of his friends, but simply on the gratifica- tion which it 18 to him to ive a special direction, or at least to rippose that he gives a special direction-—for he is a creature of the most un mited credul- ity in the art of magnify:ng hisown in- finence-—to the minds of his friends. He is in despair unless he can imagine himself a person of influence, and un- luckily be can never imagines himself a -persen of influence—for be is a man of very limited imaginative power-—nnless somebody of something, whether it be Dalgetty’s strategic principle, or simply of his swan importance, or even of the importance of his patrons, likes Mr. Col- lins in ‘* Pride apd Prejndice.”’ To bea first rate bore yoa must bave po re- sources in yourself and po resources in your friends, but must depend for your satisfactions on the real or fancied power of making your friends either think or do what they wonld otherwise not think or do.-~London Spectator. His Polut of View. An cdd illustration once given Emer- son, the phil~sopher, of the fact thatthe laws of health is reported in his lecture on *' The Comic.” an old and honored friend, who I was informed was in a dying condition, when 1 met his physician, who accosted me in great spirits. * «And how is my friend, the rever end doctor? I inquired. : *¢ Oh, I saw him this morning. It is the most correct apopiexy I have ever seen—f'ace and hands livid, breathing stertorous, all tbe symptoms perfect.’ And ho rubbed his bands with delight, for in the conntry we cannot find every day a cuso that agrees with the diagnosis A Remarkable Diary, A man who died in Berlin, Reassolaer which he began when 18 years old and continued fu 52 sears. The book, filled ' with methodical entries, shows that in these 5) years the man had smoked 638, - ss presents, while for the remaining 585,084 he paid about $10,438, - In 53 years, according to his bookkeeping, he had drunk 28,786 glasses of beer and 36,081 glasses of spirits, forall of which he spect $5,850. The diary closes with thes: words: ‘‘I have tried all things. I bave seen many. I have accomplished nothing.’ —Albany Express, a Pope Leo's Banter. Leo XIII has made merry upon the subject of church music in his dignified way.’ Augustine, the African one, confessing that bis heart bad been touched by high actes and fiddles.’' The repetiticn of words is another featurs objected to by this lettered pontiff, who whea arch- | bisop of Perugia whispered to his chap- | lain during a grand. musical function, | “Do you thunk they really mean ‘amen’ '--8an Francisco Argonaut, William IV was dead, “The arch- Amajority at elections, when they held Her s¢hooling and ing, end she kissed thiz2m both, and ris- ‘well in his broadest Scotch of a young be is taking overt steps to convinces ‘of some technical doctripe like Dugald laws of! disease are =s beaatifnl as the “I was bastening. ” be says, ‘to visit ‘real flower. So the clever creature buys of the books.’ —Yoath's Companion. county. at the age of 73 left a record 7135 cigars, of which he received 43,039 ‘dermine family ite, life, ‘‘Imagine,’’ he once said, ‘St. ng that he would find Jothing. Then, iwhen the disap {about to depart, he ¢ Vas hori] of the ere sottiers of Montana were natives of Missouri, Ken tacky, Arkansas and the lorder states of tho war. They came by the Missouri river to. Fort Benton of by coach from Omaha and for many years were in tho the flag of Democracy to the masthead. ~ Thebowtkass » runs down inside coda nt (ote) 1 Tho rosmit of this itn grdrion wasa i strong septitnenmt for the confisderacy in | the ently days, asd in 1878, when Geo i eral Phil 85 opridan and staff nade ap | officint vieit to the porthwistern posts, b the sentiment bad not disappeared. | Helena, Ae 5., was jost emwriging from the garb of a mining cmp but a few enterprising cluizens with “¢x-Governor | Hanser nt theo head determined to give | a fitting reception to the visitors, A delegation met Sheridan and his party i town and escorted them to the Jeading | i hotel. On the following afternoon a | “banquet was given in the First National | starrpei] with this trade marl, | Jas. Boss Filled Watch Cases we ow fitted with (dis grest bow (ring), They ook and Wear like solid gold case, Cos Sly abot baif us winch, ‘aml are gostanieed ‘in a stagecoach several miles from thei bank, located then in the present gam- | 3 bling district. The menn consisted mostly of canned goods, jack rn bbit ment and fresh gatie, becatise the town was remote from civ- | lization. There was, however, platy | of champagae, since that wine is nsu- ally foand in mining camps even when | nothing in fhe way of food is left but | flour. The gathering was very demo- | erntic. Everybody in town was. invited! to wes “Little Phil," thongh there was mel grumbling among (he guroecon- | structed Confederates over the display meade for a Union general. There were Iawsers sud wining camp politicians | mingled with gamblers, miners