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The Press and Banner by hugh wilson! Twelve !Pages. Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1890. > _ j * SIX NEW STATES. , j Something' Abont the Lnte Addition > to the Union?'The Line of States j Now Reaches from Ocean to Ocean. < The line of States of the Uniou now 1 extends unbroken from the Atlautic 1 to the Pacific Oceau. The admission of Wyoming and Idaboon the Fourth ! of July made the number of the States forty-four, and it completed the chain across the contineut, so that one may 1 now pass from oceau to ocean without 1 being at any time beyond the limits of some States. The territory of Idaho was established in 1863. All of its present area was before that time included in the Territory of Washington, As origiualy organized, however, it embraced the whole of Montana and a part of Wy- 1 oming. It was divided in 1868, and the boundaries have not since been changed. Its area is about ninety-one thousand square miles, or almost exactly twice that of Pennsylvania. For more than twenty years after,its organization its growth in population was slow, but recently it has increased very rapidly. Wyoming was formed from parts of ! Dakota, Idaho and Montana. Its * limits have never been changed and its area is one hundred and six thousand square miles. Notwithstanding - ? thore Jim six larcrer I J "Mothers must do as They Say." Not many years since, I was crossing the English Channel to France on a email steanier. The Channel is often found to be exceedingly rough in crossing; in this case it proved so. Many of the passengers had arranged themselves on the deck for :the entire passage, when suddenly the wind arose, and our little craft began to roll and tumble mightily, and the waves Jashed over the deck to the discomfort :>f the passengers, who retreated to the saloon oelow. With them appeared a young English woman, bearing in her arms a small, crying child, and followed by her maid, with one of the child's shoes hanging by the way, making disordered haste downward to the saloon, and trying in vain to silence the screaming, sea-sick child. The gentle young mother, still walking the floor, became impatient, and stopped suddenly to menace the suffering little one saying imperatively: "Stop this minute! Stop your noise! Stop, or I will go up and *' ? -- fit I IIS imiueusc an.9 w states ia the uniou. Tiike Idaho itsf growth in population is recent. In 1870 it contained but about nine thousand whites and in 1880 only tweuty thousand. Wyoming is distinguished as the first state in the uniou to admit women to all the privileges of citizenship. It is an interesting fact that^the area over which the six States.exercise jurisdiction, which were admitted during the year ended on the Fourth of July is almost two-thirds of a million square miles, and is more than half as large again as the whole area included in the thirteen orginal States of the Union. Indeed it lacks but a few thousand square uiiles of the area of the Union after Mississippi was admitted in the year 1S17, and Mississippi was the tweutieth State. Not only is the admission of six new States within a single twelvemonth unprecedented in she history of the couutry, but it is a fact that only once before have three States come into the Union in so short a time. Florida, Iowa and Texas were all admitted during the year 1845. No President before General Harrison has been per- h mitted to proclaim the admission of ' more then three States, not even one of those Presidents whose term has ex- , tended to eight years. The material for new States is almost exhausted. The only territory[( not now under the government of some State in the District of Columbia the Indian Territory, including Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah I, and Alaska. Not more than four , States will be formed out of these Ter- J ritories, at least for a long time toI, come. . The new sisters have moved still fur- : ther westward the seit empire. There are now twenty-five StPtes east of the Mississppi River, and nineteen west of , that great stream. While the popu- , lation of the newer States does not r give them a great representation in House of Representatives, they are nearly a half of the Senate, and when the other Territories are admitted the Mi8sisssDpi River will divide the Union almost exactily in two, so far as the number of States is concerned. Well Trained Horses. Every one knows the gray horses that pull the Adams Express wagon through the streets. Magnificent ani mals they are, too, ana a visit 10 iueu stables shows how a horse should be i treated. I saw an exhibition of their i training yesterday, when