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The Portland daily press., 1880-10-20
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and MI the churches, the non-church goels
would not only be drawn to attend the church
but would be drawn to the church itself
Again the snon-church goer must be made to
understand that the church is ready to enter
new fields of labor, when new fields are opened.
That the church is not bound by the tradi-
lions OF a hundred years. Finally how shall
the next generation of non-ehurch goers be
reached? How many of the children of our
Sunday Schools are seen at the morning SER
vice? Will not this question be vast one in
the future If the people do not bring the chill
dren to church as well as to the Sunday
School?
Mr. William III. Hobbs read an interesting
paper full OF practical suggestions. A popular
SUNDAY evening service to consist OF an ad-
dress on popular subjects to be proceeded by a
service OF song, extensive advertising of
meetings.. establishing of reading rooms.
distribution OF religious reading,s church
SERVICE through the year, and the cordial re-
ceptlon OF strangers were some of his sugges-
tons. .
The two questions were thrown omen for dis
cuSsion.
The Rev. j. G. Wilson believed in person.
al effort and visiting OF non-church goers We
must go upon the streets where the poor live
and talk with them, not altogether of the in
terest of the soul. This is work in which
both pastor and people can join. He related
IN an interesting manner some of his expe-
riences i'll the personal line of work.
The secretary said that there are times when
1t is necessary to do something in the way of
relieving want before the matter of religion
is approached, but he would protest, as had
been said, against the competition of the
church against the oyster saloon. The church
that cannot support itself had better close its
doors. The command is $50 ye," and if the
people will not come to the church let the
church go to the people.
Mr.. Wells suggested that the reason why so
many are not church goers is because that
church members do not keep in view the true
reason Tor attending church--to worship God
The Rev. 4. HI. Wright said that no church
could adopt the suggestions that had been
made unless it had great strength not only
financial but spiritual. There must be loyalty
to the church and to the Lord Jesus Christ.
He spoke earnestly in favor of individual eff
fort
The Rev. Mr.. Hincks believed that the best
way to reach non-church goers is by embracing
the every day opportunities to reach that class
of the community.
The Rev. Mr.. Dickinson thought that great
er earnestness on the part of the preachers
would aid in drawing men to church.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
iicate that the portion of the cave in

dictate that the portion of the cave 10
which the spear. head was found, had been
visited by man or beast were discovered,
and hence the theory as to how it came in
the lonely spot. Dr. Leidy has taken his
specimens along with him and will make
a report OF his discoveries to the scientific
world in due time.
AS yet the lower deposit has not been re-.
moved, and it is thought that it will re-
veal even more interesting facts for the
scientists than the middle layer. The
cave has been explored to a depth of one
hundred and fifty feet, and one can with
ease walk the first one hundred feet. After
that STOPPING is required at times. The
indications are that the part thus explored
IS only hallway, from which the en-.
frances can be made, after the earth aud
deposits have been removed, to larger and
more remote chambers, which already ap
pear at different points. The top of the
cave is limestone arch, which reflects
many different cOiors when the light of
the torches fl ashes upon it, Hundreds of
excursionists have visited the cave this
season, and by next year it will be one of
the chief features in this section of the
country. - Stroudsburg (Pa), letter to
Philadelphia Times
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

potatoes. But though one man trebles
the quantity his neighbor produces, he is
no better off nor more ambitious in the
matter of architecture than the poorest;
and In the corners, or in the center of the
hollows, or perched high up on the win
try gneiss, is found a grotesque variety of
makeshift dwellings, mere concessions to
exigencies in many cases, which by no
means indicate the pecuniary resources of
the occupants. Some of them are simply
squalid, but upon others the sunshine
and the rain have brought out soft color,
and the scraps OF which they are built
have borrowed quaint grace from the
weatherlng. 1t is scarcely safe to let an
artist loose among them. They abound
with picturesque "bi!s," which he declares
1t next to impossible to exhaust; and not
long ago, when | scared into the skyward
region where c. bas his studio, [
found him black to the wrists with ink,
with which he was printing etchings Of
some things that he had discovered among
these shanties.-W William II, Rtdetng, an
Harper's Magazine far September.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
Reading in the Boston Schools.

