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, 1882-09-08

Fr IN distance to the south was heard
at intervals the hoarse whistling of an
ocean steamer.
81 hope that fcller's well underwrit," ;"
said the Captain, grimIy, "for the
Judas'll never go down afore she's
sarched him out'n sunk him."
And wa" the abandoned schooner
ever heard of?" | asked, when my iu-
tormant had reached this point in the
narrative.
The Captain took me by the arm and
led me out Of the grocery store down to
the rocks. Across the mouth Of the
small cove back of his house, blocking
the entrance TO his wharf AMI fish
house, was stretched q skeleton wreck.
Thar she lays" he said, pointing to
the backened RIBS. "Ihat'S the Judas.
Did yer suppose she'd sink in deep
water, where she could DO no moro
damage? No, sir, not if all the rocks
on the coast OF Maine was piled onto
her, aud her hull bottom knocked clean
ont. She come home to rOost. Sho
come sixty mile in the teeth OF tho
wind When the tug got back next
mornin' thar lay the Judas Iscarios
acrost my cove, with her jbboom stuck
through my kitchen winder. l say
schooners has souls"
, 1882-09-08
% Darn It.V

They had terrible time nj wedding
up at Petaluma, and which only goes
to show how the smallest drawback will
sometimes take the stiifenng out of the
SWEETEST occasion.
1T seems that the ceremony was a very
grand affair, indeed. There were eight
bridesmaids, aud the church was crowd
cd from lht to dome, as tho dramatic
critics would say. But, when they got
to the proper place in the ceremony,
and the groom began feeling around for
the ring, he discovered that it wasn't on
hand. After the minister had scowled
ut the miserable wro'ch for while the
latter detected that the magic circlet
had slipped through II hole IN his pocket
and work d down iLto his boot. He
communicated the terrible fact in
VIII sper to tine bride, who turned deadly
pGIe and was only kept from faintmg
by the reflection that they would newt.
ably cut the strings OF her satin corsage
III case she did.
Why don't You produce the ring?"
whispered the brides hjg brother,
hoarsely, and feeling for his pistol, un-
NNI thO llIhNHOl'll llltb bIlC LlA5tluplO
mnn was about to back ont.
Il can't. It's in my boot" explained
the groom under his breath, his very
hair. meanwhile, turning red with morti-
tcatiOn.
"Try and fab it ous somehow-hurry
up" mumbled tho minister behind his
book
"l'll try" Rasped the victim, who was
rather stout and lie put one foot on the
chaucel rail, pulled up his trousers leg
and began making spismodic iabs for
the ring with his iOrennger. The min
iser motioned to the organist to squeeze
in few notes to ill up tho time, while
q rumor rapidly went through the con-
gregation to the effect that telegram
bad just arrived proving that the groom
had four wives living in the East
already.
III can't reach it," groaned the
hali-malried man in agony. "It won't
come"
est down nnl lake your boot off,
you fool |" hissed the brides mother,
while the bride herself moaned piteously
and wTung her powdered hands.
Ihete was nothing lett, 30 the sufferer
sat down on tho floor and began to
westlc with his boot, which was natural
lY new and tight, while fresh rumor got
under way b. tho effect that the groom
was beastly tight and insisted on pairing
hls cOrns.
As the boot came hnally off its crushed
wearer endcavored, nusuccessfully, to
hide adedollar holeiu the heel OF his
stocking noticing which, the parsop,
who was humorous sort of sky-con.
tracto- said, grimly:
"You seem to be getting married just
in time, my young friend And the
ceremony proceeded with the party OF
the first part standing on one leg, try
ing to hide his well.ventilated foot under
the tail Of his coat, and appropriately
mutteling, "Darn it !" at short intervals.
--Derick Dodd, in San Francisco
Post. ...
, 1882-09-08
Npherc.J Jumping.

An indianapolis woman, speaking in
beaa.f OF female suffrage, says There
Is no joy like spherG-iumpinG. The
woman who does not want to vote misses
this most ecstatic Of all delights. With
her feet on blue zephyr dog, her eyes
on the fashion-plate, and quenchless
love for her sphere in her heart, she
hears the mad mob OF equal sutfragists
go howling by. Supported and sustained
in spirit by crochet-work, bric-a-brac,
and a beautiful self.Satisfaction, she has
no fear OF falling q victim to the epi-
demic OF advanced thought"
, 1882-09-08

orr RAII.HOADS.


