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4 — a LETTER FROM ATLANTIC CITY. i—Promenading Bath- t— The Banged & ere—The Large Crowds—The Correspondence of Tre Evextve Stan. ATLantic Crry, August 9, 1833. It is a particular and winsome outburst of girlish enthusiasm to drive and stroll on the Bhore, and ride, and go sailing bareheaded. ‘The hair is banged and shingled, you know, has Just a little rakish look, and, per consequence, the effect Is decided and wide-spreading. Note one of these lite and happy creatures in an elastic Jersey, doing the season with great confi- ng, dancing, smashing pericardiums riving her young man around in a rt, leading him along in the mazes of you can understand howr otherwise beautiful life is in one of these by the sea. One ot the diversions is to YROMENADE IN BATHING CosTUME © where the water rises to the knee, for instance. Unless you've been there "t know how nice it is. It is picturesque ble, especially when there is a well- cession throuh the crowds of bath- ers coming and going. The tair partners are bare-I 1, bare-armed, and so forth, plashing in the water when the swells come up, and trip- ping lightly on the tinted slope when they re- cede. Then stopping to burrow In the hot sand, burying the nether extremeties, by mutual and Jong-continned effort. It’s nice, and no mistake— @ sert of thing that those who like that sort of thing like very much. SALT WATER DEVOTEES. There Is a vast populat:on of pleasure-seekers down here ut this time; the air is full of music, and the hum of human voices, in all of which the never-ceasing roar of the ocean mingles not unmusically. Now and then some one is drowned, occasionally there is fatal iliness in spite of the healing water, but the waves roll on as ever, the music continues, the hum of voices awakens and subsides with the day and night, and everything unpleasant is quickly forgotten. THE ISLAND, asthe original sand knobs on which Atlantic City was erected are called, is lively. Last Sun- day there were 50,000 people here for the day alone, brought from Philadelphia and elsewhere on excursion trains. It was a curious and mot- ley crowd, and 5,000 of it were in bathing at one time, and the rest looking at'em. There was fascination in locking, too. From the supple, pretty, neatly-robed forms to the fat old dow- agers who were rolled about in the waves like barrels, and persuaded themselves into believing they were having a good time, there was a wonderful variety of human beings. It was watching and studying and laughing at these that contributed to the fascination. It was good to see some of both sexes leaping and div- ing and swimming gracefully, with confident abandon. while scores, timid and awkward and ugly, were tumbled about by the on-coming bil- lows, and made to contribute to the amuse- ment of the throng on shore. Bathing is not of itself the grand desire; still it is part of the program, essential and good. and adds to the cleanliness of the People. A wicked writer in Longmans says that persons Who are not cleanly are usually modest. Re- Verse the figure with some malice and one may say that the people now here cannot be excelled in cleanliness! Still, one can excuse something of the appearance of these long stockings and short sleeves, and this lack of concern in regard to those who are looking on, when we know that some good comes of it. And yet one sees #0 much that is avoidable and unnecessary. However. it is acold day when you don't feel Inclined to see all that is going on when you are at the seaside. THE ELEPHANT. One of the easiest things in the world fs to become a vagabond, not a tramp, and that is easy enough for some, bat a vagabond such as Alexander Smith wrote about. To-day I forgot there is a place like Washington, that there are Treasury clerks, all of whom ought to be here, or anything serious in life, and followed a crowd | to see the elephant, one that out-Jumbos Jumbo. He Is sixty-five feet hich, and lots gt feet long and wide, and stands demurely at the beach. You go up through his right hind leg into his Interior. roam around among the viscera, and ome up through the vertebre into the houdah on top, where you can see a long way on the ocean toward Liverpool. He is made of wood and iron, and is about as good an investment to the ingenious designer and owner as Jumbo was to Barnum. Streiling back along the shore I had the com- pany of an immense school of porpotses in the water near the funniest of solemn fishes, awk- ward, apparently, but graceful in fact, and just now following a school of menhaden, which they soon overtook. A panf® ensued, and the troubied water told too well what was going en. Further along, at the pler, a boy with astout We was angling forashark. The agile fish could be plainly seen, skirmishing about the bait cautiously. hesitating whether to dismiss a Hittle fear of the consequences, and gather it in, orgo away. Ashark docs not dine with the deliberate satisfaction cf a goat chewing a cir- cus poster; he grabs and leaves with the air of a thief and villain, that he is. The hunger or cu- Tiosity of this particular shark was too much for him; he took the bait with hereditary deter- mination, and got into trouble in consequence. You ought to have seen the cummotion, on the Dier as well as In the water. Everybody told the bey what to do; a hat and parasol fell in; some one called the police: some bathers near fied up to the board walk; a spectacle peddler lost his outit—and the fish got away. But a half hour afterit was told In town that several Dathers had been caught and eaten by a shark, which was still industriously engaged. In the meantime a ot yachts was passing & race, as pretty a sight as one wishes to i ey were skillfully handled. kept together like Facers on a track, and passed and re-pas evenly and steadily as so many swans. The atuke boat was rounded beautifully. every ad- Yantaze being taken by the wide-awake sailors, when suddenly. and evidently with little warn ing, the wind fell, the sails bean to flap and then hang idly, and calm was upon them. Soon a light breeze followed, but the race was ail broke up. the interest was interrupted and the homestretch was Inglorious. THE INLET is a marine and very proiitable suburb of Atlan- tle City, a nice place for theoretical fishing, where Jerseymen sell clams for bait and hire out boats. and in many well-known ways cater to the credulity of those who come here for a good time. It is about two miles from the principal the town, easy of access by strect car nger ward fare six cents, and is the Tendezvous of fishing boats, sail boats and the | Nhe, without number. The water is covered by different craits, from a sharpie that will carry three or four and go like the wind, to a three-masted schooner, and ali