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SCHOOL AND CHURCH

The Federal Council of Berne has
rejected the petition of the Roman
Catholics against the exclusion OF the
religious orders from the public schools.
Every reader has his favorite author
and favorite passages texts to when
he will turn in danger or sorrow WIN
special expectation and promises which
will seem to have been expressly writ
ten for his personal use.-Dr. Joseph
Parker.
An unusually large number OF stu
dents will enter Princeton College next
wear. There are 14O applicants for ad-
mission to the freshmen class, besides
those new men who will try the fall ex-
aminations. The total addition in
numbers, including upper class men,
will amount to nearly two hundred
NJ Y Herald.
The wife of Mr.. Spurgeon. the IA
nous London preacher, furnishes. an
apt illustration of the work feeble
woman may do. She has long been an
invalid, but, by making photograph
frames and by other means. she has
established s'book fund.-" from which
she supplies poor ministers OF various
denominations. Last year she thus
gave way over 1000 books, and in the
past six years nearly $4,000.
The Rhode Island Congregational
churches are entitled to the 'banner"-
in political phrase during the past
year every church in the State contrib
uted to the cause of Home Missions.
Doubtless the fact that there has been
scrsor int fhQSA
churches. resulting in large accessions,
has had something to do with this
praiseworthy liberality. 1t is reported,
also, that the Congregational churches
in Vermont have contributed more for
Home missions during the past year
than ever before.-N. Y. Examiner.
Brooklyn, which only few days
ago was called "the City of Churches.
ranks now behind most cities in the
proportional number of its places of
worship. The Catholics develop the
greatest local strength. The Episco-
palians have conspicuously failed to
keep up with the increase of popula-
ton. There is an area in Brooklyn
containing $4,000 people, in which
episcopacy has neither church nor
CudYcls uOI AuiSSiOu SCuOOi. DkOoAiy -
has doubled its population in fifteen
years. Last year its increase was
twenty thousand. Chicago Times.
The religious statistics of the the
United States, looked at from four diff
ferent points in the course OF the pres
ent century, presents some very in
teresting and Instructive features. In
the year 1900 the total population was
5,3O5, 925. Of these there were Protest
ant, 1877, O52; Roman Catholic, 100,-
600; unclassified, 3.928,873. In 1850.
out of total population of 20, 1871. 1916,
there were Protestant, IL, 1913. 1853; Ro-
man Cathoic. 1,614.000; unclassiiied,
8,S54,71S. In 1870, out of a population
of 80, 538, 81. the Protestants numbered
24,04l ,4S6; Roman Catholics, 1900, 900;
not classified, 1916, 1856. And in the
year 1880, out of a total population
which had swelled to so, Isl, 1866, there
were 36,O31.974 Protestants, $780,, 900
Roman Catholics; not classified, 1885,,
892.-M Y. Times.
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A SUMNER lDYL.

Now shy
And bashfui lovers sit upon the stoop
And sweetly spoon.
While downward summers first mosquitoes
With weird, low tune,
And high
And higher up the sapphire skies
Climbs the pale moon,
And eyes look love to loving eyes,
And sigh grects sigh.
The frog
A nocturnc MARBLES to his listening mate
In accents low,
The youth perceves the hour is growing late
And he must go,
Yes, jog.
He kisses her wild good-bye:
Meanwhile, oh, woei
An irate pa, with angry eye,
Lets loose the dog.
Few moons
Fer gazed upon so narrowing a sight
With smiling face;
A youth, wild yelling, flying with alright,
A dog in chase.
Still croons
The frog within the sedgy pool,
While from the race
The dog returns with mouth crammed full
OF pantaloons.
-S0merUlle JOlrncl.
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Twice within year q white rain-
bow has been seen in Denver.-Deaver
Tribune.
That man is not human who does
not think he can improve the work of
another. = Whitehall Times.
