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For the Sunday Appeal
THE RAIN.

The rain,-the longed for Summe rain,
Is coming down at last.
over the city, the wood, the plain
A misty veil is cast.
The children of men with dust dimned
eyes,
And A prayer in every heart,
fearful up to the cloud draped skies
Lest the gracious signs depart.
The rain,-the pleasant Summer rain,
Comes pattering from the caves,
The grateful music rings again
From the dust besprinkled leaves.
o children of men, from sleep arise
To worship the loving hand,
That sendeth the life stream from the
skies
To heal the fainting land.
The rain,-the cooling Summer rain,
How it brightens the crisp brown grass,
How the odors of blossom and ripened
grain,
Sweep by as the sweet drops pass.
The cattle upon a thousand hills
On freshened pastures Iedi
Are drinking content the stream that fills
The dried up streamlet's bed.
The rain,-the grateful Summer rain,
It falIeth alike on all,
On the child of want in his aching pain,
On the dweIler in splendor's hall:
On him whose heart and hands are pure,
on the wretch with the mark of CAIN
And IordIy man, and reptile mean
Bless God for the Summer rain.
The blessed rain of Heavenly grace
Is falling on human souls,
And the stain Of the mire of earth's wild
chase
Away on the bright tide rolls.
The heart that in sin lay scorched and
dead
To a higher life has birth,
Whence flowers of love and holiness shed
sweet perfume DER the earth.
SAINT MARY's SCHOOL.
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! P BENJAMIN

A few days ago we announced that
this distinguished gentleman had been
advanced to the dignity of Queens
Counsellor, at the English bar. Conn
menting upon the fact an English
paper says: "a little paragraph in
the leading papers has just carried
back the memory to the great Ameri-
can struggle, and recalled some of
those personal interests which have,
since its close, been eclipsed by the
grave political issues that formed the
legacy of the war. Mr.. j. p. Benja-
min. of the Northern Circuit, has
been appointed by Nh. Justice Han
men, a Queens Counsel for the county
Palatine of Lancaster. Mr.. BENJAMIN,
of the Northern Circuit, may not be
known under that description to any
considerable section of the public; but
Mr.. BENJAMIN, of the Southern Con-
federacy, was tolerably well before the
eyes of this country during the civil
strife in the United States. He was
throughout those four years Of anxious
labor and desperate conflict the right
hand man of Mr.. Jefferson Davis, in
the very difficult task of administer
ing the political affairs of the Conted-
eracy. He shared the fortunes of the
President, when, after the fall Of
Richmond, he made that now histOri-
cal attempt at escape; and, exempted
from the protracted legal torture in
hicted upon his chief-thOugh eX-
cepted from the amnestie5 which per-
mitted other prominent S~Outherners
| so easily to re-enter the ranks of civil
life-he has manlully devoted himself,
in an exile that Is now voluntary, to
the pursuits for which his brilliant ca
reer in his own country had so excel
Iently prepared him. We may be
well assured that Mr.. Beniamin's ex-
| perience of business, his breaking into
hard labor, and training in that wide
observation and sympathy which the
statesman has the best opportunity of
acquiring, will not make him the less
worthy the distinction just bestowed
upon him. Nor have we the slightest
! fear that the County Palatine of Ian
caster will in any unpleasant manner
remind Mr.. Benjamin that the val
liant struggle of the South against the
stern unreasOn of the North made its
/ people endure some weary and vast
ing years of idleness and dependence.
Lancashire suffered without rancOr
it is, perhaps, a question whether her
sympathies were not at least evenly
divided between the combatants. In
| any case the invincible fairness OF
Englishmen will secure Mr., Benjamin
against whatever prejudice his re-
markable ability may fail to disarm,
or the memory of his resOlute and
fearless striving against destiny, dur
ing the four years of an unparalleled
struggle, may not transmqte into adj
miration and esteem.
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We have received at the hands OF
Messrs. Fl. WADE 4 Co., Booksellers,
Main street, a copy of the new work
of D. MoRTIMORE, NJ. D., just issued
from the press of SHELDON q Co, 1873
Broadway, New York. 1t bears the
singular title, 4" The Spirit Of God as
Fire; the Globe icithiH the San oar
Hearea.U TIL writer gives reasons for
his strange hypothesis, as derived
from revelations through the Scrip
lures and nature, and also from recent
DEVELOPMENTS in astronomy. It is a
Protestant religious work which I'M
dertakes to locate Heaven in the sun,
and proves that He'll is anywhere out
in the dark in all that vast void of the
great deep where the light does not
shine. The work seem to US rather
sensational than solid. The title of
the work would have been more ex-
pressive Of the object if it had been
Wonderful EeW Light; the Places
| of Heaven and He'll DlsesvegedI' But
We should be candid enough to say ii
is not 10 be expected we should be
! come a convert qHtl we have read it.
We have also to acknowledge from
the SAME source, the June and July
numbers of the New York GGRqFy, a
literary monthly by the same Pqh=
/ fishers.
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pnne Pin Nino-