are employed in making excursions inside and outside, by whieh is meant eanal-like estu- aries toward the mainland and the open sea be- ond the breakers. Outside the fishing is excel- nt, and vast numbers of fishes, principally weak fish. are brought in every day by those why know where to go, and who are able to manage the boatmen, who, or many of whom, are in- ¢lined to render a minimum of service for a maximum of pay, and yet back from a trip as Boon as possible. There are several pavilions at the Inlet where | Vast quantities of beer are drank, where there ‘are music, and dancing. and shows, and all the LETTER FROM CHAUTAUQUA. A Visit to Chantauqua—Hew to Get ‘There—The Scones Within the Gates— ‘The Gro and Pavilion, Etc. Correspondence of Tae EvEenine STAR. Cuavtavgva, N. ¥., August 9, 1883. About a year ago I read a book entitled “Four Girls at Chautauqua,” by Pansy, and it created in "Ine a great desire to visit Chautau- qua. This summer I found a friend having the same wish, and we concluded to gratify it. We started from Binghampton, N. Y., at the un- earthly hour of 3:30.a.m., and reached James- tcwn atnoon. After dinner we took a steamer for Chautauqua, which ts on the lakeof the same name. This lakereminded one of an immense gourd, witha long winding neck, with Jamestown at the neck and Mayville at the other end,Chau- tauqua being three miles trom Mayville. Chau- tauqua lake Is a beautiful sheet of water, about twenty miles long and two miles across at its widest part. It is twelve hundred feet above the level ot the sea. and seven hundred feet above Lake Erie, althouch only seven miles from it. After a delightful but rather breezy sail on the lake, during which we found heavy shawls ‘not uncomfort- able, we reached those charmed shores. and purchased a ticket at the gate for $2, which | admitted us to all entertainments for a’ week. ntering we were suddenly brought to a stan still on the edze ot what we thought was noth- ing but a good-sized trench, but. which a friend assured us, much to our astonishment, was the “Dead Sea.” After we recovered from our amazement we proceeded to view this minia- ture Palestine, and then we wended our way to the Birch cottage, where we had engaged rooms. and board. We found this cottage delightfully situated. Just opposite the Hotel Atheneum and facing the lake. Miss Sue Birch, the daughter of the landlady. and a perfect type of the true Chautauquan, excels in art embroidery. She draws, stamps her own designs from nature, and, I believe, intends to visit Washington this fall on her way to Florida, and while there will open art parlors. After ‘refreshing ourselves with a physical treat we went to the amphithea- ter for an intellectual treat in the shape of some readings by Professor Bradshaw. : THE GRO! On entering the gate we noticed a circular wooden gailery. Upon ascending the steps leading to the interior we found Jerusalem in plaster. After viewing its temples and houses, looking up its broad roads and narrow streets, we descended on the other side and continued our journey. A short distance in front of us we noticed a house bullt in the Persian style. Upon entering we saw the glase-blowers pur- suing their occupation. On the other side of the building was a model of Palestine. We studied this for some time and then started out to explore the country, as it Iles just outside the door; but a man on a bicycle was ahead of us, and we stood gazing in amazement at the | ee ates of civilization along those ancient ighways. Continuing along Simpson avenue we saw at the end of it the Hotel Atheneum, @ new, elegant and imposing structure, situated on the ede and facing the lake, surrounded by a beautiful lawn bordered by flower beds. One bed especially attracted our attention. It con- tained the word Chautauqua In letters of living green upon a background of brown earth. Turning to the right we next came to the amphi- theater, a large frame structure built m a nat- ural ravine. In the rear, trom which side we approached, is a large pipe organ and choir gallery. In front of this gal- lery ‘sa ‘platform containing a pulpit and a concert grand Ahlstrom piano. The low- est seats. or orchestra chairs, are on a level, and behind these the seats are raised. The aisles are the sides of the ravine, without flooring. Thus, the members of a Chautauqua audience can come and go without disturbing the reinain- der. This building will seat 7,000, and on the opening of the assembly contained 10,000 peo- ple. From this stage may be heard the finest vocalists, instrumentalists, orators and scien- tists. On the lett we see the gleam of the white columns of the Hall of Philosophy, or, as Pansy says, “tie hall inthe grove.” On the opening night we witnessed a most magnificent pyro- technic display from this site. Journeying on in acircle we pass the school of language, where one can study the ancient or modern languages, the museuin containing antiquities, both sacred and secular. and last, but not least, the school of cookery. This brings me to the steamboat landing, and, embarking, bid farewell to those memorable scenes of pleas- ure and profit. F. B. THE sco Bi CAVERN. Correspondence of Tax Evenrxa Sar. GILBERTSVILLE, N.Y., August 9. A trip from Washington up the Hudson, down the hills and valleys of this picturesque section, is of unusual interest. The famous Howe’s cave, on the Susquehanna division of the Delaware & Hudson railroad line, is easily reached. It was discovered some forty years ago, and is visited by scientists and sight-seers from all parts of the world. It is a sinuous passage, penctrating to a great distance beneath the Scoharie hills in eccentric Iabyrinthal windings, through spa- cious halls, with lofty ceilings and domes, some of which are stuccoed.and embellished with beautiful stalactites and increstations, bearing fantastic resemblances to familiar forms of the outer world, and in several places into low and narrow crevices, anon rising above and falling below the level of the entrance, then jutting up in steep and rugged ascents sufficiently fearful aud sublime to excite the couraze and awe the explorer to a pleasurable a 5 We explored this cave tothe distance of four miles, spent over four hours in its mysterious regions of magnificence and gloom, and giadly would have spent twenty-four more, but time would not permit. We passed through *‘Wash- ington Hall,” where frequent marriages are sol- emnized. we orated in ‘Congress Hall,” and sang in “Musical Hall,” the peculiar formations of which render the ordinary tones of the voice clear, musical and sonorous, and when elevated toahigh pitch sound like deep-toned thunder at first, then break and roll along the vast space, forming a rich volume of sound, until it dies away in reverberating echoes among