Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 May 1875 — Page 6

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOUEf £neh «l»y when the glow of sunset Fades l* the western sky,

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the wee ones, tired of pluylng, U»trlpplug lightly by, I steal away from my huabaml,

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Home in a belter land.

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faces fresh :tfm fair.

Alpnc in the dear «li homestead That once WBI ML! of life, l&nzlng with girlish laughter,

Kchoing with boyish strife,

We two are waitlu« together: And ott, as the xhiulown come, "With tremulous voice l«e call* me,

It la night:an* the ehildren homc?,^

Ven, love!" answer him gently, "They're all hum* long ago And I n*i ttg, in my quivering treble,

A «K»ng HO uoft ami low. Till the old man drop* ."lumber, With his h«ul upon his hand, And I tell to my*Hf the number

Home, where never insorrow s'*& StmJl dim their eyes with tears! Where the smile or Ood Lion them

Through all the summer years! know—yet iny arms are empty, That fondly folded seven, And the mother lu-art within ne

I* almowCHtarvi-d for .heaven.

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In tlu duxk of evening,

1 only shut my eyes, And the children ure al I about me,' A vUion from the skies The babes whom? dimpled flngurs

Uwt the way to my breast, And the beautiful one*, the atigeK jfuaseU to the world of the blessed.

With never a cloud upon them, I nee their radiant brows: My boys that I ave to freedom,—

The red nword scalffd their VOV. In a.tangled southern forest, Twin brothers, bold and brave, They fell and the flag they dlrd for,

Tnank Uod! floats over their grave.

ife breath, awl the vision is llfled Away on wings or light, Ami again we two are together, .Ml alone in the night. Jhey tell me hi.s mind is falling,

But ««ilie at idle fears lie is only back with the children, in the dear and peaceful years.

And still as the summer sunset

Fadesfiway In the west, Andtlvc wee ones, tired of playing,

CKtrooplng home to rest. My husband calls from his corner, "Say, love! have the children wine?' And I answer, with eyes uplifted,

Y«, dear! they are all at horns!

OTHER PEOPLES THOUGHTS RKV. MB. SHIMIAN, an Episcopal roc tor of Louisvilie, Ky., does not agree jrlth tho anti-stage fanatics. Ho thinks sgood play Is elevating, nnd a good nc tor i»aH respectableas anybody else who act* well.

MR. TAMIAOB says he never feels happy unless ho kocps tho devil stirred np a little. Considering tho efliect of his stirring the past winter, probably tho devil would say that ho never fools so happy as whon his Brother Talmage is stirring hiin up. It is delightful to think Bow the two happily oblige each other. —[Golden Age.'

Fliov. SWINO says that everybody should read the novel where woman decorate* the great truth of life but where the novel is tho simple history of love, nobody. And especially slisuld thorn read novels who tho most don't want to. They the most neod them and thore ought to bo a law requiring certain class of people to ie.id one novel a year—persons who through some uarfownoss of law or of medicine or of moreliandioe or, what is most probable, of theology, have been reduced to the condition of pools of water in August—stationary, sickly, wuin-covered, and Just a to

JUIKK I). S. WII.W, of Dubuquo who swHUitiy visited the court room of tho lirooklyu trial, say* as to tho verdict, there can bo llttl£ or no quostion what that will be. The same inltuonces alTect peoplo outside the jury box that will affect the jury to bringing in a similar verdict. Be*ides, tho jury sit there day after day, for mouth after mouth. Every day thoy see hundreds of friends cordially welcoming Heecher the vast majority of those that put in air appearance to the court room are warm and ardent fHends while Tiltoti, Moulton, and ono •r two partisans come In alone, and go out alone—snoak out as it were, with no word of welcome or maniteatation of aympathy from any one. tho Brooklyn scaudal The Goldeu Ay »ny?» "The feature of the case that make* th» nHiat painful impression is the Jkmrful uinount fabdrtcatlau it has drawn out.

