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fare and in the prospects for the success Of
the gospel, and he is now seeking to engage
the sympathies and prayers and efforts of
Christians everywhere in the cause. He has
laid the subject before the American Board
at Boston, in the paper to which we have re.
ferred. This is accompanied with much in
formation on the subject, which we learn is
to have wider circulation in another form.
The result, we trust, will be new era in the
history of African missions.-N. Y. Observer.
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Central Africa.

In the Missionary Herald for April will
be found an important paper on the evan.
gelization of the central portions of Africa.
The interior of Africa long remained land
of darkness, shut out from the world, after
nearly every other part of the globe had been
more or less trsversed and described The
several expeditions which, within few years,
have penetrated the continent, notably those
of the missionary Livingstone, and of Stan.
ley, the American explorer, by their contri
buttons to the stock of information in regard
to those unknown regions and people, have
excited an extraordinary interest. This inter
est has been manifested largely in Great Bri-
tain in efforts to promote the religious en-
lightenment of the people. Both in England
and in Scotland the enthusiasm awakened by
the name of Livingstone has been turned in
this direction, and new and promising mis-.
sions have been commenced.
Major Malsn, grandson of the late DR..
Caesar MaIan, of Geneva, is now on visit
to this country for the purpose of laying the
claims of this region before the American
people. Major Mslan was an officer in the
British army, but he resigned his commission
for the purpose of devoting himself to the
cause of African evangelization. He has
spent some years in that country, becoming
more and more deeply interested in its vel
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The
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| THE present Editors of the SOUTHERN PREsBYTE
RAN REVIEW having invited certain brethren il
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LoTTERIEs.-We wish that all our daily
papers were as conscientious as the Phala-
delphia Press, which refuses to insert lottery
advertisements because they are illegal, and
because lotteries are admitted to be per-
niciou8 in their effects and injurious to good
morals and good habits. There is virtuous
as we'll as business principle in the editors
statement: " We should refuse to iDjure in
dividuals for twenty cents line, and we shall
most surely decline to damage and do wrong
to whole community at the same price, or
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Only a seed but it CHANGED to fall
In a little cleft of city wall,
And taking root, grew bravely up
Till a tiny blossom crowned its top.
Only a flower but it CHANGED that day
That burdened heart passed by the way
And the message that through the flower was sen
Brought the weary soul a sweet content;
For it spoke of the lilies so gaily clad,
And the vexed heart grew strangely glad
AT the thought of a tender care, over all,
That noted even a sparrow's fall.
Only thought; but the work it wrought
Can never by tongue or pen be taught
For it ran through life like thread of gold,
And the life bore fruit hundred-fold.
Only word but twas spoken in love,
With a whispered prayer to the Lord above:
And the angels in heaven rejoiced once mOrei
For a newborn soul entered in by " the Door,"
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IT IS said that old John Brown, of Had
dington, used to address his divinity students
of the first year to this effect: Gentlemen,
ye need three things to make ye good minis
ters ye need learning and grace and COM
mon sense. AS for the learning, I'll try to
set ye in the way of it; as for the grace, ye
must always pray for it; but if ye have ma
brought the common sense with ye, ye may
60 about your business"
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let no Importantly shake your resolution
let the particle no. when once pronounced,
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tried his strength against it half dozen
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Gods Poor.

GUu 5 IUUI.
Who are Goods poor?'
Not they alone who stand
With empty, pleading hand
At Dives's door,
Thou may'st be sure
Such only are mans poor,)
But they who therein stay,
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sc o watch, and fight and pray,
The battle meier give DER;
Renew it boldly every day,
And help, divine, implore "
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
THE ILLUSIONS OF CHILDHOOD.

Whoever wished to correct the illusion
of childhood all Of us can look back to F,
time when we believed wildly that our owl
parents were perfect, and believed dimll
that the whole grown-up world was perfect
The child knows indeed, that there are bal
people in the world, but they have nothinI
to do with the world in which he and hill
companions dwell, and when he think
about them, he is puzzled how to find room
for them. We have heard of q child 81
moderate that he only produced two perfec
men besides his father to confute the doc
trine of original sin, (women evidently beini
not included in its scope,) but most of uI
would have brought forward a much larger
body of witnesses on his side. Now, no on,
would say that you gave q child a truer view
of his father and mother if you made him
understand that they were two very faulty
beings, with as much to repent of Us the
naughtiest of his playfellows. 1t is mol
that truth had better be sacrificed to love ,
we do sometimes feel that of these illui
lions in later life, and any one who will pu,
the two states of mind side by side will al
once see their difference. 1t is that the illu.
sion is actually a truer feeling than any you
could substitute for it. 1t is the natural,
healthful condition of mind of a child, thu
one which puts him into his place with re.
gard to his elders, which enables them to do
their part toward him, and him to do his
toward them. 1t bears every test of truth,
except that of being independent of posi-.
ton. 1t is The truth for a particular stage
Of development.-IHe Spectator.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
A BROKEN A

