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A HLUT Otr. HMr ' • iirtti Ijejalk ag», N^rus is now crowded with far to A«aeito«n». by ,*he i»to novelist* tord Lrttoa. ia Alt incomparable work, "TN Last Days of Pompeii." Eighteen hundred years ago the city was foil of life, Jfearly 90,000 people jjromenadetl its streets, and It »M a fcene of Rbtrian luxury and voluptuous- $ess. Its situation on the sea made It 4 moat fashionable place of resort for Ihfl wealthy Romans and t.hft Emperor jplaudius had his pleasure house there ind the neat orator Cioero anattlBte. ft was nlewiae a commercial seaport, and a lively traffic was carried on by its pendants. But in August, A. D. 79, Vesuvius belched forth a mass of burn­ ing lava, ashes, cinders, hot water 2nd lud, and the town was totally buried, inoe that period other eruptions lum leaped up more volcanic matter w the te of the city, and lor nearly seven- n centuries Pompeii remained dead the world. About ICO years ago die n tombed city was JheofH«d, Mid im- fnediste action was taken to excavate *s much of the ruins as possible. The work ha» been going steadily on, |>ut ndtmore than on»»hafi of the city Jjias yet been exhumed, Still, many res have been dug over and miles of tt have been brought to the light of >y. The buried portion is still cov- red with tons upon tons of stones, lushes, cinders and hardened mud to a Xlepth of from ten to twenty feet Above phe tops of the houses. Over this are Itwo feet of rich soil, which is exceed­ ingly productive and covered with Jtree*. The exhumed portion of the ttitylies open to the bright sun, and is Somewhat slightly elevated above the Jlevel of the surrounding country. This |bity is now a perfect picture of a Ro- city 2,000 years ago. The streets, lavements, temples, images, theaters, „ Iwellings, columns, household gods, Ibaths, arches, fountains, forums, shops of various trades, musical instruments, .Weapons of war, implements of labor, *tatarble and bronze statues, mosaics, Jfrescoes and drawings, dining-rooms, -feed-rooms and kitchens, with their ap­ propriate furniture; food for the hungry iand medicine for the sick; glassware, ;fpases and pottery; gems, medals and Jboins and fruits, flowers and shrubs lare all seen as they were on the terri­ ble night when the city, was doomed to 1* sudden destruction. The streets are narrow, some not more than eight feet across, but are straight and regular. The avement is composed of large flat itones or blocks of lava, ahd the deep /K^ruts cut in them by the Roman chariots 1^ |||are clearly perceptible. At the cross- V lings are large stepping-stones for the ; nise of pedestrians so as to keep their Ifeet from the mud. Everything in the Istreets was silent and death-like; there 3were no human beings in the houses, hio promenaders in the streets; all were ^deserted. The dwelling-houses are Jgenerally small mid one-storied; they . Jare built of stone and brick, plastered ;-ti8|pn the outside with mortar. An open Icourt is in the center, and the different irooms are arranged around in the l jOrienlal style. Most of the roofs are ' ^destroyed, having been crushed down >Jby the weight of the ashes. In the din­ ing-rooms the tables are of stone, and are covered with petrified food. eds~ and couches ace in the sleeping- oms. In one of the kitchens wis found a wtjnitin the skillet, and a stew-pan >ntaming a small pig for roasting, all repared eighteen hundred years ago. fjMany beautiful mosaics were found on fjthe floors, and elegant frescoes on the jwalls, and they Took as bright and ffjfresh as if they had only been finished la few years. The frescoes, pictufes, mosaics and sculptures, and even jew­ elry discovered in some of the houses fallow a terrible depravity in morals. .?in the "House of the Vestals" upon 4the door is still the word "Salve," ^welcome. A mosaic with the repre­ sentation of a fierce dog, with the in­ scription, "Cave Canem," • bewareof the dog, is near the threshold of the House of thefI Tragic Poet.*' " In the streets are many shops which tatill 'have tlie si^ns over the doorways. -i|In one there is some marble partly '§ sculptured, with the artist's tools lying around; in another, medicines and J|.