Somebody Is guilty of an amount of perjury that is terrible to contemplate Tho original erimo, dark and disgusting as it U, is venial and trivial in com par iann with tho stupendous ilea under which it is buried In stygiau blackness out of right. No ftne-spun theory of ttaUucinalfon will explain away the H.Min iRtquity tliat one party or the other has Iteen guilty of, and which nothing short of a twenty years' incaroaratlon in the ixmUuntlary can begin to atom for to the cu»»mnnltv. This thing cannot be disposed of with a joke nor explained away by psychological disqulaiUoos on tho subtle connections of the whitish-grayish linui* with intellectual nnd moral iwtcefAiom. SacH &100, thin to burn and Is ^nly an offensive ttdor in the »c«tirils oC'dccettCy.', ,^iw../

Xhk Boston Cxivkiisallst evidently Utlnks human aoula of more importance lhaiihuman It says "Any person, man or v. who desires to enter our miliary, aud who to tbis end ,!tpi$c* with th«? vtablisi.«| rule*, ahouid be admitt-^U tho appUcant fai a wotnau, slie limwlf mn«t bo the judge whether

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ty of sex to prejudice her claim. That is a matter wholly loft to the judgment of the applicant. We will farther add, that we usually leave It with our ministers to fight their own ecclesiastical battles. We will not insult a woman by presuming that she is loo weak to defend herself."

DR. HOLLAND does not believe in wor shipping the Devil. He says in tho May Scribner: "We heard a sermon recently on the subject of irrational reverence. It was suggestive and stimulating, recalled to uS the fact that ono of the principal objects of American reverence is the Devil. There are multitudes who are shocked to hear bis name mentioned lightly, and who esteem such mention profanity. Wo believe we do no injustice to millions of American peoplo saying that they have a genuine rever ence for the being whom they believe bo tho grand source and supreme impersonation of all evil. Of course this respectful feeling has grown out of tho association of this being with religion, and is strong just in the proportion ths tho religion is irrational or superstition Xow wc confess to a lack of respect for the being who played our great grandmother a scurvy trick in the garden, and has always been the enemy of the hu man race and we have persistently' endeavored to bring him into contempt. It is harmful to the soul to entertain reverence for any being, real or imaginary, who is recognized to be wholly bad. That attitudo of the man which defies, rather than deprecates, is a healthy one. If we havo an incorrigible devil, who is not fit to live iA the socie ty of pure beings, let's hato him and do what we can to ruin his influence. Let us, at least,, do away with all irrational reverence for him and his name."

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WILL THE REPUBLIC STAND® Charles Ingersoll has recently published a philosophical treati.se, entitled "Fears for Democracy, regarded from an American standpoint," wherein the permanonce of our present system of government is discussed and some of tho dangers which threaten it pointed out. To some this may seem rather a chimerical and supererogatory piece of work. The republic has stood now for nearly a century, has grown from the feeblo confederation of 17*7 to a mighty empire, has survived a terrible civil war and is, apparently, on the highway to a grander and more prosperous future than oven the past has been. The American republic crumble and fall into fragments! Tho idea is preposterous. -There are those, wo say. who havo come to rogard tho question of free government as no longer an experiment the result of which is yet to become manifest, but as an established fact, proven beyond all need of further demonstration.

To those who have thought more profoundly on tho subjoct and havo studied tho history of former republics, the ultimata result in this country does not seem so clearly established. The truth is that our prosent system of government has always boon regarded by statesmen as an experiment. Tho men of tho Revolution regarded it as such. If wo turn back to the convention of 1787, wherein our national constitution had Its birth, and follow their discussions through those eventful days, we will see how dark aud uncertain the future appeared to them. It was with them a porplexing question to decide how much political power could bo entrusted to the people. Franklin said there was a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government and he was apprehensive that the government of these states might in the future end in a monarchy. Jetferson was afraid to make the President re-eligible lest he should become an officer for life. He said "Tho power of removing every fourth year by the rot© of the people 1B a powor which they will not exercise, and if they wore disposed to exercise it, they would not bo permitted. Tho king of Poland is removable every day by the Diet, but they never remove him." Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris and other leading spirits In the convention shared the same views*. There was a groat distrust of the people. When Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, rose to propose the eloctlon of the president by a popular vote, ho scarcely could summon courage to do it, "belug apprehensive that It might appear chimerical." His plan received two votes, those of Pennsylvania and Maryland, with eight against it, A number of times it was decided to have the President elected by Congttwa, but the subject was as often reconsidered and redisenssed. At length, alter the proposition to elect the chief executive officer in some manner by the people had been voted down emphatically eight never*! time*, the present method of election *ras agreed upon.

