Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 274, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 May 1876 — Page 2
lic ^vetting (j^asette.
international Sunday School Lesson for Sunday, May 7th 1876.
Orthodox Oddities and Calandar.
20.
Church
Tonic for Sunday School Lesson "The Power of Jesus' Name."
12. And when Peter saw it he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or whv look ye f-e earnestly on us, as though by our own power of holiness we had made this man "to walk 13 The Goti of Abraham and of Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when lie was determined to let him go. 14. But ye denied the IIolv One and the Just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. 15. And killed ^the Prince of Life,whom God hath raised from the dead •whereof we are witnesses. 16. Aad his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know yea. the faith •which is by him hath given him his perfect soundness in the presence of vou all. 17. And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance you did it, at did also your rulers. iS. But those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should sutler, he hath so fulfilled. 19. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that vour sins may be blotted out, •when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
22. For Moses said truly unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God rise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23. And it shall come to pass that every soul which shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people. 24. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise fore told of these days. 2v Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abrahnm, And 111 thy seed shall all the kingdoms of the eaith be blessed. 26. Unto you first, God having raised up his Soul Jesus, sent him tobless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.—Acts in., 12-26.
THE SCENE.
After
the apostles entered the temple enclosure for afternoon prayers. The noise of the jniracle soon spread among the excited *nd talkative people. A couple commenced talking upon a porch ot the temple others came and soon there was a crowd.
A MARVELOUS MODESTY.
Verse 12: Seeing this assembly, perhaps overhearing some enthusiast lauding Hie act as an evidence of great power in the apostles, Peter joins the company and enters the conversation. He is noticeable for three things.
1.
le
docs
not repress their surprise
at the result. We ought not only to approve but add if possible to the impression which the world has of some wonderful revivals or conversions. 2. He turns their attention and admiration from himself and John. Profitable lesson for ministers and teachers. We are alwavs naturally apt to draw on ourselves
rather
thandivert attention when we
have been instrumental in saving a soul, reviving a church, etc. 3. lie disavowed that power and piety 11 himself and fellow-apostle had done anything. It is not the eloquence or grace of the instrument, but the efficacy of the holy spirit of Christ.
CUTTING CONTRAST.
Verses 13-15: "We did not, but God slid heal the man for the glory of his son Jesus, whom ye spurned and slew. The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob vou believe in. To that God this Jesus of Nazareth appealed, and said that he would raise him up. Now, we are the unimpeachable witnesses that he did raise him up. Our entire movement started in the belief and parsuasion that Christ has risen and gone to glory, and given his holy spirit upon us all
And this faith God has honored by healing the man, whom you sec is healed and whom we onrsclves know was not healed by anything there is in us. Such is the honor ane glory which God has given Jesus. I11 contrast you arrested (delivered) him. You denied him. You per sccutcd and rejected him, when even a heathen Pilate" would have let him go. You aggavated this preferring a murder er to the Prince of Life, who had brought life and immortality to light. Moreover, vou killed him. The adorable Son of
God died by your bloody hands. A I'ROFOUXB FACT. Verse 16: The name of Christ stands for all there is in Christ, and all there is belonging to Christ. Mother stands for all there is in motherhood. Brother stands for all the embodied ideas in brotherhood. Advocate represents great undertakings and pleas, and excites hopes of acquittal" in the indicted. Jesus stands or salvation from sin. The name ot jesus involves all there is in his loving s©ul, suffering on the cross and prayers •n the throne. "The faith which is by him*' the faith which is given by him to us. He.helps man's unbelief. He dis poses the heart and presents the evidences so that we believe unto the saving the soul. "Through faith in his name," Jb the exercise of the l'aith which he jjires. He gives it, we exercise it, and
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are saved by holding on to Jesus' name, that is, to Jesus himself. A mil lionaire writes a cheek, signs his name and gives a poor man the check. The poor man depends upon that signature He presents it, receives the money, and goes free of debt. There are unfathomed inines of umvasting wealth in this verse.
CONCILIATORY CONCESSION.
Verses 17-18. That witness for God who most fearlessly tells the truth you will always find most free from personal boast of merit and most ready to class himself with sinners us "brethren." Peter poured out the hot points and proofs that consumed and cut their hearts. Then he turned kindly and said: '"I am a brother with you," 1. We are all Jews together in that we are brethren. 2. We are all children of the covenant together. 3. I, like you, denied this same Jesus. "We are "all brethren together. assume neither superiority nor sanctity. Let us all imitate Peter.
