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•• ra: - V •V: . ' f " ' I '• ' MUSCULAR CHRIST IAJiITT. . •" * Illirftlrated In ««« X*crran or an Indian Ag«nt-SMie Incident* in the Kx- perlenco or m. Well-Knovrn Clcrgf- man. The venerable Rev. James E. Wil­ bur. Indian Agent of a reservation in , '(i-v, Washington Territory, who gave his s statement before the Joint Congres­ sional Indian Commission, the other day, has gone home. His statement was quite fresh in the character of its topics, and elicited very marked atten- 5 '«tion from the Commission and those who were present, while his manner Ijetokened a prompt, practical man, >•*<' fi . mm i'4 u • y f r n one of those positive characters who I illustrate the idea of what has been •l termed muscular Christianity. Of ' powerful build, broad breast, like a bulwark, tall form, and smooth, shaven face, he was a good sample of physical development and brain power. Brought up to labor from his youth in a wilder­ ness country, he knew the value of labor, and how to enforce his authority among his Indians. He was*born in Lowvflle. Lewis County, New York, then on the very border of the cele­ brated "John Brown tract," long enough ago to remember seeing the Albany troops marching to the defence of Sackett's Harbor, in the War of 1812. He labored in the adjoining Town of Watson, clearing "new , land," cutting down trees and logging ' them up, at four dollars and a half a % month. He next labored on the circuit " as Methodist minister, and went to Oregon in about 1849, making the trip * in a sailing vessel, " around the Horn," occupying between seven and eight months. '* Mr. Wilbur was first stationed at Umpqua, on the Oregon Coast, and had his first ^ experience as " fighting parson" with the Rogue River Indians, • who were then at war with the white settlers. He subsequently became Pre­ siding Elder of the Oregon District, and had the following adventure: He was conducting a camp-meeting about four [ miles from Portland, in that State, when he was told that some persons ; had a stand on the edge of the camp­ ground and were selling liquor. He immediately determined to break up the groeery. He went to the spot and found a man behind a rough board counter vending eatables, and asked if he had liquor there. The • man denied that he had any. The minister knew ..the evasive tricks resorted to in a new country, and glancing toward the rear of the stand he spied between the roots pf a huge stump the corks and the nozzles of several black-junk bottles, peering out like snakes1 heads above the crumpled weeds. The elder then taking in the situation backed up to­ ward the stump, and bending down with his face to the foe caught a bottle by the neck in each hand and straight­ ened up, pulled the corks out with his teeth, and turning the bottles upside- down, let the contents gurgle out on the thirsty-ground. The owner yelled out that he had a right to sell liquor, there was no Maine law there, and he would split the elder's head open. The > eider said he was not used to having his * head split open, and warned the irate vender to keep back. The latter started for the elder with clinched fists, and the latter drew back his right arm and delivered a blow right in his eye, which sent the vender sprawling a rod away. He then continued to empty the rest of the bottles, when another man came up, who was soon disposed of „by a kick. He procured the arrest of the whisky-sellers in Portland and had tliem fined. This effectually put a stop to whisky-selling on camp-meet- iog grounds, and in this, Mr. Wilbur says, he really thought he did " God service." In passing through Portlands a few weeks ago he saw one of the men, who, after many years, recog­ nized him, and he heard him remark •to others with him, "There's the old fel­ low who destroj-ed my liquors." Camp- meetings have neverbeen troubled with whisky-sellers since that time on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Wilbur had trouble at first on on his Indian agency, by the whisky- traffic, but this ne has effectually put a stop to. One time an Indian came into his office in a boozy state. He inquired of the Indian where he got his liquor, «t.nd he would not tell. He ordered an officer to take the Indian to Jail and keep him there, without anything to eat or drink, until he wonild tell where he got the liquor. The Indian went a short distance and refused to go anoth­ er step. Mr. Wilbur went out, caught the Indian by his long, black hair, jerked him backward and forward, when the Indian said if