the lofty arches and columns of the grand amphi- theater. We ascended and descended the “Rocky Mountain,” ‘Indians’ Stony Ladder,” passed through ‘Franklin Avenue,” crossed the beantitul little lake, In some places sixty feet in depth, and then returned by the same route and emerged Into open starlizht (for since we had left earth’s surface sunlight had disappeared), well satisfled and fatigued with our adventures and observations. After leaving Scoharie county we passed through Delaware to Otsego county, thence down the narrow valley of the Susquehanna to Otsezo and Gilbertsyille, where we propose to indulze in a few days of needed rest among the green hills, grassy meadows and babbling brooke of early days. This country home 1s situated among the mountains, wh ise one above another until the clouds rest upon their summits, It is in an agricultural region, on the west branch of Otsdawa creek, 30 miles below Cooperstown, famed in song and story by J. Fenimore Cooper, and near the beautitul Otsezo lake, where rises the Susquehanna river. Nature unadorned in all ot its varied forms delights the eyes of those fond of rural scenery, and, retired from the noise and strife of the busy city, one can enjoy re- freshing sleep and be awakened at early morn by the sweet songsters of summer. Such are the present surroundings of your humble cor- respondent, where, after along absence—after many conflicts with “the world, the flesh and the devil”—he has returned to enjoy once more sweet converse and fellowship with those whose friendship f¢ ; eatch-penny attractions of seaside resorts—one | h D kale ayes, Rever. changed; whose of those pleasant bediams that people like. SALUBRITY. ‘Thereis alarzeamount of health here. The skies earts are knit in as strong ties of love to hin a8 when existence first began. ——— eee A BLUE RIDGE VALLEY. re bright, the air is balmy, the surf is usually | Correspondence of Tax Eventxe Star. nice to bathe in, the temperature of the water is Fight, the accommodations are good, there are Vater Home, Frepericx Co.,Va.,Aug. 10. . It is a delightful ride from Washington to Ro rows, no disturbances. All you have to do Winchester by rall through Harper’s Ferr; ‘Y¥, up Sto eat and bathe in the salted sea.and get fat. | the Shenandoah and thence over a fine road to ‘The place is the Coney Island of Philadel; and pi 7ch is at times too common; there Is uch of the excursion element in it, but philosopher this furnishes more tal iphia, | this place. When traveling through Virginia the mind invariably goes back to the dark days Material for | Of ® few short years ago, and we sigh over the study and saze deductions blended with the | dismantled landmark’ which now only serves, funny and the ridiculous. MANY WASHINGTONIANS however, as an Index to a page of history. Crumpied ruins, whose grim walls stand out as @re sojourning at Atlantic City, some of them | mural monuments for the dead past; but as the dwelling at the Colonnade. Among the latter cars speed on the blue outline of those moun- are Fred. Pratt and family, ged as the leading lady in Thomas W. Keene’: excellent company. which begins the season's tour next month. ‘She is a venturesome bather and only asks the attention of the man in the to swim across the SS Sara Bernhardt has given uj theaters in and cel; the other wien yaaa ben a wite her, theatrical management has been financially ip one of her ‘Mrs. Story and Anna | tains, whose characteristic gives them name, is Warren Story. Miss Story has been re-enga- | ¥en only dimly, aa if @ mirage, and then the sharp outlines are unmistakable—blue, bluer and still more blue, until a turn in the road aud they vanish m view; now the silver thread of old Potomac can be discerned, We still feel as if we were within easy reach of Potomac and our latch string. We know the be should not it know us? is no mi “Harper's Ferry;” it rings out clear for the reason that the int ot conductor knows the train stops here long enough for the inquisitive passenger to find out the name, and, as he, the intelligent conductor, ia careful of his reputation, he does not want to give the inquisitive passenger any pretext for comparison of notes. Yes, this is Harper's Ferry, and that is the Shenandoah and this the mac, and ‘the meeting of the waters.” Every one knows the history of the place— how, one night in 1859, a party of men, some of them masked, crossed the ferry, overpowered the guard at the arsenal and fortified themselves to await the developments of the next day; how Col. R. E. Lee, with a small body of ma- rines, drove them off, capturing the ringleader; how John Brown, for it is he of whom we 5] 4 was hanged at Charlestown, and how a bloody civil war began—but the train moves on, & change ot conductors occurs, and we on to Winchester, at which place we arrive in a little over four hours, and here comes the “tug ot war.” As the alight each one is pounced upon by four or five hotel drum- mers, and one is glad to torture himself with a hotel dinner at a country hotel, in order to save his clothes and limbs. I wanted to go to Valley Home, and, although the Rock Enon stage was not full, I could not obtain passage, 80 I was compelled to hire a private team. which. for the sum of @2. takes you twelve miles on the Rock Enon road. I will give my experience for the benefit of future tourists. The $2 does not pay the toll, and there isa toll-gate every ten miles; at least, there are two between Winchester and the Home; at the first they charge you 25 cents, at the next 6 cents; total, 81 cents for twelve miles. Althouch the road is in excellent condition, barring the dust. yet I think the toll rather exorbitant. But the ride by carriage was delightful, yet I must say, and in saying it [ bear in mind that I, too, am a Virginian, and that Iam surprised at the slowness of the average native. Why does he not endeavor to do something for his town, his state, and for himself? There seems a lack of energy, a lack of push, which, if brought into play, would make garden spots of many places which are now barren wastes. Wake up, Vir- ginians, wake up! Nestling at the feet of three mountains, it 1s very appropriately termed Valley Home, and after meeting Mrs. Gore, the land- lady, and Rey. T. D. D. Clark, you conclude that Valley Home is the only proper name.