Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1878, Page 10

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : BUNDAY. DECEMBER 29, I878—-SIXTEEN PAGER ' —_— —_— — Do, ‘harks waus considered too denominational, m’um! ™ Zhunch, #How wus the world made?? is being discuss- ed in a scientific magazine. We weren’t there, ‘hut we suppose that they gou all the subscrip- 1ions they could raise sfone the survey, and 1ken bonded the rest of the work and pushed throuzh. Examination-dav: gooduess of the equator. _originated by . 2 Nisera 2o to Jaeil—ZHera'd. Probably becau he was deserted terred jail to Barsk rule. A dereyman speaking st a funeral bewailed 1i¢ loss of many great men, such, for instance, us the deceased in the coflin before him. and said that nonc like them were lelttous. A strong-minded old Methodist sister startled both speaker and audience by exclaimi « Bless God, that’s a lic!” §r his mauuscript, bis rublisher wrote to him 1 1tirough a1l vur dictionarics and can find notl jng ofit. We have printed it ‘the sound of a gone ju the mulberry tree,” and that must have been what you meaut.” A defzyman’s wife bad imoressed upon b Jittie Lov the necessity of ejecung the skins of rrapes, and a few davs afterwards she told him the story of Jonah and the whale. “ The whale " larre monster,” said the mother, *and isav Te swailowed Jonah.”” ez, 10027 asked the little boy, “Did he swallow oths “Well, T su interrunted, gkins out, t002 We were talking to a mission school on Darius We nade as 5 we could the fact that Daniel bad'a bet~ ter Lime that night than the King, slept more sweetly, and all because he bad a quiet con- {browing Daniel in the lion’s den. clear seience. + Darius couldn’t sleep, could he?? By vuwimous consent, * No, sir.” ““And why couldn’ Darius sleep?” = Brezuse be was bad.” Havia: ;i we launched our final question with a goo of contidenice. . *\Well, now, dear children, what is it mal the bed soit!”? Quick as & flash from a 4-ycar-old came the reply, “Fedders.” That closed the ethical dis- cussion. CHURCH SERVICES. 2 PRESPYTERIAN. ‘The Rev. E. N. Barrett preaches at Westminster a~kson and Peoria étrests, Coarch, corner of 20:30 a. m. and 70 p. m. ¢ Christinas, Its Origin, Ci et ~Prof. George L. Raymond will preach in the ¥iith Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thir- icth strect, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 D. m. ~-The Rev. Arthor Mitcaell. D. D., preaches ¥ -first street, ot 10:30 2. m. Evenini o at Railroad Chapel, 718 State street. at 7: —The Rev. J. wenticth etrect. worning and evening. carner of Rush and Superi 5. m. and 7:45 0. m. Subjeér.for —The Rev. 4. T. sued, 3t 10:30 2. m., on P m. v.F. L.Patton, D. D.. LL. D., preach st Jefferson Park Canrch, corner of Throop and Adams streets, 3t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . . —The Rev.. James Maclauzhlan preaches in the Scotch Church morning and evening. METHODIST. The Rev. M. M. Parkharst will preach in the ¥irst Church. corner of Wasbinzton and Cias streets. at 10. a. m. apd 7350 p. m. ing kudject: ‘- 3fury, the Mother of Jesns.™ —The Rev. Dr. Dandy will preach in the Michi- gan Avenue Chnreh. near Thirty-second street, 10 at . m. The musical programme of Sanday will be repeated by reauest. —The Rev. State Street Chorch, near moring and evening. Moming subject: - maneel.” Evening: +*The Form and Power Ciodi morning and evening. The Hutchingson family will €ing in the evening. The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preach Looking Back.” Evening subject: tead.” —Rigtop Merrill will ach in the evening. Chureb, will p X W. Patten will -preach in 1 —Tlhe Re Wabash Averpe Church gt 11 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Thae Kev. Dr. Thomas will preach in Ceatenal hurel, Monroc. near Morgun street, at 10:30 nd 7:2( ana evening. ~~The Rev. W. H. Holmes will preach at Faltc Sireet Church, corner of Artesian avenue, at 10 . o and . m. wurcll, corner of Larabee stroet, morui ¢ hurcih, Maxwell, near Halsted ¢ yening. Christmus sermon in the morning. .—fe Ker. L. D. McCace, D. D.. Professor reach at 10:45 vin University, will ity Churca, corner of y-tourth sireet. Crafts will Year.” Fae Jtev. ue Church, corner Thirt at 10:30 u. 0 p. m. **\Who Ia 2 Man of the World” 7 BAYTIST. je Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the Fi sel. nt11a. m. and 7:30 p. We've given up keeping Noah’s ince the School Boards vome in. They Present, the School Comn- mittee wan; class in morals ou the Hoor. Teach- er—What do the sunshine, the songs of birds. 1he flowers, the beautiful green fields, teach? Tiright pupil—They show ihe greatness and “ Another lie nuleq,” was ho_nailed Sisera while he “avas laing before hier.—Danbury News. Why did v his Bual; orit may have been that like tae peosle of the South he pre- n author havine quoted L Chron., xiv., 15, wise: * We have been oblized to correct vour manustrint. Did you ever hear of such an instrument as a ‘zoing’l We have looked s¢ he did,” continued the mother, who was omewpat in doubt—and while she was hesitat- about the continuation of the story the boy “And mamma, did be spit the thus developed the conscience, g(&lnt‘ eat Morning sabject, oms, Significance, tie First’ Courch, corver of Indianz avenue and 5 rio Munro Gibson preaches in the rd Church. cormerof Michigan avenue and v. John Abboti French vreaches in the h, **The Provbetic. March of Alexander.™ Miller will preach in the %ixih Church. corner of Uak and Vincennes ave- The End Reached.” ‘Auarversary exercises of the Young People's Asso- Even- 30 a. m. The Rev. Dr. Wilimmson will preach E. M. Borinz will preach in the Forty-seventh street, ol ae Rev. J. 3L Caldwell will preach in the W estern Avenne Church; corner of Moaroe street, The Rev. S. McCberney will preach in the Yark Avenge Churchat 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. ce Church, corer of Norih LaSalle and Wihite reets, morning 2od_evening, Slorning sobject: ¢ Laoking reachin Ada Street Church, between Lakeand Fuiton streets, this moining, “Ihe Rev. James Tompking, of the Congregation: 7:20 p. m. r——'l'fle Ttex. E. £. Clenveland will preach at Grant —Tie Rev. T. . Marsh will preach at St. Paal's street, morning Indiana avenue At 7230 p. mn. the Rev. preack on the “*Lessons of the T. C. Clendening, psstor of Langley nth street, will Morning et Even- **Why Did God Call the Rich Man a Faolx™ r<h, comer of SonthPerk avenue and Thirly- e Rev. John Peddie will preach in the Sec- St. Paul's Church, Tyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fifticth strects, at11 2. m. and 2 m. riug' Churcl, Sedgwick strect, neas Chicago ave- nue, o1 10, m. and 7290 pl . —The Rev. Ciinton Locke, . D., preaches at Grace Clurch, Wabash svenue, noar Sisteenth street, at 1la. m. and 0 p. . Uelebration of the holy communion at 8 a. m. it | “_The Hev. Arthur Kichie preaches at the * | Chureh of tite Axcension, corner of LaSalie and Elm strects, at 11 n. w. and 7:30 p. m The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood preaches at St. nue T30 Mark’s Church, corner of Cotiage Gri and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 2. m. . m. p—Tbe Rev. G. F. Cughman, D. D., preaches at . Stephen’s Church, Johnson street, between vior and Twelfth, at 10:30 x, m. and 7:5) p. m. —The ev. Luther Pardee preaches at Calvary Charch, Warren avenue, betwrzen Oakley street and e o ‘und Western avezne, at 