Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 19

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, HAUCH 31, . 1C01.

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ALMSHOUSE '' STORY She made r pathetic little figure, as she tent over tr- old well. Her hair as silver-white, and though It vas meant to be combed straight back under her im white cap. nature rebelled against rimnoss In her, and had clustered together various little tendrils, till they made Kight waves along the line that divided tho cap from the face; they softened, oo, the square corners of the delicate, blue-veined skin that showed on Tank's temples. Her fellow-almsmen and alms women said that Mrs. Smith's bright hai" must have gone white before Its time. Nc one knew her age; she was bright and choerful. and hor dark eyes sparkled when tre said, "No one need ever grow old." the College, as the almshouses were cilltd, had been built about two hundred years ago by a rich old lord for "twelve eservlng townsmen and townswomen of Tynstone." The gray walls were charmlig with their drapery of ivy; Virginia creeper, too, had traveled with stealthy Utle green feet from turret to gable, and fipm gable to clustered chimney-stack. The College occupied four tides of the wll-kcpt grassed quadrangle; In its center Wi.s the quaint well. Its mouth fringed wi:h hart's-tongue fern; in one corner of the quad was the beautiful little chapel; opposite "the Warden's Lodgings" waa carved on the beam above the entrance; witiin this was the hall, grand with dark wo'd carving on the walls and furniture, vhi c the windows showed good old painted fe-Ia-ss. Each Inmate of the college was required to be sixty years old. an inhabitant of the tovi or its neighborhood, and so strict a search was said to be made Into the character of each candidate for election that tcj be chosen a member of the little community was in itself a warrant of respectability. Tansy Smith had been admitted only a year ago; no one except" the committee knew anything about her; she had been born in Wynstonc parish, that was all, but It was plain that she had no acquaintances now living in the clean, picturesquo little town. A tall, stalwart man, who had lost a leg. Fat beside a meager, dark-faced woman on the stone bench outside the chapel. Ills eyes were fixed on the bending whitehaired woman at the well. "You don't like me to say it, Betty, but I must say it again, there must ha' been a time when yon poor soul was as handsome a little body as a man need clap eyes on." Detty'3 eyes were fixed on the flagstones Bt her feet, but her skinny fingers pinched Viciously at her blue apron. Sho considered that Benjamin Shrubsole "sort of belonged" to her; she mended his linen, darned his stockings, and if he want?d a turn done In his lodging she was the ono to do it. Ben had "no call," Betty thought, to "okkipy his mind with strangers, nor their loo.es neither." Betty Griggs was the ugliest, and in all T.'ays the homeliest of the almswomen; she now answered by a grunt, and fixed her eyes on a closed door at the opposite corner of the quad. "Have you seen the new man?" she asked, 'I hear he came In last night; maybe he won't show up afore Sunday. If 'twern't for, that chapel service one might never eet eyes on some neighbors." "Ay, I saw him right enough, and he's not much; a long thin chap, with a bent back and hair as white as snow. lie's not fit to hold a candle to Mrs. Smith; see what bits of hands she has; they was never made to carry pails. And then, look at her feet; she's always neat shod; plain as her clothes is, she knows how to put 'em on. She's a neat, comely body, and 'tis pleasant to look at her." Another grunt, and his companion suddenly rose. Ben recollected himself, and also recollected that this week his hose needed extra darning. " 'Tis always a pleasure to me to watch anything a woman does; they've always got Fiich a way with 'em." Betty was looking back and he gave her a tender glance. To himself he added, "That there Mrs. Fmith ain't quite what she gives out to be. Look at t'other three of the sect; there's Betty Griggs, and Nance Dawson, and Taritha Simmons, Lord! their noses is all ehapes, and so's their lips." His eyes went back to the straight but rounded figure at the well. "See her eyes; they're large an bright yet. Her nose Is straight as a line, her lips is red like a girl's. S'welp me! I'd like to know the rights about her. Not that she takes notice of me, beyond a civil 'Good day t'ye, neighbor.' " While he mused about her Mrs. Smith had ', lifted her pall and carried it slowly toward Jier lodging, which stood next to that of lat right's newcomer. As sho passed his door the sound of whistling came from it. Taney started and spilled some of the water sh3 carried; her face grew white; she was looking at the door, not into the quad, but these eigns were hidden from her observant admirer. Ben Shrubsolc. Tansy hurriedly caught up her pail and went into her lodging. II. At this time sixty years ago a good deal Df delicacy was shown in the selection of candidates for election to the College. Their previous history was not made public, and Lherefore a superior kind of pensioner ometimes put in a claim for admission. This had happened in the case of Philip Graham, as lie called himself, the last newnmate. He was, as he stated, a native of iYynstone; he had been born in the litt'.o '.own. and his father and mother had lived tnd died thvre; lie was a child when they lied, and his only relative, a ionuu.. cuu., ri.i pii-rn the ornhan a home a ina un : promised to provide for him. The cousin