#4irgical instruments; in a third, a iiznarble counter with stone liquor jars behind it, and the stains made by the wet glasses on the counter prove that Sethis was a drinking saloon. Then there Slis an eating-house Meats and deli- acies are on the counter; fire-places to ;eep the soups and messes warm are etill in the room. The same building contains a grist mill and a bakery. In the baker's shop a batch of loaves was 1 found which had been in the oven since *4the 24th of August, A. D. 79. The mill m: ' Was turned by horse power. *. The various temples that have been -exhumed contain idols made of marble, silver and gold. The Temple of Isis is eighty-four feet long and seventy-five feet broad. The ashes of victims were found on its altars. The skeietoii of a priest, sitting at a table on which was spread a meal, is here, while near the II . 'i door was another priest holding in his H -«g«kelet©» hand a hatchet, with which he || j had tried to cut his way out of the It temple. Three hundred skeletons were vl discovered in the Temple of Juno all j | crowded together and buried beneath If' the ashes. At the very hour of their *4 destruction the priestess 'was offering sacrifice to the queen of the gods. The v.- forum occupies the central portion of sir' *7/ -the city. On each side are rows of , •*"• •• -columns and long porticoes which show r «outline of this spot. Pedestals on . formerly stood famous statues V "IP --are dotted here and there. The public ^ meetings were held in the forum, and a ' notice of such a meeting called for the very night when the city was detroyed. ; The amphitheater, which is about , half a mile from the present excava- ip "V: tions, is in a splendid state of preserva- IM. : tion. It is built of stone, is in the T .form of the Colosseum at Rome, and / ., was used for the gladiatorial shows. It ' -i is 430 feet long by S95 feet wide. The • ' atone steps seat 15,000 ^eotators. , 9 Placards with the announcement *- ** -r- t»be seen on the wall*. Thh doon, seats, #Ki(triiines andoavecfiirthe wild animals are as perfeot as they were 2,000 years ago. The "Villa of Diomede," so called because a tomb bearing that name was found near bv, aad for this reason it was supposed to ha?a belonged to & Ittomem, is the one that has been ren­ dered famous by Bulwer ̂ description of it It stands lust outride the **Mer- culaneum Gate,1' had the supposed owner was dlseoverad in his gaiden, witih a bunch el Iceys and a purse well filled with gold and rihrpr coin in his hands. In the cellar of Diomede's house, huddled together In a corner, were found eighteen skeletons, mostly sftp|K»6d to have Wu mem- bers of the family. All were encased in hardened mud and ashes. One was an infant, whose form still clung to the bony boeom of its mother. Some of the nooms had rings and bracelets en­ circling their skeleton fingers and wrists and gold 'ornaments on their neeiks. Over 600 human skeletons have already been exhumed; but for­ tunately most of the inhabitants man­ aged to escape, having heeded the warning of the burning mountain. On­ ly the bones remain of the victims, the flesh having mostly perished, but now and then a little tuft of moldy hair has been found clinging to the skull. The positions of the bones in every possible form of contortion all indicate a violent death, one of agony and suffering. A miser was found grasping a bag of gold in his bony hand. In one room a family group embracing each other in death, in another the bones of dancing girls mingled with the broken instruments of music, can be seen. In another place the skeleton of a cook at his place near the stove in the kitchen. One house contained bones scattered about bearing marks of being gnawed, while near by lay the skeleton of a dog, showing that the brute had survived and eaten his mas­ ter. Here is a company of young and old, fleeing to the sea; there there- mains of a mother vainly trying to shelter her three little children from the fiery storm. Outside one of the gates in his sentry-box stands a Roman soldier, in complete armor, with the key of the city gate in his hand. After standing faithfully at his post for seven- teen centuries, he was discovered " clad in rusty armor, the helmet on his empty skull, and the spear in his body fingers. In the 'city prison, not far distant, were found the prisoners, some with ."thfeir feet made fast in the stocks."