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The Sprague-Conkling Affair. The discussion—if we may be. permitted to use so harsh aterm—between Senator Conkling, of New York, and ex-Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is fully set forth in the extracts which we publish elsewhere, from the New York World and the Cincinnati Commercial. That is to say, the surface facts are set forth; but it will probably _strike the reader that in both accounts pains have been taken to save the American ear from shock and the American mind from imprgpnety.' To a certain extent these efforts defeat their object. They are so ostentatious that-the reader involuntarily asks why it is necessary to describe so elaborately facts which, if true, are unimportant. If Conkling and Sprague had come to words or even blows, because the former is imperious and the latter irritable, the proceeding would be regarded as not altogether unnatural, spite of its lack of dignity. But when it becomes necessary to drag in a music-master and endow the ex-Senator and the ex-Governor from Rl}ode Island with an altogether unexplained degree of excitement, suspicion is aroused at once. If the quarrel had nothing to do with the scandal which has long been trifling with the name of the New York Senator; in connection with that of a member of the S{)rague family, it would have been simple justice to say so. If the quarrel had anything to do with the scandal, the worst possible way has been adopted of preventing the public from thinking so. This aspect of the case is, however, of very trivial importance compared with the aspect it presents when considered as marking the low tone of civilization among those whom we have a right to expect will at least be gentlemen. There was’a time in the history of the Republic when Senators ~—drunk or sober—resorted to fisticuffs like the roughs of the dock, or smote each other with the utensils of the dinner table like infuriated waiters. The “impression has been created, however, that this day was past, and that Senators, even in private. life, could be relied upon to preserve the aplpearance‘ of decorum and courtesy. It is unpleasant to learn that this impression has an insufficient foundation; and it is all the more unFleasant to be compelled to take the lesson from a gentleman of so much exterior polish as the elggant Senator from New York: he New York Worid touches another aspect of the case, which is also worth looking at. Adverting to the affair, the World says: i : It cannot fail to be useful to reflect what would have been said by our - Republican contemporaries had this incident of wateringplace life occurred at Biloxi or at the White Sulphur Springs instead of Narragansett Pier, and had the parties toit been a Senator from Mississippi and an ex-Governor of Louisiana. let us say, instead of a Senator from New York and an ex-Governor of Rhode Island. If the Louisianian had ordered the Mississippian out ot his house and threatened to kill him if he found him there again, how many of our esteemed . contemporaries would have seen in this action only the inevitable outcroppivg of the ‘''plantation manners’ ' engendered by siavery, and heard in the indignant accents of ‘the excited ex-Governor, ‘‘ the old rebel yell!” We: should certainly have heard tbat such a scandal could not possibly have come to a head between any two public men of the North. Now that it has so come to a head between two such public men, it may be well to consider whether it is not guite time for us to drop the practice of keeping one set of moral weights a.ng social measures for application to the ‘' chivalry™ of the SBouth and another set for application to the ‘* statesmen’’ of the North. If such ascene as that which our dispatches relate had o¢curred in the house of a Southern ex-statesman, it would have been at onge described as an indecent and barbarous performance. It is not less indecent. or less barbarous, is it? because it occurred in the house of;a Northern ex-statesman, unless, indeed, we are to admit that the standard of decency and civilization at the SBouth is higher than it is in the North, and that Southerners ' sin against clearer light. Probably we are not prepared to make that admission. © —Detroit Free Press.

Ewing and Sherman. o The political ball has been put in motion both in the East and West, and from now until the ides ot November, the country will reverberate with eloquence and gush. Both dparties are in the field, and in Ohio and Maine giants have spoken. General Ewing, who has been distinguished as the standardbearer and leader of Democracy in Ohio, has responded to John . Sherman, who, next to Grant, seems to be the ruler of the destinies of the Republican party. Each has sounded key-notes from whence all the lesser lights will derive inspiration and draw their texts. ' » :