SOLEMN SUMMONS: REP::NT! Verse
19:
ncai
And he shall send Jesus Christ,
which before was preached unto you all. 21. Whom the heavens must receive, until tht time of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the world be-
healing the cripple, both he and
If you sinned through ig
norance that sin will be forgiven, it you now repent. Change your minds. Yield to the proofs before you and profess Christ. Wilful sin must bring certain woe, if men persist. If they will not confess and quit and turn they must burn. But away with your oppositions and arguments against Christ, Confess his claims and class yuorself with his 'followers, and you are safe, Your sins will, be blotted out. A great commentator and.preacher of England used to have a pet saying: "So important is the doctrine and duty of repentance that if I die in the pulpit hope to be preaching repentance and if I die out of the pulpit I hope to die practicing repentance," The apostles being believed, we expect the sublime, abundant and glorious results of Jesus' death and reign, at that future day—it may be distant, it may be
-—Avlien "he shall come to be glorified in his saints/' DISSOLVING VIEWS IN PROPHECY.
Verses 22-24: I Iere is a passage which ought of itself,and without aid from many others, forever to make it foolish for men to say that the Old and New Testaments are two books. They are one and inseparable. This passage unites all the Bible as the arterial and venous systems do the body. Moses spoke of Christ: Moses pictured Christ Moses pronounced a curse on those who should reject Christ Moses gave Christ his place as the author of divine authority. Take your marginal Bibles and run out the parallel passages, and see how wonderfully this passage blends the whole Bible, and makes Moses and Christ concurrent and complete.
The Old Testament is commonly divided into the five books which Moses wrote, the first five: the poetical books, and the prophets. Here Peter proclaims it with impulsive eloquence that all the prophets and all who came after them spoke of Christ. Jesus Christ shines as fully through all revelation as the sun does through the solar system.
SALVATION OFFERK.7J.
Verses 25-26: This Christ of both Testaments 'saves the people of old times and all times those in the covenant of Abraham and those listening in Solomon's porch, and every sinner who will accept him. He came to save. This was the meaning of his mission, to bless us and turn us from sin.
DOTS.
1. The spirit of Jesus, whether in apostles or us, will prompt us to confer all the praise on his power and precious grace, and none 011 our preaching or teaching. 2. Sins committed in ignorance are not a whit less destructive than others. And their consequences on ourselves are the same as sins of presumption, except we repent. 3. Always think and speak and handle the holy name of Jesus as if you had his beating"heart and divine head and. sympathizing hand in yours.' 4. Dedicate your life to the duty of 1 epenting. That is in getting away from all unholy and unloving and unchristlike ideas and associations, and getting nearer to Jesus as a personal and present Savior. 5. Stimulate your strength by praying for and expecting the second coming of Christ.
Othodox Odities.
Tbe new church at Worcester, Massachusetts, is to be called not-er-dam. Eqsuimaux theologians reverse heaven and hell, placing the penitent and saved in sheltered world underground, and keeping the sinners above, where they are frozen.
Said a Brooklin school miss to her companion the other day: "O, join our church! There isn't a man or a woman in it that there isn't some gossip or scandal about."
An Illinois, preacher says the Detroit Free Press, who believed "that fire insurance was defying the Lord, is now living in a barn until his congregation can find him another house.
A Southern bookbinder bound up eighteen dime novels between Bible covers, and a preacher carried the book seven miles under his arm to read some consolnr passages to his dying woman.
Tlfe Rev. Dr. Blackie. of Edinburg says that the modern sermon "is like toddv made of one tenth whisky and ninetenths water." Brother Blackies idea ot toddy is correct, at last.
In the old record book of a Connecticut church, dated 1702. is this item: "for making a noise in church, Ann Bolton, spinster, is to sit three days in the poor pew, and pay a fine offive shilings.
ual.
During a recent revival excitement the° outskirts of this country, request was made for all who desired the prayers of the church to rise. A shaggy old miner, burning with a desire to do his part, arose, and putting his hand down into his buckskin, meekly ^inquired, "How much will it bee boss''— Canon City (Col.) Avalanche.