Nearly a hundred yeaw have passed sines then and he republic has prospered beyond the wildest expectation* •f it* most sanguine friend*, but handled years are not long etwrtigb to ?olro the problem of free government. The experiment has been sue..^v.:'.-.i eo flir but it la too soon to say that it is yet anything more than an experiment Certain it is that sign*Of akw»s have dlseioMd theuMOlven, tfcat 1 -re are symptoms ©f dangerous, If svc.4 ease in the body politic* It aln superilUOUH to point ttofi .it—they am so plain to all behold ruplion of politics, the stiu^!?

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energy of bad, the packing of caucuses and conventions, the power of rings, the dishonesty and chicanery of professional politicians, all these we have heard and seen so much of that they have ceased to impress tho masses as they impress studious and thoughtftil men. A suggestive paper was read by

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last week before the American Social Science Association at Detroit, on our political life, in wkich partial or possible cures fo«' some of these evils are put forward.

It has been wisely said that free government is founded on the virtue aud intelligence of tho people. What Ave most need to fear in this country is, not the want of intelligence and virtue in the peoplo, but their apathy. The theory of free government is that the people virtually govorn themselves. But

if the best and wisest of them refuse to exercise their power and allow the functions of government to fall into the hands of the base and ignorant Whenever or in so far as this happens the republic is in danger. It has happened often in this country. Industrious aud upright citizens aro busy about their private affairs while a few unscrupulous politicians, with a convention of their own choosing, nominate the men who are to be their rulers, and when election day comes they find themselves incapable of resistance. It has been said that tho American gives ten minutes a year to the service ot his country, (the length of time required to east his vote) and that if he would give only ten ho lire the people would be represented. There is virtue and intelligence enough in society to preserve purity in political life,

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tho caucus-room and tho convention. When it gets to the ballot-box tho mischief is frequently already done. This class of citizens do not realize ho fact that thoy are helping to sap the foundations of tho government by their apathy and negligence. But if they will reflect thoy will be driven to the conviction that they are committing a crime of no less magnitude. They aro in no certain measure, traitors to their country. If, sometime, the republic falls to pieces the politicians and bad men will be blamed for its destruction. The fact is, the responsibility will rest on the shoulders of the very best men but very worst citizens—the men who shirk their politieal duties. Free government will never be a failure so leng as the better class ot people tako part in its administration if they steadily refuse to do so they need not bo surprised if tho whole fabric comes rattling about their heads some day and Franklin's king sots up his throne upon its ruins. And it will be no more and no less than they deserve. ____s=_===== .v-'

People and Things.

Tho "Tilton picture-hanger," is a now invention. It is concedod that true backwardness is what ails tho spring.

Most peoplo who die of heart disease never dreamed they had it. Our forefathers who fought at Bunker's Ilill, wore muslin suspenders.

A new mind-reader has set up in Philadelphia where the work is Jight. The slander of some people is as great a rocommondation as the praise of others.

Be temperate in your diet. Our first parents ate themselves out of house and home.

Bashfulness is often like the plating on spoons—when it wears off it shows the brass.

Brown, the mind reader, has fathomed Terre Haute intellect, with bad results. [Ind. Herald.

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A man's virtues are always where'lie cau seo them his faults aro generally somewhere round the corner.