10:303. . and 7:45 p. m. 5€ —The Rev. N. Morrison preachies at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, l_.'cu\'cen Monroc and Adams, a1 10:50 a. m. and 7:50 p. m. —The Rev. J. W. Petrie preaches at the Church of Our Savlor. corner of_Lincoln and Belden ave- nues, at 11 2. m. and 7:30 p.m. REFORMED EPISCOPAL, P seney will preach in the Chnrch of {he erd, corncr of Jones and Iloman streets, at 3:15 p. —The Rev. F. AMatthew's Churcl streets. atl1la, tunities.” ol —The Rev. P. B. Morgan will preach in Christ's Chareh, corner of Michizah avenue and Tiwenty- fourth street, at 10:45 4. ri., and Bishop Cheney will conduct the services.! Bishop Cheney wiil preach hiz closing sermon for the year in the even- 2. Subject: **Redeemihg the Time." —The Rev. M. D. Church will preach fo St. John's Church, Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh sircet. at 10:45 a. . and 7:45 p. m. i ~The Rev. H. M. Collison will preach in St. Paul’s Cuurch, corner of Washiniton and Carpenter streets, at 10:20 2. m. on **TheSecond Coming of Christ,” and at 7:30 p. m. on **The Man Who Went to Heaven and Returned.™ —The Rey. J. A. Ficher preaches at the Church of the GGood Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan etreets, at 3:15 p. m. —Dr. Collison will preach this morning at St. Paui's Church, corner Carpenter and Wazhington streets, on **The Indwelling of the Word of Christ,™ ana this evening on ‘*Thouzhtson the 0ld Year.” * CONGREATIONAL. The Rev. Charles Hail Everest will -preach in Piymounth Church. Micligan avenne, between . m. W. Adame will preach in St. cornerof North Clark und Centre ubject: - Neglected Opoor- in h- er er p- Twenty-ffth and Twenty-sixth streete, at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. i The ltes. E. F. Willams will preach in the Yorty-tifth street school-house, morning and even- ing Street Church this morning on ** Antediluvian So- ciety: 1t3 Failure. " —The Rev. G. W. Northrop will preach tnis morming in the Unlon Park Congrezational Church. In the evonmg Miss Frances E. Willard will preach on *-Home Pro 3 —Prof. Junie wilt ofiiéiate in the Clin- Ay ton Street Church at 10:45 and 7:45 p. m. —The Kev. E. P. Goodwin wii! preach a Christ- mas sermon in the First Churchat a. m. At 7:50 p. m. a Christmas praise setvice by the Sunday-school, —The Rev. B. F. Leavitt will oreach in the Lincoln Park Church. corner of Sopkiaand Mo- bawk streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m, INDLPENDENT. The_ Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach at ‘West Madison street worning and evening. ing subject: **The Unity of Christ’s Church Tnder the Similitade of 2 Building.” —The Rev. John E.Marris will preach in the Be- rean Church, corner of Fulton and May streets, morning and eveninz. —George W, Sharp will preach at the Burr Mission Chapel, 389 Third avenue, at1la. m. and 7:5p. m. —CEnrlcs 3L Morton, the evangelist, will preach in Chicago Avenue Church morning and evening. Tae Sunday-school will be addressed by Miss E. Dryer and others, 0. CHRISTIAY. Elder M. N. Lerd will preach in the Second Charch, corner of Van Buren street and Camvbell avenue, in the morning. 'he Rev. S.J. Tomlinson, of Indianapolis, will preach in the chyrch corner of Soutk Park ave- nue and Thirty-tird street, morning and evening. —The Rev. Dr. Matthewson preaches in the Green-Street Tabernasie at 10:454a. m. and 7:3) .. m. . —The Central Meeting of Friends is heid at No. 50 Dearborn street, zoom 1, at It a. m. —The usual services will' be held af the church corner of Westernavenne and Congress strect, at 10:45a. m. 2 UNITARIAN. The_Rev. Brooke Lierford will preacn in the Church of the Meesiab, corner of Michizan avenue and Twenty-third street, morning aud evening. Morning subject, **The Death-Roll of 1878"; evening, **On Growing O1d." h —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach in Trity Church, corner of Dearborn avenue and Walton place, morning and evening. —The Rev, Jzmes Kay Applebee will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of Prairfe avenue and Thirtieth street, at1la. m., on the *‘Birtu of Jesus.” es at in ior rk at last UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumnper Ellls will preach in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of West Washinton and S: morning and evening. The morning gervice will be devoted to the memory of those who have died during bis pastorate. —The Rev. Dr. Rrder will officiate in St. Paul's Charch, Michigan avenue, between Sixteenth and Bighteenth strects, morning and evening. Inthe cevening the ciosing lecture on_forcign travel will De given. Subject: ** Rome.™ At tke Church of the Redcemer, corner of Washingtoa and Sangamon streets, the Rev. Sum- ner Eliis, pastor, preaches morning and evening, A **Memorial Service ”* will be hl:rd in the worn- ing, accompanied by fittine floral decorations. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preachin the Church ‘of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenne and Erie street at 11'8. m. Z NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer wiil preach in the Union . | cuurch. in Hershey Hall, atlla. m. Sobject: s | “*Pulpit_and Pew, s New Year Meditation for i, | Church-Goers.™ AISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. James Kay avplebee will lecture in Hooley's Theatre i the evening. Subject: ** Oli- joldsmith, a Biogrzphical and Literary Re- of in he g view. —The Progressive Lrcenm mects in the church corner of West Monroe and Laflin strects at 12:30 . m. D™ meoting of Libecals will be held at No, 213 West Madison street. a . m. Seats free. The first spcaker and the subject will be chosen by the audience. —The Itev. X. Jackson will preach to the Free- Will Baptists at No. 13 Halsted street at 3 and 7:30 p. m. —The Hon. 7. M. Peebles will address the First Society of Spiritcalistvat 10:45 a. w. and 7:45 p. m. in the chur:y corner of Mouroe and Laflin streets. Subjec: *“The Failure of Darwinism: T #in'of Man.” For even- ing: -*The Process of Dying and What the Dead are Doing. ™ ¥ : —The Disciples of Christ mect st No. 220 West Randolph street zt 4 p.-m. —The Rev. C. L. Pond will preach this evening at Everybody’s Mission, 140 Hurlburt street. ss Lucia E. Kimball vill speak in the chapel on 20 ret + :urch, corner of Morzan and West Monroe | oS ue 8t 7:30p. m. The Rev. A. Mursell, D. —Th n;"u;’:h g miovaine e N lgett sl proach I thé Trintty | #md ovening n Tabernacle, corner Ash- il » Y | land avenuc and Twentieth street. Charen, near Wentworth avenae, Chiszeh, Qzk sureet, xear. Sedgwick, 50 p. m. . Swift will preach at_10:: "+ ™. Ja Porty-Grst ang Forty-second stréets, T'ie Rev. a.'m. and 7:30p. _near Sopbia, at 10; % Rev. 3 1. coruer of Bickerds 303, 1. and 7:30 - fie ey . B Suith i gi<n (“hurch, corner of West Ohio und N e 908 M. and 7230 3. m. o . near Twenty-third str 2. m. 20d 7330 p. m. T =6 and nye, 3t 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. . et Q: A. Heary will preach in t Cburch, corner of Thirtf-s 0:30 8. m. aud . m E. B. Hulbert will preaca in corner of Washington and Paul . m. and 7:30 . m. Arvenue Churca, corner of Warren avenue, at 10 a.m. and 7 “The Re ‘0! reet Church, corner o‘ Bloomingy: read. at10:30 2. w. and 7:30 p. m! —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt wil ¥, 8110:503. . and 7:30 p. m. e Kev. . P. Allison will preach in Star Church, corner of Division and Se wicls streets, 3t10:45 2. m. and 7:30 . 