Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1881, Page 3

RELIGIOUS NOTES, — A pastor in one of the western Presbyterian | shurehes has formed a Bible class to study the revised New Testament. —There are 163,293 more Baptists in this ountry than there were last year. The present iotal ic eet down as 2,296,327-° — The Western Methodist Book Agents have de- tided to exclude patent medicine advertisements from the papers published under their direction. — The Baptist Home Missionary society wants to raise $500,000 as a jubilee offering to mark | ite semi-centennial year. Some of the rich | Baptists favor the project. —It is seidom that a sick bed presents as T™many reasons of praise as that of the President. From the beginning it has been an example of | courage, patience, Christian manliness and gen- erosity.— United Prestnjterian. — The Episcopal Diocesan Convention, lately held In Danville, Va., voted that the clerzy should recognize the fact that the negroes within their perochial bounds are an integral part of their | work which cannot be ignored or neglected. —Loendon Fun thinks it singular that so | ™many who are remarkable for the noise they | make in church when shouting “Amen” should | be so singularly silent and quiet when they are asked to contribute toward the maintenance of | their church. —The First District Conference of the A. M.E. Church in session at Baltimore last week passed resolutions strongly condemning the practice of holding camp-meetings. One minister present said that amember of his church spent $45 for hack hire to camp-meeting, and refused to give one cent to the support of the church. — The Seventh-Day Adventists doing an active evangelistic work in western North Caro- Jina and eastern Tennessee, and the churches in that region are looking anxiously forward tothe time when they can be organized into a confer- | ence. The agents of the denomination are also busy in Georgia and Alabama. — More copies of the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism are now going out from the | press than ever before. The Presbyterian board of publication have issued about 2,000,000 copies, and new editions are more frequent than any other book. Two thousand copies were recently ordered, in the native language, for the West African missions. — Deacon George W. Chapman has just re- signed the saperintendency of the Union Temple eharch Sundayschool, in Boston, after a term of service which will find few if any parallels. He became a member of the Sunday school in 1840, | and in 1845 was elected to the superintendency. | He has therefore held the office over thirty-six years, during which period over 20,000 scholars have passed through the school. —Resignations among the Buffalo pastors ap- pear to have become epidemic, according to the | papers of that city. The most recent one to | resign is the Rey. G. M. Peters. who has had aim to get to attract attention?” Tain and the handles are solid bronze, plated.” THE TRADE IN ASSTHETICS. CUSTOMERS WHO PAY $1,500 FOR & SINGLE PLAQUE. On the way up Broadway this afternoon (writes a New York correspondent of the Auburnian) I ple from the country are distinguished by the fact that they stop to stare into the shop win- dows. Not so!—itis the manner in which he does it that the stranger is betrayed. Some of the handsomest goods for sale in the metropolis are di in the store windows; why, indeed, rect ant weave stop to criticise and ‘admire— that’s what the show is farnished for. I found myself standing at the show window of aconcern who deal entirely in the antique | and oric-a-brac wares, as they are termed—art furniture, you know. In the window were sey- eral old jugs with pictures smeared over their bulging corpulance; there were old dishes floridly danbed as though stewed pumpkin had been per- mitted to dry on their surface; there was a small washstand that I can go overin the Bowery and discount for beauty at five hundred per cent less than this specimen will bring; grandiather’s clock stood back a little, and squatted around it were more measley old jugs and dilapidated crockery. | ‘The center pieee in the window was a big case filled with a tea service which was all painted over. “Hullo, Morello, is that you?” This was what startled me while I was staring at that window full of pitiable truck, and at the same ‘time a gentleman who seemed to belong to the store stepped out of itsdoors and came toward me. Ihad not seen him before since we de- clined Greek yerbs together at school. “Well, yes, this is me,” I replied, as I took his hand. “But I can hardly believe that Frenchy (that’s what we used to call him), has come to anchor in a junc shop of this sort.” He laughed and expiained that he came there fifth salesman and edt a — s a pal Finally I pointed through the glass at a ir of overgrown spittoons with gilt handles on them, and says I: “ wren y do you sell those things, or do you ideous refuse into this window just “Sell them! well I should smile to murmur. [I suppose that's an esthetic idiom.] Sell them! Why, what do you suppose it would cost you for those two pieces?” I looked at him pityingly, for he was really getting enthusiastic, but I did not aggra’ price of that pair is $1,000. vate him. “Why,” he exclaimed, ‘‘the “ are they for slop Jare?” I asked. “Slop jars! slop jars—huh! those are porce- triple gold I began to understand why he had been pro- moted so much, but I didn’t aggravate him with words.’ “That old wreck of a chair there, ‘Frenchy,’ do you suppose that will bring over a dollar and a quarter,” could feel that he was beginning to pi he only said: inted. I Ps me, but 100—it is I asked again while I “The price of that is charge of the Cedar Street Baptist Church for seven years. He intends to leave the pastoral office and devote his time to business, “ac- tuated,” as he says, “in this course by duties of a filial and family nature” which he felt he could not disregard. very old.” Then I asked him who hiscustomers were. He led out Mrs. Vanderbilt, (the Commodore’s widow), the first one. He said she came to the store in person, and whenever she saw anythin, she wanted she simply said: “I want that,” an — Brother Kalloch, who has long been trouble- some to the Baptists of the Pacifle coast, now withdraws from fellowship with them and takes | his chureh and his son Isaac. jr. An independent | church is thus formed. The Baptists make no | euncealment of their joy at getting rid of the Kallochs and their followers, whom they consider a pestilent set. Kalloch has announced that he | will retire from polities, but also announces himself as a candidate for Congress. —The Boston Waichman, (Baptist,) asks: “Have we any preachers?” the question being the denomination are publishing English instead | of American sermons. It has a theory on the subject, that while Americans preach quite as well as Englishmen, when an American pastor is don't never asked the price. “She came here one day,” said he, “witha couple of old Dresden caps and wanted them fixed [whatever fixing a cap means}, and I had to send them to kurope to have it done. bill was $90, but she never said a word.” The “What does she buy?