Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1873, Page 7

. ma o © o bmt $- 7 Eeath-stroke at Stone River, and diod in s g;;mukammmkn | THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1873. " ROBERT COLLYER. What the Pastor ‘of Unity Said o] His People Last Sunday.’ The Unitarian Cohferende of the Previous Week. Graphic Pictures’ of” ’t.l\'s Occasion. nfi Tis Pessomnel, © 3| 1T Affecting and. Vivid Glimpses of Pastoral = ‘Work in the West, - J o Text—atihewiil,, 32 « A soweravent forth 'm! ow “Ys would not b easy to recall what. thoso of us- have missed within’ & ‘week . who were not tarian and other. Christiin ~Charclios, which opened on Tuepday, and closed on Thursday ‘ovening. ' An alarming illzess in my family pre- vented a faithfnl attendafico ‘on.mny.part, while other carcs, or an almost unpardonable indiffer- ence, prévented many. 6f you from going ; and now I wish I.could tell those who might *have gonie what thiy lost, ahd, at the ssme tim those who ‘could not go from a greab regret. ' Yet; in saying this; I draw by infererice an obri- ous distinction,, for we cin never feel sich ro- gret about the thing we want to do but. cannot a8 for the thing we can do but will not. . I can elways get over the one ;. the other has. given me always the keepest regrot.. 1t is one ele- ment in_ what the Bible .means by, tho worm that dieth not. and the fire that is not quenched, and the podt when he cries: . Of all sad words of 10 and pen i The saddest are these : it might have been. Bo that it is nodoubt true that one of the prime leasons we have to learn in this life, in order to be fitted for & better, is just this: That wo shall Iose no opportunity opening toward our ‘higher Life through s Marths-like elavery to - cumbering cares, which might for the moment be set aside ; - ‘or what.-is evén worse than that, an easy-going | © catelessness like that of ‘Gallio, who could -8e0 _ nothing in the position’of a man like Paul, and feel nothing in his spirit in'contrast with that of -tho Pharisees ‘and Zeslots which ought to arrest him and compel him. to sit down for ono day and_ give bis whale heart and soul to the matter. Thave said I wea painfully prevented from a steady attendance on this snnual means of graco, was there for the ter- part: of one .day, and what I heard and folt and gaw in_those fow hours has made me bold to speak to .you of ., wbat you bave missed. Yon have missed the “*' finest Conference of. liberal ‘Christian Churchies over held west of the Atleghénias—s communion with the best campany of apostles and_prophets that over gatherod togethior ot ono time.: You . Lave missed hearing some, of the strongest, sweetest, and trueat words ever Said on such an _oocasion; and o spirit so_earnest that in tho <'ghort time I was there, tired as I am and weigh- ed down just now with many cares, I was litted up and pervaded by it 5o that I -thonght-of the Pontecost for a comparison. . 1 went over ‘with- out any great expectation. 'We have had rather » 8ad time at our Conferences’ for half-a-dozen years past, and I feared this would be one of the old sort.” 1t was as bright 28 :a day in June, as-fresh sa- the winds: in the mid-Atlantic, ethoresl st its ‘best a8 the atmosphere on the crest of {he!Alps, . snd as refreshing as tho rivers of God. - To the _old Hebtew spirit, the epirit of Isaiah and Daniel, it wonld have been clear that the. Lord ‘hnd sent His angels into tho place. Tho proph- ! ets would have watched for thosheenand lis- taned for the sonnd of their wings. We: have : discarded the angels of-the old time: We know ‘beiter than tolook for them, and'that may be . thereason why wedo not see them;still, they wers there under other names and in many guises, . bringing their blessingout of the very heart o Hesven. U =" want to gpesk to you thismorning about this gathering in conpection with our faith and order . these Western lands. For I presume that, while you ‘may be indifterent about attending guch ° meetings, you heve s warm place- in *gour- heart - for. that faith of _ivhich they . are the - embodiment, - because on love truth and fresdom, swoetness and light, & Gospel of God and of Christ, and yourfellow= men, and dislike the dogmas which beld some of us in such a cruel bondage from the time when we wero_little children, - and lay awako. nights Searing that before marning we might be in hell- 1o the time when we broke away from them = in desperation, not knowing whither we wen and found rest, thank God, st last in the bleese - :truth of the divine fatherhood and brotherhood, carried by men like Channing and Parker to its conclusion, and s0 opening the may 1o s ta “application, as we find out more and more wkas fatherhood and brotherhood mean = -~ 1. The first thing that touched me, when I got there and begsn to look about me, was the feol- ing thatImustbo Grawingon toward old age. It only seems like yesterdsy since I first ‘ began to preach to "you ' 23 your pastor, oo attend these meetings, and yet. I saw bub . one man at the Canference still settled over s .’ church in ihe West who was_settled then, and, _". when I came to think it over, I found I was the oldest minister but one, in point of settlement, anywhere west of New York zad Philadelphis. Mr. Haywood, of Louisville, comea frst, I come next, and then there is_quito & gap before you tonch the oldest again. Dear Mr. May, who occupied the uttermost eastern border of our Conference fourteen years ago, has gone to his Eat reward. Dr.. Hosmer has retired. Dr. iot has taken charge of the University that out of his heart .and brain. Augustus taples, to whom m; Psn’b went out as the heart of Jonsthan to David) grow heart-sick trying 1o : raise roses on an iceberg in Milwaukee, went to * 1. PBrooklyn, and there found hia true place,snd . then died as -swoetly as onme of' .tho old ssints, Augnstus Conant got his 6 hos- “¢ pital, and the rostof my. old companions ‘and friends have gone into or. into Hoaven, or, what in nect best 0 some men,have got good ‘tlements. in New England. And 80 it was that on Thuraday I felt aimost like an old man ; 1859 seemed s long way Off in the light an shedow” of the chavgea that had‘ come about while T had been trying to work the wark of Him .that sent me on this %m‘fl: Bide. -I felt for & ‘moment asif I might have leave to lament; to . cry with the Pealmist : We nover continue inons ' “‘stsy.’ But Iknow, as I hope snd believe you - /- Enow, that the order of tbo suns and' stars touches no such harmony a8 _this that; brings - God's children into this world. and than ' takes them out of it, and while they aro here appoints the bounds they cannot pass; orders them here snd thers, ns;{he commsander orders his sol- 28 counting their enjoyment . infinitely . Chesper fhan sheic joy, and making each. of - ussteadily subordinate to the whole; finding for . us'generally our truest_sppointment in"our sppointment, and our “victory in-our defest; ing us back that we may go the mare surely and tsking awsy our staff that we msa ean on'the arm of the eternal Jove. And so did not and will not lament. _The Lord gave snd _the Lord hath taken awsy. Blessod be the ame | ofthe Lord. . - 2: There was very little room, indeed, or none -8t all, far regret outside thess personal memories -when'I come to look into the faces and think. . ol the substance of those who have come in the “placo of thoso who have gone. I never expect to seo s man gettled in the ?v'aetnfiml to Augus- - .tus Btaples, and, if I did, I should not think he ~was_hia 'asay more thsa the Lutheran can believe in the equal to Luther, the Meth- ... olist of Wesley, or. the Swedenborgian_of Bredenborg. We take - one g1j 0 mon into ourhearts, and tlien the rest; if they getin at all, corners as they can . vacant. He was that man tome, and {08 . few more. T ehall look out for him, when I am dsing, on the other side of the river, and if he is 1 shall ask for him in the same. breath &:tm flesh and blood. It -is the fashion the first thougbt will be of the Lord's I must_change very, much if . that is and Christ has changed yory much if He is .. .Offended at my preference. - Ho showed no Ie- J sentment when Ho was here because their broth- - -erwaa the one yearning love ‘in the hearts ary and s, Ho will lovo yon all the more, mother, becsuss you are looking with - .Juch eager eyes for your children, or yom, - ‘friend, for your friend, that you haveno eyes for anything in Heaven until you gained that -+ :which was Jost. But I was saying, these new @ ive us & great glad confidence. I .