Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1881, Page 3

RELIGIOUS NOTES. — The annual institute of the Sunday school anion of this District will be held at the Congre- gational church Novemper Ist. 2d and 3d, and promises to be the best ever held here. Rev. R. Meredeth, of Roston, who has a class of 2,000 teachers and Bible students at Tremont Temple every Saturday is to be here. Rey. Jesse Lyman Huribut, in charge of all the normal werk at Chautauqua last summer, and who is so well known as the conductor here last year, will take the same position this year. Rev. 8. B. Bornuitz, ot Wheeling, ts also expected, and will lecture upon the subject of “Christian Giving in the Sunday School.” Mrs. W. F. Crafts, of Brooklyn, the “Sara J. Timanes” of several in- teresting books, and a prominent leader in pri- mary class ork at Chautauqua and other as- semblies, will have charge of that department at the institute, and give a thorough course of lectures and normal lessons specially to the pri- ers during the entire three days’ ses- e that the primary the institute and given the importance it de- mands. Thecourse of lecturés, normal lessons, conve ons and other attractions will make the sessions of the coming institute emi- nently practical and such that no Sunday school superintendent, teacher or even Bible student can afford to lose the opportunity of attending. — Bishop Simpson will not wave England to return home until November 3. — “Holiness conventions” are becoming quite common in the English Primitive Methodist Chureh. — The centenary of the introduction of U nita- into Seetland was to be celebrated at , Oct. 13. — One of the foremost students in the Shiloh Baptist Theological Seminary has been expelled for writing an essay on the “Efficacy of Baptism in an Oileloth Suit.” — The Hon. J. W. PF. White said at the Ecu- menical Methodist Conference that there are “thousands of souls in glory who would not have found their way there except for lay preach- —The English Church Times publishes as a sign of the progress of ritualistic principles that & certain parish which it does not name has some 18 altars,of which at a recent festival 7 had vest- ments and lights. — In olden times preachers used to be burned at the stake for heresy. Now they smilingly aceept the verdict of the jury, start a church of their own and catch on to popular favor like a double-grip grapp ling iron. — Rey. George L. Walker, D.D., ina sermon at Hartford on the President's death, says of his assassin that ‘it is not so much that he is de- ranged as that he never was arranged.” This is the matter with a great many people. — The high ritualistic church of St. Albans, New York, has been sold out and purchased by low church congregation. Its ritualistic fur- niture is to be taken out at once, and the edifice conformed to the uses of the new congregation. — The great hit of the recent Congress of Free Thinkers, at Paris, was the speech of an illustrious orator, who, having inserted his left hand into the breast of his coat, made a pas- sionate gesture with the right, and bellowed: “Gentlemen, I am an Atheist—thank God!’” — Philadelp bia is said to contain more Pres- byterians than any other cityin the United States—26,346. Next come New York with 18.155, Brooklyn with 11,159, Chicago with 6.241, Newark with 4,765, Cincinnati with 8,886, San Francisco with 3,788, Pittsburg with 3,777, Rochester with 3,685, Cleveland with 3,356, and Baitimore with 3.258. - — A Massachusetts church has introduced an open fireplace as a means of ventilation. It has been tried long enough to prove its entire accept- ability. While it promotes the circulation of pure air, it adds to the homelike and cosy ap- pearance of the church. Though more trouble- fome to manage than a furnace in the cellar, it pays for the additional trouble. —The Congregationalist says that “the reli- gious condition of the public mind is very grati- fying.” This conclusion being reached after a furvey of the circumstances attending the as- f*ault on and final death of the President. There is little disposition to scoff because the prayers for the President were not directly answered, and with many others it hopes for glorious revi- Vals of relizion soon. —The number of Sunday school libraries in this land is very great, and it is safe to say that in them can be easily found more utter trash, more absolute rubbish, than in any other equal number of books anywhere collected with an honest or innocent purpose. The shelves of bookstores abound in these inane stories that have neither literary nor moral character. An ineredi¥le amount of this stuff is annually pub- lished and paid for. The business seems to flourish in the inverse ratio of its usefulness.— Hartford Courant. — A want of reverence for God and sacred things Is a striking feature of our times. Not among the godless and irreligious only, but in many of the nominally Christian fraternities there at want of that reverence which lies at the basis of all genuine love of God. We see it in the growing tendency to secularize everything connected with religion, from the pulpit to the camp ground, where the spirit of speculation too often drives out the spirit of prayer. We see it in Sabbath desecration, in deserted sanctuaries, in altarless Christian homes, in wayward children and social vices on every hand.— Religious Herald. — While some of the Protestant papers are congratulating the gain to Protestantism from the coming of Father Henry Campello into the Methodist ranks, the Catholic papers refer to that ecclesiastie and his movements in highly uneomplimentary terms. They denounce him as an apostate, and intimate that his change preceeded from a desire to live a more free and 'y life than could be allowed a Roman Catho- lic priest. L’ Univers gives him a parting bene- diction by saying: “‘Assuredly, we deplore the fall of a brother; but we cannot think that the chureh has to regret a loss. He was a scabby sheep, and his leaving the flock makes it stronger and healthier.” — The subject of “cheap preaching” agitates some of the religious papers in the south, where congregations are in many instances small and Means scanty. The Baptist Courier says that this sort of preaching is in demand in South Carolina. Not that the churches would not pre- fer better preaching, but that, governed by par- simony, falsely called economy, they are willing to hear poor preaching rather than pay liberally for that which is good and will cost them two or three times more than they are inclined to pay. Governed by this poli 7, instances are «iven of churches in that stafe which, having $150 a year, now want men to serve them for $100, and to secure such “cheap preaching” deacons and pulpit committees send letters to ministers “waiting for a call,” inquiring “what will you preach for—how little?” and the lowest bidder becomes the favorite candidate. — In pleading his own cause before the Rock River Conference, which has found him guilty of heresy, Dr. Thomas gaye an explanation of his religious views on the disputed points. “I hold.” he said in substance, “to the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures, but I do not ac- cept the ‘verbal’ theory of inspiration, nor do I claim that all parts of ‘all the sixty-six books of the Bible are of equal authority, inspiration or value, or that all parts of the Oid Testament are critically infallible. I hold to the doctrine of a Vicarious atonement: but 1 hold it in that form that