Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1894 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING; FEBRUARY 21. 189 i TWELVE PAGES.

In unit- there 1 trengtK. In (congeniality happiness. To encourage ami circulate pire literature Is to mutually aid ach other to & higher and bettor life. OFFICERS. . President W. S. Kokenofrer. MonteTaJlo, Mo. . First Vice-President Wllm A- Clark. ?x 93, Danville. Ind. Second Vice-President 3Irs. Sarah 'TTaylor. Arcana. Ind. Recording Secretary CM J?s. Dora wenfcer. Pleasant-ave.. Indianapolis, Ind. Corresponding1 Secretary -Miss Mary C. Loudenback. lock box- Wrstvine. O. Treasurer Miss Jennie Rhodes, Ft. Recovery, O. EXECUTIVE COMMl'rTKE. '. Robert K. Moulton, V.'inter.svllK Tn1. M!ss Mary K. Swaim. 60S A'ermihont.. Danville, 111. . J. F. Freer. Peru, Ind. N . Mrs. Minnie Webb' -Miliar. Altoona, Silas. "William E. Pulk. Decatur. Ind- ' OBJECTS. V Fee. 2 of Art. 1 of Constitutiov Tli rbjeCts of this club shall be to esnyibli-di Wiability, strengthen good morn is In society, increase a desire for nüna improvement and literary attainments- ana "to extend tho work vt refonuation. MEMBERSHIP, i Fee. 1 of Art. 2 of Constitutions All perrons of pood moral ci;.,-8cter who Ure Interested in the objects nf this organization, snd are willing to work in accordance therewith, are eligible to membership. - , , . ,r Sec. 3. Art. 2-A11 menders of L. C. in good standing fl.nit f"' f"'1' ,1 ly in its benefit? and privuegs. ehall be the duty of rarh i'r Feek. by example by word -u.rr,:.ts of to promote the object?' the club. Members changing bee. of By-I.je,,, .P ;.tian notify the their place pfrtary of SU( u L.,ange. -recording s, CJKNERAL iO It shall be the duty of all ofto report to the president, from time to i ime, or upon his request, tha progress of any business before them, cr of the condition of their respective oif.oe?. and shall advise him of all matters pert Ining to the interests or welfare of Hhe club. We urg e the ho?t of readers of this page, w! 10 are lovers of truth, to acquaint .'hemselves w ith the objects and merits of the Howard literary, and lend us your aid by joining the club. Address the- corresponding' secretary, with Ftamp, as per above, and any desired information will 1k cheerfully Riven. The Howard literary lias neither salaried officers or contributors and depones wholly upon Its merits and principles for ruccess. Members only are entitled to the rare jLrenefits of our book catalogue. All letters for publication must lis carefully written on one side of the paper only, accompanied by the writer's real name and address, as well as the imm de plume, a.nd plainly addressed to tho editor, C. G. Stewart, fccntincl office, Indianapolis. 3nd. Members In renewing their subscription for The Sentinel will plea.se be sure to send Jl (the subscription price nf tle paper) to the Iloward literary treasurer, as the club 1 allowed a small commission for the benefit of tho treasury. Prompt action guaranteed. Dues for 3834 are 25 centf. payable during January and February to the treasurer. JCfOAV TUR TRCTH. .PTdac S." Think fhe Proper Translation of Ji Book Is to Come.

