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Hero-worship, heartfelt, pros trate admiration, submission, ' libing, boundless, for a nobler God-like form of man is not that the germ of Christianity te(Carlvl. r ' V The greatest of 'all the myste- , rieSgpf life, and th most terrible, is the corruption oi eve the slncerest religion ! . which is not loun ed on rational, effec- tive, humble- an helpful action. . .. Rusifn.1 i My patriotism lives and flatters asa ssntiment unless I know that the . land I love is realty making 'by its con stant life, a contribution of the right--. eoasness and progress of the world. Phillips Brooks: : - : r "Eygry man - according; to his i ability.' Not " every man according to p his mood or fancy, but every man ac cording to his ability. .Not every man according to other people's giving, or other peqple's ability, but every man according) to his. ability. How well jcaredlor thepoor brethren would be it r- this were the recognized standard of giving fn . Trumbull. the church to-dav! H. 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An Englishman Who Thinks It Would Bo Profitable to Make s Technical Compar ison Between Vlacount Wolseley mma ' Bomlan and French General, j j ; I do not know the new commander In chief of the English land f orces I saw him once or twice in zny-lifV.bnt this is many years ago, and in military matters of the magnitude involved in the supreme command of a great army j am afraid I should prove an incomper lent critic. ut I believe to a great ex- Inhysiognomy, and if Viscount Wolseley baTrofe-aJtery clever man ne hxurVit tn hrinsr an aetionforlibelagainst his face, for he looks deoidedly clevei If there were any doubt in j my mind aTjont his ability, it would be set atrest by the not very enthusiastic remarks in connection with his appointment I read in one or two French newspapers. "You are an irritable people, envious, jealcus and proud to a degree," said Bismarck to General de Wimpffen on 'Sept, 1, 1870. ."You are an irritable people en vious, .jealous and proud to a degree," he repeated. "You were under thei im pression that victory is an appendage which was exclusively reserved to you. " Has the quarter of a century gone by since those words were uttered made a difference in that respect in the French people? I should not like to say. . ; : i - It may not be altogether uninterest ing to Jook at the two men against whom the English commander in chief will be pitted if a quarrel should ever unhappily break forth in Europe. I am alluding to the commanders in chief of the Russian and the French forces, f ! The ' Russian army contains several men of unqnestionable.capacity ; never theless, there appears to be a consensus of opinion that, in the event of war, with no matter whom, the supreme command would virtually devolve upon General Obroutcheff, to the; exclusion even of General Kouropatkine. I say virtual command, for, nominally, young Nicholas would be at the head of his legions. ' f . -J ' !' Having declared myself at the outset incapable of judging the English com mander in chief from a. military point of view, I am not going to stultify my self by endeavoring -to 'do this in the case of Obroutcheff. I only repeat what I have heard. Until very recently the chief of Vannowski's staff ' and Aid-decamp General Obroutcheff was, in -spite of his recognized talents, looked askance at in Russian military circles. The jepithet "red" was invariably tacked to his name as late as 15 years ago, and the third section of the imperial chan cellerie, without troubling to inquire into the matter, placed him on the list pf "dangerous" men "to be watched very closely. " A note like that from the Russian police becomes .practically indelible, and; aid-de-camp general though he was, not the slightest attempt was made to efface his name from the list. After his exploits on the Danube Loris Melikoff' drew the attention of Alexander. II to this apparently flagrant injustice, to this permanent insult.: The name was maintained on the -list for all that, but the epithet was changed from ''red" into "well meaning.? Obroutcheff has married a French woman, and is a declared partisan oi suDDosed to be of -an alliance with France. His views in that respect date from r 1870, when he was an obscure general I repeat, abtiut his abilities there is little or no doubt. After the first checks fn the Turko-Russian cam paign he was sent in hot haste to the Danube, and he is credited with