Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1883 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY. FEBHUAHY 7, 1883.

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Both bird and ege were fair. A ad both beiotiKed to me; Yet eer with hearttul eye The bird looked over tne VTltülu their tender depth Bhone over a wild unrest; Ever against the tars It beat lu beautiful breast. I raid. I will make lu race 80 bright and g'ad and gay, W th all that love can do. It can noi choose but stay. Invito With all my art. Still it wu plain to me Tht ever with longlr.g eres My bird looked over the sea. Thea I said. I will hold It close Surely It 1 my tightI will keep this precious thing, Ii not by love, ty might. Iuvain! Though mlue the power To bold or set It free, 2Jot mice to hold its heartThat could escape from me. Thea I s&Id, Be free, 0 Bird. To ipread jour beautiful wlDJI, Who carea f.r a oiig, u-.lsa It's the heart that slug? For tue glasce of eye that shine, 11 saining taey also nve? For the snowiest breatt, if no'er It beat with thepaUe of love? Wide I opened the door; But I turned my face away. For me a are wea sometimes. Whatever the world may say. A thri 1 of joy raric ut From a hat py. sonnf ul breast A fla-b Ol wi.ws ala-! My heart told all tire rest. My bird will never enme back: Yet why should 1 weep or sigh, II only tne thttg I love IIa entered Its native sky? Tll never come back. I Know; But who, his love to prove, la Willing to oe f reot, S lands oa tne, hights of LOTC t as kose uuo re. f Haper's Magazine. "It must be deliitbtful to earn one's own living, as ycu do. Djlorea. Aa for me, beeide having no special necessity, I never had any f pecial talent for anything that I could find oat; I was made to fill a chink, I eurposi." "And you do your duty beautifully, if your hink it your chv.r, and filling it completely the end and aim of life." 'Dolore?, I am not always fitting." Nay, I know it. When Felicia ia not loungir.p, she is probably lying on the sofa; or if ut their. he is swinging in the hammock. If not to engaged, perhaps she is in bed.' Ami eo uaelese, then, or ia Dolores envious?" In cur social system that Felicia and ale of her ilk hav their appointed place there Is no doubt. For a dozn perfect roses lifted heave i ward thre m it ba a thousand rootless delving in uodr-ground darkness Do the roots envy the clowing blossoms? Nay, but tbey demand that they too shall do their dutv." 4-D jn't tcll me, se'ttiMie one, that the very flowers have duties. Would you 'aoil these pure ambroial weeds With the rank vapor of tuis siu- worn mold,?" Ilka blade o' grass carries its ain drap o' dew,' and every lower can cast the grateful sWIov which protects it? roots from the s orching sunlight. In that payable of Divs; do ycu know whs. I grudgel him most? Not the sumptuous fare, nor the purpta and Can linen. Tase he was born to, no doT.bt, and tbe irrprefsed him as little as the air we breathe and never think: of Bat I enviwi hiaa his leisure." Tell me now. Dolore, if you had the leisure which I at times find it so hard to dispf e of, what would you do with it7" "I, who am one of the r ote, who have scarcely one waking hour which is not spent in work, rr the preparation for work, how can I advi-e what the life of a rose should be? At lofcst distill your dew, and cast your shadow blow. But you who have hours an-1 hour? to call your own, you who like a prodigal ae spending the golden sunshine and drinVing the wine of the winds, do you know, or oan you dream even, how we live, some of us? " Did you ever smell the mould above the re'? Lot me tell you me ittj ot ore or my girie not a rare nor exceptional tale, but simply such a one as we hear every day. "It was one of thoe trying days when we advertise for hands that I first saw Mario Antoinette Moore. When ihe told me her ramp, I wondered inwardly why any mother ever consecrated her child to the miifortan-s tht m to cling to the very memory of that unhappv qa en. 1 never kmew a frojeious Marie Antoinette. I tat at my dt&k on the thir 1 floor of that old warehouse, where evervtbine is covered so richly with 'the bloom of Time.' as Oscar Wilde calls dust. I had interviewed a mall army of p cr women and girls; for while we wanted two dozen, hundreds ar plied. Every one brought a different man ner. a different rretume, atd a different odor within the narrow limits of my shabby throne. nd their his'-ories were as distinct i their iacej. Not bezears, you remem!ber; though beggary might have stood in the eaxne relation to mot et them as Mtraoeau s&ia me tin u:a to uoa: si ce n'fcst pas la Dieu, 'e'eat du moins son cousin jgermain.' Work they asked for. and my business was tj se ect the most l'kely to become useful, and give them a Ina1. Simple aa that task seemed, you cn never dream of its difficulty. The wore must be done in the bulling, and so m.vij asked the impossible .favor o? taking it come, so many knew nothing ab ut it, r. taw Knew anything about it! All were willing to try