Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 1, Brookville, Franklin County, 7 January 1870 — Page 1

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C. fl. BINGHAM, Proprietor. Offics in th9 H'aUonal Bank Building, (ffttrd story.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! 82 50 PER YEAR, i abtasci; $300 " " I i" f O T PA ID IFAD TAKC jfo postage on papers delivered within this County. KNOWING ONE'S OWN MlND. BY MARGARET MEERT. There can be but one answer, Mr. Wvesant I beg that you will not think u necessary to pursue the subject," and tbefpeaker, Blanche Courtenaye. turned her pretty head resolutely away with rather too studied disdain upon her features. 'Assuredly not, Miss Courtenaye; it seems that I have already been t$o long the sport of your caprice." He paused for a moment, and resumed with repressed emotion. "I had thought, Blanche "Thought," interrupted Miss Courtenaje, "thought, I suppose, that Mr. Frank Stuyvesant s irresistable smiles had had their proper effect, so that he had only to nuke known his wishes to be promptly aoCePow this was so nearly what be bad thought, that Mr. Stuyvesant had nothing to do but to take up his bat and depart, with outward composure, and extreme inwsrd dejection. Blanche stood for a moment where he had left her, then walked quickly up and jowo the room. "He thought I was to be easily won," she said, under her breath. "I am thankful for the strength of mind which enabled me to overcome that foolish fascination. Poor Frank! he loves me, I believe, but he has not the intense and concentrated nature which must win my love. He wanted me to think it over, he said, as if J did not know what I was doing fancy not knowing one's own mind!" and her color rose at the bare idea of such imbecility. She stopped before the mantle, unlocked a tiny gilded casket which stood there, .and took irotu it a little faded bunch of violets. She gazed long and thoughtfully Dlhen, then tossing them abruptly upou .the burning coals, left the room. Truth compels me to state that Miss Courtenaye was much spoiled, but not, by any means, as cross aud unreasonable alums as we have seen Iter to-day. The only daughter of wealthy parents, with not a wi?h ungratifinl, she was disposed w underrate those very satisfactory pos.ysrjons. and imagined that perfect hapjpiaess resided only in a diminutive house, iept. however, with that "exquisite taste aud simplicity" which we all know is so easily attained, even with the most limited income. Blanche wished for, of course, the necessary aec'-uipaniinent of a hero, pour, proud, but of an "intense and concentrated nature." 1'oor Frank, unfortunately, had none of these desirable endowments, as his misfortune was to be rich, and of an unusally hright and happy temperament, not in the least resembling the sombre individual wlioiu aloue Blanche considered worthy of a young girl's fancy. "Mr. Stuyvesant paid a long call,'" said Mrs. Courtenaye, as her daughter took her seat at the lu ucheon table . "YeV replied Blanche, shortly. "What a universal favorite he seems to be," continued her mother, "so different from that uninteresting Goddard." Mr. Goddard was a tuau after Blanche's own heart, melancholy and romantic enough to please any young lady who had seen B loth play Hamlet. "Mr. Goddard is a man of decision and character, while Frank Stuyvesant thinks of uothmg but his tics aud his curies," replied Biauche. It was rather an effort to abuse Frank, and ungrateful, to say the least. Mrs. Courtenaye glauced curiously at her daughter, hut said uo mor;, and Blanche went t-ff to prepare lor her usual luug afternoon walk. Mr. Stuyvesant and Miss Courtenaye were no ncent acquaintances. They bad met, during the autumn, at one of those fascinating country houses, which are such well-known snares to unsuspecting youths and maidens, that careless mingling of light hearted idlers, the informal breakfast, followed by a lounging morning. All the walks, rides, and drives, which till up the hours, possess fatal allurements. These country amusements had not failed to work their charm upon our two Jouny; people. Among the groups scattered over the lawn, lazily enjoying the midday autumnal sunshine, you would be s ure to see two very much absorbed individuals under some spreading ever-green, or host-touched poplar. Blanche invariably crowned with scarlet and mapleleaves, or decked with fantastic garlands, the spoil of the morning's ramble. Or, Ha madcap riding party scampering over 'he hills and dales, the two horses which bounded abieast bore the same joyous fair. A month of this unrestrained intercourse had passed, when Miss Courtenaye returned to her city home, and Fiatik to e aelijrhta of Wall street. All things wuli, probably, have gone on smoothly ind successfully then, had not the evil fnius of lovers stepped in, taking the mui