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THE REPUBLICAN.

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W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD.

INDIANA

ONK.by one the European nations are awaking to the necessity of checking the heavy flow of emigration to this country. A circular has now been issued to French prefects instructing them to use their influence to prevent ekilied laborers from leaving the country. Europe baa no objection to its paupers and criminals crossing the Atlantic. but wants to keep at home the only men to whom America can be ex pected to offer a hearty welcome.

IT is a pleasant matter to note that one re'igious assembly has recently been held in the Southern States that did not trouble itself about the negro. It was made up of whites and blacks and A few Indians. The moderator was a white man, graduated at Yah- and he was succeeded by a man as black as the ace of spades—born slave and freed by the war. Blacks and whiles served together on committers, and conjoined their services elsewhere, without once a question being raised as to the advisability of the races being teparafced. They even ate the sacrament together without a protest.

IT is not easy to determine whether we should rejoice at Chinese progress or regret it, lor the waking up of the vast Mongolian masses means the precipitation of

overplus upon the Aryan

world that we not yet know how to deal with. However, it is cer ain that China will soon be practically a modern State. The conservative element is effectually overcome and railway construction has been entered on as a national policy. Pekin is at once to be joined to Tien Tsin by a road passing through the most popnlou.4 districts of the Empire. The radicals or reformers are at last entirely triumph, and China will adopt every means for development. It will oe impossible to exist on the same planet under a system of mutual exclusion.

A NEWSPAPER the other day, referring to Stanley's lights with the natives qf Africa, said that Livinstone never used firearms to attain his ends, but that his goodness and unselfishness won the confidence of the tribes and smoothed his pathway. This is not quite accurate. When Livingstone's work was nearly over and he was approaching the spot where he died, lie was greatly tried by Matipa, a chief living on an island in Lake Bangweolo, who endeavored to •*, prevent the further advance of the explorer. After vain expostulations with the chief, the great traveller suddenly drew a pistol and fired it in close proximity to that worthy's person. The natives of Bangweolo were then not acquainted with firearms, and the badly frightened chief was glad to let Livingstone go on his way. But Livingtone never shed the blood of a native, which is more than can be said of his carriers after his death, who, though they had followed his fortunes for many years, could not emulate his patience. While they were carrying his body co the sea they stormed several .neighboring villages that gave them trouble, killed a numDer of people, and won an easy victory with their firearms.

A Iilve Question at the South* Harper's Magazine. The subject of education, especially tbe education of the masses, is every* where a matter oi earnest discussion. Teachers, editors, candidates for office, preachers, farmers, mechanics, white and black people, all classes, are discussing the subject. How wide spread this awakening has been is illustrated by the interest shown in the subject by the country press. When a Southern county town weekly, depending for life chiefly on eounty advertising, takes an abiding interesting in a matter of general concern, it is proof that, the people are beginning to be aroused. The South is beginning to awake to the perils that lie but partially concealed in the ignorant classes, both white and black, that make up so large a part of the population. It is time to awake there is reason to be alarmed when the tenth census reports in the twelve States under consideration in this paper 332,733 white voters and 886,905 negro voters as "unable to write." if in a union of States like ours, which binds all into one, this alarm should not extend to States more fortunate than these twelve Southern States, it would indicate an indifference to com- ,, mon interests and common dangers more alarming than ignorance itself.

Bumbling a House Agent New York Weekly. Dilapidated specimen—"Say, wat's the price o' that 'ere brown stone?"

Agent-"fluh! What do you want to know for?"

Dilapidated specimen—"None o'vr ^aire. I'm walkin' to Saratogy, where I've ^'V^ -been promised a all summer job as head waiter." r:

Agent (humbly)—"The price is only $60,000, Bir/| :f„ A Commercial Paradox.

Customer—Say, Rothstein, who's that man doing all that yelling, and screaming, and swearing at the clerks in the rear oi the store?''

Rothstein—Oh, dot voe Rosenberg, der silent pardner.