is called morai or paternal; or, in other words, I hold to the governmental view with the penal idea left out.” All sin, he thought, would be punished; but he did not believe in a materia! hell fire or in the terrible ideas of fu— ture torment that had come down from the past. He believed in the freedom of souls after death, and could neither affirm nor deny endless pun- ishment for any soul. — The London Lancet is greatly opposed to shureh belis, regarding their “ding-dong and jangle” as a very serious annoyance to the sick. {t says that in many cases the loss of rest and the general disquiet they produce lessen the hance of recovery, and expedite a fatal issue. The same opinion is gaining ground in many of our large cities. Church bells were originally introduced when people had not as many slocks and watches as now. They are main- tained now rather to perpetuate an old custom than to be of any particular service in bringing tongregations together. People who go to church generally regulate their pre} ions fosss their = —_ zone by tl _— me m y Felying on the church bells. Inthe case of ty ex — ‘ions, many of the worshippers live two miles or more from the church they attend, so that the “charch— going bell” of their house of worship of no avail to them. For country chi where there are few noises besides the bells, But the cities are Ghosts in England. From the New York Times. There are countries in which ghosts appear 80 | HOW THE BUSINESS IS MANAGED UPON A LARGE often that men hear of them with calm indiffer- ence or smiling toleration. In parts of Ger- many, for example, their fame is perennial, and none of their manifestations now excite excep- tional wonder among grown-up men. So of more northern continental lands. like Denmark or Norway, and there is, perhaps, no longer great surprise when ghosts are seen in Italy or in Spain. But in England, where no true son of Albion is more afraid of nightly apparitions than he is of Afghan soldiers or Zulus in arms, and where, above all, superstition is rarest in the world, they are as infrequent in their coming as. they are slow to obtain beiief in their authenti- city. And yet itis from England that some of the best ghost stories of our time are given to the world. Why this is so, historians with sys- tems like M. Taine’s may, perhaps, satisfactorily explain; but for us, since we are now to record the latest English’ ghost story, and one of the -best recently made known to us, facts alone must be dealt with, as they also must stand for what they themselves are worth. Unfortunately, we are without the names of tose who exe tie ghost in question. But the London newspaper which printsthe stor —none other than the staid and practical Pail Mall Ga- zette—vouches for its correspondent’s ‘good faith and professional acuteness of observation,” and adds that he substantiates the tale, with full details of dates, names, and places, ‘which he withholds from publication solely out of con- sideration for thesurvivors. By using the word “survivors,” it is not meant that any lives were lost in this thrilling adventure. The word ap- parently refers to the friends of the dead man, or it may bea piece of humor, drawn from an implication that every one concerned in theaffair is a survivor in that he was in dire danger of be- ing speedily made something else. Our ghost was seen at noonday. Three persons were at table, a gentleman, his wife and a friend who is called Mr. A., and who was never before in the town, who had never lived within two hundred miles of it, and who did not know until a day or two before he arrived that he should ever visit it. While they were seated the maid- servant passed from the room into the kitchen and closed the door. Mr. A. startled his friends by then declaring that he had seen a ghost. “I saw a spirit of a man following that woman,” he said, who, as he passed, said distinctly in m; hearing, ‘God judgeth not as man judgeth. was innocent of the murder for which I have been ed. I was there, but I did not strike the blow.’” Mr. A. described his ghost so care- fully that his description fitted exactly the hus- band of the very maidservant who had just gone out of the room. The husband, a year or two before, had been executed after a trial for mur- der—a crime of the existence of which Mr. A. was absolutely ee It was not believed in that household that the right man had been hanged; the husband of the servant had died pro- testing his innocence, and although he was in the fatal fight it was not by him. that the fatal blow was struck; so the widow believed, and all her friends as well, including her master and her mist: whom the ae tragedy had been made a forbidden subject in that house. * When the astonishment caused by Mr. A.’s declaration had somewhat abated, he was told that the woman whom he had just seen for the first time with a ghost following after her was the widow of aman who had been hanged for murder. “There he is again,” exclaimed Mr. A. some time afterward, but while still at the table, “repeating the same words!” Still more sur- prised and becoming intensely interested, Mr. A.’s friend said he was soon going out and would pass the spot where the murder took place. Mr. A. was invited to go along, and it was intimated to him that the ghost might point ont the place where the murdered man was found. When they left the house Mr. A. exclaimed, “There, he is following us.” The road to him was entirely unknown co and they had not proceeded far when his friend, without saying a word, turned a corner tomake a businesscall. Imme- diately Mr. A. declared that his ghost was stand- ing at the corner and . they had taken the wrong road if they wished to reach the scene of the murder. In spite of this, the call was made. The two men aflerward reached the original road at a point further on, and Mr. A. again saw the ghost ‘waiting for them” at this second corner. For the next few moments not a word was said, but finally the men reached a part of the town when Mr. A. pointed to a cer- tain spot as the one where the murdered man fell, and it was the right one. He further said the ghost repeated what he had formerly de- clared, that it was not he who struck the fatal blow. Mr. A., it should be added, had among his friends a reputation for “seeing,” but we have the best assurances that tothismurder and this town he had been, up to the day in ques- tion, an entire stranger. Such is the story that comes to us go well au- thenticated. It is especially remarkable, as has been said already, because it comes from a land not thickly pennies by ghosts, and is the more interesting because it is a worthy companion of another story that is now about two years old— the experience of his own in Lord Orford’s library, which an antiquary related in a leading London newspaper, and of which cold reason— ing has not, toour knowledge, furnished yet any clear explanation. Mr. A.’s affair is even more extraordinary than that, and unless Dr. Beard can explain it away by references to his successful enterprises last winter, it apparently must remain so. ———_—_——_-o-—_____ About the Human Volee. SOME LATE DISCOVERIBS. Startling revelations about the human voice have been made bya French physician. Care- fulexperiments convinced him that both among animals andmen the voice is more sharp and Piercing in the lower than in the higher species orraces. The ancients also (he says) had more shrill voices than later generations—a fact which he probably ascertained by