Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1877 — Page 11

FOB SUN DAT. r I i 4 2 Maxima. " - ADELAIDI A. PROCTKfe 5 - 'f I hold Kim great who, for Love sake, ' Can give with generou, earnest will ' tTet he who takes for Love's weet sake, I think I hold more generous still. I bow before the noble mind That freely norae groat wron? forgives: Yet noble is the one forgiven. . x Who bears that burden well anc lives. It may be hard to Rain, and still To keep a lowly, steadfast heart J Yet he who lose to fill .-i t 1 A harder and a truer part. " ... ; Glorious it is to wear the crown . ,. , Of a deserved and pure success; ' He who knows how to full, ha won A crown wUxe lustre Is not less. Great may he be who can command And rule with just and tender sway) 1 .Yet is diviner wiadoni taught . : ., , Better by him who can obey. . . Blessed are those who die for God, 4 ' And earn the martyr' crown of light; tl . Yet he who lives for (Jod may be A greater conqnerer in nis sight '" Cardinal Manning has given notice to his clergy that no musio taken or adapted from the theater, the opera or concerts, or which has become familiar . through secular usage, shall be sung at mass or benediction or used as voluntaries or interludes, and that the music used shall be as congregational as Eossible. He has also banished ladies from is choirs so thoroughly that not a female voice is heard in any of the churches under his jurisdiction. .--..-.,. Why do you preach tba Gospel?. Is it because you Uave a sense of the sinner's danger? or because you love the Gospel? or because you feel a constraining sense of God's love and pity? Or again, is it because you find the pulpit an appropriate field for the display of your talents, or a sphere for the exercise of your ambition? Do you preach for ease or gain? Have yon felt the burden of souls on you, and been constraind, with St. Paul, to cry, "Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel"? ....r, .... 'The. religious papers are discussing the best way to pronounce the benediction. Let the minister so pronounce it that he includes himself in its prayer. . A great many ministers say "The Lord be with you." when they ought to say "The Lord be with us." We are all traveling together and what one wants all want. There is a larger matter in connection with worship which ought tobe criticised to the hilt of the sword. It is the habit of getting ready to go out of church while the benediction is being uttered. One man E uta on his coat, another fumbles after his at, and still another stands in the aisle in as great eagerness 4 as though the word 'amen" were the equivalent of the word "go." It is a painful thing to bolt one's food, but to bolt one's religion and then bolt for the door is neither just to one's self nor -decorous toward the offices of religion. The effectiveness of your ministrations will depend greatly on the purpose with which they are delivered. The arrow will not go beyond the point for which the bow is bent. In the ministry, as in all else, the results of our labor will not transcend our intention. If oar aim be low, we shall have our reward in kind. To make the life of a minister grand, there must be an exalted aim and a ceaseless devotion of all his powers to secure its advantages. It is not the field you occupy that will make your life grand; it is the spirit and purpose with which you do your work. The final well done" will come to many a minister in humble spheres, while others in larger or more exalted places may be found wanting in the great day. The possibility of success is in your own hands. Place it in the hands of God; faithfulness is in yours. The bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has been delivering this week a series of thoughtful addresses on the prevalent unbelief of the day, in which he describes that unbelief is rather a vague and driftless tendency than a fixed state of mind; nay, the unbelievers, he says, have so completely succeeded in suspending their judgment that they hardly believe even in their own unbelief. He traces this condition of things . chiefly to three causes to the impression produced by the historical criticism of modern times, of the vast uncertainty attending all ancient historyi and especially all history involving stories of miracles; to the advance of scientific . notions which seem to dispense with the creative energy of God; and to the new intensity with which the enigmas of life, the moral and metaphysical difficulties involved in the origin of evil, are urged upon the imagination of all of us. The pope now leans rather heavily upon his stick, and has lost to a great extent the nobly ereot carriage . which distinguished him but a very few years ago. His voice, too, is weaker, and his articulation less distinct. But his eye is yet wonderfully bright and keen, and tiis mobile features change with every variation of thought. His memory, too, is as tenacious as ever. An Englishman who called upon him recently says that the venerable man remembered on what subjects he had talked to his vistor five years before, and glided from Italian into French and from French - into Italian, 1 us t as he did then, and his whole face Tightened when his lips framed, as of old, the ready mot, in which he has never in his sorest trials been known to fail. The acuteness of his questions as to affairs in the east proved how strong is the interest be still takes in questions of the day, and his jokes about the conferenceyid especially about the sultan, showed that beneath the jocular surface there lurked a substratum of shrewd observation. Cold - and hunger and physical suffering are the worst of all bearable ills for animals. But men and women are, or ought to be, something more than animals., Therefore that