Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 November 1894 — Page 4

ART OF CONVERSING.

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J-Jvervthi"*/ is rrinted rrvwadpys rowl very littlu si'.id. (*ood talkers and gooci listeners, as Dr. Johzi.-on and his friends, arc almost extinct creutvros.

Talk, talk, talk—cheap and plenty. Many talk not uccau.se ihoy Jk«\u anything to say, as every sentence shows, 'jut only from the inclination to be talking. Their talk is only an exorcise of the tongue. No other Iranian faculiy lias any share in it. Plenty talk, hut no conversation.

If you should at any evening party refiro to a corner of the room and note down the talk of the company and prohu'0 a verl-alini report of the conversation, oa."h s-jur.ker would feel lamentably chagrined at the superficial and triHing character of his or her utter-

Many of our girls are educated failni'i s. Tito chief charm of vniman is fascijjation. Ic id not enou: li to sit still' a-id lo!'k \v:se througii d'mMe extra e-.- "Indies, They are oppm-sive. Coaipararively few women aro interesting for more than half an hour at time. It is much more difficult learning how to bo interesting than it. is to get a

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literature a::d art. It is a good omen that in all enlightened communities ignorance is looked upon as an inexcusable and unnecessary rua-'l'i. Tin- abundance and availability of means of culture is a distinction of our Jime, and ignorance among young women and young men or any other class can hardly be attributed any more to poverty, lack of opportunity or cunditi 'jis of mV.f,:-tune, not to these so much, 1 am sure, as to laziness o'* a pa.^ ii .'..r moh frivolous indulgence is blur, is the- iti llectualfacultiesorwar -s the nior.ii forces. It is an offense to an inteliigt nt mind and must bring a blush, to a tvno woman's cheek to see a young .- woman of much pretense ru,-d beauty, o" walt'i, show a prominence in society, who is unread and uncultured in those departments of knowledge about which ordinarily intelligent people are wont to converse. jUuoh talk, many words, are like leaves where they most abound. Much fruit of v-.sense b.- nrth is rarely found. He who lias learned the science of silence may hide ignorance and acquire a reputation for profound knowledge and wisdom. A story is tuid of the painter Zeuxis—how he reproved a certain high priest of the groat L'iana of the Ephesians, who discoursed of pictures iu the artist's studio .iWith f.o i". "kless an audacity of ignorance that lie very lads who were grinding colors could not refrain from giggling. whereupon Zeuxis said to his too elof.ueii? friend, "As long as you kept from talking you were the admiration of those boys, who were all wonder at your rich art ire and the number of your servants, bat now that you have vi-n-turid to expatiate upon the arts, of which you know nothing, tiny are all laughing at your outright."

Carlyle's "1J mineiation of Shallow Pratt rs"—denouncing the vapid verbiage of shallow platers, t'arly'e exclaimed, "Even tiiviality and imbecility that can sit silent, how respectable arcthey in onmy.ari on

Lord Lytion Tells the story of a groom uiarva to a rich lady and in consequent trepidation of be:Q-: ridiculed l»v the guests in nev.* h.i.nie. .An Or.-'nyd clergyman gave him this advice: "\Yt ar a liiiv. coai and hold your tongue." The groom was soon considered the most g'ja.... iii tiiu country. To converse well, read well—sense, not nonsense. Avoid falsehood. Great talkers are apt to swerve from truth, or at least- from strict accuracy of- statement.

People who read and think converse about ideas and things. Of the virtuous woman Solomon says, "She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness." The conversation of cultured people is never vulgar, never empty. It is free from envy, hatred and uncharitableness.

IsT.iy, spe.'ik no ill. A kindly word Can never leave a sting behind. And, ola, to breathe each tale we've heard

Is fur beneath a noble mind.

T-ittle' Things.

Little things are the secrets of success in business, in science, in art, iu morals, in knowledge, in religion—in every pursuit in life. Careful attention to little things brings to a successful performance of big things. In God's universe there are no trifles. As Angelo said, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." Most of the great discoveries of the world have resulted from attention to little things. Study the history of bankruptcies and failures in business and in life, and you will find them largely men who had no talent for looking after details. Moments are the golden sands of time. An hour every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would mako an ignorant man a well informed man in ten years.

Tho happiness of life is made up of little things, little courtesies, little kindnesses, little deeds, pleasant words, genial smiles, a friendly letter and good Wishes. It is so in character. The finest troe I ever saw was killed by a single worm, and many who onco promised fair for usefulness in the world have been ruined by a single sin. There aro two ways of coming down from a eteeplo. Ono is to jump down, and the other is to come down by the steps. So there are two ways of going to hell. One is to walk into it with your eyes wide open, and the other is going down •tep by step—the stops of little sins. As a grain of iodine will impart color to 7,000 times its weight of water, so one oin may affect the whole life ond color eternity. Little sins are the serpents in the egg, tho explosion in the cold pow(TER. MADISON C. PETERS.

