Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1881, Page 17

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. ¥Y 29, I881-TWENTY PAGES 17 RELIGIOUS. The Sale of Church Livings in England a Public Scandal. Bitter Denunciation of Simony and Pluralism in the House of Commons, Father Butler Celebrates His Silver Jubilee in Rockford with Great Eclat. @eresy-Hunting -in Scotland— The Free Church and Rob- ertson Smith. ee General Notes at Home and Abroad— Personal Mention—Sunday Salad. RESTING ON GOD. Bince thy Father's arm sustains thee, Peaceful be; When a chastening bund restrains thee, It is He; Kuoiv His love in full completenesa Fills the measure of thy weakness; It He wounds thy spirit sore, Trust Him more, Without murmur, uncomplaining, In His hand Lay whatever things thou canst not Understand; Though the world thy folly spurnerh, From thy faitn in pity turneth, Peace tay inmost soul sball 1ll, Lying still. Like an infant, if thou thinkest Thon canst stand; Childlike, proudly: pushing back ‘The offered hand, Conrage soon is changed to fear, Strength doth fecbleness appears In His love if thou abide He will guide. Fearest sometime that thy Father = Hath forgot; When the clouds nround thee guther, Doubt Him not. Always bath the daylight broken, Always hath He comfort spoken; Better hath be been for yexurs ‘Than thy fears. Therefore, whatsoever betideth 2 Night or ¢ Know His love for thee provideth Good alway. Crown of sorrow gladly take, Grateful wear it Tor His sako, Sweetly bending to His will, Lying still. avior giveth ily strength: To each troubied soul that liveth, 2 Peace at length. Weakest lumbs bave largest share Of this tender shepherd's care. Ask Him not then, when or how, Only bow. To His own t D; SIMONY IN THE CHURCH. A PUBLIC SCANDAL DENOUNCED IN THE Ov: OF COMMONS. New York Herald. {t is singular to observe with what tenacity the advanced England of to-day, the land of common sense, the vaunted home of liberty, and the recognized parent of tree institutions the world over, clings to principles, customs, and institutions which are fully representa- tive of the spirit of the feudalism of the Mid- dle Aves. In no country in the world is the rontrast between the old and new—the on- rushing tendency of the present and the cau- tivus conservatism of the past—so vividly and so foreibly presented. There is the hered- itary monareh, and there is the House of Lords, for the most part as yet what it orig- inally was, the representative of hereditary righis; but there is the House of Commons, which has now almost absolute power. In crowded, bustling London the stranger finds himself ever and anon near to some sacred editice, whose quaint architect- ure carries lim back in .memory to the time when modern Europe wv just dawning into light and whose worship*has changed but little in many hundreds of or he stumbles into the courts of law, nere medieval forms and ceremonies are still in the ascendant; and London in these particulars is but arepresentativeor example of England as a whole. Revolutions have not been wanting in England; but revolu- fions in England, as compared with most other countries, have been cautious. and con- gervative. There hus been destruction, but the destructive spirit has always been held in check, and, asa rule, limited to the neces- sities of the situation. Hence it is that in England there is so uch that is old along: side of so much that is new. Nowhere, as ‘was hinted above, is thistenacious adherence to ancient rights. priv and customs more conspicuously revealed than in the eeclesias' sysiem which is known as the national Chure nd fnothing in the na- tional Church is this feature more strikingly revealed than in the methods which still pre- vail in the disposal of bene! In the House of Commons, just before the resent recess, Which comes to a close on the 25th, there was a very lively debate on the manner in which simony is practiced in the disposing of benetices, or, it is more gen- erally phrased, in the sale of advowsons. . In this debate, of which Mr. Leatham, the mem- ber for Hudderstield, was the originator, and in which he took the principal part, great liberty of speech was used. Mr. Leatham called attention to the lately-published report pf the Royal Commission,—a Commission which was appointed “to inquire into the law and practice as tu the sale, exchange, and resignation of eccles al benefices.” It Appears from this report that matters are the of creditable to the English Church, orto the English Government. It is the cus tom to advertise for saie advowsons,—that i the right to the next presentation tu the par- ish, vicarage, or rectary, as it may be; and there are some agents aid son ropricturs ot so-called ne ipers. Who drive a flourish- ing trade by this sort of busine: hundreds of livings are in the open market, and parishes are thus piaced at the mercy of brokers, jobbers, _and hucksters,. and passed. like sheep from dealer to dealer. At this moment any one With a few thousands in his pocket can con- sult one of half adozen regular organs, £0 toa regular agent. and have the choice some hundreds of Jivings, in most cases with the understanding that they are to be imme- diately vacated. It is a singular feature of the present state of things that the trade tarried on for the most part, by the clersy men. Itis stated positively that some two- thirds of the patronage ot the Church is in the hands of clerieal persons. One agent who gave evidence before the Commission 3tated that the proportion with Which he had to deal was seventy-three,clerical as against forty-aght lay patrons. “As a proof of the xtent to which these sales were conducted it was stated that on or about the same date YW publication. the Preferment Circular ad- fentised 110 livings for sale, the Private Patronage Gazette advertised 160, and the zhane Register advertised 35), and these Bere only a few of the papers made use of In this way. It was brought out in evidence dy the Commission that those parishes in Which the clergyman was the patron were, 2S 4 rule, least carefully attended . to. And Why not? it was asked in the House bf Commons. Had they not bought their parishes ‘with a price, and were they not their own? And so Jong as they did their duty there was no Jaw abuve them. Even the Bishops were powerless to illustrate the evils of clerical patronage. A case Was tited in the course of the debate. It was the tase of St. Giles, Camberwell. There had deen 2 sequestration, and the Bishop could only secure £200 to carry on the affairs of the parish. it was brought to the atiention of the Lords by Lord St. Leonards, but the Bishops fersook him and tled. Dr. Wilber- force was ultimately successful in raising 0 sum which yielded £400 2 year; but what happened? ‘Che absent viear returned ‘nd Haimed to be his own curate. It was also leclared to be no uncommon thing for cler- cal patrons to raise money by subscription ind otherwise, to obtain grants from recog- ized church sources, to s , to spend this mon iuprovements and then to sell. realizing on ne Increased value of the benefice. It is not oerta, therefore,. that the member for ie derstield should haye charaeterized the Church of England as an Augean stable, nore >on, Augean’ stable than a nest of abuses.” “Tt was,” he said, “reeking with corruption, and if the corruption y not removed, the stable l€ and the steeds ‘would ‘be swept away altogether.” It was moved that the simoniacal evasions of the law a nd other scandals connected with the exercise of private patronage in the Church .of En- gland calied for remedial meisures of the most strinzent and radical character.’ It 3 as finally agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. Ginstone, that the whole q estion should be M ed a e Te connecti with the bill Which Sip B Sian reget rently inpdueed on the subject. ; ght of presentation to a el eccle iastical benefice in England ifealled an advowson. Advowsons are either appendant or in gross. Ithas been shown above that he orizinal founders, and therefore patrons ot the churches, were the lords of the manor. w hen the right of patronage continues a tached to the manor itis calied an advows appendant, and the right is conveyed with the manor as incident thereto. When, how- vet, the property involved in’ the has onee been separated from th of the manor by legal convey: an advowson in gross, the person of its“ ow T, not to his manor i ons are further, divided ve, clive, or donative; but these distinetions do not in any direct way belong to the present inquiry. Itis with the advowson in gross, the advuwson which is annexed to the person of its owner, that we are now concerned, It is this kind of pat- ronage whieh has fallen into disgrace in En- gland,—not the patronage which, belongs to the great territorial landlords or the Bisii and which, however wisely. or un may be come a i e isely i xercised, is never allowed to be ause of scandal. lt is the advow i the right of patronage—which separated from. the manor, and wh has become a property in. itself, whieh fills the advertising columns of the Clerical Journal, the English. Churchman, the Private Pat= ronage Gazette, the Exchange Re fer, the Preferment Cirewlar, and other kindred or- gaus of public sentiment, which gives lue: tive employment to numberless age nts, and which tempts ‘the cupidity “and” de- grades the character of “so ‘many clergymen. It is this kind of patron- ge—the buying and selling. of which. has Jong been a scandal, but which has been. persistently winked at by the English people generally, but particularly by” the metnbers of the Established Chureh and by the Government—which Mr. Leatham, the jnember of Parliament for Haddontield, and arespected adherent of the Noneontormist body of Christians, has held up to public view and denounced asa scandal to the country and to the age. “The syste’ 1 Works it world of evil, “1 am sorry,” said one of these adyowson purchasers tu an old lady in his parish, ‘raat [ do not see youat ehureh.” May I not go,” she answered, “where I think get most good?? “ But’ don’t you know who put me here?” he rejuined, solemnly, “ Yes, I do,” she replied, * your- self, and I will have nothing to do with the rar Wellimay the London Time: exclaim, * Lhe Church of England binds its own eyes and affects to see nothing, when all the rest of Ensland see a grievous sin and erying shame, Which of these has the ‘single eye,’ which alone can disc truth,—the establishment. traffic in souls, or the outside people who ab- hority” Since the days of Simon Magus, traffic in religious or ecclesiastical matters has come under the Chureh’s censure. In. the old eanon Taw it was considered 2 heinous crime ‘The canonical law, er, Wi ned suflicient, and a Ate Wis passed in the time of Elizabeth detining the “punishment of simony. A simoniacal presentation was declared to be utterly void, and the person giving or taking the gift forfeited duudle the ue of one year’s profit: the person accepting the ben- elice was wbled from ever holding the sume benefice. The taw as it stands is clear enongh, 1tis notsimony for a layman spiritual person, not purchasing for himself, to purchase while the church is what is ealled full, that not vacant clerieally; either -an advo n Or next presentation, however iminediate may be the prospect of a ancy, unless the vacancy is to be ocea- ined by some agreement or arrangement between the parties, Ibis not simony f¢ spiritual person -to purchase for him- advowson except under siin- s. But it simony to, purchase the white ihe chureh is vacant; and it imony for a spi ual person to pureliase for himself the nex ntation, although: the church be full. is, that when the purchaser of a living enters inte po ion in the usual constitutional manner, he. is called upon to take an oath like any other entermg the holy office that he not directly or indirectly used money to ure the position. The sale of advowsons with the right of immediate presentation, or what is called above “n presentation,” is contrary to law; and Mr. Stark informed the Commission that he never failed to inform both purehitser and sell that such transaction was illezal, but that it had no effect. And it is notorious that many good men—inen of adimitted piety and Chi tian worth—find their way into desirable livings by this means. Such is the blinding influence of custom; and such is the evil in- separable from a bad institution, There isa higher law than the law of Eneland, or the Jaw even of any church, and by higher law. property in patronage is condemned, It is another relic of barbarisin, and must disap- pear. One of the greatest evils which grew out ght of patronage or this property ze was pluralism,--which means me person of twoor at the same time. That evil is not altogether extinet, but it has Deen greatly mitigated in the Chureh of tome as well asin the Church of England. In the thirteenth century, by means of per- missions to hold benefices in commendum and dispensations for non-residence and hold- ing of pluralities, upward of fifty benetices were often helt by one person, and the best benefices in Europe were filled by Italian prie nominees of Rome, some of them resident, and some of them non-resident, and most of thein ignorant of the language of the people over whom they were sup- posed torule orto whom they ministered. dt isso no longer. Theseandal of pluralitie was great in England down even to the pri ent reign. It was provided, however, by the and 14 Vict. cap. 93, that no incumbent of a benefice shall take and hold with it another benefice, unless the churches are within three miles of one another by the nearest presentation road and the annual Ine of one of- them does not exceed £100. Two benefices ‘ cannot = be heid together if the population of one exceeds 3,000 and that of the other exceeds 500. A benefice in sense includes any perpetual curacy, en ed chapel, parochial or district chapelry. petent to the Arehbishup to allow two benelices to be held together by grant- ing a dispensation or license. In exse of the refusal of the Archbis bop the party may ap- peal to the Privy Council. None of the head: or rulers of any college or hall in the uni- jes of Oxford or Cambridze can take i thedral preferment or any other benc~ fice. ‘The same rule applies to the, Warden of Durham University. Lf any spiritual per- son holding a benefice should accept another contrary to the stauute the first benefice be~ comes void. By the same ordinance it is provided that benefices may be united when the aggregate population does not exceed 1,590, and when the aggregate arly ue does not exceed £509. “In Ireland. of course, all sueh arrangements have ceased, and in Scotland pluralism has from an early period been contr 9 the staiute law, being tol- erated only in the case of University pro- fessors, who may have cha: in the town or city in which the uni y is situated. It is thus made apparent that the evils con- nected with pluralism have p ally been eradicated. ‘Lhe presumption is that the time js close at, hand when the