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MiniSteFial ssCrankS.,,

The ''cranks' in the ministry may not be as
numerous as in politics and business. but they
are equally pestiferous and often occasion very
serious injury. 1t is becoming more and more
difficult thank God.) for these badly-arranced
minds to find place in the regular pulpit. But
'cranks," through gentle charity and hopeful
piety, or perhaps on account of personal friend
ship, pass sometimes the first barriers. although
many iaii ol ordination. Some. in hours, pos
siby. of temporary nationality. pass under
episcopal hands and are sent out among the
people to edify the church of Christ. Sad work
these men make OF it. Their insufferable self
esteem, their persistent self-assertion. their
audacOus willfulness. their recklessness of con-
sequences. their apparently utter unconscious
ness OF the true office of the ministry in the
church. are sure to occasion heart burninps
divisions. and irremediable injury wherever
they go. They always have trouble. but never
for moment attribute it to their own unwis
dom. Every person that disagrees with them
becomes their sworn enemy. He cannot be con-
sidered Christian. and he must be driven from
office and expelled from the church. These dis
ordered men seem to consider the churches as
constituted for their benefit They must take
their sermons and their administration. or it is
simply the worse for them. There is no church
in the denomination. or Office in its gift, that
lHcy III tiiciI OWH cstLus1tiOu. CduuOI Ill., IneV
demand as right that they should be sent
where they wish to go. and they cannot by any
argument be convinced of their unfitness or of
the reluctance Of the people to receive them.
Sometimes the ministerial 'crank" has hobby,
and he rides it until he dies, or until it has been
run into the ground" 1t may be doctrine,
or several of them. He is right, if everybody
in the church is sure he is wrong. The saliva
ton of the church and the world depends upon
the acceptance OF his exposition of this doctrine.
He is ready to fight ministry and laity, editor
and bishop. in the pulpit or at the district con-
ventiOn. He makes his pet views the staple of
his ministry, until people become wearied to
death Of both the preacher and his topic. It is a
terrible affiictiOn TO the church to have these
.'cranks'' in it. Doubtless, in some way it is to
be considered part OF the ''all things" that in
the hand of a divine providence are made ITO
work together for good;" but it is very hard
sometimes ito see it." To our human intelli-
genee they seem a desperate nuisance They
may keep Us all from stagnation, and make
things generally quite lively; but they carry
dangerous weapons, and often shoot with great
recklessness. On the whole, we think it is
equally safe, as in the other case, feryently to
pray, From all such, good Lord, deliver usln
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Gambefta's Hold on Power.

From a Paris Dispatch 10 the London Times
Those who reckon on N. Gambetta's early fall
either mistake wishes for realities or count OH
unforeseen accidents The reasons with which
they pretend To justify their predictions really
tend to show that his fail is very remote They
urge, Tor instance. that the composition of his
cabinet disappointed the public and that its
inactivity betohens impotence and an early
Collapse Now. the Observation-Disclosures and
inactivity of the cabinet point to quite
The opposite conclusion. For ten Years
most cabinets have been still-born. Even the
most ROBUST OF them owed their existence only to
unexpected circumstances. Neither the fall of
their predecessors now their own accession was
due To political eXi1encies. There are sinpla-
tons who fancy they have made master-stroke
In pushing NJ GaInbetta into office-in disIodp-
ing MN. as they call it-persuaded that the re-
epOnslbllitles of office would expose him to all
Its temptations and dangers These reasOners
are not very logical. They have not reflected
that II was wrong to want power without re-
spOnslblilty. and that it was this that had to be
put an end to- Their conduct was but a Drptext
ana mas been followed by thorough failure
The Very attitude of the Cabinet for the last
fortnight shows il. NJ. Gambetta feels himself
arbiter OF his future. He knows that il depends
al present on himself alone whether he shall fall
anu 10 do so he would have to commit not only
enormous biun0ers but plumbers rendering him
lament. No doubt. his adversaries will do their
utmost to discredit him by every possible means
No doubt, too, even in parliament he is much
more feared than liked: and. indeed if the
Chambers had To meet tomorrow in congress to
appoint NJ Crews successor nobody can tell
what would be- the result; but in the meantime
his popularity in the country is great and deep
seated, and unless. as have said he strikes a
fatal blow at it himself. there is no saving how
long 1t will last before his adyersaries succeed in
shaking il. NJ. Gambetta is not one of those
who prepare their plan of battle long before
hand He is like VendOme or Luxembourg
who. on the morning of battle. leaped into their
saddles and drew their swords before they knew
where they were fighting, and Yet gained de-
eisive victories His returns to the charge have
always been successful. and it will take a long
time still to paralyze his efforts to such an ex-
tent that even the support OF the nation could
not save him from defeat. All who look for
ward TO his collapse had better. then lay up
goOdly store of patience and not reckon ON acct
dents. His ministers may change. and in all
probability. will change in the ordinary course
Of THINGS but for a long time. backed by I'M
rivaied popularity. he will remain arbiter of his
own destinies. As of the destnies of the cOun-
try whose affairs he has been called upon to
manage.
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The ssVeapon Salve,. Still Believed In.
From he london Glole

