Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — Page 6

THE FIGHT FOR LIFE.

not, »° ul > ** uofoufihten O«ld. not l*»ve .’f Thy debt? di*h\>norsd, nor thy ptaee d««ert Without duemrrtoe roa.iered. For thy 1U«. Vp, 1 spirit, *a<l that fort of day. Thy body, now bel«uniered, whether noon OtteTHTMUT Irtlrtbct Xo-daythy friend* BewHl i her deed, or after yejtra, a man •town old in honor and the friend of peaoe. Goatant, my soul, for moment* and for hour*; Baah ic with drrice pregnant: each r claimed 1* a* * kingdom ootiquered, where to reign, —Robert luoula Sterenaon.

COURTING THE CAPTAIN

Jfhere was probably no more youth•l bearer of a colonel’s com mission in the civil war than my sei L : < Bora In a family of soldiers, edricjjartt and drilled from infancy as a 1 gained A high rank as a bqrf and was able to perform its lutipsto the satisiMlion of my supexjotc. But, aside from duty, I was “larky’, sb any youiig*wilege chap in the world A goods, made by the kind wotnen, iny regb intent through the United B:atea Ci.ris„4i&n comruiejfcion. The who superintended the distribution-hf brought brie evejring, a note he bad (mind pinned on A pair of .’■d<oolen FtuckingS Nome" fun loving prl wrote that she w>'iMthrough charity, correspond soldier receiving those foot coverings The let er was signed Dolly Miller ami the postoffior address was givep. I Je6k the slip of -paper, and when the jiad departed, indited a noteip<fie pests vie to they on ng lady. ILpriiamsrat the end, though, was not itfy ojenybut that of Capt. T. B. Reid, in r of one of -Companies, fellow, handsome, brave, and young, was Reid—a great favorite td/O with the lad zMe won his yacdf’ by gallant settee. and was a soMier all through. Though he aJ#iO'could keep his cud up in imversatioh, yet his earhr etiwa'ion had neglected; he •Wrote a villainous fist, and all his ideas Z up before they reached the point V to the initials of my com rich* Bp as to identify + he answer (if 6ne seme) when it reached the tent, where all mail matters Kvered. .. / '/a Three weeks after there note for Capt. T. B V. Reid Gino. Of course, the parted (Ufliyered into jny • hamiyMi modest, little -letter^"wat^tfre/ 'coptotteg' told that some IjVefy jfad written Body real md/ letter she in tomato intcresttngirr contents, that she, would cairy gut the prqmiswTWnde in her behalf, and if Oaptat&S Rbhcauld find amusement or pleatoflnin 7 corresponding with her, AetofkwjMing to do what she could to himin his duties and dangers.” >?ff)f edurse I answered and “spread toy self.” No fool’s letter would do for this bright, honest Miss Dolly, and, being flattered by her high estimate of my •arly work, I “put in my best licks,” It was no* long before letters came ■nd went by eacir mat’. Iwas really interested in the true, kindly maiden 1> had never met, and had it not been for the “girl I left behind me,” might have explained my first deception and gone in for myself. As it was, I felt-rather conscience-stricken when I found to what extentany gush and romance had taken hold on that, dear young lady s feelings. But I kept it up all the same. As I “piled up thb agony” on the miseries of a soldier’s life, and gave utterance to a longing for some tender, krvit g woman to reconcile me to the world and iu trials, Miss Dolly’s letters bet* me more and more aflectionate and suggestive. She wrote that site was an Brphan, had considerable money in her’

•wn right, and that she eould love a brave soldier and honest gentleman raeh as she conceived Capt. Reid to be from the tone of his letters. I sent her Reid’s photograph, taken from my album, and received her. own in return. A very sweet, innocent, con tiding face it was; good girl written in •very feature. Reid spied it soon after I placed it among my collection, and he admired it hugely. I did not hint that it had been really sent to him, but I felt more ashamed than ever. . Btill I continued the correspondence, and, forced to reply in kind, I care say that I wrote many words that conveyed great affection, and much language that •ould easily be construed into almost direct proposals of marriage; though these were always qualified by remarks showing how unwilling I was, or would be, to bring a young wife to share t* e privations and hardships of a life in the tela. - _ This interchange of words, growing continually more tender, was kept up until after the capture of Mobile; then my regiment was sent to a point on the Mississippi river. During the stirring times of . action and the confusion of change of station, •nr letters were, in many cases, misaarried or failed to reach us. I had not hear! from Miss Dolly for nearly six weeks, and earnestly hoped she had dropped the correspondence, for it had grown entirely too warnrlSr nay eomiort and peace of mind under the circumstances. I ’ One day it happened—as things oo.1

