Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1892, Page 19

MONTHLY STORES 0k THOUGHT Various Problems Discnssed in the Dacom- ber Mag: zines, DOES, POLITICS OFFER A CAREER? Waves of Temperance and Intemper The Yosemito in Winter—Pop Edueation Review tions of Jenny “Does Politics Offer a Cireer?” is the question discussed by ex-Senator Ed- munds of Vermont in the December Forum, *‘The firstduty of man,” he says, ‘'is to provide by honest means for the mnintenance of himself and his fam- 1ly. that is, if ho have a family. Hon- 8t politics ns.a pursuit does not furnish such means except in the small class of administrative employments, and_then only in & very meager degres. Every person, certainly in a republic, ought 10 be a politician in some way, but to pursue a political career as such im- lies much move. Assuming, as may o sufely done, that the great majority young citizens ar8 honest, tk chances for them of & good political ¢ reer have many attractions, but if that career is to be exclusive of the private ursuit of some business or profession t will be found difficult and disappoint- ing. Indeed, only those of assured com- petence could enter it. 1 “In the century of our political exist- ence there have been very few, if indeed any, instances of the pursuit of politics asa career otherwise than in the lowest and worst forms to which we havo al luded. The politicians who have been most largely uscful to the country and most often in public service have been men still engaged in one way or another in occupations common to their fellow citizens, and they have been called into public affairs by considerations far other than personal self-seeking. They came to possess and exercise power, not as professional experts looking ' for em- ployment, but were called as the Yesp reprosentative exponents of the 1 and political views of the com- munities of which the were homo- geneous parts. This is the essentinl iden of representative government. He is the best politician and will have the best political caveer whose overy-day life and occupations ave in contact and sympathy with those of his fellow men. o accepts public employment and exer- cises public power as a duty, ana it may be us n pleasure, when called to do it, and thus he is able in the changes and chances of political movements to lenyo them without regret and-feel himrself again happily at home in his former place among the people. It would reem to follow that politics as a career cannot be looked to by young Americans as the best choice of oceupa- tion in life, and leaving aside considera- tions of individual huppiness and the faculties, tastes and ambitions that affect it. the very principle and structure of a republic would seem to be opnosed to the idea of the profession of vpolitics to be taken up and pursued as law,or medi- cine or engineering are. A political class in a repubiic must always be in danger of becoming, or trying to be- come, the mastec and dictator of politi- cal movements—a trust of bossism and corvuption, of which there is already an overabundance.”” The Disenso of Inebriety. “Is Alcoholism Increasing Among American Women?” is the title ofa paper in the North American Roview D. Crothers, in which ho say wtistics of persons arrested ‘for in- ebriety, extending over long periods, will point to certain years in which a maximum in numbers was reached, fol- lowed by a retrograde movement back to & minjmum. This tidelike move- ment is sometimes clear, then obscure. Often itis marked by both epidemic and endemic waves and is traced in the prevalence of imebriety in towns and cities, and in the reaction noted by temperanco revivals. This psycho- logical ebb and flow was pointed out by Dr. Westphal in Sweden many year: ago, and an interval of seveateen vear was indicated as the time between the maxitaum and minimum pe in- ebrity in that country have been noted 't different countr 3 ling facts point to this wonderful cycle and drink orbit, and help to expluin the strange temperance revivals which spring up and sweep over the country, dying away with the same mystory and suddennes: Such movements are un- doubtedly the backward swing of high tides of inebricty. The histories. of large cities and towns supply many eturtling confirmatory facts of periods of inebriety and intense temperance revivals follow- ing each other with a strange, fascinat- ing n Lilke the ebb and flow politics, religion and the great social movements, these drink cycles op wave point to ranges of causes and conditions awaiting future discovery. While many of the causes of inebriety asseen in the individual are both preventable and curable, there are other unknown psychological and physical forces that control the form and direction of the inebriety of both sexes, Whatover ine- briety is in Europe, or may have been in the past, it is in this country o beain and nerve disease, marked by