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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Women and the Family Purse. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Every public occurrence brings with its continuously suggestive association of ideas, peculiar phases of speculation. That chanty which covereth a multitude of sins and vaunteth not itself, and which has been so spontaneously responsive to the necessities of the flood sufferers has known no sex except in the matter of the limited power of appropriations. Boards of trade aud other secret fraternities have given generously of the stores of their treasuries and ilthough Mrs. Livermore said she found a perfect act-work of women's clubs in the West, if any tucli societies have appropriated any money the knowledge thereof has not yet reached the pubic. On the contrary, I happened to be present when a couple of ludies reported a half day’s colection to the chairman of a soliciting committee, and the sum total was $3 and some odd cents! The ladies said they were everywhere met by the ladies from whom they solicited with the response that they had no money, and didn't know how much to subscribe. It might be suggested in extenuation of this circumstance that the husbands probably made docations. There is a counter probability entitled equal consideration, that some of the husbands didn't give a cent. But neither argument is pertinent to the issue. The point is involved in the question, what right lias the husband to regulate the wife’s desire to bestow charity? If her judgment is of sufficient quality to entitle her to become the companion of her husband, it is of equal sufficiency in all matters pertaining to his material interests. All his worldly goods with which she is endowed are hers—according to the marriage promise—and his in point of fact. The writer once heard of a suit for divorce in which the chief allegation against the wife was that she had stolen some muslin and calico from the husband for clothing for her step-daughters and herself. The level-headed judge could scarcely wait for this atrocious statement to be finished before he hurled a firebrand at the short sighted but “eminent counsel*’ of the wife’s sworn “protector” by remarking that it was an impossibility for a wife to commit the crime of theft against her husband. Many wives bring money and estates to their husbands, who assume exclusive control of such property, dealing out occasional pittances to their “consorts” in a most magnanimous manner. Such wives are fortunate, in illustration of which there comes to mind a case wherein a wife brought nearly ten thousand dollars to a monster —I mean a man—who, when she was stricken unto death, countermanded her order for a trinket worth $5 on the plea that she couldn't live long, and the expenditure would be useless. Fate, however, was propitious, and the order was filled before its recall could be made effective, and the sick woman had a few more begrudged moments of pleasure added to the waning light of her life. Recurring to the restriction of the charitable impulses of the women toward the floed-suffer-ers, and in strict justice to the frequently ornamental and sometimes useful sex, a pertinent counter-speculation concerning the stupidity of women obtrudes itself and clamors for recognition, aud which must find expression despite the weight of heresy and schism with which it is surcharged toward both sexes, and that is the treasonable suggestion that in the matter of making contributions the same instinct which prompts women to barter their husbands’ best and only extra suit of clothes to the plaster-of paris image-vender in exchange for a praying Samuel or a caricature of the Virgin Mary, never entered their practical minds in connection with the subject of charity, although the call for clothing is inevitable. And thus the golden opportunities to kill two birds with one stone, by displaying active charity, and of getting even with the restrictions on the family purse are forever lost. m. l. a. CONNERSVILLE. FEB. 14, 1884.

Temperance in the Public Schools. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Allusion was made in Wednesday's Journal to a change in text books on physiology which substituted a book that teaches that the higher the civilization the more liquors are used by people, for one that gave the sanction of science to to till abstinence. That transaction has a history which may be properly studied, whether the late history of the United States may or not. This change was made about ten years ago, when Prof. Mills occupied about the same position that he does dow, though, if I remember correctly, he was then called supervising principal. But as 1 remember his duties, they were substantially the same as these now assigned to the assistant superintendent. Mrs. Wallace and other vigilant women felt the danger of such a course of instruction, and appealed to the hoard to have the teachings of the new physiology neutralized as far as possible by the introduction of Richardson’s Temperance Hand Book—a good book of its kind, but without the authority as a guide, that a book on science should have—it was handicapped at the beginning with the odium of “temperance.” This was during the time that Prof. Lewis H. Jones was an assistant superintendent. and it came under his care, ana was faithfully taught until he was transferred to the training-school department, and that work fell into the hands of Prof. Mills, when it was uronmtly discontinued, and has never been Tauglit since. This is *<*rap of history that the people ought to read. Os course, tnose who are opposed to teaching temperance to children will approve, while those who wish at least the childhood of their children to be sober, will want to know why this suppression of