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~*X r,r^--^-* • $ iy.p ̂ -4/; x^ ; W>! ,S! ,̂*#!IPWS<WIPIW I. TAR niKK, Kriitw * f. V jtf 4 . ILLINOIS, TEE CBOICEim r ^ •" The old outlive the youn*; The sweetest sons is hushed ere it be --i||Vv ̂ Th» 'weliest boo," 1>< om/Otfht, " " " Is come to naaaht; The page of brightest promise falls unread: Oh, cruel jyt!" titiiaî , -J -At last -His soul flew back into the past. •Agiun, he railed above his i ~*s^* s^vaxv "of ^Jne , standing by tha cradle, *P*fy rn |©r 'This gift again I take Jr but a few swift year* *3 •'1,; 3$ -iuM m:, :m tm j iw !:*L '•m When Now choose!" the Presence said: " Since by the changeless, mthomltas RIL IIM. Thin bitter loss most be, . » ••.: Were it not better Ishould touch The child, and mar it, lest it grow to such. . As, Iosmul tbou wouldat moira too muciff „.j . . • Ti. •• vlli' "Or shall I crown it with my rarest crow#" • v Of glory, to bring down T , P jkdfiqMr^nihi when it faiw **>?*&#*<&<* Than common. shades ? -So wosldstthoa have-and miss--; Tubgreaterbliss!" fj * ^Nayr* cried Rsn Boa; "sinoe INaiwrnm7** .Bides but so little spm*. Keep back no gilt of treisnm manifold That heaven doth hold; Bit poor the brightnesn of all spheres Into my child's few years, That I may drink of joy's ftill mourn* : f • Though afterward I thfostf^ The vision fled. Bon Ezra WHS alone beside his dead; AAd, while aArofchhe grievedT r' ml ^ ̂ S*i §3* ••>1* ji A TEMPTATION. T F GFIORGE MILES sat at his desk in the *r ; i? «»ounting-room busily casting up the pmil columns of figures that lay before him. Ik .... , s? He had been discharged from Ms form- I#. f. er situation nearly a year before, owing I " to the pressure of the times; and for a ' long time could find no work until, for­ tunately, he obtained his present posi- !«*•; ion, which he had held for about three months. During his enforced idleness he had been obliged to run into debt ; j over fifty dollars, and, as his wages npw ; •*" barely paid his expenses, he saw no p.tl way to free himself from the incum­ brance. George was steady and in­ dustrious, and disliked extremely to feel under obligations to any one, con­ sequently the thought that he was in debt worried him continually. As he sat there at work the door opened and a little old man entered the room. "Good morning!" said George, cour­ teously, looking up. 44 Anything I can do for you?" 44 Is Mr. Osgood inP" inquired the visitor, in a thin, squeaking tone that •corresponded perfectly with his stature. , IV^Iy employer is "out of town this morning," replied the clerk; 4,Jjut I transact business in his absetoe»'fi» 'J* 44 Be you his bookkeeper?" 44 Yes, sir." 44 Could ye give me a receipt, s'posin' I was to pay ye some money I've been owin' him?" . 44 Certainly." 44 My name's the old man, as he walked up to the kMy name's Blair; Bill Blair," said V, monev d has •he note, and soon afte? left the store without once thinking to inquire' for what reason Blair had called. :As he passed along the street he chanced to meet Blair himself. * * \ '! 4fAh! How dtf yoti" dof* Mid the ttMirchant, pleaniitfyi "•* ! . 4* Pretty WelK" was the ieply. 441 feel better than I have for a year; for.I can look ye in the faee without feeli I'm owin' ye. Ye see, I got into machine-shop, an1 got wages, an' jesCas sdon as ^ enough saved, 1 says *> Nb< told ye I dropped in an1 paicl the money tikis morning r Ho gave me a receipt." The truth flashed over Mr, Osgood's mind. . Vl wa8 iC<i6 offi# only for a few moments, to-day," he said. 44 And Miles didn't speak of it. However, Fm glad we are straight onoe more.V The merchant wm in an unpleasant state of mind as he walked home. So his clerk had cheated him; coolly and deliberately swindled him out of fifty dollars! He could see the whole game now. In a day or two Miles would nave come in with a smiling face to his work, and say that he hew! ihduced Blair to pay the note. Scoundrel! And he had placed perfect confidence in him. Well, Miles could have the pleasure of giving up the money and losing his situation. Perhaps he thoqght it paid to cheat his employer; but possibly his views on that subject would be changed on the following day. Mr. Osgood was very indignant, and justly so. That, evening, while the merchant was vainly endeavoring to crowd* this affair from his mind, and trying to fix his attention on his paper, there came a ring at the door-bell, and shortly af­ ter the servant ushered the clerk inlo the presence of his employer. The lat­ ter, by a strong effort, controlled lijs feelings, and greeted him as pleasantly as he could, directing him to be seated, curious to know what had brought him there at that time. 44 Shall we be alpneP" asked the cle^k; soberly. -fu< f; . 