LETTERS OF GREELEY.

WRITTEN TO CH AS. A. DANA PR EVIOUS TO THE GREAT CON

FLICT.

Th« Remarkable Persona Characteristics of tl»« Great Editor Clearly Defined—

The Ncw(*p8p^r A11 txpouD(l€d...l^ipHt Shed on the Politics of the Time—Wit and Humor Abounding Everywhere.

XYVI.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2, '58. FRIEND DANA. I have mislaid your letter to which I replied night before last but its tenor might seem to imply a preference on my part for remaining in Washington. I would have it distinctly unaerstood that I am ready to leave this delightful spot tbe moment, you judge that course to be best. I mean to'stay as long as that shall be deemed desirable by you but I have been expecting some intimation as to a 1 change for some time. Just now Harvey is awav and cannot be back till Saturday. When here, he is very good for the Court, end of town, but not as to the other. Yet we must have some one here who can write about the Capitol, and 1 am expecting by each mail to be advised bv you of a consignment of

Pike. I want him to come prepared to stay, as I have done: merely remaining about here for a week or two is no good. I want him here several days befere I leave, so that I can introduce him to some folks who can be of use to him in getting newB (his weak point), and to impart to him all I know as to the lay Oi the land. He can't come too soon to please me. though I am in no hurry. I came heie because 1 could do most good (as I suppose.!), and don't want to stay one minute longer than tbat shall be the case. And, though others may be cleverer, there is no correspondent here who has done nearly as much work as 1 have this winter, except Simonton. and he has. great ad-vantages-first, in being always here next, in being able to retreat to his den. where he is protected Dv a barricade of women and children, while my room is the common resort of cigar-smoking, gossiping, political loafers. I began my letter about Washington's tomb after dinner yesterday, and it was close to midnight when I finished it, and had to take it to the Post Office, the hotel bag being gone. I could have written it in an hour and a half, but first came in Fomeioy, .hen Gen. Lane, then Wilson, then Gov. Robinson, beside others, and it won't do to turn such men out of the house. So my time was taken up. And so it is from day to day.

Now abort ferocity. I am in favor of it. judiciously applied. Ferbaps Douglas is a good subject, but every one is not. If it were practicable to "have a giant's strength," we must be careful not too often "to use it like a giant," A blundering attack like that on Brenton destroys the force of our broadside when better directed. When you show up an Albany Register you must consider whether you may not want to use that sans.e—for a lawyer who should make a very strong speech discrediting one of his own chit witnesses would not be thought clever. And I charge you above all things not to ailow anything to get in which seems impelled by hatred of the Soutn, or a desire to humiliate that section. On the contrary, ours is the couise to renovate and exalt the South, and must be so commended. Every copy of that misjudged editorial showing how a British army might liberate the slaves and overrun the South, has been carefully treasured to make Loco Foco speeches on in the coming canvass, and I have been applied to for wore by men who did not imagine I knew what they were after. We must be "wise as serpents" this season, and make no enemy needlessly. It is by such articles as Weston's "Poor Whites of the South," and making the Kansas issue as prominent as possible, that we are to win a decisive triumph. There are very many things I don't begin to know, but I ought to know something of party controversy.

George Baker writes me that he has urged you to oppose any Excise law, if we can't have Prohibition. I hope yon have done nothing of the sort. I hqye no faith in Excise laws, but we must not take the responsibility of beating one. Let us rather let one pass (sub silentio), so as to demonstrate more ciearly its worthlessness.

I am disappointed at receiving no letter from Europ9 this week. Remember to hurry it along when one comes. Yours, HORACE GKEELEY.

C. A. DANA, N. York.

XXVII.

WASHINGTON, Mon,, April 7,1836. C. A. D.: I went up to York, Pa., to lecture on Saturday, and could njt get back till 6 this morning.

