Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1873, Page 10

ol al HE CHICAGO DAII ¥ TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 18751 GREAT FIRES. And How to Avoid Them, A Suggested Addition to Our Present Fire.-Depart- ment. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bmn: The lato throatening firo on tho West Bido was but another of many oxomplifications of the truo ourco of possible gigantic conflagra- tions in our poculintly-constructed city. Dis- nstrous fires, involving lnrgo loswes in lmited arens, may have tholr incoption fu the businecss- contro ; but an actual roburning of {ho wholo city, FAT ¥ROM IMTOBBIDLE or ovon fmprobable, can rosult only from s fire originating on tho woodon Weat Side. Tho reason is 50 oyidont as scarcoly to ndmit of n con- trory argument. Among tho stono aud bricle walls of tho business-centro, fire nacossari- 1y travols slowly, and, thoreforo, always prosonts & comparatively-rostricted lino of dangor; whilo, on thoe contrary, among woodon buildings, with #high wind, ita courso is foarfully rapid ; the dangor-line may soon widen to an unmansgoablo oxtont, and tho burning fragments lonp over ontire squarcs, Tvory firo of this character con- tains tho possibilitics of & goneral conflagration, snd, in viow of thair frequency, it doos scom tho very height of foolhardinoss to make no speoial and suffleient provision for averting a calamity 80 big with misery to tons of thousands. DR UTTER DELFLESSNESS snd Inck of proparstion against a roburning can but too readily bo apprecinted on examination, firet, of tho habits of fire, so to sponk, among wooden bulldings; and, second, of tho moans ‘wvailablo for its subjugation. First—Tho truo charactoristio olemont of the coming conflagration ia the rapid prograes of comparativoly small, dotached masses of firo, slmultanoously, over an extondoed aros, A care- ful obsorver would notica thia ss the promi- nent fonturo of tho lato fire, of tho proface to tho Groat Fire, and, for that mnttor, of overy widely-oxtonded fire wo have suffered. In ench cnso it is the samo old story; a rapid ropotition of potty fires, individually insignifl- cant, and onsily oxtinguished; but, collootivoly, intensoly dificult to mxml:lgo. eimply and solely ‘becauso m?hm mnn];)r and tho engines fow. Second—-The Firo Departmont consistsof only abaut twonty steamors, Now, a fairly-ignited ‘building domanda one, two, or threo of theso morely to rostrain ita furthor progross. Sovoral instances have ocourred whore twenty or thirty ‘houses waro simultancously in flames, To-day or to-morrow may_ prescnt & liko condition ; and evory snch combination of many fires and high winds is o far from idle threat to our existonce. Tho magnitude of tho danger, iis nearnosa, snd our Liclplessnoss, aro spparent ; but wheore shall wo sook for safoty? Perhaps the diagnosis of tho disenso suggests its ouro. 'Wo havo found that fire is dangorous in proportion to its speed and facility of ropro- duction, Tho remody is the proyision of an ex- tinguishing oloment of liko. ;Soed, and admitting of sufliciently-oxtended subdivision to guard o wido extont of torritory. To rocet this requiroment, I would suggest tho following : ADDITION TO OUR PRESENT DEPARTMENT Having divided the woodon portion of Chicago Into, say, twenty districts, to oach allotten porta- ble Balcock Extingnishors, with n light wagon andn singlo horse foroach division, fortheirswift carringe, ILnlist m—nm.]y mon, resident at contral flulm.s in their soyoral districts, to house the orses and wagous on their own prome 108, —thug ovolding the otherwise heavy sxpense of purchaged grounds and building, , Theso men, having charge of tho wagon, and immodiate direction of the Ixtinguisbors when in activo servico, arc to remuin constantly on Quty, like other paid firemen. Eroct at oach station a water-tower of sufticient height to over- look tho immodiato noighborhood, providing it with o firo-nlarm box, ‘Thon divido" theso fnou into watches, go that each alternato ono shall bo .'always on tho look-out, night =and day, instond of dopending sololy mpon voluns tary notice of firo by the discoverer, Ten watohful mon, so situated, would descry the vory beginnings of many fires now woll pd- raunced boforo an alarm comes in, Tinally, to comploto the sohomo, turnish oach vogon, in addition to tho Extinguiehers, with & lozen lopgtlis of ordinary garden-hoso, ench 0 or 80 feet long, with suitable pipes for attach~ “51 to house-hydrants; a dozon fire-buckots ; nd two sections, 10 or 12 feot long, of light wldor, arranged for interchangoablo combina- on. Now that we have constructed our Auxiliary ‘opartment, lot ns seo WIAT IT CAN DO, < ¥ean concontrato at a givon point in_its own roper torritory half-n-dozen wagons, admitting ! rapid traveling bocauso of their lightnoss, bo- re the arrival of a singlo heavier and slower- oving steamer. At the moment of arriva), the achines are roady for officiont oporation, not ving to lay honvy hoso (and burst it1) A suflle nt number of capable men aro always at hand operly to mmm?o tho Ext(nguiahnm, under mmand of the uniformo iver of 3 wagon, and the police, With the 1 of tho combination-laddors, tho roofs dwollings, barns, and _ shods aro :pesible, Its garden-hoso and fire-buckots 1wet down thoadjacent buildings, proventing +:1t chiefost of dangers, o tondoncy in the fir nost instantly to spread over a wido extent. «8tly, overy passing minute brings roinforee- snts, whick can be distributed over the whole 'lnngmd district, blotting out each nowly- “Yted fire in infancy. l\m\mps its officioncy will bo MORE. THOROUGHLY APPREOIATED 1 consideration of its status, say Len or fifteon Inutes from sounding an alarm, when, by con- ntrating only half-n-dozen wagons, it will ve in notivo oporation 60 Lxtinguishor- ‘eams, 72 gardon-hoso-strenms, and 72 firo- skota, Tha preventive, as woll au extinguish- . & valio of such an ally at this singo of firo, . Lardly bo overestimated, as oxports will ad- lnit. . Evon if the original firo escapes their con- irol, thoy will bar its further progress in othor opner than tho slow march of the main mnss of Aames, which must needs burn through one bujlding to reach tho next. This is equivalent +o [restricting o fire to ita cradlo ; and, if wo o { ocompllél that, o may safoly disthiss all &, \ty, and can comfortably pockot a loss cer- ‘mevor to reach imporing figures. ol'usumntu tho value of our system * 4 gNDER ALL POSSINLE CONTINGENOIES, suppose the firo to havo quite cscaped present control, and extended its front o block or mora in Jength, throwing out skirmishors on either Bonk and huudreds of yavds in advance. Hero, indeed, i8_genuine dangor and grounds for tho gravest alarm. A diogram of tho scone would resent an oxact picturc of un outspread fan, vith ita bandlo at the point of incoption. Tho qter edgo of tho dingram is fringod with, orhaps, three dozon burning housos; Lun- of yurda onward, freah flamoes lenp p 88 by magio; two or three score of ructures have bocome miniature volcanoes, d thora aro only bol?_or o third as muuy one ines to faco thom, Now is the apportunity of 18 Extinguished Brigado, It concontrates ita holo Iorcn,—direcflmi. not upon the main lxod%, nt upon its flanks and the fresh territory ahead, J0 Extinguishor-strenms, cupablo of continuous h«{‘“% by mclmrglugiv, 210 gardon-hose-stenms, nd 240 firo-buckols, in all 80 oflclont fighting lements, Theso can patrol tho whole endan- .ored district, and each, nt tho commoncoment i+ \ffivoa from sparke, i8 as efliciont as n hugo steam- +,¢in position, !arnlthormll[)xm'unzdnnmguu, and {sithor ann do moro. Wholo blockw ahoad” can 3 guarded. Eithor flank will bo attached, and ‘adually the fire-disgram will bo reversod, no nger widening with progrossion, but steadily | e eooting toward socond handlo not far for- Yawd, Tho narrowed limits offer the rogular do- , (rtment a fair chance for efoiont operation, d the disastor is avorted. IThe Extinguielier-Brigade offors Chicago this \gnificent gift of cxomption from the Lorrars # nacond dostruation, na wall 1a prdicction ainst oven the hoavy losses wo havo loarnod to opt 08 necessary ovily, for A MERELY NOMINAL RECOMPENAE, twonty-five thousand dollars will place it in sration, and a like sum por ammim will sufico ‘{ts maintonance, a tho following ostimatos prove s COUT OF ORGANIZATION, I' | Extingnishera snd chnrm:u‘ ut $50,, $10,000 6,000 horaed and wagons, ut §300,..vs ¥ | longtha garden hose o sectional Iaddora + {0 fre-buckets © % watch-towers ¥ 0 fro-alarm-boxes SERVIOE PER AWNUM, wages 20 mon and feeding 20 b Ropatra snd Extingutshior charges. $26,000 Unmgnring thiy ontlay with the savings that would havo rosultod from the offorts of thls Brigndo at tho lato Wost Bido fire, wo flud Lasa boyond thotr control,—n lbornl estmato. .