‘ery downno_othar church when I say that, take ~them all in alL, T do not know their equals in any in this Western country in- suything like the same_ proportion, man for man. S| - take the Easiern line a8 our starting point, tined, if he bad taken orders, to takea first But when he came to that crucial tost of * ablé or willing -6 attond the Canference of. Uni-. -8 man's manhood,~the thirty-nitie articles which Kingsloy . and -Stanley-.somehow mansged to sign,—conscience whispered, Young; map, sign that paper at your peril ; you know yondo not be-: Tieve it; bettcr starve than barter your mauhood for a living ; and 80 he turned away,—how sadly only those of us know who have had to leavoa mother church because we had no_home thera any longer. He found a home with us, 88 g0 ‘many do who can find one nowhere else, took such parishes as'he could get, until now he fills one of the best we have. Simplo a8 a child, ho* knows enough to run & Univereity and £ill most of the He can tell you abont.plants {rom the cedar of Lebanon to tho hyssop on the | wall. He knows the stars, where they are, what’ they are, and what they are doing, about ad well as. Procter, and is. more delighted when -he hears thoy have found another planet than if: . he found. lémma of gold. Every old stone and fosail in" Central Now York has bad to takea Pica it his catalogues. You cannot takte him with -the guile of. Iowa. limestono . cut into the form of ;a man in a: Chicago ‘stone-yard, Faley writing toa friend, *Tshall get | back to my Natural Theology when fly-fishing is “over,” would have hailed him a8 a brother, and Thotass Hughes would respect hia stroke and. sound ball at ericket. Yot ha is & man af ‘a deep religious heart, full of his work, s8° s minister Toverent, pure, and, truo 8s his predecedsor in that pulpit; a Christian of the new Christian- world, who is not afraid to nse all the powers God liss given him, because ho believes that a | bslf man in the good old sense o, that word is a whale man. =g o2 ‘Here is another ; I will not give you his name. Meay yours ago L wioto & papar fot tlo Indepénd- ent about my old liome, which caught his tien- tion, because he was born under the ehadow of | tho same mountain side. He was then a student, came to .sce jme, told me. all about “it, eand we becamé great friends.” Ho | was very poor, but full of canrage; went to Germavy, and lived on a crust that he might sit at the feet of the great mastera; came back -at lastsud settled. . Ho has done a grand work where ho is,—wrestled with'an Archbishop, among other ngs; ‘and thrown him fairly on groond. of *his own cl\!wsiufi.' He"has a. fine power asa vriter, and could take & firat place on the-press ; but the burdon on his heart -is to presch, ond preach ho will, though he cannok, Livo on'what . they pay him, and g0 hé struggles on. Ifhe held up his finger to-morrow, be might leave tho pulpit,—get rid of tho problem how to pay £15 ‘with & $10-bill,—but soraething in him whispers, Woe is me if I preach nat the Gospel; and 8o, poor fellow, ho preachies away to a hundred, peo- e, of which one-half como in aftof the prayers to hear the sermon; and there is another man of this new order. w of sn outeider. I only heard of him the other day when I was out in the West. Ho has been fof some yesrs so apoatlo in the Methodist Church oat in Tows, o man of rare popular gifts, drawing great crowds, anddoing & world of good. ‘But hin broad sympathies made him proach broad traths, ‘and he presently got into trouble - for heresy; and eo he had to leave the church of his early faith and love. He went o work on his own zccount. - Ho has & great tent he carrics sabout, in thet semi-wilderness, all snmmer long, preaching the great word wherever be finds an opening, ssking no church or conference iwhat ho shall preach, and-yet for that_reason’preach- ing = genuine liberal gospel. They came to {ell ‘me'about him out there in Iows, and mentioned his name with the greatest respect. Ho has or- ganized three churches, and will go on this ‘summer to organize more whero he finds a fair possibility, and so far there is this differ- ence between these churches and those started by missionzries we send out from Boston: The first thing the churches of our foundiug do, 25 & Tuls, is to ery to Boston foraid,and keep oncrying year after -year; but these Iowa churches, of Which there aro now some haif dozen, really did not_suspect, 1 suppose, that anybody on the earth wonld give them a dollar, and 50 they have gone on in their simplo way and taken care of themselves. I may be mistaken, but I look for a pcx!e::lg new revelation of the power of truth and freedom together over that Iowa mind. I beliove that if this man goeson in sim- . plicity and fidelity to carry out what ho has bo- un, he will leaven the whole State with our rond, sweet trath. - L Then Dauthit come this. year, the ' most singular fellow of them ~ all, fulfilling aftesh tho propnoey out of Egypt, bave I called my eon. He haa tried to ‘tell mo Talf & dozen times how ko came to bo dissatis- fied, when a boy, with tho rough, red dogmas of the’ hard-shell Baptist Church, of which hia mother, was o member, and which his fathor cursed with all the rest he over heard of, for the old man is like a great multitude in our conrtry, —simply a Pagan. Tt must bo 2 dozon -years “since Mr. Danthit came here to see. mo, after writing; then Lo attonded our Conference at_Detroit, where wo got him some money ; then ho went to Mead- Fille to onr school, and then ho went ight bacic 1o the place where ho was brought np,aud began his work. It is tho most singuiar Work, 80 far, that has ever been dons by any man of our faith in this conntry. Sholby County, where Lie is set~ {led, hasno New England elemcnt ; the low, fer- tilo prairies, twenty fee dcep of black loam, in some places, they told me, was seitled almost entirely from the Sonth. firat stand was not made for our faith, but for our nationality. He was only 2 1ad when the great troublo struck us, His county eympathized intensely, 28 was nataral, with the South, snd he was one of less than half-a-dozen who got ont words for us that were half battlos, snd would not be silenced, though they throstened to shoot him when the fover magod s ta highost, and did, I believe, fire oncednt im, though he thinks they only used: owder. Y . B Thon, ho has had fo fight intemporance,—the misery of his own home snd of all the homes, almost without an exception, in his county, Ho told me once that it would not be untrue to-say that the last generation down there was killed by whisky, and this generation was going tlo same way, when Mr. Dauthit took hold with a few others to help him to. -closs the grog-shops for very shams, . and ive the captives a chance for thoir ives. He has saved scores of men from going down into the pit. Ho has built three churches from six to ten miles apart, in the very heart of the woods ; the ono was dedicated & conplo of And bere is another. - As yot hie is something |- years 8o, and T hear tho third, just aboat ready, {a still deeper in the same great belt-of - timber, ‘Dt these placés aro best, becauss the settlers aro scatterod all about the odges of the woods: Ho conducts the services in those threo churches himself, takes caro of 20 acres of land, and has done his full sharo in days works in building each one of the churchies. ‘(he orthodox minis- Sore, ll abont thers, love aud trust the man, but boto his ideas and fest thom; they preach agatnst him, and thon publish their sermons : then bo takes them up, points out their ervors by reason and : Beripture, states the truth sfresh, and;, when he - can pinch _the money, prinis the _sermon as &, ract, Which , the.. people Tead because the :thing has made a commotion; but. the ' result is, that, in: every controversy, he makes new Triends’ and followers, -snd_when the sons of Belial break into his churches and tear up his bymn-books, ‘a5 they did within a month, de- Biroying the