—what class of the stuff you have here?” I asked. “Well, let me see!” and he took a look at the cornice of the building, ‘‘let me see; the last time she was in I sold her a plaque, wanted for a wedding present. which she it cost her $1,500.” Just here I was about to jot down some- suggested by the fact that the leading papers of | thing about the painted tea set, when heasked what I was doing. ThenI told him that I was | a.newspaper man, and I wanted to remember about some of his wares. “For Heaven's sake!” he exclaimed, “you asked to furnish a sermon for a paper he selecta one on some special subject, while English preachers are contented to ive their average purses “on plain, simple Gospel themes.” said. pose to write anything about what I lo you?” ixactly!”* “Oh, but that won't do; Mrs. Vanderbilt never —The first official Sunday school census in the United States is now being taken by the government. It is under the charge of Mr. John D. Wattles, of Philadelphia. Circulars contain- ing a number of questions are sent to every su- erintendent. These questions cover the num- © of teachers and children, the ages of the seholars, the number, value and character of books in tibraries, the property owned, the money collected, and the inc in attendance since your june shop with any free advertising. not even mention the name of your house; and now so-long. I'll come in and mouse around wh would come here again. Those kind offolks are | very particular about such things, and I am cal- | culating, at the very least, on $50,000 worth of trade for the new houses of the Vanderbilt's.” “Be perfectly easy. my boy, T shall not Infiet n I feel too jolly, some day.” I left him smiling, but looking a little puzzled and uneasy in the eyes. 1870. It is thought that five or six more months Will be required to complete the work. —The William Arthur, father of the President, was remarkable for his readiness in | debate. Some years ago, at a meeting of the eld Hudson River Baptist Association, the Rev. | Mr. Walden, who had been settled in“ the west, | bnt had recently taken a church at Troy, said: | “I can tell brethren that if they think any sort | of ministers will do for the west they are mis- | tev. Mr. Arthur was on his feet in a | . exclaii Mr. Moderator, I never re why er Walden came back.” jar event of the union of a north- ern and a southern Presbyterian chpreh took Place at Re sville, Tenn., recently. Lots were | drawn to decide which church should go to the meeting-house of the cther fur the ceremony, and then a ballot was taken to determine the | ecelesiastical connection of the united church, | and resulted in 102 votes tor the southern and 46 for the northern church. The officers of the two churches resigned, from the ministers down, and | “then,” says the record, ‘followed prayer and benediction and hand-shaking and a quiet dis- sersal.” —A split has occurred in the synodical con- ference, the largest Lutheran body in the United States. The Missouri synod, the larg- est member ofit, bas adopted a Calvinistic dec- | laration of doctrine on predestination and attempted to impose it on the other synods. The joint synod of Ohio retused to accept this view. and considered at its late meeting in | Wheeling, West Va., what course it should take | in the matter. It adopted a declaration of ad- | herence to the doctrine of election as it is con- of floor measure. A tatami, exactly 5 feet 9 K t do to send s ; ; | inches long, 3 feet wide and 2% inches thick, or, taken. It won't do to send second or third rate in. Hou uhimbers) and > BxBx2. mats those of the cottagers is that the former are larger in size and are covered with a How the Japanese Cover Their Floors. From the Carpet Trade Review. In Japan, however, the floors are universally hidden by the tatami, or bedded mats. These are of regulation size throughout the empire, and in building a house the rooms are divided off so as to hold a certain number of these units Japanese measure, only difference between the cover the imperial fioor and The that vayer border. In ordinary houses this border s black or indigo blue. In the palace it is white. Even the throne of that now defunct official, the tycoon, as well as the place of eminence of the mikado, whom he imitated, was only a square, padded mat, a few inches higher than common and edged with variegated colors. A Japanese floor being so tially covered, need be only of cheap, unplaned wood, laid without mortices. This floor is two and a half inches below the grooved sills in which the doors, or rather partitions, slide. Hinges are used only on gates. Into this huge pan, so to which the floor makes, the mats are laid and fit snugly together, lying with their surface level with the sills or grooves. The mats are the household property of the tenants, as landlords rent the houses uncarpeted, as we do. In case of a fire, people pall up those expensive ornaments and run. A collection of tatami usually requires the first outlay of a Japanese couple toward housekeeping. Often these exquisitely clean and soft mats are the chief, if not the only, articles of furniture in certain rooms. jinese for tained in the formuta of concord and as it has | been taught by the teachers of the church, especially that “the ordination of the elect to eternal life took place in view of faith, i. e., in view of the merits of Christ appropriated by | faith,” as in accord with the Scriptures and th confessions; directed that no other view should | be taught within its jurisdiction; decidea to withdraw from the synodical conference, and | at those members who felt bound | to oppose its doctrinal position could not remain with it as brethren. This synod composes about one-sixth of the total strength in churches, ministers, and members of the synodical conference. — The big Methodist council at London, which closed Tuesday week, had a large attendance of delegates—all that could be desired; but the at- tendance of the public was not so great as would | have been the case in aay American city. The | full audience of the first day dwindled ‘consid- | erably on the second, and the attendance during the second week was nothing more than mod- erate—a fact which is said to have surprised the | American delegates. An editorial correspon- dent of the Independent, in reviewing the gath- | ering, writes that the Americans were given | their fall share of speaking and attention, and | have no reason to be ashamed in the comparison | of their prominent representatives. Bishop Simp- son’s opening sermon, in particular, made apro- found impression, and an address’ in which a | colored delegate, Mr. Price, showed what Meth- odism has done for the negroes, was considered a remarkable one. The prominence given to the colored delegates, and the attention paid them have been yery marked; they have, indeed, really been made lions of.’ There was entire harmony of feeling; points of theological dif- ference which separate Methodists were care- fally excluded, and though the debates were sometimes warm they were always orderly and | courteous. One of the debates was upon the itifieracy. Mr. Antliff, the leader, anda Primi- tive, declared ie | the itineracy needs modifica- tion, and that while it does very well for the country it is not in its present form adapted for | the cities, citing cases where a longer stay of the tor was really needed. Dr. Arthur, the chief of the Wesleyans, spoke to the same effect, declaring that the itineracy must be adapted to the conditions, and saying that Methodism had done less for London than for any other four t discussion differences were developed in thede- on the temperance question, and nearly whole day was given upto it. The Ameri- delegates ied in defense of total abstinence, ‘re said to have been surprised at the amount of drinking among the Wesleyan minis- particular. bere behooves 7? ld boy with spree, at Maquoketo, Jowa, an pop he drank bimself. the of intoxication. centuries have used chairs and lounges, but the Japanese eschew these luxuries, using the floor and its covering for ceremony and the occasions ot eating, drinking and sleeping. The tatami serve for tables, bedsteads, and lounging purposes. In palace and in hut, alike guiltless of sitting machinery, has grown up that elaborate ‘stem of and ceremonial,renowned over the world. ly by the generals in the field were folding camp chairs used. In the monas- tery the abbot sat in state, or for reflection, in the arm chair. The Japanese have the word “koshi-kake” (back-rester), but there Is no gen- eral word nor for our simple word “chair.” Most of the obsequious and exagge- rated politeness of these Oriental islanders may be thus mechanically accounted for. If the su- perior is no higher than the floor the inferior must bow low indeed. To salute properly, in- doors, one must turn his head into a temporary ——— and pound vigorously on the loor. These tatam! last life-time, as oer are trodden on not with ts, but only wit! socks. Every traveler in Japan is charmed with these soft, clean, durable mats. Every gentle- man, native or foreign, removes his shoes, clogs or sandals before he imprints them. Stocking feet is the rule indoors, and the native socks are more thickly soled than ours. wearing boots is rapidly dri natives to banish the tatam! car pets,” though her statement that they are “‘as expensive as Brussels Coa igan exaggera- tion. There being, by the last census, over 7,000,000 houses in Japan, each house aver- aging, at a low computation, 30 tatamis, there over 210,000,000 of these: or, Vaepoy nee 000,000square yards. Theyare ery em fy of silence and Cleanliness, and fashion mzy some day demand that the tatam! find a place in our houses, churches and hospitals. Soe THs HAS NoT BEEN the hottest year on in that furnace of affliction, Cincinnati. In during the month of July, there were twenty days when the temperature was over 95 and on the 20th of Nhat month the theraceaetet In 1859, during the month | Postmaster of the fourteen days that the ther- and on the 26th rose to 104 degrees. of July, there were mometer rose above 100 of that month it reached 110 this present year, there were only seven days which over 100 es. and the ith, when it reached 106 miles south, but there was danger until suddenly there came a lurid glare, the flame and wind immediately followed, and in thirty minutes fifty-three of the fifty-five build- ings in the were in ashes. The court-house was of brick covered with slate, and there peo- ple went for protection. The building escaped destruction, and those within it were saved, although they suffered badly from heat. There were no lives lost here, but this was excep- tional good fortune. Reports from some places are too horrible to Numbers of People flying from danger were overtaken and di in the roads, some perished miserably in wells and other places where they had sought safety, and in the terrible time a few women were taken with the pains of childbirth. Every- where it is a sickening story of suffering and of roasting human flesh In every conceivable way. In some places the heat was almost incredibly intense, and the smoke was everywhere unen- durable and caused many deaths by suffocation. The work of destruction was very uneven. Some towns inthe district escaped with a loss which seems trifling, while in others apparently no more exposed there are but a few scattering buildings left. The same was true of the ‘vil- Jages, some strangely escaping, while others were strangely destroyed. In some fields the vom roots and it is said the soil itself are yurned so that it is impossible to tell whether the land was ploughed or not, while in others near at hand crops of grainare left in the shock untouched. A remarkable thing in the story of the calam- ity is the presence of mind that was.everywhere shown. The people were accustomed to danger from fire, many of them had been through the similar experience of 1872, and there werefewer lives lost than might have been expected. There seems to have been but little panic and few threw their lives away. Nearly all sought to themselves and | Segeael eteety, to have done about the that was possible and very much better than could have been ex- pected. Domestic animals and fowls nearly all perished,and it is noted that they died in groups each with its kind—rarely did cows, horses or chickens die alone.but all sought the cofmpanion- ship of their kind. Great numbers of birds and took their way to the lake,and,overcome by the smoke no doubt, died and were found posting the of t on e Brother Gardner on Bringing up Boys. “If Thad a boy to bring up I wouldn't bring him up too softly,” began Brother Gardner, as Samuel Shin finally quit poking the fire. “Ebery day of my life I meet men who were brung up softly. As boys dey were kissed an’ petted an’ stuffed wid sweet cake an’ cried ober. As young men dey had nuffin’ to do but spend mony, dress like monkeys, loaf on de streets an’ look down on honest labor. As men dey am a failure. People who doan’ hate ’em an’ avoid ‘em feel to pity em, an’ dat’s just as bad. When I see a man whom eberybody dislikes I realize dat he n, was brung up on de goody-good plan as a boy. “If Thad aboy P’'drubhim agin theworld. Ia