What time does a man arrive at tho depot when he gets thore ten minutes before tho train starts? Ten minutes to wait.

Georgo Alfred Townsend says Plymouth Church will sacrifice in various forms $200,000 for Mr. Beecher in this trial.

A humorous apothecary in Boston exposes a case of soap in his shop window with the pertinent inscription, "Cheaper than dirt."

When a stranger offers something fcr nothing, refuse his advances. Few peoplo are able to business that way and make a fortune.

Beecher note-paper is the latest style. It has a "ragged edge" and whatever is ritten on it means something else.— [Catsklll Recorder.

There are twenty-three men in a Turkish monastery who have not seen a woman since in fancy. What an item for Offenbach to work up.

A Mississippi man pats it thus:

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the earnest solicitation of those to whom owe money I have consented to became a candidate for county treasurer."

You know yourself that there is a certain period in every boy's life when he'd rather be the ring-master in a circus than President of the United States.— Detroit Free Press.

Julian Hawthorne, In his "Saxon Studies," says: "To be a thorough German cook requires only a callous oonadenee, cold heart, a confused bead, coarse hands and plenty of grease."

It bt said of the venerable Chartes Tampan, of Boston, who died lately at Washington, that when little boy in NorUiamptod he was playing one day in the street with a neighbor's son, and a sixpenny piece was found in the dost. y!i boys quarreled about the ownerof the coin but youngTappsn held

it, and the other boy gave in. Seventy years afterward he encountered his playmate, old and poor, in Pittsfleld, and paid him the sixpence with the accrued Interest.

The Schenectady father who has thirteen daughters says that he cannot afford to observe Sunday, and that if his girls insist upon an education, he will have to start a female seminary.

Out in Nebraska among tfco grasshopper sufferers a circus is advertised calling itself the "cirquoloogicalistameran," and victims stand around reading the bills by the hour, wond mg if the doorkeeper will take old clothes for an admission.

We read in the Bible, in the 13th chapter of 1st Samuel and 19th verse, that There was no Smith found throughout all the land of Israel." Of course not. All the Smiths were living in this country at that time, and they have wonderfully increased and multiplied since then.

A rustic youngster, being asked out to take tea with a friend, was admonished to praise tho eatables. Presently .the butter was passed to him, when he remarked, "Very nice butter—what there is of it," and observing a smile, ho added, and plenty of it—such as it is."

London has another new industry. A man advertises himself as "Knocker-up and window tickler from three to seven." Ho wakes heavy sleepers who wish to get up early. .Window tickling is waking without ringing the bells means of along pole, with which he taps on the window pane.

As an indication of tho advancement that science has made recently, it might be stated that a gentleman at ono of the city markets, tho other day, saw half a bushel of white turnips run through a cider mill, and half an hour thereafter noticed the same article, bottled, and on sale, and labeled "Pure Grated Horseradish."—[Boston Globe.

Feminitems.

Literary women live long. According to a London doctor, black eyes and deceit go together in women.

A New York lady is doing a brisk business in teaching ladies how to manage their trains gracefully.

The Cincinnati Gazette says that recently in that city fivetoomen spent two long hours in making a selection of one simple little straw bat.

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A Texas woman has learned to use the lasso so deftly that she can stand in the door and haul the hat off the lightningrod poddler while he is unfastening tho gate.

A woman, says Buckle, reaches her prime between thirty-fivo and forty for, though her beauty has then lost the charm of yputh, it has acquired that of expression.

A Virginia widow rides with a leg on either side of the horse. People used to stop and gaze at her before she killed John Cass, but now her mode of riding is uncommented on.

The ladles were requested not to wear bonnets at the Cincinnati Festival, and lots of them staid away because they had nothing but bonnets to wrtir—that is, nothing fashionable, you know.

A Boston landlord says that travelling ladies make it a point to steal the soap and towel from their rooms, and the only reason they don't take the bedsteads is because their trunks won't hold 'em.

