Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1885 — Page 6

EHE IÜDIAIIAPOLIB DAILY BBHT1KBL SUNDAY 210KNIKG JASlTARI 11 1365

JM'US OF DICKENS.

jffc Jjfct for Ticket ml Boston aal w York. EtKtrtMiU f Life of the ftrett Aothor In r' book, "Charles Dickens M I Knew Him," wbich bus jnst been-published, Mr. Geore lklby gives an account of the famous reading tours in Great Britain and America. Ux. Dj:bj accompanied Dickens as manager olihetoun which were resumed in W3; therefore he has mach to tell that is bath Interesting and new about the experiences tt hii "chief" and himself darin;; those enterprise. During the American tour the demand for tickets for the readings was so great as to be inconvenient. Clerks and servants of intending purchasers of tickets for the opening readings in Boston began to assemble outside Iba ticket oilice the night before the sale begaa being supplied with straw mattresses, blankets, food, and drink. By 8 o'clock in la the morning the queue was nearly hall a mile long, and about that time the employers of the persons who had been standing in the streets all night began to arrive and take their places. But the scene in Boston was as nothing compared with the scene in New York; for the line of purchasers exceeded half a mile in length. At Brooklyn, the nobie army of speculators," as Dickens described them, were in greater force thin ever. Thoy had been in the line since JO the previous evening, and during the whole night had kept up an enormous boalire in the street, sleeping around it in turns on their mattresses and enjoying their suppers of bread and meat, with potations of Bourbon whisky. -Early in. the morning, and just before daybreak, a body of police appeared upon the scene, an idea having suddenly occurred to them that in a narrow street, composed entirely of wooden house 3, a bonfire was a source of considerable danger to tne whole of that part of the city, lb a police made a raid on the bonfire, the ruattiesaes and speculators, and a terrific combat ensued, in which the people farthest on in the line took the most prominent part. until they saw that those nearest the door were beinjr rooted, . and then with broken heads and bleeding noses rushed into the rood places, bringing with them their mattresses and hanging to the iron railings to keep possesion of the places they had so gailantlo fought for. lit. Dolby gives the following account of a canine comedy at Washington which Dickana has himself described: "By some means or other a stray, comical-looking dog had contrived to force his way into the hall, un seen by the police and the ushers m attendance. During the reading of a comic portioa of the 'Carol' this dog suddenly made his appearance from under the front seataud t tired intently at Mr. Dickens. One of the ushers took an early opportunity of having the dog removed, a process which was quietly effected. - Bat a little later the animal contrived to return to his former position, wfeere he indulged in a prolonged howl, ai if in great pain. This had sud a ridiculous t fleet on Air. Dickens that he could not help laughing. Everybody laughed, but the dog was most unceremoniously ejected, receiving miscellaneous kicks and raps over the head from sticks and umbrellas. Strange to say, he returned the next night; but on his way. into the hall he indiscreetly knocked his head sgaidst Mr. Osgood's leg. That gentleman was too quick for the dog. Seizing him with both his hands, he threw him over his ahoulder, and he was caught like a ball at a cricket match by the ushers and passed on from one to another until he found himself in the street. He was not, however, to be got rid of in this manner; for on the occa- , xicn of the third reading he came again accompanied by another dog; but the staff were on the lookout for him, and he did not , get in, much to his disappointment; for, as air. Dickens said, "he kad evidently promised to pecs the other dog free." The excitement of the public on the occa- , eion of the last readings in Scotland knew no bounds, and the desire to hear the "Murder" reading was especially Intense. The great interest taken in this, and the dead silence which prevailed during the delivery of it, had the effect of making Mr. Dickens more vehement, if possible, tnan on any previous occasion. He worked himself up to a pitch of excitement which rendered him so utterly prostrate that when he went tojhis retiringroom (which he reached with dilticulty) be was forced to lie on the sofa for some m omenta before cculd retain strength sufiicient to utter a word. It took him but a short time, though, to recover; and after a glass ef champagne he would go on the platform again for the i:r al leading as blithe and gay as if he were just commencing his evening's work. These shocks to the nerves were not as easily repelled as lor the moment they appeared to be, but invariably, recurred later on in the evening, either in the form of great hilarity or a desire to be once more on the platform, or in a craving to do the work over again. At supper one evening, the conversation turned on the subject of speech-making, and Dickens was asked to explain how he pre- . pared an important speech. He told us that, Kuppcsing the speech was to be delivered in ihe evening, his habit was to take a long walk in the morning, during which he .Trould decide on the various heads to be dealt with. These being arranged in their proper order, he woHld, in his "mind's eye" liken the whole subject to the tire of a cartvrUeel he being the' hub. From the hub to the tire he would run as many p pokes as were the subjects to be treated, and during the progress of the speech he would deal trith inch spoke separately, elaborating . them as he went round the wheel ; add when ail the spokes dropped out one by one, and .nothing but the tire, and space remained, he would know that he had accomplished his Uxk, and that Ms speech was at an end. Hr. Dolby gives the following account