Know the truth and the truth hall make you free." How few who read the above really have any idea what this statement involves, its width, length or depth. "Lone Tramp" has voiced a wish of many a student of, and for absolute, truth in all teachings when he asked that we have a new Tevi.sion of the Word. Philip Schaff, T. D., chairman of the American committee rn revision, said, so I am Informed, before a mooting In Cooper Institute, "that before fifty years the people would bo ready for a new revision." How long before the fifty years I am not informed. But there is one thing very certain; if as much zeal and energy be spent l:i th next ton years in teaching the people philosophy and its natural sequence, scientific research Into the natural laws of right, as will be epent in mystifying them, we will not need to. wait the fifty years of Philip Scha-fTs statement out. We will be ready for it long before that time. In fart, are ready for it now; and tell the plain truth of the matter. Well, say? one, i.-m't the book we have now good enough; that is. the new testament, to which I now refer. Almost any one Is willing to have th? old testament revised at one's pleasure. Perhaps it will do for thope whose knowledge of language cannot take them , back to the original, or whose historical studies do not run in the closiy interwoven rt-ligions and civil history of older time. Before our late revision scholars had long felt the need of something of the kind. They knew that all tradition, including that of Jerome of the fifth century, was more or less faulty, for they lack principally of true knowledge of the meaning rf much of the language in which the original manuscripts were written. The men who translated our King I James version wem not co!ars in the true meaning of the term. Their knowledge r.f th ancient language with whl' h they had to deal was ir.eagT, indeed. In eld editions of Kin jr James's bibles you will find these words addd i-i many a place: "According to King James." And asked the meaning of this, the answer Is: The term or .jnea-ning of oricinal not understood. Ho hey addd their own meaning, prefacing- 1t to th honor of King Jamef. Xot that h had anything to do with the translating r had even the sense to do so. but you know the honor paid to kir.rs, even in that modern time. The flea tht their? war, a divine right, and their word almost he amo. had nn entirely died out. .The

-very superficial student of history knows that even the rower of performing miracles were accord ed and attested for them. But in King James's time we had t;r,t heyond this. King's evil was about ail the power he could allay noAv. But this of course has nothing to do with tho subject in hand beyond showing that it was even then a circumscribed day for making a revision. We cannot gx beyond the fifth century for oiisrinal manuscripts, but we can gro beyond it in other lines of history on the subject, and students have long been doing this. The discoveries they have made was shaping thought in all directions before a call was made for a now revision. Germany, lirst in wide research, always came to tho fore long- lefore En gland, always conservative and with a church living to make her more so would even motico that which was be-

l coming historically evident, more and more; as xtnie went she held her forts stamhly, hut one by one they were taken, until she had to admit the truth f (lermaii research ami criti'-ism on those early days of Christianity. When the new revision was attempted it cvrtainly wa-s well fitted out with scholarly view, but note the paralyzing hand reaching beforehand over the research into the olden manuscript. Th church was conductinc this revision and nothing must be disturbed that wrnid disturb certain doctrinal points. See? Tiie t ranslatiiTTi was made scholarly and carefully, and if the companion "these men published noted and road care. fully on lines and between, you will plainly pee they did find that which certainly would disturb doctrinal equanimity. But true to orders they have left It much as it was before, additions and all, with the exception of the do trine of the Trinity this was too palpably of later day origin to allow unchallenged, and thus statements on re-ord in King James's version on this subject are left out in revised. These translators for the revision found many another thing i:i original at variance with our toil ay's version. Th word miracle only occurs three times in. original, and in the.e not In. connection with Jesus at all or any of Jlis acts. There are many names which contain a personal reference in our version, which in the original hold an abstract moaning and should so be recorded. Vo.v instance the personal names, Christ. :od. Lord. Savior. KoliiU, etc., should not be in our text at all. Jn the connection they iunv stand therein latter day reviser stand" accountable for. Some of them are names unknown in tin-ek or Hebrew, or if known have no personal meaning, but simply an abstnu t (hip. The name lod is not Hebrew, neither is it Greek. It is Saxon, Englishfiod. The only representative personal we have in Hebrew of (lod is Jahveh or Jehovah, and this was a power eternal, inconceivable, not to bo comprehended, therefore, not to