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promised to care for his widow an
fathcrless little ones; but his only re-
ply; murmured as if in a troubled
dream, was, Touch not u,ine anointed,
and do my prophets no harm.
Il stayed by him all night and at
day break [ closed his eyes. | offered
his widow a house to live in the re-
mainder of her days; but like heroine
she said, 1 freely forgive you. But
my children who entered deeply into
their fathers anguish shall never see
me SO regardless Of bis memory as TO
take anything from those who caused
It, he has left US all with .is cove
nant God, and he will care for us.
Well, sir, those dying words sound.
ed IN my ears from that cofia and
from that grave. When [ slept.
Christ stood before my dream, say ing,
Touch not mine anointed aud do nv
prophets no harm These words fol-
lowed me TIL | fully realized the es.
TEEN in which Christ holds those
men who had given up all for his sake,
and | vowed to love them ever more
for his sake, even if they are not per-
feet. And since that day sir, [ have
TAXED less than before, and have sup
ported my pastor, even if he is not !.
very extraordinary man My tongue
shall cleave to the roof of my mouth,
and my RICH hand forget her cunning,
before dare to put asunder what God
has Joined together When minis
ter's work is done in place, [ believe
God will show it to him. [ will not
JOIN you, sir, in the scheme that
brought you here; aud moreover, If [
hear another word Of this from your
lips, shall ASK my brethren to deal
with you as with those who cause d.
visions | would give all I own to re-
call what [ did thirty years ago. Stop
woere you are and pray God, if per-
chance the thought of your heart may
be forgiven YOU
This decided reply put an end to
the newcomers efforts to get "a min
lister who could make more stir, and
left him free to lay out roads and
build hotels.
There is often great power in the
little word mo" but sometimes it re-
qulres not little courage to speak it
SO resolutely as did the silent deacon.
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DEACONS LEES OPINION.

eve know not where deacon Lee"
lived, nor whether he ever lived at all;
but his "Opinion," as expressed in the
subjoined sketch, sent to US by mail,
ought to be read and pondered in
every parish of the landed. Golden
Rule
Deacon Lee, who was kindly, 81
lent, faithful, gracious man, was one
day waited upon by restless, am
bilious. worldly church-member who
was laboring to create uneaslness in
the church, and especially to drive
away the preacher.
The Deacon came in to meet bis
visitor. who, after the usual greetings
began to lament the low state of re
ligion, and inquire as to the reason
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waukee, by Rev. j. L. Dudley, Sum
day June 9th, 1879.
reported by Roby & Burke.)
Isa alb 7:l0. Say not thou, what is The
cause that the former days were better than
these? For thou dost not inquire wisely
concerning this.
Remembered days past are always apt to
seem more pleasant than days that are pass
ing Because while the evil that was, is large
lY forgotten, the good still lives and shines
in the soft light of chastened recollection.
The days of youth still bloom beneath the
snow-crust of years; and however beauteous
the sky and green the earth of the hour,
the old, because it was once new, surpasses.
In these our days much is said about the
deterioration of religion. Indeed, there are
conscious and conscientious apprehensons
that the time may come-possiby, ere long
when religion herself shall have vanish
ed from the earth. We have fallen upon
the bad times. upon the poor times, is the
lament.
Instead of the truth, such forebod-
ings are exactly the opposite of truth J.
There never was an hour, however bright in
its time, beneath which there was so much
religion in the world as to-day; and we
venturous to say, that 1t was never
worth so much as it is worth to-day. We
can say that it is even above par on the
average Il is not only more valuable
what there is of it, and more of it than
ever, but it is advancing rapidly and con-
tinually.
We all know, however, that the form
which religion takes, is very different
from the form she lived and worked under
in ages gone. And this is what creates the
: fear and the deluson. In some ages of the
world, to be religious was to enter upon a
sharp and positive speciality; men had to
profess it, they had to advertise it. They
had TO be marked and set apart in some
kind of segregation from the common al
fairs Ct life's drift. The women took the
veil to be hidden from the world. The men
joined religious or ecclesiastical orders, that
they might know where they were, and do
the work of religious vocation. Both
cut themselves off from life, from the world
from nature; and so they became urtaatural,
In order to be religious. Religion then was
backed up rot only in orders and behind
wells but in formularies and propositions
Il was tied up in ceremonies: it was walled
IF in isolation. and shut out from humani-
~. That was the old form Of putting, con-
templating and handling it. But those
forms are vanishing. They are missed, not
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Che Spettrostupr.
SAMU Ell II. MAY.