of Blanche's in a in ui a, aud sundry fell-meaning aunts. lliese anxious relatives met her with a -ties i.f smiles, and nods, and hints, to te ttf.ct that dear Blanche was really Pping to make a sensible choice at last, otono of those Tennysonic, Byronic, pood-lor-naught sort of men, for whom ke had an unfortunate predilection, but 1 "cod, dutiful son a man of property. iw if there is one thing more than "other that Miss Courtenaye abhorred, it a the idea of making a "sensible choice." one had told her, when they were lt Hushbanks together, that Mr. Stuyve. j-'ct was a ' good match" indeed, she ad "ever thought of him as a "match" at " nd now, to be told that she was going 0 et like a prudent girl! it was altogether ? touch. So she perversely resolved at ,llcy ghould see that she was not the j-oiimunplace creature they wished her to e- Therefore, Mr. Stuyvesant presented "nsclf, sure of a blushing welcome, he

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was received with an air of indifference which Blanche assured herself was not in the least feigned. Weeks passed by. Blanche spent evening after evening at crowded assemblies, whilst receptions, calls, and the usual routine of a New York girl's life occupied the days. No matter where she went, Frank was never seen insensibly she fell into the habit of glancing around eagerly at each new festivity in search of his brilliant blue eyes. Mr. Goddard, the earnest and profound in vain discoursed on narrow eouls and contracted aspirations. Blanche thought some topics more lively would, perhaps, suit her taste better, and sighed, though she knew it not, for Frank's ready wit and laugh. After an entertainment of unusual brilliancy, Miss Courtenaye 6at before .her toilet-table, removing tdowly her pretty ornaments, in which, with her glittering silver gauze shining in billowy waves, she had danced and sparkled to the undoing of many a boastful heart. Blanche was thinking little enough of those hearts now, and resting her soft cheek upon her hand, she fell into a long, and somewhat dangerous reverie, when we consider that its subject was the man whom she bad rejected a few weeks before. Her room was furnished luxuriously, and Btrewn with various nick-knacks, which her fancy had, from time to time, placed there. Carvings and -pictures without numbor; a wild coast scene, by Kensett, shaded her mantle; two clay statuettes of her favorite Rogers held a distinguished position; and for her peculiar satisfaction and comfort a cuckoo clock of delicate workmanship hung on the wall. Blanche's meditation was suddenly broken by her little cuckoo bouncing out of his box, and announcing three o'clock with startling distinctness. Perhaps the little bird thought his mistress dull company, for he darted back without a single unnecessary note. "Well, there are more things in heaven and earth than falling in love!" ejaculated Miss Courtenaye, and, rising, she completed her preparations for lle night, and, alas! that I should record it, was asleep in five minutes. Broadway, we all know, is enchanting in the brilliant sunshine of a winter's morning. A trifle muddy undr foot, a trifle dangerous from the possiVle breaking of a derrick on one of the unfinished buildings, aud the possible descent of fifty pounds, or so, of stone on your head; but certainly bright and entertain ing Irom the jostling throng of hurrying business men; younger ones in neat toilets hastening to their similar destinations, but taking time to give considerable attention to the pretty girls, who also had urgent business awaiting them; but within the vain precints of Stewart's among these last named was Blanche, sweet and fre.-h as usual, with just the smallest lock of expectation on her face, as she bowed and smiled repeatedly at the acquaintances cominr and roinr. The little Sower-girls in vain held up their violets for her notice from some reason violets bad lost t heir charm. They had been her favorite flower, and Frank's offerings had many times garnished her lielt. Perhaps the f.ttle blue blossoms recalled painful memories. "Boor Frank!' thought Blanche, "I wonder where he is now; traveling, perhaps, feeling bitter to all the world. I should like to know " Just as she reached this point in her reflections, a quick step sounded behind h-r, and Mr. Stuyvesant himself went by, barely lifting his hat as he passed. In one moment he was gone, but not before Blanche had time to observe that he never looked handsomer or more untroubled in his life. Half a squars below, Mits Courtenaye saw bet c.xisin, Lillian Dashwood, and Could it be? Frank, stopping, with an air of interest to join Miss Dasbwood's morning saunter. Blanche half paused in indignant surprise. Could it have been with Lilian that he has passed all those evenings, when she had remarked his absence from houses at which he had