'Sh" l-r TAR, Young, h'usnng hrdrN
en- inrlr honeymoon iAry rt starting bow
u AW4N~ follow, The marriage N.W
tie .'NA> at tne tir,ng rs..luii E.N',
~ iN' tram oi cars hNi hl nag .~e trays
srd " ''prrS, ir,U", Low s.al We G.-
H. the ktuAakey ug tup h 'A1An,
There CC. D.. .. u,t ter y. V
Aud ih's ON" -aN- luur 60 a. s'a"e
ca any r al hU' '0" ~ag b,It IAAc,
'hc y. Z. K. l.. I, % d.
NsNC sleeper, oU tNntUii'e way;
Nut I've r.rN lhrsr trans FTy m"Cl N"'o $40"
Than tie kauaaAuc ur ige hgAuA''
What nne cd road IS TIE p g. h;
but mamma RyelN'i to Di'aEit''
And prefers the : A. %, 7.
Th : chart say, b tue views 'Fc uAe
IN tn lrNas-CN"l Mut'AAE ''Nr'
But I'll, perhaps We d hr'irr
On the haukaLte or the Il 'AolEo'
And the bridegroom caught nj gent eve
lie said, "uh, man, win te cap ~ ae'p O'uo,
Inform me quick inform me tUe'
Which road Il b u Tor a ou h'iV' pure
Young, tn'd brue on her "eUulHB to".'
And tel uS qlic- y Mhat YOU KNOW
OS the kankakee aid the hokohIO'
The conductors eyes gave savage Gesih'
These words role l rut IN imusd stream:
here's the A, H. j. ~ " H. a.,
, 1882-09-08

RUDERr Il. LEE was n direct descend
nt of four Of the five heroes OF Ban
lockburn-of the High Steward OF Scot
aud of Sir Robert de Keith, the great
Marischnl Of Scotland; OF Thomas Ran
3ulph, Earl OF Moray, and Of King Rob.
crt Bruce, from whom he was the sew.
lteenth in line.
~" Immmense arrival OF cooking
stoves at Sheehan's. Also steamboat
fittings, gas pipes, and pumps, =
, 1882-09-08

Col. McSpilkins came home late from
the lodge the other night and raised q
mischief Of a row.
my dear, what is it that angers 20,
so ?" asked Mrs. McSpilkins.
"Well, amt it enough to make .
saint swear to have the chairs go pranc.
ing and prowling around in such bias:
cd fool way ?"
, 1882-09-08

FOt good cigars. 90 to James Jones
head # Union Wharf opposite Central
lIote =
, 1882-09-08

spouse 70 telegram from the owners uf
the Judas lscNriot. Agool land breeze
was blowing, with the promise of fresh
ening ss the day grew older.
At haIf-part 7 o'clock the schooner
put of from the landing, carrying not
ony the Captains pasture wall, but
also large number of his neighbOrs
and friends, including some of tue solid.
est cl'lzens OF Nnwaggen. Curiosity WAS
stronger than fear. "IOu know what
the cntt"r air, " the Captain had SAID, in
reply To numerous applications for pass
age. Ef you're IL mind to resk her ar
tics, come along, m v lr0mc." Capt.
Cram put on II white shirt and holiday
SUIT for the occasion. A. he stood o
the wheel shouting directions to his
boys and Andrew jackson, son Tobias
at tie halIlard5. his GUESTS gathered
around mm-a fair representation OF the
respcctability, the business enterprise
end the plrty OF NeNaggen mrbOr.
Never had the Judas Iocur OF carried
such Loaf. She snemd suddenly
struck with u sense Of deccucy and re-
sponsIblllty, for she came around into
the wind without baking, dived her
hose pinNfully into the orine, and
skipped OH on the short hitch to clear
Tuubler island, all i'll the properest
fashion. The Pig steamed ait'r her.
The crowd on the wharf aud the boys
in thu small boat, cherred this unex-
pected y orthodox behavior, aud they
now saw tor the first time that Capt.
Cram had painted o the side of tho
vessel III conspicuous white letters, each
three or four feet long, the following
legend
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Against Anxiety.