put responsibility on his shoulders. If he got sugar he'd airnit. If he got time for loafin’ it would be only arter his work was done. If he was ugly or obstinate I'd tan it outer him instead of buyin’ him off. If you want to make a selfish man humor de whims of a boy. If you want to make a coward forbid your to defend his hts. I teach my boy dat all boys had Tents, an’ dat while he had no business to trample on de rights of odder boys, no boy had de privilege of takin’ him by de nose. Las’ night an old man libin’ up my way was turned out doors by his nye fe has been tryin’ de goody- plan on dat youth fur de las’ twenty y’ars, an’ dis am de legitimate result. He didn’t want him to work, kaze work is hard. He didn’t want him to dress jain, far fear people would look down on him. boy am to-day a loafer, neither grateful fur what has bin done in de pas’ nor carin’ what happens in de fucher. Ten y’ars ago he was cried ober, run arter an’ coaxed an’ bought off, an’ his mudder libed to see him a loafer an’ his a has foun’ him a ingrate.”—Detroit Free Press. Widder Green’s Last words. “I'm goin’ to die!” says the Widder Green, “I'm goin’ to quit this airthly scene; It ain't no place for me to stay In sucli a world as 'tis to-day. Such works and yaya too much for me, Nobody can’t let nobody be. The girls is tlounced from top to toe, An’ that’s the whole o’ what they know, The men is mad on bonds and stocks— Swearin’ an’ shootin’ and pickin’ locks, I'm real afraid I'll be hanged myself Ef Lain’t laid on my final shelf. There ain't a cretur but knows to-day Inever was luny in an ways But since the c1 folks all go free, I'm dreadful afraid they'll hangup me. ‘There’s another matter that’s pesky hard— I can't go into a neighbor's yard To say “How be you,’ or borry a pin But what the papers have it in. * We're pl to the Widder Green Took dinner a Tuesday with Mrs. Keene,’ Or, * Our worthy friend Miss Greene has gone Down to Barkhamsted to see her son.’ Great Jerusalem! can’t I stir Without a-raisin’ some feller’s fur? There ain’t no privacy £0 to say— No more than if this was the Jedgment day. And as for meetin’—I want to swear Whenever I Bt my head in there— Why, even ‘Old Hundred’s’ spiled and done, Like everything else under the sun, It used to be so solemn and slow— ‘Praise to the Lord from men below; Now ie goes Tike 8 gallo " steer, "High diddle diddle, there and here! No respect to the Lord above, No more’n ef he was hand and glove ‘With all the creturs he ever And ail the jigs that Preachin’ too—but het pai ne Out o’ his grave would come along, An’ give us a stirrin’ taste of fire— Je it an’ Jestice is my desire, ‘Tain’t alllove an’ sickish sweet ‘That makes this world nor t’other complete, But law! I'm old. I'd better be dead. When the world’s a-turnin’ over my head, beg talkin’ like tarnel fc ibles kicked out o’ deestrick schools, Crazy creturs a-murderin’ round— Honest folks better be under ground. So fare-ye-welll this airthly scene Won't no more be pestered by ‘Widder Green.” SS Work and Tension. A certain degree of tension Is indispensable to the easy and healthful discharge of mental functions. Like the national instrament of Scotland, the mind drones wofally and will dis- course most dolorous music, unless: ag sera and resilient foree within a es the of quickly responsive action. jo good, great or enduring work can be sulely accomplished brain force without a reserve of strength cient to give buoyancy to the exercise, and, if I may 80 say, rh) to the operations of the mind. Working at may be bad, but working at low is incomparably worse. As a matter of experience, a sense of weariness commonly precedes collapse from ‘‘overwork;” not mere bodily or nervous i, but a more or less conscious distaste for the business in hand, or perhaps for some other subject of thought or anxiety which obtrudes itself. It is the offensive or irritating burden that ig the back. Thoroughly Spr employment, however en; afer dl lates the grossing, ie neous faculty while it taxes the whe be and supply of Renvederbe seldom falla short of the demand. When a feeling of di or weariness is not experienced, this may be- cause the compelling sense of duty has crushed self out ofthought. Nevertheless, if the will is not pleasurably excited, if it rules ike a marti- net without affection or int A Grorom Maren went in vain, day day, to the and at last mie I had been dining at the house of some friends, and in the course of the evening the mistress of the house said to me: “Do you often go to the opera?” “ye often.” “And the scenes?” “Yes, behind the scenes.” 5 rae 300 mlgtit do me @ service. There is Guite-e proper man, ft appears. "He ie dancing rman, pears. He mnaster to the ttle De Be He gives admirable lessons. I should like to have him for my SS if he could come twice &@ week?” 1 willingly undertook this delicate mission. The next day, February 1, 1881, about ten o’cleck, I arrived at the opera and went behind the scenes to look after Morin. They were play- ing ‘‘ Le Prophéte.” The third act had just be- gun. Onthe stage the Anabaptists were sing- ing eons: i oe Lian sang! que Judas succompe ! Dusang! Darisons sur leur tombe? ! Voila "hecatombe Gue Dieu nous demande etieor ! The axes were lifted over the heads of a heap of wretched prisoners—barons, bishops, monks and great ladies. In the wings'/all the ladies of the ballet were waiting, So on their skates, the moment to efflurer la glace, sans laisser trace. I respectfully asked one of the Westpha- lians to put me in communication with the per- son named Morin. “Morin.” she replied; “he is not among the skaters. Look, heis on the stage; that is he laying the Bishop; you see that Bishop that is ‘ing pulled about and hustled. Wait, he will come out in a few seconds.” One of the Anabaptists in chief intervened and declared that those nobles and priests Who could pay: a ransom ought to be spared. So Morin’s life was saved, and I had the honor of Being presented to him by the'littie Westpha- jan. ; He looked altogether veneratile with his lo! gray beard and his fine violet_robe embroid with alarge ral crogs. While he was put- ting in order his costume, which those fanatical Anabaptists had sadly pulled abont, I asked him if he would consent to give some lessons to two young girls du meilleur monde. The pious Bishop accepted with enthusiasm. His price was ten francs an hour. Meanwhile the aig Laieettees cone on ad stage, and were sl ut in an extravagant fashion. The wings had suddenly become calm and silent, and so monselgneur and myself fell all, Thanks to dancing, you t only form a judgment as to the charms of a woman; you may also, by a turn of waltzing, sharply danced, make a woman pass a little examination in health and constitution. I remember one night, some twelve years ago, at the old Opera in the Rue le Péletier, I was in the wings waiting for my cue. Two subscribers were chatting near me. One of the gentlemen ‘was an old pupil of mine. I have had so many pupils. Unintentionally I happened to overhear scraps of the conversation, and thesetwo phrase® struck my ear: “Well, have you made up your mind?” ‘Really. replied my former pupil, ‘I find er very agreeab! say that her chest is bea ae sir, I ‘ud othe that I would not have done on any ordinary occasion— asked pardon for having overheard the con— versation and I saidto my pupil: ‘I presume you were talking about a marriage. Will you allow me to give you a piece of advice, advice deri from the exercise fmy young person allowed to waltz? You know waltz.” “Yes, I know.” “My pupil replied: ‘Yes, she is allowed to waltz.’ ‘Well, then, sir.’ I said to him, ‘this is what you must do. I know your wortt have a wind. Make this young person waltz for five minutes without giving her time to sa she says to yo Enough, sir, enough ou must reply vaguely ‘Oh! no, mademoisell another turn!” You must seem to be ravished smitten with a dancing frenzy, as’ in That will flatter her, even if it'chokes her. lle. And suddenly—and leaning a little upon her shoul- der—i tasy—the waltz authorizes those sitions—listen to the breathing in her back. If the respiration makes a noise like a pair of bel- lows, do not marry her—but if you hear noth- ing, marry her by all means!’” Our interesting conversation had arrived at this point when the ballet ended, and I and my Bishop were assailed by a regular whirlwind of skaters; and my little Westphalian, finding me again in the exact spot where she had left me “‘Ah! ah!” she said to me; “do you come to the opera to confess your sins? Give him abso- lat Morin, and give him up to me. Come, let us go into the foyer.” She took my arm, and we went off together, while the excellent Morin, with the gravity and dignity of his sacerdotal robes, bore up agent he into a little familiar conversation. “Yes, sir,” said the Bishop, “I give dancing lessons. I have some excellent pupils among the nobility and among the of finance. I must not complain, and yet it must be allowed that formerly things went on better, much better. Dancing is disappearing, sir—dis- appearing.” “Is it possible?” “Yes, just as I have the honor of telling you. The women still learn to dance; but the young, men, not atall. Baccara, horse-racing and the minor theaters take up all their time. And the government is not a little to blame.” “How 80?” “Recently M. Jules Ferry revised the Univer- sity programs of study. He made certain things obligatory; modern languages for in- stance. I do not blame pie ees mee ern languages presents vant 3 bul dancing, sir, nothing has been done for dancing— and dancing is what ought to have been obliga- tory before anything else. There ought to bea professor of dancing in every school, a training school for dancing masters, diplomas, competi- tive examinations. People ought to compose in dancing as they compose in Greek and Latin. “Dancing, too, is a language, and a that every well-educated man ought to know how to speak. Well! do you know how matters stand to-day? Why, in diplomacy, posts are given to men who cannot go through the figures of a quadrille, and who are incapable of waltz- ing for two minutes together. ‘They feel that their education is incomplete. The other day a young man came to see me, a man of great merit, it appears, except as regards dancing. He had just been appointed attaché to an important embassy. And he had never danced in his life— never, sir, never! One can hardly believe it, and yet it is so. The poor fellow did not even know what a quadrille is. And that is the kind of attacné that M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire chooses! Qh! this beard is suffocating me; ex- cuge me.” “Certainly! certainly!” He took off his gray beard. He then looked much less venerable. He continued: “So I said to that young man: ‘We will try what can be done; but the task will not be easy. One can hardly begin to learn dancing at eight- and-twenty.’ However, I took the awkwardness out of him as much as I could. I only hada fortnight to do it in. I begged him to put off his departure, to obtain delay for three or four months. {might have made something of him then. But he would not stay. He went away without knowing anything. I often think of him. He is going to be our representative in a foreign country; he will represent us very badly; he will not do honor to his country. “Remark, I pray you, that he may be called upon to figure in some gala quadrille, to dance, for instance, with an archduchess. Weil, he will make a pretty mess of it with his archduchess! All this is painful. * * * TI amarepublican, sir, a republican of long standing, and it is cruel tothink that the republic is represented by dip- lomatists who don't know the difference between apolka anda waltz. What do people say at the foreign courts? ‘Why, what are these savages that France sends us?’ There, that is what they say. The personnel of the diplomatic service was not brilllant under the empire—oh, no! Those gentlemen put their foot into it often enough—but at any rate they knew how to dance!” And my excellent Bishop, seeing that I was listeni him with much interest, continued his brilliant improvisation: “Dancing, sir, is not only a pleasure and an amusement, it is a great social interest. For instance, the question of marriage is closely con- nected with that of dancing. At present mar- riage is not active in France. That is shown by statistics. Well, I am convinced that if mar- riages are leas frequent, it is because dancing is less frequent than it used to be. Considering, first of all, that to know how to dance well, very well, gives an ible young man without fortune a real ition in sogety. One of my Ruplls, sir, recently made an admirable mar- lage. He was a very ordinary fellow, who had tried OA lore | and succeeded in nothing, but he was a first-class waltzer, and he carried off a dowry of two millions simply by the strength of his wrist.” “Two millions!” “Yea, two millions, and two millions unin- eumbered; an orphan; neither father nor mother; all that one could dream. He took hold of that young person; she was very fat. Well, she felt erself like a feather in his hands. She thought ofnothing but waltzing with him. She was mad about him. uced her to new sensa- tions—and what do women desire above every- thing else? To feel new sensations. Finally, she refused marquises, counts and milliqnaires; she would not have any but him. She had him, and he had not a penny, and his name was Du- rand. Ah! you must not repeat his name; I ought not to have told it to you.” “ater ll fe doos not ter if do repeat not matter if you do it, Durand