At the presentation of the bust Of Rev.
Samuel J. May, to the city of Syracuse,
Mr.. Calthrop recited the following origi-
nal poem, which the brief preface ex
pl aims:
There was great crisis in this. city
once; the people were alarmed and eS-
cited but Rev. Mr.. May was perfectly
calm. During those serious days a friend
among the people and of the danger he
incurred in persisting to save a'black man
from his hunters. Said Mr.. May to his
friend, <'Let us sit down and talk the mat
ter over let us see what Jesus would do if
he were in Syracuse" "And," said the
friend, 81 came away with my mission
unaccomplished; what could l say after
that!"l
The master was weary of waiting,
For the old, old cry of wrong
Kept piercing its way through the hea-
vens,
Show long, O., Lord! how long"
so he lett the Father glory,
To take up his cross again
If haply, any might know him,
Who named his name among men.
So he went thro' eartls's streets and
markets.
In the garb ofhis poorest poor,
And scorned, and hugnbling, and hunt
ed,
Sought refuge from door to door.
But the great and wise passed by him
With scorn and high disdain
And the wild mob hooted and threatej,
And the law came on with its chain
Then the Savior's heart seemed broken :;
ct was in vain | died;
In vain the Crown of Anguish,
And the spear thrust in my side
In vain did bear the scourging,
And hang on the cursed tree
For Christian hands in Christian lands,
In my little ones cruelty me.
But the mad crowd paused, for before
them;
There stood one like sweet St. John
With that loving smile, that all Children
Most love to gaze upon.
But with HT1n SET mouth, Tor oppression
Was cruel and proud and strong,
And with patient eyes, for Gods pa
tience
Alone wins the fight with wrong.
"Brothers," he cried, Eve know not.
The one whom your madness scorns;
Sc, We not the cross on his shoulder,
On His forehead the Crown Of
Tnorns?"
ssDid not his own lips tell US,
in my little ones see me?
ss8y the mortal pain on that dusky face,
Savior, my heart knows Thee
Then, like king. he came and pressed
That dark hand in his own;
Twas mute amaze, no mouth dared
curse.
No hand dared lift stone.
AS the white man led thro lgh the mad
dened crowd
The black man to his door;
Heavens silence fell, where the hate of
hell
Had ragged an hour before.
Just then, woke from my dreaming,
Tne night had turned to day;
But knew / heard Gods own awe i
done"
That greeted our Father May.
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SERMON.
Reported by Roby Il Burke

Preached at Plymouth Church, Mil
vaukee, by Rev. j. L. Dudley, Sum
day June 9th, 1872.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
Humor at the Police Court.
ATR. md MRs. IFWIs HULL.

Doesn't this weather make you think
of the still, green forests p asked his
honor, as he came on with the lurid
perspiration playing pUllaway" up
and down his forhead.
"It does-it does r. replied Bjjah.
cit makes me think of shady dells,
mossy banks, national banks, gurgliOg
brooks, the Atlantic ocean, green peas,
arsenic, soap suds, shady hooks, Paris
green, and so forth. Oh would I were
girl again /"
'' Is this the hull of you ?" asked his
honor, as Lewis Hull stood on the
mark.
The prisoner looked around to see if
one of his arms or legs had dropped off,
and made no reply.
Now then, how about shaking your
fist under your neighbor's nose, whoop-
ing, yelling, and being seven eighths
drunk ?"
cali on account of my wife, replied
Mr.. Hull. "Her blab is allwus going,
and she makes my house a perfect
pandymOrmOnum. L believe she is the
wickedest, lneanest old red-headed buz-
zard in the great northwest p
Lew Hull, you lie, and you know
it I" screamed a sharp female voice from
over the rope.
"Silence i' cried his honor.
"That's her." continued the prisoner.
"I've heard that old hen, hawk scream
of hers every day for eleven years, and
I'm worn out T.
Cant you agree p"
"Pve tried to, judge. I've bought
her rings and bTeast-pins I've brought
/ her home ice cream and lottery tickets
| she's had button boots, hat that turns
up 10 front, and now, this momept, she
got on the biggest kind of fashionable
hustle -
"Lew Hull, II
''Be calm :" shouted Bijah.
"And now," continued Hull, "send
me up-boost me for six months If
don't go to the house of correction I'll
go to the bottom of the river -
''I'n do it, Mr.. Hull I'll make it six
months, and If she comes up there and
bothers you I'll have her sawed in
| two =
"This is yawl u announced Bijab,
and the prisoners band escorted Mrs.
Hull to the corner, singing
Mat-rimeny's but a struggle,
| First You haul, and then you pull;
| Alars alsrs the world is full Of
Cases Just like this of Hull
Store clothes,
/ Red hair
Think of.what he had to bear :"
Detroit Free Press.
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GoLDl GoLD!l

