Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1875 — Page 3

RENSSELAER UNION. HORACE'S. JAMES, Proprietor. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

sam and Joe: 3fy heart is strangely sad to-tiight;. The past hangs o’er me like a dream, And as a hark with fresh-trimmed sails My thoughts are gliding down the" stream. Ah, those were jocund day?, my friend, The old, old days of long ago, Though sometimes shadowed by a cloud. When you were “Sam,” and I was “Joe.” I see our homesteads side by side Gleam white amid the leafy shade, I hear the brawling of the brook, I smell the perfumes through the glade; I feel the dear ones all around— And some have crossed death’s stream, you know, But sorrows lightly touched odr hearts, For you were “Sam,” and I was “Joe.” Our tutor’s form appears again— His clear, calm eyes, his frosty hair; His cheeks all seamed like withered fruity His lips on which a smile was rare; Those truthful lips—but time, to him, Was cruel in its ebb and flow; Yet little recked we of his griefs, For you were “Sam,” and I was “Joe.” Of discipline we ill approved, And ill approved of Latin verse; With classic Greek held bad commune. Of Hebrew text our hate was worse; And physics’ laws we held in scorn; And mathematics, too, was slow; And lie would sigh, and we would laugh— But you were “ Sam,” and I was “Joe.” And then our college years come up, So tilled with sportive pranks and wiles; The nights so often glad with mirth. The days all dimpled o’er with smiles; More luckless wights than then were we The college records did not know; 3 But glad we put dull eare to flight, And you were “Sam,” and I was “Joe.” Our early loves?—You miud them well?— The months which flitted by like hours? — The walks, the talks?—the rides, the * 9 drives ? The bows that bound the bunch of flowers ? The ringing of that old church-bell One morn, which made earth heaven below ? For we had each a treasure found, Though you were “Sam,”andl was “Joe.’ And we were men! And manhood’s Have thickly crowded on our path; Our children cluster round our boards, And wo have felt affliction’-: scath; . Yet would toe not with manhood’s joys Return to days of long ago, 'Though bright the beaker to our lips, When you- were “Sain,” and I was ‘‘ Joe.” For manhood’s joys are richer far Than backward glance to boyhood secs; Thau youth, with all our youthful hopes; ' We now drink wine upon the lees. Yet we to each must always be The same as then, come weal or woe; Though you are. Fame’s, the laurel mine, You still are “ Sam,” and lam “Joe!” —indite A. Brock, in Appleton*' Journal.

MOODY AND SANKEY.

Messrs/Moody and Sankey have closed tlieir labors in Brooklyn. On Sunday, Nov. 21, they ( began their meetings in Philadelphia, where a large buihlinj; capable of seating 8,000 persons has been fitted up for their use. Speculation upon the probability of their success in the United States has been set at rest by the fact of their success. The same crowdingof the people to listen, the same easy control of vast audiences, the same power of makinginstant impressions which marked, their progress in England are visible here at home. It is probable, therefore, that effects produced on the other side of the Atlantic will be paralleled in the cities of their own country. They have been most fortunate in touching a wide circle of social and denominational sympathies. Scotch and Irish Presbyterians, English Churchmen, Roman Catholics, Baptists,#. Congregationalists and Methodists have alike borne testimony to the deep impression made by their preaching and song. The Archbishop of Canterbury gave Messrs. Moody aud Sankey a kind word of approval; at their meetings in the West End of London Dukes "and Duchesses and other titled persons were frequently seen in the boxes of the operahouse, which had been temporarily leased for religious worship; while at the East End, the most poverty-stricken of the population of the great metropolis filled the building extemporized for their accommodation. Mr. Saukey’s songs became so popular in London that they could be heard every day in the streets; and when lie visited Switzerland and Germany he found that French and German versions of them were in the hands of thousands of the people. The interest awakened by these evangelists being, therefore, so general, it may not be amiss to present the readers of Harper's Weekly a fuller account of their history than has hitherto been practicable iq its columns. Dwight L. Moody, the leader in this joint partnership, was born in Northfield, Mass., in 1837, and is now in the thirty-eighth year of his age. His 1 parents were Unitarians. His early advantages were very few and these but little improved. In his seventeenth year he entered his uncle’s shqe/store in Boston, and while there became a member of Mount Vernon Congregational Sundayschool. When lie first applied for menbership in the church on a profession of faith his understanding of the truths In which he professed belief was thought to be so imperfect that his admission was postponed for a year. In March, 1&56, he was examined a second time and received into church fellowship. His first efforts to express himself in religious meetings .were most unfortunate. Kind friends advised him to refrain aud informed him that he had no capability for public; speaking. He was rebuffed in this manner over and over again. Nowise discouraged, but determined to seek a place whcreUiis efforts to do good would meet a better reception, he removed to Chicago in the latter part of 1856. Here he quickly offered. his,services as a teacher in a missionschool anu was told that he might have’a bench if lie would procure the scholars. On the following Sunday he entered the sc bool-room with eighteen boys, whom he had picked up in thC streets." Very soon he established a mission-school of his own in a dancing saloon known as the “ North Market Hall.” After the dancers had left on Saturday nights Mr. Moody and his friends would spend several hours in cleaning the room up and making it fit for religious worship. This school rapidly increased until it numbered over 1,000 scholars. Jojin V. Farw.eli, tli# well-knoWii dry-goods merchant and Mr. Moody’s fast friend, was its Superintendent. Mr. Moody’s mode of working was sc direct and individual, and at times uso • reckless of consequences, that before long all Cliicago knew him,‘well. People of all sorts hailed him as “ Brother Moody.” Some nicknamed him “Crazy Moody;”