a driver > simply Dy word of mouth caused two powerful animate, attached to the heaviest form of express wagon, to back up Girard street to Twelfth from half way down the block. Slowly the horses moved step by step in perfect unison, keeping the wagon perfectly straight, the driver simply holding the lines and encouraging their efforts until Twelfth street was reached, when, driving them up to the sidewalk, he got down and gave each a pat and half an apple. I was too late to fiud out the driver's name, for in this age of carelessness about dumb animals I would certainly publish it to let the company know of such a humane driver.?Philadelphia Times. Uulikeiy Children. Get grace in your own souls, and light will be given you to guide your children. Look at my plants filling the windows with tiieir great stocny shoots and healthy leaves. I've a notion they wouldn't grow where there's envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableuess. 1 guess backbiting and evil-speaking would kill 'em as soon as coal gas ; but they ain't half as sensitive as the mind of a child. We must get into the nature of roses and geraniums and try to learn the best conditions for them, and that's about all there is in raisinglieus or children. The method requires a deal of patience, a kind of divine unselfishness strained and clarified like the best honey. If you've got a weakly plant, nurse it, and give it richer earth, and j more air and sun. Jt may in time bear blossoms that will in time take the prize at the flower show. Don't ever be discouraged with an unlikely boy or girl, but study out what it { needs, and try, and keep trying, and, by and by will hit on the right thing! to bring iiiat weakly one along where he can begin to grow. If you love; him enough, he may some day sianu i at the head of the life-class. I always,suv folks are like pitchers: there is a i handle to every disposition, if we only n knew how to take hold of it. Plenty I of folks fail to inilueuce their children;; because they get tired searching for ( that handle.?Augusta Lamed. j I tnrow JUU VVCluvmu. We were waiting almost breathlessly for the result, while she waited at the foot of the stairs, when lo! a 3inall voice piped clearly from some hidden corner of a sofa : "You must do as you say. Always keep your word!" The poor, convicted mother turned in the direction of the voice, replying, "Perhaps you are not a mother?" "No matter," piped again the clear voice, "mothers must do as they say." The severity of the rebuke forbade a amile, while the sick aud crying child found relief, after ejecting from his stomach a quanity of beer which he had swallowed in the absence of water! Alas! for the future of that child and its mother.?H. W. M., in Home Guardian. A Few Hints on Soap. Soup should form a part of the daily fare of every dinner table, and, if carefully made, will cost nothing, or but a trifle. The water in which beans, cauliflower, rice, celery, or onions are boiled, should always be kept to make Hip foundation of purees and soups. Every kind of liquid which has extracted the flavor of vegetable or animal matter, is too valuable to waste. They may be thickened and flavored for dinner soups. For example, when beans or rice are boiled for dinner, brown two ounces of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour, brown again, and add the strained rice or bean water (one quart), stir continually until it boils, season with salt and pepper, take from the fire and stir in hastily a well-beaten egg. Or suppose there is a cup of mashed potatoes or a turnip, or a very little chicken left over, rub them through a puree sieve, blend with milk, or stock, or both, thicken with butter and flour, and season with bay leaf, salt pepper and a little onion juice. A quart and a pint will serve six persons, when the soup is only part of the dinner. Meat soups, such as bouillon and consumme, are too expensive for ordinary family use, but all white, or cream soups, can appear on the list. Cream of fish, cauliflower, rice, Turkish, tomato, dried pea, clam, carrot, lentil, etc., are also good. Take the bones left from roasts and 3teaks, cover them with cold water, add an onion, sliced, and a bay leaf, and simmer for one or two hours, strain, season, and add the beaten trim arrrra onH vnu will have ) Uiiv ui inu ??v. v a simple and inexpensive Turkish 30up. All of these soups should be made at a cost of from five to twelve cents per dinner, allowing one and a half quarts for six persons, which is an unusually large proportion. Give variety to your seasoning. For instance, if you use onions one day, use celery the next, appetizing novelties, on the Bame