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Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-12-08
A Bold Stroke or the Cashiers Daughter.
From the Chicago Tribune.

''No; 1 refuse"
''Refect moment, Myrtle, / be.
seech you! You hold my life and hap
piness in your hands" and tho voice
of Adelbert Tompkins trembled as he
spoke these words with an earnest.
ness that forbade, even for an instant,
any doubt as to their being the cut.
pourings of his heart.
Myrtle Mahaffy was beautiful girl,
just budding into sweet womanhood,
and Adelbert loved her dearly. They
had wandered together this summer
afternoon from the matinee to the
street car, and he had asked her to
be his wife. 1t was in answer to this
questionable earnest appeal of man
whose whole nature was wrapped ur
in passion he neither could control
OR cast aslde-that Myrtle had spoken
the words with which our story opens.
She had watched him closely during
an acquaintance Of nearly two years,
and noticed with pain how he sedu-
lously avoided candy stores and ice
cream saloons. 81 can never marry
man," she said TO her mother one
day, "who shes at the sight of 9
candy store like country horse at q
fire engine" And when the expected
avowal came she kept her word.
Adelbert turned around in a dazed
sort of way after Myrtle had rejected
him.. and walked swiftly toward the
dry goods store which had been sc
fortunate as to secure his services.
All the afternoon Adelbert stood
moodily behind the ribbon counter,
thinking of how he should revenge
himself on the naughty girl who had
wrecked his happiness. At precisely
4:3O O'Clock fierce joy lighted ur
his countenance, and, putting on his
hat, he left the store.
AS the bells of St. Agnes Church
were striking nine, young mar
sprang lightly up the steps of a mag.
nificent residence and was soon seated
in the sumptuously furnished parlor,
The proprietor of the house, benev'
olent-looking old gentleman, entered
the room. "Do you wish to see me?''
he said to Adelbert Tompkins-for il
was he who had sprung lightly W
the steps.
Yes he replied, "you are the
person l SEEK
'What would you?" said the ole
gentleman.
"You are the cashier in the
bank, belleye," said the yonng man
81 am.''
"You have been stealing the con
Germs money. Do not seek to de
ceive me. You are a cashier; til
CROUCH. Give me $50, 900 or I vii
expose you and ruin your life. Hav
ing heard me twitter, you can choose
your own course"
For an instant the cashier did no
move, and then, going to an elegan
escriloire which stood in a corner o
the room, he wrote check for $50,
600, certified it and handed the piece
of paper, now fortune, to tn
youth.
81 have but one favor to ask" h.
said, land that is that you will MARI.
my daughter. wouldn't like to lie
as sure a thing as you are go out o
the family. She has 100000 in he
own right, and when am dead ant
the bank directors are in Jail on &C
count of my bookkeeping, it vii
suffice to keep you In comfort"
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WORSE OFF THAN ETHIOPIA.

Preaching Next Door to a Faro Bank
Bob Ingersoll's Lectures Said to be the
Favorites of the Cowboys-AbOut the
MOrmOns.
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Two darkies were riding from the
field after Lard days plowing.
They began to talk about the good
things to eat. "T-a-k-e a good faint
'possum-pahbile him-put him in q
old-fashion Dutch oving-roas' him
brown"-the other darkey's eyes
rolling and mouth watering as the
description went on-'sarve him ul
wild CO On graby'-'Shut o mouI
yo' niggah! I'll fall right off'n dis
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~'ptlon Prices Of the Republican

