Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1877 — Page 11

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, BT GEORGIA J A SOUESH. Jsst a few words, but they blinded The brightness all out of a day; Jnl a lew worts, but they 111'tfd The shadows and cast them away. On'y a frown, but it dampen'! The cfceer of a dar little heart ; Only smile, but Its sweetness Check'd tears that were ready to start. Ob that the rules ofonrlivln? More like to the gulden would bet Much, oh! so much more of sunshine Would go out from vou and from me. ALL SORTS. Love! Vojce. JC. P. Oranch In Ilarper's-Magazlne for March. Ab onoe I sat upon the shore. There came to me a fa'ry bolt A bark I never siw before, Whose coming I had failed to note, 60 wappei was I in books whose rales I learned by rote. The stern was fashioned like a heart, The curving sides like Cupid's bow. And from the in ant straluht as a dart. And winged above and barbed below, A pennon like, au airy stream 01 blood did How. Upon tho prow, on either side, Was carved a 8'n.wy Paphian dove; Between, reflected iii the tidu, An arching swan's neck ros above The deck, o'erspread with broidered tapestries of Love. Against the mast the idle sail Flapped like a lace-dged valentine; It seemed a can vas all too f. all, Should winds arouse the sleeping brine. "Behold," I said, "a toy for sport lu weather, fine." And so I Hepped, In idle mood. Aboard the bark when suddenly A breeie sprang up, and whil I stood Uncertain, thinking t was tree make retreat, the vessel bore mout to sea. Silent and swift away from land It cut the waves, no pilot stered. No voice of cnptatii gave command: Yet to and fro it tacked and veered. All day it flew. At eve a distant land appeared. An island In the restless seas. With rosy cliffs, and gold and green Of dappled fields, and tropic trees WlUi trailing vinea and flowers between. Across the purple wares through amber skies was seen. And xn'nslc floating from afar I heard, of voice and Instrument. As the sun sank, and star by star Throbbed in the living Armament; And all kind fates seemed pledged to cheer me as I went. Till In a deep and shadowy bay . ' The little argosy, selt-furled, Self-aDOtiored, in the silence lay, And landed me upon a world By other stars and moons endlamoned, 1mpea led, A region to my student' nootcs Unknown, where I first learned to see That love ts never con net! from books. Nor passion tauah- by fantasy, But In the living, loving heart alone can be. For on that shore a maiden stood. Who united with coy and bashful glance; And when I pressed her hand and wooed, . Turned not her truthful eyes askance, And proved my v-age was no idle sport of chance. Ah, frbm this island If I veer Into the seas of worldly strife. Give me the boat that brought me here. Where now the tired and faithful wife Tear after year renews the lover's lease of life! The Rev. Dr. Wills, of Washington, says of the dying Alex. Stephens: "He is entirely willing to live or to die, just as Ood may determine. He trusts he may be spared to see the country relieved from its present troubles, and the reign of peace and prosperity re-established, and then he would gladly go home to his eternal rest. He lias no fear of death, and speaks in glowing language of the life to corue. He is a firm believer in the doctrines of Christianity, and a consistent miember of the Presbyterian church." On one occasion when Henri Monnier was acting in the provinces a terrible storm came up just before the hour announced for the . performance to begin, and when the curtain rose, he found the audience to consist of one solitary man. Nowise disconcerted, Monnier advanced to the footlights and add.essed the public: "Excuse me, sir, but would you mind coming up here and sitting on the stage? It will fatigue my voice less if you are close beside me, and you can see just as well. Or what do you say to oar closing the theater and going to the cafe next door to play dominoes?" ' The Leigh Chronicle, an English paper, publishes the following letter from Mr. Gladstone, on the question of keeping clubs open on Sunday: '-Snt It is difficult to answer you without any knowledge of special particulars, nor should I like to appear in print as an adviser. I think, however, that it is good on the whole to keep the club Mouse closed, provided the desire to do so is very general indeed; but I would not coerce a large minority, or even a small one. if it were a number of persons who in good faith, aot having homes, wished to make nse of the club in lien of them. Yours f ithfully and obediently, W. E. G LA dsto!?k. Jan. 11." No . women, it would seem, have better chances of marriage than successful actresses; no women, as a rule, are more unfortunate in their matrimonial alliances. Miss Amy Fawsitt, who died recently in New York, though never in any sense a great actress, achieved a popularity at the Vaudeville which, accompanied with good and womanly conduct, brought her several ffers of marriage of which any respectable girl might have been proud. She' made the eual mistake of her class, and having made that mistake committed the 'error of' too nanr who achieve sudden success. 