foundation.?Mrs. Rorer, in Table Talk. Keep Cows Clean. Sometimes milk has a "cowy" odor and the cause is little understood. Cows drink large quantities of water and not half of it passes through the kidneys. When in health and the 3kin clean, by far the largest part finds an outlet through the pores of the skin and takes along with it effete matter and offensive odors which are thrown off through the fine capillaries with the perspiration. Proper action of the skin is as necessary for the purification of the blood as i9 the healthy action of the lungs. When milk has a cowy odor, it is certain that the skin is not working right, allowiug the impurities to be thrown back into the blood, whence some of them find their way into the milk, making it smell of the cow. This suggests that to have pure milk and sweet butter, the skin must be clean and free from scurf which fills up the pores; frequently groom: ^nonoiocfn'Ov C'lpfin pflWS do lii^ i9 llic caoicow .. not give "cowy" milk. For the same reason most people afflicted with diabetes are those who neglect personal cleanliness. Incipient cases of this malady can sometimes be remedied by judicious bathing; and so can offensive odors of the person. ? Weathrr Wisdom.?Laning, in his "Weather Wisdom," says: A deep blue colored sky, even when seen through the clouds, indicates fair weather; a growing whiteness, an approaching storm. When the sky in rainy weather is tinged with sea green the rain will increase; if deep blue it will be showery. A bright yellow sky at evening indicates rain. A pale yellow sky at evening indicates wet weather. A neutral gray sky at evening indicates fair weather. The same in the moruing indicates wet weather. Haziness in the air, which fades the sun's litfht and makes the orh appear whitish or ill-<leiined, or at night tlie moon and stars grow dim, indicates rain will follow. Furniture that is covered should be looked over carefully every two or three weeks, and if there is the least sign of a moth the chair or sofa should l>e saturated with benzine. The bendue will not harm the most delicate Kolors, but it will effectually destroy the moth. An Unanswerable Testimony The answers which we publish this week in reply to a circular letter sent to the managers of the various railroad companies in this country, present a most one-sided view of a great question. But it is none the worst for being one-sided, for there is only one side to it. The fact that it is so one-sided makes it impressive. We wanted to know what are the rules enforced by the railway companies of the Nation in reference to the use of intoxicating liquors by their employes ; and here we have them?a long, monotonous, emphatic repetition of a single rule. No intoxicating liquors allowed ; conductors, or brakemen, or switchmen using them dismissed. Sometimes the rule is formulated, and sometimes, as in the case of the Boston and Maine Railroad, it is assumed as is evident that it is not worth while to print it. But in every case the man who is not temperate must lose his place. Sometimes reasons are given in printed rules, but most companies assume that the reason is so plain that it need not be given. There is no kind of business in the country which requires more careful management, more clear-headed intelligence on the part of thotee engaged in it, than the railroad business. A thick-headed conductor, a boozy switchman, or a muddled brakman, may, by an act of stupidity or negligence, cost score of lives to the passengers and hundreds of thousands of dollars' loss to the company. The railroads are in the light of day, everybody sees and criticises them, and their management must be made as safe as possible; and the unanimous testimony is that in order to make them safe the servants of the road must be abstemious men, After this testimony of the best experience, absolutely unanimous, what use is there of raising the question further, whether the Saloon isa blessing or a curse? The Saloon, by the general voice of the most enterprising business in the country, the business of transportation, is declared to be a menace and a curse. The Saloon "has its interdict, me oaiouu la LUC CUC1UJ I Of life and property. The Saloon deserves to be outlawed bv the general voice of the State and Nation, as it is already outlawed by the railroads. We are glad to be able to give to our readers such an impressive array of I testimony on this subject.?Independent. If Yon Want To Be Loved. Don't find fault. Don't over or under dress. Don't repeat all the evil you hear. Dou'tjeerat anybody's religious belief. Don't be rude to inferiors in social position. Don't repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't