it, and ;U were driven by hard neesity. At last, toward night, th' firl whose stcrv I " stall tell you app-oachf d my Otk. If as the French say, a woman is only as old as she llook, she may have been twenty-two or twenty-three, cot strikingly pretty, but tall, decidedly gract ful, and wnat women call nux-lookii g ' As she came toward me she dii not walk with lhat awkward gait bcrn of moving in cramped space?; she bore herself liko one ued to a long room and a trained skirt; she improved me as W6Ü drvsecd, yet on closer inspection her mou-n-ing was 11, and her sooe- visibly bad. Her maacer was ce'laioly the manner of a lady; indeed, when she Book h reminded me Vaguely of a Sister of Cha-ity whom I had met at the death-bed of anuthor worker. You do not hear the tone thy use in the Voices of many working-girls. I have not lookod into to man faces without havirg learned to read something of the souls behind the masks, so I knew this one was in trouble. In our buBmeps, too, eo much da psnds upon the ha-uls and fingers! Thfy zieed not be handsome, but tby must be Clean ftßd lont; aod elender. Hers were all thret, as I saw by the one she had ungloved, and I noticed that she wore a ring, fo heavy thai it mutt have been a manV The seal was turned inward toward the palm. have never done the kind of . work you waLt done,' she said,' &nd ball detan you but a few minutes, you lock so tired, ani there are still so many for you to talk to. Iam willing to come and try, and will t very pa.ient. I hope Jon can givo me a trial; I am quick to earn, and wcu.d ba a lutl trouble as possible. In almost ary corner glancing anxiou-ly aroui d I would do my beet.' "Of all I tal teen tit ce morning, she was the only one whom 1 asked: 'Are you not capable cf doing something better thaa running a le wing-machine? 'What

have you been doing? She had been teaching school, she said, but had lost her place through ill health. a11 the fall she had been ill, but was now better, 'though a little behindhand.' Ab, owe her board, probably, I thought; no wonder she looks anxious. 'I want work so badly, even if it pays but little, for then I shall know just what I have to depend on. Indeed, I must do something.' I recognized the quiet desperation in her vcice; I had heard it eo often. 'Well, you may come to-morrow, and I will give you a corner and work. You must do yaur boat, and I will help you all I can.' "She thanked me and departed, and as she vanished down the dingy staircase ehe left behind a curious feeling that she was out of place in the factory, that some mystery shrouded her like the black veil she wore. That night 1 dreamed of her in my sleep Her im&ge rose before me clothed like a Sister of Charity, and whifpering, You most be tired; thero are so many still

to talK to, and while I looked at her she was : longer a nun, tut that unhappy . . . i quee i, and my work-room a pricoa, ana she f 'era over the floor and held her head; it ached with the crown and the weight ot woo. "She was there next day uncrowned except for her beautiful and abundant hair. No mystery about her in the bright sun shine of the win Lry morning. I did tot have much time to notice her, except to congratulate myself on my accurate judgment in regard to slender fingers, for the garment which she finished and sen; to me by Eugenie, my little Jewish handmaiden. if not perfect, had enough of promise in it to point to better things, and I was satis fled. ilis Nettie's eyes are blood-shot, and her head aches so that she cn't see; may she go homeT' says Eugenie. "'And who is Mut .Nettier I asked. ' 'Oh, the tall young lady in black, with the ring, you know. She seems so differ ent lrom .alary ilcuuire and the rest who came yesterday that I didn't know what to call her, so I asknd her if she woulda t tell me the short of Marie Antoinette, as I am alwaA s in a hurry, and sho said, ''Just call me Nettie." "The request to go home was not an unusual one, so many have headache or grow nervous the first day in a strange work room. The noi.je of'the machines, the confinement and anxiety, are distracting enough until use becomes a second nature. After that the was in her seat egularly, thouch Often late on the short dark mornings. Sue would come gliding ia noiselessly, with cheeks brilliant from her rapid walk, but Low soon the color faded! " You juat ought to see Jliss Nettie' shoes, Miss D..lorea, tays Eugezie; "they are worse than my old ones, if anything could be worse, when they wear out all over, and fly all to pieces everywhere and allator.ee. Her skirts are wringing wet too, with the snow and slush, and sbe walks five miles to work evtry morning, and back at night in the dark. She has a lonely lot to pass too, and she runs all the way by for fear sumo one w;ll grab her and kill her.' "Think of it, Felicia 1 To rise in the cold and da knees of a January morning when the fires are all low and the world asleep; to dress by candle light, and quietly cut a crust from the loaf, and waeh it down with a cup of last nisht'a tea. Do this in a vory poor home, miles from your work; let stern necessity drive you out into tho nippicg eager air of a winter' dawn; walk quickiy over the frosty ground to your accustomed place with the, shoes tbat need to be 'halfsoled and heel-tapped,' and with your poor frozen feet on the treadle, and your fiogcrs stiffened with cold, work all the golden hours of your life into tho garments you are fashioning, and by way of spur remember when you stop workiDg you stop eat ing, n "But, Dolores, if the fires at heme aro low, there is surely a Are in tiie factory.' "You remind me of the princess Who won dered why the itarvicg people did not eat cake when they had no bread. 