These two men each able, in their well-considered efforts, are remarkable no less for the differences in their con.clusions than in the wide diversity of their premises. Mr. Sherman alleges that one of the great sources of distress is that appropriations have been too great, while General Ewing shows by actual figures that a saving of $84,720,000 has been effected in the expenditures of the Government since the Democrats came into power in the lower house of Congress four years ago, notwithstanding that each item in- the amount was strenuously resisted by the Republican party and Mr. Sherman during the last session of his Senatorial service. Mr. Sherman boasts of a reduction of the burdens of Government to the extent of $10,000,000 a year by the funding process, while General Ewing shows that the interest on the public debt is nearly $8,000,000 greater in 1879 than it was in 1877, caused main--1y by bonuses paid to favorite bankers and syndicates. Mr. Sherman claims that his administration of the finances has been signalized by a great reduction of the public debt, and General Ewing brings the reports of the Treasury to bear unwilling testimony that the bonded debt has been increased -during the period in which the funding scheme has been in process to the extent of $86,000,000. ; i Thus, throughout the entire fabric of figures constructed by Mr. Sherman, General Ewing follows him and exposes the fallacy of the claim which he advances for himself and his party. Abundant crops and an ‘eager foreign market during the past three Iyezav.rs have been the gifts of a kind Provialence to relieve the asperities of the «distress inflicted by the theorists of the Sherman school, ‘but notwithstanding these "Yro-‘ ‘pitious circumstances unparalleled, ‘the industries of the couniry have languished ' until they are well nigh destroyed. These are the arguments which Mr. Sherman advances as a basis for a continuance of public condidence, but the review of General

Ewing so completely exposes its fallacy that a poor foundation remains upon which to rest the claim. ' Upon the real question in issue, however, free ballots, free juries, and freedom of the peO{)le in the exercise of their individual rights and franchises, Mr. Sherman touches meagerly, while General Ewing gives to it the prominent place it deserves. The great fraud, by which through the instrumentality of Deputy Marshals, the army and ,the Electoral Commission, the express will of the people was subverted in 1877 is referred to in language becomingly strong and pardonably vehement. ‘The lessons drawn from that great crime are made a justification for the precautions of the Democratic statesmen against its repetition, and the result gg the struggle during the special session of Congress alluded to with proper pride. The total repeal of the odious system of packing juries, the prohibition of payment of money to send or maintain troops at the polls and the withholding of fees of Marshals until\igongress can see what services the reiuneration is intended to cover, are certainly great achievements, and when the people record their voices in favor of popular rights, the victory which now seems only temporary will be made permanent, and the reprehensible heresies of centralization will be strangled as they were by our forefathers when the ancient enemies of popular government attempted to raise them years ago.—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. ;

A Compliment that Condemns, - - There is in the Aélantic Monthly for August a review of two years of the Hayes Administration by Mr. Walter Allen, in which we are told what commendable things have been accomplisned. First, there has been reformation of the Civil-Service; second, there has been an establishment of the National credit on a firm basis; and, last, but not least, the writer says: ' *“The practice of determining the issues of State elections by the authority of the National Administration, and ‘enforcing that determination by the army of the Uniteg States, has been definitely aba.nd‘:med. 1t was high time. The practice was esaqntiallY un-republican, was destructive of the rightful independence and dignity of States, was subversive of liberty, and was poténtially, if not in eXperience, a. wrong worse than it was invoked to correct,” This is ¢‘giving away’’ Mr. Hayes completely. It is true, ¢‘the practice of determining the issue of State elections by the authority of the National Administration, and enforcing that determination by the army of t%xe United States has been,’’ not ‘¢ definitely 4bandoned,”” but temporarily suspended. But it is trué also tgat; Mr. Hayes clings to the laws that permitted this Federal determination of the issue of State elections, and -the recent dispute between Congress and him was about this very point—Congress claiming that laws which have been so grossly abused and were liable to be as grossly abused again ought to he repealed, while - Mr. Hayes insisted that they ought to stand. If it was high time that ‘‘a practice essentially unrepublican”’ were abandoned, is it not high time that. enactments which are held to authorize the practice were abandoned, too? It is true Mr. Hayes declares that ke will not use the army to settle State elections; but his predecessor did it, and what guaranty have we that his successor, if his name be Grant, will not do it, under the same laws that were held to justify it in 1873?—8¢. Louis Republican.