be is?d as used of latter days. It w;ls spoken of much n-s our scientists speaks of tho tmooinprchended force back of all natural phenomena. Chirst we use today perponally. but it takes the place of two abstract words, a.nnointod, and tho Creek word christo, meaning wisdom. (lod also Is used in many places; where in the original the mea.ning is abstract also, as good or some; term meaning goodness. It is useless to say that these changes do not chanpre mesuiing, for they do, and we should have them, Just as given l:i the original. There are other , words. too. which, chango in meaning? in our version damnation' occurs where it Fhould bo jude or Judgment. "We have also given words such as everlasting forever, which have no such meaning In the original. Hut Fraee is too limited to more than touch upon -these. There Js one tiling very- certain, history closely etu-Iied and weighed, finds us coming nearer and nearer to these days of Jesus, and the little band of dlsciplei that came after Him. And it is becoming more evident that His teaching has reen much obscured with the after thought of the Roman. Greek and Alexandrian fathers, who were too superstitious, too much imbued with the old religions from which they sprang, to exactly understand the pure phllosophy which Jesus seems to have taught. For it is evident that the marvelous stricken from His teaching find I!s words bearing the most scientlllo treatment that can be given to the bettering of man's life here. It is a platonle plea for truth, for wisdom, for heaven in ian himself. To make any other meanig of the record than this Is to confuse His teachings, and make them contradictory. Jiut the powerful church which sprang up on the dying throws of the Greek and Iloman ancient belief, although, claiming- a representation in the belief of the disciples, who followed in the wake of the disciples of Jesus, yet a close analysis of the simple beliefs of those few Ebionite followers shows too plainly the disorepeneies between this belief and the exhaustively formulated one of the fathers. There are many beliefs promulgated today as truths which go no farther back than the fathers of the third and fifth centuries. The immediate followers of Jesus nor the disciples that came after them claimed no such teaching. The truths He taught them were simple, were easily understood, and it was knowledge and wisdom which He extolled as the great good, the saving of the world. He wa addressed simply as Rabbi or Master by his followers and claimed no othe r name. He was one of the witnesses for that light which lighteneth the world; for this cause He came unto it, but how few understand what the real and true meaning of that light is or was. Mark, or Marcion. is the oldest of the gospels, as all sc holars who have made close investigation admit. At one time it stood alone in the canon as the otdy authentic one. It is in the original today not as it was when first written by Mark. What tlie differences are it would be difficult to say. The last twentyeight verses at least de not belong in the original. With this left out It is easily 1o be seen how much Mark repudiates that other- and latter books Rave. And with. the new revision and words given the original meaning we in this book would get the most truthful account cf ihe life of Jesus that so far h3s ever been given. And even here our livight i" limited, but with the personal nains taken our. of His saying and the abstract meanings given, then will we begin to have an Jdea of the deep, underlying" meaning.; of His tearhjug. Let ,iik note, a ctatcment or two. "Love Cid with all

thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself, for on this hang all the law and prophets." You see row how this narrows and personifies it and imposes a mysterious, not well understood duty upon man. But in the original read: "Love good with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself." This broadens the view, gives us a better idea of our duty, and eends us out in the world to know, to distinguish the good from the bad and to do it with all our heart and soul. It brings us back to man and ourselves With! stronger bands. Here is another, and one pretty hard to understand as a principle Luke xiv 26 "If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, brethren, children, yea. and his own life, he cannot be My disciple." In revision it would read: "If any man come to Me and love his father, mother, children, brethren, and his own life more than he love the principles, the truths I teach, he cannot be My follower, My disciple." There is a vast difference between the meaning which you nmsi give to each of these. The philosophical principles of life and life's good which Je.-ua taught must be taken in question here. And one who would lovo anything better than this good could not be a disciple of truth of a right life. The first statement narrows it down to a -limited personality. The second broadens it and allows a wide leading. Our translators in the past translated to meet the narrow minds of people coming out of black ages of idolatry. Rut, 'Lone Tramp," the day is really coming when by translation we will demand to know tha truth of the teaching of Jesus. IDA a. VtxoAX Axn Tim others.