was an unsuccessful iloctor, but he lived :omfortably on an annuity. He resolved :hat Philip should also be a doctor, but the Loy had neither aptitude nor liking for the profession. Philip's heart had always been set on tak!i,g orders, but on this subject his cousin 'c fused to listtn to him. The cousin did and left rhilip almost penniless. When, tome years later, he applied for election at the college, he told the warden, who was also chaplain of the lit tle community, that he had now no cnoice j nmmiinltv th.1t tlG nUU HOW Hß J ' - etween the refuge offered by the college, nd semi-starvation, his health being so I &nd much broken by sorrow and constant dis appointment that he could no longer fill the post of secretary to the kind friend who had advised him to seek admission to the old gray hostel, the friend who would pay the yearly sum supposed to be possessed by each Inmate; for entirely penniless candidates were not admitted. The ex-doctor's thin, intelligent face had drawn on the 'varden's sympathy; he was himself a solitary man. without wife or child, and he looked forward to" chats with his newcomer, who was evidently far better educated than the rest of the collegers. In the morning the warden went to call on the new inmate; on his way he pasrod Urs. Smith's window and saw her water-

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Macquoid. ing her flowers. He said: "Good morning; I fancy you will find Mr. Philip Graham a pleasant, quiet neighbor, Mrs. Smith." She looked sad; it seemed to him ehe was disappointed. "Is his name Graham, sir?" "Yes; he's not very strong, but our fine iur wm soon set him up; I'm sure a year of it has benefited you," he said genially, and certainly Tansy Smith looked very much better than when she first came to the colleße After the warden had passed on she stood musing. "That whistle was strangely like his, but the name Graham. No, It cannot be; only a simpleton would dream that such a thing could happen." Tansy. must have been a simpleton, for the rest of that day and all through the night that followed, waking and sleeping, she dreamed constantly of her new neighbor. Sho could not see his face; there seemed in these dreams to be a veil over it, but she felt sure that if she could draw this veil aside she should find her own dear love, the Philip for whom sho had never ceased to mourn. bhe watched next morning for more than I an hour, but there was no sign of her new neighbor. Then she had to leave the window, for the warden confided to her the washing of the altar linen and the Furplices, and she prided herself on doing this with extra care. Tansy rarely found time 10 sit on the stone bench for gossip as the others did; she had always something to do cither for herself or for one of her neighbors. She was also proud of her skill In gardening, each of the lodgings having a small plot for vegetables and flowers In the grounds behind the gray college. She came back this evening from the garden, her apron full of potatoes, when she 1 saw crossing the quad a tall man who stooped as if he were very old. There was little light left, and Tansy quickened her steps determined to get a nearer view of the tall man's face, for she felt sure he was her new neighbor. Her hurry helped her; she had nearly overtaken the stranger, who was moving slowly, when three potatoes fell from her "apron and rolled past him along the flagged pathway which bordered the smooth, wellkept turf of the lnclosure. The tall man stopped, put out his foot to stay the course of another truant potato, then, turning, ne came face to face with Tansy. Light from the west fell on his face, but hers was in gloomy shadow. "Let me carry them for you?" Every note of the patient, gentle voice struck on Tansy's heart; it sounded kindly, but so utterly weary of life- and Its troubles. She looked up at him. "Thank you." She spoke as sadly as he did; sho could not recognize the withered, bearded face, though her heart had recognized the voice. She told herself this could not be her Philip; her silly dreams had played her a trick. She opened a corner of her apron and held it out to him. "Thank you again. Will you please drop them in here?" he had picked up all the strayed tubers "I was going to cook some for supper. Would you like me to bring you a few when they're ready';'' He was staring at her now, trying to peer through the darkness so rapidly increasing in the encompassing barrier of those four gray walls. "I 'beg your pardon" his voice had an eager tone in It "May I ask your name?" Tansy quivered from head to foot. Who was this man who spoke so like her lost Philip, and who yet looked so unlike him? " "My name is Mrs. Smith, and I'm your next-door neighbor." lie was going to put another question, but he was interrupted.' Betty Griggs had watched the little scene from her window, which also looked on to the quadrangle. Sae hastily told herself that minx had let fall her potatoes for the express purpose of making acquaintance with the new col leger before any other body got chance; she now bore down upon the nr. the pair, At 8 o'clock that evening there came a modest tap at the new colleger's door. He rose and went to open it; he knew it must be his neighbor with the promised potatoes. A woman who spoke so earnestly would not promise anything she did not mean to perform. This thought did not cheer him; the great sorrow of his life had been caused by a woman, who had given J a promise, which she had never meant to ! fulfill; she had promised to be his wife. and a mere trifle had made her faithless. With this, lie opened the door. Mrs. Smith