means of the phono- graph used by Homer and dug up somewhere by Schliemann. If we add to these facts the con- sideration that in the individual, too, the voice gradually changes from soprano to tenor and through baritone to bass, it would follow (as a corollary of the Darwinian law that the develop- ment of the individual is a recapitulation of that of the race) that i ecurse of time tenors and sopranos are destined to disappear alto- gether, leaving only altos and basses. Right here comes in the use of the phonograph. The last surviving sopranos and tenors will doubtless be empoyed by government to devote their life to singing into the phonograph for the benefit of future generations, who would otherwise be de- prived of this luxury. And thus Edison’s name will be cleared of the awful imputation that in the phonograph he invented a mere scien- tific toy. But our Frenchman has some further observations to make. Blondes, he says, usually have higher voices than brunettes, which is borne out by the observation that sopranos and tenors are usually of light, basses and altos of dark complexion. Among earnest and in— telligent folks bass voices prevail, while the frivolous are tenors. Before dinner, too, the voice is higher than after dinner, a circumstance which compels tenors to dine early, in order to eevee the high pitch of their voice. Finally, ‘he use of spirituous tiquors leads to congestion of the larynx, wherefore tenors must be sparing in their use of them, while basses may drink and eat as much as they please. Temperance people should take note of this, and in future perse- cute only tenors and sopranos. ——<_e-___ Love that was Not Blissful. From the Tribune. Chicago Seated by the raddy light of the grate fire, whose flickering served only to illumine the room with the half dim light that oneseesso often in one of Rembrandt's best works, or a saloon after 12 o'clock p. m., Mabel was thinking. The door bell rang, and in an instant a servant ush- ered into the room 4 fair-haired young man whom Mabel greeted cordially. They ‘talked of commonplace subjects for a while, but finally George W. Simpson spoke the words that had been in his heart so long—told Mabel of his strong, deathless love for her, and how he should never be happy until he felt that it was returned. Rising from the chair in which she had been seated, Mabel went to him, and, placing her hand in his, said in a low, tremulous voice: “Yes, orge, Tam proud of, your love, and I love you in return. . George drew to his heart the beautiful girl said these sweet words, and together who had they walked slowly to an open window and were soon standing on a vine-embowered poreb. “Here, sweetheart,” said George, “here,with the stars in all their purity looking’ down upon . let me give you our betrothal kiss.” While these words were being spoken Mabel’s father had come silently into th ing the open window, had stepped to ieend heard ail. . * . . . . Five minutes later George was on the corner waiting for a street car. A friend came up. for you going to the ball this evening?” he No,” answered George, while a pained look flitted across his features; “I am going phere: county hospital.” The box-toed boot had done its deadly work well.—From “Loves of My Life,” by” Murat Man born of woman is of few days and fall of schemes to get his name in print.—Morrilion Stale. " Potatoes planted must have their about them if they are to come up.—New Pic ayune. SCALE—PRINTING SWEET DEVICES ON LOZENGES —THE MINT DROP. Chicago Tribune. e: There is probably no one article manufactured within the bounds of the United States which is more universally a favorite, and the mention of which calls up more pleasant associations to old and young, than candy. The baby cries for it, school-boys and school-girls demand it, and —principally in the form of caramels—it is al- leged to be of the greatest possible service to young men in their courting days, not, of course, for their own proper use, but asa pro- So, offering to their respective divinities. in this particular it far excells the fascinating but deceitful ice cream, and has the additional advantage of being in season all the year round. Staid fathers of families affect to disdain the toothsome dainty, and are aptto inform their offspring that candy will spoil their teeth and ruin their digestions, usually, however, ending the homily by the production of sundry small change to keepthe children quiet. The truth is that neither the middle-aged nor the white- haired can forget the joys which candy brought to them in the long ago, and to allit isa thing of beauty and a joy forever. A reportor of the Trivune was yesterday af- forded an opportunity of making’a tour of in- spection through one of thelargest candy manu- factories of the west, and of seeing for himself THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES EMPLOYED in the conversion of the pure white sugar into the manufactured article. Asked what particu- lar department he would first examine, the scribe decided, to begin the review where he began his personal experience—namely, with stick candy—and he was led to the floor devoted to its manufacture. At one end of the large room a couple of men were industriously em- loyed shoveling white sugar into large copper iling pans, each holding fifty pounds, Side by side with these were half a dozen similar nsin which the sirup was boiling fiercely. The sugar, when sufficiently boiled, is poured q marble slabs, fenced in with square pieces of iron, and there allowed to cool untilfit for handling. The process of boiling makes it of a brownish color, and to get rid of this IT 18 “PULLED.” Aman takes a thirty-pound chunk of the stuff, hangs it on a iron hook and draws it out at arm’s length. Thenhe doubles it over the hook and pulls again, repeating the process until the entire mass assumes a snowy white- ness. It is then divided up into pieces of suit- able size and rolled by hand on a wooden table, This makes rolls someten feet in length—but along comes a boy with a queer-shaped pair of scissors, and cuts itinto suitabe lengths. If only the childish consumers could get hold of that boy and reason with him the one-cent stick of candy, which is the juvenile’s delight, might be made a little longer. But this superior ing, neglectful ofhis opportunities, goes on all day clipping candy as ifhis weapon were the shearsof Fates, and never once puts his fingers to his mouth. The question as to how the stripes, those fa- mous spiral stripes of delicate pink, got on to the candy had always puzzled the reporter, even as the knotty problem of how the apple got in- aide the dumpling bothered King George. And yet it is simple enough. On the outside of the cylindrical lamp of white candy the workman lays longitudinal strips of colored candy pre- pared in similar manner. A scientific twist is given to the mass; the workman get hold of one end of it, pullsit out into a long string, which is rolled by his boy helper, and there is the stick candy with its colored stripe. Half a pound of colored sugar suffices to ornament a batch of fifty pounds. The dear candy, the light-brown variety, is not pulled. The process employed in the manufacture of “drops” is identical with that of making white stick candy, except that the stuff after being pulled is run through rolers, These have depressions on their face of the size of the “drop” required, and one shaking-up suffices to break the cakes into hundreds oflittle pieces. The coloring