1t is not generally known, l believe,
that Pope Plus the Ninth was, in his
youth, prevented from entering the
Guard Of Honor Of he Eicer9y of It
all in consequence Of his being sub
ieGt 10 attack Of epilepsy. He came
from Sinigaglia to Rome, and entered
the priesthood in 1914, being then in
his twenty-seventh year. The mfr
nifty to which he was subject was as
great a bar 10 his adyancement in this
profession as in the military and it is
said that his admission was granted
by Plus the Seventh only on the con-
dition that when he celebrated the
mass he should be assisted by another
priest. He Ofiiciatedf for the first time
in the church attached TO the orphan
age I'm which he had for some time in
structed the children, on Whit-Sun-
day, in the year 1919. The attacks OF
epilepsy to which he hard been subject
beceRle less and less frequent; and
four Years after entering the priest
hood he was appointed 6y the Pope
attache to an ecclesiastical and pOlfti-
Cal missigp sent to South America.
On his return fFGn4 this mission to
Rome lie was appointed Archbishop
Of Sp0Ieto, by Pope Leo the Twelfth,
and was consecrated in 1877.
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BEFORE THE GATE.

hey gave the whole long day to idle
laughter.
To fitful song and Jest,
To moods Of sOherness as idle, after,
And silence, as idle too as the rest.
But when at last upon their way return
ing,
Taeiturn. late and Ioath,
Through the broad meadow in the sunset
burning,
They reached the gate, one sweet spell
hindered them both.
Her heart was troubled with a subtle an
guish,
Such as but women know,
That wait, and lest love speak or speak
not, anguish,
And what they would, would rather
they would not so.
TIL he said-man-like nothing compre-
hending
Of all the wondrous gile
That women won win themselves with,
and bending
Eyes of relentless asking on her the
while
&" All, if beyond this gate the path united
Our steps as far as death,
And l might open it," His voice al
frighTed
At its own daring, faltered under his
breath.
Then she-whom both his faith and fear
enchanted
Far beyond words to tell,
Feeling her wOman's finest wit had
wanted
The art he had that knew to 5Iunder 80
we'll
shyly drew near, a little step, and mock
ing,
"Shall VIC not be 70 late
For tea2" she said, "rm quite worn OUt
with walking:
Yes, thanks, your arm And will you
open the gate?"
-AHuRtic Monthly.
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ACoRREsPoNDENTO of the New York
Times, who heard it, gives the follow
ing extract from a speech of NJ.
THEIRS, the great French philosopher
and statesman, delivered during the
recent canvass for a seat in the Corps
Legislatif:
Europe is marching towasd the
republic; but you young men must
not deceive yourselves. By the faults
of governments which sometimes
Weld when they onght TO be firm, and
Sometimes resist when they ought
only 70 curb and direct, this century
viii see only the period of transition,
\ translates. which will be bloody, ter
rible, and which / thank God l am
not 10 see. The blending OF social
and political, of interior and exterior
problems, is such at this period that
nations are fatally forced 10 decide oil
questions By ~StLppreSSL1g UU. But Vlo-
lent suppression and solution are two
things, and, shift them a. you please,
questions will still eAist ss threaten
ing as ever. 1t is only when tSe New
World. which Is already tearing the
TANKS Vt the Old, shall have acquired
enough Of NiTllitV and of wisdom to
yanquish and TO decide, that an eco
| u0mteH ReDu6lic will bring h2cE 9r-
der and peace 10 our society. The
Youngest of you viii zee the prologue
10 the CIVILIZATION Of the future,
Iunperialism is not the prediction 81
this sagaciOus man Is to the coming