"Tmciraibla" Continues to Interest Ulranelf 1 n Mythology. Dear Howards In discoursing upon the gods, the inference U that you know a thing or two. about Jupiter and his family. These-"" celebrities of the old school C, reeks though a majority of them were were a jovial, amiable, hilarous, humorous set of men. . Let us today renew the acquaintance of Vulcan. Vulcan was the brawny, ironnerved, lierculean. dark-visaged, bl.-u kEmirh about whom die great American poet (Longfellow) has indicted sublime poetical effusions. He was go., of the lire and the forge, and earned lii.s bread by tho sweat cf his brow. Vulcan was lame and ugly. When at a military or lireman's fair a gold watch was voted to the handsomest man and a leather modal to the homeliest. Vulcan always got th') modal. Ho was so lame and ugly that his mother, iu shame, cast him from heaven into the hm, and ;-he w;us not arrested. A couple of oceanlds named Eurynonio and Thetis took companion one Vulcan and tended him for ten years in a deep grotto of the sea. How he escaped catching a fearful cold and dying of consumption living in such a damp place is little short of a lr. racle. He must have had wet feet pretty much all the time. For their kindness to him Vulcan made the Misses Thetis and Kurynonu many ornaments and bric-a-brac things, some of which were stuck full of ceramio pictures and placed on the irarlor mantel. Another account says it was Iiis father who treated Vule, so cruelly. odd day Jupiter and his wife quarreled over the question who should get up lirst and make the fires or something that way and when Vulc: came to the assis'.ane.-? of his mother Jupe seized him by the foot and hurled him from Olymnus. Vule, we are told, fell for a whole day, but alighted at sundown on a hill in Brown county with but little breath in his body. We should smile. The wond -r is that he wasn't killed outright, if he fell head foremost he must have lost all the money out of his pockets before reaching terra lirma. Some writers say it was from this fall 'that he became lame, and we can readily believe it. Nowadays a man can't fall from the roof of the state house without being lamed for life. And if he were to fall a whole day the only thing that would b ; of any service to him after alighting would be a. funeral. Vulc. was supjrosd to have bis forgt-s in the fiery mountains, and the smoke and llame which broke fnm the craters and volcanoes prK-eeded from the chimneys of his .shops. This may 1; true but wo shouldn't think he would secure much custom setting up business in such an out-of-the-way place. His principal employment was forging thunderbolts. Ancient writers don't inform us where he found a market for the same. If he were still in the business he might dispose of a large number to our politicians-, who often yearn for red-hot thunderbolts to hurl into the ranks of the opposition; and double-headers to the Ciceroniau populist orators hereabouts to lire out the old parties. Vulo built himself a gorgeous brass palace on Olympus in which was a huge workshop with twenty cunningly devised pairs of bellows. It is presumed that he worked all these himself, for it is not on record that his journeymen over struck for higher wago. Vulo was tho lrof. Kdison of the god. He constructed tripods which moved of their own accord into the banquetting chamber and then returned to their places after the meal was over. Such tables were marvels of ingenuity, but they had their objections. Guests who imbibed too freely of the nectar of the gods and retired tinder the table to sleep off their weariness would have their weakness and bodies exposed whn the tripods meandered off. Despite Vulo's deformity and ugliness, the beauful Venus became his wife. She had several other husbands, however, and evidently believed that variety was the spice of married life. Vulc was short in the left leg, but that wasn't as inconvenient as if he had been "short" in the pocketbook. He was lame and homeland only a blacksmith and yet the Romans worshiped him. Mighty republican speakers continue to orate to enraptured and appreciating audiences on the grand "old Harrison times." They marvelously enthuse and their, bosoms swell with patriots a,i:otions inexpressible, wlien they recur to the masterpiece of statesmanship culminating in the McKinley tariff law and the righteous enactment of laws redounding to the emolument and glory of fraudulent pensioners. The grand achievements of the billion-dollar congress are highly extolled, extravagant appropriations receive their meed of praise, and the titter looting of the treasury surplus in a brief sjace of tin.e elicit demonstrations of joy and portend a glorious future for the ur. terrified g. o. p.; its great seers have, proclaimed from the house tops that the failure of the fruit crop, the scarcity of "garden, sass" and the world's fair have only slightly contributed to the dire calamity now confronting u?. They draw glowing comparisons between the former democratic, administration and great Benjamin assume pugilistic attitudes, and with kindling orbs and locks projecting mountainward obstreijerously assert that they have no atonement to offer and that the panic is the granl fruition of "the bourbon democracy" and that their skirts are immaculately pure. Deponent