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; >" VOLUME I. F \ KIMHtKl* sol I,. / I'lu /V'O'/.) ?'11ai'rj\H iv. Mr. Keith was late t!mt ni<rht, ami hi' l>rou?jdit a ^cntliMiian homo t?? dinner, so I']' tyor lia<l no opportunity to ! ask him tfi- yrosuit of his iuouirios ooiioorniiio- IJaek, until tlio evening ' was over. Kloanor had found it very tiresome for Ilioir onest, Mr. I lolines ' was a rather stout, and rathor dull iiiiddlo-aood man, who aspired to her ' # hand, and endeavored to uiako it puhlielv known, at all times. This manner of wooing Kleanor disliked, more especially as the man himself was re- . puo-nant. to her. j . I Jut she kept her temper aduiiraldv threueh it thouirh she was loss -? " o" m - '" | | spirited than usual: and when at last Mr. 1 loltues bowed himself out, she ipivo a sijrll^yf oladness that his visit ^ was over, and turned to ask Iter fa- j titer what manner of man he found i .laek Norton to he. *d)o vott know," Mr. Keith ho<rau, L he fore she had time to frame her one- ; ry. "that Mr. Holmes is one oT th? 14 richest men wo know?" "I am ?/lad there is somethino' interestincr ahout him, Kloanor return- I cd. "it outs iiiv teeth on edee to spend tin evenitiw with him; I wish vott would'nt ask him so often, papa, ' . we know so many more aoreeahle 1 M * ' M liooplo. "Nonsense," returned Mr. Keith. ' ! Ir is a man of rare oood sense, ami it iA ahout time you f^ave uptrillinewith him and decided to marry him." , "Whv, paptt, not three months since, vott told me lie was an old fool, and " "I didn't know what I was t til kill e ahout, and have changed niv mind alto?/ether. since then." "lint I think von wcni rijrht ;it flic he?rmnin?*; besides, must I ciiauirn 111V 111i11<I whenever you do, papa? If tlmt is to bo, why not have some patout arrangement attached to my foot, and when you wish ino to smilo on a rrontIonian null the ritrl11 strinjj; if ' you desire ine to frown null the left. I Then 1 will know just how to please | you. 1 never could arrange my lik- i V . . * ! J mirs to 111 your moods ntuorwiso. "Look here, my dear, you arc i>-<>t- ' I t tino' to he too pert altogether. Now I don't care who you like or dislike, hut you are twenty-four years old, 1 and ouolit to j?et married to somebody. A woman never amounts to , much until she is settled in life." "There is no possibility of her amounting' to much afterward, lint | I do really bourn to think I oii^rht to marry. I really do, papa. Onlvuive me a little time, and let ino select my own husband. By the way, did you ! find out whether there is a .lack Nor- ! ton or not ?" "t), yes," fuinblinjr in his pocketbook, "and this sionatu-e is genuine. j 1 only wish I had it on a cheque for?" I "|)id you find out what sort of a| man ho is?" "Certainly; if you want to loan him money, he is safe for all you have | to sjiiirc, without security-" "Hut is lie respectable?" "'What a (piestion! Didn't I tell you he is a very rich man?" "Di<l you learn anything aliout his family?' "What has his family to do with j it? I do remember, though, they said he came of a good family; Ik? ! has none of his own; in fact, he isn't married." "Oli!" "'One man said he was a good-natured crank, and another said he was a gofVu fellow. Now if he's a crank, ' you'll take to him amazingly, Klean- 1 or, for you like cranks, and cranks | are inclined to like you. Wherever 1 hear \<nl are especially interested in any in in man, I know at once he j is a crank." 1 "1 suppose that is one reason why I am so fond of you, papa. Hut please listen. Do you remember that night j' at Waltham when you reproved lue , for speaking my mind so (dearly to I (,'elia noon the marriatre nuestionV" i t f.) A "1 remember. How you did shout 1 that night!" "So it seems. At all events .Mr. Jack Norton heard mo, and has writ- 1 ten me this letter bearing upon the subject; I received it to-day. Head it. if you like, and lit this signature 1 sit the bottom. Then I would like to 1 know what you think of it." ( Mr. Keith took up Jack's letter 1 and read it through. "Well, upon my word!" lie ex- ' C71mmod. "I like that fellow's pre"Mviritinn' I'" teirh him in wrif , ' 1 .;ll!;;S;UwII - nun U/ n I lit) tJ ^my (laughter in that style.11 ' "Aim! why not write your (laugh- ! ter as well as any other woman? Your 1 daughter, upon her father's side, is ' the grand-child of a blacksmith.11 "Eleanor, do speak lower, or man- ' age to mumble you words a trifle; ! the Servants may hear you.11 "I will try and forget the blacksmith, for your sake, but he was a ! jolly old man, and none the worse for 1 having trained his muscles by ham- ' inering iron, and shoeing horses, lint 1 am wandering. I think this a manly letter, and with your permission 1 j i propose to answer it." i "Ilavo your wits left you?11 ! 