which keeps them out of their higher birthright of manhol and womanhood is unspeakably worse than any merely nervous thrill of pain. I have repeatedly reminded you that Ihere is no civilization without money. : The imperious demand of the animal appetites must first , be met. And; until .these are met and something plus over and' above remains, the higher nature has no chance to be heard. Thus, among those ground down by the extremes of poverty there is no means for feeding the higher hunger of ' the mind; there is absolutely no soil in which mental growth can take root. No money for schools, no money for books, no money for lectures. And, since it is all they can do to keep body and soul together, there is no time to think whether they are anything more than a stomach to hunger and a back to the cold. And, worse yet, it not unfrequently happens that, by the necessities of their condition, they become so brutalized that there is no sense of hunger for thought, knowledge, beauty, left. They either never fet out of the animal, or else they are driven ack, into it. And further, since the mind, better or worse, is the guide of man, when that is not developed and enlightened, this mental evil spreads and infects the whole man. It vitiates him physically; it unfits him for home or social relations: it makes him a wild, superstitious force in religion, and a danger to the state. The Rev. M. J. Savage. Breakfast was not quite ready, and while waiting, karr took, up a paper for a mirulte. .anther eye fall upon these words: "A good

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this world but once. If. therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing can uo, to my leiiow-oeings, iei me uo it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.' " Mary read the paragraph twice over, and it made a deep impression on her heart. She took her seat at . the table, thoughtfully, and she wondered, as she glanced up at the already wearied face of her mother, whether she had not let many golden opportunites slip never to return. She could not go that way again. Bat here was a long, bright holiday she had proposed to spend in self amusement. Indeed she had kept herself awake an hour or more in planning the day's enjoyment, intending to fill it as full as she could. ; Now. these words, "I shall not pass this way again," haunted her mind and awakened quite a new train of thought. What if that mother's cheek should grow paler and Ealer, her cough deeper, and her thin hands e finally folded away forever on her silent heart. The thought was terrible. O. what bitterness of regret she would feel that phe had lightened her burdens so little! For this day, at least, she would do what she could. . "Mother," she said when breakfast was over, "you have leen looking for a spare day to rn'n over to Grafton, and see Aunt Mabel, and now is your chance. I mean to take the helm to-däy," she continued, pleasam tl. "Not to-day, Mary, of all days, when there is so much work to be done." "Yes, mother, this is just the day. I have nothing else to do but to take your place. You shall see to-night how well I have filled it' ! Mary's persuasions prevailed, and the mother spent a long, bright summer day visiting with a beloved invalid sister, to whom ner visit was indeed a joyful surprise. It "did good like a medicine" to both mother and sister.while the gain to Mary herself was a hundred fold greater. The Child's World. For our own parts, while we accept what Bishop Elliott savs of the unique character of the Old Testament history; while we cordially believe that its continuous and indelible realism is painting man, and its constant and deep belief in the providence of God afford a testimony at once to the honesty of the narratives and deep foundation of Hebrew history in a genuine revelation, we can not recognize any feature in it which should assure us against those great mistakes of detail which occur in all other history especially as we do find here and there those remarkable inconsistencies between one part of the history and another which are characteristic of all human authorship, and especially of the authorship of an unpracticed and easily believing age. It seems to us that historical criticism makes an unanswerable case against the habit of assigning anything like very high authority .as to detail . to such histories as the earlier narratives of the Old Testament, and that no one can reasonably believe in any very high authority for them except on some such ground as the infallibility of the church, whose canonical scriptures they form. But as we cannot see any proof of such infallibility, and, indeed, find in the Old Testament histories much which is quite inconsistent with it, we should say that, on the whole, the kind of hesitation which historical criticism has taught us in accepting the details of Old Testament history especially the early history is well justified. Not the less we should maintain that the coherent belief of the prophets and historians in the divine purpose which formed Israel into a distinct people, and molded it for a special function in the life of the world a belief which shines through all the early traditions, the early records, and the early poems of the people as clearly as through its latest prophesies is good and striking evidence that they were a people chosen by God to understand his character and declare it to the rest of the earth; and that their national character had been formed If not exactly by the experience described, yet by experience more or less closely resembling it in the confidence it had given them in the mighty hand and outstretched arm of Jehovah for the very purpose for which it was ultimately used try the divine power. it is quite one thing to say that all