go untidy on the plea that jverybody knows you. Don't underrate anything because pou don't possess it. Don't contradict people, even if you ire sure you are right. Don't believe that everybody else in he world is happier than you. Don't conclude that you have never lad any opportunities in life. Don't be inquisitive about the affairs f even your most intimate friend, Don't get in the habit of vulgarizing life by making light of the sentiment of it. Don't express a positive opinion uu;ss you perfectly understand what ou are talking about. Don't try to be anything else but a entlewoman?and that means a wolan who has consideration for the hole world, and w hose life is gov ned by the Golden Rule, "Do unto hers as you would be doue by." Wise WorilN. A woman's lot is made for her by the ve she accepts. It's easy finding reasons why other Iks should be patient. The very truth has a color from the sposition of the utterer. When a woman is not contradicted e has no motive for her obstinacy in surdities. Tt seems as if them that aren't wauthere are th' only folks as aren't mted i'th' other world, Friendship begins with liking or ititude?roots that can be pulled up, )ther'8 love begins deeper down, ['m proof against that word failure, e seen behind it. The only failure ?? faqr is failure in cleav U iilttu Ullguv tv 1VM? ?. ingto the purpose he sees to be the best. The golden moments in stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are to go. The oeginning of hard-ship is like the first taste of bitter food?it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our huuger[ we take another bite and find it pos-i sible to go on, I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grind-stone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it. You must be sure of two things; you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed ofj your work, and think it would be! more honorable to you to be doing j something else.?George Eliot. "Men are natural cowards, where there's a fire," said a fiieman, recent-1 l.v ; "put all Itanium's wild aninialo in! " si ml then drou a mat iui< win inviv ?t child among them, and, in nine eases j out of ten, the father of that child will go in after it. But, let there be an I alarm of lire in his house in the nighttime and that same man will run into; the street and leave his child behind. | I have never seen a man suffocated at I a fire with a child in his arms, but I. have seen women lying dead from suf-. foeation with a child in each arm.! The man's first thought is to get into! the steet when he hears the house isj 011 lire. The woman's first thoughc is; her children." Birmingham, Ala., Oct. S.?Rube I Burrows was shot and killed in Linden jail early this morning by the! | Sheriff and guards. They allege he i was trying to escape. Various Thought?. By J. H. Mesenger of Peace. Philanthropy is the highest order of virtue. t ^ ? ' ? *- ?i- ?s? a:a ?juei us uve ueuer wuay inuu wc uiu yesterday. ?The architect should regard utility more than beauty or graudeur. ?The victories of love are lovely : the victories of hate are hateful. ?The victories of peace are precious; the victories of war are woeful. ?To love those who love us is manlike; but to love those who hate U9 is Christ-like. ?It should be an established rule of life to speak as much good or every ?person and as little evil as conscience dictates, and always commending with much pleasure and commending with much sorrw. ?It is, at times easier to speak ten good words gthan perform one good self-denying action. ?Earth without philanthropy would be a dreadful bell, and such universal war would make our beautiful world. ^ Over all human actions justice, sweetly mingled with love and mercy, should always preside with a meek dignity. ?The truly great and good man is more sensible of his mental and moral weaknesses and imperfections than any one else i9. Tenderness of spirit is a distinguishing characteristic of Christianity, and those persons who have little tenderness of spirit are little Christians. ?One passage of scripture candidly and prayfully meditated upon, will be productive of more good to us than the whole Bible read in an inattentive, thoughtless manner. The Christian may innocently indulge his taste to a great expense, for the fine art and soft luxuries of the world, when all the temporal and spiritual wants of every humau being are fully supplied. No human being, when closing his eyes forever on all earthly scenes, ever regretted that he had not spent more time and money to gratify "the lust of the ^flesh lust of the eye and the prtde of life." Wherever we turn our eyes or thoughts we meet with wouders and mysteries