Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1881 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT BAGBY & CO., OFFICE, 13 MILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Harltet tm. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Xaton4,u second-clam matter at the Poetofflce I it Indianapolis, Ind. i TKBM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Biagl Copy, 1 year I llWHttl m9 M ...fJ.00 1.00 .... .50 .... .20 1.7 6 months M S montLs 1 Konth CI ab of 1x1 year, each copy ten, 1 year, each copy............... 1.50 THIS PAPER K be P. found on file at Kowell & to. s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract may be made for it In NEW YORK Subscribe for the Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and Jet every white man who believes that slavery was a crmo against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. Why can't they have a little earthquake at "Washington 4 s . LI ' - yyy ---lj 9 ' The dead-lock in the Senate is the best time lock known. Could not an expert burglar break the Senatorial dead lock. Deaconßichard Smith, of Cincinnati, Means to be a kicker now and then. Dead things are not usually so hard to break as the dead-lock in the Senate. Senator Voorhees tried to bully Mahone, but the tough little General put it all over Daniel in fine stylo A large maioritv of the Itepublicans of Memphis, favor Mr. Church, colored, for Postmaster. The gerfus "Ohioman" is still abroad with his little pole, and the persimmons continue to fall into his pocket. The Island of Chio, in the Mediterranean was visitod by an earthquake Sunday. Several villages were destroyed, and many thousand lives lost. It has been announced that the President has determined to appoint Captain Henry, an "Ohioman," to be Marshal of the District of Columbia, in place of Hon. Frederick Douglass. "It is said" the latter will receivo some other appointment "The Washington Sunday Itom" is the name of anew candidate for public favor, ia the fieldbf Negro journalism. Messrs. Lacy and Bruce are its editors and proprietors. Washington City ought to be a good place for a Sunday paper. We wish the new enterprise abundant success. The local elections this week showed some remarkable results. The Democrats elected their candidate for Mayor in Cincinnati, and carried Chicago by a large majority. Both these cities are usually .Republican. St. Louis, heretofore reliably Democratic, shows a .Republican majority of thirteen thousand. CooxiJfo schools are coming into great favor. Culinary science is coming to the front It ia found that good cooking has much to do with domestic happiness, while bad cooking can only be tolerated by saints, and saints nowadays are scarce. The cooking schools propose to make good cooking fashionable a matter of high art something superior to poor painting and inferior piano pounding. The idea is a good one, and it is quite possible that the time is near at hand when the young lady will exhibit bread and soups, etc., as the triumphs of her education instead of poor paintings, a cart load of which wouldn't buy a breakfast. Joaqcin Miller tells of two men, neighbors, old Californians, both rich and respected. In 1852, when dying and destitute emigrants literally crawled on bands and kneea over the Sierras, trying to reach the settlements, one of these men exhausted his means to relieve their distress, and the other increased his riches by charging fatuous prices for every thing he sold the starving emigrants. The eenerous man died a beggar in Idaho, and an un inscribed bowlder marks bis grave. Speaking of the other man, Miller says: "The children of the 'Prince' are in Paris. Upheld by bis colossal wealth their lives seem to embrace the universal world. He is my friend. He buys all my books, and reads every line I write. When he comes to this sketch he will understand it And he ought to understand, too, that all the respect, admiration and love which the new land once gave these two men gathers around and is buried beneath that moss-grown granite stone, and that I know, even with all his ahow of splendor, that his heart is as cold and as empty as that dead man's hand." It Is thus that wealth and meanness are sometimes so intimately associated as to make their unfortunate possessor doubly repulsive. Miller should name the man he styles the "Prince." The oeusms reports furnish startling points for calculations of future growth and development which being largely within the boundary of probability become interesting to those who have a fancy for looking ahead. The growth of population in the United States during the last ten years ! a little over 30 per cent , and therefore at

the same rate of Increase in 190U the population will be about 85,WO,00a But taking into consideration the increasing emigration from Europe, the population of the country in 1900 may be 95,000,000. "Judging the future by the past," says, au exchange, "we find that in the year 1900 California should have a population of 960,000; Colorado over 2,000,000; Kansas between 3.000,000 and 4,000,000; Missouri, 3,500,000; Nebraska, from 3,000,000 to 3.500,000; Nevada's growth has been marvelously slow, but in 1900 she will claim at least 300,000; Oregon, 700,000; Texas should have the enormous population of 6,000,000; Arizona, 600,000; Dakota about 3,000,000; Idaho from 200,000 to 500,000; Montana about 300,000; Utah from 400,000 to 600,000; New Mexico, 250,000; Washington Territory, 650, 000. In the Northwest, Minnesota will then have a population of about 2,500,000, and Wisconsin 2,000,000. At the end of twenty years Ohio will probably be a thriving community of 4,500,000 souls." With this vast increase of population there will be a corresponding increase of products of forest, field and mine. The production of food will be fabulously increased, as also the products. The modest fortunes of to-day will have expanded to princely estates in 1900. No one knows or pretends to know the vast treasures of our mountains their gold and silver, iron and copper and no one pretends to estimate the capicity of our soil to supply the world with food. If auch is the outlook for 1900, what triumphs are in store for ihe country during the next century? The problem becomes bewildering in the grandeur of possibilities.