temptation to simony—that ungodly traflic in what con- rig the best and highest interests of man- nd—shall aiso be removed. Mr. Gladst is not the man_to halt between two opinions when the public mind has been made up, and he is too trae a friend to the Church of En- gland to allow it to juliet from an bleed ! it is not beyond the powe! sore whieli it is not bey BT ote i surgery to root out. on ing if beter the autiannal @ is a Y s all their attendant evils wi } Cane Stress of zone to the limbo of the past. bss is, barrier in the way of business is the only i tivelegisiation on the subject. In the meantime public attention ‘will be more and more directed to the scandal, REV. T. J. BUTLER, D. D. CELEBRATION OF 15 SILVER JUBILE The Rey. T. J. Butler, D. D., formerly of this city, and well-known as the eloquent Chaplain of the Mulligan Brigade, and now residing in Rockford, il, celebrated his si yer jubilee on the 1ith inst. A solemn hig) h mass was sung in his church, St. James’ Catholic, with the reverend Doctor as cele- brant, assisted by his two brothers as Deacon and Sub-Deacon. Among the visiting vlergy- men were the Very Rey. Vicar-General Me- Mullen, Bishop-clect of Davenport; the Revs. P.1. Riordan, M. Vande-Laar, Chicago; I. Treacy, I. Shaunahan, T. Magnan, D. Egan. At the opening of his sermon the Rev. Father ‘Treacy read the following letter received by Dr. Butler from the Archbishop of Chicago: Veny REV. AND Dear Dr. BuTLER: Tam very sorry you were not ordained a week later, a3 I could'then bave the great plensure of going to aid in celebrating your jubilee. But next Tues- day I fear it will be impossible for me to be present, as I will have ordinations on Tuesday, Wednesday, und ‘Thursday mornings. 1 con- gratulate you most sincerely, and pray that you may celebrate the golden jubilee a quarter of a century hence. [-am, my dear doctor, yours faithfully, PA. FEeEWAN, Archbishop. In the afternoon the children of the parish waited en masse on Dr. Butler and in these words presented him with a gold-headed cane: Dn, Buri Some days since you, when re- ferring to this silver jubilee, remindéd us, your spiritual children, that you were yrowing o1d, ‘one of the oldest priests of the diocese,” your ebildren of the first communion class, therefore desire you to accept as a token of alléction this fitting support for the future years, which we ely hope may increase in mimber and happiness until we shal! be called upon to cele- brate your golden jubilee, of which this head shall ‘ve not only the emblem, but the prophecy On the part of the ladies of the Varish Mrs, J. Schinauss read this address: Dean Dk. Buren, Rev, FATHER AND PRrenp: Allour livesour errs have been fainiliar with the words—silver wedding, but until now we have been unconscious that the priest, too, may have silver Jubilee of ‘his espousal—his irrevocable ¢ with the Church of God. To our it is, indeed, a most expressive and ching commentary on the sacredness of your . Accept, then, not only as a token of af- fection, but of reverence for your supernatural character of priest, derived fi the sacrament of Holy Order, this purse, with which we desire you. to procure, according to your superior taste and Judgment. a chalice, on which we wish to be en- rave ur name and the words * Memento of the Silver Jubilee, Rockford, stay 13, 1881," and we shall, marcover, hope that sometime in the August saerifice the donors may be remembered, In the evening the Very Reverend Dean and his guests were conveyed in carriages to Brown's Ifall, the excellent band of the St, James’ ‘Temperance Society heading the cortége. On entering the hall the clergy were reecived with enthusiasm by a numerous and select audience, and, having taken their places on the platform, they were soon after joined by his Honor, Mayor Crawford, who sat on Dr, Buuler’s righ The program was yery interesting, beingso arranged as to combine the usual Jubilee. re- ception and address with a highly éruditeand pleasing lecture by the Ductor’s Manchester brother, At appropriate stages in the lect- ure selections trom Irish minstrelsy were i troduced as illustrations, Mrs. Haime’s “Last Rose of Summer” was varticularly uutiful, as was alse the duet, “Ilas Sorrow hy Young Days Shaded,” by Mrs. LHaime M.o'Connor. : s Weld’s accompaniments were exceed- ingly faithful as well as considerate. At the conclusion of the lecture and con- cert the following address was read by Mr. John Brown: To the Very Rev. Dr. Butler, Dean of Rockford. His Parishioners’ Greeting on the Cwenty-fifth <inniversary of his Urdination—VEery REVEREND Sir: We hail with ali joy this happy opportunity of Showing our respect and affection to our worthy pastor. and think ourselves favored in having, this advantage over others to whose hearts your priestly ministrations ever made you so dear, ‘We are not yullty of any proud boast in saying that we express bere in Rockford the most grateful sentiments, the iost sincere good wishes, the most bearfelt homage of your frieuds In other churches in other lands, or in other cities, The holy work you bave done among us, the endearment you have merited from each one of this congregation by your rare qualities and untiring zeal, affords us ample reason for bestowing on you, as a minister of God and a Christian gentleman, our bighest praise. We arv fully aware tbat, during the early years of your priesthood. yourcarver was one of henyy labor, severe struggle in the great cause, and of devotedness to the interests of tha chureb and of this country, but had we no proof of your genuine worth other than whnt our own eyes huve witnessed, we would nevertheless en- tertain towards you the same respectfel and affecttonnte feeling that Mil onr souls to-night. Your many talents we noted in our memories, when, muny years ao, being then Chaplain to the Trish Brigade, you lectured on the slave question, and on hearing, in 1876, that you were to be our priest, needless to say, we all rejoiced, Since then you have not alone gained the hearts and minds of your Catholic tlock, but you have merited the individual respect and public contidence of all classes in the community. We constantly feur that changes amongst the clerey will. necessitate your removal to some higher sphere of duty, and while we know it would be unjust in us to stand between you and any advancement calculated to penedt religion and your own welfare, still we cannot but ex- our desire that you may stay with us to be * joy and our pride.” Tn conclusion, dear Dr. Butler, we wish you from our heurt of hearts every happiness that this silver jubilee can bring to Sv g00d a priest, so kind apnstor. May it be a presage of the golden anniversary, God grant, you will live to celebrate, and may each year you spend in His service be crowned with blessings of health and pence. The wish of your devoted parishioners of St. James’. Rockford. In order the more solemnly and permanently to perpeturte the memory of this epoch in your life, we are having inscribed to your name a sold chalice, which we hereby pray you. to ac- cept. In reply Dr. Butler said: Dean FRrenps: You have done me to-day every honor your loving hearts could devise. If ever I had wanted a full proof of your sincere good-will, Pcould not have had stronger evi- deneces than your kindly xetion in this my silver jubiice. You children bave given me rich pres~ ents, and you now declare your intention of adding to their munificence. Flowers bave been showered into my house, expressing in them- selves, and bearing missives expressive of your hearts’ best sympathies, while from some of you Thave privately reecived other beautiful and pmictical tokens of esteem. With more equal justice can T quote in your praise the text of the Apostle applied te mein your too flartering ad “You are my joy nnd my pride.” 