$100,000 Lons they could have proventodiess.eeeiss 160,000 —n olenr enving, in one instanco onl{. of n saum suflioient to organize and maintain {ha Drigado for four yoars! Qoing back to Octobor, 1871, wo clnim, ns o foat within its powor of necom- plishment, » salvago of THREE DUNDRED MLLION DOLLANS, by proveuting {ho Grent Iire, In cither ciso tho progresa of tho conflagration was slmply » “serlos of potty flres, which, in~ dividually, woud lave yiclded to n fow Extingulghors ovon, hnd thoy or an oquivalont been stationod at overy point endangored in advance of the enomy, What has happened oneo, and only barely not thrice, iy CENTAIN TO MAPPEN AGAIN if tho conditions rommin unaltored. Tho only ostion is of timo, and it is cortainly Lotter and chonpor to nlter tha * couditions' rather than clhianco tho * time,” To oquip tho police-forco solely with six- pounders would progont an oxact parallel to tho resent armamount of the Fire Department. Each lins liko onomlos, alert, numorous, and na diftieult to fix in one particulnr spot ne the Irishe mnn's flea, Now, divide the policomen into two dozen _ arlillery companies, and lawlossnoss would laugh at thom, This Extinguishor-Brig- odo ropresonts tho &mh‘olmnn and batons of Washburn’a command, Tho vastnossof the Interestsnt stake, tho denrly-domonstrated insuficiency of progont np~ Fllnucos for their protection, and tho plausibil- ty, at lonst, of tha system proposed, aro BUFFIOIENT JURTIFIOATIONS OF A THIAL, Half-p-dozen Extinguisher-wagons would practically tost its morits atn vory slight ox- poneo; and noto, tho sonson of high winds, dry wenathor, and an upidumlu of accidentnl flres, iy tho most fitting of all times for the trial, B e e BEECHER. Lecture on sThe Dattle of Businesn.”? On tho 22d inst, tho Rov. Henry Ward Beochior delivored & locturo in Boston on * The Battle of Businoss ;” of which the Globe,of that city, gives tho following synopsia ¢ It is always o chiof intorest in a nation, whon, a8 just now, the engrossing snd almost oxclusive thome of thought and of conversation is ona of those storms, which the past ia o woll acquaint- od with, unfortunntoly, which ks just passod ovor us, and all along the shore is strown with its wrecks, or stately vessols nground, huplnfi for somo rigo in tho tido to lift them again, an ovorywhoro thore is disaster or foar of disaster —hesitation. Commerco is Lo the body politic what the norvo system is to the humaun body— tho sensitivo part, When it falls into convul- sions, overy organ in the body suffers, Commorco i 8o Interwovon with tho lifo of tho nation that whon it suffers it paralyzes ‘overything. Commorco, wiscly conducted, is & sphoro as hon- orablo and a8 useful ag may bo found in life. Yot lto that embarks in commercial business is ko ono who &nlls in tropical seas, Threatening clouds aro over him, and tempests may spring out of them. Ifall mon woro only honest, truthful, intelligent, and gouncrous, how easy would commercial lifc bo? It is solfishnest, dullnoss, and tho waut of moral forco that mako business dangerous and burdensome, Theso evils nro ita Y‘ecuflnr trials, and ench person is apt to think his own trials sevoror than othor ‘poople’s, and his presont trials moro severo than any which bo has had before. But the anxistios of commerce are always sevoro, and at times mounted to extrome dogroes that aro soldom ox- erienced by any other profession of life. I have long boon au obsorver and watchor of the life of tho profossional, the mechanical, the lnbor- ing, and of tho commercial man, and I Lave como to think that thero is no class of mon, taking ono time with another, that suffer so much, bear such heavy burdens, or aro rasped with such anxioties, such anguish ot certain crises as commorcial mon. The intonsity of business is oue of tho roasons, and mon are Drought wuder the influenco of desolating suf- forings af times. If wo conld introduce tho bobit and moderation in Lusiness, mon wonld maintuin o dogreo of health and vigor and har- diliood of norve which would enable them ensily to caity the necessary attritions of business and scarcaly to fool thom, But, on tho othor hand, from thio yery nature of the genius of our poo- ple, tho sharpnoss of competition and that ox- citability which is cultured by all our institu- tions aud public hnbits, by nll theso things busi- ness i8 invested with an intensity which grinds up every fow years multitudes and muititudoes of men that aro conducting it. It is a porpotual conflict, it is an unonding excitemont, and its ro- sult is that men know uo rest, no moderation of bours, Mon nre driven ruthlessly forward so thnt they cannot oboy the laws of physieal health, and cortainly not that moderation which i necessary to mental and moral hoalth. Thero can be no truo, deop-seated Lenlth in miuds that hnve no ¢alm, and it seoms to me that the charnctoristic of American businosy mop fs that thoy live upon the very edgo of au excitomont perpetually, and know no_ calm, and that the result is that thoy neglect all thoso necessary rolaxations. ‘hoy rofuse to cultivato thoso atlections which restore and refresh botl body and mind, thus_taxing tho system boyond all ‘due bounds, Homo, that sliould bo tho counterbalanco of exciteront, ahmost losos_its Dbenefits and virtues to multitudes of men. It is tho place for sleop ; it 18 tho repair-shop, and men start into and out of it, but do mot rest thero, and cortainly do not recuporate. Lusiness men do not cul- tivato thero thoso geninl and inuocont the countorbalomce 80 much nee & mind woeighod down by business, ‘Our stylo of businoss is liko o rush- ing mountain torrent, whilo in England business flows in o gentle strenm, with us it rages and roara incossantly. Theve, the offects of rivalry and compotition tond to accumulato thesse troubles. Boyoud all doubt o little compotition fs good, but, when long continued, nothing wears away a man faster. Nothing wears out staminn at 1ast more than looking inta tho futuro with anxiety for its results, Mon know almost overything excopt that which is included in tho word ‘“enough.” Men enter upon busi- noss, not with the idea of any dofinite bound or limit ; thoy go to soek fortuno, and forluno is au nlunl,mi::{;; thoy do not know whon they have reachod it 3 thoy novor know when to atop. In tho ambition to roll up fortunos, thoy ovor- task thomsolves far bogund their powors, and accumulato money far beyond their individual needs, I think that most men lave some faith in ‘moral governmont and moral qualitics, yot thero are very fow men who, in tho desperato strife of Dbusiness, haye any practical faith in moral qual- itios, ‘T'0 n largo oxtont, men boliove thoy oan, Dy sharpnees, by logordomaw, and by ton thout sand unsubstantinl qualities, amasa n mountain of property, or rotain that which thoy have al- rendy got by such means, That honesty, truth, and iutegrity nro indispensable to true substan- tinl success, multitudes of men do not believe, Evory falee oloment that enters into a man's business is liko o fulso timber that ontors into tho structuro of o ship. By and by, when o atorm comos, thoy epring nlonk, and thoir affairs aro foundored, "It is from thoso reasons that men mikcarry and full headlong to the ground, Thoy often atiributo their failure to misjudg- mont, wherons if mon could analyzo and traco offocts to