Thank you for the promise of Pike soon. I am unwell and tired of this hole. I hope he will come down on Saturday at furthest then I will start on Tuesday and reach home on Wednesday. Ask him to please come down on Saturday if not earlier. And when here I think he must contrive to stay till the 17th of June. Why not? A greenhorn can be of no use here, and Harvey can do us little good at the capitol. I guess Pike must stay.

Now, as to your going away this summer: There are only two conditions to it. Somebody must do np Washington in yoiir absence, and Fry must promise to stand by me and pull steadily in New York. I mean to be extra good this year, and rather doubtful as to the next. So, if somebody will do us justice here, and Fry will realiy help me in Naw York, all will be well. (I trust there is to be no opera in those months.) 1 guess you are about right as to Bell Smith, except that she couldn't help being found out. As Colfax said to her in my hearing, "Who else eoula have thought of puffing Pugh?" Don|t you see that is a settler? All I regret is that you did not write to her on the receipt of her first that you would pay her so and so. it won't do for me to be hiring correspondents, and I only spoke to her because you agreed to it. Better have a good understanding at the outset But you don't write notes on such slender provocation as 1 do.

I presume Seward's speech has been sent you. If not, it shall be by this mail.

Now, I want to suggest one thing— the hiring oi Ewbank to examine every new invention that may be presented, and say something or* nothing of it, as it deserves. II he has to leave his own house to do so, let those who require it pay him. Otherwise let bim have stated honra three or foar time* a week on

which any inventor may call on him, and let wnoever comes to the office be told: "Mr. E. is our editor with respect to inventions. Go to him at o'cIock to-day or to-morrow and he will l6ok into what you have invented and write about it, if he deems it worth notice in The Tribune." We have never yet had this department on a right footing. Ewback's return to New York gives us a chance now let it be done. 1 think he would do this for one thousand a year, writing a leader, a paragraph, or a mere line about a new invention, according to its merits, but if he asked two thousand, it would be woith the money. Won't you look into this? It would oe a greatrelief to us and a real improvement to the paper. Yours, H. G. p. S.—Contrary to what you would suppose, Clayton was perfsctly sober and Bell atrociouelv drunk at the time of their row in the Senate last week Bell was a little worse when be undertook to apologize, if possible, than when he gave the insult.

I made a mistake on Friday, Collamer sat down without concluding, while the Senate went on readintr and referring bills. So I went into the House to hear Gen. Granger, after which Collamer resumed and concluded. Collamer's speech is better than Seward's in my humble judgment. Yours, H. G.

XXVIII.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 0 185G. C. A. D.: I 'are nothing for Ew bank. If you have the right sort of man to scrutinize inventions, that is well. 2. I don't want more space devoted to this subject. I presume quite enough is now given.

But I do want inventions treated like other occurrences—with more or le6S emphasis, according to their im portance, not treated as if a motive power and a new currycomb were of equal consequence. There your present system is deficient. If a man should invent a new locomotive that could be readiiy and profitably used in corn fields and on common roads, I should wish to see it announced in a leader on the very day after it was patented whereas by your present method, it would probably appear the next month in a supplement, buried up under new raspberries and improved beehives, is that the thinp? 1 am totally disqualified to judge of the value of Inventions in generai you take little interest in them. I believe the history of human progress is written in them, and I want to see that history early and faithfully lefiectedin our columns. I want to have less and less to do with politics and more and more with productive Industry. I feel that the path of Empire—journalistic and ail other—stretches in this direction. Let us be first to act on this knowledge. It will win few subscribers to-day, but it will win character which may ultimately be coined, if that is deemed essential. I do believe that our Daily, with five years' reputation as the first to recognize and honor Inventive Genius, would be afar better property than at present.

It does notiollow that we should give long accounts of new inventions. Ninetenths of those patented are worthless three-fourths of the residue are of little general interest. One column per week devoted to Inventions will satisfy me, provided the right man prepaiesit and has a clear idea of what he has'W do— that he writes in the interest of the public and not of the patentees.