--Gor. St. LouiS Post, r; ' The Drama Before Shakespeare's Hay. BEFORE the invention of printing, few people among the lower classes could read; and therefore, when, in a little town, it was announced that a representation of certain parts of Scripture history would be gpven, the people eagerly nocked to see it. These representations were known by different names -- •' mysteries,1' " miracles plays," "moralities," etc.-- and frequently clergymen themselves took part. Sometimes a herald or crier would go through the town giving notice when and where and how the performance was to take place; if it rained, they waited till the next fine day, for the play was usually given in the open air, a sort of platform being erected for the players, who were fre­ quently obliged, on coming before the audience, to explain who they were; for, of course, at that early day, there could be no theatrical scenery, or what are now known as "stage accessories" to help them. Fancy yourself sitting on one of those rough benches in a village street crowded with people on Henry the Seventh's day. All eyes are eager­ ly strained towards the little platform; the figure of an old man appears; there is so little in his dress or manner to in­ dicate who he is, that either he him­ self, or the person stationed just below for that purpose, has to announce that he is Moses, or Pharoah, or Herod as the case may be. He goes through certain performances, the other char­ acters joining iii m they are needed to tell his story. Meanwhile the specta­ tor has to use all his mind to rouse his imagination ™nil fill up the picture. Certain wooden figures were always kept by tho performers in these "mj's- teries, as well as in the pageants, and played an important part in the spec­ tacle. It took very little to produce an effect upon these willing audiences; for example, a huge wooden monster with an enormous mouth signified 4t lieilf and a favorite character in these early performances, whether play or pa­ geant, was "the devil," who was often represented piling up fire in the mouth of the monster. There is a curious old account book which records the ex­ penses of a certain pageant; and among other items, " twelve shillings paid to the devil for keeping up hell-tyre." The inn-yards, both in London and the country, were the usual places for these performances, being well adapted for the purpose, or the double rows of galleries of the inn formed, on three sides, a sort of balcony for the more ex­ clusive spectators, while the humbler classes occupied rough benches in the paved court below, at one end of which a rude platform was erected, curtains were hung about it, and all was ready for the play, with little trouble or ex­ pense. Young boys followed the players and joined m heir companies to perform the female parts in the drama, for no women appeared upon the stage in En­ gland until a century later. About the middle of Queen Eliza­ beth's reign the first theater was erecU ed, at Blackfriars, in the neighborhood of an old monastery from which it took its name. The cheaper seat* were not at first covered by a roof, so that the people who sat in them were sometimes drenched with rate while witnessing a performance. The fine gentlemen of the court and the rich tradespeople were given seats upon the stage, or rushes and mats to lounge upon.-- Wide~Atoake for May. A SIGNIFICANT fact in the statistics of Paris trade is that common masks are made in that city at the rate of 1,000,000 a year, 8,000 hands being engaged in the manufacture. Somk of your elder renters may r#» member that several yenp'ago a worn* *n calling herself Mm*. fRjtfhel, who had long carried <m iB l«ado& the business of making liml " beatftlfUl forever" by means of applying to their faces certain washes ana povirn, was convicted of fraud and "seat mp" lor five years. It now appears that Eaehel --"which her real name is Leverson" --had served out her sentence, and had again gone into business i& Duhe atgr**, Grosvenor Square, whet* she opened * perfumer's shop and annouheed henfelf as " Arabian Perfumer to the Queen." Attracted by this imposing title, lira. Cecilia Maria Pearse, wife of a wvil-fcf dc stock-trchcr, cnc ds,v v»!kad into lime. Rachel's shop, apd thus took the first step in a paw which led her to much trouble, and which finally brought her into the Central Criminal Court, at the Old Bailey, as a wttness.againtt Mme. Rachel, on an indictiHent charg­ ing that person with obtaining from her two necklaces and other articles of jewelry with