a text-bock, ordered by the board, without first consulting the board. U. L. See. Divorce and Divorce Laws. To tl.o Editor of t!ie Indianapolis Journal: The Indianapolis Journal of Feb. 13 says: “A Connecticut court has decided that a decree of divorce given by a rabbi is void. It could not In regarded otherwise. If the State must stand good for the conduct of married people it must h ' • the control of marriage and divorce.” Like Dominie Sampson, I must exclaim prodigious! prodigious! The divorce laws of nearly every State are a blot on them. They lay out the causes for divorce, and discontented parties take advantage of the causes to free themselves. Divorce courts may be legal institutions, but they j.re fast destroying the sacredness of homes. If there wore no divorce courts I believe husbands and wives would be more careful in their conduct towards each other. “What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.’’ Are these words meaningless! Marriage should not he considered a civil contract, but a sacrament. If we can bring up the next generation to believe this, there will be less sin and trouble in the world. The Jewish rabbi cannot make a worse muddle of divorce than State laws have A Jew has told me that when a Jewish husband and wife quarrel, ala Christian, they go to the rabbi; he does his best to adjust the matter. If they will not live together, they can separate, hut never marry again. That’s A No. 1 for the Jews. I would advise all Christians, instead of tlying to a divorce court, and bringing sorrow, scandal, and shame upon themselves and families, to consult their clergyman, who they know would not advise them wrong. • Topsy Knapp. Log an sport, Ind. The Supreme Court. To the F. litor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Judge KUiott’s statement as to how causes are decided in the Supreme Court is all correct, as far as it goes. No doubt the opinions are all read to the full bench, and fully considered. But the trouble is that the record is examined by only, who often misconceives the facts and makes a wrong statement of them. The would be right if the facts were correctly stated. The decision is all right; but it s not a decision of the case tho attorney appealed. A single instance will illustrate: It is a well-established rule of law that a tenant who puts trade fixtures in a rented house may remove them when he vacates the •uilding, but not afterwards. . A case trose where the landlord refused to allow

the tenant to take the trade fixtures away with him when he vacated the house. The rule of law is based on the theory that the tenant means to abandon his trade fixtures to his landlord when lie moves out and voluntarily leaves them. The record in the case alluded to showed that the plaintiff and defendant both testified that the trade fixtures were left because the landlord refused to let the tenant take them away with him. But this fact was entirely overlooked" and when the attention of the court was called to it on a petition for rehearing, it was still ignored, and the printed opinion in the report lias no allusion whatever to the sole fact upon which the case was appealed. The question decided was never thought of by any attorney in the case, no one ever disputed the law that a tenant was presumed to abandon his title to trade fixtures if he did not take them away with him when he vacated the premises. But the question was, did this rule of law apply when the tenant tried to take them away and the landlord refused to allow him to do so, and threatened to prevent him by violence if he should attempt it? This question, the only one in the case, was never so much as even alluded to in the opinion.* Such instances are common. Who is responsible for these things, the writer will not attempt to decide. He knows from a long and painful experience that they occur very often, and that they are very provoking, “and further sayet-h not.” Justice. The Indiana Roll of Honor. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: There were two volumes of Indiana’s Roll of Honor published. We have them. The second was published in 1806, by A. D. Streight. The author was Theo.T. Scribner. It contains histones of the Seventy-third, Forty-seventh, Fortieth, Fifty-first, Thirtieth, Sixty-ninth, Sixty-seventh, Thirty first, Seventy-fourth. Eleventh, Sixth, Thirty eighth. Ninth, Thirty-sixth, Twentyfirst, Fifteenth, Sixteenth. Eighty-fourth, Thir-ty-seventh. Seventeenth, Twenty-fifth, Twentysixth, Eighty-eighth, Eighty-second, Sixty-fifth, Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth. Twentlisecond, Twenty-third, and Thirty-third regiments and Eleventh battery, and biographical sketches of several officers. * * * Franklin, F„eb. 13. Thinks Enough Has Been Said. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: We have a scholarly, experienced, painstaking, practical superintendent of public schools. If, in employing subordinates, a serious omission in teaching history has been made (which is now rectified), and even if constructive blame should be put upon him for that omission, has not enough been said, or are we to relegate the management of the schools to a board of yelling card-writers? If we howl out our superintendent, soon wo shall have a political struggle over that office, with what results to our schools you can readily imagine. _ Tax payer. Who Can Answer? To the Edito** of the Indianapolis Journal: I find this sentence in one of the early pages of Macaulay’s “Frederic the Great": “The Princess Wilhelmina, who took her brother’s part, was treated almost as ill as Mrs. Brownrigg’s apprentices.” In my meanderings through many novels and a few other books, I have missed her. Will someone who knows, be kind enough to tell me who she is, and where to be found? v. Dublin, Ind., Feb. 13.