'Eliza"
said a clergyman to one of his
parishioners, whom he saw with her hair in curling papers, "if God had designed vour hair to curl he would have curlea it or you." "He did, sir, when I was a ohild," was the reply "but He thinks now I am old enough to do it myself."
A traveler overtaking an old Presbyterian minister, whose niag was much fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman upon his "turn out." "A nice horse yours, doctor, very valuable beast that-but what makes him wag his tail so, doctor?" "Why, as you have asked
mE
Iwill tell
you. It is for the same reason that your tongue wags so-a sort of a natural weakness.."
Ittakesalong time to finish a new building in Toledo. A man up there advertises: "To clergy nan—Ministers of the Gospel desiring a reliable type of eternity for illustrating their sermons will
THE TERRE HAUTE EVENING GAZETTE
please call at my new building, now in course of completion (?). This is r.ot a rare opportunity, but it is a good one.
A veteran spinster of South Brooklyn remarkable for her taciturnity, created a good deal of surprise last Sunday by pausing in the lobby of the church after services and chatting and laughing qnite gaily with the retiring members of the congregation. It was subsequently ,ascertainsd that she had just come into possession of a new set of teeth.
"I expect a big jam to-night," remarked the proprietor of a Missouri circus to a Leavenworth native. "For why d'Ae think so?" asked the native. "Why, you see there's been a revival meetin' goin on here to-day and I alius find that folks sighs for the cuckus after that more'n ever.
One warm, bright Sabbath afternoon in June, what hallowed thoughts arise at the spectacle of hundreds of pious Yankees emerging from the American Chapel in Paris, jumping tnto their carages, and driving out to the races at the Bios deBoulogne. "They may sneer at Moody and Sankey's ways "if they want to," said a thoughtful housewife who once lived in the country, "but that hippodrome business, where two men do all the work, is a good thing, but they must be immense in proportion to the evangelical consumption of spring chickens."
It is said that the recent shower of flesh in Bath county, Kv., has provoked quite a religious revival among the colored population there, They seat themselves about in little groups, with their faces turned upward, as if the heavens were full of mutton chops and sing
Kum set vere, hungrav niggali, Kum set ye re on the groun', De Lawd he am a gwine
To frow de vittals eown.
Norman McLeod was once preaching in a district in Ayrs'nide, where the reading of a sermon is regarded as the greatest fault of which the minister can be guilev. When the congregation dispersed ail old woman, enthusiastically, said to her neighbor. "Did ye ever hear ony thiivsae gran'? Wasna that a sermpn?"
But all her expressions of admiration being met by a stolid glance she shouted: "Speak, woman! wasna that a sermon?" 'Oh, ay," rcplyed her friend, skulkilv, ut read it."" "Read it," said said the ,But other, with indignant emphasis cared if he had whustled it.
"I widna
Church Calendar.
CHRISTIAN CIIAPEL—G. P. Peal, pastor. Services at 11 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Morning subject, "The good Shepherd evening subject, "The morning and evenof life." Sunday school at 9:30 W. 13. Wharton, Superintendent.
RELIGIOUS NOTICE—Rev. W. M. Darwoodwill preach at the County Asylum at 3 o'clock on Sabbath afternoon, weather permitting.
PLYMOUTH CHAPEL—A meeting is called by the trustees of Plymouth Chaple, for Monday evening, May 7th, to be held at the parlors of the Congregational Church. Business of importance demand attendance 011 the part of its friends.
TERRE HAUTE MISSION.—Quarterly meeting at St. Agnes. Sermon 011 Saturday evening at /}. P.M., and preaching on Sabbath morning and evening bv the presiding elder,Rev. J. W. Greene. Love feast, .Sunday morning at
9
o'clock.
Sabbath School at 2}. P. M. Preaching at Mont Rose on Sabbath evening. ASUURY CHAPEL—Sabbath is children's dav in this church. Preaching at the morning hour to the young. In the evening the Sabbath school gives a concert. Singing by the choir, and performances by the children. Wm. Graham, pastor.
Pubjcct at Baptist church morning, "GlorifyingGod evening, "Our Sodom. Services at xi A. M. and p• M- C. R. Henderson, pastor.