but as his efforts to do good, though intensely earnest, showed in the end sound sense, this epithet soon fell away from him. ItTnay be imagined that he had at times some, hough experiences. On one occasion he was cornered in a room by three men, who threatened to kill him. “ Give me,” he asked, “ a chance to say my prayers, won’t you?” The request was granted, and by the time the prayer was over the men were subdued. He trained a choir of young people, and* with them visited drinking saloons, where, after singing sonVe hymns, he would offer prayer. The story is told that on one occasion he entered a drinking den, and said: “Would you like to have a song, gentlemen?” Permission was given, and the children sang, to the great satisfaction of the listeners. . “Now,” said Mr. Moody, “we will have a word of-prayer.” “ No prayer here,” was the universal shout. “O yes,” replied the undaunted evangelist, “we’ll have a few words of prayer,” and offered up some earnest petitions. He then invited all to go to his meeting, and quite a number followed him. Sunday was his chief recruiting day. He would start out early iu tlie morning and hunt the streets over for neglected children, and make his appearance at last with a whole troop of them at the schobl-room door.

In 1858 Mr. Moody became a member of the A'oung Men’s Christian Association of Chicago, served it as city missionary, and finally became its President. Under his energetic direction the new association building was put up. During the war lie was much in the army, preaching to and holding meetings with our soldiers. By the year 1803 a building was erected for his use in Illinois street, Chicago, at a cost of $20,000. Here Mr.. Moody gathered a church of 300 members, and presided over a flourishing Sunday-school. The great fire of 1871 swept away this structure and his home near l>y, leaving him, as he said to a friend, nothing but “ his reputation and liis Bible’.” A temporary building was reared a few weeks after,' capable of accommodating 1,500 persons, and known as the “ North Side Tabernacle.” Air. Moody did not, however, confine himself to this place, but organised open-air meetings in the neighborhood. Children’s and mothers’ and sewing-meetings were also held in this temporary house of worship. Chicago is full of stories of Mr. Moody’s adventures. The street Arabs know right well who he is. A minister who was encaged in distributing tracts rebuked some boys for their profanity. “ Say, mister,” replied one of them, “do you belomr to Brother Moody?” At one time he met in the street several acquaintances, all men of the world, “ Friends,” said Mr. Moody, “ we may never meet again. Here is an alcove. Let us have a prayer.” As they stood lie offered a short petition, and then left them with a gentle parting word. Mr. Sankey is younger than his associate by three years. He was born in Western Pennsylvania in 1840, of Methodist parentage. He became a member ol the church at the age of fifteen, and was soon known as a sweet and effective singer. lie and Mr. Moody first met at a National Convention of Young Men’s Christian Associations,' held at Indianapolis. Finding themselves to be of one mind, they associated together for religious work, and spent many months in Chicago and other cities of tlie Union. Mr. Sankey’s power is to tie found in a rich voice, a distinct articulation, and tlie feeling with which he renders the sentiment of his songs. The critical and the uncritical are alike moved by his simple melodies, which arc now as familiar to all English-speaking peoples as household words.

