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BEADING FOB TIIE SABBATH. Worship. Not. forever on thy knees Be before tlx* Almighty found: There are griefs the true heart sees, There are burdens thon cans! ease— Look around. Not long prayers, but earnest zeal, This is what ie wanted more; Put thy shoulder to the wheel. Bread unto the famished deal From thy store. Not high sounding words of praise Bing to God ’neath some grand dome. But the fallen haste to rise, And t he life's highways Bring thon home. Worship God bv doing good; Works, not words; kind acts, not creeds! lie who loves God as he should Makes his heart's love understood By kind deeds. —Sheltering Arms. Religious Notes. Unless there be in our hearts a secret conviction by the Spirit of Clod, the gospel itself is a dead letter. The Presbyterians of Pennsylvania have 941 churches, 842 ministers, 135,075 communicants and 24 presbyteries. God's love for his redeemed creatures is an unehangingjlove; so, also, his desire that his creatures should love him is unchanging. The right honorable the mayor of London preached at the reopening of the Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Limehouse, using as his text: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Since March 1 nearly GB.OOO miles have, in the aggregate, been traveled by the missionaries of the American Sunday school Union in its Northwestern department, in the prosecution of their missionary labors. The directors of the Columbia (S, C.) Seminary have passed resolutions sustaining Prof. Woodrow in his recently expressed belief in evolution, which has caused such a commotion Among the Presbyterians of the South. The Missionary Outlook says that threefourths of the Bibles shipped from New York to foreign mission stations go to Mexico and South America. After the Bible has been so long prohibited in these nominally Christian lands, this is a great triumph. Father Bilimek, confessor to the Emperor Maximilian, died recently at the Miramar Castle, near Trieste. Austria. Father Rilimek accompanied Maximilian on his expedition to Mexico, shared his fortunes, and has finally died in Maximilian’s castle. He was a distinguished naturalist. In India the Free Church of Scotland is represented, by 19 native preachers and 1,334 communicants; in Africa, i3 preachers and 3,121 communicants: in New Hebrides, 1 preacher and 245 communicants; in Lebanon, Syria, 1 preacher and 35 communicants; total, 34 native preachers and 4,735 communicants. When the late Bishop of London revisited the University chapel at Cambridge, after long absence, he found the same verger there whom he remembered in his college days, and said to him: “You have much to be grateful for.” “I have, indeed, my lord,” replied the old man, ‘‘for I have heard every sermon that has been preached in the chapel for fifty years, and, bless the Lord, I am a still. ” The Christian Advocate declares that “in no period of the Christian era, and rarely before it, has the theater been a place of refinement in tho moral sense of the word. At no period in the Christian era has the class of society possessing Christian education and culture been found in the auditorium of a theater. Between the planes of the two a great gulf is ‘fixed,’ a gulf as wide as worldliness is from holiness.”

Why Women are Church Members. Detroit Times. Seventy per cent of church members are women. The secret of this excess of outward piety lies not so much in the greater religiousness of women as the fact that the church is a social institution. Men meet each other in that casual contact which is stimulating without being a burden, in their business relations, and the greerarious instinct is abundantly satisfied in daily life, while to the lives of many women tho church gatherings afford the only large and varied contact with the world which is open to them. That this avenue leads heavenward of course adds to its attractiveness, for women like the safe, the reputable, unless exceptionally ill born and bred, as is proved by the fact that only two per cent, of criminals are women. When their debut into the industrial and political life of the world is fully accomplished there may he a re adjustment of these statistics, the per cent, of church members and criminals may be move nearly equal between the sexes, for woman’s equality with man means social equilibrium, if it means anything. When the new regime is fully inaugurated we may expect to see at first a diminuition in the feminine church membership, perhaps a slight increase in the number of woman criminals, while society readjusts itsself to its new relations, but after the pendulum has ceased to swing and settles to the perpendicular, less crime and more piety for both sexes will prevail. The church is.a stable institution, being founded on the rock of the religious instinct of humanity, and while variable in form must always remain intact in essence —the ex ponent of man’s effort to grasp divine things and to represent in concrete form his conception of the higher life and thßught. As such it will always attract, religious and spiritually earnest people in spite of the weakness, blindness, and willfulness which characterizes much of its policy and many of its utterances. Missionaries in India. Idle of Lord Lawrence. A small brotherhood of Moravian missionaries had been stationed for some years at Lahoul, on the borders of Thibet and about 100 miles from Simla where the Governor-general of India (Lord Lawrence) was then residing. Their isolated position, their extreme poverty and their self-denying labors amongst a semi-barbarous peode were known only to a few, and when one of Sir John Lawrence’s staff told him how they were accustomed to work in the fields as common peasants, to manufacture their own paper, to make their own clothes, and expressed a wish that one of the body might be invited for a few days to “Peterlioff,” the Governor-general’s house