mental and physical failure, exhaustion and central degeneration.” The Yosemite In Winter, “Snowstorm folluws * snowstorm,” writes James Carson in the December Californian. “Winter has arrived with his liege lora the frost-king florco ally Boreas, . He has spread his icy mantle over the Yosemite. The mighty cliffs and domes look dovn 1ipon the valley us in the summer months, but it is with forbidding stateliness, and with threatening aspect. How changed the scene and different the attractions! The smiling vale is no longer gay with gorgeous bowers and bright with green meadow lands; no longer is it resonant with the hum of busy insects, the mur- muring lullabies of slumbering streams, and the joyous songs of summer birds: zephyr 1o longer whispers to the pine fronds as he floats softly through the forest, and echo no longer repeats tho exclamations of glad visitors. The Merced rolls its swollen current impetu- ously through the valley, flooding many an acre of the meadow lund—for rain as woll as snow has fall the woods are hoarse with protesting against the fiercencss of the storm-blasts; the snow- slide holds the beholder iv awe as it races with the waterfall in its downward plunge, and slabs of talus and unshapely chuuks of rock loosen their hold of their parent cliff, us wator and weather do.| their work, and are washed with din and headlong speed down into the val- ley. It is true that such tervifying storms do not oceur with frequency, but one such was witnessed by Mr. Hutchings and his family during the winter of 1867 wheun they were the only residents 1o the valley. On thut ex- ceptionsl occasion the rain poured down incessantly for ten successive days; all the meadow lund was covered with a surging flood; lurge trees were swept over the ridge of the upper Yosemite and shivered into fragments on the and his OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1892-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Diaperies, Curtains, Porticres, Silk Silk scarfs, pillows, Rattan chairs, Rattan rockers, Child’s chairs, “Kids'" rockers, “Kids'"” half high chairs, Costumers, Mahogany parlor chairs, Maple parlor chairs, Inlaid parlor chairs, Gilt parlor chairs, Parlor lamps, Imported shades, Curio tables, Curio cabinets, Fire screens, Easels, Hanging medicine cabinets, Blacking cases, Carpets, Rugs, Parlor cabinets, China cabinets, Dressing tables, Cheval glasses, Dining tables, Parlor tables, Card tables, Hall tables, - The Policy of Price Doubled Our November Trade. Ghristmas Furniture. Nothing better can be found for a home present than an article of furniture. Our stock, this scason, is by far the largest we ever carried and our building at present is filled to its utmost capacity. Having been obliged to buy a new stock during the months of October and November, we found many factories whose fall trade had been light and we bought new stylish goods in many instances from 20 to 40 per cent discount, throughout our store, We therefore have many decided bargains Having adopted a policy of marking all our goods at a low margin of profit in plain figures, customers cannot possibly make a mistake in price in buying here. Goods bought now will be held for Christmas delivery if desired. All goods marked in plain figures. Charles Shiverick & Co.,- Iurmiture, Carpets, Draperies. 1206, 1208, 1210 Farnam St Brass and onyx tables, Parlor chairs, Hall chairs, Reading chairs, Turkish rockers, Fancy rockers, Large com(ortable rockers, Gilt chairs, Corner chairs, Divans, Sofas, Leather lounges, Corduroy lounges, lounges, Rug lounges, Cretonne Tapestry lounges, Hall chests, Hanging hall racks, Standing hall racks, Umbrella racks, Chiffoniers, Brass beds, White iron beds, Maple bureaus, Maple chiffoniers, Shaving stands, Large wide chiffoniers, Small chiffoniers, Wardrobes, Folding beds, Sideboards, Side tables, Buffets, Bookcases, Secretary bookcases, Ladies’ desks, Men's home desks, Music cabinets granite rocks, and pines and cedars were blown down and piled iy confusion upon each other by the wind storm that followed the rain.” Has Popular ducation Fabled? #t cannot be denied,” writes Presi- dent Bliot of Harvard college in the December Forum, *‘that there is sevious and general disappointment at the re- sults of popular cducation up to this date. In spite of all efforts to make edu- cation universal, all classes complain more than ever bsfore of the general conditions 1of soci Yot after two whole generations it secms as il some incrense of genuine reasonabieness of thought and action in all clusses of the population ought to be discernible. Miny persone, however, fail to see in the actual conduct of the vafious cl 5 of sociely the evidence of increasing rationality “Tho educated critics of the practical results of public education complain hat lawless violence continues to break out just as it did before common schools were thought of, that