The burning of Mr. Moody’s place of worship in 1871 and the consequent suspension of liis labors appear to have directed his attention to England. He had been invited to go thither by Mr. Pennefather, of London, and Mr. Bainbridge, of Newcastle, In June, 1873, the two evangelists entered Liverpool.% Their first efforts to secure public attention in this not at all successful. Their Messrs. Pennefather and Bainbridge, had both died, so that they were left without the important co-operation which they had expected. From Liverpool they proceeded to York and Sunderland, where they fared but little better. In August they began their work in Newcastle. Here they were fortunate in securing the hearty co-operation of the resident ministers. Tim services quickly became so attractive that two were held simultaneously each evening. On Wednesday, Sept: 10, Mr. Moody tried in this city the experiment of an all-day meeting, each hour being devoted to a special topic. For six hours the place, of assembling was thronged, and the interest in the exercises rose higher and higher until the close. During their stay in Newcastle the evangelists made short visits to Darlington, Stockton, North and South Shields and Carlisle. At the closing meetings the whole population of the city seemed to be moved. Several meetings were held at the same time on the last evening, and were protracted to a late hour. When the evangelists went to the railway station crowds accompanied them to say at the last moment farewell. Great numbers had professed conversion. In November, 1873, Messrs. Moody and Sankey proceeded to Edinburgh. The fame of their great success in Newcastle had preceded them. Invitations jo visit the Scoleh capital had been sent, so that tlieir welcome was perfectly assured. The impression made here may be best judged from a circular which w-as sent to every minister in Scotland. Among the signers of it were Profs. Blaikie, Calderwoou aud Cliarteris, Drs. Duff', Hanna, Andrew Thompson and many others as well known in the Christian world. Among the rest they say: “God is so affecting the hearts of men that the Free Church Assembly IlaiJ, the largest public building in Edinburgh, is crowded every day With a meeting for prayer, and that build.ing, along with thq Established Church Assembly Hall, overflows every evening, when the Gospel' is preached. The hall of the Tnlbooth Church and the Free High Church are nightly attended by anxious inquirers. All denominational and social distinctions arc entirely merged.” This testimony to the success of Messrs. Moody and Sankey from the -leaders of the churches of Scotland, men of learning and good judgment, could not have been elicited had the work of the evangelists been characterized by rant and unseemly excitement. For nearly two months the people of Edinburgh attended da>ly religious services, tilling often three or four public buildings at the same hour. The conversions reported numbered many hundreds. Mr. Sankey’s music was everywhere spoken of as a new revelation of the possibilities of Christian song. i The greatleffect of the preaching of Mr. Moody in Edinburgh opened his way to every part of Scotland. Invitations’accordingly came to him and his associate from ail the principal cities. Ashort visit

was paid to Dundee, and early in February, 1874, they began in Glasgow with a meeting of 3,000 Sunday-school teachers in the City Hall. In the evening of the same day both the City Hall and three neighboring churches were filled with eajmr listeners. In Glasgow Mr. Moody had the co-operation of such men as Principal Fairbairn, Dr. Andrew A. Bonar, Dr. Cairns, of Berwick, and Dr. Buchanan. Separate meetings were held for men, women and children. To afford accommodation for the great crowds, the Crystal Palace, the, largest public assembly-room in Scotland, was opened; 6,000 persons were at times packed within its walls. At one meeting, in addition to this number, a vast multitude, estimated at 15,000, filled the open space around this edifice, and was addressed effectively by Mr. Moody. During his stay in Glasgow Ihe held a Christian Convention which was attended by 5,000 persons, among whom were 2,000 ministers and office-bearers of the churches in Scotland and the north of England, «* I' l may be readily supposed that >lr. Sankey’s singing was, in Scotland a muchdiscussed topic. The Scotch have, until recent years, adhered to the exclusive use of psalms in public worship; they have objected, too, to the presence of musical instruments in their churches. They are a musical people, as their stirring ballad poetry well attests; but the religious ballad set to the strains of a secular melody is somethingtliey have not heretofore known. A Scotch writer in analyzing the effects produced by Mr. Sankey saief that “ what he sang was nothing new to the people, but his manner of singing, w-as very new indeed.” The music was much of it familiar, but had never before been associated in their hearing with religious sentiment. His earnest endeavor to impress the message contained in each song excited their admiration. They saw in Mr. Sankey a singling preacher, just as they recognized in I Mr. Moody a speaking preacher. From Glasgow the evangelists proceeded to Paisley and Greenock, where, during their short stay, the same effects of their preaching and singing were produced as in other cities, "in the latter part of May they returned to Edinburgh. In the two months’ interval daily meetings had/ been maintained in the Scotch capital, with a large attendance of worshipers. On Thursday, May 21, a farewell meeting was held “ in a natural amphitheater on the way to St. Anthony’s Well, in the Queen’s Park.” Between 10,000 and 11,000 persons were here collected together. “It was an impressive sight,” says one who was present,to see masses oi human beings hanging" on or sitting on the shelves of the rocks, and to ail-appearances in the clefts behind tlie~ preacher.” In the Presbyterian General Assemblies held that year in Edinburgh frequent reference was made to the extraordinary interest awakened by Messrs. Moody and Sankey in the minds of the people of Scotland’. The Rev. Dr. Stewart, the Moderator of the Free Church Assembly, said, in bis opening address: “The result of this blessed visitation has been tlie healing of breaches aniong beloved brethren and the producing,®! such union ot heart and co-operation, among the godly and earnest-minded laborers in all our churches,as warrant tlie hope oi union on a broader basis than we had even dreamed of.” *

