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The Bible.

There is nothing more admirable in
the Bible than the exactness with which
Its various parts adapt themselves to
mems various circumstances. Let me be
only in the habit of applying to the BIZ
BILE for counsel and encouragement, and
[ shall find word in season-some text
which has all the appearance of having
been written on purpose for myself, the
thought of one who knew all about me,
and who foresaw exactly the message |
should need. And certainly that book
must commend itself to me as the work of
the Omniscient which thus meets nv own
case just as though constructed with dis
tinct reference to every care, and diff
Guilty, and exigence in long and varied
career; and | gather from the nicely with
which the Scripture fits into the con-
science, and from that intimate converse
which it holds with all motions of the heart,
that He who made conscience His vice
gerent, and gave the heart it's thousand
strings, must be the very Being who
spoke to the world through prophets and
apostles. We are sure, if you made it
your business to search into the expe-
rlence of the poorest Christians, you will
lind the lesson and promises of the Bible
thus serving as balance to the tolls and
trials of life. The hopes of another world
wear special brightness to the poor
from contrast with the gloomy realities
which here too often make up their por-
ton. --heU. Henry Melville.
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Louis Napoleon's COURAGE

September, 1901 asked Changarnie,
his opinion as to the courage of Louis
Napoleon. Chamgarnier-It is great in
theory, small in practice. At Stras.
69ourg' when the regiment on which he
depended refused its support, he ran and
was found in state of abject terror
hiding under carriage. In the Bou-
logne attempt, when he had got half
way across the Channel he became
alarmed, and wished to turn back. The
people about him called for champagne
and kept him to his purpose by making
him half drunk. AS he approached, and
no friends appeared, his alarm returned.
The first troops that met him were under
the command Of sensible officer, who,
when he saw the strange procession, ac,
companied by the tame eagle, and was
told that Louis Napoleon was at its head
instead of joining him, summoned him to
surrender. Vaudreuil had said that at
Strasbourg Louis Napoleon had not
dared even to fire pistol in his own
defense. He recollected this mot, kept
pistol in his hand, and fired at the Of
ticer, but his hand shook so that though
the man was not five PAGES off he missed
MN and wounded poor cook, who, in
his white apron, was standing at door
to see what was going on. Louis Ma
poleon turned, ran into the sea, and got
into boat. A boat from the shore
pulled after him. He gave himself up
begged them not to hurt him, and said
that he had 2O0,000f. in his pocket which
ne would give them. He was landed,
and begged M. Adam, the maire to take
the 2OO,000f. Adam said he would take
care of them, but, with business-ike
habits chose to count them first. 1t was
lucky for him, for when it was counted
IN the presence of the crowd there were
found to be only 10000. This sum
when he was on his trial before his peers
ne claimed, and the cruel Government of
Louis Philippe let him have them.
Seaior.-Did he show courage at Ma
genta? Changarnier.-He never crossed
the Ilclno. He was smoking in house
during the whole time. At Solferino,
where he was two miles in the rear, he
did not move or give an order, but he
smoked SO cigars. We know this, as he
always carries with him little boxes, each
OF which cantains so cigars. One was
quite exhausted, and three had been
taken out of the other. Once a spent
ball came near him, but thatis the only
occasion on which he could be considered
as under fire. saw letter from one of
the Cent-Suisses to his mother: "You
need be under no anxiety about me. I
am with the Emperor, and, therefore,
out of danger" In fact, none of them
were hit.-Semior's Conversation.
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Our Family Names.

Just moment. / will not detain you
long; but you are the very person have
been trying to get word with for long
time past.
What !" you exclaim, chow do you
know me?"
Oh, 1 know you very well indeed bet
ter, perhaps, than you imagine. Your
family is large one, and for many years
[ lived among them, and am now rela-
ton OF yours, although adopted in an
other household.
YOUR NAME is SINNER;
your condition is lost one: and regret
to say your future is dark one. If you
doubt my word, l refer you to the Family
Register, which, can assure you, is cor
rect. 1t says, concerning you and your
relations, All have sinned" Then your
name must be Sinner. 1t states concern
ing your condition, The wrath of God
abideth on him Such a condition must
be lost one. And it records concerning
your future, "The wages of sin is death, !"
Surely l said right when 1 described it
as dark one
But my object in holding you by the
hand for minute is not to taunt YOU
with aohot Yoo are, but to tell into your
ears aohat By Gods grace, you may be-
come Long as you live, your name will
be Sinner; but it may receive an addi-
ton, and read-Sinner .Saved. Your
condition may then be described in one
word, =" Found" and your future, in
stead of remaining dark, can be trans
formed into one bright as an angels
countenance: Did hear you say, oh,
tell me how?" Listen then. All these
blessed changes will take place the very
moment you go, in your ri ht name, and
IN your present condition, to Jesus, and
as lost sinner take Him for your only
Saviour. Go now, my beloved friend.
Go at once, and do not tarry. am fully
persuaded He will receive and bless you
for He received me, and all who ever
came simply trusting in Him.
Art thou weary? art thou languid?
Art thou sore distressed?
Come to Me, saith One, and coming,
Be at rest"
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A Good Mans Wish.

