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VOL. 8 NO. G
Resignation.
There is no flock, howtwr watched and tended,
But one dead limb is there !
There is no firetide, howsoeer defended,
Bat has one vacant cLiir 1
The air is fnll of farewell's to the dying.
And mournings for the dead;
The heart. of Rachel, for her children crying,
Will tot be comforted !
Let us bi patient ! These severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise,
Bat oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
We see but dimly throcph the mists and vapors
Anjid these earthly damps;
Wbat setm to us sad fuDer! tapers,
May be heaven's distant lamps.
There is no Death ! Wbnt st erns so is transition ;
This life of mortal breath I
Is but a suburb of the life ellsian,
Whose portals we call death.
She is not dead the child ofj our affection
But gone unto that school
Where she no longer ufcrisotir poor protection,
And Christ Himclf doth rule.
In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Saf from teniptntion. safw from sin's pollution,
She lives, whom we call dead.
Day after day we think what she is doing
In those bright realms of air;
Year after year, her tender stej.s pursuing,
Behold iier grown more lair.
Thus do we walk with her and keep unbroken
''.The bond which nature gives,
Thinking that our remembrance, tho unspoken.
May reach her where she lives.
And though at times impetuous with emotion
And anguish long suppressed,
The swelling heart heaves moaning like the
ocean,
That cannot be at rest.
We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
I We may not wholly stay;
By silence sanctifying, hot concealing,
The grief mat must nave wiv.
Her Child's Cry.
From Belgravia.
The story I have to tell ia so verv
alight, the incidents are so very home
ly, and the people whom it concerns are
so ordinary, that more than once I have
taken np a pen to bejin it and put
down the pen apain beside the virgin
page. If I attempt a mere nurration
of fact, without adding color or emo
tion, the interest of a reader is likely
soon to flag, and he may probably re
sent finding in a publication where he
expects subjective fiction in narratives,
a simple and literal account of things,
people, and events such as he is accus
tomed to meet in the columns of a
newspaper. As I have determined to
go on, I hope I over-estimate the dan
ger. And now for what I have to tell:
I live in the S- W. district of London,
and when I take the train for town
Loughborough Junction is the most
cpnveoient station. One dull, heavy
chiy in the October of last year I book
ed at Loughborough for Ludgate Hill,
and took my seat in a third-class car
riage of a South-western train. It was
neither for economy nor for "the pride
that apes humility " that I traveled
third class; but my business obliges me
to spend most of my time alone, and
when I have an opportunity of getting
among people, it is good for my busi
ness that I should see and hear as
many of my fellow-creatures hb possi
ble. Hence I prefer the frequently
changing crowd of a third-class car
riage to the thinly-masked solitude of a
higher class.
On this occasion the carriage in which
I found myself had only shoulder-high
compartment partitions, bo that one
could see from end to end. There were
iu all seven or eight persons present,
and I was in the last compartment but
one, with my back to the engine, and
in the right-hand corner as I sat.
For a few minutes I engaged myself
in observing the five or six people scat
tered up aud down the major portion
in front of me. Then looking over my
shoulder I found that the compartment
nearest to the engine contained only a
woman with a young baby iu her arms.
She was sitting wilb her back to mine.
Owing to the violence of the wrench I
had to give my neck in order to see her,
my glance was brief; but while it lusted
I caught sight of an expression such as
I had never before seen on a human
face, an expression which so affected
my curiosity and wonder that after al
lowing a litlle time to elapse, and just
as we reached Walworth road, I shifted
myself to the other end of the seat on
which I sat, and, throwing my arm care
lessly over the shoulder-high partition,
looked long at the pair. In the sense
that a surprising revelation may fasci
nate any one, I was fascinated.