During the summer of 1874 tliev visited Dumbarton, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, lluntly, Naira and Elgin. At Aberdeen 10,000 persons flocked “to the National Amphitheater on the Broadh'iU.K where a platform had been erected for the speakers and the choir. Here during the long June evening Mr. Moody addressed an audience whiclrwas made up of representatives of all classes of society. The last sermon in Scotland was delivered at Rothesay, on the 3d of September, by the sea-side. It may he safely said that the influence of the visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey was felt throughout all Scotland, by high and low, rich and poor, learned and ignorant. Increased and systematic effort was made to reach the neglected classes of the people. Christian associations of all kinds became more active, and the union of the churches, which had been much discussed, became a visible fact.

Crossing over to Ireland, the evangelists appeared next in Belfast, where they spent several weeks. In this city upward of 2,000 persons professed to have been persuaded by them to enter upon a Christian life. After a brief visit to Londonderry they reached, Oct. 24, the capital of Ireland. Extensive preparations liad_been made for tlieir reception. The Exhibition Building, which, it is said, will hold 10,000 persons, was, placed at their disposal . Mr. Moocty was welcomed to Dublin bv a minister of the Irish (Disestablished) Church, and was aided during his stay by ministers of all denominations. In this city the population, without distinction of creed, appeared to be drawn to the Exhibition Building. It was ■ said that “ Protestants and Roman Catholics, Christians and Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Moravians, Arians and Quakers,” were all to be found in the audiences. The Nation , one of the., Roman Catholic organs of the city, called upon its readers to show all respect to the religious .feelings of their Protestant lellow'-citizens—in a word, “ to do as they would be done by.” As many as 2,000 converts were reported in Dublin. At the close of his stay here Mr. Moody held a convention of three days’ duration, winch was attended by 800 ministers from all parts of Ireland, besides thousands of the laity. The topics discussed related to the reaching of the masses and the best modes of perpetuating the religious interest awakened in Ireland. Manchester was visited on the 29th of November, and meetings began in FreeTrade llall. In this city Alt. Mood}' adopted the plan of a house-to-house visitation. The largo *“ Ordnance Alap” of AlanchesLtr was divided into fifty districts, and each district put in charge of a superintendent, under whom were placed enough visitors to reach every house. A leaflet containing a hymn and a short address was left witfFeach family as an introduction to a subsequent call and conversation. The evangelists remained irrt Alanchester till the last day of the year. The outpouring of the people to see and hear them was but the repetition of that which characterized their visits to the .cities of Scotland and Ireland. Sheffield, Birmingham and Liverpool were successively visited in the early part of 1875 with the same results. In Birmingham, Bingley Hall was used, no one church being large enough; in Liverpool, a building known as Victoria Hall, and seating 8,000 persons, for the occasion. Mr. Saukey’s songs were soon heard in the shops of these great cities. Air. Aloody took pains in England, as he had done in Scot 1 ami, to imptess his views of Christian work on conventions of ministers and lay Christians. In one of these he answered the question so often asked, “ How to reach the masses,” in a single sharp sentencS—“ Go and fetch them.” By the time Alessrs. Aloody and Sankey I were ready to go to London the attention