tholr causes, then, for what thoy at- tribute to misjudgment, a largo balanco ought to be carvied to want of faith in moral quulitics, Thero is a certain conventionnl codo of busi- ness, but no mau conducts commereiul alfairs to any conaiderable oxtent but he comes to quos- tions not laid down in tho books or in the streot, complioated questions, and it ia not so onsy to discorn what is vight and what is wrong, There aro multitudes of men who wish to do right, but they aro prossed by what thoy call ne- ooty , and 80 Hos and dishonesty euter into their carcer to report thomselves .bF ond by, 8till moro common aro the orrors ariging from dull and uninterproting consclonces, As a gone eral thing, mon dow't want to be dishonost ; tho mon who aro designedly dishonost aro oxcep- tions ; mon fall partly from the pressuro of oir- cumstances, but ully, nlso, bocauso thoy do not know how to do right. Men entor upon a iv to be right. By and by thoy moot with instances where thoy scom doibttul; they mistake; bad leads to worse, until thoy are tied up and wobbod in wrong-doing, “Ihere are multitudes of men who want to bo honest, who huve no logislating ower ; thoy buve no notion of honosty oxcopt n conventional things, A man may bo honost in his shop or store, but whon hiy affairs onlarge hio gots carriod into n region whera there is no common Inw, and it Lio 1s not used to reason on moral qualitios Lo i apt Lo bo carried away and do wroug; and if ho finds othor mon doing ‘wrong he will follow thom, Yust aborrations often take place in businoss aifairs from “urogulntcd hopo. Sanguine mon are oontinually belioving, not so much from what they know, es from what thoy fool, aud vouturo forward rashly on nmotl»rluna which thoy cannot eoarry to s successful conolusion, Thoy may be callod the pioneors of othor mon who will”bo succesaful. “'Those who sail in un- known ohannels often run aground, but other men mark out the chaunels with buoys, and thus s dolish&!. b g eareor supposing th‘x thoy do not i aground, It Is the disastors of Lopoful mon that framo tho oharts and pllnln%n of mora conservalivo and safor men ; lhefi holp to aopstrict tho charis of commoros, and thus they lnyo thelr usea. But it is tho hope nlso whioh lends to gambl nj in tho community, Gambling I & chronle an incurablo disonso of hopofulnoss, If it is dangorous to gamblo in Infamous play-houses, it 18 much more dangerons in our great commor- glnl contrea, It1s o crying shiamo that it ahould bo in the powor of a ' fow mon to convulso n ‘wholo nation meroly to flll thoir own coffora, [Apnlmlau.] Legltimnto stock-solling is dis- inctly n logitimato business, but stook-solling as conducted by some mon fa 8 crimogo atroclous that If anything doserves the halter that doos, ‘Wiion mon havo it {n tholr powor to gamblo in seorot (a8 in the timo of tho war), as to compel the Governmont to temporatily oxorciso Orosnr- ism to save tho nation,—that men can do thia unwhipt of justice shows that we have not yot leamed how to conduct com- morco in its ligher forms. 'Co-day ono of {hoso men is paor, to-morrow ho over- flows with riohen; but thoro s ono consolation with rogard to thom,—thoy nover keep their riches. COan you point out ono of thoso mon who hing rotired with o fortuno and ronsonably onjoyed it? Thoy havo no moderation, and onlylive In tho Nory passlonsof tho stroot. But thousands of innocent men aro ruined by thom, aud it isa burning shameo that thoy should be allowed to carry ruin to innocont viotima, If public opinion could not rostrain ulmm & Inw should bo passod thot would. [Ap- gusg, & Amblllon ofton impelled mon to extend their bueinoss to such an oxtont that it grow boyond their control. Now and thon a man could ox~ tond his business to sny degreo and still control it until vast fortunes wero amassed. Still, how- ovor, ono of tho dangers of tho timo was con- contration of wealth. IIoknow not why a man should ho allowed au indafinite accumu- lation inmonoy and yot bo limited in_politionl owor. Wa watohed lost thero should bo un- imited power in politics, but thoro wasno danger of that in this land, Our spoocial dangor was in tho aristocracion that grow up by monstrous for- tunes, Vaat businesses had a tondonoy to con- sumo small busiuoss, ospecially In Now Yorl. Ho cstoomed Mr. Stowsrt, porsonally, but that such & man should mount to such a height of ‘bueiness was not a healthful sign, It was bot- tor that thnt samo amount of business should ho done bfiflfl,y smaller firms than by ono colossal one. Though less profitablo to tho individual, it. would thon bo bettor for tho community. Thoso ncoumulations of monstrons fortuncs woro dangorous, so dangerons that the day ‘must speedily come when thoy must bo limited by Jegislation. Let them look at the rosulls in Lngland, whoro mon of wenrlth ac- cumnlated landed property without limit. It was not good for the men themeelves to own too much land, or to add farm oftor farm to their ostatos. It was not best that any dopartment of business should bo hold by ono or two persons. Mouoy, moro than votes, governed this land to~ day. ‘Tho gront companios ihut wore organized over tholands held in their handa moro votes than tho peoplo themselves, It was in tho power of corporations to-day to buy conventions, and, #8 for Logislntures, thoy wero as vonal as tho market, The blessed oxamplo of Puriian ancos- tors did not restrain mon, for tho children of New Enlgluml tnd_ wandosed, stop by step, away. Buying o logisiator was ss common as buying adinnor, and when the elections wero talion tho lists wore gone over and avory man's pricc was marked over against him. The old men were nll known, bocauso it was kmown what it cost to manago thom two years boforo [langhter], and tho new men aro soon found out. The honestest aro tho profossional men. In Now York, the lawyors are honestor than tho farmers. The easiosl men to buy wero the farmers. Ioneaty camo by practico; & man might want to bo honcst, and uot kuow how, and to know how to bo honest and truo undor all clr- cumsiances in lifo was being very near to Honven. The farmer had as good o naturo ag any othor man fo atart with, but then Lio was raw; whilo o Wall stroot man was an old slagor, and was not 8o ensily imposed upon. Ho know whoro it was daugerous to bo dishonest; ho might bo dishonest, howover, under other cir- cumetances. It was dangerous for largo num- bers of the community to be under tho control of corporations ‘Who ownoed countless millions, In_ his opinion, thera ware threo com- panies—the Now York beumfl, the Now Yorlk & Erio, and tho Pennsylvania Contral with their Westorn extensione—who could, if thoy clhose, buy up the nation and put in whom they liked for President. It was & dengerous ¥nwcr, —it corruptod tho fountains of legislation, throttled justico in tho courts, and mado Mam- mon King. [Applanso.] Our danger in the nonr future wag not from tho old families or old-fashioned aristocracics, but from thoorganized entorprises that sprend over contiuents and wore in the hands of ablo business mon who could do what thoy pleased with thoir money. So when, now and thon, a storm aroso and ovorthrow them, and a for wont down, he was sorry for it. 8till ho suid to him- self that it was a comfort to find somotimes that thoro woro schomes in this world that wero not atronger than God, and that the dovil could not havoe his own way ail the time. ‘I'ho most perilous of all usngos was that of putting into tho risk of commorce funds that wero entrusted to others, not for their own uso, but for cortain spocifid purposos, Thero onght tobo an cducation on the sin of using monoy that was not our own, to apply to men 10 baunlks, oflicors undor Governmont, fiduciary agonts, otc, Tho lecturer then uarratod an instauco of & Gov- ornment officor, who once rofused to lend funds intrusted to him duriug the war, although ho could bave done 8o o first-class socurity, Wwith- out the risk of belu? found out, Mis reason waa that tho law would not allow him, *Ihad rathor,"” said the locturer, “ have the conscionco that man Los from that act, than