these curious old books, full of the evidence of human imperfection, not only in the subjects treated, but in the persons who treated them, are to be implicitly trusted as accurate records, though they neither claim inspiration for themselves nor show any trace of completeness and exceptional accuracy, and quite another, and a very different thing indeed, to accept them heartily as the reflection of a new faith, extending through many pges, in the guiding hand of a God who was not only teaching the people whose history they embody the lesson of righteousness, but filling them with the expectation of destiny which would, through their race, bring life and light and hope in a broad stream of regenerating power into the world. The Old Dynasty and the New. . Columbus Special to the Courier-Journal. The agony is over and Stanley Matthews, the representative of Hayes before the electoral commission, and the head of the railroad interests of this section, is declared the choice of the republicans of the Ohio legislature for senator. The fight, as between Matthews, a supposed represenative of the new dynasty,and Taft that of the old,was very bitter, and had Tatt worked up affairs as thoroughly as did Matthews he would have Erobably to-night have worn the crown as estowed by the . republican caucus. Matthews was here at the earliest possible moment, and, with the representatives and money of the railroad ring at his back, he had managed to work things so satisfactorily as to gather in everything that could be reached. Even before Taft took the field, Matthews came with the reputation gained in his argument before the national returning board, and added to that the story that he was the representative mm of the administration. Taft came as the representative of the old dynasty, with an odor of southern , policy thereof still clinging to his clothes. The result is before us, as given in the ballots sent you oy associated press third ballot, Matthews 45, Taft 2, etc. Howland, the representative of the Garfield element, clung with wonderful tenacity to life, and this fact shows that had the wily James consented to run instead of becoming Rutherford's mouth-piece in the house, he would probably have been successful. Two Maxie One. - Burlington Hawkeye.l A woman out on North Hill, being counted out the other morning,-after a debate on the question, "Who shall arise and build the fire?" got up and split her husband's wooden leg into kindling wood, and broiled his steak with it. It made him so mad that he got hold of her false teeth and bit the dog with them. She cried until she had a fit of hysterics, and then ftllipped out his glass eye, and climbed upon the bed-post and waxed the glaring eye to the ceiling with a quid of chewing gum. Then he took her wisp of false hair and tied it to a stick, and began, whitewashing the kitchen with it Then she started off to obtain a divoree, but Judge Newman decided. that he couldn't grant a divorce unless there were two parties to the suit, and there was hardly enough left of them to make one.

THOSE HOURS. WE CALL OUR OWN,

The hours that we have passed together Would scarcely make one Holden year, ., , One golden year of sunny weather . 'Midst other yearn of darknets drear; Though, spread upon the grana, our kisses Would warm a space as broad as this is, From there to here 1 Stolen from a world of death and sorrow, These happy hours of life and bliss, Enough of heuvenly Joy can borrow, That angels (could ttiey look at this) WoulJ surely shroud their wond'rlng face To see how much of heaven's traces Lurk'd in a kiss! Oh ! some have said that e'en the fleetness Of these dear hours we call our own, ' May lend them something more of sweetness Than would have clnng to Utem alone. Ahl Who can say? For who has striven. To guess which pathway led to Heaven . Oace Heav'n is known? Yet, (SRonld'st thou deem that they have guetised it, (The sages who have told you this). Then would to Heav'n that I could test it, And cling forever to thy kiss! Then should I know if 'tis the fleetness Of these dear hours that makes their sweetness. Or whether their exceeding fleetness Flows from their own surpassing sweetness, ' Or what It is! Violet Fane. FASHION NOTES. Flowers are worn on almost all occasions with simple toilettes; at the belt, in the hair, and on the skirts of the dress. , , i - i - i . - Black lace bonnets of plain or of figured net laid plainly on the frame are among the most elegant of the importations. English thread gloves are shapely and durable, and cost 55 cents for those with one button, fiO cents for two button gloves and 80 cents for those with three buttons. It is predicted that white will be worn a great deal this year, and that white muslin will be a favorite material for carriage and house wear. On the st-eets something with more body will be used. In all the new spring dresses the shoulders are very short, the neck is cut very high behind, and the tight sleeves have the upper half slightly gathered on the elbows to fit the arms more perfectly. The Byron collar is seen on a great many polonaises. Fringes and wide galloons are the trimmings universally used, and the galloon is very generally arranged in sloping lines, or else in a long V down the back from shoulder to waist. While the skirts remain narrow and tight, outside pockets must continue to be worn. For summer dresses the pockets are to be separate from the dress, and are to be suspended at the right side by means of ribbons to match the dress in color. Imported percale dresses for ladies are made with fitted basques and demi-trained skirts, on which the upper skirt is draped, so as to form two aprons in front and a square drapery behind. These are made of dark blue striped percale, brown or green, and are