There was uo need to fear my long
stare might disturb the woman. I
knew by the way the woman held the
baby that it was. asleep, I could not
see the face of the child. The mother
held it close to her bosom and bent her
own head low over it. Although I
could hear uo word of hers, when the
train stopped, her lips moved slowly,
paused awhile, and then: went over
again the very same phrases. At length
I learned the unspoken words of the
passion-weary lips: I j ; '
"'My darling! My baby son! My
own! My .own!" ,
Mother's ordinary words, bait to what
an unutterable accompaniment of pose
and look !
Without being deformed or hideous,
shewas without exception the ugliest
womar I ever saw. There was nothing
loathsome,, repulsive,- or malignant iu
her face, but it was completely ugly.
The skin was dark and coarse in tex
ture. ., f.The forehead was, ragged at the
temples, the' bair at the right-hand side
of the parting grew an' inch lower down
than at the other, and the upper por
tion of the-forehead projected at the
line of the hair. , The nose was thin at
the point, upturned, splay where it met
the face, sharply sunken where it joined
,thfl forehead,. afc the bridge, and mall
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for the other features. The cheeks
were heavy and livid, differing in color
from the rest of the face only by having
a few blotches. The mouth was I&rge,
with prominent thick lips that never
closed neatly and that always remained
heavily apart and leaning outward
when motionless. The chin was ' long
and feeble. I did not see the eyes;
they never ,for one moment were re
moved from the sleeping infant.
My darling I My baby Bon ! My
own 1"
Did ever any other heart yearn so
overwhelmingly over any other being!
Was this a new manner, a higher, more
intense form of maternal love? Aud
i had all else of that kind which I had
seen been only the prelude to this im
periid theme of passion? , .
Although the chin was.yvgaJk.jthe ex
pression" of the whole "lace indicated
strength, but strength irregular and of
uncertuiu action. The eyes might hold
the key to the whole face.
''My darling ! My baby son! My
own ! My owe V
These words, beyond all doubt, wen)
the clue to her whole nature. That
child, beyond all doubt, was the acme
of her present life. She was as uncon
scious of the presence of any strangers
us though she sat alone with her child
under a paltn tree in the oasis of an
ocean of sand.
" Ludgate Hill ! Ludgate Hill !"
The train stopped and I got up. She,
to", rose with a shudder.
"My darling 1 My baby son ! My
own ! My own 1"
I left the carriage, and in doing so
noticed that she had some difficulty in
opening the door. I turned the handle
for her, and assisted her to alight. She
looked up: -
" Thank you, Sir."
Dep-set, blue-gray eyes with strange
red points of fire in them, like sparks
of glowiug charcoal seen through damp
gluss.
Her left hand and arm swathed the
baby to her bosom. The hand lay vis
ible and bare; on the third finger was
a wedding ring.
Who had woed arid won this woman
whoso sheer uncomeliness would be
enough to shame all tender words, turn
awry all tender glances ? And how
wasit that she whose appearance scout
ed the thought that auy man could
seek love of her, for her appearance had
nevertheless reached tho crown of wo
man's dreatiis, motherhood, and vet
had room for nothing iu her heart but
the one cry:
"My darling! My own 1"
She was not a widow The child
could have been no more than a few
mouths old, and she wore no widow's
weeds. And yet he whose coming with
the words of endearment must have
beeu au apocalypse of delight had al
ready faded into nothing, passed out
of her heart, leaving no trace of his im
age behind, not even in the face of the
child, for her eyes did not seek behind
the baby for his likeness. It was only,
" My own ! My own !"
I confess that all the day I waR
haunted by the face of this woman. I
could not get it out of my mind. When
I read, it came between my eyes and
the page. In the street I found rajself
looking for it among the crowd. I kept
saying to myself the words indicated
by tho lip6 but never breathed by the
voice.
I was detaiped in town nntil a late
hour. In the evening I met a friend,
Dr. Robert William Baird, of Buxton.
I invited him to supper, and wt turned
into a restaurant in the Strand.