is such a common name. There is an interest of state in of inclination be- tween a rich and a poor man ora rich man and @ poor It makes money move and pre- vents it from remaining in the same place; it conduces to the circulation of we formerly three-fourths of the marriages of in- clination were brought about by dancing. Now- adays the young people have brief interviews in satons, in museums, at the Opera Comique. They chats that is all very well, but chatting ls not the shock of that avalanche of ballet-girls.. Parisian. The Decorations, After the first surprise at the unanimity of feeling expressed by citizens of every grade in decorating their stores and dwellings in honor of the President; after being touched by the reality of their grief and the beauty of the mani- festation in itself; after walking up and down the streets that have grown blacker and more "y in anticipation of the solemn fast, the nat: critical faculty again gets the upper hand, and one regards the decorations from another aspect. The moral beauty is oot —what about their actual artistic beauty? It is on such occasions as this that one is able to form an opinion on questions intricate enough even for natives to decide. When a whole city is moved by one thought, and, to ex- press that thought, covers its buildings with flags half-masted and with white and black cloths, they must show whether or not there is an artistic instinct in them; whether they have | much of it or little; whether the generai taste is bad or good. Under the present circum- stances it will be remembered, however, that with the exception of the American flag the public does not consider anything admissible save the two colors, black and white. And probably the white is an innovation, seized upon | use the color is allowable as a sign of | mourning for children. White and black, black | and white, with here and there a flag heavily craped or festooned with a black “‘weeper,” or tied across by a band of crape—these repeat | themselves for miles and miles, not merely on | the facades of the tall buildings in the principal thoroughfares, but on the fronts of obscure dwellings on obscure streets at a window in some house not hed reoccupied for the winter by its owners, on the half-finished brick walls of a new building, on factories, colleges and rum shops. The first hing that one notices isthe lack of large masses of black or white. This results partly from the fact that masses are more ex- pensive than a network of rolls of cloth. But | in many cases expense has not been considered. The effect is the result of not appreciating that | small areas of color against large spaces like | the facades of the Broadway business houses lose their value and confuse the mind rather | than satisfy it. Scallops and edgings of black | and white, bunches of short streamers, even the long cloths that stretch spider-webs from basement to the attic, these are not so effective by half as uncompromising, solid masses of black which stand against some of the houses, generally about or above the doorwa: At the great Jeweler’s house in Union square the importance of mass- ing color has been understood. Yet much more might be expected in the arrange- ment of those masses. Still, that building will serve as an example. The portal of the Astor House is impressive, so also are the heavy drapings that run along the first stories of the City Hall and many other government edifices. The scattering of effect is a fault commonenough, and the business community can hardly avoid it owing to the same peculiarity in the archi- tecture of the city. Partly necessity, partly ignorance. But our architects are the last in the world, it seems, to understand that the eye | requires plain spaces to rest on; that a confusion of sills or projections and cornices and little false chimneys and what not thrown at the face of a building, as it were, with a shovel, torment the eye and are admired only by those whose opiates is worthless, and even by them for a short time merely. ‘Taken broadly, there are not wanting plenty of signs of an instinct for decoration groping blindly through the minds of the people. They seek variety so far as they know how. A stern conventionalism allows only two coloi., but in so doing does foolishly. As the flags afford occasional relief to the wearying repetition of black and white, so carpets, hangings of bright Pictures could be di in such manner asto mark by their the ed | dant and own profession? Is the | every d: some mothers will not allow their daughters to | od leg, strong shoulders, and a good | +1 Jen Ir | to waltz with her. She will think you have been | out to the balcony to begin. All t after five good minutes at high pressure stop | Po- | House adjoun j cars or carriag like" black | r ANECDOTES OF GARFIELD. PLEASING REMINISCENCES BY REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS, OF WISCONSIN. —_ the Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel, Sept. 22. 201 President, replied: “Happening to sit within one seat of him for four years in the House. 1, with others, —r, had a better opportunity to see him in all moods than those more removed. he was a giant: off duty he was a boy. Henever knew what her or ceremgnious dignity meant. After | some of his greatest efforts in the House, | such as will live in history, he would turn to me or any one else, and “Well, old boy, how was that?” Every man was his confi | nd, so far as the interchange of y ‘ood feeling was concerned. He once told me how he prepared li eches; that first he filled himself with the subj sing allthe fucts and principles involved, so far as he could; then he took pen and paper and wrote down the sallient points in what he regarded their at order. Then he scanned these cr fixed them in his memory. ‘And the : room and trust to the emer! the sey je in New 3 pressed by ¢: s that the only opportunity he had for preparation was to lock the door and walk three times around the table when he was called world knows speech was. He was wrapped up inhi two boys would com: just before adjournment and} desk with their books in their ha what ths family. H is. After the other members would go off in or walk down the Avenue in groups. But Garfield, with a boy on each sid of him, would walk down Capitol Hill, as we would’ say in the country ‘cross-iots, all three chatting together “on equal terms. He said to me one day during the canvass, while the tears came to his eyes: ‘I have done no more coming up from poverty than hundreds and thousands of othe but I am thankful that I have been able to k my family by my side and educate my children. He was a man with whom anybody could diffe with impunity. I have said repeatediy that | were Garfield alive and fully recovered, and a dozen of his intimate friends were to go