used for these is mostly carmine, or cochineal, or harmless vegetable colors. Hoarhound candy is not pulled, and is cut into sticks by a hand-roller. ‘TO MAKE ROCK CANDY in the establishment visited from fourto five barrels of sugar are dumped into an immense copper kettle heated by steam, and there boiled until the proper consistency is obtained. The sirup is poured into deep oval tin pans, in which tton threads are strung from end to end. These are conveyed to the crystallizing-room, where a temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenhett is constantly maintained and remain there two orthree days. The crystals form onthe strings, and there is your candy, red orwhite, according as youhave added or oinitted the carmine. Jelly goods, creams and other varieties are crystal- lized in the same way, and the men who handle them need no overcoats while at work in this department. eams, gum-drops, Jujubes and paste goods are made in molds filled with cornstarch. A board, on which a dozen or more representa- tions of the drop, square or other shaperequired; are molded in relief, is pressed into the starch, andthe melted sugar is poured into the depres- sions thus made. When cool they are sifted out andtakento the crystallizing-room. LOZENGES are manufactured in anentirely different way. Crushed sugaris poured into a big millin the basement, and pounded until it isas fine as flour. Fiveor six barrels of this are thrown into a trough,somegum and the requisite amount of flavoring essence are added, and the entire mass dumped into the mixer, from whence it emerges in the form of a thick dough, This is run through rollers into sheets, about four feet long and two feet wide, and carried to the stamping table. Here standsa man witha pad saturated with carmineand astamper, on which the letters to be imprinted on the lozenge—innocent aid to boyish and girlish flirtation—are set in_ type. And thusit is that ‘Do you love me?” and “Are you going to the ball this evening?” appear upon the lozenges, These are cut from the sheet by‘ girls armed with ordinary tin-cutters of the kind iliar to every housewife, and after a three days’ experience in the purgatorial sweat-box the lozenges are ready for packing and shipment. English mint and ail the countless variety of plain lozengesare cut by a machine. TO MAKE COCOANUT PASTE the indigestible fruit is cast into a machine resembling a quartz crusher, and comes out in a condition of pulp and shreds. The creams for chocolate drops and sticks are east in starch-molds and dipped in choco- late mixture. Mint-drops are dropped singly on tins, and caramels are boiled and cut out. The sugar cigar, dear to the heart of bud- ding youth, is cast in a starch or plaster mold, and afterwards painted and fixed up by hand. All sugar fruits, toys and the like, which appear in such great profusion at holiday times, are cast in plaster molds and hand-painted.’ The prevalent idea that these articles are among the more objec- tionable forms of candies is an erroneous one, | as they are made of the finest white sugar, an the coloring matter is certified to as innocuous. Roll Call. From the i “Corporal Green?” the Orderly cried. “Here!” was the answer, loud and clear, From the lips of the soldier who stood near; And “Herel” was the word the next replied. “Cyrus Drew!”—then silence fell— ‘This time no answer followed the call; ee, his rear man had seen him fall, or wounded, he could not tell. ‘There they stood in the failing light, ‘These men of battle, with grave, dark looks, As plain to be read as open books While slowly gathered the shades of night. ‘The fern on the hillsides was RSet with blood, Gown in the corn where the poppies grew, ‘Where redder stains than the pe les knew; And crimson-dyed was the riv. For the foe had crossed from the other side ‘That day in the face of a murderous fire, ‘That swept them down in ite terrible ire, And their ‘blood went to color the “Herbert Kline!” At the call there came ‘Two stalwart soldiers into the Hine, between them this Herbert Kline, Wout and bleeding, to answer his name. « Ezra Kerr !”—and a voice “Here 1” “Hiram Kerr!”—but no man desis They were these two; the sad wind Anda crept through the cornfield near. hraim Deane!”—then a soldier spoke; 9 carried our regimenc’s colors,” he said, “where our ensign was shot I left him dead, Just after the enemy wavered and broke. “Close to the roadside his body lies; I paused a moment and gave him drink; He murmured his mother’s name, I think,. And death came With it, and closed his eyes.” *Twas a victory, yes, but it cost us dear— For that Toll, when called at Bf tundeh ho went hese neh ‘Numbered but twenty that answered “Here! —$—<—<—_ PRESENTS ARD BarTens.—Barter did not be- with a distinct intention of giving one thing i thing equivalent in value, but it be- making & pres: Sat in Feturn; snd even now in tie Beat ere penne rae a tbe pete - mn. In by his offer of coffee and ci; ne : the is Ha wegekstion beer &@ daha beah, gifts and expecta to receive themes ee *, in Contemporary Review. Av autierioa mal a our i Must visit sick and visit well, : ‘And whom the women idolize; A man we langh at when we can— Such, reader, {5 the clergyman. The clergyman, children, is probably the most curious specimen in our collection. “His whole business consisis in an endeavor to make men good, not thinking, apparently, that if all were good he would have togo out of business. The clergyman has other duties, such, for in- stance, as engineering fairs, making oyster stews and lemonade, and curing love-sick people by Joining them in marriage. A clergyman is also expected to make the rounds of his parish weekly. This is not a very onerous task. It does not take all of his time. He has a few hours each week for sermon writing and sleep. As the flock sleep while the clergyman is pre- paring his sermon, they think it no more than fair tine they should sleep while he is read- i ing it. It must be said, however, to the credit ot the ladies, that they seldom go to sleep in church. They generally keep their eyes open during the service. New bonnets are:worn to church. The clergyman is paid for praying for people who would never think of praying for them- selves. They know how much praying for they need, probably, and shrink from undertaking one i rgyman 1s supposed to kn e clergyman fs sup ow every- thing, and yet everybody in the congregation thinks he knows more than the clergyman. If the clergyman sticks to religion pure and simple, the congregation complain that he gives them nothing new; if he touches upon living questions, they accuse him of preaching poli- tics, If the clergyman does not visit his shon- ers every day or two, they say he is a very 1 pe pastor; if he makes his visits regularly, hey soon discover that he is a very poor preacher. If he extemporizes, they complain that his discourse is rambling; if he preaches from notes, they say any fool can do that. If a clergyman says but little at a funeral, he is called cold and unsympathetic; if he says much, he is accused of gushing. The clergyman is the last person many a man would help support, and he is the last man many ask a favor of. He is not called in till the fane- ral is appointed. A man who never helped pay the clergyman while alive can not be expected to give him anything when dead, if a clergyman does not keep abreast of the literature of the day, the congregation say he is behind the time: if he gives them an epitome of the best-thoughts