been formerly a faverito gues;? The thoughts was entirely new. Lilian was young, but pretty so pretty. "A glorious morning. Miss Courtenaye ." said a voice at her elbow; and Mr. Goddard, lookinjr unstylish and uncommonly plain, accommodated his steps to hers. "jGood -morning she returned, rather 'coolly, for Mr. Goddard looked so out of place on th it animated promenade, that, she did not feel in the mood to talk solemn sentiment, especially with that merry couple j ist in sight. Frank was always clever and entertain, irg; and there he was, seemingly as much occupied with Miss Dashwood, and for getful of her as if she had been married a dcz'jn years. It was trying, certainly; but she managed to pass them a few min utes a'terward, looking rosy, flittered, and entirely content with her escort. Mr. Goddard was shaken off with some difficulty by Blanche declaring that she bad an important assignation with her milliner. lie departed regretfully, but Blanche was not left long alone. As she entered the maze of hats, caps. "and bonnets, a young woman with a great deal of pannier, quillings, and rustling silk, accosted her with eagerness, "Why, Blanche, you are the very person I want to see; do come over here and help me to choose my bonnet for Uortense Bryce's reception." Blanche walked soberly to the table, where a smiling Frenchwoman was exhibing bonnet after bonnet to catch the ca prieious notice of the lively purchaser. Miss Etta-regarded the frail structures with discriminating eyes, keeping up an incessant chatter to Blanche. 'Oh! never, madam!" as madam held up a captivating creation of brightest Metternich green, "don't suggest such a thing for a moment." There is only ons complexion in town that could stand that

with equanimity Lilian Dashwood's; that reminds me, Blanche, they say Frank Stuyvesant bas eyes and ears for no one else. I am glad the redoubtable Frank is caught at last they used to accuse you, didn't they? There, madam, that pink; I think I like that better than any, only bring those roses a little further forward. Blanche, there is Nina Levering how she does get herself up! Come,' let u3 hurry out before she sees us." ,

They descended the steps. As they reached the side-walk, as fate would have it, Mr. Stuyvesant and Miss Dashwood arrived at that point simultaneously with themselves. Miss Etta instantly had something that she must say to Lilian, so they Btepped on in front, leaving islanche to a tcte-a-tele with Frank. 'You are very gay," be said, turning his eyes fixedly upon her. "Oh, yes!' she said, with a laugh. "I have been going incessantly for the last month, and I am bo excessively fond of going out. "les, he replied, with bitterness. "You are only contented with constant adulation from all; the dullness of accepting the homage of but one heart is not much to your taste." Blanche turned away her face, whilst her eyes filled with tears; but words, light and mocking, rose to her lips. "Good-morning, Lilian; good-morcing. Mr. Stuyvesant," and Miss Etta retook Blanche's arm to cross the street. "Stop, Etta, there's mamma; I will call the coachman and make her take us in. One does feel bo desperately tired iu the morning." That evening Blanche could find nothing to interest her. She played one or two of her favorite waltzes of Chopin, but her lingers refused to pay their due attention; her embroidery got into a snarl; her book was stupid beyond measure, and she could find no other occupation than that of listening nervously for the doorbell, which rang, however, only to admit her father. At last came a sharp pull. Blanche looked up eagerly as the drawing room door opened, but it was only her brother Iack who entered. "Ho, Blanche!'' he cried, patting her shoulder, "you look pale, little girl. Shall I take you to drive to-morrow with my blood-grays?" "Oh, do, Jack! We will go to Central Bark." "And call for Lilian Dashwood on the way, ' added her brother. "Violets, Lilian? cried Blanche, the next morning, suspiciously stopping to bend over a Sevres dish as she followed her brother through the parlor of her cousin's house. Her pretty cousin greeted Jack first -Blanche was sure it was to avoid answering her. During the drive she mused bitterly on the inconstancy of man, and the utter folly of looking for truth, or enduring affection from one of the masculine gender. "Of course, he gave her the violets, and it was only a month ago that they were all for me, my especial flower, he called them. Not that it makes the least difference to me to whom Mr. Stuyvesant gives his attentions but one likes to believe in a person's profession.'' Then her con science asked her if it was not natural and right that Frank should cease to care for her. When they were at llushbanks she had certainly showed an undoubted preference for his society above all others, and then, when he told