Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1886 — Page 6

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fucceseiire -Stages of Spiritual Growth Man Grows Upward Towardth* Kii-s'dom of God.

Bev. Henry Ward Bc&fier's sermon last Sunday morning was from the following text:

AtiO rariibl" "prrt'be forth nnto them, nairiLL-:' Ttie kilt «f liesvcn is like to a grain ft tni'-'sWSeedyWicli a mail took and

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Sir.' Beecher said: Commentators have aiready poin'e^ out that the mustard seed was xot absolutely the smallest of all

bntthe-pbi'ase was proverbial. It was small enough to pass in tuch lang uagt, aid so our Savior, as he often did, eml aced the popular idea and used the word, ffs growing into a tree—not such trats as'we think of, but into a size and magnitude that might be properly termed ati £—not ligneous/not growing, from year to year—it was sown' and perished in the fo^ue year, but neverless the thing which began it and the conditions of the termination were the main matters,

-.'.and.these were sufficiently plain in the language of our Savior. Uut the meaning The kingdom, of heaven is like the seed, small in the beginning, large in the end and if you choose to intercalate a little fancjythe birds sing in that, too, as well as in the parable. And what is the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God

It has never been defined. The apostle says it is not religious service, it is not. meat and drink, but righteousness and joy in the Holy Ghost. It is amoral state and he Says again the kiDgdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God, jg with iu you. It is _not an external fabric not an external "government. It has its existence In every itidividul soul, and it is tiie moral condition which men have established within them, so far as individuals are concerned.. And collectively, •wheJ6 multitudes of mfen are pursuing the same ends of life, and substantially in sympathy with each other's emotion, then it gives itself outward existence, and if it be gathered into organisation and becomes a church in a town Jm. or in a natjgp, then in. so f?r-as the church includes in it persons who have the kingdom of 'God in them, i' it may be said to be God's visi-

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ole kingdom. It is the belligerant church of God, fighting its way thiough all hinraccea, that it may join the church of GoS-Uiuiiiphautly in heaven.. It is the teigiiof tfe^lrituaUzed moral elements in nature, and yotrngiust at once fly to the concltifion that we Save touched the final end of God's work in creation. The highest tiling which is to be developed out of this earthly system and experiment 4s not man philosophical, man constructive, the man of genius all these elements inay be gathered in, are gathered in but nfte? all it is man as far removed from animal conditions as is consistent with bodily life, and bringing forth the tyuth of Tiia individual and spiritual nature. /When a man .has been driven up by the forces of graceful nature to bud and blossom in the elements of ality, he has begunjhe-^-atSr" and end ~oil had "fa the creation of the human race. So then, it is not riches,

not the pomp of pofrer, not the wonders of organized power it is not in research, in tne alembic, nor the great realm of tools, the plow and the plane, the hammer or the saw it is not in what men do by their hands nor what they do by the elements of force in them, all of which nevertheless have a lower function and a place but it is that whioh a man does by his conscience, by his love, by liis hope and by his faith, following the illustration or the light of reason. There you have the perfected, the ideal man, the man which is the terminal point of this visible creation.

As the grain of mustard seed did not really find itself till it shook its leaves in the wind, and heard the birds singing in the branches, so men have not found themselves in any of the lower stages of unfolding and development, but only when they come into that higher range. Materials of/nature, physical materials, are parji-anc! parcel of the conditions of jrrand peri ment of human life. It would seem as though the thought of Gol w»:i matter made by condensation and visibility into inorganic conditions, and then out of these inorganic conditions cC me chcmical affinities, and out of this chemical stage and affinity comes organized matter, and then begins the process of bteaking down one thing in order to erect another, and the rocks are ground apart to make one element of soil, and the vegetable life is consumed in order to make another part of tke soil, and out of the soil then springs again higher forms of vegetation, and they are consumed by flocks and by herds. Man can not from the rock,.bv any chemistry, derive edible things, bui the roots, th5ee darkling chemists of the field, can dissolve stocks and seleet out of them things that are good, not for themselves alone, but for the animals that eat them, and eep, the deer, the ox, all herbivorious*anmalfl»Ji%ye their bones-made, and all the elements if-6tructure in their system, out Of the disintegration ef the rock, through the alemable of grass tod other herbage, and man, that could noV either to the grass nor to the chemical elements for his best estate, eats the ox, .afcd sOj. after a long way, it finds itself a imam And tb«n onward. First, man, animal, the .ower form then gradu-r-unf^Jding, and finally, ia long perfective, (the civilized, and then all i, .civilizations, the christianized man. "I Thete is the final end of creation. The grand experiments of taking aothing amd making something of it, and then organizing it and carrying it up through all tj.n stages into the human estate in the if Id rst to the" very highest, that repeats