FROM the London Globe.
Superstitions, however silly or mischievous
somehow never die. There are thousands of
men in London, especially those born and bred
IN country places, in whose minds linger still
old sayings and cautions of good or ill luck. and
in whose habits their influence, even though
unconfessed and. perhaps, unrecognzed. still
holds sway. Splitting the salt, crossing knives
walking under ladders are things to be avoided
according to the canons of fortune and as a
matter of fact. they are avoided or noted and
bewailed when perpetrated. A strange custom
has recently come to light at Lawford, a village
in Essex. At an inquiry respecting the death
of a lad who had died from injuries inflicted
with ptchfork one of the witnesses was asked
''if there were any blood upon it" to which he
replied that ''he had wiped it off and creased
the fork and laid it up" 1t transpired that this
mysterious ceremony had been performed by the
witnessat the request of the lads parents. who
previous occasion. when another son had been
wounded with fork. had enjoyed the satisfac-
ton on the greasing of the said weapon of
seeing the injuries rapidly healed. This curious
impression is stated to prevail widely i'm Essex
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Names Fur Industry.

Once in great while an old backWOOdS trap
per gets inside of his historical coon-skin cap,
pOlishes his boots with bears grease perhaps
goes so far as to rig upin a ''b'iled shirt and
comes down to Lewiston from Dead River or
Magallaway OH business. His business is to feel
the market and learn the current prices of ftrs.
These are rare occasions. Probably not more
than two or three professional trappers get down
TO Lewiston in year. They generally sell their
peltries or barter them to traders in the back
towns, or consgn their years batch by express
TO the city. The value of the raw furs handled
annually III Lewiston is astOniShngly large.
when we consider into what a harrow space the
iIlr-Dearing animals have been driven by man
kind, and how crcumscrbed are the trappers'
hunting grounds. One dealer in Lewiston
bought and shipped $1,000 worth of furs last
year. The value of the fur business done in the
state OF Maine annually exceeds 800 600. The
largest individual dealer is a man in Brewer
who handles S35O0O worth per year The num-
Der of fur buyers in the state is not large. Their
chief sources of supply are in the regions at the
headWaters Of the AndroscOggin. 'kennebec and
PenobscOt rivers, and the streams emptyinS
into them. SpOrtsmen and occasional hunters
furnish few pelts, but the bulk of the furs is
furnished by the professional trappers There
are many hundreds of men in Maine who earn
their living and support their families by hunt
ing, trapping and fishing. and who do nothing
else. except perhaps act as guides for pleasure
seekers in the summer months, for the whole
year. There are men in Lewiston and Auburn
who make practice of striking into the woods
with their guns. traps. and tish-poles every fall,
and staying till the cold weather drives them out
Sometimes they come back loaded with valua-
bic furs. and scented from crown to bOot-taps
with the oil OF the game they have skinned and
the fumes OF the salt pork and fish they have
fried They are generally retiring people, and
don't make themselves very prOmiscuous, but
once in while during November one drops into
the Journal office with his otter skins on his
back and piece of some tree that beaver has
gnawed down, as trophy. If you can get one
of these modest, sem-OccasiOnal hunters to cross
his legs and rehearse his adventures his warns
are found full of the essence of NimrOd.-Le,ris-
ton (Me.) Journal
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WESIERN MANNERS.
Or the Polite Porter Of the Butte Host
e1ry.
From the Salt Lake Tribune.