intent to defraud. Mrs. resrsc, who testified that she was "twenty-three years of age and the daughter of Signer Mario," bought " some tooth-powder" and' " some vio­ let-powder;" and finally Rachel showed her a bottle containing *'a wash" which "came from the East," and which would "keep the skin in a healthy state." It was expensive, £1 per bottle; and several bottles would be necessary to thoroughly beautify the complexion. Mrs. Pearse, on a second visit, bought £4 worth of this magical preparation, but on hearing Rachel call it " enamel­ ing," she became alarmed and said she would not take it. "Nonsense," cried Rachel, "they all do it! You know Lady Dudley, don't you, the most beautiful woman in England P She has used my wash from a child, and 1 am now finishing her with this process. I will finish you in the same way, if you like; you shall be as beautiful as Lady Dudley, and my fee is only i,G00 guineas." Mrs. Pearse felt herself strongly tempted, but she did not yield at once, although Rachel greatly impressed her by pointing to a bust of the great ac­ tress, Rachel, in her shop, aim telling her that they were cousins. Some months afterward Mrs. Pearse, who all the while had been hankering to be made as " handsome as Lady Dudley," again camo fluttering like a foolish fly into the den of the spider Rachel. A gleam of sense crossed her mind; looking upon the haggard and withered countenance of Rachel, she asked why she had not applied the " process" to herself and made herself "beautiful forever?" Rachel might have replied by asking why doctors never took their own pills and why shoe-makers' children always go bare­ footed; but she turned it off by saying that she was eighty-five years old--in point of fact she was fifty-eight--and that she only wished to live for others. Mrs. Pearse now began to go in for the " washes;" she bought £20 Worth of the stuff and applied it to her face. The consequence of this foolhardy act was that " a rash came out on her face," and she rushed to ask Rachel what was the matter. " She said I was in a terrible state," poor Mrs. Pearse testified on the trial; " that all the f>ores of the skin were opened, and un-ess I allowed her to finish her process at once I should be ruined for life." Mrs. Pearse proposed to go for her doctor, but Rachel assured her that physicians were in vain. •' She said she had studied the skin for more than fifty years, and that doctors brought their own patients to her to be cured of any rash, mark, cancer or tumor on the complexion. You know," she added, "my fee is 1,000 guineas, but as you are a friend of my daughter, I will make it £500." Alarmed as Mrs. Pearse was, she had sense enough to s&y that she could pay no such sum. "Very well," remarl ted Rachel, " you will be sorry in after life, and I warn you that you are in such a state that if you even put cold cream or water on your face you will be dis­ figured for life." At another interview, Rachfcl stdd ahe could not bear to see Mrs. Ftearse ex­ posed to the ujtCa,dful fate of beirig hid­ eous forever and that she would "fin­ ish her" for £200, although Lady Dud­ ley was paying her £2,000 for the same thing. Mrs. rfearse, now wrought up to a state of great agitation, promised to pay the £200, and went to several money-lenders to borrow the money. She found she could not get it without her husband's signature; and Rachel then suggested that she should draw the sum from her father's bankers, but the lady refused to " rob her father." Finally* Rachel came down to £50, and said that Mrs. Pearse oould pawn her jewels to get that sum. " She said she had jewels in the next room that would astonish me, they having been brought by Lady Dudley's maid; a reward of £l,000 had been offered for them; there were diamonds among them as big as the top of her thumb; they were worth £8,000." The next day the poor dupe took her jewels to Rachel and handed them to her as security for the £50, and then Rachel gave her a bath. A few days afterward, Rachel told her that she had sold the jewels, and then Mrs. Pearse did what she should have done in the first place--told her husband. After a visit to Rachel, who treated him inso­ lently, and told him that he did not dare to trouble her for fear of exposing his wife, Mr. Pearse caused her to be indicted and brought to trial.