of the best writers, they accuse him of plagiarism and stealing. If a clergyman preaches short sermons, he is accused of laziness; if he preaches long ser- mons, the people vote him tedious, Ifhe dresses like other people, his appear- ance is said to be unministerial; if he dresses in sombre black or dons a white choker, he is charged with affectation. If he busies himself at the fair and social, it is said fhat he had better put more time in his sermons; if he gives his whole time to his sermons, he is said to be a poor worker. The clergyman, it is said, lives on the ignorance ofmankind. Ifthis be true, he should have the best of living; but a good living is a difficult thing for a clergyman to get. When you grow up, children, if you would be rich, you should all be clergymen, but it would be better to try something else first. = ae They Called Him Calamity. BUT HE SAVED HIS LIFEIN AN EMERGENCY BY AN ELOQUENT ORATION. Laramie Boomerang. Calamity is the name of a man who lives at the gold camp of Cummins City. He has another name, but nobody seems to know what itis. Ithas been torn off the wrapper some way, and so the boys call him Calamity. He is aman of singular mind and eccentric construc- tion. The most noticeable feature about Cal- amity is his superstitious dread of muscular ac- tivi Some people will not tackle any kind of business enterprise on Friday. Calamity is even more the victiin of vague superstition, and has a dread of beginning work on any day of the week, for fear some disaster may befall him. Last spring he had a little domestic trouble, and his wife made complaint that Calamity had worn out an old long-handle shovel on her, trying to convince her about some abstruse theory of his. The testimony seemed rather against Calamity; and the miners told him that as soon as they got over the rush a little, and had the leisure, they would have to hang him. They hoped he would take advantage of the hurry of business and go away, because they didn’t want to hang him so early in the season. But Calamity didn’t go away. He stayed be- cause it was easier to stay than to go. He did not, of course, pine for the notoriety of being the first man hung in the young camp, but rather than pull up stakes and move away from a place where there were so many pleas- ant associations he concluded to stay and meet death calmly, in whatever form it might come. One evening, after the work of the day was done, and the boys had eaten their suppers, one of them suggested that itwould be a good time to hang Calamity. So they got things in shape, and went down to the Big Lamarie bridge. Calamity was with them. They got things ready for the exercises to begin, and then asked the victim if he had anything to say. He loosened the rope around hrs neck a little with one hand, so that he could speak with more freedom, and holding his pantaloons on with the other, said: “Gentlemen of the convention, Icall you to witness that this public demonstra: tion towards me is entirely unsought on my part. I have never courted notoriety. Plugging along in comparative obscurity is good enough for me. This isthe firsttime I ever addressed an audience. That is why I am embarassed and ill atease. You have brought me here to hang me because I seemed harsh and severe with my wife. You have entered the hallowed presence of my home life and assumed the prerogative of subverting my household discipline. It is well. I do not care to live so long as my authority is questioned. You will have already changed my submissive wife to an arrogant and self- reliant woman. Yesterday I told her to go out and grease the wagon. and she straightened up to her full height and told me to go and grease it myselt. TI have always been kindand thoughtful to her. When she had togo up into the guich in the winter after firewood, my coat shielded her from the storm while I sat alone in the cabin through the long hours. I could name other instances of unselfishness on my part, but I will not take up your time. She uses ny uses Soe and kicks my verte- bre up into my hat on the most unlooked for occasions. She does not love me any more, and life to me is only a hollow mockery. Death, with its wide waste of eternal calm and its shoreless sea of rest, is a glad relief to me. Igo, but I leave in your midst a skittish and able-bodied widow, who will make Rome howl. Ibequeath her to this camp. She is yours, gentlemen. She is all I have to give, but in giving her to ae Ifeel that my untimel death will always be looked upon in-this quick asadire calamity. The day will come when you will look back upon this awfal night and wish that I was alive again, but it will be too late. I will be far away. My soul will be in a land where domestic infelicity and cold feet can neverenter. Bury me at the foot of Vine Hill, where the sage hen and the fuzzy bumble bee may gambol o'er my lowly fave When Calamity had ‘finished an imy rompta caucus was called. When it was ATES Calamity went home to his cabin to surprise his wife. sake has not yet fully recovered from her sur- +++ “Where the 01@ Mam Fit.” From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, A farmer-looking gentleman of , carrying an old-fashioned valise in his right hand, stopped in front of the Planters’ House at about 6:30 last evening and asked if «them ticket offices” were all shut. An answer in the affirmative was with the suggestion that he could buy a at the Union depot. pits “No, stranger,” said ‘lie, “that won't do. They don't sell excursion tickets at the Union depot until to-morrow. I’m going to Yorktown and I want an excursion ticket.” “Ah, you're going to thedélebration are: ook gee gona ee eee el quite a distance, Ive traveled three hmndred mice abreay a 't very patriotic, to speak of, either; but my ain’ da was-and | thou least my gran- k fo mea down and: Gentlemen’s Fashions. “COSTLY THY HABIT 48 THY PURSE CAN BUY.” There is nothing new in overcoatings this winter, and no fancy materials are used, but there is such an infinite variety in the popular English, Scotch, French and German woollen goods so much worn last season, that the lack of novelty is not noticeable. Heavy overcoats are made variously of fur beaver, elysian, chin- chilla, or of the rougher Scotch and English ma- terials so fashionable. There is but little change in the make of overcoats, except that they are longer and fit more closely than heretofore. The fa- yorite styleisasingle breasted sack with 5buttons: these may button throngh, or have the fly front with concealed buttons, as fancy dictates. Double-breasted overcoats are still made in all kinds of material. and will be warm and com- fortable, if not in the extreme of fashion. The Surtout, always elegant and never out of style, is to be a distinguishing feature of this winter's fashions. It is mostly made of smooth cloth, elysian or fur beaver, but will be seen this sea- son in more marked patterns. The correct thing for young men who ride or drive much is the loose oversack, which will be considered quite elegant for street wear, and take the place of the ulster, whiclr seems to have had its day, ex- cept for travelling and rough weather. The frock ulster is, however, quite the newest thing in overcoats; it is made with a short waist, me- dium length skirt, and isgenerally seen in rougii Scotch goods. In undercoats the two prevailing styles are the four-button cutaway and the straight four- button sack. The one-button cutaway is for stout men, who cannot wear the new