edged with white Hamburg work. They cost $14 or $15. New black silk sacques are partly of brocade and partly of plain silk, and are trimmed with galloon, lace, fringe and ribbon bows. Dolmans are thus confined to the gray and drab wool cloths already described. The sacques are half-long and of French outlines, with long seams in the back, or else the galloon trims the back perpendicularly. The long slender garment of sacque shape, with shoulder pieces giving the effect of a Dolman, is imported in summer cloths and in black silk, and promises to be as popular as it has been during the winter The newest white muslin wrappers are made of nansook, trimmed with bands of Hamburg insertion and plain or frilled edi?inff. Thev are in the princesse shape. perfectly plain down the front and sides, 3uite narrow in the skirt, and are finished own the middle of the back by a princesse i i. i iv. ir : f Healing set in ueiuw tue .uaiRucuic naisv ow on the tournure, and forming a fan train. The insertion is placed straight up each front, crosses over the shoulders, and is in each of the three seams that shape the back. In others it has the outline of a sacque that is longer in front than behind. A simple costume of light gray material is made for spring, with a deep, box-plaited flounce of the material.. Heading this is a piece put on nearly plain, and cut in deep battlements, which are bound with a harmonizing or contrasting braid. A darker shade of gray is handsome. A fold of the material completes the skirt trimmings. The overskirt is very deep, rounded in front raised very slightly on the side, and pointed behind. This bas'a wide galloon to match the binding running all around it The basque is made with seven seams in the back, cut pointed in front, sloped up on the hips, and the middle of the back is cut in a point, being much shorter than the sloped side seams. Beneath this are placed two boxplaits, which are just long enough to reach the points of the side seams, to which they are joined, givinga square, fancy postillion effect in the back. The sleeves are bottoned to the elbow on the outside, and linen cuffs are worn over them. The hat, of gray straw, has a scarf of grenadine wound around it, with a bird holding the long, gray bridles in the back. It is slightly rolled up on one side, and a cluster of violets and roses peep from beneath it Another stylish costume is of plain gray and soft plaid goods. The plain gray goods forms the skirt which is trimmed with a deep, tide plaited flounce, above which are two folds headed by side plai tings. The pol onaise which accompanies this is made in princesse shape, perfectly plain, merely faced at the bottom with a fold of the plain goods. It is lodged a little low in the back. There is probably nothing so indispensable to a lady as a wrapper, and a wrapper suita ble not only for mere convenience and repose, but one sufficiently attractive for receiving those more intimate friends wbo are somehow received when one is "not at home" to mere acquaintances. An exceedingly pleasing one is of pale blue flannel or cashmere. The front is cut in princesse snape, wnixe tne center oi tne oacK is snirrea to a bias band some five or six inches below the waist line. This produces a full and graceful train. The little bias band is edged on either side by a scant ruffle of white 8myrna lace. The neck is cut open in a small point, and is trimmed with a pleating of cashmere edged with lace, which continues down the whole front A deep Spanish flounce ornaments the bottom, and is itself trimmed with three narrow folds and edged with. lace. The hleeves are edged with a cashmere pleating and an inner ruffle of lace. A fancy pocket completes the wrapper. Another much more elaborate robe de chambre is of the same cut as the former, with the fulness at the back concealed under a large bow. The material is an exquisite shade of pale buff cashmere. The front has a pointed vest of black satin reaching slightly below the waist At the bottom of the skirt, running up the front, is a shell trimming of black satin, which edges each side of the vest and continues to the back, where it onus a point.. The sides of the wrapper, are of black satin, the seams .where , they are inserted being concealed, under the shell trimming. The bottom of these sides are orna

mented by four narrow plisse flounces of

cashmere. A similar pleating .edges the back of the wrapper. The sleeves are trimmed to correspond. . This neglige is very lovely, and its "make up" is as novel as it is elegant A "companion" dress that Is, a similar one of white and blue or white and rose color would make a charming toilet and one in which any lady need iiot hesitate to receive those who are privileged to call at those hours when every lady is by common concession supposed to be unprepared for visitors. CLOSE OF THE CONTEST. Tbe Yanderbilt Hein Come to An Agree ment, and the Lawyer Are Ralktd of Their Prey. The New York Tribune, at the end of a column of interviews with lawyers who didn't know and interested parties who wouldn't tell anything about the Vanderbilt will compromise, has the following: The same old friends who have favored a Tribune reporter heretofen with reminiscences of Commodore Vancierbilt and the freshest news concerning the will, and who have been in the closest relations with William H. Vanderbilt since the death of his father, were seen last evening and information was obtained contradicting some of the many rumors a'.'oat concerning the abandonment of the contest over the will. When asked if they wo lid state on what b.sis any compromise was effected they laughed heartily, and scouted the idea that William II. Vanderbilt wvuld be so much intimidated as to settle the will in any other way than that prescribed