A man is said to be "red or twhite'
with rage. In using these expressions, we
are physiologically speaking of the nervoul
condition of the minute circulation of tho
mans blood. Red +" rage means partial
paralysis of minute blood : vessels; and
" white rage means temporary suspension
OF the action of the prime mover of tho
circulation itself. But such disturbances
cannot often be produced without tho
occurrence of permanent organic evils of tho
vital organs, especially of the heart and OF
the brain. One striking example is given
by DR.. Richardson in the case Of a member
of his own profession. This gentleman
told me that an original irritability of tenn
per was permitted, by want of due control,
to pass into a disposition of almost persist
emit or chronic anger, SO that every trifie in
his way was a cause of unwarrantable irri-
tation. Sometimes his anger was SO
vehement that all about him were alarmed
for him even more than for themselves /;
and when the attack was over there were
hours of sorrow and regret in private which
were as exhausting as the previous rage.
In the midst of one of these outbreaks of
short, severe madness he suddenly felt, to
use his own expression, as if his "heart
were lost" He reeled under the impress
sion, was nauseated and faint then recov-
ering, he put his hand to his wrist and
discovered an intermittent action of his
heart as the cause of his faintness. He
never completely rallied from that shock,
and to the day of his death, 10 years later,
he was never free from the intermittency.
81 am broken-hearted," he would say,
physically broken.1..-ted." And so b.
was, but the knowledge of the broken hear
tempered marvelously his passion and save,
him many years of a really useful life. HI
died ultimately from an acute febrile dis
order. CHdm6ers's Journal
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THE BoAT-RocKER.

The Detroit Free Press is Justly severe
upon the lunatic who rocks small boats for
the sake of frightening the passengers. :. He
is a double hero. He shows how brave ha
is himself, and he also shows who arc the
timid persons in the BOAT. Perhaps some
of the ladies scream as the frail craft swayp
from side to side, and then the noble here
patronizingly assures them that there is nc
danger, that he has been used to q boht
ever since he was so high, and in other
ways gives the company to understand thar
he is a stranger to fear. The boat-rocke,
is prominently brought before the public
by the figure he cuts in a couple of recent
tragedies. Two days ago three men, in
GLIDING the idiotic boat-rocker, went out to
row near Merritton, Ontario. The boat
rocked, with the usual results. One of the
party, n Mr.. Barrett, from the propelle,
Garden City, was drowned. Three youn q
ladies, with their escorts, went boating in
Adams Pond, Boothbay, Maine. The
funny young men rocked the boat to scare
the girls. They succeeded completely
The boat was swamped, and Laura Linscott
and Addie Welsh, girls of sixteen, were
drowned. 1t will be noticed that the brave
young men took good care to save their
own lives. There is just one argument to
be used with q boat-rocker. A vigorous
and well directed blow from an oar on the
top of the head generally ~discourages him
for the time being. The moment he as.
sumes his s~elf-confident smile and begins to
rock, hit him, and hit him hard"
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The primary Cause of a Dis,an, symp-

Nervousness Is rarely n disease in itselfin
herent, but is the lineal offspring of dyspep-
STA, In a majority OF cases. The nervous dis
turbance is at first trifing, but ultimately Its
parent so undermines the general health, as
to produce consequences very threatening to
that great nervous centre, the brain. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, is the most powerful
medicinal opponent of the ravages of indi-
g~estion, and protects the nervous system from
them. The tremors, the unnatural anxiety,
the headaches. the sleeplessness and loss OF
appetite which characterizes digestive irreg-
MARTY and weakness, and which are almost
invariably accompanied by an uncertain
condition OF the bowels and inactivity ofthe
liver, all are eradicated by this matchless
corrective. and when nervousness does not
proceed from the cause designated. 1t affords
most grateful relief. daw-lw
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
MANS MONKEY ANCESTORS.

