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MODERN CHURCHGOING,
From the Con0reoationol;st

From the COngregdtionalist.
He lightly climbs the pulpit stair:
We're privileged to scan the man,
Externally he wears the air
OF one who gives uncommon care
To shine the foremost in the van.
Arrayed in faultlessness he seems;
Superbly clad it may be said;
Behti1ng one whose rugged themes
Arouse the sinner from his dreams-
Arouse, indeed, the very dead.
So Peter must have stood arrayed,
So Paul in dilettante gear;
So stood they all in dress parade
For eyes to scan in entilade;
See Boanerges thus appear.
The organ swells; from whispers small
1t thrills and peals and laundering rolls;
And shrills as 'twere a clarion call,
Or grand as 'twere a waterfall,
Or soft as ripples on the shoals.
man of God is at the keys;
r Iwere wrong to think it otherwise;
Seraphic things man bears and sees
When Bonded lowly OH his knees
he caught his rapture from the skies.
voice; it is the ound of song,
And Quavers vibI ate in the air;
And pleasure Quivers move the throng;
Must not such trancing sounds belong
10 worlds than this By far more fairs
Did seraph sing that anthem sweets
Twas earth born minstrelsy you say?
Then heavenly paths command her feet,
No dross with such gift il meet:
She walks, she must, the narrow way.
Uprises ROW the a of men
And instant wielos mesmeric sway
Intensely keen is eye'y ken,
And ready made loud amen
To greet whatever he may say.
He prays; if rhetoric be prayer
He pierces empyreal heights.
Is genuine contrition there,
Confession OF a heart laid bare?
II SO, God bless him in his flights
The preacher speaks. In rhythmic dow,
Devoid of wordy orifamme,
In cadence sweet, nor fast nor slow,
Nor cold nor heated to a glow,
Nor platitude nor epigram.
DO men on fire for God SO preach!
Is Lazarus whispering from the tomb:
Is rurrit = preaching! Then impeach
The sinai pulpit, swift to reach
The dead awaiting final doom.
Has Love no lightning? Caspian cloud
Ne'er held such weird, electric freight,
0nr God Is Love; The heavens he bowed
To nertra1ize its deadly hate.
But hate must die: rebellion dire
Must yield to Love in Christ revealed:
Else Love let's loose consuming fire,
The lightning of eternal ire,
Now only for space concealed.
The sermon to its fms draws
Iii climax OF rhetoric power.
Loud rustling marks the final pause,
suppress sion of more loud applause
Like falling Of summer shower.
Again the organ once again
The soloist returns to view;
Here sounds as from lions den,
Or softly dulciter as when
Some siren charms Il fated crew.
Forth come the throng as from a treat,
\ sayory banquet, rare and rich;
From courses Of aesthetics sweet;
Perhaps from an5esthetic seat
Vast worship or performance, which:
WILLIAM n. MEsERvl
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Cash Value of a BOSTON Editer.


While in Washington, recently, certain Bos-
ton editor who has good reputation for
enterprise in obtaining the latest and fullest in
formation upon any and all subjects OF current
Importance, happened to run across General
McCook, of Colorado, and at once seized upon
the opportunity as favorable one to secure for
the readers OF his journal a valuable opinion
concerning the Indian question. After an In
PRODUCTION, the editor said:
General should like to get your ideas on
the Indian question. We are very much inter-
ested in the matter in the East, and your views
would be read with great attention."
"1e-eS," drawled the General in a medita-
tive strain, caressing his moustache. .'Your
name 2"
'Smith, SIR
''Ye-eS. An editor?"
Yes, sir, OF the dailyd so-an-so."
"le-eS. Will you come to Colorado with
'Well, that is hardly possible 1 should like
to get your ideas on the Indian question
though"
with me?"
weller, hardly understand your drift
II
"Ye-es, know. But should like to take you
to Colorado. / don't know but that would
give your widow a thousand dollars. Have you
got widow ?"
'.Well. no, General, not YETI
"Ye-es. Vel, Il should like to take you out there
We propose to deal in the Interest OF humanity
with the Indians but we shall have to kill
Boston editor before we can make much pro-
man. Ye-es; would give your widow 81 900.
VIII you Gomez"
He didn't go, and he hasn't written out any
Interview, as yet.
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PATHS MONK.
How the Prima,s Husband Caused
Trouble in tl,c Troupe.