at Simla, a cordial assent was given and an invitation was sent out by special messenger. The missionary selected bv the brethren walked the whole distance. His dress was a coarse suit of brown camel’s hair cloth, which had been woven in the village and cut out and Eowed by the brotherhood. He had no shoes, only sandals made of bemp and coarse string, and his whole luggage consisted of a portable coffee pot in one pocket and his Bible in the other. ” * * In the course of conversation Sir John elictcd that the greatest hardship, next after the seyere cold which the missionaries had to endure, was the want of medicine and their inability to carry on the work of translating the Bible during the long six months of winter, since they had no lamps or candles. A stock of quinine and other medicines was at once obtained from the government dispensary, and a large quantity of half burnt wax candles, amounting to several thousand pieces, which had been accumulating in the store-room of the government house was ordered to he melted down in the bazar and formed into candles of a convenient size. These were the self-appropriated perquisites of a well-paid native servant who, having no missionary proclivities, was indignant at the use to which the fragments were converted. But the grateful thanks of the missionary as he departed, with his precious burden strapped on a mule’s hack, and his last beaming words of joy, ‘•You have given us life and health," have never been forgotten by those who wished him Godspeed as he passed out of sight. The story has never been told till now, but it will doubtless through the missionary press some day reach that little hand of devoted workers in their faroff solitary station, and as they hold up their translation of St. John’s gospei roughly lithographed on the coarse paper made by their own hands, they will be reminded of an episode in the life of the man at whom the fashionable world of Simla may have thought fit to sneer as the “Puritan” Governor general of India, but whom they will always remember with love and gratitude. The Cathedral in Mexico. The great cathedral in the City of Mexico is the largest in America, and cost nearly $2 000. - 000. It was commenced by the Spaniards in 1573, on the site of the old Aztec teinpie, or pyramid, and finished in 1067. Its facade is

beautifully carved. Against its western wall leans the celebrated Calendar Stone, covered with hieroglyphics and weighing twenty-five tons. Its cast, which the Mexican government is at present engaged in taking, will be exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition. Within the cathedral are a number of paintings, some of them said to be the work of Murillo. CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH. Eight Hundred Little Ones Confirmed at One Time. Philadelphia Times of Monday. Green garlands wero twined around the pillars of the Church of St. Charles L meo, Twentieth and Christian streets, yesterday, and altar boys, in red cassocks under white surplices,'were swinging fragrant censers when the doors of the edifice were thrown open to admit eight hundred little children, who were to bo confirmed by Archbishop Ryan. Tho children assembled at 2 o'clock, in the basement of the church, and were there marshaled by one hundred young ladies. A little after that hour the Catholic Knights of Temperance filed up to the church door and wero picketed along the street, making a pathway down which the children were to pass. They marched out under the leadership of the Sundayschool superintendent. The little girls, 800 in number, wore white dresses to their knees, bright blue stockings and low-cut shoes. Each dress was covered with u white veil, fastened in the hair by a wreath of orange blossoms and caught up in folds down the back. The boys tvore dark blue suits. Archbishop ltyan led the procession from the sacristry, carrying his gold crozier in his hand. The R<cv. Fathers Walsh, Wyne, Croly, Dougherty and Melon followed the Archbishop and ranged themselves on either side, while he prepared to don the vestments for the ceremony. When all was in readiness tho notes of the hymn, “Veni Creator Spiritus.” burst forth from the choir at the rear of the church, and all the orange blossoms fluttered as tho children arose and passed in double file kown to the throne. Many of them were mere tots and just able to hold their white veils away from their faces. For over two hours the Archbishop sat on his throne confirming the children, while the music from the choir swelled throngh every part of the structure. The Archbishop was about rising, and the dotted canopy of laco behind him was being brought forward when a little girl approached the throne. Her blossoms were the greenest and her flowing veil the whitest, but her face boro an expression of anxiety lest the Archbishop should leave before confirming her. She came up the aisle slowly, leaning on crutches. A sigh of pity swept through the great congregation, and there was not a sound to be heard as the little one laid aside her crutches, knelt down, clasped her hands and looked up in the kindly face of the Archbishop. The ceremony was performed, and a priest wiped the oil tenderly from her forehead. She resumed her crutches and slowly hobbled back to her seat with tho eyes of everyone upon her, and the music from the choir ringing in her ears. The Archbishop then arose and preached a sermon to the children. He explained to them that the sacrament which had just been performed was intended, like their baptism, to leave its impression on them all through their lives, and to make them soldiers in the army of Christ. They had received a sanctification which was destined tq give them courage in the hours of temptation during their childhood and in their maturer age. to act as a shield to them against the evil sophistries and skepticisms of the world. He then pronounced the Pontifical benediction upon them.