he would let go j)f bj^-hair he would tell. " You'll tell, anyway/^ said the inexorable elder, and he did tell. The result was that •no liquor has been sold illicitly on • the reservation. But he had trou­ ble from rum-sellers, 'who would sell outside the reservation, and to meet these cases he secured the appointment of D tilted States Commissioner, there­ by giving him a legal authority that he had not otherwise. He heard of a des­ perado who was selling whisky outside of the reservation, and could get no one to go and arrest the man. He went himself, a distance of about thirty miles, found the man in his cabin, who, suspecting the object of his visit, plant­ ed himself behind his bar, and, with a drawn revolver, threatened to shoot Mr. Wilbur if he advanced a step. Mr. Wilbur, keeping a quiet temper, said, mildly, "Oh, you wouldn't shoot me." He saw the man was quite drunk, and, studying the situation, he argued in his own mind that, in order to keep up his pluck, he would need another drink. True to his conjecture, the man laid his revolver on the counter, and, taking a decanter from the shelf, turned it up apd commenced drinking, when Mr. Wilbur, improving the opportunity, iprang for the counter, and, seizing tane revolver, had the man in "his power. • He seized him, and, calling on his driver, he tied the man like a pig and lifted him into the wagon. After empr tying out the liquor ne , drove home with the prisoner, who was prosecuted according to law. That matt is now a wealthy merchant and a respectable eitizen. - -Talking about parrying arms, the eliler said he never did, and related «n * incident. When la&t on a^. visit East he made an address at* Illion, in the State of New York, where he made the state­ ment that lie never carried fire-arms. One day he was invited into a gun es­ tablishment where the Remington rifles were manufactured. The pro­ prietor made him a present of a rifle, and while taking it to his lodgings he was met by a friend, who threw it up to him: "Why, elder, I thought you said you never carry fire-arms." 44 That s so," I replied; " I never do except when among the whites." He sold the rifle in Portland for fifty dol­ lars. Mr. Wilbur * was asked, at the Lindell, just before leaving, if he had ever been in circumstances of critical danger among the Indians. He said that on one occasion he was riding along a river, when he came to a canyon and the road diverged from the river. On emerging from the canyon he came out upon the open plain and saw a band of twenty Indians coming toward him, whom he knew from their actions, were on the war-path. He had no arms with him; they would have been of no use, and the Indians were too close on him to beat a retreat. They rode rapttly up to him, and circled round him. He accosted them in In­ dian, " How to do, friends." He then opened his coat and showed them that he had no arms with him. They jab­ bered together a short time anu then left him unmolested, and passed through the canyon, where they killed a man, and about a mile in the direction from whence they came they had killed several men. Mr. Wilbur says he is certain that had he been armed they would have killed him.--Missouri Re­ publican. Sew Bonnets* Good Words for the United States at the Paris Exhibition. IN costly products of art and skill probably no previous show here has been so rich and attractive; although in' the arrangement of grounds and buildings, ana in the administration, many defects have been noticeable. The attendance will, I think, expeed that at Philadelphia, but the charge for admission being only twenty cents, the aggregate receipts will be considerably less. The lieed of a railwav, like that in use at Philadelphia, for tfie convey­ ance of passengers around the grounds, has been keenly felt, at least by Ameri­ can visitors, particularly as many of the footpaths are covered with disa­ greeable, coarse gravel. The authorities have been very liber­ al in the matter of awards, and the United States exhibitors have fared even better than at Paris in 1867, when they were very successful. Six or sev­ en of the grand prizes have been given to our countrymen, and, if unofficial reports may be trusted, gold, silver and bronze medals have been won by hun­ dreds. You are so familiar with the circumstances Attending the appear­ ance of the United States that I will say no more than that, despite a late beginning, a small appropriation and a hurried preparation, our department has made a good display. Though the art gallery has not satisfied American pride, the