CENTENARY M. E. CHURCH—W. M. Darwood, pastor. Services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Evening subject, "That Rich Fool."
Services in the Congregational church to-morrow morning a.ndjeveninj._as
^Vis
Rev. E. F. Howe, pastor.
Personal Paragraphs.
Thurlow Weed objects to having his name written T. Weed. He says it recalls the absent one.
Dom Pedro does not wear Brazilian pebbles, for he has a couple of capital II.'s of his own.
Schuyler Colfax doesn't want to go to congress again. The fox generaly keeps away from the henroost where he was once caught.
Anna Dicken? says she is going to do a good thing for the stage. Is it possidle that Anna has determined not to become an actress, after all?
Grant is a medium-at least he is frequently under the control of spirits and this may account for his strange nightly visits to Mr. Biggins' bedside.
The Londoners wo*ld like to know, you know, whether the Iiempress took John Brown's body with her on her trip to the Continent.
President Prado, of Peru, is in New York and his "little black-and-tan" has got the Peruvian bark.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has got a tame crocodile that will stand up on its tail, and stone ©ranges oft" of a tree. She has named it Shearman, because it occasionly goes off in tears.
They have been flinging mud at some of the Presidential candidates, but they threw a Little Rock at Blaine.
Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina^ is highly indignant at the charge that he was corrupt while in office. O temper! O Moses!
Brigham Young's centennial family thought it was Gabriel's trump that sounded when they heard the blast of the powder-explosion at Salt Lake.
Of course it wil do no mere good to call attention to the fact than in the cases of the other fellows, but Capt. Jack'6 grave is sadley neglected and he hasn't got'any monument.
Zach Chandler says he dosen't care a continental whether Alaska is in his de partment or not, but he is going to keep an eye out for any iniquitous fooling with the green seal fisheries.
The temperance presidential candidate still terrains mysteriously -in the back groiini. Can it be possible-that since the indisposition of Dio Lewis, from an overfeed of bran, the backbone of this powerful party is broken?
Currency.
A matt :r of interest—a coupon.
Ill-gotten gains—DoctorY fees.
A saloon-keeper in this city, readirg that geraniums will kaep off snakes, is dec orating his bar with them.
Trousers obtained on credit are breech cs of trust.
There is one thing that don't mird pinching, and that is snuff.
The silver is going around, but it goes too fast for some of us to catch it.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" What the city owes the lamp-lighters. "Sir, you have broken your promise. "O never mind. lean make another just as good.'-
Policemen's favorite"' vegetable—Short beats.
Pickpockets gather crowds only to dispurse them. Linnen parasols to {jmatch accompany mady of the new cambric costums.
The woman of work sweeps everything before her the woman of fashion sweep everything behind her.
Dog collars of silver and ether mettle, also of shells, are worn with low necked corsages as well as with high ones.
the
travelling make what you ther in a inven
There is economy i: fast mail trains. You eat go a great deal length of time.
The night the South Carolina legisla ture adjourned nearly every property holder in Columbia sat up till daybreak in company with a dark-lantern 'and shot-gun.
"A Roman lictor," said Bates, whose historical information comes by detail 011
the fly, "a Roman lictor Well, I s'pose she deserved it. No one but the Roman knows."
One of the Danbury school committee men, a man of strong republican tendencies, took occasion, in a recent address to the children, to mention the lion as president of beasts.
"Pawnbrokers, "says an exchange. "I will advance nothing 0:1 a temperance pledge." Avid yet they know that the longer they keep such a pledge the richer they grow.
It must be awful for a man to be a stranger in a strange house, with a chew of tobacco in his mout'.i and no spittoon in sight.
In a saloon ire, the other night, some of the Whisky-Ringsters were singing "We may be happy vet," when a bystander remarked "They may be—Jol•et." 1
Here is a model verdict of a coroner's jury "We do believe, alter due inquiries, and according to our best knowledge, that we do not know how, when and where said infant came to its death."
This is the season for planting gardens. It is also the season for revenge. Many a man has avenged injuries which blood could not
Avipe
out, by keeping a
few energetic hens after his neighbor has laid out his vegetable garden. The young ladies of LaGrange, Georgia female college have unanimously resolved to wear no kind of dresses but calico at their next commencement.