of 'What Dickens told him was aaid daring hi .audience of the queen in 1S70: "He went on to tell me that her majesty had received him most graciously, and that, as court etiquette requires that no one, in an ordinary intmiew with the sovereign, should be svatcd, ber majesty had remained the whole , time leaning over the head of a sofa. There T7U a little shyness on both sides at the commencement, but this wore away as the conserration proceeded. Her majesty expressed Sjer deep regret at not having heard one of the readings, and although higly Uattered at this, Dickens conld only express his sorrow ; that, as these were now ilnally done with, and as, moreover, a mixed audience was absolutely necessary for their success, it would be impostitle to gratify her majesty's wishes in this particular. This, he aaid. the Queen fully appreciated, quoting to Mr. Dickens his own worrt3 In his farewell epeech: 'From these garish lights I vanish now for evermore;' and remarking that, even if such a thing T7CT3 pccsibla, there wculd be inconsistency in it, which was evidently not one cf Mr. Dickens' characteristics. After referring in complimentary terms to the pleasure her majesty had derived in witnessing Mr. Diekens acting in the 'Froren Deep,' as far back the year 1657, the conversation took a general tum. Mr. Dickens told me. with a r,od deal of unction, that her majesty had rjzzizzzlj kcd his opinion on the 'servant question. Could he account tor the fact that we have no good servants in .England a laths clden times;" Mr. Dickani rerrrstted that he could not account or this tzzi, ezcrpt, perhaps, on the hypothesis that CZi nztzn cf education was a wrong ono. tn. tlij come subject cf national education,

be added, he bad his own ideas, but saw no

likelihood ol their being carried into er.ect. To price of provisions, the cost of butcher's - - a ... - 3 meat ana ore&a were ecu jignuy war.uw upon, aBd to the conversation rippled on. agreeably to an tgreeable end. Bat the interview did not cloee until the Queen, with gracious mod ssty, htd begged Mr. Dickens' acceptance of a copy o( the 'Journal in the Highlands,1 In which her ma jeaty had placed an autograph Inscription and her own sijpmanual. The Queen, on handing the bock to Mr. Dickens, modestly remarked that she felt considerable hesitation in presenting so humble a literary eCbrt to one of the faremo! writers of the age. After asking Mr. Dickens to look kindly on any literary faults of her book, her majesty expressed a debire to t e the po33eseor of a complete sH of Mr. Dickens' works Thiawaa the only interview Dickens had with the Queen, but her kindness on the occasion impressed him srca'ly." Af tr the funeral of a friend Dicken confessed that "of course 1 made an as of myt elf, and did the wrong thing, as I Invariably do at a funeral." He proceeded to explain that, arriving at the house of his late friend, he was met in the hall by an elderly gentleman, who extend his band. Presuming this to be a friend whom he had met somewhere but bsd forgotten, he took the gentleman by the hand, saying at the same time: "We meet on a sad occasien." "Ye, indeed," was the reply. "Poor dear Sir James." (This with a long-drawn sigh.) Dickens passed on to the dining-room, where several other friends were congregated, and where for a time he quite forgot his friend in the hail; but presently he remembered of that attecting meeting by the entrance of the elderlv gentleman, carrying before him a trayful of tats adorned with long mourning bands, and so high was the pile as to almost hide him frcm view. The elderly gentle man's position in society was now made manifest. He was the undertakers man, and wanted Dickens' hat for the purpose of fuaeral decoration; hence his object in holding out his hand. Mr Dickens wa3 greatly amused (the seriousness of the occasion notwithstanding) when he discovered the mistake he had mae. The closing of the American accounts re vealed a state of affairs to Mr. Dickens far in excess of his anticipations. The original scheme embraced eighty readings In ail, of which seventy-six were actually given. Taking one city with another, the receipts averaged $3.000 each reading; but as small places did not exceed 2,000 a night, the re ceipts in New York and Boston (where the largest sums were taken ) rar exceed ?j,iaaj. The total receipts were $22S.O0Ol and the exnennen vrn 9'h (YrfV A ftr mne .11 charfres and expenses Dickens' profit on the enterprise amounted to nearly 19,000. Oat of the 212 readings given under Mr. Dolby 'a management nearly 33,0j0 was cleared. The last extract we shall make from this book is a story which Dickens told in the last speech he made but one: " 'I was once present,' he said, 'at a social discussion which originated by chance. The subject was 'What was the meet absorbing and longest-lived passion in the human breast? What was the passion so powerful that it would almost induce the generous to be mean, the careless to be cautious, the guile less to be deeply designing and tne dove to emulate the s pent?' A daily editor of vast experience and great acuteness who was one of the company considerably surprised us by saying with the greatest ccnildecce, that the passion in question wai the passion of getting orders for the play I There had recently been a terrible fehipwreck, and a very few of the surviving sailors had escaped in an open boat. One of these, on making land cime straight to London, and straight to the newspaper oOice witn the story of how he had seen tbe ship go down before his eyes. The young man had witnessed the mcst terrible contention between the powers of grease and water for the destruction of that ship and cf everyone on board. He had rowed away am 313 g tbe floating, dying, sinking, and dead. He bad tioated by day and frozen by night, with no shelter and no food, and as he töld the dismal tale he rolled his haggard eyes about the room. When he ha J finished, and the tale had been noted down from his lips, he was cheered, and refreshed, and soothed, and asked if anything could be done for him. Even within him, that master passion was so strong that he immediately replied he should like an order for the play!" HOW TUB COACH KAN WOK 1IBIC. Victoria Moroslnl Explains How Knient Captured Her Affections. Notwithstanding the fact that volumes have been written and published about the famous Morosini elopement case and various explanations made as to how the lady became infatuated with her father's coachman, the real facts were never brought to light until they were obtained by a reporter here from Mrs. Schilling herself, says a Boston telegram to the New York World. The story is a remarkable one. Mrs. Schilling, in reply to questions on the subject, said: "From childhood up it has been my pleasure to roam at will through the forest which surrounded my home. 