After supper we lit cigars. I thought
I noticed a look of painful pre-occupa-tion
on his face. "Has anything un
pleasant happened?" I asked; "yon
seeru out of sorts."
He shook himself, smiled, and ronsed
up. "Oh, dear, uo! Nothing the mat
ter. I did not know I was looking
blue. To tell you the truth, I was
thinking of a very unpleasant scene I
witnessed to-day. You know Langton,
the solicitor."
"No."
" Michael Seymour Langton, you
know?"
" His name, no more."
"A good fellow. A great friend of
mine; you must know him some day.
Well, I looked in at his office to-da3'.
He's always up to his eyes in work, but
unless he has a client with him, he's
always glad to 6ee a friend. One of
those free-and-easy, good-hearted fel
lows, w'hq, without making you feel a
bit uncomfortable, will tell you to be
off the moment be wants you to go, so
that yon need never be afraid of doing
him grievous bodily harm by staying a
while if he'll let von." ,
"Well?" .
" Exactly. But I can't help telling
you about him, he's such a capital fel
low. You and he shall dine with me
next Sunday. Eh?" ,
" All right as far as I'm concerned;
but about the incident or scene?"
" Qu.te so. Sit down, be said, ' sit
down, old man.' Then looking at his
watch, he said, If you've got five or
ten minutes to spare, IU show you the
most perfect development of the genus
scoundrel that I ever met.' j
" I had the five minutes to spare, and
moreover I always am open to make a
sacrifice, if by so doing I can get a
glimpse at anything superlatively good
or bad; my liking for you, to illustrate
wbat I say, arises from your superla
tive badness. ;i: f jfj ,j :t
" All right, Baird ; but t for goodness
sake go on;",,: said I a little petulantly,
I fear, for I was not a very jocular hu
mor, and ' the exuberant garrulity . of
the good little doctor jarred against my
nerves." ' ' - i " ' . ' ;
; : My dear fellow, you know my mot
to, i ' slow and pare,' ; Too can never
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IT JIUSH AND SHALL BE PRESERVED. TAxMtrw Jacxsos.1
C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1Q, 1879.
i get the real flavor out of ' a 6tory or
port by gulping ltuown. Taste it cu
riously, and yon fill your, whole body
from your forehead to your feet with
delight, especially p the case of port-7
when it's good."
I expostulated only by a sigh.' I
knew hnn thoroughly. Had I expostu
lated in words, he would have broken
out into further digression.
" Well," he resumed, after a few sol
emn puffs at his " cigar, I waited.
Now,' Raid Langford. A knock sound
ed at the door, aud a man eutered. At
first I thought Langton had made a
false diagnosis of his ' visitor, for any
thing less scoundrelly than the appear
ance of the man I never saw. He was
of the medium height, well made, hand
some,
with light blue eyes, straight
nose, btraiglU, mouth, clear complexion,
and a most winning and disarming
Ktiiile. He appeared to be about thirty
eight years of nge. His mustache aud
whiskers were brown, and the well
shaved chin was very firm and clean iu
outline. Upon the whole an exceed
ingly proper man, and one, I thought,
likely to be very popular aiuoug the
ladies; in no way like you, my dear
Milton.
"Well, he came into the room wUb
a bow aud a smile, boldiug his hat
across his waistcoat in a most genteel
mauner thus, j For a moment be seem
ed in doubt as io whether he and Lang
ton were to shake hands 'or not, aud,
to tell you the truth, I thought it both
rude and painful for Langton to thrust
his hands so emphatically into his
trousers pockets aud straddle over the
hearth-rug as he did.
" ' Mr. Langton,' said the stranger,
in a very soft and winning voice, ' I
have come, as you know, on my wife's
and my own business. You remember
me ? I am Antony Ryland.