A bonnet with ample crown and close ears has been imported for old ladies, who have reason to complain of late that no provision was made for them.
There is a great deal of bunching up1 puckering looping shirring and turbclowing in the new spring costumes. The wander is how the ladies ever manage to et into them, and once in, how they dare sit down. '.The jaunty or English barmaid style of arrainging the hair seems to be-revivsed.
The tresses are built up on a cushion high on the wright side, and a cobweb of hair falling carlessly over the eyes. The whole arrangement is perceptibly earless
Selected Sharps-
Last week a jury in Carrol County, Ga., brought in the following verdict "We the jury, agree to disagree." The judge fined them $5 each.
Josh Billings says "The mewl is a larger burd"than
the.
guse or
turkev.
It
has two legs to walk with, and two more to kick with, and it wears its wings on the side of its head."
A Franklin(Ky.) man lately took a live bee into his mouth along with some honey. He then reflected—"Chew bee or not chew bee, that is the question"— here his tongue happened to touch the hot end of the aggressive insect, and he decided negatively.
An exchange remarks that "one drawback to having money is, that everybody wants to know what you are going to do with it." We have observed this ourself they usually wan! to know about the first of the month, and have an unpleasant way of coming around and sitting on your front steps mornings if yoi} don't tell them.—[Norwich Bulletin.]
A Cincinnatian, who had purchased an oil painting at a private sale, called in an artist to consult him as to how he should han°- it. The artist looked at it long and curiously, and then said "I wouldn ham* it, if I were you." "Wouldn't hang it! Why not "Because the sentiment of the age is rather against capital punishment. I would commute it's sentence to solitary imprisonment for life
A few years ago, the State's Attorney of a northern county in Vermont, although a man of great legal ability, was very'fbnd of the bottle. On one occasion an Important criminal case was called on by the clerk, but the Attorney, with owllike gravity, kept his chair. "Mr. Attorney, is the State ready to proceed?" said the Judge. "Yas—hie—no—your Honor," stammered the lawyer "the State is not—in a state to try this case today the State,'your Honor, is—drunk
Alearned disciple of Confu cius, from inside the Great Wall, who has a cheaplabor laundry sign on State street, has been victimized by a "Melican man"who sold hhn an.
autograph
the
letter from ex-
Treasurer Spinner for a good sum by representing it to be a letter from the Emperor of China creating the heathen a Mandarin with two swords. .Where the King of the Sandwich Islands was entertained at a concert, he was asked what instrument be prefered. His Majesty frankly confessed he liked
drums better than any other, instrument in the orchestra. A young author, offering a five*ac^ tragedy to a manager, described his work, thug: "My play is a master-piece
VIGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
It3 May Keating at the House of 0. B. Weir.
Discussion of a Variety of Horticultural Questions.
The May meeting at the country residence of D. B. Weir, Esq., five miles south of the city, was largely attended, full sixty being in attendance, and was of a very interesting and profitable character in all its exercises.
It will not be considered inappropriate, I hope, to premise this report of the meeting, with a few words having reference to Esquire Weir's residence, and horticultural improvements. A substantial two-story house good architectural ap pearance, painted white commodious in size, situated upon a slightly elevated mound, surrounded with a variety of fruit trees and forest trees, having a beautiful-
Noticing quite a long string of plank curbing to a walk, just before entering the ground, I could not refrain from asking the Esquire if our City Council had ordered it with a view.to ordinancing him into the city. Considering the erratic character of the total City Council, it would not be very strange to find their foot prints along the bank of Honey creek. It is now hoped that Col. Dowling will arrest the further advance of plank curbing into the country. This digression ought to be pardonable.
The reports were unusually good. The first was made upon the small fruits, bv llanev Esq., and it was favorable to all kinds, though a light frost on the morning of the 3d nipped the first blosoms of the strawberry, thereby putting off their appearance in our market a little later.
Mrs. R. W. Thompson read a very elab orate report on flowers, going through the list quite generally,
Mr. f. O. Jones Esq., reported on the larger "fruits, all safe, promising a bountiful supply, and calling for profound gratitude "to the giver of such blessings.