I telegraphed you yesterday about Fremont's letter, "and hope you have it in this morning's Tribune. It is a good letter in itself and will do good to Kansas. if not to Fremont. I do hope you will have ic out soon, and that F. will withdraw his objection, if be has any. I meav to print it in next weekly anyhow, if not in this.

I wish you could have printed Gen. Granger's speech. It will he greatly discussed hereafter, and has the immense merit of being short.

C. A. D.

HORACE GREELEY.

XXIX.

DANA: Will you please have an earnest talk with Craig? I went to the Senate yesterday on purpose to hear the additional Crampton documents. On hearing them I saw that they needed to be sent over verbatim, and sent Harvey every way for Gobright to tell him to send them to the Associated Press. Harvey came to me and telegraphed to you on the subject. I found Gobright and urged him to do tbe right thing. He hesitated, but telegraphed to Craig. Craig answered that he need only send the substance. I saw Gobright again early in the evening and saw him again at 10 o'clock, and he assured me that he had sent all but a few unessential

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rases, &c. I could do no more with as he was acting under orders from Craig. No Harvey tells me that you telegraphed at 11 to have the whole cent over. Here is a heavy expense imposed on us by Craig's presuming in New York to "know more about documents of which he was ignorant than I did after hearing them. I consulted Gen. Webb, and obtained his confidence before acting. I want you to ask Craig whether I may not expect to be listened to in another contingency like this. Here are at least $500 thrown away by three papers in telegraphing severally what should have gone to all. xxx. sr

WASHINGTON, April 11th.

DANA: My heart does not break easily, but these mail faiiuies are hard to bear. On Tuesday, Henry Waldren, of Michigan, made a glorious speech. He is one of our best men, never spoke before, and probably will not again.

I sat down and wrote a telegraphic dispatch, then a letter. Wednesday's paper came, and no dispatch. I wrote one of inquiry to you and took it down to the office, when lo! they owned up that they had mislaid and failed to send the dispatch till next morning! So tbe milk in that coroanut was accounted for. "Well," says I, "the next paper will bring along my letter, anyhow but that paper came last night and no letter, but instead of that a dispatch from you, sent after, saying that the letter only reached you yesterday. Now, I have myself carried every letter to the post office this week—usually a little before midnight, and the letters are taken till five in the morning. So the fault Can hardly be here. I am afraid you fail to make a row with the New York post ffice when this sort of thing occurs.

Last night it was 1 o'clock when I took my letter to the office, and your dispatch gave me a dread that it might have been overlooked and delayed here. So 1 have been to the postmaster this

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morning, and had the office overhauled, and the letter has ceitainly gone. The only chance of failure is, says the P. M., that these late letters aie made up into a special or extra package, and this may be overlooked and left unopened it night in the New York office. Prrv look to this.

Your dispatch about the Fremont letter is genenrly admired, have nov yet taken Bank's opinion of it but he has written me a note saying tbat he was mislead hy A. B. Jaimes, and will keep out ot such ruts hereafter. lUther late, but very good.

You can't guets how old Butler gave it to me yesterday for that infernal article telling the British bow to invade and conquer the South. No report can do justice to his venom. I will try to keep such articles out ol the Tiiouns hereafter.

Old Badger was sittiug in the Senate ail day yesterday. He

must,

be "tickled

to death" at the prospect of Pike's return to this city. I trust you have a supplement to-day. Thank Cirey in my name for that article on Bowen. Also whoever did the Joe Bonaparte, though it. tooic uu so much room.

I mean to have a weekl or fortnightly letter irom the Patent Office ere long. Yours, H. G.

Can't you publish General Grantor's speech? It is unique and very short.

XXXI.

Lawrence, Kus., Mav 20, l£E9. DANA: 1 have been travelling and SDeaking throagh eastern and central Kansas since last Sunday, when I wrote you Irom Atchison. 1 must write again to night, if possible, though I am nearly worn out with ridtng a good part of every day, making a speech each day or evening and shaking hands with everybody.