Statistics, with regard to the winter packing of hogs, have been prepared and published by the Cincinnati Price Current. Winter packing includes the period from November 1 to March 1, four months. During that time there were packed 6,919,436 hogs. The following tabulated statement shows the leading cities and States doing the business for the winter seasons of 1879-80, and 1880-81: 18S0-81. 1879-80. Chicago.. Cincinnati St. Louis......... Indianapolis... Milwaukee Louisville....... 2,781 ,064! 2.525,21 9 522,425' 534,559 474,1591 577,793 3.sS,76;i 364.021 325,729 340,783 215,670j 231,259 !4,707,810i.5?J,634 2,211.646.2,376.817 AU other places..Total ...16,919,456. 6,950,451 The following shows the number of hogs packed by the States during the winter season: ' 180-81. 1S79-80. Ohio .. SSD.tOi 914,964 604.186 Indiana ....I 510,554 Illinois.... Iowa : 1,979. 190 2, 784, 754 ! tvtt.316; 658,05 Missouri 5:t.9tW 926,9:1 137,780 57,481 S2.990 35. 726 256.463 42,897 24,800 Kansas - j 42,2lli ebraska 102,197 Minnesota Wisconsin. 32.500: 375,557 1 92.811 23-1.8421 39, 867 1 29,000; Mlrhipan Kentucky.. Tennessee Miscellaneous Total number and averages... 6,919,456 6,9V). 151 The aggregate weight of the hogs is set down at 1,437,252,661 pounds for the season of 1880-81; and the aggregate pounds of lard at 216,677,145 pounds. During the season of 1SS0, that is, from March 1 to November 1, there were slaughtered 5,323.898 head of hogs, the average net weighof which was 983,109,336 pounds, yielding an average weight of 163,197,75 1 pounds of lard. The number of hogs slaughtered during the winter season of 1880-81 and the summer season of 1880 was 12,243,354, giving a total of 2,420,361,997 pounds. From such figures it is not a difficult matter to estimate the commanding importance of this branch ef American commerce. THE PLAQUE, OR BLACK DEATH. The report that the plague, or "Black Death," has made its appearance in Eastern Asia is creating no little alarm in Europe. The fear is that it will spread Westward. The countries where the plague still originates are Egypt, Syria and the two Turkeys. "In those countries the conditions which determine and favor its development are the habitation of alluvial or marshy grounds a hot, moist atmosphere; low, badly aired and crowded houses; the accumulation of a great quantity of animal and vegetable matters in a state of putrefaction; scanty and unwholesome diet; great moral and physical destitution, and the negligence of the laws of public and private hygiene." The London Standard of recent date states on pathological grounds that the plague is a very malignant form of contagious fever, which breaks out suddenly in certain local ities and spreads with frightful rapidity, and that the present type is as virulent as that of the Middle Ages. It is characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands and by carbuncles, and beyond doubt one seizure seems to afford no security against a second attack. This is, however, a point upon which physicians have not often had a chance of studying, since "the pest" does not usually leave the same individual a chance of experiencing its symptoms twice. It has been contended that it is not contagious, but in almost every case of an outbreak the disease has been traced to persons who have come from infected districts. In the Astrakhan epidemic of 1879, and in that of 1771, which cut offlOO.OOO people in Moscow, the pestilence was known to have been brought, in the one instance, from Central Asia, and in the other from Choczin. Again, during the latter outbreak the 1,400 inmates of the Imperial Foundling Hospital, who were isolated, and in 1813 the town or Jegla, in Malta, which was shut ofT from Valetta, where the disease was raging, entirely escaped. Quarantine, however, as a preventive against the ravages of cholera has been proved to be utterly futile, and it is very generally allowed that it is not much more potent as a barrier against the plague. No other form ol death has ever enlisted into its service historians of such brilliant talent De Foe could not have been an eye-witness of the horrible scenes of 1665 in London. But he had doubtless talked to many who had survived those dreadful times and were familiar with the tales of the corpse-carrying wagon going its dismal rounds, of the living being unable to carry out the dead, and of London deserted by the Court, and, indeed, all who could escape into the country. In "Rienzi" the late Lord Lytton has given an account scarcely less rirtorial rf plague in Florence, and in almost every otner european country "the pest" which crept like a foul miasma over Asia, Northern Africa and Europe from Naples to Archangel, and even to distant Greenland, where it smote the Esquimaux by thousands, has secured such able chroniclers that, at the slightest sign of its reappearance, Western .Europe naturally . grows

alarmed. In the years 134S, 13C1, 1363. 1569, and 1602 London was visited by the "black death," though these early attacks of the disease sink Into insignificance when compared with that which desolated the city in 1665, the year which will ever be known as "the year of the plague." In reality, however, though it caused before Christmas a mortality of 68,596 out of the 500,000 people which the metropolis then contained, it did not abate until 1666, while in the thirteen subsequent years there were many fatal cases recorded. But after 1679 no death from plague is known to have occurred, and in 1704 so entirely bad it disappeared that the name ot the disease was actually omitted from the bills of mortality. The plague or black death is one of the most fearful scourges that ever visited the human race, and the fact that the medical world has been unable to find a remedy for it, is well calculated to increase the general alarm. As the scourge has its origin in filth, the announcement of its appearance in the East will doubtless have the effect to stimulate the authorities of great cities to exercise greater vigilance In sanitary matters. No city ought to be too poor to keep clean.