having saved the Russian army from total de struction, j Before that, though, he had already become the intimate friend of the heir to the throne, and- the friend ship underwent no diminution during Alexander Hi's reign. i s wnerever tne scene oi tne next Eu ropean campaign of the French may be laid, General Felix Gustave Saussier, the present military governor of Paris, is beforehand designated as the leader. Saussier is close upon 70. In 6pite ol his large Size he is veryactive, but zqi that size he would give, one the idea of a mousquefaira of the Louis. XTV period J , j - m- . Jl - m, , . uressuu in niwiernuuuorm. xnere is nc doubt about his value as a soldier, which does not always mean an equal value as a supreme commander, but ii is fair to state that in the battles around Metz, a quarter of a century ago, he distinguished himself most, signally. The famous infantry charge at Sti Pri vat, which practically barred the prog ress oi the Germans on that side, was led by him. ' . j j Saussier-was one of the officers whe signed the protest against the surrender of Metz. Having refused to nledsre him self not to serve again during the cam paign, be was sent as prisoner of war to Cologne; Nor would he give his prom ise not to escape, consequently he was transported to a small town on the Vis- vL - tula (Grandenz, I believe J. and abso- lntely sequestrated without effect, for he made his escape after alL i ! He allowed Gambetta to remain ig norant of all this, as well as of his re publican origin, and the "great trib une," whose infallible instinct 'has been vaunted so much, only looked upon Saussier as a colonel pf the empire and treated him as such. ! After that Saus sier went once more to Algeria. Saus sier I should say, has had more fight ifgthan any general in the French ar my, but it would be rash- to say that this' made him a strategist . Alhril. liant soldier he .was and is still, in spite, of his age, and as he was barely 40 when Prance suffered her reverses he may ha7e profited by them. To many in Fiance herself he is an unknown quantity. These are the two men a com parison with whom and Viscount Wols ley it would be profitable to establish, but I mean a technical comparison. X-cud'TO Illustrated News, " . f f He Expressed His Opinion, i ' One of the most prominent fihyslolans In Washington owns a farrh somewhere in wew n.ngiaDa, and whenever he gets un- DcaraDiy tired ol bis fashionable patients In town ho goes there, puts on his 'oldest clotnes, lays In . a stock of corncob pipes and rusticates. One day last summer he was jogging lazily along a country road in a rlokety old cart drawn by a horse almost as rickety. 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One mellow evoning in eea&? auamn there sat looking out to sea, with sad and anxious races, waiter uuwireii nuu his bride. , , . . : f'And so, Wtiltor," murmurea trie gi "ttere is no hope of your father relenting? Walter, I have been cruelty elfish, and you, my darling, should not have saorl-. ficed so muoh for me." ' ' "Don't grieve, dearest. Bear up. The fate is hard, 'tis true, but better thus,-andf bo go forth ana struggle witn tne worm than to be separated. Gome, wo will meet the future bravely', and in America "there is no family pride to mar our happiness." i Walter Luttroll was. the only child of Sir Walter and Lady Luttroll, who looked upon alliances of their blood with all ex acting exolusiveness. i During a stimmer vacation in nisnm verslfcv career he had been the sole oceu- nantof his father's houso. She was the . . m , . - , t 1 . Tf.. grandchiiU oi nis iainor s gaiwKecper. no took his fate in his hand, and hushing or; evading ,all Maud's eoruples presented themselves before the rector of a distant parish and were wed, with tho proviso that the marriage should be kept a secret. But -almost the first guest who entered Hs father's halls after his parent's return was' no other than the kindiy rector wno - so recently had officiated. So tha decree went 4erth, ana W alter Luttrell, as a discarded, ' penniless man, bade adieu to the home oi -his ancestors and sought consolation in throve of . his plebeian bride. . : ! "T-" For seven or eight years I lost sight en tirely of the friend of my boyhood, and the story of his fortunes- never reaonetv nis. home. - His mother had died, and a gloom hung around the mansion, i I had long become a permanent resident of Jffew York- One wet, boisterous night I jumped on the front platform of a crowd-' ed