1 es there it a fire in every manufactory. We have one stove on the third floor of an old ware house, with the stair-way open from th streut, hatchways, elevators, and doors that never stav closed, immense winde ws that rattle in their frames, and a draught sweep ing over the floor that freezes tho very mice in their nett. I have seen fifty girls who never warm all winter except at twelve o'clock when the sun shines cut. Every one is warm then. But ycu seldom hear com plaints of the cjld; for to opera'e you mir. it near the window where it is 1 gut, and vou cq notp'-tssthe it ve around very well. It is only in a cae like Nettie s that it seems epec5ally hard." "She could have lived nearer, surely?" "Yes, she could; but, Felicia, once your feet are sot in that steep downward path railed poverty, you go down with a run. You are not only pob-yourself, but all your a.otU?e3 are pjr. Youhive heard that in a wagon-load of pota'-oes jolting over a rough road all the small potatoes go to the bottom. Being ill all the fill, Nettie left her trunk voluntarily and all her little treasures with the woman to whom sho was in debt about twenty dollars, she said. She had been staying until she could procure work with a friend whom she called 'Anna,' and who, having married, had a little home, the one in which Nettie was cow. Husband and wife were kind to her, but now. alas! na was lying ill, almost at the point of death, having unavoidably inhaled the poisonous vapor in the laboratory where ho was employed. It sooms so unkltid to leave them just when I have work, and they are almost depending on my board,' she said, when I urgel her to come nearer to the factory, and pointed out to ber the lact that oar employers were quite deaf to any such reasons for un punctuality. "Mi98 Nettie has a new dress, Alisa Dolore?,' Faid Eugenia one dav, 'and a new pair of Bhoes and a new boarding place. If it wasn't that she has the headache so often, she could do even Detter than she doe I think sho just lodges with this woman sne peaks of, and does not board with her, but gets her own breakfast and supper.' "Why da you think so, Eugenie?' '"Well she does not bring anything but bread for lunch, and it never has anv but ter on it. If she boarded, they'd have to give her butter on her bread, even if it was bad.' 1 ou have beard of woodsmen who wet their fingers and by holding them out can tell which way the faint st breeze is blow mg; who by examining the moss on the trunks of trees can point to the North or South in the thickest forest: who by bnt twigs aud leavea can follow a trail for milos. Such an observer in her small wor d is Eagenie. Generous too, and wil share ner dinner with anyone, but II you give ner a cent she can always buy two cents worth for it, and for this reason she doee al the financiering for the girls. A favorite wi'vh all, she has her own little notions of lad v hood, or the want of it, and no accom pliihed courtier is better able to read the hearts and face of those around her than Eugenie. "There is one thing queer about Miss Nettie: she will tell you anything you ask her, but f he would never tell yon if yoa didn t ak her.' 'What have you been asking her, Eu geaier

That ring, you. know, looks so much

like a man's that I wanted to find out whose it was; so I said, "Dj you wear it to remember somebody by ?" and she said," i. es. inen I said "It's so handsome," and she told me that the gentleman to whom it belonged was dead, and she would never part who it Her mother is dead too. Miss Dolores; she dropped down right in the street with heartdisease. Tbat is what first gave Miss Nettie the headache. When her mother died, then all their money stepped, so Miss Nettie had to teach school. It was in tome big insti tute where there are soldiers' orphan; and there was a lady manager who was dreadfully bossy, and when Miss Nettie was done teaching the lady thought she ought to spend her evenings in the sewing-room. She d:d it till at last the pain in her head that blinds her someUmea got so bad that she had to give it up. Then there was another rich ltdy who was kind to her; and Lad bar or a companion, out she went away to XjUrope. Dil you know that Jlibs Is et tie was educated in a convent txhool?' "Ah, I thought, that accounts for the tone and manner that reminds me so