44 Then, sir, I Wft here," said he, nervously. "• For about nine months before you engaged me I was out of employment, and after spending all my money was obliged to borrow money at different times, amounting in all to over fifty dollars, in order to get along. Since then, I have been able to Save very little, and the debt has been on my mind con­ stantly. I could not bear to be indebt­ ed to anyone, and I could see no means of paying it. This morning Mr. Blair came in and paid his note. This after­ noon I commenced to tell you of the fact, and was about to hand you the money, when you told me of his note« and how you aid not expect ever to be paid. Then you asked me what I would give for the note. I knew you meant it for a jest, but I was tempt­ ed. In an instant I saw how I could manage it, and I yielded. I bought the note of you, when I had the seventy- five dollars and a half in my pocket, that belonged to you by right! But when I was alone, and thought it all over, I began to realise what 1 had done. 441 think I never did anything delib­ erately mean or dishonest before, and I saw this was dishonest, for I had cheated you out of fifty dollars. I took out the money and counted it over; but it did not satisfy me. It came over me more and more that I could not keep it; that I must undo the wrong I had done; that the knowledge of having cheated you would be more unendurable than being in debt. It was to clear up the debt that I wanted the money. 44 Then I began to plan how to set the matter right. The idea came into my head to make over the note to you in the morning, pretending that 1 dared not risk my money on it; and in a day or two, give you your money as if it had just been paid. But I saw that such a course would lead me deeper and deeper into deceit, and after much un­ happy thinking, coucluded. to tell you the whole, as I have done. Of course I do not expect to remain in your employ any longer; and I cannot ask you for a recommendation; but it will be my own fault. Here is the money. Good night, sir, and good bye." And, fee- turned to­ ward the door. 44 Hold, George!" exclaimed Mr. pi- good. with some emotion. 44 Come back here and sit down. iTve got something to say to you." ' ; ( He obeyed, wondering. 44 You did wrong, George,'* continued his Employer, kindly, all lis resentment having vanished. "But I presume you would not have done so lutd I not unconsciously tempted you. You have given me the money and disclosed the whole affair, expecting to lose your sit­ uation and thereby your means of liv­ ing. The fact of your confessing it so soon strengthens my confidence in you. On my way home this afternoon I dis­ covered that the note had been paid to you, and had fully decided to discharge you in disgrace to-morrow, and should have done so had you not done as you have this evening." , Take your place in the counting-room as usual. Your salary shall toe made suf­ ficient for your needs." The clerk's heart was light again as he walked home The merchant kept his word; the increase of salary enabled George to pay his debt speedily. But he never desired to repeat the experi­ ment of appropriating another man's money for his own needs.--C. A. Big• i» Chicago SSajuUnrd^..- --Mr. Basingrbal (city merchant)-- 44 Most convenient! I can converse with Mrs. B. just as if I was in my own drawing-room. I'll tell her you are here." (Speaks through the telephone) 44 Dawdles is here--just come from Paris--looking so well--desires to be," etc., etc. 44 Now you take it and you'll hear her voice*distinctly." Dawdles-- 44Weally!" (Dawdles takes it.) The voice--44 For goodness sake, dear, don't bring that insufferable noodle home to dinner!"--Punch. --Mr. Caleb Cushing has received a fee of more than $100,000 for recover­ ing the estate of a Cuban which was seized by the Spanish Government, and another claim for $2,000,000 has been made, which, if established, will make Mr. Cushing a very rich man. FACRA AJQ> FI6CRES. MORE than 600 patents have been taken out in England for railroad car wheels. .MAINE had 500 divorces last year, an increase of 100 since 1874, ana about one to every twelve marriages. RICHMOND, Va., has sixty-six cigar and cigarette factories, which manufac­ ture 4,599,655 cigars and 28.4S7.900 cigarettes. THE receipts at the lSTew York Post- office during the quarter iending March 30 were$741,847.64; the disbursements, $202,995.52. SOMK temperance statistician has footed up 89,025 names which the la­ bors of Francis Murphy in New En­ gland Is ave put upon the ten»perance. pledges.