" ' Be assured I remember you," au
swered Laugton in a most impolite
tone, and with a most scandalously
nnprofepsional emphasis on the word
you. Uhy, that much impolite em
phasis on a pronoun in the second per
son would ruin a first-class medical
practice, I tell you. We have strych
nine and prussia acid in the pharma
copoeia, but impolite emphasis is a
thing unkuowu to the faculty," said
Baird, drawing his waistcoat blowly
with his left baud, and solemnly raising
his glass with his right, keeping his
cigar between the fingers of his left
hand tho while, and looking into my
face with malicious deliberation.
"For goodness sake! go on, Baird,
and drop vonr hideous attempts at hu
mor t"
" Impetnousyonth," he apostrophized
me, " of forty ! do we not dilute all
good things with something useless
or stup d, to-wit, whiskey with water,
laudanum with aqua,, life with sleep
ing" " Health with medicine, and hope
with Baird," I cried. ' But do go on."
He paused a moment, then spilled a
few drops from hi glass, held it out
from him, aud 6aid m a tone of sup
pressed enthusiasm. " I pour and drink
to Walter Melton's precocious smart
ness. Bless the antique boy 1"
" Waiter: two more."
" And to his noble hospitality," cried
the litre man, with a mischievous
twinkle, ns he emptied his glass.
Wei ," resumed Baird, with a 6igb,
as though the duty of narration press
ed heavily upon him, " Langton in
creased the base of the isosceles trian
gle his legs made with the hearth-rug
and said, You have come for the pur
pose of meeting your wife, and trying
to induce her to make over on you
money which otherwise will go to that
child. Is not'lhat so ?'
" I thought L .ngtou's manner simply
brutal.
"'Sir,' said Rjlaud, glancing from
Langtou to me, we are not alone.' H
did not 6how' the least sign of haste or
temper,-but smiled as gently as though
I were bis sweetheart, aud he were
asking me to withdraw in order that
papa and he might talk over the busi
ness aspect of his successful love-suit.
" I rose to go, but Langton turned
sharply upon me and said, ' Neither I
nor my client has sought this interview,
neither I nor my client desires secrecy.
If it does not answer ithe purpose of
this man that you should be present
he can go. I desire, Baird, that you
remain." i
" By George, Melton, bat I thought
there would be blood. Langton's voice
was full of threat and command; sit
down I must and did.
" At that moment the door opened
and a woman carrying a baby in her
arms came in. Indeed,, she was one of
the plainest women I ever saw. She
wore a hideous cold green plaid shawl
and an old yellow straw bonnet trimmed
with faded violet ribbons."
" Eh r
" Cold green plaid shawl, old yellow
straw bonnet with faded blue or violet
ribbons. Why did yoa stop me ?"
" Was her complexion bad and her
nose sunken much below the forehead
at the bridge T"
"Yes; at least I think so. Give me
a moment. ': It was." ,V
" Ami she held the child to her bosom
aa though it were part of her own body
that felt cold and needed all the beat
of lier arms and her bosom ?'
" All fond mothers bold tin ir babies
so. Do you know ber V
" Was the: bair on ber forehead ir
regular?! Did it4 grow lower, much
lower, at one side than at. the other??
f Yea, it did. Did? yoa ever meet
ner f: ::,y) . ,t: r .V." !, u' I''- -
" She was in the carriage I came by i
to-day.-; Go- on.--.-. us 13
: When the woman saw Ryland she
shnddered and drew the child closer
to her, : J. was watching, every , more
ment and look most closely. Langton
went to her spoke to ber, and taking
Derby the band led her to a seat with
as. much , gallantry and deference as
though abe were the finest woman and
the' 'first lady in London. Ryland
stood io? the middle of the room with
one band on the back of a chair and
the other still holding , his hat in front
of bia waistcoat. He bowed and smiled
faintly as she crossed the room; be
yond that, he did not move; wAfter
the first look she never glanced to
ward him again during the whole inter-
" After a few words by Langton in a
low voice to the woman, to jwhich she
made no reply, he sat down at his writing-table
and spoke out: " : '
" . Mrs. Ryland, of ; the money . you
inherited from your great-uncle from
Jamaica, four month after your mar
riage, you liave ""already assTgued away
to this man half, or about two thousand
five hundred pounds, on the condition
that he was to keep away from you
forever. This money having been left
to your private use in such a manner
that he could have no claim whatever
on a penny of it, although he is your
husband you, against my advice, made
over to him the money of that fortune.