--London Cor. N. T. Graphic. Madame Rachel has since been sen­ tenced to five years' imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretenses. The London Week says: ^ " The career of Madame Rachel as a beautifier of her sex may now be con­ sidered closed. How many bewitching specimens of her skill there may be moving about in the ' highest circles' of society we have no means of decid­ ing. We shall be better able to tell when the enamel peels off, and Nature is allowed to stand forth unadorned. It would be rather awkward if the coating cracked or came off in patches, for in that case some of our most beau­ tiful women would present the appear­ ance of fine old china, interesting as ouriosioes, out aepnvea oi a^y anno* tion to the male human being. It Is etoarthftt Madame Haehel wfflnotbe in a poeitioife to repair her work She has fallen a martyr to the useful wCn* Bare Meats and Trichina. Tin recent discovery t>f trichinaa in tiie shad taken from Eastern rivers has been a bear in the fish market. The fact is, the microscope is discovering too much. A long time ago it was said "ignorance is bliss." We doubt whether It is going to add anything to our happiness to see huge monsters de* vouring each other, or sporting in the glass of water which we place to our ps. Nor will it be soothing to the im­ agination k> uwtjli upou ihe possibilities of the porter-house steak and crisp ham. the smoking white fish and bass, being filled with deadly trichinae, which will begin a voyage of discovery and research into the human anatomy as soon as swallowed. The hysterical and imaginative can have all the miseries of the reality by allowing themselves to dwell upon the possibilities of the case. To such ignorance is indeed bliss. This much good will be taught the people, however, and those who are wise will listen. No greater humbug was ever forced upon the human mind than that thoroughly cooking meat makes it in­ digestible. "Taking it rare" has got to be the prevailing style, and a roan who calls for his beef well done makes the waiter stare. The proprietor won­ ders at the education of a man who sends his plate back because the blood trickles from the open vessels, which have scarely felt the influence of fire. The prevalence of trichinae will proba­ bly have one salutary effect; it will change the method of cooking in every well regulated household. Raw and uncooked meats have a bad effect, mentally and physically, upon the hu­ man family, and we shall rejoice in the reform that shall drive raw hams and bloody roasts from the table, and assign them where they belong--to the digestion of the carnivora. l ire kills trichina, yet no one will at­ tempt to use as food any diseased ani­ mal. The parasite just discovered in the shad is different from that found in the hog. The German physicians aver that the trichina found in the hog can­ not be wholly killed by cooking. A boiled ham thus infested, cooked for a day, would yet be a dangerous article of diet. Dr. Clendinen, who has been examining the fish taken from the Hud­ son, says ne was led to the investiga­ tion from the large number of persons who were taken alarmingly ill imme­ diately after eating fish. He says, in making his experiments, thorough cooking invariably destroyed the life of the parasites which he found in the fish. He argues further that the parasite is not identical with the trich­ ina spiralis, but the interested public will not care so particularly about the relationship of these pests as for the methods of extermination. Another eminent physician, Dr. T. F. Azpell, of the United States Army, who has a country residence at, Fort Lee, and has just been elected an hon­ orary member of the New York Micro­ scopical Society in recognition of dis­ tinguished contributions to microscop­ ic science, dissents from the propriety of styling Dr. Clendinen's discoyery a trichina. " Dr. Azpell produced specimens of the same parasite taken from the gills df a fresh shad, observing, as he did so, that they were altogether too large to make good microscopic objects, being more than six times as long as the fully developed trichinae, which seldom exceeds one-tiftieth of an inch in length. When coiled, if viewed with inferior lenses, they somewhet resemble the trichina spiralis, and Dr. Civ had very naturally mistaken tl it. So far from such being tW however, the specimens under e ation were ordinarily tricoeephl pin