much of the Siitcrs," 4Ye. and Mias Dolores, her father put her thcro to keep her from her mother; but she loved her mother and would not live away from her. Then, her father died, and she ran away from school to her mother, and now sho has no one in the world, whica is a bowling wilderness, I think.' "Ejgenie imparted these imad confldecces on the evenings when the went home with me for a treat, and it took but moment to tell me what she had been for months picrciDg together in her wbe little bead, She had taken a great fancy to Net tie, in whose lifo, you see, there was no mjetory except that of an inscrutable f rovaence dealing out to her sorrow upon sor row. As the winter wore away, she Decame not only expert but quite perfect at her work, i hoped that once out ol aeostcere were better days in store for her. Tee last time that I ever saw her in the work room wai at the clote of one cf those bleak March days which preceded Easter. We had been so busy that some must be detained at night to finish the orders, but Nettie was f reo to go. J. saw her pause on her way cut txside a girl who hal still an hour's work before her. 'Could I help you if I staid?' she said. You can never realize the graciousness of tbat offer. A whole day out of vour life, Felicia, couJd not outweigh it. 11 o w the wheels can fly so fast, and the hands of the clock creep eo slowly, is 0E of the mvsteris and agonies of life in a factory. It is a tacrine to remain an lestant longor than duty demands. This was on rndav, and next day Net tie was absent. 'She had that pain in her head all week, and said she felt so stupid; Etill it is a wonder she did not try to cjme on pay-day, for she will need her money.' "bugenie knew the needs of every girl in the room, and many a favor her quick sym pathy obtained for them when she imparted to me, in her Judische Deutsche, the trou bles which I for mytelf would never have fuur.d cut. During tho day I received a note from Nettie saying she was ill, would be better by Monday, and would I please send the money by bearer, a dolicate-lok-ing boy. "Monday came no Nettie. The week rolled round until Friday, and still no Nettie. We misled her. and so one of her three companions at the window where she sat volunteered to go and see her. The small-pox had been raging during the win ter, and the girls were often scared by the horrors of contagion. It meant so much to u-, ro much more than death, which was scarcely dreaded in comparison to the hos pital. 'I'm not eo much alraid of taking it while 1 m doing my duty as I am when i m running away from duty, so I'll go to night, said this brave Irish lass, who had also been drawn to Nettie. "Next day she came to me and said: 'It is only her bead, ili-s Dolores; but she is quite cut of her mind, and recognizes no one. I think wo ought to do something for her, as you can see the widow woman she lodges with U poor, and has that delicate boy with heart disease to look after. Nttti cannot help herself at all, and indeed it is all they can do to keep her in bed. She gct3 up in her delirium and tries to go to work. The woman ceemed quite out ol patience last night.' 'Do you think, if we sect Nettie Eome money and- kept her way paid, that this woman would take care ol heri" ! don't know, I am eure; but I'll to again to-night and tee. If NUtie were only juat sick, I do not think there would be any trouble; but the delirium makes it irnprMblo to keep her in bed.' We come from all parts of the world to this work-room, and are as well assorted in nationality as in religion, but when help for a suffering companion is asked, yoa see only common sisterhood A eirl who eivej away twenty-five cents has had twenty-five different calls for her mony, and answering cne, the other twenty-four must go unheeded. No one who can part with a dollar and nev er miss it can realize what it ü tobe poorer a wet k by giving away a quarter. Knowing this, I would allow no strain on the slender purses beyond the trifle tbat would make up Nettie's wages, aid this, with some crackeie and oranges, we sent to her by Mary. It was a relief to hear that she was bet ter, 'much better,' she said, and conscious. and so eratt ful for the help that she strove to rise in bed and kiss the hand that slipped tho little girt into hers. It was not petiole for Jlary to go everv night, but she would call at the door on Tuesday morning; and so biddicg Nettie keep a good heart, they parted. Tuesday morning my flrt lcauiry was for riet tie, and I shall never forget how Mary r,sa up in her place and said, They have taken her away! ' WboreT' "Atd then with a face like driven smow, To the almshouK)" 'Ua, impossible! Cxld horror seized us every one. IMow, oa, heaven, ior just two f tbof e orecious hours which 1 had soli in labor market! For me thev were not ob tainable at any price. We could only hope it was a cruel mistake, tor Mary had called at tho door in the bleak dawn, and eome one had answered her from a window and the wihM larn no particulars did