I -itself in every individual born into the ,-lj' 3|fortd, because* every child substantially condt the process that ^^fiie-race itself has been going through pinoe the begiuning ef time. In the New •J- Testament mis is not expressed as a theology or- philosonhv, b'ut it is clearly indicated aa tie1'thought, and expressed in the tan^aage and methods of that time i* which it was written. 12 So that in the fifth chapter of Galatians, vhich I am never tired of reading -to hope not—the fruit of the Divine spirit in this world is given as love, joy, p«feoerlong suffering, gentleness, goodness, temperance, organization of man and 'j natnre are for_ this, then for the production Qt these qualities, 4 and every man that is producing somev, thing else, but not that, cones short of the idea oi his existence every man that is producing these, even theugh he may' fall short in every one of the things most prtced is outward society, he is really attailing tlie end for which he waB created,, it is the drift of time—it is the decree and purpose of Godr and if you can imagine the earth as being a steed and

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as driving it, it is to that mark that he .is driving the world. The nnfolding of these spiritual elements is the meaning of time and creation. The_ world is growing in that direction very slpwly the husbandry has been very poor but men have been growing in that direction in spite of all that has ocged, in spite of slowness—it is coming tree of life. The kingdom of God individnal is a gradual unfolding boo«b, then first, of the individual leie is a greut Biistakeia supposing that

conversion is a whole and sudden recreation. It is being born again in a metaphorical sense and large use of terms but after all, when men are converted- out of a worldly life by refonnation, or out of a vicious and cnminal life into one of faith, it is not work.

Paul is spoken of as having been converted suddenly. "Oh, what a change 1 So there was but the moril elements had been collecting in him, in his ancestors, transmitted to him, and Paul had the foundations of morality, honor, conscience in him. They were wrongly directed, and his conversion consisted simply of the incoming of anew solvent —not that created new. spirital elements, but that now gave them harmony and coherency and direction. They were there before. A. man collects fuel, and he whittles shavings, and selects the dry and small stuff and covers it, and on that larger material until he has his pile, and it is as cold and as useless as anything can be until striking his match he sets fire to it -then instantly the flame shoots up then the smoke itself is all consumed, and the glorious fire is joy, and comfort, and life itself but the material that could enable him to make the fire had been growing for a good while, and had been collecting a good while but they didn't do any good, nobody ever warmed himself by any onlighted log, but when they are all put and then the fire is struck through them, then they become indeed a comfort and a use and so it was with Paul. He had been collecting the elements of this fire of zeal. He was an earnest man, a well meaning man, a devout man, a zealous man, conscientious man, but all of them directed by a false system, and when the flash of the Holy Ghost set fire to his soul and imparted cohension and direction to I him, all these-elements were wrought up instantly into a sublime force. He was re-created and it was by the sudden illumination of the conscience—a sudden zeal, a sudden taking of new directions all of these fall out in conversion, but the materials that make this suddenness of any value are collected little by. Httle through years of thought and influence.

Oftentimes there are men that have in them a multitude of good things. If you strain the point, as the old pulpit did, and say, "JNo man does anything that is absolutely good, that is so there is no act of man that can pass with God," you have overstrained it. Don't you suppose that a mother's love for her child is pleasing to God Don't you suppose that when in a burst of heroism a man lays down his life for his country it pleases God? Don't you suppose that there are a thousand acta of charity and beneficence that please God? The otd, absurd theory of depravity strained things and misinterpreted things. We do a -great many things that are good things, merit approbation—riot if you are going to make religion merchandise, but I don't Relieve in merchandise of religion. As between love and love, who sells anything, and who buys anything, who deserves anything, and who. loses desert in anything? In commerce, we use language that is abhorrent to rfoul-traffic, and God being father and love, and we being children, the question never passes in his msnd whether we are living up to the line.

We are loved, and he does things to us and accepts things from us. not because they are perfect and artistic and excellent they are stages of that which iJisy -riper!i£tto'excellence andare acceptable to God not on any artistic ground of exquisite excellence, nor on any legal ground of exact conformity to law, nor on commercial ground of quid pro quo, but on the ground that God's love takes in everything—little, much, all—so little that the old terminology, wise as it was in a nascent state, in our stage of apprehension is misinterpreting all the way through. For in every man that comes avowedly into the kingdom of Christ there have been a good many elements peceding his open declaration of faith. They have, to begin, his heredity he had a sainted father and mothers, and according t« the law of nature, which is also the law of grace, these moral qualities descended more or less to posterity, and when many men wake up they are on the ere of the kingdom of God. The children of the church, therefore, should be brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, for then ihey have received the primary conditions which will make virtue and moralty tasy. They bring down the fruit of the ripeness of the ancestors, and

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rightly and trained up to the thought and feeling they will grow up right. The idea that men seek no more in other churches than ours, pamely, that the children of believing parents are members of the church not yet developed, is far more scriptural than the enunciation of it has been. Then the directing that we receive as to our duties to our neighbors and our fellow men, subordination of our passions, restraint of anger and temper, the instances in which .we have managed ourselves according to the ideals or laws, all these are approaches, all preparation. They are not Christianity yet, but they are the early stages of it. Sownen wheat is six inches high, if it. never grew any more, what use would it be except as grass. None. But that is one stage, preparatory: -for by and by the stem will shoot up. But if only a stem shoots up, with ia that but a straw—for the ox and ass good, but for man not it is relatively so valuless that emit it again to the soil to create afresh and