8he refused the part offered her in 'Our Boya,which has. Dow been running some six or severhundred nights. Then came disappoint sent upon disappointment, and matrimonial misery. One night the arrived at the Court theater bruised and excited.' 8he said .the had .alien down, but presently she vowed she dared not go upon the stage because her . husband : had sworn he would snoot her irom the pit. and she detected him sitting there in the very spot k. : 1. k- 1 . 1 1 1 j . 1 . arprusini uit eveuiuauy Bne naa to ; reinn nish her e n ev m n t at tho Ponrt nfi nit. riMifir liml nun innnu il iinraiwn u is, rv wm .i.V. IIL'Jl Ul UL W 1 . 1 W I 11 L 1 1 aim ew x ort. ana that she died a- sad and t. A a t . -t 1 m . 1 Taudeviile theater, is another young lady who, at the height of her somewhat fictitious success, married what is called a "swell," and retired magnificently from the stage, to turn to it for a livelihood, bearing the tainted name ef a schemer and an adventurer. - I ouuld give you half a dozen other examples, and in each case the lady who h won her 'position in the profession has terned her back upon it to marry into what she considered a higher social grade, but Dly to discover that in ihe end she has not nly to keep her "swell," but to submit to all kinds ot miseries and degradation..' i . 1 Do'notbe too aaiious'to give away, yourself, to wear your heart upon your sleeve. It. Is not only unwise, it is wrong to make your ere t soul common property. For yoa hrjoj

the delicate things of the heart into contempt by exposing them to those who can not understand them. If you throw pearls before swine, they will turn again and rend you. Nor, again should you claim too much openness, as a duty due to you, from your child, your friend, your wife or your husband. Much of the charm of life is ruined by exacting demands of confidence. Respect natural modesty of the soul; its more delicate flowers of feeling close to their petals when they are touched too ruuely. Wait with curii us löve with eager interest for the time when, r.ll being harmonious, the revelation will come of its own -accord, undenianded. The exception has its charm, for as long as life has something to learn, life is interesting; as long as a friend has something to give, friendship is deliLtlul. Those who wish to destroy all mystery in those they love, to have everything revealed, are unconsciously killing their own happiness. It is much to be with those who have many things to say to us which we can not bear now. It is much to live with those who sometimes speak to us in parable? if we love them. Love needs some indefiniteness in order to keep its charm. Respect, which saves love from the familiarity which degrades it, is kept vivid when we feel that there is a mystery in those we love which comes of a depth of character. Remember that in violating your own reserve or that of another you destroy that sensitiveness of character, and beauty of character is not so common as not to make it a cruel thing to spoil it. , . . The statistics of English drinking, if reports can be depended upon, are fearful. In 1HT)0, with a opulation in England and Wales of 19,900.01)0, the number of committals for drunkenness was 8S,7Gl; in 1S73, with a population of 21,000,000, the commit tals were 203, SSG. At this rate of increase there is no telling where the evils of excessive drinking are going to end. Their bearing upon the industrial and commercial as well as the social and moYal interest of the nation Is very clear. Among the plans of relief is that described above as the Gothenbersr, so called from the city of that name in Sweden. It ; proposes that the selling of liquors shall be taken out of the hands of individuals and be assumed by the local authorities. The advantages claimed are that each municipality adopting it can at once reduce the number of liquor shops, prevent the sale of adulterated liquors and in many ways keen the trsde Glider restraint.1 Mr. Chamberlain, a member of parliament, is the chief advocate of this scheme. The town council of Birmingham recently voted in its favor. . In our own country the temperance revival has been more confined to hard drinkers. They have taken up . temperance as a question of self reformation. Mr. Moody has also ia his meetings given