1t is distrust of God, therefore, which
lies at the root of unlawful anxiety. A
feeble apprehension Of God, as the Agent
who overrules everything, and deter
mines those causes which lie outside Of
our reach, and those events which escape
our foresight; this it is which shakes the
soul with vague uncertainty, and fills
with causeless alarms the darkness of to-
morrow. The doubt whether God, who
counts for so much in the contingencies
of life, be one whose attitude to us may
be wholly trusted or the suspicion that
we may have really as much to dread as
to hope for from his superintendent :;
this it is which cannot but unsettle a
mans steadfast outlook into the coming
days, and toss his spirit to and fro in the
restlessness of distraction. Because we
are of little faith" therefore are we not
content to plan and work, and having
planned and wrought, to sit and wait !;
but must fdget ourselves about that
which may be, until impatience gnaws
US like worm, and our imagination, pic
turing disaster in the dark, burns us like
fire. Why is it that popular proverbs
attest how much worse are fancied ills
than real ones, and how the evils which
we most dread never overtake us; but
just because this distrustful human heart
of ours is so prone to prophesy, and so
lively to exaggerate misfortune? Like
a soothing, cooling breath from serener
world, there comes down upon the
feverish, self-tormenting spirits of men
this word of one who was the messenger
of him whom we distrust: &c Be not anx-
ious about your life; be not anxious
about tomorrow. TIE Rev. j. Oswald
Dukes.
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Evangelistic Work on the Con
tinent

AT the invitation of the Committee OF
the Evangelical Continental Society, a
Conference was held at the Memorial
Hall, Harrington street, on Wednesday
afternoon, 8th ult. The desirability OF
forming fund for special evangelistic
work In Europe was considered, in view
OF the present unparalleled opportunities
for preaching the gospel in France and
the adjoining lands. A legacy of over
$4,000 has recently been bequeathed to
the Society; it is intended to set apart
81 ,25O of that amount, to be expended
at the rate Of $3.50 annually for FIVE
years. in special efforts to break up new
ground. AS this sum would be wholly
insufficient for anything like extended
evangelistic work, it is desired at least
to double the amount.
Mr.. Donald Matheson, who presided,
reminded his hearers of the marvellous
change in regard to religious liberty that
has taken place on the Continent within
the last fifty years. The people are
growing wearied of Papacy. Infdelity
does not satisfy them, and yet that is the
only alternative they have unless Chris
tianity can be set before them in It's true
light. Many in France, Belgium, and
Spain are eager to understand the claims
Of the pure gospel. The proposed fund
will be applied towards the employment
of preachers who, in their evangelistic
tours, will be accompanied by evangelists
or colporteurs.
Rev r. S. Ashton, Secretary to the
Society, spoke Of the remarkable results
that had followed an attempt made five
or six years ago, similar to what they
now intended to make. From many
quarters come the tidings that the simple
announcement of meeting or lecture is
sufficient. Rooms are readily granted
and crowds flock to hear the gospel.
Notwithstanding efforts now being made
in France the great mass Of the nation is
still untouched, while in Belgium and
Spain only handful Of laborers are at
work.
Rev. DR.. Boyd moved resolution
commencing the scheme to English
Christians. Professor Leoni Levi, in
seconding said that our efforts to benefit
our neighbors across the channel were
very small in proportion to the exigen-
cies. Whilst the purse is always open
for evangelising purposes amongst the
semi-civilised, there is the greatest diff
ficulty in getting 1.-THE Of the needful
for work amongst Europeans and others
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Our Shelter.