General Custar's Report Of the Black
Hills IndOrGed by Professor Jennings-
Miners Taking Ont from Five TO TVs en-
ty-4ive Dollars 10 the PRn-A Detailed
Account of the Discoveries
The special correspondent of the
Inter Ocean with the scientific expedi-
tion in the Black Hills, at Camp EIarney,
on French creek. Gus er's Gulch, under
date of June 16, sends the following
| telegram via Fort Laramie to-day
Gold In large quantities and of good
quality has been discovered in Clusters
Gulch, on French creek, and along this
stream for a distance of upward of
seven miles toward the source. Since
my latest advices sent to you from the
expedition, the plans of the scientific
corps bave been entirely changed, and
Camp Denny, on East Fork of Beaver
creek, has ceased to be the permanent
point from which the investigation
radiates. We were to have been
through the Hills Tuesday, June 8, but
were delayed. Col. Dodge, with three
cavalry companies as a military escort,
left Camp Jennings for the purpose of
locating a permanent camp in some
available place in the vicinity of
Harney's Peak. The command marched
almost due north along Beaver creek /;
then northeast, when, at the end of
twenty-eight days the march OF Clusters
trail was struck in the midst of snow
and rain. That officers line of march
was pursued In a southeast direction
along Castle creek, where the first in
dicatiOns of gold were discovered. This
event induced Prof. Jennings, of the
scientific corps, TO remain in Castle
creek valley for three days, IN order to
prospect, cavalry company being left
with them. The place at which the
biologists camped is located l, 400 feet
east of the 104th meridian, and was
named Camp Tuttle. With the remain
der of the command Col. Dodge pro-
ceeded in a southeasterly direction
until Clusters Park was reached, and
last Monday camp was reached on
Clusters Gulch and in close contiguity to
the stockade built by the miners whom
Capt. Mix brought ont of the Hills.
At the spring, on Gen. Clusters cavalry
camp ground, gold of a good color was
speedily panned out. This was done in
the presence of your correspondent.
The gold fever spread so rapidly that
there was hardly one in the command
who had not seen and panned out gold.
From those placers or gulch mines.
about Camp Harvey for a distance of
seven miles there are scattered along
French creek four different mining
parties, numbering twenty-five men,
that have taken up claims from all of
which good color has been obtained.
There are also several quartz lodes
which promise rich returns, but the
greatest stress should be placed on the
gulch gold diggings
When gold was disc overed the scien-
lists were at Camp Tuttle. and only
arrived here yesterday evening. They
were somewhat astonished at the dis
covery. It is intended to make this a
permanent camp, where the command
will remain until the return of the sup
ply train from Fort Laramie.
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AN EARTHQUAKE Ar SEA.
Experience of the Captain aad crew OF
fhs shtp Hasuiitons

Experience of the NaPtahI "a" ~
tbs snip Hasniison'
The shi4, Hamilton, Of Boston, arrived
aA New York last week from Manila.
Her commander, Capt. Ross, states tiiab
AZ 3 q. N. on June 4, when IN iaHtu9S
10 deg, I6 min, longitude % aegy o.
raiu.. ali on board feit the shock OF an
earthquake, which Tested fally ~ MN
utes. During this tire there Sas :
heavy sea running, and IA di1sLelt ~
,,locsa Tire wat T appeared 70 EeFolVe IN
le5-cIea Uke A whirlpool. Whe1 the dis
tDrbance frgt began the sea was quite
sDootb but az the shock increased IN
z;oIencs the waters became correspond
ipoiy gitated, terrif ing those who were
on deck and srOusing those who we're
sleeuing below. Suddenly the vessel
received E shock, ss If she had grounded
and a peculiar Fumblipg noise nlled the
air. simultaneously with the siaasinss
the shy assumed a dark, ieaslen nue..
the .fr,osnhers was also thick aud
bazv. During the continuance os the
ehocIr control OF She vessel sas com
r,IeteIv Iost aud the ship refused 10
aI,sv The helm. There was little, 4 any,
Wind At the time, yet the vessel Wa
tossad about as though ID the MIDST %
a gale. .s..vins
The captain describes tne uFns-s ,-,.llS
of the waves as similar 10 what "cgio
oocur If q series Of heavy snom,,fihs
explosions had taken place. Inc uu "a -
ton OF tie shock was long eloo6 - -
enable those who were peios ~ ~ i,,-,sl ae.,-ts
/ tle deci- and witness the uuusual sient.
I Afier the distar bance had sui'siaeo; tile
80 sgain became as calm as before
M. vesseI sustained DO damage aia neE
cargo appears 20 be intact, although . net
+ go 5oxea OF sugar were thrown about
] by the shock.
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Burnah.