Peter Cooper’s Finaneial Appeal, The venerable Peter Cooper, now in the eighty-ninth year of his age, has issued through the Church Union an ‘‘appeal to all editors, legislators and religious teachers of our country,” on the subject of a financial system. In it he says: : The following resume, found in a late paper, expresses my opinions on . this whole subject of our National finances: 1. The Government should issue all the currency that is used by the people, whether it be gold, silver or paper, and it should all be made legal ‘tender for all debts, public and private. 2. The coinage of both gold -and silver should be unlimited, and the Gov‘ernment should purchase and coin all the gold and silver bullion it can procure and coin without loss. 3. All surplus currency now in the Treasury should be used to cancel bonds, and thus stop interest on the same. . - 4. Government paper money should be substituted for National Bank notes. 5. The Government should give the people the same volume of meney with which to pay their debts that was in circulation when those debts were contracted. - : o 6. Government postal savings banks should be established in all our large cities and villages, where the surplus money of the people can be deposited in safety; and the money thus deposited should ge used by the Government to cancel tie public debt and to promote such public improvements-as would be of value to the whole people. : 7. The increase in the establishad: volume of the currency should be in the ratio of the per. capita increase of population and business in the country. ~ v r%. All new issues of paper money should be put in circulation by employinglabor on needed public works, or used to cancel the public debt, whereby all the people are benefited; instead of giving it to bankers to loan to the people at high rates of interest, and to increase the public debt, as is now being done. :

—*¢ What ‘might be your business?”’ inquired an inquisitive Yankee of Jim Keene, the boss speculator, as they were riding along together in the cars. “I'm an honest old gu‘mer,, 1 am,” re.Elied Keene. ¢ Well, now, I'd never ave éxicked you out for a farmer,”’ rejoined the Yankee; ‘“you don’t begin to look it.”” = ¢¢lt’s true, all the same,” Keene went on; ‘‘appearances are often dece‘f_ti.ve, my friend. Doubtless, from my dress and white hands you .would take me for a resident of some city, but I give you my word that I've made my living of late by raising ‘wheat.”” The Yankee neglected to ask ‘him how high he had raised it.

—Engineers have to whistle for their pay. @

, Important Rules of Conduct. THE following useful suggestions are taken from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms: S - Never exaggerate. ! : - Never betray a confidence. s Never wantonly frighten others. Never leave home with unkind words. Never neglect to call upon your friends.’ ; Never laugh at the misfortunes of others. : : ‘ - Never give a promise that you do not fulfill. Never send a present hoping for one in return. ; : Never speak much of your own performances. g Never fail to be punctual at the time appointed. ; | Never make yourself the hero of your own story. : : - Never pick the teeth or clean the nails in company. 1 Never fail to give a polite answer to a civil question. o Never question a servant or child about family matters. Never refer to a gift you have made, or favor you have rendered. : v - Never associate with bad company. Have good company, or none. Never look over the shoulder cof another who is reading or writing. Never appear to notice a scar, deformity, or defect of any one present. Never answer questions in general company that have been put to others. Never, when traveling abroad, be over boastful in praise of your own country. Never lend an article you have borrowed unless you have permission to doso. : ;

Never attempt to draw the attention of the company constantly upon yourself. : : Never exhibit anger, impatience or exeitement when an accident happens. Never pass between two persons who are talking together, without an apology. : gl)\}ever ~enter a room noisily; never fail to close the door after you, and never slam it. . Never forget that, if you are faithful in a few things, you may be ruler over many.. Never be guilty of the contemptible meanness of opening a private letter addressed to another.: . Never fail to offer the easiest and best seat in the room to an invalid, an elderly person or a lady. : Never negleci to perform the commission which the friend intrusted to you. You must not forget. - . Never enter a room iilled with people, without a slight bow to the general company when first entering. Never fail to answer an invitation, either personally or by letter, within a week after the invitation is received. Never accept of favors and hospitalities without rendering an exchange of civilties when opportunity offers. =~ Never cross the leg and put out one foot in the street-car, or places where it will trouble others when passing by. Never fail to tell the truth. If truthful, you get your reward. Youwill get your punishment if you deceive. Never borrow money and neglect to pay. If you do, you will soon be known as a person of no business integrity. Never write to another asking for information, or a favor of any kind, without inclosing a postage stamp for the reply. el :