of the whole u. nited Kingdom had been aroused. Tlie pre, ’ mra^ on s made for them were commensuratt. Wl, k tlle great extent df the city and the Vi. stness °f its population; 1,500 ministers m tlie Protestant denominations met in aO, ance °i their arrival to consult upon the lx * s } methods of, co-operation with them. A special committee, headed by a mapped the city into visitation districts. A central office opened by the co.’ 71111 ' 1^ 0 directed district superintendents, yvlio in turn directed the work of the compi. uies of visitors. Agricultural Hall, IslingL >n < wliich will hold 17,000 persons, was prt. *- ■vided with 15,000 cliair% and at the first

meeting all these and, in addition, all standing spaces were occupied. Mr. Moody’s plan contemplated a meeting of one month’s duration in each district of London-north, south, east and west. On March 10 a daily prayer-meeting was also opened in Exeter Hall, which was crowded in every part. In three days’ time it was estimated that as many as *BO,OOO persons in all had been present at these assemblies. On Sunday, Starch 14, a meeting for women only was held in the Agricultural Hall, and in the evening one for men. Both times it was filled. The interest once awakened showed no perceptible decline, but rather increased day by clay. Her Majesty’s Opera-House was leased for the meetings in the West End of tlie metropolis, and was muse for seven weeks. On one occasion 1,500 blirid persons were brought there together. After Sir. Sloody’s address Sir. Sankey sang for them “Jesus of Nazareth Passetli By” with touching effect. The four months spent in London were completed in the summer at Camberwell Green Hall, on the South Side. On the 12tli of July the last meeting was held in Slildmay Hall; 700 ministers were present, as were also the Earls of Shaftesbury and Cavan, and Slessrs. Slorlev, McArthur and • Cowper-Temple. Thanks were freely tendered to Slessrs. Moody and Sankey for their labors in England ; ample testimony was borne to their disinterestedness; and in this manner the work which began in the summer of 1873 with an attendance ot four persons was closed. A proposal to present to the evangelists a testimonial was met by them with a prompt negative. What they have undertaken to do since their return home is sufficiently well known to the readers of this paper. Invitations more than they can accept have poured in upon them. The whole country wishes to see and hear the men who have to such a remarkable degree drawn to themselves the attention of the English-speaking world.

The two evangelists have created a strong conviction of their sincerity, and this fact-aids thejn wherever they go. Very many who do not agree with them theologically are wholly indisposed to quarrel with their efforts to do good. Everyone is willing to see his neighbor become better, and everyone understands that a bad man changed to a good one is a positive gain to society. It is admitted, too, that the pastors of the churches, do as much as they may, tail to reach more than a minority of the people. They stand ready to preach and teach Christianity to all who come to them; Air. Moody’s plan js to go after those who don’t come. His method of labor suggests that something is needed to supplement our routine pulpit ministrations; not, indeed, to supersede them, for, after all, it is by the “ line upon line,” the processes of instruction patiently carried on through years, that the community is trained up in the practice of Christian morality. No man appears more ready to admit this fact than Mr. Aloody liimself; he subordinates his work to that of faithful pastors, and in this shows his eminent good sense. Nor should the fact that these remarkable effects have been produced by men who make little pretension to culture dis ; credit culture as an essential element in Christian teaching. Mr. Aloody shows every day his obligations to the labors of thoughtful and devout scholars. The theological ideas which lie uses have received their precise statement, guarded by needed limitations, from men of another class who have preceded bird. And this must be the case with regard to any teaching which touches- the highest interests of mankind. Clear definitions of our obligations to God and to man are not framed in a few minutes or a few hours of time. They have come to us from the labors of the cultivated who have meditated much' on human duty, and have devoted their lives to ascertaining the meaning of the Bible, which is for Protestants the supreme authority. I-n all the schools of theology the scholars have shaped into exact propositions the statements which are handled with more or less effect by the teachers of the people. Ever since the world began, the man of unhesitating, unquestioning.faith has been a power. He who has a belief on which be is ready at any moment to stake his life will always find some of his fellows to follow him. To Air. Aloody Christ’s life on earth, death for men, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and coming again for a final judgment of the human race are facts so real that they not only control his own conduct, but excite in him an intense desire to create his conviction of their reality in the minds of others. There is obviously in his faith nc pretense of belief, no half belief, no mixture of trust and distrust in equal or unequal portions. His confidence in the statements of the Bible gives him momentum, and drives him right onward. His vivid realization of Scripture story makes him dramatic, and enables him to present the events of remote ages as though they belonged to the life of our day. His favorite Scripture character, Daniel, is as near to his mind as though Chaldea were Illinois and Babylon Chicago. He has this quality in common with all religious leaders, some of whom hawe been learned, and some quite the reverse. Loyola’s vision of the Virgin, which summoned him to duty, was just as certain to his Soldierly mind as the word of command from a superior officer. In Air. Aloody’s case the majority of the people of the United States more or less share in his convictions of religious truth. The nominal Christianity of the country repeats the creed which is for him so full of meaning. He aims, therefore, to give vitality to the half-dormant sense of obligation which lies imbedded in the conscience of almost everyone who listens to him, and to make it operative in daily life; aud for this his earnestness, shrewdness, patience and tact admirably fit him. His companion’s music is not of a very high order, .perhaps, but it stirs the feelings. Ever since the Hutchinsons went through the country embodying in song the moral ideas of New England it has been certain that a school of music would arise whose office it would trc to give voice, in like manner, to the popular religious ideas accepted by Americans. Air. Sankey found this music to 10s hand, and has beeome its best-known exponent." It is possible that the two evangelists will have a host oDimitatqrs; anu the imitators will most probably show a great falling off from tge originals. Perhaps this liability mtif be sufficiently guarded against by the churches; but the desire to imitate will no doubt be very strong, and