worm, of the species fami; microscopists as intestinal pari They are common, not only to th£ tribe, but to the human family. Til are not supposed to be dangerous life, or even seriously injurious' health; but if taken into the syatei® cooked might possibly produce rhes and other symptoms associat iwith intestinal jp suites. To say i least, they have no generic relation the trichina spiralis, although tlc might readily be mistaken for it by <X who was not an expert in microscopV inquiry. Dr. Azpell thought it verj1 probable that these parasites had beeiulv.in_ acquired by the shaa this year by feedJ » ing upon the offal and sewage emptiedjheap- into the Hudson by New York City; butl this, he observed, was yet a mere un-j verified conjecture." t This is a more hopeful view of the case. It is a truth long known to the scientific that the tricocephali are com­ mon to nearly all animals used for food, and no fatal consequences have re­ sulted from them. We do not think the alarm is sufficient to drive the human family to milk, oat meal and an exclusive vegetable diet. Man is om­ nivorous, meat is partly his natural diet, and by proper cooking, the human family will yet worry along and live their allotted years notwithstanding the microscopic discoveries of trichinae. The fatal results of many hundred cases, however, from this terrible dis­ ease should be a warning heeded by every one, and raw meats, and even half-cooked meats, should be banished from every table as dangerous. Science may yet demonstrate to us that the ancient Jews, who so carefully marked the animals which were "clean" and fit for food, were even wiser than the enlightened generation of this later century.--Chicago Inter-Ocean. --"What are Russia's terms?" asked a visitor referring to the San Stefa- no Treaty. "Two dollars a year, in ad­ vance," replied the abstracted «ditor. --Hawk-Eye. COME TO MS. Coma to me in the Or earth'* low <XM Of Tlur dour face And oiMBfe my ' Cmpat* me fa lutt strayed, ffkr M«I« Kfeur. , Oome to me in the midnight honr, When «leep withhold* her balmy power; Let my lone spirit find in lika John, npon the Savior'* breast. Oome tzszc thrcrsfe Hfe'e ,f. And whea ite poke* oeaee to pjjur. Then, Bnrior, bid me oometolnee, That where Thou art Thy child maybe. . i^aourgcukornt* --Henrn V. SanJaySchooi SKOOXIV QUABTKB, 1077. May 19 -Dream of Nebuehad- _ , ( J|8b wait* i4,kndwri"n8r °* Jane in the lion's Jime*flPlfairiili'g Kingdom.. Jam 21-TheBwMeW^OyniB.. I4ML 821 Dsahi SSl-a. Jane 80--Seview of the LwomAk the Quartet. Hushine er Cloud--Whldi! IT should never be forgotten that the preacher's tone is contagious. The key which he strikes in his sermon is almost sure to be the key-note of the congrega­ tion. He is vastly more than an in­ structor of the intellect; he has a mes­ sage to the heart, and hence what he says impresses itself on the whole being of his hearers. We . should not be sur­ prised, therefore, to find the people giving out sunshine or cloud, light or darkness, hope or discouragement, just as they reoeive these from the pulpit. In view of this fact, the color ot sen­ timent reflected in the preaching be­ comes a very serious matter. lithe sermon is somber in tone, the feeling in the congregation will be the same; if the tone of the preaching is cheerful, the hearers are sure to rejoice in the happy spirit of the sermon. Bright­ ness begets brightness, as love begets love, or hate begets hate. "Whatso­ ever a man soweth that shall he also reap." And now, if this in true, is it not strange that so many preachers come before their people in the spirit of the storm-cloud rather than the spirit of the sunshineP They try to drive where it is only possible to lead; they aim to compel, when the only way to success is to affectionately invite. They should remember the fable of the north wind and the sun. The traveler's cloak was not taken off by bluster and blowing, but by the warmth of the genial sun­ shine* Scolding preachers cannot make their ministry a success, for the reason that their method is unphilosophical. In trying to cure one evil they beget another that is worse than the first. They may break some bad habits by continually making ugly faees at them, but if the congregation should after­ ward wear the impress of these faces, then the benefit in one case is more than overbalanced by the evil done in the other. ' - . While it may be proper for the Ereacher sometimes to warn and re-uke, he should never do this in a man­ ner which shows the least resentment or want of affection for those who are addressed. Let the general spirit of his preaching be characterized by love, joy and peace, and his congregation will scarcely fail to reflect these graces in their walk and conversation.