In glove shop: ~ want q pair OF
gloves. 'What is your number, sirp"
"2917." Glove woman with some eff
fort discovers that the customer is q
cab driver. Ale Figaro.
These warm evenings are Just
the right time to pop the question, for
the girl is usually ready to wilt before
the young man has time to say: "Wilt
thou be mine?"
Wen err man says dat de laws o. de
lam is er bearin' down on him, yer ken
mighty nigh allus come to de 'clusion
dat he is er tryin' ter bar down on de
laws.-ArkdnsG Traveller.
Young man, don't place too much
confidence in the old saying ''love is
blind" An ice cream sign is never so
small that love can't see it. 1t would
be well to bear this in mind when out
for ramble. Sun.
When an Irishman in Merry Old
England, walks into hotel, laughs and
says: Faith! an it's mesilf that has
come to dine-a-mite here" the land
lord and roustabouts all rush out and
shout for the police. and look for the
establishment to be blown to fragments
every moment. Roses ToothpicE.
The new fire proof hotel is to have
steel beds, asbestos mattresses. and tin
sheets. The bells will be tongue-tied,
the elevator will be water balance, the
drinks will be frozen, the bell-boys will
be polite, there will be fire escapes from
every fireplace, the gas can not be
blown out, and guests can not be
bunkoed.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A writer in q scientific journal says
"black eye" is simply So severe con-
fusion of the integuments under the
orbit, with great extravasation of blood.
and ecchymosis in the surrounding
cellular tissue, which is in q tumefied
state" And here all this while we have
supposed thata ''black eye'' was simply
the result of little man calling big
man liar. -Norristown Herald.
Just to think, Laura, the summer
70 hCAO oBotu ouu W0 SHALL 10 0dVluX
those delightful lawn tennis and cro-
quet games we enjoyed SO much last
summer" 'sI'm afraid won't be able
to join YOU" lisped the bank presidents
daughter. "Dear me, why not?' s'Bc,
cause papa says he can't afford to buy
me any silk stockings this season.
Chicago Tribune.
Returned Prodigal-s'Dear! Dearl
How little the old farm has changedr'
Honest farmer-"Very few changes
have been made. my son. You will
find things pretty much as you left them
twenty years ago. Over there is the
apple tree you planted. Eyes, the
same tree, only larger; and there is the
dog-house / made for the new pup"
Eyes; poor Carlo! He died Of old age
ten years ago. That dog you see is his
grandson. And over there is tho
chicken-house 1 helped to build for old
Biddy's first brood" "Yes; poor old
Biddy! l wish had known you were
coming home" "Why?' because I
might have saved her: but took her to
market last week. PHILADELPHIA Call.
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Single Eyeglasses.

"The custom of wearing single eye
glasses" said well-known optician
yesterday, sis feature of the English
craze, which, happily, does not seem to
be growing in favor. The few that
sell are, almost without exception, for
use in public or private theatricals, to
be worn by characters of the Lord Dun
dreary stamp"
"You say "happily" the custom is
not growing. What is the objection to
their use?'
Il will tell you. There are few ex-
ceptions, as there are to every rule, but
the eyes of most people are so full that
q glass of that kind cannot be kept in
place without q decided distortion of
the face. This distortion is apt, in
time, to become permanent and disfig-
ure person for life.
"The use of one by a person with
good eyesight, simply as an affectation,
is extremely injurious to the eyes, for the
vision then not being binocular viii
soon be more or less impaired.
"They are only suitable for moment
airy use, where there is q difference in
the vision of two eyes. But even when
such difference exists it is much bet.
ter for person to have double glass,
one lens, if an eye is good, being OF
plain glass, and the other especially
adapted for the defective eye.
"A person can thus look at the world
serenely. without any disturbing inhu-
ence?
II have no hesitation in saying that
in the majority of cases the use of single
ye-glasses is an affectation, and an in
jury rather than . benefit. "-Boston
Globe.
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1t is clear that Massachusetts, Ia
this year the doubtfullest kind of .