is not nutil the blade, and the ear, snd the kernel in the ear, as the apostle has it-^-it is not uutil kernel, which is the ultinfef4e development of the whole plant, that have got the thing for which yom set oilt. There^ are a..great many people brougnt-ep "religiously that are grass yet, and some of them develop more than that, and shoot up the steeple and spire of vegetable life, but"a* yet the ear is not shown. There be some that not only hive grass and stem and ear, but the green and milky kernel—they are just^on the eve of the full developement. gTain, and tke life of that plant is accomplished. So there be multitudes of men in the community that are in all the different stages between nothing and something between nature and body and spirit and grace, and it is to* the last degree important that men should understand not that mortality is valueless. It wasbrough up in the distinctions that were made after the great Bbman controversy—made properly, too,—-to show that no man cosld be saved by good works, and that morality was not salvation and so rudely were these things dealt with that again and again I heard and you, too, have heard sermons that left the impressioq on the mind that morality is a very dangeross thing, apt tocke&t many,deceive them, make them.think they are better than they are, and that^ they are a good substitute for christians fcnyway. Well, now, morality is good just as the different stages of growth in a house are good. The cellar is not fit to live in, and vet it is a very important element in the house, and the first story of open walls is not fit for the purposes of a' mansion, but is a very good thing, vou can not get what you are after without it and Sie second story walls all open, the value of all these things is prospective. By and by the roof is on still the wind ,aod storm whistles through the open doors and windows not until after you put them in is the house habitable. It must be cleansed, warmed, carpeted and adorned with all the furniture of common uses, and then it is habitable. Now the same takes place in human life. The fundamental virtues are admirable

—industry, frugality, foresight, enterprise, honesty all these things are admirable, but they are the lower stages. What are you building on them? If you go higher than that, 'and have the principle of honor and higher conceptions of truth, and delicacy, and chastity, and self-denial in some degree within a limited circle, all those elements are admirable. They are not religion, they are but the green stem of the grain, and not until there comes into the mind the illumination produced by the spirit of God itself that gives atmosphere to. all the other qualities and combines them, harmonizes them, and takes the soul into a holy aspiration, has the grain of mustard seed become a tree in which the birds of the air sit and sing. It is completed then, but all the stages onward and upward are valuable, and better, even though they go no further, than- to have nad them absent.

They are not the full completion of the idea of God in man, but they are relative stages, and ought to be preparatory steps on the way on and up. If yon will not be a Christian, be as near to it as you can. It is better for you it is better for this life it is with more hope of salvation in the life to come. But understand that these moral qualities, social, basic, are merely the foundations on which you are to go on and build higher and higher, until you come te the perfect man in Christ Jesus.

Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Mitchell, Boston Herald. Mr. Charts Mitchell, the pugilist, might as well stop his bluffing about his noble co-slugger, Mr. John Lawrence Sullivan. I happen to know that within the past four days Mr. Mitchell has had an opportunity to fight Sullivan in private for abet of $2,000 against $1,000, or $10,000 against $5,000, or any intermediate sum of the same proportion. This offer Mitchell has not taken up and will not take up, and the inference is that he is fully aware of what is the healthiest conduct for him. The proposition for the fight came about in a wholly natural way. Mitchell, who has been playing with a negro minstrel company through the country has everywhere talked with great freedom concerning Sullivan, and about the ease with-which he could polish off that celebrated Bostonian if he only had the chance. Sullivan's general attitude in regard to these conversations of Mitchell has been one of quiet but firm contempt. He could hardly afford to pay attention of a serious nature to all the men who want to fight with him, or who want to make people believe they desire such a thing. All the same, the repeated iterations of Mitchell concerning his fighting ability have stirred up Sullivan's temper, and he now has no surplus affection ior the natty Englishman. It is only a question of time when Sullivan will get Mitchell into a corner, and will make him fight or take water.

The other day, when a wealthy sporting friend of mine went with me into a well-known

Broadway cafe, Sullivan,

who was sitting with some friends at one of the tables, beckoned us over to him. He was drinking ginger ale the other day in champagne glasses, and the fact that people around him apparently thought he was taking wine seemed to give him as much satisfaction as the liquor itself would have done. My friend and Sullivan were talking quietly at one side, where the rest of the people could not "hear them. My friend-asked Sullivan if he wanted to fight Mitchell. Sullivan, said: "Yes, on twenty minutes' notice, at any time, with gloves, bare knuckles, or anything he wants, for any amount of money that he wifl produce, at any hour of the day or night, in the presence of twb people or ten, and under any circumstances that may be made. I will exact only one condition, which is that the fight shall be to a finish, and I will bet him two to one, as high as he wants to go, on the result I am not going around hunting for a fight, but I am ready to meet any man in the world. I don't care about fighting any of those people like Mitchell in public, because these public matches are always stopped nowadays. What I am after, if I fight at all, is" a contest that will mean something." My friend suggested the advisability of seeing Mitchell and undertaking to get up a match while the two men are in New York. Sullivan gave his acquiescence, and that evening Mitchell was sent for. He came over, and was offered the opportunity of fighting in private under the conditions named. He aid not accept the proposition. On the contrary, he hemmed arid hawed, and made some excuse about his other engagements. No argument of my friend's could induce him to accept the challenge, and the impression developed by the interview was that Mr. Mitchell would not be induced to meet Sullivan in a serious encounter.