Never fail to say kind and encouraging words to those whom you meet in distress. Your kindness may lift them out of their despair. Never refuse to receive an apology. You may not revive friendship, but courtesy will require, when an apology is offered, that you accept it. - Never, when walking arm in arm 'with a lady, be continually changing and going to the other side, because of change of corners. It shows too much ‘attention to form. SN Never should the lady accept of expensive gifts at the hands of a gentleman not related or engaged to her. ‘Gifts of flowers, books, music or confectionery may be accepted. Never insult another by harsh words when applied to for a favor. Kind -words dg not cost much, and yet they may carry untold happiness to the one to whom they are spoken. Never fail to speak Kindly. If a merchant, and you address your clerk; if an overseer, and you address your workmen; if in any position where you exercise authority, you show yourself to be a gentleman by your pleasant mode of address. ~ Never attempt to convey the impression that you are a genius, by imitating the faults of distinguished men. Because certain great men were poor penmen, wore long hair, or had: other peculiarities, it does not follow that you will be great by imitating their eccentricities. : Never give all your pleasant words and smiles to strangers. The kindest words and the sweetest smiles should be reserved for home. Home should be our heaven.

How Russian Nihilist Prisoners are Treated. - IN communicating the following particulars respecting the abominable treatment to which the Russian Nihilist prisoners are subject, I wish to impress upon your readers that, bent upon avoiding all exaggeration or coloring of facts, I have confined this narrative to such statements as I have been able to derive from unbiased and trustworthy persons—eye-witnesses themselves of the horrors revealed to me. Though my hand quivers with indignation as 1 pen this dispatch, not one charge against the Russian authorities shall be intensified by any emphasis of my own. The appalling evidence of Russian barbarity, of which I have obtained possession, is sufficiently eloquent in itself. It cries to Heaven for vengeance; but ere that comes let the rulers of civilized Europe meditate this chapter of human misery and woe, and let them bid Russia stay the course of her revolting deeds. During the second fortnight of last month a person whose testimony is above suspicion visited a ship at anchor at Odessa, fitted out for the transport of Nihilist convicts to the Island OF Saghalien. He describes it a 8 & man-of-war of about four thousand tons, freshly painted white. On going below deck, he found that on either

side of a narrow passage iron-barred cages had been constructed which, he says, were exactly similar to those used for wild animals. These cages were of different sizes, and contained from four to twenty convictseach. The rule observed was that such among them as showed any disposition to be unruly were confined in the smaller cages,'so‘ as to be more easily watched. The gentleman who visited the ship esti‘mates the number of these wretched people at seven hundred and fifty, most of whom had come by rail from the interior, heavily chained together by small groups. They were to keep their chains during the journey, and my informant says the sinister noise they produced was distinctly audible long ere he reached the ship. Unable to control his feelings, he observed to the officer in command that his- closelypacked cargo. chained together in a place where there was absolutely no ventilation, would never survive the passage of the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, to which the ‘Russian officer cynically replied, < Well, so much the better for all parties if they do not.”” He accompanied this astounding ' remark by a significant glance, which his interlocutor took to imply, *‘Don’t you understand, that is precisely what we expect?’ The same ship was visited at another place on her outward voyage, and on competent authority it was ascertained that not one-third of the unfortunate prisoners on:board could possibly reach their destination alive. But my information is not confined to this one instance. The Nijni ‘Novrogod, formerly known as the Saxonia of the Hamburg and New York line of steamers, but since purchased for the Russian volunteer fleet, arrived at Port Said, under Russian colors and manned by Russian sailors, at the end of last month. She had 590 convicts on board. for the most part Nihilists condemned to be transported to the Island of Saghalien. The Suez Canal Company raised the question as to whether this ship, which was knownto “have sailed under merchant colors on her last journey from Marseilles to Odessa, and which belongs neither to ‘the Russian Government nor to the ‘Russian transport service, but which - was freighted for the volunteer fleet, should be considered as a ship of war. ‘The discussion resulted in the Nijni Novrogod being treated as a ship of 'war, under protest of the Russian Con'sul. Now, the question just raised ‘ caused a stoppage of three days, during which the convicts on board were literally left to roast in the heat, which, at this time of the year, is terrible. Their torture was prolonged for seventy-two mortal hours, because the Russian authorities hoped to deceive the Suex Canal Company. But this is not all. The same vessel is to perform the same voyage with a similar cargo four times in the course of the present year; and, be it observed, other ships are engaged in the same traflic. All the ghastly tales that were told during the late war are surpassed by the cold-blooded cruelty of the Russian authorities toward the Nihilist convicts. What precedes refers only to those who are sentenced to transportation; but the fate of the Nihilist prisoners at home is no less horrible, and the exclamation of the Russian Captain that, if his wards died from the effects of the atrocious treatment to which they were subject, it would be so much the better for all parties, might be appropriately repeated by the Director of every Jail in the Russian Empire.— Vienna Dispaich to London Telegraph. :