Lewis remarks that most any woman can sit down gracefully In a street car, but not one in a hundred can descend from the back end of a buggy when the horse is running away without feeling that she's going to overdo the thing.

The latest wrinkle with the woman of fashion is that of having a model of her bust made, stuffed with wool and covered with cambric. This is deposited at her dressmaker's, and upon it her new dresses are fitted, saving the aforesaid woman of fashion all the arduous labor of "trying on," etc.

Women with hollow heads havo 1"6vived tho loathsome practice of wearing bits of court renter on their faces in order to show otf the complexion. As the complexion of such women is generally made up of powder and paint they should not be so vain over it. To us these bits of court plaster are always suggestive of festering sores which the possessor is desirous to hide.

The world narrowly escaped tho loss of a great protean actress the other night. Miss Katie Putnasn was unable to sleep while stopping at Paterson, N. J., and to remedy the difficulty saturated a handkerchief with chloroform and placed it over her nostrils. The dose was too strong, and it was with great difficulty that Katie was brought out of tbe stupor.

A recent witty n»vell*t makes one of his female characters return to wearing corsets after many unsuccessful experiment* in dress reform. He then says, with quiet humor, that it would soem that corsets and decorum are more closely allied than has been generally supposed for no one can be undignified when be or she cannot bend his or her book, or breathe three Inches below the chin while there is very little satisfaction in squeezing a lady's waist when all you squeeao tea combination of hard boards asd "stiff lacings." Tbeexprcsidon "stiff lacings" may be appropriate in this place, but had onr anthor lately clasped a lady who wore fashionable corsets be would have found that "hard boards" are now unknown. Tliey went oat with oar grand-rootbers, or rather with the adaptation of the very elastic steel now used to the making of "wrset

stoels." Notwithstanding these, and tho close alliance said to exist between corsets and decorum, the women who lace, or even button, their coisets tight can expect to leave nothing but physical, and, indeed, mental, inferiority as a heritage to their chiidron.

Troy has some plucky ladies. As tho wife of a well-known citizen was walking up Congress street Sunday night,*a loafer at the corner of Fifth street, said "Good evening." She replied promptly, "You must be mistaken, sir," when the ruffian raised his hand to strike her. In a moment the woman doubled her pretty little fist and gave tho fellow two sharp blows. He incontinently fled down Fifth street the lady after him. Reaching Ferry street, she cooled down a trifle, and rather abashed at her conduct under the excitement, quietly wended her way homo.

There is one thing for which Baltimore is celebrated. That is the number of her beautiful women. Ladies quite as handsome as tbe Baltimoreans can bo found in any city, but no city can boast of such a drift of elegant ladies. The favorite promeuado on any pleasant afternoon is crowded with lovely promeuaders. Cluster after cluster, squad after squad, drift by, and the lilies of the field, in all their variety and gaudiness, are not arrayed liko these. The dress is very decided, tho colors gay, and the mass dazzling. Tho complexion of the ladies is very fair, with a pink bloom peculiar to the English.

A Paris It ter gives this receipt for "dressing" a fashionable lady: Tako a young woman, and turn her once in a breadth of satin, twice in a gauze scarf, and threo times in a puff of tulle add twenty yards of flowery garlands wherewith to soason the whole. The dish is then trussed up, but has not yet sufficient dressing. Something hoavy in the shape of a train is needed. It may be made of matelasse, with raised flowers or of-brocade. Skewer it on well behind, aud garnish with gauze butterflies lace birds, or gilt beetles. Keep very warm at the base aud very cool at tho top. Remove tho dressing as much as possible from the upper part and pile it on below. Season with diamonds and serve up warm. .,

Commenting on the item going the rounds of the press, "There are fiftyseven women editing newspapers in this country," the Logansport Pharos says they aro. or ought to. bo, liappy. No man will so far forget what is due to the sex as to find fault with them. No long-haired poet will stop his paper because a lady refuses to publish his senseless twaddle. No ward politician, with more gab than brains, will curse her be cause he cannot dictate the policy of her paper. No well dressed loafer will approach her with an obscene joke and tell her sho is "more nice than wise" when she refuses to insult her readers by tho publication of the filthy trash. A woman who edits a newspaper escapes a world of petty annoyances that fall to tbe lot of a man who occupies the editorial chair.