UENKRAL KOTES. Three Jameses In the Administration. The engagement of Senator Pendleton's eldest daughter is announced. Oakfikld is not troubled much by visits from one Senator. His name is Coukling. FeREpAUOH's most beautiful woman In America Is said to be a native of Monongahela City, Pa. The New York Herald says; "The voice is the voice of Garfield, but the hand is the hand of Elaine." Fernando Wood's son, Calhoun Wood Consul at Rochelle is in New York. He has returned to settle his father's estate. The new Secretary of the Navy knows something about one ship, anyhow. We refer to courtship. He has had four wives. During the last twelve years twenty-one American girls have traded off their good looks and their fathers' money for empty European titles. Henry Ward Beecher's wife is recovering from the recent sickness which overcame her so suddenly in her husband's Church. Mary Clem m er, so long known as a Washington correspondent, has abandoned her letters, and now devotes herself almost entirely to literature. A peculiarity of the Austrian Empress is said to be her horror of noise. Wherever ehe may be, thick carpets are laid down, that she may not hear the sound of her own footsteps. Mrs. Gear, wife of the Governor of Iowa, and other ladies, are incasing the torn battle-flags of the State in strong gauze, that they may be kept from harm and y?t not concealed from sight. Miss Maria Chester, of Waterloo, N. Y., became pralyzed because she wore too tight g rt rs. Tho only safe way to hold up your stockings is by hanging them on the ends of your suspenders. "I am always cool," was the boastful remark of Robinson: "I never forget myself." "No, we uever knew you to." And a sweet smile lighted with heavenly effulgence every face. Boston Transcript. Ex-JupoE Grant, of Iowa, who has a large law practice in that 8tato, and who is nearly soventy years old, is a pupil at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is studying chemistry for use In mining litigation. A French lady rent her maid to buy some flesh-colored stockings. Tho servant returned with stockings jet black. The anger of the mistress soon gave way to laughter when she recollected that her maid was a lady of color. In London, only a short while ago, when Royal folks went to the play the papers used to say they honored the Theater with their presence. Now such journals as the Times and News merely remark tnat they witnessed the performance. President Garfield has decided not to recall General Longstreet from Constantinople. The slate for the Federal offices in Louisiana, which was presented to the President, and which included Longstreet'8 recall, has therefore been changed. Alexander III. is a rough soldier, and his man ners have a guard-room savor. They were much ruder when he married the gentle Dagmar, whose Influence over him In many ways has been excellent, ne has a strong affection for her, and man domestic virtues. The office where Andrew Jackson went through the formality of studying law in Salisbury, N C, ia still standirg. It is described as along, frame house, two stories high, with a long front porch, standing back on a grass lawn amid trees and aged box bush. Mr. Charney, who was dispatched to Mexico by Mr. Lorillard and the French Government, to conduct archaelogical researches, has succeeded in making Important discoveries. The Mexican authorities have, however, refused him permis sion to take out of the country the antiquities he has found. The following verse is sung with no impious in tention In San Francisco revival meetings among the sailors: "Oh, haul away, Lord, haul away! And haul my soul ashore. So cheerily, oh. Lord, cheerily oh! A long pull and a strong puU, and a pull for evermore. Secretary Rich, of New Mexico, has In his office, in Santa Fe. a book written by Diego de Vardras, who reconquered New Mexico in 1694. The book describes the reconquest and is in a good state of preservation. The badly-kept offices at Santa Fe are depositories of the most ancient archives in ti e United States, some of them run ning back nearly a hundred years before the Pil grim landing at Plymouth. Mr. William Powell, Sr., who died in Clncin nati recently, aged ninety-one years, helped John Heathcote, of Lelcesteshire, England, to construct the first machinery for the manufacture of lace The working-classes of England, fearing that the machinery would curtail the need for manual la bor, held meetings and denounce; thed inventor. Heathcote's factory was destroyed by a mob. Mr Powell came to this country in 1830. The train had just emerged from a tunnel, and a vinegar-faced maiden of thirty-five summers remarked to her gontleman companion, "Tun nels are such bores" which nobody can deny. But a young lady ol about sweet eighteen, who sat in the seat immediately In front of the ancient party, adjusted her bat, brushed her frizzes back, and said to the perfumed young man beside her. "I think tunnels are awfully nice." Congressman Cox, now on the eve of going to Europe for au extended tour, writes to a friend in Washington as follows: "Yes, I am off for Europe on the 9th of April, if I have to swim across. Haven't had much use tor water generally, but shall try to use it this time, if necessary. If I am not back In my seat when the session, extra or otherwise, commences, please have me put on Committees where two things will happen little talk and much work. I am tired of this 'chinchin' business." Mr. Beecher has at last resumed work on his long delayed "Life of Christ" that the Beecher. Til ton scandal "knocked higher than a kite'' some years ago, according to Mr. Wilkeson, the publisher. The first volume was Issued some seven yeais ago, aud after the Tilton row popular Interest In the work ceased. As Beecher has been- recently sued by Wilkeson for failure to fulfill his contract, it Is probable that the work is resumed to evade legal damages, but there will now be little or no profit In the book. Secretary Blaine said to a Hartford gentletleman: "When I first began my political career n Maine 1 was a candidate for the Legislature. It was In the Maine law time, when excltemeut on the temperance question was running high. I had two papers and was ediUng one. . In the heat of the canvass a liquor advertisement was handed Into the business office and appeared in the paper.