hi love, she had refused it with scorn. What was there left of the young girl cf his imagination? No wonder that he had turned for consolation to the gentle creature now sitting before her. Lilian looked unusually pretty, the cold air enhanced her brilliant bloom, and her golden locks almost sparkled in the sunshine. She was talking animatedly to Jack, and Blanche thought jealously hew those blue eyes might have looked into frank Stuy vesant's, and charmed him into forgetfulness of her own brown cheeks and chestnut eyes. They were returning now, just passing the reservoir into Fifth Avenue, when the spirited horses took fright at several eager equestrians, and plunged and reared frantically. In one moment the light dogcart was overturned, and Blanche thrown violently out, stunned for the moment. When she opened her eyes a well-known arm supported her, a well-known face bent over her, and Frauk's voice called to her in passionate accents. Coloring deeply, she hastily disengaged herself from his arm, and without giving him a look, hurried toward her cousin. Jack had taken good care of Lilian, for she was standing by, laughing, and shaking the dust from her profusion of fair b;iir, which tumbled over her shoulders in defiance of comb and hair-pins. When Blanche turned, Mr. Stuyvesant was lookins! on, with an indifferent face, at the righting of the dog-cart. "Let me help you," he cried, laughing at Lilian's futile attempts to straighten several sadly bedraggled plumes and he bent forward and whispered something which made Lilian blush and toss her head. "Co ne, Frink, jump in old fellow, and let me show you how my grays can step out," said Jack Courtenaye, helping his cousin to her seat, whilst Blanche sprung in, scarcely touching Mr. Stuyvesaut's assisting hand. Frank glanced at Blanche, but she turned away her head. "I thank you; no, not to-day," and, lifting his hat, walked rapidly away They drovequu.'kly home, Lilian' think - ing it a famous adventure: Blanche, ab sorbed in the recollection she had seen, of ardent eyes so close to her fajce, and brown curls almost touchiag her own darker locks. The following day was Sunday. In the afternoon B-lauehe stole off alone to Calvary church. The evening prayers quieted her restless heart, and stilled for awhile her self-reproaches. The service was ended, the echoe of the sweet voices had died avay. Blanche made her way down the aisle, feeling at peace with ajl the world.

When she reached the door, she started back dismayed, for there was ad ominous patter on the stone-steps, and torrents of pitiless rain struck terror to tho hearts of umbrellaless worshipers. Blanche had hardly time to think of the probable fate of her little pink bonnet, when some one stepped forward and formally offered his escort and umbrella. Her heart bounded she knew the voice and form, but she merely bowed, and put her hand within the proffered arm. Together they stepped out of the vestibule and on to the street, and silently the first block was passed. For her life Blanche could think of nothing to say. She stole a glance at her companion, but encountered such sparkling eyes; that she did not dare look again. Wten they reached her own door, Miss Courtenaye contrived to say, ' "I am very much indebted to you." For which Mr. Stuyvesant bowed and departed. "I tell you, mother, Lilian Dashwood is turning out a regular beauty," said Jack Courtnaye, at breakfast next morning, indolently stretching his arm to reach a round of toast. Mrs. Courtenaye adjusted her breakfast cap before she replied. "Such a complexion and such hair would make any one pretty. Lilian has, besides all that, great good sense. I do not think any foolish notions will interfere with her acceptance of a good offer, if 6he has one." "Frank Stuyvesant seems to be pretty far gone don't you think so?" said Jack, turning suddenly to his sister. Blanche felt in her heart a despairing assent; but she answered quite steadily that they were well suited. Jack's remarks were interrupted by the entrance of the servant with a little pink

billet, which he laid by Miss Courtenaye's plate. "From Lilian," said Blancae, answering her mother a questioning look, "asking Jack and me to pass a quit evening with her, as uo one but herself is at home." "Of course, we'll go," said Jick, quickly, to which his sister made no demur. "How charmed I am to see you," cried Miss Dashwoed, meeting her pounin that eveuing at the hall-door, "but where is Jack?" "Oh! he said ho would leate me, and walk to the corner to finish hissegai." "Come right iuto the parlor. Blanche, I will take your wraps up stairs. Yoi must do without me for a time, you kuov I am taking care of the house during mamma's abseuee," and she disappeared, closing the door after her. Blanche, without looking around, seated herself by a small buhl table, laden with