- Mr. Clark adds much to the enjoyment of the (te He will occupy the pulpit of Calvary aptist church on Sunday, the 19th, and I bespeak for those who hear him a rich treat. The mercury last night had a hard struggle to keep up to 58°, and I tell you the air felt as if it had just been made. As the ladies have teased me all day to ask you to put their names in your paper I comply, but I want to be well away from here when this reaches their eyes. Mrs. Free, mother ot Mr. J. D. Free, jr.; Miss Jennie Free, Miss Maggie Mitchell, Mra. J. F. Crews and daughter, Mrs. W. R. Bushby, Mrs. Kendall and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Col- lins, Misses Mary and Lizzle Prather and Miss Nicholls, all of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Irwin and family, of Berryville, Va.; Misses Anne and Mamie Black, of Baltimore, Md.; Misses Vallient, of Baltimore, Md.; Mr. Southard, of Virginia. ee a A BLACK sPOor AT NEWPORT. ‘The Gorgeous Gambling Hell iu Which Spiders Feed on Flies. Newport Letter ini the Boston Transcript. Newport, so lovely to see, has its hell even as Monaco has its hell. I could show youa gate- way which leads through a private alley to its door, which gate might never be noticed by you, though you were here summer after summer, and yet no path ever led straighter to destruc- tion. Tam fold that this house is the worst gambling heil in America; that its interior is of the most costly and beautiful description; that its suppers and wines are not to be surpassed. Rouge et noir, roulette and faro tables stand in the most splendid of apartments, furnished gor- geously in old Flemish style.’ Thousands of dollars change hands here nightly, and to-day has come to my ears the story of the ruin of one youog man. Our English visitors are fond of this amusement, but the passion is one that seems to have taken a strong hold of the Ameri- can young men, and old men, as for that. It is said that one man, the whole world knows his name, lost $40,000 in one week in this gambling house, This Is an unpleasant picture—it is a hateful side to show you of our gay Newport life; yet I do not know why the fact should be hidden that Newport has its gambling house, as splendid, as ruinous, as that of any resort in the world. +e. Saturday Smiles. What is wanted is to have Denis Kearney mistaken for informer Carey.—Boston Post. No one knows exactly what “0. K.” means, now that the telegraph company pronounces everything “0. K."—New Orleans Picayune. Somebody has been bright enough to say: “Langtry and Gebhard—the Illy of the valiey and the valet of the lil A true bill: At most restaurante patrons may expect to find on the bills of fare this notice: “Customers will please report to the cashier any incivility on the part of the waiters and it will be promptly added to the bill.”—Harper’s Bazar. A girl-shouldn’t wear a black belt about her walst when she’s got a white dress on and is walking with a young man in the night time. It makes it appear from a rear view as if her fellow had his arm around her walst.—Buffalo News. It is pretty evident that the strike 1s sadly in- terfering with the dispatching of news by tele- graph. Among the telegraphic dispatches this morning we fail to find the report of the inarrigge of a couple of recently divorced mem- bers of the theatrical profession.—Norristown Herald. The newest thing in gloves: “My daughter wanted me to get her a pair of mosquito gloves. Isuppose she meansthat kind like mosquito netting.” “Your daughter probably means ‘mosquetaire.’” “Shoultin’t wonder if that was it, only you get more of the French intu it than 1 do "—Harper's Bazar. Lord and master: ‘There are five persons in the car and only four fares in the box!” said the car driver as he opened the door. All the passengers looked up and at each other, and a man who sat reading a paper slowly turned to his wife and queried: “Why, dear, dido't you y your own fare when we goton? You are oiing very absent-minded!”—Detroit Free Press. The St. Louls Republican relates that at a wedding recently in Illinois a parson who is generally ready at repartce was completely nonplussed by an aged matron, who, after hear- ing the words, “‘Whom God has joined together let no man put asunder,” exclaimed with great earnestness, “Or no woman either, for they're Just as bad as the men.” Miss Susan B. Anthony will reach home from Europe next month, and will at once begin work on the third volume of her history of woman suffrage. Susan does not intend to get left. ‘There is no woman suffrage yet to speak ot, but a history of it in three volumes can do no harm.—New Orleans Picayune. During the telegraph strike a man who has charge of an office among the hills of Arkansaw, where the receipt of a message is a sensational event, telegraphed as follows to headquarters: “The news of the strike caused considerable ex- citement at this place, but at this time all of the regular force is at work. If the strike assumes the shape of threatened disaster I'll telegraph at once. .In the meantime rest easy.”—Arkansaw Traveller, The scarcity of gentlemen at a neighboring summer resort was so apparent that a Boston lady telegraphed to her husband: “George, bring down a lot of beaus for the hop this even- ing.” Thanks to the telegraph manipulator, George arrived with a “pot of "—Bosion Courier. When zou tire of cheese, take cheese: Cook to Mr. Dana—‘‘Sire, what will you have for dinner?” D.—“Turn the rascals out.” C.— and the “But, sire, we've had that all summer, family gay they're tired of it.” D.—*' “The Republican party must go.” C. they fall lame on that.” D.—Turn the rascals out, then.”—New York Graphic. Young Tuffboy’s heroic resolution: Jimmy Taffboy was noticed sitting on the front stoop with an air of dejection spread all over him. “Well, Jimmy, what’s up now?” asked one of his boon companions. ‘Everything’s up. It’s all up with me. Dad says I’ve got to shut off going to ball games and ma’am. says Tve got to stay in the yard a whole week.” ‘What are = going to do about It?” *Do aboutit! When get big enough I’m going to turn the rascals out.”—Hartford Post. ———_++-____ How to Walk. An English woman in Chicago engaged in teaching calisthenics lays down the following as cardinal principles in the art of walking: To walk upon the ball instead of the heel of the foot. Nine out ofevery ten persons walk upon the heel. It communicates ajar to the spine which Is very injurious, while placing the ball of the foot down first, If persisted in, wi'l result in a gliding and graceful walk. The En- ee and French are the most gracefal walkers use their mothers give them pro teach- ing when they are young. All of the walks which characterize the Americans and the Ger- mans are due to the fact that no care is taken with them when they are infants. They are al- lowed to walk oe ee dhol are tr enough to suppor 5 ey are also agreat deal to themselves. The mothersshould guide them and would RELIGIOUS NOTES, 1 CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. , —At North Capitol M, E. church Rev. J. Clark Hagey took in six probationers on Sun- day. The coi jons are growing, and the church shows evidence of ty. —The Lutheran miselonaries to India expect to sail from Philadelphia on the ;25th instant. By order of the board the farewell meeting will be held in this city, at 7:30 P. m., on the 2ist in- stant. Arrangements for the meeting are inthe hands of a committee of laymen. © —A correspondent writing from-Fort Keogh, Montana, says: “Referring to you issue of July 26th, which states that the Reverend ‘Tous- saint Mesplie’ is the only Catholic chaplain in the army, allow me to correct that for the bene- fit of your many Catholic readers by saying that there are two Catholic chaplains in the army. Besides the gentleman above reterred to, we have right here at this fort the Reverend Eli W. J. Lindesmith, Roman Catholic chaplain, ap- pointed from Ohio June 19th, 1890."