street oar on my way home. I was alone with the driver, whose manner of talking to his horses as he stopped and started rather attracted my attention. "You don't appear exactly at home with this kind of driving," I remarked. "I am not a professional coachman," ho. replied, with an English accent. "Hew far do you go before you change off?" I inquired. . "I change close by, at the station." I got off and watched for' him as he came out again and turned to go home In the pelting, pitiless rain. Overtaking him, I stepped up, and slapping him on the shoulder exclaimed: . "Luttrell, how are yon, old boy?" "How came you to call! me that name?" he half angrily answered, starting back. My name is Loring but, by heavenl can it be? Oh, Frank, how glad I am to see you I" In an np stairs- room, in a dilapidated tenement, we found the bride of his youth, pale, but still: beautiful, huddling; close to her three little children.; i "My old college chum, Maud." he said, answering her inquiring glance. My first impulses was to get them out of their present wretched abode and into a respectable house until other arrange-,, ments could be made. I obtained for Walter some employment more befitting-his education, bnt as his prospects bore were by no moans flattering I struck upon another scheme that, if suc cessful, would aid him effectually. I was on the eve of making a periodical visit to a connection whose estates in Somerset shire adjoined those of ' Sir Walter, and I proposed to Walter and Maud to tako over with-rue their little son Walter and try if through the child a reconciliation could not be effooted. The little fellow and. I set sail and reached our destination without incident of any kind, and one bright summer morn ing I took him ' to pay my respects to. the old baronet. Of course, with his usual par tiality for children he petted the boy, who answered to his name Ayy previous tuition "Walter Henry," and I was encouraged to observe that the mention of tho namcy In conjunction with the little fellow's bright, swarthy face, sent a pang through his heart. ; "I was very harsh," he said, "to my Walter, and now his poor mother is gone I fool sadly alone in tho world. Would to God ho would write." And the miserable old man sighed as-he turned toward the lawn where tho little boy was playing! I saw at once that Sir "Walter's pride was the obstacio to a first concession, and stopping out on to tho lawn resolved to make our coup without delay. . " j ( I called tho ehild to mo and gave, him some flowers, with instructions to take them to tho baronet, and likewise what he', Was to say. Tho child approached his knee, and holding up his little face said: "Hero are some flowers for you, dear grandpapa." That one word was sufficient. The truth flashed through his mitid, and gathering him to his bosom tho old man cried over him as though ho was himself a crild. New York News. , j . . ' . : Agalnat Drinklns; at Meals. The reason why drinking should not ao oompany eating, but be Indulged in before or after, is, in the first place, because liquids are foods as well as solids, and re pasts must be kept as light as possible at all costs. But there is another reason: Dry repasts,- if light, lead to a loss of flesh, whereas tho same quantity of food, if it in clude liquids, is devoid of this effect.. It Is not easy to say why this should be. so, but the most probable explanation is that when only sollils are eaten the juiees of the body are called into action to a larger extent than otherwise, tn ordor" to further the process of digestion, whence a sensa tion of thirst is usually experienced. The body has thus lost more than the ordinary quantity of water, and! If this loss be not compensated by drinking it will be re? placed by the body itself, which will draw upon its superfluous fat for tho purpose. The fat is decomposed Into its elements, and combustion takes place. This; process commences about an ihour after! eating, and if drinking be deferred Until then it may be indulged in afterward with profit, Inasmuch as it promotes the very process which half an hour earlier it would have prevented. But in any case liquids must bo taken with as much moderation as solids. T-Good Housekeeping, i . - as Appreciative Englishman. At the theater, Toulon, that evening there was glyen one of those performances that seem to us Britishers intolerably te dious, if not irretrievably stupid a "play" in which gesticulation j takes the place of speech. Those dumb performances are not uncommon on the continent. Indeed I re member - having witnessed, even at tho palatial Opera Theater at Vienna, a dumb' performance entitled "Die Puppon Fee," out the tedium of this was relieved by the farcical incidents. Gentleman's Mags tine. j . A Feminine) Answer. A "Honor, bright now, Nellie, -why did yon marry Mr. (Jones? ' "Well, he's a good fellow. I rather, liked Mm, and he has plenty of money, and anoV, dear,- the way that Simpson girl liet everybody see she -was just dying to have him was just shamefuLj Now, I couldn't let her have him, could I? -Phila delphia Press. : Unutterable. 