best, French and English crit­ ics have found much in it to praise. The industrial section is not as showy as that of some other countries, but it is literally crowded with useful objects. At first sight one might say that there are few novelties; but upon examina­ tion the European visitor finds much that is new. The French authorities are especially pleased with our ingeni­ ous inventions. After an official in­ spection, made by Commissioner-Gen. Krant7. and his deputies, they sent their wives and many friends to see the sight. Our machinery hall is not large, but a correspondent of the London Times re­ cently occupied two columns and a half of that journal in describing a part of its contents, and it is safe to say that, no other machinery hall has attracted so much attention. The "Annex," usually called the Agricultural Build­ ing, furnishes as much space as we had in our main building, and every foot is occupied. Our agricultural machiney is shown in motion, and is manifestly better than any other in the Exhibition. The French journals cannot find lan­ guage strong enough (so they say) to express their admiration for it, and lately one of them made a 3evere attack upon the authorities for forcing the American Commissioner to put it in an "Annex." Altogether we occupy much more space than we did at Paris in 1867, or Vienna in 1873, and our exhibitors number more than 1,000. While we have no such display as we might and should have had, under more favorable circumstances, we yet have produced an excellent impression. The cases that contain goods compare favorably even with those of France and England. The management has carefully avoided the rocks upon which things went to pieces at Vienna, and nothing has been clone to discredit the National flag.-- Paris Cor. N. Y. Evening Post. --On Tuesday Mr. James L. Dubois, who has built nearly half of M&rlbor­ ough Village, N. Y., paid a visit to his brother Isaac on the Lattintown road. Returning home toward nightfall, he came by the way of Graves' dye-works, and as he was passing the upper pond a large spotted snake sprang up from behind a clump of bushes and bit him under the right eye. Mr. Dubois grasp­ ed the reptile by thef neck and hurled it from him, but as he grasped it the snake fastened its fangs in Mr. Du­ bois under the ear. On nis reaching home remedies were applied, and by midnight the swelling on his face and neck had been reduced. Yesterday he was still suffering severely but no fatal results are anticipated.--Kingston (N. Y.) Courier. DURING the great plagtie in London one pit was dug in,, the Charter House, 40 fe» t long, 16 feet wide and 20 feet deep, and in a fortnight received 1,111 bodies* During this dire calamity there were instances of mothers carrying their own children to these public Graves, and of people delirious or in despair for tie loss of friends, who threw themselves alive into these pits. --" Suppose I should work myself up to tt|£ interrogation point?" said a beau to his sweetheart *• I should re­ spond with an exclamation!" was the reply. * --The most voluminous of authors-- J The author of his own misfortunes OPENINGS at the private millinery houses show elegant novelties that are held in reserve until people of fashioif return to the* city from their country- seats. Among the new designs is the Henri Quatre toque, with soft, full crown and sCiff Rabagas brim. This is very handsome in the dark Bordeaux red velvet (which prevails in millinery), with the long white plume of Navarre curled around the brim as its only trim­ ming. Others of similar shape, calif d the Da Yinci, are of black velvet, like cap worn by Leonardo da Vinci; it is edged with gold cord and has strings added. A large bonnet, called the Cabriolet, has the wide open front worn in the summer, and called the Clarissa Harlowe; this is also very handsome in black velvet, with cream-colored satin ribbon and plumes held by gold filigree ornaments. Small and dressy bonnets are of white satin, perfectly plain on the frame, trimmed with a wreath of shaded green velvet leaves and white ostrich tips. One lovely model of brown velvej* has thirteen tinsel bees on the crown and three on the front. The trimming is pale gray ostrich bands, most beautifully curled. / To wear with plaid suits are small bonnets of green and blue combined. The brim is covered with shirred myr- tle-green velvet, back of which are rows of the eyes of peacocks' feathers, all blue with green; the soft crown is a mass of soft basket-woven silk of Scotch plaid in the two prevailing