One use of great rock is that of a
place of shelter During recent sum-
mer the Earring of slight earthquake
shocks in the Sierras precipitated many
rocks down the mountain sides, and for
a time the lives of the miners were much
endangered. DR.. Cuyler asked them,
What did you do then?" The reply
was, We took shelter under FL Captain
For we thought that if once Ell Captain
went down the world would come to an
end. Nor was their confidence mis-
placed. There it rises, thirty-three hun
dred feet high, a mighty mass of granite,
leaning over and sheltering the valley
beneath, but itself linked in back with
the Sierras. Who would not rest safe in
the shadow of such rock But my
brother, we point you to-day to a Rock
mightier than Ell Captain. Here is a
shelter which is more secure now, and
will endure when the mountains are melt
ing with tervent heat. 1t is place of
shelter often sought-in many lands
for centuries. Who has sought it in
vain 2-Rev. Z. II. RaSS0n.
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defects, presents to them the most con-
venient, healthy, and comfortable place
OF residence in the habitable world. In
some OF Its many aspects London is one
of the most beautiful and interesting
cities in Europe. There are, indeed vast
districts In it of unredeemed ugliness,
lowness, and poverty, where there is no
single feature of beauty or grandeur,
where the population passes through its
daily toll, from the beginning to the end
OF life, unillumined by ray of interest
from surrounding influences, and where
society seems intent on reducing life to
the most monotonous and dreary exist
ence that could be devised Nor are
dullness and monotony confined to the
districts inhabited by the laboring people
only; the more fashionable quarters
which have grown up during the last two
centuries IN the west of London have
been constructed on system and under
a tenure which was best calculated to
prevent any individualism from manifest
ing itself; and contractors, bent only on
making the utmost profit out of hundreds
OF houses built for the sake of cheapness
on the same model, have impressed and
stereotyped whole districts with the most
uniform, dreary, and commonplace do
nestle rchitecture-THe Hon. q. s.
Lefevre, IN the Nineteenth Century.
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A Magazines Supplies.

Between four and five hundred manu-
scripts are received each month by The
Century, nearly three-fftns of which are
in verse. "A little more than half as
many are sent to 81. Nicholas, and the
proportion of verse is lower, being about
one half. A record is kept Of the incom-
ing and outgoing of every manuscript,
and since the magazines cannot print
more than fifty out of the 700 or 800 re-
ceived in month, it is apparent that the
sitting process requires great care, and is
the chief burden of the editors. 1t is
common for persons of little experience
in writing for publication to ask the
editor to. give the enclosed manuscript"
fair reading, and often it is added that
a criticism of the production would be
received as special mark of favor. The
editors indulge in very little criticism in
returning manuscripts, mainly for the
reason that there are only thirtyone days
in the longest months; but they are al
ways DESTROYS of encouraging young
writer's who show freshness and original
ity. But injunctions to read manuscripts
are not needed. The editors would be
false to the first duty of their trust, if
they should allow single article to leave
the Office without careful examination
By first reading, the wheat is separated
from the chaff. The selected manuscripts
are then usually put to the test of two or
even three readings by different editors,
who aim to treat the authors of indiffer-
ent manuscripts with the same courtesy
that is due to the old contributor or the
experienced writer. Not all poorly-writ-
ten articles are rejected, nor all good
ones accepted. While the editors are
continually suggesting topics to expert
enced writers, and to persons having
special knowledge, many of the best
articles printed. come unsolicited. In a
word, an article must be fresh in idea,
mastery in treatment, or novel or i'm
portant in information, to meet with &C.
ceptance when SO many active minds are
seeking expression in print.
The editors always have three issues
of the magazines in hand, and must at
the same time keep in view their proba-
BILE needs for the ensuing twelve months.
Tie Gentet2Y.
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Recent Publications.

Mr.. S. E. CASINO has brought out Life of
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, the Quaker Poet.
by W. Sloane Kennedy, author of Life of
Longfellow. Whittier was born in 1907, near
Haverhill, where he spent nearly his entire life.
He was one of the earliest disciples of William
Lloyd Garrison. and was prominent member
of the Convention held in Philadelphia in 1888
for the formation of the American Anti Slavery
Society. In early life he edited several news
papers or periodicals.. AT the age of twenty
four he published his first volume, entitled
Legends of New england" His anti-slavery
poems, "Voices of Freedom" were collected and
published in 1S49. Almost every year or two,
since 1910, a new volume of his lyrics has issued
from the press. In 1871 he edited Child-Life,
a collection of poems, by various home and for
eign authors. Since 1876 he has lived in the
village of Danvers, Mass, and in. that period
has published his Vision of Echard" and " The
Kings Missve and Other Poems" Boston: S.
E. Casino, 80 Hawley st. 1882. limo. PIP.
81. Price $3.50.
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From the Christian World.
Scripture Distribution in Paris

