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A Thirteen Year Old Thief.

The case of Libby o 'BrieD, whose
singular career hast just been brought
to light, is another case OF youthful de-
pravity, and one, unfortunately, OF an
increasing number. The defenders OF
the theory that wickedness is a part OF
the nature of man will find new support
in such ON illustration of..their theory.
The illustration gains additional merit
from the fact that the mother OF this
poor girl is an honest and industrious
woman, who was utterly ignorant OF her
daughters crimes aud degradation yet,
notwithstanding the evidence on this
SIDE of the question, it is probable that
Libby has been influenced by various
circumstances and characters, and that
no proper restraint has been placed
upon her actions and desires. In APP
pearance she is quite prepossesslng, al
though her features scarcely indicate the
possession of nerve and cunning which
she has demonstrated in such remark
able degree. The system OF deception
that she has pursued from the beginning
of her downward career proves, how
ever, that her appearance is as fully
deceptive as her recent existence has
been. That she has excellent traits OF
character there can be no doubt, and her
yout, may safely be brought forward N
partial eItenuation of her crimes. Yet
the TACT that she is SO young-just thlr.
teen years old-,nakes these crimes still
more horrible. What fiendish power
has been working in the heart OF this
child2 She has, it appears, committed
twelve robberies.. She has, perhaps,
been the means OF running an innocent
woman. When accused of having been
concerned in number of sneak rob-
berries she made no denial, and, what is
still worse, showed no signs OF trepida-,
tion. Outwardly she is q hardened
criminal. Yet we may be pardoned for
still entertaining the belief that she is
not altogether beyond good influences.
Here is good chance, therefore, for some
true.philanthropist. We ho-e that some
thing will be done to save the child, not
to punish her with ruined l!fe.-NeU
York Telegram. n,, 3
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Thirty Years Separated.

There are some strange ;eaeures in an
action pending in the Twelfth district
court OF San Francisco, for divorce
and a division of common property
Martha Stevens is the plaintiff ant
Coleman Stevens the defendant. A
separation in fact has been in existence
between the parties for the long period
of thirty-three years, the plaintiff, &C.
cording to the story; having barely
tasted the sweets of the honeymoon
when her husband deserted her, leaving
her almost penniless, and in condition
which increased Der troubles. Mrs.
Stevens is fifty-eight years of age. She
has a certificate which shows that she
married Coleman Stevens at New York,
on November 1, 1843, and she states
that two days after their marriage the
husband went to visit his father, some
two hundred miles distant, where he re-
NAMED. The following March she also
went to his fathers. Sic took this step
because she was advised that her hus-
band was going after young girl, pros:
pectively rich. She found her husband
very friendly, and he frequently called
upon her, as she resided in neighbor-
ing house. Then they both lived at his
fathers honse, but not as married
people. On the 18th of May, 1874, she
signed deed for the sale of land from,
Coleman to his father, and then they
started for Michigan. 1t was the under
standing that the money realized from
the sale of the land would be invested
in land in Michigan. They arrived at
Goshen the first day, and renamed
there all night. The next morning he
said he had made up his mind not to go
to Michigan, and proposed to return to
his fathers house. At Charter station,
en- route to his fathers, her husband
jumped off the train. She looked out
of the car window and saw him running
across the fields, and that was the last
time she saw him until she met him In
San Francisco last year. At the time
her husband jumped the train she had
about twenty dollars in her pocket, but
no other means of support except little
land she owned. After doing house
work for time at Williamsburg, she
learned the milliner's trade, and opened
q little store. She went to New York
once or twice a year to purchase goods.
The winter following the close OF the
war she went with her daughter to
Camden Mills, Michigan, where she re.
NAMED until February, 1875, when she
went to California. She states that she
never received any support from her
husband from the time he deserted her
until granted alimony in the present
divorce case. The first intimation she
had of the whereabouts Of the missing
husband was letter from his father,
written in December, 1872, in which he
asks forgiveness for favoring Coleman.
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Mending Matrimonial Chains.