3 ‘oF you have ever plitd- dened ‘me by virtues: my pride, since you bave ever held up tho glory of our Church in this city. As I minister to God in your chalice. I will be reminded of you, and the ‘memory will serve to quicken my devotion, and draw trom my inmost soul a blessing on you all, and a prayer for your every happiness. In behalf of the clergy of the Archdiocese the Very Rev. Vicar-General MeMullen, in very affectienate terms, spoke of the long and close friendship that has existed for more than a generation between the Dean and himself. Referring to the present hap- py oceasion, he: expressed his tervent hope that the san indly Providence that had preserved hi: und through so many years of a Inborious and eventful career might thim to reach a golden jubilee in the istry; snd though some of those. present uy not witness the fiftieth celebration, they can all hope that they will yet see the xood man’s virtues and able-services to religion crowned by an eternal jubilec in the blessed hereafter. < The Dean having warmly thanked the ‘or for his kindness in attending, the fes- tivities were brought to a close. ROBERTSON SMITH. WHY WE WAS SUSPENDED FROM IIs FUNC- TION BY THE PREE CHULCH OF SCOT- LAND. The decisianof the Assembly of the Free Chureh of Scotland, which restored Prof. Robertson Smith to his chair a year ago, was hield to be a vindication of his famous article on the Bible. The publication of a new vol- une of the “Encyclopedia Britannica,” containing an article from his pen on “ He- brew Language and Literature,” gave his enemies an opportunity: to return to the at- tack. ‘The Committee which was appointed to examine this treatise said in a report that they did-not impute to Prof. Sinith the inten- tion of assailing the integrity and authority of Scripture, but that the statements made by him in many particulars were such as are fitted and ean hardly fail to produce upon the minds of readers the impression that Scripture does not present relinble state- ment of truth, aud that God is not the author ofit. They added that it_greatly.concerned the character and credit of the Free Chureh toma it clear, in opposition to any such impression, that she holds firmly and will maintain the intallible truth and authori of Scripture as the word of God ‘The in which they found Prof. ble to ubjection are thus in which the Books ot en Of in an irreverent pass h they are spoken uel a Way as to-render it very diti- ders to regard God as the author of them; passages whieh naturally suggest that Scripture does not. give an authentic narrative of facts or actual occurrences, passages which discredit prophecy in its pre- dictive aspect. Unless each of these heads passages are auoted to ustify the charge. For instance, the writer says that Ezra and Nehemiah ‘are singularly destitute of erary merit.” Le says that two chapters of Isaiah “seem to have been first published as manne) of in cult for literary broadside.” He speaks of the -‘fan- tastic symbolic imagery” of the spoken prophecy revived after te exile. The * Son: of Solomon” is a ‘lytic drama” which “has suffered, much from interpolations.” The history of Jonah is “2 -parable”; Ruth is “ a graceful prose idyll”; Eber, in Gen- esis, is not an actual personage, but an “ethnological or geographical’ abstrac- tion.” ‘fhe conclusion of the report was to the effect that the whole tendency of the writings is fitted to throw the Old ‘Testa- ment history into confusion, and at least to weaken, if not to destroy, the very founda- tion on which the New-Testament doctrine is built, Moreover, the ‘general method on. which the writer proceeded conveyed the im- pression that the Bible may be accounted for. by the same laws which have determined the growth of any other literature, inasmuch as there is no recognition of the Divine element, in the production of the book. The Commi tee accordingty recommended the Commi: inission to take steps for making it evident that the Free Chureh cannot sanction the kind of teaching animadverted upon in the respect which these writings would justify, and for urging the General Assembly to de- clare to her people and to other Churches that she cannot sanction the ideas suggested by it, In his reply to this report Prof. Smith tore it to shreds, showing that its compila- tion revealed wonderful ignorance of the points at issue, arguing that his theology vas sounder and more spiritual than that of his opponents, and accusing them of all man- ner of uncharitabieness.. ‘The Assembly answered his arguments by suspending him. GENERAL NOTES, The Year Book of the Presbyterians, is- sued in. Philadelphia, gives the number of Presbyterian communicants at 3,000,000, and the population of adherents 12,000,000, The General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church is somewhat torn up over the question of eternai punishment. “Quite anangry debate ocenrred on the subject at the meeting of the Council, Wedn y last. Archbishop Feehan will adiminister con- firmation at half-past 10 this morning at St. Jarlath’s Chureh, corner Jackson street and Ogden avenue, and Father McKenna will de- ver the closing lecture of the mission at half- past 7 in the evening. While Christian missions report a gain of less than 20,000 converts in China during the year 1880, Mohammedanisin counts 100,000. The whole Christian population of China. is estimated at four in 100,000, In. this coun pry oue person in every six is a chureh mein- r, Lenhartsville, a little town near Reading, Pa., has a chureh war on its hands growing outof the former joint occupancy of the only church in the place by the Lutheran and Reformed congregauons. |The quarrel arose man attempt to holdin the church the Sunday-school, which for several years had * been conducted in the public schvo! build- ‘The Rev. Josiah Tyler, of the Zulu mission of.the American Board, in South Africa, writes that a majority of the Dutch farmers there hate the English with perfect hatred, but that they have a special fondness for Americans, This_is attributed largely to their deep love and veneration of the late Dr. Lindley, who was their minister when they were settled in the Natal, and who followed them to the Free States. ‘The offivial returns of the Irish Presby- terian Church, recently issued, contain much interesting intormation concerning that body. ‘There are now 632 ministers, 558 congr tions, 2,097 elders, 6,985 deacons, and 104,679 communicants. There are also 1,052 Sunda schools, hy $,840 teachers and an average attendance of 6,866 scholars. ‘The church maintains a church extension fund and an ‘ish mission, missions to the colonies, to rope, India, and China, to soldiers and sailors, and to the Jews. The Baptist mission in Congo was doing well until a Portuguese gunboat came up the San Salvador River with several Jesuit priests. ‘These priests presented their ere- dentials from“ His Majesty of Portugal” to the King of San Salvador. — They brought a variety of presents, and gave notice of their intention to stay five years. ‘The commander of the gunboat isto come once a month to see that everything goes well with the priests, The Baptists are discouraged, and fear that their hold on the Congo people will now be very slight, as the presents