colors, and to finish it one string is blue satin rib­ bon and the other myrtle green. There are also light gray, brown, and black felt bonnets, trimmed with an Alsacian bow and strings of very soft ribbon in gay Scotch plaids, in which much old gold and dark red enter. In satin bonnets a novelty is a round, smooth crown eovered with old gold satin, and having a brim of brown vel­ vet. A wreath of gold mignonette is around the crown, and two rosette pom­ pons of brown ostrich feathers are on top. The strings are old gold watered ribbon on one side and satin on the other. The handsomest black satin bonnets have elaborate coronet and crown trimmings of fine jet, with knife- pleatings of thread lace; these cost $50. In all such bonnets the satin is laid plainly over the frame. Fewer smooth felt bonnets are shown than usual since the introduction of the furry beavers, the camel's-hair felts and" those with feather crowns. The plain felts are less expensive than formerly, and will be most used in black, myrtle green and French gray. Bordeaux ana gsrnet velvet are the trimmings on the bonnets of these three colors. Gold cords on the edges, the striped velvets, small, nodding tips, Scotch plaid ribbons and, cash­ mere feathers are their ornaments. The shapes for felt are either the close Princesse bonnet, or else one side of the brim is slightly turned up like a round hat. For black velvet, red velvet and white plush bonnets one of the plainest designs is also the most distinguished. It has a close crown, a curtain band and a front that flares slightly, yet has no face trimming, and is lined with the same velvet or with satin. A gold cable cord edges the entire bonnet and is tied around the crown. Two or three small ostrich tips, or perhaps two rosettes of feathers, are directly on top. Some satin in ribbon twines around the crown, and is tied as strings. Perhaps a lizard or fly of tin­ sel is on the front and low on the crown. These are chosen by both old and young ladies, and are commended to those who dress their hair simply as well as to those with elaborate coif­ fures; they seem to adapt themselves to all styles. The new veils are black thread net, speckled or dusted over with tinsel. They are worn in mask style, and also in scarfs that cross behind the head and tie in the front. The small mask veils are, however, most liked, as every thing about the new bonnets is com­ pact and without streamers. These black and gilt veils are especially suit­ able with black velvet bonnets that are trimmed with old gold. Though many black bonnets are shown, there is an effort to make colored bonnets more universally popular, and those of black velvet are very often trimmed with colored velvet, especial­ ly grenat; others have pale blue and beige combined for trimming, and still others of black velvet have many soffe red roses of silken petals around the crown. On one black bonnet sixteen roses were counted, and these roses, with some gilded flowers and much velvet foliage, are almost the only flowers used. Feathers are the popu­ lar garniture. Among new ornaments are filigree gilt rings, gilded horseshoes, Turkish crescents, gilt feathers, tridents of steel in hoops of garnets, and a great deal of cable cord oi various thicknesses; some­ times the cord is all gilt, sometimes gilt with black or with garnet, and sometimes it is all silk, such as white cord for white bonnets, and garnet for garnet velvet hats. The lizards, bees, butterflies and humming-birds of tinsel have already been noted. Very few beaded ornaments are seen at the best houses. . Among new ribbons is a soft striped ribbon called camera-hair, from its blending of old gold, red and black The corduroy ribbons with satin on the wrong side are also very handsome Brocaded satin ribbons are shown in very gay colors, and moire ribbons promise to be popular. New round hats called the Mephis topheles have two sharp, wing-like feathers going back from the front of the brim on the crown. Another shape is tri-cornered, like the Continental hat; this is made up/ in dark Bordeaux velvet with a cable cord on the edge Black felt and pale gray hats are turned straight up on one side, widely bound with black velvet that has a gold cord on the upper edge, and the crown is nearly covered with cashmere feath­ ers. There are more colored velvet round hats imported than usual; in stead of the stereotyped black velvet round hat with satin trimmings, there are grenat Velvet hats and many seal brown velvets in Oxford shapes. Some of the latter nave the crown slightly Indented, and a stiff brim of satin Rainbow beads of the color of the India feathers are , also used on black felt hats, and others are trimmed with soft loosely woven silks in Scotch plaid de­ signs. These silks trim up the Derby hats of last season very stylishly. A child's hat of black velvet has a shirred red satin lining in the brim, and is trimmed with double-faced red and black satin ribbon. Birds are more used on round hats than on bonnets; Those with hooked bills and hrilli£nt colors are most used. They are not small, yet it is the fancy to place them with spread wings and head downward, as if flying.