o Tricks on Farmers. THE traveling sharpers ;who select credulous farmers for ‘their prey are constantly inventing new tricks with which to impose on their victims. One of the latest of these is to persuade a .farmer to become local agent for anew hay-rake, or some other patented articie of machinery, by offering him a good commission on all sales he can make. This done, the farmer is in‘duced to sign a conditional note for ‘ the payment of alimited sum of money ‘when he shall have sold two hundred ‘and seventy-five dollars worth of the ‘new machines. This note is so drawn and worded that it ean be cut in two crosswise with a pair of scissors, the -right half being wortnless, but the left half being a regular note of hand for two hundred and seventy-five dollars, ‘signed by the entrapped farmer. The traveling agent, having secured it, sells it to any one who will buy it, and the farmer first aWakes to his folly when the note is presented for payment. Another game is quite as adroit. A very respectable looking person goes through the country with buggies and carriages to sell, and sells them at such low prices—sixty and fifty dollars each—that many farmers are tempted to buy them; but the agent is scarcely out of sight when another chap in pursuit of him comes along, exhibits a chattel mortgage on the buggy to the astonished purchaser and carries. off the property, provided the purchaser will let him. These tricks are becoming almost as common in the country as the swindling games practiced by sharpers in the cities, unsophisticated country people being the victims in both cases. Laws hayve been passed to’ protect the public against them, but it rpust be borne in mind that a farmer’s good sense is a better protection than all the laws that can be devised. The. less farmers have to do with oily-tongued traveling-agents who are not known, the better for them.—B¢. Louis Republican.

—An ex-Mayor of Binghamton, N, Y., has been poisoned in hands and face while handling the Government revenue stamps used on cigar boxes. One hot Saturday he stamped and canceled the stamps on a large number of boxes. Green dust fléw from the stamps and covered his hands and wrists, and a handkerchief used b{ him for wiping his face and neek also became covered with the dust. The resultl was a severe and deeg poisoning wherever the dust touched his body. :

A yvounGg lady of New Fairfield, Conn., last year made three-quarters of a ton of butter and disposed of it herself.— Cincinnati Gazette. Thunder, what an eater.—Boston Post.

i * e 3 ~ Religious. , LIFE A SERMON. | “ Our every life 1s a sermon.” “ LIFE’s a sermon!” Let us preach it, Preach it ere this hour is past; Up and preach it! do not waste it, Perhaps this day may be your last. ~“ Lafe’s asermon!"’ How, then, live ye? Is it full of lies or love? : ' Isits logic clear and truthful? , Does 1t point the heart above? * Life’s a sermon!” What, then, saith it? Does it onward, upward move? Is it written cleariy, plainly, - Every deed a word of loye? ‘* Life's a sermon!” What's its substance? Is it woven from thyself? e “ 'Does it ong prate of ;{lea.snre, : Prideand ease, and love of pelf? ‘ Life's a sermon!” Ever: preaching, Vast its influence here —above; - All its notes a tinkling cymbal, : Should the heart be dead to love? ‘ “ Life’s a sermon!” All must preach it, Battling oft with many a foe; Oh that God may see Christ’s beauty : . Gleaming through its tears and woe! ¢ Life’s a sermon!"” O Great Master! Make it pure, and true, and free. And its weft, though tanfled. broken, Yet may guide some soul to Thee! — W.:'Poole. Balfern. : | — e Sunday-School Lessons. : ' THIRD QUARTER. : Aug. 24—The Mind of Christ..... Phil- 2: 1-13 Aug. 31—Practical Re1igi0n.......C01. 8:16-25 Sept. 7—The Coming of the L0rd..... ¢ 1 Thess. 4:13-18 Sept. 14—The Christian in the World. - : ot 1 Tim. 6: 6-168 Sept. 21—The Christian Citizen.. Titus. 3: 1- 9 Sept. 28—182631\;10\;!, or Lesson selected by the chool. - ¢