'Do yon not sometimes have soul. ful yearnings which; you long to con vey in words, but cannot?" asked the sentimental girl. j "Yes, indeed," replied, the young man. "I was once Dreadfully anxious to send home for money, and I didn't have the , price of j a telegram.'' Washington Star. I Acquired Dumbness., ' 1 Jaggs Is Blobbs dumb in his own house? I . , I Laggs Practically so. : Jaggs What's the matter? Laggs He promised his wife he would always listenrwhen she talked. Detroit Free Press. . - 'Tina . A Sleade Thread. Extract From Historical Tj-,t m tnose stormy times the fate of 0r- aany hrmg upon a slender thread, and um, sienaer tnread was Charles the Fab "IDIOT CHIVEBS!" c-. Pn.Hno ifcA statelv housekeeper of Tenrpleton Hall, looked at thed letters be fore her with A smile of satisfaction. The Bmile broadened as she glanced from these j to the trim, neatly dressed yonng woman who had brought them. yf f '" 'Yes, ma'am." ' s;; v " Rhn Ko modest wilta- , That was another of he strong recommendations in Mrs. Perkins eyes. She did. not assume the airs that some parlor molds would havo assumed who had been in tne service of a countess. , 1 '" . ".Wclli you can consider yourseu en gaged. Wbon con you comer "Let mo see, nam up nouiinmn "Wednesday will do very well, Harrier What is your other name?" "Doverton' Harriet lieverton. ximuik you, ma am, inauK you vuijr xuuu. nu. send my box on Tuesday night and begin my duties on Wednesday." , 1 Thtrt'O WaS a gOOa ClOai Ol couorawiuu m the servants' - quarters tnac evenme re specting the merits of the new parlor maid. But if the engagement of the new parlor maid caused o flutter of excitement thero was yet greater ercitemenii .manuoswxi next day, when "it was discovered that tho steward Sir Horace Tejnplcton, theowner of Tcmpleton Hall, wMaway at the time had engaged a newrooiman, wno was to commence bis duties simultaneously with the new parlor maid. , " As it happened, Chiyers, the newfoot- . , : j j., -i , . man, Qia not commence nis uuuos Bimui- taneously with Miss Harriet Ueverton, the new parlor moia. . ne arrivea Dy an earlier train. The first duty imposed upon him was an agreeable one to a gentleman of the gallantry of Mr. Chivers. He had to meet. Miss Beverton and conduct her to Templeton IIolL : - Chivers could not help aj glance of ad miration at Miss Beverton. If he, Chivers was 'smart, she was decidedly smarter. She was dressed with scrupulous neatness, and a well knit figure set off her attire to the best advantage I '' "Any box" he asked. "No; I sent it off yesterday." "Did you haw? That's a good thing because haw we can walk haw com fortable liko. Would you haw mind taking haw my arm?" What could Miss Beverton do? She could only do what, in. fact, she did place her arm coyly and confidingly within the gallant arm of Mr. Chivers. He was very proud of tho honor, hawed and hawed more than over, twirled his side whiskers more than ever and' glanced at her with more and more admiration. Miss Beverton had been installed in her new duties under the critical eye of Mrs. Perkins and had been so busy that it was past 9 p. in. and quite dark without when she ascended to her room for the purpose, as she 'explained to her fellow domestics, of "turning a few things out of her box." She unlocked her box with a curious smile. She lifted up a quantity of straw and took from under it a jimmy, a num ber of skeleton keys, a revolver and a pair of shoes with India rubber soles. She quickly slipped off her own boots, threw them in the box and put on the shoes.' Then shn tonk frnm her nockefc a rilnn of Templeton Hall and scrutinized it closely "That's tho room; no doubt about It. I rrm sr. nmimenm onerations an soon as tjos- sible." - ,-.: She locked np her box again and put the Jimmy, the keys and the revolver in a largo leather pocket secreted under her skirt. As she rose she caught sight of herself in the glass and laughed softly. "What would that idiot Chivers think if he could see me now? I believe he was quite gone on me. The way he squeezed my arm and the spoony looks lie threw at me! 