—(“‘ Vide” Official Army Register.) — Rey. J. Crook, a Methodist clergyman, of Michigan, has delebrated 120 marriages in the Past three years. —Rey. G. F. Spteker, of Kutztown (Luth- eran). has been called to the pastorate of St. Michael's, Allentown, Pa. — St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Centreville, Northampton. county, Pa. Rey. C. §. Trump, Pastor, was re-dedicated last Sunday. — Fifty six Catholics of Rochester, N. Y.. re- cently subscribed $25,000 toward the liquida- tion of a $32,000 debt in the cathedral there. — Rev. E. H. Pratt, assistant editor of the New York Evangelist. died recently at Durham, N. Y., where he had gone for the benefit of his health. : . — During the past year 131,328 tracts were issued by the London Friends’ Tract Associa- tion, including some in the French, Germanand Welsh languages. — Rev. Charles Bishop, Methodist, writes from Toklo, Japan, that the awakening in the native churches is progressing, and “far exceeds any- thing before known.” — Mr. M. Dermit, formely a Presbyterian min- ister, has applied to the Missouri conference of Jowa‘for a colloquium, with a view of entering the service of the synodical conterence. — Rev. Dr. Parson, who received a call to the Tabernacle church, Indianapolis, Ind., has de- clined it, and it 1s_stated will become pastor of the Wannamaker Tabernacle, Philadelphia. —The M. E. church has organized the Indian mission In the Indian Territory into a conference with four presiding elders’ districts and twenty- nine pastoral charges. There are 112 local preachers. — Myron L.. Knight, a graduate of Amherst College, and an employe of the Cahill house at Asbury Park, N. J.. who was drowned there on July 23d, was studying for the ministry of the M. E. church. — Rev. J. E. Maurer, of the theological semf- nary at Gettysburg, Pa. has received an ap- pointment by the board of home missions, and accepted the appointment, and a call from the mnigsion at Lawrence, Kan. —The summer school of'Hebrew, at Morgan Park, near Chicago, has Just closed a four weeks’ session. It has been conducted by Prof. Har- per, of the Baptist Theological Seminary, whu has been aided by a number of competent in- structors. —The American Bible Society reports, forthe July meeting. of its managers, grants to the value of $12,750. During June 41,755 volumes were sent to colporteurs in 27 states; $34,616 30 were received, and 120,578 copies of the Scrip- tures were issued. —The Baptist Weekly’ gives’ the vacant churches a wholesome bit of advice when it says:—“ Ifa church wants to secure a new pas- tor. it can scarcely take a surer course to drive off desirable men than by maligning the pastor who hus left them.” —Babu P. C. Mogoomdar, the foremost Preacher and writer of the Brahmo Somaj, of India, Is now lecturing in England to large au- diences. He will spend the coming months otf September and October in this country, lectur- ing and preaching. — A Boston religious weekly feelingly asks: “Why do flies biteso much worse in church than anywhere else?” This"is a difficult conundrum; but it may be that a man is harder to keep awake In church—in some churches, at least— than anywhere else.— Norristown Herald. — Few men have done as much for the pre- vention of human misery in Africa as David Livingstone. One result of his work is that the old slave market in Zanzibar, where formerly 30,000 slaves were sold annually, has been changed into premises for the Universities’ Mis- sion, —A young man in Houston county, Ga., was recently converted something after the manner of Saul’s conversion, He scornfully rejected a present ‘of a Bible, and on his way home was struck by lightning. ' On recovering he bought a Bible and commenced to read it, and the re- sult was his conversion. — Dr. Herrick Johnson, in his sermon as moderator of the last general assembly of the Preabyterlan church, pointed out three perils to which, Presbyterlanism was exposed—that of formalism, indifference to sound doctrine, and such a decrease in the number of candidates as to threaten a famine in the ministry. — The well-known evangelistic services of the Cooper Institute, New York, conducted for so many years by Mr. C. W. Sawyer, will be contin- ued every Sabbath night throughout thesummer. These services are heid inthe interest of the masses of the population who are outside of the regular channels of church work. —The corner stone of a new Evangelical Lutheran church was laid with appropriate ser- vices at Jefferson, York county, Pa., July 15th. Rey. W. H. Ketterman is pastor of the charge, with which the Jefferson conzregation fs con- nected. Both the Boglish and the German lan- guages are employed in each of thefour churches constituting the pastorate. —The Fourth New England Assembly, Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, conductor, to be held at South Framingham, Aug. 21-81, promises to be of unusual interest. Dr.J. B. Angell, LL.D., president of Michigan State University, late minister to China; Prof. W. C. Richards, of Chi- cago; Dr. O. H. Tiffany, Hon. Thomas Russell, and John B. Gough, are to deliver lectures. — The Young Men’s Christian Association of Philadelphia has for a long time been laboring under a heavy debt of $400,000, arising from the new and fine building on Chestnut street. Through the efforts of Mr. Wannamaker and a few other men, assisted by Mr. Monday, arrange- ments have been made for the funding of 200,000 at avery low rate of interest, while cusrerien $200,000 has been raised by subscrip- ion. — The Congregational church at Lehigh, In- dian Territory, has been visited with a gracious revival. Nine persons joined on professionJuly 22, all heads of families but one, who was or- dered to give up Christ or home. The Caddo church has also been visited with arevival. Four were added last communion on profession of faith, and among the most’ prominent of the town. —Miss Bessie Greenwell, daughter of James C. Greenwell, of St. Mary’s county, and grand- daughter ofthe late George Slater, of Balti- more, was invested with the habit’ and vell of the Sacred Heart Order at_the convent, Eaen Hall, on