He been gambling agaiu, and it is
all gone '
" ' Operating on the Stock Ex
change," put in Ryland, in a soft voice,
as though more desirous to keep state
ments accurate than to shield or excuse
himself.
" ' One-half of your fortune has been
gambled away, and this man now
wishes to have the opportunity of dissi
pating " ' Of operating with ' broke inRy
laud. " Of dissipating more of if. Your
decision a decision which has my full
concurrence is that you retain the
money for yourself and your child, and
that if he give any further trouble,
you seek a divorce on the ground of
cruelty.
" ' But I shall get back all I have lost
if I can command only another thous
and. Only a thousand. There will
still be some left for her and the boy,
and I shall win all back.'
" ' Not, with my approval, one penny,'
said Langton, hotly.
" ' But I have the right I am her
husband.'
" ' We won't discuss law with yon.
Mrs. Ryland declines to give you the
money. The law is open to all. 1 Yoa
can appeal to it if you please. That is
your answer. You cau leave nows; . !
" ' But I, too, want to secure some
thing for our "son,' said Ryland. rHfs
face was now deadly pale, and I saw
his fingers tighten and whiten on the
brim of his hat until the brim was
crushed flat against the side. The
pleasant smiles were all gone now, and
a deadly sinister leer covered his hand
some features. His blue eyes were
glassy and cold, and his lips fell back
from his white teeth 1 ke a coward's at 1
bay.
" ' Out at once !' cried Langton,
springing to his feet angrily, and I do
believe he would have used violence
had not Ryland hasily withdrawn, clos
ing the door very softly after himself.
" ' There was a long silence. Lang
ton remained standing by his table,
the woman sat bending over her child
and holding it against her with both
her arms aud both her thin hands, the
fingers outspread that the protecting
and cherishing hand might toucu the
most of the loved surface.
to be continued.
Commissioner MtCotmlrk'i Vlvr of tlko
FarU EzpocitloB.
Ex-Gov. McCormick, United States
commissioner-general to the Paris ex
position, who arrived at New York
lately, says the American machinery
on exhibition was eagerly sought after
and brought good prices. The only
locomotive in the American exhibit
went to Italy, while the large Whee
lock engine was not only purchased to
remain in France, but the makers sold
the royalty for its manufacture in that
country for a very large sum. Exten
sive orders were taken by a Philadel
phia firm for cold pressed nuts and
bolts, and these came from nearly every
country in Europe. In almost every
case the exhibitors of machinery are
highly pleased with their success in in
troducing their goods and the orders
which they have received. In many
other branches of American ' industry
the exhibitors were well repaid for their
trouble, and Commissioner McCormick
states that' the French officials assured
him of their great satisfaction with the
American exhibit, and their belief that
it wonld have an extensive political and
commercial effect in France.. Of the
137 paintings sent over 12 only were
sold. When asked as to his opinion
of the Paris exposition as compared!
with our own Centennial, he replied
that in the general arrangement of the
buildings and grounds he considered
the American Centennial much the su
perior. In the display of costly fabrics
and - rich artistic works, however, be
believed the Paris exposition to be the
greatest the world-baa yet seen. While
the American department was not ac
large as it would have been had Con
gress taken earlier action, yet it was a
good exhibit, and attracted much at
tention. It ' was the largest and best
American exhibit ever seen in Europe,
and received more medals than the
entire number of exhibitors at the ex
hibition of 1867. r ' - ' 1 J.