by his father. No compromise whatever was made said they, and William, expecting that the fight would go on, a few days ago sent for William M. Ev arts to conduct his case, but happily there was no need for his services. Some people, no doubt, were surprised when the news was spread abroad that the will was admitted to probate, but in reality the matter was settled on Monday evening by two of the contestants giving up their case. The names of the two who gave up the case were not given to the reporter, but it was inferred from the conversation afterward that the one wbo held out was Mrs. Allen. The friends emphatically stated that William 11. Vanderbilt had adhered to his intention of carrying out the spirit and letter of the will, and in no way would he deviate trom it Although the will was now settled, there has been no further conference between William and the other heirs, and the contestants gave up the case because they "had no legs to stand on." William II. Vanderbilt, they said, had not made any farther promises or concessions than those ks made when the heirs called on him. Then he promised that when the money belonged to him he would act munificently with them all. It was believed, although these friends did not positively know it, that Mr. Vanderbilt would give a handsome sum to each cf the other heirs. The question was asked if they thought that William H. Vanderbilt ever feared the contest They said that he did not because the backbone of it was broken when all the heirs did not join together. . The case was really carried above the water by Cornelius, and he was a man whom William pitied and for whom he had a great sympathy. Then a number of transactions in connection with Cornelius that occurred during the commbdore's life were mentioned. Those things would have been brought up on the trial, said they, and an unpleasant record would have been made for him. Corneilus was always regarded by his father as incapable of caring for property, and no confidence was placed in him. Even now his brother had a grasp npon him, according to the will, for it is said if he anticipated or conveyed the money coming to him, William might stop him from receiving the interest on the $200,000. William H. Vande bilt never feared that the proceedings would end disastrously to himself, but always thought the settlement a matter ot time. Everything during the commodore's life, they said, pointed to the fact that he always wished William to succeed him in his business and become the heir to most of his fortune. About 25 years ago, when William was a farmer and the commodore controlled his large steamboat business, he made a will making William the sole heir to the business. This will had never been destroyed, but was now in the possession of William. Some years afterward, when his son Gecuge grew up and his business had increased, he made another will, dividing the bulk of his fortune between William and ' George, and this will was still preserved. When George died it was necessary for the commodore to change his will, and a third one was made, and although his fortune and business bad largely expanded since the first will, he again made William the heir to most of his immense fortune, and left Cornelius comparatively out in the cold, as he bad done in his last will. There never was a question about the commodore s purpose. He was a man of sound mind until be died, and if he acted in a manner a little peculiar in giving a small portion comparatively to his children except nis eldest son, it was only a carrying out of the plans and qualities which characterized his whole life. The commodore had many peculiarities, but his mind was as clear as a bell to the very end, and he was never unduly influenced by any one. One of the gentlemen present told the following anecdote as illustrating the commodore's peculiar ways: "I remember standing by him when a beggar woman came to him and asked for assistance. He thought he saw something honest in her face, and immediately gav.e her a $20 bill, which was a little fortune to her. After staying some time thanking him for the handsome gift, she was about to go away, when he called her back and gave her a second $20 bill, remarking that be saw honesty printed in her face and he knew that the money would not be misspent" The view which some lawyers took of the unexpected termination of the contest was indicated by the audible "aside" of one in the surrogate's court room: "It's highway robbery! It robs the profession of $1,000000." . . . . A Solution of the Trouble. Washington Dispatch. The president received to-day -a very amusing confidential letter from a man residing in tvew Orleans, who describes himself as a pure minded, high spirited, energetic patriot, who desires to come forward and thrust himself into the breach of Louisiana affairs and solve for President Hayes and the country the vexed and troublesome Louisiana question. The proposition in cold blood is this: He offers to send Mr. Packard, as he says, to hell by the most direct route which, being freely translated, reveals an offer to . assassinate Mr. Packard. He says in his letter: "Of course I will be arrested. I shad plead guilty, shall be convicted and as a matter of course sentenced. When this is done, all that I ask of you, Mr. President, is that you shall simply pardon me. I, as a high minded patriot, will . perform ray part as a simple duty of ridding the country of a miscreant, and at the same time relieving ?'ou of any responsibility in deciding which s the lawful governor of - Louisiana." The f resident is very much amused with . the etter, and, intimates darkly that he will hold . it in reserve, in view of the possible failure of bis commission experiment and other peaceable expedients,

ALL SORTS.