helitropes and tuberoses, and bent over to inhale their-sweetness. At a i'light noise she glanced up, and Frank stood before her. Startled and confused, she tried to murmur some commonplace words of greeting, but when her eyes met his, the words died upon her lips. "Blanche," he cried, impetuously, 'scorn me and reject mo, but I still dans to love you. Do what I will, your face haunts me at all times, the mere sisiht f vou is enougn. to overcome all my pride, and set me to dreaming mad, impossible, heavenly dreams ' "Frankl" interrupted a beseeching voice, and a little hand was stretched toward him. I do not know what he read in her face, but in a moment he was by her side. Catching her hand, hewhispcred, "Blanche, dear Blanche! can it be that my earnest love is not in vain?" The little hand was not withdrawn, and kneeling by her, he heard the words so sweet and dear to him. So much there was of explanations, and murmured repetitions of the old, old story that Lilian's very deliberate opening of the drawiug room door, was a sudden shock. "Oh, Lilian!" cried Blanche, springing up, 'what have you been doiug this long time?" "Merely entertaining Jack," replied the young lady, composedly. 'Jack thought he heard you and Mr. Stuyvesant quai reling aud was afraid to enter so I took him into the library. But 1 see very plainly that I have not been much missed; Mr. Stuyvesant looks as though he might spare me a little longer." Blanche laughed shyly, and strove to keep back the tell-tajo color that overspread her cheek. "Never miud, Blanche, deai!" said Lilian, consolingly, don't you suppose I am truly glad to be rid of the task of consoling a despairing lover? On the strength of being your cousin, I was supposed to know the secret and hidden motive of every word you spoke, and, after all, my painstaking interpretations were sure not to suit him." "Hush, Lilian!" cried Blanche, laughing. "Yes; you may laugh, but it's quite true, and one day, when Jack brought me in a bunch of violets, somebody else fell iuto such a gloomy meditation over them ii "That you were forced to enter into a whispered conversation with your cousin to avoid disturbing it," interrupted Frauk but Lilian was gone. What a happy pair walked home beneath the gaslight that evening, so absorbed in one another, that, as Jack afterward remarked, they would not have stopped short of the Battery if he had not 5tu near to sust more moderate exercise. A common scat De ceit. Chicago fashions Divorce suits. Sheet lightning Curtain lectures. Criminal acts The labor of convicts. Take it CoolieThe Chiuese question. Suitable food Cold meets. for estranged lovers

The Bible in Vie Common Schools. Just dow there is probably no question more seriously agitating the social and religious element of this country than that which has been sprang by the Catholics in their efforts to banish the ordinary, or the Protestant, version of the Bible from the Common Schools. Daily the question assumes a more serious phase; constantly the strength of the movement appears to be increasing. It bas assumed a shape so prominent and noisy that journalists can no longer pass it in silence or treat it lightly. Much of the glory of this country, and much of its pride, is iu its common school

system. The schoolroom, where education is j free to every child who will seek it, is the j foundation on which rests the pyramid of 1 Republic, and the power that alone can the perpetuate it. Only an intelligent people can govern themselves only by schools can the masses be made intelligent. The school was established as the nursery ofi our freedom, aud has stood, honored and unassailed; till it is now denounced as the nursery of a certain religion. It is but natural that this outcry, begun by the Catholics, should be looked upon by Protestants as the insidious approach of an enemy against the Christian religion. Consequently, the movement has been met by a firm determination to meet the enemy al the threshold, and crush it there. On the other hand, the Catholics, backed up bj a large propotion of the non-professing community, and sot a few Protestants, are equally determined that they will not be taxed to pay a teacher to instruct their ch.ldren in any certain B&Ie or religion. Between the two factions, the school-system stands in seeming peril; and when that is even threatened with danger, the liepublic is not safe. It has, therefore, reached a point where it behooves every person to look upon it seriously and calmly, and, without projudice, view and compare it in all its shapes. Let us, in this article, look at the arguments which are presented pro and con ' or rather, at the arguments of the Protestants who are in favor of retaining the ordinary version cf the Bible in the schools, and the arguments of the same sect who are in favor of removing it, making no quotations from