The Bread.-

Cincinnati Times.

The other day ia young housewife left her home in this city to spend a few days with several lady friends in Hamilton. Before going she provided a good supply of cold edibles for her husband and told him that he could help himself whenever he was hungry. He took lunch down town and went home in the evening for dinner.

As he tells the story, he found cold chicken, cold butter, cold pie, cold milk, cold salt, cold mustard, and several other cold dishes, but with all that he was not entirely satisfied, and he hunted high and low for something else. At first he did not know what it was, but finally con eluded that he wanted bread. He knew there was some in the house, but he could not find it. Finally he concluded to telegraph to his wile, for he could not live without bread. Accordingly a telegram asking "Where is the bread?" was dispatched.

The wife received it in the midst of a number of ladies, and it frightened her nearly to death. With a cry, "I know it is bad news I know Mr. B— is killed 1" she fell in a faint. The ladies present cri.ed

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brious scene presented itselt when the man of the house happened in. "What's the matter here?" he asked. "Mrs. 's husband has been killed and she has fainted," was the reply. "How do you know?" he asked, r. "Oh, she's got a telegram." "Where is it?" z* "We haven't opened it yet."

Imagine the scene when the sympathetic creature read the message. In about an hour the reply was sent back to him: "You mean thing. It's in the bread-box under Che piano, where I hid it from the cook."

In China the powerful Viceroy Li Hung Chang has for some time taen urging the need of railroads and telegraphs. His influence, aided by the support of other able statesmen, has already given to China over 3,000 miles of telegraph, manned by Chinese operators, and the little nine-mile railroad near Tientsin, and is paving the way for railroad schemes that, it is believed, will in the course of time reach a large development in China.

An F-ngligb sportsman, shooting the north shore of Long Island, was invited to dinner at a farm^ house, and was so astonished that he writes to a london newspaper about it "I wonder how often in merrie England," he says, "a farmer, with his family and two men servants, sits down to roast turkey, chicken pie, with four or five vegetables and cranberry pie, to say nothing of both whisky and beer to drink."

A Number of Inexplleablo Peculiarities Noticed. London Correspondent of the New York Hmee.

In the obituary notices which the death of the duke of Somerset called forth last week a carious diversity in the spelling of the family name was noticeable. The old duke, a plain, ronghtongoed, unostentatious man, spelled it Seymour the new duke, who himself is years old, writes it St Maur. And as the old brothers disagreed on this point so the nephews of the present duke differ, for there is among them a Lord Algernon St. Maur and a Lord Edward.Seymour. When members of the family are themselves of two opinions it would be temerity indeed for a plebeian outsider to attempt to determine the right of the thing. Apparently tke original name was Norman, and the family harks back to Ja William deSt

Maun who held lands in Monmouth under Henry III. But three generations afterward, in the time of Edward III., the head of the house wrote himself—if, indeed, he knew how to write at all— Roger Seymour. This name they bore with them when, when in Tudor times, they emerged from security by a lucky chance, gained court favors, fattened themselves on church lands, and finally, from the pinnacle of the lord -protectorship, gained the right to sniff at all the other families of England, barring only the Howards. Indeed, I am not sure that this exception ought to be made, for although the dukes of Norfolk (1483) antedated the dukes of Somerset by some sixty four years, it is well known that Howard is a corruption of the excessively commonplace Saxon name Howgara, while now "that Seymour is spelled St Maur, there can be no manner of doubt about its Norman blue-bloodness Of course, it is true that vulgar tongues corrupted the name for something over five centuries, but, thank heaven, it has been restored now, and we can all breathe easier.

The name will continue, however, to be pronounced Seymour, just as St John is called Sinjun and St Leger is spoken Sillinger. Alas I we did not all know this last until lately—at least the reporters in the commons' gallery didn't—and when the aristocratic Marquis of Hartington spoke of the correspondents who had been killed in the Soudan,, one of whom was named St Leger, the papers next morning all had it Sillinger. But now that we know what fashion demands in the matter of orthoepy it shall never happen again.

Sometime I am going to make a whole book about the funny things in English pronunciation.] Everybody knows about Majoribanks being Marshbadks, and Cholmondeley being Chumley, and Levi-son-Gower being Lewson-gore. These are the stock samples familiar to all. Most people know, too, that the Norman names of Belvoir and Beauchamps are pronounced Beaver and Beecham, while the equally Norman name of Grosvenor retains its French sound. But these are only sign-posts on the road to a general knowledge of the subject. When you get to know why Boughton is pronounced Bawton, while Boughton has the long o, why Wemyss should be Weems, and Knollys should be Knowles, you will be getting on in the mastery of the subject. But there are no rules. Some words like Pall Mall, which is pronounced pell mell, retain th& sound of their foreign origin after they have lost its form. But then, the word mall, leaning path, is pronounced mal, arfd as -irm-ifr-" +hty?lfl Ftaprb gnm-n of paille maille, it may be seen that the Englishman disdains mere laws of analogy. He says Bunsted when he rerefers to BothampBtead, but he pronounces Southampton out fully and clearly. In London, too, he has -a dialect of his own. !He says dark, but the rest of England says clerk. He turns all of his long a's into long i's, saying dyly pyper instead of daily paper, but the country people do not But, then, he says Hereford, while the natives of that shire call it Harford.