Triumphs of Charity, THAT often quoted couplet in Cowper, : ** Lands intersected by a narrow frith * Abhor each other,” . 15 rapidly becoming quite inapplicable. Itis already so, in the particular case which the poet had in mind. When he wrote, it was quite true that the two nations, France and England, separated from each other by’ ‘a frith”’ so “‘narrow’ that in many places the shores of the one are seen from the other, still cherished the old bitter rivalry and hatred, breaking out every now and then in destructive wars. It has now become possible for a writer to say, as we find it said in one of our English exchanges, ‘‘Readers of history who are familiar with the attitude whicH France and En= gland assumed toward each other two or three generations ago, will see in the present state of things .the consummation of a miracle as wonderful as anything ever wrought in the chequered life of nations. There is now no antagonism save that of friendly rivalry, and the swiftest trains and steamboats maintain an intercommunication between the two countries.”’ L ; o :

Our Lord on one occasion, gently reproving a tendency amongst his disciples to over-estimate that power to work miracles which for a special and temporary purpose had been allowed them, said to them of even his own mighty works: *¢ G'reater works than these shall ye do, and because I go unto my Father.”” His allusion must have been to those achievements of divine | grace in and by them, through which the world’s dense *‘ wilderness’’ was to become a ‘¢ fruitful field,”” and the hideous desert sin had caused made to bud and blossom with spiritual beauty. His words already have at least their partial fulfillment. For it is only to Christian influence that results like that noted above can be fairly attributed. Fagcility of intercommunication, it must be plain to every one, will not of itself work such changes in the mutual attitude of nations; it may only wmultiply collisions and aggravate mutual strife. Civilization unsupplied with a Christian element will not do it, for that has been abundantly tried in both ancient and modern times, and has always failed. The gentle spirit of a true Christianity alone affords that element which softens asperities, 'disposes to mutual good offices, inspires forbearance anf]‘r makes violence seem hateful ‘and horrible. It is the wonder-working ‘“charity”’ of the gospel—¢¢ greatest” ‘of the ¢ Three’’—which has made the ‘‘narrow frith” between Framce and England a link of amity instead of a gulf of separation. - The passage quoted above from an English exchange occurs in connection with an interesting account given of English missions carried on in France by Christians of England. The latest enterprise of this kind is the establishment of a mission in Paris similar to that of the London City Mission, the object in each being to reach those wholly neglected classes of the population which, just bevause they are neglected, are so ‘‘dangerous.” It might seem, at first, as if the establishment of missions in one even nominally Christian nation by the people of another might be resented, and become an occasion of disturbance in. their mutual reiations. To some extent, no doubt, it is so. The welcome given, however, to Northern missions in our own Southern States, as well as the open field for Protestant evangelization found even in Germany, France and Italy, show that when there is real ocecasion: for this. manifestation of the *¢ charity’’ that ¢¢is kind,”’ there is a response from the charity that ¢ thinketh no evil,” while in this mutual interchange a mutual blessing is received. Thus does Christianity often overmaster the spirit of evil tending to sep-aration-and _aversion, and steadily win its way toward a brotherhood of all men, made one in Christ. - _ - The nature of the work about to be entered upon in Paris by English Christiansfsug%ests another phase of this subject. 1t is the peculiar glory of Christiapity that by it the go:&)el is preached to the poor. Jesus made this as truly a sign of His own divine mission as the miracles themselves which He wrought. And in this preaching of the goa;‘:e% to such poor as herd in the alleys and dens of such cities as London and Paris a service is rendered, not only in the interests of common benevoiyence. but in those of national welfare and international peace as well. No more difficult problem presents itself to old-world legislators and rulers than that of the control of the * dangerous classes.”” Law and police can go‘ “but little that way; public charity, as usually administered, cre-

ates almost as much evil as it remedies; those transformations which are the especial office and end of Christian effort are the one effectual mode of 'relief and of safety. Municipal authority could not, in any great city, do a wiser thing than to encouragé this kind of effort, nor could municipal funds be ever more appropriately and wisely used. When missionaries shall come to be regarded as no less essential in the interests of law and order than policemen, and the gospel as much an instrument of municipal efliciency as ordinances and constables, there will - shine amidst the deep darkness of existing municipal policy a light undreamed of at present. = There will come a time---some. of us now living may see it—when it will be understood how great a work in this world is done by that benign, unobtrusive, yet ever busy and ever con: quering spirit of ‘‘charity’’ which ‘“‘hopeth ' all things, believeth ali things,” which ¢ suffereth long, and is kind.””—Chicago Standard. :