ISan Francisco Chronicle
Among the extensive body OF retainerS and
in her tour through this country has been, up
TO last Saturday evening, one Ernest Fisehof,
formerly a captain In the Austrian army who
rtlinquished the pursuit of glory at the cannon's
mouth, being engaged as her financial secretary
for the American and Australian tours. The
least enjoyable portion of his duties was theex-
hibiti0n of Christianlike forbcarance whenever
Monk. or Mr.. Patti, the satellite that revOlveS
about his domestic moon, was afflicted with
ft OF i'll temper. He put up with several Of MT
party, but Oh Saturday evening he lost his
temper ard created an impossible breach in
lLeir relations, as wen as In Mr.. Monks
garments. by violently kicking him. The
scene OF the preliminary SkirmiSh was the
dining-room of the Palace Hotel, where Mr.
Monk. his domestic pate de Lois gras, and
there was no legal means OF collecting debt in
this country, and Mr.. FiSchof presumed TO
differ. This uncalled for action on his part.
MADE him the recipient OF a linguistic donation
rom Monk in choice italian, comprising all the
insults he could think or at short notice. FiS-
chor finished his repast on trifieS, chewing his
moustache and his anger, ard as soon as the
party had adjourned 10 the hall collared Mr..
Monk and began to take physical satisfaction
from the prima donna's worse half. The fracas
was stopped and the interested parties adj
Journt Immediately to Annie street, In the rear
of the hotel, where MI. Fischof expressed his
sentiments SO impressively that after a pun
by Fischof's boot. Monk went straight to Patti
and told his story, and she wrote letter dis
changing fiSchof on the spot. He replied in
cons ervative fashion and laid his case before
Colonel W. II. L. Barnes, who at his request. is
pref airing papers to sue for Fischofs money and
his return passage to Austria as per contract.
Ffschof, who has evidently been expecting some
final fuss OF this kind, has kept a record OF
Monks eccentricities, which reads as follows,
the sad story being made still sadder by the
pathetic patoiS:
Octobre 2-IIe abuse shameful NJ. ChiZzola, q
fAcademie de la Museque in New York.
Oct0bre 2S-On re X. X. from Albany juSqu'a
Detroit, he violently insulte NJ. Ketter.
Noyembre AT re Tiff House, BOofalo,
Madame Patti send her maid for me at 10 o'clock
and ~ O'Clock to prOteger from him.
NOvembre 1O-At Evansville he raiZ re ID on
re stage and break up re business.
Novembre 13-At re Bisseu House, Detroit, he
severely insult M. and Madame Ketter and M
and Madame ChiZZola-
Novembre 14-At re Grande Hotel, Cincinnati
he use violence to Madame Patti.
Novembre 15-At re Allen House, Springfield
he shameful abuse myself.
Janu1er 2-At Reno at re Depot Hotel he beat
Madame PATHS maid.
Jan. PAT re Palace Hotel he try to beat
Madame Patti wiz chair.
FischOf received 10 per cent. Of Madame PATHS
receipts, she receiving 25 per cent. of all Chiz-
Zolas receipts who paid all expenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