1. —The Itev. J. Weddell will preach at 11 a. at the South pacte streets. EPISCOPAL. i - The Rev. 1. G, Perry preaches at St. Andre Cnurch. comer Washington ana Robey etrects, —CUathedral of S5. Peter and r'anl. corner,of West |- nt. TRev, John Ouzman will preach in tac First k- Ielund 0. Maltbv. of Madison, Wis., will woootoat the Cenfrai Choreh, No. 260 Orchara will preach in the Firsi and Hurus streets, P. m. . with will preach in the Firat ‘0st1s will preach in the Michi- . It. De Baptiste will preach in Olivet ourth avenue, near Taylor street, at 11 v, m. A. Owen will preach i virsic ce. Church, corner of, Doufih!npggeb’;‘d . | 0. Taylor will preach in 1he é‘e - No. 280 Orcnard street, at 10:4% :. » Yerren il prencn in Western . m. . E. K. Cresey will preach in the preash in the Cen- tennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson arch, corner of Lake and Bona- ks TEMPERANCE. ‘The Woman’s Goepel Temperance Union holds aaily Gospel-meetings in Lower Farwell Hallat 3 Entrance, Madison street and 10 Ar- . Leaders for the current, week are: difes J. L. Hood;_"fuesday, Mre. M. A. at m, 0 9. . at Evangel Church longay 2 Sner: Dearborn. mear Foriy.seventh street. | Cummings: Wednesdny, Mrs. 1. 'S. Farbueh froissds ks . mu. at the | Thursday, Mra. C. 1L Casc: Fricay, Miss Lucia or. 403 aud 304 Wabash' avenue, | Jimball; and Saturday, Mrs. L. S. Rounds. 0. m, Mr. B: F..Jacobs, & r— Kermort will preacts-at-a1 a. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEEK. n. m. at the Haleted Streef Church, EPISCOPAL. Dec. 20—First Sunday after Christmas, Jan. I—Circunieision. Jan, 3—Fasi. CATHOLIC. Dec. 29—Sunday in thie Octave of Christmas. Dec. 308t Taowas of Canterbury, B. 1. (from ec. 29). Dec 31—5t. Sylvester, P. C. Jan. 1—Circumcision of Our Lord—Holyday of Ob- hizution. * Jan. 2-Octave of St. Steohen. ¢ an. .—Octuve of St. John, Ap. and Evang. Jan. £-Octave of ihé Holy Tnoocents, ——————— REMORSE. *Tis midnight, and I sit nlone, And a'l the honse 1s still, While m an juner chamber Ties _A form so wxiff and chill NG fire could warm the trigid iimbs, No voice could reach the car: But hark? what stealtiiy sound is this, Like footsteps drawing nearz "Twas sarely fancy—all is still: But sce! what form is this. Taat leaves upon my throvoing brow A cold and clammy kisst . 1 ehriel: and shiver with affright, A ands are Latd on wic, goostly arms, like scrpents’ coil: Around my neck enlr.'lng. £ 1t may be funcy, but I fecl My hauds axe red wigh zore, Aud peacuiul days and quiet rest \ATe Mille—al ‘—neveriore. Tis true, bencath the Summer-sun plE ith heac ercct, nonc the less my fa ¥ With murderers raes o Geenegt T Inbored once to win her love, * ADd Knew my task was wropght When, looking in her dark-brown eyes, m, ! ble At the the ina 130 ale the dg- m. w's Washinzton and Peora strects. . Tho Kt ey, W, 1tound the fove long sougnt; E. McLaren. 5. T. D., Bisnop. The Hev. J. I, Tt wou, I held in light este.em, Jnowies, prest in charze. Morning praver and nd coldly turned away, ~ Uration of the Holy Comafunion at 10-40 a. e Rev. XsmuelS. flarris, D.D., preaches hurch, corner of Cass and Ilug 0. m. n Sa, The ltev. E, Sal; hurch, comer of Twenty-sizth t ve, 3t 10:45a, and Afj D.m. 7 5 Celebration of the Holy Com- xan. S. T.D.. preachesat Trinity Teger 1 10 RIE) glhhl; The white lips secmed to carl in scorn, nas masic will be repeated at the morning Rev. Charles Stanley Lester preackes’at + And had uot gazed npon he; Since that evenlfnlulhy‘:w face . Tntil, impellcd by crael Fite, \rlv!lylm‘xlic“l l:auleps turped, A lound within the arms The maiden T had E:mrned?r Dut‘h m. at ron As slowly 1 passed by. Too late wy heart the josson learned: g Hemoree can never die. Dec. 13, 1878, * LavnA GybEnmuy, i J. Dredberg preaches at St. Ansgu- l —The Rev. G, H. Pecke will preach at Leavitt DOSTON. Christmas = Doings --- The Economical Basis. Lady Betty and One-Button Gioves ==-We Snobs. A Lunch at the Jewish Fair--- Other Goed Things. Behind the Masque. 3 From Our Own Correspondent. RostoN, Dec. 25.—The city for the past week, aud, indecd, the suburban towns all about us, have becu spparéntly given over to Christmas buyine snd scllive and the various preparations for. the reat holiday. Hard as the times are, there really scems to be nolet-up to the gen- eral preparations. The merchants have made gigantic cfforts, and the profits must be small on the “artiles sold, for pricesare indeed at the lowest cbb. The buyers have nothing to complain of, . but the sellers, spite of the gay streets, the throngs of people, do not, after all, -seem so well satistied. They declare that it s harder work to sell than it bas ever been any previous year, and the profits smaller; that the cheaper zoods are prineipally in demand, even some of the wealthiest and formerly the most lavish of givers making the excuse of hard times for low-priced vurchuses. So we are gradually coming down to "the economical Dasls which is to bring us prosperity again, just a5 surcly as the wanton_ waste and foolish dis- play and luxury which followed the flush deys. of the War brought us to the straits that we are now ingto a great extent. ‘While Christmas scems to be kept as fully as ever, it is kept more simply 2ud sensioly,—the ifts being chosen not so much to display the giver's purse and compete with another as to eévince the intention and to keep up the deurold custom. 3 ¢ 1t is the useful things we sell mnow, more than enything,” said a dealer iu xeneral varfe- ties of dry goods, the other dav. *1am just learning,” said & lady, the other day, who had the strength to confess her former shortcom- ings, * how to give resl pleasure in my Christ- mas gifts. Iused always to give heedlessly, choosing what pleased the eye: now MY OWN NEEDS HAVE TAUGHT ME WHAT OTO- ERS NEED." Weshall have learned something indeed worth learning from the Lard times, the days of paoie, 1f we can all of us'say, by and by, that our own needs have taught us the nceds of others. But it is only the exceptional natures, after all, that can take adversity like this, and learn to give from the smaller starc—the botter way. It isn’t probably the smali littlesoul that hasn’t a goul above three or four button gloves that will ever arrive at this sclf-sacrifielng hight frown her experiences. Such a one as this L heard one of these fine freezing mornings, in a Tremont street horse-car, say to a compauion.‘in answer to u question or a susgestion, *‘Ouc-button gloves! 1wouldn’t diserae myself by wearine one-button gloves! They are periectly vulzar When 1 sce a woman with a pair of cne-button wloves on, 1 at once set hierdown us a very cheap person.” The speaker was finely attired in scal- kin and silk, and a pair of three-buttou silver- gray kids on ber rather fat aod pudey hands. 