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OFFICIAL MORALS IN CUBA.

The Greedy Spaniards Who Govern the Island. Temple Bar.

Then there is the Spanish society, composed of the officials who form the gov eminent of the island, their families and hangers-on. This is of necessity ephemeral, for these officials are all Spaniards, appointed and sent out by the home government, and any changes of ministry, and changes of ministry are not infrequent in Spain, where to hold a portfolio, if only for a day, entitles one to a pension of 1,200 a year) will unseat them all. It is commonly reported that these officials, owe their positions not to merit but money and that the surest way to secure a snug appointment is to make your application to the mistress of the man in power. Such stories sound strange in the nineteenth century, but Spain is still in the eighteenth. It is said that in many cases the greater part of the salary is retained by the patron, so that the offi cial thus appointed, knowing on what contingencies his tenure of office depends, is fain to make the most he can par la voie indirecte. A gentleman residing in Cuba told me that he had been on terms of intimacy with a former collector of customs in Cuba. This man held his post for two years. He had to send home the whole of his salary to the patron who appointed him, and he left Cuba with $50,000 net profit. But official peculation is apart of the Spanish syitem every man who pulls an oar in the government galley thinks himself at liberty to dip in his private bucket at the same time. The following anecdote, the truth of which I can personally avouch, will illustrate this: A medical man of high scientific standing and large practice, a Cuban by birth, was appointed to represent the island at the Washington Medical congress. The secretary who wrote to inform him of his appointment added that a sum of $200 would be allowed him toward his expenses. The physician wrote back declining the appointment Meeting the captain* general, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, shortly afterward, he was asked why he had thus declined the offer, and explained that he could not afford to leave his practice for the meager equivalent of $200. The captain-general opened his eyes. "There must be a mistake somewhere," said he, "for I remember distinctly that the amount of the grant was $2,000. Upon inquinr, it was found that the clerks in the office had agreed to offer the physician $200, or such other sum as they could induce him to accept, and then share the modest remainder among themselves.

A Dead Man's Deal.

Denver News.

"I was just reading," said a Denver sport, "about a man winking his eye after his head was cut off. Now, I know that I have seen something just as strange. Twenty years ago this month there was a lot of us took a trip to old Mexico to see what we could scoop in—and, by the way, we got scooped—and went to bucking heavy on every game we could strike. One of our gang, Bui Brewister, was a rattling dealer, a good hand at short cards, and always had a pocketful of money till he got stuck on Mexican monte.

Talk abont your greaser's infatuation for the game. I never saw one of them that could hold a marker to Bill. He'd get broke. Then he'd get a pack of cards and deal himself. He'd turn the cards for

tSE EX PKEBS,' l'iiiiiHfi, li AU'i'K, SUNDAY, JANTJAHY 10.1886.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. anybody or for anything when- he was SMART WOMEN DETECTIVES* basted Sometimes he make a raise and

quit and go to playing faro, where he was, as a rule, lucky. But no sooner did he get a big stake than he would tackle monte, ana would invariably get downed. Us boys tried to persuade him to stick to a white man's game, but no, he wouldn't have it. and was almoBt all the time in a state oi impecuniosity. "One day Bill had -established himself in a pulque shop with his cards, and was turning them for anybody who wanted to wager a cent There was a party of Mexican bloods in the room, and finally they sauntered over to Bill's table, and one of them asked if he would turn for $100. Bill said he would though he didn't have but $10 in the bank. The fellow slaps down his money and Bill wins. That made the Mexican mad and he slaps down another. Bill wins 8gaia. The third time, and Bill scooped the pile. "The Mexican asked Bill if he would turn for $1,0K) and Bill told him it didn't make any difference if he made it a million, as the bank was able to pay ten times that amount The Mexican bet and lost Then he accused Bill of cheating. Bill called him a liar. "I was standing right to one side of Bill. Be had the cards in his left hand, and had hold of the bottom card with his right hand. The Mexican's hand was on his gun. "Hold on,' said Bill, 'don't draw till I make this turn. I'll .bet you $1,000 to $100 that it's the seven of spades.' "'Done,'says the Mexican, who threw $100 on the table. "Bill commenced pulling the card out slowly. The Mexican was watching.

There were two black spots showed up, and Bill's hand stopped. Quick aa a flash the Mexican drew his gun and fired. Bill never moved in his chair, but his right hand kept its slow motion until the card was drawn from the pack and held up to view. It was the seven of spades. The hand moved slowly back again and the card was laid on the table. Bill then leaned back in his chair and shut his eyes. "We were all so excited when the shot was fired that he didn't know what to do, and. as Bill continued to ton* the card, we supposed he hadn't been hit, we found out differently when we examined him. He was shot directly through the heart. "Now, I reoson that thing ant this way Bill was determined to convince that Mexican that he didn't know as much as he thought he did. That thought was in his mind when he was shot, and, though killed instantly, his wishes were carried out after death. Bill was game, too, and I believe that if he hadn't realized that he was a dead man when shot, and hadn't wanted to win the Mexican's money, he would have grabbed his gun and done some execution with it "That's why I say a man can do a thing after he's dead.