incident do happen in thia world—that I was sitting in the provost marshal's office at the landing when a large steamboat came down the river. It stopped at our port, as all boats had to, in compliance with military orders. I saw several passengers land, among them a lady. These were left standing on the levee while their passes and ’baggage underwent examination. j In a few momenta" the lieutenant commanding the provost guard came to me. “Colonel, there is a yodng lady here asking for Capt RaHff of your regiment.” Of all attention and activity jxf*a moment. I never doubted bptrthat it was one of Reid’s sisters (I luew he had several) who had foolishly come to pay him a visit. I was sorry for it, because our camps were no place for a lady, and there were rather strict orders against their admission, I buttoned up my coat, gave mjr z cap a cant over my right ear, and nr&de my way toward the lovely damsel, who atood among most wrngenial surroundinga/

under and Mars! 1 * recognised Dolly Miller (from her likeness to the photograph sent me), the moment I laid my eyes upon her. Here was a fix—of my own manufacture, too. How to get rid of it. I went forw trd'and introduced myself with all of whipK I was possessed, as Capt. Reid's Colon 1 and his friend. 1 had mentioned idyself in some of the-ietters I hadwritten, purporting to come from R., and a blushing look of plepriure came over the girl’s face. s' “Cstn. Reid has often written of you, and while I fully expected to rand him here to meet me, I am glad he •ent a sut stitute I pari feel in some way acquainted with?* “Did Capt. Reid expect you?” “Why certainly. I wrote him three weeks ago that if not change for the would ' to join him here, in epi de of all the dis comforts he so viridly pictured. Thnmatjters did hapffem I «U' of life oy mv The Jdjn in order to me, 'fatlse?& harirls. “1 that you are aware of iqy correspondence with Capt. Reid, determined to trust my future him of whom I know little, rather than tempt fate with one 1 could like, of whom 1 knew everything, and all to his discredit.” v" I had to have time for thought and plans.

“Miss? —Miller, —thank you. Well, Miss Miller, I. know that the Captain never received your letter. We have been busy at Mobile, and have just arrived here; have had no mail for fully twenty days. Our oamp is all ip confusion as yet, and there is much to be arranged. Will you try and content yourself for an hour or two while I go to camp and notify Oaot. Reid?” She consented to Watt; the postmaster's private office was given up tb her. It was a pretty but distressed face I left behind me as I rode off. eoneiderably worried about my own part and penalty in the affair. I wept straight to camp, sent for Reid, and there was a full hour’s confab, a good deal of hard swearing on his part, a power of persuasion on my own before the matter was settled. I knew the Captain well. He had money, a rood heart and no entanglement. He was calculated to make a loving husband for any woman. I put the case strongly to him. Here was an honest but unsophisticated maiden, with money of her own, ready to become his wife.' I had saved him all the trouble of courtship, won his bride for him, and had her safely housed and

waiting. ’ “What more eould he want. Would he be so ungrateful as to let all my earn est endeavors on his behalf go for-noth-ing! Besides, hehad always vowed he was in love with the girl, though he had never seen but her picture. My eloquence gained him over even as my literary ski'l had secured the lady. I exhibited all her letters, told, so nearly as I could, the contents of those I had written her, and before two hours I led my gallant comrade to his happy, willing sweetheart. Jr Tiat evening they were married by the chaplain ol tbe Massachusetts. Reid at once tendered hisjesignation, and was given leave of absence pending its acceptance. The next morning our young couple took boat for Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. T. IL' Reid (no V in* the name now) are happy, rich and contented in Wisconsin. I hear from them often, but neither has ever given me a, bint that any explanations have taken place between them regarding their wooing by correspondence. 80 my lark in that line turned out 0. K. for all parties, but it might have been a terrible matter for every one concerned; I have never since been interested in any courtships but my own, and in these I learned how serious such affairs generally are. According to Joaquin Miller the California woman talks lees than any other womah in the world. At least there are no corns on the mistletoe.

TRADE AND LABOR.