stood outside, holding a dish covered with a cloth. The dish was hot, and I burned her fingers; she hurried forward and set it on the table, already spread for the man's bread and cheese supper. She deftly placed the dish at one end and looked up. A lamp hung from the ceiling; its light fell on Tansy's face, and on that of the man opposite her. For a while there was silence. The woman spoke first, in a hurried, broken voice: "You said your name was Graham; that can't be." There was such anguish in her voice that he looked curiously at her. Then he held his head higher, and his face grew hard. Can it matter to you. Mrs. Smith, how I call myself?" he said sternly. At the change of tone she drew back from him; backwarder still, till she leaned against the wall. She longed to hide somewhere away from his righteous anger; to creep under the table, or cover her faco with her trembling hands, but her eyes were fascinated. She stood staring at the man she had so longed to meet again: each moment recaueu muir iwmj .. W known so well; known and she , Sne now felt bltterly she could never really have loved him, or she could not have flung him away in a moment of mad caprice. It was not possible he could pardon her; he had said he could not live without her. that his life would be a wrecked existence unless she kept faith with him, and for answer she had laughed and bade him marry a girl with money. You will never forgive. Philip? I feel you must hate me." lie laughed. "I have tried to forget you, ana i prajta : tht vou might never cross my path to , . . , . . ...,1 . ,.n viheS 1 OUglU HI im: luinjuciru stir up . M uo . &) e at InnVfd rOU last this would prove a resting place." before he could stop her Tansy had fallen en her knees. .pMliD-rMIip." she stretched out her ir(,(J towards him, "forgive me! Say once more you forgive me, and I will go away from this place. I am not idle, as I used bo I can earn my bread somewhere ,V C He pressed his hands on his eyes as If to - v,ic elht "What can she mean?" he muttered. "Sit reasonably." His tone surclown,

d her it was so rnasietiui, uiuusui unj,ui wuu ao on, muuÄi Viv.v.v tfM1i0 nad spoken dike that In the old J quiver lingered at the comers of her lips. ,f X0 c"Ii es t-va ch'ca hizi uo to Tansy locked serene as she went bacX to

marry Dennis Smith, and misery.

obeyed Philip now like a child. "Why 'do I find you here, a poor woman? Even If you are a widow you have a house and servants of your own! Did your husband lose his money?" He got up and walked angrily away from her. Her presence In the College, her kind manner, all seemed part of a plan to trick him; to tear open the deep wound which he had hoped the peace of thi3 quiet refuge might heal. "Go!" he said, hoarsely. "Whether you are wife or widow, you have no right to come here. , Go!" He turned resolutely away. She rose, and stood quietly by the table, tears streaming down her face. Presently she said "I will go, rhilip. and if you require It I will quit the College. I am here because I am a poor widow; I am not an impostor. riease listen!" she said, pleadingly, for his shoulders shrugged with impatience. "I suppose I was not a loving wife; how could I he?" He turned his face a little, and she saw he listened eagerly. "My husband beHeved I cared more for some one else than I did for him." Philip turned away again, Sho went on passionately: "God knows I do not blame my husband; I had done him the worst harm a woman can do a man. I married him when I had no love to give him." She waited, but he stood silent. Presently he said, very slowly: "You have not explained how you come to be in an almshouse." "Do you think I could have lived on his Hiuney wnen i naa no love for him?" He turned to her again, as she stretched out her hands in protest. "Don't think me bet ter than I am. I am not sure that I rmii.i have willingly given up my means of itwng. remaps Dennis knew me better man i Know myself. His will left me everything he possessed, but on ono condition: I must solemnly swear in the presence of two witnesses that I would not marry again; if I refused this condition I was to have my clothes, my few trinkets, sufficient furniture for one living and one sleeping room and the meager pension which enabled me to apply for election to the College. For years I had been able to earn, till my health gave way; then I remembered this refuge, and that I was a native of Wynstone." "Who had your husband's money?" "A cousin, who dislikes me; his only living relation." Philip stood thinking. The woman held her breath with suspense. "I thank you for telling me this. I am sorry I doubted your poverty." He paused then he added, "It is very dark. Mrs. Smith, shall I show you the way to your rooms?" No," she said proudly, "I will not trouhie vnii int. )UU. She was gone before he could speak again. IV. The warden had finished breakfast. The grave, grayheaded servant who, besides ihr ntVii. .1,1 l, . . , the other duties, kept the grass in the quad smoomiy snaven, was both bell ringer and sacristan of the chapel, and who may be said to have performed the duties of deputy warden . in his master's absence, waited till the warden rose from the table, and then gave a little deprecating cough. The warden knew the signs, he smiled. "Well, Scrubbs, there's a complaint from someone, Is there?" öcruoDs looked stolidly indifferent. " 'Tis Mistress Griggs, sir; she seems in a hurry to see you." "Let her come to the study." Betty Griggs was not a frequent complainant; she had a sharp tonirue. and was therefore able to right herself with her neighbors, not being gagged by