THE FIELD FAMILY. Four Remarkable Brothers, and the Way They Keep Young. New York Letter. Cyrus W. Field has returned from a tour—or, rather say, a trip—across tho continent with his family of twelve, including a brother and children and grandchildren. What a remarkable quartet these Field brothers make—David Dudley, the lawyer; Stephen, the judge; Cyrus, the inventor and speculator; and Henry, the editor. They are almost totally unlike in tastes and tendencies, having hardly anything in common except an unusual affection for each other and four long noses, like the allconquering nose of Julius Caesar, and the noses which Napoleon demanded on his marshals. After the big dinner in Washington, last spring, in honor of David Dudley's seventy-ninth birth day, Cyrus exclaimed: “Well, I must have you next February in New York, when you will be eighty.” “Count yourself engaged to me, Dudley, for the ninetieth,” cried the Rev. Henry. “And when you round the century,” put in Chief Justice' Stephen, “We’ll have a spread for you in California.” It might, indeed, happen. Judge Field looks less than his age. Lawyer Field doesn't look a day over sixty. Editor Field has been kept young by racing over the planet; and millionaire Field, tall, thin, with light-brown hair and beard, blue-gray eyes and the sanguine face of a typical Yankee, seems to-day in the very prime of life. Cyrus lives at Irvington, and David Dudley and Henry have summer mansions on a far-viewing eminence at Stockbridge, up among the Berkshire hills, one of the prettiest spots in this land. The distinguished lawyer’s great pets are his three grandsons—chil iron of Lord and Lady Musgrave—and it is fun to see them harness the old gentleman up with twine and drive him around the lawn, like young British tyrants, as they are. Lord Musgrave has been Governor of Newfoundland, British Columbia, Jamaica and South Australia, and he now represents his government at Queensland. Gath Pays His Respects to the Women Folks. Letter in Philadelphia Times. We have another adventuress in New York this week who has been running on the diamond line. Sometimes I get letters from women telling me that lam to hard on the sex. If the sex would only indicate clearly what they are about and what they want we would know where to place them, tyut in this age, when there are socalled intellectual women and women of great common sense, as the papers say, women fit to rule the country, etc., we must necessarily poise our minds for such persons and results. Then we find that the great common-sense, clearheaded woman has been giving herself away for a lot of shinning stones to wear on her fingers around tables and to come into the dicing room with groat big pieces of glass made by nature in her ears. As long as women love dress men will attend to business. No doubt the desire to adorn the body is a great stimulant to the manufactures and to art, but we have too much of it in the United States when no woman can go to market without a silk dress nor enter her own kitchen except with a Paris-made robe. I have much more respect for the girl who went eut and married the ho' tler for the purpose of multiplying her specie., than for tne woman who swindled half of upper Broadway to get a lot of diamonds and whose husband is a sort of shystor speculator. Tliey Had Hearts. Pittsburg Clironiole Telegraph. It was at a station in the Burnt Woods district of Arkansas, where civilization runs an inch to the mile. The “station” was a rough, shake shanty in which an operator told on the wire about the movements of the two trains that daily noticed the dot in the burnt timbers. When tho train came in a frowsy, woe begone, fried-out looking woman, with three children tugging at her, was seated on & log near the rough platform, waiting for something or somebody—the Lord knows what. “Thar’s one on ’em,” said an uncouth Black river stave splitter to me. “Thar's one on ,em. Half human and half hoss. Lives on the flints up in the hills. Theyes ain’t got no more edication than brmts. Theyes just like anirailes. They ain’t got nothin’ like Christian creeters hes ’bout’em.” He spoke in a loud tone, evidently caring nothing whether he was heard or not. I saw two big tears rolling down the faded woman’s cheeks. ‘ 'What are you crying for?” 1 asked. “We’uns hes got hearts, straingier, we’uns hes,” she replied. Wliat’s in a Name. Tho village of Horseheads, a suburb of Elmira, N. Y., is much disturbed over a movement which is on foot to have its name changed to North Elmira. The present name, though inelegant and unattractive, has always been an especial pride to the residents because of its antiquity and an event it commemorates in the history or traditions of the Chemung valley. According to the story, General Sullivan, on his return from his invasion of the Indian country in the Genesee valley in 1779, camped where the present village now stands. As he intended to transport his troops down the Chemung river on

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rafts, and was unable to carry many of the horses with the army, he ordered all the others killed. When the first settlers came here, about one hundred years ago, they found great mounds of horses’ skulls piled in the vicinity. These, it was supposed, were some of the remains of Sullivan’s horses, and that they had been heaped up in that way by the Indians. The settlement was given the name of Horseheads. and when, in 1837, the village was inccuporated and given the name of Fairport, the old residents fought for eight years to have the old name restored, which was done in 1845. The old native stock of Horseheads are strongly opposed to the change and will make a fight against it. FASHION’S FALL FACE. Gay-pi aided skirts and tunics, with bodices or jerseys of mouoclirome fabric, are much worn. Breakfast caps are much worn this year. Net lace, with edging to match, is tho preferred material. Velvet ribbon loops and a bunch of feathers in front are almost tho only trimmings scon on round hats. Dark green velvet hats, with wreaths of nasturtians are at once handsome and stylish for autumn wear. Standing collars are usually made of tho vest material, while turn-down collars arc made of that of the basque. Bronze-brown, combined with dedicate touches of rose pink, form the colors used in some of the Parisian walking dresses. Very large pins and ear-rings are in vogue abroad. Some of the latter, representing elephants, are over an inch long. Steel springs at the back of skirts must be put in very high, so that they will adjust themselves easily to any change of position. The waist linings used by tailors aro usually of twilled silk of a solid color, but may have gilt lines on ecru grounds or gilt dots on black sateen. Vary long-wristcd gloves of cashmere or Austrian wool, with ribbed tops like the Jersey cuff, appear in .all the dark street shades to match tho costume. Little white frillings are now put inside the capote bonnets that are 60 fashionable. They are of fine white lace, and are very becoming to most faces. English tailors are returning to the Scotch tartans, especially those of blue and green plaids, using them as draperies of blue serge dresses and as overdresses above red skirts. The shapes of many of the new autumn hats are less stiff than last season, showing more of a leaning toward the flexible Rembrandt and Trianon styles rather than tho more recent Henri II designs, with their severe upright crowns and straight brims. Very few dresses are altogether of one material, combination suits are decidedly in the majority, and women who have old drosses to fix over have greeter opportunities than ever. All fashion asks is harmony and agreeable contrast in combining different materials. The popular waterfall drapery at the back of the walking costume requires tho support of the tournure of flounced hair cloth and reed or steel to give it the required “French effect,” that controlling element of the world of fashion having decidedly settled the question that crinoline, in the back at least, is an indispensable accessory for any who aspire to anything like chic or best form in dress. With all tho reigning carnival of color and the infinity of shades that pile the shelves and counters of the large dry goods stores, and the abundance of figured materials —friese, spottedpave, etc., plain dark colors and smooth, rich fabrics are as much worn as ever. Black silk of some sort, satin, brocade or gros grain, continues the favorite choice for handsome dresses for all but very young ladies.