THE ELECTION RETURNS.

They Make the Busiest Night of the Tear In a Newspaper Office. -1 There is ono night every year in

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For a Sweet Breath.

Don't, expect to have clean teeth or a sweet breath whilo there is a tinge of white on the tongue. It is an unmistakublo cvioenco of indigestion. Drink sour lemonade, oat ripe fruit and green vegetables for purgatives, exercise freely, uso plenty of water internally and externally, and keep up the treatment until tho mouth is clean, healthy and red. Various things are suggested to counteract an unpleasant breath resulting from a bad tooth, wine or garlic scented dishes. Cinnamon, mint, creams, orris root, cloves, mastic rosin and spruce gum will disguise some odors. Ten drops of tincture of myrrh in a glass of water will sweeten and refresh the mouth. Ateaspoonful of spirits of camphor or peppermint in the same gargle is among the very best antiseptics, and a few drops of myrrh and camphor in the water are recommended in case of cold, throat trouble or any slight indisposition which may affect the breath.— Philadelphia Times.

The Parson's Rebuke.

A mean man invited the village preacher to dine with him, but placed before the preacher only a dish of greens and corn bread. "Will you say grace, parson?" asked the host. ',t_"I will," replied the parson. "Lord, make us thankful for greens and corn bread, and put it into the heart of our brother to raise hogs next year!"—Atlanta Constitution.

lUado liold by Ilis Itrush.

Detaille, tho French painter whoso studies are all of military life, looks every inch a soldior. He is tall, slouder and has a martial air. Detaille knows absolutely nothing of the life of a soldior except what he has read. At tho ago of 20 he was rather timid, but his character began to change as soon as ho devoted his brush to military subjects.

The name of Lake Ontario was first noted as Skanodairo (beautiful lako). It was also, at various timos and by different men, denominated Lao do JTrontenao, Lao do Iroqnoia, and Lao de St Louis. The Mohawks called it Caindaraoqui.

Papa was carefully studying the family history in the big Bible when his 9-year-old daughter surprised him by Buying, "Papa, was Aunt Ann one of your Ann-sisters?"

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strain ot the most intense work thst i»iis the lot of any men, except solclisrs l71 "*v*r Tliftt* That is the night when a few men sit down at 6 o'clock before virgin sheets of paper, with the knowlc-dg that before 2 o'clock the next morning they liiuoi) COvci tn^.-u bijotic iiia Liife en_'0tion returns of a nation, digesting mountains of figures and apprising the public of the results in the most condensed forms, weeks in advance of the official announcements, as sparks might be counted while they iiy from the shapeless iron on a blael-smith's anvil. And these calculations must stand the test of comparison with thnco vhich the rival newspapers, working without collaboration, as eager competitors, will publish at the same moment.

The election figures come in driblets and atoms and must- be put together as the Florentines make their mosaics. Some of it. we shall e. ij plucked from the v-.yair—as a magician seems to collect coins in a borrowed hat—begrttcn of 'isoning, bi t. pur down heside the genuine returns with equal coniidence and almost accuracy.

Ah, but that is a work to try cool heads and strong nerves. I am quite certain no other men in the world include tuch a night of tension and excitement, periodically, as a fixed part of a workaday existence. No other men, regularly once a year, feel themselves so truly in the focus of an intense public interest, manifesting itself in so many ways.— Scribner's.

WEIGH WITH THEIR EYES.

Kxpert liealers In X,ive Stock Do Not Often Use Scales. The. dealers in live stock who buy and RCII the thousands of cattle, hogs and hheep which -nx- daily handled at the Bourbon sto^varrL. must be expert in guessing t' 'gin of a live animal at aglai.ee. "o-iver: .':on with a well known siociuijan f"w days ago he explained whj' this is necessary: "Jt would '•(. .impossible to weigh the cattlo in many •«»).= because of the immense labor involve, and the length of time it would take, while the market price, which is subject to constant fluctuations, might easily vary from its highest to its lowest limit whilo we were weighing the animals in ono of our big scales. For instance, today, which has been the biggest day of the year thus far, there have been received at the Bourbon yards over 2,400 head of cattle and about G,000 hogs. Suppose we had to drive all of those upon the scales to ascertain their weight? Thero are dozens of old stock men who can inspect a herd of animals and form an estimate of their average weight which will be readily accepted by purchasers as the basis of a trade. "In a test ease which was made some time since a man who has had a lifelong experience in buying and selling a herd of cattle, after inspecting a herd of 500 animals, guessed their averago weight within ono-third of a pound of the actual figure ascertained by weighing the cattle individually. The feat was accomplished by Mr. Ben D. Ofi'utt of this county and is not so extraordinary as it appears, because similar instances of -pert 'guessing' occur hero every day."—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.