--Harper's Bazar. Religious. From Cord-Stalks. IT IS possible that a new department of American industry is about to be thrown open'to the country. As is well known, Gen. Le Due, Commission­ er of Agriculture, and Prof. Collier, chemist of the same department, have been jointly engaged for some time in demonstrating the feasibility of extract­ ing the saccharine principle of corn and sorghum stalks in sufficient quan­ tity ana quality to make the manufac­ ture of sugar from the same a paying business. Their work has now so far advanced toward completeness as to admit of a statement of results already obtained, and the drawing of inferences trom future probabilities. In corn-stalks the percentage of juice to the weight of raw material was found to average 24.70 with different lots. In sorghum-stalks, this percentage was found to run up as high as 88, although on account of the imperfection of the old machinery used in the experiment­ ing process, it was only possible to really extract 35, leaving the most sugar-producing part still unutilized. The general results as to corn were as follows: Whole weight of corn-stalks, 11,237 pounds; lost by stripping, 8,620 pounds; weight of juice obtained, 2,778 pounds; specific gravity of juice, 10.54; percentage of juice from strioped stalks, 36.41. . . \ General results of sorghum: Total weight of stalks from field, 18,958 pounds; lost by stripping of stalks, 3,822 pounds; weight of juice, 4,963 pounds; specific gravity, 10.58; per­ centage of juice of stalks as they came from the field, 35.56; percentage of juice of stripped stalks, 48.96. In the course of the investigation, 25,000 pounds of corn stalks were op­ erated upon, and 781 pounds, or 3J per cent., of good crystallized sugar was obtained. This amount, with better machinery, could be increased, it is thought, to at least 1,500 pounds. In the same connection, it comes out that several practical farmers in Minnesota have been engaged in making sugar from a species of stalk called amber sorghum for the last two years, with a profit of from $50 to $100 per acre. While the Commissioner is quite en­ thusiastic Over the prospects, and is al­ ready confident that the making of sugar from corn-stalks and sorghum will be a permanent and profitable in­ dustry in the Northern States, and that the introduction of a new kind of sorghum in the South will tend to sup­ plant the regular sugar-cane, the man­ agement of which is very expensive and the crop uncertain, yet the Pro­ fessor, with cooler head and more sci­ entific judgment, it may be, thinks that another year of experiment will be re­ quired before the question can be fully decided. If the question is decided affirmatively, an immense amount of corn-stalk material which is now practically useless and generally wasted i can be put to a most valuable and savory use. No one has passed by large corn-fields and seen their wealth of rich, green stalks waving in the wind, without feeling or wishing that they could be utilized in some way, instead of being allowed to dry up, blow away, or be trampled under foot by cattle and workmen. One fact is settled, and that is, these corn-stalks really contain a considerable quantity erf sugar-juice, which will make them rich and nutri­ tious food for cattle, even if they do not contain this juice in quantity suffi­ cient for profitable use in manufactur­ ing the crystallized sugar of commerce. There is no reason, therefore, why corn-stalks in the future should not be taken out of the fiddle-producing cat- egory of materials and elevated to their own proper place among mer­ chantable and manufacturing com­ modities. For many years commercial and manufacturing men have wrestled with the problem how to release this country from the graSp of sugar-pro­ ducing capitalists in the Indies and in other "furrin parts." Perhaps the labors of Commissioner Le Due and Prof. Collier, before they arecomri<n will furnish a factor for its satisfy \ solution.