prominence to this subject with the very best results. Whatever inspires intemperate men with the confidence that they can recover their manhood is an unmixed benefit to them. , Experience has proved that they have a pecular power to reach each other. In the past two years the "reform clubs", of eastern Messachusetts and Maine have wrought a great change in the social habits of the workingraen and fishermen; the same effects are already visible among the 'lumbermen of Michigan, the workmen and miners of Pittsburg and the adjacent region of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The spectacle ef two nations endeavoring at the same moment to throw off the burden of a great social vice is one which must arrest the attention of both philanthropists and statesmen. . The maes of the segregated cabbage leaf are comparatively few and unimportant. It enters into competition with American epic poetry as an envelope for parte of buter and steaks;, it is the base of these best Havana cigars in town which toxicological tobacco nists sell eight for a quarter; it serves to baffle too curious infant inquirers into the origin of man. In medicine it figures in Burns, if we remember aright as a rude yet ready aid to scienti tic diagnosis. Of late, however, it has aspired to a much more pretentious part, since Mr. Blaine, an eminent physician of Paris, has iust published a book on the cabbage cure, showing that the leaves of the ordinary cabbage are for the healing of all nations afflicted with ulcers, sores, boils, rheumatism, gangrene, fever and erysipelas. These numerous uses, in conjunction with the excitement over the discoveries of General Pleasonton, convey a whole host of suggestions even to the unscientific mind. It stan' i Mvn that if blue glass be so go d and green cabbage leaf no good, the number of curative purposes of glass and cabbage leaf must result in boundless benefit. All that will remain to be done will be to grow the cabbage under blue gHss frames, thus happily combining dual excellence in the single product. In the bright lexicon of eternal youth there will in the future be inscribed but two words. Man shall sit under his blue glass vault munching his savory messes of the leaves of the brossien, death and disease not daring to molest him, neither making him afraid. To insure that survival of one's powers, acquaintances, affections and usefulness which men, affect to consider desirable, one will but need at sunrise to repair to his blue glass house (abstaining carefully from the throwing of stones during his occupancy thereof), there to bask in the actinic rays of the sun till twilight draws on foretelling the night wherein he shall draw the drapery of his cabbage-leaves around him and lie down to pleasant dreams of the next centennial. The prospect is a most flattering on?", though it may look blue. Let us, therefore, consider the slugs on the cabbage-leaf; they toil not neither do they spfn, yet for all sanitary purposes they are more favorably situated than, the -modern .benefactor of humanity who patents a panacea, grows rich by its sale, and either perishes miserably like Parr, the inventor of the "life pills," who died at thirty-three, or experiences the more doleful' fate of an Ayer or a Ilelmbold. " ' . ' ' THX TEMPKRANCK EF.VIVAL. The temperance revival . in England and the United States nearly equals the dimen- : sions of the religious revival to which public attention has for more than two years been drawn. It has taken in Ireland the shape of a Sunday closing movement. In this all classes Catholics and Protestants, churchmen and dissenters have .joined. Parliament still hesitates to pass the necessary law, but the petitioners for a Sunday cloning act persevere. In England, Cardinal Manning has given himself up to temperance work with an ardor not unlike that of Father Mathew. 8everal of the English bishops fully equal him in zeal."' A Church of England temperance society has been formed, which aims to check the excessive consumption of spirits by the common people. Bishop -Magee has Bided with the opponents Of repressive legislation; but his declarationthat he would rather see England drunk than enslaved, has not been received with favor. - Public opinion sets in favor of restraint upon the trade in liquor. The question "what to do," engages some of the best minds 6f the nation. Mr. Lowe has written upon It in The Fortnightly Review; Mr. Bright has made a speech on the ."Gothenburg" plan and the queen h become the patron of the Church of England temperance society. There is -a 'growing conviction in England that .something should be done, and : the English people, io their rdoWf persisUnt way.axeaetUnsAbouUt.,;.,.. ,e ;!I)V, 9liT

DEFEATED.