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Facts About the Transvaal,

The following is the Solemn League
and Covenant with which the Beers
entered upon their contest against Brit
ish aggression: "In the presence of AL
mighty God, the Searcher of hearts, and
praying for His gracious assistance and
mercy, we, burghers Of the South African
Republic, have solemnly agreed, for us
and for our children, to unite in holy
covenant, which we confirm with a solemn
oath: 1t is now forty years ago since
our fathers left the Cape Colony to be-
come free and independent people.
These forty years were forty years of
sorrow and suffering. We had founded
Natal, the Orange Free State, and the
South African Republic, anil three times
has the English Government trampled
on our liberty. And our flag, baptized
with the blood and tears of our fathers,
has been pulled down. AS by thief
In the night has our free republic been
stolen from US. We cannot suffer this,
and we may not. 1t is the will of God
that the unity of our fathers and our
love to our children should oblige us to
deliver unto our children, unblemished,
the heritage of our fathers. 1t is for this
reason that we here unite and give each
other the hand as men and brethren, sol
emily promising to be faithful to our
country and people, and, looking unto
God, to work together unto death for the
restoration of the liberty of our republic.
So truly hel p US, God Almighty"
AS to the conduct of these people,
when their arms had proved victorious,
and they learned that even the leader of
the opposing army was among the dead
within their lines, we are told: "The
truth is, these Dutch farmers stood with
their hats off beside the dead body of
their chief enemy. No word of exultation
escaped their lips says Colonel Stewart.
They gave it honorable care and sent it
back to the English camp. Nay, with a
chivalry which nobody looked for from
these men of plain living and hard fight
ing, they sent message of coincidence
to Lady Colley. They show, in one
word, the dignity and high bearing of
brave men who know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain"
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Opium Culture in India.

Owing to the ever poverty-stricken
state OF the Indian raiat, or husbandman,
the government advances the means
whereby he can engage in poppy Gull
tlvatlon. The nature of their engage
ments is about as follows: The cuitiVa-
tor undertakes to sow bigka, or about
one,,twentieth of an acre, with poppy
seed. For this he is given the requisite
amount of seed. If we'll has to be dug,
ne is not only given sum, on loan, sufi-
Gent to carry out his purpose, but also
money enough to buy bullocks in order
to enable him to draw water from the
we'll when it is finished. This is termed
the first advance, and is simply given
him to prepare his land for the sowing
OF poppy seed. The second advance is
gwen when the plant begins to shoot
above the earth's surface, and the third
when the plant is about to mature. In
January or February the plant comes to
maturity; in that state the pods are
lanced IN the afternoon The opium is
allowed to exude till next morning
when 1T is carefully taken off by an iron
scraper. At the same time precaution is
exercised to close the missions by run
ming the finger over the cuts. About
five or six missions suffice for the draw
ing of the juice.
The opium is placed in brass vessels
slightly tilted, so as to drain off the dew
or any other watery substance. It is
then manipulated and placed in new
eartthern vessels, and is thus kept till it
is is, brought to the weighing stations
The cultivator Of peoples does not en-
ploy labor. His holdings are mere
garden patches; so that all the aid he
requires, from the sowing of the seed to
the maturing of the plant and the gath
er1ng OF the opium, can be had from the
members Of his family. The whole of
this work is done by himself, his wife
and little ones. Many of these opium
garden plots, worked by a man and his
family, amount to only one-sixth or one
twelfth Of an acre, perhaps; in few
isolated instances one man is wealthy
enough to own half an acre.
We can imagine how glad must be the
ralat when the poppy plant has begun to
exude opium, and when his opium has
all been gathered he waits patiently for
the order to march with the fruits Of his
labors to the weighing station. It de-
ponds entirely upon the season as TO
when the cultivators can bring their
opium to the government stations to be
weighed
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1t is the organ of the female members of the
Missionary Alliance of China, which embraces
all the women laborers of all Churches in the
vast Empire. 1t is published at Shanghai, and
is only go cents year. including postage. 1t
gives reports from missionary stations from Pc
king to Macao. And if any Christian woman
can read these stirring pages without thrill of
thanksgiving that the Churches have such wo-
men to send abroad to foreign fields, we do not
envy her, her even beating pulses. We think no
one with soul that sympathises with this mag
ni6cent work, could rise from the perusal of
these pages without determination to be rep
resented by her contributions in these grand en-
terprises. The enthusiasm manifested by these
workers is wonderful, and it is contagious
Miss Stafford of Soochow, is the present editor,
and subscriptions can at any time be sent to
Worman's Wok for China through DIR. Nell
waine. M. ]. P.
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Facts About Art.