- „ .... ,' IN Rhode Island there are 4,477 sin­ gle women who pay taxes, and their average property is $4,510 each. The largest amount on which any one of them is taxed is $756,700, owned by a Providence woman.1 * > DURING the last six months of 197? the importation into England of salmon in tins from the North Pacific coast amounted to 196,267 cases, or about 9,000 more than during the correspond­ ing period of 1876. THE Japanese are growing fonder of beef. In 1871 the number of cattle slaughtered in Tokio averaged only forty a month. In 1874 the monthly average was 400, which rose last year to nearly double that figure. ' 'ABOUT 19,000 families are till the list for assistance from the City of Boston, and draw from $2 to $8 per month each. The city expends for this purpose about $640,000, an average of about $85 to each family, and private charities prob­ ably disburse about as much more. AH acre of soil one foot deep con­ tains 4,000,000 pounds. An average acre of American soil, six inches deep, is estimated to contain 17,888 pounds potash, 12,500 pounds lime, 16,000 pounds magnesia, 6,000 pounds soda, 2,730 pounds sulphuric acid, 4,000 pounds phosphoric acid and 500 pounds chlorine. --Prairie Farmer, NOTWITHSTANDING the depression in trade, English railroads tell a much more "cheerful tale than ours. Only one of the fourteen principal companies has during the past half year suffered a positive reduction of gross revenue, while, on the other hand, one company obtained an expansion of $400,000, and as regards three others there were in­ creases exceeding $150,000 each. On the average, an increased dividend has been paid, notwithstanding an outlay of capital which raises that capital em­ ployed upon the construction of En­ glish railroads down to the 81st of December to about $2,800,000,000. THE Deutsche Zeitung guarantees the accuracy of the following particulars respecting the new situation in the Balkan Peninsula: Servia is to get 164 feographical square miles, containing 16,000 inhabitants, of whom 92,000 are Mussulmans. Montenegro is in creased by fifty-eight square miles, containing 45,000 inhabitants, includ­ ing 15,000 Mussulmans. The Do- brudscha, comprising 199 Square miles, $nd 194,000 inhabitants, of whom 100,000 are Mussulmans, is des­ tined for Roumania. The new Bulga­ rian State extends over 2,562 square miles, with 3,822,000 inhab­ itants, of whom 1,430,000 are Mussul­ mans. Turkey thus loses 2,938,000 square miles and 4.457,000 inhabitants. THE average population to each phy­ sician is. in the Uuited States, 600; En- fland, 1,672; France, 1,814; Austria, ,500; Germany, 3,000. So, then, with five times as many to dose us with drugs as our German friends, we are able to do about half the work. We hear of German students who study eighteen hours a day. Their Teutonic blood may be too tonic for us, but we are sure that Americans are not living out half their days--not half the period that they would live if living slower. Why, even the animals that we domes­ ticate, like the horse and dog, only live a dozen or twenty years, while crows and their ilk live a century, and the eagle 500 years, according to Tacitus. To renew oar youth like the isagle's we ate to go back to more primitive simplicity. 44 Modern conveniences" are other words for disease and death. ,Our food, attire and employments all invite disease.--^'Church Union. Ae Glanced hastily at the bull, then owed against the cage as if she de- fllrva to escape. The bull, evidently de­ sirous of completing his victory, again charged the unfortunate 44 queen," toss­ ed her still higher, and, as she fell, gored her almost to death. She was hors de combat, and the bull.iiot hav­ ing received a scratch, was l4 out qf the arena. The lioness will die. A LitU* on Yentllatiaft. 'i t Beligioaa. PRATEB TOiI CHRISTIAN UNION. A Ball's Fight With a Lloaett. A RECENT fight between a lioness and a bull, in San Antonio, Tex., if thus de­ scribed in a dispatch to the New York Herald : At four o'clock this afternoon, a hand­ some, well-built Texan bull, with stout, short horns, was turned into a large iron cage prepared for the occasion. Soon after four o'clock a lioness was let into the cage with the bull. She was full grown, but evidently old and 'emaci­ ated. Several years ago she killed her keeper, and by her appearance one would imagine she has been continual­ ly punished ever since. A small allow­ ance of food and a good deal of the iron rod seems to have been her lot. People accustomed to the pretty, sleek, well-fed animals in the zoological de- ftartment of Central P$rk