walking coat, but still have genteel aspirations. These coats fit very snugly, and are worn buttoned, to the rolling collar; the lower button is left un- fastened to give a glimpse of the vest. Frock coats are as much in vogue as ever, and are the only elegant style for middle-aged’ gentlemen: there is a slight change in the shape of the skirt, which is cut away from the waist, instead of from the first or second button. Gray frock suits have recently been introduced and are rapidly finding favor. Double breasted five- button sacks are made close fitting in the back, with narrow collar and high lapel; these are popular for business suits. Sleeves are all tight fitting, and the cuff is either stitched or braided, and finished with two buttons, or none, according to taste. A novelty in binding is a double row of stitching on a medium width braid, and it is very neat and stylish. In dress suits there aresome decided changes; on the coat the broad collar and lapel are no were pat i is made with a small oe and lapel to rolla trifle her, giving a vastly im- proved appearance tovthe whole’ The vest is cut short and straight across, and has but one or two buttons; the trousers are moderately tight. But the greatest novelty in dress suits is the decided change in the material. The smooth broadcloth and cassimere that were the conventional goods for gentlemen's event wear have given place to very fine diagonals an an elastic material called Marling suiting that does not show any special pattern. There is a gradual decrease in the size and general appearance of trousers, and no one seems to know the origin of this truly American change of fashion. For several seasons trousers have been growing “smaller by degrees and beautifully less,” till the extreme of tightness appears to have been reached this winter. The London tailor, Poole, is cutting them as loose as at anytime for some years. The present style is small and plain, cut quite straight, with but little spring, and’ shorter than last year. The material is anything that appeals to aman’s fancy, and there is no arbitrary style. Pin checks, small stripes, indefinite plaids and quieter patterns of every color and description are worn. It is only in fancy makes and gray mixtures that the whole suit is made from the same goods. Vests have changed somewhat, and are gen- erally single breasted, without a collar, closing high; and some are made to close only moder- ately high and have a notch collar. They are cut short and straight across, very little show- ing with the present style of coat. The mate- rial is a matter of taste, but of the same as the coat is always good taste. Fancy vestings have been imported by some leading houses, but do not become popular, though it is said they will bein time. As long as the high roll, closely buttoned coat is worn, fancy yests will remain in the background. ——eoo—____ Whipping in the Old-Time School. From The Boston Transcript. A public school fifty years ago was a very dif- ferent affair from what it is now adays. Upon my word, when I think of the whipping that went on day after day in the old Mayhew School, 1 am astonished at it. Yet with the va- riety of corporal punishment so freely bestowed there was mingled a sort of ghastly sportive ele- ment, a grim humor which did not always com- mend itself to the perception of him who re- ceived the flagellation. A merry conceit, for in- stance, was that of Master Clough. That ingenious person would direct a culprit to stand upon the platform, near the desk, and without bending the knees, touch the floor with his fingers. Then a smart flourish of the rattan and asudden blow would cause the unhappy youth to involuntarily resume an upright posi- tion with diverting rapidity. It was really very amusing (to Master Clough). Sometimes an offender would be asked by one of the masters which instrument of torture he would choose, the ridii vhip, the ruler, or the rattan. Which ever he seeined to prefer was not the one used, but one of the others would make him smart. This little change would havea healthful moral z the scholar, teaching patience resignation under lisappointment. A pleasant illustration (to the teacher) of the 1rony of fate was shown in another way. When the stock of rattans ran low (and that was not seldom) some yictim in disgrace would be dis- patched for a fresh supply, knowing that on his return he would feel the first stroke of the rod. With what ingenious refinement of torture the victim was thus made to find the weapon that should wound him. There was another clever diversion of our kind-hearted masters which, in summer, when the days were long, occasionally broke the monotony of school-boy life. Sometimes, of a sultry July afternoon, a tired scholar, overcome by the heat, would find the sound of voices in the room grow fainter and fainter, his head would droop and finally sink upon his desk, and he would quickly be in the pleasant land of dreams. Then it was that the master, seizing his rattan and stealthily yet joyfuily striding across the rows of desks, would give the sleep- ing wretch such a rousing whack as to astonish and confound as well as suddenly awake him. I confess that these diversions of the pede- gogue were not without their attraction for us who looked on and saw the comical contortions of the boys whose fortune it was at the moment to be under discipline. The fact that our turn might come next did not prevent us from find- ing what entertainment we might in what our master evidently enjoyed. None of us had yet read the maxims of the cynical La Rochefou- cauld, but we realized that under certain cir- cumstances there is something in the misfor- tunes of our friends that gives us a certain sort of satisfaction. Those were indeed days when flogcing was administered in nohomeopathic doses, but with a most heroic fullness of practice. I once made a careful estimate of my own experience in that way, and came to thé conclusion that I had averaged about a whipping and a half a day during my connection with the Mayhew school. Of course we became somewhat in his ouat ee = ils the La ged thin; suffer wit ‘mness, he who white laid across the master’s knee could calmly make comical and derisive faces from his ignominious position, for the entertainment of his associates, without having his attention di- verted to other parts of his body, was accounted & brave fellow. Then there was a superstitious belief that by laying one’s eyelash in the hand that was about to be feruled, the accursed wood ‘was sure to be shattered on coming “in contact with the magic hair. But I neyer saw one ehat- tered. ——_—__—_-+-__—_ ‘The Silver Serstticnte, Mystery. From the Boston Advertiser, In thirteen months wie gross issue shisd silver certificates has increased -one millions, or almost four millions a month; the net issue, forty-five millions; the holding of silver dollars eighteen and a half millions.. In order to see this implies let us analyze the changes the last month. The gross issue in- creased six and a half millions, the net issue ractically the same, and the amount of silver has increased $150,000. Now, literally complied with, e silver-dollar coinage of the month circulation—say, $2,400,000, less 000 in silver dollars has been holders; fo the been taken ay Bil dollars csmemaiees have ‘Women Tax-Payers in Massachusetts. From the Soston Traveler, October 14. For the fiscal year 1880 there were 1,394 per- | sons in Boston whv paid a tax on real and per- sonal