TIE old Masters DiSappeariaq-Be-
tween the sun and the dirt, the cleaner
and the curator, there is hardly a gal.
lery in Europe which does no prove TO
any moderately careful observer, that
within century or so no masterpiece
painted in the three great centuries of
art will be enjoyable-will, in the real
sense, be visible, unless it be, and that
speedily, protected. The names of Ra-
phael and Titan, and Rembrandt will be.
perhaps, even more than now in mems
mouths. But their works and their
fame, meanwhile, will have become a
shadow and tradition; traditionary and
sshadowy as the glory of Achilles. as the
beauty OF Helen.-London Times.
The following illustrates the increase
OF price In the works Of the masters. A
portrait OF Philip ", by Velasquez, was
sold by him for $35. Any museum in
Europe would give $4,000 for it. A
Van Dyck, the heads of burpomaster
and his wife, brought $50. It's value
could hardly be estimated; perhaps $40. .
600 would not be very much out of the
way. A Rembrandt brought only S25.
1t would bring $4,000 to-day. Etch-
lngs Of the great masters were equally
cheap, ll9 years ago. Twelve enprav-
ings by Albrecht Durer were sold for
$40, and would be worth to-day 800
each. An etching by Rubens brought
%, and would be worth in the United
States $500. That wonderful rare etch-
ing Of this master, called "The Hundred
Florin Piece, went century ago for
9l5. Some four years ago a copy Of this
there are but four known-sold for
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-04-20
Should a Baby be Fat?

While there is measure of truth In
the assertion that fat babies are not
necessarily healthy, the following much
quoted extract from a physicians letter
to Boston paper is likely to do mischief
by Its extravagant condemnation of fat
Speaking of fatty degeneration the ply
stefan says:
g Most infants do become thus diseased
before they are three months old. This
stops the growth and leaves the poor de-
celved parents nothing but increase in
weight to boast of; and when the poor
little victim TO his own greed and his
parents folly gets to the end of his tether
he melts like butter in a hot oven, and
then 1t is seen how poor (in Aesh) he has
been all the time. Few comprehend the
broad difference between flesh and fat.
The first is lean meat-muscle -the
result OF growth while fat don't care
how hard and solid it may be-is the
product or accumulation Of unexcretial
excess. This is why no one bets dollar
on a fat horse or a fat man-they are
soft and can't stay 1t is every whit
as true of fat baby The only wonder
Is that any infant lives sixty days from
birth. Fed before birth but three times
day, he is after birth subjected to ten
or twenty meals in the twenty-four hours.
Before birth he grows at the rate of about
ten pounds per year, after birth he is
permitted to eat at the rate of ffty
pounds per year until chronic dyspepsia
or some acute disease interferes. Feel
OF kitten, calf, colt or young robin
they are and remain while growing
but little more than skin and bones and
fur or feathers, because unable to get
enough to fatten them, and they never
die-rarely have any sort of disease.
Children are never fairly out of the
woods until they reach the lean age and
have plpe-stem legs and arms, with no
rolls OF fatty tissue anywhere about them.
Could they be kept so from birth and not
permitted to over-indulge, SO that their
appetltes would always be reliable for
plain food, they would have no infantile
diseases to enrich our pockets"
Why should the kitten, the colt, or the
the young robin be taken as a model OF
lntantlle health, rather than the puppy,
the bear cub, the pig, or the young
pigeon?
1t IS the nature Of some young animals
to be lean and healthy Of others to be fat
and healthy and there is as marked a DIFF
terence IN the natural tendency of young
children. Infants of the same parentage
and led at the same breast will differ in
this respect, and both be healthy. Fat
laid on at the rate of fifty pounds a
year" is quite another matter, and one
not liable, we take it, to be common
cause of anxiety. Injudicious feeding is
more apt to show itself in lack of fat and
lack OF proper muscular tissue as well.
That sort Of leanness is much too common
in young humanity.
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have entered more fully into the grounds
on which he bases his denial of an early
Turanian or Accadian civilization in
Mesopotamia. In fact, his introduction,
extending to 1875 pages, contains materi-
ais that might have suficed for many
volumes. Many volumes have been
written on the origin of the Hyksos
yet Professor Lepsius in only a few
pages tries to decide the question, and
makes them Kushites from Arabia. He
speaks of the migrations, the inroads,
the repulses, and the alliances of those
early nations as if they had happened
but yesterday, instead of four or five
thousand years ago. He places implicit
confidence in fragmentary notices which
agree with his theories, sometimes for
getting the old rule that we should never
be SO much on our guard as when we
meet with unexpected combinations of
our favorite notions"
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$4,000 The whole sum the pictures
and prints brought at the sale in 1862
amounted to $3,O25. To-day, if they
were to be disposed of, the total money
value would be somewhat beyond $780,
900.
The Crown Prince of Germany has
just purchased Rubens' magnificent pic
ture of Neptune and Amphitrite, E"
which has hitherto been one of the prin-
cipal ornaments of the celebrated picture
gallery of Count Schonborn, in Vienna.
The price paid for the work is 100000
marks, or $4,000. Millet's "Angelus'
has just been sold in Paris for $50, 600
1t was originally sold by the painter to
dealer for 5000; it was then purchased
by another dealer for 81 900, and at it's
next sale went up to $1,000. Meissoni-
er's picture, the Halle DIES Cavaliers
has been sold for $4,000.
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Gods Will.
1 am not sent a pilgrim here,
Nv heart with earth to fill;