Besides, I had to make a set speech at Onsawatomie day before yesterday, aimed at all manner oi political half breeds and twaddlers, by whom this Territory is cursed, and who are likely to ruin it yet. That speech I have been obliged to write out without a note of help. I finished it at 9 o'clock this morning at Prairie City, and you will have to print it. It is not so good in the report as I gave it, for I have been hurried and badgered on all sides till I hardly see how I made time to write it at all and some of its best points are entirely omitted for want of notes aud time. However, you will think it too long, but I shall probably bore you little more for two months, or till I reach California. Just put this through, then for there is considerable malignity in it, some which will seem funny to some folks and not so funny to others. In Kansas, where it* every shot wili hit somebocjy, I know it will do good, and I promise not to write out another this side of San Fran, at the worst.

Rain—mud most profound, flooded rivers and streams—glorious soil— worthless politicians—lazy people— such is Kansas in a nut shell. Goodnight. Yours, HORACE GREEIEY.

C. A. I)ANA, Esq., New York.

XXXII.

June 14th.

I am still lame and suffering, but hope to be able to push on next Monday. I shall try to send by this mail a new letter (the last) on the Rocky Mountain gold region.

I am still lame, having rather a had gouge in my leg (with the corner oi a wagon seat "when I was upset), but I mean to get away toward Laramie [today or to morrow. I must pay $100 to be carried 180 miles—rather steep. It is horribly hot here, everything parched and drooping, and I am not satisfied with the treatment of my leg. I hope to find better at Laramie. There is no house between this and that, and I expect to six or seven days reaching Laramie. We shall be bothered with some of the larger creeks issuing from the mountains, which are swelled by the melting snows.

I have seen no later Tribune than Mav 23 nearly a month ago. 1 hope to find some at L. H. G.

XXXIII.

DANA: This letter is a sort of resume of my last six. If you are crowded, and it in good part consists of repetitions, you may offet it to Bonner or to some one else and, if they don't want it, keep it for me. I shall write another on the gold mines.

I am still intent on curing my lame leg. I shall not be able lo reach Laramie much before the first of July, when I intended to be at Salt Lake on the 4th. But I can do nothing with my leg while travelling. It was made by the corner of a seat gouging into the side of my left just below the knee. It is now improving. (The End.)

THREE THAINS COLLIDE.

And Are Thrown Down an EmbankmentMany People Killed.

Three freight trains collided on a bridge at Latrobe, Pa.. Wednesday morning. Thirty-one cars fell from the bridge to the water fifty feet below. The debris took fire from a car load of lime that was precipitated with the others. The loss of life is awful. Many workmen from Johnstown were on the trains, and all told, not less than thirty lives were lost. Not one of the train* men escaped. Arms and legs of the victims could be seen protruding from the debris. One of the three trains was standing on aside track

Phtlpa Will Keturn to Germany.

Wm. Walter Phelps, was Wednesday appointed Minister to Germany Dy President Harrison. He received his appointment from the President's own hauds, with the remark tbat it was his reward, which naturally was highly gratifying to the recipient.

Going over to the Department of State his commission was immediately made out and he qualified as United States Minister to Germany. Mr. Phelps will not proceed to his new post for some time, but feeling that be has earned a rest and needing time for the adjustment of his private business, will go to his home in New Jersey in a day or two. t,

A dangerous experiment.—Miss Antique (school teacher)—"What does w-h-i-te spell?" Class—No answer. Miss Antique—"What is the color of my skin?" Class (in chorus)—"Yellow"

The London bookseller who has been sentenced to three months' imprison ment for selling ola's fcovtls etys tha he is the victim of a vile plot

POLITICS AND BUSINESS.

A Kumor that Piatt und Alger Want Seal fisheries Contrac.

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The New York World of Monday says: Politics and pleasure are said to have inspired the Platt-Alger excursion to Alaska. Shrewd observers have found another reason—that of hard, practical business. Upon reflection the latter explanation appears to be the most reasonable. There is good authority for the statement that Messrs. Alger and Piatt have their eyes open for the contract covering the seal fisheries in Behring. whirh has been granted the Alaska Commercial Company. The contract between the Government and the Alaska Commercial Company will expire May,1890. This is the last year t.tie Commercial Company will have the right to take seals in the Behring Sea, unless their contract is renewed.