1 "Not at all. lie's a rich man, you ; i know, papa, a good fellow--11 j I / CI) "EE TRUE "Ami a oood-naturod crunk "And he has no father Ar mother >r brother, and von want ine to oet A married "Do von propose to marry a strati- j irer?" "No, I do not. I intend to correspond with iiiin until I know all about his character, his aims, if he has any, ind his habits of thought, and you . must meet his personally and liud ml if In* is satisfactory to you. If , not. I ( romisc you I will drop him at | mice; I)111 if von like him ami I like , him. and lie likes mo " ( "llow will you know whether you like hi in or not when von are never , to see him" | "()h, papa, I want to marry my hns- t hand altogether for his soul!" , "Stuff! You will not know any- , tiling whatever about his so il, and a j line mess you will make of it." , "I have told you all about it, papa, | hut remember you are not to say a ( word concerning it to any one." . "And suppose you do conclude to marry each other? Do you intend to , he married by telephone, and keep ( in moonino by letter throughout the ^ rest of your lives?" "If we do marry. I don't want to , meet him until th is perforincd. No 011c hut yoti know. < People ma\ think I have been very , piiek about it, but I don't wish them , to know more. It may never eome , to ativthine', papa, but I want to write | him, and I will not do it without your , full consent." , "Well, inv child," more seriously , than he usually spoke, "do as you j wish. I don't think you eat. ijo far , wrone', when you are so willitm to . eonlide in me. And though von may | ' e a bit sauey at times you are adu- j liful daughter always, and I am , thankful for it. (lood-nijdit, my , dear." ' j , ftleanor went to her room and sal j down thoughtfully by th" lire. She , was eoitiM to train herself t?> fall in ; , love systematically with .lack Nor- ( ton's soul, or his mind, so far as she . could distinguish it bv letter. It would bo a sort of ntliereal love, very ( uniuuo and very interesting. She , went to her writing-desk and wrote a , short reply 1 o .lack's letter, and then | retired to dream of him. or, rather, to dream of a man who wrole hitters, , like .lack, and who eyes like Kay- | ( inond Norris. | , "lie was very handsome," she j ? thought, "I particularly remember j his eyes. And I think anybody who , looked at him would know his name . was .lack. m />r <'On h n !(>'</.) ? ( Itrrchor nt 11 is: I test . v , 1 .Nowhere can a man get real root- t room and spread out his branches till 1 they touch the morning and the | evening, but in his own house. i The real man is one who always |t find excuses for others, but never ex- ' cuses himself. I < Men have different spheres, it is t for some to evolve great moral truths I as the heavens evolve stars, to guide i t the sailor on the sea and the traveler t on the desert; and it is for some, like ' t the sailor and the traveller, simply to be guided. t In the morning we carry the world i like Atlas; at noon we stop apd bond i beneath it, and at night it crushes us < flat to the ground. Any fooling that.takes a man away \ from his home is a traitor to the it household. i \ A man ought to carry himself in ! !> (In* world as an orange tree would if 1 it could walk uj> and down the oar- i [Ion swinoinjr perfume from every i little censer it holds up to the air. ' i The superfluous Id essoin on a fruit t tree are meant to symbolize the laroe t way in which (Jod loves to do pleas t unt thinrrs. ( ()ur best actions are often those of t which we are unconscious; but this I an never bo unless we are always j yVaruine; to do oood. / n n In this world it is not what wo ji take up. but what we irive up. that j t makes us rich. j i A helping word to one in trouble i is often like a switch on a railroad \ track, but one inch between wreck i iind smooth-rolling prosperity. ' t As flowers never put on their best j clothes for Sunday, but wear their | spotless raiment and exhale their \ rxlor every day, so let your Chris- 4 lian life, free from stain, ever ?dve ( forth the fragrance of the love of i God. | si What cares the child when the ( i?w>4 !?