■ ■ 1 - ' ~ A Philadelphian has agreed to establish large agricultural dron-works at Dalton, Ga., to employ ,100. if the people there wilDput >IO,OOO toward it. A good deal of Western mechanical labor has been drifting southward, and 200 or 300j»hops have got to work within rhe past sixty days there. A new gas-fuel process has been brought out at Bethlehem by which petroleum is employed as fuel. It is Lein/' introduced in a large number of mills. Never in one season was there snch a demand for oak to go into house finishing and furniture as there is now. Red and white oaks ajrt particularly wanted. Florida hotel-builders are ordering shingles, lath and lumber in, large quanrifies. From Fernandina, Florida, 11,000,000 feet were shipped during November. Large purchaaes of timber land have recently been made in Virginia, and orders have been placed, witnin a week for saw mill machinery and tor dryiugkilns.

There are indications that manufacturers in a good many branches of'trade will askdheir workmen to accept lower wages Blaet furnace employers will begin it. With the n w machinery in the Edgar Thomson mill, near Pittsburg, ten men will be able to roll l,0(X) tons of rails in twenty-fo’rir hours, five men working at a-time. A young lady, Miss Ella Nelson Gaillard. of New York, has introduced a system of electrical lighting on the stage. The battery will run thirty hours, and the effect is good. The manufacturers cf hosiery would be glad to try a reduction in order to offset German competition, but the difference U .too great for any possible reduction in wages to,Mplj) them, , will be pleased to kjaow that lithographic stone is found 5K Dallas,. fully equal to the stone imported fartm Europe. It eosts froftt S4O to $56 for a stone 10x40 ,4. Brooklyn man has bough£-tvjarge Amount of mining machinery go to put up smelting work® Af’El Paso. Coal is $lO per ton, but good fuel will be mined on the spot at half that price. A Kentucky has been or ganized at Day ton build Abuses workingmen sh two or three mhriffig and manufacturing counties iigßh&t State- It expects xp doubld A large amount of hard wood wilrnb shipped into the Philadgupifi'a next year by rail ~and North Carolina. Agents are endeavoring to take contracts now toV'' delivery next Spring. Hiss >ury!6pp|/mjde|miat have been idle for (wo or three years are being opwrat^ff, »r<vrilniff)lfr- bodies —of ore are being dpened rip. Foreign eapital has recently taken hold of several neg- — the dullness in •woolen manufacturing, a great many companies are enlarging their companies and. plants. The manufacturers are not acting" as though anticipating a prolonged dullness. So far this year New Orleans cotton receipts have gained 200,000 bales over lUat Yviify HLiti ilnllS -CiVariUgß BtiuW HU increase in ratio of from 8 to 10 in twelve months. Several manufacturing enterprises are being established there. Philadelphia buyers have been ordering such large pieces of plate-glass that it has been found impossible to get rail transportation for them. Two piateanre LAby lSfeet. and are to be shipped by water to New Orleans, thence by sea to this city. \ Pillsbury mill “A” grinds 7,000-barrels of dour daily, which is enough for New York, Brooklyn and Jersey oßy\ It is eight stories high, and wqrk is never stopped. It keeps two hundred railway cars busy. An electriciii apparatus enables a watchman to.Jocate a heated box any where in the mjft. A northern mrin just from North Carolina says, jri speaking of .shop and mill labor there, that labor is easily controlledjjnd exceedingly cheap. The Wing mi id and the days long, much work can be accomplished at smah-Tost. Cotton factories are paying frqp 10 to 35 per cent, and during the factories have started ¥n the State. The roof of the Providence locomotive works, of Rhode Island, is being removed, and the worss will be covered with canvas with several coats of metallic pkint. This is a departure which might pay other manufacturers co - serve. A New York architect is building an immense hotel, with 1,100 feet front, fire-proof, at Tampa, Fla., and quite a number of buildings are being erected in St. Augustine, the largest of .which is to cost HE.OOO.'dOO when completed. The total.outlay for buildings under contract in the f Sta e is J4,(MX),000. North Carolina is coming to the front as a manufacturing State. A new gold mine opened at Prosperity, yields |7O to S2OO per ton, a knitting mill has just been built at Wilmington, an ice companv has started at Nashville, 1 a $75,000 cotton mill has been put up at Gastonia, and there are new planing mills, grist mills and saw mills in various parts of the State. , New York electricians are greatly pleased with the experiments thus far made with the Julian system, but competitors are crowding close upon each