It: The widow of Tom Smith, the. en
gineer who was killed by an accident
on the Air Line. Railroad in November,
1877, has sued the company for $25,0C0
damages, and will in all probability
recover a portion of that atnoant, . --
WHOLE NO; 3G7,
Mi's,
Jciiktt mid the Potterites.
THE JOKE SHE TUtTED OX THE TEK.EE NEW
OKLEAKS " GENTLEMEN, 'WHO, DAT1NO
T0CND AN ENVELOPE ADDRESSED-TO HEU,
PBOCXEXEX AX DSCX . TO EfTESTIQATE ITS
CONTENTS. ; , . . . . ?s
From the Kev-Orliss Plcaycna. j
n Mrs. Agnes D. Jenks has again com
mitted one of Xhose littla eccentricities
which have dope so ranch to give btr a
national reputation. The story runs,
as told by the witnesses before the com
mittee,' that on the 19th day of Septem
ber .last Mrs. Jenks unexpectedly , ap
peared at the establishment of, Messrs.
Elkin & Co., and informed Mr. HT"W.
Lloyd, one of the salesmen, ; that'she
desired to inspect some carpets, mat
ting, &c, with a view to the purchase
of whatever might suit her delicate
fancy. It would seem Mr. Lloyd at
once Tect-fgpfrcd his fair cnstomer. prob
ably from the portraits of her publish
ed in the illustrated papers, bat noth
ing daunted by this knowledge, he dis
played to her criticising gaze all his
available stock of goods. Apparently
Mrs. Jenks was much gratified by what
she 6a w, and before takiDg her depar
ture informed the zealous salesman she
would return in a few days and make
some purchases. When Mrs. Jenks
left, Mr. Lloyd retired to the back por
tion of the store and entered into an
animated conversation with Mr. Thom
as L. Raymond, a fellow-employe, the
subject disenssed, no doubt, being the
visit of Mrs. Jenks.
Twenty minutes after Mrs. Jenks had
departed from the store the fourth per
son in the comedy about to be enacted
appeared Mr. Maloney, another at
tache of the Elkin establishment. Mr.
Maloney, whileJ engaged in replacing
the goods which had been shown; to
Mrs. Jenks, discovered, strangely
enough, au envelope behind a bale cf
matting, the said envelope being direct
ed to " Mrs. Agnes D. Jenks." It never
occurred to Mr. Maloney that if the en
velope had been accidentally dropped
it would have been in front instead of
behind the bale of mattings, inasmuch
as it would have been impossible for a
person to drop the package without
putting a hand half way round the
matting.
jMr. Maloney, convinced that he had
made a discovery at least equal to any
thing of EdisonV, informed his col
leagues, Raymond and Lloyd, of what
he had done in the following enthusias
tic words: "See here boys! I've found
a bonanza here's a document address
ed to Mrs. Jenks." To relieve the strain
upon the reader's curiosity, it must be
mentiooed, this " bonanza" of Mr. Ma
loney has yielded him exactly $2, the
amount the Sergeant-at-Arms handed
over to him yesterday in consideration
of his attendance on the Potter Com
mittee. After Messrs. Lloyd, Raymond, and
Maloney had examined the mysterious
documents found in Mrs. Jenks' envel
ope, these gentlemen were convinced
they were iu possession of the most
startling information. What they found
in the envelope consisted of sundry aud
various notes aud telegrams from indi
viduals to Mrs. Jenk8aud her husband.
The most important document, though,
was worded precisely like the original
so-called " Sherman letter," and more
over, had appended to it the talismanic
name " John Sherman." j
To shorten the Btory, it is only neces
sary to add the discoverers, jinking
themselves in possession of the "Sher
mau letter," had it photographed, and
sent to Mr. Potter a batch of affidavits
relating to the whole occurrence; Yes
terday they told their tale to the Pot
ter committee, and. although eacn 01
the three gentlemen is most modest iu
bearing, it was quite evident to a disin
terested observer that they were satis
fled their announcements would create
a genuine national sensation. Proba
bly thev were not far wrong in their
supposition, but the sensation will not
arise from their discoveries, but from
the discovery of the committee that the
three centlemen were the victims of a
practical ioke of Mme. Jenks. The
whole affair was turned into a farce,
when Chairman Potter announced that
the so-called "Sherman letter" pro
duced was spurious, and of no political
value whatever. .