books wo used to use in our old Chuich, which we-had sent to him, tbenold farmers come to him and say: Jasper; Idon't care much for raligion, but I-do care for fair Tay. Youehall not bo putdown; Iwill stand ¥ you for one, Put me down for 810; it is the first 1 ever gave to & meeting1n my Life. ‘This, then, is_the kind of man you seo when go to this Western Conference, and think of the old things which are pagsing IWBG. Each man geems to be aman to himself, rather than » wheel or lever in a pioce of ecclesiastical machinery, He stands on his.own: feet, thinks his own thoughts, says his own saying, ~and gathers him abot 8 men and women like-minded and like-hearted: I have only.been ablo _to touch tho outlines of those who differ as widely a8 men can_well differ in thelr gifts and training, and inthe Work théy are doing. There was quite s_company beside, who are now men tome, New England men maialy, ith the spirit of onr Cambridge school in them, and doing their work very much a8 their stron old mother taught them. - They sre_good an true to » man,—quiet, modsst, steadfast, and earnest, among the foremost men in their little towns ; and growing to their full stature all to themsslves. ~Brother Brigham rtead a ‘paper which fell on those who heard it like a chapter out of Jeremiah, it wasso {ull of the trials & man of our conviction and calling has to encounter 13 he tands in his lot here in the West and tries to buid up & church of our faith. It was half the iruth, and the lesser half at That,—the hard, sour side of th apple of which tho wweet, sunny side was forgotten. It cah only touch such men as the Epesch of tho old sex touched the sailors as they were preparing ggf ‘battle at the mouth of the Kile LI;MB, he said, that is the land of Egypt, and i you do ot quit yourselves like man you ‘will very soon’ be in the house of bondage- en there came a yoar of confidence out of the deep chests of & thousand men that they wore xfi:{nhgkh win, and win _they did- So when wo e these of Brother Brigham smite such gouls as those wo had in'this conference, they do not make them Jook back to seo if the line of rotreat ia still ‘open, but forward to £ind how they shall best ad- Sence. Euch a paper s like a strong north wind on this Iake shors to a strong : feols a shiver;- and- thinks of o sung pl::: he can keep wWarm un 3 Tt s ont, bat thon fhe warm blood rallies to hishelp, ko braces bis frame, Wrsps bis coat about him, and does his day’s work witha new enefgy. Notone man went back'to his parish: on Fflrhg‘ if I know -theso men, feel- ing as if he would like to retreat to that para- dise of our order—a well-gettlcd ‘New England church. They went back with a new fervor, to stand by their work,. whero they are, sod grow ell the stronger snd brighter for tho dificalties that lie in their way. And 8o I-havo thought this word about this conference, and l‘h:'pebp!c who came there from all over this Western cotntry, would be better for us this morning than a'sermon.: We gave among ua $500 to help them. .1 .waok you to feel as I do, that it was money woll given, aud, when another ear comes aronnd, to ~ gi e, e . ~have & good . ac do just now for ourselves ; but, a8 my good mother used to say when ehe cut into the loaf-'which was none {00 big for her own family, that she might feed mome poor hungry child nobody cared for, Oh my children, she would eay,! the .beet hope I have. that .you: will :never come to want lies somehow in_ giving what 1 know not. ‘how {o spare when it must ba'ao or I must turn those poor - things. hungry from - the door. But I have spoken that you might fecl withme & real fellowship with these brave, good men’ and. churches which aro-struggling slorig in all ports of out-of-the-way places, holding aloft the lamy of lifo, keeping clear the mirror of the Gospel tliat it may refllcct o those who sit in darkuess the dear loying Tather, 8o that men may.be won from their terror, or, what i8 worso, from theifin- difference to o perfect trust and & teader and’ holy allegiance. Delieving ,as I do, “and a8 we all do, - that this faith of ours {8 tho truest and lovelicst interprotation’of tho Word and the Spirit of God that ias over given to man,i aod that it offers the ouly key to the sccret of Llend- ing the widest results of resson and the utter- most revelations ‘of ‘science with the “purest Christian truth and the most inclusive Christian, and therefore Luman, lifs, Ican think of ;0o blessing we can bestow on our new land aid now timo'as quite cqual to this blessiog of living men to proclsim and live out our faith wherevar they find a chance, and no fellowship more fréighted with good than that which & Church’so emitent g oura may b, if wo are faithful, and will be, throngh other men and women, if e fail:" L havo come back tG'you, T hops, néver to leave you again until you send me'away. I want bo call upou all that is within.me and all that is witkin you to come up to. the Lolp.of the Lord againat tho mighty. Thore never was a grander chauco to do a great work for our fellow-men than that which opens before us in this wonderful city of ours, and the country all about it.- . I suppose it’| is hardly modest, but I will toll you all the same, that in’ all directions, in the most unexpected gllcuu. “whero I could never suspect one had con heard of, the littlo booké of mermons you heard first from' the pulpit’ and then over and over again, have penetrated and are treasurod on the littla shelf, read to sick and sorrowful folk, read on Sundnln 1nstead of better, wheu better cannot be had, in_simple_improvised services, from the hice snug perlors- iu o place like San- dusky, to the lonely dug-out in the wlds of Nebraska. < 25 s Mr, Collyer cloged with an affectionate and tonder referenco Lo thie affairs, of Uity Church, and Lis rélations to lus people. It was ap- Tiounced thit, in fature, Sabbath evening ber- vices wonld bo held at Unity Church, commeno- ing to-day. = S THE FLOWER-GIRL BY THE CROSSING. By the muddy crossing in fie crowded streeta: | ‘Stands little maid with hex basket full of ponles, Proffering sl who pass her choice of kutted swosts; Tempting Ago With heart's-8ase, courting Youth with roses, 3 Ago disdafns the heart's-eass, Love rejects tho roses ; London life is busy— Who can stop for posies 7 One man 15 too grave, anotber ia t0o gay— . “Tiio. a1 b his Bl bouse, that Mmar not & pesiiy § Flowerets, too, are common n the month of May, d the things most common least sttract the many. Tl on London crossings Fares the eale of pories ; Age disdains the heart's-cise, Yonth rejects tho roses. —From Lord Lytzon's Last Novel - The First Balloon Ascension. Wao have said that balloons wore invented in Trance. Itis totbo brothers Montgolfier that the discovery s attributed. Thess two brothers, James aad Joseph, were paper manufacturers at ‘Annonay, aud they had airesdy distinguished themselves by ihe invention of a machine known as the ‘“hydraulic ram” (belier hydraulique) when they contrived their firet balloon, in the year 1783. This balloon was of enormous size, being fhirty-five feet in dism- eter, 110 feet in circumfereucs, 2ud able ta hold 22,000 cubic feet of air. It was mado of canvas, linied With paper,and weighed 500 pounds. The ex- citement occasioned by its first trial in pablic was extrrordinary, for people made up their minds that the secret of acrial pavigstion bad been discovered, sud that houceforth the high- rouds of the “hesvous would - be open - to everybody. Tho first balloon, however, ascend- ed dlone without carrying zny ono with it. A large aporture had been contrived in tho lower part, and under it was lit a straw firc, which in- troduced into the canvass globe 22,300 cukic feet of hot air, much lighter conseguently than the sur rounding atmosphere ; for it is one of the prop- erties "of heat to dilate all tho bodies which it penetrates, and to make them fill amuch larger spaco than . when they are cold. It is thus that a volume of air, heated at & tem- perature of boiling water (L. e., 100 degrees cen- tigrado, or 212 dogrecs Fahrenheit), i greator by 37-100 than st the tempersture of 0 degrecs contigrado (32 degrees Fahrenheit), and that, at tho temperaturo of 250 degrecs contigrado (350 degrees Falrenheit), it becomes almost