Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

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proboscis, and if they cannot reach the
place with that they take up a branch and use
that.
ENGLAND is too aristocratic to have
open, common railway cars, as in
this country, for the accommo-
dation Of the travelling public. The
English people cling to the old style of COM
partment cars, closely locked, notwithstand-
ing the murders and outrages that have been
committed by the opportunities thus given.
The celebrated case OF Col. Baker of the Brit
lsh army, who attempted to ravish young
! lady who was locked u with him alone in a
compartment, is not, and can not be easily
forgotten. There are numerous protests
against this compartment style of travelling.
A late London paper, commenting on some
recent shocking occurrences, asks: "What
more awful situation could be conceived than
that OF person locked into box, whirling
along at the rate of thirty miles an hour with
congenital maniac who has developed a sud-
den access OF fury, or person who has mad
dened his brain by drink and awakes from
temporary stupor? Yet this may happen to
anybody. How long shall we have to wait for
the adoption of the American open carriage
system, leaving it to those who can afford to
pay for exclusiveness to do sop
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Eastern
Turkey, remarks. that "the Mohammedan
system is essentially system of works. This
contains four cardinal elements, viz: Prayer
five times day, fasting during the sacred
month, aims, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
| At Mecca there is Sheikh by the name of
Ahmet, who is OF late attracting good deal
| OF attention. He is of the family of Moham-
| med. The pilgrims who have recently returned
| from Mecca have brought with them written
| address from this man to all Mohammedans,
orrather through this man. from the prophet
himself. He has sent out similar messages on
two previous occasions. In this address the
sheikh claims to have personally seen the
| prophet" Mohamet he was in "the mosque
OF the holy city at midnight alone
| reading the glorious Koran, when
suddenly appeared the chief of the two
worlds, the apostle of God, and he said from
one Friday night to the next Friday night
seventy-seven of them came to the other
world, but only seven OF them came in the
faith. Oh, Sheikh Ahmet! They have be-
come rebels against God.'' May it not be
asked without irreverence whether Christen-
dom can probably show greater proportion
who will be credited with the faith they pro.
fess!
THOSE utter barbarians, the Chinese, have
a heightened civilization of their
own, moss-covered with the growth
OF centuries, and looking down with contempt
upon the comparative infancy of Christian civil
lization. In ingenuity and high art they have
attained to perfection in various directions,
to which modern civilization, intelligence and
ingenuity can make but faint approaches. As
a single instance, in illustration, take the
single article of Porcelain OF which the
Chinese were inventors. Other nations have
only been able to initiate their achievements
i'll the production of this highly artistic fabric
afar of and with inferior technical skill. The
excellence OF Chinese porcelain consists in the
fitness OF the material and its perfection of
manipulation in the first place; next come the
beauty and purity of the single colors. which
pieces large and small display, and the bold
ness or the delicacy, as the case may be, of the
hswers and arabesques with which others are
decorated. Something, too, must be said of
the shapes, which are often of beauty and
dignity that deserve almost to be called cl assic;
the Chinese in their important pieces avoid
singularity aud the grotesque, ard their purity
of line gives to the larger pieces, and even to
those of small size, certain monumental
gravity.
A DEvoUT writer has said: 1.-THE twenty
third Psalm is the nightingale of literature.
The nightingale is bird unattractlye in
plumage, but marvellous in soHg-a bird
which, to hear Alright, you must listen to
when other voices are silent; which sings
best in the night; whose song seems to have
fresh beauty every time you give attention to
! its notes. For thirty centuries those who
have had ears to hear, and who have been
willing, when the stars shone out, to get
away from the artifcially paved and lighted
town, had their souls uplifted by the thrilling
melody. And it's music is as strong and fair
now as ever. Blessed be God for the twenty
| oniA SolA: Lie IOl1CWiuS Is he night
ingale'' OF psalmody referred to: "The Lord is
my shepherd; shall not want. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me
beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul;
he leadeth me in the paths Of righteousness for
his names sake. Yea, though walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me. Thou preparest table
before me in the presence of nay enemies; thou
annointest my head with oil; my cup runreth
over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life; and shall dwell in
the presence OF the Lord forever
| The abuse of wives by brutal husbands in
| the present time can but attract general atten-
| ton and sympathy. Much of this is due,
doubtless to the inebriety of husbands. Wife
murders and wife beating are becoming the
common staple of daily Geographic dispatches.
Where is the remedy for this great and grow
ing evil? It must be found in the remodeIipp
of oar laws and giving greater protection to
| the person and property-rights Of wives.
Wife beaters should have visited upon them
eondigu punishment, swift, severe and GER
tain. What more terrible than for pbysic.
ally weak and helpless wife to be subjected to