Give me your hand nay, both, as I confront you. Let me look in your eyes, as once be 'ore. I gaze, and gaze. Oh, how they change and soften! I stand within the portal: lo! a door A door close shut and batred. I knock and listen. No sound, no answer. Doubtlngly I wait. Oh! for one glance beyond that guarded entrance, The power that mystic realm to penetrate. I touch the barrier with hands entreating. If it would yield to me and none beside. What bitter pain, what sense of loss and failure. To come so near, and come to be denied. Solly I call, but only silence answers Silence, and the quick throbbing of my heart. Immovable, the trowning bar abideth: Kneeling, 1 kiss the threshold and depart. Mary L. Ritter, In the Galaxy for March. . FOR RVXDAT. "Were There Not Ten Clean!?" Ooneorth, my Injured Lird! Hone forth wlthoiH a word Of KratitudetoThee. To Thee, for kindness done, To Thee, for blessings won. Gone forth to live aeraln In haunts of sinful men. Where Thy dear name Is scorned; There vainly they will seek Their purity to keep. Oone forth unarmed, unmeet, With Jovons step and fleet, Forth to flsht life's battle, Without One fervent prayer, One plea for guidance there. Dare I condemn them, Lord? I, who so oft have swerved And strayed from duty's path, I :-cause forsoot h 'twas hard. And my vain pleasures marred? Dare I condemn them, Lord? I, who for blessings poured In countless measure down On my unworthy head. Have lew thanksgivings said? Blessings so rich and great. That oft beneath their weight ' My trembling heart has asked, Why am I thus endowed, And sheltered from each cloud? Tis not for me to spurn These erring ones, but tarn, Like Hini, the grateful one, In thankfulness for all Thy elesnings great and small. Churchman. The children of Israel were commanded, in regard to the manna, to "go out and gather a certain lot every day." It was useless to gather twice as much on Tuesday and intermit the labor on Wednesday. God had so provided that spasmodic gatherers should be discouraged to the uttermost, and the blessing should come upon the steady going ones. And it is self evident that the faithful Christian who neglects none of the means of grace, and is always present, will miss none of the' blessings that God may bestow upon the congregation in the course of the year. The worst thing a parent can do to a boy, is to pamper him. A boy can be fed to death and nursed to death. . He can be killed by motherly kindness and fatherly guardianship. Boys are only young animals with minds, or with what one day will be minds. The most essential part of a boy is his. stomach. The next important members of his organism are his legs. Good, strong, sturdy legs, and a stomach able to digest anything in the way of food, and any amount of it. make an equation, for boyhood. Do not, then, keep your Boy in the house, doting father, but give him a bat, a ball, a sled, a pair of Bkatea, anything he needs for outdoor amusement and send him out of doors. Go with him yourself, if possible. Skate with him, race with him. be a boy with him now, that he may be a man with you by and by. Leave consequences to God, but do right. Be genuine, real, sincere, true, upright, god like 'The world's maxim is, Trim your sails and yield to circumstances. But if you would do any-good in your generation, you must be mäde of sterner stuff, and help make vour times rather than be made by them. Vou must not yield to customs, but, like the anvil, endure all the blows until the hammers break themselves. When misrepresented, use no crooked means to clear yourself. Clouds do not last long. If in the course of duty you are tried by the distrust of friends, gird up your loins and say in. your heart, "I was not driven to virtue by the encouragement of friends, nor wil? I be repelled from it by their coldness." Finally, be just and fear not; "corruption wins not more than honesty"; troth lives and reigns when falsehood dies and rots. Spurgeon. Recently in illustrating his theme "A man in Christ" Mr. Spurgeon told a story that is worth repeating. He says: "Some Christians remind me of the little boys who go to bathe. All frightened and shivering they enter the water just a little up to their ankles they wade and shiver again; but the man who is . really in Christ is like the practiced swimmer who plunges into the stream head first, and finds water to Bwim in. He never shivers. It braces him; he rejoices in it. And see how at home he is in the river grace. It has become his element. Now for him 'to live is Christ.' He has devoted himself, his substance, and all that ue has to the glory of God. This is the man who understands the happiness of religion in a manner far beyond the conception of the half, professor who has only religion enough to make him miserable. I sometimes illustrate this by a quaint American story, , ''Boston8 Basilica." as Trinity church on the Back Bay is now called, was consecrated last Friday. The wide and lofty arches which span the nave and transept, the height of the ceiling in the great square tower, and the richness of the decorations render, the interior Very impressive. "The four great pillars are colored dark green, and the rectangular compartments of the vaulted ceiling 'have the same tint. The capitals of the fotir columns -'supporting the quadrangular tower are golden, and broad bands of gold stream upward over the arches: In the four angles of the tower are col losaal frescoes of David, Paul, Jeremiah and Isaiah. There are touches of purple over the shoulders of angels and cherubs, buk the walls of this great gallery are golden and from the vault of the tower hangs ' the chandelier a crown of lights with heavy chains. The arch of the chancel is also ceiled in gold. Elsewhere the prevailing tints of the decorations are violet, pink and blue. . i Some time since the minister of a certain Congregation 1 church adopted a plan to in terest the members of his nock in the study of the Bible. It was this. At the Wednesday evening meeting he would give out a topic to be discussed in the ensuing week, thus giving a week: for them to study up. One week this subject 'was St. PauL After the preliminary devotional exercises 'the minister called upon his deacons' to "speak to, the question. V , One . Immediately rose aad began to describe the personal appear i aucef the rreat apostle to the Gentiles.1 He aald.Sti' "Pant wala tall,"Tatber spare man, I with' black hair And. eyes, .dark ' complexion .