The seals are taken in tbe spring and in the fall. It will take anew company several months to get into shape to continue the work ot taking the seals, so an early decision on the part of the Government in this matter is anticipated. Under the existing laws the letting of the contract is lett to the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Wmdorn will probably make known his decision before January 1. Why, it may be asked, should Messrs. Piatt and Alger take the trouble to go to Alaska when the man who has the power to give them the contract resides in Washington? One answer given is that they wish, to investigate the extent of the seal industry belore engaging in it.

DEATH TO CHINCH-BUGS-

The Farmers' Pest Encounters an Enemy that Is Rapidly Thinning Its ICanks.

Prof. J. H. Snow, of the Kansas State University, who has taken an active interest in the insects of Kansas, and has given the chinch-bug special attention, claims that a disease has made its appearance among chinch-bugs which is thinning their ranks rapidly. Professor Snow says he has made a number of visits to fields of his county, and found the live and healthy bugs rather scarce. In many places the ground is almost white with dead bugs. They are dying very rapidly with a disease which he terms white fungus, but r?any entomologists call it chinch bug cholera. The disease is very contagions: Nothing is known of the cause of the disease nor of its symptoms, but it is doing a good work. L'o test whether it is contagious, Professor Snow, last Monday, shut up a number of healthy bugs with a few dead ones and Thursday they were all dead with the same disease, apparently. An entomologist of Minnesota claims to have sent over twenty boxes of dead bugs last season with a view t® scattering the disease with the desired results. Professor Snow says tbat any field can be cleared of the bugs by scattering a few dead ones therein. The disease is prevalent, Prof. Snow says, all over the West this year.

Names of Cities in Railroad Tit les. Indianapolis Journal. Through consolidations, forec'osure sales and sales direct, Indianapolis is losing prestige as a railroad center in one sense, although the business of her roads is rapidly iacreasing from year to year. Through the Big Four-Bee-line consolidation the word Indianapolis is dropped in the title of four roads. After the foreclosure sale of the Ohio, Indiana & Western the word was no longer used by that company, although in its advertising the road is still called the I., B. & W. With the Lake Erie & Western taking in the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago, the new title left out Indianapolis, and with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton the C., H. & I. title appears only in annual reports. Fortunately for the C., H. & D., however, the Indianapolis was the only division which showed a handsome increase in earnings in the year ending March 31,1889. There is more importance to a city appearing often in title of railroads than many may suppose. Who would have ever heard of Burlington, la., but for tke C., B. & Q. naming their line the great "Burlington Route." One great advantage which Chicago has over St. Louis is in the large number of roads whose tiles commence with Chicago. Some of these roads do not touch that city on the lakes by hundreds of miles, except through some round-about connection. Chicago now appears in the title of thirty-four railroads of this number twenty-four commence with the name Chicago. Cincinnati comes next, having twenty-four roads using the name oi that city in their title twenty of these titles commence with Cincinnati. St. Louis has seventeen roads using the words St. Louis. Kansas City has ten, but Indianapolis drops down to fifth place, having only six roads in which her name appears in the title. 4

Who Owns the Land in America? American Citizen. Who owns the land in the United States? Why, the citizens do,or should, would be the natural reply. But, unfortunately, it is not altogether so. Some of the best lands in this country are owned by alien landlords. Nearly 22,000,01)0 acres of land are owned by men who owe allegiance to other gov em in en ts. To be exact, there are 21,241,900 acres of land under the direct control and management of thirty foreign individuals or companies. There are 2,720,283 acres oi land in Massachusetts, so that the men living in other countries and owing allegiance to other powers,'own land enough to make about ten States like Massachusetts, more than the whole of New England, more land

than some governments own to support! boy, sir it'smy young master. If he a king. The largest amount of land were one ot my children, 1 give him owned by any one man or corporation, good hiding.