Red It Shall Be. New York Evening Fost. Red, as we long since predicted, judging from its prominent place in costumes and trimmings early last season in Paris, has burst out this side the water, aud the gleam of this brilliant hue is seen in every shop-window, brightening every combination in dress fabrics, and shining out upon the costumes from the upturned sides of the hat-brims to the tips of the dainty Turkeyred kid house-shoe. Red triumphant* red absolute, red ala Pharaoh, in tones and semi-tones, help largely this season to enliven the dull, dead appearance of the “melancholy days” just upon us. The new shades of this color are rich and various, and burst forth gloriously in velvet and brocade, or glimmer charmingly through bronze, mahogany, bismuth-brown, and tan, until the color, dying out in the material itself, breaks out again in cordings, facings, ribbon garnitures, panels, and jacket, and waistcoat adornings ?id infinitum. Porame d'amour, love-apple, or tomato, Aurore, a clear, vivid sunset red, shading to deep wine, Rouge gorge —robin red-breast color —and red vulcain, Sultane infernale, and Coquolicot aro some of the leading Parisian shades of this color, with endless cross tints, Which appear in all the season s high-dyed productions. Curiosities of Mesmerism. Popular Science Monthly. The distinguishing feature of the earlier stages of mesmerism in man is that by slight stimulation any one center can be easily set in violent activity, and its activity easily stopped, without the activity spreading to other distant centers. It is on this that the mesmeric, phenomena usually exhibited depends; with most of these phenomena you are no doubt familiar, so that I need mention one or two only. Complicated reflexes may be produced in various ways, just as we have seen in the case with a frog even when without its cerebral hemispheres. Thus Braid mentions that on one occasion an old lady who had never danced, ami who indeed considered it a sinful pastime, when mesmerised began to dance as soon as a waltz tune was played. A Great Depression. Philadelphia Call. Farmer—Want any potatoes, corn, butter or provisions of any kind! Merchant-—My wife says we have .so much stuff on hand that it is spoiling, and wo are getting the dyspepsia trying to eat it up. Farmer —Too bad: the same story every where. Never saw such hard times. Merchant—By the way, don’t you want some dress goods, or clothing, or shoes, or— Farmer —Naw. Why, things got so cheap that my wife went out l.ast summer and bought more goods than we can wear out in a year. Fact is we're wearing all our old Sunday clothes every day now . o as to get rid of them. Merchant —That's what they all say. Never saw such hard times. Bright Boys. Haralson Banner. My little boy wrote his first letter the other day. It was as follows: Dear Cousin: I am going to school now. My teacher is the hardest woman to get along with I ever saw except pa. Write soon. Your cousin. Willie. It was written on a postal card. He then put a two-cent stamp on it, and cancelled the stamp himself. It discourages me a little, but I taka heart when I remember that when Sir Isaac Newton had a fine house built, he ordered the workmen, to cut a big hold for the old cat to go in and out and then reinstructed them to cut a smaller one for the kitten. Flow Dinner Should Be Discussed. Tho Caterer. Very few people, unfortunately, think enough of the dinner table for their good, it is the idea of too many persons that dinner should be discussed like politics—hurriedly, passionately, or as a pure matter of business. Eating is of more importance to the individual than polities. The way to enjoy dinner is to sit down to tabic after shaking off the cares of the wrrld. Dyspepsia and all its horrois readily give place to goodhumored talk, which is the best condiment that the world has known. While a permanent cure of rheumatism and neuralgia through the agency of Athlophoromust depend on its power to expel the poisonous and provoking acids from the system, it at the same time possesses wonderful potency in immediately alleviating tho torture, invigorating muscular action, and limbering stiffened joints. Says Rev. A. S. Cooper, of Williston, Vt.: “Twelve hours' use of Athlophoros greatly re moved pain from my system, and rendered the muscles so supple that 1 cqpld get up and down with ease."