#?? ?4 4 I rvi ' ' ' 1 'xuiiiir iutKo u, HiUUj-n ?% ? 'mwi mi. i beat without? 80 wo, if (rod doth | shield and tend us, shall be heedless 1 ] >f tne totnpests and blasts of life, |( blow they over so rudely. 1 < You have seen a ship out on thej | bay, swin^ino with the tide, and teeming as if it would follow it; and f yet it cannot, for down beneath the | water it is anchored. So many a * soul sways toward heaven, but can- s nat aseenn thither because it is an- '| shored to some secret sin. 1 Is Cleveland a necessity? Well, ltd, 1 not exactly, but he is about as handy I 11 President as the country has over < had, especially when jobs and jobbers ^ ire to be knocked out.- Houston 1 [Tcxuti) Pott. 1 TO T"0"0"IE2 "\7\7" O DEC ID . CONWAY, S s\>l s>! Vl.i.'s ) t VST SIMM']!:. , i t \ litirhl Picture of Himself I>.\ i Smn ilonc's Convert. The I'ev. Sam Small snokc to a . 11 ar^e audience in Coo[>er I'nion, . \'ew ?>rk. last Tuesday nie-ht. j \ftor a short introductory, lie said: i 1 was well Worn. 1 had a iioldo " nothor and a noble father. At seliool x I liecaine acquainted with vnuno ' iien who had seen soinetjuno of a li^in-o...! lit'.. \ i. ... ...... i : i i 1 | 'ii % * ** am . .1111-1 W I ill mill I I I toon found*im\-elf immersed in friv- ' ditv ami pleasure in one of tli?? eapi- 1 al cities of the South. I saw thai ' ' In* ?^reat men of tiio State were lead- ' M's in those riivolities, and I said T * kVould do as they did. I believed ' hat I had the will to break off when- x iver I saw that I was ooine- too far. f I bit ! found that I inijdil as well try .o bind an African lion with a ropoof :1 (and. l-'inally I married, aifd then my r .vife found out too late that -lie had :I carried without due caution. She ' deaded with ine often, but I put her ' iwav with idle jest, and kept inv ,vav. Then there came a time when inv ather parsed b\ me wii!i bowed head, ' hat he mi</ht not see the marks of ' S) . , I . hssipatioli in inv face. Ills hair whitened before it . time, and nature aid him softly in thejrrave. lie was ' lead of a broken heart. < )nr ilav ' iiv mother came to me and Iw^cd ! hat for that one niedit I would prom- 1 se to *f(> home to 111\ wife and ehihl- ( 1 en and tr\ to make them happy. I ' The strain," she said, '-is more than ' can bare when I think of von." I iromised, and I did e<?. I thank < iod ivory day that I did so. After an ' veiling spent pleasantly, a polieenan ran<r my bell, and when I wont * o the door told me that my mother, vheii risinrr from her knees in her | ooni, !:r 1 fallen over dead. I wept j >ver her, and then to drov.n remorse nid oTief went oil a deliaueh. I i I 'inally I saw in iu\ wife's faeo i < hat she had lost her liopo. I saw t| nv children flee when I eanio home. (| lot knowino' what they iniiflit exiect from a drunken lather. I , As a supreme effort to save mo my j ,, vife went to.ludoo llanimotid in the j 'oiirt where I \vn< .1,.. ... I I ........ . , .. . | m ?# > r.u, II ill I | ,p>t him to write, out lroal notices j r 0 the ssiloo.i keepers forbidding j . hem to sell liquor to 1110. She sie'ii- j j* d them, tiiul si fsiithful ollieer doliv- , wed them. The Innkeepers stuck j j hem in the mirror behind the bar. (, old made them the butt and seoli' of s jverv drunken loafer that entered | riiey know my wife was too proud to >roseeuto them. She hired a de- t ective to follow me and warn the L i<pior men not to j^ive me drink, and j r ie did so fsiithfully. Tliey would j say to him: C'ertsiinU ; wo have j he notices, and will obey them." \ j rhen they would eall some hanger- j >n and send the liiptor tome lhal|n hey mielit oet the money thev knew j 1 had for them. And there hun?r v hose notices, blistered !