'Biding, too, was a great enjoyment to me, not because Ernest drove, for then I had no interest in him. One day I went to ride on the road that winds along the banks of the beautiful Hudson river. From one point on that road the ruins of an old stone mansion are visible. It stands on the top of a hill at considerable distance from the road to the right. I had often wished to go nearer to the moss-grown walls, but had always been deterred by some member of the family being with me, or else the sign marked "Dangerous!" which was nailed to a tree in front cf it. But this day I was alone and determined. Ernest drove, and, notwithstanding his entreaty, I sprang out of the carriage, and was soon peering into the great entrance of the old ruin. Arming myself with a stick I pushed aside the vines and creepers that overhung the open door, and stood within the great hallway, which was rilled with poisonous undergrowth. The interior presented such a wild and gloomy aspect that I was almost on tbe point of running away. Had I done so, Victoria Morosini would never have married Ernest Schilling. Being that day imbued with a spirit of adventure, I mounted to the top of a flight of stone steps, where I found a narrow hallway leading into a large room at the back. I started to traverse that hall, but on taking three or four steps forward there was a crasn. I felt myself falling falling and then I became unconscious. When I re gained my flenses, some days later, I was lying in bed at my father's house, sur rounded by anxious friends and relatives, and Ernest (who had rescued me, crus'oed and Meeding, from beneath the wrecked üoor) stood over me with a white face. They were awaiting the doctor's decision as to mv chances for life. I had lingered for days, wasting s'owly. "It is a serious wound," said the physician; "she has su tiered great I033 of 1 . . . m mooa, and l predict ner death within an hcur unless one chance alone remains, for her! it is a blood transfusion." All this I heard him say without being able to open my eyelids or peak a word. Then there was another pause. Not oae of them moved. Then Ernest Schillings stepped forward, and without a moment's hesitation ha bared his strong right arm and said, calmly, yet, oh, to determinedly: "Take from my veins the last drop of blood if it will save her life." The blood was transfused from Emert's arm to mine. He saved my Ufa, for I grew strong almost immediately. Then there arose an intutive attachment between us. How could I resist loving the man to whom I owed my life and who was pleading for that love the beiag whose life-blood coursd through my veins, warming me back to life? It was a great debt I owed him, and one which I have cheerfully paid if, indeed, the poor recompense of my willing hand could pay it. He says it has. Our vows at least are indissoluble. It is a bond of love between us that is fixed, unaltered, unalterable. Had I a thousand years of life I'd live it all with bim. And now you know why Victoria 2Xorcjii vfTddrd witft Erattf tfcUÜT

xyorn pbobleis.

Onx readers are Invited to I oralis original ealjsaaa.cAaralea.rtädlea recuses an 1 other "kaotty probleaes." addresdag all coxununlcatloaa relaUvfl to MlIm department to B. B. Gfeadboara Ltwiften Kaiaa. Ho. 1038. An OfTennlTe Marne. I axa a person rather common, omct!i2C a man, sometimes a woman; Bttldcs, it "ms to b my lack To be a plant, also a dnck , Knt to a dtme my name apply Ycu'U toe tbe lightnlnz of Ler eye. ExpreuiTe ol wdlgc&ai ire Tbat eeni to b j, "Yoa are a l!ar." Tbe other biped with my naaatj Is rather honored by tue Me; An tot the plant, let doctors u&a It, AU healthy persons ttüI refuse it. If I should choose to make parade Of ubat 1 am in a charade, then l might say to a one two Your two 18 one, an l 'twould be true: Or 1 might p&7. what would seem droll. That second brines to mind a po. Nr.LV.suN. 2i 1060. A Kiddie. If I le&ve and take my heal The rersiiM are in "a scattered sute;" But if my tail I taac instead. 1 still am present" strange to relate. K. K. Nr?. Jto. 107. A Diamond. 1. A consonant. 2. A personal pronoun. o. Old. 4. Farts of a flower. 5. An exhilarating liqueur. V,. A French proper name. 7. Oae form of the name of an Island of Greece near Athens. S. A feminine narns. i. A vowel. A. I. A. xVo. 1(171. A Charade. A worthless fellow, I declare. Wae flret wiio tried to catch a hare; He was not second, co the chdbo W tB nothing; bnt a uaelesa race. Then he grew sici and failed quite fait, And. no great lo?. he difd at last; Hl ailment was not whole. 