other’s , hetffs-for recognition. A new elieetricsl'sytdem, known «s the R. T. K. will soon Imj introduced, and four or five thousand lamps will be lighted by it in London. Cypress is being much morq largely used for interior house decoration than heretofore, and the. attention of architects and builderajS being directed to it. The objectio.n**m those who have not Used it is that, being a Southern wood, it is more iikely to be affected by heat, drought and moisture than Northern wood. At Cohpes more machinery has been running, more people have been employed and more goods sold during the past year than ever. The product of the knitting mills of Cohoes and Waterford amount to $5,287,000. During the 18,800 bales of cotton were z Worked t .tfpThe extraordinary demand for lumber is bringing out a great variety of drying processes, covering cold air and hot air methods. It pays to expel moisture in order to save freight. Slow seasoning is out of date. Improved methods in the preparation of lumber are appearing Everywhere, and tire better prices realized, Are stimulating, the demand for dryers. _ - v■' ’ The State convention of Ohio miners will be held Columbus on Jan. 17, and a friendly settlement of the wage question for the coming year is expected. Zfhe miners are everywhere proposing arbitration, State conventions will be held in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

How John Teutel Ended a Strike.

Oliioago NCwf. man physically on ’Change is John Teufel. He is over six feet high and tips tbe beam at more than three hundred pounds. The girth of his "shouldere is“somethirig enormous. Jlis coat would make two for an ordinary man, Teufel is a packer, ago he came to the stock yai nary butcher, and .the energy which enabl d him to climb from that lower 'position to the ing house is clearly shown in his strongly markaifeatures;, * tie is a very wealthy map and a very shrewd one. A little story illustrates the latter trait. He-had bought a riacking-house plant in Louis just before a general strike of the hands in all the houses in that village tbokplace. Coming down ojaßEpffimrig Teufel found his deserted and the fires in drawn. The situation was explained to him by the foreman. '' s*Tbere’s nothing to do but to lie still,” said the official. “We can’t get any hands until the strike is settled.” “We can’t, eh!” exclaimed Teufel. “You yust start dem fires. Go, do as I dep you,” he said, as the foreman, not understanding the strange order hesitated. s The fires were started, and soon the black smoke was of the chimneys of Teufel’s house. What was the result? The strikers ; immediately concluded Teufel had somehow secured hands, and rushed pell-mell to get there jobs back before it was too late. Before night Teufel’s house was running once more.

How to Find Leap Year.

Every fourth is called leap year because the year'then lerips to 366 days. But. although in srgsneral way it may be said that e ery fourth year is a leap year, yet Actually every fourth year is not a lepp year. Nearly all the leading natiops have accepted the Gregorian calendar. It has been in most of them Tgirtnore than a century past. As every fourth year is not a leap year it is important to know ho?, to tell by Grego ry’s calendar just what years in tbe future will be leap year. The rules foi doing this may be outlined thus: Every year which is divisible by four without a remainder, except centurial years, is a leap year. Centurial years—such a 1800, 1900,.2000, etc.—are leap years when they are divisible by four alter striking off two of the ciphers, and then only. The year 1800 was not a leap yeai nor will 1900 be one, although 2000 wifi he entitled to that distinction. No other centurial leap year will occur after that until the year 3400. Although the Gregorian system assures a close correspondence between the solar and the civil year, yet the correspondence is not absolutely accurate The length of the mean civil year as a present computed,is 35.95 seconds greater than the solar year. This error amounts to a whole day in 3325 years. It may be corre xted. therefore, oy drop* ping the leap year every thirty-three and one-fourth centuries.

The Cause of Death.

Jersey Coroner—You say you saw the deceased bitten by the rattlesnake? Witness at Inqiiest —Yes, sir. Coroner—What was done for him? Witness—We gave hhn whisky, the usual antidote. Foreman of Jury—Where was the antidote obtained’ Witness —In Hoboken. J ..Foreman (after consultation with jurors)—Coroner, we find thatthe deceased came to his death after being bitten by a rattlesnake. Coroner —And from the effects of the poison? Foreman —No,sir. From the effects of the antidote. Don’t expect that the poultry business will “run itself’ any more than any other business.— No gains without pains.

GROUND FROZEN ALL SUMMER.