>v my wife's j .ears. They eared no more for them (1 hail for rsiin drops on tho roof. j And yet, mv friends, when 1 tell ,. his story there are si lot of pulpy, ,, ?veak-kneed people that rise up and lay that i sun si crank on the liquor ( inestion. , I had sit. last arrived at a condition , ivhere I wsis on the dividing line be- | ween imbecilit y and the condition t ivhich drives men to suicide, when on September Id, ISS5, I awoke in st t ucid interval, i looked at my child- ,, en, siiid saw them shrink away from v no in terror, not knowing what my , n . I l . .: . i i * - ! ii<niti migui lie, and l determined | J hat I would do soiuotliino- (hat day , " ' v I I . o uuiUe thorn ;it loast forget for the I,, into their little sorrow. It was Sun-jj lay. Siiin Jones was preaching :it a ]. own fifty miles North of there, in a s >ig tent. I was the city editor of a 1 v japor in Atlanta, and know :i 11 about (j ii111, Init I had not printed much I t ihout hi in. I was orthodox, too or- () hodox to print sue!; ;-tu!T. Hut 1 (1 bought I would take the children up (. here. The big tent and the crowd vould l>o a novelty to them. I had to go on the platform among t ho reporters.' There was no other (| )l;ico. I took notes for a while, hut ), soon laid to leave that for the rejr- * dar mail. I was too much interest- ,. si. I left that place more deeply ,, onvicted of my sins than any one (J resent. i sent inv children home, ? ind I began a spree thut astonished ! a ven my old cronies. I wanted to ( ioi imii t'ne eifocis ot what I laid j, icard. All of Sunday night, all of a donday, all of Tuesday night I Irank, hut I could not lose my mem- v >ry. The liquor did not nfTect me as s, efore. (| At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning a j riond came to me as I leaned my ; lead on a tahlu in a barroom, and > .aid iny wife was looking for ine in lie street. I went home with her. I'lien I went nj? stairs to my library, h ocked the door, and threw myself on s< ny knees in an agony of shame and h emorse, and prayed totJod for mercy, n ntil 1 o'clock I remained there, in-j h :oherent, and without hope. I was " giving over all further effort when 1 t aised my head, and the light come to' s mo. My troubles were at an end. I \ h < A.XTI3 XTOXTIS "WOrm .. C., T!1 ITRSDA Y, MA eali/.od that there laid come to mo ho peace that pusxeth understandnif, When ! hastened to tell mv wife ho broke down in utter sorrow. She lid not understand. She believed J( hat I had lost my mie.d ami was in he first stajre ??t mental exaltation n ( II hat marks one form of insanity, lint . nv little ones believed me, and. .neeline1 there by the bedside of mv p vife, in elnhtisli tones naive thanks i w o (i od for 11 is mere v. The speaker then told how he oot >ills printed annomieiie; that Sam 1 p hnall would preach on the street oruer that nudit. how an old eronv ? V " ' 11 ix? ?I 111> a platform with four whisky (| larrdls, how ?,tHX) people fathered o see what the latest drunkon freak ; ( >f the) city editor of a favorite paper p ' mill he, how his children were his . I! m1\ assistants on the platform, and (i low the hoys went otV to a pool room fterwnrd and put up their spare . hanee on the nuinhnr of days tho I eforni would last. A year later, I fter Sain had preached the sermon i' in this (irst anniversary of his comer | ation, one of those hoys came down | he aisle, shook hands, cone-ratulated 1 ' 1 ) lim, and then said rocrrotfully: ' If i i i 11 <I only known you was eoinif to told out so lone- as this if I'd only 1 i.-ul a pouiter 1 could a bankrupted he town. " When, as the sneaker said, he war 11 inverted on that Tuesday afternoon, ie did not lose his anpelite for lienor. | le toid his wife next day that he mist have it, hut when lie joit up roin his lied he went up to his lihr.i\ instead of to the street, and after j" wo hours on his kntes the desire for iiiuor left him. "I testify to you to nie-ht." he add- j id, ''that from that time to this I j lave never felt a pane of the appeite." . The Siii*|?lus Outrode. I I ii A mono- the burdens which tho late 'oiiotcss left upon us in a scale of axation which collects of production :l third more taxes than the(!overn- ' nenl can spcnd;aud while :l requires '' 0 per cent, nioro ]>. mIuci than the :i lonnal to pay a dot ?r 1.1 taxes, it, 11 ollccts ? 100,000,000 more taxes than ^ t can even waste. This leaves upon us asystole which orces us to export 2,000,000.000 1 loutuls of cotton which we produce ' or ? 