Of course I knew nothing of it. But the next day that advertisement was placarded all over the city of Augusta in large type, and over it in big letters was the headiug 'Jim Blaine's views ou temperance!' I concluded that if I was going into politics I could not be a success and still be an editor, and my first itfep was to Bell out the newspapers and be indeindent of them." Mr. Samuel J. Tilden is in New York, but his hat Is In Omaha. One day last week the Gramercy sage visited the Union Pacific office in New York and deposited his hat on a pete adjoining one that held the hat of Mr. Sidney Dillon, President of the road. When Mr. Tilden left the office he slipped Mr. Dillon's hat over his level head. When Mr. Dillon Kotup to catch a Western express train he seized Mr. Tilden hat and carried It to Omaha, where It is now exhibited as a curiosity. Mrs. Susan Wills Fletcher, the American medium, who is soon to be put on trial at London on a charge of coaxing a woman to part with her Jewels through pretended communications from the spirit world, has caused a stampede in London society by announcing her Intention to call as witnesses to her high character every titled personage who ever sat at a seance with herself and husband. Among the personages whom she threatened to drag unwillingly In the witness box was one very exalted indeed. Mere rumor of such an event caused intense consternation, and every effort Is being made to prevent the "scandal" which would ensue. Op the late excellent New-Englander. Nathaniel Deering, It is related that he was very fond of the drama, and on one occasion went to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Portland. The piece was well played, and Mr. Deering became so absorbed that when the auction scene was reached and the poor black woman was being torn from her family, he forgot all save the victim of the block. Just as she was being bid off to the cruel master for $5.000, the audience were startled to see him leap from his box to the stage crying out: "Six thousand dollars!" The kind-hearted New-Englander was as sensitive as sympathetic, and his dismay when he recollected himself was great. Alvin Bronson died at his residence in Oswego, N. Y.. on Saturday morning. At the session of the New York Senate of 1824, In order to prevent the vote of New York from being cast for William n. Crawford, of Georgia, for President, a bill was Introduced giving the election to the people. Seventeen Senators a majority of the Senateopposed and defeated the bill. These Senators were known as "the infamous seventeen" on account of the popular clamor against them. Mr. Bronson was on of the seventeen and the last survivor. In the War of 1812, Mr. Bronson had charge of the military stores at Oswego, and to prevent their being captured by the British threw them into the river, for which he was taken prisoner and confined in the Prison at Kingston. The Memphis Appeal says: "The breach between the white and colored Republicans of the South is widening and deepening. Indeed, a 'bloody chasm divides the two factions. The white Republicans, who are the recipients of all the offices, of course are anxious to shake hands over the gulf, but the blacks are tired of the unprofitable business, and in future elections they propose to antagonize the party which regards the colored race as fit voters but utterly unfit to hold office. In every part of the South the colored Republicans are demanding their proportionate share of the offices. But the Administration seems to treat these appeals with contempt, as Garfield has not yet nominated a single colored man to office."

RKSUMK OP TUE WEEK'S NEWS. Pitkin, of Louisiana, will probably be appoint or iuiuutier to ie.iTO. Nearly 5,000 emigrants arrived at Baltimore aunng me past montn. Twelve Baronies In the Connty of Cork are prociaimeu in a Bluest disturbance. Four thousand persons sailed from Bremen on eanesaay tor ew ork, making 20,000 since tho year opened. The Mayor of New York has referred rhrs against the Police Commissioners for failing to ucnu iue b i reeis. The President announces that he will neither appoint nor oeDar a man from office merely betuiici; iie is uiaca. Karly vegetables In Louisiana and Texas are badlv damaged by frost, and it is feared the peacnes are au kiiied. The Indianapolis, Bloomlngton and Western Road has swallowed the Springfield Southern, a hub us nines in lengxn. Mne Democratic Senators declare thftr inten tion to vote against the confirmation of Robertson as collector at ew lork. General Lew Wallace has telegraphed the Presiueui a aecunauon oi .me fcoutn American mis sion, to wnicn ne was nominated. ear ataon. Ia., Gustave Rechfus was shot oeaa ana nis brother Henry severely wounded, mc tumassiu iiriug mrougu a winuow. Mrs. Jennie Perry, of Baltimore, alone in her room, on t naay, was stricken with apoplexy, fell ostuusi me stove, anu was roastea alive. Included in the railway projects chartered in inoiana are a narrow-gauge line from Terre Haute to Merom, and a road from Terre flaute to uiumbUR. A panic prevails at Milford. Ind.. ovpr th Aa. velopment of twenty-five cases of small-pox. com municated from a woman discharged from the uubpnai ai ron wayne. T" w-w v . u. urayaon, a cierit in the Federal Bank at ixuaon. uut., wno disappeared on Wednesday night with a companion named McEachren, is believed to have taken J20.009 from the sate. Among the entries for the S10 .000 t)iirs for stal lions at Boston iu September are Santa Claus irom uaiuornia, oitaire from Illinois, and Ken tucky likes from Wisconsin. Bouesetter Is also expected to participate. Reports from all parts of Ohio indicate a larger diente oi winter w neai in mat state this year than last year. The crop is in healthy condition, and the recent snowfall will prove advantageous uuicns luuun vu uy irosts. u Civilization ls crushing out the institutions of Arsansas. uovemor Churchill has signed a bill which absolutely prohibits any person but an officer from carrvine concealed wprtohs nni audacious attempt was recently made to place utc owic uu a leuipemuce una IS. ay an exDlosion of a saw mill hnllor at nari-a. ley,;Va on Saturday, there were kiiied: Andrew Brown, Moses Conway, Luke Whitehurst. Thomas ureeKe, anu Kooert James. The injured are L nacaus, w;e .Mingo, itobert Johnson and a boy. Sophia Pieoffsky, one of the murderers of the Czar, is a daughter of a former ProvlnriRl r.w. ernor. Her confession shows that only Jelahoff nuu uerseii anew oi me time and place for the assassination, ana sne sent Koussakoff and his accomplice with the bombs to the stations assigned IUCU1. A. G. Campbell, to whom Governor Murray is sued a ceruncate oi election as Delegate from Utah, has favored President Garfield with n slateraent of his position as a representative of uereucy wunin me snaoow oi tue