--Chris­ tian Standard. Evil Cemmunicationn entire mi and fee&ngleas ̂ cla&ter of lies for noble things, all royal < _ In truth, all sweet and holy conception* of virtue and excellence, man this ever­ lasting semi-critical, semi-scornful talk about a neighbor's dress, household management, social aspirations' and re­ ligious sinsP One might as well ex­ pect to obtain mental discipline from wandering in a boiler-shop, as to hope for any good to himself or anybody lyfr;' from the sort of animadversion that fei: seems to be the most pliaaftig ocettpa- '*" . jtion of the average gossip. Ifwe would % $>enefit our neighbor, let us tell him of ' his fault. If we would curse ourselves, ̂ ' " let tts hold up the imag& of Lis imp lections before our own to be - • photographed thereon. f £ Alas for the poor gossip; dodmed, by ftu liigh decree, to fill his mind with the? *' husks that the swine did eat!" In-!'* teilectual starvation and moral disease^ stare him In thei face! If his tdlk doeslM not ruin innocent reputations, *s it will If . be more than likely to, it will belittle^- ... and degrade Ms own intellect and heart. • ~ If it does net destroy any other person's1. power to do good, it effectually cripples <90 9* and dissipates his own. If it does not^t- make any one else to be bated and^ Shunned, it will make him unwelcome^ (\ and odious. He sacrifices all good and* fair things to a duty made of brown! paper and saw-dust. Or, like the de-It! Iuaed children of Judah, who consumed^* ; V their offspring in the copper embrace^!; of a red-hot Moloch, he burns his tree ures to a senseless and cruel god. Trifles, indeed, these themes of gossip?^. # sometimes are, but trifling is seriousJj§p^ business. Trifles they may be, but the^ business of one who deals in triflesR makes him a trifler; a spendthrift off® life's sunny days, a squanderer of itsjtN5 Jerand by none but experienced ban i ? solicit, aud hope to merit a contil I l COLBr BROS i78' piness. •• Afltl ihy bwythefit' fcwfterF*""" was the sneering retort of one who had, proved himself his brother1® murderer. There is a generic relation between theSP casting-off of the sacred obligations of aW. common brotherhood, and the stainingjfet of our hands with a brother's blood. /. The man who cares nothing for his brother is cousin-german of the mur­ derer. And "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer." The difference is wide between one who holds himself ready to reprove wrong in a spirit of kindness, forgive injury, sympathize with weakness, and" help infirmity; who has a noble pur­ pose steadily held, to interest himself for the sake of helping; and one who mouses in the affairs of others, urged on by curiosity, a censorious spirit or a corrupt heart." , Christ died because, knowing human­ ity, His tender interest and sublime sympathy could not but express and pour themselves out in an infinite sac­ rifice. But, for all we know tC the con­ trary, the priest and the Levite, who, on the roaa to Jericho, evaded the poor fellow in his distress, may have been the most unsparing critics of wrong­ doing in Jerusalem, and ring-leaders of the city gossip. For philippics against evil are no certain evidence of moral incorruptibility; and those who most loudly and heartlessly denounce the sins of others, are the very ones to re­ produce them themselves.--Chicago Standard BE are Farnicious Literature* PRESIDENT PORTER and ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, Profs. Wayland and Walker, Dr. Leonard Bacon, and ex- Gov. English, with other eminent citi­ zens of Connecticut, have called atten­ tion to extensive issues of cheap and' reading for boys, which are care- C. F.HALL, Chic --Widows about fifty cannot marry in Portugal; but there is some difficulty in discovering when they reach that --In Massachusetts they subdue mani­ acs a is by dazzling them with the light from powerful reflector. " --An untruthful story is no better for being founded on a fact.