lyneh law is fu- miliar in the United States.riot common from Berlin to Seattle,and assassination an avowed means of social and industrial regeneration. lven rel ersec tion, these The Jews are ostraci metropoli are robbed fo, an Ney ind ¢, und in Ttassia into- exilo by thousands. Ave votes loss purchasuble now than they were before the urban graded school und, the stato university were known? ©On the other hand, the least edu- ted and most laborious classes com- plain thav in spite of universal ele- mentary education society does not tend toward & greater cquality of con- dition. They allege that the rich man in modern society does not bear, either in peace or in war, the grave responsi bilities which the rioh man of former centuries, who was o great landowner, a soldier and u magistrate, was com- pelled to vear. They point out that wars are more destrucuive than ever, ¢ being the bloodiest of all the centuries, 1f wuniv 1l education cannot abolish or even ubate in seventy yenrs the horrible waste and cruelty of Wwar, can anything great be hoped from it for the laboring classes?’ Why uny Lind Lett the Stage, “One mutter which must be of inter- est to every lover of dramatic art and which has been an enigma to many people,” says a writer in the December Centu s now for the first time dealt with by one with autbority to discuss the question. Why did Jenny Lind quit the stage at the moment of her greutest glory and many years before her unrivaled powers had begun to suffer any decay? Some have perhaps reluctantly accepted the widely prev- alent idea that she had come to vegard the dramatic profession as an unholy thing which no pure- souled woman could remain in without contamination. Happily this notion can be entertained no longer. Her intimate friend, Froken von Sted- inglk, with reference to it says: ‘Many suppose this resolution to be the result of pietism. Jenny Lind is as Godfear- ing as she is pure, but had piotism been the cause she would pot herself have gone to the pluy, which she declared she like to do, to seo others act.” The fact is that to appreciate her wotive for leaving the stage is to understand the whole character of the womau. Hor distaste for it seems to huve begun with her first great Luropean success, and steadily grew as her fame spread. In 1840 she had lived for ten yeurs a life of incessant hard work on'the stage; vet in the following year she wrote from Paris: ‘Life on the stage has in it some- thing so fascinating that I thiok, bav- ing once tasted it, one cannot_ever feel truly happy away from it’ But in 315, just after her transcendent in Berlin, the idea of leaving age had not merely occurred to her mind, but had alreadv become a fixed determination. Among the dom- inant notes of her character w love of home and craving for domestic peace. This craving was to a great extent sat- 1stied while she remained in Stoc holm, and especially during the time she lived with the Linblaa family. But when her destiny drew her in relentless triumph to Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, London, her domestic instincts were wrenched and tortured, and she founa no compensation in all the glitter of he! success, I am convinced,” said Herr Brockhuus, in April, 1846, ‘that she would gladly exchange all hov triumphs for simple “homely happiness.’ That was the secret of tho whole matter. And so she formed the resolution to quit the stage for ever, a resolution in whi she nover wavered from 1845, when it first took definite shape, till she carried it out in London in the summer of 1849,” Before the Days of Postage Stamps, December St. Nicholus: Before the Of postage s various sums wore paid for the deli of letters, The amounts were reguluted by the distanc and were collected on the delivery of the lette In the early part of this century the postage on a single sheet of paper was 8 cents and over for miles the rate was increased; s0 that over 500 miles a single sheet was 25 cents, But after a time these rates were gradually re- duced until in 1845 a letter weighing not over half an ounce was 5 cents under 300 miles and over that distanca 10 cents, Siv Rowland Hill,who was at the head of;the Postoftice department of England at this time, introduced tho use of post- age stamps in 1840, and also lessened the charges for postage. In 1847 the United States adopted the use of the postage stamp, the lowest-priced one being five cents But railways and steamboats had now taken the place of the oldfashioned mail conches and postboys; and with the wore rapid sendingof the mails, thoe cheaper rates of postage, and the growing population of the country gradual changes and improvements took place in the postoftice system, And here we ave, in receiving our let- ters from the Pacific coast in six days— also from Epgland in the sume time; and a few days or hours will place us in direct communication with our friends and correspondents in almost every part of the country - Tho Last Morning on the Ark, Brooklyn Life: **You look blue this morning,” said Mrs. Noah to the old gentleman. “*Ara you worried about anything?” 