The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-18

waters stamped with an image of the lamb
low and elevates the clements very high
that he administers the prescribed particles
of uneavened bread to the laity and par
takes himself of the special wafer; that he
teaches doctrine practically that of tran
substantiation; that he encourages and
nits and makes genufections, uses can
dies on the altar for symbolical purposes,
employs acolytes and in every way possible
introduces practices and ceremonials quite
contrary 10 the book of common prayer.
Mr.. Perciyal was elected to take charge
of the parish just three years ago. He was
a celibate, young and .sef denying, and
agreed to take no salary except what might
be left after defraying all expenses of the
parish. Every body thought him so nice!
The vestry were enthusiastic over him. So
deeply in love with him that they were
ready to do any thing and every thing for
him; even made new bylaws giving him
unusual power. The congregation grew in
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and women-particularly women-ioined
his parish to help the good man on with his
noble work. To relieve the pressing needs
of the church Mr.. Percival advanced per-
sonally and through relative the sum of
5000, then as a mere for1nality took mort
cages on the sacred edifce. Mortgages are
effective weapons sometimes, and no doubt
the Low Church party OF the Church of the
,1Jr1F-
Really, it is very difficult to imagine grown
mon and women and a Clergyman fretting
and stewing over what should be bond Of
| union. The public awaits the finale of this
rupture with no little curiosity, for the
church gains nothing, only loses, when her
children forget to act according to charity.
Charity yields love, nleekness and tolerance,
st. Clements is another extremely ritual
istic church in Philade1pEia-therea are only
two, believe. Several attempts have been
made TO deny her representation in the
General Convention but without success,
One thing is patent. Nc matter how mis-
taken the Ritualists are III their ideas, they
evlnce more self abnegation, more zeal,
moro devotion TO the church, and can show
q better record of work than the Low
Church people.
| Now, [ want to give you7 Il remarkable
instance OF mans devotion, not to the
church, but to woman. Devotion in
woman tn sai2s dire. There be many to
take the role Of Heloise, but there are few
Abelards. Fifteen years ago Miss Maggie
Summerstield, a very pretty danseuse, was
connected with Mrs. Drew's Arch Street
Theatre, Philadelphia. She was accounted
| a modest girl, was highly respected and had
many friends. Chance-do such things
come by chance?-ied to her side young
| man whose father was a senior member of
a gas fixture manufacturing firm. The |
the couple became engaged. The parents |
| OF the young man cried out against the |
matcl-held up their hands ia holy horror |
because Maggie was a danseuse. Nothing |
could shake their skepticism as to the claims
Of a danseuse to responsibility. They said,
Surely, this is but a passing fancy with |
our son: travel and change of air will efface
it from his memory" So they sent him to
CHINA. Before leaving. the young man
went to see Maggie, and they swore eter1sat
fidelity to each other. Maggie continued
to dance-concIuded en- engagement q
month ago With the Kiralfy Brothers Com
pany and came here to rest. The young
nan passed the fifteen years in China hard
at work, accumulated 100000. returned
last week, married Maggie, and the two arc
now having q real honeymoon at the sea-
shore. Think OF the patience to endure and
wait fifteen years!
However much one may condemn Capt.
Nebb's late foolhardy venture, none can
keep back the sigh of regret at his sad fate
The man of remarkable t.eroism; the man
who earned the communication of the world
for the good that he did, for the many lives
he saved on the broad waters and along
shore; the mau who swan the English
Channel, not as Boyton did, with inflated
swimming suit, but in his 20 bare peIt," and
thus tested successfully the mighty endur-
ance OF man, has at last showed how fool
ISl u r,,Dv 1,,,n, IoI.
that has stood upon the verge of the whirl-
pool OF Niagara gaZod into its black and
awful depths and felt his own utter nothing
ness can for moment doubt that there the
champion swimmer met his death? Mr..
HoWelis, IN the 'WedltiEg Journey" speaks
OF the whirlpool rs the most impressive
feature OF the whole prodigious spectacle Of
Niagara. iiere, within tie compass OF &
mile, those inland seas, Huron, Superior,
M1ch1gan, Erie and the multitude of small
ef lakes all pour their floods, where they
SWIRL III dreadful vortces, with resi5tless
undercurrents boiling beneath the surface ]
OF that mighty eddy. Abruptly from this
scene OF secret power rise lofty cliffs on ev-
cry side to a height Of 200 feet, clothed from
the waters edge almost to their crosts with {
dark cedars. Noiselessly, so far as your ;
senses perceive, the lakes steal out of the
whirlpool; then, drunk and wild, with t
braWl1ng rapids roar away to Ontario t
through the narrow channel of the river. ;
Awful as the scene Is, you DO not know half
OF Its terribleness, for those waters that t
look so smooth are great ridges and rings, t
forced by the impulse of the currents twelve :
feet higher in the centre than at the mar
gin. Nothing can live there, and with what '
is caught in its hold the maelstrom plays c
for days and whirls and tosses round and ,
round i'll its tolls with sad, maniacal pa
tlence. The guides tell CHASTITY stories Of {
the bodies OF drowned men carried into the 6
whirlpool and made to enact upon its dizzy }
there at their pleasure, diving and frolick- |
ing amid the waves or nanticaIly struggling [
to escape from the death that has long since !,
befallen them" /
POSTsCGIpTS.
Bangs as we'll as trade dollars and Eng q
lish sparrows are doomed. Mrs. I.angtry C
says they must go and that settles it. Let G
every dude provide himself with q pair of
shears. y
It is q pity that cholera don't strike some h
of the too numerous 50 Presidential booms" 4
We might then have rest for the next ;,
cine months.
A favorite phrase of Ben Butler is, sspar
Ion me-" Query: VIII the Democrats of t
Louisiana pardon him enough to instruct :,
heir delegates to the National Convention v
% vote for him? t
Gov. Pattison will not be thirty y-five years o
Did until December, 1885. lie is not eIigi- .
Die to the next Presidency. Z
GOOsEQUILL. 5
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TEy they Call Him cold Man.
I. Yes, that's sadly so said Jenkins, my =
lair is turning gray and falling out before its e
lme. Use something? would but most hair d
estorers are dangerous True" answered
MS friend. but Parkers Hair Balsam is as a
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