any extra modesty. Her severe frown and puckered Hps, this morning, surprised the warden. He said, in answer to her deep curtsey, "What can I do for you this morning. Mrs. Griggs?" Betty came up to his desk and spoke in a solemn w hisper: " 'Tis not me, sir, as is in question, 'tis the good name of the College." "Eh? What? What is it you mean?' He spoke sharply; he had a horror of scandalous gossip, and so far, under his rule, the College had kept pretty free from it " 'Tis a scandal, sir, for sure, though maybe 'twas to be expected. I've not trust ed her from the first, but, Lord, sir, 'tis the outside as most folks takes warrant by." "Will you say at once what you've come to say, Mrs. Griggs? I'm busy this morn ing." He knew now as well as possible that the complaint was against Mrs. Smith; this was not the first hint about outward seemIngs he had received from Betty Griggs. Betty cocked up her chin and did her best to look dignified. "Well, sir, I'll speak as quick as I can. I happened to be walking around in the cool last night, it was, sir and who should I see coming out of the new colleger's lodging but Mrs. Smith?" "Go on." Betty's face was very red. "Well, sir, I'm an old-fashioned body, and I thought that was a strange sight. I sez to her, 'You're out late, Mrs. Smith,' I sez. 'You, who's such a home-keeping body as never has time to drink a cup of tea. neighborlike, when I ask you.' " "She nodded and went on, I suppose?" Betty stared. "Lord, sir, how could you guess? She did that, but there was something wrong with her she was sobbin fit to break her heart, There's som'at atwixt those two g- a shouldn't be: I'll lay my life there i. sir." Sho afterwards told Benjamin Shrubsole, v. ... . iv i confidence that she could have took the in warden by his two shoulders and given him a good shake, "he looked that cool an' Piacid." ..j advise you not to worry about your neighbors, Mrs. Griggs. We can always nejp tnrm by praying for them and by our kind words and deeds. I doubt whether, In a small community like the College, we need a watchdog." Betty had stiffened with indignation. "My sakes, sir, I thought I was doin' my dooty In warnin you of such doln's. I. as am that petticklar, as would no more have Mr. Shrubsole In my room after dark than I'd think o flyln.' I'm sorry, all the same, to give offense, sir, by doin of a dooty. I " The warden Interrupted: "You meant well. I've no doubt you think you've done your duty, Mrs. Griggs." She courtesied and turned to go, and he auded very seriously: "It's often the motive of what we do that matters more than the actual deed. Do you know, my poor woman, I'm inclined to doubt whether you thought only of the good of the college in giving me this warning. You remember the old cxt 'Charity thinketh no evil.' " Outside the warden's lodging Betty could hardly keep from stamping on the flags gne told herself the warden was a regular old frump, The college clock had struck 5. it was growing dusk when Tansy Smith came out of the warden's lodging. No one ever heard I wnai ner uusmtss was hum me vitifcjiwaw, but she had gone in with a sad face and bent head. She came out an hour later as

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her rooms. She had told the warden all her sad story and he had advised her to go away. "I suppose I'm ttlll a vain fool," she thought when she had removed her bonnet and cloak and was seated at her needlework. "I believe I expected Philip to take up with me Just as If nothing had ever come between us. How Is he to know I have loved him all the while?" He had turned from her with stern dis

like, and Justly, for she had ruined his life. It was plain that he had not put any one in her place. Poor, dear rhilip! She wished she had still further humbled herself. If she had only told him the truth! Such a chance would never come again. When they next met she felt sure he would treat her as a stranger. During that day, and the following morn ing, Philip remained shut up In hi3 lodging. It was growing dusk on the second afternoon, when he suddenly came out and knocked at his neighbor's door. "Come In," Tansy said. She was too much agitated to go for ward. She guessed who was her visitor. She had longed to see him, and now she wished he had stayed away; she felt that she could not bear his reproaches. She had heard him enter; then there was dead silence. Tansy could not bear the sus pense; she Jumped up and faced him. She started back with a little joyful cry. He had shaved off the disfiguring hair that had so changed him, and she saw her Philip, aged indeed and worn, yet with the happy, trustful smile she so well remembered. Tansy held out both hands with a sob of Joy. "You do forgive me, dear?" He shook both her hands warmly; the poor woman's heart was so full of longrepressed love that this greeting failed to satisfy her. "Tansy, I want to say," his voice had a strange, constrained sound, "I think It was noble of you to give up your living for for " she stared at him perplexed. He suddenly caught her by the waist and clasped her to him. "My girl, my dear love," he cried, "I'll never call myself a failure again. You'll marry me next week, won't you, Tansy?" OUT OF THE ORDINARY. The United States is nearly thirty-two times as large as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Su.OK) barmaids of England work fourteen hours a day. Their wages are a week and free beer. In the matter of population Germany (öG,343.0o ranks after European Russia (10U,15'J.WO) and the United States (76,000,000.) At present sonrn of Great Britain's coal mines uro worked at a denth of 