The Boston School Committee has de-
yised plan for lending special attractive
ness to the unusually dull half hour de-
voted to the exercise of reading in the pub
lie schools. The regular readers have been
supplemented by selected stories from gen
eral literature The primary children, for
instance, are RECALLED with "Jack the Giant
Killer" Little Red Riding Hood" and
other juvenile ictions printed in PAM
phlet for school use. The older children
have selected tales from the Arabian
Nights" and other entertaining fictiOns are
to be prepared for their delectation. The
superintendent claims that the introduce
ton of this new feature has been surpris-
ingly successful. The children, whose every
look and act showed how tedious and irk-
some the reading hour was to them, are
now all attention and animation. They are
not allowed to read the books out Of school
hours, and the text is therefore new to them
at each lesson. Especially among the poor
er children, whose pleasure reading is con-
fined to an occasional dime novel or trashy
paper, is the improvement noticeable, and
in no better way, considers Superintendent
Eliot, can pure and elevated taste for
good reading be implanted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
Sh -uld We Eat LESS ?
from the London STANDARD I

The amount of nourishment which q
person needs greatly depends on his con-
stitution, state of health, habits AMI work
A sedentary man requires less than one
whose duties demand the exercise of his
muscles, aud brain worker needs more
than an idler But unquestionably, the
majority of US take more than we need
Indeed, food and work are distributed
most equally. Tne man Of leisure is also
the man OF means, and, accordingly, fares
sumptuously every day; while the laborer
tolls for eight hours, and finds it difficult
to get enough to repair the waste of his
tissues. Yet Cninaman or Ben 5alee
will toll under tropical sun, and find a
few pice worth OF rice or owrah sufi cient
to sustain his strength. A Frenchman will
not eat half what an Englishman engaged
in the same work will demand, and
Spanish lsborer, content in ordinary times
with watermelon and bit OF black
fat on a dietary of onion po il lge and
grapes. 1t is true that MIR. Brassey, when
building the Continental railways, found
that one English navy was worth
couple of spare-fed foreigners.
But, on the other hand, the British
Colum bian and Californian gold dig
gers, than whom more magnificent
set of athletes does not exist, live ia the
remote mountains of the Far West main
ly on beans favored with few cubes Of
pork. But they also obtain the best Of
water and the purest of air, and their out
door life and active exercise enable them
to digest every ounce Of their frugal fare.
The English soldiers. though better fed
than those of any army except the Ameri-
can, do not get one half the amount OF
solid nutriment which the id]est OF club
loungers considers indispensable for his
sustenance. An athlete in training is al
lowed even less food; yet he prospers on
the limited fare, and prolongs his life by
the regimen to which he has been sub.
jected. King Victor Emmanuel was q
monarch of the most robust physique /;
yet he only ate one meal per day, and it
is manifestly absurd for any man to re-
quire three more or less weighty meals,
and an afternoon cup of tea, to support
the exertiOn of walking to the club. riding
an hour in the park, writing note or
two, and dancing a couple OF miles
around ballroom. The anclents had
their "amethustoi," or 'sober stones" by
which they regulated their indulgence at
table. The moderns have not even this.
But they have their govt and their livers
to warn them, when ii is too late, that
nature has been oVertasked.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

Since the fight between the Monitor and
the Merrimac the powder charges of great
guns have grown from Is pounds to be-
tween 400 and 500 pounds, and the new
guns to be built at Elswick for the Italia
and Lepanto are to be used with charge
of powder $50 pounds! At first the powder
charges of our 20-ton 15-inch guns were So
pounds. They were then put up to so
pounds, and when they were raised to 100
pounds of mammoth grain powder, after
the war, the army and navy men trembled
with anxiety. But now the 25-ton 1255-inch
Woolwich rifles, of which the Thunderer's
guns were examples, use $50 pounds of
powder, and the 35-ton 11-inch Armstrong
guns made at Elswick for the Chinese navy
use the charge of 235 pounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
they were hundreds of years ago. A,

they were hundreds of years ago. AS
with the Chateau Lafltte, very little gen.
uipe Clos Vougeot gets into the handsSof
wine dealers.
The best French white wine is that of
the Chateau Yquem, the product of a
vineyard near Pujols, in the department
OF Lot ct Garonne, the property of the
Marquis de Lur Saluces. Chateau Yquem,
called by the people of Gironde the king
of wines and the wine OF kings, is not q
celebrity of old date. 1t began TO be
famous about the close of the last century.
and is said to owe its excellence to par.
ticular process in the making introduced
by an ancestor Of the present MARQUIS
soon after he came into possession of the
estate in 1880. Although the vineyards
cover four hundred and seventyfour
acres, they have never produced more
than one hundred and twenty casks of
wine in single year. SO that it is prob.
able that most of the lovers of Chateau
Yquem never tasted the genuine article ia
all their lives. The price of the new wine
at the cellars averages about 81 200 a cask
cask OF 1947 was sold in 1859 to the
Crank Duke Constantine, for $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
Trials of the Vlce-Presidents.