double. ‘The hot air thus dilated insido the balloon tended to riec, and met with no resistance but that of tho canvas covering ; by degraes, howaver, it be- came g0 light that its weight,. added to that of the ballogn, was less than an equal volume of surroanding air, whereupon, to the sstonish- ment and delight of the spectators, the * Mont~ golfiere ™ reso majestically from the earth, and Bonred aloft to the height of 200 or 300 feet. TThis . experiment was repeatod everywhere with -equal .success, and on_the 15th October, 1783, AL Pilatre des Rosiers and the Marquig of Arlande ventured courageonsly into a car fast- ened benenth the balloon, and Tose several times to a heighit of 300 feet. The balloon was held in by cables, This success emboldened them, and on tho 2lst November—a eat day in scronautical snpals—the wo intrepid noblemen determined upon a free ascension. - Tho starting-place_appointed was at the Bois da Boulogne,and all Paris turned ont of doors to witness the sensational spectacle. As the Marquis of Arlands was step- ping into the car, Louis XVI., who was present, spoke with some concern of the dan- gers which might attend the .experiment. *Sire,”- answered the . Marquis, - Who . was an_ offcer, -and who had been ' lon, waiting for . oft-promised’_but ' oft-deferre: romotion, *Biro, your Majesty's Minister of \War has mado me 80 many promiees in tho air, and has suffered me to build 80 fany castles in the same placo, that 1 am going up to take s look at both.” The balloon rose -magnificently, soared to_the height of nearly 1,500 yards, and, after crossing Tight over Paris,: fell, at the end.of seventeen minutes, at six miles fromits starting-point. It is needless to add that the Marquis obtained his promotion, the Ring saying, as hie gave it him in porson : £ You have gone higher, sir, of yourself than I can ever raise you.” ' (*‘Je ne vous eleverai jamais, Monsisur, si naut que .vous etes monte tout seul.”)—The Cornhill Magazine. S —_—————— .. Brotherly Love. W A fow weeks ago,. s criminal, who gaveths name of Mortimer, was tried in Sacramento, Cal., for the murder of & woman who had been his 'parsmonr. . Ho was sentonced to death. Tt was eaid that he had destroyed thelives of eight women with whom he maintained il- licit relations. No darker record of crime was ever made than that which was cited sgainst him at his Isst trial. A few dsyssincethe keeper of . the jail at Sacramento whero Mortimer was confined was startled by the ring- ing of a bell in tho interior of the prison to which none but an intruder or prisoner who had broken from his .coll could obtain sccess. He took his revolver and entered the inner inclos- ure, when he was confronted. by 8 por- son with_a rovolver in his hand and his face concesled by o white handkerchief. The keoper instsntly ‘fired, and with ef- fect, s the disguised man fled - scross the prison 1n the direction of Martimer’s cell; before Which ho fell and died. It was tho brother of the criminal, 5 young man who resided in Lynn, Mfass., whera ho maintained s respectable charac- tor. His brother had gone from home fifteon oo, and, in the interval, nothing had been ieard from him until the recent receips of a let-- ter signifying that he was in peril of Bis life, and beseeching his brother to come to him. No way of lld.ingille‘ wrotched murderer appeared possible, cxcept through the daring stratagem of Scaling the prison, walls end takiog the chance of overpowering the jailer and liberatirg #he. pris- oner. ‘procession. of Mr. Mortimer's victims ‘must pass froquently before bim_in” the night season, To them will now bo added the image of his brothér, who perished in the effort to-res- cuo him from & fato which he should have met Tong ago, and who seems to have deserved a bel~ tariinmm and & better fate. bility, and grace of motion. -it to kisa, as a mark of women beantifal in PRETTY HANDS AND «What think you of tbfs, gentlemen? » oy, her foot epeikar e What aboathands, exclaims Montaigne ? With them we beckon, promise, call, dismiss, threaten, pray, deny, refuse, inferrogate, admiré, court, confess, repent, fear, doubt, command, imitate, encourage, swear, testify; accuse, -condemn, abe solve, defy, despize, fiatler, applaud, reconcils, recommend, insult, work, fight, complain, groan, despair, astooish, whisper. The hand is so besu-, tifally and eeusitively formed, it moves witl 80 much power, freedom, and ' delicacy, “fhat it ‘Seeraa to'posssss inatinct within jtuelf; Whet in movement or Tepose its-expression:icannot- be miétaken ;- its- moat: tranquil positian indi- _cates onr natural disposition, it3 fixure our. ac- |. tions and our passions. In the ‘variod pliases of Life, all the giacetal |- and pleasing attitudes assnmed by women are characterized by the movement - of ‘the hands. Many gestures of ibe fingers aniy kave.. langnage so trno that it appoars expressive. | Wo Xknow that & hand beld or given has expressed a greater emotion than could have been made 1n a long discourso. = The primitive quality of beauty is comparative smallness. A lady's hand. is considered more graceful it under the uenal size, -1f it has eoft forms and puze outlines, fingers long, delicate, flexible, round, -and tapering toward the ends; if the dimples over tho joints are miarked by faing reliefs and ehedows; and the wrist softly rounded and joined to s moderately-Idng and tapering arm, it is more delicate and fominiae, Slender, nervous, white, slightly veined with “blue, with the hollow rosy and delicate, the nails traguparent, thoy beloug to tho patricians, Hands aro infinitely varied. Their shape, tiot, the nails, Jongth, width, roundness are as differ- ent as individuals. There are haods ‘that secm intellectual in their symmetry, beautiful flexi- Home are softjand voluptoous, and others preciso, striking, aud brilliant. . The form of the hand often expresses thé capabilities of the person to whom it belongs. Tho strong palms, conical fingers, and small thumb indicate in woman indolence, fancy, and feclig. Tho sequare hands ' belong to the intellectual and- ambitious snd’ thoeo who love influence and rule. . 'The . small, soft, almost fleshless hands, but rosy :an with knotted fingers, are brilliant and witty. Tingers delicately uared st the ends; like those of English women, fove domestic life. The small thumb and fiogers, brosdening at the ends, de- sire_activity and a practical knowledge'of the ‘world. There are smooth and knotted fingers— to the_first belongs graco ; to tho second, rea- son. Conical hands with pointed fingers obéy in< ‘spiration and worship tho beautiful in painting, E:uzry, romance, and nature. There are soft nds more capable of tenderness thau of love, and * delicato fingors that are formed for spnsi- tiveness and_ sympathy of touch and made to ‘minister to pain-and Eriel ;" bard hends that know not tenderness, bu! o love ; and *rough hands that the heart toaches and guides and softens.” © - Dyron considered a white hand almost the only dialingm'ahm§ mark of geatility, and was i proud of the ‘delicacy and beauly of his own' ointed -fingors. The many beautiful allusiona in his poems to beautiful bauds and arms ehow ¢l homage ho peid them. - Thua from A Pos- ure :" » % 4 Her bead hung down, and her long hair in stooping., Concealed Ler features better than a veil ;. And oue hand o'er the oltoman lay drooping,” White, waxen, and a5 alabaster pale.” And from * Childe Harold:" “The Iaughing dames in whom be did delight, ¥ Whoss largs blue eyes, fair locks, and enowy bands Might shake the saintstip of au anchorite.” In Spain, where the greatest respect is paid to the fair sex for its own sake, whatever be_wom- an's age, condition, or. appearance—* Manes ‘blancos no ofenden "—white hands (the fair sex) never hurt, is a familiar saying. The hand also r]uyu su important part in tho language of gal- antry. When a gentloman rizes to take Ieave of a lady, he saya to 'hor, *A los pies,de V. Senora™ —(my lady, 1 place myself at_your foet). “To which sho_replies, **Bessoa V. la mano, Csba~ lero™—(I kiss your hand, sir knight). A gentle- ‘man never offers to shako a Spanish lady's haud, nor gives her his arm whon out walking. When s lady makes & call, a well-bred host takes her by the hand and leads her to the door of her car- riage. isten to what palmistry roveals of the female haod : Women may be ranged under two prin- cipal banners—under tho one thosc with a laige thumb, and those with a small thumb under the other. The first more intelligent than feeling wise from history ; the other moro feeling than intclligent from romance. A woman with a Iarge thumb loves with reflection—loss with thie hetrt than the sonses, but sdds'to ber passion constancy and every mental charm. Women with small thumbs aro_not endowed with so high s principle of sagacity. 