A curious institution for the purpose
of matrimonial reconciliation exists in
the old provinces of Prussia, in which
the population amounts to more than
seventeen millions, who are mainly Pro-
tsstants. The courts have, of course,
the power of granting divorces but be-
fore any suit of divorce can be enter
tanned, very singular process must be
gone through. Man and wife are required
in the first instance, to present themselves
before some clerical or lay authority for
the purpose of being, il possible, re-
conciled. When the marriages are be-
tween persons Of different religions, the
magistrate may be applied to for this
purpose. But the people of these
provinces are, for the most part. Pro-
testants, and in the vast majority Of
cases the clergyman is the reconciling
authority prescribed by the law. The
plaintiffin such quarrel must. in the fret
instance, go to him and state his or her
grievance, and the clergyman must next
hear the wife or the husband, who, in the
contemplated suit, would become the
defendant. When he has heard them
separately, 80 as to become acquainted
with the strength and the weakness of
the case on both sides, he then hears
them together, and exerts all his powers
of persuasion to effect reconciliation.
If he fails in his efforts, the parties can
proceed with their suit but some very
interesting statistics have recently been
issued at Berlin with respect to the sue
cess of such efforts. Tt appears that In
1873 the number of married couples
who desired separation was 1925. OF
these, no fewer than 2,829 were recon-
ciled by the Intervention of clergymen.
In 603 of these cases the reconciliation
proved Intellectual but the general re-
suit, without taking into account pending
cases.. was that nearly one-third OF the
whole number of matrimonial disputes
were thus appeased. In 1874 the num-
Der of quarreling couples and the pro-
portion eof those reconciled were abont
the same. Even failure in the first In
stance does not seem to destroy the eff
cacy of the resource for of those who
renewed their quarrels a second time,
about third were once more reconciled.
The success of the clergy, in fact, in this
function is so considerable, that they
have earned the honorable title OF
,'peacemakers.
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Landlord" Mr.. Editor, III thank
you to say keep the best table in the
city"
Editor-"I,Il thank you to supply
my family with board gratis.
Landlord" thought you were glad
to get something to fill up your paper.
Editor 81 thought you were gal to
feed men for nothing. ss.,
It's poor rule that won't work both
ways. .
Eyis landlord In rage, threatening to
hsyS nothing mess TO do Hftk tho oaaes,
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Jennie, the Milkmaid.
Ny heart is so light,
/ sing day and night,
Sock, Boss,
Sock.
My pail is now ready,
1 carry it steady,
Moo, Boss,
Moo.
My Jamie comes whistling,
He knows / am listening,
So, Boss,
So.
He smiles in my face,
And then takes my place,
Stand, Boss,
Stand.
1 sink right by his side,
My warm bushes to hide,
Wink, Boss,
Wink.
He looks down in my eyes,
peep up in surprise,
Low, Boss,
Low.
"Look, Jennie, look yonder !"
turn in great wonder,
Back, Boss,
Back.
Round my neck his arm steals,
On the air his laugh peals,
Slow, Boss,
On my lips, quick as light,
He sprigs like wight,
Turn, Boss,
Turn
Then away run fast;
He sings out " Caught at last"
Bye, Boss,
Bye.
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Recipes.
UDD1NG. Two and o

SUET PUDDING and one-half
cupfuls -four, one teaspoonful salt, one
cup suet chopped fine, two eggs, scant
pint milk, one-half teaspoonful soda,
one.half cup apples chopped fine, one
teaspoonful each of cloves and cinnamon,
three teaspoonfuis nolassss, steam one
and threa-saartsr hears,
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A SparrOw's ReprehenSible Conduct