2.000 to 2.500 J feet. The average depth of her coal mines 1 is 7j0 to 0 feet. In the Gettysburg National Park 225 I moumeu cannon n;tve ueeu piuct'u unu u. I f f i f nui m,,mlmm,M to Kioto ami aVkrtiit 500 monuments have been erected. Charcoal 13 the irreat Italian fuel. Nanles I alone consuming 40.0 tons of wood charcoal at a cost of from 4 to5 a ton tne rauonai consumption ueing ions. i xne uniy peisun: no nave nem me lauiv of generai of the United States army were rr-i 1.. - 1 v..... 1. .1 1 1 n 1 General George Washington, U. S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Philip 11. Sher idan. As a result of the recent student riots all the higher courses for women in the medical institute of the University of St. Petersburg have been closed indefinitely by official orders. Subterranean arcades are the latest real estate novelty in New York. Plans have been drawn to erect booths and stores underground connecting with mercantile and office buildings. The present population of Athens, in Greece, is only 80,uvo. There is no accurate census of the city when in its ancient glory, I but it is supposed at one time to have con ta1 w.uuo inhabitants HlU J1?' ÄLJ tE! pronriated for the penitentiary for the past two years is offset by the $83.331 remaining In lho treasury from the earnings. It is proposed to illuminate the Yosemite Falls. W) feet in height, by use of twenty arc lights in connection with means for producing color effects. Some of the roads are also to be lighted with electricity. In Itus8la the sunflower is cultivated as c staple crop. The sunflower seeds are an article of diet, being eaten either raw or roasted. -The oil is also use-d liberally in cooking, being practically equal to olive oil. A naturalist says that every time a larmer shoots a hawk he throws a fifty-dollar bill into the fire, for, though the bird take3 an occasional chicken, It destroys at least a thousand rats, mice and moles every year. With the exception of a few small concerns in Warsaw, there is only one large shoe factory in Russia. This concern does an enormous business and i- one of the most prosperous stock con nies in the empire. The letter carriers of Canada are paid $30 a month at the beginning, with an annual Increase of $2.50 a month until the carrier receives $00 a month, or $00 a year. This is subject to deductions for superannuation account. There are signs that the immigration of Northern families to the South, which has been notably large for the past five or six years, will be larger this year. Western States contribute as much to this flow southwarel as do the Eastern States. A London firm has ju?t sold to the British Museum (natural history department. South Kensington) for 350 an elephant's tuk measuring ten feet and two and onehalf inches and weighing pounds. This is said to be the largest ivory tusk ever known. It was a woman, and a Chinese Empress at that, who first took note of the product of the silkworm and perfected a method of utilizing it. Her name was See Helg and she lived about 2Su0 B. C. It is to her we owe that delightful fabric in all its many variations. Miss Ella Ewing. the Missouri giantess, who is eight feet four inches in height, recently completed a hou.je for herself at the town of Govin, in that State. Her new house has doors ten feet high, ceilings fif teen feet high, with chairs, tables, beds and everything in proporticn The larsest building ever erected was the temporary structure known a the .Man iifärtiir nml Tiheral Arts buildlnfr at the I U 1 Iii vva v ' a w - - - - I .ns tst feet wide. 1.637 feet loner. 203 feet high, covered 30 acres and had acres or I floor space. Including galleries. A famlly Ju Roston overlooked J credit of ?10 in a savings bank in ISCO, and tiw matter was forgotten until lr7. when the accumulated amount was $l?2.61. It was allowed to remain, and on Jan. 16. 1501, was ll.S30.10. r-'he interest allowed has gradually been reduced from 7 to 4 per cent. The production jf tobacco in the United States is now about 725,OA000 pounds, of which about one-half Is consumed by our own people and one-half exported. Some idea of the rapid increase alike In the world's production and consumption of tobacco is gathered from the fact that the production of the United States alone has been almost doubled since 1S70. A Kentucky farmer claims to have sucnpded in cultivating ginseng. In earlv times the plant grew abundantly In th forest's of central and southern Indiana. and was extensively gathered for medicinal Mirnosps. beinsr largely exporten to tmna. It Is still found in some localities,, but in limited quantities. Its preparation or cui tivation was supposed to be impossible. The Eternal Goodness, J long for hou.ehMcl voice gone. For vanished smiles I long. But God has M'my dear ones on. And He can do no wrong. I know not what the future hath. Of marvel or urrHe, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And if my heart and fh are weak. To bear an untriei pain. ' The bruiypJ rood He will not break, Hut strengthen and sustain. No ofTerln? of rry ovrn I have. No works niy faith to rrove; I can but pive tht pift He pav. And rl5 love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the mufHed car; JCo harm from Him can come to m On ocean or on chore. I krew not where His island lif Their fronded paJras In air; I or.iy know I cannot drift Deyond His lov and care. J. Q. Wfcittitr,

THE VOICE OF THE PULPIT