1 thouzht, as 1 heard this disdainful dictum, of the charmiog Lady Betty of whom Mrs. Liliie tells in ler cqually charming paper, called “ Lady Betty’s Cookinz- 00l,” in the holiday number of the Wide-ducke. For this LADY DETTT, when she first appears before the writer's ad- miring eyes in a pretty English home, herself a pretty young Epel ], bigh-bred and gentle- mannered, wears—one-button glov AMrs. Litlie, in recording the fact, is evidently fully aware how she will asto: her youux Ameri- can readers. ‘The only thing about this lovely Lady Betty that is at all costly or in the least luxurivus is a silk cloak Jined with fur. Sh not only wears -oue-button "gloves, but iow boots or shoes—stout leather walkingz-shoes— coming to the afkles. Isaw in iy mind's eve this pretty Lady Betty, with her low boots and her ouc-button gloves, entering the horse-car and sittine down under the critical eyes of the sealskin - and -clad little © erftic, with her _ three-bntioned-zloved pudey bands. _And immncdiately following this vision I saw the dear littic snob of the pudey fingers lool: with cold scorn upon her upknown titled uveigiibor, and straightway re- vealing on her expressive face the inward de: clsion of -her critical wind, und the Coventry of “cheap ™ persons to which she hud sent down “the daughter of a hundred Earls.” WHAT SNOBS WE CAX BE here in America, with our money values alone, 1 thouzht to myself, at my meutal vision born of my pudgy-fineered neighbor’s wise remark. Amongst the holiday " entcrtainments the Jowish Fuir bolds it place, more especially fn the evenings. As yet the day attendanee is light, which is partialiy owiog, uo doubr, to the unfinished condition of various departments and the postpooement of the openine of the art-rallery. But in the cvenings the scene is quite lively, for the band plays eayly, and in the intervals, when the *flute, violin, bassoon,” cte., take intermission upaloft, like the cherubim, tree boys make marvelously pretty music upon three metallaphoues; and near by, when there is another interval, one may hear “Hold the Tort,” “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” and twenty other popular airs eround out from a brand-new instrument, which I am iniormed has only seen the Hebt for six weeks the first time displayed at the Fair. The name ot this instrument is the orguinnette, and it is, in fact, u little hand-orzan of sweets tone for the parlor. “There is a combination of reeds and ittle pipes ncntlf inclosed inabox perbaps a foot and a balf fong. These reeds are mys- teriously operated upon by sbeets or strips of perforated paper, each striv representine. aiffer- cnt tunes by the different pecforations, the mo- dus operand: being the turning of the crank, which turns off the paper from the metallic points with thie tunc indicated. Blondina, who says 1t has been THE DESIRE OF HER LIFE to own a band-organ, is now lappy in the thought that her desive may berealized. In the little Fair newspaper daily publisied one’s cu- riosity is excited by the announcement that only Jewish cooking will be presented to the visitor, and, as I had intended, I went in the other day to' try this unique bill of fare which rules out every faintest suspicion of pork fromn all dishes. Well, T found the fish fried in but- ter very good, though I confess that I thousht of Ciarles Lamb’s eulogy on the roast pig, and of the succulent slices of crisp ealt pork which flavor the **Christian’s”’ dish. Nothiny could have been nicer than the preparation of equash in the pie beforc me; but why, if butrer is al- lowed, shpuld it be striated, was my next | question. Pmmh’lly it may have heen the cook’s fault, and not Hebrew law. But this is_ only the question of cu- riosity, nfter all,—the curloslty that is incvitable when brought close futo the” daily life of this ancientest of peoples, who for the long centuries have beileved in race and its peculiar relision in the midst ot sueh jsolation as none other has experienced. We 1nay declare thatit is the faithfulness to superstition which denotes nar- rowuess, and cite THE LIBEKAL OR REFORMED JEWS, who are on the platform to-day pretos nearly of the radical liberal thinkers, ns the best result, tut none the less is tils remarkable persistence through such lonz isolation both an interesting and signiticant fact. The popular feei of scorn for the Jew and the Jewish religion is not LESS VULGAR AND NARROW than the same scorn for the Roman: Catholic which bolds amongst the ordinary unthinkiog American Protesta i But Jet me say good-by for the present to the Jew and the Jewish Fair, aud pick up a thread dropped a few letters back, that of the much- cuessed-about - Masque ot Poets.” As faras I have seen some of the best guessing was made by the brizht correspondent of that brisht little weekly, the Modern Argo, though there were | some mistakes there, as was inevitable. dricl,, however, did _not write, **Proveneal Lovers,” por Hiram Rich ** Jasper Oakes,” nor Rossetti “The Swaig” T negatives, too, to be made, but Trowbridge for “Guy Vernon ' is excellent guessinz, —Walt Whitman uever rhymed * Red Tape,” and Whit- tier is not in the masque at all. BUT WHAT I WAST TO SPEAK OF speclaily now is the mistake that every one of us has fallen into in’recard to * Question and No Answer.” Ther¢ isn’c a critic in the land but that has beea sure Lie ¢an no risk in laying it to Holmes, aud it is a certain noble Lord across the seast I dou't thiuk anybody las cared to ask who wrote * The Wicked Nephew? s but if they had, would_anybody have laid it to the door of James T. Fields? ‘There is a_very beautiful poem, * Theoeritus,” which Stedman bas had the credit of, #nd the whisper comes from the kmowing once that it is the work of Afrs. Fields. But these are all the tales that I shall tell out of school, lest the heaa-master of the school, the masquer of the masque, pounce upon we. ' N. r. T — The Man Who Knew Enough. " The phlegmatic Persian Shab who declined to £5to the Derby because it wasalreads knowa to him that ove horse was “faster than auother horse, was n zood deal like the distingmished Pasha whom Lamartine desired to be presented to wlien he was traveling in the East. * What does this man- do?" s2id 'the Pasha to the French Consul.” ** He mukes books.” **Then,” sutil the Pasti,-* his books are either about the customs tarifE, which 1 know all about alrcady, or clse they are not about the customs tariff, and s0 dow’t concern me. Ineither case, there is no need of my secing bim. Let him go in pesce.’? CURRENT GOSSIP. A RURAL SCENE. The boy sat on 1he orchard-fence— His face was wreathed with wo: To reach Lis home. far, far from thence, Long miles he had togo. - Green apples that would fill a peck He'd stowed within his notd; And now, a writhing. tortured wreck, Distressing to belioid. Tie ealled aloud: **0, Tordy! Lord!" Butah, he called i vain; With vengeful grip old Cnolera-Morb Just tied him up sgain. —Exchange. A NEW ¢ EXCELSIOR.” " Oif City Derrick It was about half-past 7 o*clock in the evening when & youth created something of u sensation by passing through an Alpine village, fv a driv- iur snow-3torm, carrying a banner, upon which wus inseribed the strange: device, ** Excelsior.” lis brow was ead, but bis eye (accoraing to all acconnts he had but onc eye) flashed like a fal- chiloh from its sheath, while he pushed on, look- L ing neither to the right nor the left, but not forzetting to call loudly, *Excelsior!” At first the villagers thought he had been drinking, and o voliceman was started on his track: but, findine there was nothing disorderly in the boy’s conduct, he was permitted to go his way unmolested. In happy homes the young fel- low saw the light of household fires efeam warm and cheery, although coal was :u'.'a?' up out of all reason, s it always isincold weather; the speetral glaciers shoue, and from his ped a sigh that was heard all over town, to this efect, ** Excelsior!? “Try not the pass,” the old man said; *“I've lived here for niucty years; I'm the oldest in- habitant, an’ I never saw the signs more fuvora- ble fora big storm. Besides. the roarin’ tor- rent is wide and deep, an’ if you get across you can’t et back fora week, unless you o around by Rabbit-hash an’ cross on "the “bridee. Take my advice, young feller, an’ stop over night; you'll find the Washington right over the way, the cheapest house in town. Shall I take your bageace?” The boy turned up auother strect, indicating that he intended to climb the hill, on the west side of Lhe town. - “Qn, stay,” the maiden sald, *““and rest your weary head uoon this breast.” And rizht here the conduet of the younr man became fuexplica- ble. He did not aceevt the maiden’s invitation, although she was comely, about It years of age, and evidently belonged to the best society. He shinply suid that he was io s hurry, and would probably stop the next time he “was in town. Il‘he maiden passed into the house, slammed the door, and remarked to her mother that if she ever offered to assist a man m distress azain she hoped she might be blessed. The younr Jady was quite isdiznant indeed. * Beware the pine-tree’s withered branch! beware the?'— *¢Oh, give usa rest!” screamed the boy, who was getune out of patience, and the well-iean- ing peasant retived without completing the warning, which was no doubt somethive about * the awful avalanche.” At breask of day, as heavenward the pious monks of St. Bernard utterea the oft-repeated orayer, they werc startled, nay, shocked to hear young man shoutinz *Excclsior,” and curs- ing the country black and blus for being the roughest, coldest, aud most forbidding of an he_ had seen since be left New Jerse How far is it to the next villaze?” he askeds “for I have something tiere that will knock the sock off of auything in this countrv.” Witk that he passed on, still graspine in his hand of ice that banuer with the strange device, while in the other he carried a little tin box labeled * Excel- sior Corn and Bunion Eradicazor.? PRYDEN’S BOY AL CHURCH. Danbury Sews. Mr. and Mrs. Pryden took their little boy to church Sunday. Itwas his first day in pants and his first time in church. For the first half of the service he was fully absorbed in things about him, and the novelty of ‘the situation. After that bis mind -turned in upon himself, and he bezan to pay exclusive attention to bhis own'wants, and Mr. aud Mrs. Pryden, from an exultant feeling of pride, gradually slipped down an inclined plane of anxicty which cmptied into an abyss of despair. The number of positions the youth got iolo, and the wants he manifested would seem incredible were they not actually witnessed by u full score of respectable people. As soon 55 he took in = realizing seuse of his own identity, Master Pryden bes to compre- hend and respond to the demands of his na- ture. ‘He got on his knces in the seat and stared at the choir, e twisted back again to the front, and was ouly saved from falling to the floor by the alertuess of his pa. The tloor being thus suzgested to him, he got down on it. Then he got up on the seat again, From this place he desired to change to a position between his p2 and bis ma. e was accommodated. Af- ter resting gaiietly there for twenty seconds, he changed to the otier gide of bis pa. Thencehe moved to bis pa’s lap. From thence he went to the other side of his ma. This was evidently s mistake, for he immedi- ately expressed a wish to go back to the other side of bis oy, and on their attempting to lift him there, hie cd and cried, and was only silenced by being allowed to walk the distauce, which he did at ouce. The motion so pleased him that he went straightway back again and tried it_over. Also for the secoud and third time. Then he: got up again between his ma and pa. Then he espied a gilt-backed book in the rack of the next pew, and, reaching over to ges it came within an-ace of depositing his entire carcuss on the other side, but was clutched in time by both of his parents and hauled safely back, very red in the face aud very indignant. Disappointed in this vent- ure, he turned his attention to the rack iun his_own pew, and possessed himself of the books therein, whichy being taken away from him, made it necessary that he should get them azain. 'Thesc he dropped on the floor one at a time, aud smiled the guileless smile of infancy as they were picked up by his embarrassed parents. Pretty well exhausted, he now pre- pared for sleep, and rested his head upon his .mother’s breast and closed his eyes. His parents siehed. Then he slipped down on the floor, sliding in such away as to leave quite au cspanse of white Foods between his pants and jacket, and fo roll-the coflar of the jacket up on the .bazk of his head. * The clothing was adjusted, his ma whispered in his ear for the fortieth time, and his pa scowled’ €0 hard as to nearly dislodze his own scalp. He saw the scowl and sullenly sank down on - the floor, from, which he had to be lifted by main-force. Then he took out the ymn books azain, and was goine to drop them as_before, when his pa interfered and reseued them. IHe resented this liberty by throwing back his head; which, coming in” sharp contact with the baclk of thescat, wrenched from his lips a shrill cry. The untappy mother endeavored to stifle in her sbaw, so much of the wail as she could notwhisper away, while his pa’s face was full ol great drops of perspiration, of which pa him- selt’ was unconscious. This wail uot abating, oa's knife, containing four blades, was brought into service, and then the cry hushed. For a full nuitient he was absorbed fn the contemplation of this objeet. And then he let it drop. There was no carpet in the*pew. Two-thirds of the congregation raised from the scats, and Mr. Pryden himself came almost 10 a perpendicular. Tl thie_bymm was given out 2nd’ sung, and the benediction pronounced, and Mr. and Mrs. Prycen, with their. heir between them, started for home, Mr. Pryden beinz so warm that he took off his overcoat and gave a boy 10 cents to earry it howe for him. TWO DELIGHTFTUL DANCERS. 4 Baston Courier. Therese Elssler is dead. She had neither the talent,nor the voluptuous form, nor the vivacity of Fanny Ellssler, but the two sisters so sup-" vlemented each other, this suppiying that -one’s deficiencies, that they really seemed one to sudiences, and will live as one in the bistory of choregraphy. They did not appesr simultane- ousiy.at the Paris Grand Opera. Fanny carried the town by storm (she came preceded by great reputation) in'the ballet, **La Tempete.” The sisters appeared to-zether for (the firsi time there in the divertissement of “Don Juan.” They made no greas impressiop; indeed, is is 1ot casy to exhlbit one’s taleots in a divertisse- ment which is 3 mere episode lugeged into a erand opera. When the sisters appeared to- gether in a baliet where they bad a field and time to show their gifts, their reputation in- creased preatly, and Therese” was_confounded in the popularity. Fauny won, while the lat- ter was Vestris' ideal danscuse (be used to say rhat a daseuse who failed to make every man in 1be audicoce dead' in love with her was un- worthy the profession). - Therese was tqo talf 400 thin to ‘be sensual, and her dowery of Thex he jerked azain and down came a hedge switch, Then he said: “an-h Then he took Mbld of the withered switch and drew it awar from the hedze. Then he put his lhl:imb in his mouth, and stood on one foot and said: HAb-R-m-H I Then be once more unto the breach, dear friends, made another-prod with his hook, aud said loudly: “Gee whiz!? Then he jerked at a wicked-looking branch with his hook, and roared: “Great snakes!”