BEECHER AND HIS HAT. How It Was Blown from His Head and Recovered l>y a Pretty Girl. Letter in San Francisco Examiner. Beecher has not waned in power. His natural and acquired ability is undiminished by age. His knowledge of men is great. I saw his hat blow off the other day. It was a wide-brimmed, flappy article, and a gust of wind lifted it from his head. Did he race after it as it floated away? He knew from observation and experience that probably the quickest, and certainly the easiest way to get it back was to trust the job to volunteer chasers. Nor was the feasibility of this plan dependent on the fact that he was immediately recognizable as the Plymouth pastor. However humble you may be, your blownoff hat will be eagerly pursued by strangers, if you calmly trust to them. Beecher acted upon that well-settled law of usage. I watched him, while he, with jocund serenity, stood waiting for the inevitable recovery. The hat, being of great circumference, rolled with the speed of a bicycle half across Broadway, and then, caught and collapsed by a counter current of wind, doubled on its foremost pursuer and gently wiped the pavement on its way back. At this point I missed its movements, because I had my eyes on Beecher. Suddenly the expression of his big smile changed, and he stepped forward in deferential haste. Something new in hat recovering was evidently happening. A girl had caught up the hat as it tumbled at her feet. She was a deft, graceful, self-possessed creature; and she ran to the clumsier old man before he could take three steps in her direction. She neatly dusted the hat with her handkerchief and delivered it to the owner with a half-saucy, halfrespectful grin. “Thank you, miss; thank you,” said Beecher; “I’m sorry 1 was so lazy.” “You’re" welcome, Mr. Beecher,” was the reIt was not strange that the familiar face of the preacher was known to the girl, and yet I’ll be bound that the old fellows heart bounded when she spoke his name so casually. The President and the Press. Washington Letter. At the White House nearly every important newspaper in the United States is taken and read. A great many newspapers are sent with the compliments of tlie publishers, and the President subscribes for a larga number, From old habit he reads the New York papers through each morning, and glances at the city papers, but for dealing with the great mass of daily newspapers there is a clerk specially detailed to look them through and clip out all the news relating to the President and his policy, and arrange them for his inspection. 'i'r a public man. President Arthur is unusualiylAensitive to newspaper attack and criticism, and. although he writhes under it, he persists in reading the hostile along with the friendly, ami nothing escapes the eye of the President or his newspaper reader that in any way refers to him. * — 1 r “Singing Sands.” National Republican. The superintendents of the various life-saving stations have been instructed to furnish for scientific purposes samples of the so-called “singing sands,” wherever found. Theso sands get their name from the peculiar sound, resembling somewhat the barking of a dog. which they give forth when walked upon or disturbed in any way. This property is possessed only by dry sand found between the waterline and extreme high tide marks along the sea coast and the shores of the great lakes. Already twenty-six samples of this class of land have been received; indicating its existence in as many different localities in this country. Heretofore these “singing beaches” have only been known to exist in two places, one in this country and the other in Europe. Where to Find a Policeman. London Letter. Talking about the aristocracy reminds me of a story of one of its more recently elevated members* which is now going the rounds. Lord Sherbrooke, better known as “Bobby” Lowe, heard the other day that there were indications of a burglar being secreted on his premises, and it was suggested that the assistance of a policeman would be advisable. He accordingly ordered the servant to go and get one out of the kitchen. The servant stared and said there wasn’t one there. “What,” said Bobby, a twinkle in his eye, “do you mean to tell me that with three maid‘servants and a cook there isn’t a policeman on the premises! Well, well, things arc come to a pretty pass.” Poetical Frank James. Kansas City Journal. James conversed all afternoon aud evening quite pleasantly with persons who called upon him at the Marshal's office and once when talking of his being permitted to remain in the custody of the marshal, he dropped into Shakspeare, repeating the following lines: The quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it i twice blessed; / It ble.sseth him that gives and him That takes.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY", FEBRUARY IG, 1884.

READING FOR THE SABBATII. Church Notes. One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.—Goethe. The American Board of Foreign Missions were the first to send missionaries to Turkey. Religion is not a thing of noise and spasm, but of silent self-sacrifice and quiet growth.—James Spilling. To judge of the real importance of an individual one must think of the effect his death would produce.—Levis. Dr. John Hall: I would rather have a church of five and twenty members than a crowd of twenty times that number. Bishop Doane, of Albany, encourages prayer for the dead, but only for the faithful dead, who, he thinks, are “not yet made perfect.” Several of the religious papers are advocating a change in the time of holding tho week of prayer from the first week in January to that preceding Easter Sunday. The “Stundists” of Russia, a sect much like the Baptists, receive their name from the fact that each member promises to spend one “hour” every day in the study of Scriptures. The Rev. Dr. William R. Williams, of Trinity Baptist Church, New York city, is nearly eighty years of age, and has been pastor of that church fifty-two years. He fills the pulpit nearly every Sunday. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. —Boree. In 1883 thirty-nine Baptist ministers died in the British Islands; twelve were eighty years old, aud eleven were seventy or more. The death of but one young minisier is recorded, and he in the Congo mission. Love is a flame that burns even in the midst of the great deep. “Many waters cannot quench His love, neither can the floods drown it. ” It triumphs over all- It never laileth, either in time or eternity.