11)5,000,000, while another na- '' ion buys I, >00,000,000 pounds of i' t l?y spinuiiiir and weaving it; it for- j il es us to taUe of our mineral and coal , h applies, which are abundant enough j ' o meet the yearly consumption of I >00,000,000 foreign people lor ceo- ' uries to come, and allows us to work 1 ip onlv enough to meet the wants of v me tenth as many people, oven while ' ts use at home is restricted by an ar- v' >itrary enhancement of value amount- s hi; at present to 75 per cent, added a o its cost. It conspires with our for- if ion rivals to degrade and depress d he silver product of this nation, o vhicli is 50 per cent, of the world's iroduction. It conspires with for- o ion capital to maintain a flagitious n nnovation upon the system of nalu h al currencies which the world has I ised through all its acrs, which robs o II production of 80 to 50 percent. <' if its normal returns, and which, by t he common consent of the scientists a >f America and I0itrope, fall", more 1 ! leavik upon our greatest interest, 0 hat of agriculture, than any other in ! ' II i it Iw>r it'll imiiu 11 ?*- # 1?? ij i\ ~: I ?? ... mitownoi m u 1.1 viimo iun;in^ ? is to make food mid raw material at <> iiinimum prices for artisan lal>or, >' vliilo.rendering it iinpossildo to em- f< >lov artisan labor on .1 lame scale in <! * his country, thus helping, at the ex-j <icuso of American farmers, to cheap- j ti n food and raw material, mainly for I p he benefit of foreign capital. It has | <' opt us under a system of home conumption for artisan productions rliieh permits us to employ only "dm,- e< 00 of our people in protected in Ins- tl ries while I 7,000,(KM) are left to seek ' ither employment, and 8,000,000 are <| Iriven to jrrubbinjr in the fields for s heap food and cheap raw material to indorsed in Kuropcan markets the h iroduets of Kuropo and Asia, and a hus, by (rheapmiino their artisan pro- h notion, keeping up the pretext of, n ijdi continued protection. i u If we were on the bed-rock of free f? ompetition with foreign labor, wo i u iiirht.be ^ivinir many-fold more of ! .1 ur people employment in our home 11 rtisan industries; and in oi.e product \ lone cotton wo mi?rht bo socurintf h lint ><t It It it III (tl I.. ...I.:..I. r- - 1 ! hc'land trots out f>f loss cotton WO I O nnually export for %htO,000,000,! h jhI this difVoronco ?.f * 10,000,000 I rou'd bo a fjain in tli fun From ono tl ourco, which is flivifh among pro- h ucing labor and capital. I Sjiy. if . y An old gentleman who was in tho t abit of prefixing "I say" to ovorv s enteneo to which ho gave utloranco, n aving hoard that his man-servant d limickod him, thus addressed the ill- , n ichavod domestic when he met him: i< 1 say, John, they say that you say c hat I say 41 say;' and if I do say 'I ay' I say that is no reason why you ii hould say 1 say kl say,' I say, John." j] t gura jC ^\.3STID "TOTJH cox UCII 21, 1887. Tito ItocV ol* \i;os. rhore can I>o littlo doubt that l ii^lit or wrong, the theology of 1110 ' redout dav luis undero'ono shine i<>st remarkable changes a^ to t!i** lea of the future state of punish leut and tin* oreat ollico of the rbeti 'edooiner of 1110 world. It does not become a secular paper ke tlit* /fi'i/isti'r to ontor tlio lists itli tlio great doctors who differ! . pop these particulars of faith. It is! nnewhat remarkable, however. that lie new school of a more liberal faith liould lind its most earnest advocates , il?, l,?. r v 1.'?1 ? 1 ...1 . i.i< rw wm Ml .>I V. I ,IIJMilllM, \> II'M'1 lie early fat hers i if the faitli thunderd tin* li'i'i'ois of the law into t he cats f their hearers, rather "comfortino ' Item with damnation," titan comolt?r them with that perfect love which astcth out al! fear. It is true, that where the doctors' ilTer, accordino to the old sayinjr, I re may stand excused, one way or nother, in otir belief. Who knows ho is'riehl and who is wroii?r? N et there is one thine* that will oe ttr with peculiar siynitic tnce to an\ ne who has I teen raised by a < "licit*an mother. \s wc recall th< earls years of life hen the illustrated family Itiblewns' prcad before our eyes, and a lovinuM mther instilled the truths of salvaion into onr you no* hearts and micd , I re will :tll recall the fact how the. ivin < >*, e'en tie Saviour was pressed pon our a t lent ion, ent irel y to the Nclwsion of a fathomless, iiiiphe able ;ulf of punitive justice. Mow ('lirbt ived liit le children; how lie himself <*as born a little child, and lay in the tan- m* is I lis mother's breast, the' opt of the world, how lie walked , monir moil in after lifo never having iiy possession of any