His report -was of so practical and useful a character, that it -was voted promptly to have it published. Our industrious and successful gardner Schultz Esq., made a report on vegetables, in the line of which he is no amateur. He suggested that some who had set out their early tomatoes, found the frost of the morning of the third, a little sharper than they were. Next came the essays. Mrs, James Modesett, read an essay on landscape gardening, and discoursed eloquently on this branch of horticultural art, mingling with it, the female sex, considering them as too fragile, delicate and distinct, to be included in mans sphere of labor and politics. The President, II, D. Scott, Esq., read a report on meteorology showing the average of temperature for February, March, and April in this locality. March was 8-0 colder than February, but April gave us an avarage of ^273—and very favorable for fruit, and the advance of spring growths.
Mrs. J, O. Jones read a paper on cooking, informing the society that the art had a very ancient beginning and was practiced by some nations in a more epicurean style than at the present day. It called forth general applause. Mrs. C. W. Bin-baur reported her /.experience with the society microscope, telling what curious revelations it made. 1 her, of insects, worms and vermin, which find their habitation in flowers, plants, etc., but which can not be seen with the naked eve. It is a curious fact she said, that the"pestiferous little mosquito, is him self annoyed and bitten by a still smaller iusect." ...
The postponed question. "How can the horticultural condition of Terre Ilaute and vicinity be improved" was taken up and discussed by many of the members with great earnestness, all arguing that much more can be done to improve the citv and county, than have been done. In order that yards, embellished with evergreens, flowers and lawns sidewalks, improved with brick pavements and a- border of nice grass that the high ways may be relieved o, much necessary and expensive fencing and that all may be safe, permanent and beautiful, it was argued very forcibly that the cattle and hogs must be prohibited by statute laws, from running at large.
A proposition was read from the Young Men,s Christian Association, inviting°the society to co-operate with them in a strawberry festival, for the purpose of raising a fund with which to purchase on organ for the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. A motion in favor of that object was made by'Mrs, Jos. Gilbert, and carried.
The committee appointed to report the question of offering by the society some special premiums on articles to be exibited at the next Agricultural fair, reported in favor of offering the following: Best 5 variety of pears $4-9° grapes 10 "apples sample of jellies •, butter collection of cut flowers
4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00
but it
Some did not favor the report, was adopted by a fair majority. The question propounded and accepted for discussion at the Jun® meeting, is as follows:
What shall be, or what ought to be the
course
of instruction and managment
of the Purdue University?" Essayists for that meetiug, Mr. C. M. Barbour, Mrs. Soule, Mr. Wier and H. Potter
The place of meeting, the residence of Col, R. W. Thompson. I must here insert an omission.
In the midst of the discussion a call
was
made to discuss the dinner. Tables for sixty could not well be provided, but only a few were compelled to wait, and they found that their predecessors were entirely inadequate to the task of consuming such a bountiful repast.
At no time of late, has the society been so well represented, all the officers, and
nearly
every member heing present. Adjourned. ..... P.
How They Feed in Desmoins, Iowa [Prof. R. A. Prodtorin in the EnglishGentleman.] sovn }?crso.n.in1t.he"arb
of
gentleman
from his display of rings and breast .,1™' bis tea shoud be 1 1
('rown,or
wcarv, or perhaps st in
flated by the presence of "a stranger lhg !i°
Whlle
awa-v
the time
bv sucking
the blade of his break-fast-knife/preparinS as it were for action. Presently he plunged into the sugar basin.and licked of the sugar thus secued. He next tried with the same knife some cream which stood in a gob.et tor general use. After this he alternated betwen the sugar and the cream using his knife blade steadily, some five 'fdisappering within his lip sat each enoi t.
I
Iv shaded avenue through a large front lot to the front door with other adom- frequent use of knives other than the butter ments of shrubbery and flowers, it is in knife: but after than first look I avoided order to say that Mr. and Mrs. Weir have given practical proof of their horticultural taste and refinement. What they have done, was the best argument advanced upon the question discussed as to what can be done to improve the horticultural interests of Terre Ilaute and vicinity. It is proper to say further that a true and courtly hospitality was extended to all, our horses included.