not even sea her informant. "Dne hour at leant remained to us, our to the dinner-time, and iugecie flew houne from which they had Nettie, to . hear what taken had be'allen. She came back panting, with c ka a name, and eyes both nashiRX and streaming. Nettie got bti so fast and raved so that the lady cju:d not manage her alone, and she Da id a lady to come and sit with bor until she could find some place whero they could take care of her' She ran everywhere ail Sunday and Monday, and they sent her from one place to another, Übt I he was worn out. At the hospital the doctor asked her if Nettie was suffering with any nervous disease which would be likely to diaturb the other patients, aid of course she could not say no. "Then," said h, we cant admit her here, for each nune has thirty now, and she would be just one more than we could take care cf." The neighbor said, 'why don't you go for the Guardians? So they sent, and a man came, who said Nettie must be removed immediately. They got a carriage, but, oh. Miti Dolores I Hiss Nettie was in her right mind just long enough to understand

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what they were going to do, and she down on her knees and beeeed - them the dear God's sake not to take her there she would pay every cent if it took a hun dred years! But when the man camo to lift her in the carriage, she fell as if she was dead at his feet. "Let her stay, let her stay; she is a dead lass, he said. But they took her away, and she is dying now, and we can't r;t her out of that place if we want to.' We would try. anyhow. Night came at last, and the wheels stoDred. Dead or alive, we would rescue her. Some of us would take her home. Who thought of tirod hndv or achilir eves? Yfe had but one thought, and that was for Nettie. Think of it! A day or two ago she was with us, worked, ate, clasped hands with us, and to-day she is in a pauper's bed, and will fill a pauper's grave if the pit where dissected bodies art flung can be called a grave unless vse her titters demand her. "We went for her. 'Qjite useless trouble,' they said; sho is sinking rapidly.' And then, 'Dead; died at eleven o'clock in the right.' "Uow did she die? how do people die in such a place? They have strapped her to the bed to keep her from fore v er wandering to her work, and cne who sat by and held her hand to the laat told us that in an interval of consciousness she strove to tell them something, but vainly. Are you better, Nettiei' 'Yes,' ia a whisper, "4D you know me?' " 'Oh yes.' Do you know where you are, poor girl?" And the deepening horror in her answering eyes told thorn sho did. She had such magnificent hair, now tossed around in hor delirium, and pain lent such brightne.-s to her eyes and cheeks, that she looked far handsomer dying than sho ever did living. 'This woman,' said the physician, 'Is evidently afeuaüng hysteria. If she does not make up her mind to get bettor shortly, I shall have her removed to another ward, and shall use the batUry." "With such a face above her, and such words sounding in Lor ears, with her stif fining toucge shaping her protestation against the cruel mistake, she poesei again into unconsciousness, and so died. And it is all rl true as it is that there is a God in heaven! "What did he call it, then, wh6n she had in dying given him tho lio. and been guilty of the only discourteous act of her" lile? Uh, he said it was 'acute meningitis.' And now, how to get her away from there in the thirty-six hours' grace allowed us to remove the body. Will you believe it, Felicia, I could have found a dozen homes open to receive her amongst us, living, but not one of us knew where to tun to find hr a grave. Working liae slave from dawn till dark, our greatest concern is Life, not Dnith, and faw of us know where we sball be buried. "Some one suggests that we find the rich lady who wa3 Nettie's frhnd. Alas! sho is in Europe. But her fami y sre famourly aristocratic, and hot difficult to find; we wiil go to her sister, whom we delay just as she is about to step into her carriage. 'I really have not time to attend to such a matter,' sho said, evea if I knew exactly hat to do. I do remember tho psrS'.n you 'r.e.-vk of, but I do no-, think the had any particular claim on my eiater. At ail events, there is no time to write and find out. She died, you say, in the almshouse I do not see what belter coull be done than to allow the authorities to bury her. I have no doubt such burial would ba ' "We are sorry to have troubled vou need lessly, madam, and will not further waste your time. "We are not so pcor but that we can 6nd a crave for Nettie.' And so. de parting, we resolved to keep the sorrowful buüce:s strictlv in tee bands of the humblor friends who had known her last. 'One amonr us heard of a iadv not rich. who had twic giv;n a resting-place in her lot at Mount Peace to friendiers strangers. She heard how we wished to save our com panion from the coarse sack, the dissecting table, and the Mead-pit,' and her scul nel'.cd in pity. 