Catholic testiuiouy: First we will present the views of the defense, as we find it in the leading religious journal;.: The Protestant Bible is sacred with the people who founded, built, and have preserved this Government. As a Christian people they revere it as the only true version of the Word of God, and would have theirchildren revere it as such. They have full faith that in it, and in it alone, has God revealed to us His being, the work of His creation, the origin and destiny of the human race; that be has in it, and oily in it, promulgated the Divine Law, and made known to us our duties to our fellow-men, and our infinite obligations to Him as the Sovereign Kuler of the Universe; that these fundamental truths He has commanded us to teach to our children, and through them to all coming generations, aud that the public school is a just and proper p'.sce for such instruction to begin. They would bring their children to the teachings of the Bibie early in their youth, believing it the source of all light, the educator of all good, the guide to usefulness, ani the pilot to immortality. They were themselves educated in schools, where the first lesson of the morning was drawn from the Holy Book; they were led" along its way as soon as they could walk, and thus started, kept steadily on, never doubting, scarcely hearing it suggested, that its origin could be denied or its precepts doubted. To sum it up in brief, they were bound to the book from birth with tho bonds of a. faith that nothing could shake or approach to destroy. They point proudly to what rio man can deny, that when led by it every man has become a champion of freedom, and in thcenu, free; that in following it, obediently and loyally, nationl have alone become free and that all countries which have refused it, and are yet without it still remain countries of despotism; and, a prouder argument than all, "that it has been ths light along the way over which our own Government has come to its present greatness and glory. Popery has always boen an enemy to liberty, and has ever been intrenched in the ignorance of its followers; has a Bible of its own, a l ope to interpret uanu priests to read it; aims at tbe conquest of the world, and sends its Bible before it to pave and clear the way, and to banish the Voli ume whose authenticity it uemes, auu whose power it fears. In grasping at the control of Protestant America, it was to be ! expected that its first object would be to drive the Protestant Bible from the school -room. It could approach tbe conflict in no better way it would be willing to let the present question go uneon vi.iced, if it could only gain the opportunity to undermine and remove tbe faith of the generation just appearing, and the generations to come. If it could make the Protestant Bible appear less sacred, if it could banish it from a place it had so long occupied without remonstrance, if it could do anythin" in awy way, that would lead chil dren to ask which Bible is the true one, if it could implant a doubt in tbe mind, or put a question on tbe lips -then would its battle be half won, and the Bible it hates lowered to a level with the Bible it loves. They claim, that when the Bible of a tree people, is made tl equal of that which has been the guide and the chart, the refuge and the strength, of every nation now free that when chilnren shall read from the law that it knows no true Bible when our nation shall disown its allegiance to the Bible, which has it always revered when tbe arm of the Government is not made bare iu the defense of tho Christian religion that then, will Popery have advanced and Freedom fallen back. These arguments are powerful, and find eeho in in the hearts of the masses of our country, i On the other band, the parties in tavor of removing the Bible from the sehools, take the ground, that to force children to lead, or bear read, the Bible of any one

religion, is to virtually create an Kttahlisked Keligion. Those who bold to this view, are, as we have before said, net all Catholics, nor even among non-professors. Several of the most eminent champions of our faith are as emphatic in the demand for removal as the Catholics. Chief among these is Henry Ward Beeeher, who taken, the world over, whether right or wrong, as the leading minister of the Protestant Church of the nineteenth century. On Thanksgiving Day, to the three thousand Protestants assembled under his voice, he declared that the Catholic agitation in the West, and at the East, in relation- to the use of the Protestant Bible in the Common Schools, which are supported by the taxation of all alike, is right, and that its demand must prevail or the school system go down. He contended that the reading of