'L am, my dear returned? Noah, “When I think of our big famiiy to support, T don’t sece how we can make a Jiving when we get out of this ark.” G=) “1 wouldn’t worry atout that,” said Shem. ‘‘There will be plenty to do.” “Certainly,” said Ham. *‘I'll take the animals and start a eircus,” “And I,” said Japhet, *‘can become an undertaker. There'll be money in that when the flood goes down. " ““Prue,” putin Shem, ‘‘And I shall become coroner. Why, dad, the coro- ner’s fees alone would be sufficient to enable the whole family to live in the city and wear diamonds.” “By jove, boys.” said Noah, *'you are dead right. Head her for land and let's get to work,’” ———— Tusist on getting Cook’s Extra Dry Cham pague if you want a pure article; there are B0 beadaches in it GOSSIP OF LITERARY PEOPLE An Era of Rejuvenation of the Big Monthly Magazines, . A CHAT WITH OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES What Literary People Are Dolng--Richard Naraing Davis as o Playwright—A Glance Over the Pertodlieal Field. z NEW Yong, Dec. 1.—|Correspondence of Tue Bee.|—The close of anotber year will put emphusts, so far as the periodieal field 1n New York is concerned, shat this is a day In which only big ventures can live—big as re- gards resources and management. The room for the smaller, or spow-bound maga- zines—or periodicals, as wo call them—is getting more and mors col each year. Itis the old story of the big fish eating up the little ones, A magazine, or periodical of any sort has always been an expensive iux- ury for any man or set of men to possess, and it is more true today than it ever was, The magazines most successful in New York today aro the Century, Hurper's and Scrioner's, with a vevenue in tue order named. The Centuryis a paying institu- tion In overy respect. Of the magazine there is priuted at an averaze 200,000 copies each month and there is a goouly margin of profit on such an eaition. Say it averages 25 cants por copy, you have an income trom this source alone of $300,000. Then its advertis- ing patronage moans, in cash, not far from $100,000 o year, it it does nor exceed that figure. Harper's prints 150,000 copies per month ovin that vicinity and 1s, in literary and artistic merit, perhaps the most uniform and satisfactory magazive printed in Amcrica. And this position its prospectus guarantees for the next year. Scribner's, being the younger of the trio, has naturally not so large a oivculation as the others, mnor does it make as much money for its owners. It prints 115,000 copies, and in its business department is par- haps us strong in judgment and resources as auy of its compotitors, The hoavy character of its material bas uuquestionably acted against a larger success,'and the announce- ment, therofore, that during the next year it will make prominent the entertaining, rather than the thoughful guality in its contents is well and wise. *“Phe Cosmopolitan” comes fourtb, and is, too, makiug money—not per- haps as much as the biggor trio, but nets its proprictor not far from $50,000 per year. 1 ase this upon its printed editious of 105,000 copies and a healthy, 1 not large, advertis- ing patvonage. It is more popular in its con- tents than the others, and this, by no means 1s A disadvantage. I bave repeatedly heard people who read a great deal say, in this re- spect, that they actuully read more articles 1 *Tho Cosmopolitan”” during a year thun in auy of the othor magazinee. Witn the lesser periodicals that come from New York it is more or less of a struggle, This is, however, perbaps less true of the North American Review and the Review of Reviews than the otners. The first com- mauds & large transieut sale, snd at its price of 50 cents & siugle issue it is & pro- ductive piece of property. The Heview of Reviews is unquestionably on the gain; ang, while it may uever reach the circulation of tne origival” Eoglsh priot, it is forgiog ahend with ig strides. The Forum seems to have dropped behind and Is priutiog fewer striking articles than ever, and, with av illustrared magazine, the striking article is its malo hope. Of the bumerous other periodicals one hears litis, and I fauncy the struggle is a bitter one. I koow it 1s in the case of the Howe Maker, for example, while in the case of Belford's, Munscy’s, one scarcely knows whether they are published, The New York Ledger bas, 1 lclru.: ven up the fight, and will go back 1o (ts old standards upon which it made the fortunes of its oia propriotor, and can for its new ones if they are wise enough to accept the inevitable. ‘Going outside of New Yorl, I imagino success is not very large with such periodicals as Lippincott's, the Atlantic, the New Englaud, aud others, although, in