nCSPKCTi A STHOXfi PLEA FOIl TOLEUATIOX A.D .MODERATION. Dy the Itcv. Henry A. Brown, D. D., Hector of St. Jolin'n Kplncopnl Church, San Dernnrdlno, Ca I. "I will meditate upon Thee and have respect unto Thy ways." Psalms cxiv, 15. Respectfulness In any individual reveals depth of character and breadth of mind; it opens the door to discovery of the truth Imbedded in every creed, every religion, every school of philosophy; it is alike necessary to the proper worship of God and service to man. It Is a cause for deep regret when the cir cumstances under which one Is placed, the training he receives and the incentives which drive him forward tend to lessen his sense of respect either for the laws of society, the Institutions of state or the commandments of God. Under these heads we may mention, first, a proper respect for parents, their wishes and ways, even though we have long since passed from under their control, and though we see they hold old-fashioned ideas, do not eat according to the latest rules of etiquette or dress In the latest fashion. The first commandment God ever gave with a promise was, "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." He who has protected and provided for his child from helpless infancy, watched over him with a father's love, felt anxiety and care a child never realizes, now that his hair is white with the frosts of many winters, his face furrowed with care, his limbs trembling with infirmities of age and toil, deserves better thanks and more respect from his son than to be called "governor" or "dad" or "the old gent." He is a father, no matter what his failures 1iave been, and let shame mantle the cheek of any youth who thinks it a mark of "smartness" to call him otherwise. So likewise with that mother. Think of all she has borne through all the years; the untiring care, the patient labors by night and by day, the faithful devotion in sickness and health. The profoundest respect, the most thoughtful attention, the tenderest love can never repay her for what she has been to her child. The wife who trusted her life and fortunes forever in her husband's hands, and has shared his Joys and sorrows now these many years, deserves more respect than to be called "old woman" or be made the slave of his whim. She is a wife and Is as worthy to be called that sacred name when care has plowed its wrinkles through her brow and the rose has faded from her cheek as when, beautiful and full of hope and trust, she stood beside him on that bridal day. Censorious, fault-finding words may be spoken thoughtlessly, but a woman's heart is sensitive, and, although in her wifely devotion she may give no sign of sorrow, yet the unkind words strike deep, and, when she Is alone, bring the tears which pride and fear kept from his sight. BE TOLERANT. Again we see a lack of respect on the part of many for those who differ from them in opinions. We fall to consider at times that people whose views are diametrically opposed to ours are just as conscientious In their beliefs as we. How apt we are to feel that because a man doesn't think as we on the tariff question or the silver question or the prohibition question or a religious ques tion that he hasn't an honest hair in his head. People conscientiously differ from one another and it 111 becomes us to ascribe sinister motives to any one, and, though we may have no respect for his opinions as opinions, yet, as true gentlemen, if not Christians, we are bound to respect his feelings so lor.g as they do not hinder us in our conscientious belief. A man may be opposed to profanity. It may wound his heart to hear God's name taken in vain; in such case it is the part of a man, no matter whether he has any regard for Christianity or not, out of simple respect for the feelings of a fellow-man, to desist from profanity in his presence; to re fuse to guard one s language is an indica tion of low-bred manners, to pay the least. Acrain. let us have respect for our laws. Lack of respect for law is the bane of re publican America to-day, and the peril or her institutions; its results are obvious to the most superficial mind. Supposing a noted criminal should be convicted of mur der by a jury good and true and sentenced by the Judge to be executed, but the executioner should say: "I do not believe in executing him: my syaipathy is with the prisoner." What would be the meaning of such an act: Would sucn a person oe tolerated for a moment in ollice? Yet has any servant of the people any right to allow a law to be openly and flagrantly violated? Has he anv right as an otlicer to question whether or not it shall be enforced? Is it not most flagrant disrespect to the prlnci pics of American citizenship? An insult to the dignity of law? A law may be flagrant ly unjust; as loyal citizens we should labor for its repeal, but so long as u is a law we should lust as loyally obey It. America fl citizens, your respect for your laws is the safeguard of your itepubiic. Just beneath the cross of Christ every American citizen should hang his country's flag, and every child from ocean to ocean Khould be taught that that flag is the "glorious emblem of sweet liberty" for which his fathers have bled. It I an indication of respect to see it unfold to the breeze from the towers of our public schools. We cannot see too many of them. Thank God that the time has come when nearly everv schoolhouse and public Insti tution In this land floats from its topmost tower and spire "the broad stripes and bright stars;" and never, so long as we retain the memory of that suffering in Valley Forge and Gettysburg, and of all those seven long and awrui years or ngm ing: never, so long as it remains the emb lern of the American Nation, sacred to the memory of more than a million men, can we allow it to be