■ffewt as the Thick Mom That Gathers oa tbe Shores of the Ynkvs. Jnssaa (41***) Free Preu. It is remarkable, indeed, that so much of the surface ground on the Yukon isfrdsen solid to a depth of several feet. It is all the more so when we come to realise the fact that during the summer it gets as hot there m in the South. During the heat of the past- season the miners fox nd it a veniCibee to go in bathing in th^ streams at least twice a day, and. tb seek shady places in which to rock the g ild out of the gravel. At the breaking up of winter the hours of sunshine are rapidly increasing, and continue so until'mid winter, when the 'sun beams forth twenty-two hours eut of the twenty-four, while on the high mountain peaks it is for a period of several days in June not entirely out of sight during the twenty-four hours. But during all this heat and the long days of continuous sunshine the sun’s rays do not penetrate the heavy mosses that cover nearly the entire of the country, and consequently the froeen ground underneath lies in that slate as if packed in an ice house. After it once becomes frozen, as any damp ground will do in the , winter time, it quickly becomes covered with this moss, whiqh is of a remarkably rapid growth, and attains a depth of two fee l or more. During the heat of summer trite moss becomes dry to. the depth of several inches, and the miners think that by a continuous burning of it as fast as it dries they will soon have the gr»vel bars, along the creeks at least, cieared off, being,©! the impression that when the grave! deposits are exposed to the scorching rayaof the sun and the rains qpdktmosp^ffthey will readily thaw out. sets in the hours of sunshine gradually decrease, until “during the shortest days the sun shines but four hours out oi the twenty-four, But qt this period the aurora is most intense and helps very materially in driving darkness from that dreary land. Thp thernfometer goes down to 70 degreepfin winter, but the atmosphere is very drv arid consequently the cold is not so perceptible as one would imagine Eclipses iw 1888 In the number of eclipses which it will bring, the yeaystßßß, will Jjte as table as in the number of dsxys whusF it will contain. There will be five eSnpßes during this year. Theyptotious or who thirik&dhaf this is a small number when out river 366 days is asked mind that all that either could fnuster was four. A^^payneithq^ 1 of these years, sb farwriter is able to learns general protest by the on account of the fewness of these ' i&enomeria. The largest number^ eclipses which can occur in any toill come in 1888. Of these seven five 'will be of the sun and two of the moon. Three of the five will be solar and two lunar. The eclipses of 1888 will take place on the following dates: A total eclipse of the moon will occur on January 88, a partial eclipse of the sun on February 11, another partial obscuration of the Aamehody drihJuly 8, a total eciipse of the moon on July 25, and a partial eciipseof the sun on August 7. The two total eclipses of the moon will oe visible in the United States, but the solar obscurations will not be seen by any residents of this country unless they chance to be in Europe, Asia or Africa at the time thtee events take place. The migrations of the planers in 1888 will bring several of these members of the sun’s family in close proximity to each other. In January the two brightest of the planets, Venue and Jupiter, will be in the same constellation, Libra. From January to August Mars, the earth’s nearest neighbor outwardly from the sun, will occupy a position in Virgo near Uranus, the remotest member but one of the planetary brotherhood. In August Venus will be with Saturn in Cancer. Mars and Jupiter will each be skurrying ont of Libra into Scorpio in September, just as Yenns enters Libra; Two months later Venus overtakes Jupiter in Scorpio, although Mars at that time has passed out of that star group into Sagittarius. Unlike 1887, one or more of the conspicuous planets will be visible in the evening sky in every month of 1888 Saturn will be evening star from the beginning of the s year to August 1; Mars from January 5 to the end of the year; Jupiter from February 24 to December 8; and Venus from July 11 through the remainder of 1888. Saturn will be brightest on January 13, Mars on AprilJl.and Jupiter on May 12. Venus will not have its brightest phase in 1888.

H The Duel, Pardanelle (after the first shot, takes advantage of the smoke and drops into a deserted well.) Sicard (taking similar advantage, gets behind a tree). Pardarelle’s second (as smoke clears away) -Gentlemen, the honor of two brave Frenchmen is protected. They have obliterated each other! Arkansaw Traveler. It ain’t de man dat is hard ter whup dat gins you de mos’ tnibbl®. It» & feller dat won’t stay whupped. ~ Tid Bite: The most unpopular Trust is unquestionably “No Trust.”