would have ooked with disdain upon this heroine, if such a title can be given her. At first she seemed lame, but the limp appears to have been temporary only. On entering the cage she sprang upon the bull, almost leaping over him. This was evidently in play, as she did not at­ tempt to bite or scratch him. This first round was watched with breathless si­ lence; but the crowd became disgusted when the animals separated ana can­ tered off in opposite directions. After a few minutes of quiet fun the bull be­ gan to watch the antics of his opponent as she rushed aiound the cage, and he charged at her furiously several times, She managed to escape him each time, however, for about five minutes. At length the bull made an extraor­ dinary charge, and, catching the lion­ ess on his horns, tossed her about six feet in the air, then, inclining his hgad a little, he caught her again on his horns as she came down, twirled her about in the air, and flung her some twenty feet away from him. The lion­ ess fell to the ground like a log, and lay motionless for about half a minute. She was stunned. When she recovered _ mi NTILATE your school-houses or dis­ pense with them entirely. Far better torsise your children in ignorance and pCwth, wi&ik to drag a delicate body and poisoned system through the matay hard struggles and difficulties that are gen* erally to be overcome through life. Do not think us too radical on this point, but look and see for yourselves. There are none but know that fresh pure air is necessary to sustain life, and five- sixths of our school-houses, etc., are built without the least attention being given to ventilation, and every one that is so neglected is foul and poisonous as a swamp. Children come home withi headaches, or cannot learn or do not want to go to school. No wonder, when they an compelled to breathe over and over again the foul and poi­ sonous breaths of forty, perhaps fifty, others who are subject to the same slow but sure poisoning process. Let lis demonstrate it by figures, and see if we con verify what we have said; each cliijid poisons seven cubic feet of air per minute; now, suppose a school-room to be 24x35 and 14-foot ceiling, it will con­ tain 11,760 cubic feet, which forty scholars will poison in forty-two min­ utes. » The tender child that sits and reads, and perhaps cannot learn its lesson, and stupefies and pines, droops and yields, day by day, to the atmospheric foe, and as it loses its first start of life its lungs play freely, its blood cir­ culates more slowly, its chest contracts, its limbs dwindle away, its digestion is disordered, and unless it has a power­ ful constitution, must surely die. Dr. Hiller, Secretary of the Metro­ politan Medical Association, says: 44 In consequence of the ill-ventilated school- houses in London, 7,000 children, be­ tween the ages of five and fifteen, lose their lives annually." Henry Ward Beecher says: 44 More children lose their lives by ill-ventilated school­ rooms than from any other -cause."-- Exchange. " That than aU MAY bt one."--JOHN, One Cross ugbtsap this ml* of * «,!!. th^saints of God. , Withtbose that Rased from Tnbor's brfefcL ul love nmte our throne; •ur '4 Japs •nly," fill oar sight, And echo m our somr. °fiTM? nt2£°iU'* WM beas dman, wEen growing near The Throne we meet at Fade earthly shrines, and altera fair, 4 And names, and temples old, If̂ Jjord, Ihoa wiltibut claim us than,, i And count as m Thy fold. ' Reign in our hearts. Ttoa Lamb Divin*! _ And alike as one in Tbee, of This*, . ' Bbmo; wi^haUth Thy jrlqnous facte to Wi Carton, in N. Y. Etmlnf Pott. |A HMM-ltale Telephone, f I NOTICED a recipe for making a' cheap telephone, given by Prof. Bar­ rett in a recent lecture on that instru­ ment. In making his instrument you use a bar magnet, and have to go to considerable trouble, for all of which you can only talk a distance of about a hundred yards. Now I can give a recipe much more simple, and when the instrument is finished you can con­ verse at a distance of nearly 500 yards. Take two half-gallon (or quart) tin fruit cans and take the bottoms out of them. Now take a couple of half cigar boxes, tack down the lids and cut a hole through the bottom and lid of each, so you can fit in your cans, first bring­ ing the ends level with the lid or bot­ tom. Now stretch wetrawhide, parch­ ment or bladder over the other end, and tie tight and let it dry, and your speaking tubes are finished. Now take two-ply of shoe thread and wax it well, making it as long as you wish it. Punch a hole in the center of the parch­ ment head, poke the end of the string through ana put a knot on it to