and sublimities, extending and still extending in unlimited extent, all speaking in language awfully impressive to us: "We are of yesterday and know nothing." What can be more horrible, what can be more sinful among mankind than war, and espescially when voluntary engaged in by those men who f>rofess to love each other as Christ has oved them, even with a pitying love that suffered unto death. Good Society. Good society is that where a mother knows that her daughter or son is safe. v Good society i* that where toadyism is frowned down upon, and sca'ndal mongers are not admitted. Good society is that where one earns her title of gentlewoman not only by birth, but by good manner. Good society is that where to understand Greek is of less importance than to understand courtesy in all its laws. Good society is that where the art ot welcoming the coming and speeding the parting guest is graciously practiced. Good society is that where men are respectful, where off color stories are not told, and where the women do not offer cigarettes. Good society is that where women are not hastily .judged, but once they are Deiievea 10 De uutruimui, ueueiuui and ill-bred they are ostracised. Good society is that which is not personal in its talk, but which finds sufficient topic of interest to discuss without dilating on the sins of neighbors. Good society is that which, while it recognizes the value of all the conventional rules, is yet sufficiently strong to be guided occassionally by hearts, and|not ofnecessity to follow a leader, as sheep do. Good society is that which is formed when two or three are met together in pleasant converse. You can, if you will, though yours be only a room in a boarding house, make the best society in the world there.?Ram's Horn A Stranger at the Door. In making calls at P., for the missionary work of the Am. 8. S. Union, a certain man made the remark : I am not in that line?my busines is to make and sell flour," When I was going away I imagined him, some time in the future, knocking at Heaven's door for admitance. The angel guarding the entrance said to him : "How long did you live on earth ?" "Seventy years." "And how did you spend your me there?" "My work was making and selling [flour." "Then you did nothing for your own spiritual welfare or that of others?" j 'i was not engaged in that line." "Well, we now, neither make nor sell I flour in Heaven, and as you did nothing in the line of Heaven on earth, you cannot be received into Heaven ! now. Besides, you would not be consented or happy in Heaven. You would here find no congenial society or employment. Heaven is for those only who lived in the line of Heaven on earth.?Word and Way. Tin Peddler?Madam, I am selling a patent self basting pan for roasting. Old Lady?I don't think I'll care for that; but if you have any patent self darning needles for mending I'll take one.?New York World. The Baptists have ol self-supporting churches and 3,000 members in Liberia. We have learned that Miss Dona Hamilton, missionary to China, the precarious condition of whose health we published some time since, is dead. ?Texas Christian Advocate. The new anti-lottery law in prohibiting lotteries also prohibits all schemes for distributing prizes by chances, and applies tu the Church fair as well as to the great Louisiana Lottery Company. An advertisement for a Church lair which speaks of a rattle or any tiling of the kind, would be excluded from the mails. An Old Story. The pussy cat said, Ah she raised up her head, i And gracefully lifted her daltuy paw; 'Dear Robin, I've heard j You're the sweetest bird That ever a mortal saw." ] 'Don't flatter me so? ? It's wrong, you know? j Tho' better Judges have said tho same," 1 Then the quick blood rushed, j And she blushed and blushed Down to her bosom of flame! t "But, you see," said kitty, l "It's such a pity 5 To waste your churms on the desert air, I vow it's a sha-ne j For so rare a dame To pine in seclusion there." I Then pussy smiled, I And Robin, beguiled By her gay and treacherous laughter, 1 Alighted at once On the ground like a dunce, And never was heard of after. Clean Hands. "It's a bargain you won't get again in a hurry; and, if you're sharp, you won't miss it." Ned Howell spoke impatiently, as Ezra, the chore boy at his grandfather's house, stood by the gat*, thoughtfully looking at a pair of cufl' buttons that lay on his open palm. "They're real," went on Ned, eager, to close the bargain. "'Why, one of them is worth more than half a dozen of your fancy pigeons; and here you have a chance to get a pair of them at half price." Ezra had come out the loser too often in his dealings with Ned to be willing to believe everything he said; but the buttons did not look like real gold, and if they were he would be J quite willing to give six of hiB white i fantail pigeons for them. j "Don't paw them with your dirty hands if you're not going to take 1 them," said Ned rudely, as Ezra < turned the buttons over and examined I them more closely. "If you are not j sharp enough to make a good bargain . for yourself, why, give them back to 1 me." 1 "I'll take them." said Ezra slowly, ' closing his hand over them. "I'll ( have the pigeons in a basket ready for you to take nome with you to-morrow 1 morning."