A gentleman who resides in New York
had erected last spring, in his back yard, a
very large box for sparrows nests. 1t was
divided into three rows each containing four
compartments. These were all speedily
taken possession of by dozen pairs of spar
rows, and the business of making nests pro-
ceeded amid the customary chippering din Of
these fussy and pugnacious colonistS. Sit
ting idly at the window one Sunday, watch
ing the birds, the gentleman saw one cock
sparrow come flying to his place with fine,
soft white feather in his bill. The box was
so placed that he could see into the .compart-
ments, and he saw this bird fix the feather
into an incomplete nest, and then fly away.
No sooner is he out of sight than female
sparrow from the adjoining compartment,
who had evidently seen that proceeding, hop
ped into her neighbours house and pulled out
and carried off the coveted feather.
Becoming interested, the observer watched
the performance, expecting to see the little
thief carry her stolen prize to her nest; but
no; she knew trick worth two of that and
here is where she displayed an undenisble
reasoning process, and acted on clear per-
ception of cause and effect, making pru-
dent use of her knowledge of the character
and disposition of her plundering neighbor.
She few off with the feather to neighbor-
ing tree, where she securely fastened it in an
place upon and between two
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ECT OR Y
Presbyterian Church in the United States.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will meet at Knoxville, Tenn,
On the third Thursday of May, 1875, at ii A. III.
CLERKS.
REV. JOSEPH R. WILSON, d. D., STATED CLERK
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D., PERMANENT oIrsn
The Stated Clerk is Ex oYYIoIo the Treasurer OF the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES.
Hos. JAMES HEMPHILL, President, Chester S. @.
REV. JOHN DOUGLAS, yIoE-PREsIDEsT, Charlotte
JESSE H LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREAsUREk.
N. O.
sUsTENTATIoN.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, p. D., SECRETARY,
REV. RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate sxcRE-
rARY and TREASURER, Box $751; Baltimore, Nd
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. ]. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
RLv. RfCHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate srcRxrA.
Rr and TREASURER, Box $751; Baltimore, Md
PUBLICATION.
Rev. JAMES X. HAZEN, SECRETARY, Rich mond,
O. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION.
Rev. JOHN N. wADDEL, d. D.. SECRETARY, Mem.
phs, Tenn.
G. W. MACRAE, TREASURER, Memphis, Tenn.
Applications to the Executive Committee for aid are
first to be referred to the appropriate Presbytera Exec
utive Committees for their approval be for
warded by them TO the Assemblys Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appoin ted the following
lections TO be taken up annually in all the churcnes
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath In January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath In March
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief OF Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans Of Deceased Minister'S On the first Sabbath
in July.
For Evangelistc Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep.
TENDER
For Education: On the first Sabbath in November
In where IL is highly nconvenient TO take mp col.
lections these days. they shall be taken up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends to the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
and that the amounts thus collected be appropriated
the above named objects, when necessary
iecs in such proportion the church session may decide
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twigs, and there left it. Pretty soon the
bird she had defrauded cama back with a
straw to add to his nest. Discovering his
loss he came out with an angry chirruping
that BODIED no good to the despoiler of his
hearth and home, if he could find the rogue
His first demonstration was to visit his next
door neighbor without any search-warrant
In that abode of peace and innocence he
found no trace of the stolen feather; and as
for the actually guilty party she was hopping
innocently about and loudly demanding-as
far as bird-tones could be understood by the
man at the window-what was meant by this
ungentlemanly intrusion. The cock-sparrow
was evidently puzzled. Unable, after q
minutes search, to find the lost feather, he
apparently gave it up and few away in search
of another. The thief demurely waited till
he had got we'll off and then few to the tree,
secured the stolen feather and took it in tri-
umph to her own nest.-Hartord Times.
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Literary Style.