The Home of .ny Heart. Not here In the popu'ous town, In the playhouse or mart. Not her, in the ways gray and brown, But afar on the green swelling down. Is the home of my heart. There the hlllsifte slopes down to a dell Whence a streamlet has xljtrt There are woods and sweet grass on the swell, And the south winds and went know It well: 1 .. . l , . . ' x i iu uuio ui ray ueart. ; There's a cottage o'ershadowed by leaves Growing fatrer than art. Where nnder the low sloping eaves No falne hand the swallow bereaves; Tis the home of my heart And there as you gaze down the lea, Where the trees stand apart, Over grassland and woodland maybe You will calci the faint gleam of the sea From the home of my heart. And there in the rapturous spring. When the morning rays dart O'er the plain, and the morning birds sing. You may see the most heautirul.thing - I u the home of my heart ; For thereat the casement above. Where the rosebushes part. Will blush the fair face of my love: Ah, yes! it is this that will prove . . T u tne home of my.hearu F. W. liourdlllon, in The Galaxy for April. Teople generally will be glad to know that charcoal has been discovered to be a sure cure for burns. By laying a small piece of cold charcoal on the burn the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the ch rcoal on for an hour the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. . The latest at weddings is to have the main aisle thickly strewn with flowers.- At the marriage of Mr. Milliken to Miss Outhout, in New York last week, the bride walked over a mat. stretched from t.b rl altar-railing, fashioned of evergreens and nnea in Dy nines, roses ana violets. . A curious experiment with the magnet was recently tried in London. A boy had broken a needle in the calf of his leg, and before resorting to surgical instruments, it was decided to try the effect of a powerful magnet in withdrawing the steel. After a number of experiments in different posotions the needle was drawn near the surface on the opposite side of the leg from which it entered and was easily withdrawn. Mr. Richard Grant White says in the Galaxy that England is the paradise of men. An Englishman who is the head of a family is not only master of his house, but of the whole household. His will is recognized as the law of that household. It is not deemed unreasonable that, in the house which he provides and keeps up. his comfort and his convenience should be first considered, or that, as he is responsible for his nousenoia ootn to the law and to society. authority should go with responsibility. The consciousness of this acknowledged or ratner unquestioned supenon tv shows itself in the . men's faces, and in their bearing, simple and unpretending as their manner is. Seakiug of the crisis in the silk business in France, a correspondent writes: "One of the chief causes of the ciisis appears to be in the change of fashion. Ladies prefer now closely fitting dresses,' requiring material which, technically speaking, 'gives.' Such a material silk is not, while woolen stuff is peculiarly suitable, being at the same time much less costly. This change in the taste of ladies has been further attributed to the greater cost of silks consequent on a gigantic siiK-Duying speculation oi two years or so ago, which resulted in an arbitrary price with a small supply, to which tne manufacturers yielded because they could not help themselves. Much, then, depends on whether this change of fashion is of a permanent character. There does not seem to be much evidence warranting a conclusion on this point" All over the entire world, wherever religion has a foothold, will celebrate the 21st of the coming May as a day of geaeral rejoicing. It will be the 50th anniversary of the episcopate of Pius IX. ; and the 17th of June following, which will likewise be observed as a great day by the Roman church, will be the 31st year of his pontificate. The latter event is one as yet nn beard of in the annals of Catholicism. Pius the Ninth "has seen the days of Peter" as bishop of Rome, n spite of the old saying and, in the present pontiffs case, mistaken prophecy, "Abu videbU anno Petri." Pius the Ninth has not only been a bishop longer than 8t Peter, but has surpassed his years of- episcopate. The fact strikes the Catholic world with wonder. The bishops of the Catholic church in America have issued circulars calling npon their followers to celebrate in an especial manner the two events which are of such moment and importance in the history of the church. One of the late General Changarnier's peculiarities was a horror of tobacco. He has been seen at home, where he was otherwise the kindliest of hosts, pursuing unfortunate smokers even into remote corners, harassing