Says the Chicago Kecor J : fBimo
tallism has become a political question
in Great Britain and Germany, just as
it has in the United States."
RELIGIOUS READER.
The number of students at the Ger
man universities this term is 28,153,
of whom 2150, or 7.6 per cent., are
foreigners. Philology and history,
mathematics, science and medicine
are the specialties of the great ma
jority of these foreigners.
From 1193 to 1520 an ounce of gold
was equal in value to 13.3 ounces of
silver. From 1521 to 1541, silver held
its highest value since the discovery
of America.! Between the years last
named 11.2 ounces of silver brought
one ounce of gold. Now it requires
19.50 ounces of silver to buy an ounce
of gold.
Mr. Benjamin Doblin, a gentleman
as. yet unknown to fame, but who
seems likely, to the New York Times,
to acquire it, advises that "able
bodied men who can't get work should
get a gun and go out against society."
Now, whatever else society may lack,
it is certa;nly well supplied with guns,
and is too well skilled in their use to
make Tr. Doblin's scheme a hopeful
one. Whoever adopts it is likely to
find work, indeed, but of a kind so
unpleasant and under conditions so
painful that on the whole a temporary
lack of employment would seem pref
Considering the iiew dawn 4of en
iightment which breathes radiance
and fragrance over Japan, it is rather
discouraging to the New York Tri
bune, to learn that the Mikado still
catche3 clucks with nets, like the flag
itous pet hunters of California, upon
whonl we not long 6ince administered
the rite of flagellation. It is an old
. Oriental custom, but not therefore a
good one, and it is to be hoped that
the Mikado will abandon it forthwith.
, President Cleveland's mode of captur
ing tbis wary and fugitive bird is
much more square and manly, as the
Island Emperor will readily admit as
coon as he comes to think over the
matter. He need make no scruple in
adopting it, for there is nothing secret
or exclusive about it. It onlv re
quires a fowling piece to execute, and
consists in using a particular kind of
Ehot and missing nearlv all the bird3.
He can learn the trick any foggy
morning, and, if there were any need
of it, there are lotp of Americans in
-Japan quite able of showing him how.
But as to the net, it is unfair to the
birds and ought to be abandoned."
When 3Ir. Vaux Danced IViththe Queen.
The story; often" told, that the lato
Hon. Richard Vaux had danced with
Queen Victoria, has been denied quite
frequently since hi3 death, but, as a
matter of fact, he- did dance with the
Queen. He was not her partner, it is
true, but danced in what was known
as the Queen's cotillion, at the ball
was Secretarv of tha TTnifcpd Stata
jgation. Mr. Vaux was selected by
thXQueen herself as one of seven per-
Bonsio join witn ner in the dance. In
the course of the evolutions in the
cotilliork he j danced with the Queen.
This statement was made by Mr. Vanx
to a well-known Pennsylvanian who
served with I him in the Fifty-first
Congress, whilehe was filling out the
unexpired termof the late Hon.
Samuel J. j Randall. Philadelphia
Record.
DOCTBIJs'E OE CEZED.
A doctrine or creed is often bound np in
a common saying. More than that, it is
sometimes an unsuspected doctrine. We be
lieve many thinps which we have never for
mulated. " Here is one from St. Paul in the
fourth chapter of Ephesiar.s. 'The apostte
warns these people against giving tbexselves
over to certa n kinds of wrongdoing, as if
themselves" were better than the things
they do. They all St em to imply that self is
something above and superior to those sins,
wrongs, follies, which yet that same
self commit. Rereet vcurse'.t Rever
ence your own nature. Think too much of
yourself to do that. "To thine own se f be
true." But why : respect that which is not
respectable, or revere that which is not nobieV
What do we mean when we say that a man
has abandoned himself to a wrong course?
He has not left his ideLtity ; he has left good
ness. The word 'self-abandonment" is cur
iously suggestive. We abandon ourselves to
pleasure, ease, luxury; to tears, grief, de
spair: but who ever abandons himself to virtue?-
Virtue, goodness in all its forms all
high, heroic qualities, imply self-possession,
not abandonment. Goodi.ess always controls,
and hsS mastery, even in its gentlest manifes
tations. Language rt-cognizesthis, and gives
ixpression to it. as well as many another of
cur deep, unconscious beliefs.
I
it came to the question cf trial, the
loudest boaster cf them all shrunk from ac
knowledging who he wa., and tho rest
plavcd the p art of the craven and the rene
gade. And if the reason of this be asked, it
is sks ply this: They went to trial unpre
pared : they bad, not prayed : and what 13 a
Christian without prayer but Samson without
his talisman, of hair? Robertson.
In a recent lectureDr. Edward
Eggleston said that Virginia gentle
men ate snake meat in the old colony
tunes and found it delicious.
WE3TLAKE COBRECTEB.