future, The tendency of events IN
his view Is 10 Republicanism, for
which, with hope sad gear, he is evil
IDENTIFY looking to the Western W9rgd.
In the language Of the indianapolis
Sentinel, England, in moving against
a State church, is 4ssqling established
privileges. France is demanding,
with authority, liberty to govern keF-
self. Germany IS cOalescing from .
score Of fragments into one great
power, 80 that when the contest for
full liberty comes IL may be fought
out on one field. Spain wGeiq ss MF
on the road to a republic, if she weFR
only safely past anarchy. Italy still
heaves with republican aspirations,
inspired by MAZzIst RaG GARIBALDI.
And under all that has been achieved
there moves more strongly than ever
the spirit that has achieved it," Yet
it may be a problem, as to which the
view of NJ. THIEES Is not disclosed,
whether the result will is gfastar lib
erty made permanent, or only iieebss.
anarchy, and the ancient result-the
frmer foundations Of despotic power.
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THE press i universally severe on
Mrs. STowE's late scandaIous and I'M
feminine publication against LORD
BYRON. in which with s~acrilegiOus
hands, and without just Xcuse or
reason, she has undertaken to uHv
STROUD the bgried dead Of forty
wears. The truth is she has been over
rated morally and mentally. Her
"Uncle Tom was the mushroom Of q
party ~exigency, the body Of which
CALVIN L. STOWE, her husband,
rasde for her, and which she only
adrOltly clothed. y reputation which
thus rested on 4 single success, and
which was rather a fortunate hit than
4 great work, could not be expected to
b. enduring. This last prOduc-
ton is the fitting fiuale Of such char
arter. She only lacked the OppOrtuGi-
~ Of freedom to walk alone to make
ga end of her reputation, andnOw she
has fully done it. Her reply to the
phillippics of the press, and her Eeas-
n for her unnlentiOnable charge
against the illustriOus dead, only
rlgnxe the shallow little woman deep
~ and deeDor in. 1t Is bad enough
thar base men should violate the pro-
pri7tie- Of life by bringing vile things
Go fight. But that i woman should
clutch the words Of Il seniie lady,
vino. sick and weak, was sinking iht6
her grave, uttered forty years after her
separation from her husband, and
sghsn no possible good could result
from il 10 provo that LORD BYRON
was guilty Of incest is abominabie.
We cannst respect the v~eracity Of
aHrh a ''st0ry teller" and can but re-
mark on the significant fact that, if
ever say such revelation could be sup
posed made by LADY BYRON, she
should not select some one other distin-
gnished countFyW0men to make her
coAEdant, instead Of Il small specimen
Of tine scrub American, whose reputa-
tion rested on a single book, and the
body and skeleton Of that the work OF
another. The New York RerG}d says
al the matter: "Our conclusions are
that Mrs.. BEECHER STOWE has made
a shocking charge, which she has
failed to establish; that her facts are
but the morbid lancies of LADY By
RON; that her story is loose and inco-
herent; that she has seized upon a
s~ensation which, in the end, will not
pay expenses, and which Will tarnish
the glory Of "Uncle Toni" that Mrs.
Stowe, in hort, in her thoughtless
publication, has placed herself within
the category OF reckless sensational
Bohemians, and in a dilemma from
which her only escape is a pablo
apology for her credulity and folly in
yielding 10 the deceitful temptation Of
unearthiug and exposing in the mar
ket the mysteries Of the grave. Her
REASONS for this exposition are INSULT
elent, and her statement betrays oaIy
her ignorance Of the case"
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The Labor!ng Classes In England.