TIIE YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relating to this department must he addressed to W. H. Graff am, West Scarborough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.] Answers to Puzxlea. No. 1270 —l. W-abash. 2. G r anger. 3. S-h-ale. 4. P resent 5. H alter. 0. A g ate, No. 1271—Pineapple. No. 1272—“ What the old man docs is always right.” No. 1273—Sappho. No. 1274—Prior. No. 1275 — S A T E ABA N D ABET T A L STATAR I AN ENTR U S T DAISY L A T N No. 1276 A P P L E PAL E A PLA N T LEN T E EATER No. 1277—Ermina. No. 1278—Able was I ere I saw Elba. Original Puzzles. NO. 1298 —CHAltADS. My first is r.u island as fair As ever the sun shone on; But want, oppression iu*d care Aro the wages her people have won. And all these to her have been paid By that accursed system, free trade. My second’s an obsolete word, By Webster defined none is. And another meaning I've heard Is, is not ; but this is no quiz. You'll find it sure if you look . Through all of Webster's word-book. A Fury, the goddess of strife: Os discord, of feud and contention Is my whole; but to save my life This is all of her I can mention, For ’tis all that Webster gives. And no one who’s seen her now live®. Hobujeyillk. Jnd. Ermina. NO. 1299— DIAMOND. 1. A letter found in the name of the inventor of safety-lamps for miners. 2. Askew. 3. Used as an instrument of torture during the Inquisition. 4. A city of Germany especially noted for its collections of art. 5. Capital of the country whose friendship we asked in 1852, that we might have the privilege of trading there. 6. Lion. 7. Letter found in a famous river of England. Indianapolis, Ind. Eva Lin wood. NO. 1300— DOUBLE ACROSTIC. [Words of seven letters each.] Primal?, once a distinguished congressman. Finals, a confederation. 3. A spout of water. 2. To give up. 3. An Italian botanist. 4. Eagerness. 5. To satisfy. 6. A wreath of flowers. 7. Seasonably, in go'xl time. 8. Playing on the surface. 9. lhe vertebral column. 10. A worshiper of images. 11. Native simplicity. 12. Cautious. Uncle Theo. Salem, Ind. no. 1301 —cross-word. In shelter, not in cover; In warm friend, but not in lover; In meadow, but not in field; In employ, but not in wield; In rags, but not in dirt; In courtship, but not in flirt; In Alice, but not in Lucy; In succulent, but not in juicy, In tether, but not in chain; In ache, but not in pain; In graves, also in urns; My whole is a poem by Burns. Ermina. lIOBBIKVILLK, Ind NO. 1302 —BEHEADINGS. 1. Behead the end of an axis and leave luxuriant 2. Behead to depart and leave the edge of a roof. 3. Behead a part of tho ears and leave a liquor. 4. Behead a substance used in medicine and leave a mat. Pearl and Ruby. New Brunswick, Ind. NO. 1303— DIAMOND. 1. A consonant 2. With (Latin.) 3. Free from dirt 4. A day of the week. 5, With extreme folly. 6. Denial. 7. A consonant Kniuhtstown, Ind. b. no. 1304—enigmatical fishes. 1. Mature and a species of long, thin grass. 2. To raise one end of, aud a bird. 3. Care, and a ferry boat. 4. A young pig, and a rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer. 5. A surge, and a knob formed on a rope by spun yarn and parceling. 6. *A letter, and an exclamation expressing contempt 7. Stellate, and a dress (obs.) Indianapolis, Ind. Flo and Flora. [Answers in three weeks.] Our Prizes. 1. We offer a game for the first complete list of answers. 2. For the next best list wo offer an autograph album. 3. For the first solution of No. 1304 we offer two interesting novels, or fifty fine address cards. We desire to receive lists of answers from very many of our readers. Puzzles Answered. By May S. Bent, Indianapolis: Nos. 1270, 1271, 1272, 1274, 1275. 1276, 1277. 1278. Bv Grace, New Brunswick: Nos. 1270, 1271, 1272, 1273, 1275, 1276, 1277. By Uncle Theo, Salem: Nos. 1270, 1271, 1272, 1277, 1278. Prize Winners. 1. No complete lust received. 2. May S. lient; fifty address cards. Foot Notes. May S. Bent—We are glad to receive the list of answers. Ple.ase call often. Elba—Your answers will be credited next week. We shall expect to hear from you again. Uncle Theo —Your work is accepted, and you are invited to visit us frequently. Ermina is with us again this week, with another interesting charade. Eve Lin wood's diamond is splendid. We thank her. B. —We make several alterations in your diamond, as your second word was not defined by W ebster. Flo and Flora produce a fine school of fishes; wo doubt that they will prove too shy for our solvers to catch. Grace is thanked for her list of answers. We wish all would follow Grace's example, and send answers often. Pearl and Ruby give ns some good beheadings. Next week they shall have room again. S. K. Rank —We shall make use of all of your work, except the diamond, which reads only one way. Wo are very glad to admit you to our circle. Please call every week, Mrs. Burnett's Boys. Washington Letter, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well known authoress, is one of those exceptions, and her craze for the picturesque extends not only to her inanimate surroundings, but to her two boys. A lady, who has recently paid Mrs. Burnett a long visit, is the authority for the statement that they are very handsome boys. Their proud mother is quite aware of their beauty by keeping them dressed in a most becoming fashion. She taught them to pose in an artistic manner. If the bell rings and a visitor is announced, Mrs. Burnett turns to her sons and says: “Take your positions.” Immediately the well-trained boys fall into the poses best suited to their dress and beauty. The older one will lean his elbow on the corner of the mantelpiece, and rest his head upon his shapely hand, while the younger will stretch himself in a graceful attitude on the heavy fur rug in front of the line. The visitor enters and canuoi fail