bilious temperament, etc. His picture of St Paul was a faithful portrait of himself. He sat down, and another pillar of the church rese and said, "I think the brother precedingne has read the Scriptures to little purpose if his description of St. Paul is a sample of his Biblicafr knowledge. St. Paul : was, as I understand it, a short, thick set man, with sandy hair, gray eyes, florid complexion, and a nervous, sanguine temperament," giving, like his predecessor, an accurate picture of himself. He was followed by another, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous.and who was withal an inveterate stammerer. He spoke as follows: "My bre-bre-brethren. I have ne-ne never fo-found much ab-about th pe pe personal ap-pe-pe-pear-ance of St. P-p-paul. But one thing is clearly established, and tha that is, S-p Paul had an inip-pe-pediment in his speech." The effect can be imagined. A "tidal wave" of audible smiles swept over the congregation, and the good clergyman took his full quota. He immediately arose and dismissed the assembly. How often we have seen birds scold and push their fledglings out of the nest, compelling them thus to rely oa themselves! How they will flutter around them, and make an occasional shoot into the upper air to encourage the little things to try their wings, by showing them how easily it can be done. Can you not be as wise as birds? Shall the dumb things beat you at the game of percentage? Keep your boy out of doors, father. Let him mingle with other boys. It will do him good to be buffeted and abused a little by his playmates. It will teach him to stand up for his rights, and give him confidence in himself. It will make him cautious and wary and self reliant. A dull boy is a fraud) on nature. A boy is like a whip'la&h be is not worth a cent 1: he has not got the snap in him somewhere. What is it that has made you succeed in life? And how has it developed in you? You were not pampered much when a boy, eh! Well, be as wise to your son as your father was to his. Give him a chance to be vigorous and plucky. Start him right. "I write unto you, young men, because you are strong." Golden Rule. . The very planet which is your home retains the same aspect for only a few days or weeks, or months at the most Spring comes and it passes like a dream, and ere we have had time to think summer is at hand, and when we have toiled through the beat for a little there comes the first frost or autumn. The crops are gathered into our barns, and, almost before the last sheaf is under cover, we look out of our window to see that white mantle which has dropped during the night upon the earth. To-day the 6un shices, to-morrow we may not see it. Yes, everything is full of change that we have anything to do with A man. stands, perhaps in the pride and glory of physical health, and yet have we not learned that health can not be depended upon? We are told in Holy Writ that the pestilence walks not only under the shades of night, but also at noonday. Danger is In the air we breathe, and we know it notT No man knows that he will retain possession of the wondrous gift of good health. To-day a giant, and, alas! to-morrow on the bier. Those who are weakest bend like a willow and death spares them, while thate who are strong snap like a bit öf glass when death comes. We have no power to keep ourselves where we are to-day, brethern. It all rests with God. We are or we are not, as He wills. It is some one's turn to lay aside mortality every day. It will be yoür turn and mine some time; when, neither you nor I can tell. The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, on "How to Be Perfectly Safe." "'An American gentleman said to a friend, 'I wish you would come down to my gar den and taste my apples.' He asked him about a dozen times, but the friend never did come, and at last the fruit grower said, 'I suppose you think my apples are good for nothing, and so you won't come and taste them.' 'Well, to tell you the truth. said the friend, 'I have tasted them. As I went along the road I picked up one that fell over the wall, f nd I never tasted anything so sour in my life; and I do not particularly wish to have any more of your fruit' 'Oh' said the owner of the garden, 'I thought it must be so. Why, don't you know, those apples round the outside are for the special benefit of the boys. I went 60 miles to select the sourest sorts to plant all around the orchard, so that the boys raigat give them up as not worth stealing; but if you will come inside you will rind that we grow a very different quality there sweet as honey.' Now, you will find that on the outskirts of religion there are a number of 'Thou shalt nots,' and 'Thou shalts, and convictions, and terrors and, alarms; but these are only the bitter fruits with which this wondrous Eden is guarded from the thievish hypocrites. If you can pass by the exterior bitters, and give yourself right up to Christ and live for Him, your power shall be like a riyer, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; and you shall find that the fruits of 'this apple tree among the trees of the wood' are the most luscious that can be enjoyed this side of our eternal home." Mr. Cough then passed to another