a measure, no doubt they are making an in- come. In Boston the best viece of periodical property 18 The Youth’s Companion, which has returned a fortune to its owner and plods steadily on with aclrculation of 500,000, to which 50,000 have been added during the past year, 1 believe. The Deud Come to Life, Perhaps the most amusing thing in the periodical field during the year has been the rejuvencting of old magazines, andsingularly eunough, all the turee attompts which have been made hail from Philadelphia. The first to take unto 1tself a ncw lense of life was Godoy’s Lady’s 1300k, and, ulthough n great splutter bas boen made by the new manage- ment, and a lurge amount of woney spent, tho experiment has not taken on the health ful color of success, and money has been golag out with but littie coming in. Close apon the heels of Godey’s comes tho old 1e- terson's Magazine, spraced up, and looking a hundred times more attractive than it ever did, And, thirdly, comes Arthur's Maga- zine, which promises likewise to confuse its old readers by taking on u new dress, new material—new everything, in fact. Vent- ures of this sort are, I think, to be encour- aged, sigce anything fresh’ which cones iato tho literary” fiela means moro reading, more work for authors and artists, and, in every respect, has a good tendeacy. The result of il this literary rejuvenation will be interesting to watch, It is not an casy matter to change one's color, but 1t can be done—with monoy, with good munagement, and with time, Thus far the first has not been lacking, out the second is wofully ab- seut. Good editorial judgment seems lnck- Lu the case of ““Godev’s,” for examplo, 1 know of not less than a half dozen stories and manuscripts purchased by them which nearly overy mawazine in the land has had sud rejected. With “*Peterson’s,” the samo is also true, where threo *‘features” for ono issue are announced, ull of whicn have been al times declined by other editors, It is possile, of course, that the other editors may bo at fault in judgment, and that the purveyors at the heaa of these new ventures may bo right. All this remaius to bo seen, aud in the meanwhilo there is not one of us, I am svre, who will not wish success for these or any other new departures in the periodical field, Dr. Holmes Bofore His Flro, A few days since I was sitting in the com- fortable library of Dr. Oiver Wendell Holmes, The day was raw outside, and it added to the cheerful welcoms to ha asked to sit down bofore the open fire in the grate, Wo bad been talking of various things, and then, as will happen, a silence foll--not tho silence of depression, but the silenco of rest- fulness and easo, It came just after [ asked of the famous poet: “Now that Whittier has gone, are you not beginning to feel a littie lonely doctori’ He Jookoa into the fire, thought a moment, and then sald, in @ low toue, aimost 1naudi blo, as if he bad forgotten my presence: “Lonely! Is a wman ever louely with his books una bis work around himi I have my work. And yet—" and then came tho silence We wero both way down into the depths of two of the easiest chairs in the room, The log in the fire sputtorea a little, then broke into two places und, as the releasea flame shot upward and made a wierd but strong light, I turned just a litule and looked at my companion iu “silonce. The face was stiil strong, only the shudows of the bright tongue of flame scemed to deepon the lLines a little. Or, was it alone the dancing shadows of the flame! KEven with eyes lost in medi- tation, they were still bright sud full of luster. The mind was just as active, but it seemed 1o enjoy its little moment of repose The fingers that have written 80 much and 50 beautifully toyed with the gold eye-gluss chain as it wound itself round sod round, as ifit were us fond of them asis the world of reading wen and women, I'nere was littie 10 indicate the man of 50, except the snowy white bair, and as I looked at Oliver Wen- dell Holmes sitting there, so picturesque in bis ease, so tranquil 1o his thoughts, I ecould not help \lunklugfual a moment of the clos- 10g liges of “The Last Leal.” Longfellow gone! Thoreau, er, Beecher, Lowell, Alcoit, 1 Ly, quiet aud Quaker-souled Whit- But Oliver Wendell Holmes stiil tar ried, aud ever youthful and bright, as I real- ized when, taking “the card aservant had brought in, he scanned 1t and said to me: “‘Iiscape for your life! Here's a woman with a long tongue. I have to endure its lush, but you needn’t. Escape now, but come agoin soon,” Then thera was a hasty grasp of the hand, apd from 1ts hoartiness and strongth I felt as isif [ had not seen tho ‘*‘Autocratof the Breakfast Table” for the last time. “Dick™ Davis as a Playwright. Richard Harding Davis, or *Dick” Davis, as ho 15 known to his friends, Lasleaped into 8a enviable position 1n the dramatic ranks with one jump through his dramatization of *‘The