A strange scene took place on Nov. 1st
and I'd, the days when all Paris goes to
the various cemeteries to visit the graves
Of friends and relations, and to pay hon.
age to those of men of note. Miss de
Broen, with number of her fellow-la-
borers, went up to the Pere la Chaise
and other cemeteries to distribute thou
sands of Testaments, taking cab, hand
cart, and many baskets well packed with
them. a broad, unbroken stream of peo-
pie poured for many hours along the ave-
nues from Paris, and through the gates.
AS fast as they could be filled the eager
hands of the multitude received copies.
1t was extraordinary to see the anxiety
to possess the book. People OF all ranks,
many of the upper classes so difficult to
reach, were eager like the rabble. The
police had to ask one of the workers to
leave, for they said she would be torn in
pieces, and they were powerless to pro-
tect her. Miss de BIoen was nearly
crushed, and had to 90 into shop where
the people followed her, stretching out
their hands till the last Testament was
given. The police themselves gladly re-
ceived copies, and did all they could to
protect those who were giving them
1t is difficult to account for the wish to
possess books the contents of which they
did not know; the people themselves adj
vertise them calling out, lie Nouveau
Testament lie Nouveau Testament" and
the more they screamed, the more hands
were stretched out. Curiosity alone does
not explain the desire There is no doubt
a restless longing after what they have
not, which makes them ready to turn to
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Coleridge on Prayer.

Some of our modern Rationalists ridi-
cule prayer. 1t is cowardice. 1t is su-
perstition. 1t is folly to think of moving
God. Against these i'm Gus revllers we
may quote the sentiment of true phil
osopher: ION my first introduction to
Coleridge, says writer who has collect
ed memorials of that great man, he re-
verified with strong conjunction to a SEN
timsnt which he had expressed in earlier
days upon prayer" In one of his youth
full poems, speaking of God, he had said {:
"Of whose all-seeing eye,
Aught to demand were impotence of mind"
This sentiment he now so utterly con-
demned, that on the contrary, he told
me his own peculiar opinion that the act
of praying was the very highest energy
of which the human heart was capable {;
praying that is, with the whole concen-
tration of the faculties-and the great
mass Of worldly men, and Of learned men,
he pronounced absolutely incapable of
prayer.
"Mr Coleridge within two years of his
death, very solemnly declared to me his
conviction upon the same subject. / was
sitting by his bedside one afternoon, and
he fell into long account of many pas
sages Of his past life, lamenting some
things, condemning others, &c. Neither
do reckon, said he, the most solemn
faith In God as a real object, to be the
most arduous act of the reason and will
o no, my dear sir, it is to pray, as God
would have US this is what at times
makes me turn cold to my soul. Believe
me, to pray with all your heart and
strength-with the reason and the will,
to believe that God will listen to you
through Christ and verify do the thing
He pleaseth thereupon, this is the last,
the greatest achievement of the Chris
tian's warfare on earth. Teach us to pray,
0 Lord And then he burst into a
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ST.. NICHOLAS for December. Contents:

NICHOLAS LOT december. COQI6DIS:
Frontispiece-" On Christmas Day in the
Morning Winter Song; The Christmas Fai-
ries; A Family Drive; The Story of Vteau
Girl asked some Kittens to Tea" Christmas
Day soul, Soul for Soul-cake"; Changing
Face; The New Hat; Mary and her Garden
Coasting on Lake Winnipeg etc.. etc.
Published by The Century Co., 33 east 18th
ST. Union Square, New York.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW for October Con-
tents:
GARDENERS Fall of the Monarchy of Charles
l.; The Ancient Architecture of India; Sin
John Lubbock on Ants and Bees Mozley's Re-
miniscences Inland Navigation Shelley and
Mary Natural Religion; The Egyptian Rebel
lion.
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co., Al Barclay
Street, New York.
WIDE AWAKE for December has the following
contents:
First Frontispiece-Th Christmas Visit to
Grandpa's-Lost the Way Secon Frontispece
The Mother, the Child, and ST. John The
Christ-Child and the Children The Little Mud
Sparrows; Up the Schoolhouse Hill; A Case Of
Coincidence Sweet Little Miss Santa Claus
The Isle of Peace Going Home from Spelling
School; How Sin Hop Went Ashore; etc, etc
D. Lothrop Co., publishers, Boston, Mass.
SOUTHERN PLANTER for December Published
Semi Monthly at Richmond. 7. w. Ormond
Proprietor; w. c. Knight, Editor A. ]. Gary
Business Manager. Subscription 81 .25 year
s.THE MISSIONARY HERALD for December
Published by the American Board of Commis-
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LITTEIL's LIVING AGE for the week ending
December I'd.