form of blunder. lie was in a church in a strange city once, and the sexton showed into the same pew another person whose looks impressed Mr. Googh unfavorably. The stranger had a face like mottled soap; his face twitched as if a eheet of lightning had run all over it, and every now and then his lips would twist and give utterance to a strange spasmodic sound. I got as far away from him as I could. Presently the hymn was given out, and the congregation rose to sing: . Just as I am, without one plea, ut that thy blood was shed for me. I saw the man knew the hymn, and said to myself, "He can't be so disagreeable, after all." I got nearer. Hwould sing. It was awful; positively awful. , I never heard anything ' like it. And occasionally he would make ' that 1 strange noise with his lips. Then he'd commence again and sing faster to catch up with the other singers, and perhaps he'd run ahead. They came to the next verse. He'd lorgotten the first line, and while the organist was performing the interlude he leaned toward me and whispered, "Would you be 'kind enough to give me the first line of the next verse? ' I did so . Jnst as I am ; poor, wretched, blind "That's it," said he, "I'm blind-God help me" and the tears came running down his face and the tear lids quivered, "and I am wretched and I am paralytic." And then he tried to sing: . Just as I am; poor, wretched, blind. , At that moment it seemed to me that I never head a Bethoven symphony in my life with , as much music , in it as in that hymn sung by that poor man, whom Christianity had made happy in his lot o . A bank book was presented at the Springfield, Massachusetts, institution for savings one day last week, which had not been seen by the bank officials since, the original deposit was made, thirty-two1 years ago. The amount of the deposit was $300, while the interest alone has amounted to $ 1,649. - During all this time the Owner of the book had never entered the bank or asked a question as to her property, which - she now; comes tya lairrv 'jru-! , vt 1 nf ! -ji'i-." "

FOR THE LADIES.

Little Children. There Is music, there Is sunshine, Where the little children dwell, In the cottage. In the mansion, In the hut or in the cell; There is music in their voices. There is sunshine In their love, And a Joy forever round them, Like a glory from above. Little children, yes we love them For their Rpirlts' ceaseless flow, For thejoy that ever lingers Where their bounding footsteps go; Tis the sunshine of their presence Makes the lowly cottage fair, . And the palace Is a prison If no little one is there. Oh ! I wonder not the Saviour, He, the beautiful, the meek. To the precious little children. Tender, loving words d d speak. Tis a peasant thing to tach them Unto Him to bend the knee, Since He 8 poke the words of blessing, Suiier them to come to me." Yea, of such is heaven's kingdom. And lr we would enter there. We must seek the Rlnless garment Which the little child doth Wear. . Father, bless the little children, Bless them every where they dwell In the palace, in the mansion, In the lint or in the cell; My the cloudsof sin and sorrow Never darken o'er their way. And in heart may we be like them, Pure and innocent as they. Rochester Democrat. A Boston correspondent says in that city a woman with a machine cati make with hard labor three dozen pairs of pantaloons a week, for which she receives a total of one dollar and eighty cents. Good field for the evangelists. Women are to be admitted to the University of the City of New York. The faculty decide that women may study law, medi cine, science, belU-shUres. or any oth'T branch of the university curriculum. The same recitation rooms will be used by both men and women, but at different hours. There are many ways in which a busy woman may save that which is more valuable to her than -any other commodity, vix., her time.. One is, by never leaving a room in confusion at night The family sitting room presents an appearance of cheerful disorder when the circle breaks up for the evening. Take a few moments then to lay the books straight on the table, set the chairs in their places, gather up shreds and patches from the floor, and put newspapers in the wall pocket Every living room should be provided with a waste basket for odds and ends of paper, a scrap bag for bits of thread and ra veilings, and a wall pocket, or two of thm for letters and papers. It is much pleasanter in the morning to come down to a neat and tidy room than to one which reminds us by its disorder that work is never done. Alice's biographer says: "Some of her warmest personal friends drank lea at her table, waxed eloquent in her parlor; they knew Alice, that she was one of the noblest and sweetest of women; after that what did it matter what she thought or felt or did? They never dreamed that when the lights were out and the bright parlor closed the woman sometimes sat down and wept fo the word of encouragement that was not spoken, for the little meed of appreciation that was not proffered, which, could it have come from those whose opinion she valued, would have been new life and inspiration to her amid her ceaseless toil." . It is a little thing to give a cup of water, or to speak a word