salth that modern repuVHcanism is the only national safeguard, the one solitary and lone panacei for panics, that the long suffering tf-mpest tossed and dear pc-ople are thoroughly aroused, amply educated and .ttributa the same to Its proper source; vre- never falter or swerve from the truth. All our prediction respecting demoeraic domination have been fulfilled tc 'he. letter; tho country is flooded with wild-cat money, the negroes are re-emaved. rebel claims are canceled, union Soldiers are no longer pensioned, npulucy and foreign syndicates revel and Yield high carnival with the public dor,'i:i. and Unci" Sam Is no longer rich eiough to give ti; .all a farm. Behold atif. marvel exceed--, ingly how very much better the Harrison times were than Ihe Cleveland, and flock to our standard, and be saved frrm those insidious Aura iekites, the demo, erat?. Oh. ye who suffer from c hill penury's blast, gaunt poverty and kejetr, j-.vant; m mriads who flock to tho

ruiLded saloon to drown your unappeasl- i ble sorrow; we, the grand moguls of the : g. o. p., have ever adored you, ministered to your necessities, been instant at all

seasons to urge you to ilock to our standard and be enfolded under the banner of protection and receive our munllient angelie ministrations. Tou are wayward, hard-hearted; attach no credence to our gushing importunities and keep aloof from, the holy of holies, and now behold your house are desolate; and ye have no certain abiding place, and are alienated from, the commonwealth of Israel; and in great tribulation and anguish of spirit, because thou has set thy impenitent heart S3 a flint and utterly disregarded the protestations of thy first love, even the mighty g. o. p. "TUSCUMBIA." Tin: vastncss or it. 'Advance'' Cortniflcra Some of " h6 (ircnt Things of the lleeent l'alr. Esteemed H. L C. Friends I wish to enter tho parlor and havo a chat with you. I havo to much to converse about that I am at a loss to know what to say first. I would like to say something about tho world's fair and the beauties connected with it, but ah, me! I feel my Inability to do the subject justico and then some of the members have already given a. description of it that surpasses anything I could relate. So much has been said of that great event It seems almost an idle waste of word. to try to say more, but in reality too much cannot bo paid. 'Tis true the fair is now a thir-g of the past and Its unparalleled greatness has astonished tho whole world. . One is apt to think he can form an accurate idea of the grounds and tho wondrous buildings from illustrated descriptions, but that is a mistake, for no one can conceive the magnitude of the work ecu after glancing over the buildings themselves as they stood Jurir.g the fair, for the mind is not competent to grasp it without many days of study. Take for instance the building that was constructed for manufactures and liberal arts, which was the largest building ever erected under one roof in the wholo vorld. It was three times larger than the cathedral of St. Peter's at Rome and lour times a large as the old Roman Colliseum, which seated so.oihj persons. The central hall, which was a single room without a supporting pillar under I'.s roof, had in its lloor a fraction less than eleven acres, and the entire building could comfortably seat COO.Otx) people. There was T.OOO.OOo feet of lumber in the lloor and it required something near live carloads of nails to fasten tho 215 car-K-ads of flooring to the joists. The exterior outlines covered an area of thirtytwo acres and including galleries the whole interior lloor space aggregated fort j--f our acres. This vast structure v.a.s covered with an arched roof of steel and glass, affordiug ample light and ventilation. Jt measured i.6S7 by TS7 feet, bight of wall Crj feet, bight of the lour center pavilions IL"J feet, hlght of four corner pavilions i7 feet, bight of roof over central hall 212.0 feet, span of truss C'J feet, span in the clear ; feet, width of truss at base H feet, at hip 32 feet, at a-x pi fiet, weight of truss .''.no.OOO pounds, with puriines 4'wi,noo pounds. Ost. ?i.7wooo. Amount material used. 17.ono fx) f. Ht of lumber. 12,000.000 pounds steel Jn truss of central hall, 2,"OO,000 pounds of iron In ro f of nave. There were eleven acres of skylight in the roof and it took forty carloads of glass to cover it. The building was rectangular in form and the interior was divided ir.to a great central hall feet wide by 1,2V) fc.-t long, which is surrounded by a nave 107 feet wide. Tho exterior of the building was covered with staff, which represented marbl?. There was four entrances in the center of each fao;i.d These were deigned in the manner of triumphal arches, the central rrchway of each being forty feet "wide and eighty feet high. Surmounting these portals is the great attic story, ornamented with sculptorod eagles "eighteen fet high, and on each tide above the side arches were great panels with inscriptions. The mandrils were Idled with sculptured figures in bas-relief. This building occupied- th most conspielous j l.ce in th fair grounds, facing the lake, with only lawns and promenades between. It wa provided with lo.thio electric lights, vi Mi ornamental lampposts bearing shielded arc lights. Now- this is a short synopsis