WHITTIER AT HOME.

Nothing In His House to Suggest th^ Man of Letters.

Unlike the homes of his compeers American literature, Longfellow, Emerson and Lowell, who lived among books and pictures and memorials of fellowworkeis in many lands, there is nothing, says the Pall Mall Gazette, in Whittier's house to suggest the poet and the man of letters. The small parlor into which the visitor is shown is furnished with the dreary and prim commonplaces of horsehair upholstery and the old-fash-oned conventional ornaments under glass shades. It might be a dissenting minister's front room in some provincial English town, like Leicester or Northampton, not yet reached by the iconoclasm of modern nstheticism. But Mr. Whittier's kindly greeting of "How do thee do? I'm glad to see thee," dispels all surprise by recalling the fact that he is not only a New Englander, which means simple living from necessity, but also a Quaker, which means simple living from choice— a coincidence sufficient to explain even an asceticism in which horsehair should play a much more obtrusive part. Mr. Whittier's study is a small square room at the back of the house, heated by an iron stove, and even more simply^ furnished than the other rooms.

On one side of the study is a book case containing some scores ot books old .ones—ana on the other a small desk at which the poet does all his writing. "My letters average twenty-five and thirty a day," he says," "add when I'm sick they accumulate, and then when I get well I make myself sick'again trying to catch up with my answers to them,"—too many, it is feared, being requests for autographs. Mr. Whittier speaks, as he does everything else, in the New England fashion, even carelessly, with a fine democratic indifference to elegs of pronunciation and finished periods. His poetry has not been written any regular times, partly because ho has suffered from pains in the head, which forced him to write when he could and not when he would, and partly because so much of his verse has been directly inspired by current events, and sent out, almost direct from his pen, to cheer the friends of freedom or to check her enemies. "I think I was born with a headache," he says and since the office yl the knti-slavery paper in Philadelphia of which he was editor was attacked by a mob and burned, he has only been free from pain at intervals. The poem called "Icnabod," whioh should always be remebered with Browning's "Last Leader," is perhaps the best example ef how Mr. Whittier's best poetry has sprang straight from his sympathy with the great reforms and reformers of his time. On March 7,1850, Daniel Webster, representing (Massachusetts in the senate, made a speech on the slavery question, in which, to the amazement and intense disappointment of his friends and the whole anti-slavery party, he gave his assent to the fugitive-slave bill—a measure authorizing southern slaveowners to seize their escaped slaves in any free state and carry them back to bondage. "It was a fearful blow to us," says Mr. Whittier, "wholly unexpected. I wrote 'Ichabod' the next morning, after an entirely sleepless night. If I had waited a couple of months I don't think I should have written it." I aim not sorry I wrote it," he adds "but I feel sure that if Webster had lived to the outbreak of the war he would have been found as strong as ever on the right side, and I have said so in the 'Lost Occasion.' It was his miserable ambition to sit in the presidential chair that betrayed him."

African Philosophy.

Arkansaw Traveler.

Er hard-hearted man sometimes sheds tears hut it's like a rain in mighty cold weder it ain't nachul.

I wonl ruther hab er good stomach an' hafter go hungry all my life den ter hab er bad stomach wid er full smoke-house.

Jes' er boat de time er man stops an' says: "I has foun' out dat I'se a fool," udder folks 'says dat he's smart, an' when he thought dat he wuz smart, udder folks knowed he was er fool.

Some folks hates er lie so bad dat dey tells a little mo' den the troth, an' dat is de wust sorter lyin', fur de good deal o' troth dat's in whut dey says makes bet on depart what is er lie.

I doan kere how sweet er man ken sing, I doan kere how fine be ken pray I doan kere how hones' he is, I doan kere how truthful he is still, ef his sonl ain't ter be stirred, by er little chile, he is somewhar, down in his heart, er bad man.

The latest fashionable notion in Boson is linguistic, and everybody is studyng Italian. ^.j

Clerer Work Which They Do In CitiM Wehre a. Man Would Fall. New York Mail and Express.

The manager of a detective agency was asked yesterday by a reporter for the Mail and Express if he ever employed women to do any work and whether they made good detectives. He said he occasionally employed women. The reporter found a women's detective agency, located down town. It is managed by a woman who has been in the detective business for about twelve years. She is knofrn to many lawyers and her reputation for first-class work is excellent. She is of middle age, of rather stout build, and has a pleasant, attractive face. She was dressed in black. "I called to get a reply from you to the intimation that women do not amount to much as detectives," said the reporter to her. "I have no reply to make," she said. I do not seek notoriety of any kind. I do my work as well and as carefully as I know how, and my customers appear to be satisfied. I have done work for some of the best known lawyers of this city and have had some important cases, but it would be unprofessional for me to tell you about them. I am not afraid to take hold of any work in my line, and have done most all kinds of it except that connected with divorce cases such kind of work I will have nothing to do with. Do I employ women to act as detectives? Yes, several thongh as a rule I do the most of it myself. When you want work done most to your own satisfaction you must do it yourself. To-d%y there was a man in court who was arrested through the work of this office, and I have an important case on hand of which I shall be glad to give yon particulars at the proper time, but more than this I do not care to tell you about my work or myself. "The woman whom I will speak of had an important case that involved the finding of a mother and her child who had gone'west The parties who wanted to find the mother and-child employed her to discover their whereabouts. It was very necessary to learn this in a suit that was pending. The opponents to the suit knew where they had gone to and had as their counsel two of the leading lawyers of Brooklyn. The woman detective decided to take the bull by the horns, as the saying is. She arrayed herself in deep mourning and called on one of these lawyers, representing herself as the widowed sister of the woman who had left for parts unknown. She told them that she had rtant papers to send to her sister, and