the feast of Our Lady of the Angels, 2d instant. Rev. Father John H. Finnegan, 8. J., performed the ceremony, assisted by Rev. Father C. Lancaster, 8. J., of St. Mary’scounty, and Rey. C. T. Watt, chapiain of the convent. —In Kansas City the “boy preacher,” the Rev. Thomas Harrison, has been instrumental in turning 280 sinners trom their evil ways. ‘The meetings in the course of which he accom- pee this benificent work continued six weeks. It is claimed that among these converts are twenty-six entire families. The “boy preacher” is now carrying on revival meetings at Jackson- ville, Ill., with similar success, — Three new professors were inducted into office in Andover Seminary recently, Rev. E. Y. Hincks, Rev. J. P. Taylor, and Dr. George Harris. The ceremony of inauguration was v brief. After. reading Creed, i upon, the . being asked if he gave it his Segre repll Some years ago I suggested a series of ex- periments upon a number of young ladies who were great sufferers from indigestion. It seemed a family malady. There were four of the girls and they were all victims of a very distressing form of dyspepsia, as their mother had been from her girlhood. The symptoms were severe pain in the pit of the stomach, ac- companied by tenderness in that region, with inability to digest any food except very limited quantities of stale bread and beef. Even ripe strawberries gave much distress, resulting often in vomiting. All of them (including the mother, who had me a -ridden invalid) were very pale and weak, nervous and wretched. Although possessed of fortune, friends and talent, they were as unhappy a group as I have ever chanced to meet. Not even the melancholy ward of an insane asylum is more deeply des- pondent. I was called to see one of the girls for a bit of surgical treatment, and became interested in the curious melancholy of thelr faces. HOW THEY WERE POISONED. They occupied a fine old suburban mansion, surrounded by grand trees, one, overhanging the south side of the house, being the largest elm In all that region. The grounds, especially the old trees, were the pride of the nelghbor- hood They protected the house from the sun during all the hot summer, and, as the young ladies assured me with a subdued enthusiasm, the cool shade kept them alive during the heated term. But for the trees, they assured me, they would have to live in the basement. during July and August. By appointment, we gathered in the sick mother's chamber a few evenings afterward, and I discussed the func- tion of the sun in vegetable and animal life. The outcome of our conversation was a re- luctant consent to the removal of six trees, the branches of which overhung the residence. THEIR HAPPY EXPEDIENT. The garden, two acres in extent, was sunny. I suggested that a fence elght feet high, thoroughly battened to protect the enclosure from outside observation, should be made at the back end of the garden; that the enclosed space should be 12 by 23 feet; that it be divided jnto four equal parts, each being 7 by 12 feet; that in each room there be placed a cot bed, without mattress; that the tuner surface of the walls should be thoroughly whitewashed; that during the hot, sunny season the young ladies should go to this sun—bath, put on green glasses to protect their eyes, and, removing their clothing, they should walk about, each in her own room, or lle down on her cot, remaining as long as the skin would bear the sun's rays. T advised that this be kept up during all the summer upon which, at the time we were just entering. THE HAPPY RESULTS. Every Intelligent person, who has considered the subject of the sun’s connection with life on this planet,is ready to anticipate the result. Ten weeks so changed the health of the girls that their own mother would hardly have known them if she had not seen the regeneration going on from day today. In ten weeks’ time there was not a symptom of indigestion re- maining among the girls, except in the oldest one, whose case turned out to be strangely ob- stinate. She finally confessed to me that she had been using minute doses of morphine to relieve her gastralgia (pain in the pit of the stomach). This was the reason, doubtless, that she recovered 80 slowly. The following spring. when the leaves began to appear, I found no difficulty in having all the trees standing within fifty feet of the house re- moved. Some beautiful vines which covered in part two windows were likewise removed. Finally I convinced them that even the blinds ought to go; that shades were enough, and that even shades should be used sparingly. “THOSE RUINED CARPETS.” It is true that the carpets lost some of their rich, deep color, but as this lost color passed into the cheeks and lips of the girls, no one mourned the faded carpets. I had emphasized the opinion that either thecarpets or the daugh- ters would lose color—that either the one or tie other must suffer. These people thought it bet- ter that the carpets should become pale. The youngest daughter, a remarkably pretty, blonde, and when restored to health, a very bright and: interesting girl, became so enthu- slastio about sunshine that she spent hours every day out In the grounds, withou hat or parasol. She eyen went so far, and became so heretical, that she thought a pale girl looked more like a ghost than like a living woman. The way that young thing went on was quite distressing. tried to explain to her that a pale girl was more beautiful and fashionable than a red-cheeked one, that a pale one was more esthetic. *‘Esgranny,” she cried. And then she took me into the garden and showed me the roses, with their beautiful shades of red, and asked if I thousht they would be more beautifulif their color were taken out. And she ended this little “bout” (I was fond of re- calling their past follies by all sorts of banter), by declaring that if she became as dark as 8 Spanish girl, she did not care, for now she was happy. The blinds and those heavy draperies, so com- mon in our parlors, with shades, produce an at- mosphere most unfavorable to digestion and nerve tone. Some one has sald that when he enters one of these fashionable, dark parlors, he has to walk by faith and not by aight. THE LITTLE GHOST. Three years ago I visited my dear young friend Susie. Although she lives in the country, in the midst of splendid grounds, I found her with a very pale face, and blue semi-circles under the eyes. Her lips were as white as if she had just risen from a sick-bed; and yet her mother told me she was as well as usual. Susie was seven years old, anda most wonderful child. ‘ I said to her, “Well, my little chick, what makes you so pale?” She replied, *-Oh, I was always pale. Annie says it Is pretty.” When we were all sitting around the dinner- table I introduced the subject again, for it