of the building referred to aboe. I vlsh that I could describe its wenderou;i contents during the f;..lr. but, ala. my wish is iu vain, lor no human mind can comprehend them. There were ten other of these large buildings in the main grounds, all filled to overflowing with the, finest display the; world ever witnessed. Thre was hundreds of other buildings, separated by minature lakes, bridges and islands, dotted here and there with, fountains: oblisk statues and everything the mind of man and woman could conceive of to make the "White City" beautiful. I will new bid this subject alien, for "Mazy M:tseot" has just returned from a sleigh-rlde with his best girl, and in order to be ro-..riiized lie commenced to snore, and that interrupts me. I move the "Xurse" takes him in hand. "Sappho," don't you second the motion? I know that "Marguerite" and "Porn." are ready for the question. What has become of our "Farmer Girl," wonder if she has got snowed under In hunting the cows? There are many other members I would inquire after, but I. presume it would do no good. "Alta Raker." I invite you to become a member of the H. L. C. again. Will you accept the invitation? "Ray K. L.," write again, your letter was interesting. I once had the pleasure cf residing in the land of llowers myself. "Dora Dickens," do you want to play another game? Regards to all, I remain. "ADVANCE." sxawnono. But "P. Plirates" Scuds Miiny Measnges to Vnrloii Point. H. L. bound I ble. and C. Friends Although snowfind the page is always accessiso I have come to chat awhile. "Fidelia Fay," if you are Interested in the objects of the H. L. C. I hope that you will conclude to Join the club at once, and I extend to you a cordial welcome in advance. Concerning my scheme for distributing literature, I will Just say that I thought that plan would utilize the muss of literature that is generally stowed away in cities for the mice to destroy. Personally, i have some experience in this matter, and know that a good magazine or paper can be placed in the hands of at least a dozen different persons at alnmt the cost of 2 cents a mouth, for I have clone it. "What has been done can be don?." I want to say, however, that I think that the more persons there are engaged in the work as "distributors," the more successfully it can be carried out. As regards the fund to carry out these suggestions, will say that your amendment would conflict with the constituion of the club, which provides that the members shall only pay 25 cents a year for the privilege of being members of the H. L. C. But. of course, you did not know this. I shall look for your na.me on the page again soon; please do not disappoint me. "Ray E. L.," I am glad to Im? permitted to welcome you to "our page." Would you not like to become a member of our club? Flease tell is more about the tuinny south land. Suppose many of the Howards nre wondering why "Jean Falconer" has been absent so long. I'll enlighten you. She has fallen lit" loe with (Ahem! I haven't told his name. "Jean."). To prove It just her her rave: - "It is a delightful book, written by a ran of broadest culture, and one who knows nature in all her moods and phrases. (. is equally at home in literature and science. In the forest among the bird and wild flowers. "He is a. poet, geologist, lawyer, novel-, i&l acd naturalist. The mr.'t many-

sided man, it seems to me. that I ever came in contact with through his books. I mean. And he is not a dabbler

in any sense of the word either, but a strong, earnest, clear-minded specimen of the perfect man." ' Be it known, also, that lately "our 'Jean' " has been exploring Dante's "Inferno" and "Paradise." Perhaps when she comes back to earth agiin she will deign to tell us of some of her discoveries what do you say, "Jean?" "Tycho," your last estimate is quite satisfactory-. Thank you. To "Howard." O, you may enroll me as one cf "minute corps" if you do not get enough volunteers to insure at least two articles each month. This need not interfere with my regular work. "Lono Tramp," your last letter I enjoyed hugely. Poor Tahnadge! He doesn't seem to have many admirers on the page. I lost faith in him. when he said (in the Ladies' Home Journal) that he once swallowed a fly and it went into bone and muscle, and went to preaching. And I never believed it. That does not correspond with my experience with his flyship. "U. PH RATES." N. B. Will send a pretty Easter card to. the first one who guesses the name of tho author "Jean Falconer" so much admired. "U. PHEATES." mOtt JAY.'" Loyal to the Club If She Ham Xot AYrlflcn Mnth. Dear 31. L. C, Friends While I have not written for the "page" for a long time, I have been loyal to the club in performing the duties of an ol'ice until I was superceded by another. I did not find my duties at all arduous, but it required Borne time, and I never yet have found anyone that could invent time. To all new officers I extend congratulations and hop? your work will be pleasant. I sent a few copies of the constitution and by-laws and application blanks to the corresponding secretary a short time ago. I hope they were received. I should like very much to havo been one of the party at the- counting of the votes. I am sure I should have enjoyed it, for I have had the pleasure- of meeting