o fortuno of milliona of dollars, for, aftcr all, thero is no lux- ury so grent as that of having the conscience of an honest man,” [Applause.] Thomotto of ayoung mon should be never to put to risk ono cont that was not his own, foi no man could toll what tho rosult would bo. = We wore coming into a condition whorein faith in man was boing es- gentinlly shaken. By sud by wo should bo ablo to nny, a8 had beon snid of old, * An hionest man in rarer than gold 1tsolf.” Speuaking of tho uncertaintios of commerce, tho lecturer eaid that from 90 to 96 per cont of men who embarked in commerce failod once in their lives. Ho did not know that failure was tho worst ovil that could bofall a man, but be supposed that fow causes of suffering wore oqual to that of failure. et them think of the dying out of bhope, of struggling mon, thoir dosporate resolve, norvod by pride, not to sucoumb, the auxioties for thoir families,—a man who could experionce thoso things and remain calm must bo ono of most uncommon nerve, Young men, when they tailod, could oasily rogain thoir fet with the buoyancy of youth; but it was hard, boyond the owor 4o toll, for old mon at tho closs of thoir lives to have their fortunca swepb awnyatan Droath, may be by » bill of their own indorsivg, or by a mishap for which they wero in no way to blame. For himsolf, if bo passed such men, ho felt like taking off his hat revorently to tunt man who, with unblomished reputation, bnd been overthrown in one of those quick equalls of commerce. Instoad of going back and pointing out his mistakes, evon 1f any had been com- mittted, ho would throw the mantle of charity over them, Soldom did men fail, whon over 40 or 50, and got ngain upon their teot, because tho lnbit of caution which thoy cultivated through lifo had ‘become 8o indurated that new onterprivcs wero not possiblo to them, Tho atruggles 'flrccedlug their failure ofton deatroyed thoir minds. Mo looturer thou, iu a fow stirring phrascs, urged thoso who wore overtaken by failuro to g0 all moana £o rally again and entor upon an lionorablo conflict ‘with lifo, and then drew a Plonsant picture of tho Obristlun graces of thoso who had onco moved among tho wonlthy, and had beon enst down aud could not recover thom- selvon,walking unmurmuringly bofore thelr God. He thon depicted various ‘charactoristics of broken-down mon, instancing first the wrecked clorgyman, Among this cluss Lo had Hocn ns much bravery s among any other olnss of the community, aud if ho were not n clergyman Dimgelf ho might porbaps say moro. Amoug the most pitinblo and worthless of wrecked mon wns tho wrecked man of ploaswe and fashion, Ile compared thom to old- fosbloned gaudy chariots thrown into sheds ns absolutely worthloss, or to the cast- off skin of ja beotle, which retained the perfect form of the insoot, but had uolmufi in it. Tho lecturer then fustauced the wrecked politician, He next spoke of tho broken-down merchant, Lot him not spoak hareh or aisrespeottul wordu in this rogard, In that proscnco thore might bo many aching hoarts—meu whao did not know how to provide for to-morrow'a household. Many & ‘man cared not for himself but a thousand times moro for thoso dopendent upon him, ow in Buch easos was tho grandeur of woman made maulfest 7 1o had “soon many a strong man bowed down in anguish, earriod forward by that conrago of woman Whivh nevor shines so bright- ly oy Fll the overwhelming sorrows of life, ‘hon, whon slcknoss comes, instead of helploss toars, whioh might be expeoted, hor radlant face sum- mons coursgo from dospair, for womau can go with thoto she loves, u!ar by ntop to tho grave with woreno and cheorful faco, and evon in the rw- of death draw Inspiration and hope from the world boyond. Blossed is the man who, in the hour of distress, in the omor- genoy of bankruptoy, can draw upon such a friond. e thon reminded his hoarers, in olo- Tlmnt and {mprossivo soutonces, that though thoy might lose their wealth, the boauty aud the sunshine of nnturg wore evor progont, and wore common to sll, and thus all who woro attuned to thelr harmonias could ever draw onjoyment from theso puro sources. 'They did nof depond upon the nmnnsinsg ortho ux{mmliug of monoy. Theso wero gonorally onough to keop tho soul frosh and fnymm, and from their influonces a man could Lo happy under anb rovorscs of fortuuno, ‘Who could take awny tho cheoring facos of littlo children? It was Ldo part of n true man never to ylold, or yiold only to tho touch of Iim who colls us from fmporfoction to porfootion, from sorrow to ondless joy, from that manhoo beguu bolow to that manhood which is consum- matod abova, Lot ua look mora to the cultiva- tion of thio simple dolights which uaturo affords o In tho artifoial joya Of proporty and gocl. oby ; and lot ng look boyond business to thoso Joys which will_stand by us whon overything olio fails, Cultlvato tho uneolflsh disposition which crontos happiness from theso clomonts, No happinoss comes from monoy, but from the soul itself, *If you grow rich,” said tho loc- turer, ‘“ these pure joys will romain and human- izo your chinractor, and if poor itis not inthe powor of misfortuno to wholly extinguish tho enjoyments of n man whose enjoyments coma from himeolf, A truo man is prool ngalust all misfortune aud even doath iteolf.” [Applausa.] AN END, T liavo hind Al : over and in that ally Like the soul's speck of firo in a maii'a 56, Ono littlo mote did crawl And ppread and fly, il wido otornity Biraightoned ftsolf to measuro out & pall Whero T might He. Lito tamplol mo, as the great Lungry soa Oalls with inovitable volco to yonth. Nor fear, nor rutl, nor tho still voico of trutb Kopt the red wino or bitler lcea from ne : Tlived, forsooth | Al things of eatth in sequence of their birtl Bpraug to my fovored lps and mot disdain, Mad fu its angry mirth 3 Love'a honeyed gain was tho beo's pattent pain, Wrought for no worth, Thavehad il Ihad it aftin vain | Asintho cup whoro the brown night-moths sup, Under the lionoy, under the parfume, Ono littlo apot Iooks up, And through’ that bioom forotolls the seod-timu's gloom, So my unsated thirat in cach drainod oup Found lurking room, Yet I kmow God hung over mo this rod, That 1 should follow whora two blocding feo* Beforo this track bave trod ; Aud, as earth’s sweet is finfto, incomplete, Ho satlatea mo whoso {nfinite, complote, Tills star and sod, —ltoss Terry in New York Independent. —_———— — A Russian Anccdote. Tho following nneedoto, takon from the Iis- torionl Momoirs of Segur, givos a_livoly ploture of tho apirit which reigned in tho Russian Court, undor tho sway of the celobrated Catherino tho Bocond : A rich banlter, named Sandorland, enjoyed for o long time tho favor of the Empress, but ono dny ho suddenly saw his house surrounded by an armad force, lod by & Commissnty of tho polico, who demanded to speak with him, My doar sir,” waid_be to the frightoned baulor, * it grioves mo deeply to havo recoived ordors from our gracious sovorcign to oxcouto toward you a soverity beyond anything I have evor yot seon, Iknow nob what extraordinary offenge you have committod to oxcite auch ex- tromity of anger in Hor Mojosty ns to induce hor to command o punishmont so horrible and un- precedentod.” I do not undersiand a word of what you are uaying,” anewered tho astomshod bankor, “I am a8 much amazod as if you Lied fallen from the clouds. What are the ordors yor bave ro- coiyed ? *T havo not _coursgo to toll you. And yot I shall bo compelled to exccute {hom.” “ Am I indeed 8o unfortunate as to havo lost Hor Mu?an!y‘u confidenca P “ AR[ if that wero all, sif, yon would_ not seo me eo dirconsolato. You might rnfinhx bor con- fidenco and evon hor favor—but— “Dut am I then banishod from Russia P “1%at would indeed bo o sad misfortune; yot with your richos you c‘l\ld find n lxospimbla TO- coption in auy other cottutry, But—' **Oh henyens | iy it dosstblo that I am to bo exiled to Siberin ?