'Whatever is to pay wo will cheerfully make up from our wages, if it takes months to come; but we want a grave secure lrom thoeo who, they tell us, would steal her at night and carry her back to the aimrnouse. "There ws nothing to pay; she freely cave us permission to lay Nettie at reit in ner ground. "We never asked gratuitous help, but no cne heard tho Etory unmoved. Teil them,' said tho old grave-digger, 'that I will dig tue grave ior notnicg.' 'Ana say lor me that I will help him.' said his comrade Poor men, Felicia, with hands like horn, but hearts like silk. ' 'You may have some difficulty In get ting the b.dy from the authorities; lor thoueh numbers of women die there, they are of a different class old cr bsd, mostly and the doctors do not get a chance like this very often. However, I will attend to tbe business for vou.' said the undertaker. ;They shall not put rae off. And now, since the young lady ceems to have no rela tives, and you are all doing your part, I too will do mire. The coffiu you can have at cost, my labor for oothing, carriages you will not need, and I will arrange it so that ycu can held the burial service in tbe t fSce of the superintendent at the cemetery; you Ci.n niest eacn other there "I too would like to help vou,' said his wife. 'If you will allow me, I will make her a throud, and dross her for tho grave. We will give you our best. It shall all be ju(.t as if she were a huh: no doubt she ; poverty teem to have been the only UUll.' "Imagine, if ycu can, Felicia themUery of working all day with to&rs thick in your eye, and rucn a load on you mart! v wVu'd lay her ia the grave Saturday after noon; but as all could not go, with what nervous haste the few appointed strove to finish their task, tbat they might not t mused I WTe sl'ppod away one by on, and almost at cunset tu od rem d tbe c fSa ot our companion. It was Es'er-eve, and Eugenie bad brought a few fl iwers, bought with ber dinner money, and laid them irontlv between the slender fingt-rs. The? had robed her in black, and now, indeed with hands crossed peacjtullj on her breast, she looked like som fair nun, with the aure ole of bright bair like a halo around her head. They bad spareo that, but tho ring wa gore. Protestant, Jewos?, Catholic ieters all, with claoped hards and wet eye HuS we knealt and e&id, 'Our Father,' and ir.n tbey cariwi her to her rrstln-place Wo fcr.ve marked her grave with a crous o; wocd, and covered it with mrtle.' "If any. mnvH ff kiudller biood, Should ak What rnalden lies below? Ct nly (hi.: tndt-r bud. That irl -d to blosnom in the snow. Lies withered wnere tievi.ilets blow," The Park Reformed Church of Jersey City has learned an expensive lesson on the inf tability of earthly wealth, especially a connected with certaia Jersey City bank ing institutions S me weeks this church held a fair, the proceeds cf which amounted to $8ü9. In or.:ert nit this money miht be perfectly cafe, it was deposited in good Brother Boioe s City Bank. At late accounts it had not been taken out, and it U not likely to be. Tbe good sisters wro en gineered that fair will have to hold another to make good the lost iunas.

frAKTINCf TIME. Other Poems, bv Ena Tis our love's noon of nlory, You sav, with smiling face. Kot jet the wondrous tiory For us grows commonplace. Then tweet Iii leach aud kiss me. And fond arms bold me so, For now, when Ton will miss me. Is the lime far me to go. Nsy. nsy, I am not cruel, Speat not to chide or blame; But liow, when ltps are fuel. And now, wten ki Is flame. Before dreams l'e their splendor. Or ennui Muds the hetrt That ia so fund and tender. Is the time lor us to paiu Tis better to feel sorrow. And pait with tera tnis morn. Than to wait uutll to morrow And part with hate and scorn, Ti better to go grlevirg. Wltn many m foud regret. Thau to delertbe leviug Till the tun of love has set T1 better to remember Our love year Id lti bloom. Than to wait until November. Dullfkled and pray Uh gloon, 'Tis better to go freighted WiUi our pa-iuu lull of erace. Than to wait till we are sated And our love grows commonplace, Then, dear lips, reach and kis me, Ar.d fond arm, hold me so. For now, whea you wLl into me. Is the time for me to go. TTIT AND PL.EASANTKT, A tie vote: "When two people agree to get married. Kite Field did not succeed as the bos3 of a dry goods store. Woman shines best as a bees when workmen come to make repairs on her house. Silas Card was married the other day. and on his wedding notices were the words: 'No cards. Bufc he doesn't know what mieht happen. An exchange wants to know who is mere selfish on street and railroad cars and stcamtxm; s and at hotels and Theaters than the avertgo woman? Give it up, and our seat with it. "Do you realizehave you reflected over it Angelina?" whimpered Clarence to his bethrotbed. Oüly two weeks more and we shall be one! But remember, darling, I am to be that one." George Eliot has a quiet way of eaying ?a humorous thing. For example: "We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to to the women that love us. Is it because the biutes are dumb?" An old citizen in a country village being atked lor a subscription toward repairing tbe fence of the graveyard, declined, saying, 'I subscribed toward improvin'ihatjourjin'grouno nign unto Jorty year ago, and my family kasn't had no benefit from it yet! ' The latest mode of popping the question was introduced by an Evansville young man. The present c ld snap nerved him to ask his adored: ''Miranda, do you want to warm your fet against my back this winer?" And Miranda, blushed and softly murmured: 'It's going to be a terrible cold winter, John.' A young widow to the marble-cutter: Tell me, must I put on tho tomb of my husband the words 'Eternal regrets or simply 'Regret?' " "Ah, madame," replied the marble-worker, with his most charmicg smile, ' that ia ior you to decide. D.e- madarae think of marrying again soon?" Paris Wit. A colored minister wished to say: ''Breth n, we "hall have no service here until w e have raised, by contribution, sufficient mon ey to fresco this recess," but he said: aBrethren, de copei will not be dispensed with any mo' till we tave took up a contradietributien 'uuff to have dls yerabc&s fricasseed." Am.Mjg the higher closes of Hindoos it is the custom to have in each house a separate re m, which tbey call a Mcrodhgara," or sulking-room(Fr. boudois). Into this room any memrer tf the family retires who happent to feel cross or annoyed, and docs not come cut again until the solitary confine ment has soothed his temper. This praise worthy custom Ceserves ta be highly recemmendod to Europeans in general. Frauenzeitung. A travel-stained tramp was seen fitting under the protecting a"is cf a stone wall this morning with a newspaper in his band. "10?, he remarkel sadly "Herbert is right; overwork is what is raising the deuce with us Americans. If 't wasn't for a few heroic souls like me men who fell that work is not tbe only thin? to be ought for in thiworld the country would soon be robbed of Kb beauty and it. vitality, and tbe knell of the republic would sreedily be tolled. But as long as 1 live it shall be my endeav or to stand as a living rebuke t the spirit of unrest which animate so many of our people, and which is hiding so many of Our vrtnn? rwl nmmiaain mAn in cariv f?ivaa " t to I s - "J & Bot ton Transcript. The following conversation is reported to have taken place between a minister and a Widow both Of Aberdeen. Tho widow, who called upon tbe minuter, seemingly de. sirous of relievine her mind cf tome. hin tr which oppressed her, at which the reverend eentleman. wishes to hurry matters, ex claimed: "My good w- man, you see I can be of no service t vou till you tell me what it is that troubles vou." Well, sir. I'm thinkin' o gettin' married again." 0", that L it! lit m see; that ia pretty fre-cf-ient urtlv. How many husbands hav oubdT" vveei, sir," fne repuea, in i tone less of sorrow than of bitterness, "this is th9 fourth: I'm sure there's nae wumman been eae tormented wi' a set o' deein men.' ilamM II., when Uik of Kork, made a visit to Milton out vf cur'ity. In the c- ure cf conversation the duke said ti the poet that he thought his blindr ess was a ju'3i;mer.t upon him because he bad written agaicst Charit s I., the cu es lather. Mil u n replied: ""If your liighnrss thinks that irir fortunes are induts of the wrath of Ut-aveu, what mut you think of your fa ther's trasical end? I have lost my eyes. Ue lost his head." An Old Lrfve-cot)ff. Dilnk to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; T leave a kUs but in the euo, Aud I'll not luot for wine. The tnlrxt that fnm the soul doth rise, Itoth at-k a driuk divine; But tnigbt 1 of Jve nectar sup, I would not change for thUie. Ben Joxsox. The SH3e-t-1y. Ehe spread the before him, With haif- verted eyes, Their qualify and value Elb liiii to tne tkie. That Voioe -h how bewltcMnc! Those handsbow toft a.d whltel Thone vie bow falnstin?' Tbat face bow fair a sight! "The froods are rery prettyNo doubt wbat toey tprwftr, But tbe i, 1 think." be added, Yon are til ti dear " With cheeks tuft used with blushes, . Sne turned her h-.ad away, Aud innocently answered "Thai's wbat the feilen say" Tne Prince and the Composer. Beethoven bd incurred the displeasure of one of thce petty German sovereign whose territory la infinitely less than their dy nnstic pretensions No'ice was servd on fcjm to quit the States of His Serena Highness within twenty-four hours, Beethoven