A very commonly misapprehended test i3
the one in James 1 :5: '"If any of you lacketh
wisdom." Prof. Thayer is certainly right in
giving in his Leiicon as the meaning of
the Greek word used here, "the knowledge
and practice of the requisites for godly and
upright livings" In othe words, what God
promises in this place to grant liberally is not
the wisdom of this world, prudence and
skill in business, or even guidance in
daily perplexities (this is promised else
where), but "the wisdom that is from above"
(3: 17), or that genuine goodness and right
eousness which is "first pure, then peace
able." With this corresj onds that other text
(3 :13) : "Who is wise and understanding
among you? Let him show by his good life
his works of meekness of wisdom." And
corresponding also to this thought ir the gen
eral use cf the word "wisdom" in the Bible,
especially in the Proverbs, which corresponds
in the Oid Testament to the book of James
in the New. The promise in James that
''wisdom" shall be given liberally to all that
ask is. therefore, of exactly the same sort as
the many others that assure the penitent
seeker of salvation that he shall surely find
his Saviour.
POLITICAL ECOXOilY AJTD BELIGIOS.
Political economy and religion would never
be one and the same thing, but an identity of
purpose, so far as a part of man's benefit
and improvement were concerned, would
ever make them friends and allies. They are
the brain and heart of the coming civilization.
The one must point the way, the other must
pursuade us to take it, even if it involves con
cessic ns and sacrifices. Kehgion has at
length aroused iiself to a consciousness that
it has a duty toward industrialism. Enter
prising religion, which is observed , by the
larger conception of salvation, is alive to the
fact that it has a duty toward every form of
human movement, and has already begun to
prepare -seriously for its work. Political
economy will remain "the dismal science"
until it thoroughly accepts love as the sole
medium through which to speak. Be v. Dr.
Donald.
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TA.KIKG A LOOK AT THE COMPASS.
A new creed, so called, is proclaimed by
Rer. Thomas Dixon. Jr., of New York, the
resigned paster of the Twenty -Third Street
Baptist Church of that city. He entitles it
"Union Evangelicism." He proposes to
found a new church in which denominational
lines, rituals, paper creeds and ecclesiastical
building shall be done away with and the
"sacredness of the secular shall be fully ap
preciated;" In this way he hopes to reach
the great masses who never go to church for
fear of having to listen to Nthe old platitudes
for whose sake sake he throws aside bis de
nominational baggage." He feels convinced
that the machinery of a Baptist church is a
hindrance to the best work. He believes the
time has. come to make Christian union a
reality in our great cities.
. OTB TBUST IX GOD.
Looking at death as a difficulty that stands
in the way of our trust in God, say3 a popu
lar clergyman who is not in his convictions
so far from the domain of the Spiritual Phil
osophy, there are many of its circumstances
and accompaniments that are avoidable, and
especially the haunting terror in which we
are schooled in relation to it. We have. even
created a figure which we have called the
King of Terrors. We have supposed that
death wp.s the result of sin, a token of God's
wrath that came because of the fall. On the
contrary, death is a pat of the natural order
of the world, and has been here since life has
been here, millions of years before man
appeared. In the mere fact of dying there is
almost nothing painful or disagreeable.
wouia we wisn to live nere lnaenniteiy on
the earth? Who would wish to becomell
eared for and loved in hi childhood, in his
youth, in middle age, pass away and leave
him alone? We would not want to stay here
alone. There is unspeakably more joy on
this old planet as the years go by than there
possibly couid be if one set of inhabitants re
mained here year after year and age after
age.
HTMAN PEESOKALITT.
"Humsn personality has attributes, self
eonsciousness and freedom, which distin
guish it in kind from the world of mere ani
mals and things, and relate it to a spiritual
order, of whose eminent reality it is itself the
witness and the proof With this conviction
in mind man looks at the universe outside
him and divines there, with an institct
which ag? or argument cannot eradicate, the
presence of a Perso,whom he feels, but may
not see. On reflection this grows more cer
tain ; for the world is rational, harmonious,
beautiful ; it works out moral purposes, and
must, therefore have a spiritual cause, an,d
these are notes of personality, and of person
ality alone. When he aks why, if this be so,
God has not made Himself more manifest, he
is met by the analogy of human inter
course.and the restriction which sin imposes,
even on the knowledge of a sanitly friend. At
length, as is meet, from the holy race comes
forth tho Holy One, guiding man into the life
of love, wherein his true perfection lies, and
revealing God as the source of love and Him
teif as God incarnate ; in union with whom
our finite, imperfect personality shall find, iu
the far eternity, its archetype and end."
PEECIOrS OPPOBTrSITT.
That hour in the garden was a pawrfra
opportunity given fur laying in spiritual
strength. Christ knew it well. He struggled
and fought then ; therefore, there was no
struggling afterward do trembling in the
judgment hall, no shrinking on the cross,
but only dignified and calm victory; for he
had fought the tempation on his knees
beforehand, and conquered all in the
garden. The apostles missed, the mean
ing of that hour; and therefore, when
Ingenious Device of a ScochraW
a thread-spinning apparatus that uforf
erated by two trained mice. In drlvlnj
the little mill with their pawa the arj
mals dally perform work equivalent t
traveling a distance of 1014 miles.