--Chicago Evening Journ & GAIN AFTER LOSS. - *' •" . • WHEN the night has • Then the morning1 dawns; v , , Glideth all the shadows l f _ , } 4 si From the fields and lawns • ' "When the storm is sleeping "«v - t i '• Then awakes the calm; . i , . , 'When the flowers arc fadinaL • *' « • J • Then iteU»put the h«lm.^;®.'N;',trl • i" l - l , i t fy After hearts have sorrowed, ^ •••-.* • Cometh peace and rest; And pale Suffering calmly Sleeps on Quiet's breast. • Faith is the good- pilot, w.'.-fiS&i Who guides through ro _ .>• Take heart, then, grieving mortal. There's hope for you and me. t There's light nil over heave#,'- There's light upon the earjpi;, For every flower that dieth Another springs to birth. And 'though the wrecks are : bating the East, the ancient consecrated East, the ancestral hills and valleys of Ori« ental and of European Christianity stand * to them. We cannot, we dare not, so forecast the future; but we cannot, w$ dare not, repress the thought that £§ future, vast and wonderful for good of for evil, must be in store for those de* - scendants of our common race to whon| this mighty inheritance has been given. FortheNew World as for the Old World there id a glorious work to do--a worlc ' which requires all the reverence, all the seriousness, all the repose of th| East; all the activity, all the freedom^ all the progress of the West; all the long past of Europe, all the long future of America--a work which neiuier can do for the other, but a work which both can do together. ' - «1» --V- ' T.,- . Sagacity of the Beer. A Nimrod, who has been in th< ^ | hunting deers in the Adirtmdack fountains, is of the opinion that the deer is often more than a match for a dog, in sagacity. The deer seems to be well aware that the dog is guided by his faculty of scent, in tracking him; and all the deer's efforts are directed to baffling and thwarting this keen and wonderful s^rise with which the dog is gifted. With this purpose, the deer w|ll often make enormous leaps, or run around in a circle so as to confuse and puzzle his pursuers. He will mount a stone wall, aware that the dog cannot scent him so well on the rock as on the grass. If he can find a pond or stream of water, the deer will plunge in and swim a long distance, so that the dog may lose his trail. It is a joyful sound to the poor hunted deer when the dogs send up that sad, dismal howl which they send up when they lose all scent of the deer and despair of find­ ing it. He is then a happy deer. He hiaes quietly in some covert among the bushes, and he takes care to place him­ self where the wind will carry all odors of his body away from the direction where he supposes the dog to be. Upon life's stormy sea; Amid the wave* and breakers There's hope for you and me. The Cross that pressed Him sorely, Who walked to Calvary's height-- The cup, the thorns, the scourging, The awful gloom of night- Led on to realms of glory. Where burst an Eastern morn; And from His depths of sorrow. Our hopes of Heaven were born.1; --E. B. Cheetboroufh. International Sunday-School Lessons. FOURTH QTTABTEIT. Oct. 13--The Gospel Feast. Luke 14:15-1M Oct. 2&--The Prodigal Bon .Luke 15:11-21 Oct. 27--The Rich Man and Laza­ rus Luke 16:19-81 Nov. 3--The Ten Lepers ...Luke 17:11-19 Nov. 10--Whom the Lord Rcoeives.Luko 18: 9-17 Nov. 17--Zaccheus, the Publican.-Luke 19: 1-10 Nov. 24--Judaism Overthrown..*.Luke21: 8-21 Dec. l~The Lord's Supper Luke 22:10-20 Dec. 8~The Cross .Luke 2H: 83-46 Dec. in--The Walk to Emmans. ...Lnke 24:18-3?, Dec. 22--The Savior's Last Words.Lnke 21:44-83 Deo. 2y--Review, Temperance or Missionary Con­ cert. ' • - " Kno#' Your Pastor. A PASTOR who is neither of the com­ plaining nor the deficient sort, but a brave, patient man, always at his post, writes these words to us: In these days, when the burdens of ft pastor grow greater than flesh is able to hear, would it not be well to call the attention of complaining Christians to that negleoted|psismma in 1. Thess. v :12? It reads, " And we ItewHHsli you, brethren, to know them which labor anmng yon, and are over you in the Lord." If a member of the churcn does not know the pastor, whose fault is it? Who has sinned? Hasn't this vexed ques­ tion of pastoral visitation two sides? Often in every parish the pastor's family is the most neg­ lected of all. He spends his time in seeking the good of his people. The people forget this Di­ vine exhortation. THE OTHEB SIPS. The passage quoted implies all that our brother suggests, ana even more. The Greek word translated " know" means more than simply that. It means know in the sense of 44 recognize"--and this with the Iforce implied in what fol­ lows, soon after, 44 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake." Know them, that is, for what they are; know them appreciatingly. The word is emphatic. We do not always 44 know" each other when we think we do. It is not enough to know the pastor as the man who preaches on Sunday, and who answers as a convenient peg on which to hang all church responsibility. It is not sufficient to know him as a sermon- maker, whose weekly efforts are to be weighed in the balance with his salary, and an account kept as to whether it pays to 44 hire" him. Neither is it suf­ ficient to know him even in a way of mere civility, and the respect due to a man of good character, wno minds his own business and keeps his engage­ ments honorably.^ 44 Esteem them very highly," says the A^os|le; and then, as showing that this is ilrged on better than merely personal grounds, he adds, <4/or their work's sake." Our correspondent suggests that there is such a thing as reciprocity due be­ tween pastor and people. "Pastoral visitation" may be taken in a double sense. It may mean either visits by the pastor, or visits to the pastor. Why is it not fair for us who are members simply, if the pastor fails to look us up, to look him upF Not to reproach him, but to inquire how far a much-burdened man may be finding both time and strength over-taxed, and to show that we do 44 know" him. At all events, let us think now and then, in respect to all these things, of "The Other&ide."-- Chicago Standard. Dean Stanley In America. IN his first sermon in this country, at Trinity Church, Boston, on a recent Sunday, the celebrated English divine, Dean Stanley, contrasted the religions of the East and the West, and in clos­ ing, said: I have spoken thus far of the general contrast between the East and the West, between the children of Shem and the children of Janhet. between thei sacred . "|ions - I out • ' . -- - •• --fspel, Grace's Cilraiefl Salve. ^ (.-•« i iMt Mete In the --441 wish that you would not give me such short weight for my money," said a customer to a grocer, who had an outstanding bill against him. "And I wish you wouldn't give me such long wait for mine," responded the grocer. --Chicago Com. Advertiser. IN number and value the houses erect­ ed in New York City this year will ex­ ceed those of any other year sihoe 1871 imost WHILE at play, a child, happening to get a mote into his eye, kept rubbing and wiping it for awhile, but with no other effect than to increase the pain and inflammatidii. At last he rah and complained to his father, who put a small pearl into it, and bade him close and roll it about several times, whereupon the pearl dropped out, with the mote adhering to it. This suggested to Gotthold the following thoughts: The eye is the light of the b9ta> It sees all things presented to it, but not itself. It is, however, as the present instance shows, an extremely sensitive organ, and cannot endure even a mote, but weeps and aches until it is relieved; It thus affords a true emblem of con­ science, which, although itself little , noticed, perceives, apprehends and, so to speak, keeps a record of all things. In one respect, indeed, conscience is .superior to the eye; for, while the latter sees only by day, the former sees also by night, and takes minute cogni-. zance of the works of darkness. Now,H s true it is that many, especially when blinded by the delusions of self-love and carnal security, look upon sin as only a mote. But, ah! with what bitter pain and anguish the mote, which seems so small, can wring the con-' science! How it aches and weeps! And, in such a case, O God of mercy, there is no help but with Thee. The Gospel of Jesus is the pearl of great price. Dropped by Thy hand into the wounded and troubled heart, it takes sin and all its anguish away, so that we find rest to our souls and learn to serve Thee with alacrity and delight. Help me, O my God! to walk at all times cautiously .and circumspectly* and guard me by Thy grace from evey wounding my conscience. ̂ Gotthold" s Emblems. The Danger ef Evil Companions. SOCIETY is the atmosphere of souls, and we necessarily imbibe something which is either infectious or salubrious. The society of virtuous persons is en­ joyed beyond their company, while vice carries a sting into solitude. The so­ ciety, or the company you keep, is both the indication of your character and the former of it. In company, when the pores of the mind