keep it from pulling back. Then put up your string like a telegraph wire, but don't let it touch wood. Where you wish to support it or make a turn, run it through a loup of the same kind of string it is, but don't put the support­ ing loups closer together than is neces­ sary to keep it up, and leave the string pretty loose to allow for contraction when wet. Fasten tip yohr speaking tubes at each end of the route, and you are ready to gabble away. You can bore large gimlet holes in your window sash to run the lines out through, keep­ ing it from touching the sash with a lonp as described. The signal call is to drum on the parchment end of the can with your fingers, or, better, pick the string like a harp about a foot from the head. They are very useful and inter­ esting.--J. N. Huston, in Detroit Free Press. Staday-Sclioftl LesMttts SECOND QU&BTKfi, 1878. April Hfc-The Kechabites Jeremiah 95:13-19, May 5 -The G^pthitj o£ Ja- dah Jeremiah 82: 1-1L May 12--The Captives is Bab- y --v" v y D,tnit'11 W-May 19 -Dream of Nebnohnd- nessar Daniel 2:36-45. May 26 --The Fiery Furnace.... Daniel 8:21-37, Jnnc 2--The Haadwriiiug «n the Wall .... June Daniel in the Liaali Den .Time 16--Messiah's Kingdom . . June 23--The Decree ot Oyruf»..2 Ohron. 36:22-23. June HQ--Review of the Lemons for the Quarter StObemooJh R antnuy, 1790, a victim to . to im oitaiii tlii in ttT!rfenffluS!Sn&ff tian charity. In St. Daniel 8:22^1. " Who is on the Lard's Side?" The lai from Jackson. HE was pretty tight when brought in, but yet he knew what the blotter was, and refused to give any name. " Puz me down as zhe man fm Shackson," was all the reply he would make, and when he came before the Court he was greeted with: "You man from Jackson ought to be ashamed to come here and get yourself into our House of Correction when you have a great bi^ State Prison at home!" t: Judge, it is blessed to forgive,'1 earnestly replied the prisoner. " But this isn't a case of elopement^ bank defalcation, or any such senti­ mental thing, sir. It was a case of drunkenness--not a hilarious birth-day festiyal, but a stupid guzzle. You poured down a lot of whisky, waited for it to take effect, and then carefully lay down on the sidewalk and expected to draw a crowd and become a hero." " Judge, let me go." " I can't!" '• Judge,listen to me! 'Ian penni­ less and far from home, fm the worse for a clean shirt, and my hair needs combing. But, Judge, the day may come when I'll be a railroad conduct­ or. wear a diamond cross, have a neck-tie for every day in the week, and run the Pacific Express between De­ troit and Chicago. You may come aboard of my train, bound to Chicago to see your mother-in-law sign her will in your favor and then die. A wall-eyed young man may pick your Focket of money and ticket, and when come along gathering up the paste­ boards you will be dished. I will look down into your benign countenance, pull down my vest, and instead of dropping you off in Wildcat Marsh, I'll give two beds in the best Pullman and Elay the harp while you sleep. Do you ear me, Judge?" " Man from Jackson, it wasn't a bad caseot drunkenness--you can go!" soft­ ly whispered the Court, and he slid.-- Detroit Free Press. MEN are supposed to know, or to be able to find out, whether or not they are on the Lord's side. The question implies as much. There are various tests which we can apply that yrill set­ tle the question for us very soon. Take it in matters of every-day life, in business, in buying, Belling, winning the prizes of life, there is a side which is " the Lord'8 side." Do you ask, What is it? It is the side of honesty and integrity and truth: the side that gives a man an equivalent for his money; that has but one price for the article at the same time; that puts six­ ty minutes into an hour's work, and sixteen ounces into the pound, and thir­ ty-six inches into the yard, and four peoks into the bushel, and 100 cents into a dollar; that doesn't put sand in sugar, nor pease in coffee; the side that is per­ pendicular against all the tricks and sharp practices, the lies of utterance and the lies of silence; a business which lays its course like a vessel along the meridian of right, in the teeth of all winds, and hokls to it, blow they high or blow they low; that is the side which God is on, 41 the Lord's side." Perhaps you have thought that the Lord has no side, except in matters purely religious; that the whole realm of business and our wordly affairs gen­ erally lie quite outside his cognizance; that God comes into our families at the hour of prayer, meets us in our closets, goes with us to church, and then virtu­ ally retires