brought by the Portuguese priests are both numerous and costly, and of a nature{to make a deep im- pression on the African heart, According to the Ninetgenth Century, Dr. Wallie, F/R. S. Professor of Geometry the University of Oxford, has. suggested an ingenious method of easing the consciences ot those who hold that Saturday is the Sab- bath: le recommends them to make a voynge around the world, as Sir Francis Drake did, *0- ing out of the Atluntic Ocean westward by the Straits of Magellan to the East Indies, ana then to the east, returning by tho Cape of Good Hope homeward, and tet them keep their Saturday Sabbath ull the way. When they come home to England they will find their Saturday to fall upon our Sunday, and they muy henceforth con- tinue to observe their Saturday Sabbath on tho same day with us. THE COLOR LINE IN THE CHURCH. The Episcopal State Convention in North Carolina will be obliged to settle the ques- tion of colo: delegates, From one of the ¢ . ppeared a colored delegate. ‘The editor of the Raleigh Ob- server, % Bourbon sheet, and a prominent member in the church, opposed his and has taken the matter into his paper. pastor of the church which sent the colored delegate has published a lettersustaining the action of his chureh as being in the strictest consonance with chureh teaching aud the very genius of Christianity, saying that “at the foot of the cross all men are equal.” Commenting upon the letter of the pastor, the Observer says: If there be any denomination in North Caro- lina whose church policy admits of the practice ot election of negro delegates, so much the worse for that denomination in this State; only hurm can come from pursting the course that Mr. Bynum commends. Tho residents of the Southern States have the gravest problem ever committed to a people to work out, and in our judgmefit that problem will find its best solu- Uon by preserving an impassable barrier be- tween the ruces. All legal barriers are now thrown down, and the only protection left against breeding x mongrel race of mulattoes is race prejudice. Obliternte that prejndice and establish perfect equality between the races and there will remain no’ sentiment debarring intermarriage. Whatever tends, then, to destroy cast and race prejudice only serves to hasten the stocking of this country with mulattoes. « PERSONALS. D. L. Moody will spend the summer at his home in Northfield, Sass. Prof. Bartlett, of Dartmouth, is delivering a series of lectures on theology at Andover, The Rev. W. T. Bacon died receiitly in Bir- mingham, Conn., where he edited the Derby Transcript. The A. L. Royce, Rector of Christ Church, Janesville, Wis., hasbeen appointed Chaplain in the United States navy. ‘The Rev. G..R. Leavitt, of Cambridgeport, Mass., is on way to Japan, where he will engage in missionary labors. ‘The Rey. J. IT. Castle, D. D,, who is one of the most eloquent Baptists in Canada, ac- cepts the Presidency ot ‘Toronto College. ‘The Rev. C. N. Sinnett, of Patten, Me. been disinissed from the Congregation Church. because of indiscretions which in- jured his reputation and usefulness. Vather Chiniquy, the celebrated aunti- Catholic preacher, has been invited to San Francisco to hold protracted series of st He now hails from Montreal, but has labored in yarious other parts of the world, notably in Illinois and Austral Twenty-tive years ago he was a most power- ful speaker, but he has now lost some of the fire which characterized hiscarly efforts in oratory, He is as outspoken as ever in his opposition to the Pope and to all that pertain to the Roman Catholic Church, His ecclesiastical connection 1s with the Presby- tenan Chureh. SUNDAY SALAD. A Boston Sunday-school boy, when asked to stand up and say his verse, did it thus: “Be not overcome of evil, but come it over evil with good.” When the types are made to say that an honest man is the nobbiest work of God, it is time to throw glass bombs into the coin- posing room.—Boston Globe. “Strikes” are now-in order both in the bali-tield and the labor market, Cam was the first_striker. He an Abel batter: but he didn’t make a home run.—Cambridge Tribune. “Tam Jesus’ little lamb, therefore glad and y Lam,” was a hymn which dear Wilie was fond of repeating. One day Willie was disobedient, and his mamma told him she would have to punish him, | ‘‘Ishould fink,” he said, “you would not like to punish Je- sus’ little lamb.? For many years she gada 6 Burdeed with goctip andearee Bur now she’s in heaven telling tho Lord y mean her ne} Sylvester ‘Lumberman. Oe Bettina has a pony which was called hers, Pious erpapn ant pata: drove it. ‘The y Was’ very naughty one day, and papa had to whip it. Bettina felt vo y sad, and said, “I wish my dear horse could die, and go right.to his heavenly father. ‘Then he wouldn’t be whipped.” e “The Bible says, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’” the parson remarked; “ but of course we must not take this literally. If you manage to love your neighbor one-hun- dredth partas much’ as you do yourselves, many of you, it will be all that can be rea- sonably expected of you.” ‘The people of a New Hampshire town are so fearfully lazy that, when the wife of a minister who had just settled in that town ked a prominent citizen if the inhabitants generally respected the Sabbath and refrained, from business, he replicd: “Confound it, mm, they don’t do enough work ina whole week to break the Sabbath, if it was alldone on that day.” “TL take for a text,” said a St. Louis colored” -Pastor, “the words a ‘Itis more blessed to give than to receive” ‘There are many who come to church who wot do welt to Te- member these words. They are of that kind who come here and eat and drink of the good things, but who are never here at the time the box is passed around.” A tall’ brother stood up and said: “You're a Har, sir— Nar—liar—liar.” ‘There was a great commo- tion, ending in the ejection of the disturber. ‘The Sunday-school lesson was about the healing of the leper, and when the teacher asked why Providence permitted men to have such a dreadful disease, +-years-old Gracie unswered in the orthodox fashion that it was a punishment for sin: “But,” as teacher, “does God punish sin by si now 2? “Qh, he does.” Gracie returned in- stantly. “ve just s.”?* But your baby brother nd he's too. little to sin.” “Oh,” said ¥ Gracie, with an air of settling every difliculty, “baby Har- ry took them from me.” CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. May 29—Sunday after Ascension. June 3—Fust. CATHOLIC. May 29—Sunday in the Octave of the Ascension. May 30—Of tho Octave. May 31—St. Angela Merici, V. June 1—-Of the Octave of the Ascensi June 2—Octave of the Ascension; SS. Marcel- inus and Comp., MM. June 3—St. George, M. (from April 23). June 4—Vigil of Pentecost. JEFF DAVIS’ CAPTURE. Tho Real Facts Concerning the Event Related by an Ex- Officer of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. AGo, May 28.