kind <>n the ico of tlio oartli, livine from day to lav, asking only for that "daily iroad/ for which I Jo lias tnuoht us ii Mis own blessed words to pray. As. with our little hands wo turnd over too cuts of the sacred hook s it lay on a in itlier's lap, wo found his hope of the world teaching in the duple and confoundin* the doctors, s lie expounded the Scripture with wisdom far beyond their leirnino. Ve lied Mini at the marriage feast i onvcrtiiiir the water into wine, and . n . . aize with incredulous eyes into the under mother's face to know how lull could be possible. Wo there liarn for the first lime the fathomless lea of a miracle. That u( Jod's ways , re not as man s ways;" that No is I iouihI by no necessary incidents of lis own creatures and cresition; that le is independent of natural cause ltd eJTcct when lie chooses to be; hat a miracle is an incident of )>iiuity itself, and meant to show us hat the risen Lord was very Modi vhilst very man. Ah, the wondrous lory that abideth with us to the Inst, ml which in all its simplicity as we ot it from a lovino mother's lips, no octor, however dee it he be in theol<ry can over <ret. any further in. We see Mini next, who so inarvelusly made wine, eoine about lieal[io the sick, opening the eyes of the iliml, bidding th<5 dumb to speak, he lame to walk, foroivino the sins f erring mortals, driving the money hangers from the temple, rebuking lie Pharisees, weeping over the dead ml the city of I lis loving, gainsavino ' eriisalem; that Me would havegnth-| red to himself, as tho hen eathereth cr chickens under her wines; going bout doing good everywhere witliut money and wit liout. price; preachijr and teaching a gospel of love and >r<^iveness such as no |?!iiI??s<>t?11y on art 11 li:i? 1 over reached in all its <*< m options; watched, hunted down, berayod, and at last erueiliod until the reoious l)lood trickled dawn tin; eruI cross, the Hood tide oT ?^nice for nil enerations of men. Oh, tho blessed, beautiful, benolicut Sou of (lod, who taketh away ; lie sins of tho world. This is tin? j lother's storv. Is it not enough to uicken the hearts of men at ail the ln</es of human existence? If it be true, who shall stay the enelieenee of a precious Saviour and risen Lord? If it, bo not true, what ftve we oainod and what have wo O ot lost? Close the book on the lother's knee! Say she taught, as a dtlo in her ignorance; that there is! o Saviour, no risen I <ord, no hope in osus, and where do we stand? An nfathomable mystery, say you?; \ hat is not :l mvsterv truci.d i v j ; ,l? i I cause? We in list heoin some- 1 i<> in'cojii "iv that which wo! annot fully eomprehend, in order to How ?lI) V111 i11 <T <>1 believe mivtllilllf. > j # O r? : le in a blind fool who would stop at lie beautiful,, loving, all-healing, titli of .lesus of Xa/a ruth. The child may as well dispute,' oneerniuo its mother's breast, and s life irivin^f flow of love and nourduncut as for us poor mortals to re act thoouly < hrisit and Ifodoomer hat the world has ever seen. If this tory of 11im, who spako us never tan spake, be a myth, then the wonlerful power of the ( hristian economy over the four corners of the earth i soiuethinj?" that no man can aeount for. Then let the story live j?s wo trot t in all its purity, simplicity and tower. Let the philosophising of no $ % I i> iMTOir." man disturb for us fliis I?o? !< of \oes. -( olmnhl'i /!< r. Wliul ('oiiyn'ss 11;is Dour. The measures that the Forty-ninth tFeatures, lias juisstMI are: The I'residential succession art the i111? r Statu railroad act, electoral count net, the oleomargarine net, the trades' union act, the land orant for-1 feiture act, the lahor arbitration act, the act to increiae the naval establishment, the act reneulino tin* tenure of ollioe act, the act creating a| 1 )ej?artmeut of Agriculture, the Indian land act, the I )ino|c\ shij?