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Memorial Church, erected at . Portrush, Ireland, in memory of Dr. Adam Clarke, was dedicated Sept. 29. The foundation stones were laid just a year before by the Dake of Abercom. A fine cathedral, for some time in course of erection, will be completed at Kieff, Russia, early next summer. It will open with special pomp and ceremony, by way of celebrating the 900th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity into the empire. One of the recent church missionary society converts in the Punjab encountered much opposition on accounV'bf having devoted his house ta mission purposes. On being called to account for having done so,his reply was: “Never mind the house; I intend to give myself;’’ . ’ » Prof. Drummohd -and his co laborers have induced a band of athletic young Christian men to devote themselves to work among tne tenement houses of I/ffidon. The professor thinks that "this spectacle wtil dorifforcrto inspire a belief in Christianity than a whole library full of books on dogmatic 8yNext summer there is to be held in London a Roman Catholic Congress at which all English speaking communities will be represented. Tbj three chief topics to be discussed are: The attitude of the Catholic church toward education in general;' greater co-operation of the laity in the work of the church, and the diffusion of Qitholic literatuie ampng the masses. A number of Baptist church* s and clergymen will follow example in withdrawing frontr the I&ptist Union,among them Rey.' Messrs. of the East London Tabernacle; Davies, of a Brighton chq/cb; Burton, of/Dalston, and of Crpydoff. The directors ofXavor’s College will feontpkej a conference to consider joint action on the secession, Nottingham Tabernacle has passed a resolution of sympathy /tnth Spurgeon. While on his way to the Episcopal Mjsfejohary Council in'. Philadelphia, Bishop Tuttle of Missouri,lost his satchel. whigjf 'was stolen*' at Kansas City. The thief got for bis pains a bishop’s or two and a prayer :XK>k. The Bishop was mourning over his loss when he reached St. Louis, but was somewhat reconciled when some . ladies of.his diocese presented him with . a London-made set of robes, very costly .arid the “finest west of the Mississippi.” Outside the waile of Jerusalem a new town has sprung up, a building club having been establi-hed a few years ago under the operations of which 130 houses were erected in four years by the Jriws, while along the Jaffa road many oo’intry villas have been erected of late by European residents as summer abodes. The development of the buil Hng of new ho ses w thout Jerusalem is to be found in the enterprise which has led to much building being done on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, the summit of which is crowned with the Church of the Ascension. Orthodox Christians will watch with interest and perhaps alarm, the new missionary movement in Germany. Socalled advanced theologians have a well organized society, whose object is t* make use the elements of culture and morality that are found in educated heathen nations, and on tbi basis build un a Christion culture accordin to advanced ideas. This' society thinks that the old methods fail in that they do not educate the thinkers among educated non-Chrtetian people. It has 7,750 members iu Switzerland and Ge rmany and has a few men at work in Japan and China. The largest Baptist church in the country is to be built in Philadeldbia. It will seat 4,600 persons and will cost $10Q,600. A thousand scholars will be accommodated in the Sunday school room arid five hundred more in the infant department. A dining room, parlors, kitchen and a large entertainment room will also be provided. All this is to give room and scope enough for the ministry of the Rev. Russell H. Conwell, Yale College student, soldier, lawyer, emigration agent, special correspondent in Europe for American papers,traveler, lecturer, author, theological student, Baptist minister. The man who hae passed through all these preliminaries to a settled ministry is now only forty- " four years old. * —-r~ The Christian Union lately invited its readers to send in lists containing what in their judgment were the best 100 hymns in the English language. More than 3,400 lists were received. The first hymn upon the larger number of lists was Toplady’s “Rock of Ages,” having received 3,215 votes. The second in poinkof popularity was Lyte’a “Abide With Me;” the third, Wesley’s “Jesus, Lover of My Soul.” A lyrmn which ie greatly liked and widely sung, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” occupied only the sixty-ninth place on tbe list. The ist contains hymns from fifty-five different authors, and among these Dr. Watts and Charles Wesley stand at the head.

No Question as to a Trial.

“If I should tell you, my dear,” he said, “that my love for you had grown cold; that I had ceased to care for you, and that the happy time when I shall claim you as my ownest own will never, never be, would it really be Atrial toyop, my darling?” “Yes, George,” shyly admitted the girl, “it would be a. breach of promise