Connubialities.

Great women do not usually make good vives and this may bo because their spouses make such wbrshipful husbands.

Mrs. Cobb of Illinois has loft her husband, because lie gets corned so often. Hesays, that 'tis becapse she wants him t©shell out too frequently.

It is but a little time now before Sheridan will havo to stay all alone with a nice young lady in lier teens, who will be Mrs. S. But he is not afraid.

Softly now the tender-hearted wife imparts to her searching husband the intelligence that sho sent bis linen clothes to the Kansas sufferers last winter.

Somebody asks tho Brooklyn Argus If Gov. Tilden wears a wig and the Argus says, with profonnd astonishment, "Why, the governor was never inarried."

The king of Ashanteo has enough wives to start a dozen female seminaries, besides keeping enough at home to do the marketing and split kindling wood.

In the grasshopper country, when a lightning-rod peddler marries a female book agent, the newpsapers call it a "brass wedding—if wo are not misinformed.

There is one good thing about oornfed husbands," said sister Perkins to Mrs. Quoggs the othor day. "You can shake 'em up as much as you like without making their bones rattle."

A widow was weeping bitterly at tho loss of her husband, and the parson tried to consolo her. "No,no," said she "let mo have my cry out, and then I shan't care anything more about it."

A Colorado man sold his wife for f300 the other day, and when explaining tho matter to his children, be said be ha tod to let the old woman go, but "?300 wasn't laying around loose like it used tO WaS."

There are times when all of a woman's self-possession and dignity are minimi. That is when she -shows her first baby, a bars^-lipped one, to an old bean,whom sue had jilted for the sake of her present husband.

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Wifely devotion reaches the subline in tbe ca& of Mrs. IUgnold, wife of the handsome New York actor. 8bo i* a good actren herself, but will not play for fear of interfering with tbe succeof her husband with bh lady auditors.

Yesterday noon aa a Sixth street man gging in his garden his wife appeaml at door and shonted, "Come, y**«j fr* —*oi#e in to dinner i*7 As

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pretty soon and yelled, "Hain't you. coming to dinner, you blasted—!" Shet saw a neighbor in the garden along with her husband, and finished, "—r-old darling, you!"—[Detroit Pross.

A married lady wa? complaining to a widow of her husband's cruel slanders upon her, when the widow grimly replied, "I've had throe husbands, and not one of 'em lives to say a word/ against me. Dead husbands tell no tales."

The Indians Nrat west have regular mating season in the spring when they do all their wooiRg, omitting such foolishness during the remainder pf the year. Could this practice but obtain among tho civilized world It would savo enough in clothes to pay off the national debt and complete tho Washingtonmonument by Centennial time.

The idea of making the human body more buoyant, and experiment* tend-v ing to the accomplishment of that re*(i suit, date a3 far back as the beginning of tho sixteenth century, but modern times are full of Instances to show that, whether this additional buoyancy is at-, tainable or not, there is nothing iike tho average mother-in-law to make a man bounce.

SAYS the Philadelphia Star, no sooner does business "begin to revivo than the leaders of the trades unions begin to put forth frosh offorts to Induce the workingmon to mako demands for higher wages. Tho result of following their advice would bo, without fail, a reaction most disastrous in its effects to all branches of local trade. The bitter experience tho workingmen have had in the numerous strikes of tho past two or three years should convince them of the folly of aoting upon such mlsohlevous counsel. Labor strikos are nearly always of questionable expediency at tho present time they are positively suicidal and the men who encourage them cannot be looked upon as friends of those in whose interests they profess to be acting. We are decidedly opposed to any attempt to coerce labor unions by legislation but if these associations are to bo employed in fomenting strife between labor and capital, and disarranging the whole industrial machinery of the country, it is time to warn working men who nave any rogard for their families against tho danger of allowing^ these societies to fall under tne control1 of men without either judgment or temper, leading their followers into endless trouble ana suffering.