of common comfort; yet the cool refreshment may give pleasure to fevered lips, and the encouragement may so stimulate the weak, that the burden shall seem easier to carry. "How did that homely woman contrive to get married?" is not unfrequently re marked of some good domestic creature, whom her husband regards as the apple of his eye, and in whose plain face he sees something better than beauty. Pretty girls who are vain of their charms are rather prone to make observations of this kind; and a consciousness of the fact that floweis of loveliness are t ften left to pine on the fctem while weeds of homeliness go off readily,-is no doubt at the bottom of the sneering question. The truth is that most men prefer homeliness and amiability to beauty and caprice. Handsonle women are sometimes very hard to please. : -They are apt to overvalue themselves; and in waiting for an immense bid they occasionally overstep the market Their plain sisters, on th contrary, aware of their personal defi ciencies, generally lay there selves out to produce an agreeable impression, and in most cases succeed. They don't aspire to capture oaragons with princely fortuaes, but they are willing to take anything respectable. Fashion has established a custom, of certain anniversaries of the marriage, these being named as follows: The celebration at the expiration of the first year is called the cotton wedding; at three the leather; at the close of five years the wooden; at the seventh anniversary the friends assemble at. the woolen, and at ten comes the tin. At twelve years the silk and fine linen; at fifteen the crystal wedding. At twenty the friends gather with their china, and at 25 the married couple that have been true to their vows for a quarter of a century are rewarded with silver gifts. From this time forward the tokens 01 esteem becme rapidly more valuable. When the thirtieth anniversary is reached they are presented with peanl8; at the fortieth comes the rubies; at the fiftieth comes the glorious golden wedding. Beyond that time the aged couple are allowed to enjoy their many gifts in peace. If, however, by any possibility they reach their seventy-fifth anniversary, they are presented with the rarest gifts to be obtained at the celebration of their diamond wedding. . From their mother, we are told; the Weeleys inherited, the one his placid temper, his calm perserverance, and his dauntless courage, and the other his fluent speech and giftofBong. From his mother Sir Walter Scott imbibed his love of poetry and painting; and his writings proved that it was no 1 common gift. Byron's 'fine gifts were crippled with a miserable temper a legacy from a furious and fickle mothei.' Old La Mere Bonaparte was .-- never beaten in any project she undertook. Her energy was simply indomitable, and this last trait has been strikingly illustrated throughout the whole of the great Napoleon's life. It was from bis mother that "Bobby Burns," as Scotchmen love to call him, imbibed his love for songs, for she used "to give wings to the weary hours of her checkered life by chanting sontrs and ballads she herself had composed." , Patrick Henry had many a lesson in conversational power, his mother training the gift in the promising lad. Dr, Johnson's mother always argued with him in order to do him good, although she knew that the willful, burly boy sometimes deliberately took the wrong side. 1 Philip Doddridge's mother created his taste for scripture scenes and scripture subjects by teaching him from the Dutch tiles around ,, their old fashioned hearth place.' ",' .y , 'y '. , It is natural thai men should pursue beautiful women; .bue it would be well toremember that there are qualities of far wore iroportanoe jthart i mere personal ; charms. True, we may be fascinated with dark, lustrous and- beautiful eye,- the crimaoa toluah

of the cheek, a graceful, symmetrical form; but after all the inquiry should be: Is there a soul within? Is there elevation of thought, generous principles, noble purposes, a cultivated intellect? If not, what else would a woman of beautiful personal apiearance be but as a doll or gilded toy? How long could a man of genius be induced to worship at such a shrine? How long before his affections would assurae. the form of hatred or contempt? Powerful passions and strong affection invariably accompany the man of genius. Hence it is clear that unless personal charms envelop a cultivated mind as well as the sterling qualities of virtue, the noblest impulses of affection in such a man will soon be extinguished, and his fondest hopes blighted, in his selection of a partner for life. Nothing is more desirable to a man of genius in this life than the ardent affections of a good, sensible woman; and on the other hand, no offering on earth is so acceptable to a woman as the sincerest affection of a man of genius and truth ( "Burleigh," writing to the Boston Journal says: "The death of Dr. Lord, of Buffalo, revives some interesting facts about the lady of the panonHge. In this neighborhood a pastor has very little assistance from his wife in parish work. None is expected, and none is desired. The most popular pastors have as quiet homes as any merchant in the land. The ladies ure