to him and advise that Guiteau be let; off, he would “Yes, let him go.” The man positively knew no malice. And for such aman to be shot and tortured like a dog and by | a dog! He was extremely sensitive. I have seen him come into the House in the morning when some guerrilla of the press had stabbed | him deeper in his feelings than Guitean’s bullet | did in the body, and when he looked pallid from suffering and the evident loss of sleep; but he | would utter no murmur, and in some short time | his great exuberance of spirits would surmount ft all, and he would be a boy again. He never | went to lunch without -a troop of friends with im. He loved to talk at table, and there is no | gush in saying he talked like a god, socially | and intellectually. Some of his off-hand ex- reget were like a burst of mspiration. ike all truly great men, he did not seem to | realize his greatness. And, as 1 have said, he would talk as cordially and confidentially with a child as with a monarch. And I only Tefer“to his conversations with me because | you ask me to, and because I think his off-hand conversations with any one reveal his real traits best. Coming on the train from Washington after his nomination he said. ‘Only think of this. | Tam yet a young man; if elected and I serve my term I shail still be a young man. Then what am I going to do? There seems to be no place in America for an ex-President!’ And then came | in what I thought the extreme simplicity and real nobility of the man. ‘Why,’ said he, ‘I had no thought of being nominated. I had bought me some new books and was getting ready the Senate.’ I laughed at the idea of his buyin, books, like a boy going to college, and remem- bered that during his congressional career he had | furnished material for a few books himself. And then, with that peculiar roll of the body and slap on the shoulder with the left hand which | all will recognize, he said: ‘Wh, lo you know | that up to 1856 I never saw a Co: ional Globe, | nor knew what one was?’ And he then ex- | plained how he stumbled onto one in the hands of an opponent in his first public anti-slavery debate. A friend remarked the other day th Garfield would get as enthusiastic in digging a | foot ditch with his own hands as when | making a speech in Congress. Such was my observation. Going down the lane he seemed to forget for the time that there was any Presi- dential canvass pending. He would refer to first one thing then the other, and always with that off-hand originality which was his great char- acteristic. Suddenly picking up a smooth, pbble he said: “Look at that! Every stone here sings of the seal’ Asking why he bought his farm, he said he had been reading about metals, that you could draw them to a certain | point a million times and not impair their | strength, but if you pass that point once you could never get them back. said he, ‘I bought this farm to shift the muscles of my mind! Coming to two small wooden structures r | in the field, he talked rapidly of how the neigh- | bors guessed he woulddo in Congress, but would not make much of a fist at farming. and they called my attention to his corn and buckwheat and other crops, and said that was a marsh, but he underdrained with tile and found spring water j flowing out of the bluff, and found he could get a five foot fall, and with pumpsofa given dimen- | sion, a water dam could throw water back 80 rods | to his house and 80 feet above it. “But,” said he, in his jocularly impressive manner, *I did my sur- yeying before I did my work!"” Mr. Williams added that had not Garfield ex- pressed a wish to be buried in Cuyahoga Ceme- tery, the place for his body to rest was on that | hillside where he did his engineering, in sight of | the lake and the Lake Shore road, where a| monument erected high by the nation would be | seen by the millions that passed and repassed | forever. Mr. Williams said, in conclusion, the roots of Garfield’s life ran deep into the hearts | of his wife and children, and it was hard to tear them out. That he had great confidence in Ar- thur’s executive (ability, and believed he was wholly sincere in all his acts. Mamma’s Baddish Boy. From the Rochester Express. honor to the memory of the President which crajes could fal Tepreseut, the somsow Delt, crapes could’ Te) Sorrow ting the occasion. he’ supoly of bombazine and crape has its limits. using it more nee Stave joyful signiestions, "mck one, Wo! Ve Jo 101 mm might be done to make these outward tokens of respect beautiful _as well as as sincere. For no to decoration fhside and outside picturesque as ings in regard the house are very different from what they were only recently. It needs no octogenarian to remember the time when to make Seppe in the furniture or the ig of a dwelling was a matter several more serious than to be adj a bankru} There are plenty of people Ms in New York who still are ruled by convention- alities of this kind to nearly an Set degree. But, luckily, they seem to bea steadily diminish- ing minority. People need not feel now that they pre once because fate eae own , OF Whim, or ou in regard to their own dwellings. det is well known. Indeed, it already shows in the streets on this occasion. There is more freedom in the decora- tions than ever before, more audacity, more taste. The occasion is a good one for thought- falcomparisons. Do not such wholesale decora- tions turn the mind And do they not forma the myriads learnto admire what is fine and rate it from what is ugly? Nay, is it not possi that we are entering on an era when our archi- tects will be encouraged to furnish the best of their craft instead of being hampered until they lose all the originality and ius they may have with? “Toward end public pag Pri ‘the — must in some sort lead. To- lay the scope for external decoration, apes fneteal purpose fad characte, Bat euppoee 2 ereal purpose 3 a national event of a joyful kind in which the citi- ae ee Jone What a beautiful cit could not New York make of herself 501 Cutting steamships on the chair, Cutting off the doily’s hair, Casting ceporacreryamerss Cul capers everyW! rere Making “ doggies” on the wall, Making mud-pies in the hall, Making “horse lines” of my shawl, Making trouble for us all, Ps Willie, Ham U} the floor, Shouting ili bus throat fe sore, Making ail youth's batteries roar, All this and even more, ‘That's Willie, ‘inking of my nau; my naneety 108, “ You must have enjoyed yourself * You my we enjo} at the shore this summer,” sald ys ourself again.” fae Recently discovered in Arkansas.” The ice be- ing thus broken there was no i 8 Be ij Fj i # i HE - i in action | susterity of man: | sen pe The victim of worry is ever on the he 5 8 Railway Travel in Russia, If there is a conntry in the world for whose special benefit railways may be said to have