them, reducing them, partly by pleasant banter and partly by serious expostulation, to sullen submission, and bringing them up in triumph to the drawing room. In fact, in this particular respect he seems to have treated his guests as a stern but fatherly old colonel might treat a parcel of subalterns An odd story is told 'of him in the time when he himself was a subaltern. He and two comrades had been dining together, and they had dined so well that one of the comrades, overcome with wine and the heat of a discussion which ensued, lost his head and struck Changarnier, who turned deadly pale andfelt that he must fight somebody. But he" was far too generous to fight his intoxicated friend. HeJeft the room without saying a word, went into a neighboring coffee house where the students of the place were wont to assemble, and administered a couple of cuffs to the first unoffending student he came across, and. when swords were drawn, followed this outrage up with a severe wound in the shoulder. lie then returned to his friend, who had no recollection of anything that had occurred, and said to him, "What a bore you are! You've obliged me to run a poor devil through the shoulder who never did anything to me. It's perfectly ridiculous." And so the two embraced, and no more was said. It is wonderful how much may be done to protract existence by .the habitual restorative of sound sleep. Late hours under mental strain are, of course, incompatible with this solacement On this topic Dr. Richardson says it has been difficult for him to trace the beginnings of pulmonary consumption to late hours at "unearthly balls and evening parties," at which rest is broken, and encroachments made on the constitution. But, he adds. "If in middle age the habit of hking deficient , nd irregular sleep be still maintained, every source of depression, every latent form of disease, is quickened and intensified. The sleepless exhaustion allies itself with all other processes or exhaustion; or it kills imperceptibly, by a rapid introduction of premature old age, which leads directly to premature dissolution ' , There, at once, is an explanation why many people die earlier than they ought to. The violate the primary principle of taking a regular night's rest If they sleep, it is disturbed. They dream all sorts of nonsence. -That is. to, say they do not sleep soundly or for any useful purpose; for dreaming is nothing more than wild imag

inative notions passing ! through " the brain while half sleeping or dozing. In dreaming there is no proper or restorative rest They were very pretty and t e was an i i , i . i -

parenuy nve or six years ainerence in tneir ages. As the train pulled up at Bussey. oat on the A., K. and D., the younger girl blusbea, nattened her nose nervously against the window, and drew back in joyous smiles as a. young man rame dasinnginto the car, shook hands tenderly and cordially, insisted on carrying her, valise, magazine, little paper bundle, and would probably have carried her had she nermitted him The rawncpri smuea as she lert the car, and the murninr went ripling through the coach, "they're engaged." The other girl sat looking nervous- . Iy out of the window, and once or twice i - ....... - r - --Tiwould leave the car, yet seemed to Cecting some one. At last he came. He ulged into the door like a house on fire, looked along the seats until his rcanly gaze fell on her upturned, expectant face, roared, "t'ome on! I've been waiting for you on the platform for fifteen minutes!" grabbed her basket and strode out of the car, while she followed with a little valise, a bandbox, a paper bag full of lunch, a bird cage, a glas jar of jelly preserves and an extra shawL And a crusty looking old bachelor in the further end of the car croaked out, in unison with the indignant looks of the passengers, "They're married." Of Liszt and Chopin as a party at George Sand's this picturesoue i-tory is told: Li sat was at the piano, lie played one of Chopin's Nocturnes, and embroidered it with trills, tremolos and other variations which were not in the score. Chopin repeatedly showed his impatience, and at last, unable to command himself any longer, he went op to the piano and said, with his English coldness: "I beg you, my dear fellow, if you do me the honor to play one of my compositions, play it as 'tis written, or playsomething else. Chopin alone has the right, to change Chopin." Liszt was extremely vexed, and instantly quitted the piano ctooi: "Very well, play it yourself." Chopin replied: "Willingly!" and took the vacated stool. Just as he did so a large moth giddily lighted on the lamp and put it out Chopin exclaimed: "Don't light it Nay. extinguish all the candles. Moonlight alone best" For an hour he