A CtrRibTJS S0PEKsnnos The New
York Times says: "The Cathedral of
Cologne, the largest, and in many re
spects also the most magnificent monu
ment of Gothic architecture, has, from
the very day when its. comer-stone was
laid, been the centre of many enrions
superstition. .Thus, the- peasants in
the neighborhood of Cologne still main
tain that it will never be finished, be
cause it was the devil himself who drew
np the plan of it; and now, just as it
actually approaches its completion
thanks to the steam saw, the. steam
hammer and the steam pulley- Prof.
Heine, from Zurich, steps forward and
declares that, even : if it be! completed
within ten years,' it is .sure, to tumble
down again before the . centnry ; runs
out, because the stone of which its
fonndation'i8 made, and which was ta
ken from the'neighboringDracfaenfelfv
is undergoing a ehemical change which
rapidly destroys it .- The .peasants nod
to each other and say. . fWe knew it
all along, and they find a further con
firmation of the truth of their tales in
the recent roiehaps with the great bell.
It was made from cannons taken in the
France-German ' war,; and was the
greatest bell in Germany, but when
with Immense exertions' it was brought
into its place, it gave oat not an awful
and solemn boom but a fium so ludi-
! crously screeching thai it had . to be
taken down sjrain. ,
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Coort Notions hi wka 17.00; lAgktnt
foox week M in kilranra .- .? -j
AthuinUtrators noticr, dx vttlkt, , flfjQ
la advance. 1 - 1 ,
; Yearly adveruWmect changed fp&rfcdyjf 4f
TVtut lrwtlA-Ttti r7Ui hfa)
vaiw.
The Slipper Report ? v
tx" 3ok Tixota, - f .
The rapidity with which rtafea?
of Haf istics does its work is aJairaLLi.
It is not a full week nirfrfl VeJTV
day, nor "a full for! nigLITnce Christ
mas, and yet thffbrrrraala able tbphb
lisb its annual clerical slipper VenoVli,
which include complete; retaraa.fron
nearly every ProteUot minuter io Lb
United States, of whatever denomina
tion. Were it not that the presentation
of slippers is a ceremony net reergntz
edby the Church of Rome, tbe report
would, of course, have ioclucjed a still
greater aggregate of rlipperw Vnd the
task of preparing it would have" been
proportionately greater.?. u When it As
remembered thai the L7, IS" ministers
mentioned in this import are' scattered
over an entire continent, and that tb
of .cAch.oi)eof them bare been
accurately enumerated, an approximate
idea of the enormous work done by the
bureau can be formed. 3 ti:J
The total number of clerical slipper
presented during tho holiday season
which has just ended, is 887,215. Thee
figures represent single slippersMdT
not pairs, as might be hastily im?ntfl
the bureau having been compelled, to
take cognizance of single, slippers only
in consequence of the fact that "there
is a number of one-legged Qiiistirfc
who are never preseoted with tidre
thsn one slipper ;ai a time. iXfca-if
we divide the figure giving in the re
port by two, and assume that they 'rep
resent 443,607 pairs of slippet-and
only one solitary single slipper, jwsjqay
well bo startled atthe immense propor
tions to which clerical slipper presenta
tion has arrived. The previous report
showed that 717.C03 single dippers
aura nroconicrl ilnnnn ...
son of 187C-7, or 169,707 less thaa ths'
number mentioned in the' present, re
port. A like increase next year 3 irfll
bring more than a million Vhppers to
the parsonages of our Jan 6, andit is
probable that the number will fallliUIe,
if any short of 1,200,000.'