and ex- road agents, many of whom wore six sbooters at their belts. Among them wus one old time Confederate soldier, who had turned his talents from the | ehivniry of wir to dealing ‘bank. He wus restless and oncomfortable during the feast, aml when the toasts began this restlessness increased. His face darkened and his eyes flamed with an- ger as various toasts were given to the United States, tne president of the United States and the my of the | United States, Finally be could stand 1 no longer. He arose with a wineglass in one band und a six shooter in the other, and ina voles boarse ‘with rage shouted: " “Here's to all mankind, so that no d-——-d fool will be overlooked.” With that lhe dashed the wineglass on the floor and emptied the six shooter into the ceiling so that the room was filled with smoke. The goests reached | for their revolvers, but the gambler, with a look «f contempt, returned his | “gun’’ to his pocket and walked out. General Sheridan afterward said that it was one of the most dramatic and suggestive scenes in all bis exprionce: --New York San. The Mam Whe Tired Carl;le. There is a story of Carlyle in his old age having taken the following fare- friend who bad bad him in charge for walks, and who while almost always | adapting himself to Carlyle's mood had on un single occasion ventured to dis agree with him, *'I would bave you to | know, young man, that you have or capacity of being the grestest boro in | Christendom.” The boredom bad con- sisted solely in the rather negativo sin of not having been convinced of the | truth of one of Carlvie's dogmas, a sin | all the more heinous because, instead of | standing boldly ap to Carlyle and de- | claring his Joctrine utterly perverse, the companion had betrayed his weak- | ness by av apologetic tone. : Now, Carlyls liked disciples, abd ha respected antagonists, bot he conld net ondary being merely hwsrted withont beng thoroughly roused. He folt in thak cabe that he bad made no impres- ree; -sdon at ali on his interlocutor; that be | hacking had neither won him por excited him | to resistance, And pothing bored him so ranch as that. Of course it is only exerptionntly despotic minds that are bored in thix way. — London Spectator. A Clever Girl's Trick. Some of the enormous bunches of vio- | 5 lets on the corsage of tho Lenten girl will bear studying. She bas learned a | trick ox two which preserve appear- ances and shillings at tho same time. The artificial violets are a wonderful imitation of the real ones. It takes | more than a passing glance to detect the difference between them; but, as made- moiseile well knows, there is no counter- / feiting the fresh delicate perfume of the every day a 10 cent banch of mature’s production, waich she judiciously in- tersperses throngh a large cluster of the bandiwork of art, The little leaven of fragrance is sufficient, and by this sim- ple and ingenious meass is secured a maximum of effect at a minimum of ex- ! penditure.— Her Point of View in New York Times. An International Women's Congress, ‘The Hon. Ettore Socci, a member of tb Italian parliament, throogh the pages of The Humanitarian asks if it would not be possible to hold an frnterna- tionnl women's congress in Rome in 1898 in order to give prominence to the women's movement, which is spreading ita ramifications throu, hout the world. He is an ardent advocate of the move- | ment. The emancipation and higher : | education of women, he declares, wonid | os not destroy in ber the feeling of wife oun and mother, and still leas would it un- ra A Sympathetic Burgian A Marshall connty (Ala.) man discov. ered a bargiaz in his room one night. Ho watched the man ransack every drawer aml trpmk in the honse, know- y and PHILADELPHIA. i ie i iii 2 H( NAMBRIA ANTS er ARPIELD; v i: Nip As Ro irs Aw is 20 He Yn 942 5 oF sag » iF $47 Ju as Nos NoToh » ® " A Eve Park fariets Musiar Siding Munsaes. owt Rayo” Bmdiey dunehon ATTON Tat ik Hiding Beerh Hiding . flarwey 9% S55 3% 355 5 wm HO ia 33 Ror 0s Bit ¥ o if i on ons HAL HS 2% GLEN ca MPBELL BRANCH. BE nd of od ald -~ w i www Sinise tind ld EE STL Bd SENERNRBRRS NEN hogs = genus of iver ‘asked him to lend Him a dollar, ' The burglar, though taken by surprise, threw him a dollar and left the house. | ' Philadelphia Ledger. ; ne It FES BERS ?| asus Givi SUSQUEHANNA BRANCH. 648 Cherrytree a 655 h4 NMS | s8kEs E >8E85= = a? 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Protect and encourage the asctasl sctlicz! - NO INTERF RESCH, Hil the progressive pollicis of party (repeatedly enacted mo on of jiding poo New Navy Protecting thio Ses § Henstondng Unlon veterans: i iL Regulating Interdit Commmee; des river ann SS REEE wan Cluzens alin remsion of apr Hewat Count : or ying Ameen : THE sUrIRn MALKETRRPORIS the news of the are freely used in : fs oy ty seme hl ! hily, inclu in yr a. ready in ectipaed previous numbers di-wl
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