OF doubtful state. If the figures of
the last state election are taken Is indi-
cations Of party strength. and the un-
attached are supposed to vote as they
did . year ago. the revolt of regular
Republicans alone makes the result
doubtful. Regarded in any light, this
State Is not in the dead sure list on
either side, and on the whole it looks
rather dubious for the Republicans In
particular. Boston GLobs IDens.l
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An examination of the Blue Book
throws some additional light on the list
of MIR. Blaine's relations whom he has
tethered 70 the public crib. During the
year 1880, part of which saw Mr..
Blaine at the head of the State Depart
ment, Mr.. Blaine, his son. his brothers,
his nephews. and his cousins drew from
tho United States Treasury within q
fraction of $4,000. That was not bad
for one year. Most of the appoint
ments of Mr.. Blaine's relations date
back to 1876, but some OF them go back
to 1871. His brother, Roberto G. Blaine.
had in that year an appointment at the
capital which was worth 81, 100. Sub
sequently the pay was increased, but
lately he has been glad to get place
at 81, 400. But he has drawn q salary
from the United States continuously for
thirteen years. The appointment Of
Major Blaine in the pay corps OF the
army was effected by a trade with Gen.
Grant. 1t was about the time when
Fred Grant was made Lieutenant
Colonel on Sheridan's staff. The
Army Ring was in full blast, and
among other jobs was the in
crease OF the pay CORPS without any
corresponding increase in the army.
Blaine lent his aid to the scheme on
condition Of putting his brother in with
the rank of Major. The result is that
the pay corps is the most top-heavy
u'ancn ol Tue service. anelc ere ior.y
elsn. pay nas'crs io' an army VI 'wenty-
i've 'nousanu men' ~ say no,uIns vi ING
!arSe iorce ol Paymas,ers cierks, more
man th,rty ocins emPloycu ~ I'c Iay-
inos'el m",: al o'ac. ~ "sn'ns son
alone. La, Losing tne lhIi'y tnousanu !oi-
ia[s VI aooo - = s.'...s Pv,n., =. 70 !"
~: :nouela'o es.,ln"'o 'nas .'ic %" NC i"ni,
ny nas cos' Jug PeoPlo '~S1sy 'nou'"uo
ooiiafs every year sincc 1900
One OF the most Imaginable things that
occurred during Mr.. blalnes last Gays
in the Senate was terrific sortle he
made on the democrats, iunging down
the aisle straight Tor Judge thurman $
char, where ne stood faclng the great
Ohioan, and shaking his INST IN Thur
mans face as he dramatically arralgned
him and his methods to which Judge
Thurman merely responded:
''Sit down, sir. sit down. Mr.. Presi-
dent, let's proceed to business"
The Senate roared with merriment,
and Mr.. Blaine himself Joined in. He
afterwards described his feelings Is
those of whipped schoolboy.
There is one phase of Mr.. Blaine's
ambition which has singularly escaped
notice. It is a craving for social dis
and hard one to get into Garfield 8
Cabinet, vet nothing like his domino
ton over Garfield was ever known. His
influence extended 10 the smallest par
ticulars; he regulated the etiquette at
the White House as much as he did the
conduct of the State Department. Mrs.
Blaine had Mrs. Garfield under her
thumb as completely as MIR. Blaine had
the President. Mr.. West, the British
Minister, had lust been accredited to
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cess continuing until not even in the
most favored places their eggs could be
Matched, the race ended. This is prob
ably the true primary cause of the
extinction of these giant birds.-M Y
Post.