plaved. When the enchanter ceased tears rolled down every cheek, and especially down Liszt's cheeks. He put his arm around Chopin, pressed him to his heart, and said: Ah, my dear friend. you are right! The works of a genius like you are sacred; 'tis profanation to touch them. You are really a poet I am but a mountebank." Chopin warmly exclaimed: "No! no! no! no! We each have our peculiar excellence that's all the difference between us. None knows better than yon yourself do that there is no human beingwho can play Beethoven and Weber as yon play them." HARRIET MARTIJTEAC'S FIRST APPEARARCZ XK PRIST. I suppose I must tell what that first paper was, though I had much rather not, for I am so heartily ashamed of the whole business as never to have looked at the article since the first flutter of it went off. It was on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity." I wrote awar. in rav abominable scrawl or those days, on foolscap paper, feeling mightily like a fool all the time. I told no one. and carried my expensive packet to the postoffice myself, to pay the postage, I took the . letter V for my signature I can not at all remember why. The time was very near the . Anil of ihm month T Via ha .1 aft nite expectation that I should ever -hear anything of my paper; and be in the forthcoming number. That number was sent in before service time on a Sunday morning. MvT heart may haye been heating when 1 laid bands on it, but it thumped prodigiously when I saw my arLILIC lljriC, Olllt, lift HI tVUCS" pondents, a request to hear more from V. of Norwich. There is certainly something entirely peculiar in the sensation of seeing; . one's self in print for the first time; the lines burn themselves in upon the brain in a way of which black ink is incapable in any other mode. So I felt that day, when I went about with my secret I have said what my eldest brother was to us in . what reverence we held him. He was just married, and he and his bride asked me to re- ' turn from chapel with them to tea. After tea he said : "Come now, we have had plenty of talk; I will read you something;" and he held out his band for the new Repository. After glancing at it he exclaimed: ' They have got a new hand here. - Listen." After a paragraph he repeated, "Ah! this i maw hon1 rko Kd va ha1 nnf riint? m afaaI CU3 LUIS LJl 0J iUll TV UliC. A " VU1U I III- ' ' rible to convey to any who not know the Monthly Repository of that day, bow very moll a Mmnlimdnf i Vi i waa T XBa lllnt of course. At the end of the first column. fiA !( nimMi about tha Ktvle. lnokinp a.t me v in some wonder at my being as still as a -v i i . J li t l u : - TTiriiiwM f I i hin wf i rpn fiunrr iiui ä.äw, .... - tone and thrill to it still) his words were:' "What a hne sentence that is I W by, do yon not think so?" I mumbled out, silly enough, that it did not seem anything particular. 'Then," said he "you were notlistening. I will read it again. Ihere, now!" As he still got nothing out of me. he turned round upon me, as we sat side by Bide upon the sofa, with "Harriet, what is the matter with.' mnt T n (iro. Irnevr T'Aii on InvtnnniiQ inf. thing betöre." i replied, in utter contusion, "I never could baffle anvbody. The truth is that paper is mine." He made no reply; read on in silence, and spoke no more till I was on my feet to come away. He then laid his hand on my shoulder and said gravely, ' (calling me ''dear" for the first tims,) "Now, ' dear, leave it to other women to make shirts and darn stockings; ana ao you aevote yourself to this." I went home in a sort of dream, so that the squares ot the pavement seemed to float before my eyes. ' That evening made me an authoress. From Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. The Bible en Haye. v in xne course oi iwo columns oi newspaper comment on the inauguration in the Chicago Times appears the following extract ' from a publication rarely quoted by that sheet: . - I' r ., m A 1 Whoso is a partner with a thief hateth his own soul; he heareth cursing and be wrayeth it not Prov. xxix., 24. The house of the wicked, shall be overthrown. Prov. xiv., 11. There is a way that seemeth right to a' man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov. xvi., 25. When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. . Prov. xvii., 3. Breal of deceit is sweet to a man; bat afterward his mouth shall be filled w.'th gravel. Prov. xx , 17 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed Prov. xx., 21. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment Prov. xxi., 7. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches Prov. xxii., 1. ' - If thou hast done foolishly In lifting thyself up, or if thou hast thougtt evil, lay thine hand npon thy mouth. Itot. xxx.,33.