But the Vice-Presidency has its trials.
The great trial Is in attending church,
my lifetime habit, learned here in Now
England. Where taught to find consola-
ton, go away, too often, with my spirit
uality soiled. To hear the minister pray
in town for the President, his Cabinet,
both houses of Congress, the Supreme
Court, the Governors, and Legislatures of
| all the Ssale3, and every individual he 4th
en- from Greenlsnd's icy mountains to
lndias coral strand" and to find myself
wholly left out, gives the man of sin the
advantage of the upper dog in the fight
On one of those occasions in Washington,
when just this thing happened, as I pass
ed out OF my church my old friend Shell
labarger, OF Ohio, locking arms with me
said: " Wheeler, the minister was pretty
hard on you this morning" Yes" said
L, when a man is rated below the untu
tored savage, who strolls in breech clout
along where 'AfriC's sunny fountains roll
down their golden sands,' and is past
praying for, he is in a tight place." But
L afterward found consolation, and I am
quite confident 1t came from yonr Senator
T. lmunds, who said to me On learning my
trials: You don't need the prayers and
the other fellows do, and that probably
was the view the minister took of it."
While L had lingering fear that the con.
gregation did not accept this theory, con-
Guided to comfort myself with 1t, and
have come to have absolute faith in it.
Mr.. Edmunds has grown wonderfully in
my estimation, and regard bim as emln.
emit in Psychology as in statesm snship.
The Vlce-Presidency is place of "Great
Expectations" rarely, alas realized. It
is getting late now for me to look for the
occupation of the mansion coveted l fear
by some more than the heavenly mansion
i mean the White House. Willie |
have wasted away, like Tanner, in my
starved expectations, the President, with
all the cares OF his great office, has actual.
ly increased his avoirdupois, and to-day
there walks in all this broad land no
sturdier specimen of physical and intel
lectual manhood than he. And he is 60
ing Into retirement on the fourth day of
March next, with an eye undimmed in its
lustre, which can look back upon fifty
millions OF happy, prosperous people. at
peace at home and abroad, whom he has
led out OF the myrass of shifting, uncer-
tain values to the solid standard ground
of the world; and whom he b IS lifted out
of the depths of financial depression to the
heights of universal prosperity.-[ From
Vice President Wheeler's Speech at st.
Adams, W. august 10.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
A current event-The Gulf Stream.


Madam, never bang door, if you do
adore bang
Beer is said to be going up, but the gen.
eral impression has been that it was going
down.
There was big hustle in the Custom
House last week when ffty-seven yards Of
lace were found on the person of Mrs. B.
The son of a coffee ard spice dealer was
asked at school where coffee came from,
and the reply WIS: Father said l mustn't
tell, and he'll lick me if | do"
Youth: eyes, it is curious I have no
beard; I can't think who [ take after-my
grandfather had q splendid one" Hair
CUTTER ooh! perhaps you take after your
grandmother"
An exchange refers to the language of
the postage stamp. But we do not think
the postage stamp has any language that
expresses anything If it had we believe
1T would hOller enough" when it is licked.
1t was out in one of the western states
that he started paper and called it "The
Barrel" because a barrel once set in mo-
ton is very easy to keep rolling But the
people decided they didn't want any barrel
organ in those parts, and The Barrel sue
cumbed to circumstances.
"Is the doctor in?" asked an anxious
looking young man. mo, SIR" replied the
person addressed, "but then you can leave
an order on the slate Is it very urgent
case?" "Well, yes" the young man said
rather urgent think. Just as / started
away from home my youngest brother was
falling out of second-story window"
'Is it becoming to me?" asked she, as
she paraded, in the costume Of one hun
dred years ago, before the man who is not
her lord and master, but is her husband
eyes, my DEAR" said he, meelzly Don't
you wish | could dress this way all the
time?" she asked. mo, my DEAR" he
answered; "but 1 wish you had lived when
that was the style"
A ST. Louis girl forwarded the following
to her young man: Deer Will,-Doant
KUN to see me eny more for whial eny
way. Fauther has got awfully skeered
about burglars, and sits up every mite till
late with a doubled barrelled shotgun
watching the backyard He put moren a
pound of lead into Browns newfoundland
dog which was cummin over the fens after
a bone last mite"
Little Kate B., who is of an inquiring
turn Of mind, was watching her father
cover the fire with ashes one night last
winter. She looked at him intently few
minutes and then asked why he did it; to
which he jokingly replied: ITO stop the
rapid combustion" A short time after she
ran to tell her mamma what she had seen,
and ended by saying, "The fire was covered
up to keep the rabbit from busting"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
The Hancock Business.
TWaukesha Freeman.1

The article appearing in another col
umn of days Freeman, entitled "Han-
cock and the Soldiers" was put IN type
for publication last week, but after con-
slderation of the matter it was decided to
delay it until we could be more certain of
the facts. To this end we addressed q
note to Major NJ L. Butterfeld of this
place, formerly of the 9th Wisconsin,
asking for an impartial statement in re-
lation to the whole matter. The CORES
pondence is given below, and ii seems to
be decisive. Gen. Hancock, we regret to
say, WAS brutal in his treatment of volun-
teer soldiers, and deserves to be so regard
ed by the great mass of patriotic citizens
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
Statistics of divorces in Massachusetts,