left "to themselves, to s-elect their society, and choose the circle in which they will move. Dr. Lord married an Indian girl. 8he brought to Buffalo the vigorous training of her camp life. the was a splendid rider, and drew the reins over a pair of ponies that few gentlemen would care to handle. Your correspondent nut Mrs. Lord at a northern asstx iation to which her husoand was a delegate. She brought wilh her her guns, dogs and field trappings. The ladies invited her to aiteni the female . prayer meeting in the morning. She frankly declined, saying "I could not think of it I am going hunting; that is what I came for." And she spent the day in the woods, as she did every day during the meeting. Her peculiarities did not dim the lustre of her husband's pastorate, which covered a period of over 40 years. Mrs. lief eher has never done any pastoral work. In other days, when Mr. Beecher'a residence was crowded with callers, she kept the door. Very gracious and winning to her friends, she is said to be; to the stranger she wore a frowning aspect There has always been a little coterie in Plymouth church, as exclusive as that which surrounds the qneen. Outride of this Mrs. Beecher has seldom ventured during all these years.' Mrs. Cuyler has never done any 'pastoral work. She lives in an elegant mansion on Oxford street Brooklyn. She is a lady of elegance and refinement and whatever society work has been needed has been performed by Mr. Cuyler's mother. She resembles her soa in size and nervous force, and the prosperity of the Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church owes very much to the indomitable energy and untiring labors of this lady. Mrs. Talmage is very popular in the parish. She is the centre of its social life. She presides over the social gatherings of the church, although she does no visiting. She is a lady of medium size, with a cheerful and sparkling presence, decidedly talented, but not offensively prominent . Nobody annoys Mrs. Dnryeav She is & lady of feeble health, and can scarcely attend to her home duties. Her husband's church has, what newly every important New York church possesses, one or more ladies of wealth and culture who make it their special business to look after the social business of the parish. We have one minister here who had been a lawyer. His wife sent back some cards left for her, with the note that she married a lawyer, and not & minister; that her husband had changed his Erofession, but that she bad not changed era. She should select her own company, and receive only those who were agreeable to her. New York Times.

SEWS NOTEN. Grant is mad because Alexis snubbed him. Fred May begins to show himself freely about New York. Thomas Duffy, another Mollie Maguire, is to hang April 4. Barley is si x inches high in Los Angeles county, California. . ', The body of the dead Fenian, John O' Mahoney, is to be se.nt to Ireland. Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will send a delegation to the Black Hills when spring opens. One vinter of San Bernardino. California, is setting oat 40,000 grape cuttings this season. A propeller of 600 tons burthen is being built at San Francisco for the Hawaiian government There is grumbling in Cincinnati because the foundation for the new Springer's hall is said to be insecure. Train wreckers smashed an engine and killed a fireman on the Iron Mountain road, St Louis, Wednesday. . The rule of the carpet-bag is over in Mississippi, and there is a balance of $400,000 in the state treasury. . The Pinkerton detective agency have arrested one William Conners, thought to be one of the Northampton bank robben. , , The New York bar association has undertaken the Herculean task of suppressing extortion and piracy among its members. Mrs. Affie E Witson, widow of a prominent banker of St Louis, was killed by be ing thrown out of her carnage Tuesday, Five heavy suits have been filed against the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company at Iiouisville to recover money on notes s.nd bonds.1 ' ' t- .. ' 1 . Hayes's friends are getting ready to receira him. Boss Shepherd's brother being at the head of a movement to give him au inauguration ball. .. A'Trenton firm has purchased the hull ot Commodore Perry's flag ship, the Lawrence and intend to manufacture canes and other relics from the timbers. A pretty feature of a recent charitable entertainment at Woonsocket Rhode Island, was a game. of chess, with young people, fancifully attired, as the pieces. The Belgian forgers have applied for a discharge to the United Siates court ia New York, on the ground that the extradition, treaty does not cover their case. Chicago has several bogus reporters who attend prostitutes' balls, - take down the names of prorarnent citizens who are there, and then suppress the in for a consideration. The Santa Crux (CaL) Courier of ' the 2d instant acknowledges the receipt . of a quantity of ripe grapes, fresh , from the vines, grown in the open air at a ranch near 8oquel. . ....... In January 270 wella were completed In the Pennsylvania oil 1 region, with, a total production on ;be : let of February ot 2.68S barrvhvoraa average . production per well of about 939 barrels.- . : - - i -ii