to be struck by the picturesque beauty of the scene, and goes away, her mind full ot admiration for her friend’s children, and feels almost ashamed of the general roughness of her own boys afc-liome, whom she is much more likely to find gliding down the banisters, sitting on tho fence or playing ball than in poses which would gladden an artist’s heart. Os course the attitudes given above aro only those for winter use. For summer an entirely different set prevail, but they are all quite as effective, and, indeed, they are the pride of Mrs. Burnetts heart. What the result of this novel mode of education wili be is a question which agitates many of the writer's friends, but they will soon have the opportunity of seeing, for a boy who can lean an elbow on the mantelpiece cannot be so very small. BOYS AM) TRADES. How Can a Boy Obtain a Situation?—Difficulties in Their Way. Philadelphia Record. Three causes combine to render it every year more difficult for a boy to learn a trade. These three causes are: (1) Increase of population, leading to overcrowding; (2) trade defense on the part of employers, leading them to employ only those who are skilled in some specific matter, and to keep each to his specialty—in other words, division of labor; and (3) trades-unionism on the part of the employed, leading them to discountenance additions to their number. Parents in all classes of life feel the effect of these three causes. The rich man who has retired from business or who wishes his son to follow another business is confronted with the effects of which he was himself the partial cause, and the son of the workingman finds his way to work barred by the organizations of one of which his father is an ornament. When a boy succeeds in obtaining work it by no means follows that he learns a trade. Indeed, if lie is paid, he is paid not to learn tho trade, but to do someone thing the doing of which ie worth the sum paid him. Anything more that he may learn is tho result of his own tact and shrewdness. In his odd minutes, or as he does his subordinate work, a quick-witted boy sees how other tilings are done, and on some occasion may persuade a friendly workman to let him try' his hand, until at last he comes in as a substitute for someone. Apprenticeship in the old sense, which was supposed to mean al lowing a youth to see how things aro done, and permitting him to attempt to do them, is a thing of the past. Unremitting observation while at work and unremitting study of matters relating to business during free hours are the secrets of success in learning a trade at the present day. The assiduous, patient worker, who minds nothing but his own business in working hours, and then goes home to rest, is doomed to stay his life long in a subordinate position. Overcrowding and division of labor are not confined to the mill trades. They extend into other trades and into the professions, which latter are also becoming affected with an exclusiveness which is only trades-unionism under another name. The young gentleman who enters a merchant's office under the impression that he will learn the honorable business of a merchant may be found engaged in work scarcely as intellectual as that of the errand boy; and the youth who, carried away by’ the grandeurs of architecture, enters the office of a craftsman, will usually find that tracing upon paper or linen and keeping drawers in order is all the architectural education lie is likel}’ to get for years. The number of youth3 who, in the hope to rise, attach themselves to the professions increases at a greater ratio than the population, mid the influx tends to bring the pay of mental work down to tho level of manual labor. This is the state of things. To suggest a remedy is difficult, to apply it impossible. A state that is the result of the habits of several generations can only be done away with by the gradual growth of habits tending in a reverse direction. Emigration relieves crowding, but the gaps it leaves are quickly filled so long as population continues to increase at present rates. Co-oper-ation, if it could become extensive, would act as a check to the power of exclusive organizations of every sort, whether ruled by employers or employed—but co-operation seems at present al most as far away as the millennium Socialists of extreme views suggest anarchy and a ro-deal on communistic principles: but, so long as man is individual, communism is impossible, and the attempt to enforce it would end in despotism and loss of tho large amount of individual liberty which, after all is said that can be said against existing institutions, is enjoyed by the men aud women of this century. STORY OF TIIE SCALPER. Weird and Thrilling History of the Cut-Rate Man—Much Money Easily Made. Louisville Courier-Journal. Como hither, my first-born male child, heir expectant of my cast-olf apparel and destroyer of thy mother's hopes of a clean house and tidy furniture; come hither and hearken unto the voice of thy devoted parent, whilst he relates the story of tho scalper, and do thou pay heed thereto and learn how, from the need of some and greed of others, to lay up for thyself a store of wealth against the day of want. Think not tnat the story has reference to the noble red man, who, in furious anger at the aggressions of the rapacious whites, puts many stripes of brill iant paint upou his countenance, limbs and body, takes a k*en-edged tomahawk in his dexterous hand, and makes the surrounding hills echo and re-echo with his hideous war-whoop. Nor yet must thou think of Reckless Ralph, tho Remorseless Reducer of the Redskins’ Registration Record, tho renowned warrior and hunter of the West, whose commanding stature, herculean frame, dazzling eye and flowing hair murk him as a lion in strength and a demon in daring. Draw it very exceedingly mild upon such fellows as those, and concentrate your contemplative powers upon a neatly dressed gentleman of pleasant speech and gracious manners, who from behind a desk or counter regards with kindness the anxious traveler, and answers eager inquiries as to best routes and cheapest rates. When more than one railroad company build roads between two places, and the traffic which is sufficient for one is not for all. then a war of rates is declared, and the general passenger and ticket agent of each company is informed by tho directors of the same that, in the language of Hudibras or another: “He is not the man for the position Unless he beats all competition, And he must either master the situation Or, else, send in his resignation.” The G. P. and T. A. knows that resignation is the best and only thing under heavy affliction, but considers it better to avoid both for himself, even if in so doing lie has to cast them upon his opponents. Therefore he advertises his intention to sell tickets