? Then he pulled out a crooked branch, so fuil of thorns that it made young Jack ache to look at it, and when he stutibled over it, and it wrap- ped itself around his legs, he stood still for a second, then drooped bis hook, lifted his hands to heaven, and screamed: “0 ploody murder” - The nex: rake he-made he bronght a whole top of a hedge-plant with five or six branches rizbt down on his back. Then be threw his hedge-hook clear across a ten-acre field, opened bis thouth thrice fn. voiceless easp, spread his arms out and fell dowu flat on his face, due his toes Into the turf,drun:mied on the turfin azony with his clenched tists, and wailed like o storm oi wrath: ¥ +0! dad essentlally! Take him off! Somebody take him off!” When he 2ot up he said I secmed interested in hedgre-trimming, and he would teach me how todoit myself. I said no, [ wouldn't try to learn3. I would ltke to know how, but 1 wastoo awlully lazy. " EPITHALAMIUN. [Lines recently addressad to a oridal palr, on thelr denarture from the Gifcagn pome of the bride Jjor thely new home fn Unlorado. ) Olt? 53 e not falr Iuez? She ls{.’unc into the Weat, T dazzle when the sun i3 Gown, And ros the world of rest.—Hond. ¢ And deep Iuto the dyine day The bapuy Princess followed him.—Tennyson, Shine out, ye glittering lights above— Shinc ont to.night yonr brighies beanty was_jnsufficient . to atone for these de- ficicncies. On the other hand she had thorouzh koowledze of her art, an exquisite taste, seconded -by a2 most delicate tact, and she so formed the fizures of their dances (all the ballets in which they appeared were in their technical parts by her), sugrested such grace- ful postures, desizncd such enchanting groups, merged her sister aud berself . so cowpletely into one danseuse that as they danced the audience half thouzbt they saw but different viewsof the same uccomgllsbcrl artist, as the chanwzeof the ballet needed the talents of one, or thc talents of the other. They advanced in public favor with' each new ballet they brount out. “La Tempete was followed by ¢ L Tarentuls,’ which was suc- ceeded ?’ * L Cracovienne.” No aanseuse, eX- cept. Marfe Tactioni (and even she, in ** La 8yl- phide,” did not_win greater entbusiasm.than they comtnanded), ever carried audiences to the irenzy which was raised by La Cachucha.: Carlotta Grisi’s and Fanny Cerrito’s most brill-¢ iant triumpis never came near the frantic ap- plause which La Cachucha won. The honor of this dance belongs to Therese Elssler. She took the Spanish dance and transformed it s Tenny- son transforms some roman de la Table Ltonde. The suceess of this ballet exhausted in Eurone, they came to America, where our conntrymen (they were young then, and Cunard had not bezin to make them acquainted owith the 014 World), nnde fools of themselves as they dida few years afterward over Dickens, and later over Kossuth (it is to be hoped their Inst craze). \When they returned to Europe they were able to get no new ballets that weresuc- cessful. Years, meaotine, bad been running swiftly by on velvet foot sluce 1833; Fanny ad- vanced from full to fat. Prince Adalbert. of Prussia (first-cousin of the Emperor of Ger- many), woed Therese. and they were married, By this marriage she became sister-in-law of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, of the Queen of Bavaria, first-cousin of tahe Emperor of Germany, second-cousin of the Princess Royal of England, and aunt of the present King of Bavarin, Her husband died last yvear. She has now followed bim in the ereve. Fanny married an estimable physicianof Bremen, where she has ilved ever since her marriage, quictly, happily, wealthy. Neither of the sisters gave children T e 0 BikhL to her husband. 2 et Our]\)ysp';‘h A NARROW ESCATE. A remarkable case of mistaken identity oc- curred at St. Louis recently. Ierman Schuster awoke in the morning and found himsclf deaa. At least the newspapers sald he was dead and that his body was at the Morgae. Mr. Schuster went. to the place mentioned, and there, sure enough, found himself laid out ona slab as acad as any one could wish. Mr. Schuster was alarmed. The forekead of the corpse was his, the hair and mustache were the color of nis, and the body would not vary in weizht flve pounds from his own. The clothes, aiso, were exactly like those adjoining Mr. Schuster’s per- Shine out as once your hght was seen Above the hights of (Eta, When Peleus wed the Ocean-Queen, And gods came down to greet her. Since first thy rays on Eden shone, In all its primal glory. No happier version hast thon known Of thig, the old, old story. ‘Two brizht young lives, whose ripening yeara Soft ilymen’s soke nvited, Will see their joys, their hopes and fears, To-night for aye unitec. As streamlets, leaping from their source son. it essee, cestiens wation, e i s nsk & ush on to join, then sweep their conrse mnnv:f‘%)s? ‘}\Liu‘—;;‘:?éh?( his eyes?” asked Her- Rl et ! The Doctor turned up the corpse’s eyelias and | 7 found that the eyes were blue. 5 Dot Ish petter,’? said Herman, with a loog sigh of relief. *Dot s not mine pody. Dose is plue and mine is plack. -Got in Himmel! vat a narrow. eschape—vot a glose gall dose v So, gladdening each his separate way, Still towards each other tending, These greet at lenzth tne happy day On which their life-streams, blending, Shall henceforth flow in union fast QUIPS, For The Tritune, A prate nuisance: Clinkers. & All p-loan: Borrowed money. A pair of slippers: A pair skating Alittle squirt: A diminutive fountain. A man is not always upright who has been brought up right. What this country has never seen, aud never will, is & hen that can lay a wager. How to draw agirl out: Seat her npon a sled, seize the ena of the rope, and scoot. “ A panestaking fellow,” said the J. P. as he fined a mon for stealing window-glass. Why is it called * liver complaint?’ When any voor sufferer will not hesitate to inform you that it is a dire complaint. A supe at one of our theatres is distingaished for the extremne length of his cars. In this re- spect he has uo supc-ear-ior. A young woman wrote toa dry-goods firm for a situation as * safls-lady.” She was relerred to.the presiding elder of a sail-loit. Wheu it 15 said of one who “pays as he oes? that he is **a man of no acequut,” there s just the slizhtest suspicion of 2 paradox. Have you ever observed how mad it makes a man with 2 sore throat because hé can't swaliow about 250 times every tour or flve minutes? There'is this ditference betiween a magistrate in his office and the violation of another’s One is a Justice in, and the other is an “The carrent stays forever. Such union Hymen zives the fair And trne in wedlock mecting, Such unlon waits the perfect pair To whom e give this greétisg. Ah, baopy groom! with smiles and tears, With mingled pain and pleasure, To guard through all the rolling years, We yleld to you our treasure. To tell you all her worth were vain, As "tivonld be to diszuise it; ¥or he whosc soul such love conld gain W1l best know how Lo prize it. Syeet girl1 to him who has your heart Your triends would not refuse you; But still the tears unbidden start T'hat we g0 soon must lose you. A queen amidst us here to-night, You stana in bridal splendor— Your face with hope and beauty bright, With thought'and feeling