8o love with them i all their thought; but such is tho charm at- tached to -that powerful passion that there is no keduction equal to it. -Order, arrsngement, symmetry, and punctuality reign without tyraony in those dwellings govorned by the gentle acono- mists with the square phalange and small thumb. Are you paying court to beautiful young lsdy- with square. phialanges? Equip yourself w_m{ good ecnso and steadiness, reject all captivating airs, and confound not _singularity with distine- tion. In the number of her axioms are these— silence is & power, a mystery, an ornament. With women of 8 strong paim, conical fingers, and little thumb, paint your language in glowing colors. They lova that which dazzles, and theo- Iy has more power over them than logic. ‘Thres things govern them—indolence, fancy, and feoling. They have in their hearts tho prayer that the Corinthians addressed every moraing to Venus: 'O goddess, grant thst to-day I'may do nothing unpleasing, aad that I may say noth- ing which may not b agreeable”—for {0 plese is their chief care, and they love a8 much' being. beloved and admired as ostecnied. Such twere doublless the hands of the beautifui and triumph-, ‘ant amazons of which the flying squadron of Catherine de Medeicis was compo: g A hifih-]zrieub of palmistry tells na “3Mad- sme Roland bad besntifol largo “hands indicating & head fall of. poetical idess, and s soul. jnclined to the idesl. She understood tho besuty of passion and the self-sacrifice it imposed. At once stoical zad impaasioned, perstive and enthusiastic, tender and ausscre, she loved threéo things with an in- tense love,—country, liberty, and duty. By nature bold snd courageous, like tho majority of- ‘women of her type, sho did not belie herself in poverty, in greatness, or on the scaffold.” * Queen Elizabeth was proud of the beauty of her hands, 1t is written that duriog a public grocemonto prayers she pulled the glove off er right hand, sparkling with jewels, and gave particalar 1nvox. tos Enhemim Baron who had letters to present to er. Diana of Poictiers’ faatures were rogular and classical, her complexion faultiess, her hair of & rich purple black, which took a golden tint in the sunshine, while Ber toeth, her ankles, herhands, her arms, and her bust wére each in turn tbe theme of the court posts. . The hand of AMme, George Sand is marrow, with knotted, pointed fingers, delicate, emooth, and elastic, without softness. THE POETRY OF THE ¥EET. Parisienne is synonymous with slender feot, narrow snkles, and arched instep. We learn every dsy that the emall, arched foot is o sign of nobility—s rule that admits of many excaptions. Generally - the foot nris- tocratic is fine, slender, mervous, delicate; the foot plebeian short and gross. For the Jast 100 years we have compressed the feet t0 such a degres that if it should coatinus the nhP- r of Cinderella would serve for all the world. 'he English have tho flat foot; the Russians ‘have enormous feét, as heavilyattached aa those of an elephant. For this_reason, it is said, & Russian Princess invented les robes a traine. The American women are acknowledged havo the most besutifully-shaped feot of any na- tion in the world. : The fascinating forms and msnners of the “ladies of Cadiz,” the theme of old ‘ballads, re- tain all their formor celebrity. Every ‘one kas heard of their dark, glancing eyes ; thoir pretty hands *“skilled® in the ‘ nice conduct” of the rpemng fans; their feet dflnt&md fairy-like, of which a glimpse is one of_the last precious favors accorded to & lover's sighs sud_tesra; " and, moro than all, their walk. 1t bas ‘been dis- tinguished by Mrs, Romer from ‘the ‘“sffected wriggle of the Frenchwoman, and the grenadier stride of the Fn; lish, a8 a graceful, swimming gait. The charm {s that if ispatural,and in being the true, uneophisticated daughter of Eve and Nature the Spanish woraan has few rivals.” Many na_erronsonsly esteem the feet of roportion ,to their small- ness. The beauty of the fest consista in ‘their symmetry and grace of outline, not in their being shost or extremely smail. the Venus de Medicis excite the sdmirati -of every one who looks at-the beautiful statue. ~In_the outlino of their:extremity they spproach the elegant form of the ellipsis, and are founded from the proportion of naiure, that of six to one betwesn the standard &t mumnman; ldg\pte,dt"by ég: m-zerfmnr 0 sculptors of antiquity. T projection of the second toe, which t Arenot iguoradt of. 0 100t and ths body, givs tho foot cliiptic form, i8 arrested in its de— Velopment by compression’of the boot or shae," .| and’ thus “ifs beauty is.marred and its elastic- tread impeded. There is always asimilarity in the natural shapo of the hands y:m! feet” o(’th " same person. 1f the hand is plump, rounded, sud dimpled,- with a Jelicate wrist, 80 are the feet dimpled on the fintfljfii}zlfl of tho toes, and 1he anklo softly rounde Poets in every time have lavished priises on tho *human foot divine.” * the sil- er-footed qucen.” - Paris, in making cholcs of irgins brought beforo him— . “Thelr gait he marked as gracefully they moved, Homer calls Thetis the many beautiful “And round their feet Ins €30 ragacious roved.” - ~Ben’Jonson describes a lover,whose devotion t0 hus mustross was,so great thatho =« . P ol 4 would adore the shos, . | d¥lipper was 1e0¢ off, 20d kisw1t to0. | Andagain: z 4 And where sho went the flowers took {hickest root, ‘An ehe :ad sowed tiem with e 0dorous Lool.™ Tho following éntiment ia froin s old yoluma ‘of suonymons poems : - oW hec feet teriipt ow soft and light the treads, Fearing 1o wake the flowers from their beds ;. * Yet from thelreweet grecn Tillows everywhers .- - Thiey tart and gaze sbout Lo seo My faiL. -~ ook how that pretty, modest colimbine « Hangs down ts bead. to viaw those fect of thine ! See the fond motion of the strawberries, ~° Creeping on eartls to go along with thee; Tho lovely violet makes after 100, Uuwilling yet, my dear, to part with yon. “he mot-gracs and the dafafes catel thy toes, ‘0 Inss my fair one’s feet before pha goes.” Do ot fesre to put tby feot naked n theriver, swoet ; Thiuk not newt, nor leach, nortoade, - Will Lite the feet where thou hast trod: < —Wilsows Herrick pays tho_ followin ment to Mrs. Southwood : 4 Fler profty fect, Like emilce, did creep * - g, delicate compli- . Ajittle out, and titen, - Asif thoy started st bo-peep, Did soon draw in agaln.” Tho following is very beautiful, from Bir John ing's . “ FTer feet beneath her “ Ballad of the Wedding:™ pettycost " - Like little niice stole in and out, ¥ As if they feared But, o, she dances such No sun th light > 5un upon n Esster Day Ts half a0 fine a sight " Byron also exquisitely describes the animation of the chrracter shown in ths movementof the feei: But rather skim tue earth. —New York World. - i Dumas* Visit to Bulwer,. | 44 Eatirka was a Georglan, white and red, Wit great bitto eyes, a lovely hand and arm, - : Aud fect 69 emall they scarce seemed made to ead, AL Alexandre Dumas describes, in » recent ‘pumber of the Revue de Paris, a visit which "he {m'd to Lord Lytton in -1868. He eeys: “When Diclens died, my Leart was 3ad ; for I knew him woll, und 8o did my illustrions fatker, because he knew us and liked us , but when tho great Bul- wer diod, I felt still saddor, for. Bulwer, only B few yearn ago,raised mo from despair to iopefal- nese. Thoy who are able to do such things are bottar than apostlos: thoy..are sugel understand mo not. Bulwer mo in anything mean. Mis- did not, encourage He only toak mo up. & broken reed, aftor fiften yoars of literary lifo, when I was hoart-broken, sad said : 7 Connage ™ .How did I becomo acquainted with Bulwer? Go back