—J. Wesley. One of the most religious cities in the country is that old headquarters of American aristocracy, Richmond, Va. It has fifty-three evangelical churches and 25,162 communicants, more than one-third of the population of the city. There are now in London large funds for preaching special sermons in commemoration of the Spanish Armada’s destruction, of Queen Elizabeth’s enthronement, of Charles Is death, of Charles Il‘s restoration, and of the Gunpowder Plot, A statement has been put forth on behalf of the Arundel-square Congregational Church, of London, showing that of the 184 members who joined this church as the result of Mr. Moody’s mission, eleven years ago, 140 are to-day known to be in good standing. A Chinese joss-house, or sacred temple, is to be erected in Denver, Col. There are two warring factions of Celestials in that city, and it is believed that the temple will have a peaceful influence over them. According to the creed of the church, all who attend must be friends. Rev. A. Atwood, in the Christian Standard: Love has its own signs, that cannot be misunderstood. Such is nature as God made it. If Christ has changed a man’s heart, if love rules within him, you will hear and feel it in his preaching and prayers. It cannot be concealed. A colored preacher denouncing purgatory said: “Dat’s all nonsense. Spose I fall out a fourth story window, kin I stop fur to fix my bar at the third story? No, you bet I'se gwine to keep right on to de bottom. When sinners start on de deth trip dere’s no half-way house about it; dey go clar through to hell, shuar.” Cardinal Manning’s temperance work among the poorer class of Irish at Westminster has met with such satisfactory results that he has issued an order for the establishment of a branch of the Total Abstinence League of the Cross in every Catholic school, the manager of eacli school to be president and a total abstainer. Utica Herald: Not long since Lily, a little girl of five years, after saying her evening prayers, began to indulge in an original petition of her own. She was aware that she had not been particularly good on a certain day, and her evening prayers were thus supplemented: “I pray the Lord to make Lily a good little girl, and if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” Many think themselves to be truly God-fearing when they call this world a valley of tears. But I believe they would be more so if they called it a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everything is right in the world than with those who think nothing right. With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? —Richter.

The Sunday observance question is gaining ground rapidly in Germany. Since Jan. 1, 200 centres of population have been reported as declaring in favor of an entire cessation of business on the Sabbath. In Berlin alone 12,000 tradesmen have petitioned for the abolition of work on that day, and the Empress of Germany has expressed her sympathy with the movement by giving IO.OOOf. toward its support. The unanimous sentiment of the religious press condemns the recent scene in the Madisonaveuue Congregational Church between the “Newmanites” and the “Ranneyites,” andiswell expressed by the Christian Union, which says: • All the injuries which Mr. Ingersoll with his rhetoric, and Herbert Spencer with his logic, inflict upon Christian faith are insignificant in comparison with those inflicted upon it by one church quarrel, in which pride gets the better of piety and passion of love.” “Chinese” Gordon, as is well known, is a man of profound religious convictions, and studies the Bible with an enthusiasm that is usually supposed to belong to the theologian more than to the soldier. A curious proof of this, according to the Whitehall Review, was afforded during one of hie visits to England, when Jiq paid several visits to Kew, aild maud eager inquiries of all the officials at the gardens, from Sir Joseph Hooker downward, as to whether they could give him any information of any kind which would enabie him satisfactorily to determine the exact botanical nature and characteristics of the Tree of Life. It is long since Tennyson proved himself helpful to the preachers by furnishing them with choice poetic expressions to polish off a paragraph or to give point and finish to a climax. Ho is now to be made more useful. Mr. Paxton Hood, of Falcon square Chapel, London, the well-known author and preacher, has resolved to take his texta for his Sunday evening discourses from the works of the poets. He began, two Sundays ago, by a discourse on “The Gospel as taught in the Poetry of Tennyson.” The experiment is of doubtful value, but Mr. Hood, in a crowded part of the great city, evidently feels that something out of the usual must be done to bring the people within the hearing of the truth. Protestant ami Catholic Churches. New York Sun. The angry and indecent disputes that have lately taken place in Dr. Newman's church are not unprecedented. Similar scenes have been enacted in many Protestant churches before this, and doubtless others of the same sort will be heard of hereafter. But it is a notorious fact that such things are next to impossible among the Roman Catholics. With them the personality of the priest is entirely subordinate to the idea of worship. The Fuss Over McGiory. New York Advocate. All good men will rejoice in tho conviction of McGiory, the keeper of one of the worst dens in this city. The maudlin talk about him by some temperance men has been justly denounced. To turn these infamous villains into orators and preachers without any probation is as ridiculous as to make a convicted thief a custodian of trust funds. No more “stories of my life” are needed. Let such men “bring forth fruits meet for repentance” for a few days at least. Religion in Education. Monsignor Cupel’s Lecture. Some say, traiu the intellect, and life will become better and purer. But experience is against them. Learning does not beget virtue. The worst crimes of the past twenty-five years have been committed by men of the highest education. You must present virtue to the mind day after day, in its brightest light, so that the mind wil) become enamored of it*. You must endeavor to make the practice of virtue a habit. What is done lor the hand and the intellect, must also be done for the will. Moral training begets the one great thing wanting on earth—the thought of duty; duty to God and man Is the education of this country teaching men to be servants, to