talked so plausibly to the counselor that he gave the whole thing away, telling her the place to which the woman and child had gone, and all about his side of the case. No sooner had our detective got out of sight of this lawyer's office than she started in all haste to find the woman, not even going home to change her apparel. She sent a telegram to her husband that she was obliged to go out of town, and started for Indiana (I believe that was the state) on the very next train. She fpund the woman and child in the place she went to, and thus accomplished her task most successfully. Another bright operation of hers was in obtaining information from or about a household which could only be obtained by a person inside the house. She affected the Irish brogue and made application at the house to be engaged as cook. Her serviced as such were accepted and she remained in the household Beveral days, long enough to obtain all the information that was desired. Then she quit telling the people that she found the work too hard for her."

The Education of the Blind. B. B. Hnntoon, in the Southeift Bivonao for Deoember.

Contrary to the general notion, nature makes no compensation for a lost sense. Well directed efforts may, and indeed do, cultivate the natural powers of the other senses where one is lacking, but the experience of every blind school is that these efforts are rarely maintained outside of an institution specially founded for their practice. From this it follows that the training of blind children can not begin too soon. Thfey should be taught with far greater pains than their seeing brothers and sisters the care of their persons and of their clothes. Habits of cleanliness, of order, of independence and of helpfulness should be systematically inculcated, and at the age of 8 or 9 they should be sent to school. They should early be'taught to go by themselves all over the house and neighborhood, without a guide to participate helpfully in all the labors of household to use all the ordinary-tools —the ax, hammer, saw, plane, chisel and knife the difference between the various plants and seeds and fruits of the farm and orchard the mystery of budding and grafting the care of poultry and of stock of all kinds: the different kind of trees and the lumber made from them and, in short, the deficiency in sight should never be allowed to relieve them from any responsibilities, or deprive them of the inestimable privileges of industry or helpfulness. Nor should they be carefully shielded against the kindly influences and somewhat rough but wholesome teaching of knocks, fails, scratches and rebuffs. The constant petting and ever-induleence, the overweening care and sentimental pity that blind children too often get aid them not at all in a race where, with the best advantages, they are heavily handicapped. Far better for bright and active children is a large amount of judicious neglect than an over-fusiness of interference against possible ills. Nothing can be worse for them than the expression in their hearing of pity for their condition, unless it be ill-advised fadmiration for any of their doings. Self-conscious-ness and conceit too often obsenre the mental vision of the physically blind, but for this kind of blindness the training is largely responsible.

Stepping-Stones to Success. Somerville Journal. Learn your business thoroughly.

Keep at one thing in no wise'change. Always be in haste, but never in a hurry.

Observe system in all you do and undertake. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows. Be Belf-reliant do not take too much advice, but rather depend on yourself.

Never fail to keep your appointments nor to be punctual to the minute. Never be idle, but keep your hands or mind usefully employed except when sleeping.

Use charity with all be ever-generous in thought and deed—help others along life's thorny path.

Make no haste to be rich remember that small and steady gains rive competence and tranquility of mind.

He that ascends the ladder must take the lowest round. All who are above were once below. Think all yon apeak, but speak not all you think

Thoughts. are your own words are so no more Wtae wisdom steers wind can not make yon sink ~"^TK err when she does keep the door.

Couldn't Catch Up With the procession. Boston Herald.

A good story about the eternal "duel" question in France comes from Bordeaux. Three years ago a young navy officer having quarreled with a corn merchant of the town in a club sent him 'his seconds the following day. "Gentlemen,"

said the corn merchant "I am quite willing to fight a duel with the lieutenant, but I do not think that our risks are equal. He is a bachelor and I have three children. When he hks three children I shall be at his disposal." Lieutenant Caijuzac was obstinate. A barbar of the neighborhood had a pretty daughter. He immediately courted her obtained her parents' consent and married her in October, 1882. Ten inonths later he was presented a boy. and in 1884 the yonilg officer was blessed with a daughter. At last, to his great joy, a third child was born three inonths ago. He lost no time. Taking his first two children in his arms and ordering the nurse to follow him with the baby, he called on the corn merchant "Well," said he to him in a triumphant tone, "we can fight how I have three children." "Ah 1" replied his antagonist, but I have five now." Tableau.

EXCITEMENT AT A DOG FIGHT.