may in time discredit popular evjn.?elism. it is not clear, either, that the classes most in need of reformation at e reached by Mr. Moody; for many of these Christian labor needs to be more strictly personal. Shame, remorse and bitterness against a world which has always turned to them its cold side will keep thousands from even so popular a resort as tlie rink. For all such will be required an energetic application of Mr. Moody’s formula: “Go and fetch them.”— Georye JR. Croohslm Harper's Weekly.

MECHABICAL AND sCIENTIFIC.

—ln the reconstruction of the Hotel d<? Ville, Paris, a machine is used for cuttin g stone which does in one day the work in fiftteen men. It is composed of two revolving cylinders furnished with marble hammers, by means of which the stone is separated with great rapidity and precision. —Tlie Swedish Arctic expedition arrived on its homeward journey at Hsmmerfest, the most northern town of Norway. in good health and condition, Sep*. 26. It passed the Gulf of Obi and reached the River Yenesei, in longitude 83 degrees east, on the 15th of August. At this place Profs. Nordenskjold, Sundstreem and Stuxberg left the party to return home by way of Siberia, while the ship returned coastwise. The expedition has brought back a rich collection illustrative of natural history and several important hydrographic reports. —The Mining Journal reports an enormous blast of dynamite which took place at Cauldon Lowe Limestone Quarry, near Frogall. To test the strength of the dynamite it was decided to charge a chamber with eleven hundred-weight. The fuse was then fired, and in the space of eleven minutes the charge exploded with immense effect, bringing down the face of the quarry” thirty-four feet back for a long distance, tlie quantity of stone dropped being roughly estimated at 30,000 tons. This shot, illustrated the great saving of labor in using dynamite.