* = “ Evon from thoro you might, sooner or later, bo rocailed to Russin,” . “ Porhaps, then, you aro going to put mo in prison " 4T wish it were 8o, for thon you might bs liborated.” “Am I thon condomned to undergo the knoit " ‘ #'ho knout is a dreadful punishment, to bo nure, but it is not nlways fatnl.” i +/fhon, oh! then, you lead mo to death! tell ;no nh’\'inly ; this suspenso is worso than death tself, Know, then, that your most gracious Em- pross has given absoluto orders o fako o your entire shin." 4T tako off my skin!" exclnimed Saderland, aeized with horror—* 10 flay me_slivel” But, ogaining his nolf-command, he added, **No, no —-it cannot bo; eithor you have lost your sonses, Mr, Commissary, or your most benign mistress has lost hors. I# it possible you made no answor whon you recoived such oruel orders 2" i § sid moro than any other would have dared to do. I did not concenl my grief and surprise. T lingered in the Imporirl prescuce, and had ac- tually begun sn Lumble remonstranco to Her Majosty, when our gracious sovereign, turning to look on me, with & look and voice of anger, bado mo bo gono and perform hor will. I still secom to hear hor threntening and nxipl'lling words: ‘Qo,’ eaid Her Majosty, ‘and never forgot that it is your indisponsable duty to ox- oou‘in without quostioning the commands'I think you worthy to receive from e, " It is impossiblo to describo the agitation, the anguish, or the despair of the poor Saderland. Aftor ho ind fora timo given vent to the vio- lonce ofhis distress, tho Commissary told him that ho was allowed a quarter of an hour to set- tlo hia affairs. In vain tho banker prayed for o Iongor interyal, o at loast for an opportunity to write to the Empross and implore lior clomency. At length, sithough trombling for tho conse- quences to his own lfo, he consonted, and ho immediately followed tholotter himself ; but not having courngo to prosont himsolf at Gourt, ho wont to seek his friend aud proteotor, Col ruco. The Counnt thought that the Commiseary must havo made a mistake, and took him directly to the Imporial Palaco. Thore, leaving him in an ante-chambor, hie obtained admission to the pres- ouco of tho Empross, to whom ho related the wholo affair, What was his astonishment to overhear the Empress exclaim: ‘‘Just hoavon! what atroci- ty! Thore can bono doubt that Nieoloff (the Commisaary) is mnd ! Quick! Count, take horse Defora it 14 foo lato, and_ delivor miy poor bankar from bisalarm; oud assuro Lim of my favor and good wishos.” 4 The Count hastoned to communicats this or- der to tho Comminsary, and was yet moro eston- ished when, roturning fo tho prosencaof tho Emproes, ho hoard ber oxclaim, mid burats of tho londast Inughtor : “ Now I undorstand the cause of this strange and incomproheneible scono. I hiave for soveral yonrs had a fine dog, which I valued bighly, and 1 had givon him the name of Ssdorland, bath for the ukoof & joko on my food banker, and also in compliment to the Euglish gentloman of that namo from whom I obtained the dog, Early this morning I gave orders to Noleloff to take off hie skin entiro, in order to have it stuffed, as the poor thing wne dead, Ileseemed to Lesitato whether to oboy, and Iwas very AugrY, becauso I thought it waa eilly prido on his part,” felisian o it Tt A 'I'rusty Xarometor. Upon tho Littlo Snake Crook, noear Bingham- ton, lives an origiunl charactor, * to fortune and to fame unknown," yota Lottor Solon Shinglo overy day of his lifo than Owen ever was, iy gomine Solon Shingle has beon in tho habit of coning to Binghamton, gemngfilufigorlu g drank, and golng home fu that condition. Somotimes his wifo feols liko reseuting such usnge by administor~ ing somo punialmont whon Uncle Bolon comes homo drunk, and somotimes sho rocoives bkim with opon, 'loving wms, But Unolo Solon hos a nover-fujling barometer, which Lo makes uso of on such octcaslons to uscertain if thero is o storm browlng, When ho nrrives at Lig houso ho opons (he door und throws in Liy old hat, As thero I8 only one room to o houso ho gots n quick rosponse, If tho bt steys in, Unclo Solon knowe it is'all right, and staggors in aftor it with a full pusurance of & warm suppor_and undisturbod slumbors dur- ing the n\g{lt. But it the hat comos back—nnd wlion it comea spitefnily—Uncle Bolon tnkes Limself to lis siablos and sponds the night with his horsen, ‘Tho barometor has boen in opora- tion for over forty yonrs, and nover failed to ju- dieato o storm. ~And Unclo Solon nover fuilod to haed tho canttonsry signal, "Thore is nothing Llike accursoy to estabilsh confidonco, ..... e Rlinkoers on Hridles, Ta the Editer of the New York Commerciul Advertieer; Buch Lns boon sakd alout crnelty to animals , but uothiug obout blinds to Lorses'eyos, Do ou know the origin of the fashion? Nol Thon YVill'toll you, Tn 1603, whon I wa Loy, tloy camo lutofaghion in this wigo: Tho Duke of Hant, the father of Quoon Viotoris, was wo- fully in dobt, Being a Prince, hie conld not bo suod at common Inw, or arrested, but o ribbon strotchod noross the sidowall must nol be broken Dy the debtor. Bo his croditors coniented thom- Aolvos by using this ribbon to compel him to toko to tho stroot, or go back, o ho had to travol In a conoh and four, Ilis off leader got ¢ wall-oyed.” The Duke could not bn{‘nuot ior tonm, and this white eyo mado tho horso un- plensant to look upon, Hore was o fix, a princo- Iy fix. Poverty aud no credit raled tho roost, ond it scomod that his Rloyal Highnoss would Lave to go on foot, until one of his drivers hit upon tho blinker dodgo, and so one was fittod to 5 hoad, It completoly hid the whilo oye, nnd thon a blind was put on the othoer Lorsos to msake uxln{;u oven and uuniform, Our stages wero onco driven through tho country with four Dblukers on tho horaes—I. o., ono on tho outsido of onclt hond-atall—nnd tbat fashion continued many yenrs, or until onc-hiorse wagons came in vafi\‘;u, tm]zlxl then two blindora wero placed on ench end-stall, ‘Thus, beoauso the Duke was too poor o sup- ly Lis carringo with sound horses, or thoso hav- ng sound oyes, wo to-dny, afler soventy-ono yoars oxperionco, follow the fashion ot by him, Tho H\'upriotyn theso ornaments to the hend stall hina novor beon questionod by anyone, not ovon by tho sago committeo on “ Craclty to An{mals.” It bogan in tho povorty of the Duko of Yorlk, and of courso is logitimato from its princely origin ; and tho old proverb, *That it ia botter to bo out of the world than out of tho fashion" influonces many, very many of our citizons, to this day. —_— LITERATURE, Thiors has put into_the Y‘rmwr's hands tho firat u;un of the work which will give an ac- count of hls Progidancy. —Mrs, Sarah J. Halo, tho editor of Godey's ZLady's Book, is 85 yonrs old, still vigoroua in ‘body and in mind. " Hor maiden namo waa Saraly ;g;phl Buell, Bho hps been a widow over since 3 fi? —A Dotroit firm fifh engagod Mr. John 8, C, Abbott to writo histories of tho soveral Bintos of tho Unlon, and Mr, Abbott will load off with tha “History of Oblo.” Tho adyauce circular ssys that ¢ Mr. Abbott will hr‘lm{‘lo light tho romance of faot,” and we aro afraid he will, ~It 18 enid that Mr, Emorson's now volumo of osanys on ‘‘ Pootry and Criticism " may bo ready beforo Now Yonr's, —The sories of histories, edited by tho Rov. . E. Morris, to be published in England by tho Longman’s, will have for a special objoct to pro- moto “ o horizontnl rather than & vortical study of history,"—i, ., each volums will bo & history of all the States of Europeat a particular poriod. —Victor Hugo on tho 18th of Soptembor—tho day of the ovacuation of France by the Prussian garrisons—published & poem. The poot doos not consider himsclf “ libernted,” aud ocaunob do so until Motz nnd Strasbourg coneo to bo Lold. —MI. Victor Hugo's new work, * Quatre Vingt Troize," is now ready for tho press, and tho man« useript hos beon submitted to 3. Boulo, the Minister of tho Interior. Soma fears aro onter- tnined that its publication may bo prohibited. It aupnrossod in Tranco, “‘Quatre Vingt Trelze” will bo priuted in Brussols, M. Hugo ia at pres- out living at Autoull. —Dorhaps the best known comic anthor of the Bouthorn Statos is Bill Arp,” who, like * Josh Billings,” indulges in_bad