been invented. that country is decidedly Russia From St. Petersburg te Moscow the distance is six hundred and four versts, or four hundred and three Engiish miles, and the night train travels over it in fifteen hours, or at the rate of twenty-six miles an hour, not reckoning stop- pages, which is considered fair at on the continent. In posting times all that horse- flesh by the most strennousefforts had been made to achieve was the conveyance of the imperial matis between the two cities in five daysand five nights, or one hundred and twenty hours, the rate being three and a half miles hourly. ' The gain in time was. perhaps, greater in this than in any other country; but in no country has that speed, which is after all the only real ad- vantage of railway traveling, been less counter- acted hy its undeniable drawbacks. In Englan' for instance, the railways have robbed us of the charms of the road the shady park, the breezy common, the crowding villagers, the chaff of driver and hostler, the ingle nook at the wayside inn, the foaming aie of the stirrup-cup; in France and Italy of the sight of the hundred minor towns, with t c Is and town- halls in the market place, the luscious fruits, the lively faces, the quaint costumes which enliv- ened us We travelled then through t country. All we enjoy now is the 1 of the station, the thronged les of Iu: the en- ri sandwich the hurry- skurry, the sour look of fellow-passengers, more thankful for our room t npany. and from si tu station tw n, boxed up, locked up at t press teari gers, Coo ; n the chance of falling in with a Muller ora Le- roy. Tn Russia alone railway traveling may be said to have been all gain and no loss. There is no line in either hemisphere that comes up to the comforts and luxuries of the Moscow and St. Petersburg line; roomy and lofty saloon car riages; a window seat, a fautewil it, a light luge gaze net for every traveler, a toilet room at the carriage end; recular halts at convenient inter- vais, the finest stations, the best supplied and cheapest refreshment rooms, and loftiest, widest, cleanest platforms to stretch one's in, and everything everywhere contrived to protect you from winter cold or sum- mer heat—a great improvement all this, upon the cramped open sledge, with the thermometer 30 degrees below zero, and the cold creeping in and curdling your blood under your fur coat, cap and boots, the snow and sleet pelting your face, a pack of wolves howling im your rear ready to catch the hindmost, and the motion of the sledze over snow furrows causing you to bob up and down in your seat like a ‘on the waves, with an upset now and then, “many passengers regular "yet even all these miseries preferable to summer travel- ing with the stifiin; and blinding glare of @ twenty-two hours’ day. and the dust both stifling and blinding, and the jolti that broke ev bone in your skin. sored = The Russian trayels fast and with consciousness that neither in town nor country does he leave anything behind him worth loiter- ing for. Even Murray, who is bound to something, has but little to tell us abo Chudowa, Volkhova, Tver, Klin and other local ities the train stopped at on our route. And as for the country, the panorama is almost every- where the same dreary flat from end to end, the earth spreading far and wide like a broad dish all round to the hori: andthe blue vault of heaven encompassing it like a dish cover—the very idea of the universe as man conceived it before Galileo put spectacles on his nose and made him see “more worlds than one.”—Corre- spondence London Tins. secsiris —-—___ Is the Sun Hot? The battery of mundane construction—our best aid and interpreter in the reading of uni- ersal_phenomena—while it is the developer of heat, light and power, is itself neither lurainons, hot, nor magnetic. To explain the effects of the sun, therefore, there is not the least reason to infer that it is itself Juminous, or ever warm. Potential action generated in a dark, cold May produce great heat, lig’ a distance from the thus wrought artificial, may urely be done naturally, and in a tremendous fashion by the grand forces of the sun. ‘The same process develops sunlight. If lines be drawn from the sun to the earth, tangent te both, these lines will enclose a tapering space the sun at the big end, the earth at the small end, and the space between a truncated cone. This space may be designated the solar cone or cone-space. Within this space incessant elreula- tion is going on, and ail the phenomena of gravity, heat, light, are produced through thelr reciprocal activit The field of encounter be- tween the forces of the sun and earth is our at- mosphere, and in the collision light is generated. Being thus conditioned upon the atmosphes light and heat cannot be found in space Deyond the lines of the solar cone. It is to be ob: ed that light rapidly dinim- ishes in the direction of thesun, even as we have Seen to be the case with heat. Beyond the lower portion of the atiaospleric massghere is no daz- upon the great. zie; and the lmmaa eye in lookin d. Thus the exceeding brie hours’ pri: the bappy in a small : orb is not 4: liancy which characterizes the sun's Taye, 80 from being a ph ed in the sun it- Self, as is the popular ande: the scientific con- ception, is actuaily coniined to the lower strate of our atmosphere. If light were transmitted to us from tho sunin perfect intensity, the entire yaultof heaven must appear as lumitious as our = The sun is therefore not the place and distributing reservoir of actual li and heat; it is rather the source from whence the whole solar system is supplied with the in- visible, potential ‘light and heat, which become developed where it is required.’ The great cen- tral orb may therefore be regarded as like unte ‘the earth, on its surface, and in its surround- ings, namel, dark, cool, habitable body.—Z. RB. Rogers in Science. ————§_-o-—_____ Worry. The cause, or condition, which most com- monly exposes the reserve of mentai energy to logs and injury is worry. The tone and strength of mind are seriously impaired by its wearing influence, and, if it continue long enough. they will be destroyed. It sets the organism of thought and feeling vibrating with emotions which are not consonant with tie natural liberation of energy in work. The whole machinery is thrown out of gear, and exer- cise, which would otherwise be and innocuous, becomes painful and even . It is easy to see how this must . The longest note in music. the most and persistent ray of light—to’ use an fashioned expression—the tonic muscular con- traction, are all, we know, produced by a rapid succession of minute motive impulses or acts, —_ explosion and di of ma manafact energy velopment. duced =f source eee a agg ei i marvel * ; E E 3 BaF FEF H BF 3 ° HH | i i #8 i G : i i