'tw aid And no one mourned when he wa dead. NEL50MAS. So. 1072. Etertal Fltnesa. In form I'm tall aB d len der, Though xny ftet are quite robust; My movements quick and sprightly. Though I grovel in the dust, Quite active when on duty. Yet as harmless as you pieaee; When at my dally labor Always kicking up a breeze. In every home I'm found; In lact there's this aum; me Wherever Christian people dwell They will not do without me. Ey fair and gentl' hands Most frequently I'm UEed ; ßonetimes a weapon of defeat? When propriety's abuse d. If jou decapitate me once, You will find In my remaics What every well-bui:t house In the universe contain?. Boon companions we have bean Through all tbe at es past; And this will bo cur dciiiny While revolving cycles lasl Now ttll me what we two ctn be That fo nicely, fitly blend; That with the end of time alone Our Joint cumraiw ions end. KN A !. T.t s a Y J 1 1 . No. 1073. Conundrum. Why is the letter K like an esthete? And O. like a man who is quite incomplete? And when is N much like a frolicsome youth? And Y so like Spiritualism in truth? KOHiN. No. 1074. AStr tnge Vision. As on "the place of a skull" I gezed, 1 wltnecd a Ecene which much amazed. A hundred headless men ran before Twice five hundred, no less no more And unto me they did loadly cry. 'übe us succor eue we must die?" I quickly ollcred to help them through; You. kind reader, must keen thera, tco. No more shall flow the blood that's red; lo each luckless man we'll restore bJs had. Meadow Lauk. 1. 1 J. i. Ih9 Tratest l'remtum. To tbe reader who furnishes the best lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" published during January will be given Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," finely bound In cloth and illustrated. The solutions for each week should be forwarded within six days after the date oi the Sentinel containing the puzzles answered. Asmeri. 1054. Sixty. 1055. Cob-web. 10")G 1. Generosity (Jennie Eo3 I tie). 2. Targeter (pa, get her). 1007. Pacstereorama, 1053. Dead-point. 1059. Shake-tpear. 1000. T A i: A A K A T V. A T A A T A B THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL. International IeAona Uy Henry DC. Grout, D. !. January 11. rani at Miletu. Acts 20:17-7. Golden Text. Repentance toward God and faiih toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 'J0:21. Paul is no on his way to Jerusalem, having in charge the contributions of the Gentile churches f jr the needy saints there. It was because of his eagerness to be thereat Pentecost that he did not now stop at Ephesus. At Ephesus be had many very dear friends, whom it would have been a dolight to vi6ir. Bat for that very reason he thought it unsafe to trust himself among them. They would have detained him too long. It was, however, unlikely (v. ö) that he would ever pass that way ngain; and, as he must delay a little at Miletus, he sent for the elders of the church that he nv'eht, through them, address some last words to those he so much loved. The elders or presbyters of the church were its overseers or bishops (v. 2S). The office of presbyter and bishop was one and the sane, as all competent scholar bov agree. Their duty was to have the oversight and guidance of church affairs; though some of them were also preachers and teachers of the word (I Tim. 5:17). Paul sent for them as proper representatives of the diiciples at Ephesns. It is possible that others came.with them, and that representatives of different churches in the region wer? also present. Of this there seems to be a hint in the twenty-lif th verse. It is interesting tc observe the confidence with which he refers to the past; the years he had rpent at Kphesus. It is a great thing for one to have eo lived and labored a3 not to be ashamed of his record; as to be able to look all men frankly and fully in the face. The self-seeking and wicked can not do that. But the points of interest in these verses are many, and we can not hope to so much as allude to all of even the moit important. The view we here get of the Apostle is that of an earnest, faithful servant of the LordJeius. Confining ourselves to this, we note u3fe 1. His lowly-minded consecration (1), To be consecrated to any person or work is to be set apart to it. Paul thought of himself as set e part to the Lord. He regarded himeelf, not as his own master, but as Christ's servant. All Christians are servant We come to Christ, not simply to be saved, but to do His will, to keep His commands, to go where He Eends, to accomplish the work He gives us. Paul could say that he had tervei with humility, a with "many tears and Unria-

tions," that is, griefs and trials; for the Jews even at Ephesus had plotted against him. One sign of his true lowliness of mind was that he was willing to hold on in service when it was so painful to do it. The proud are soon wearied with work which involves tears and amictions. The lowly-minded will do what others will not, not caring either for an eav time or for human applause, but only for the Master's approval. 2. His unselfish eagerness to do good (20). As respected those for whom he labored, his one porpose was to be profitable to them. Therefore he kept back nothing they ongnt lo hear. He did not study to say what would flatter or arruse or startle; he did not leave out the searching, humbling, alarming truths: he did not discuss the questions of time. He told them the thiDgs that would do them saving good. Then, farther, he did not conCne himself to routine eervice, or to one method. He taught publicly when he could, and privately when that was best. Berne preachers content themselves with delivering tenuous; Home 8unday-school teachers are satisfied with faithfulness in tbe class, and exhorters do all their work in the prayer-meeting. But much of the most