are opened, there requires more guard than usual, be­ cause the mind is then passive. Either vicious company will please you, or it will not; if it does not please you, the end of going will be defeated. You will feel your reverence for the dictates of conscience wear off, and that name at which angels bow and devils tremble, you will hear contemned and abused. The Bible will supply materials for un­ meaning jests or impious buffoonery; the consequence of this will be, a prac­ tical deviation into vice; the principles will become sapped, add the fences of conscience broken down; and, when de­ bauchery has corrupted the character, a total inversion willl take place, as the apostle speaks, then glory m their shame. Robert JIall S&CretTf cmtv are not separate from tne things of God, and that by giving to Csesar the things which are Caesar's we in that very act »ive to God the things which are God's. Thus far what I have said is applicable to the whole Eastern world on the other side of the ocean as well as to the Westerh world. on this side. In this respect we are all the common chil­ dren of the mighty Nations which formed tbe center of the civilization and history of mankind. But does not every word that has been uttered ac quire a deeper force to the son of that Old World "when, standing here for the first time, he looks upon this New World, of which, in their loftiest flight of fancy or Inspiration, apostle or }>rophet never dreamed ? Is it possible or him, as he descends from his flight on the wings of the morning and lands on these shores, where the faith and the race of his fathers have struck so deep a root, not to think again and yet a train of this wo'.l-known line of the philosophical poet: " Westward the course of empire takes its way." Far be it from any of us to anticipate the course of Providence and to say that the latest growth of time will be the greatest. Tar be it from a stranger to forecast the duties or prospects which rise before his imagination, as he finds himself in this west beyond the west, in this west which even beyond itself looks forward to a yet further west; to* ward which the bays and promontories of these eastern shores of the new Con- . tinent shall, perchance, as the years . I roll on, stand in the same relation as The Illusions of Childhood. WHO ever wished to correct the illu­ sions of childhood? All of its can look back to a time when we believed vivid­ ly that our own parents were perfect, and believed dimly that the whole frown-up world was perfect. The child nows, indeed, that there are bad peo­ ple in the world, but they have noth­ ing to do with the world in which he and his companions dwell, and when he thinks about them, he is puzzled how to find room for them. We have heard of a child so moderate that ho only produced two perfect men beside his father to confute the doctrine of original sin (women evidently being not included in its scope), but most of us would have brought forward a much larger body*t>f witnesses on his side. Now, no one would say that you gave a child a truer view of nis father and mother if you made him understand that they were two very faulty beings, with as much to repent of as the naughtiest of his play-fellows. It is not that truth had better be sacrificed to love; we do sometimes feel that of these illusions in later life, and anyone who will put the two states of mind side by side will at once see their dif- feronce. It is that the illusion is actual­ ly a truer feeling than any you could substitute for it. It is the natural, healthful condition of mind of a child, the one which put him into his place with regard to his elders, which ena­ bles them to do their part toward him, and him to do his toward them. It bears every test of truth, except that Of being indopettdentof position. It is the truth lor a particular stage of de­ velopment.--Spectator. --" Oeh, Jamie, did ye niver hear uv my great spache afore the Hibernian Society?" 44 No, t*at, how should I? for sure I was not on the ground." 4 4 Well, Jamie, you see I was called upon by the Hibernian Society for a spaehe; and, be jabers, I rose with the inthusiastic cheers of thousands, with me heart overflowing with gratitude • and me eyes filled with tears, and niver % word did 1 spake!" --On being asked why he went into bankruptcy, he replied: "Well, my liabilities were large, my inabilities numerous, and my probabilities un­ promising; and so 1 just thought I'd do as my neighbors do, you know." ANY and all farmers have time to read and study* Many lack the will. .J-