drive horses and labor in the street? I think not. It is largely without a moral side, and the sense that it is noble to labor, that every man lias a duty to perform, is being destroyed. It produces a dream that it is ignoble to labor; that the purpose of life is to be a grand gentlemen. All education that affords no moral training is incomplete. With all possible training, we all know how difficult it is to be good. We know that we must constantly seek above and beyond all else the grace of God. Tcacli your children to ask for that MIDWINTER STYLES. All fashionable breakfast gowns are now made either with a Watteau plait or in princesse form. Candles, with pink shades, scattered about the room in pairs, are becoming quite fashionable. Soft satin surahs, the heavier satin merveilloux. and duchesse satins are still in favor for black dresses. Hoods are again figuring conspicuously. Not only are they made of widely-different sorts of materials, but also in tho greatest variety of styles. Velvet dresses are handsomest when made all of one kind of velvet and trimmed only with a little lace, black or white, or both, or tinted to match the color of the dress. Tiny silver after-dinner coffee cups aud saucers have been introduced with the desired effect, for everybody is talking about them and wondering if they are solid or only plated ware. Some recently imported black silk costumes have buttons of Rhine stones, which, to the unsophisticated, especially under gas-light, have the appearance of a row of first-water diamonds. To make black silk or satin dresses more dressy, the drapery of the corsage and skirt, also the entire sleeves,.may be made of beaded net. in fine diamond or barred patterns, or with small sprays or leaf designs. Mutton-leg sleeves have been adopted by French modistes, and are now coming to us in imported toilets, after a prolonged snubbing, which they encountered when the aesthetic element first introduced them. For entirely black dresses for the early spring the handsomest satins are being provided for the greater part of the dress, to be enriched by a vest and skirt front of elaborate embroidery done on satin, or else on net that is laid upon satin. In Paris, during the lenten season, certain ladies always wear a sort of half-mourning, and now we hear that meaningless fashion is to be introduced here by young ladies, who probably do not entertain the idea of receiving thereby any marked spiritual benefit. Nothing harmonizes-better than steel with the present fashionable gray colors. The preference shown for tho one leads to a partiality for the other. Polished and unpolished steel, the latter having the curious tint of old iron, used either together or separately, as cord, twists, or beads, make, in conjunction with silk or chenille, a great variety of trimmings and gimps, which find a ready use on dresses, paletots, and hats.

The Tea Gown. Paris Fashion Letter. Tea gowns grow more and more in favor, and great attention is paid to such neglige toilet and to handsome wrappers. Letters from Paris say that Russian chemises are much used for Parisian deshabilles. They are worn with a plaited skirt in the same color, or with a narrow plain skirt of Pompadour goods in corresponding colors. A brocaded redingote opens lo show the cliimese and skirt. If the under part of the dress is plain the redingote is of brocade; the latter is of plain ottoman if the front is of Pompadour goods. Th%. Russian chemise is made in two ways—either it is of silk embroidered by hand or of surah covered with fine close plaits. A showy wrapper is of changeable garnet surah, lined with light flannel or silk. The fronts fall loose aud open over a puffed plastron of Pompadour foulard. This plastron is against a flat piece of goods and hooked down to the left side and sewed on the right. A gore marks the place for the small side-piece. The tailleur back reaches a little below the waist, and then extends down in a plaited skirt. The skirt may be raised from behind the arms by a ribbon and button, and may thus be worn long or short. The dress opens in front under a skirt of the same material as the plastron, and is mounted with fullness around a deep flat belt. Over the belt, from the seam under the arm, is a belt of garnet velvet, lined with stiff material and with silk, which closes on the lower part of the plastron by means of a fastening of old silver. The straight velvet collar is closed in front under a metal ornament. The sleeves are full over the shoulder, and open on the outside of the arm. near the hand, to make room for an inserted foulard puffing. A band of ribbon velvet is taken around the sleeve, below the puffing. Whitby Jet. William H. Bideing, in Harper’s Magazine, Whitby jet. both hard and soft, has always been considered better than any other; and no less a poet than Michael Drayton has sung of it out of his seventeenth-century knowledge. The prominence given it in the shopwindow signs, and their emphasis that the lustrous black jewelry there displayed is made of it alone, excite a great deal of respect for the genuine Whitby article. But do coals really come from Newcastle, and brass buttons from Birmingham? Is Everton taffy a myth, and are Chelsea buns made at Stratforcl-le-Bow? Are Eccles cakes the product of Ormskirk, aud is the origin of Ormskirk gingerbread to bo traced to Eccles? Is any truth left in the world? When we landed at Whitby we were told that Whitby jet principally comes from the Pyrenees! that the jet is found in such greater abundance in Spain, and obtained with so much greater ease, that the search for it in the scaurs of Yorkshire has been almost entirely abandoned. * * * Tho manufacture of the crude jet into various art icles of adornment continues to be almost a monopoly of Whitby, however, and it has been kiiown there since 1598. Nearly an eleventh of the total population of the town (say between 1,300 and 1,400 persons) are engaged iu it.