to competing poiuts for less than is charged on other routes, even if he has to give the tickets away and reward each pas senger who goes over his road with the gift of three drinks, a square meal aud a cottage organ. In his secret soul he resolves to make good his hopes of putting up rates to the highest figures for all points on his line where no competition exists. And travelers, growing wise in their day aud generation, say to themselves: “JLt is to our profit to buy tickets to points beypnd where we wish to go and sell them again to others who may desire to journey from our destination to the limit of these tickets, and as it is a loss of time and a troublesome task for us to find these others, we need a middleman to do this for us.” and the scalper replies: “I am here obedient to your wishes,” and buys the tickets from the first purchasers and sells them to the second, and as with the blow of a base ball bat he propels the plans of the G. P. and T. A. iuto a head-gc •of the style most in vogue about the time of the American revolution. The general passenger and ticket agent becomes indignant, and resolves in his wrath t.o exterminate all scalpers by bringing them before the courts and proving them guilty of such fearful misconduct that the courts must sentence them to close and perpetual confinement in the penitentiary, and so they will bo prevented from interfering with other people’s business. And the courts regard the conduct of the scalpers as very wicked, iudeed, and pass sentence of con finemeut upon them for the period of three years, four months and eleven days, aud then the courts reflect and recollect that the scalpers be gan business in obedience to the wishes of the people, and the people are voters, and the courts are elected by voters, and it is not well for those seeking re-election to do anything that will displace voters: and so the counsel of the scalpers make a motion for a stay of proceedings, a quashing of judgments, an appeal, a mandamus, a habeas corpus, a nolle pros., and a host of other things obscure in their meaning but pleas ant in their effect, and each and every scalper fees his lawyer to discuss these matters before tne court, and accepts the court’s permission to go about his business pending the consideration

of the new mattter in his ease, and the scalper steps behind his counter and buys and sells tickets as before, and the travelers are very happy. The G. P. and T. A. is not so very happy, and he resolves to got the better of the scalper by making a contract that a ticket shall only bo good for the original purchaser whose name is signed to the contract, and in case of a roundtrip ticket is also signed again at the office from which return trip is begun. But the second purchaser becomes contracted in his moral views because*of the contract on the ticket, and argues that the extortionate rates between local points is usury, and if, in declaring another's signature to be his, he i3 guilty of forgery, why forgery is no worse than usury, and he is no worse than the G. P. and T. A., and must light the d-evii ono with his own weapons: and in case of a return ticket, he would rather re-sign the contract than resign the ticket. In spite of the contract the scalper flourishes like a Green Bay, Wis., fisherman. When the general passenger and ticket agents of the competing roads find that cutting rates is not a good scheme, because travelers buy all the cheap tickets and sell them to the scalpers, and local ti-avelers would rather buy unused second-hand portions of tickets from the scalper at low prices than pay high prices for brand new tickets at the company’s office; and that each one of themselves is just as willing as the other to go heels over head into debt, and so create for the stockholders a considerable credit on the minus side of zero; and that the courts cannot be induced to hold up their hands against the scalper, they conclude themselves to be tho makers and not the eaters of the feast, and tho result is, as the poets sang in the days of slang: ' Each to the other tlicmessago has wired: ‘Oh, gives us a rest- you make me tired.’ ” Then, in convention assembled, after a full and clear discussion of tho situation, and of tho necessity for railroads to back each other in & mutual defense against a plundering public, with many a solemn or profane ejaculation, as the case may be, they declare their intention of adopting and maintaining a fixed tariff, and that any company breaking the agreement by allowing its agents to sell tickets for less than tariff rates shall be prosecuted, persecuted and damaged to tho best of their ability so to do. Travelers make a note of this state of affairs, and having had their rural recreation and luncheon in the days of the G. P. and T. A.'s excessive verdancy are able to bide their time until another opportunity for getting the best of the railroad companies. Travel grows less on all the roads, the passenger agent's occupation is gone, and the ticket agent finds the virtue of sticking to tariff rates to be its own and onlycst reward. Now comes the scalper and whispers in tne ear of tho G. I*. and T. A.: “lu time past I have done thee much harm and now you should heap coals of fire upon my head to testify your forgiveness and kindly feeling: therefore, do as I suggest and you will keep the letter of yonr agreement with the other companies, increase the travel over your road, and take the conceit out of people who imagine they are getting the best of you in rates. Sell me you tickets at regular tariff prices, and then allow me such a commission for the purchase as will enable mo to sell the tickets at reduced rates and still make suf ficient. profit to justify me in keeping up the business. ’ The G. P. and T. A. heaped the coals of fire as desired, sold his tickets, paid bis commissions and increased his traffic, for thv traders rejoiced at the chance to put their money into the hands of their friend, the scalp er, again, and to make journeys for les3 than the regular charges, and all the other G. P. and T. A.’s did likewise as the first had done, and the business of the scalper grew greatly in bis hands. Much more could I relate, my son, but might say things the parties concerned would rather not have known. Go thou and become a scalper right speedily.