Spectators Snspect That Poison Rnbb«d Upon One of the Dogs. New York Sun.

Fifty enthusiastic lovers of dog fight* ing gathered yesterday an old blacksmith shop, ten miles from this city, and many of them departed at an hour later in a state of wild indignation, tempered only with disgust A fine pit had been constructed of fence boards. Mr. Houlihan's white bull terrier Spring, two years old, which had won thirteen battles, fought the brindle terrier Danger, also two years old, imported by Ike Plunkett The dogs were matched to fight at 28 pounds for $500 a side. George Sherlock handled Spring. Larry Bennett was timekeeper. Both dogs were washed and tasted, and the referee reported everything all right. At 3:20 p. m. the dogs were let go. Spring, a favorite at $50 to $35, was in excellent trim. Danger,had the appearance of not being in good health, although his trainer said that he was in fine fix.

The dogs went together with a rush, both getting hold about the head. Spring soon towed Danger upon his back and began eating off his ear. The New York delegation screamed with delight Within three minutes it was demonstratek that Spring. was an excellent wrestler and Danger a tumble-down fighter—that is. a fighter fond of lying on his back—ana although the odds were against him on that account, his friends kept on backing him freely. The cries and entreaties of the handters nerved the dogs to desperate work, and they gnawed savagely, each at the other's heaid. With twenty minutes gone, it was $50 to $25 on Spring. Five minutes later Danger's backers were encoureged by his handler shouting out: "Take the odds. My dog won't run away."

Soon Spring, much to the surprise of all present, turned away from Danger, and from that out he would not take hold of Danger, but kept snapping and barking. Danger kept on in dead earnest, chewing and tearing at Spring's throat and legs. Spring had not given up, but he wouldn't take hold. The excitement grew intense. Danger was always on top, and he would stand over his prostrate foe. Spring, stretched out on the boards, took his punishment gamely.

When the time to rest came Spring arose and began licking the blood on his legs as unconcernedly as though eating a regular meal. About thirty-two minutes in all elapsed before the call of time for the fourtn scratch. Danger, although very weak, came across the pit Spring, being strong, leaped upon his rival, but after a minute let go his hold again. At this stage a veteran sport, who was astonished at the stiange action of Spring, shouted out: 'There is some foul work here. Danger's neck has been rubbed with some

oisonous drug, and that is the reason pring will not take hold." Spring's handler claimed the fight Everybody was talking, and crazed with excitement Another scratch was had, and this time Spring had to cross the pit, bnt be had become sick, and he stood still. Danger's handler claimed the fight, and it was given to him against loud remonstrances on the part of Springer's backers. There came near being a general fight. The time of fighting was thirty-six minutes. A great deal of money changed hands, and it is said that Mr. Ganz, a butcher, lost more than $2,000. Houlihan, the owner of Spring, and the majority of the spectators thought Danger's neck had been rubbed with poison.

Kate Field on Mrs. Browning, Boston Traveler. Mrs. Browning's conversation was most interesting. It was not characterized by sallies of wit or brilliant repartee, nor was it of that nature which is most welcome in society. It was frequently intermingled with trenchant, quaint remarks, leavened with a quiet, graceful humor of her own bnt it was eminently calculated for a tete-a-tete. Mrs. Brownnever made an insignificant remark, that she said was always w&rth hearing a greater compliment could not be paid her. She was a most conscientious listener, giving you her mind' and heart as well as her magnetic eye. Thongh the latter spoke an eager language of their own, she conversed slowly, with a conciseness and point that, added to a matchless earnestness, which was the predominant trait of her conversation, as it was her character, made her a most delightful companion. Persons were never her theme unlesB public characters were under discussion, or friends were to be praised—which kind office she frequently took upon herself. One never dreamed of frivolities in Mrs. Browning's presence, and gossip felt itself out of place. Books and humanity, great deeds, and, above all, politics, which include all the grand questions of the day, were foremest in her thoughts and, therefore, oftenest on her lips. I speak not of religion, lor with her everything was religion. Her Christianity was not confined to church and rubic it meant civilization.

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An Inexhaustible Snppiy.

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A Lincoln commercial traveler, who was glancing over a paper in the Omaha train yesterday, threw it down impatiently, with the remark: "That's nothing, I don't see why any fuss is made about it" *'What is it?" asked a man near him.. "Oh, I see a statement that Professor Riley has donated 22,000 bugs to the government museum. The hotel stopped in at Omaha last night can double that and never miss a bug?'.

The Explanation.

Bstelline (D. T.) Bell.

'Mamma," said a little Estelline girl "what is that man doing over there on Mr. Thompson's porch? He. has been sitting on the steps for two hours and hasn't moved." "That, my child, is a house painter. He is painting Mr. Thompson's house by the day."

'Caught Them.

Yalelfocoid.

Freshman professor, holding up a written exercises—"I perceive that this one was copied from outside help. The man who handed it in will remain." A. half doxen remained.

Miss Mills, the large-footed Onio gin, has found a man in Pittsburg that she -thinks worthy of her feet, her $5,000 and her father's" fary. The name of the man is not given, bnt Pittsburg is oub over the lact that the Ohio feet have come to stay.

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