tender. Tpon your brow and neck se: The blaze of light, descen Duota vie with youta’s ** purpure: Tn radiaut halo biending. such as thine, efore it. "tis but the jewed's shrine For whose sake we adore it. sheen,” In parrowing circles, Tess and less, \We pather round you nearer, And feel your wortl: and loveliness, At parting, erow still dearer, So every blessingasitflies { its preciousnest “Fis music’s last And Summer's would not weakly gricve, Nor seliish seek to bind you; You pass to other skies, but leave A train of light bebind you. The nearts your mile has ziuddened here, Ly Memory's wagic power ‘Wil guard your image yet, to cheer * The sud and listless hour. A banquet was_recently given at one of oor hotels in honor of a distinzuished guest: where- upon Spilkins observed that he was not in favor of such inn-ovations. When a nervous young ealler, in partaki:z of refreshments on New-Year’s Day, inadvertently spills a cup of hot coffee over his fair hostess, from that momcnt shie makes no concealment of herdisapproval of New-Year's scalds. “ 171 just eive that youns man a piece of my mind,” said 2 West-Side girl, the other da *Don’t you do it, Sis,”. chimed -in her big brother; ** your mind is altogether too swmall nu}\'." You can’t afford to give anybedy a piece o it. A woman detected at = funeral in removing I the crape appendage to' a mourner's bonnet, when brought iuto the Police Court, attempted to justify her offense upon the ground than she was only *taking th P Nun of that ! roared the unappreciative magistrate. 4T have lost my weigh,” said a weary-looking man to a policcman whowm he met on Clark street the other afternoon. And, when the peeler offered his assistance to set him rizht, the stranger remarked that perbaps he should have explained that somebody had *:zot away” with his scales. The policemnan fied. . A sweer-scented young tulip you are, Caleb, not to know what is meant by **hugaing ade- lusion.” Hugging a delusion means embracing a pretty girl who is ready to ¢o back on you just so soon as she finds another fellow that suits her better than you do. You ousht to be ashamed to confess your iguorance in this un- blushing manner. ‘Tell you what. boys,” said old Mr. Slaugh- decker, as he clevated” himself to his perch on the cracker-barrel, **yon may talk about your improved threshinz-muchines, but, when I was a youngster, it secmed to me that an old dad, with a shingle attachment, was 2 threshing- machine upoun which no improvement could ever be mage.” Time has verified the wisdom of the old man’s opinion. H — — . MY DEAR WIFE. May morning, noon, and evening bless thee— Thy momen ts cluster into happy hours— And weeks, and months, and years impress thee, As Zathering dews upon the downy llowers. And yet w That you in other circles move, And other lives will brighten, Continning there your work of fove, - Our sense of 10€s will Jighten. And now Farewell! Yet, ere you go, We stili would bave yon stay for Qur earnest prayers—and yer we know Not well what we can pray for. TFor beauty, strength, and goodness, all <o blend barmonious in you, “That we can bat on Heaven call Tts blessings to continue. S0 may youic }ife's matarer thought 2ud girlhood's intaition, Till all your buds,.to blossoms brought, Bring forth theif glad fruition. As strenath and dignity yon gain In higher spheres of duty, Still may your nper years rerain Your youtbful grace and beauty; And he, n fatker’s, mother’s pla Your footsteps now upholdin, Still grow witn yon in etrength and grace— Cnfold with your unfolding. @ Thus, as the years. in gliding by, Bring deeper bliss in 1iv You'll zreet the day that knit this tie, With ever new thanksgiving: As nor, to ereet it, Teaven, zlad, ° Smiles myriad-twinkling brightness, And conscious Easth herself has clad In robes of bridal whiteness. ———— " UNDER THE SNOW. Under the snow lie buried to-night The sanshine and shadows of years— Years flushed with the glory of Love's. mellow hght— Years crowned with the radiance of Youth's starry nigl May passing Time. with gentlest finger, bk And gemmed with the dew of its tears. But chagten with a hallowed touch thy \ml\', And Beanty’s grace about thee Mnger ~ \ "Through lapsc of many years, to charm as now. “*Under the snow, " the warm heart is dust “Uhat thrilled to the touch of my hand. 1 citl tru to be patient, dear God, if'T must: Oh! fill Thon my heart with the **beauty of trust,” The lizht of Thine own radiant Land. As flowers sunward bend in blooming, And bow caressing o'er the fresh'ning brooks, 1 turn to thee for life's iluming, And drink my being trom thy tender looks. Through years of trinl, and cold desertion, And wrong that niakes the ardent soul Jts prey, Thy pure love toiled the world's aspersion, And closest clung when durkest grew the day. «+ Under the snow, * my white lips repeat, And my lone heart re-echoes the-sonnd, While [ wander in thought throuzh the snow and the street, Till T stand on the verge where Life and Death Ah! sorrows roase thy heart's best feclings, While fortune tends to foster selfish pride; Our mutnal gricfe, to cach appealing, In tend'rest sympathy our souls hsve tied. meet, And wail o'cr a gnow-covered mound. '*Under the snow ! The chill winds sweep by ‘With a #ob in each pitilcss moan— Sobs wrang from the heart that hath stifled each sigh, AsTeaw the bricht dreams of my girlhood drift by, And stood in the bleak world alone. Al praise for thy meck self-denial, Thy ministering skill, with constant, saving care, That poverty’s soul-crushing irial Bow not the objects of thy Christian prayer. Tnder the snow lic buried to-nizht jewels blazen in thy children's minds; TThe buds and the blossome of Spring; Thy reign is where no hearts desert yon, They sleep 'neath tie shadows tnat herald the - Enthroned where home-lave every subject binds, Yight: They sicep till the victor Sun. radiantly bright; The promise of Summer doth bring. Thyh(ufllion is thy standard virtue: Chy Vain slaves of fashion may not know thee; But tbeirs the loss—for virtuous minds lise U{(mm the snow. like a bird in its flight, Ip through the darkness and za’ Tp to the Snarce of Eterrity's Lizat, Free from all changes of partinz or blight, I'll meet with my lost # again. Dec. 22. Magorr i Corye ——— The Good Fortune of Being ;:,.bad. Worcester vy The recent experieuce of an old lady in Glas- gow proves that honesty is not always the best policy. She bad a snug fortune of . §40.000 or thine Hlume the world with moral glory; As vestal beacons they forever shine. Ol‘:‘! l\‘]lfilh r.llespnh-, ‘flfl‘n wo forever, Vould closo around my happy manhood’s ye: Should Fate our lives oiid spirite sever, - ° > o And leavo me lone to darkness and 10 tears: 2 Kind Heaven! §0 crown thy constant bleasing That, when the calls of Daty and of Earth are done, Our souls, in spirit-love caressing, In death may surely, as fa life, be one, §50,000, to which was added a few months agoa - . HBNRY FAUNTLEROY. lezacy of $10,000. The laiter amonnt she de- S —— cided to invest in shares of the City of Glaszow Trimming the Hedge. Bank, and directed ber agent'to do-so. When Burdett?,” the bank failed, and the fearfal lability of the stockbolders was announced, the old lady was nearly distracted at the prosocet of belng re- daced to begeary. But, after waiting awhile for the bolt to strike, she plucked up couraze to make inquiry, and was delighted to find that her agent had cmbezzled the money. That un- taithful agent probably rezards his dishonesty in this case as almost a virtue; the lady hersel? considers him her benefactor, aid is more grute- 1ul to him for cheatinz her out of her: legacy 1 saw an honest furmer trimming an osage hedze overin Henry County. It isa very pe- culiar operation, and I listeaed with a great deal of interest. I say listeped, becauscthe interest- ing teature of trimming o hedge consists not eo much in what the farmer does as in what he says. ‘The honest farmer had a crookea knife on the end of 4 hoe-haudle. He stuck this into the hedge and zave it a jerk. 2 %% iof 2 Z %% < 7, 'v 5 @ . ' V i/ % Z 7 2 / A0 % ,' g Black to move ana win, i, 1%, I 27, her ia his will. instan uolicy for ber. THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, - Honesty in her avent i thiy would have been the worst Possibla Communieationsintended for Tiz Dz oo T Ep, shoul £V1, P.