Burmah is preparing TO go TO war
with England, and soon Burmese sub
ieots will be bounding blithely from the
mouths OF British cannon, with ten
pound shot following close behind their
calessses. The king Of Burmsh was
offended because the British Indians
proposed TO take slice OF his territory,
and made q show of var. The viceroy
has sent an ambassador to his Burmese
majesty Ia his 7 alhce at mandaiay. ba
as the peaoemaker selected is Sir Doug
las Forsyth. the same brave Britcn who
blew the Kukss fron the guns after the
Sepoy mutiny, and the Burmese know
him well, ht Is not likely 20 accomplish
mach. When the king heard tLat Sir
Douglas Was coming he remarked dipio-
natically 20 the Brisish political agent
at his court that 50 It would be well that
no differences should exist between two
such mighty powers as the British snd
Buamese governments 50 1t appears
that has majesty is not afraid Bengal
has becOm as much q British prrVince
as Cornwall or Kent, and Il is iust pos
sible that. if his majesty ct Burmah
continues to puff himself mp, his do
minions viii follow the fate Of Bengal.
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Mexlean BeautIeg at the Opera.

A Mexican correspondent of the BOs-
ton Journal writes It used to be said
that the Mexican ladies began the day
in plain black, on their knees in chaPels,
and ended their waking hours amid the
blaze of dress and jewels in the family
box at the opera. ] think that the
matin prayers are rather out of fashion,
but an opera box is still an indispensa-
BILE necessary of life. Social visiting is
not common, but ladies are :" at home
in their opera boxes, where their friends
call on them between the acts. The
moment the drop curtain descends there
is a cracking of the wax-matches IN
use here, cigarettes are lighted, and
the gentlemen go the rounds OF their
lady acduaintances, who receive them
courteOusIy, coquettishly using their
fans, while their lusrrous eyes welcome
favorites. A gentleman who has re-
sided here for some time declares that
if the Mexican ladies are not SO Yarl-
ously beautiful as the women of north
ern lands, in whose veins the blood o1
MANY nations are mingled, they are
most lovable creatures IN spite OF the
uniformity of their national type.
There is a degree Of exquisite tender
ness and an expression Of affectionate
sinceritv in the face of Mexican women
which instantly wins not only the re-
spect but the confidence of the gazer.
The toilets we saw at the opera were
elegant, but not in any way gaudy, and
at an operatic performance IN any OF
our cities we should have seen much
more of the weareTs, although the
Mexican ladies sre almost all so stout
that they can appear decottete without
anatomical Suggestions.
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An Unhappy Adventure.


The happy-thought men has been
driving a clever cob and writes We
are going up hill beautifully It is
quite a pleasure TO sit behind him
And as he is the surest-footed beast
possible, coming down hill on the other
side viii be simply perfect Bravo /
am in luck wOnldn't part with this
horse not for hundred pounds This
is a bargain
We are on the summit.
1 say to Cazell, cheerfully, "There's
rather sharpish pitch here meaning
that the decline Is very sudden, and
that he mustn't be astonished if, with
such magnificent stopper, 1 take this
opportunity of showing him how Z" he
ought to go down bill"
Down the " sharpish pitch.
A Iumbling of wheels-the trap slip
ping forward on the horses back-a
tremendous whack on the dash board
In front, as if it bad been attacked with
a ge-hammer-suddenf fash of sup
position that this blow must have come
from the hOrse-suppOsition becomes
conviction on the unexpected and awful
appearance of the hind quarters of the
animal high up in the air, then of two
apparently gigantic hOofs, whose size
seems to have been exaggerated by
hundred magnifying-glass power
Bang | bang l-dash-board gone-heels
higher NO than ever-reins anywhere
whip nowhere. I hear my own voice,
as if it were somebody else's, shouting
wildly, "Murgle get out behind
Bang bang My knee somehow or
other just escapes the enormous hOOfs,
which are now being hourished furi-
ously over my head-we are swaying to
the right-tO the left-up like a swing
Bang bang Gigantic hOOfs again -
rolling like shipl 1 am conscious of
still holding the reips firmly, and pull
ing him towards a ditch on the left.
Bang Grassland in another half
millionth quarter of a second there
comes tremendous rattling bang-we
arrived at, so to speak, our last kick
everything gives way in every direction,
and in q sort of grand final display of
cracking fireworks, we are, IN one sud
den explosion, sent flying up, all COM
pact at first, like a sky-rocket, then
dividing, and dropped out here and
there, and being conscious the whole
time of gigantic horses legs waving
about, coruscating horses hOofs, wheels
whizzing, wood swapping, and glass
breaking, until to all this there sud
denly succeeds a moment of the deepest
tranquility, broken only by the con-
vulsive snorting of the clever cob, who
is lying on his side in a ditch, with
Murgle in pious attitude kneeliDg on
his head, while all that is visible of the
trap are four wheels in the air-and
take this all in at a glance as 1 lie on
my back in the road, with torn coat,
a smashed hat, and the broken reins
still in my hand while Cazell, also
hatless, is seated on a bank, with his
knees drawn up as though meditating
bathing, and wondering whether the
water were warm enough or not his
scared look conveying the notion of
gentleman Who had been called too
early for the train and wanted to go
asleep again