I freely confess to you that would
rather when am laid down in the grave.
some one in his manhood stand over me
and say, "There lies one who was a real
friend to me, and privately warned me of
the dangers Of the young; no one knew
it, but he aided me in the time of need.
l owe what l am to him." Or would
rather have some widow, with choking
utterance, telling her children, "There is
your friend and mine. He visited me in
my affection, and found you my son, an
employer, and you, my daughter, a hap
Ply home in virtuous family" l say /
would rather that such persons would
stand at my grave than to have erected
over it the most beautiful sculptured
monument of Parian or Italian marble.
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Eugenie's Hand in two Wars

That the Empress Eugene was largely
responsible for the decision taken by her
husband when, in 1870 he ordered that
march to Berlin which terminated at
Sedan, is one of the undisputed facts of
recent history. 1t is, however. much
less generally known that this unhappy
woman had also no small share in the
declaration of another war. ACCORDING
to Count Kisselef, who acted as Russian
Ambassador at Paris after the Crimean
War, it was the Empress who decided
the irresolute Napoleon to make war
against Russia. The story, as told bv
Count Kisselef, is given on the AUTHORITY
of the Empress herself, who told him. on
the 18th or 18th, of May, 1857, that il
was she who was responsible for the de.
claration of war. When the Cars LET
ter arrived, the curtness of which mo-
toriously embittered Napoleon. the latter
handed it to his wife with the reroorL
that it was cold. "No, said she, after
reading 1T, it is more than cold, ellie
est grossiere. " The Emperor read the
letter again, and said, "Cest yrai ie
me'en occuperai. From that moment
said the Empress, war was decided ON
Count Kisselef replied, "Then it is Won,
Majesty who has been the cause of the
death of 100000 men, and of the loss d
seven or eight milliards of Francs p
" Yes, she answered, indirectly. and
do not repent of it. Such perturbatione
are sometimes necessary in the existenoe
OF peoples. 1t was necessary for France
to take her rightful place in Europe
She has done this by means of the ali.
ance with England, and by that alliance
she will maintain her influence at home
and abroad. Pail Nall gazette.
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monious accord into the eternal anthems
of praise to Him who has redeemed them
with His own precious blood, and made
them kings and priests unto God in His
temple forever.
Thus we learn amidst all the sadness
of this great public sorrow what priv
ilege it is to die in the Lord" And
thus he whom we have long reverenced
as our teacher and guide, now that his
lips are sealed in death, will teach us
more by his impressive and awful silence
than by all the words which ever fell
from his eloquent lips.
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nal activity like the rest of God and the
Redeemer Himself. The soul that has
been vexed in the conflict with sin, worn
to exhaustion by the labors of life, finds
at length "the rest that remaineth to the
people of God"
Twenty years ago stood by the bed
side of young minister renowned for his
pious zeal, and as the last breath was
conveying the soul up to God, his young
wife clasped her thin hands together and
exclaimed: "Good-by, George, / wish
you joy" Sublime wordsl So full of
the faith which looks through the open
door into heaven. And shall we not
with the same faith wish our brother Joy
in his immortal ascension to the rest In
heaven?
Friend after friend departs,
Who hath not lost friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end
Were this frail world our only rest,
Living or dying none were blest.
Beyond the fight of time,
Beyond this vale of death
There sure is some blessed cline
Where life is not breath.
Nor life's affections transient fire
Whose sparks fly upward to expire"
And in the passage through the dark
valley of death we are smitten with the
sadness of the parting, and exclaim in
those other immortal lines:
"Hark to the solemn bell,
Mournfully pealing.
What do its wailings tell
On the ear stealing2
Ashes with ashes lay,
Loved ones have passed away,
List to its pealing.
When in their lonely beds
Loved ones are lying,
When, with wings outspread,
To heaven flying,
Would we to toll and pain
Call back their souls again,
Weave round their hearts the chain
Severed in dying?
No, dearest Saviour no.
To Thee let their free spirits go,
Ransomed forever
Theirs is the victory
Thine let the glory be
Now and forever"
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SUNDAY MAoAzrNE for November. Contents

