The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-07-05

should be disposed to add the ;tsade. The beth
ana dyin are more archaic than thos. of the
Moabite Stone, though this would prove no
more than that the alphabet of Moab had in
certain respects departed further from the print
tive type than the more conservative alpbabet
OF judah. "-Eadependent.
"A New York correspondent of the
Chrlstidn at Work tells the following "Tbe
Chlnese already here behave we'll and are
Treated weii' but they do not interfere with any
other class. An amusing story is told of a rich
woman living uptown, who had become dis.
gusteo win her domestics, and was determined
10 try chinese help. She rode down to the hest
known Chlnaman, and told him she wanted
three servants at once. The suave and afFable
Ohlnaman took In the situation at glance and
asked her ladyship what wages she gave She
replied that she had paid one domestic SiO an,
other Sl2, and the third $15 month. Johns
eyes twlnkled, and laying down his nine in the
blandest tone he said Irish trashee trasbee
Mexican lady no pay China man China man
earn $lo week washee, washee Mellican lady
too very much cheap Do work herself"
The plain but kindly Protest in an
other column of the Foreign Secretary of tbe
American Board, against the commencement of
dlstlnctlvely Baptist Missions on Turkish terri
tory 80 long and so successfully occupied by the
organization for which he speaks, cannot fail tn
be read with the deepest interest. There can
be no objection, of course, to any wise and ami
cable endeavor on the part of our Baptist bretb
rem to extend the gospel to ana needy SPOT Bnt
we have an idea that if, on the appeal of a few
dissatisfied Rarens, the American Board were
70 talk ABOUT organizing mission on ground
exclusively occupied by our Baptist brethren in
Burmah since the time of Judson in 1913 with
the intent of making converts of THEN. converts
the project would be at once received with a
dlstavor so unanimous as to seal its fate We
beg to know why the act now proposed bv the
Baptlsts Will not be quite as needless and un-
friendly 1t must, indeed, be lamentable if
missionaries of division are sent into a field
which Is now doing so well, to preach a gospel
OF immersion as necessary to salvation-3ot To
those who are outside of all Christian influence
but to those who have already believed and
oeen-to the satisfaction of their own conscience
baptized. C0ngregatiOnkst.
"A Florida man living at Hillsboro.
near Tampa Bay has discovered on his premi.
ses guano bed, covering FIVE acres, it is said,
to depth of eight feet. 1t seems that millions
OF sea birds congregate there every night to
roost, and have done so probably for hundred
years. The deposit appears to be as rich in fer
Tlizlng qualities as any Peruvian, and Mr. Col
Inns has sent samples on to the Agricultural De-
Partment at Washington, to be analyzed. The
bird Is the Florida pelican, sea diver. On the
east or Atlantic side, there are "roosts of these
Pellcans' at different points, many miles apart,
along the entire long line of the coast from the
st. Johns southwark to Biscayne Bay. In the
trees thickly huddled, they build and rear their
young-and thither, at almost every minute,
they come, heavily Tapping their way and car.
rylng hsh to their young. Frequently score
or hundred pelcans will be seen Aying and
hoVerlng and crying about the nests. The peli-
cans roost and rest on mangrove trees, small.
| deloving, unattractive tree, that finds in the
mud and ooze of the Florida coast what appears
to be Its northern limit On the Gulf side
among the islands of Tampa Bay and Charlotte
Harbor, these life looking trees Of the tropics fire.
quently shelter hocks Of the red. winged and
req, Dosomed hamlngo, and the rosette spoonbill,
both commercially valuable as birds of plumage
The THEATRE AS IT Is.-In its best
estate the modern theatre, in this city, attended
oy our hrstclass" people, men and women, is
thus described by the Sun newspaper. Yet If
a religious paper denounces the stage, the cry of
olgotry and purltanism is set up at once. Those
who do not frequent the theatre depend for
their knowledge of it on the daily papers: and
this Is what one of them says of one of the
most fashionable theatres in New York (from the
Sun, 14th):
AT Wallack's during the past week vopng
girls with their attendant SWANS chaperoned bV
grave and dlgnlhed matrons have listened with
unDlushlng faces and, indeed, with every indi-
cation OF intelligent interest, to one of the most
objectionable plays ever acted in English. Vice
and immortality, degraded womanhood and cor
ruPted households are bad enough, even when
yelled beneath an outward semblance ofdecencv.
but when an actress is called upon to use ali
art IN the reproduction of debased and vicious
woman and when bad things are called by their
worst names, and no attempt at the thinnest
WhlteWash IS made, than 1t were better that
young girls should be left at home, as nothing
can be gained to mind, morals and manners by
watching the progress of such play, and, above
all, by seeing it in company with young men.
". Y Observer.