the Bible was no part of the duty of onr Common School teachers; no portien of fh r..i.A...!i ; .L enl,j. the curriculum of education in the school room; no part ot the proper line to be pur ! 8Ued in an aggregation of children whose parents are of all creeds, all nationalities. all prejudices, all sorts and conditions of uieu. The Protestant, he says, bas no right to compel the child of a Catholie to listeu to insti uction which the Catholie disapproves; the Christian has no right to force the child of a Jew to listen to the teachings of the New Testament; nor should the children of atheists, sceptics and disbelievers be made to listen to either the Old or the New Testament. He insists that the Catholic has the same right to seek the advancement and honor of his church that the Protestant has to seek the establishment and potency of A;.?; that one body has no right to thrust its convictions niyv,.. .iv,iuv. uv ..ao .u .ire. a upu.l the children of the other. The New York i Tribune, and several others of the leading political papers of the iSast, heartily endorse the Beeeher view, and say that we must come to it, or we shall see oar Com mon Schools torn to fragments. We have now given the arguments for and against. The questiou is one of deep and paramount importance. To yield to tbe demand, would seem to be falling back at the command of Popery something repugnant to every Christian heart. Ta reiase it, would apparently be to take the position that a annjority can, in a matter of conscience, coerce, and constrain a minoriiy something the Federal Constitution diiectly forbids. The Protestants in favor ot removal, insist upon the uttes exclusion of all religious education frooa schools maintained at the public expense, the Catholics arc fighting not merely to re. move tbe Protestant Bible, but to put theirs in its place. They claim that salvation is fouud alone in their communion, that their dogmas are the real dogmas, and the ones te be taught in the schools. There is, then, a mid-way-ground, in the proposition to remove the Bible altogether, and not teach theology of any kind at the expense of the public school fund. The question is clear that as Protestants we like to have our Bible read to our children in school, but whether we have a right to force its reading upon the children of those who object to it, aud pay tax equally with us iu the support of the school, is uot so clear. If we weuld retain our Bible at the command of the law, how shall tbe law read? Could we make it national, and the Government not combine with the church? Should the power cf control be vested iu local officers, would not the Catholic Bible be imposed upen schools in districts where Catholicism has a majority? The Christan people of any district would scarcely rest quiet with a Hebrew teacher instructing their children that the New Testament is false and Christ a myth. The Chinese, too, are coating, aud should they obtaiu control ef schools, which, uuder the law we mention, would not only be possible but probable, are there are mauy ot us who would like to see our children forced to bow down to gods of wood and stone? The question is one of many shapes. The road to a proper solution of it, is for the future to opeu and make plain. It would seem impossible for the Christian religion and Freedom to clash. One is the tower of strength to the other, and they must stand or fall together. How shall we be true to both? C. Iowa Siate Begister. Depth of the Atlantic. The deep sea soundings made in con nection with the laying of submarine; cables prove the average depth of the Atlantic Ocvan to be '12,000 feet. Thisj ocean floor begins about 150 miles from ' the Irish Coast, from which point the de- j scent to deep water is very rapid, reach-! : in ".in ;,. fir.,, .....i .t.;,... ' I II . vy ... .y ii. i.i ijf ; 1 1 . v. ...... i -i " j , ,U.., ..I- .1... ,. . , 3 ,,,, j . r .1 It.! -n A.lrn. the tipenest rs.rt ot the ..-.. i - i i ocean is on the American side near the New Foundland banks, wheie au immense basin exists, rantrinsl east au i west tor nearly 1,000 miles, whose depth is 1 posed to ex'jel the height of the Himulyau range. B , of Park Bow, New York, is- fond j of telling this-story against himseif. He j had for many years enjoyed the inestima- j ble advantage of an acquaintance with Mr.; Shafer, of Prairie Bonde. Meetiug that j original person at a jeweller's one day,i where he was suiting himself with a pair j of spectacles, B addressed him withij 'Mr. Shafer, I was not aware that yow were .ii: j. lMJ 1 au not obltfffd . i .v.. i.i , L.. i I,- .. ' , - ... i w tor a long time that every Fool wbo gets out this way from New York h 'era on, and I'm gettiug ready t see 'em.' As B sports a pair of gold cogjjies with uncommon ijnrg:e baws, it is very evident where Shafer had him Corn exchange The chiropodist's fee. The beach. best sea-weed a cigar on the Motto for au old bachelor Be just and fear knot. The MisaWsippians are Aloornei.