Another true thing about style is that
every mans own is his best. If it be not in
dividuality that speaks through every medi
um whereby intelligent opinion asserts itself
promising, of course, that the ego in ques-
ton is entitled to rank as capital l, then
all our journals may be edited from one
tripod by telegraph, and our public speakers
can give way to some delegated orator who
shall communicate ideas to the country from
a central point, by means of system of tele
phones the young fellows, in college or out,
who are trying to write like Curtis, or Hig
ginson, or the editor of the Nation, probably
won't be writing at all in a short time, at
least, "nothing that anybody knows Of
Familiarity with good models is an essential
part of culture in the art of writing well, but
the influence must not be conscious. 1t is
in educating the instinct of avoidance, rather
than in learning what to choose, that it's chief
value lies. A study of the style of three
men who have probably attracted more in
telligent attention to their writings, in their
respective countries, than any other authors
of their generation, would be profitable occu-
patton for those critics who place the saying
of thing above the thing said, and judge
literature by traditional and conventional
standards. CARLYLE in England, Victor HUI
90 in France Emerson in America, have
made the world stop and listen to what they
had to say. Living twenty years beyond the
cad of his literary career, Carlyle cannot
write paragraph on question of public
interest like the Eastern war that is not CO.
pied into every paper in England and tele-
graphed over the world. Any sophomore
can tell you wherein his style is "vicious,"
and yet how like the ringing blows of the
battle-ax of one of his old Morse kings, sound
his sentences when quoted in our modern
reigio-scientifc lecturesl Mr.. Emerson's
perpetual Forces, in the last North Amer
lean Review, is the strongest and most nota-
bic periodical article of the year, not alone
for its thought, but for the perfect adapta-
ton of the style to the matter. He stands
in the observatory, and tells you what he
sees without giving sectional view and la
bored enumeration of the stairWayS by which
he reached his point of view. 1t is the alti-
tude, and not the ladder.round, that interests
one. The adjectives, adverbS, and coDjunc-
tions-the connection, sequence, and dow-
the finish and conformity which seem essen
tal to other styles, are lacking, but not
missed here Like Csrlyle's and Hugo'S
Mr.. Emerson's style is so precise, strong and
idiomatic-so bare of all accessories beyond
the exact statement of the thong t-so Who'll
ly made up of results without processes-that
the medium is felt to be as admirable as the
thought it carries.
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MY BOYS CHAPTER, AND WHAT 1T
TAUGHT ME-.
HOPE LEDYARD.

1t often happens that where one is teach
ing child, some special lesson is taught the
teacher l had one of this kind of lessons
brought to my notice this morning as my lit
tie son was reading the acc mt of Ssmuel's
vision or call.
Has it ever struck you how persistent Sam
uel must have seemed to Eli? "Here am l,
" Here am l, for thou calledst me, and
still third time the boy disturbed the old
man. think We parents have a great les
son taught US here; lesson which perhaps
poor Eli had learned by his sad experience,
"a lesson of patient, thoughtful cOnsidera-
ton with our children. Just take the simple
every day occurrence of child running in
to busy mother. "Did you call me?' If
we are busy or worried Especially if the lat
ter), are We not apt to answer the child hast
lily or careles8ly, "No, no, run away" per-
hapS adding the thoughtless but inexpressi-
bly, heartless words, "dOn't bother me?"
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innocent as respected the Jewish law.

innocent as respected the Jewish law.
Two lessons from this subject. The Chris.
tian Weekly thus appropriately presents
them:
L One is this: No possible moral good can
Be found IN merely being an almost Christian.
Intelligence, remorse, conviction, suffering
pain, all this in itself is worthless. A man
says, 81 am thoroughly aroused" That is
not saving faith. Another says, " l mourn
over my sins with tears in the sleepless
nights" That is not justification. To be
almost q Christian gives no settlement IN
ones own mind it relieves no inconsistency;
it removes no guilt; it offers no new hope ;
it furnishes no fresh assistance it averts no
peril of wrath to come. A man may be To-
gically convinced, yet be lost. A man may
be excited with emotion, yet be lost. Trav-
ellers have persisted twenty rods from hos
pice. Ships have been wrecked half mile
outside the Narrows Soldiers have been
scalped when they were within hail Of the
fort. Almost Christian is not Christian
at all.
2. The other lesson is this: There IS a
most ungracious limit set By this posture Of
mind to all prefers of help from Others. No
one can read without sensibllity the last
words of Paul to Agrippa See verse 20
That was all be could DO. Even an Inspired
apostle had to pause with not another word
to utter. 1t is of no use for any one to seek
the minister, or look for sympathy from wise
Christian people beyond a certain point
There comes a moment when all religious
history is shut up between the mans owl
soul and God. And he who takes in hi
hand the shuttle of destiny to fling, simply
goes on weaving souls weddipg-garment, OIL
/ ito sbrOud
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The Magnifcencs of Moscow.