—In Siturday’s issue of mes appears an account of an inter- view with Gen. Crafts J. Wright, of the Marine Llospital. Gen. Wright’s friendship for Jeff Davis ought not to induce him to pervert the truth; for his statements as to the capture of Jett Davis are false from be- ginning to end; or else he speaks from en- tire ignorance on the subject, or to create a sympathy for a man who deserves nothing but contempt from every soldier and Union- Joving citizen of the United States First, the party were not traveling as he States; they were traveling together, aud had not only ambulances for the ladies of ‘the party, but also wagons, which contained supplies, with liquors and a large quantity of specie,—British gold,—which Davis had taked from the banks at Richmond. All the anen of the command had gold, and onein particular, James Lynch, of Company C, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, secured $60,000, which he buried, and afterwards recovered: when discharged. James .Lynch also cap- tured J. Davis’ horse, which was standing ready saddled and loaded down with saddie- bags containing gold. This horse Lynch shot at Macon, Ga., with his own hand rather than turn over to Col. Pritehard, who want- ed the horse to take North. Nomen of the First Wisconsin were in the camp at all. The camp was surrounded by the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and when this was done Capt. iudson charged in onto the immediate camp with his company. The firing by this party started the Rebels, who were about.to commence their morning mareh. Hearing this firing, Jeff, with his wife and Mrs. Johnson, started for the woods, and had not gone ten rods in tho dusk of morning before they ran plump against Cor- poral Munger, of F Company, who ordered them to halt. Mrs. Davis was: spokesman. She said, * Wou’t you let us pass to the spring to get some water?” Munger, who was one of the videttes, and had orders to let no one pass, seeing a cavalryiman’s boots beneath the waterproof covering the fizure ot the Rebel President, sai id: “You are the party we are looking for,”’ and ordered thei about, and marched them into the presence of Capt. Hudson and Col, Pritchard. Jett Davis wore a waterproof, a bonnet, with a shawl tied about his neck, and was supported on one side by his wife and on the other by Mrs. Johnson. These are_the -facts. rl now at the War Department, at Washington. ‘The men are still alive, and Corporal Munger resides in Michigan. Mrs. Davis was very. indignant, and rated Col. Pritchard se- verely for calling her husband “ Mr.” Davis. She said she wanted him addressed us the Presi- dent. Col. Pritchard replied that he could know him only as Mr. D. At this timeiring was heard out on our front, or where the advance guard were posted, nenrly a mile beyond the camp, which wag soon discovered tobe u detachment of the First Wisconsin Cavalry. They were upon the chase like ourselves, and were «is- guised in Rebel uniforms, and upon coming upon our men in Federal uniform, a mistake oceurred on both sides. Our men supposing them Rebels, and they supposing our men Rebels, dressed in Federal uniform for diszuis iskirmish commenced in which two or thr men on both sides were killed and several wounded, including Lieut. Boutelle, who bad command of our advance guard, before the imistake wns discovered through the fact that both parties were armed with the Spencer seven-shooting exrbines, which we knew were not used by the Rebels. "This atfray took place atter Jet? Davis and party were captured and in possession of Cupt. Hudson's battalion; and the statement that @ Wisconsin cavalryman cap- tured Jet? Davis’ horse is another talschoot ‘Although the First Wisconsin Cavalry miics away at the time of the capture they were allowed to come in for u share of | the reward of $100,000.13 were also an Onio Regiment who Were not within twenty miles of the capture. Jet! Davis’ party, including Gens. Reagan, Johnson, and others, were taken to’Macon by stages, and from thence to Fortress Mon- roe. being treated from the moment of -their capture With ull possible kindness. Mrs. Davis, during the mareb at Macon, rode in an ambu- luuce With ber husband and family, was in tears much of the time, and constantly asking if we thongbt ber husband would be hanged.” Jeff took matters coolly: und smoked ‘his mvcr- schaum, and conversed plezntly with the off cers duting the journey. He dressed in grey, with a white felt hat, and wore high top boots. ‘As Tsaid before, his saddle horse was sbot by Sames Lyneb of Macon, and Mrs. Davis’ carriage team, presented to ber by the citizens of Rich- mond, were appraised and bought by Cupt. sHathuway of our regiment, who disposed of them ut Nashville after the War. : These are the facts, und if Gen. Wright ines ho. cun wipe out_bistorical events to it his friend and West Polnt chum, he makes 2 great mistake. fioping you will zrive this space for the beneft of truth und justice, yours respecttully, AN OFFICER Of the Fourth Michizun Cavalry. a A Defense of Opium-Eating In China. ‘The St. James Gazette (London): undertakes the defeuse of opium-cuting in Chinu, Salari- ous fever, it says, is one of the scourses of the population, and opium fs known to have been uc of the earliest remedies for ague before the discovery ofthe Jesuits’ bark and_of quinine. Even now the Fen populations of England are enid to bave the habit of indulgence in tauda- num in preference to alcobol. “Therefore, that a vast quantity of opium should be. smoked im China is natural and inevitable, and to limit the supply would be prima facie the most gratu- itous cruelty. ‘There is, moreover. soother rea- sun why sedatives should belargely resorted to by the Chinese. The agitators Tor total absti- nence are finding out to their dismay that their recommendation of tes and coffee in substitution for ulcobol is leading to physical evils produced by nervous stimulants in excess, which are even worse in their Way than those resulting from drunkenness. There is strong reason tor belley- ing that. wely ten-drinking poputation can- not safely dispense with either alconol or opium. There has never been any such controversy ‘among medical men respecting the absolute tecfulness of opium as bas arisen on the sub- ject of alcohol. In some quantity or other, the products of the poppy are invaluable; and nearly the latest and perhaps the greatest med- feal discoveries consists In the injection of one The garments are of them Into the blood. The fact is by Itself enough to necessitate a revision of the whole argument about the opium trattic, DECORATION-DAY. IN MEMORY OF OUR SOLDIER DEAD. "Tis holy day! A calm is in the,nir; A stillness hovers in the azure skies; A gentle peace, akin to answered prayer, On the hushed hearts of gathored thousandslics. “Tis holy ground, the soll whercon' we tread— Mande holy by the blood of sucritice; Tis drenched in tears of blood our hearts have shed, When Teaven seemed deaf to plaint of woful cries. In memory of the desolated nearth— In memory of the toll, and blood, and pain— 1n memory ot life's loneliness and dearth— In memory of our loss and of our gain— We hallow ane we consecrate this spot; We bury you unew amid the flowers: And yet we know this sod contines you not: Dust be your dust—your lives and deeds arc ours. No stinting band pours out the floral rain; Bestow the fragrunt treusures free as air: The spoils of tropic iste or fluwery plain Can neer bespeak tho love our bosoms bear. For sake of hope, and weal of future days— For sake of faith that waiks the paths unscen— For sake of Freedom's crown and flupor's buys— For sake of love, we keep your memory green. Sleep well, ye valiant for your country's Right, Defenders of her homes and fair renown! Sleep well, brave comrades! Rest_ye from the tight, Alike unconscious of her smile or frown. Most sweet be your repose, and calm as swect! Your faults may Heaven's enduring mercy hide! Aud may our bearts’ warm pulses ccase to beat When we forget that ye have lived and died. Pensis L. CumistTian. Deconatron-Day, 1881. OUR FALLEN HEROES. For The Chicago Tribune. ‘Tread