—lt seems that the practice of scalping is not peculiar to the North American Indian. A query put forth in Nature draws out the following information on the subject: Herodotus mentions that it was one of the most characteristic practices of the ancient Scythians. It is said that tlie custom still prevails among tlie wild tribes of the frontier in the northeastern district of Bengal. The Friend of India remarks that “ The Naga tribes use the scalping-kniie with a ferocity that is only equaled by the American Indians; and the scalps are carefully preserved a 3 evidences of their prowess and vengeance over their enemies. On the death of a chief all the scalps taken by him during his warlike career are burned with his remains.” —New sources of india-rubber, or materials characterized by the elasticity and the other peculiar properties of that substance, are constantly being brought to light and experimented with, it being well known that the rubber constituent abounds in the milky juices of many plants beside the caoutchouc tree, as, for example, tlie dandelion, lettuce, etc. Recently a company has been formed in London, Ontario Province, for the extraction of caoufcdiouc from milkweed, the juice of which is found to contain some 4 per cent, of rubber. In the process of production pursued in this case the plant is first partially decomposed, steamed, then treated with coal-tar naphtha, which being distilled leaves the residuary caoutchouc in the solid form; —The most practicable method of obtaining tube wells is claimed to be that which is now in vogue in Paris, the apparatus for driving the tube being a simple arrangement, consisting of common quartering set up as a triangle; other pieces of quartering also guiding a rammer. The tubes keep themselves free from dirt, and when a spring is touched give as great a supply of 'water as the pump can draw, the water being as clear as that drawn irom a well with a reservoir. The tubes used in this case are ordinary three-inch gas-pipes, which serve tlie purpose admirably. Tin? bottom end is shod with a solid iron spike, rather larger than the tube, so as to clear the way for it; arid for about eighteen inches up from the bottom it is perforated so as to admit the water freely, but at the same time to exclude gravel.—AT. Y. Sun.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The Rev. Dr. Hall is opposed to having separate church services for children, but he thinks that every sermon should have a certain regard to their capacities and needs. —The Indian Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church is SIO,OOO in debt. The receipts of the commission have been larger this year than last year. Its indebtedness has been caused bv the growth of its w'ork. —The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Alissions reports a deficit on , Nov. 1 of $226,000. The deficit on Oct. 1 was $195,000. During October the receipts fell $4,000 short of the contributions of the same montll last year. —Rev. J. M. Jameson, formerly a Methodist minister of Ohio, writes that he is stationed among the Banock and Shoshone Indians, in Idaho. The tribes number 1,500, and know nothing of God or a future state. They say he is the first person who ever spoke to them on these subjects. —Sixteen Presbyterian Presbyteries have voted in favor of synodical representation in the General Assemblies, and seven for the old method of delegates from the presbyteries. The sixteen presbyteries contain 524 ministers and 58,988 members, and the seven have 184 ministers and 24,009 members. —The Welsh Presbyterian missionaries in India recently succeeded in’eonverting the heir apparent to the Chieftain of Cherra, named Borsingh. The Raja died, and the heathen Khasias say Borsingh is disqualified as his successor, being a Christian ; he lias therefore appealed to the Indian Government, and the decision is awaited with extreme anxiety. —Church property is taxed in California, and this exception to the general rule among the States wqi§ brought about by the heathen. It was found that the Chinese availed of the exemption of church property to evade taxation on their josshouses, which are very numerous, and mainly merely opium-smokers’ resorts; and to prevent this it was found necessary to make general the taxation of all real estate used for religious purposes. —Archdeacon Denison said, nqt long since, that in his own church he never preached, or allowed his curates to preach, more than ten minutes,. He has been outstripped in brevity by the Rev. G. Brewln, of Worthy, who numbered Mr. Disraeli among his congregation on a recent Sunday, but who cannot be charged with having wasted much of the right honorable gentleman’s valuable time, for bis sermon was over in sevfcn minutes!

A Dead-Letter Office.

The Washington correspondent of tha Louisville Courier-Journal writes: Among the sights of our goodly city wK ch strangers usually overlook in the hurry ““ bustle ot sight-seeing i 9 the-. cabinet of curiosities at the dead-letter office. TO is to be found in the General Postofflce bu.' ,din & directly above the money-order ox^? e - This is especially curious as a stud/ °* Lriman nature, evj,dencing the gross cw^i® B ? ll ® Bß about matters of importance Ut which it is subject, and also the sublime it has in postal arrangements. A«wU further, the various whims and fancies U? which human nature is subject, its appetites and its passions, here receive a striking illustration, for every conceivable article, from esculents to reptiles, is to be seen iiere, having been found in mail-hags at various times. Yes, even reptiles have been mailed, for in the cabinet, preserved in bottles of spirits, are six snakes, some of

a large size. These were mailed alive, in perforated tin cans, and addressed to a naturalist in Germany. They were discovered in the postoffice in New York city, the attention of the Ptetmaster being called to the fwl odor emitted from the cans. They w»ere promptly forwarded to the dead-letter office. There is a dried »kia of a rattle-sxake one and a half yards long, and thirty-seven rattles ©f the same species of venomous reptile. A large centipede has a place, and specimens of the devastating grasshoppers from Kansas, and potato-bugs, carefully prepared to preserve them, are ts be seen, as well as a good imitation of a frog. A good-sized geological specimen was properly stamped, but miscarried from some other cause. There is a vial of mercuiy, which i» said to be an- emblem of the postal service- All descriptions of jewelry are to be seen, some very valuable and some evidently from “ dollar-stores” and the like, having been carelessly addressed or mailed without stamps, or, in some instances, without so much as a wrapper. I saw a case containing a cross and four star-shaped studs, which wa,s mailed without being inclosed. A gold Maltese cross, marked “D. Foss, Co. I, 30 Ne. V 01.,” found its way hither, as did two valuable diamond rings, a r sapphire and pearl ring, a handsome watch, a communion-service cup, an ivory cross and chain, a carnelian and gold cross in an olive-wood case, curious coins—one an ancient Roman coin of the time of the Emperor Maximinus. Miniature portraits of a husband and wife, painted on porcelain, in a gold frame, have been here twenty-five years. A tiny bell, made from the large bell of the burned Court-House in Chicago, lias a place, and so have a jair of wooden shoes, apparently No. 12. Then are ears of corn, a lump' of opium containing llj^'ounces oi the noxious drug; hair switches, locks of hair and valentines in abundance, minerals, bits of gold, a tremendous ox-horn, augers, and several bottles of water from the “ Miraculous Fountain of our Lady ot Lourdes.” But it would take too long to enumerate one-half ot tlie curiosities. The water ; ust mentioned was of course consigned at once to the dead-letter office, as there is a law prohibiting the transmission oi liquids by mail.