For some weeks past, says the London Lpncet
the German medical press has been discussing
new .cure" for phthiSiS, and accounts more
or less accurate. or the method and its benefits
have found their way into the daily and weekly
papers, both on the Continent and in England,
and nave excited considerable amount of at
tenlion. Dr. krocZak, the assistant to Profess
sor Rokitansky, OF Innsbruck, has been treating
the consumptiye patients in his wards by the
new method, ana, II Is said, with results that
have far surpassed his expectations; but as yet
no definite statistics OF the cases and their
course have been published.
The remedy Is simple enough per cent.
solution OF benZoate OF soda is to be inhaled
twice Gaily for seven weeks by means OF d
Slegle'S atomlzing inhaler. in the proportion OF
one part OF salt 10 a 1,oOOth OF the body weight.
The quantity necessary for patient 40 pounds
In weight would, therefore, be about 2I{ ounces
at each inhalation; and the inhaler must be
carefully adjusted Tor such large amount to be
ton VIII always escape into and permeate the
ar OF the room, and the patient should remain
Therein for an hour after each inhalation.
We We can easily understand, says the Lancet,
may be OF some benefit In checking
the formation or mucus or pus in bronchiec-
tallc and even in phthtsical cavities; in fact the
old Friars balsam has long been, and is still,
frequently employed with advantage for this
purpose. This, however, is not the result that
Is TO be secured by the new 'cure.r The ben
zoate OF soda Is supposed TO destroy the specific
bacteria 10 which the tuberculiZing process is
Que, and then the common infiammatory
changes lose their destructive characters and
Slowly heal. The facts on which such a theory
can Oe based are almost entirely wanting it
seems 10 us more likely 10 benefit chronic cases
or phthiSlS with pTofuSe expect0ration than
those In which true tuberculosis is taxing place.
MATERIALISTs talk about 'ideas as ssorlpina-
ting in the brain; and people generally have
become so far impressed with the notion that
mental states are caused by physical actions on
the nervous system, that when you begin to eX-
plain TO them the wonderfully minute co.rela-
tons between physical action and brain action
which modern psychology is disclosing, they
Immediately take fright and think you are sex
planning" away the mind altogether. They
think that in order to refute materialism it Is
necessary to deny that associations OF ideas
occur simultaneously with the passage OF waves
OF molecular motion from one cell to another in
the gray surface of the brain. wonder 10
never occurs to them that they might more
summartly effect their purpose by denying,
once for all, that the brain has anything what
ever to do with mind, or has any further func-
ton than that OF q balance wheel or sgover-
norn for regulating the motions OF the visceraL
But In point OF fact their alarm Is altogether
groundleSsI-yohn Fiske IN Iate,aatiGsiat Re-
rtetc Jor January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

SOME, WISE CHANGES have been made in the
public schools Of Philadelphia. The amount Of
been reduced; some OF the studies, especially
drawing and writing, have been stmplided; and
the ridiculous memorizing OF the description
and analysts OF leteers-a piece Of idi0cy-has
been done away with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24
College Cheers.

Dartmouths unearthly cry was born, prob
ably, In the mind OF some undergrade who had
heard that his Alma Mater was originally char
tered '.for We Instruction and conversion OF We
Indian youth of His Majesty's Province" and
who thought that something aboriginal would
be appropriate. This Is the result:
Hurrah Hurrah! Hurrah.
Wah-Hoo-wah
The second syllable is prolonged indefinitely in
a most appalling boot, and the final WAH comes
out IN sharp staccato that is startling In the
extreme. l am inclined to think that the Dart
mouth cry must rank first in the second class of
college cheers, although that of Rutgers may,
perhaps, dispute this claim. While, however,
yell, rutgers prefers to excite mirth:
'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah!
BOw-wOw-wOw!
A few hundred Rutgers men with good lungs
certainly produce as comic an effect with their
cheer as can well be Imagined 1t is a most SUD-
lime yelp.
Racine has punntng cheer, the first part Of
It being not only the orthodox prelude to all
0ther cheers, but also part OF its own name.
'Ra-Ra-RA-CINE'
IL ls quite original, and sounds well. In faot it
Is the only western college cheer that deserves
One OF the colleges that possess an initial
cheer III may SO describe fC is the College of
the CITY OF New York. It is not very remark
abe either for ingenuity or euphony, yet its
PARTING from the monotony Of alphabetical
sloe ans.
'Rahi Rah! 'Rah!
OF CT N! Y!
In fact, alphabetical cheers are altogether too
numerous, and show great lack OF Originality
In the colleges where they prevail.
Williams has curious sort OF cheer that
should not be omitted in the list. It Is not par
uc9larly stirring, even when chorused by a
multitude: and when only dozen or more give
1t IL is simply ludicrOus. It goes thus:
'Rah! 'Rah' Rah!
Wfll-yums! BdBlS YUMs!
/ had intended to complete the enumeration OF
the second class OF college cheers In the present
number OF the Acta; but as have already
more than filled the space allotted me, must
finish In my next paper, when the cheers of
some six or eight more colleges will be consid-
cred briefy.-Letter TO the Actd C)ltna5idn1
A SNOWMAN nom the United States purchased
circus that was on tour In Mexico, and sub
stituted the Stars and stripes for the Mexican
flag that had been flying from the tent pole.
This was In Chihuahua, where the hatred OF
this country Is Intense A mob undertook TO
haul down the new flag, but the manager and
hts performers drove them one That night
regiment Of local soldiery demolished the whole
SHOW, and the company were compelled 70 ny
for their lfyeA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