twin relic of barlxirism. He declares that Cannon is not only an alien, but defies the law by living with four wies aim twenty-seven ennaren. The death of Miss Deuell, the fasting ladv of lowaviiv, is iiuuny expeciea. mere are blue circles about her eyes, and her hands have reacnea almost apurple shade. Her funeral ought to be a day of rest to her wearv and dis graced sister. At this writing she is entering her wri -ursi uay oi iasi ana still lives. This beats me iamous ur. i anner last by several days. The United States Senate fairlv entered imon I an exciting sectional debate on Friday. Lamar, flanked by Beck. Ham d ton and Ravard fr ior me routn on yesterday, ana Hoar championed the cause of the Northern factionlsts, Dawes coming to his relief. The sensation of .the dnv ii iiiiercuauge oi worus oetween Manone and i . i . . i oornees. uiaa.stone informed the House of Commons that he is unable to state nositivelv whether or not tngiana win oe represented at the Monetary Conference. The London Times thinks the gathering at Paris will result in the adoption of a double standard for the United States and the nve countries or tne Latin union. German acre. ing to hoard the silver and England to maintain ine silver standard in inaia. A memorial to llartlngton irom residents of Manchester ask representation in the Conference for India, at least. The Liverpool and Birmington Chambeis oi commerce demand mat delegates be sent un pledged. A Fourteen-Year-Old Dor Shoo tin? Itrother-ln-Law. A Lancaster, Ohio, special to'the Gazette of yes terday says: James Bulger got Into a wrangle this afternoon with his father-in-law, John Giese, at the latter's residence, with reference to his wife and family, who have lived with Mrs. Bulger's father, and been taken care of during the pust winter, while Bulger was in the nortnern part ot the state. Giese attempted to put Bulger out of the house, when the latter seized a rolling-pin and would have probably made it warm for Giese, had not a younger member of the family, Edward Giese, about fourteen years of age, taken a hand in tne difficulty.' He procured a revolver and fired at his brother-in-law. but his aim was bad and the bullet severed a couple of his sister's, Mrs. Bulgers', finzers as she Bnranr between the combatants. The boy let him have a couple more Ehots, however, which were more effective, one entering the rieht ear and comine out of the mouth, and the other making a dangerous wound in his back underneath the left sheulder-blade. Bohrer lies in a critical condition, while his father and brother-in-law were taken charge of by the authorities.

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An Eloquent dermon By Rev. Myron W. Raed. At the First Presbyterian Church, Sunday, at the morning service, Rev. Myron W. Reed delivered the following sermon to a very large congregation: I. Samuel, viii., 7-9. And the Lord said uuto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me that I should not reign over them. Now, therefore, hearken unto their voice, howbeit. yet protest solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of th King that shall rule over them. The children of Israel seem to liave had the first opportunity of all the Nations. The simplest and best form of government is the government of Uoi. It had in the days of Samuel ceased to be an experiment. It was a government approved. 1 he records of this reign were public. Obedience to God had been a blessed thiupr to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to Moses and Joshua and the Nation. There was liberty and light and life In this obedience. All the trouble that had fallen to Israel could be plaiuly traced to indifference to God, to mutiny against Him. It was a Government graded down to the least. ' Honor thy father and thy mother" that was the first lesson in reverence. The father and mother honored the elders, the heads ox the sections: and the elders honored the chiefs of the tribes, and the chiefs honored the law and listened to the prophet, and the prophet listened to God. It was not simply a government witn a constitution and statutes, and religion of ritual dating back, but God their King was with the Nation by a prophet telling them tho location, duty of the day and place. The law of Israel was so made alive. There is nothing more admirable enduring greatness was sure. But they were not contented. THEY PRAYED FOR A KINO, For the reason, as stated, that they might be In the fashion. "That we also may be like all the Nations, and that our King may Judge us and go out before us and fight our battles." It is a singular request It amounts to this: It is asking God to abdicate and give the Kingdom to a man. But it is a common form of prayer. We are all willing to pray to God that He may uso His pawer to fulfill our will. We will finish the plan, and we ask Him to do the work. If we do not dictate, we suggest that our will be done. We are well aware of our weakness, and we ask God's help; but we seem to be confident in our wisdom. Notice the Lord's Prayer; it begins "Our Father.'" There is a confession of His power and also of His wisdom. Thy will be done." There is no suggestion of a plan. It is submission. It is the cry of one who is ignorant and weak. It is a child's prayer. But notice the Disciple's prayers. They are full of suggestions "do this" and "do that," "call down fire from Heaven," "send the woman away." Prayers and requests of personal ambition that some private programme may be carried out; as a child might tum 01 iia laiuer simpiy as one wno has money, simply as a strong servant waiting on the caprice of the child. Notice the prayer of Christ already within the shadow of the cross: "Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless not my will but Thine be done." If there is any other path, let me turn aside Into it, but If this is the only possible path of salvation for men. I will tread iL so we are taught how to pray. We can do little we pray for help. We know little we cast ourselves on God's wisdom. "Lead kindly. Light! amid the encircling gloom lead Thou me on. The night is dark and I am far trom home." THE ONLY THING ENDLESS ABOUT MAN IS HIS LIFE HIS DE8TINY. His power and his wisdom are not on that scale. His own short candle will go out.leavlng him not at the end of trie road, and when he vividly realizes this he will not only pray for strength for the journey, but also that the journey may be planned for him. He will see that strength to step and the direction of steps are both to be asked for. Then all is well. We left the Nation of Israel asking for some other King a direct insult to the King that planted them and prospered them and mado them a Nation. You will hear or read now and again that God, as represented in the Old Testament is quick tobe angry unmerciful. It is a good