was ve sad¢o find this beautiful and promising child so fragile. Before I left I took little Susie's hand and we walked into the garden, ‘And now,” said I, ‘my little one, you must show me your favorite flower.” She took me to a beautiful moss-rose, and ex- claimed, ‘Oh, that is the most beautiful flower in the world; don’t you think It lovely, sir?” CURIOUS EXPERIMENT. said, “Now, Susie, I shall come here gain in two weeks. I wish yon would dress up that rose-bush in a suit of your own clothes and allow the dress to remain till I return.” Bhe laughed, and sald, “Why, how queer! Why do you want me to do that?” I replied, ‘Never mind, but run and get the clothes, andI will help you dress it up, and see if it looks like you.’” So off she ran with loud shouts to ask mamma for a suit other clothes. Of course mamma had tocome and ask if I was serious, and what were my reasons. I said, “I cannot give you my reasons to-day, but I assure you oy are good ones, and when I come againI will ex- plain it all to you.” So aspecimen of each and every kind of gar- ment that Susie was in the habit of wearing was brought forward, and Susie and I spent some time in rigging out the rose-bush. First came the little shirt, which made it look very funny; then came the little waist and skirt, then the frock, then the apron, and. finally, over all, a reached little Shaker sun-bonnet. When we had this point, “Susie cried out, “Now, how can you put on stockings and shoes?” I sald, “We will cut open the stockings and tie them around; the shoes we cannot use.” Of course we all laughed, and Susie thought I was the funniest manin the world. She could hard, wait for me to come again, to tell her why had done such a funny thing. STRIKING CONSEQUENCES, In two weeks, according to my promise, I was at my friend’s house again.- Susie had watchea her little rose-bush, or, rather, the clothes which covered it, and longed for my coming. But when we took the bonnet, gown, skirt, shirt and stockings away, lo and behold, the beautiful rose-bush had lost its rich green, the flower had lost its beautiful color,—had become, ce ita mistress, pale and sickly. . “Oh!” she cried, ‘what made you do so? why, you have pponed my beautiful 2 1 said, “Now, my dear littie one, you must not blame me, for I did this that you might re- member something of great ts — ee, ; Papa, mamma, and the nurse clapping their hands and shouting. I had been careful to say that her head should be well pro- tected for the first few days with a large damp towel, then witha little flat hat, and, finally, the head must be exposed like the body. I lobked forward with a good deal of interest tomy next visit. Susie met me with, “Oh, I am as black as an Indian.” “Well, but how is you health?” The good mother said, “She certainly has greatly improved; her appetite is better, and + never knew her to sleep 80 well before.” WE TRY IT ON THE OTHER CHGLDREN. There were four children in the family, and all of them greatly needed sun-baths. As there were two boysand two girls, it came to pass soon that another pen was built, four naked children received a daily baptism in the blessed sunshine. And these children all improved in health, as much as the rose-bush did after we removed Its fanny dress. The good Lord has so made children that they are as dependent. upon thesun for their life and health as plants are. When you try to make a house-plant crow far oved from the window, where the direct rays '&f the sun cannot fall upon it, you know it is small, pale and sickly; it will not long sur- vive. If, in addition to keeping it from the win- dow, you dress it with the clothes which a child wears, It will very soon sicken and die. Ifyou keep within doors, and not go into the sun- shine, or if, when you do go out, your wear a Shaker bonnet and gloves, you must, like the house-plant, become pale and sickly. Our young tolks will ask me, “What isto be done? " Are we to go naked?” RIGHT WAY TO MANAGE. Oh no, not naked, but it would add greatly to your health and strength, and your ability to work with both mind and body, if every part of your body could be exposed to the sunshine a little time every day. And if you are pale and feeble, the victim of throat, lung, nerve, or other affection, you must seek a new life in this exposure of your whole pear in a sun-bath. But if you go a great deal in the open air, and ex- pose your face and hands to the direct rays of the san Fou will probably do very well. Just think of it, your whole body under the clothes, always in the dark, like a potato-vine trying to growin a dark cellar. When you take off your dress and look at your skin, are you not sometimes almost frightened to see how white and ghastly It seems? How elastic, tough and cheerful our young folks would become could this white, sickly skin be exposed every day to the sunshine! In no other way could they spend an hour which would contribute so much to their welfare. Carry that white, sickly potato- vine from the cellar out into the blessed sun- shine, and immediately it begins to get color, health and strength. Carry that pale little girl from the dark parlor, where she is nervous, irrl- table and unhappy, into the sunshine, and im- mediately the blood starts anew; soon the skin takes on a beautiful tinge, the little one digests better, her tongue wears a better color, she sleeps better, her nerves are quiet and many happy changes come. THE DEAD DARLING. Twenty years ago I saw a dear, sweet child, of two years, dle of croup. More than thirty hours we stood around its bed, working, ‘weep- ing, praying, hoping, despairing; but about one o'clock in the morning the last painful struggle for breath gave way to the peaceful sleep of death. On the following Sunday we gathered at the sad home to attend the funeral. The little cof- fin was brought out under a shade tree, and placed upon a chair, just under the window of the bedroom where the little one had alway: slept, and there the heart-broken mother and father, with many neighbors, and the kind min- ister, all wept together. And then weall walked to the graveyard, only a little distance away, and buried the little one in the cold ground. On the very evening of that day, the brother of Charlie, who was about two years older, was see him, Uh, how pitiful, how very touching, were the moanings and groanings ofthat mother! When the sun rose the next morning the sufferer was better; as night came on he was worse again, but on the following day was able to ride out. Within a few days I sought an opportunity to speak with the parents on the management of thelr little son. It was painful to tell them that T thought they might have prevented the death of Charlie. But I said what I thought was true, and then advised a new pres in the case of the remaining child. I