- 1 He put the buttons in his* pocket < and went down to the barn to do his ] evening chores, wondering whether he had really been cheated again in 1 his bargain, as he had so often been f before. Ned stood at the gate looking ? after the retreating figure of Ezra ( with a triumphant smile on his face. It did not occur to him that he had ! done a mean or dishonorable action in ' taKiug auvantage 01 shzrus iguuiuuue, ] and he was proud of what he consider- j ed liis cleverness. He knew that there was very little 1 danger that "Ezra would discover the i comparative worthlessness of the cuff , buttons, and so his untruthfulness in the matter would not be discovered. Presently Uncle Frank left his seat on the porch where he had been sitting, hidden by the vines which i climed over it, and joined his nephew , at the gate. "I wouldn't be a chore boy for any- 1 thing." said Ned. j "Why?" said Uncle Frank. r "Oh, they have to do such rough, dirty work !" answered Ned. "Ezra's 1 hands are always dirty. I wouldn't ' touch them for any thing." And he < glanced with a satisfied air at his own ( hands, which were almost as white . and as smooth as if he had been a J girl. 1 "Ezra's bands are cleaner than < yours, to my mind," said Uncle Frank gravely. "Why, what do you mean?" asked ' Ned, opening his eyes in surprise. "I tnink dishonest bargains stain j one's hands more than honest work," answered his uncle. "I could not feel as if my hands were clean, no ' matter how white they may be, if I < had just been cheating a poor boy out of his pigeons." Ned's face grew very red. "It wasn't my fault if he didn't know how to make a good bargain, j Every one must look out for himself ] in bargains. "Hp simnlv took vour word for the ' buttons, ^fou told him they were real." i "Well, so they were?real buttons," ] said Ned, smiling as he remembered what he had thought of his clever- ' nees. "I didn't say they were real gold; I only said real buttons." I "You meant him to think that they | were real gold," said Uncle Frank, sternly. "It was just as much a lie as 1 if you had said real gold. You cannot I call your hands clean, my boy, when / you stain them by cheating, and the stains are upon your heart as your hauds." He went into the house, 'leaving Ned to think about his words. j Somehow Ned did not feel now as if he had done a smart thing in getting the best of the bargain. Ashe looked 1 at his hands he fancied that he could < almost see the stains upon them, and < he grew uncomfortable at the remem- , brance of the stains which were upon his heart. At last he made up his 1 mind that he would rid his hands i from the last stain, and he went down , to the barn to look for Ezra. "I say," Ned began, bravely, "I cheated you about those buttons. 1 They areu't real gold; they are only r.lr.^,1 on/1 Tirnrfli nrlrmt. t\v#?lltV-fiVe , }J1UCC14 auu TJ KSL M.V.W ? V . ^ ( cents. You keep the pigeons till I send you the money for them." Then he went back to Uncle Frank. "I've made it all right with Ezra," he said, "and I mean to keep my M hands clean after this, sir."?Sunday p School Times. 1 ... j "Blatherskite." ? The word; I "blatherskite" in its origin is Scotch, being composed of the Scotch blather,!1 blether, equivalent to the German j' bladden, to talk nonsense, and skate, ! corrupted into skite, a term of con-!1 tempt. The original meaning was:J "one who talks nonsense in a bluster-]j ing manner." From this comes thee present meaning, a good-for-naught, a . man who talks too much. The word f j is good English. j| Pride tells the student to take many i( studies at a time. Humility says,' "Take only enough. Pride says, i "Strive to know something of every-i< , thing." . j, ! The report of threatening famine in j | Ireland is pronounced by a govern- 1 jment olticer to be greatly exaggerated, i j that the potato crop is good in most j I ; sections. j( Christian Standard and Home Journal*.' Average numan nature, as we now Ind it in its present fallen condition, s a poor dependence for mercy and 5ity, charity and justice, and, above ill, for "good for evil." Generally, )low