From the Salt Lake Tribune
A certain Erbane resident of this city recently
paid visit to Butte. Montana. He stopped at
one OF the firstclass hotels Of Butte and in con-
slderation of his standing here he was given the
boss" room off the parlOr on the ground floor
Ihe next morning after his arrival he appeared
at the door of the ONCE without any too many
clothes ON. and with a good deal of decision i'm
his tone informed the porter of the establish
ment tnat pitcher of water was needed in
No. -, and then withdrew.
The porter was struck dumb for moment
but catching his breath he exclaimed: THE
id tenderfOot A pitcher of water Well.
by - if he stays here long enough he will
ind out that if he finds water in the barrel at
the further end of the woOd-shed he will be do
ing Moulton business. He must think he is at
the st. James in New York or the Grand Pa
cine In Chicago. AS though a man would work
up in this climate at S12 week and then pack
water for such looking specimens as that. A
pitcher OF water needed. | should not won
der. 1t will be needed good while What
does he take me for? Does he think am a Ia
men Cornish pump on the Alice, regulated at
thirteen strokes minute? Does he think | am
spring or well or an abandoned shaft that is
full OF water! Does he regard me as the new
water works? Do resemble Yosemite Falls?
Have | Niagara profile? What ails the man?
The idea that man would come to a climate
like this. and among such comforts as are Law
lsieu Oh people mere. become so emory as to
turn chambermaid and pack water to every
duffer from the COW counties that strays off this
way" By this time the porter had worked
himself into fury and demanded to be shown
the man that had insulted him by asking him to
turn himself into water cart. Just then an
other gentleman also from this city. mildly in
formed the irate porter that in the lower
country, the gentleman who had called for the
water was hotel keeper himself; that in fact
at home he ran two hotels.
Two hotels Numbered the porter: ''two
hotels, show him to me: show him to me Just
once, | will teach him that whatever he does in
Salt Lake he cannot run a hotel in Butte. a
hoteH Why-him, he can't run one room up
here
The Salt Lake hotel keeper left Butte by the
first train. On the way down, in response to
the question, "What do you think of Butte?" he
immediately replied with smile, THE town is
most promising, and the people are exceed
ingiy pleasant" But the first thing he ordered
on his arrival here was bath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-14

Fancies Run into Folly in the Matte
of Cards and Note Paper.

From the New York Mail aud Express.
On upper left-hand corners of softly-tinted
correspondence cards and sheets of note paper
the series of ludicrous figures are introduced in
colors with sunfiowers and all complete, and
with corresponding quotations such as, sin a
rapt ecstacy way, ''yOu hold yourself like this,
''consummately utter" etc. Unconnected with
literary selections are presented besides bril-
liant multitude Of art designs. usually appearing
in relief and with the richest colOrs and metallic
lustres. Little brown birds are posed on tele-
graph poles and wires, the design not being du-
pllcated in the same set. but another sheet may
appear, perhaps, flight of birds in blue and
gold Chanticleer may elsewhere salute the
rising sun, while the bat fits duskily across the
iyory-tinted leaf illumined by the slvery moon
shining in the sky above. The stork is pre-
sented in all positions and in various colors, but
frequently in silver and bronze or in blue and
gold. There are butterflies innumerable. and
gauzy-winged beetles and shining fishes, and
the serpent coils himself on the dainty page
with green and metallic reflections flashing from
his scales.
Scorpions and adders are not wanting. to be
perhaps preserved for the singing messages be-
tween spirits in i'll accord. A cream tinted
paper may be adorned by small cluster of au-
tumn leaves or by golden ear of corn. The
owl is favorite in this representation. either
perched on a sere Dough or seen under blue
umbrella and accompanied by the motto, Nous
verrons. yet quite as frequently the design may
be that of the head alone of this bird.
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Dickens.