fruitful Christian work is done from house to house. Individual preaching, teaching and exhorting deepens and fastens that which is public. No doubt it waa this desire to be proiitable in the highest degree which made Paul eager to testify to all classes, Jews or Greeks; for all have need to be saved, and we know not with whom our words will prevail. The substance of his preaching and teaching (21). "Jlepentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ' He aid not ask what men would like, but what would save them; what message God had committed to him. And this he found in the great doctrines and duties of repentance for sin and faith in the sinner's Savior. But did not this make his preaching monotonous and narrow? By no means. For ) the i'eld of truth thus opened might be broad enough for a lifetime of study and application. It might include all we can know of God and Christ and heavenly things; of man's duty and destiny; of the requirements of God's law and the provisions of His grace; of gospel precepts as well as invitations and promises. Here surely is scope for variety and freshness. Paul's example reminds us of the particular themes which should be oftenest on the Christian teacher's lips; and of the duties which are primary with us all. Would the sinner come into the heavenly life? He must do it by repentance and faith. Would cne go on unto perfection in that life? He must do it by daily new repentance for remaining am, and fre&h faith in the Savior. Many stumble over the meaning of these two commonest of gospel words. And yet there Is no need of this. What is repentance but a going over from our sins to God's side as against them? A going with confession and renunciation, and with the purpose henceforth to live to please him? And what is faith but the trustful acceptance of that mercy which God has pledged to us in and through Christ? The repentance is "toward God" in the sense that we own and see that cur sins is all primarily against him. Tbe faith is "toward our Lord Jesus Christ" in that we look to him as our sole and aafucient Redeemer and rightful Master. In all this there may bo much or little emotion. The trustful going over to God, as ha shows himself in the gospel cf his bod, is the essential thing, 1. His heroic trust (22 21). Looking forward the Apostle knew not what was before him (ss none of us can know), save that he had every reason to anticipate "bonds and e mictions." How the Holy Spirit witnessed this to him we can cot be ture. Perhaps by past experiences: perhaps by the warnings of Christian brethren: perhaps by strong inward conviction. And yet none of thee things moved him from his purpose to puh on. He had set out on a "course" and wouUi finlih it: he had consented to a "ministry" or tervice and would not turn aside from it. Chribt bad commissioned him to "testify the gospel of the grace of Gcd," and he felt th.u to do as his Master had bidden was his sole concern : the master would take care of the rest. He was "bound in Epirit," irresistibly constrained to go forward. Here was great trust! And yet how reasonable it was! If Christ is our living Master is it not safest to commit all consequences to his order and press on In duty and service. 5. His freedom from the blood of sonls. (2Ö--27). The figure just here is Btartling. Blood on the garments was one of the proofs of the crime of murder. And so the suggestion is that one may be guilty of a crime like that. If a soul we might have saved is lott we are in some sense responsible. Yet the Apostle did not charge this crime on himself. And why? He tells these elders at Miletus: "Por I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." The relerence is to that counsel or revealed trut h, which was meant for our salvation. Gcd commits all this to us to be used to arouse, instruct, convince and persuade. If for any reason we suppress it we are not guiltless with respect to souls thus left to slumber and perish. What a word of warning there is here far men who for the sake of popularity or worldly favor, or from conceit of superior wisdom, would trim, soften or amend the gospel to suit the fancies or likings of menl PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS, 1. Is religion honored or dishonored by what others know of our lives? 2. The ideal life is one of service, not of ease or bell-seeking. u. The best work of the world is doue, not by the self-satisfied, but by the hmmble. 4. Isone need ever be ashamed of tears, either of reentance or of Christian solicitude, l'aul was often in tears. Jesis wept. 5. It is one of the ill sign of our times that so many teem to prefer eloquence to truth, and preaching which entertains and soothes to that which profits; and for this we may have a share of responsibility. G. House to-houEe preaching and praying mark religious awakenings; and they also help to produce them. Here is work in which all might find some place. 7. To move men to personal repentance and faith was the primary aim of all the Apostle's preaching. This is man'a first and daily duty. Without it there ia no peace with God or hope of Heaven. Yet how content we may be without any good evidence that we have ever done it. Urt Up Tour Vofce. Lilt up your voice and elng, my man. Ana never look ro iad. There's enough of the joy of Eden Kft To make the whole v.orld glad. What ll a shadow sometimes shlitH Across the landscape, darkling! Povrn in the dale the lilies swing And the happy beck Lb sparkling; Tcea over the ntlls the sunshlno drifti And away, away the shadow bhiftt, 7ake up your burden and sin? aloud, Hut be not your burden's lave. For cares, they will cruh a timid soul. But they crouch before the braTe. Make cf the vexing thing of life Stepping-etones over trouble, For as you Id? , or a you sign, Will cheer or worry double, So lift up your voice and sing, ny man. For with jour, not porrow. tho world ban. Olive Bartle. Two strangers passing Bowland Hill's Church cne day entered, walked up the aisle, and, finding no seat, stood for a while and listened to the sermon. Presently they turned to walk out. Before they reached the door the preacher said, "But I will tell you a story." This, of course, arrested the strangers, and they paused, turned again, and listened. "Once there was a man," said the pteacher, "who said that if he hid all the ax3 in the world made into a great ax and all the trees in the world made into one tree, and be could wield tha ax and cut down the tree, he would make it into one great whip to thrash those ungodly med who turn their backs on the gosptl and stop to hear a Etcry." The Argosy. The minimum salarv of Fresbyterian ministen in Canada i f 7Ö, with e parfcagp.