zen Of Iowa, has brought up In his house, edu-
Gated and set up In business fifteen orphan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

In boarding house recently, young man,
on turning OF his gas, saw the words, sConfess
thy sins !" In phosphorescent characters on the
wall. he was surprised, but, listening, thought
he heard some young ladies outside the door,
tending to be frightened at the match scratch,
he fell on his knees and confessed out loud that
he had frequently kissed one OF the young ladies
In the dark-the one whom he had best reason
to suspect OF playing the trick. That young
lady won't play any more such tricks immed-
dfately. She thinks he is mean, horrid thing.
-BurliuQtOn HdsoEeae
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Pictures of Wisely in Ireland.


The first cabin into which went was place
That an EngiShman would think too bad for
his pig. It's floor, of earth and stones reeked
with damp, and water even stood in the hol-
lows; the only furniture was a few cups and
Saucers, a stool or two, and as many tubs and
pots; In one corner mass OF dirty straw had
wretched hearth smoked rather than burnt an
apology for fire. The man Of the house
shoeless and coatless, pale and haggard-sat
idle upon bag OF Indian meal, beyond which
gloom around the hearth-there was no wiz
dow to speak of-could be dimly made out one
or Two crouching female figures. never saw
anything in the way or a home in ci,ilized
country-and have seen a good deal-more
appalling than this. Yet here was the case of a
man renting three acres OF land, and usually
getting what he would be content to call liv-
ing, out OF them: Now, alas. he and the thous-
ands of others like him, have reached the end
OF their miserable last seasons crop, and be-
yond them but a little way lies starvation.
had, nothing more remaining upon which, by
sale or mortgage, money could be raised, and
to the question 'What will you do when the
meal gives out?" came the .despairiDg answer,
1.-The good Lord only Knows"
Not far from this, / was shown by my melan-
choly attendants into an equally wretched
mover, where a widow with seven young chill
dren was fighting the bitter battle Of life, and
rapidly getting worsted in the struggle. She
herself had gone out gathering what she could
of stuff to make fire whereWith to cook the
family dinner, consisting-Oh, my brothers in
But the poor little children, half clothed, thin
and ollow-eyed, were there to plead with
heartrend1ng eioquence for aid. Once more
heard the old story: The land had yielded no.
thing; no turf could be obtained for fuel short
OF Journey of eight miles, and the family had
touched absolute restitution. over the way, In
another apology for dwelling place, found
three poor women trying to kindle fire with
damp beanstalkS, their only crop, in order to
Cook q dish of Indian meal their only fool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

nIGPO6ERg Of eecond-han clothing, vssd1es.
omS s9S Rasse9 ~ ssn Sc tns ee.s 60 80.
.;siaa ~ Sssiss i y "a s;lSsa ID S s - &
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-24

GAS COOKING STOVES.
The Warrington Gas Light Company have at THAR
o6ica7on 10Th street assortment OF the SUN DIAL
GAS COOKING STOVES, in various sizes and pat
lectures ON cookery.
Oau and examine themy my2O
, 1880-08-25
SPIRIT or THE GERMAN PRESS.