'Are you haw Miss Beverton?' " she said, imitating "that idiot Chivers" and laughing outright at the recollection. She made her way to Lady Templeton's chamber. ' The door was locked, but she found little difficulty in opening it. Then she locked it on the inside. ' "May as well guard myself against in terruption. The job may tako some little time." . She produced a piece of candle from her pocket and lit it, then examined the plan again. : , ' ' " 'Windov? overlooking the lawn,'" she read. ''Yes, tLujU's the window. 'Safe on side opposite the window, let into the wall. Perfectly concealed by what appears to be the wall itself. It is covered by a fresco. Find the figure of a Cupid a yard from the ground and press hard the small space represented by Its heel.' " She pressed hard, and in an instant it door flew noiselessly open, revealing a small safo. "Ingenious, very I" The task Was a difficult one,' and fully an hour had elapsed before the exertions of Miss Beverton were rewarded. "At last!" she exclaimed, wiping the perspiration! from her brow. ' Then she opened the door and drew from it a large case full of jewels and diamonds. She could not repress an exclamation of ad miration and delight. She blew out the light, went to the win dow, opened it slightly at the bottom and whistled softly. In a moment or two her whistle was answered by another. "All right 1" she whispered, and a figure' mounted up a ladder.' He for it was a man quickly reached the top and in a moment or two was Inside the room. "Easy job?" "No; beastly tough. Is the trap wait ing in the rood, Danvers?" .' " Yes. There's not much time to lose. But you might as well let me have a look at the shiners before we go." , She struck a light and lit the candle again. She had lifted the case and placed it In his hand before she saw his face. It was not Danvers, but "that idiot Chiversl" "Thank you,' Miss Beverton. Sorry to have troubled you, but you've done your work -well." ' "Who who are you?" she stammered. " Pardon me, bnt the question rather is, Who are you? iHowever, I will not trouble you to answer, for I happen to have special information upon the point. In your own clrclo-not a : very; select one you are known as Flash Bob. I must say yon play the lady's part to perfection." ; When that gentleman shortly afterward received seven years' penal servitude, he had time enough to reflect that Chivers was not such an idiot after all. Tit-Bits. A-Begnnins; In Literature. ' For my first effort to sail the sea of letteri it occurs to me that I ought to say that my father's literary reputation cannot be held responsible. . I had reached (to take a step back ward in the story ) the mature age of 18. I was a little girl in low necked ging ham dresses. I knew, because I remem ber I had on one (of a purple shade and incredibly unbecoming to a half grown, brunette girl) one evening when my first gentleman caller came to see me. I felt that the fact that he was my Sun day school teacher detracted from the importance of the occasion, bnt did not extinguish it. It was perhaps 8:30, and, obediently to law and gospel, I had gone np stairs. The actual troubles of life have nev er dulled ray sense of mortification at overhearing from my little room at the bead of the stairs, where I 'was strug gling to get into that gingham gown and present a tardy appearance, a voice distinctly excusing me on the ground that it was past -her usual bedtime and she had gone to bed. Whether the an guish of that occasion so far aged me that it had anything to do with my first literary, undertaking I cannot say, bnt 1 am sure about the low necked gingham dress, and thatdt Was during this par ticular year that I determined to become an individual and contribute to The Youth's Companion. I did so My contribution was accept ed and paid for by the appearance in my father's postofflce box of the paper for a year, and my impression is that I wore high necked dresses pretty soon thereafter and was allowed to sit up till 9 o'clock. At any rate, these memora ble events are distinctly intertwined in my mind. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Module's Magazin& r v The Apache, Navajo and Ute war be gan in 1849 and ended in 1855. 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