Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-03

gance abound. Last evening MT. Aiexande Mcdonald, an elder of the church am tenn 1 porarlly supplying poor boy from the Gal edonian isles, called at my boarding place ana | took me to his home in the village of Clifton I imagine that if his early companions could 1 look into his home and upon it's surroundings l they would be astonished at the change ir his fortune. I doubt not he could buy oui l half his namesAkes in Scotland. His house ! is the most elegant, tasteful and complete private residence have ever seen An hours ride after tea convinced me that the village of Clifton-it refuses to be absorbed into the city-can scarcely be surpassed by anything 1 in the country.
 But down here in the city itself things are not altogether to one's 4aind. Oh, the smoke and grime It beats London and Glasgow put together! Thousands of chimneys belching volatile soot! The air is full of it. It IS everywhere. It drops in particles on the paper as I write. Please, sir, look in
 the glass that nose you think so much of has been unfortunate" Excuse me- mad
 am, touch of your handkerchief will add to
 the loveliness of your fair cheek" Cleanli-
 ness I remember it, hope for it, have it
 not. Innumerable hand washings, a bath night and morning won't secure it. He that
 16G1 D6LQ0Q BuE6ly uS6OeLQ CO wash 0lS rect,
 for step on floor or carpet makes them
 black again. Linen white and clean is for no
 long time the righteousness of saints in Gin
 cinnati. Smut ! I hate it, fight it, but it
 gets tte better of ne. I feel myself despair
 ingly yielding. But sight of my landlady's
 hands puts new courage into me and fly to
 the wash-bowl again.
 The thing which strikes an eastern man
 with surprise and fills him with serious ques-
 tionings is the disregard of the Sabbath. It
 is gala day here All saloons are open, the
 streets crowded, beer gardens thronged, the
 aters in full blast, and every sort of pleasure
 abundantly and eagerly pursued. The Sab
 bath, as day of quiet, order and repose,
 has passed away. Paris or Berlin is hardly
 worse in this respect than Cincinnati. Good
 men mourn over it. They have fought
 against it. But they are outvoted and the
 courts are on the side of beer and pleasure.
 In a sort of despair they ask, ''What can we
 do ?" It is not to be understood that Chris
 tian men are inactive, or that the churches
 are doing nothing to stem the tide of evil
 They are yaliantly pushing the work of mis
 sions and temperance in all parts of the city.
 The Second Presbyterian church has lately
 opened a mission in the very heart of the
 city. There services every night, super
 intended by some of the brethren of the
 church.
 Sunday afternoon, under the guidance of
 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Johnson, formerly of
 your city, I visited one of Cincinnati's great
 institutions-the Bethel Begun about twen-
 ty years ago on old fatboat on the river,
 it has grown to a great establishment, having
 buildings worth $l35, ,000 and an endowment of $11O, ,O0O-nearly enough to keep it per petually up to present efficiency. The estab- lishment consists of hotel, lodging house for homeless men and boys, a church, Sab bath school of over five thousand members, and full accommodations for all branches of
 l. with MT. Lee, the superintendent and pastor, at the bethel table, looked the building over and attended the Sabbath school. It was 8 sight worth seeing. large, square room, deep galleries on three sides, all filled with boys, girls, young men and women, fathers and mothers, grandparents, collected from the very lowest and worst classes of the city. It was mass of steamiug and not over clean humanity, numbering 7, 444 scholars, saying nothing of the more than one hundred teach CTS and the visitors. Of course it was i'm possible to secure perfect order, but the be. havior was creditable. And the singing! It would have done you good to hear it And this crowd comes Sunday after Sunday. What brings them In part, doubtless, hope of reward. For every attendant receives a ticket, and the tickets represent value in | some form of wearing apparel. At certain l times the tickets are redeemed. Four tickets l is the lowest number that is redeemed. | Eight will secure shirt another number 8 l pair of shoes another something else. Some l times family will present one hundred or | even two hundred tickets at time and get | an equivalent. In the misds of many this is l the doubtful feature in the work. But those 1 who have 1t in charge and whose self-deny- | ing toll carries it on, are convinced that they | are doing great good. Certainly they have | mighty hold on this class of the population. |
 The churches in the old part of the city | are experiencing the same trouble which | meets as in New Haven. The people float l away from the region of the churches to the | suburbs. The Seventh street and Vine street | churches have lately united | The old First Presbyterian church is badly | weakened. Many of the members of the | Second Presbyterian church, by far the rich | est and strongest church in the city, live | from two to four miles away. Houses of | worship are springing up near their homes. | They will not long come into the city.
 That rather insignificant looking, very | muddy stream, spanned by that bsautiful | bridge seems to be very inoffen- | sive thing. But when it goes on a regular | well it is a terror The past year all the | lower part of the city was covered. There | sere eight feet of water where dined in the l Bethel Gentlemen doing business as far up | as Third street entered their offices in boats. l Ssventy-one feet and six inches Think of 1 1t. Were New Haven bay to rise in such | fashion the whole city-save perhaps Pros pect street-would be drowned This dan- ger of inundation is seriously affecting the business of the city. Men cannot endure periodical flood.
 into this Walnut Hill car." Here we are at the foot of the iacine. Up there is the Highland House Hurrah! Up we go, car, horses and all. Isn't it jolly? Now step out here on this esplsnade-right on the edge of she precipice- Here we have the city under our feet-what the smoke will let see. Right opposite is Covipgton Just a little above is Newport, which antedates ever5- thing else here
 But come here. This is the newest thing. | The roller coaster. The Russian ice hills made circular and traversed by car instead | of sleds. Thirty feet up these stairs. car with two settees end to end; sixteen of us sit down, one hand on hat, the other clinging l to the seat. Take long breath and hold on to it. Here we go, plunge No. l. Now we | are on the edge of the rock. Down the seo- | ond incline with roar. Railroad speed | That's nothing. No time 10 think. Plunge | No. 3. Whew The hair sreeps. Here we | are back again in just sixteen seconds You let go the breath you have been holding and jump up, glad to be on 8 slower machine ''Try another round ?' 'No, thank you" s'Did'nt yoa like it ?" ''Oh, yes; but I've no farther use for it. "
 We'll, then let us ride out to the 'tZoo' and see the immortal mule that killed the honess. No joke. A few years ago lioness broke loose and attacked 8 mule. In her native | jungle she had never formed the acquaint- ance of this animal It was her first and | last acquaintance, for he got in a straight hit and there was DO longer the spirit of a lion ess in her.
 I was intending to speak of some of the notable institutions and buildings of Cincin- nati Of course her most noted institution hoar md nnt66 Onil0InOa kho 1 breweries. But am more attracted by the | Music Hall, which is altogether superior affair by the postofice, which will be done sometime if the world stands; by the public library. An, why can't we have one in New Haven2 Alas, for that $5O,OOo the court house, 8 melancholy relic of a melancholy affair; of the Queen City club, of whose ex- ,ellent bill of fare am able to speak and especially by the Probasco fountain, which is as elegant piece of work as have ever