Tho Frrfde'thtr, 0f Milwaukee, INC o.s% "I ,hs
tho Frccthlnkcra Ut E"rth America W." ,hs
Narlh AMERICAN rlrnrrtntnf. t,lhshcs. RI
r"llow,nr c,,1n1,,,uieatIou .rrom rrut. +: k.., -
llyrnplsr, nt a,tlwnukc, opposing sho o"'l,,Ms l,'s
position of tiat lwper: u it, lcul,"g H.. " srso.
thp ttehtfskcr Fpeaks continually VI as,v,s ~" "
tIon bctw0nn two evils, of which oao Pa'., ,. srs
corrupt ~ thu uthcr 10th r'tcs, It sa,s' ,bu
only looking utter tho spo1!s Aceor,lins ~ sud
thcoty, tho who.o poapln would ~ n,n,, eot," II.
stupid. tho hunltul of ltatl!ca.. prtA,,p ,,po ivo
ccp,cd Tho preseut co!!lct l'etwet,l ,',,unu s"u
lartIos, IL, In truth. not'ing hut e"n' .,,r ,,s-
Ut tho IItbclltall dlrIl9 which TUG se.'.th.td
tlon ui,lhh .korthurn licllloer1vy ~ dricat
With thu Hu.tth ana attempted )" ',",r,.ss
ali war. measures ,'rs.a'se.l III :, Io's ,s.rls
, And such ~ cuntlrt tho sis!n!cfes's" "a ie
who d.. not speculate utm u!l!scs INK ~, ,,as
1t IL tho irrci,rrss!Elu eotlct httwesn iu' s,h
ot tho so,atI. and those Ut tue N"flh, IN n,, 10
lntuntls, with NurtLcrn lNt"pcf''sr "a ,amuIfy
,ako rovongo IN !c4a1l lia'1I't, 10 '''s ',,.,lu
itself financially, and u aIrsuafe sho ',1vau-
-tioual amendments, with tho aid u 's''
, 1880-08-25

sr" wsan woo' h'!, y" u un f., sur tm,
s,,ulf 'u,v,n,. H. es,,s,,,r.n viii, sl,u c"nfrl-
rrs,lM Stntss MnGn & III ut srS ,n.sk9r ~ ~ - ~, III
,r.,tT'i Hull hs :tsmi,G ,urlra|.tupum rrt'1 *"t
II m. e. aM,.anE , III 13"%t m;n% . ~,
@ siu # % si.h"aIr i ",ti s.rS ffn i,,r],n "i*.
"'"p. Every loyal soh ,f hsrs lAlsk'e!l r. ' ,,, H.
iI '.' wn @ Vii, Venture, t., MS Tilt iiey wa.u ,,u
IN the III. Of .l''ts ansl h""ry .......
This slrIh,S '!"rtfll1n t' oHAtf.s"isel''''s
so f"tcllly aml frr'rHilS 'h'!tf'''''l III ''eh'
Mct'pWHl's steerh ~ M t,ffnss hla''1"'a ~ Y"
Southern heart ip''lny as II WIS III lS'A'' ''S
champion Is tn" l2e'n2rfaf!c mfly' wh'sn
'"t'l,lnlM's til. united s,irr"ft "l u'e oon'n
far TINT rrason al"1,r. 1t h tho "rsll'r'l""
fpr wl,irl, >l.re n'ul dickson fo''E',t' "'a,
Wmlr Hampton lol' Tho truth when 'c Ea''l
thu s"ulln IL to.''ay ronten'llng i"r thu s'o
will be approved to-,|ny by 'm' on, "i every
a''s wio ,, os' "a' ,mrt, r,,t oi - ~ @ tna
premise from wl'r tte ''s!'' o. ,'.t secession N II
| loEieatty 't'st'tel"l. u " tno 'atn'ne ,' MiHt
II" EXCUSE Tor thc t1nlinca!h ~ t'.o una.' .e.,'
States lnws which IL go''.s vi !" llN oo"'"
NIL tho wl!iie. , H., ,,r,o,,,,,,,,,,, s,,.
Ahother instance o' Inv "'se"ns'". s.' r.n
tlmrl,t of tho so'a'li ms men ,ees'',s '"lN
uisl!c4 hy nlt utoFt ~ AMp'i''" ~ n"NG nr' u.
rests ot mel! WHO hao neeh ne"''1'h '''o ~. ~.
iimidatti'E United si'es Witnesses !" ,,.l ln'
n'1i''h'a1ioh< o! uhllea se'mes nna. ""
rAtlts were sworn 9ot 1hr lno a.tes1 III "i'I
l'cytot and others u, co''hE,on oounts. a'.s,
wsre p'arsd N te i'l'es ., ;e,'s ,su ,,st,".
oliver. T't'so'lcrrtopk 1hlee othet l'epu'ls,
WIN li ifo M"neo,ne,y ',',' t 'a.sra.
, 1880-08-25