Wife-Beating in 1580.

In these wife-beating days, when there are so many disputes about the remedy for the evil, it may be of interest to reprint Thomas Lipton’s cure as practiced in the Island of Mauqsun (Nusquam); and reported by Omen (Nemo) in the dialogue between him and Sivquila (Aliuqvis) m 1580. This wife-beater is brought before the Judge, who, after reproaching him, proceeds thus: “And because thou ha 3 followed Christes saying and the Kings commandment so wel (which is, Doe as you woulde be done onto), it is meete to do vnto thee as thou has done. Therefore, I decree and judge here, that as thou baste vsed thy wife, so shalte thou be vsed, that is, thou shalte betyed faste to a poste, and fonre of the stoutest wyues that dwell next unto tbee, and aye most angrye wyth tliee for gyuiug suche euell example to their husbands to vse them so, shal beate tliee wyth foure good cudgelles, vntil thou be as well beaten as thou haste beaten thy wyfe. And theys shall be done immediately in my presence, for I will not departe hence vntil I see this, my judgment, fully executed.” And then presently there was a poste sette vppe purposely therefore, and the cruell bvsband was faste tyed thereto,, and foure of the said stowtest wiues came with strong cudgelles, by the Rulers commandment, and did beate him lustily, that he cried out again. And one of the wiues said to him: “ Sirra, Do as you would be done vnto,” and therewith reaclit him Such a blow, that made him to shrinke; another of them saide: “If strokes be good for your wyfe, they are good for you,” and then she gaue him such a stroke that she made hyssidaake; the tliirde woman (not forgetting her turne) spake not so lowe but that one might lieare hir saying: “Is it good beating?” and then she reached him suche a remnant that he had a cause to remember hir; and the fourth woman, for feare of forgetting, so swinged him about the shoulders that he conned her little thank, saying: “As you like this, my friend, beate your wyfe againe.” And when the Ruler saw that he was thoroughly and wel beaten, he caused Rim to be lewsed from the poste, andsaidevnto him: “ Now go your wayes home, and see that you suffer the rest of cure judgment to be performed vntil you haue learned what is the duetie of a husband, and howe to behaue to your wyfe, and vse your wife; and I truste you will remember this lesson : ‘Doe as you woulde be done vnto.'" And then the Ruler departed, the beaten man sorrowed, al husbands feared, and the wiues much rejoiced; and 1 neuer heard since that any man in our country . did beate his wyfe. —Notes and Queries.

The French Statue of Liberty.

I have already mentioned the idea put forth by a number of our French friends for erecting a colossal statue to Liberty upon Bedloe’s Island, in New York harbor, and have spoken briefly of the project presented by M. Bartholdi, the sculptor. His statue, now exhibited in plaster, is a fine one indeed, and has been universally approved. It represents the genius of Liberty as a female figure, neatly draped, and holding a lamp high above her head with the right hand. It is entitled La Liberie e'dairiant le Monde. The status itself 4s to be cast in bronze, and will be over 100 feet in height above the granite pedestal. The idea at the bottom of this tine project is to erect a grand monument in souvenir of the ancient alliance and friendship between France and the United States. The cost of this monument is to be paid by subscriptions opened in both countries, but France proposes to bear the larger share. It would seem from present appearances that very little money would have to be subscribed on the American side of the Atlantic, for the “Fran coAmerican Committee,” formed here for the purpose of carrying gut this work, will soon have funds enough to pay its entire cost.— Parit Cor. If. Y. Time*.