property to the amount of $1,000 and up- ward. This does not include lange corporations, the ownership of whose stock is unknown, of the commercial houses, in many of which women are known to be silent partners, or | otherwise interested, or unsettled estates in | which women as well as men are heirs, but these figures represent the number of Individ- | uals who paid the above-famed amount or | more. Of these 1,30 persons 1,191 were men paying the amount of €2.506.8S1, an average amount of $2,105 each, and 28 were women paying $388,412, an averaze of $1,913 each Two hundred and three is not a large number, but it | is 15 per cent of the whole number of individual | tax-payers who pay the amount named, and the | amount paid by tiem is 14 per cent of the entire amount paid by both classes, That the per- centage of the amount paid is less than the pe centage of the number, i ndication that as | they are smal aX-payers than men. is safe to assume that of the per ing less than $1,000 tax the percent: women will hold oo From a_ part amination, the Trareler representative is con. vineed that the percentage in favor of women | wouid be larger, but assumi that the same proportions exist among those having smaller taxable property, these are the results: In 1880 there were in Boston 95.829 ratable polls, and of these 76,498 were assessed a poll-tax only, leay- ing not 17,322 of the ratable polls who were as- sessed on either real or personai property. There must have been then at least 3,000 women in Boston who paid into the treasury of the city and state $1,267333 out ofa total levy of $9,052,392, or 14 per cent of the whole. On the basis of these percentayés, and making allow- ance for a larger proportion of property tax- payers among the ratable polls in the country towns and farming districts, there are, with- out doubt, at least 20,000 women in Massachu- setts paying a tax into the state, county, town and city treasuries of $3,465.830 in a total of $24,755,927; and if the principle of “no taxation without representation” is just it is a question whether, after all, the claim of at least 20,000 women in the commonwealth to the right of suffrage is not based on something more than mere sentiment. It is not possible from the statistics at hand to tell the exact proportion of unmarried women among these, but enough is known to make it certain that at ieast 80 per cent of these taxpayers are at present wholly unrepresented. en Eunning-Water Notes. BY EDITH M. THOMAS. We readily consent that the Muses had their birth and rearing in the neighborhood of certain springs and streams. This was a wise provision for their subsequent musical education, since it was intended, no doubt, that they should gather the rudiments from such congenial sources. The Greeks left us no account (as they well might have done) of the technical drill pursued by the nine sisters. However, we may suppose that they wrote off their scores from the fluent dic- tation of their favorite cascades and streams, and that they scanned, or “‘sang,” all such exer- cises by the laws of liquid quantity and accent. Perhaps at the same time, the better to measure the feet and mark the cwesural pauses, they danced, as they sang, over the rippled surface of the springs and running water, but it would seem that the philharmonic societies of their de- scendants have had their haunts in like locali- ties; or was it mere chance that Homer should lived by the river Meles ou Melesig- that Plato should have had his retirement “where Tissus rolls His whispering stream ;” or that Shakespeare, to all time, should be “the Sweet Swan of Avon?” Consider the vocality and vocabulary of the water: it has its open vowels, its mutes, labials, and sub-vocals, and, if one listen attentively. its little repetend of favorite syllables and allitera- tions. Like Demosthenes, it knows the use and advantage of pebbles, and has, by this simple experiment, so purified its utterance that no- where else is nature's idiom spoken so finely. What a list of onomatopoetic words we have caught from Its talkative lips! Babbling, purl- ing, murmuring, gurgiing, are some of the ad- jectives borrowed from this vernacular; and some have even heard the “chuckling brooke,” —an expression which well describes a certain confidential, sotto voce gayety and self-content I have often heard in the parley of the water.— November Atlantic. Another Youthful Train Rebber. It was night. Night in Arkansas. It was night in several other states as well; but Arkansas is the one with which we have to deal at this writing. It being our turn to deal. A lightning express was booming along at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Every car was full, many standing in the aisles with that meekness and patience only seen on an Ameri- can railroad, to accommodate the fellow who wants four seats all to himself. The lamps blazed fitfully over the passengers’ dusters, which seemed to fit fully as well as traveling dusters usually do. The conductor had passed through, (which was more than he would allow any one else to do without the requisite pass), punching peo- ple into wakefulness in order that he might | punch their tickets. The train boy had filled the passengers’ laps with books, to keep them from bouncing in their seats while going over rough places. A brakeman had put his head in and shouted, “The next stopping place is ——!” the name of the station being lost in the slamming of the car door. The boy who is always dry, had made his fifty-second pilgrimage to the water tank. And the woman who wants air had just torn off her last remaining finger nail in trying to get her window up. This was on a railroad in the state of Arkan- sas. ‘Suddenly the car door opens. A youthiul figure appears, holding something in his hand upon which the light glitters. He presents it in a significant manner and cries: “Now, gentlemen, your money—” Fifty men turn pale and ery, “don’t shoot!” Twenty females scream with one voice and some faint. There isa hasty thrusting of watchés and pocketbooks beneath cushions and into boots. Strong men fight fora place under the seats where they can secrete themselves. “Gentlemen,” again cries the boyish voice, ringing high and clear above the screams of women and the din of the train (gasps for mercy from some of the men), “let me sell you some of this excellent tropical fruit,” and he extends in his dexter hand—a banana! , said: TRICKS UPON JEW ELLIS. SOME OF THE INGENIOUS PRACTICNS OF ROGUER WHO STRAL VALUABLES, “Of all the tricks. devices, subterfares, sharp dodges, or deceptions | ever saw,” said Jewel- ler J. H. Johnston to a Sun reporter, “was one | by which a sharp fellow stole from me three pairs of diamond earrings. He evidently knew when I was not in the store. He came in one day and said to one of my clerks: Is Mr. Johnson in?” * was the repl “Lam sorry for that” he said,’ T wish to buy 8 pair of diamond earrings for my wife.” “This was repeated on four or five successive days. The last time he said he would not walt to me, but would look at some earrings. The clerk showed him an assortment, and he finally selected three pairs, valued at $430, and ‘L guess I will let my wife select from these. She will be at my store inan hour, and 1 want you tell Mr. Johnston to bring these oon himself, as he is acquainted with my wite.” M1 right, sir; I will,’ replied the clerk. the way,’ said the , “if you wit 1 will write a note to Mr. Johnston, said the clerk, who showed him to a