a writer III tho New ,Yuris Enenilta Post,
commenting upnn thu extraordinary l'ero:'sp
nr poprin.tnn: III thu Southern '6thtcs, sl,g-
gests, as something moro probable than
fran. tho greater increase or uugrd pra.l!lc-
tIou t,uol,g tllu freedmen. Ills statement ts
~ fnlows: '.~- - '''
Il rotcr to Chnp. 20 Of NJ. .Qnntrcfago'a wnrk on
..tr1u Ii..,ni, Hrsetra," where tho luther snys:
"Tt II ,:it,r thlst thu character mid ecmI.nct nf
aS 1y s%Tsf Of PS ,S ae y ssSt N sasS m PIT n sys. w.
Wlthm,t uelltlH himself IL lo mud wlt.ln!It 1e.
ng fnh,i,nl,, tfG .,.lns!cf m!yt,t teinn.!a n,ro
. Il ,a:sssssry sS i" hsaitH rhis WI ssrain!y to
Krt t us naa ",lt "i tl.aslavesas rtssbie nusor..
he'"!l'cs. ,ns IT tsg S,';:s ~, NIX BY
nurs r.r iHturtropH1l climates ID =, innltIMler.
ntety inc1eahrtl; Faets sse,H t. nst'fy these
sns's!is snyaM Iii ltfclus ?So his
been IN tho Intrt,lsu In thu. Enkli+h isl'uldH.
ii"wcvor slnv!llnr thiA t,st may aR.r e s.,..'o NJ
iUok piuul in l!rua!I.'' -.
,'rl.ls explanation IL ousn Ia QUO Or two
dlUlcuitIcs. Tin WILD population 1urU NIL
tlia burden OF tic. War. 1'liv Confederate
lpss from deaths IN, tia u.l allll In hoslilnl,
u1ul later frnua disease contracted during tho
Wur, WIS exclusively nnlang tho white nn!o
population. Tlo negro l!vet! III c0lNrnrauyo
Gds1 upon 'tilG fnr,us, nlNl c,n lny4ty Da, ,sAia
II lraye bccn oyerworlsel.. -,
Since. ls1o tl.o 'iIegfo llas berii free, a,ll
tho two r;ecs luye bcen placed I'll III
equality W tar M legal scryItu.lo l'as been
concerned, tlt0Ngl tho negroes Arc still the
lal,o,rts Of tho Soutl,,, thu Whllrs.'as class,
engaglng ,lu III lIInra la6us n,w, tlan t'.ey
I vel II