SUNDAY MAGAZINE for November. Contents.
Some American Theological Seminaries Sir
Walter Scott and his Mother Virginia Clergy
men Of Colonial Times A Remarkable Mar
rlage The Marsellaise and its Author; Negro
Eloquence The Catacombs Of Rome Alfred in
the Danish Camp How Tischendorf Obtained
the Codex Slnaitlcus Marthas Vineyard Lu.
Tiers Evening Hymn The Town Hall, Bre-
men; John Bunyan's Wicket Gate. Nanoleon in
Moscow The Ruins Of Nineveh; The Direct
Study Of the Bible in Theological Seminaries
The Oldest Meeting House in America etc etc
Frank Leslie's Publishing House. So 50, and
81 Park Place, New York.
LITrEIL's LIVING AGE for the week ending
October 10Th.
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The EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL OF VIRGINIA for
October gives statistics of the Public Schools and
school attendance Of the State for the past year
land also for 1880. 1t appears that we have
now 1884 public schools as against 1854 in
1880 and 239, 100 pupils as against 900, 1856 in
1850. This is good showing, and reflects
great credit on the fidelity and energy of the
Superintendent
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Recent Publications.

FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND How THEY GREv
BY Margaret Sidney. Boston: D. Lothrop &
Co. ~
This is handsome little volume of some 400
pages, with illustrations. 1t is, as the name
suggests, intended for juvenile readers. 1t tells
the story of happy family, who, although
pinched with poverty, are bound together in a
common bond of love.
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The SOUTHERN PULPIT for October contains
Sermons from four well known clergvmep Ont.
lines OF Sermons from three clergymen of differ
ent denominations; Suggestions on Texts; HON
lletlcal Illustrations and a Book Review. Rev.
H. Melville jackson and Rev j. J. Lafferty.
editors Richmond, Va
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EVERYBODY IS SATISFIED
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The hearts broken utterance of rehec-
lions of past kindness, and the tears of
grateful memory shed upon the grave,
are more valuable in my estimation than
the most costly cenotaph ever reared.
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YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL HANDBOOK. Historical
and Typographical Guide to the Yorktown
PENINSULA, Richmond, James River, and Nor
IoIk' by j. A. Stevens, editor of The Maya
York c. A. Coffin & Rogers, So John street.
PIP. 125.
For sale by J. W Randolph & English, Rich
mond Price % cents.
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PIAEToN ROGERS Novel of Boy Life. By
Kosslter Johnson. Illustrated New York
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1881. limo, DID.
o44. For sale by West, Johnston & Co., Main
street, Richmond.
A beautiful little volume for the boys.
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IHE V1RGINIAs for September is received
A Mining, Industrial, and Scientific Journal.
Published monthly by Major j ed. Hotchkiss,
Staunton, Va, at % cents a number. Always
welcome.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
& Brown CHEMICAL COMPANY, Baltimore. Nd
.AIderney Dairy wagons"

corner Fifteenth street and New York avenue, con
tinueS to receive yaluableS of all descriptions 10
safe keeping at very low rates.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
He Speaks His Mind.