speliing. Bill Arp'a now book, entitiod * Bill Arp's Poaco Popers,” will be gubUshad in 8 fow days by G. W. Corlo- ton & Co., with & largo numbor of humorous drawings by o Southern artist. —Secrotary Belkuay, it I8 stated, Lins ongogod James Purton, the listorian, to arrange for tho ublication of thio original manuseript papers of geu. Washington, which receutly camo into the possossion of tho War Department. Among tho papersls the original book usod by Gen, Wash- ington ‘\l\*huu ho wosin commandof the army in tho fleld. ‘The Gilded Ago” is the titlo of tho forth- coming novel by Mark Tvain and Mr. Warner, of Hurtford, Conn. It will bo published in threo volumes, nud will probably bo ready at the end of Qctaber or early in Novembor. —Anoxcellent gpecimenof the crack-jaw tonguo is found in the (Lnglish) Charterhouso examina« tion questions for 1878, under the Load of bot- any, where Lhe scholar is told to explain the fol- lowing terma: #Anlvs Lus n gemoseplous aalyx, & polypetalous hypogynous corolia, poly~ endrous, monadelphotu opipotalous stamens, and a suporior syncarpous pistil,"” —Georgo Sand, saya gosuip, is about onding hor days I a convent, and this may oxplain her resence at & few pilgrimagos lately, as well as Jior rocently-eelasod disghst with tho world and “T have beon in errorall my “No living writor Las made She is mear the tlweo-score its workings. life,” sho says. moro.mistakes.” yoars and ten, r —dun Euglish lady, Miea Annio Oaroy, is now reparing a work which will bo entitled * The fliutory of & Book.” In it tho various stuges throngh which o book pustes, from the manu- facturo of thio paper to its publication, will bo describod and illustrated, together with an no- count of the manufactures employed in its pro- duction, ¥ — My Kalulu ;. l‘rlnco‘ King, and Blave: a Story from Contral Africa,” s tho titlo of & new volume by Henry M. Stanley, of Livingstono fame, which will bo publishod immodiazely, —Vo loarn from the Springtlold Repudlican that Thomas Powors Jamos, the Brattleboro medium and professed amavucnsis of Dickens in the “ Mystery of Edwin Drood,” was in that clty tho athor day, in consultation with his pub- lishers, Meusrs., Olark W. Bryan & Co. It is ourtently stated at Brattloboro that $3,000 has boon poid for tho work, tho proof-shoots of which aro now iu proparation. : —Thero is taliin London of an edition of Jonquin Millor's pooms, to bo illustrated by Dore and Rosettl. Ilo lmas s now poem, “ Montozama,” which may bo _pubfished next wintor, A Hartford publishing-houso i troating with him for bis # Lifo Among the Modoce,” to be issucd as o subsoription book, and Roberts Brothers will issue his ““Songs of tho Bunlands.” ~—The fighting oditor is a fully-dovelopad pro- fessional in Par{s. L. Poirior ig connected with the Pays newspaper, His duties aro not to write, but simply to sign_his namo to any offon- 8ivo porsonal remarkys published, and to hoar tho complnints of thoso aggrioved, Every articlo in & French journal must havo somo sigusture, aud it happens that tho writors of tho most dan- gorous nra_the proprictors and canuot afford to ik their lives. Honce the position ocoupied by Poirier snd his Lind in Paris journalism, —DBoth ot Br, Charles G, Loland's forthcom- ing bookn, snys tho Publisiers'_Woeekly, ara to he publistied in this country by Hurd & Hough~ ton, under arrangoments made by AMr. Iurd whilo in London, " *¢ l'huEgypllnn Skotch-Book” it enid to bo vory bright and olover in doaling with tho sights and Incidonts of tho land of tho Tyramids, whilo the worlk on *Tho English Gypsioa" iu o valuablo contribution to philolog- ical and othnieal literature, as woll o8 entertain- ing to tho gonorat reader, P —Wo give the !ollowin{; aragrah for vt it 18 worth: “The most intorceting discovery of tho day has recontly beon made at Paris in tho shapo of an unfinished manuscript by DeFoo, tho author of *Robinson Orusoo.’ 1t is ontitled “S1ix Months in tho Air," and_doscriboa tho sup- oscd wonderings and experionco of asoul af- yur itu separation from tho hudil. The narrative ia said to be fu the most graphio style of the col- obrated nuthor, and haa boon purchased by a wealtliy Amorican for $2,600." —N, Henri Taine is ongnged on an clahorate History of_the Fronch Rovolution, whieh will Do founded mainly on an oxamination of stato papors and other contemporary documents which have not beon published. —Sumpson Low & Co,, London, lisvo publieh. ed tho “Posthuznous Works and Unpublished Aufogeaphs of Napoleon 11L in Exilo.” Tt was ufl“uulm]l ond _arranged by the Couut de la Clwpelle, condjutor in tho last works of the ox-~ Empoeror at _Chisolburat, This volume is tho result of Napoleon's offorts whilo in oxilo towards tho preparation of memoranda do- signod to pub tho-to-him fatal Fraunco-Gorman warin its truoe light. It contains an suonymous umphlot, puhlluhud Just aftor tho war, writton By the ox-limpoyor, and u suceinct and officlal opitomo of tha campaign down to the capitnla- t}uu of Seduu, —Tho grons volimos of soclological tables col- loctod by Herbort Spencer a8 the basls of his work on this branoh of his systom of plilosophy, will be roprinted hore by tha Applotons, tho first shortly. 1lis *Btudy of Soclology " will form tho noxt volumo of the ** Intornational Sclontiflo Horles,” to bo tasued Nov, 1. —Tlie publicationof the horetoforo uncolleoted writings of Nuthaniol Hawthorne, snnounced some timo ago, hnd Leon dolayed for a singular reuvon, It 16 {utondod to fnoludo in the {rm out- ed volume not only Lo two chaptors of the un- fnlshed ** Dollivor Romanco,” which have boon printed in tho Aflanfio, but o third chapter also, which tho nuthor loft in M8, But up to the resont time 1o ono has succoodod in decipharing Thisatior, oud 1 bl romains o puzzlo, Mos Hawthorne was most akillful fu deciphoring hor husband's manuseript, Lo her pationt labor tho world owes her conservation of *Seplimiuy Feolton,” Binco hor doath no ono has been found equul to tho tasl, Miks Una Hawthorno has un- dortakon tho work, bub with only partial suc conn, It I the opinion of the niost intelligeut oritica that Mr, Ilawthorne intondod to suppress ¢ Boptimjus Folton," and devolop its main idea —tiho secrot of living forover—in ‘¢ The Dolliver Tomance,"—Literary World. SOME SCRIPTURAL OCCURRENCES. ‘What an Orthodox Jowish Min- istor Thinks of T'hem, A Business-Transaction--Ohtalning a Wifo «~The Characler of Melchizedeke Licbmann Adler, tho ministor of an orthodox Jowish congrogation in this oity, haa rocently writton for tho Jewish Times tho following ro- flections upon somo of tho ovents related in tho Old Testnmont : I Tho Ioly Books glvo us, with a fow atrokos of tho erayon, life-like ploturos of thiugs which aro boautiful, good, and doserving of imitntion, ns of thoso which are hatoful, wicked, and repul- slve. 1t is as profitable, for our instruction, to mako oursolvos acquainted with the firat 08 with tho last,—to learn to know the darlk as well na tho bright eido of antiquity. It may consolo us, and raieo us in our own eyes, to recognizo that our sing are not original with us, but are inhorit- ©d from our paronts, and that the children are Tather in s fairwayto bo botter than tholr paronts woro, Aro wo materinlista? Our ancestors wore moro o than we, Do we play tho hypoerito? Not to such an oxcens ns our ancestors. In tho 23d chapter of Genosls wo ars given an illustration of tho way in which a business-mat- tor waa sottlod in tho highor soclal circles in the times of Abrabam. Abrabom wishoed to buy tho cave of Machpe. Theroupon a number of compliments *and fino 8poochos were exchanged betwoen purchasor and sellor. Thoy complimonted and bowed, bowed snd complimentod. Ephron wanted to give the cave, for friendship's snko alone, not for money. Abraham would not take it on those torms, Finally Ephron allowed the truth to appoar smong his protentious words: *Four hundred shokels of silvor.” Thoreupon Abraham took tho ecales which ho Lad in readiness and woighed out to a grain the sum indicatod, Ephron nover dreamed of giying Abrabam such a valuable picco of proporty ; from the bo- ginning he had thought of the shokols, But ko could venturo to offer it a8 a present, in the cor- tain presumption that Abraham would take tho offer for what it waa worth,—for a mero courte- 8y. This is tho manner in which business is etill conducted among the cultivated natives of tho Eost, As o goneral thing, tho soller asks nothing ; tho purchasor must make an offer, Ordinary prudence and propriety teachus to be courtoous and considerate, even when tho percoptiblo momentary advantago does not do- mand it ; to be obliging, ovon when you have tho mouey in your hand ; to be courteous, oven when thora is 3 domand for your commoditics, even if you stand above and others look up to {ou 3 to bo modest, evon if you have tho advan- ago. . But what the Holy Writings relate to us here, gf“k for boyond our idcas of polite deport- ent, ore aro two mon of high position shown to uoas they, in tho presence of therr follow- citizons, With the most onrnest faces in tho worl, in phrases of maguanimity and tho most unsolilsh friendship, pass bock ond forth tho thing they aro bargaining about; and yet every one Luows in_ his heart that they moan *ghokals; » and that silvor, not friondship—not the affection of the heart, but the weighed-out metal—will decido the mattor. Itis truo thnt thoro ia room for improvement in'tho business-world of our day ; but these nf- fected circumnlocutions eud palavers about friend- ahip in busincss wonld disgust overy cultivatod man at this time. The fact is not concealed that monoy, not friendship, is what it is sought to gein in trade. Wo haye gotten rid of bypocrisy in business- transactions, But, in other gocial mntters, wo stand, fur moro than is desirable, whero Ephron did. Our mouths are full of magnanim- ity, lovo and fricfidsbip, roveronce and virtuo, idenlism and tho bottormont of the world, but a practical ear discerns, through all theso fine- sounding or gravely-utterad words, a soft, low accont which whispors ¢ Four Lundred shekols of silver.” ‘Theso attractive phrases are the smiling, seductive fruit ; but tho core is silver. m Now we turn to our sccond pioturs, how Tliczer atked Robekah in marriage for tho son of his mastor. Abrabam roquedted Eliozer to go to his fam- ily, In Haran, and thore jfind a wife for Isnac, To the romonstranco of Eliezor, ‘‘Supposing I find tho girl, and sho.will o follow mie, what then?" Abraham roplied: * Qod, who up tv this time has #o_ kindly sud marvelously guided mo, will aid me in this matter algo,” The servant may have thought: My master rolies on God, but it can do no barm if, besides {aith in God, I wero to tako ag furthor aid some more approved asgistanco. The Holy Serinturcs eny: “The sorvant took ton camols, aud loaded them with the riches of his mastor,” and went on his journoy for tho bride. Whon ho had ronched ‘his destination, aud belioved ho had found tho right woman, ho put npon her the chains which maidons wore so willingly oyen four thousand years ago,—rings, ‘bracolots, oto., of pure gold. "And, when Eliezer statod Lis orrand to tho paronts, ho began his romarks with tho words: * My mnater it an ox- coedingly rich man, 1n shoop, cattle, gold and silyor, mon-sorvants and maid-seryants, 8sos sod comels, And he has declared thot Isaac #hall bo the solo heir of ull these riches,” Nothing i said sbout Isanc's physical and montal qualitics, Homay be an idiot, & cripple, » moral monstor. Isano wos & rich mateh; thab was onough for the paronts. Thoy said: Tho thing proceedeth from the Lord; Ho tako our donghior and go.” ¥ But, Enpgnsh)¥ Eliozor’s communication had ‘been something liko this: My mastor, unfor- tuuately, is poor; but ho is n good, worthy, God- fonring Tonn. Isanc, his worthy on, the hoir of bis virtues, will Lave to divide his small inherit- unco with Hagar and Koturahn” Wonld the par- onts then have said: *'The thing procoodoth from tho Lord”? Ilore we have hypocris again, Monoy talked ; the ton 1mm!mly camola modo attractive romarks; and the lglitlol‘ing ornaments said ““ Amon.” “And the girl, bedeok- od with gold, followed tho noxt moruing this wooor from & foreign land. This does not sound liko o fairy-talk of the re- mote past, but lite an occurrence of to-day. Thoro s bilt ono difference, and that to our ad- vantage. Wo do not play the hypocrito like our ancestora. Wo sayopenly : “'Tho thing procecd- oth from monoy." In the instanco given above, it was not Abra- ham and Jennc who were influenced by money in tho solection of a wife; thoy did not uso their richoa au luro. Abraham gent to his old homo, in full relisnco upon God, in order to got a good wifo for Isano, no mattor whother sho was rich orpoor. Tha sorvant nlono braggod, nd paronts and danghtor alono wero influenced by the richos and the tronsures, It Is not roroly tho caso now that a woll-to-do man brings from tho abode of poverty into lus statoly homo a worthy, upright girl.. But do wo_ovor bLoar of n casio whoro s girl loavos a life of luxury, and gives hor hand for an oternal union to & man of merit, but of limitod circumstances ¥ ‘Where do wo find n girl who is strong enough to resist the charms of diamond-rings, bracolets, carringos, tho opern, and richly-furnishe [mlm; ‘to choose u ifa of labor and ronunpine ion, spont by the sido of an_excollent mnn bug who lives plainly aud simply, and to rojoct goldon misory when united with some nnworthy {mmou? Aro not young men driven to put from hom all thoughts of highor things, and dovote all their powors to monoy-gotting? Aro not young mon onticed in all ways, good or bad, to olimb up from their modest positions to a height whore thoy can hopo the girl of thoir heart will follow thom ? Whon the monoy-huntors, bald and blasod, havo roached thoir aim, the froo, frosh, joyous yonra of manhood are past, and the ompty, cold- honrted, oironmspoct grooms have taken' thelr wives to their homes, the natural rosult {s that thoy do not bestow a hearty love upon them, ra- ward thom with constant trath, gladden thom by tender consideration, and devote to them their hours of leisure, but slmply pay thow off with sills and eatin, endow thom With gold and Jewols, and try to satisfy them with all El:uruh of costly toys, I, Genests, Ohap, 14.~And there went out the King of ‘Bodom u‘,'nhnut Abrabam, after he roturned from hig muccossful battla with Ohodorlaomor. And Molehizodek, King ot Balow, brought bread aud wine; ho wae tho priest of the mout high God., Dlessed bo Abraliam of the most high Giod, und praised be the Lord God, who has givon your cnemics intg your hand, and Abraham gave him tithes of ovorything, And tho King of Sodom esld ta Abraliamt ‘¢ Qlve mo the prisonors and keop sl olso.” But Abrabam wald: *‘Irafse my Land to the most h!fh QGod, not o thrand, not ¥ shoo-lnfchet will T tako of that which way o, In itsolf this would bo an {nsignificant matter, that one of those (Yuu,y Kiugs in Abraham's uu:f;hhorhuml Dlessed him, and gavo him broad and wine. But those who revero the Boripturos cannot admit tho idea that this Divine ool containg nnthin g which is without significanco, "Therefore thoy ek to enuoble this Molohizodol in ordor to Lilghton, slong with him, the morit of Lis nction, Our ancenators go0, in this Molohizedol, Shom, tho son of Nonh, who thoy supposed waa atill live ing at that time, 'Tho bread and wino aro sup< posed by them torefor to tho Loly encrificon onco made in the Templo, But the Ohurch puts its hand on this Molohizedok and says: '* Ho ig ours; bo is nothing loss than Jesus himaolf ;% aud point to the 110th Penlm, Tho oldest wrlt« Ingn of tho Ohurch aro full of this iden, Wo belong to thoso who boliove that every ut« toranco of the Beriptures contains n thought which is of no small value ; but wo saolk for tha slgnificanco of this narrative, not In the worthi- " neas of Melchizedok, but, on the contrary, in the nlmwln%up of his unworthiness, tho uiworthi« ns of tho priost of the most high God ns cone trasted with that of tho uoblo, grent-hearted, Jolovah-bolleving Abrahiam. The contrast be« fiwoon the lights and shnades of tho oharacters