thiug to first read the Old Testament, to see God's care for birds; His protection of their nests: ms care ior oxen, lorDiaaing mem to be muzzled while thrashing by treading out the grain; His care of the poor, lorbidding tho reaping of the comers of the fields, making everv field, every iue anu iruii iree contriDute to the need of the stranger and the fatherless. The "tramp" of those times and of these times was not and is not forgotten of God. Here is an exhibition of His mercy. The Nation He had led out of slavery, throughthe sea, over the wilderness, into the land of promise, asked Him to resign. They wanted a new King a mortal one. What did God do? Well, He first stated to them by His prophet what the resnlt would be. He stated what the result of giving power to man is, he will abuse power. You are familiar with the history of Kings. You know the Boubons, the Stuarts, the IHapsburg family, the House of Russiawho are now torturing men and women the Napoleons aud the Ceasars. You know the history of t!iese. How is this for a prophecy ot what manner of men a King will be? Let history interpret prohecy and see how near Samuel hit the truth of the matter. Samuel said : "This shall be the manner of the King that shall reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots and to be his horsemen, and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him Captains over thousands and Captains over fifties, and will set them to till his ground and to reap his harvest aud to make his instruments of war. AQd he will take Your daughters ta vnfecüoners and cooks and bakers. And he will take your fields and vour vinpvards and rnnr olive yards, the best of them, and give to his servants, and he will take the tenth of vour seed aud of your vineyards and give to his officers and servants. And he will take vnnr mon lumnti and your maid servants and your goodliest young uitummjuuiwscinuu pui luera to nis work. He will take the tenth of your sheep, and ye 6hall be his sen ants. And ve shall crv nut tn thatHav because of your King which ye shall have chosen. mc liuiu in uoi near you in mat uay." Samuel alive to-dav. and with .11 th hUtnr t Kings before him, with the spectacle of the position of Ireland, could not have stated in so few worus tne aoings oi Kings better. Nevertheless the neoDle refused tn nlor th voice of atauel, and they said: "NAY, WE WILL HAVE A KINO OVER US." And the Lord said to Samuel. "IleRrfepn nntn their voice and make them a Kinr " An nmrU but persistent uraver will (ometimps Via cmantod That ought to make us careful as to what we insist upon in prayer. There are more teara shed over the living than over the dead. It is a sorry thing to see a child die. It is a sorrier thing to see how some men live. The children that Are conn ar safe, that is certain. They are not sorry they are not making other people sorry. They are not sinning they are not Binned against. They are not on the sea. beaten about at the South in the monsoon. They are not in the North, frozen in .iThey are in the Holv Harbor. It is not well in dc&line with IntinttA Mi,.m tn Insist on anything. The thin we insist nn li to a King for Israel, may be granted. I wish you to notice that the imnishments of (Jod th of disobedience, disloyalty, mutiny re not as severe as they mhrlit be; but as merciful as they may be, human justice would say. This people ask justice, and mercy, and love, to abdicate. It is the basest ingratitude. Give them now . Ktnr the worst of Kings. Give them at once enough of it. But " 'tis not so above." A Kine is Granted and on the vhnlp la ihn best man in Israel for the place Contrast Saul, King of Israel, with anv one of the modern V intra he made war, but he did not sit down at home ana in saiety, ana sena nis people to be slain. He led them a thing that can be said of no King of this preseut time he did not wait to be assasinated. He led his neonle in his last nri iet hattic, and fell on his sword and laid dead with them, on the slope of Gil boa. On the whole if they would have a King. Saul is not tha worst hilt tha best-of all Israel. Y hy did God firant them a Kine at all ? Whm people or an individual reject the best will no have it what is to be done? They are not up to iue uesi, not up to it in neart or in mind. The crown is splendid, but it is too big for them! Well then they must be fitted. Give them the second best, until bv iifn.Hny On1 ovnArtnntA grown to the best. THE WORLD AS A WHOLE ARE TIRED Or KINGS, of empty political economy, of the results of human power and wisdom, of the law of suoply and demand, of the issue of competition. More aud more the Bible is read, and the conscience consulted and the Holy Spirit believed in sometime after experience enough, we shall return over a tear-soaked and bloodv nath to thi Kin of the beginning, and the biding intuition and experience will declare one law of God even intelligent selhshness is now saying, "Whatever that ye would that men should do unto vou do ye even so unto them." the prodigal son will have his portion will ioisaae nome and eo down into tne far ronntrv It is a (Treat follv and a great sin. IT a nprvf tn be banished. He is permitted to go to try it, but he Is not permitted to be forsrotten. to be counted as outcast and hopeless. The father waits for mm, sees mm wnue yet a great way off, meets him. welcomes him. Duts a rincon hia flncer and shoes on his feet, and there Is a lubilee. 1 find in this old historv the love of find wait. ing yet on the Hebrew race, "the desnised of all Nations." They are not drowned, thev are not swallowed up by an earthquake they are waited for. I find in this old historv the action the Individ ual his folly and his bin: the patience of God with him. He Is not made as miserable as he might be. He is treated as mercifullv as nossihle The door Is open and the light burns. God has not "cast us. oil forever; He will not always chide." As an old man (frravheadedl falls hnrk t hd. time ou the prayer of babyhood "Now 1 lay me down to slee i pray tne Lra my soul to keep, nuu li i uie oeiore i waice 1 pray the Lord my soul to take." SO THE OLD WORLD COMES AROUND to a jrreat hunger and thirst for the watch and care of the wise God Almighty, He who, watching over Israel, neither Blumbers nor Bleeps. We want the pillar of cloud by day the pillar of fire by night. Ana John tituart Mill, after a Ufa of study and

experiment, sums up the net result In the saying of a child iu the Infant class of our Sundayschool. What is the lesson then? Life is short. If It Is possible, let us begin with wisdom and not simply end with It. The words of the Bible have been verified. It Is waste of time to verify them again. Take these words on trust then, and go on to build your life on these sayings, and you shall be likened unto the man that built his house upon a rock.