|>ino act, the nnti polygamy act, the act I i .f > ' i w i nu- I' < II-i 11 [ )i |( ill i)l Till* I HUH' MOIlar, tin* act for the punishment of j tlircc commissioners to investigate' the I'aeilie I Jail roads, tlm act smI?jectine lands granted to railroads to taxation by the Slates within which they lie, the willows' pension act and the Mexican pension act. f'here are many other acts that have mino on the Statute I'ook, I>111 these are the chief enactments. Now let us look at the important measures that have IV i led. The tariff reform promised by I both parties has been I'andalli/ed av usual. The refusal to reduce audi cut down the surplus revenue was the legitimate outcome of the prod ie'ttl appropriation bills of the Senate and the reekle-s deoendent pension! bill of (lie I louse, Iroiu which the country has been alone saved by tin* President's veto. In this connection we cannot do better than to repeat, i our respected contemporary, the I Baltimore S1//1. as its accurate information in ( 'onoressional matters, | as well as its conservative temper, entitle it to confidence and respect. ' The Port v-ninlh I "onoress may bo said to have dis'inj.oiished itself in tno nuittor of private pension hills, Ii iviivf passed moro of those doubtful measures that all its predecessors put together. The Senate, which excelled in this kind of leoislalion, at one of its recent sessions passed fifty-seven private pension iiills in twenty-live minutes. The fisheries retaliation hill dos?H*os also perhaps to he classed as an net of doubtful expediency, and alonpf with it niav he placed the act making a dose season for inaekerel lishino. Subject to criticism likewise is the provision in the river and harbor hill of !SoO,tUK) to beoin the construction of the I lennepin <'anal project. The proposal of the Senate to oive a subsidy of -sot)t),()()() to certain lines of steamships enoaj^ed in carrying foreign mails was vigorously resisted by the Mouse, as was also the vast and ill arranged, scheme of expemli lure elaborated by the Semite for the purchase or ordnance material and tlie construction of ships and forts. The country needs Lfuns, ships and forts, but it wishes to be sure of its method of obtaining them before it puts several iiumti ?-.?i ...Minus into the enterprise. ()f the forty-ninth ('oitoress it may be fairly said that it was the first in many years past to awake to the necessity of providing adequately for the national defense. A novo all it was honest, as ('undresses lobby has existed at Washington in the last two years, and lobbyists will for a lone- time to come be a considerable element of the population of the national capital, but it is to the credit of the ( 'on j^nss uiiii expires lo-diiy mat lol?l>y-| ists made very little inonoy out <>f its errors." Wo take it, this is tho I?i?sl that ea:i ho said for tho l*'orty-ninth Cimirri'-s and its act of commission and onus ion. ('olumbi<t /?j't/isfei'. Senator Ik'niiiud'H Views. A Star representative called on \ Senator Kdmnnds tho other evening, i "l)o you think tho I )eiuorrats will renoinmato Mr. ('levoland?" asked tho reporter. os. There is no one olso they could run with any chance of success. They cannot nominate any , ono else and hope to succeed." "Would ho hold tho Uepulilicau votes he oot. he fore?" "As between two evils they would' t %' vote for him. Though he has not j lived up entirely to what they understood I > ho his promises, they may 1 not see how he could have done better with his party, and they may J not see where they will find another who would do as well" i.ii'i i i ,( ? r i > It lull on j nil llllillv Ol lilt) Cllllll?-es of the Republican party* in \SS?" asked the reporter. "Believing that tho Republican lairtv renrescnts the best nriinMi.l..s I 1 ? I I - . I... .. of govorment, and having confidence in tho intelligence of tho poo|do and their ability to discriminate, I expect tho I 'eoublioans to ho restored to power? ' uTlmt depends on tho nominee, does it notV "Yes. Hut having confidence in the wisdom of my party, I think the\ are sure to nominate a good man." "Who are prominent men now to the front ?" "Ah, excuse me, hut I do not care to speak of that, Many things may happen within two \oars." IVunhinylon St'.n\ m m in;it :r>. Tlll'plc ill I ll?' Senate. I have often hoard thai Itavid Turpie, t he new Senator of Indiaua, made a national reputation in the Senate in a servieo of that hodv of less than one short session. It appears that he was very votnio at the time, and that he was principally noted for his lo<jie and scorpion invective. I l.e had been in the Senate hut a few days wlw?n 11 f t f Inulxf .ooiuI/I.im...! I-1" -1 .. v..,?v i/uvif vA/iinnu;u;?i llirj I' r*Uoral < 'oseripf \et. lie opposed 111? measure in a constitutional areumeut that astonished every one, ami Ilowartl ami Wilson, tho