of two men, thus brought togethor, cannot be more sharply and poworfully doflned with & fow words, But, nbova nll things, wo must not draw favore able conclusidns as to the charactor of tho mam from tho high-sounding namo, “XKing of Right- eousnoss,” ‘Wo also fnd, in the Book of Joshus, Jorusalom, which Is most ltkoly called Schalom lioro, ot tho hend of a conlition of thirty-ong Pny ]{In;fin against Iarnnl‘ and ho is thoro callod * Lord of Righteousness.” But in the Enst, loss t{:nu anywhoro elso, must the titlebo taken fox 0 man. Bo wo cannof assume, from tho circumstance, that Lio was called tho priost of the most high God, and that ho twico so solemaly invoked Him, that he hod ronched the helght of the Divine idon, Quito the revorso ; the expression ‘‘most high God " prcaullfiofluanhollnl in a gradetion ofmany gods. The Seriptures opposo to the most i "z God of the pagan pricst the ‘‘Lord God "of Abrabam, who rules alone In hesven snd oarth with omnipotence and merey. Aftor having disposed of what might Induce us to think favorably of Melchizodek, lot us seo what spenks ngainst him, Considor the situution Abraham, with his armod men, was returning from Lis victorious cannigu. Tho spoil of ninc Kings wasinLishands, Thomon, women, and chil- dren woro prisoners, in his power, Wlat, accord- ing to the unquestionod Iaw of that time, was tho bittor ot of tho unhappy captives? Slavery! Thon tho King of Sodom came and begged: **Ol! give us back our mothers and fatlors, sud sisters, and children, and keep our richos.” Tho poor King still remained in his uufip]huc atiitude; thon appeered upon tho scen the dig- nified Iigh Priest of the wost high God, What will ho desiro ? What olse can ho desire than to #ay o kind word to thoe conqueror for the uu- ppy pisonors ? ‘I'ho priost raises his eyes to Heavon; he cally out twico in succession to the most high God. For what purpose? For whnt purpose? What aquestion! What alee can ho sk from his most high (;ml than tho freedom of theso unfortu- nates Tho priest dividos out bread and wine, To whom ?# To whom olse than the faiuting prison- ors? Oh! how you are mistaken ! Ho blossos tho conqueror, and thanks his most high God, that Ho has givon these poor crontures into tho haud of the vietor, Tho bread and wine are in- tonded for Abrahem and his couq‘um'ln host. If Lo had honored Abraliam with Lis visit whon- ho marcheod forih to o battlo, the result of which was 8o uncortnin 3 if ho had strongthoned Lim with bis prayers, and refreshed him with bread and wiug, wo might at leust Lavo boon ablo ta Beo in it o token of devoted friendship. Bul there is not & treeo of nobility of soul to bo do- tected in tho conduct of Melchizodok. Aud Abrahiam ? Abraham, who did not mnke any pratensiona 10 ocoupy any prominont position iu tho Courk of Heavon, who was neithier King nor priost, had not a word of responso to thedo flatterics. Ila ki‘t‘l?w what the priest wanted. Ho gave him 08, ‘Ibe prioat, having in his band good pay for bread and wine aud Dblessing, wont homo wetl Ylanflud, indifforont to the pleading King, and ho prisonora waiting in painful suspense. But Abrabom grflutud them ‘moro than thoy asked ; o restored to them, in thio namo of his Lo God, their freedom and their property. Thus the intormingling of theso two diffor- ent narrations is explainod, Whethor the lifo of Melchizedok wont back for ton generations to the time before tho flood, or whother hois idoutical with Shem, we cannab siy. But itis cortain that he must have been tonacious of life, since ho ling been oon in various places during our own day. # Kiog of Exciting Scone in & Menagerie, A torriblo icono took place in Mandors’ Mon- l%fll’lfi. a6 Whitby, in Engloud, on Sept. 18, There wore sovoral hundrod people in the show when heartronding cries, as from one in mortal agony,” wont through tho air. A panio onsucd. The pooplo, terribly excited, van on ‘masso £o tha narrow outlet, and endesvored to oscapo by othor means. A cry was raised out- gido thnt one of tho boasts had burst through the bars of its cage, and tho oxcitoment among tho crowd without was scarcely lass intonse than that within, In tho rush fo the deor mony pooplo, particularly tho weskor gox, wero in- zlu'cd, and tho confusion was increased from lio circumstance of o couHIo of camold blocking up the doorway. Moeanwhile the crics continued, and it was discovered that a poor boy named Lougloy was the victim of the vicionsnoss of o big tiger, placod alongside another next to tha cago containing tho Lion that worriod to desth poor McCartly, tho lion-tamor, at Bolton, Insk year, The tigor was infuriatod, and was moling Btrenuous efforts to draw the lad through tha bars of the cage. The beast growled fright- fully, and, what withs the pitiful erios of the boy, thoshoutd of thio mon, and tho scrosms of hall~ fainting womon, tho scono was one of tho most terrible doseription. Some men ran for hat irons, whilo others beat tho beast with thoir sticks and umbrellas, and did all they could ta draw tho brute from its helploss yietim, Ulti- mately, aftor o sevoro mouling, the animal re- linquikhed 1ts proy, and the boy, Lelpless aud faint through loss of blood from "the iujuries ho had rocoived, was borne away through tha crowd. His wounds, upon boing dressed, ap- peared to bo of a sorious naturo, though they aro not likoly to provo fatal. The bruto soemy to havo caught its victim just bolow tho elbow, auod tore o deop lump of flesh right down the forearm to tho wrist. Thoro is also a deop gash in the Eulm of tho left hand, from which tha Lomorrhago fa great, Tho pationt lies in groat pain, aud it is feared that ho will not recover tho porfoct use of his arm, One of tho koopors bns aléo baen sovoroly injured. o was atruck b ono of the oleplinnts, and his ribs woro smashe: in, Thoman was taken to the worliouyo in a holpless condition. —_— 1iow to Drive. "Thero is anothor point of importance in drive ing any horso, but cpecially a young; it is the way you handlo tho Teins, ~ Most drivers ovor- drive. Thoy aitompt too much; and, in so do- ing, distract or humpor tho horse, Now and then you find o horso with such a viclous guit thut hio spood §8 got from Lim by the most nrti= ficinl process; but such horses &ro fortunatoly Taro, and hotico tho stylo of management ro- quired cannol becomo iuneml. The truo way is to lot tho horse drive himsalf, the driver doing little but dirocting him, and glving him that cons fillenco which & horso alono gots In himsolf when Lo fecls that a guido and frieud is back him, 'I'he moet vicious and inescusablo styba of driving is that which. so many drivers adopt, viz: Wrnpping the lines arouud eithor hand, and pulling the horso backward with all their might and main, so that the hordo, in point of fock, pully o frolght. Lok of Lim with his mouth, aud not with his breast and shouldors, This thoy do under the improssion that such a dead pull 18 nooded in ordor to_* stendy" tha horge, This mothed of driving I rogard as rad- ically and suporlatively wrong. It would tax the ingonuity of & hundrod fools to invent a worso ono, ‘Lhe fact is, with raro excoptions, thoere should nover bo any pull upon tho horae at all, A stoady prossuro is nllowablo, probubly advisablo; but suything boyond this hos no jus- tileation in naturo ov reasou; for nature sug. fins(u the utmost pos...blo froedom of action of ieud, body, and hmbs, iu ordoer that the animal may ottain tho highontrate of wpaed ; and roason cortaiuly forbids the su, ,.m.«lhm. tbat by tho bitg, and not by tho broast-collar, the horsd i ta draw tho woight attaohod o k. In wpoeding my horsos 1 vory soldom i\'ln»p the lines with both hunds whon'tho rond is stralght and oler from obatructions, The linon are raroly stoudily taut, but held in casy pliancy, and used chiofly Lo shift tho bit In tho animal's mouth, sud by this niotion communicate conrsge and confldence to Lim, I flnd that by this method my horses broak loss, aud go much faster, than when driven by men who put tho old-fashiresd steady pull upon thom,—Fram Alr, Murvay's Book on ' e Ferfect Horse,”