Dickens had his faults. of course: and they
We're many and grave He wrote a great deal
of nonsense; he sinned continually against
taste; he could be both noisy and vulgar: he was
apt TO be caricaturist where he should have
been painter: he was often mawkish and offer
extravaganza: and he was sometimes-as in GER:
tain parts of ''Oliver Twist for exanple-more
Extensively inept than any other great writer
But his work. whether bad or good has in full
measure the quality OF sincerity. He meant
what he did: and he meant it with his whole
heart. He looked upon himself as representa-
tive and Nationalist. indeed. he was: he re-
garded his work as a universal possession and
he determined to do nothing that for lack of
pains should prove unworthy of his function
If he sinned. it was unadyisedly and unconsci-
bes knew no he hetf failed wa was s. because
read. The freshness and fun of ..Pickwick"-a
comic middle-class epic. ito speak-are mainly
due. it may be. to high spirits. and perhaps the
book may be described with justice as first i'm
proyisation by young man of genius. not yet
sure either Of expression or ambition. and with
only vague and momentary ideas about the
duties and necessities of art. But from '.Pick-
wick" downward to Edwin Brood the effort
after Improvement is manifest, The mans
genius did but ripen and expand with years and
labor he spent his life in developing from
popular writer into an artist. He eXtempOriZed
"Piekwck. it may be, but into 'Copperfeld'
and ''ChuZZewit." and the Tale of Two
Cities and Our Mutual Friend" he put his
whole might, working at them with passion
and determination hardly exceeded by Balzac
He had enchanted the public without an effort:
he was the most popular of modern writer's
almost from the outset of his career But he
mad In him at least as much of the French artist
as of the middle-class Englishman, and if all
his life long he never ceased from sef-educa
ton. but went unsweryingly in pursuit of cul-
lure. 1t was out OF love for his art and be-
cause his conscience as an artist would not let
MIN 10 otherwise. This is enough to make us
pause when we consider his work.
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CARTERs
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Medical Women i'm France.

fVIII t1Ie ran 1A1 UAZetto.
Another lady, Nine. Perree, has been admitted
10 practice as doctor by the medical faculty of
Paris after a successful examination. She ia
married, and is the mother of a family, and was,
it Is stated. led to the study of medicine by the
TACT that she was herself successfully treated by
an American lady doctor during severe illness.
Nine. PeTrec is stated to be the second French
lady who has sustained doctoral thesis before
the medical faculty.
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DRY GOODS.
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sudden Death Of n C,iuued Horse

Sudden Death Of a Clipped Horse.
Vineland Exchange.
Not long since a man was in town from
Bridgeton with clipping machine, and clipped
several horses for our citizens Among the
clipped was one for Garrison & Co. It was out
last evening till II o'clock. and died in fire
minutes after It was brought In.
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Newspaper Waffs

Talmage says he'll Is strewn with tobacco
leaves. Then it is way ahead Of many Of the
cigars in market L0,ce1 Courier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-14

A YOUNG ATTORNEY, q day or two since,
having delivered himself Of q speech in the SUI
perior court, asked the clerk If he could smoke
In the room. "Yes." was the reply. pipe
was hauled out, and the gentleman was busily
engaged in building smoke columns in the air,
when the Judge laid a five dollar fine upon him.
II thought you said l could smoke here?" in
quired he Indignantly of the clerk as soon as he
got his breath. II did," was the reply, "a that
busy officer proceeded with his minutes didn't
.yOu smoke?"-Macon telegraph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-14

Farmer Janesbury says his hens always lay
during the winter. Allie has to do is to cas-
ually remark In their hearing that eggs have
dropped down to ten cents DOZEN Then they
Oh so to work with viii. Boston IiassseripS.
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