from us. A greater mis­ take could not possibly be made. God is as much interested in vour business as in your worship, and he looks it through with as keen an eye. You are making character a great deal faster in your shop, and office, and store, than you do in church, because men usually put a great deal more energy and lire into their business than they do into their worship. All those powers whose exercise goes to make character, to de­ termine and decide destiny, are put by most men to a far higher tension in the places of business than in the place of worship. There is more soul-saving and soul- losing done on those streets and in those places where men congregate to do business, than in all our churches. That is my belief. The Lord's side in our business af­ fairs is averjr definite and clear-cut side. --Jtev. 8. Graves, in Chicago Standard. Paul s is a monument to Sir John Moore, of whom Charles Wolfe has sung: " Net a dram was heard, not a funeral n«te. O er the stave whete oux hero w*s buried." Here Is also a monument to the mem­ ory of the youthful Bishop Heber, whose life on earth suddenly ended on "ifedisfr ratal strand." but a grander monument id his great > missionary hymn-- K " Fix>m Greenland's icy monnfcains.** In the crypt beneath the body of the s#ichurch lie the remains of the mens whose monuments are above. Thefe, chief objects of interest are the tombs of Nelson and Wellington. Hie first is If of black marble, the latter of polished # porphyry ' \ A magnificent dome 150 feel ill diam-- eter rises from the intersectffni of the nave and transept. Encircling the lower part of the dome is the "whis­ pering Gallery," so called from the § fact that the softest whisper is heard at | the distance of 150 feet. From thia point, there is a splendid view of the in- side of the church and dome. As you J look down, the men and women appear i like mere pigmies on the floor below. I From the " Golden Gallery" at the * apex of the dome, you have a grand e bird's-eye view of London. Above this 1 is the " Lantern," from which we I cliinb by ladder to the " ball," the P highest accessible point in the building. , It is six feet in diameter and capable of | holding eight persons. This -ball is surmounted by a cross thirty feet high. In the southwest tower is the great bell, measuring ten feet in diameter • and weighing over 10,000 pounds. This | bell is tolled only on the death of some . member of the royal family, oi; the Lord Mayor or the Bishop of* London or the Dean of the Cathedral.--Sep. 8. '•< JfcMPW, in Troy (N. Y) Times. , , ' wmmmmmmmmmmmmimmm I i 1 ^ Safety In Business Bales. * ». A Sketch of St. Paul's, London., THAT sacred pile, so vast, so high " ' That whether 'tis a part of earth or sky ' ' Unoertain 8©eai9» and may be thought a proud Aspiring mountain, or descending' cloud. ' St. PaaFs Cathedral, London, En- fhtnd, is the largest edifice devoted to rotestant worship in the world. Its vast dimensions, great height and commanding position make it the most conspicuous building in London. It is built in the form of a Greek cross, and covers over two acres of ground. It will hold 25,000 persons at onoe. Its length is 500 feet, its general width 180 feet, width at the transept 282 feet, and height to the summit of the dome 400 feet. It is said there has been a church on this site since the sixth cen­ tury. The ancient Gothic Cathedral which stood on the same spot was de­ stroyed in the great fire of 1666. The present building was commenced in 1675, during the reign of William and Mary, and completed In 1701, under the reign of -'fgocid Queen Anne," at a cost of nearly $7,000,000. The vast amount was raised by a tax on the coal brought into London. • During the whole thirty-five years of its construc­ tion it was under the direction of that celebrated architect, Sir Christopher Wren. This fact explains the follow­ ing inscription placed over the entrance to the choir: " Beneath lies Sir Christo­ pher Wren, the architect of this church and city. Reader, do you ask for his monument? Look around." The walls of this church are covered with memorials of illustrious men in the -history of England. Prominent among these monuments is one to the memory of Wellington, the Iron Duke, England's greatestchieiftain, and anotkr er to Lora Melrose, the great naval hero. Lord Cornwallis has a statue here reminding us of Yorktown. An­ other monument bears the name of Dr. Johnson, the great lexicographer. The monument to the philanthropist How­ ard, whose whole life and immense fortune was devoted to the cause of suf­ fering, bears the following noble