The Professor’s Slip of the Tongue. Syracuse Standard. The presentation of H. H. Boyesen’s play, “Alpine Roses,” at the Madison-square Theater, in New York, recalls a story told by students at Cornell about the talented Norwegian, who was for several years a professor there. Prof. Boye sen used to lecture upon German literature to the students at Cornell. He was at the time writing his “Goetho and Schiller."havingbecome a Got-the enthusiast; and he was also—a fact that was familiar to the students—enamored with the lady who has since become his wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The Professor’s voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said in one of his lectures: “About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker’s daughter in New Voracity.” There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble-stones in a shot-t-ower. Boyesen covered his crimson face with his hands and turned his back to his class. That lecture was resumed on auother day. Good Little Injun Stories. Washington Letter. * Some New Mexico Indians, recently at the capital, carried back with them ideas somewhat more extravagant than usual. They began the story with the remark that President Arthur wAs the wealthiest man in the world; that in his great treasury gold and silver were as plentiful as the sands on the plains of New Mexico, and that in this great store-house the President has 200 wives, who have nothing else to do hut count out paper money for him all day long. You may imagiue the rest. Electric Light Carbons. George Wadsworth, Electrician. There is nothing at present known that can displace the carbon in electric lights. The carbons for the voltaic arc system are mostly made at Cleveland, and cost fifty dollars a thousand. For the incandescent light carbonized bamboo, linen thread and cardboard are used. The base of the Cleveland carbons is petroleum coke. It is ground fine, then mixed and pressed under heavy hydraulic pressure to give it adhesiveness. The process is partly a secret one. Sudden Changes of Weather Arc productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc. There is no more effectual relief in these diseases to be found than in the use of Brown's Bronchial Troches. Price, 25 cts.

THE YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. |Everything relating to this department must he addressed to W. H. Graffam, West Scarborough, Cumberland county, 31 aim'. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.] Answers to Puzzles. No. 9a5. PENETRAT I ON N ARRATOES GRIS T L E SEPAL, S E R R No. 980.—Alb-any. No. 987.—James A. Garfield. No. 988. M P U N MUSIC NIP C No. 989. NIHIL DONAT ROOTS LASSO MON T E No. 990. S ’P U N PATEN SUTURES NERVE NEE S No. 991.—1. Pop e. 2. Po p. 3. Lance t. No. 992. HIDE IDEA DEAR EARN Original Puzzles. NO. 1008.—MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. I am composed of twenty-three letters. My 8,6, 22, 11. sis a great man. My 17, 1, 2 is a fluid. My 12, 18, 22. 16 is never far away. My 23, 13, 7 is a number. My 21, 1,6, 5,9 is belief. My 20, 19, 16, 22, 6, 11 is song. My 15, 14, 3 was the most beautiful woman of antiquity. My 4, 10, 1,2, 15 is to worry. My whole is a remarkable proverb. Woodstock, Va. e. e. s. NO. 1009.— CROSS- WORD ENIGMA* My first is in racket, not in noise. My second is in rattles, not in toys My third is in dreams, not in night. My fourth is in daytime, not in light. My fifth is in wailing, not in woe. M y sixth is in reindeer, not in doe. My seventh is in tawny, also in brown. M y whole is the citadel of a town. W. Scarboro, Me. . Xoa. NO. 1010. —word-square. 1. A thin plate. 2. A Greek prefix. 3. A fruit. 4. To remove (obs). 5. A thrust. Xoa. no 1011.—double acrostic. [Words of uniform length.] 1. A Jewish period of time. 2. An animal. 3. A foreign city. 4. A Jewish doctor of the law. 5. A Greek letter. 6. Refuse. Primals and finals give two ancient Assyrian kings. Uncle Will, no. 1012.—diamond. 1. A letter. 2. A solid or hollow body of round form. 3. A musical drama. 4. A stipend in a cathedral church. 5. An article of food. C. A conjunction. 7. A letter. Xoa. no. 1013.— decapitations. 1. Behead to hamstring and leave an animal. 2. Behead a grotto and leave to decay. 3. Behead to torment and leave a stream of water. 4. Behead to cut and leave to travel. 5. Behead to endeavor to stop, as a leak in the bottom of a ship, and leave additional. 6. Behead vessels of any kind and leave the sweepings of society. Uncle Will. NO. 1014.—CROSS-WORD. My first is in chalk, but not in lime, My second is in shilling, but not in dime; My third is in laugh, but not in cry; My fourth is in up, but not in high; My fifth is in club, but not in bat: My sixth is in bonnet, but not in hat; My seventh is in word, but not in note; My whole, says Webster, these lines wrote: I comfort and reheat, For I hope of his gold to get.” W. H. G. NO. 1015.—CURTAILMENTS. 1. Curtail a plant and leave nearer. 2. Curtail a bird, recently extinct, and leave more. 3. Curtail one who gives alarm, and leave tint. 4. Curtail the animals of any given area or epoch, and leave a god of fields and shepherds. [Answers in three weeks.] Our Prizes. 1. First complete list of answers, an interesting game. 2. Next best, fifty cards. Puzzles Answered. By Nannie R. Allen, Indianapolis, Nos. 985 to 992. inclusive. By Nina 8., Lebanon, Nos. 985 to 992, inclusive. By L. TANARUS., Brazil, Nos, 985, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992. By Kla, La Porte, Nos. 985, 987, 988, 989. 