meets blow, law sues out everv ippeal to law, eye must be given for jye, tooth for tooth, and both cheeks I liust redden before the strife is over, I f life itself does not pay the forfeit of I U-bature, evil dispositions, carnality H ind passiou. But the precepts of I Christ rise into the unearthly. They I ire singular from their very unworld- I iness. They seem almost impractica Die and impossible under such unfa- I ,'orable human conditions. They I seem to men generally as almost un- B ust in the sacrifices that they require. I Philosophers Investigate them incred- I jlously. Statesmen prefer armies and navies, fortifications and warlike ap pliances. Nonresistance is regarded I is a Utopian dream, to be realized on y in the Millenium. The lion does I lot yet lie down with the lamb. I Bolts and bars must needs be put up-*l >n every house. But it is this ineffa- V >ie uneartbliness that stamps the di- | /inityof Christ's teachings.jt^.^" I ' fiff* Nashville Christian Advocate. H JThe ^True Attitude.?A very I narked change has taken place in th^| Tttitude.of the leading religiouFpaper^B on reaching thejmasses.f and the rela-1 '.ion of the jspiritualjcondition of the I rJhurch 'to that subjecr.fr Sometime I back they held with warmth~of feel- I ing that the Church was ripe for its I .vork, and coming up well to the New K Testament demands, and to present I opportunities. But they see the mat- B ter in another and truer light now? I that the spiritual coudition of the I HHlirnl* Hoo flt'Ainr * ~ J - -?* * nw lUlUg IU UO Willi reaching the^ masses, anfl that the main obstacle to this lies in the low jpiritual condition of the Church. Ihe New York Observer had a most timely and sensible article on this subject recently, which closes thus: 'Let us seek to reach the Churchmembership with the permeating, transforming influences of the gospel is the most effective means of reading the ^masses with its quickening ind saving power." St. Louis Christian Advocate. It does not sound well to hear a nan who, perhaps, cannot read a sen:ence in Greek, telling us on his own responsibility that the original meaning of this or that word in the New Testament is so or so. Indeed it does aot. Were he to tell us this or that reiowned Greek scholar said so, and jiteus to the book and page, we might ?ndure it, but taken as it is, in badf| English, it is intolerable, especially when he tells us the ^word means 'just this and" nothing else,'' and ivery lexicographer he can find gives rrom three toftive different meanings, [t requires a large stock of charity to throw a mantle over such. It savors jo much of ignorance and bigotry that one can scarce restrain his pitedus disgust. Nashville Chritlian Advocate. The power of the pulpit is found in its essential unworldliness. That in its utterances, in manner, measure, or grade there shall be no semblance of the world. That in the preacher himself there are to be no points of worldly contact or stain, literally crucified' to the world and the world to him. Unworldly as Christ, not a nexus of the breadth of a hair binding him to the world. That a great gulf fixed rolls between him and the world, a ?ulf bridged by no lodgings, no regrets, no desires on his part. A rbilraUor. Our friend Dr. Bichet informs us that the Ex-Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro, has enrolled his name as a foundation member of the french Soiiete d' Arbitrage. On a certain occasion Garibaldi said, "King Victor is o king like another, but, verily nobble as we are." Don Pedro's action shows that he is a monarch unlike the common run of kings. Neither he nor we have forcotten that he was sompelled to abdicate, not by his people, but by a military pronunciamen(o. Risbop Key immortalized himself with me by telling the Missouri Conference not to hurry ; that he would be with them till Friday next, if need be. Let 11s be done with hurrying our L'onfcrenee sessions to premature adjournment.?Rev. \V. S. Woodard. Congress adjourned at 'J P. JL, Wednesday. 1st in>t., until the first Monlay in December, closing the first session of tlie l'"ifty-Hr>t Congress. During the session ihe Senate met for ?.'4 lays, against 15)7 days in the Fiftieth L'ongress, which terminated on Oct. 20, l.VvS. The text books in China are the anio they were two thousand years igo. They have no *'new and revis Hi" editions. I The Rev. Cure DeCary, of St. He^J i, Quebec, .says the failure of rops in the Province of (Quebec, ?aused by the wrath of God dirc^^HJ igainst the blasphemy, internperaHflH jxtravagauce, and lust of the pe^HH Anti-lottery bill provisions cx^HH :o Church fairs where there are pBH )f any sort, or games of chance.