inscrip- tlThi* extraordinary maoWl the fortune to be hononed, while Imng. m the nmnufv which hw virtue* deserved. .Hei received the thanks of both Houses of the British and Irish Parliament* for his eminent services tendered t > hw country and to mankind. Hi» modesty alone defeaUd variouB effort* which were made during his lite 10 erect this statue, which the public has now consecrated He was born at Hi.ckney, in the COMMENTING on the reoent Bugbee defalcation, the Boston Advertiser says: W " It appears that it was known some |s| years ago that the Western Mr. Bugbee was speculating, and he was at that < time taken to task and obliged to promise to refrain from outside opera- §|| tions in the future. But he did not keep his word, and has now ruined the house for which he was a trusted agent." From the first it has seemed very surprising in this matter that the Boston firm should have allowed the operations at the Indianapolis end of the line to run so long without olose scrutiny. It is useless to lock the door after the horse is stolen, but it does not seem to have been good business man­ agement in the Boston firm to have per­ mitted "the Western Mr. Bugbee v to carry on his large operations year after year without requiring regular balance sheets, or making such examination of his accounts as would have discovered the fraud he was perpetrating. To say that they had implicit confidence In him is no sufficient reply. Even implicit confidence does not justify the suspen­ sion of or departure from sound business rules, the strict enforcement of which conduces to the safety of all parties. This view receives additional emphasis from the statement quoted above that it was known some years ago that Mr. Bugbee was speculating, and that he WB was warned to desist from "outside operations." If this means, as it - -- doubtless does, that he was using the credit and funds of the firm in outside operations, that circumstance should have put them on their guard at once. They had no right to have implicit con­ fidence in him after that, if they had before. Implicit confidence is all very well and very beautiful within certain limits, but in matters of business there" should be a strict adherence to business rules. Many a man has yielded to temptation and become a defaulter or embezzler through the removal of these , restrictions. Implicit confidence and ( a long immunity from close exami­ nation has led many an agent into crime, who would have been saved by a strict adherence to business rules. This Is not said in any spirit of apology for Bugbee's crime, which admits of no palliation whatever, but in vindication of a general business prinwpte*-W«- dianapolis Journal. Extravagant Habits of Californiums* CALIFORNIANS are proverbially ex­ travagant, whether male or female. They seem to care little or nothing for money other than supplying their im­ mediate needs. This extravaganoe is one of the evils of the early flush times. A man of bibulant propensities who has only four bits in his pocket and does not know, and, parenthetically I might say, does not care, where the next half dollar is coming from, will invite a party up to a bar and spend it all for one round of drinks. Women never think of asking the tradesman to take off anything in the price of the article they are purchasing, butpay just what he asks for the article. Thousands and thousands of dollars are squandered by the extravagant habits of the people here. They pay whatever is asked and spend as they go, without regard for the morrow. Whatever they want they buy, regardless of the cost, and not Stopping to ask whether they can afford it or not. In living and dressing these extravagant habits are manifest. If the fashionables of Nob Hill in this dtjr wear $500 dresses on the street the , woman in the humbler walks of social ! life feels herself as amply able to put the month's earnings of her husband on her back, and she does not begrudge it either. And so with the men. Tne best of everything, and everything they want, they must have and will have uf it takes the last piece of coin. There are thousands of dollars fwhich Cali- fornians are swindled out of in the mak­ ing of change. The difficulty here in making the exact change, owing to the kind of currency in use, produces one of the grossest impositions I ever saw • practiced. You cannot buv an article but what you are bound to be swindled. Californians, ho#ever, never complain or think anything about it, and the rich and the poor are alike in this respect. to hi& ait:monf. He was t>orii iiitciniey, in tiwî r.-,, M _i C^V of Middlesex. Bepi. 2, IT*. He exp radl Boston Joumat.