latter afterward Vice President, ami liotli veteran Senators, took him to task. Kinnllv tho afTair hooaino personal, ami tho following is a passage from Titrpie s speech, which shows 'errilVio powers of in voct ivo: H lad tho Senator from Massachusetts lived in tho days of those whom ho has named, he would have Ween found in opposition to them as ho is now in opposition to their principles and their doctrines. I f he had lived in tho days of .lack on, he mii^ht i roluthly have spoken well of \\"s h . injrton; ho mioh' have praised the Revolution. If he had lived in the da\sof the Revolution, he and his political colleagues would have he- u Tories, true t-? Kiim- tie,The\ would have -pokrn then as ''ippanllv as they do now of rebels and rebelion. Thev would have tram_fled the oallanL I lavne in tho prison t o. South <' iroliua. They woul i ha\ e olVered rewards for the heads of Sumter and Marion. 'They would have sold their country, like Arnold, for a lo * prioo than he. The Senator would have found nolhiiie in those davs a lit subject for his commendation, lie would have praised Luther ami his co-workers. I lad he lived in the days of Luther he would have stood fa t, bv tin* Rope and the Vatican. lie would have feasted upon the ashes of 11?.- rtyrs. lie would have kindled tho tires of Smithiield. The Luther of that hour would have reei i s?o 1 his l>i)torest condemnation. "lie ini<dil Imvo ii'diii1 i>v(?n so far hack as tho ( hristian e?a before ho obtained an object worthy of his p/aisos. lio would imvo spoken \ 'I of tho mission of I la* I )oi( y. who oan.o to earth, ami for our salvation was nailod noon tho liittor tree, in whoso naino ho would liavo hunioil laithor and those who fought tho battle of tho IJufoniiation aoainsl tho a Ilitrarv oelosius! ioal power of that ora. I lad 11 ?> indend lived in I ho davs of (liristj had lio soon tho Savior of inan -kind, tho So ator from Massachusetts would perhaps, ha\o followed llim. lie would liavo followed llim from tho i/ardou of ( iot hsomaiio throiiuf htlio n stroots of Jnrusalnni to tho judgement soat of Pilate, and thoro hi.-, voico would liavo hoon hoard, and his lanouao'o would liavo hoon: "Koloaso unto ns llarahhas, as for this .Jesus lot him lio crucified'* Half do/on othor passages, ene'dy sovoro, can ho found in tho speech, which abounds in classical allusion and lofty lights of eloipient dcclauuition. When lie takes his scat next December lio, will tied a now set of hands at the hollows, and if ho wants to onoaoe in a ooneral knock-down and dra<r-out lie iiiioht practice on Ino-alls. If his mind turns to law, and I suppose it does, I'Mniunds ami Kvarts will afford him socio amusement. Savoyaum. "TIio Jackals and tin* Lion." " . Several days am>, while Henry Ward lieochor was ^yinjr at the point of death and his poor wife was pros trilled l?v such in. .wish as only a wife etui know, the < 'oiigregntional clergynit'M of Chicago engaged in mi uudii/nilied and acrimonious discussion as to wliothcr they should send to her a resolution of sympathy because of the condition of her hwsliand. Tho I lev. Dr. (Joodwiu was the chief spokesman against the adoption of . t .. 1. -< it rCuOlUlSOiM ? *v/ ?i11 )iif i that the transmission of a dispatch of tho character indicated ''would commit the ''association to an endorsement of Mr. Hoechor's religious views, the ('ongregatiourlists of ( 'hieago regard tts dangerously heterodox." The resolution was finally adopted I>v a closo vyte, lmt, not until the Chicago clergymen had covered themselves with disgrace. The New York YV/zea properlv characterizes their action in a head-line which reads, "The Jackals and tho i .ion. No wonder Mr. .Moody selected Chicago as tho best site for his religious training-school, lie ought to get up a class for the especial benefit of the llev. Dr. Cooilwiif and his associates. They need all the train,, . .. .in . innv van ipn. i nut ii l)ody of Christian ministers should refuse to suy a kind word <> the wife of >*. sick brother, becunso ho held peculiar views upon the doctrine of eternal punishment, is a spectacle in which iionds mioht take delight. .Vcmm and ('ourii r. - ...... A nocr.i was put upon the stand a a a witnes, andthejud^e inquired if ho knew the nature of an oath. ''For cortinjf, boss," said the citizen; ' ! If swoar to ii lie, 1 must stick to him!"