here was a combination of hor
rors about the entire process, enhanced by a peculiar elbow play which seems charasteristic of Western feeding. In fact most Americans out here seem all elbows and wrists when eating, just as when sitting they seem all boots. To-day I observed at the railway breakfast that the pohgonal outline ot an original round piece ot butter was more abundantly decci .ited \\ithgra\v, yolk ofegg, fragments oi vegetable, and so forth, than is customaiy in civilized regions, suggestinji the
urdier research. I am therefore unable to describe the actualv knife practice which took place on this occasion. On the whole I shall not be sorry to find mvself in St, Louis and Chicago again, where any tendendency toward beastilalitv is restrained by the sence of the majority. At anv rtte, nothing like what I have described is ever to bd seen in those parts of either citv where men do "most congregate." I would not have it supqosed that such offences are common in the West, but I should think that a community oi" civilized beings should so treat such offences as to make impossible. The fault is not the result of mere ignorance—it is a willful offence gainst decency.
President Lincoln.
Lincoln's dress was as natural to him as his simplichity of character. His dress was of plain and cheap material, and he seemed to have no conciousncss as to whether his clothes fitted him or not. His mind was never
011
that subject. The horse he used
to drive on the circuit an honest old fellow was about like him, and his buggy always held together, but there was nothing to spare. Both were institutions of the circuit and all the lawyers knew "Old Tom" as well as his owner. One time at the De Witt court, only a few years before he became president, inthe absence of the judge he sat upon the bench and tried a case by agreement, the suit was against one of the best farmers in the country and was by a merchant for a suit of clothes sold to the farmers miner son which the old gentleman refused to pay for. because boughht without authority. The law question was whether the suit of clothes, which cost altogether $2S, was a species of extravagance or was suited to the young man.s condition in life, after hearing the evdence, Lincoln as a judge hearing the case as he was without a jury decided that the bill was extraragant, adding "I have very rarely in my life had a suit that cost
$2S."
When he went to
Washington he dressed as carfully as any man in that position, he was always neat in his person, his clothes fitted him well he shaved every morning and was always presentable, but all this is to the credit of a faithfull servant of the White House, who shaved him every morning and who always saw to it that the President was in order, and never would let him gooutunless in proper shape.
Once I was in his room at the White House when he was just going to the Capitol to remain there during the last hours of the session in the Presidnet,s official room, to sign bills at thejast moment. He was about to start when the servant said "?.Tr. President you must change your clothes before going." "What's the reason, said Lincoln, rather cross and impatient "what's the reason these clothes are not good enough?" looking down to his suit. Why said the servant."you must wear your dress suit and coat, for your appearance in the Presidents rdom of the Capitol is official." Lincoln protested and ridiculed the idea, but the the colored gentleman stuck to him and captured him. Don,t understand that Lincoln was ever shabby or slovenly in apperancc he was not, he was simply indiferent to the style, cut and quality of his clothing. He was just as well pleased with good clothing as poor and seemingly after he got to Washington took to it kindly: Prior to his going to Washington, he had saved up from his practice about
$20,000.
this was simplv
savings, as I dont think he ever made a trade for the purpose of gain in his life. While in Washington the same economy followed him, andwhile things at the White House were always genteel and good enough, he saved during his four years, term more than half of his salary,— Lenard Sweet.
Anecdotes of Actors and Authors. Lord Faulkner, the author of the play called "The Marriage Night," was chosen while very young to sit in Parliament, and when he was first elected some of the members opposed his admission, urging that he had not "sown his wild oats." "Then," he replied, "it will be the best way to sow them in the House, where thero are so many geese to pick them up."
Actors frequently find it difficult to remember their parts after a "long run." When "The Beggards' Opera" had been played in London seventy odd times (a great event in those days), Walder, the orignal Capt. Macbeath," one night forgot the text. "Hallo!" cried Rich, "your memory ought to be good by this time." •'My memorys good enough," growled Walder, "but you can't expect it to last forever.'
Mrs. Siddons was once very much pleased with a young actor who played "Norval" to her "Lady Randolph but she told him that much as his talants had impressed her, "he was too little to become a great actor." The prediction was falsified, for the little "Norval" becamc the great Kean.
Norristown Herald: Prof. Irndall was married on •the 2d inst. And now he will know what's the "matter," and some night when he comes home late after hunting new planets, and finds Mrsi Tvndall in tears, and getting ready to go over to have a talk with her mother, the Professor will have an opportuaity t« test hip "prayer gauge."
Warys for spring are both sa« *c ani mantle shapes.