lightly the soil where our bravejboys lay, Asleep in their graves on this National day; Silently pause o'er these heroes of ours, And wreathe on their tombs the fairest of tlow- ers. Grandly they fought till the long race was run; Nobly a Nation's fair laurels they won— Gave us their lives, their munbood, their might— Died in their efforts protecting the Right; Proudly they fell in tne heat of the fray Now tliey lie sleeping thelr xlory away. ‘Tread lightly, fathers, these lone graves around; ‘This wildwood is sacred, and holy the ground; For all that was dearer than lite unto you is slumbering here ia 2 mantle of blue: ‘The boy, who could banish the care from your wart, Giving your ilfe another fresh start— ‘The boy who was first ut the war-bugle’s call— Your boy that yur thought was tho bravest of all, . Bring, then, your bright laurels of beautiful flowers, And crown the lono graves of these heroes of ours. Tread lightly, O mothers, whose fond hearts burn Where glittering bayonets carthward turn; The forms you have loved and lips you have pressed, Beneuth these low mounds are torever at rest— Tho pride of your fe, your ehleftain, your ehiid, Who stood up for Mother whenothers bezuiled—~ Who tightened the burdens you duily must bear— Who brightened your hopes and banished your cure. Then wreathe your trophies of beautiful flowers Around the green graves of these heroes of ours. ‘Tread lightly, ye sisters, the trembling ground, ‘That shukes as with pain at tho martial sound. Your brothers have fallen; but God, Whois just, dias Angels on guard o'er their moldering dust. No more will they dream by their camp-lires of you, With Re Hag, floating o'er them, these brothers iu blues No more will they wake to music and mirth— They sleep their last sleep In the cold, damp eurth. ‘Then gather your garlands of lovely flowers ‘To laurel the graves of these heroes of ours. ‘Tread Lents, ye comrades, who struggled so well, Shoulder to shoulder with them when thoy fell. O how they bled ‘neath the dread Southern sun! O how they fourht till the victory was won! O how they tread thrangh the dark, bloody sea, ‘To rescuc this country—the Land of the Free! Trail, then, our banner, the old Stripes and "Stars: ‘To shadow the tombs with its battle-rent bars, And gather with us the fairest of flowers To crown with a Nation these heroes of ours. No. 6 Riven Street, Chicago. D. 0. Lantz. DECORATION-DAY. For The Chicago Tribune. Brothers, twine the flowers gently O'er our honored dead: Let no levity be mingled ‘With the tears we sacd, Breathe the prayer forth soft and tender.. . From your inmost hearts; Lend it ull the deep devotion. ‘That true love imparts! For our best, our fondest tributes Never can requite ‘Those whose lives were nobly given In defense of Right. Seek ve, then, the beds where slumber Gallant heroes stain; Think of all they did and suffered On the battle-plain. Dauntless leader, humble private, Mingled in cho strife; ve to his cherished Nation “All he had—2 life. Deck ye, then, without distinction Every soldier's grave, So that Spring's first sighing zephyrs ‘Shull its flowers wave. Poor ana cold indeed *s the tribute, Yet ‘twill serve to show ‘That our tears and prayers in secret Never cease to llow. Let us, then, pour forth our heartfelt Iequiems over the sod, And, with gratefut hearts departing, —_ Leave them to their God. LC. Ke COVER TILEM OVER. Cover them over with flowers, Cover them over to-day— Alike the frieud and the foeman, Alike the Blue and the Gray. Cover them over with flowers, Cover them over to-d: With clusters of bes ul flowers Cover the Blue and the Gray. Here ‘neath the willow n father, ‘Phere ‘neath the laurel a son, Under the cypress a brother— Allin Eternity one. Cover them over with flowers, Cover them over to-day; With mantles of woven violets Cover the Lue and the Gray. Ne’er in the annals of warfare Harder fought battles were won; And their gillant deeds shine immortal Pnrouzh tho mist of the yenrs that ure flown. Cover thein over with lowers, Cover them over to-day? . With primroses, lilacs. ana cowslips Cover the Blue ana the G: Freevont, Ill. Louts Dickes, THE WIND AND THE STREAM. For The Chicugo Tnbune. A brook came stealing from tho zround; ‘You scarcely saw its silvery glean Amons tho herbs that hung around ‘The borders of that winding stream— A pretty stream, » phicid stream, ‘A softly-gliding, bashful stream! A breeze came wandering from the sky, ‘Light ug the whisp Re put th’ o'erhanging ‘And guyly stooped to The pretty stream, the pleasant stream, ‘The shy, yet unreluctant stream! ‘The water, as the wind passed o'er, Shot upward many u glancing beam, Dimpled and quivered more and more, And tripped along a livelier stream— ‘The flattered strenin, the simpering stream, The fond, delighted, silly stream! Away the alry wanderer fiew ‘To where the fields with blossoms teem, To sparkling streams and rivers blue, And teft alone that little strenm— ‘The artful stream, the cheuted stream, ‘The sud, forsaken, lonely stream! ‘The careless wind no more came back— He wauders yet the tlelds, [deem; But on its melancholy track ‘Complaining went the little stream— ‘The cheated stream. the hopeless stream, ‘The ever-murmuring, moaning stream! CuicaGco, Muy 24. Jous D, O'Haka. <<< A Policeman’s Daughter. Paristan. On Monday evening a ilttle girl 10 years old, was run over near the Bastile by un omnibus. She was carried to # neighboring pharmacy. ‘The policeman Paris bastened to tho place, und was taking out his book to make u nore of the accident when he suddenly fainted. Toe un- fortunate man bad perceived that the victim was his daughter. She recognized her futher, smiled, said “ Adieu, mon pére!” and died. a ——_— If you are interested in gloves see our as- sortment on Tirursday. C. A. Coutant & Co., 145 State street. . THE FREE DISPENSARY. What-a Reporter Saw During an Afterncon’s Visit. Appearance and Actions of Those Who Visit the Institution. ‘There are few places in a large city which can muke as direct an appeal to the sympathies of buumnity as the Free Dispensa the place where medical advice and medicine are given Without price to the destitute sick. To those who, when sickness strikes the hame, simply bave to callin the family doctor, hire « protes- sional nurse, and leave the fate of 2 relative to their joint skilt and care, withdut any misyiv- ings over the expense incurred, the trouble which disease brags when It enters a bome already oveupicd by poverty will be apparent. Even in the former case, where every means of salvation of life. and alleviation of pain ure readily nvaitable, the serious case of sickness brings a world of love: how much more is this the case’ when the equally loving—though poorer—parents tind themselves with a sick child on their hands and no means with which to provide the necessary medical attendance. For the relief of suck tho hospital and dispensary are available, at which tho more or less seriously stricken by casualty or disease can take gritultous advantage of the Services of the best physicians in the city. There is only one serious “derwback to the great usefulness of these institutions, and that lies in the foolish pride which prejudices many Poor peaple stgatust them. Notwithstanding this they ure generally very well patronized; such was the cuse yesterday afternoon at the Central. Free Dispensary of West Chicago, where # ‘TRIBUNE reporter passed three hours in, watching the workings of the institutiua and in studying the characteristics of the patients. The first