Is First Love a ToUyT . ' . f Progrea. What man or woman living to-day but enjoyes the reminiscence of his or her first love happiness, though it does come under the category of the follies of youth? And it is a folly to the extent that it so seldom proves a reality, yet withal an experience that fits one for the greater possibilities of maturer life. We, as a rule, are not liable to wed our first loves, and, if the exception occur?, nine cases out often learn to regret they, have taken, the course out of rule, for as we love in extreme youth we worship an ideal, which a3 time wears on loses the glamour of blind idolatry, aDd displays imperfections or even fatal .to the anticipation of unalloyed blies. For this reason we'ousjht to be thankful, as we often are, that Dame Prudence takes care of her babes in the woods. They may love in their own way, but they must wait to marry, and waiting is but learnine, and learning is wisdom. Heart speaks to heart, mind to mind, and they separate, he adoring elsewhere, and ehe lost in dreams of a future wherein her first love has no share. Still we must not rob first love of its roseate tint, and that it has a wondrous power we all acknowledge, for see how we recur to it, how unselfish it was, how absorbing and how eternal it seemed; and even now that it is gone, and memory alone vibrates our heartstrings, how sweetly it recalls us. Can you not see the green of the fields and the azure of the sky as they appeared to youthen? Modern love, even among young people, has somewhat changed from the primitive ideal of a first passion. There is more calculation about iL Love affairs in these days have become more matters of science than of impulse. It has a begianing, a second stage, and, too frequently, alast a period of decline. Have you ever watched the progress of a truly first class and first family and "society" love affair? If not it will pay you to do so, should you be fortunate enough to find yourself on time in such a bon ton fashionable circle. You will see a game played, analogous to chess, for instance," deliberate,full of thought, with nothing left to chance. If there is sentiment, and thero is sometimes, 'twill lie where you'd least expect to find it, say the lover will see it in the mode of his lady's coiffure, the perfume she affects, the delicate pink, polished half-moon of her fingernails, the cut of her dress, shape of her bonnet, or languor of her pose. This diet suffices for the earliest stage of a modern lover's existence. Then comes a sort of artistic study; I might call this the aesthetic period, as we liye in an artistic stage. Like the Frenchman, our modern lover conquer by the most subtle flattery and the most delfcate attentions. He sets a mirror before his mistress, which blots out all defects and heightens all beauties, and professes to understand her every motive in short, becomes her own best interpreter of herself. To this spiritual devotion is added the generosity of an adoring prince, whose favors consist of rose bouquets when roses are a mine to the florist, of theaters, operas, petit soupers and petit coupes, quiet strolls in shady nooks, or a day's recreation amid the repose of leafy woodlands, when he smokes a cigar, and she makes a show of crewelwork, ßhe is well dressed and he is well dressed; indeed, this couple never in any way shock the prcprieties of life, and herein we find the one virtue of an alliance with little heart, much calculation, and more determined, advantageous results. In such an Aristotelian drama marriage generally follows in its course of progressive development as a third stage, and then, well look at the marriages of to-day, my friend; see how the gray will mingle with the storing locks of youth, how quickly the autumn must fallow the promises of spring and the j y oi summer, now the cold, chaste moon has given place to darkr.ess. and the snecu lative lover has become the indifferent and oft tyrannical husband. Where now is that keen knowledge of the wife's inner thoughts, me sweet nauery mat appreciates her tasteful attire, and alas! where are the bouquets, the soupers, and the coupes? These are little trioes she may accept from her gentlemen friends, who are alwavs readv to wait unon dear old Jack's wife, and whose idea ot point u uuuui ia auuut as ill nil I us lue 8 WOrU BUDposed to govern their own princioles of life. Who says we are not following foreign fashions, foreign manners, and foreien morm i uy, we are even losing tne sweet experiences of love's young dream, which, ac cording to the poets, is not always folly; "He I a child and she is a child, In their kingdom there by the tea, Bat they love wlib love that is more than love. He and hie Annabel Lee." So, be it folly or fiction, and it likely to le ootn, "Would we ahun if we could? In tooth I almost doubt it! Faith I M rather bear its ting Thau bare lived my life without it!" First love is doubly a folly when we allow it as a frost to disturb the present If you have married Midas, and he disappoints you, ard your thoughts involuntarily turn to your old love, De Vere, remember, it may have been worse with you, while now you still have De Vere as your ideal, and Midas as a stern reality. Cheer up, dear hearts, those who are wasting away on the wreck of a broken youthful love; life and love are still waiting for you. Themoral of a story is always written by experience, and that will tell you that no affection, however small, is ever worthless; it teaches, even in its loss, and will also declare to you that the only love which ever endures is that coming from disciplined hearts for rational creatures, who are