Fupnlanted by an other. I read somewhere that In England every youth can repeat every word of "God save the Oueen. Does every Amen can know "A'merlca" by heart? In France everv Frenchman removes his hat at the sound of the "Marseillaise." Do our people have as deep a feeling whn hearing the "Star-spangled Danner ' or tne "Ked, White and Blue?" Can we say them, even. without the book? RESPECT FOR GOD. And now I have touched this subject much as a boy skips a stone on the water. glancing here and there along the surface; and a3 the stone at last seeks the bottom, let us look more deeply and con sider, finally, respect for God. Look where we will upon our earth, and note the tiniest petal of the flower, the smallest grain of sand, the pearly drop of new, or transfer our thoughts to the great er universe and there Denoid world on world wheeling in ceaseless circles around their suns; in each and all alike we see the hand ot the almighty guiding, controling, up holding all. Can power command our re snect? Then why not the power of God? Can beauty awake the dormant sense? Then what more beautiful than God s work lit nature? Then one more step, to that which must challenge our most profound respect. When the world was lost in sin, forth from God came the Word made flesh and dwelt among us. He healed the sick and raised the dead, suffered, toiled and died to save that which was lost, to give life in the highest, purest and noblest sense, and all for us. Can love bestowed move us to respect? "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He so loved us." Pause, O thoughtless one, before such transcendant love and Infinite majesty, and ask. Does not such a being deserve more respect from me than to take His sacred name in vain, to desecrate His holy day. to trifle with His words or reject His claims upon me? Can I free nothing worthy of worship In Him before whom "angels and archar.srels , continually Co say; "Holy, Holy, licly.

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Lord God Almighty, heaven and earth are full of the majesty of Thy glory." Am I so far depraved as to be unable to comprehend some part of Ills majesty, power and love? So blind as to see in Ilim no beauty? So indifferent as to feel no impulse to love and respect? O, rather may I say, with my whole heart, "I will meditate upon Thee and have respect unto Thy ways." YOUR. CHRISTIAN' NAM 12. Great Change In Fnahlon of Feminine Xotuenolat nre. New Orleans Times-Democrat. What's in a (Christian) name? A good deal sometimes, or so the girls atfiicted with such nomenclature as Iirldget. Luclnda, Amanda and Hannah think. No one has any right to put such lifelong handicaps as these upon unconscious innocence. Some persons go so far as to consider that social standing Is affected by the tivf-n name, which is ridiculous, of course, if the famllj cognomen is strong enough to offset the first. Such a change as has come into matters of this sort! In the era of our great-grandmothers there were only a score of feminine names In use, and they were, as a matter of course, hard worked. liemember the names of your great-great-ancestresses; If they were not Sophias they were Marys or Marias; if not Emmas, Elizabeths and Annes. Shortly after the wave of "sensibility" struck the romance conning ortion of the world and Haidees, Leilas. Roses. Violets and Blanches bloomed Into communities sporadically here. tnre and everywhere. Then the rr? to name babies after the wives of Pre.-kU-ots and the Queen of England and her family took possession of all mothers, and there was a crop of Beatrices, Mcftids. Victorias, Louises, Augustas, Dolly Madisons, Ntlly Custises and so on. About the time of our civil war Manassas became a usual name at christenings, for some cruel reason; the unlucky womenchildren who were so entitled have nearly given up the weary task of explaining that they were born "on the anniversary of the battle, ten years after!" But why should girl babie have been so imposed upon In the beginning? 'Tv.ould he as sensible to christen a child Congressional Library or Democratic Defeat if they happened to have been born on the dedication of one and the late election day. Jus; now the unlucky little ITetorias are beginning to cut their teeth over in England, and the aftermaths of our own victories, Hobsons. Dewey?, Cuba and San Juans are getting nicely through their second year. There Is a really new boom in name fashions, however; the Muriels, Hildas. Viviens end Gwendolens of te Arthurian ai.d Tfnnysonian decade, charming as they nrv have given way, among "the clnsses," to Janes, Susans and Sarahs, which have long teen too plain and unromantie for "tl:? masses." The plainer the name the smarter nowadays; time, indeed, Is a whirligig. Marjory, Dorothy, Winifred and such are now hopelessly commonized, pity though it be. But as for the deruler cri in names, the Celtic renaissance is responsible, and a fair showing In nomenclature It is. Thir.k ho.w rhythmical and soft are these when pronounced: Eire, Moyra, Sheila, Maey, Oona. Flnola and Engelda, the last being an Irish version of Angela. Pretty, aren't they, and musical? GCOIlüC WASHINGTON'S IJOCTORS. Were Benighted, bat Those of Thin Day Should Not Laugh Too Ifoud. Washington Post. Georg? "Washington died at an advanced Pge. about the end of the eighteenth century. His malady was a form of dlptherla. then, and perhaps now, known as "laryngeal." In a recent i?ue of the Medical Record. Dr. Georpre K. Welch unearths the statement of two of th? physicians who attended General Washington in his last hours, the statement having been published in the Medical Repo.itory more than a hundred years ago. We think it will interest our readers, professionals and laymen alike, to examine the treatment. Here Is the bulletin, as It was made public by the physicians who treated the great President: "Some time on Friday, the night of Dec. 13, General Washington was attacked with an inflammatory affection of the upper part of the windpipe, called. In technical language, cynanche trachealls. This disease commenced with a violent ague, accompanied with some pain in the upner and fore part of the throat, a sense of stricture, a cough, and a difficult, rather than a painful, deglutition. The necessity of blood-letting suggested Itself to the general, and he procured a bleeder in the nslr-borlicci. Tiiia tzzli from his tra la