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TO THE UNMUSICAL.

There Is no greater delusion than that of supposing that the best music can be enjoyed only by the "musical." Ordinary people can derive keen pleasure from a sympathetic listening to sreal music if tbey will but believe thatlhoy can, and so attend to it accordingly. There is no need of being baffled by a want of knowledge couoernlng keys, nor in Ignorance of modulation. Your neighbor may know that the air began in major, and then passed i^to minor, but yon can still get your own simpler pleasure out of it. What is it to ma what Titian's secret of color might have been. He had it, and that is enough for ono who cannot even draw.

Tho first rule In listoning to musio is —to listen. Wo do not want to arouse ourselves to a frenzy of delight, but we do want to hear what the music Is like. A very simple and very good rule for those who are perplexed by an orchestra, and who fancy they aro puzzled to know where the tune comes in is to listen to one instrument, tho violins, for instance, alone for a time. These will probably take up tho melody and sing it plainly enough, then tho movement may become more complicated and tho air seem to. have grown more florid, to be broken perhaps Into brilliant fragments, but hearkon!—tho viollncelll have taken it up, and over it floats this lovely and new strain of the violins, then the flutes catch tho melody, tho cornets and the bassoon swell the harmony, the drum makes Its rhythmic boats, tho whole orchestra is alive with tho theme, and before you know it you are in the very center of tho music, and what was before involved and intricate now becomes plain and beautiful.— [Home and Society, Scribner for April.

REASONABLE RELIGION. Itev. Mr. Fothingliam took possession recently of his new hall corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty third street. His. opening sermon was on Reasonable Religion. He said, among othor things, that there is nothing in which men aro so dishonest, so insincere, as in the great!. matter of religion. It is vast concern —practically the most Important to tho mass of mankind. Religion hero In Now York ia regarded as a fashlonablo appendage. Thousands profess creeds they do not believe, patronize Sunday charlatans because they triple their hearers, and go through a ervlce of chanting and bowing, when in their hearts tnero la notbhig. There is nothing more wounding to the truly religious mind than this careless contempt of this greatest of all human concerns. What Is it but to make God and Christ the chief decorators of "society TM Reasonable religion stands between the extremes of bigotry and unbelief, I quarrol with no mau's theology, and every man is welcome to his own. no theory of tho universe, so long as it is earnestly and consistently held. Is as much entitled to respect as another. If anybody feels that he is once to bo roasted in everlasting lire, he Is perfectly wel-. eome to his belief. Can we wonder that' people leave all theological and religious matters alone when you shut the gates to all inquiry, when a sect with no very attractive creed declares that everybody who does not accept will be damned. Through every prayer and sermon reverberate* the awful doctrine of human depravity still wo see in tho distance lighted the fires of hell. The? same intolerance, the some prejudice/ the same wild, aimless reading of tho SeriptuKJS that j«lways characterize re-' viva!#, the same denunciation of tho loftiest of reason and thought characterise tbe present revivals in tho Hippodrome. There is nothing more degrad-' ing, more offensive to the reasonable and tody religious mind than to soo this man Varle.v at the HippoJrome take «ut bis watch and give bis bearers five minutes to come to Jeans. Th« education of tho world demands constructive as well as destructive work. Hen-" sonable religion welcomes love, faith, hope, tbe immortal yearning of the soul* as useful aids to scientific ivtve- i-.rations for tho revelation of the trut It wcloomesevery noble purpose dasks for tho noity of faith, and only profwses to be ono of the £o-edncator» nlong with those who teach the higher i-Hication ot mankind, who pray a:' nr that the perfect w?1! of u*-1 i. u.noj'oiitarth a-. i- in

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