CONCERNING BRIDESMAIDS. Old Notions Entertained by These Very Sweet and Very Interesting; People. Cassell’s Magazine for November. Importance was formerly attached to the colors which the bride wore on her wedding day. Thus in an old book entitled the “Fifteen Comforts of Marriage, ” a bride and her bridesmaids are represented conversing together respecting the colors to be used for the decoration of tho bridal dress. It was finally decided, after van ons colors bad been rejected, “to mingle a goal tissue wi tli grass green,” this being symbol had of youthful jollity. Again, that the office of a bridesmaid was in times past not altogether a sine qua non may b@ gathered from the fact that during the period of the wedding festivities, which often extended over a week, the bridesmaids were expected to be in attendance, and to do whatever they could to promote their success. Then there was the custom of “flinging the stocking,” at which the bridesmaids took a prominent lead, a ceremony to which no email importance was attached. It has been made the subject of frequent allusion by our old writers, and one rhyme, describing a wedding, tells us: But still the stockings are to throw; Some throw too high, uudsome too low, There’s none could hit the mark. Misson further informs us that if the bridegroom’s stocking, thrown by one of the bridesmaids, fell upon his head, it was regarded as an omen that she herself would soon be married; and a similar prognostic was taken from the falling of the bride’s stocking, thrown by one of the groomsmen. It was the bridesmaid’ duty, too, to present the bride with the “benediction posset. ”so called from tiie words utteredd over it; a practice thus noticed by Herrick, in his "Hesperidee:” “What short sweet prayers shall be said, And how the posset shall be made With cream of lilies, not of kine, And maiden’s blush for spiced vine.” Suckling thus alludes to this custom: “In came the bridesmaids with the posset, The bridegroom eat in spiglit." Once more, the bridesmaids were supposed to look after the bride's pecuniary interests. Thus, at the church porch, when the bridegroom,produced the ring and other articles relating to his marriage, the chief bridesmaid took charge of 1 the “dow-purse," which was publicly given to the bride as an installment of her pin-money. Horace Walpole, writiug to Miss Berry in the year 1791, speaks of the dow-purse as a thing of the nast, and writes as follows: “Our wedding is over very properly, though with little ceremony, and nuliiing of ancient fashion but two bridesmaids. The endowing purse, 1 believe, has been left off since broad pieces wore called in and melted down.” It has been pointed out, however, that a survival of this usage is preserved’in Cumberland. The bridegroom provides himself with gold and crown pieces, and when the service reaches the point, “with all my wordly goods 1 thee endow,” ’ he takes the money, bauds the clergyman his fee, and pours the rest into the handkerchief which the Bridesmaid holds for the bride. In Scotland the bridesmaid is popularly known as the "best maid, ’ and one of her principal duties was to convey the bride’s presents on tlie wedding to her future home. The first article generally taken into the house was a vessel of salt, a portion of which was sprinkled over the floor, as a protection against the “evil eye.” She also attended the bride wlieu sbo called on her friends, and gave a personal invitation to her wedding. A Dress of Rat Skins. Au ingenious inhabitant of Liskeard, Cornwall, exhibits himself in a dress composed of rat skins, whie h he was collecting for three ye%ra and a half. He made tlie dress entirely himself, consisting of hat, neckerchief, coat, .trousers, cape, gaiters and shoes. Tlie number of rath required to complete tho suit was 070, and the person, when thus dressed, appears exactly like one of the Eskimos as described by Ross. The cape is composed of tlie pieces of skins immediately around the tails, containing about six hundred tails. A lady of Glasgow had a pair of shoes of exquisite workmanship the upper parts of which were made of the skins of rats. The leather was exceedingly smooth, and soft as the finest kid, and appeared stout and firm. It took no less than six skins to make the pair of shoes, as the back of the skin is the only part strong enough for use. The Wearied Stock Speculator, Worried mind Fevered brain. Dreadful day with unsettled market. Unable to eat dinner after day’s work. Yam efforts to rest at night. Horrid feelings in view of to morrow. Body and mind want toning up. Brown's Iron Bitters does it, surely and quickly. Mr. Tooy, of Tavares, Orange county, Fla., has experienced the benefit of this valuable remedy, and says: “I cheerfully I recommend it. 1 keep it on hand all the time.” Cures dyspepsia, indigestion, weakness, etc. J