thirty. yeard. \What was I but a boy? What was my fatiler? A'great man. This man lived at Versailles. Hediad a court, reat Who wero his courtiers? Balzac and Edgeno Sne. I, poor little fellow, waa almost stupefied at secing around my father, the incarnation of goodness, 50 much’ ability and brillia ncy. Do you know why I never tapprocisted bonmots? Because I besrd too many of them. - On e day there appear- ed at my father's tablo a elender goutleman of foreign sapect. My fathor took mo upon his lap, and said to his strange guest: *This 18 my son?” The distinguished stranger, with wonderful air of kindpess in his fino eyet, took me iu Lis arms, kigsed me, nod eaid ¢ Dear child.” I was anzious o know who he was. papn, and ho eaid: * He wrote Eugeno Aram.” It wag _Bulwer, 1 nsked For years afterward I de- voured his books. They made me learn the Eng- link lauguage, 1 nevor rogre tted it. That was long ago. We wero oll Lappy. We grew up, and I grow oid, and father re- muimed young. [rance was' quiet. . L wrote, .ui sometimes people applauded mo. OQue day they hissed ons of my piays. I was fhere; but, when I beard those eerpentine sounds, .1 did not betray any emotion. "I thought my play, a5 good; yot, when I went home, aud re- tired to my couch, 1 burried my_head in my pil~ low. I wanted to flec, and I went te should T meet in London bul He said to'me: 2 ~ * You must see Bulwer.” ‘Ah ! France had become too amall for me, o England. Who t M Louis Blano? Everybody in London knew where tho groat man lived. ~Next day 1knocked at the door of his_elogant house. would ace me. I entered his lib: wea, the samo noble features of He sent at once that ho There'he who had taken mo in bis arms st Vincennes, at my fath- or's houso, only his hair had grown more sil- very. e hardly He was affected when he saw me, and I able to restrain my tears. Once I benrd M. Thiers complimenting & young Parlis- mentary orator. That made a deep impression onme, Batwhat was my sensation when the groat Bulwer eaid tome hehad read my plays, nd had been deeply interested in them ? Our conversation seemed very brief. rather be &, great was very long, but to me it. Bulwer said that he:would dramatist than s movelist. With that naivete which is sometimes peculiarto- great authors, he asked me which of his works I Liked. best. all; but I angwered: “ Pelham! " “Eyerybody likes that,” he eaid slowly; have you read Rienzi2” T was embarrassed, for I liked them “but * Read'and admired it,” waa my auswer. “Was {t really good 2™ ¢ In my opmla'g‘i fanltlezs.) ° There was a ile of gratification in hiS besu- -tifal eyes. -Mine grew lustrous as I saw it. Ho asked how loog Iwould romain in England. I told him what had brought me thero. - He laughed st mo. “1\What! So small s misfortune as that! " I dropped my oyes. Bal enid: wer lzughed, and- “You Frenchmen are the most clever, but slso the most seneitive of playwrights. I know Something of your first-night sudiences in Paris. 1 have been among them. them mora good than to tear But nothing does down what, ought {0 be applauded. I aseure you I myself would never venturo with & play first before s Parisian saudience.” i Ab," T said, ** your * Lady of Lyons' is pop- ular all over France.” “Yes,” ho answered, lishman.” When we * Courage tbecause T am an Eng- parted, he whisperad into my ear— That noble word sustained me over afterward, sand I racalled it when I received the news of the death of the great and good man. = e it The Drinking Habits of. English Ladies. 4QOnly & mother ” writes to the Pall Hall Gazette that she uses wines and gpirits only when farnished as & medicine, aud is benefitted ence, She thus Contrasts her prac- that of the mass of her acquaint- goout to luncheon after &:bmy two ours of domestic avocations and e hours of brain work, feeling tired, certainly, but- I_take my food and & glass of water, Tadlies also * fecl will revive them but o glasa ot tired ak all, even 1s, five ; claret, or champagne, with glasses beside ! flled, by attentive servants. I meot my friends at a garden ward st o ball, be sure. they have tasted the claret cup, thing even stronger; being they- will and revive.. Other tired"—but they think nothing of sherzy. - Others take it just a3 & matter of course fours aiter, they take the bock, which the three swater bottles are emptied, at table, and the de- canters left fall. But thé fimily-is in' tribula- tion and_terror, owing to the threats of & cook who, baving made too free with the kitchen beer barrel. has seized & carving knifo aud proposed to kili the parlor maid, who suggested: she had botter go to bed, “I don't know how it is,” sighs the mistress ; **but 0 many women servants get drunk now-o-days.” T.tell her my- simple story, that for twenty years Ihave never allowed beer in my kitchon, o reckoned beor money in ser- vants’ wages. They must either accept-the al- ternative and drink water—as- I.-do—or.give up my placo. They uover have given up my place, and ours is still 00 ‘of the vory few hauses” where thero is no_troable with servaots, : But [hen T suggested hioso factsyshie shook, her bead. ‘Bhe had no courage £o° commenco such a ‘reform. Yet, il reform doss commonda, it must be from the uppér and not the lower also, Lormly Veleve . with women rather {han with: THE SONG OF THE COOL CASHIER. . He'sat like 2 1ock in tho prison lock, <" A slender wan and youog, : With 3 jaunty air of denil-may-care, Aud tls 1a the song ho sung: - m & fool xnd 5 cashler cool, President and Boara, * rdian strict and derelict, fraud.” - But it may not be, 31a T to b, * * Tbatyon can include all thees 3 s o7 Téll then, I pray, what you mean'to sy, P And he'answered: ' “'If you plense; TEa% * 43Iy song/s clear ;T was eole cashier, And 1 aimply had to fool t The President, to tho top of hls bent While I seized the entiro rule, - - 4 Then I'gammaoned the Dosrd, old fogy horde, ,2pd pu e out fn o cod; . - rew my checks, nd made my ‘specs,” - Tl the bonk was dotie and sold. - . 1 And 50, 28 you bear, T'm a cool cashier, . Anda Premdent, andall - The file and rank (hat ran tho bank, - And Iran it toits fall, * 4 But Tittls I cava ; T'm debonnaire, “ . For I haven’t a cent to show, oo < ."And the bank i4 bust,’ snd I'm “here on frust; 1t the folliest lark I know 17 - —New York Graphiz. 1ES. ... From the New York Warld. .~ = .~ - A writer in & late periodical, giving an seconnt of a visit_to the Churchof Banta Croce, in Florence, saya: **Over tho main entrance are the original letters 1HS, placed there by St. Ber: pardius, of Sieans, who invented them in 1437, after the plegue,to denoto-the name and mis- sion of Jesus—Jesus Hominum Salvator.”, There secms to be a general misapprehension concerning tho- origin and ‘meaning -of , this monogramatic. emblem, notwithstanding 'that it is in common use in . both Protestant and “Roman _Cstholic- churches. "It orna- ments chancel walls and windows, it is carved upon altars and pulpits; it is em- broidered on the ecclesiastical vestments, and is stamped on the covers of eacred books. Many Clristians regard it with an almost superstitious veneration, as if it possessed some peculiar in- heront holiness, somo hidden efficacy ; whereas, in it present. form, . it_hias 1o meaning, snd, apart from _its associations, is possessed of no ‘more significance a8 a religious emblem than would bo.any other three letters of the alphabet arranged in & similar consecutive order. His- torically considered, it poszesses some interest, far it cmbalms forever the stupidity or the care- lesaness of early translators of the New Testa~ ment, who did not know or did not distinguish lma difference between the Greek and Boman etters. B In it proper form it is simply an abreviation of tho name of Jesus, and it is nearly 2s old as the Christian era. It is used continually in the “ Codox Binaiticus,” which is considered by many scholars to be the oldest known manuscript of the Holy Scriptures, antedating even the ** Vati- canus.” It is found also in the other * Codics,” and very many secular manuscripts, from the early centuries down Lo the time of the invention of pratiag. Many instances of it may be seen in Casley's fac-similes in his * Catalogue of the King'a M88. ;” notable in the charter of Berking Abbey, of the early date of A D. 676. . b%n:, to :av& ug:le and hbux;x the early copyists abbraviat . frequently- ing Wor and we find the name of Jesus m:fifl?