l am not sent pilgrim here,
NV heart with earth to fill
But am here Gods grace to learn,
And serve Gods sovereign will.
He leads me on through smiles and tears.
Grief follows gladness still;
But let me welcome both alike,
Since both work out his will.
The strong mans strength TO toll for Christ
The fervent preachers skill
/ sometimes wish-but better far
To be just what God will.
know not how this languid life
May iie's vast ends fulfil;
He knows-and that life is not lost
That answers best his will.
No service in itself is small,
None great. though earth it fill;
But that is small that seeks its own,
And great that seeks Gods will.
Then hold my hand most gracious Lord,
Guide all my goings still:
And let this be my lfe's one aim,
To do or bear thy will.
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AS general rule the month of April
is the beginning of the weighing season.
lntlmation is then given to the opium
cultlvators that they must present them
selves on certain day with their opium.
IN order to have it tested and weighed.
In the districts where the poppy plant is
cultivated all are astir, and grand prepa-
ratlons are made for general exodus.
The. opium is collected safely in red
earthen pots, which are put in wicker
crates, and the whole family, with bur
dens on their heads, make for the weigh
ing stations The. picturesque Indian
lanes are crowded with these men,
marching like sheep to their destination.
They only travel during the night.
The sultry heat of midday forces them
to seek the grateful shelter of the gar
dens and groves so literally planted
along the dusty highways. Directly
halt is called and preparations are made
for the daily meal After this is finished
some lively spirit states a story recount
ing the savage doings of the stranger
who rules the land With terrified
countenances and anxious ears they
listen to these fabulous tales; but in
wardly they bless the white face"
when they think of the money he is
soon to disburse.-C Calcutta letter to the
San francisco Chronicle.
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for May. Contents:

May Day Observance Not Dead YETI The
Household Organ The King and the Peasants
AN Historical Incident; The Bright Lad and
the Doctrines The Widows Love Honored
Ancient and Modern Church Music; Having
Eyes, They Saw Not; The Pastors Donation
Party The Beautiful Cleaner Philadelphia
Home for Incurables; Benedictus; Poor Girls !;
Greeting the May-Day Sun; Carlyle on Job !;
Right Rev. George k. Dunlap, Missionary
Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona; He
Knoweth Massacre by Divine Command :;
First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y; The
Quaker Hat; Impatient Labor; Seed by the
Wayside; Doctor Alexander Putting an Earl
to Sleep, etc., ETC., etc.
Frank Leslies Publishing House, SO, 55, and
81 Park Place, New York.
CATALOGUE of the University of Virginia for
the session of l8S0-'Sl is received There are
357 students, of whom 122 are Law students,
and 81 Medical students. From Virginia there
are $50; from West Virginia, IS; from Ken
lucky, 81; from South Carolina IS; N Caro-
lima, IA; New York, 6; Pennsylvania, 4, &c.
THE VIRGINIAs for March is largely occupied
with an elaborate article on "A Geological Re-
connolssance of Parts of Lee, Wise, Scott and
Washington counties, Virginia" by Prof. John
j. Stevenson of the University of the City of n.
York. (Read before the American Philosophi-
cal Society, January 81, 1917
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The Mediterranean.