Statistics of divorces in Massachusetts
exhibit an extraordinary and alarming in
crease. Since 1860 no less than 1888 di-
vorces have been obtained in that model
state. Since 1860 the number Of yearly
divorces have increased in that state from
243 to 600, while the number of marriages
have increased only from II, 400 to 1888.
The ratio of divorces to marriages in the
state in 1860 was 1 to Ola The statistics
were prepared by Mr.. Carroll B. Wright,
one of the most careful statisticians in the
country. In Vermont the ratio for the last
eight or ten years is 1 divorce to 10 mar
riages; in Rhode Island, to IA in Con-
necticut, 1 to II.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

Here is an excellent recipe for staining
color: l. Boil half pound of logwood in
three pints of water, and add half an
ounce of salts of tartar 2. Boil half pound
of madden and a quarter pound Of fustic
in one gallon of water. 3. Boil one pound
of Brazil wood and one ounce of washing
soda in one gallon of water, apply and
then brush over it before dry a solution of
two ounces of alum in one quart OF water.
With these, wood, if dry, may be stained
in the cold, but the dyeing will be accom-
plished far more quickly and satisfactorily
if the liquids are applied hot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

who left their ordinary business to fight
for their country nearly a score Of years
ago. The letters here given are self-ex.
plsnstory, and to those who are acquaint
ed with Major Butterfeld, will need no
further confederation.
MAJOR M. L BUTTERFIELD- Dear Ser !:
Will you have the kindness to look over
the enclosed proof of Lieut.. Langridge's
statement, and inform the Freeman what
you think of 1t; and also mention what
weight, If any, is to be given TO Col.
Vests denial of the charges made against
Gen. Hancock by the late DR.. CastlemsnP
Knowing that you were in the 9th Wis
consin at the time mentioned in these
documents, look to you for authentic
and impartial information, by giving
which you will greatly oblige the
EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN.
MAI. BUTTERFIELDs REPLY.
WAUKRsHA, Aug. IS, 1880.
EDITOR FREEMAN In answer to your
letter of inquiry, as to whether | have
read the proof of extracts taken from an
article in the Lancaster Herald by one
Chss. Langridge t the old 5th Wis.
Vol) and headed Hancock and the Sol
diers," | have read the article and can say
with candor that am cognlzant of most
of the facts set forth in said article, as |
was with my company and regiment at
the time.
F. In regard to that portion of the article
that refers to the drilling of the regiment
on August 10, 1862, at Yorktown, because
some of the men called fer water-Some
thing that they had not had since early
morning, and this being about the mid
die of the afternoon-it is every word
true, as | was present at the time myself,
and there are many of the "Old 5sh boys"
who can testify to the same to-day. Lieut..
Col. Emery was in command of the regi-
ment at the time, and Hancock ordered
Emery to drill the regiment to punish
the men that cailel for water. The
Colonel not drilling the men to Gen.
eral Hancock's satisfaction (not be-
ing severe enough with them | sup
pOse), the General took command himself
and put US through the double quick for
some time and not very slow at that, and
when he had done drilling the regiment,
he gave over the command to Col. Emery,
saying, "there, G--d-- you, the man
that hollosed water has the satisfaction
of knowing that he has had the whole
regiment punished on his account"
In regard to the letter of Col. 7. s.
West, published in g late issue of the
Milwaukee News, and relating to the
above statement, it is all false, as hundreds
now living can testify. West left the reg
Iment some time IN July, while we were
in camp at Harrison's Landing, and was
not with US Aug. 10, at Yorktown, nor at
any other time during that campaign, but
was IN Wisconsin recruiting, and was
afterwards made Lieutenant Colonel OF
the Gath Wis, which was organized at
Milwaukee in August, and was mustered
into the United States service on the 18th
of August OF that year, as shown by the
Adjutant- Generals report.
Truly Yours,
NJ L BUTTERFIELD
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

THAT SETTLED IT.-Jack lace had just
fitted up his saloon at Arkana, Texas, with
fine black walnut bar. Tom Daily, des-
perado, took drink at the new counter,
and began to carve his initials with
bowie knife on its polished surface. luce
protested without avail, and then com.
msnded DAILY to stop. ''l'm going to cut
this bar or you, and don't care which,"
was the retort "You won't do ether"
said Ince, and shot the man dead
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01

A YOUNG lady of Chester county. Pa,
has agreed to marry young map imme.
diately after the election if Hancock is
elected; but If Garfield is elected they are
to wait four years. 1t is pretty evident
that the young lady is not wildly banker
ing for a band.-Norrist0ao Herald.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-29
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