{y’ contracted to THC, a line upon the being the sign of abbreviation. - The middlo letter H is the Greek eta S?Omm E), and ths whole is em are filled, .sometimes r8- 1t intermediately urty, or after- will once or twice or negus, Or S0me- still “*tired.” If ‘count,—which thoy mever do,—they will find thet on an svemgi'o they take at least three o8 of some sort Of of the day. mt winein_the course Ts this necessary? During nob uch less than 4fty years I have never found it 80. in, I visit a mnflxer?g:rho tells take, for pint Becon haif a feaspoontal of brandy Do takea it regularly, by th Her cldest, » girl of 5, quafis daily balf glass of port wine relish, -**y ¢l mother; they aro so_delicatel” young _ mursing me she “is_ obliged to the sako of the baby, half a of stout threo. times. s day. To her 18 months old, ehe is ;dmmis::%ng in ita food. o doctor’s order.’ at dinner the with considerable dren _require it,” eighs the No wonder. 2y third friend, a childless invalid, enlarges on the grea t comfort sho bas in ber g 8 of cham= _pague at Junch, her 11 o'clgsk ogg and sherry, tiny dose of port wine exhsusted.© “I don't eat, sho s when 85 I should be dead if I didn't.” 860 the excitod look, tho miserable falsa whauever she feel 50 I must drink,” Asd energy only kept up by euch means,. I ‘ain in- clined to_ say mournfully, The fourth house I enter is excoptionable fact, even am Beiter be dead.” one whers—most ong women—these equivalent to the Roman or lkinglish IES; or, the Tand J being_identical; to JES, the first, sec- ond, and last lettors of ‘the name of Jesus. In tho ‘Latin transcriptions the Groek abbreviation IHC was retained, the declensional terminations being changed to snit the Latin casea. In the coures of time the_ignorant scribes who copied - tho manuscripts confounded _the Greok with the Romsn letters, and wrote it THS, having no con- ception, probably, that the middle letter stood for anything but the Roman H. In the * Codex Beza,” where the Greck and the Latin taxts are given on alternate pages. the error is very ob- servable, the Greek LHO beinig metamorphosed into the Latin IHS. .~ - - .. Finally still another chango, took plsce. The dash, tho sign of abbreviation, became & cross, thus, IHS.; and then it was discovered that « Jegus Hominum Salvator” was comprehended in'the threo lelters, a very pratty.and sngges- tive explication, but unfortunacy in that it fur- nishes additional proof that the copyists mis- took the middle lotter for the Roman H. Igna- tius Loyola, the founder of ‘the "“Order- of Jesus,” evidently fell into the same error. In the great seal of the order the symbol appears IHS., in the midst of emanating rays of light, ith the threo nails of the cross beneath, ar- ranged like a fan, with the pointa inward. - This, sometimes written slso IH-I-S, is nsed for the abbraviation of “In Hae Cruce Salus.” Tha symbol of Jesus: was. probably not used otherwise than 8s & manuscript_abbreviation until about the beginning of the fifteenth cen-. tory, when it began to be employed as s istinct emblem in caligraphic ornamentation and shorsly afterward in church decoration. ~ The letters are found combined in s variety of shapes, often making » very pleasing and artistio monogram. A singular ons desoribed by Molanus i worth mentioning, He says: “In s window-of the, Orphan Asylum in Louvain, s building which bo-* Jonged formerly to the Jesuits, are depicted be- {ween tho ond lotters I -and 8 Brothors Ignatina sod Xavier, each looking toward tho otber sad- grasping Tight hands, which hold an upright Eross, thus forming the middlo letter K" St. Bernardius, of Sienna, may have been the firat to use the IS a8 a sacred emblem in church orpamentation, but he certainly did nof invent the symbol, nor is it probable that ho was the originator of the legend, ** Jesus Hominum Sal- vator.” — A Simple Storys . From the St, Louis Democrat. i The simple story of John Haffernan feaches us that honesiy and patience are sure to be re- arded, more forcibly than that great moral les- son could be impressed on our minds by » didao- tic discourse. John Heffernan was a_poor boy when he en- tered the establishment of Bessrs. Goldsticks & Monegbaga; but he brought with him s certifi- cate Trom his Bunday-school teacher, ssving tha* he was an honest lad, who could learn more erses and forgat them quicker than any other Doy in the clasa. His employers wero obliged to test his honesty in various ways, buthe stood tho test nobly. When sfr. Moneybage gaw him pick up s pin from the floor he was sweepiog, ho thought that John might be guilty of taking things, and drappbnd a 10 cent shinplaster in the. same placa; but John Bonestly swept it out without noticing it, and brushéd it into a corner, where he could pick it up at his leisure. Then Mr. Moneybags over- 5id him his weeldy stipend by the smount of 1, and waited to sce what the boy would'do. At hé dead hour of night the:Moneybags house- Honesty, and wasn't certain that the bill was & 0ood one. Then he was put in of the ank deposits, and his character for honesly was established. g ! One day, when he was going to the bank, he looked at the ticket s usnal, and discovered that ho was the besrer of $5,000 in curren« cy. Hethen know that the time had come for honesty and patieaco to be rewarded, and ha stuffed the billsinto his pockets, and took the firat train for the West. Hois now ons of the -most prominent residents of the Pacidc;elope, where he has_aiready bought = conntry seat on the coast, and expects to buy a geat in the Sen- ate. But he atill preserves the chuckaluck ont- £it that gave him bis- start -in life, and points with pride to the bank ticket, which proves to his children.that virtue is its own reward.” 1le de Montpensier. The Princess’ Anne AMarie Louige d'Orleans, Duchesse. de Montpensiar, but better known as Mademaiselle, and not unfrequently speksn of asLa Grande Mademoiselle, was of the most | husband rather “than ‘hold was aroused by the furious rmfili:g- of the bell. The old gontleman put on his dressin own and descended to the door; whera he foun: §Ohn Hoffernan, with a tear in his oyo and a dol- Iar bill in his right band. John declared that he conld not rest 1n his virtuous couch, after dis- | covering the mistake, until it was rectified. " Wb, didn't you keep it 7" asked Alr. Money- _bng‘;. {3 4 yun!d ‘not have known that ¥ had over- aid you.” . NG oep it?” exclnimod John, “Little do you know the precepts that wese instilled into my youthful breast by my sainted grandmother. But- 1 confess that the temptation wsa a sirong osie. T was saving money to buy & Bible for my wid- owed mothor, and had accumulated the sum of 15 cents. With this. dollar I conld have com- Pleted tho purchaso, and I admit thst I looked at it with longing oyes. But Lonestytriumphed over temptation, and virtue is its own reward. Koep the dollar for yous honesty,”. 