This is one of the richest and most beauti
full cities in the world. 1t seems especially
so as you approach it in the distance. Stand
ing on elevated ground, it is seen from afar
in every direction. Its numerous towers
every church having several, besides the
steeples-with hundreds of domes and cupo-
las, either gilded or painted green and span
gled with Stars, together with many gardens
and trees ntermixed with the houses, give it
quite an oriental appearance, ard fill the
traveller with wonder and admiration when it
first breaks upon his view. The river Moskva
flows at the base of the hill on which the
Kremlin is built. The Kremlin is vast
citadel, or city, within city, enclosed by a
wall from twelve to sixteen feet thick, and
from thirty to fifty feet high, with many
towers, embellishments and beautiful gates.
1t contains many magnificent churches, also
the Large Palace and the Little Palace
We entered with uncovered head, as every
one is required to do, from the highest off.
cial to the lowest serf, through the Gate of
the Redeemer, over which hangs picture Of
the Saviour. l would like to tell you of the
cathedrals, and the great bell, which weighs
10000 pools or 100000 pounds English,
now standing with its broken piece on ped
estal, placed there by the Emperor Nicholas,
the R0manoff Place with its ancient obelisk ;
the crooked streets and mixed houses, ele
CANT government Offices in close contact with
6uts and cottages; the tolerably wide street,
three miles long, leading from the walls of
the Kremlin to the st. Petersburg gate and
thence to the park of review ground; also to
the treasury, the public museum and library,
together with modern improvements in gas
pipes, letter boxes, etc.
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FARM HORSES IN THE FALL are often un-
gratefully neglected. Their hard toll in
helping with the heavy work of the season
once over, when only odd jobs await them,
it is too frequent custom TO dock them OF
their grain, and allow them to shift for them
selves on the pastures, often without needed
shelter from the bleak winds and early frosts
of autumn nights. After feeding awhile the
poor animals get chilled, and run about in
the dark in search of warmth, which they
often find only at the cost of stumble or fall,
resulting often in sprain or cut that in
lures or disfgures them for life. Then, when
warm and tired, they lie down to rest, what
wonder if they rise up stiff, spiritless and
not rarely suffering from a severe cold after
their heated blood and relaxed sinews have
been exposed to the blasts and frosts of a
chilly night When the days are not stormy,
it is well enough to let horses run in the pas
ture, but every autumn night should find
them comfortably bedded and fed in the
stable. Ingratitude to our fellow-men is just
ly considered an odious vice, but is there not
often strong faint of it also in the treat
ment of these noble animals, to whose faith
full help in all kinds of drudgery farmers are
deeply indebted for full barns and comforta
BILE homes ?-Rural NeaO Yorker.
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TURKEY AND Roses In the warm plains
of Turkey, south of the Balkan Mountains,
whole districts are covered with rose-plants
set in lines about five feet apart, and tended
for some years with the greatest care. At
length, on some fresh, sweet morning of the
early summer, and while the roses are yet
wet with dew, the tender flowers are torn off
by laborers, and cast at once by heaps into
huge coppers, there to boil and boil for hours
in water. The fragrant steam is carried
along a tube, and, on cooling, becomes a
kind of thick rose-water. This is boiled up
again, and it's vapor cooled into liquid on
the top of which floats a.yellowish oily scum
that is known as "attar of roses" 1t takes
about four thousand pounds of roses to make
q pound of altar. Once merchant opened
cupboard in his store and showed visitor
thirty large glass bottles in which, he said,
was sixty thousand dollars worth of the pre-
cious essence. This quantity must have
taken nearly four millions of roses in the
making Poor roses But may be, after
all, their fragrance in that form would give
more and longer lasting pleasure than could
have been given by the flowers had they been
left upon their bushes, where they could have
cheered only the passers-by.-& Nicholas.
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