AN AUTOOttAm OU1I.T.

Tba Itaautlfal Work vf & 3I!amaplU Iilj Now on Inhibition. IKtoneoroila Tribune In 1ST8 Mrs. E, Echoed Wright, wife of Mr. H. T. Wright, paymaster of the St Louis and Minneapolis railroad, undertookjor her own amusement and satisfaction, a task at once full of pleasure and difficulty. Bein? the daughter of a gentleman whose business and tocird relations brought him into contact with prominent men In this city and Kurope, and having met many celebritiea hertelf, she conceived tbe idea of a souvenir which should be a lasting remembrance of thete people and one which she could hand down to her children. Her father was born in Pyemonthall, nearLeds, Yorkshire, England, a house made famous by Charlotte Bronte in her novel "Shirley." Her godfather was one of the originals of a well known character in that work. The idea which Mrs. Wright conceived was that of comtructing an autograph -ouilt. the patches of which should bear the autograph as d fome appropriate sentiment ot the distinguished people whom her father knew, and of her own friends and acquaintances, or tbofee of them who occupied a prominent place in the public mind. She began by sendiBg a small piece of silk to Clara Louise Kellogg, with a request for that lady's autograph, and was encouraged upon finding that her request had been complied with. Her next venture was a noto with the silk enclosure to Miss Annie Louise Cary, and again she received a satisfactory return. From that time on she continued to solicit, either personally or through her father, W. H. Schofield.EiK., the autographs which she desired. Her method at first was to s.c:id simply a small scrap of silx large enough for n patch. In requesting from Colonel Mapleson and bis wife. Mario Koie Mapleson, their autographs and those of the leading members of iler Majesty's Opera company, she s-ent abcut a quterof a yard of silk. Colonel Mapleson and his agreeable little wife signed their rames on the eilk, with tood wishes for tte lady who bad requested it, but Gorster. seeing the name of Marie Roze already signed, refused tot put her signature to it. She afteaward felt better catured about it and signed, however. This taught Mrs. Wr ght a lesson. From that time on she enclosed tho patches already blocked, diamond-shaped, so that the person asked to sign could do so understanding and without seeing any other signatures, But Rev. Henry W. Thompas, Chicago's well-known preacher, who was tried for heresy and found guilty by tbe Methodist Episcopal Church a few years ago, deliberately turned over the patch upon its back, and wrcte his signature on the paper block inskwenr. f ;r--S:? Mrs. Wright had many humoroas and curious experiences while making the collection. JSbe found it quite dillicult to secure Henry Ward Beecber's autograph, "although," ebe taid, 4 he gives it willingly to dealers in soap," but it came at last, (j'leen Victoria lent a letter through her Lord Chancellor, fcir Henry Ponsonby. The Prince of Wales wrote through his private Secretary, and the Bank of England sent a note without an autograph, the 4 Old Lady cf Threadneedle street" being rather particular about her signature. But. notwithstanding the delays, difficulties acd little annoyances which tho la iv met from time to time, she persevered, aud the quilt, as completed, bears l'J2autccrrapbs cf piominent and distinguished people in all parte of the world. Having collected the autographs patches, Mrs. Wright began to put them tether, -he had taken the precaution oa have sent out patches in shades and colors, so that when all were collected they would all be tastefully grouped in diamonds, the statesmen, ministers, actors, etc., occupying proups by themF-elves. The colors used in the quilt are of necessity light and delicate,' being shades of cream, pink and blue all of a very mild tint. These are blended beautifully, and are separated and intermixed with etchings in India ink, of which there are pixty-four, all of them Mrs. Wright's work. The border is cream-colored silk, hand-painted, by the gifted lady, in Mowers of natural color. The dimensions of the quilt, as completed, are 61x0 inches. Mrs. Wright has boen prevailed upon to send this elegant and interesting piece of work to the world's fair at New Orleans, although bhe was adverse to doing so for some time. JUST A CKNTDKV AGO, Ltcm tlnr Auer tor Lived Aftrr the Inv olution. I'Joiton Globe. A woman all in white sat peacefully aud meditatively in the O'd South Church yesterday. Her chair was placed ou a level with the heads of some hundreds of people, and she seemed to smile gently over them and bless them as she looked across the room at a man standing on the platform directly opposite her. He was a large man with a big head, and he didn't eeem to mind Harriet Martineau's marb'e stare a bit as he talked to tbe Intelligent men and women, young and old, who filled the lloor of tbe. ancient meeting-house. The fact that he -vaa ten minutes late seemed a matter of perfect indifference to him, and, without a word of apology, he began as interesting a lecture as ever he gave on American history. It was doubly interesting because it was about the day s just a century azo, and in the&e centennial years such able discourses come home to the hearer with double force. It is not too much to eay, declared the lecturer, Philosopher Historian John Eiske. that the live years following the peace of 17s0 Has the moat critical period of our history. It was more critical