thing which struck him in their appearance was that, s«perticially, they did not, as @ rule, pre- vent anything like the ubjectly poverty-stricken air he hud expected to meet. The reporter re- marked the fact to Mr. H. Frisch, the upothecary of the establisbtnent, who, however, reminded him thut an unfailing- characteristic of the american people was the:r neatness of dress, a peculfurity which, especially in the case ‘of females, made it very ditlicult to form, from the appeurance of their toilet, u correct judgment ag to their worldly condiuon. “Look ut that lady sittmg there with a d-year- old boy,” Mr, Frisch said. “Now you would not Judge her tu be a pauper, would you? and yet to ail intents and purpuses she is such. She is aloae in tho world, und just earns enough to keep ner- self und cnild from wact,und yet both are neatly and cleanly appareled. So itis ull through with Americans; it is tna forcigner-putient who icks out all over with poverty, und is grimy arith its altogether unuecessury companton— irs Closer ohservation revealed the fuct that the apothocary’s judgment in. this respect was cor rect. A middle-aged German—he sald he bad an American wife—appeared in the surgical de- partment to HAVE IIs Rips EXAMINED, he having recently fallen and burt’ himself seriously. At x careless xiance be segmed quite nicely dressed. His shirt—a frilled one—was luundried with exquisit care, and it was only on close inspecuon of bis gray sult that its patched condition became uppurent, There was na doubt about bis poverty. and it wis clear that the nentness of nis clothes and the somewbat incongruous elaborateness of his snirt-front were simply the result of the decent pride churacteristic of the nation. “We sometimes get fooled, though,” Mr. Frisch explained, “by people who are well able to pay, but when’ we tind it out we shat right down upon them, and,as a generat rule, thoy show their appreciation of the treatment they have received by calling in the doctor who has been attending thom hero.” By2o’clock in the afternoon the dispensary was well filled with patients, They sat down upon benches so urranged that exch set of pa~ tients was located opposit the door of the de- partment devoted to the nature of their disease. 'The doors of these depurtmenta were inscribed showing that they were respectively given up to diseases of tho children, of the eye and car, 0 the skin, of the chest, to dentistry, surgery, and to general and nervous diseases. About’ this hour Dr, French Moore, the presiding physician of the day, went round among the patients, some eighty in number, ‘ascertained the nature of thelrcompluints and, where the new, comers had not pluced themselves in tho’ proper seats, effeeted a readjustment, after. which the rezuiar business of the afternoon began, and the patients one by one—their turn being an- nounced by the cull “next"—aropped into tho ante-chambers and received the medical ut- Ttendance there awaiting them. It was easy when this moment arrived to dis- tnguish between the newcomer and the paticnt who bad already become familiar with the place, and hid learned that treatwent bya doctor in- side a little room, with a couple of medical stu- dents to assist him, iy not a whit more trying ordeal thin to ve visited bya doctor at one’sown home. ‘The newcomers—the ladies especially— grew pale and trembled us-the door fluog open and the quietly-spokeu “next” indicated that theirturn bad come, As a rule they nerved themselves for the ordeal and went in bravely, but on more than one oceusion the ree porter. noticed that patients, when their turn came around, looked beseechingly at the next iv order, sat stock still. anxious to post~ pone still further the dreaded interview, and nally let their ebance go by for the tine being. + There was really no necessity for this trepidu- tion, as, the fatal door being passed, the patient simply found himself in 2 comtortable room and in company with an urbane physician und one or more attendants,—students in tho first term of college. Asa preliminary to treatment, it record was nude of the putient’s namie, nativ- ity, age, occupution. social relation, sex, .resi- dence, und disease, after which the case was diagnosed and treatment applied as carefully und with as much regard to ber feelings us though she were a pay-patient of THE MOST PROFITARLE ORDER. ‘Thon a ticket was given her to be produced upon ber subsequent visits, which ticket, by the way, the reporter was infurmed, the patieuts lose about bilf the time. FS ‘The interviews between doctor and patient are says devoid of humorous incidents, Yes- terday afternoon, after # patient received treatinent for a serious case, he very anxiously inquired whether he could be tnformed whether the drux stores kept prairic thistle on hand, “ Why do you wish to know this?” the doctor asked. * I’ve had the rbeumatics lately,” the patient replied, “and an old lady tells me she spent a small fortune on doctors that did her no good; that if Lean get some prairie thistle and soak it in brandy and drink three tublespoonfuls three + Times 2 day it ‘Il cure me right up.” fi But | tell you that you must not drink any- thing.” + lsut that’s medicine, doctor. Ob, it’s a great remedy for the rneumatics: “ Then there is millions in it, and-you had bet- ter vo and ike your fortune,” ‘The man retired, delighted at the prospect of becoming a second Col. Sellers. ‘The next patient was a garrulous old woman of 88, who, when asked whut yood the olutment hug done her leg, coolly replied that she had not applied it. Irwas such o small box she did not think there was any use in using It, so “she just threw it out Into the fleld.” The box was un ounce one, sufficiently large to lust for a Week or more. = Ata few minutes after 3 o'clock the last of the patients was sent off,and a résumé of the work of the aay showed ‘that 125 patients hud received medical attention, of whom. 103 bad had prescriptions gratuitously prepared in ad- dition to the free consultation. The averags nuinber of visits to this dispensary of late years hus been about 20,000, which will give an iden of the extent of the work which {s here carried on. SPRINGTIME. Fur The Chicago Tribune. Jubilant Springtime, season of flowers, low List row our hearts in its sunshine and showers! Mow the wild birds’ glad musie makes vocal each tree! How dances cach leatlet, exultant and free! ‘To where the blue heaven shuts down on the Spreaiis tho prairie away, a broad occan of Like bright stars retiected from Ocean's broad "tia those rdurous waves gleam the flowers of Blue x3 the sky on a chill Winter's night— White as the robes of an Angel of light— Ited us the tide on the battle-tield poured— Yeliower fur than the miser’s sly hoard— Mingied and shaded with bues bright and pale, ‘They nod to the zephyrs or bend to the gulez ‘Teachers and preachers, to man ure they ssiven To brishtwy “his Eurth-life—to fit bits foe jeaven. ‘Thanks to our God, for His Spring gift of flow- ers, Cheering and brigbteainz thls toll-life of ours! Like thé bird’s matin song from you leaf-cov- cred wood. Let our prulse-notes uscend to the Giver of Good! | Glad birds ana bright blossoms, soft sunshine, blue s! All, ure propaets foretelling “The Sweet By- and-By." - O ft such sweetness to Eurth can be given, =~ What words can express the rich beauty of Heuven? N. A. Bannerr. Maywoop, May 15. Mr. A. V. Burk, Whitewater, Wis.. says: The success of the age is St Jacobs OU; it eures_everybody, and is considered a gift trom Heaven by our people.