said to them: “Your son who has been taken from a was carefully screened from the sunshine. When he rode out in the baby-wagon. it was always under cover. And he slept always in that bedroom, into which the direct rays of the sun never come; that great tree makes it impossible. A child cannot live where a plant will not grow; and if you doubt what I ai telling you. try a pot of flow- ers in Charlie's bedroom. You will find that in a ae month, the leaves will fall, and the plant will die. Charlie spent three-quarters of his life in that bedroom.” The mother, at length, when convinced, cried out in ned anguish of soul, ‘What shall we do? what shall we do?” BEAUTIFUL TREES MUST GO. 3 “Weil,” I said, “my friend, if you would save 3; this child, and that isthe only available sleeping- room for it, I advise that you havethe trees which shade that part of the house cut down. Trees should never be allowed to shade human dwellings. They are very beautiful and noble objects; to my own fancy more beautiful and noble than any other productions of our planet, and I would have them multipled, but would not have them near our houses.” ro __ A New Investigation of Malaria. From the New York Herald. The Italian war office has recently completed Bri a work of great interest on the distribution of malaria over Italy. The London Times, giving in a recent issue an account of this investiga- tion, states that from the results obtained it appears that “‘scarcely a tithe of the sixty-nine provinces of which the kingdom consists is free from ague.” These results are shown ina re- markable chart compiled by the scientific staff of the war office, giving the chief haunts of the marsh fever and the statistics of sickness, the aggregate of which may be inferred from the fact that it costs the office two million dollars annually to meet the hospital expenses for its fever-stricken troo} Such a contribution as this to the study of malaria is of world-wide importance, As was to be expected, it brings to clearer light the fact that this great pest of humanity is the product |-of vegetable decomposition in connection with the latent moisture of the soil, especially in Inveterate and malignant iu ands subjugated ¢o inveterate ans ant in sui the uses of human industry, and subjugated in- adequately,” and, strange as it may seem, salt water meeting fresh is a combination in which it revels. The excessive from the surface of the Mediterranean to its waters an extraordinary degree of salinity, the tion of salt in the sea off the Italian coast being, according to Prot. Forchhammer, thirty- that of the ‘cot equatorial ‘ocean. 3 u ie despite the Mediterranean's high salinity, ins around the Gulf of Tarentum, Memedies for Sea Sickacen, ‘From the British Medical Journal. Many people, as soon as sea-sickness com mences, have recourse to oranges, lemons, ete. Now oranges are very much to be avoided op account of their billious tendency, and even the Juice of a lemon should only be allowed in cases of extreme nausea. Champagne, too, !s a yery common remedy, and, without doubt, in many cases does good; but this appears to be chiefly due to its exhilarating effects, aa, it it be discontinued, the result is bad, and a great amount ot pros- tration tollows. Creosote is a very old but still very good remedy, and, in cases accompanied by great prostration, is very useful; but, if given in the early stage of sea-rickness, it is often followed by very bad results, and even increases the nausea. Bicarbonate of soda is used in slight — ‘as it relieves nausea and checks the eructations which often follow attacks of sea- sickness; but In severe cases it is absolutely useless, and, in fact, it very often prolongs the retehing. A very good remedy in the earlier stages of seasickness is a teaspoontul of Worcester sauce. How this acts I cannot say; but it, without doubt, relieves the symptoms and renders the patient easier. Its action is probably of astimu- lant nature. Hydrocyanic acid is of very lttle service, and most acid mixtures are to avoided, except that, perhaps, for drinking purposes, when it is best to aciduiate the water with a small quantity see acid. all the drugs used, I found the most ef fectual was bromide of sodium. When bromide of sodium is given in doses of ten grains three times a day, the attacks entirely eubside,the petite improves and the patient is able to walk about with comfort. In all cases of sea-sickness it 1s very desirable that the patient should take sufficient food, 80 that at all times the stomach may be comfort- ably full, for by this means overstraining during fitsot retching is prevented and the amount of nausea is diminished. The practice of taking small pieces of dry biscuit is not of much use, as, although the biscuit ts retained by the stomach, et the amount taken is never sufficient to com- fortably fill the stomach. Soups, milk-puddinga, and sweets are to be avolded, as they increase the desire to be sick, and are followed by sick- ening eructations. ’ Fat bacon is easily borne and does much good If only the patient can con- quer his aversion to It. When taken in moder- ate quantity it acts like a charm, and is followed by very good results. But of all food, curry is the most useful in Sea-sickness, and 1s retained by the stomach when all other food has been rejected. Next to curry, I would place small sandwiches of cold beef, as they look nice on the plate, and are ‘usually retained by the stomach. In conclusion, I would advise that brandy should be used very aparingly, as, in many casea, it Induces sea-sickness, and its chief use Is con- fined to those cases where the prostration is very great, and even then champagne is more effectual. oe A singular coincidence or premon:tion, as one may prefer to call it, is reported from Colesville, Broome county. On Sunday, July 15, Charles Comstock, a boy of ten years, son of eory ee D. Comstock, told his ite that he haa writing about something remarkable which would soon take place. He was in perfect health, there was nothing to suggest anxiety, and nothing more was thought of his remark until, the boy having died suddenly and his funeral having been appointed tor Friday, July 27, at 3 p.m., a paper was found containing the following memorandum in his handwriting: taken with the same disease. I was called in to & Within twelve days after to-day, on Friday, at ree minutes past 8 o'clock in the atternoon, something remarkable will happen.” IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THB WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1883. §27-To obtain any of these Letters the mi qiilfer,“Apvamrise Lerreas, "and glve tne dato ot er-ir Ted ‘will be tr Yi2et called for within one month they ent LADIES’ LIST. 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