than the days after the close of the Eebellion in lsX. The men of 170 dwelt in a long, straggling series of republics fringing tile Atlantic coast. The length of the war and its wont hardships had been due to disorganization. No strong sentiment had grown up in favor of union, but a very strong sentiment had sprung up in favor of local self-government. George III. believed we should get into such a snarl that many of the States would repent and beg on their knees to be taken back again. The people in the United Statei were all English in speech, and mainly English in blood. Te governments of the thirteen States wer? essentially Eimilar, and the people of one understood thoroughly the government of the other. Yet it is hardly possible that our coantry have held together without tbe railroad. Kailroada and telegraphs have made orECorsTsr Mor.it ssci xsn tOMi it r than Switzerland was In tbe Middle Ages, or New England a century ago. When the Oregon bill was discussed In 113 the idea of our bavine anything to do with so remote a region as Oregon was highly ridiculed in Congress. "Why," said a gentleman named McDuilie, "it will take ten months to get from there to the District of Columbia and back again." To-day one can go quicker to the capital of Ore?oa than John Hancock could go frcm Boston to Philadelphia. The thirteen States had worked in concert for enly nine years, bat the several state governments had been in existence since the settlement of the country, and were looked upon with the most intense loyalty. During the war the colonies, with tbe exception of Bhcde Island and Connecticut, had remodelled their governments, but by no means in a revolutionary way. The American revolution was the moat conservative revolution that ever took place. It was thoroughly English. The various State governments were repetitions on a small soale Of What was supposed to be the tripbx government of England. In all the thirteen States the common law of England remained in force as it does to-day, except where modified by statute. It was Georgia that first let these pernicious' examples cf electing judges for short terms, a practice which has brought justice to euch degradation in many instances, and will uitimatelv have to be reetnrrt- Pinvi. nri regularly the states drifted toward pniyersai

Fuf.rsge. At tt time of the Revolution, Vew York and the Southern State were governed by tbe English law of primogeniture, the eldest son took all. In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the four New England States, the eldest son took double. Georgia led the way in abolishing the system, and before iT'jö all the others had followed her example. The Involution paved the way for the aboliation of slavery. When George III. and his vetoes had been eliminated from the ca?e it became possible for the state to legislate freely on the subject. In Virginia ALL TEE LXADlRvi Favored abolition. After I'M the sentiments cf Virginia underwent a marked change. The breedn of slave to supply the sugar planters of. the GuU states caused this chance in feeling. Within two years after the recognition of tbh independence by England, while tne Southern Sute? had done nothing, North Carolina had discouraged the importation of slave. Virginia had forbidden tbe importation and removed restraints from emancir.ation.and all the other States tad made gradual emancipation com pulfory. , Meanwhile steps were taken toward more religious freedom. In Massachusetts Catholic priests were liable to Imprisonment for life. The tithing man still arrested the Sab bath-breaker and locked him up in the cage on the village green, stopped all unnecessary riding and walking, and hailed everybody to church whether they would or no. Only in South Carolina acd Virginia had the Church of England . ever had any real hold on the people. As Foon aa the separation of tbe country from England wps establi?a?d the Episcopal Chnrch was separated from the Stale, disestablished. In Virginia the case was peculiar. The Virginia Legislature thought fit to pass laws prohibiting the clergy from drinking, gambling and kindred vices. It was f aid tbey spent more time in fcx-hauting and general frivolity than in their regular pastoral duties. The result of this general laxity was the possibility of starting dissenting communities on the border of the pettltrnents. As soon as the Iqcr we le Tepnlsed to beyond the Olio thp communities waxed strong and grew, llun the ecclesiastical party tried to tax them and impose the Church of England on them. A rebellion followed, resulting in the complete overthrowing of the established church. The religious freedom act of 1SS5 put Virginia In the fore front of the States in religious freedom as Massachusetts had been in the abolition of slavery. The foundation of a separate Episcopal Church west of the Atlantic was followed by the separation of the Methodists. The first Methodist Church in America was founded ia 1700 at New York. At the end of the war John Wesley, in his own house, ordained enough ministers to form a presbytery, and an Americsn bishop was appointed. In November. 17SI, the Methodist began preachi. g in the wilds of Maryland. The Catholic hurch began to spread in the colonies -beut ibe fame time, and in 1750 the first Catholic Church in New England was built in Boston. The organ'zalioa of tbe single state was well understood, and worked well, with but littlefriction. Hence such changes at above were practicable. A SINUULAK FA DT.