990, 991, 992. Prize Winners. 1. Nannie R. Allen —A game. 2. Nina B.—Fifty cards. Foot Notes. E. E. S. —Wo thank you for the enigma. Xoa’s articles are among the good things this week. She is thanked. Nina B.—What name shall be printed upon your cards? Send a card at once. Nannie R. Allen provides a pretty list, of answers, and takes the prize. We hope she will call every week. Dell’s enigma lies in the box of manuscript without an answer. If Dell will furnish it, the puzzle shall come forth and puzzle the puzzlers of puzzledom. THE RED CROSS. A Statement of the Character and Work of This National Relief Society. Interview with Clara Barton, >n Pittsburg Dispatch. “My experience during the rebellion,” she began, “in supervising in part the work of caring for the wounded and sick from many battlefields, led me to the conviction that some organized methods of a breadth aud scope sufficient for all emergencies from war, famine fire, or Eestilence, were absolutely essential to the welleing of the nation in times of great trouble. The Commissary Department in a measure met the necessity of the war, but it was lacking and incomplete. At the breaking out of the FrancoPrussian war I accepted an invitation from the Empress of Germany to visit the disturbed empire, partly for the purpose of studying their methods of relief and partly to render what assistance I might be able to in the great work. “On my arrival I found what we, as a people, needed so badly, perfect organization, universal throughout Europe, attained under the Geneva treaty, one of the chief features of which is that all persons employed in hospitals and in affording relief to the sick and wounded, and the supplies for this purpose shall be deemed neutral and entitled to protection, under a neutral cn sign or badge. On my return to America I made it my chief study and work to have this treaty ratified by the United States government. I need not recall the many efforts put forth in this behalf, but will merely say that under the. present administration it was ratified by the United States making the Confederation of Relief Societies acting under the Geneva convention, carrying on work under the sign of the Red Cross, international in its character. *J“But these societies were formed only for the emergencies arising from the war. As I witnessed from time to time the indescribable sufferings arising from great disasters independent from war, it seemed that so vast an association should have more powor to act. It seemed like a huge steamer drawing a cockle shell, and I be gan to devise some way by which it might be made of more service. From theso efforts the American Society of the Red Cross was taxed with other responsibilities, and though the plan is yet imperfect the society is prepared to render

aid in all events of a national character, where local relief means are inadequate to the wants, such as the Cincinnati floods. “The society is distinctively national in its character. Local charities or methods are never in anv case interfered with. Only great emergencies that rise superior to the situation call forth efforts. The society might be aptly likened to a vehicle in which means can be safely transported to any part of the United States, the surplus, if such there be, returned and retained for future want.” “What is tho strength of the society in America?” asked the reporter. “We have over sixty organizations in the various larger cities, representing millions of dollars, and capable of furnishing a vast amount of re lief.” r “Would you oblige me with a general statement of the practical workings of the society?” “With pleasure. Perhaps I could give you no better idea than to tell vou what the society did in tlie flooded districts along the Ohio, and especially at Cincinnati last year. "When the wants became greater than tho resources of the people, lat once telegraphed to each of the organizations over the country, informing them that aid was needed at Cincinnati. That same evening a reply came from the association at Memphis, saying, ‘Draw on us at sight for S2OO, raised at a gathering of a few members this afternoon.’ “The Field Marshal was at Cincinnati and the result was that by 7 o’clock the next morning the money was in his hands for use of the sufferers. Rochester responded with SI,OOO, New Orleans with SI,BOO, etc., all over tho land. In some instances supplies of food and clothing were sent. The organization at Syracuse was notified that help was needed at New Albany. Thqy did not send any money, but the wagons of the society were started through the street under the sign of the Red Cross, and the result was that $5,000 worth of supplies packed in boxes and packages, marked with the sign of the society, were shipped from that city to New Albany within four days. In this manner tho work went on from all parts of the United States until the distress had been alleviated. “The officers of the society at the scene of the flood had personal supervision of all moneys and supplies, and this prevented any misplaced charity as nearly as such a result can bo attained under such circumstances. When the soj ciety ceased its efforts tho most remarkable recitals of suffering at Cincinnati were being sent broadcast over the country, but; no excited or exaggerated statements could! effect the