For and-tbirty years | have been
preaching the good tidings of the Word
and would not change places with king
but ! doubt if | ever would have been
drawn to the service Of Christ Jesus but
for the faithfulness of that honae-pyeacHcy
who rocked my cradle. AS the starting
point of nearly every minister's life stands
a Christian mother. DIR. Potts requested
all Of us students in Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary who had praying mo-
theirs to rise up, and in an instant near
ly the whole one hundred and fifty were
on their feet There we stood, living
witness Of the power of a mother prayers,
and r mothers shaping influence and
ex iple.
We pastors must not take on airs
There is ministry that is older and
deeper and more potent than ours it is
that ministry which presides over the
crib, and puts the first touches of Gospel
influence upon the infant soul. Before
even the Sunday School begins, the moth
er has atready begun, and has been
molding the plastic wax Of character for
veal or woe, for heaven or hell. A
tremendous power this-it is the same
power which sent Samuel out of the home
of godly Hannah, and wicked Ahaziah
out of the home of goddess Jezebel. Both
Of them walked in the way Of his moth
er. Rec. IHeo. Il. CuyleT.
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Antipathies.

1t Is Well-known that the vanity of
King James | never overcame his weak
ness of being unable to look on a naked
sword. Sir Kenelm Digby was proud to
relate that when he was knighted at Hin
chinbrooke, near Huntingdon, the King
turned his face away, and nearly wound
ed him. This may be accounted for, as
his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, shortly
before his BIRTH had great shock given
to her on seeing her favorite, David Riz-
zio, killed in her presence. We are told
of Uladlslaus, King of Poland, that he
could not bear to see apples. Pennant,
the eminent traveller, had great aver
sion to wigs, which was also transferred
to their wearers for the time. Once, in
the presence of the Mayor of Chester,
who wore powdered wig, he got very
excited and nervous, and angrily made
some strong remarks about the Mayor to
a companion. At last losing all control
over his feelings, he rushed at the Mayor,
pulled off his wig, and ran with it out of
the house and down the street, waving it
aloft as he went. The Mayor followed
TO the amusement of the populace; and
this curious race was afterward known as
the Mayor and Mr.. Pennant's Tour
through Chester" 1t is said of the Duke
OF Schomberg that soldier as he was, he
could not sit in the same room with
cat; and we have heard of person with
so great a dislike to this harmless domes-
tic animal that he would not even pass
under sign board with cat painted on
it 1t will hardly be credited that though
the valorous Peter the Great built fleet
he yet from his sixth to his fourteenth
year could not bear the sight of either
still or running water, especially if he was
alone. He did not walk in the palace
gardens because they were watered by the
river Mosera; and he would not cross
over the smallest brook, not even on
bridge, unless the windows of his carriage
were shut close and even then he had
cold perspirations. La Mothe de Wager
could not endure any musical instrument,
although he delighted in thunder. Gre
bry, the composer, and Anne of Austria,
were Identical in their dislike of the smell
of roses. The learned DIR. Beattie tells
us OF healthy strong men who were al
ways uneasy on touching velvet, or on
seeing another person handle a cork =:
zimmerman, the naturalist, of a lady who
could not bear to touch silk or satin, and
shuddered when feeling the velvety skin
of a peach. One Of the Earls of Barry
more, considered the pansy an abomina-
ton; and the unfortunate Princess Lam
bale looked upon the violet as thing of
horror. Scaliger turned pale at the 81 ght
OF water-cresses, and neither he nor Peter
Abono could ever drink milk. 1t is said
Of Cardan that he was disgusted at the
sight of eggs. We have heard of a valiant
soldier fleeing without shame from a sprig
of rue. The author of the Turkish SpV
tells us that, provided he had but sword
in his hand, he would rather encounter a
lion in the deserts of Arabia, than feel a
spider crawling on him in the dark