Disroputable Mr. Reagan.” Sothern produced it; the bost element in New York social, literary and artistic lite came to see it; Mrs, Cloveland was brought to tears by it, aild in less than a week the voung author finds hiissif sought after by nea all the prominent munagers in Now York for plays from bis pen, Thers is rather a funny story attached 1o tho rehearsals of his plays. Soth- ern could not for tho hife of him got the New York “‘oroguo” necessary for the ch and although Davis tried hard to show Soth ern the “trick,” both failed in tho attempt. “'hus, oue day, Sothern and Duvis started vo- gether for the Bowery, and tho saloon of Stevo Brody, the notorious bridge-jumper. “Brody can zive you the tip, said Davis to Sothern, and Brody = was undoubtediy a havpy selection. And thus with the help of a fow days instruction from Broay, Sothern was ablo'to typify the cha for Davis, Brody was liberally rewarded; Sothern was pleased; Davis was as happy as a child, and Mr. Reagan” will be used by Sothern as a curtuinraiser’ to “Lotterblair” on the actor’s tour through the country. Gosslp of Literary People, A. B. Frost, the artist, who is a full fledged farmer, with 120 acres of Jorsey land 10 ull and plow, *‘cut 'cross lots’ a fow days w0 10 the bouse of his ;neighvor, Frank It. Stook!on, and astonished thas man of letters by sayiug: **Well, Stockton, I have hit upon the secret of bow to make u farm pay !’ The author of **I'he Ludy or the Tiger?? himself with Jands, was at onco intercstod, aud dropped his pen immediately to ask : Why, what is it?" “Pave fusolid,” sald I'rost, as he reached for wue door, Jokn Iendrick Bangs tries all bis chil- dren’s stories upon his youthful her, and if the original of “Jimmieboy” gr.sps the father’s effort. it is given to the world, This may partly account for the flattering snccoss sccorded tho humorists latest children’s book, “ln Cump With a Tin Soldier,” of which the entire first edition was sold béfore tho sheets left the presses. ‘“Jimmieboy,’ whose adventures in the book in *"Iiddledy wink Land’ caused $0 much amusement lasy ar, also figures in the new book for the children’s holiday stocking, "Tle authorized biography of Whittier will not be ready for several months, as the abufl; dant material at nand requires tme to 06 carefully edited. The po respond with Charles Sumner, William Lydia Maria Chila and Jumes T Fields as been found intact, aud the executors find so much of importance in this newly woquired materiul as (o justity the belief thut the public will be a rich zainer in its knowledge of Wuittier as a statesmun and reformer when the work is 1ssued, Speaking of Whittier, reminds me how lit- tle relignce oan be placed upon the numerous *lives” and “‘biographies” of which great men have inflicted upou them, 1t is not so long ago that a cortain “Lafe of John Greenleal Whittier’ appeared, and o copy fallug into the bands of the poot he care- fully read it. ‘I'hen he sent it to o friend, with tho modest comment: *“Thew will no tice I have torn out some pages.” Upon ox- amivation it was found that dozens of Dages bud been torn outof the book, and of those rewaining the poot had drawn bis pencil through nearly two-thirds of the sentences snd paragraphs! I remember how a well known New York Journalist ouce compiled a so-called *iife and blography” of Mr. Beecher. It was just before the greal preacher's desth, aud an order came 1o bim from & publishing house to ‘iget upa life of Heecher and let us have manuscript within three days!’ Taking a muss of newspaper clippings, and depending upon hLis lmagination for the facts noL sup- plied by the clippings, this journalistic enius repuired o Lhe Astor house, worked steadily for two days, day and night, st the HOOK GLOVES ARE STAMPED FOSTER'S PATENTS, OR LICENSED UNDER FOSTER'S PATENTS, BEWARE QF IMITATIONS! ARE TROUBLING YOU! Well,come and have them examined by our opticla fre L, 1f no fitted with pair of LIS or BYI GLASS- If youdo not need glnsses Flxo ¥ 0w what 10 40, "GOLD ASSES FIOM $3.0° U, Plain, smoke , for protecting the . trom & Max Meyer & Bro. o, Jewelers and Opticians. nam and Fiftocoth Streets / 1 '“\P-?\(\ end of which time the manuscript of 250 pages was evolv, Curious as to its accuracy I took & copy to Mrs. Beecuer, and after a day or two 1 said to her: +Did you find it accurate?” “Acelrate, my child " said Mrs, Beecher, “Accurated ' OL, very! Why, it 18 s0 aceu- rate in 1ts absolute fulsity tbat neither I nor the boys oan find one fact or dats given cors ractly, aitough we have studied over it for two days. Iveo the year of Mr. Beecher't birth is wroug, aud that 1s (ho smalless error!” Epwanv W, Bok, - An unkoown person, suid to be s New York millionaire nigh up io lipiscopalian circles, has donated §500,000 toward the fund for the builaiug of the new Protestant Eplscopal cathedral of St Jobu, the Divine, The church will cost $3,000,000,