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Frank w. Burge, an active mem
Der of the London Stock Exchange, lost
$3.50. 900 within two weeks by the de.
probation in American and Egyptian
securities. He became unable to sleep,
and when his failure was announced be
blew out his brains
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sweeping fires; they could not have been
begged, certainly not the latter ones
with two or three feet of solid bone I'M
der them; and that the bodies were not
thrown there by savages, is shown be-
yond doubt, as not trace of their
work is found, not q hacked or
scratched bone or implement or trinket
of any kind The real cause of their
extinction, in the mind of the distin-
guished investigator is, that in the first
place, their disappearance was at q
much earlier date than is commonly
supposed, and was caused by the grad
nal lowering of the temperature until
the warmth of the earth and air was
not sufficient to hatch the eggs,
from which time they gradually
declined until they totally disap-
peared. When the frost and snow
began to set in, the Moa, on account of
its great size, could not find shelter
like smaller birds, hence it would select
the places where it found the most
warmth. Thespringw water in the bone
pit being far above freezing point Tin
fact, it may have been q thermal
spring.. became natural refuge which
would in some degree relieve their
suffering. Thus the period when frost
aud snow set in, Mr. Booth places as
the beginning of the deposit of bones in
the pit. The accumulation would have
been very gradual, perhaps through
centuries. and the periodical deposits
would only have increased at the same
rate as the frost and snow. This pro-
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out 10 the voters at the polls. They tell us
solitory felon has been condemned in the
dock of those who have stolen millions from
the public treasury. Your Springer commit
of the perjury, of the corruption. OF the sub
ornations that run all a.ong through the
ministers of justice in the prosecution of the
government. we want real reforms reform
and that shall say what 1t means. (Cbeers.)
Moreover-and shall briefly close-fellow-
citizens. 1t is not my business as your presid-
ing officer to-day to enunciate anything that
shall be embodied in your platform. Thank
God. that would exist. burned deep in your
hearts, IL every one that had been adopted for
scripta the doctrines which we have inherited
from the glorious ancestry that has become q
part of the traditions of the fathers.
But wish to say one thing. in this great a.
q sb., to yesr on
on the basis of principles which we have ad-
vocated for the years that are gone. and that
you will have no Delphic oracle speaking with
double tongue in the platform which shall be
named by you. loud applause.l Let the
Green Mountain boys, the men Of New York,
the men of Maine. of Texas, Of Louisiana
coast, demand that the Committee on Plat
form shall say in our noble vernacu'a ar of pur-
est English tongue what they mean, 70 that
the way-fs si !, man, though fool, need not
against the corruptions of the Government.
That is we will declare against the enormIties
of its system of civil service, its department
of so-caIed justice. its poetal service, the rob
cry IN high places by the men in sspower. 1t
will say. moreover. that the burdens of the
Government shall be placed xiike equally
and equitabIy upon az classes OF our
countrymen, having respect for the great
est good to the grestest number-fspplsuse)
that the hundred millions OF surplus revenue
shall not be allowed to accumulate ~ cor
rupt fund-(ayplauscl-and that there shall be
. radical reformation and reduction In the
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THE POTOMAC.
The New Officers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Commander
AIexander's Appointments.

The new officers Of the Department of the
Potomac were installed on the 9Th inst by
Past Department Commander Burdett, among
the distinguished guests who were present be-
ing Past Commander in-Chief Panl Van Der
WORT, Senior Vice Communicating Chief Warner
Assistant Adiutant- General Pcase of the De-
partment of Missouri, aud Past. Commander
Wilson, of Fredonia, n. Y. Comrade James w
Wisner, on behalf of the comrades Of the De-
partment, presented Department Commander
S. S. Burdett an elaborate gold Grand Army
badge, with the miniature rank badge attached,
the stars i'll which are represented by two beau
tiful diamonds
Commander Alexander announced the fol-
lowing appointments: C. III. ingram, Assistant
Adiutant- General, Post No. 8; Assistant @. NJ
General, A. J. Cunning; Inspector, Comrade
Mathews, Post No 5; Chief Mastering Officer,
Comrade O'Connor Post No. /: Judge Advo-
cate, Fred Mack, Post No. 3. The new aids
and inspectors will be announced hereafter.