The London correspondent of the
New York Times draws a dismal pic
ture of life among the labOring classes
in England. He says: Millions OF
peOplein England live almost entirely
upon bakers bread. Here, for exam
pie, is the way of life of a sober hard
working Fnglishman, who earns lss
a week, tsay 81 81, gold standard),
and has a wife and.six-chil6ren. He
neither drinks nor smokes, and hands
over MS while wages to his wife.
This Is a common practice in we'll
ordered families" She pays Is. q Week
for rent; Is. for Goals; candles, soap,
etc, gd.; g penny q week each for the
six children to q burial club, id; On a
doctors bill due, IS. Here are Is. Sd.
Of the lss. gone, and nothing To eat.
Sow the bill Of fare for those eight
persons: ana pound of bEead q day
for eaeh-tha children scarcely taste
anything alse-cOmes to IS. 8 week
twenty pounds Of potatoes, 3d. ono
hound butchers mBat on Sunday and
two pounds of salt pork for week days,
Is; one pound sugar, half q pound of
butter, one ounce tea, i3d., make up
the weeks account. No milk, no
fruit, no clothing. The only way they
can have that Is for the children to
get work or to die; then something
would come in from the burial club.
Thousands on thousands of men work
for twO-thirds these wages or less.
BieEty, eYe2 ip large towns. work for
t2ss week, Thousands cannot tasts
eqen-the Sunday meat thinner. treat
numbers never taste butter; they get
a little dripping a substitute. In a
London shop on a Saturday night,
YOU viii see great heaps of penny and
halEperpv packets of tea, and perry
worths bfbFOWB sugar, ready done IN
for people Of moderate incomes 2
Once mad the curiosity TO bug 4 half
benny PACKET Of tea-a CENTS worth.
It feserhbleq ntusty elaYeF hay, and q
decOetion tasted IS you might fancy
the drippings from q heap of dead
leaves To taste at the end of a hard
WiRteF.H This Is i striking contrast
to the condition of the same class IN
America. 1t seems, too, that an in
vestigatiGn Of the prisons and work
houses diseioses the fact that the In
mates, with but little to do, r actu-
ally better cared for, fed and clothed,
when being ~ostensibly punished as
criminals. than the majority Of the
honest iabcrers are thus orerihg q
nremiuIa to crime instead CT ncnese
Industry By holding out TO offenders
the inducements of good food, cloth
ing, medical attendance and light
Rofkf
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WHO can doubt any more that our
Yankee cousins are particularly after
the money. A Northern paper, in al
Illusion to the Gettysburg battle, and
the erection of commemoratiye monu-
ments on the ground, says: Tn
pictorial description Of the battle VIII
be something new under the sun, ana
while affording to posterity a vivid
conception ofthe magnitude of the re-
bellion and Of the mOmentous issues
depending upon this bloody field, il
will be an enduring first class adver-
1 tisement to the Gettysburg Springs as
q summer resort" The Yankees have
always had the monopoly, so far as
we are concerned. They have furn-
ished no little share of our food, and
our clothing, cradles, collins and tomb
stones. Why should they not also
make money out Of u funerals
bloody fields and reunions" a
we'll?
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THE UNFINISHED PRAYER

"Now l lay say it, darling;
Lay me" lisped the tiny lips
Of my daughter, kneeIing, bending,
Ger her folded finger tips.
3" Down to sleep"-"To sleep" she muir
INJURED,
And the curly head dropped low;
" l pray the Lord II gently added,
"You can say it all, I know"
" Pray the Lord " the words came family
Fainter still" MY soul to keep
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened,
When / clasped her to my breast,
And the lear voice softly whispered,
Mamma, God knows all the rest
0, the trusting, sweet eonfding
Of the child heart Would that |
Thus might trust my Heavenly Father,
He who hears my feehlest cry,
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The Old Settlers of Indiana.

4 very interesting meeting Of the
old set,1.s Of Nashville, Eastern In
diana, came OF t,.eTc the other day.
Among the old men pfes6L+ we're Jo-
Seph Pike 81, Peter LOOney 81, JdRs&-
Blake rs, 5. ). Durbin Il, John L.
Th0mRsfp 50, Joseph Nicholas "A,
isaac Patterson r., John Walker y,
Ryland L. Brown ". ftS Glowing
qleeF old relics were exhibited: 81
old GeFmsR stsle. printed in 1918; an
Irish hackle, bF9aght fem ireland
over a hundred years age, ~ John
Jenkins; a Latin edition Of ISGerstes;
date 1853; a spectacle case, of wood,
Made by Rev. Robert Wooster, 81
whom Il : said that he preached the
first Methodist s6Ea4qp this side Of the
Allegheny MOuHtaiRsi & singular
quilt containing over two Thousand
flowers, and no two just alike; gar
ments of different kinds, from fifty 70
one hundred years old; Peter Loo
EGy's old chair, made by himself, in
Kentucky. L. 1910, Col. Joe Nicholas
opened the bali IL tia speech line,
and gave some interesting sketches Of
his early career. Born in Virginia.
August 81, 1886, he had lived to see
the population of this country grow
aaE four to forty millions. He lived
in OHIO "a lSeL and came to the Indi-
ana Territory in ist&. Elder John T.
Thompson said he CAME from Ken
lucky TO Rush county In 1921, with
wife, two children, a horse and two
cows. He told of travelling straight
though Rush county by making
three Circles end coming out where he
started in the EoFEiBg. He was fol
lowed by Peter Looney. Hr. A9qrey
was born in Virginia, married4n Isl
in Kentucky, and came to Indians
November %, 1921.
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Iha southern Historical SOeiety.

