Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-10-24
MI SGEILAMEoUS.
OUR BALTIMORE IETTER,

Arttatr.s Finger Malls Foreign Missions
y-Baltinaore's Bar BiH-Emnsess Erten,
!, sire Recepts-TAe Suns Adpice- Chief
Justice Chase and Patrick Renry..
'When the rolling waves dashed high"
upon the rock,bouud coast and the Pilgrim
Fathers landed upon Plymouth Rock, the
Poet says they landed there for the express
purpose of having "freedom to worship God !"
Wefthought of that as We read to-day in tho
famous diary of Deacon Samuel Sewall, him,
self one of the Judges of the victim this ac-
count of the execution of an old man by some
of these same freedom hunters. The entry
in the diary bears the date.of Monday, Sept.
18th, 1892. ''About noon, at Salem. Giles
Corey was pressed to death for standing mute.
Much pains was used with him for two days,
one alter another, by the Court and Capt.
Gardner, of Nantucket, who had been of his
acquaintance; but all IN vain" pressed to-
deathn-thas means he Was tied down upon
his back, this man eighty years old, aud then
his neighbors piled heavy weights upon him.
until the life was pressed out Of him. And
one of the historians of the period says,
when his tongue lolled out in the agonies.
OF death, the sheriff jammed il back again.
with his staff" Longtellow immortalized the
victim of fanaticism in his .'Giles Corcy of
the Salem Farms."
The world moves, the world grows better
as the years roll on, and as Christianity grows
moro liberal and Christians more Christ>like,
as one by one the nations learn the lesson of
Peace aud Goodwill, SO one by one the
shadows of intolerance and persecution vanish
until to-day there is more tolerance, more outs
spoken freedom than ever before, and I boz
lieve more true, earnest Christian men and
women than ever trod the earth at any one
time before. Ingersoll and his horde of howl
ing lmitators in their endeavor to put out the
sun, have only succeeded in calling the at
tention of the world to the brightness and
glory of the sunlight.
Speaking of Christianity, we naturally
come to think of Christian workers. Balti>
more, as VIC learn by the Baltifnoredn. is
about to lose one of its best and most efficient
temperance workers, Miss Minnie Florence
Mosher, who will leave the rostrum to become
the wife of wealthy gentleman from Sayan>
nah. Her place will not soon be filled; there
are host of temperance workers but only one
Miss Mosher. Possessing rare beauty of face,
q graceful aud commanding stage presence. a
voice as clear rs a silver bell and flexible and
strong, fully posted on all points Of the great
question, and adding to all this a zeal that
knew no bounds aud energy that knew no
tiring, she wes and is to>day the leader of the
temperance work in Maryland. L do not
mean by this that she was at the head of the
temperance movement, or that in any way shc
made herself prominent by any pushing or
iorwardncss on her part, for she is woman
ly woman, but mean that tho tender pathos
of her voice, the earnest soul aud heart that
spoke to the people, reused them more than
the eloquonce of great orators or the piteous
stories of reformed men. AS she leaves us,
many happy wife aud mother, many men
redeemed from the curse of drink by her
pleading, will say Goods best blessings go
with her, may her home be as happy as she
has made ours"
After Hays, who was evidently on his best
behavior whilst in the White House, and
might be called our goody, goody President,
after Garfield, who was an earnest, noble spec.
linen of the genus homo, comes something
new in the Presidential museum. Arthur
the Society President. Ne have read of his
exquisitcly furnished boudoir-of slipper
chair trimmed with pale blue ribbon, and his
writing chair upholstered in crimson, but the
yeraclous and voracious reporters having ex>
hausted his furniture, are now giving the ever
hungry public items like this about the man
himself. We quote from one. of the latest of
these aslnine utterances: "President Arthur's
nails are as scrupulously kept as ladys. His
fingers are white and dimpled, and his hands
perfect. Every nail is trimmed to a point
aud carefully founded, the skin at its base
pulled back just far enough to show the little
half moon of each finger" Now isn't tbs,
intensely utter-isn't it altogether and su.
perlative.y utterly utter aud too tootally too
The only wonder is that some fair and forlorn
maiden has not ere this captured for her own
this exquisite hand, "half moons" and all.
The American Board of Foreign Missions
opened its seventysthird annual meeting in
Portland, Maine, last Tuesday. The Trea-
surer's report shows that the total receipts for
the last year-including legacies, donations.
&C., amount to 62,271.21. This is what
was given to aid in spreading the gospel in
the land of darkness.
This shows where some of our money goes,
but we will put over against these figures just
two items OF expense that we think of at PRES
enf. Ii will do us good to think over these
figures little. The frat is that Baltimore
alone paid over six million dollars last year
for alcoholic drinks, and that J. Z. Emmet's
receipts in two weeks time at q ST. Louis the
aire, amounted 10 the immense sum of Sl7.-
393.50.
We have seen nothing better for long
time than the following advice given by the
Baltimore Sun to an enquiriug youth
a young Mans Ambition.-J. V. g., of
Mantua. Va, asks US to ''adyise young man
of energy and pluck, who is anxious to sue
ceed in the world, (but whose capital is small,
as to The best place to locate, either to seek
employment or start small business for him
self. 10 is now located where there is NO
enterprise and not much energy among the
people, and, such being the case, finds it hard
to make much headway." By his own account
our correspondent possesses the elements of
success where he is. Energy and pluck, with