-0. Bugope -1lst of standard works og sy game! address thie Dranght Edftor. e CHECKER- PLAYERS' DIRRCTORT. Athenieum, No. 50 Deachora street. PROBLEM NO. fR... End-pame between Messrs. 1. Scots, 2 v ershFnme betmeen Mewrs. 1. Sc0it, and DL W, Sug, 2} S A . POSITIO; End-gamie hetween Measrs, lncic men on I, G, White men on 12 Whit VILE, Dastion o et Willfam Davle—Particaiars by mal.- D. Lyman—Proof-+lips malled as reqrested, Furcell—Ifave made room for it In. this feme, Malled 89 directed. Thauks for your kiad- 2. D.—Games and problems a 9y 28 correct solutions, 7 2re quite’asnccentable A. E. Morse—tiowen's Authors on the Cro: ! ey Aceept our mnnln‘sm(fghl’ié P, L. Ml We supposed the play to be orfginal c with ou. You nced some hooks on the fare. " & De glad of the fames son refer o, - Fome Shatl 8. mav be d1spas correct, and corre t the al; wmnake3 the draw ool as S Hofters 11g g e < Aifrh move ks not a correction, since 21—17 (the move glven) i3 also sound for & drew. Brudder Bone, fo faif. iz to note that error whien ezamininiz U3U Brevloz to uttinz it fn his book, becomes part pruprletor of the that hie owes me os. ou 630, Mr. Hi 15013 caaihtin the ssme nes by claiming 11=7 at the fifth move asa corteetion, oy **1sympathize with Drudder Boue u the anafilse tion of Suter Var, 20, Anderson's third, le hul it Axeday - mighty cice. and Tt 100ks o uzls to rob him of oneof tus erown Jewels. €0 To aneak. Fact is, 1 woulgn's ‘s’ done 17 {f T hadn’t owed hiin a couple. “Asit s, I've 2 notlon, to promise tolet his Dyke variatlon scand, = *W. M. PECRLL, ML D CUECKER CHATTER. The People's Ciub. Lowell, Mass.. has s drsaght toumament now In progress. X The Chatham, Ont.. Draaghts Clubboasrs of navings ‘membership of seventy-one players. Bt The annual handleap tournament of the Buffalo, N. Y., Draughts Club will be played in January. . The Doston Globe says that the game of draughts way ' never 5o’ prosperous and popular {n That city s ag Dresent. ‘The score for the first two days in the match a: Bos ton bezwucn Messra, Sushy and Davis stands: B Davis 4: and ten games arawn. 3r. refer 3. ames Feed. Jr., offers to play Mr. C. F. Barker, o MF. James Labadie i mareh of lifty zamesof draugits for $330 a3 side, and allow S40- for cxpenses, the mateh to take place h PIEtsburg. Our forclzm exchanges announce that i opea banil- cap turnninent at_draughts, at whicn between sizty apd seventy have aiready- joined, was .0 comzeace oa. the 26th Inst. at Manchester, Enz. , Mr. David Kirkwood, a noted plaser of Sostan, de- ItFered a lecture recently on the **History of Chest and Checkers* before un Ipterested nudience assemoled 3 Then he said: *Ah” than to the deccased ' friend for remembering s Boston. s t the aatiqalty L1 repiortea to have sald thag es. thousauds of. . a8 13 shown by and otherwurks ¢ the New Enzlan' [looms, of checkers, Mr. Kirsog it may be’ trae:d dack to th yeurs ago. 1o t! of the Exypti: The Inscriptions oa thelr monuMEnts, lefz by them. The December number ot the Eualish Drauaht- Payer, Just at hand. completes the Arst volume of Giat RIOSKex- cellent magazine devoted exchislvel to the zame of drauzhts. Sr. J. A Kear, the edltor, congratu himseif upon arriving srfmnphantly at the el ofihs. tirst volume, and promises fo cudzavor 1o maka Yol, 1. “superior to Vol. I. The leading feature of Vol. Ii. will beareriew.of J. S this, afd the usual complenient of games, posttions, - ftems, ete.. the edizor conddently especis to produced very attractive volume. r 1Ir a recent number of the [amiton James Labadie, *Ex-Champion of Ameriea."fisues the following challes hiereby challenze uny man In the Province yken 10 pla¥ me an imrvsiricted mAteh t ArauzhLs, coasz - - ing of Aty gamies, draws and wins to connt. for $10a sfde. 2. | wil play any mav liy the Countles of Kent or Ersex 3 mateh: uf tventy-four zumes. 1 to play bllad- . - fold for the Grst six zatics, Wy opponent to have gixdE ot G all throuzh the match, for s sake uf U3 stae.” 30 wIve uny a-tual resident of this Prov- fuce (bar Dykesya £tart of threezames in sixtecnwon games. for S100a side. 4th. Iwill play anymanintce - TUnitel States of America a restricted mated .at dranehts. conslsting of two orenings, KRe cames, each contestant w_name his gwn opezinz thirty miputes | prior to commencemea of match. Gume 3 be picyel in Chatham, Onr., ag the rooms of the'Casadlin Draught Association, for $100 s side. The Arst and e second challenze to be give or take expenses.” SOLUTIONS. e : !DLC‘H‘? ‘}‘ii }’E’?ILLEJI No. 9%, . y II. . Lyman, 23-n8 16-10 A n T hNe em 1915 [15-10 2521 3—a2 | oBOwloes 13-17 I 1 ME NO. 502—FIFF. 2 5. [Il., between Mr. W. K. Abl Flaye1at Qui and Friend. = Friend's move. ! 61 -9 : =10 18 i3 5 16 19 1 aEnal 5 101 i Fad 3-8. Dlack Wins.—DRACGHT GAME X0. 303—CROSS. By Wiiiain Upham, Led Wing, Mi 69 S [ 32— 1 1= > P pr T2 At tos, (a) Corrects Game =}, var. 5 at 4th move, wherd 2522 {3 played. allowing B. to i 5y 1513, -8, 1814, drawn.—DeAveHT EDITOR. GAME NO. 30i—CRUSS. E. Bowen, Millburs, Mass. [U=I6 12037 pas— 15=11 s«b)[ 9 Ho 4 (@f 23 25—3(d), =10 | Bl 1D Purcell. X & by or. Puarcelis. Var. 939, Bowen’s ors, has tlree erros. Yo in thie shav cam 1 o fyuriien. Un f2kinz 13 the Natwona! Cherker. derson's Third, Suter, Var. 20, Kiled dead.’ About tha only thing [ had In the book, and that b thisssme e Purcell, and 1 am {n 3 rage, and am golog 1o 3y Doctor off right here, and nows: P (a) 16—11, or I razs. ) 17—14 draws (c) 83, or 17—14 draws. ‘ draws. (1) 11—~ WS, (2} ) 1815, 73, 15-10, 3-8 xo(—u, 9- -8, 11T, 8 Drawa. : Now, 28 1—5 Wlil not win ot the . we shalibave (0 deiuct one error from the Docror's three, and add 1t 1o seore, making fifteen. Bow! oy TE—Mr. Bowen sent ihe above game and yoica (o Dr. Purcell, Reeksille, Iad., aud wrote ulm w e effect that, 1f he objected 1o'the publicatlon, ho mIThe destroy (&.and 1f not e mizht send It (0 Tiik TRIDUSE, The ood Dociur marked the game “* Appraved aad forwarged. ™ and also nccompanted f& with 3 e notck Which will he 1ound under our Coatsibutors’ Crittclims: ~DisvenT Error. — ————— YOU AND 1. The days have been so bricht and fair By which we mark our friendsnip's length. So free from £hadows and from storms, We have not proved its trath or strengih. Suppose—but let the doubt 20 by— Good friends to-day are yon and 1! A touch of hand, a passing word, A lanch tozether by the way: If one remembers, or forzets— Who knows, beyond the present dagt - 7 And yet—bau let the thought go hy— 2 Who sizhs regret? Not you nori! W. - DeceMsER, 18737 Loe M.