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is owned by a foreign corporation calied the Holland Land Company. Talk about alien landholders in Ireland there is twice as mflch land owned by aliens in the United Slates as there is owned by Englishmen in Ireland. Think of it! More than 22 000,000 acres of land owned in this country by men in Europe.

Washington Belles in Tights. Atlanta Constitution's Wa&liington letter. Society here is all agog over an entertainment which, for originality antl daring conception, takes precedence of the Waterbury circup. This is a ministrei show gotten up by a dozen young ladies of the ultra fashionable set in Washington, who, if reports are true, were io have appeared clad in elongated silken hese and full short skirts of tulle. An the close of the minstrel performance an exhibition of ballet dancing was to have been given at ofle of the larjte bouses in the West End. and had progressed almost to a successful culmination when the parents of the young people took the matter in hand and put a quietus on it. It was then decided, after an animated meeting, to give the entertainment as previously announced, with the exception that the list of invited should be exclusively confined to ladies. Subsequently, tnis plan also was changed, and it is understood that, instead of burnt cork and gauze, tbe accessories used will be magnesia and cotton. Since Ibe young Jadies will pose as statuary instead of giving the wickedly attractive ballet it will not be found necessary to exclude the male elemeni from the latter entertainment, as in the former case the etern parents had decided should be done.

Golden Thoughts.

There is something wrong with tbat man's inward condition who pleads his surroundings as excuse for iivingin sin.

Life is not done, and our Christian charactcr is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.—Robertson.

We often excuse ourselves for committing faults, and even sins, when we know it is wrong to do so. This is but making the delinquencies more emphatic and giving them the sanction of the conscience.

The revelations contained in the Bible are made to man in words, and these words, like those contained in any other book, are to be interpreted by applying to them the established laws of language. The meaning of the worusr when thus ascertained, is to be accepted as God's rule for human faith and practice. What the words mean He means. His authority attaches to that mean* ing.—Independent.

If one wants to understand who Christ was and is. what are His offices, and what is his work in human behalf, the book for him to study in preference to all other books, and more than all other books, is the Bible itself. He may aid himself in this study by the use of commentaries, but he should never substitute anything for the Bible. The Bib3e contains far the best Christologv ever written or read.—Independent.

Not For Fish.

Detroit Free Press.

Between Greensboro and Salisbury the locomotive brofce down and we lay for three hours while repairs were beingmade. There was a small lake near bv and the Colonel got out his fishing tackle hunted up a frog for bait, and tried his luck. He fished that pond lengthways and sideways and up and down and across for two hours and a half, and he was still at it when a white man tame through the woods and stopped and inquired: "Had any luck?" "Not a bit." "Fishing for fisbj" "Of course." "Just to pass the time?" "Yes." "Then it's all right." "Suppose I wasn't fishing just to pass the time?" "Then I'd feel it my duty to tell yoa that this iake was drained off labt week and every blessed fish scooped out. This 'ere water came in from the last rain.

So many of the passengers insisted that the Colonel owed them one that the contents ot his flask did not go half way round. ,,,

Princess Alexandra's Night Robes. London World. An account recently published gives one a deep respect for the taste of Russian women of means in want oi nightgowns, and is calculated to make the American girl envy the Petersburg climate, which makes sucn things excusable. Princess Alexandra, of Greece, who is soon to marry Prince Paul, of Russia, will have such fine night dresses as will make her sorry she cannot drive out and walk about the streets in one of them. Three of these things are to be given to her by the Czar's wife. They are made and ready to be sent. One is made of silver fox. bordered with gold another of sable fastened with six large pearls, and tbe third, which is the best, is made of far of blue fox, with a girdle oi diamonds.

The Ideal Boy-Aristocrat.

Puck.

Mr. Grouty (in Park)—-I am surprised sir, that you allow that boy to speak so impudently.

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