The number of Protestant ministers
among whom these slippers were, di
vided is 67,418. This gives an average
of about thirteen slippers to each min
ister. Of course, there 'was rio-sdeh
impartial distribution. While the -ops-legged
Methodist minister at Grand
Rapids, Washington Territory "recefvd
a solitary Blipper, made of 3 birch-bark
by an aboriginal parishioner, the for
tunate Bishop of a New England dio
cese received seventy-three pairs. The
latter was the highest n amber of slip
pers received by any one 'clergyman,
though a Methodist paster, in Chicago
and a Cumberland Presbyterian . in
Louisville, who received respectively
seventy-one aud seventy pairs, were
but little behind. About three-sevenths
of all ministers received two and three
pairs each, thus . leaving an jenorvoos
quantity to be distributed, among the
other four-sevenths. It will 'no ( escape
the notice of students rof' the report
that Baptist ministers receive !nv pro
portion fewer slipplers .'than ministers
of other denomInatioHs."Ths, however,
is easily explained upon the tborythat
the love and admiration of their flocks
are expressed mainly in the shape of
water-proof boots which latter articles
cannot, of course, be included siaOng
ftlmrM fctatifttica.
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A new feature has been added to the
report this year, which miicb increases
its interest. This is a ; elasificatioa of
the slippers in accordance with ' their
patterns. Thus, there are ecclesiasti
cal slipper," or elippers bearing- ecclesi
astical emblems, such as" crosses -and
open Bibles; "slippers of ; then afieo
tions," upon which ; hearts, , clasped
7 " ,,
broidered; and textual spperi,"',
which are ornamented with the chap
ter and verse of some " particular text;
as, for example, " Luke ' Xcviu.T17'
Apparently,, slippers of this: kind are
rtrpRpnfpd rViJpfl v tr nnmarruul mrnia.
ters, since the majority pf them refer
to texts inculcating the duty of mar
riage. Motto slippers are evidently
no less than ,2,170 ; slippers - bore the ;
legend "Bless onr Pastor." ;Axnong
" miscellaneous slippers,", a pair which
were embroidered with 'a beautiful
picture of Daniel in the - lion V'deiri
mentioned, and it is . to 1 be regretted
that the artist, owing to want pf space,
was compelled to pat the lions, on one
slipper and Daniel on ' the other; , thru
seriously interfering1 with J.be tici ty of
the desiirn. i. I Lua y''m;t uAt j
Howard Jones, who, has beea
operating the old Silver Hill xIz5, ia
Davidson county - has: struck svbig
bonanza. The old shaft,. 700 feet 'dsap,
recently caved in for-abont forty feet
on either side, revealing a'cew irsin of
silver ore eleven .feet, wide, very -neb,
which is now being worked sod trhich
produces ore .right straight along which
is worth three hundred dollars' per ton.
This is the biggest thing jet ia XTcrth
Carolina mining.: .hL ?i w cJw
As a snow-plow,' driven : by toj to-
ginea, was pusLmg tnrcmga taa.snaw
on the New; York. Qexitrslriulroadacear
Bats via, on -Monday, four engines, Jsxs
the track and xto of them., it u Clid,
expiociea. jrre nreman, caxneu xnos.
Lawlers, wss caught 'under aa engine,
cod his leg bad. to be cat off ia-crfer
to, extricate him, , It is believed fce.will
die. " Five others were injured more or
ICS K liS L-'t Uii' i .1 l IjiLiKtU . ...
The collect Ion s of Internal IiTenne
ia tbe 1 foor tu; ( luieib) , cismcr, zor
thej quarter tending ..Decx31;-t 1S78, .
amounted to. $215.407.00., The re
ceipts" for the1 year 1878, "were $373,-
Dr. Harris has established a raed;cil
school at Chapel Hill.
100, MM IIS 00
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