On the evening of the 1lth inst. a banquet
was given at the Arlington Hotel in honor of
the fifteenth anniversary of the organization of
the Department. Past Commander Burdett
presided, aud speeches were made by General
r. B. Beath, Communicating Chief; Department
Commander Alexander, Maj. Harrison Adrian
General Van Vliet, General Logan, Ex-Governor
A. g. Curtin, of Pennsylvania: Senator Ben
Harrison, Judge Lawrence, and others.
Among the guests were Generals Sloeum
Ayres Ross, of Maryland, and Stewart, of Penn
syivania, Commander Smith, and a delegation
of fifty comrades were present from the Mary
land Department
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Notes Of The New York Encampment.

Amons the resolutions adopted by the recent
Department Encampnent Of New York, were
the following:
Resolred, That the thanks of this Encamprnent
be rendered to Senators Logan and Ingalls, for their
efforts in behalf of tie soldiers of the war.
That the home and school for soldiers and sail
or5 children in New York, being about to be closed
for the want OF support, that this Department take
measures 10 continue this charity.
That The limiting the time OF application for pen
1895.
That the incoming Department officers use their
efforts with Senators and Congressman from this
State TO perpetaate the pensions TO widows and
children of soldiers now drawing pensions.
That this Encsinpmcnt iuaorse the Robinson bill
fer the relief of exprisoners of war introduced
by Senator Logan.
To incorporate the Department.
That the Department accumulate fund for the
relief OF the widows and orphans of soldiers OF this
State. and that five cents be assessed each
Der OF the 6. a. T. for this purpose.
That this Encampment memorabilia Congress to
enact by statute that the admission of soldier into
the army be considered prna faeie evidence that
he was sound at the time of said admission and
that disability at date OF discharge shall be taken as
sufficient evidence that such disability was acquired
in the service.
That the Legislature be asked TO appropriate
$4,000. or whatever amount may be necessary to
provide accommodations for 500 more destitute
soldiers at the State Home at Bath.
Assistant Adiutant-Genera Adlington's re-
port shows that the number of members in
good standing December 81, 1882 was 1906 ;
the number of suspended members, ,436. The
gains during the year were 1854 by muster;
52l by transfer, and LAD by reinstatement
The losses were 275 By death, eighty-five by
honorable discharge, 81 by tranfer. 23GS by
suspension, and thirty By dishonorable dis
charge. Tie total membership December 81,
1883, was 26,157. Since then fourteen new
Posts have been Organized, swelling the mem
bership to 26, 1872. The following Posts have a
membership of over 200 in good standing:
Mansfield 452 members. Roltes 45l Chaplin 357,
Rankin 346 Lew Benedict 335, James FL. Perry
326, Lew 0. Morris go, Reno 237, ORourke
235, Root 2I9 and Watrous 214. The number
of new Posts organized in 1888 was 121. Posts
numbers 1S5 and 307 have made no reports
during the year, and it is recommended that
their charters be revoked. There viii then
remain AS Posts in good working order with a
total membership Of D 157, an average of about
fiffy-nine to each Post of the Department.
There was expended for charity during the
wear SD a46 AZ
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WASHINGTON THURSDAY

w. c. Carmichael, Kirkwood; W. FL. Cheno-
weth, Chicago; p. S. Post, Galesburg, and Rich
ard Rowett, Quincy. Delegates to the National
Encampment, Comrades j. G. Everest, John
Stephens, L. Fl. Miner, W F. Calhoun. f. Ii.
Marsh, w. W. Berry, L. E. Burt, r. f. Wilson,
+. n. Wright, T. w. Cole, J. A. McClernand.
r. W. McClaughrey, J. A. Edrninson, A. ID.
Reed, j. Z. Harold and j. A. Sexton. The Al
ternates are: Comrades Venabie, Watson,
Pierce, January, Donahue, Jackson, Herrck,
Cantweli. Barnes, Quaman, Koch. Carmichael,
Trip, Fullerton, Meredith and Meserva
Among the resolutions adopted were those
favoring the pensioning al ex-soldiers at the
age of sixty, and opposing the adjustment of
pension agencies.