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How to be a Spiritualist. Many persons are anxiously inquiries : t some explanations t f the wonderful spiritual phenomena whieh they have witnessed, and of which we have heard o raueh during the last few years. Tbe following ittu uay assist theiu a little iu this work. A eoatr"rbtini to the literature of Spiritualism w made this week in a pnblUbed letter from Mr. Faulkner, philosophical instrument maker, N.. 4 Ended street, London. Mr. Faulkner write that for many years he has had sale for spirit-rapping magnets and (- teries expressly made for concealment under the floor, in cupboards, uuder tables, and even for the interior of the centre support of hrge rouud tables ant boxes that he bad supplied to the earn a ! "17 ?T ,T fT'"c "T I Pl,ced undr the rarpets and oilcloth, or under the wainscot and trilt beadin around ceilings and rooms, in fact, for every conceivable place; that all these ob viously were used for spirit rapping, and the cenineciio-n to each rapper and battery wss to be tnde by means of a small button, like those used for telegraphic bellringing purposes, or by means of a brassheaded or other nail uuder the carpet at particular patterns known to the spiritualisf. He describes these rappers as "calculated to mislead the most wary," and adds that there are spirit-rapping magnets aud batteries constructed expressly for the pocket, which will rap at any part of the room. He has also made drumsand bells which will beat and ring; at command, but these two tatter arc not so fre I quently used as the magueta are, beca.us eagjly detected J 3 ' Journalistic Education. Many cJJ the foremost among American journalists have received their preliminary training at the printer's case; but this doe not, by any means, prove that to beeotna an accomplished editor it is necessary to become au accomplished printer. There is a greater proportion of printers wh could never write the articles they put ia type than of editors who have any practical knowledge of tbe art of printing; and yet, there is something iu the early associations of the printiug office which gives a sort of ripened culture to tbe otherwise well-trained journalist. Upon the same principle that the most efficient man agers have worked their way up tbruugh the subordinate steps of tbe craft, it ia true that the sehaol or the priotery give the best training for the journalist; it imparts a kind of sympathy with letters that the mere scholar does uot acquire. -The practical priuter who becomes an ad iiur is apt to be, above all things a good paragraphia!. From hating gone through the slow process of picking up and df positing the individual metallic blocks that, one by one spell out the words whiah express the writer s thought, the printer learns to place n valoe upon each letter and word, and is very naturally led to depreciate a Useless wa.ne of either. Whatever may be the achievement of school for j lurualiMs, we believe that the best school are priotiua; offices and active re portorial labors. Corn and Hogs From carefully conducted experiments by different persons, it has bees ascertained that one bushel of corn will make a little over 10 pounds of pork, grons Taking the results as a basi-, the following deductions are made, which all our farmers would do well to lay up for a con ventent reference. That: When corn costs 12J cents per bushel, pork costs 1 cents per pound. When coin cost- 17 ccnte per bushel, pork costs 2 cents per pound. When cotd cott 25 cents per bushed, pork costs 3 cents per pound. Wheu corn costs 33 cents per bushel; pork costs 4 cents per pound. - When com costs 50 cents per bushel, pork costs f) cents per pound. The following stMtenvenia show what tb farmer realizes ou hid corn, when in the foi m of pork. When pork sells for 3 cents per pound, j it brings 2i cents per bushel in corn. . When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, ; it brings 3-i cents per bushel in eotn. When pork s'Ils for 5 cents per pound, ; it bungs 43 cents pc?bushel. Ex. What the Frosts Teach The early frosts at the West have ta Tight some lesous worth remembering. They have shown that soma varieties of apples . ""' bo 1Vci;ii unite hard without any ma - I terial injury, while others are r . totally de stroyed. At a lute meeting of the Alton j Horticultural Society, the effect f Irost i it rt.tr, llv, ' 4?. i rit n t ... rial iua .., flt.MiujI land from the reoorts we learn that tho I ltovli.,rf .Tn..r Miluiu :N1 ink m J mt'ie j Blurde Island Giceuiiuf were scarcely in ! jired, while the Litt.c It imauite, Prior's lied, Wiwesap, ffpnxenberg, lisild m, and some other km da, were nearly or quite worthless. The Janet Ire ing a very lain variety, a large port wo vt the ciop wui upon ihe tree Ojiobcr 24-h and 25 h, at which lime the thermometer howed twenty tif tweufy-lbre degrees of cold in Western Illinois. At the same meeting the sul iect of making cider from froxeu apples was distuss-ed. Some of the gen.tieu.cn stated that they ould make beti trr cider than souud Iruit. I Hearth aud l j ; UoB1Gibbon is considered by sonae to be a r;ish auiiior, out oacoo cariauiiv wa, i j rugtcri A conscript beii told tht ii wan Mt to die for his eoon-try, excused himself oi thegrouud that he ire-v.f did like sweet things. Bean Swift hcriu 'ii' carpenter falling through the tf..if-driig of a hou-e which be wai engaged in inegkrrring, dryljf (-Miistrked that he liked ti w nn-chautaf through -Jiw w.k prjp rly.