our recording secretary and "Sappho," and I can assure you I esteem them very highly. I had the pleasure of meeting several of the II. L. C. members while in Chicago attending the fair. "Arajuiiore," you are first person I have heard speak of the world's fair a-s being "little." I am sure it was very large in my eyes. I spent six weeks there and should like to have stayed longer. However, I could not resist the temptation to go back and see it close. I was thei 3 only three, days the last time. I nave been engaged in teaching "the young idea how to shoot" ever since the second week in September, and as it is no easy task for me to concentrate my thoughts on any one subject, and especially so when I am teaching, I shall not write on any subject now. Holidays are past, but I could not realize thy were holidays, for I was In the school room all except Christmas day. the results of being in a runaway and having to dismiss in November for a week. I was very thankful, horwever, not to have to dismiss longer, for it was a very narrow escape. "Sappho," my brother who was in California is visiting us this winter, but will return in the spring. "Maud Maple," my fister was married in Decemler. I will send a poem of thirty-eight lines! from thirty-eight poets (collected) collected by Mrs. H. A. Deining of San Francisco, Cal. It is said to have taken her a year to collect and arrange them. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? Life's a short summer, man a flower. 1J- turns we catch the vital breath and die, The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh. To be is better far than not to be. Though all man's life may seem a tracedy; But light cares speak when mighty cares are dumb. The bottom is but shallow- when they come. Your fate is but the? common fate of all; I'nmir.gled joys here to no man befall. Nature to each allots his proper sphere, Fortune makes folly h r peculiar care; Custom do"s often reason overrule And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. Live well, how long or short, permit to heaven. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Sin may he clasped so clo?e we cannot se its faceVile iiitercourFe Tvhre vlrtu has nr place; Thn keep each passion down, however dear. Thou pendulum betwixt a smil and tear; Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay With craft and skill tn ruin and betray; Soar not too hiarh to fall, but stoop to rise, We masters grow of all that we despise. O then renounce that pious self-esteem: Riches have wings, and grandeur is a drea m. Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave, The path of priory lea. Is but to the grave. What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Only destructive to the brave and great. What's all the gaudy plitter of a crown? The way to bless lies not en beds of down. How long we live, not years, but actions tell; That man lives twice who lives the first life well. Make, then, while yet ye may, your God your friend. Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend. The trust that's given guard and to yourself be just; For, live we how we can, yet die we must. The authors I will give in the order in which the lines are given: Young, Dr. Johnson, Pop", Prior, Sewell, Spenser. Daniel. Sir Walter Raleigh. Longfellow, Southwell. Congrcve. Churchill, Rochester. Armstrong, Milton, Daily, Trench, Somervllle, Thompson, Byron, Smollett, Crabbe, Massinger, Crowley, Beattie. Cowper, Sir Walter Davenant, Grav, Willis. Addison, Dryden, Frauds, Quarles. Watkins, Heriick. William Mafon, Hill. Dana. hakspere. With best wishes to all. 1 am. "BLUE JAY." AOTIIi:il I'AJOIKIl mv. Words of Warn In r o 1ie Ynnng Man Leaving Home. Kind IT. L. C. Friends After a long Silence, I am aaiii in the midst of the dear "Howards" for a few moments. As I was talking with one of our band not long ago she said. "Why don't you visit the page any more?" and my answer was, "I have been absent so long that some of you ndght think I was a stranger." But 1 have learned letter since. And here I am this bright, sunny morning. "Will Jacobs." your poetry is very tiue. How often has this been the case, When a young and tender youth is allowed to go forth and mingle with bad company! How soon is that young mind led to despair, and at an early age leaves home, and his tender-hearted mother, who stands on the threshold, with many a tear in her eye. as she bids l.er only son good-bye, perhaps for the last time, and then Ivegs of him to lead a good and noble career. Then a feeling of sympathy enters the heart of that son and causes his lips to utter the words, "Yes. mother, I'll try," and then takes his first step from home, bow Ping does he keep the promise made to his mother? He soon meets an old friend, who invites him Into a saloon, and there lie takes his first glass of strong drink. Then he insults some one and is soon into a light. When his eir catches the word, "police! police!" he then attempts to make his escape, but is soon overtaken, and draws a revolver and commits a crime. ;ind soon linds himself behind huge walls of htone.. - Then a. messenger knocks at the door of the aged parents and announces 1he crime. of their son. Then the heart of that mother is Idled with Borrow aud

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