~ The Book of Peace. ; A MORE. eloquent comment on the kindly effect of the Bible could hardly be found than in this involuntary tribute by an old heathen negro: At a recent great missionary meeting in London, the venerable Dr. Moffat was greeted with prolonged applause, and made a telling speech, in which he related the following incident: : He said the Bible was a power; he had witnessed its influence over and again among savage people and among all kinds of people; he had felt itsforce in his own heart, and he had witnessed its operation in hearts which were: before ac hard as a stone. He could never forget meeting on one occasion—it was a considerable time after the Gospel was first preached among the Bechuanas, and after some converts had been made among them—an elderly man whom he knew and who then looked very downcast. e : ~ His face was elongated as he had never seen it before.. He (Dr, Moffat) said to him, ‘¢ What is .the matter? Who is dead?”’ S : - “Oh,” the man replied, ¢ thereis no one dead.” s : - He then asked him what the matter was, as he appeared to be mourning over something, and he replied, ¢“My son tells me that my dog has eaten a leaf of his Bible.”” - ; ““Oh,” he said,. “‘perhaps I can replace it.”” E : ‘ ¢ Oh, but he has eaten it,”’ said the man, ¢ and he will never be of any use again; he will never fight again, and - will be as tame as all these people are who believe in the Word of God. lam an old man, and have observed that the Word of God makes such a change in men that they become as gentle as women.”’—Youth's Companion. - =

' Couldn’t Game Him. - THERE was a strapping big young fellow from the interior at the foot of Woodward avenue yesterday, to see the shipping. Several bootblacks had | tackled him for a job in vain, and they finally got together behind some bunch‘es ‘of shingles and went into committee of the whole to concoct a scheme for revenge. As a result, an innogent looking shiner sidled up to the stranger, and said: e e ‘¢ See here, Johnnie, I've made a bet with the boys.” .. .- : “ Wall, 1 don’t keer,” was the coldhearted answer. '. ‘“l’ve made a bet that I kin shine one o’ them shoes o’ your’n in less'n four minits,” continued the boy. ‘+¢Thebet is-a quarter, and I know you’ll gin me a chance to win it. Jist stick out yer foot here, and the job won’t cost ye a cent.”’ : : : : The stranger slowly consented, and ‘held his watch to time the work. The lad worked fast, and he had a good polish on the shoe in about three minutes. When | through he rose up, packed away his brushes, and the stranger found himself in just the fix the boys'had planned. They expected an offer to complete the job, but it did not come. After a moment devoted to thought the young man descended the steps to the Harbor-mas-ter’s boat, reached out his leg for the water, and “‘souse’’ went the shiny shoe below the surface. . ‘¢ I reckon,’ said the stranger, as he pulled in his leg and let half a gallon of water run-out of his shoe—*‘l reckon you boys think you’re smart; but ‘none of our family ever mistook saleratus for salsody, and I didn’t come to town to have my hair cut with a buzz saw!” —Detroit Free Press. - b ’ —Remember, you cannot be suspicious of others without making others suspicious of you, and you cannotspend time in talking against the honesty of others without exciting the feeling that you yourself will bear watching.—N. Y. Herald. - . S ,

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Tone up the System _bx mJOKNSTON’B SARSAPARILLA, It has been in use for 20 {;earu. and hag proved to be the best przgara.tion the market for SICK HEADACHE, PAIN IN THE SIDE OR BACK, LIVER COMPLAINT, PIMPLES ON THE FACE, DYSPEPSIA, PILES, and all Diseases that arise from a Disordered Liver or an impure blood. Thouasa::ds of our best people take ié) andgivait - to ticir children. Physicians prescribe it&ily. Those who use it once recommend it to others. - It is made from Yellow Doclfi Honduras Sarsaparilla. Wild% Cherry, Stylingia Dandelion, - Sassafras, Win ergreen and other well-k::own valuabie Roots and Herbs. It is strictly veget . ble, and cannot hurt the most delicate constitu -gon. lézis c;xfio gt th?sbest medicines in use fo. egulating the Bowels. S It is sofd by all responsible dm%lm at one 3"}}" for a quart hottle, or six bottles for five . dollars, e - - aiimeshogtat SUES S e ; eir di ; ollar 'n.nde wr::'mill»delt‘veri .t\osthélag free of any charges. . W.JOHNSTON & CO., Manufacturers, - 161 Jeflmon BVQMo"ol ek e .DETBOI'I.‘ m For Sale by C. ELDRED & SON, : Ligonier, Ind. L