The Campfire held in connection with the
Encampment was a great success, among the
speakers being General John A. McClernand,
General r. J. Oglesby, Governor Hamilton,
Commander Chief Reath and General j. @.
Black
1t is worthy of mention that directly over
the stage of the tabernacle in which the En-
campmeat was held was hung a large steel
engraving Of Major Stephenson, the founder
of Reorganization. who came TO Decatur from
Springfield and mustered in the first Post in
Decatur. The charter is now III possession Of
Dunham Post, of Decatur. 1t is dated April
6, 1866 the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh,
and was the first charter issued in America
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Acknowledgement of comrade Thomas L. Mat

Adiutant- General of Comrade Thomas L. Mat
thews.
Comrade J. I. Richter, Williamsburg, Ind,
Informs us that ComraGe n. III. Richter, as
sisted by comrades from Mart Bailenger Post.
mustered Aaron Candy Post, No. 2Ss;, at Econ
omy, Ind, on the 23d nit, and that the follow
ing officers were elected: Commander, Tuna
Wright; S. V. c., Edwin Cole; j. v c., John
w. Oiyey; o. D., John Conley; O. c. Jonathan
Weaver; Chaplain, Bernard BradGeld; Surg,
William H. Ford; Q. NJ, Jsnes p. Burnett !;
Adj't, Alonzo Marshall; s. VI, John ID. Juell !;
@. III. s., Elisha Z. olvey.
Comrade II. T. Ferguson, Story City, Iowa,
informs us that Jason ID. Ferguson Post, No,
81, was mustered on the It'll ult. and that the
following officers were chosen: Commander, /.
L. Smith; s. V. c., O. W. Wilson; j. V C.,
Gulf Mullen; Adi't, NJ. c. Allen; @. NJ, f.
D. Thompson; Surg, DIR. p. w. Farrar; Chap
lain, Rev. A. K. Bone; o. D., c. W. Wood o.
c., III. FL. Boyes; S. IL, A. W. Davis; Q. II.
S., George Childs.
The following is a list of the new officers of
Stoddard Post, of WorthingtoD, Mimi: Com
mander, l.. NJ LaDge; S. Y. C.. Il. e. Miller;
J. v. c.. Azom Forbes; Surgeon. r. ID. Barber
O. NJ, J. f. Humiston; o. d., G. z. Shepard
o. G., NJ " Mcdowell; AdJt, T. b. Plots; s.
NJ, H. c. Shepard; Q. II. s., c. T. Pope.
Stevens Post, of Seattle, w. r., has the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year; Com
manaer Isaac II. Griswold; S. V. G., W. Y.
Alexander; Surgeon, r. T. Minor; Chaplain,
w. H. Bronck; @. ", A. Slorah Adj't, A. NJ
Brookes; O. d., Ii. Perkins; o. g., ID. DE
Oyle.
Comrade B. B. Adams. Galatin, Mo-. writes
us that Lewis Post. No. 104. of that place,
which was organized in October last, has a
membership of 81 and 20 applications on file.
Lincoln Post, No. /, of San Francisco, Ca
has all members in good standing, with thir-
teen applications in hand for membership.
The annual Encampment of the Department
of West Virginia will be held at Parkersburg
on the 18th inst.
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attention. They believe that all that IS necessary
TO secure the passage Of this bill is :, cal your at
ten.ion 30 is pressing necessity.
10 this end, yOuf HIenIofs9iizts VI 81 ever pray
SiSnsd: WIN. Warner, Eneo. Nfscnlsn ri r
Palmer, john Linds. Albion T. Pease. eofsmittee.
The members of the committee, having COM
pleted their mission at the capital, let for
Philadelphia towards the close 81 lass week to
pay their respccss TO COMMANDMENTS Chief
Reath