For the last ten days | have been tray
cling through the counties of the First Congress
sional District, and had the pleasure Of meeting
a great number of leading Republicans, both white
and cOIored. find that in spite of our fossil So
called Bourbon who aTetryingto
sell out the Republican party in the coming contest,
they have so far failed in their grinding for 1t
is a known fact to all true Republicans that for
the last six years certain set of political adyen
terers have used the Republican vote OF Virginia
for their own personal purposes. Now, sir, allow
me to say and / think | know whereof l speak,
that the colOrcd people, and all honest white Re
publcans know that Malone and party are in
of franchise to every citizen and having our votes
counted after being east, again the right to the
iury-IOX regardless of race political opinion.
Did the cOIOred people ever get their rights from
the Bourbon Democratic party? l think not.
Then why do a few So-called Republi
cans of Virginia want 10 place candid
ate in the field in order to elect the B0ur-
bon candidate for such will be the case: / will
tell you The Federal patronage Of Virginia, as IL
nov stands. is controlled by 4 certain party and
they are determined to mold fast and the only way
to do so is to keep the State Domocratic; for II
Virginia is ever redeemed it will be by coalition
of Republicans and ReadjUsters. Then these pat
ronagc gentlemen perhaps may have to step 10 the
rear. and | think it time. All the Republicans
ask for is for Malone to extend to them what he
promises and We know he will. and in Il short
All sister States. You can count on all true Re
pul,IicnnS in the coming iSsucS to follow such
leaders aS Brady aud ex-senator Lewis, for they
are tried and true. -
FETDEETlI> >3U gC, Va, Feb. II, 1851.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
MARYLAND NEWS,

Mrs Elizabeth A. Fitzgerald, OF Fred
cricksburg died on the morning of February lS
Her age was about eighty-SiN years.
John W. Chesley has been appointed
auditor along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad with headquarters at Cumberland.
A farmer in Montgomery County has
yyintered twenty-five partridges in q chaf pen,
and another has saved fourteen from starvation.
General John Meem has retired from
the presidency of the New Market. iShenandoah)
Bank. and Mr.. 5. T.. Shirley has been elected to
succeed him.
Captain George d. Wise, Congressman
elect from the Richmond District. resigned his
position AS commonwealth attorney for the city of
Richmond last Friday.
John Sherman. Of Catoctin Furnace,
has been lodged in jail 10 answer for an atrociouS
assault upon young girl living It'll the family OF
Dr. William 5. McPhersOn.
Charnes of q serious nature have been
made 10 Mayor Latrobe by McSSrs. George ". Graft
lin. ". I. Manuiag and ". H. GTaihin. on behalf OF
the PatapscO GuanO Company, against Dr. John ID;
Fiske. member of the first branch city council
from the first ward, of demanding money 10 secure
the passage Of Il pending ordinance.
The following have been elected Off
GERS of the Montgomery Agricultural Society
William : Brooke, president: J. {. Holland. Col
9ne james A. BOYD d Bep%gIH wiaG N I Hal gr ice f f.
presidents: George r. Rice. DF. 2. Thomas, Joseph
+, Bailey. John II. Gassaway. John T. Wilson, ex-
Srs: tSrT: William Iiis Hiiefs B5Nic IT,, tTcas,i:e;
Nancy Sanders, an old colored woman
residing at Laudis Mill SAYS: i" belonged 10 Mr..
George Robeson, way down in C5omery County,
and about the time the first wa with the EngidnlS
closed came to Carroll County, on SANS Creek.
Then | was sixteen years old. IN a few years
there was another war with the English. and just
as Mr. Peter Naill. Lud Greenwood, and Massa
Clemson Skyles were about TO start TO jine the
army the English captain was killed near Balti-
more and then the war stopped. Judging from
her account she was born in lIGi was sixteen
wears of age when the revolutionary war ended, in
i7S3, and Is consequently III years Old now.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
Local waiter, at the Capitol.

The bill recently introduced by Sena-
tor Rollins providing for the remission of penal
ties and interest on taxes due on church parsonage
property was yesterday reported to the Senate by
the District Committee substitute for the House
bill in relation to the exemption of church par
sonages.
The District Committee also reported the South
ern Maryland Railroad bill with an amendment
that the District Commissioners and not Congress
should approve the location for the terminus of
the road.
A bill permitting the Washington and Chess-
paake road TO enter The District was also reported.
Mr. .Aldrich OF Rhode Island, will to-day, it Is
announced Introduce i'll the House a bill provid-
ing for a commission to report plan for the i'm
provement of the harbOrS of Washington aud
Georgetown and the reclamation of the Potomac
fats The commission is 10 consist of three civil
engineers two army engineers. and one officer OF
the navy to be appointed by the President. \
report is to be made 70 the next Congress. An ap-
preparation of 00) is provided for the expenses
OF the commission.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
Clerks and Their Pay.