--N. 0. Pic- diHereHt%tB£»'J»*vi_.i IJ:.' ^ •- 19-1 cial crimes and evils,- or sitting down cynically to form adverse judgments of our fellows, taking refuge in the shad­ ow of principle. A conscientious man feels that he must defend the right, and therefore he must condemn wrong-doers. A cynic feels that he must condemn everybody, and lie rejoices that truth bears him out in it. Now, it is the spirit in which we contemplate what transpires around us that reacts to fix the seal of our judgment on ourselves. If we are se­ cretly gratified with recitals of vice and crime which, professing to loathe, we eagerly devour with our rolls and cof­ fee, the fact is, though we seem to be condemning crime, we are nourishing the incipient criminal within us. In proportion as these things have a fasci­ nation for us, they* have drawn us down to their own corrupt level. It is in vain that we flatter ourselves that we look upon these disclosures of crime and corruption with indignation and loathing. We cannot altogether loathe that which we desire to contem­ plate; we cannot altogether hate that whose details have a pleasing fascina­ tion for us. It is curious to see with what assumed superiority some declaim against popular vices when we per­ ceive, from their secret attitude, that the principal result of the process is their own degradation. " Evil com­ munications corrupt good manners." But, if one who makes himself a self- constituted censor does not become un­ charitable and evil-minded, he is almost sure to become a confirmed gossip, and few fates in the world, outside of the lunatic asvlum, are more to be dreaded. Can anything be more utterly diluting to the thought, and weakening to the persons who, ffie the ^errant of past days, seem to ^ir mission is to right ex- j i»,(! -1-~*~ UCV d. cheaper than flay weijFUYY dreulated through the country, to any one coming to buy ofj We have seen a list of such books of- ClOthmg, Boots and Shoes nt fored for sale, and they certainly de-s three times what it has been. serve strongest censure and the of Clothing is now being so| rSC3twarHlQS Tll0y are Ain ih? IT , ^ ,|T J ordinary sense, improper books, but buy. : Hats and Caps, Trim! they are demoralizing, and worse than pneesi - •'•.Am"W.Cckly'in--the ij-woirthlcss. Tlioy aro stones ef rascals, do secure bargains which I ij vagabonds and adventurers. Their he- Our interests are mutual, aij roci» arc harpers and tramps. A true f oods at mich aa-wilf and generous manhood, modesty, fidel-poos SUCH prices aawill ity purifcy pvudence> economy, tem- letehandtse cheaper than a' I perance, sobrietv, industry, are cov- Come and see me and I w ered with ridicule. Their scenes are make money easier than VOl disreputable resorts; their songs and J talk are of the most wretchedly witless .kind. They are low, unclean and un- ' mannerly, and a generation of boys feeding upon such literature would be a race of Artful Dodgers and Charley Bateses. Boys love amusement, adventure and excitement, and it is a Mephistophelian craft, which seizes upon this natural taste to pander to their degradation. In this busy country parents are so en­ gaged that they are often ignorant of the books which their children read, and before they are aware of it a mor­ bid and vulgar appetite may have mas­ tered their sons. The boy who is con­ stantly familiar in the books he reads with rowdies and swells, whose idea of "life" is coarse dissipation, and to whom swearing, gambling and de­ bauchery are " seeing the elephant," who is taught that the diligent and faithful workman is a goody-goody, and that peaceful home life is hum­ drum stupidity, is a boy who will nat­ urally admire Fisk, and believe that Tweed was a jolly soul and friendly to * the poor, a hundredfold better tnan half of those who condemn him, and that the only fault with the swindling Presidents and Treasurers of compa­ nies and corporations and savings banks is that they let themselves be found out. This kind of oheap reading is a poi­ soned fountain, inviting the thirsty to drink at every corner. Such books are moral dram drinking, and the good sense that seeks public order by regu­ lating groggeries should warn and guara our youth from the pollution of such literature.--Harper's Weekly. t --Nothing is impossible. A man may think ne can't climb over a picket fence, but a big dog will settle the case in the affirmative at the first growl.* Detroit^