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the night twelve or fourteen ounces of blood, lie would not by any means be prevailed upon by the family to send for the attending physician until the following morning, who arrived at Mount Vernon about 11 o'clock on Saturday. Discovering the case to be highly alarming, and foreseeing the fatal tendency of the disease, two consulting physicians were immediately sent for. - "In the interim were employed two copious bleedings, a blister was applied to th part affected, two moderate doses of calomel were given, and an injection was administered, but all without any rreceptibio adantaee. the respiration bvcoming e till mere ditilcult and distressing. Fpon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians. It was agreed that as yet thero were no sirns of accumulation in the bronchial vessels of the lunes to try the result ct another bleeding. When about thirtytwo ounces of blood were drawn, without the smallest apparent alleviation of the disease, vapors of vinegar and water wem frequently inhaled, ten Krains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting In all to flv or six grains, etc. The powers of life wer row manifestly yielding to the force of tho disorder, respiration grew more and morn contracted and imperfect, till half past 11 c clock on Saturday night, when, retaining the full possession of his Intellect, he expired without a struggle. "Several hours before his decease, after repeated efforts to be understood, he succeeded in expressing a de-ire .hat. he might b- permitted to nie without Interruption. "JAMES CR A IK, Attending Physician. "ELISH A C. DICK, Consulting Physician." Dr. Welch, in discussing thi astounding brrbarism. comments upon the p.ithetio manner in which the physicians expreß their astonishment and grief at the failure oC their treatment to relieve the pitlenL, and Rdds: "The treatment, therefore, of an old man, sick with a difeasc very exhausting to vitality, and ko severe that the i'.lnes lasted but twenty-four hours, consisted in the abstraction of between two and thre5 (luarts of biood, the administration .i.f about gr. xx of calomel and fcr. vl of tartar emetic, an injection, with external apT'.ications of a blister and a pressure of tl; hand. This treatment administered to a well man in so rhort a time would go far toward preparing him for his 1-st jouroej." Of course, pueh a story a thiF. read in the light of the first suns of the twentieth century, recalls the brutal Ignorance of Sanprado and th superstitions of the dark ages. But, after all, did net Drs. Craik and Dick n present th most advanced medical knowledge and practice of that age? Were tbey any more benighted th.-n than our best phy.iciar: of to-day will seem a hundred years herce? It is evident that their treatment wou'.I have killed General Wafhlr.gton t-vrn ir h had had a chance rf triumphing over the malady under which he UnsuHhed. but would any of the doctors of his day hae treated htm differently? U is our cpird n that if medicine advance in the ?ame degree as other sciences during the current century, the leading practitioners in the year will l-w-k hsc!: uon th' ideas" and theories of the ablest physicians now living with as much tnty and contempt as Dr. Welch has just showered upon Drs. Craik and Dick. Verily, when o;;e considers the medical practices of the past he wonders that his progenitors lived long enough to maintain the race. HUtory of Tea. Meehan's Monthly. The first knowledge Europeans had ef the use of tea by the Ch'nese seems t'i have been derived from the embassy to the Emperor of China, from an East Indian compr.r.y. an account cf which was published In PVÜ, and translated into English by J. Ogibbt. Esouire. of London. The plant seemed very abundant in the province of Nankin. It was onJy found u:v!rr cultivation. Nowhere was it seen wild. The plants grew as hi?h as rose Inrshes, and were planted on hills three feet apart. The leaves are gathered In hve slzs the larger leav-s are the lowest on the bii5he. Thi uppermost Tt .-mnlk-t. and iurnih the highest 'iflce tea. The white flowers were about the sire cf a sweet briar ro:-e. The t-eeds sowr. In the r.rour.d produce phints that are very productive of leaves the- third year from fowirp. It In hardy enough to stand a little frost and snow. It takes the place of beer. In otlnr countries, as a drink, and It is bchevd that the entire absence of gout, stone, nr.1 other diseases of the East, among the Chinese. Is due to their use of tea Instead cf Intoxicating drinks. The author says the Chinese found it good for "overcharged stomachs." and gives sleep to the re-tie??, but in excess "Increases the gall." Tho'ijl; three hundred years have passed slr.c-j this was written, we have not had rr.u:: better accounts of the plant iita.