Clerks in the Departments at WASH
ington, like other men and women, have pretty
hard task to perform withoutyery large compen-
sation in very many cases. They are expected o
be at their posts every day in the week at regular
hours from the beginning to the end of the yeaz
They must make no mistakes, nor neglect even
the smallest detail in their work. Faithfully,
diligently and honestly do they discharge their
duties to the people whom they serve. and at the
end of the year many OF them have not one dollar
left, and feel as if they could hardly fight the
battle through tothe end of another year. True,
few of them receive salary that enables them to
save dollar for rainy day. But i'll the majority
of cases th pay of clerks is not enough, and Con-
gress should provide more literally for them
COor,el Y u. Er-nernLd IN Nord nnd Cti-sA- Soldier
National Republican., 1881-02-22
Mortality in January.

The statement of births, marriages,
and deaths for the month of January, 1881, shows
the total mortality in the District of Columbia for
the month to have been SO IAN increase of Il as
compared with the corresponding month of last
year. and 3 less than the average number of deaths
for the month of January for the past seven years.
or at the rate of 2267 per 1909 per annum. The
mortality of the white population was 202, or at
the rale of 202 per 1000 annum, while that of
the colored was 1SS, at the rate of 21.6. The
average daily mortality was 10.91 the same as for
the previous month. There were 353 births re-
ported an annual birth rate of 2S.55 per 1GOo. OF
these births, 102 were white males, 50 white fe-
males 70 colored males. and S. cOlOred females,
birth-rate of i91 per 100) per annum for the white
and 81 for the colOrcd population, showing an in
crease of total population by excess OF births over
deaths of 1S, the white population decreasing by
II. the colored increasing by 2. There were 1l2
marriages reported-65 white and 46 colored.
National Republican., 1881-02-22
THE JURY LIST
Names Drawn from the Box for the Next
Term.


The following is the list of names
drawn from the box yesterday BY the clerk
of the court, a. jurors for the next term of the
Criminal Court commencing on the first Monday
in March next: Grand Jurors-G. NJ. White, 5G2 f
street northwest Daniel T. Johnson. I'll Eleventh
street southeast: J. T Dyer 22$0 Thirteenth street
northwest AdoII.hIls Hall, 29i High street. George
town; \. e. Humphrey. 5SS Seventh street south
east: William q. Moore, Metropolitan Bank; Ed
win Harris, HE Pennsylvania avenue; William
Gait Il01 PENNSYLVANIA avenue; Joseph ID. ODon-
nell, 75l Eighth street southeast; Philip Brooke
county: John G Pedrick, 30 Twelfth street north
west; William RiIpp, $40 0 street northwest: Dan
iel Il Carroll, i12i F street northeast: William
Schwing. 627 Seventh street northwest; s. K. Git
tings Sd Pennsylvania avenue; J. y. Wise, 23S
-Four half street northwest William II. West,
brick maker; Wash. B. Williams. Seventh and
D streets northwest; 4. T. Whiting, Seventh
street road: W P. Barbour, 93S y street
northwest: B. T. Swart. county; Anthony
Buchlv gI2 Pennsylvania avenue; Will
lam Helmus III Seventh street northwest.
Petit jurors-John ". Starr, 1l2eNew York avenue;
Alfred Pope, iSgl y street northwest; W. o. Deni-
son. 93O street northwest: Gus. Eiseman, AS
Seventh street northwest Chris Ford, 527 Missouri
avenue John II. schultz 29lS N street northwest: ::
Richard Beverly g5G street south; Peter Fegan, 462
Pennsylvania RYenue; Brooke 3. Williams [ street,
near Thirty first: :. E. Middleton county; David
Nachraan, 800 Eighth street southeast; W. Brown,
corner of Ninth and streets southeast X. P. A.
Denham, 1921 Twenty ninth street northwest
Joseph Boyer, county; John H. Neck, SI21 N street
northwest; X. ". Dorrman, Georgetown; c. R.
Field 1904 street northwest; L. q. Fletcher, 1872
street northeast: N. W. Beveridge, 1909 PennSyl-
vanla avenue: w. r. Brown Twentieth street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue; Edward Dolan, 1921 h street
northwest; Robert ArmStead, l73l L street north
west: James {. Lee 1119 Four and -a-half street
southwest: Robert L. Boston, 1896 Sherman street
". c. Chase lI'5a | street; Joshua II. Manning, 12l
Carroll street FIthc2st.