8aid the ‘benevolent old gentleman. ‘‘Buy your Bible,. and be happy, I wonld sk you to marry my danghtar, and would take you into partnership in the nsual way; but it happens that my daugh- ters are all sons, and you must- €XCuse Ime for tho present.” <G o5 John went home, his heart swelling with the consciousnesa of baving done his duty and made s dollar clear. The mext day he invested that dollar in a chuckaluck outfit, for the benefit ‘of the benighted young heathen in the next alley. Young Heffernan was then promoted to a desk, and a five dollar bill was once placed temp'tinil;: within his reach : bub Jobn Was secure in - oggs orsome athée article uzod to clarify it. ‘royal birth in Franco, being_the only legitimals 20d-daughter of Henry1V., and the wealthiest heiress'in Evrope, succeeding as #ho did, even in the lifetime of ‘her father, Gaston, Dike of Orleans, to the vast posseesions of her. mother, the representative of the house of Montpensier. As euch, tho arrangement of & marmiage for her might naturally have been expected to have heen among the first objects of solicitude, nof only to the relatives who ‘conld guide the «| disposal of her hand, but still more to those who might hopo to obtain it ; and nover has 80 va- ried and ro'fi! alist of candidates been offercd toanylady's acceptance. An Emperor, three Kings, and Kings'. brothers and cousins almost without number, had their pretensions to her favor - successively - discussed; buf, chiefly throngh bher own caprice or indifference, ail the great matches which were proposed for Ter camo to nothing. Though for a moment sha favored ono or two of the suggested connections, sho admits frankly that in those instances she was attracted by the position of hor intended by bimeelf, and tho rat person who ever awakened her serious liking was no Prince of any nation, but only a younger _brother of a noble family, that of Lauzun, whorz sho eventually married. Even spart from her rank and wealth her personal 3 were suficient - fo atiract -smitors enongh, if her own dscription of them, may bo_belioved; for sbe undertakes to der sgeribe her appearance with as much minutenesa and 8s mnch fidelity asher actions. In ber de- sgeription, she certainly does not seem greatly ta dieguise her defacts, and; as candor on'_guch a- subject is; perhaps, more trying to female’ vani- ty than even a confossion of faults of charsctes or errors of cocduct, and is certainly at least aa Taro, our readers may probably not be unwilling £0 s6e this portrait of the first lady of the French C;;xt in its most gorgeous sge, drawn by her- . 41 am tall, neither fat nor- thin; of & very ‘fine and graceful figure. Aly neck 1ia tolerably ‘shapely; my arma and Lands' aro not gocd, but my skin is fair. My legs are straight; my feel are well formed ; my bair light, of & pretty ash- golor, 35 faco i long, ita confour pratty; my nose Jarge and aquiline; my montl is neither larga nor small, bat symmetrical, and with,a very agrecable axpresion. My lips aro rosy; my teeth not good, but not very bad ; my eyes bluc, peither large, nor emall, but bright, soft, and commanding, ‘like my countenance.’ I haves lofir anner, without' being conceited. I ax civil and familiar; buk in a way rather to gain respect than to allow any one to fail in jt. Lam very indifferent about my dress, but ‘mever untidy;_ Ihate slovenliness. I am always neat, and, whether dressed carefully or . care: lesely, all I put on is in good taste. J donot mean that I do nob look incomparably better when carefully got up; but carclessness is less injurious to me than to others, because, without flattering myaelf, while I do injustica o all I wear, eve g Iput_on becomes me. 1 talk a great deal without talking nonsense or using bad expressions, sud I never speak of what I do not understand.’ 5 In other paessges she gives us a little sddi- tional insight into the favorite smusementa and tastes of her yonth, and also into her disposition. Bhe hated cards; she was very fond of dancing and of hunting; still more of lsughing at_peopls, though so far was she: frowm thinking ~ridicule & mark - of ill-pature, that "she would ‘rather- bo langhe st harself than pitied. . Sheliked the cornpany of all brave, honest men. especially soldiors ; she was fond of conversstion on military topica. As for resding, to which she was addicted, in proza she prefecred books on serions solid subjects; of poetry she liked all sorte, good, bad, and in- different. Her disposition, as she PAIns it, wag a pretty equal and not unusual mixture of. good qualities, with others not altogether commend- able. She pigued berself on nothing 86 much 28 on the warmth ‘and steadiness of her friendship, . whi however, wzs _shown rather in conferring great _ benefita than in psying petty sttentions. Shewasan admirable keeper of secrets, and was incspabla of anything base. She was temperate in eating snd drinking, ond (though it was certainly Dot the yirtue of that age) sle was free fram any gjflpenfilly to gallantry. She was the most grate- ul person in the world. - And if these are espe- cinlly feminino virtues, he was mot without thoee which comonly are rather tho attributes of the sterner sex. Shewas ambiticus, courage- ous, * d resoluto, and possessed ¢ ' tho most - perfect - self-command. On the other hand, she ' was hot-tempered, passionate, and spitefa ‘2s an enemy ; and s gelf-willed, owing to tha good opinion she had of herself, and her contempt for every ono ela, that sho would rather spotd her life in solitnds than pat the slightest rostraink on her humor, even if hor fortune depended oa it. 1t will hardly be denied that such_franknest of self-portraiture is so nnusual as of itself to give o Tsvarsblo impression of tho artist, aad the ‘more 80, eince the chief oventa of her carder, aa related by others besides heraelf, prove it to bays been very fairly sccurate and ‘impartial. — Belgravia. - A How to Make Colfees T the Editor of the New York Sun: & Bra: Haviog resided many years in Europe, and traveled. extensively, I have drunk’ coffes almost everywhere, and given some sttention to tho different modes of preparing it for nse. I will give the result of my experience: The Turks, Arabs, and Persians, roset coffea_as highly s possible without ' burning it, because if coffee is actually burned, the ofl, which is the _only good property in the berry, is consumed. ‘After the coffea ia thoronghly rossted, the Orien- tals generally pulverize it 1o a mortar, put it in or bowl, pour boiling water upon it, and drink it as the French do chocolats ; or theyallow it to remaisi in tho vessel in which jt is preparod nntil it setties, when they carefully pour it off, avoiding the grounds or dregs; Whea roquired for use, it is putinto a small sauce-pan, which is placed over the fir, whero it remaint until tho coffee is hot, when it is served in small quantities, Every person who has drunk coffes in £astern conntries knows the effect it has on the mervous system ; the difficulty is that the aroma has all passsd off and the tannia remains, which will alwags produce & nervousness. . There are three components in coffee—calei tannic acid, aod wood—the first is & healthf: stimulant, the sccond is very injurions to tha stomach, cousing headaches and deranging the system generally ; hence the reason why many sre obliged to abstain from the use of coffee. Coftes should not be boiled.- The mode of prep- aration suggested by the authority named in the srticle alluded to above is decidedly erro- neous it is simply impossible to cnvelopa a ves- gel with Bteam produced from boiling water during a sufficient length of time to. briog the liquid contained in the vessel to'tho tormpera- tare of the steam, which it must be to extract the caffein without boiling it. Again, the length _of time required to do this i8 sure to extractthe withtheliguid snd renders tannin, which miogl the coffe unfit to the healthfal property having all passed off. T French goserally put ‘coffec into n faanel bag, and pour boiling water Gpon it. - This method is defective, {rom the fact that the greater portion of the water passes out Laat e oot ihe bag, instead of through the coffes ; therefore, the grounds must remain in the liquid until the caffein is extracted, and with it tho tannin. 5 In this conatry, coffee is generslly boiled, and I; ‘process, tho aroma all eacapes, and the b rties romein. -The only perfect spparatus have ever sesn for E;punng colfeo 28 & bav- erage i on wrm which has two inside cylinders, Doth having 5 strainer attached to the. bottom, the larger occupying about one-half of the inside of the main urn, while the smaller fits insido tho former, but is not so deep. The coffee or tea ie 'F’lmd 1n the larger cylinder, and. boiling water poured into: the small cylinder, which, passea through tho strainer upon the coffee, not in s volume, but in fine-spray, and then through the coffeo and the lower cylinder, taking with it all the cuffein -and leaving, tho .tannin in the'grounds. The coffee falls into the main um par!ocdgoeleur,‘ and forms a most delightfal beveraga. Sorse time ago, while dining with a celebrated French physician in Paris, we were taking coffeo, when he said $ome, * Do not the people in America generally boil coffee #? I re- plied in the aflirmative. He then enid, “If coffee is boiled it should not be drunk, as tho best passes off into the: fickles tho nostrils, wils tho remainder con- ains tho poison, which is very injurious o tha Somacn Shde ? s :