not the shadowy delusions of our youth, nor the idols of our own worshipful creations. Thank Heaven, we American women know little of that . ferocious jealousy mai so characterizes the rrench lover. Our women, as a rule, are faithful and our men honest, and what a Frenchman would call wisdom and knowl edge of the world, we look upon as base suspicion and jealous skepticism. He is un convinced, even if he 4finds out" nothing; he thinks only that he has been tricked, and that madame is more artful and more skillful than himself. Fortunately their women are accustomed to suspicion, and regard it as an integral part and necessity of love. Thev expect Btorms, and when they are ended laugh and shrug tehir shoulders, dry their eyes, and say, ,4Mon Dieu, quel homme." They never think of resentiDg what we would feel as an insult, and they manage jealousy, smooth over difficulties by flattery, and amuse by their wit. What would fire our pride into open rebellion but tickles their pride, and gives them an opportunity to prove their skill in taming the raging fury of their Othellos. So if first love be a folly let us cling to it as such, foster it in young hearts, and nurce its sweet memory in hearts whose beats art numbered. The illusions of life are few enough, and if the decree of fashion will permit we send in a petition to her Majesty the "Dame:" "Grant us a long life to love's young dream." Taking Comfort In Life. Sooner or later, friends, the time for folded hands will come to us all. Whether or not we cease from hurry and worry now we shall one day shut our eyes upon "it, and' lie still, untroubled by the stir and the fret of the things about u Why not take comfort as we go on? You, proud mother of a beautiful, active boy, of what use will it be to you by and by to remember how exquisitely fine was his raiment, how daintily spread his bed, and how costly and profuse his toys? What the child needs is mother-

ing, brooding, tender resting on your heart and he needs it every step of the way from baby days' to manhood. Take the comfort of our opportunities. Nevermind though the dr-, l. -.r, and tne food plain, and the play thin- irv,' but answer the questions, tell the stories,' spare the half hour at bed-time and be merry and gay, confidential and sympathetic with your boy.. And you, whose gmr. ful young daughter is justblushing out into ilm bloom and freshness of a wondr&usly lW womanliness, do not be eo occupied with your ambition for her, and her advancement in life, that you let her way3 and your own fall apart. Why are her friends, her interests, and her engagements, so wholly and distinct from yours? Why does sht Visit here and receive visitors from this a:,d that home, and you scarcely know tho pe pie by tight? You are losing precious hour", and the comfort you ought to take is flying fast away on those wings of time that are never overtaken.

RELIGIOUS NOTES AND INCIDKNTf The American Sunday school Union will be fifty-seven years old on the 12th of May and will hold its anniversary in Chicago. ' Lyons is a small place In New York .State, but the report from there is that 800 n-w convorts have joined the Churches. The revival which has for some weeks been pro gressing still goes on. The 1.743,000 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, raised last year, for benevolent and Congregational purpose?, the sum of $13,552,045, whicn is about 8 for each member and probationer. . At Mark's Creek. X. C, the Presbyterians support their Churches out of the proceeds of cotton grown on little patches of land set apart by each family for the purpose. Managed with system the plan pays well. The Irish Presbyterians are again discussing whether it is light or wrong for a widower to marry the sister of his deceased wife. They are no nearer the settlement of this troublesome question than they were when they began it, a great many years ego. There aro so few men who want to make matrimonial alliances of this kind that the discussion is a waste of time for most people The statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church, shortly to be issued, will show that there are ninety-four An mal Conferences an increase of three; 12.096 itinerant preachers, an increase of 4G0, and 1,742,'.2:$ members and probationers, a gain of 43,318. There were 59,330 adult ard 58,535 infant baptisms, there being a decrease of 3,888 adult baptisms. The total of benevolent collections was $017,158, a gain of $102,410. Brother Kalloch, of San Francisco, recently gave a Sunday evening lecture on suicide. It has been suggested, in view of the verdict acquitting the junior Kalloch, that the father should now preach on murder, his opinions on which subject could not fail to interest a San Francisco audience. The lecture on suicide was delivered during the trial f Kalloch, junior. Before beginning it Father Kalloch said: "A. great number of my friends have wondered how I can preach twice each Sunday during the existence of troubles that they suppose occupyall my energies. All I have to say is that I see nothing in the present state of affairs to prevent me from preaching, nor my son, for that matter, and he probably will deliver a sermon here before long." It is understood that the young man will occupy the pulpit to-day, in which event the rush for seats will be great. Celebrity In Chicago. Chicago is. trying in her humble wav to hold second place to Cincinnati in the field' of high art criticism. It happened recently that Theodore Thomas gave a concert in Chicago on the same night that Salvina acted at one of the Theaters. 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