desk and pointed out where he could get paper and envelopes. He sat down, wrote a short note, folded it and put it in an envele directed to me. Then he went back to t counter and said to the clerk: “I think yon had better put the three pairs of earrings in here and I will seal them up so that Mr. Johnston will be certain to bring the right ones, ery well,’ said the clerk, who handed ont the three pairs of earrings and the fellow dropped them into the envelope before the clerk's ey ind was apparently about to seal the envelope when he said sudden| ‘Oh,I guess you may put in that other pair, pointing to apair which the clerk had laid on the shelf behind him. The clerk turned and got the other pairand handed them to the fellow, who dropped them apparently into the same envelope, sealed them up, handed them over, and sald; “Let Mr. Joknson bring the pairs to my store as soon as he comes back,” he sald, giving the address of a well-known store in the vicinity. Then he left, and the clerk the envelope one side until I returned. Of course we found but one pair of diamond ear rings in the envelope, which was the last pair dropped in. The other three pairs were show the same = The fellow had taken t of my envelopes, into one had placed the three bogus pairs. When the clerk turned to get the fourth pair the fellow bad uine in his pocket and substituted the Wenever saw him afterward,but heard M prem the same game in other aca) 2d out of yoursight until you get the mo- ¢ trick of having goods sent to hotels and boarding houses with bills for collection is#0 stale that the undeviating. rule is to keep your goods in sight. But a sh:ewd fellow once man- agedto get three watches from me by a clever dodge. “A bright, sharp-looking customer came in one day and said: ‘am from Ohio, and havea commission to buy some goods for my sister, who is about to be married there.’ He picked out a bill of $500 worth of various arti- cles, and said: ‘Just send them around to store in Broadway at 12 o'clock,’ naming a pe known carpet store in Broadway. The goods were sent by aclerk, who found the customer apparently engaged ‘in showing carpets, and Sow at home. He recognized the clerk and said: ***Ah! just step this way, and I will give yous check.’ “He went with thecierk to a desk, drew a check, and took the goods. He apy to be so perfectly at home that the had not the slightest suspicion. Of course the check was worthless, and we found that be had se cured the desk privilege at the carpet store by pretending that he was buying a large stock of carl epee! other purchases in the city. He fooled five jewellers in New York, and in other cities. “One day a swarthy, foreign-looking, well- dressed young man called on a brother jeweller and handed him his card—‘Alexander Dumas, Prussian Legation, Washington.’ He said he was with his wife and child at the St. Nicholas Hotel, and wanted to buy some watches and Jewelry, for which he would pay cash. He said his wife was too sick to leave the hotel, and wanted the goods sent with the bill. The jew- eller thought he would make a sure thing of it take the goods himself. He went tothe St. Nicholas, was told that Mr. Dumas was stop- ing there, and was shown to his room. Mr. mas was busy writing, but welcomed the Jeweller cordially. “*Ah,’ he said, ‘Tam glad yon have come. I am sorry that my wife is coniined to her bed. I will Just step into the next room and let her make her selections.’ ” “The jeweller, in a moment of weakness, con- sented. After waiting five minutes he began to get nervous. He did not like to disturb a sick lady, but went to the office to make some in- quiries. There he found that Mr. Dumas had Just stepped out, and had no wife or child in the He was finally caught, after he had played the saime game on a number of jewell and lodged in Sing Sing. When he was capt he tried to conciliate his last victim by the presen- tation of a bewutiful overcoat. But the overcoat proved to have been stolen. “In showing Jewelry it is the custom to show only six watches at once, or some uniform num- ber. If the customer wants to see another, one of those already on exhibition will be taken away. The same rule is observed with rings. The tray is always full, or with a known num- ber of holes at: 80 that if a ring were taken the loss would be instantly detected. Some- times swindlers will watch an opportunity and slip in a worthless ring and take away a good one. One jeweller of my acquaintance found five plated rings thus substituted for plain gold rings in one di ‘The trick was played upon @ number of jewellers about the same time, and then the rogue was captured. “A common trick in buying goods on the in stallment plan is to give a wrong name, men- tioning the name of some solvent person. ‘The references will, of course, give a good report, and it will not be discovered untyl too late that the good character does not belong to the one who purchased the goods.” One of the shrewdest and boldest tricks ever played on a jeweller was done by a woman of nerve in Cincinnati not long ago.” One day @ middle-aged woman, of fine personal appear- ance, well dressed, and of most attractive man- ners, called at a private lunatic asylum and asked to see the superintendent. That official met her in the parlor. “I wish to make arrangements forthe confine- ment of a patient here,” she said. “What are your terms and the conditions on which you re- ceive your inmates. It was the train boy, pursuing his useful and harmless vocation.—Cincinnati Saturday Night. a Lord Lorne’s Costly Magazine. From Nye’s Boomerang. “Would you like to buy that Harper's Maga- zine!” asked the soft-voiced and timid pea- nutter on the East-bound Union Pacific train the other day to a middle-aged passenger, who was looking over the October Harper and read- ing Judge Goodwin's article on the Mormon situation. “No,” said the middle-aged pai “Tt is my rty. MA ep ones and therefore I do not care to y it.” “Excuse me,” said the poor little frightened peanutter, while the tears came into his eyes. “d fear you want to cheat a poor orphan boy out of his books. Please pay me, sir, or let me have the magazine back again. Ah, sir, you would not rob me of my goods.” “No,” said the stern stranger, “I do not wish rob you of your book, my boy, but I bought this on the Utah Northern road and paid for it. When I went into the eating-house for breakfast the train butcher took it out of my seat and sold it to me again in the after- noon. “I was in the middle of an article when we —— the dinner and left it it once more. two if di fhe ete 4 i “Our terms are $15 per week, and you must have the certificate of two physicians.’ “Very well,” said the lady; “I will pay you for two weeks in advance. The patient is my son, who is insane on the subject of diamonds. He has a mania for selling my jewelry. [have not yet gotten the certificate of the physicians, but can easily do so. Iwill bring my son here in the afternoon, and if you will keep him an honr I will bring the physicians with the auth- ority.” ‘Then the lady entered her carriage and drove toa jewelry store. There she selected $4,000 worth of jewelry, which she said was intended for the trousseau of her daughter, about to be married. She gaye the name of a wealthy fam- ily recently arrived in Cincinnati, and tothe he gang Aid you neg ogy our yen int carriage with me I will go to my husband's tore and give has the money for the drove to the asylum and were show! resid que i —oe ly q im] ie i —_—=Tre