It the last regular meeting of this
Society, seceptly held in New Orleans,
which i nov Oily organized for the
purpose of the feeoEaS ~ the late
struggle for Confederate independence,
several interesting and important let
tiers were read, among them one from
Gen. r. +. Lee, s%ignifying his accep-
lance. va. pleasure, of the Niee-Pres-
ideney for VigglRs&, and saying that
4" il is highly important Is eGllaet and
record reliable historical in~fofIHaaiG+,
especially in periods Of rapid change,
sub IS the present." and Offering to
renae cnseSsjilysny service that may
aid this object in s7lrgigiS. Also let
ters fFcm Gen. Wade Hamptop, sd
miral Raphael Semmes, ex-SeGetary
S. r. Mallory, ex-ooSGFa2F p. a..
Humphreys, of Mississippi, and 9th,
ers, approving ofthe object Of the Soci-
ETY.. and offering their services. Mr..
J6fnsrsss Davis was elected an homo
rary member, SGD the Society then
adjourned to meet again Oh The SECOND
Monday in September.
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Hard on the Ladies.

Some old fogy, Ian old dilapidated
bachelor, of course gets OFF the fol-
lowing at the expense Of the ladies:
Taken as a class, women a cOutrive
more Outlandish and ugly fashions
than one would think possible without
the gift of inspiration. Take for in
stance the waterfall. First, it repre-
sented a bladder of Scotch snuff; next
it hung down a wOman's back like a
canvass covered ham; afterward it
e~ounterfeited a turnip on the back of
the head; now it sticks straight out
behind, and looks like a wire muZzle
on a grey hound. Nesting in the
midst OF this long stretch Of hair re-
poses a little batter cake Of a bonnet
like a jockey saddle IN a long backed
race horse"
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For a couple OF weeks we have been
made the victim Of the person en-
pl0yed AT Louisville TO prepare the
dispatches for the Memphis press. He
send u haif columns of accounts OF
Western prize tights, English boat
races, local incidents in places like
Kalamazoo and Cheyenne, in which
ON- people can have no possible inter
est, and, as if to cap the climax Of
either Ignorance or incOmpeteney,
Yesterday be burdened our columns
with the details Of the sheep market Ol
New York. We protest now, Us We
have before on several occasions,
AGAINST this sort Of telegraPhic news,
andsubmit that ifthe reporter at Louis.
Sille vino makes up the dispatches for
Memphis eaunot do better, that he be
discharged to make room for one who
v7Il give US what re want, readable
ueg@0ue who viii giVsGs such new:
- We pay for, in good rOsBA ums
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intelligence of the public as suficien t
to select the badge which belongs to
them. But, it should be remembered
by all newspaper critics, that we are all
alike liable to err, and that it is often
easier to point out deficiencies than it
is to avoid them. Perfection is the
exception-nOt the rule.
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The lmpersOnaIitY Of the Press.

Pertinent to an article which APP
! peared in the editorial columns of the
APPEAL a few days since, we publish
the following from the pen Of Mr..
BIGELOW, editOr-in-ehief of the New
York Times, and formerly associate
editor OF the New York EreaiHg Post,
snd for some years American ChargA
q Affairs az Paris Hrit5lg.qpCnlts e
press end-the cOnduct Of the press be
saws
Incidental to a want Of truthful
ness in the press IS the practice Of giy-
ing prpminence and uGtQriety II OBJ
sc1re people in whose movements tho
public il general can have no possible
interest. 1t encourages q depraved
taste for p~uhlieity{ it distUrbs the pro-
per standards of public Judgment; il
gives undeserved prominence to peO-
pie whose vanity must be presumed
to have provoked it and Is to be graf
lied by it, and of course throws a
more deserving class into correspond
ing OhscuFity. There is a method OF
advocating cause by denOuncing its
enemies, which may be, and often IS,
carried to excess, especially by youth
f1l partisans. 1t is not by harsh
names, nor by persistent GetractlOh
that men are persuaded to abandon
their opinions, and those who ply that
sort of warfare are usually less intent
on gaining proselytes than in making
a public or partisan Rerit IF theiT zeak
10 Oae Is ct 10 be a guide e PubAE
. epinien who has net learned that the
bad men are not generally quite So
bad, nor the good men quite so good
as the Incorporate partisan is dispOs1
ed to believe him, and soft words Of
ten dissolve preiudices ard errors in
eur ad~versariese which violence and
| detraetfDn render solid and fmperlsh-
able. Happily tie ErsoEal e6Gtr6-
versies which used t0dishgure AmeF-
lean journalism have pretty much dis
appeared. Let Us hopethat they may
disappear altogether. kaitGFs can
never have a better excuse than the
qualification OF personal vanity for
washing their dirty linen in public.
They are simply organs Of public OPin-
ion, and they are false to their posi-
ton when they are betrayed into an
abandonment Of their imperson atty.