Those who think a woman isn't t
. J -tl ' . . -
log auu cuugmg enougn should take
novice out skating on the Ice.
On flia Spot.
"Oat damned snot "
-- wroaoia
Sirs. Macbeth; but it was something int&J
giblethat she eawJ In" the active season i
wuv guiuuiot ojurv mere are
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, in the tenth cen
sus, referring to the industrial revolution of
the last century says that "the religious re
vival work of the Wesley3 was one of the
most i owerful factors in the combination of
forces essential to the establishment of the
new industrial order."
TEZ TE EATING CU3T01T.
The baneful effects of intemieraiice.which
to-day are so rife ali through the land, steal
upon its victims more insidiously perhaps
through the prevalent practice of treating
than through any other channel. To invite
a man to take a drink at one's expense is the
order of the v'ay. To put him thereby under
the implicit obligation of returning the same
or of making him feel uncomfortable until
he has balanced in some way the kindness
which he thinks he has received is an essen
tial consequence which to him is very dis
honorable to neglect 01 shirk.
This custom and its consequences wrap so
ciety as a cloud- In it men move, and
through it the chief work of harm and of the
disintegration of character is accomplished.
In the lower state of society it saturates the
very Language that is spoken. It pervades
the very air that is breathed. ' It shapes the
sentiment most frequently formed at home
and abroad. Multitudes of children daily
grow accustomed to it, and. youths are fast
falling victims to its snares.
Tae any man who ha3 found himself
chained by the habit, the unquenchable
abit for drink that is tearing his very vitals
to be appeased, and ask him how this going
the path of self-destruction began, and he
will tell you. if he speaks carefully and ei
actly,.that it was not love of the liquor, that
it was not the need he felt for it. but,that it
was the personal pressure of a custom
brought to bear upon him bv tho false obli
gation under which he folt himself placed to
accept the "treat" or the singular and un
manly position in which he was put by refus
ing to accept the same.
Whatever or wherever may have been the
origin of this custom of treating, now so
prevalent in our country, whether it be from
the old. medieval idea of hospitality carried
to abuse or a practice introduced from a
foreign land, it matters not to our subject,,
but it has waxed strong with our busy,
hurrying, American people.
The American scandal, the "saloon," is at
once its feeder and its propagator. These
two dreadful festering sores on our social
and body politic, the custom of treating and
the saloon, must be eradicated or turned Into
purer channels, where they may be cleansed
from such dire habiliments as are hastening
thousands upon thousands to eternal ruin.
The force of tkft? custom, combined, with the
shrewdness and desire to gain on the part of
the liquor-dealer, and the studied adultera
tion Of intoxicants, themselves intended to
demand more, and the promiscuous sale
privately and publicly of the same, is the
fruitful source of the far extending evils so
frequently described and so menacing to the
free institutions of our country. Father
Tiernan in Church Progress,
aZVEXTT THOrSAXI) TKEATS.
A St. Paul brewer has evolved a new idea
in advertising which strikingly illustrates
the cunningly devised methods of the ad
versary in attacking the home and recruit-Sf-J
h anny cf drunkards and criminals,
-thirty-five thousand circular letters were
mailed in one day to as many homes in that
city, calling attention to a certain brand of
Sfl'V11 ?nc osinS two coupons entitling
the holder to '-one glass of -Ibeer if pre-
JV? .. Seventy thousSS
. "iu cwworm or postage
stamps
-"-' liowua;, atil YVUMA 01101? Wif
them pain and great discomfort. Broiarf
black and blue, are the acwnxaaimea!tg!
way active sport, j They oftea cripple W
aze always a wre trouble. Cem from wo
oare the-v may, the thing to do on the six?
is to use 8c, Jacobs Oil freely and promcHf
There is nothing surer and it wipes oitttt
t pain as w would wipe off a slate. In ftv
'manner sudden attacks of rheum&tiaaL
which people are liable at this seasonTcS U
promptly cured by applying St. Jacobs (?
to the pain spot.
If this entire country were as populous J
unoae xsiana its lnaaui.ants wcuid liumbe
' leaUh In Year Vest Pocket!
A box of Rlpans ! Tabules can be atn
away in your vest pocket. It costs you only &
cents, ana may savp jou as many uou&rs'
worin ox vime anu uoctur uuis.
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One of our xneatest faults nrohatt
In that wlLhont thin kin e mirh ahnJ
It, yon boro people.
ONE EIVJOYQ
Boih the mkliod and result3 vnea
Syrup of Fi, js Is taken; it is pleaawt
and refresbbg to the ta?te, and act!
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowcb, cleanses the
tern effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers; and cures habitail
constipation. Syrup of Figs is lift
only remedy of jits kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ao
ceptable to the stomach, prompt ia
its action and truly beneficial in its
enects, prepared jonly from the mort
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have) made it the meet
popular remedy known
Syrup of Fig3 is for sale in 60
cent bottles bvlall lead in e drug
gists. Any reliable druggist
may not have it on hand will pf
cure it promptly for any one lria
wishes to try it. . I)o not accept tsf
substitute. h
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