A Vret Ider.tlal Tear Whlrti Will Not ttr a Lap Year. liWhvir.e American. Ore evening, a ehort time ago, as a re porter of tf.e American found himself with a party of friends, the conversation turned on the fact that this was leap year. A middleaged gentleman in the party remarked; "Thank goodness, it ia nearly over." "Why?" inquired the man of the pencil. "Weil, to make a long story short, some years ago, in a leap year, a beautiful, welleducated and altogether lovely young lady, asked me to marry her in a jest I said 'yes,' as I had long entertained a secret affection for her. bhe meant every word she eaid, and insisted that we should be married at Christmas. I consented and we were married. A better wife man never had. But, alas for my future prospects, she lived but one short year and now sleeps in Mount Olivet. Here is where my aversion to lesp year comes in. I am afraid that some designing woman will propose to me in some leap year, and that I will be compelled to accept, and, instead of getting a helpmate for life, I will get a vixen who will make my life a hell upon earth." Then," said the scribe, "you have to dread leap year for two reasons. The first you have stated. The second is on account of the depression to business caused by leap year always being a Presidential year.' "There you are mistaken. Every Presidential year is not a leap year. If I live till the year li)00, as I have good prospects of doing, I will see a Presidential year which is not a leap year, and still a jear divisible by four." This tet the reporter to studying. He could not make out how it wa?. Hi informant left him in the dark, and he finally consulted the authorities, with the following result, taken from Smith's "Illustrated Astronomy "It has been found by observation that the earth revolves on its axis 3i5Ji times nearly while it is making one complete revolution around the sun, or while the sun moves from either equinox to the &ame equinox again. Consequently the eoiar year upon which the seasons depend contains nearly VXH days. It will be teen from this that the dilferenr hetwppn a rr of 3C5 days and the year as measured by" tue sun amounts to one day in eyery four f ars; so that in UM years of öü'i days the sea his would fall back one whole month, aud the season fcr May would be in June, etc. In 720 years the longest day wocld fall tytrk through the twelve months, and would aain correspond to their present arrangement In order to keep the seasons to the same rnontln, and to make the solar and civil year correspond, one day more is included in Eebrury every fourth year. This would always ker o the solar and civil years togetner if the can h revolved upon its axis exactly :;:,' times while it is revolving around the sun or during tbe solar year; but the earth revolves from equinox to the same again in days, 5 hours, 4S minutes and 4:) eeconds, which is 11 minutes 11 seconds less than uV, days; consequently in allowing one day m every four years is allowing 41 minutes, 41 seconds too much, and in IZZ years it would amount to 24 hours, ruinut, t; secends. The mode of reckouing time by making every fourth year a leap year was arooted bv the Council of Tic in ill I of our Lord GUI. when the longest day in th5 J year happened June -Ji, and the vernal eoniuox .Maren -i. in 13 mode or reckoning was continued until 1132, a period of 11J7 years, when it was found that the longest day was on June 10, and the vernal equinox on March 10, the vernal equinox having fallen back eleven daji toward the beginniug of the year. To restore the equinoxes to the same day of the rar.nth In which tbey bapj.aeu in me year ssj, eleven days were ordered by the British Government and the United States, then the British Colonies, to te stricken out of th month of September 17 by calling the d the 14th, and it wai ordered that hereafter one leap year in 13 years, or three leap years in 400 years, should be omitted; that is that the years 1700. ISOO and ltoo, which, by the old atyle, would have been leap years, should be common years of 3C5 days. This method gives ninetseven leap years in every 400 years. Thus, 400 multiplied by aa, plus ninety-seven dys fcr the leap years, gives lw.007 days. Xhis divided by 4j) ynrs makes it i." davs, o tours and 4'J minutes, making a distance from the true solar year of only 23 second a year, an error which amounts to only one day in years. The even centuries are leap years only when cutting 01T the even cyphers you can divide the other two figures by four without a remainder. Thus 19 X) is not divieable by four without a remainder, consequently it is not leap year." Sin may open bright as the mornin, bit it will end dark as night T. DeWP.t Talmsn.

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The application of the BKADV EKLir.T t3 the part or part wfctre the diElculty or tIa t Ist will afford eae and comfort. Thirty to sixty drops In hall a tuatler cf ata will in a lew ralnutos care Cramp. BpaRma, Boi Ptomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, UltirUea Dysentery, Colic, Wind In the üowela, sad all l; ternal rains. Travelers thonld always carry a bottle o! Ea wr' Kcady Eellef with then. A few JLrcpi la watet will prevent sickness or pains f rora chkurj of water. It 1 better than French Brandy t tcrs as a utcniact M A l"a r i a; In Its Tarious Forms EBVER and AGUE.' FKVFR and AGlTft cared tor KG cents. Thcrs C not a remedial agent In tho world that "wM euroFever and Ague ana an cine uaianou, r:uox. Hcariet, and other Fevers (alotd by KAllWAru FILLS) so Quickly aa RADWAVS BEADY KELlEFa Fifty Cent IVt Bottle. Bold by nil Dni lists DR. RAJDWAY'3 Sarsapariilmo Resolvent. Pure blood xcakea ound flotn, strong boce a3 a clear skin. 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