society, for its agents at the scene of the flood viewed the situation tfalmly and impassion ately, and when they telegraphed that j there was a surplus of $20,000 in the hands of I the local relief committee and the suffering nearly allayed, the work was ended. Each society is credited with its contribution, and the business is transacted through one of the most reliable banks in Washington. Should there be a surplus after such work as was done in 1883, it is placed on deposit and there remains until the society is again called upon.” In further conversation, Miss Barton said she ! would continue her journey to-day, and that the methods employed in 1883 "would again be put iu practice. A Lime-Kiln Club Eulogium. Detroit Free Press. “It becomes my solemn dooty,” said Brother Gardener, as he looked from Samuel Shin to Pickles Smith and back, “to announce de fackj dat Brudder Paramount Slawson, an honorary member libin’ in Toledo, am no mo’ on airth. He had climbed up on de roof of a shed to sec a j dog-fight, an’ de cavin’ in of de roof bestowed fo’ different fatal iujoories upon his pusson. When he realized dat he had got to die he request ed dat his club attend his funeral in a body, an’ lie tried to bony money ot bis brudder-in-law to squar up his back dues wid us. “Gem’len, in one respeck, Brudder Slawson was a fa’r to medieum man. If he borrvedj half a dollar to go to de circus he’d pay it back? | outer money dat his wife aimed at de wash bo’d. I De poo’ was neber turned away from his doah j empty-handed. lie pitied de sorrows of a big : tramp, and let his wife go bar tutted and his | chill’en hungry. He was kind-hearted, but alius behind on his pew rent. He was philanthropic,; buthe had to dodge his butcher. He was a kind sadder, but he has got two of do wust boys in do Stait of Ohio. He was a lovin’ husband, but ho was content to sit around de grocery an' let his wife support de family. While we may sat dat we am sorry dat death has come to sever ties an* bring changes, we have no occashun to remark dat de world will be any de wuss off. Let us now attack de reg’lar order of biziness.” A Bad Indictment. Arkansas Traveler. A highly respected citizen was arraigned before court for shooting and killing a friend. The evidence was direct, and after exhaustive arguments had been made the judge said: “It is clearly proven that you are guilty, as charged by the indictment” “But I protest, ray innocence,” replied tho prisoner. “The indictment reads that I did shoot and kill the gentleman with powder and a leaden bullet. This is a mistake. I had no bullets at the time, so I loaded my gun with powder and a horseshoe-nail.” “That indeed alters the case,” said the judge, “Tho indictment said bullet, when it should have said nail. You are discharged, sir.” An Anecdoto of Senator Sawyer. Washington Correspondence Detroit Times. Recently a constituent of Sawyer’s came here to secure a place. He himg around a day or two, and Sawyer tried to work him in. He failed. Then he took the constituent to one side. flow much have you spent so far trying to get this place?” “About $75.” “Well, if you stay here a month longer it will cost you as much more. There is no chance to get the place. It will cost you $25 to get home. Here is SIOO. Get back to Wisconsin and go to work at your old place. Don’t fooi away your money here.” The advice and money have gone West with the young man. Sarah Barnttm in the Far West. , i?an Francisco lironicle, A friend of mine said to me on Sunday: “What is this book ‘Sarah Barnum' that I see so widely advertised?” “It is a very stiff morsel,” said I. “I ask more particular,” said he, “because I saw a man reading it in church this morning.” Miss Terry’s Tea. Interview with the Actress. “I said 1 liked all reporters. I must except one. The man who told the story about my teadrinking could not have been my friend, for I scarcely ever take it, and then for him to talk about my drinking fifty cups a day, or something like that number, was absurd.” Matthew Arnold’s Attention Called. Springfield Republican. We call Matthew Arnold’s attention to an important point in the City of Columbus testimony. Andrew F. Pitman, steward, testifies that when the steamer struck and he was warned to got up and save himself. “I stayed to put on a clean shirt.” Hard Times in Southern Texas. El Paso Herald. How time flics! The first month of the new year is nearly half gone, the Times busted, the Lone Star is advertised for sale, and three hash houses closed up yesterday. Whither are we drifting? In the midst of life we are in debt. Very Near the People. Louisville Courier-Journal. Andrew Jackson began “Money” and “Dollar” with capital letters, but wrote “almighty god” without capitals. No man ever understood the public better than Andrew. Or Leaves It Permanently at Home. Philadelphia Record. Before a druggist sells a customer quinine pills he always goes to the back end of his shop, takes off his conscience and locks it up in the safe. Neuralgia strikes like an adder. Athlophoros cures the sting. It is a good antidote to have on hand. Mr. John Auger, 129 Howe street, New York, writes: “My wife has suffered from acute attacks of neuralgia, and would have to give up and go to bed. During the last attack we tried Athlophoros, and its success was wonderful. After two doses the pain all left her, and instead of being laid up for three days she was about in three hours.”