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In Toronto, Canada, on a recent Sunday evening forty-sevea pastors or different denominations exchanged pulpits. Rev. Isaaa P. Cjok,g)f Biltimore.has been in the service of the .Methodist Church for sixty years and has preached C GOO sermons. The beginning of Jvmt will not fall on as early a date as in the present year until 18S4. Ash Wednesday falls on February 7 and Easter Sunday cn March i'5. There is nobody who can stir up so many church rows," says a prominent Methodist preacher, ''as the brother cr sister who claims to live a life of sinless perfection." The Church of England, as a whole, is the largest land-owner in the Kingdom, and Canon Wilberforce has called attention to the fact that it is aho the largest owner of public house;, and pronounces it a "grievous scandal.'' In India there are 20,000 schools, over eighty College, aod nearly 3,000,000 pupils. A large part cf this educational work is secular, but it is nearly all due, directly or indirectly, to tho labors of missionaries. The Presbyterian. It is stated that the Baptist Church occupies a commanding position among the rei'gicus bodies of Oaio. According to a re cent report made to the State Baptist Con. venlion, the total membership for 1882 num bered ou.uoo snowing a net gain over the previous year of 1,6'JO. A controversy is brewing between the Rev. Joseph Cook and Professor Egbert C. Smyth, of Andover. The lttter is aa obsti nate non-believer in new departures from the ild orthodox theology. A most remarkable religious awakening is in progress in York County, in the State of Maine, through the pre&chicg of .Rev John T. Vice, the Evangelist. He has been preaching nightly for nine weeks in Sanford and East Lebanon, and crowds fiocfc to hear him. Such a revival has not occurred in Sanford for a quarter of a century, and it is still spreading. I heard a voice from heaven," sang the choir at the funeral of a notorious man, and the Christian at Work, commenting upon the fact, says the Question naturally arises as to whether choral ears do not sometimes hear heavenly voioos which are not only never heard elsewhere but which will never strike the ear of the deceased in his new body, supposing him to have a tympanum. A clergyman in the time of Cromwell, being deprived of his living for non-conformity, said to his friends: "That if he was deprived it should cost a hundred men their lives." This strange speech beine noised abroad, he was summoned before a magistrate, arid thus explained hi intention : 4 Should I loe my benefice," said he, "I am rceolved to practice physic, and then 1 may, if I get patients, kill a hundred men," A spirited discuesion is sow going on in Brooklyn as to tbe right of a clergyman to strike back when ho is struck. This is not in regard to a matter of fisticuff?, for the clergy have not fallen into any such pronounced discord even in Brooklyn. B it it is in connection with the thousand little mean accusations and pttty innuendoes in which tbe brethren and sisters who do not like the minuter indulco. Setae of thore who direct their shafts of tattle or sarcarm at their pastor say that he is not graceful enocch when he stands ü the pulpit, that he rolls his eyes when he prays, in a way which tney diuse. or tn.it his manner is too much like that of a dry goods salesman acd his voice like that of an auctioseer. Perhaps it is best that the man of God fbould not reply to any of these remarks Yet. as he h a human beinc:, it is hardly poa&ible that he can refram from doing so. Iiis critics wait their opportunity, and when they can catch him eaying some sharp t'dng in response to something mean that bas been said about him, they gather tbeir fnecds in a knot at the door of the prayer meeting room and ask if he can be a godly arid humble man to talk in that manner, Some of them who have been most severe and petty in their criticisms adduce the cae of the Svior, who, "when He was re viled, reviled not airain;" and they eay the minister cuarht to be like his Master. If at-ked if they are like their Master, they sav tbat is qui'e another thing, and the standard U hizfcer than they think they can attain But they think the miniter cusht to be like Him. Acd so the discussion goes on. Guilty of Wrong. ' Some Deorle Lave a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the lerge ruas of "patent medicines," and in this they are guilty ef a wrong. There are some advertised remedie fully worth all tbat is afked for tbem, and one at least we know of Hop Bitters. Tbe writer has had occasion to ue the Ditters in juat snch a climate as we have moat of tbe yer in Bay City, and has always found them to be nrst-claa and reliable. dolDg all that is clatoied for them. Tribune. Dow to Hnoill a Liavr. Peck's Snn.) The only way to deal with a liar is to beat him at his own paine. That is, of course, unless be Is the editor of a pious Dewspuper. What started tti itom was reading about an American who hsd been to Europe, and who was tellinii a friend, who knew he was A liar, abOllt b's trip scrota the Atlantic,nd bow on the 23 :h of th month "tliey encountered a swarm of locusts, and the locusts Carried every tichof canvas ofiF the hip." The lUterer looked thought a momett, and then aid, hesitatingly: "Yes, I kus we met b same swaim of locusts the next dav, the 2C h. Every locust had on a pair of canvas pants" The first lir went around ilie corner and kicked hinif elf. 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