A dinner was given to Prof. Hackel, O.
jena, by French savants. In his speech h,
expressed qualification at the progress Of
evolutionist ideas among F~renohmen Of
science, and remarked that professors and
preachers who ridiculed mans descent frou
the p unwittingly furnished the besI
proof Of it, their pride and childish VANITY
being foibles which might lave been be
queathed by the ape.
Man, however, did not descend from AM
known anthropoid, but was a branch of thu
catarhine monkeys of the Old World. TIL,
continuity of nature was daily becoming
more evident, and superstition, mysticism
and Theology would give way to reason, caus
ality and mechanism. Among philosophit
minds, at least, the believers in final cause,
of the universe, immutability of species,
sterility Of hybrids, geological cataclysms,
successive creations, and the late appear.
ance of man were dying out. The primitive
life organisms were formed chemically by
spontaneous generation at the bottom Of
the sea, like saline crystals in the waters.
Nohow else could the origin of life be ex.
planned ?
Lamarck and Darwin had struck the last
blow at the doctrine of final causes, and
modern morphology was irreconcilable moi
only with the dogma of the recreation, but
with that of Providence or vague idealisj
pantheism, Of Hegel, Schopenhauser, and
Hartman. The Transformation of living
organisms under the influence of adapta.
ton, hereditary selection, and struggle for
existence, could not, indeed, be mathemati.
cally demonstrated, but its existence could
not be doubted any more tban psychology
or social science, mt anomalies would soon
be explained by the laws of mechanics
were all the elements procurable but thd
instability of the elements constituting tho
tissue of organized beings made biological
problems very complex The speech waa
much applauded.-Ihe London Times.
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A FAIR SPECIMEN.

1 had been entirely bald for several years, con-
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Kathairon, and, 10 my great surprise, I have a thick
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col. JOHN l.. DoRRANCE, u. S. A.
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a Troy mar lost a cana boat, and q local
paper suggests that some Syracuse girl took
1t for a slipper.
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sTURGIS & GOoDELL. P. O.,
Cheyenne, Wyo. Range, Fox Creek,
Lower Horse Creek and Goshen's
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Whole Tickets, 50. Half Tickets, 81.
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Discovered ihirty-ive yeUis no ~ irof. Lyon, OF
Yale, is tho most perfect preparation in the worll
for preserving and beautifying the hair.
Besides being the best hair dressing
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-15

The recent resumption of work on the
Washington monument brings to the
mind of an exchange the disposition of
a stone that was designed for a place in
the structure. The American Minister
told Pope Plus TX. that it was proposed
to insert monoliths from the various
States and nations, and the Pope sent
one to America. It reached Washington
in 1854. when the Know Nothing excite
ment was at it's height, and the young
men of Washington resolved that the
Romish contribution should not make a
part of the monument. They therefore
gathered together at night, Clipped off
few pieces of the stone for relics, took
it to the middle of the Potomac and
dropped it in.
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COMMISSIONS are given in the English
army upon competitive examinations in
which the maximum standard attainable
IN military and other studies is 4. LOCO
marks. 1t is now proposed to make the
maximum 5000, and allow !, 200 marks
Tor excellence in physical vigor, to be
determined by test in any three of the
following exercises walking, running
riding, swimming, leaping and GYM
nastlcs. The London Spectator regards
Incorporation with pure amazement. !"
and calls it "handicapping intellect. !"
1t is alleged by the Liberals generally
that it is a device for promoting stupid
but stout and "cordy" young Tories
who much prefer field sports to the
manual of military science. AS it is
only required to get one-half of the
maximum to pass, an athletic young
fellow gets 1000 by his muscle, and
only needs 1, 400 more on his studies. or
one-third the intellectual requirement.
The Spectator claims that what the
British officer most lacks is not physical
vlgor, or courage, but fertility and adapt
ability of resources.
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The Potter Farce

The race of the Potter committee is
nearly run. Their work has been a
notable failure. The investigation was
authorized in the first instance as a
"question of the highest privilege, be-
cause it was aimed at the President, and
afterward the Democratic majority in
Congress, under the pressure of public
opinion, formally resolved it was not
aimed at the President. The resolution
calling the committee into existence
charged Secretary Sherman and Min
lister Noyes with corrupt conduct,
warranting the impeachment of those
officers, and the evidence has complete
~ exonerated the two gentlemen thus
vllely slandered. The more recent di-
rection OF the investigation has been
given into the hands of Ben Butler,
with the declared purpose of implicat-
ing President Hayes in "Billee" Chand-
ler's alleged I" bargain" and Butler has
not been able to find the missing link. I"
The committee has done nothing but
cause an exhibition of shameless false
swearing, and the exposure of political
vagabondage, on the part of Democratic
witnesses, which, unfortunately, reflects
upon the whole country. Chicago
Tribune