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CHANTING PRIESTS.

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The chant o* the priests' voices was the most stiiking thing that I encountered in my travels in Russia a year pgo. Never in any place have I heard music at all like it. More like the cry of some great animal or the moaning of a Musical wind it seemed than human tones. Deep, strong, roaring, yet soft and melodious, it haunted ino as nomnric had over done. This intoning, vljiv_h forms so important a part of the Grerk Inn eh in Russia, is performed by men who aro chosen especially for the ti^mendons depth of their voices, to be used in intoning alone, not singing. Traiue.l and cultivated into still greater strength and depth, there is in the whole wide -world no human sound like it.

There are only certain parts of tho service that .are thus intoned, such as "Halleluiah," "Lord have mercy," "Lord, wo pray thee," "Grant this, O I God," but above all, "Save long, O God, the life of the czar!" Over and over I again aro those words moaned, sighed I and roared, like a varying wind, through the arches and galleries of the splendid churches of the most splendid country of the world.

Thero is a priest in tho Church of St. Savour in Moscow who was pardoned and brought back from Siberia solely because of tho extraordinary depth of the I tones of his voice.

These great baying, bull-like voices bring to their owners, it is said, a very good income. Tho last part of the service is always the loudest, and the last words, in a tremendous final roar, aro always tho petition to save long from death the czar. Unlike the Latin service of the Roman Catholic church, the common people of Russia can understand much of tho service of their church, as a part of it is in modern Russian and the rest in old Slavonic. Thus that cry which rings through tho churches to save the life of the czar is understood and felt by the humblest subject in Russia.

Although this intoning can bo heard everywhere in the churches throughout Russia, tho best examplo of it is perhaps in tho famous Alexander Nevsky monastery in St. Petersburg. At 4 o'clock every afternoon the priests' chant can be heard there, and no traveler should miss this extraordinary spectacle. In the winter, when tho higher classes aro in town, there are long lines of elogaut conveyances at the door, that have brought tho fashionable Russian devotees to hear tho monks chant. But at all times of the year it is a resort not only for Russians, but for tho straugers from the hotels. The monastery is at tho end of tho fashionable Nevsky Prospekt, tho Fifth avenue of St. Petersburg. In tho green inclosuro there are many buildings connected with tho monastery, but it was to tho chapel where the monks chant tho evening service that we first directed our steps one afternoon late in June. Far back in the dimness, in a chancel behind two altars, was a collection of large, brawny men. Their long black robes, high black velvet caps and long flowing veils, ail of black, magnified their height and their imposing appearance. Their beards were long, and heavy locks of hair hung like thick manes ou their shoulders.

They were already chanting, when we entered, in those peculiar organliko tones which I found the most impressive thing iu Russia. How that strange volume of sound moaned and rose and fell throughout tho structure! How it waiied in our ears, like a mighty wind, and always, whether loud or soft, iu the saddest, sweetest melody! There were half recitative solos, chanted first by ono voice and taken up by the others. "Lord have mercy!" "Lord grant it!" they wailed and moaued until it seemed as if the sound woujd nover again leave my ears.

After a time it ceased, and then the procession of towering black robed monks came out into the body of tha chapel, leaving but little room for us as we crowded ourselves against the wall. Placing themselves with their backs toward us and their faces toward the altar in a semicircle, they began again their chant, in a different and much louder refrain, "God save long the life of the emperor!" Never shall I forget that semicircle of black monumental figures nor tho waves of sound that still vibratod on the air after their voicos had ceased.

We turned away and walked across the green courtyard, \yhere many rich Russians aro buried. All Russians esteem it a sacred privilege to be buried in tho soil surrounding a monastery, and among those who lie here is the novelist Turgenoff. Wo traversed numerous cloisters, with now and then tho tall, black veiled monks passing us, until we reachod tho chapol of Alexander Nevsky, the czar monk who lies buried hero—buried in such a tomb as uo other man ever had, for it is of solid silver, weighing 8,250 pounds. Not only tho sarcophagus but tho nltarnear which it stands and also the rails which surround it are of solid silver. A likeness of the great czar, who was also a monk, litis on top under a sheet of solid gold. Diamonds and rubies gleam in the sconces that hang hero and there, and the key of Adrianople, framed in jewels, hongs near the silver tomb. Strange mingling of austerity wfth splendor is this wonderful ohapell In same monastery aro tho famous coffers of jewels and gold and gems untold that wore brought from Persia on camels' backs during tho reign of Alexander Nevsky.—Cor. Neir York Sun.

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