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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

pation Oh coming g0Od auds TO lire, so
allowing possible unpleasant events to
least their shadows BEFORE" subtracts
from life. And how much are most of
our lives wasted through the avenue of
distrust as to the future? We worry
not only abodt unpleasant events that
least their shadows BEFORE" but about
those that reveal no likelihood of TAX
ing place. Now do not suppose that
it is possible for us to set our faces tow
ard the future wholly unclouded with
doubt and fear. The past reveals that
the possibilities Of both good and evil are
hidden in the unrevealed tomorrow.
The present demands that we should
look into the future, and calculate to
some extent its chances Of success and
failure, joy and sorrow. But is it
necessary that we contemplate the ad-
verse possibilities fearfullyS / think
this is good deal of habit. We can
get in the habit Of standing before
the future doubtfully and tremblingly,
or hopefully and cheerfully. We can
cultivate doubt and fear and we can
cultivate hope. Think and talk about
that which is brightest and best. Think
and talk more about the good than the
evil about that which is best, than
that which is worst. This cannot fail
to ill the heart with sunshine that
will brighten the pathway of the fu-
ture.
But it would be impossible to men,
ton all the ways in which we waste
life. We cling to this world we love
life /; happiness is our great desire. And
| yet it would almost seem sometimes
as if we willfully poisoned it. We
chafe under the burdens which must be
borne and which a Christian patience
would make light and easy. We worry
and fret over the unpleasant task which
we know must be performed, and which
we know would lai gely cease to be un-
pleasant if done cheerfully. We should
realize that social harmony is chief
among blessings, and yet we produce
discOrd by an act or word that is utter
ly fruitless of any good, and which
might easily have been left undone or
unsaid. Past experience has taught us
all that forgiving spirit is precious
while malice is a canker in the soul,
and yet how often do we keep the bit
ter and cast away the sweet? 1t would
work greatly to our profit, could we
realize that the value of life is to be
measured by the highest happiness,
and that we cannot afford any expe-
rience which is only an enemy to con-
tentment and peace. Though our
pathway in life be somewhat rugged
and narrow, If manifestly it is the one
which we are to follow, the least pos
sible regret we can cherish, the more
patience and cheerfulness we can ex-
ercise, the better. Though person has
wronged you. you can afford no course
of action, no feeling which is fruitful
most OF all in unpleasantness. All,
one trouble is we act so much from
impulse, without looking to see what
the effect is t0fe.@ Before every action
of any magnitude it would be good
policy for US to ask, How is this to affect
my life? Pursue that course which
seems on the whole to have In it the
least regret, the least discord, the most
harmony and sunshine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18
A CHURCH SUSTAINED BY HONEY.

There are goodly cedars and -four
ishiDg plants in the Christian church,
but it must be owned that some broadly
spreading trees are very prickly, and
those who attempt to gather around
them soon discover they are more ad-
mirable at distance. VERY hard to
get on with" is heard sometimes of
protesting Christians; perhaps angelic
spirits could endure close contact with
them, but their follower creatures find
the experiment very wearing one.
Making due allowance for the infirmi-
ties of the flesh, this is not as it should
be; too often it leads outsiders to re-
proach Christianity, and sourness of
disposition is apt after a time to be-
come infectious in household or dis
trict. "How can my temper be sweet
amid my affections ?" some may ask;
in remembrance of troubled and tried
ones made living sermons of peace and
sweetness by heavenly grace, we answer,
ut can, if wholly surrendered to the
power of Christ" In country dis
trict, where bee keeping was largely
carried on, we heard of church started
and sustained by honey a very sug-
gestiye factor, this, in Christian organ
izatiOn.
"Honey, by some sweet mystery OF the dew,
In bosoms of the flowers. liquid. serene"
may well typify gentleness. meekness,
loving forbearance, and tact; these,
with the sincere milk of the word, are
old necessities, but no new systems or
manner of working can ever make a
church independent Of their quiet,
mighty aid.-Quirsr.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

Prof. Ruskin is 80 much better
that his friends are beginning to hope he
will be able to finish his autobiography
In which many chapters are wanting.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

- They are discussing President
CREWS state of health again, in France.
He suffers from no especial malady, but
is steadily growing weaker.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18
ghe Wmiuersa1ist Sermon Rage.
REV. j. M. PAY SON
Rochester, MINI.
THE WASTE OF LIFE:

A
publication The UMvnRAIIsr
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The King of Portugal went about
London recently In an unfashionably cut
frock coat, and had cane ornamented
with tassels after the fashion Of the
fourth George.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

Bishop Spsulding, of Peoria, is
talked of as the probable president of the
the new Roman Catholic University at
Washington. He is young man Of
great social gifts, and has a reputation
as fine after-dinner talker.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

= The following story OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Agassiz is endorsed as truthful by
good authority: Mrs. Agassiz found one
morning in one of her slippers cold,
slimy, little snake, one of six sent
the day before to her scientific spouse,
and carefully set aside by him for
safety under the bed. She screamed,
" There is snake in my slipperl" The
savant leaped from his couch, crying.
"a snakel Good heavensl Where are
the other five?"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The widow of John B. Cough has
received at her home in Massachusetts
letter Of coincidence from the Grand
Lodge OF the Independent Order of Good
Templars OF New South Wales. This
order comprises 1900 persons. Mr..
N. t. Collins, who presented the letter in
person, is a member of the executive
board Of the Good Templars of Australia
and is an American by birth.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

Methodist Bishop Hurst tells the
Northern Christian Advocate that re-
ligion had something to do with the re-
cent deposition of Prince Alexander Of
Bulgaria. The Prince he says, is
Protestant. His chaplain, like himself.
was Lutheran. He began to build a
little chapel of his own communion in
the capital, but because of the preiudices
of the people, all of whom are Greek Gath
olics, he was compelled to give up the
undertaking. Here was Protestant
prince, far away from any Protestant ma
ton, trying to rule young people OF
Greek Catholics and surrounded by Rus
sian influences"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

Sir Harry Keppel, aged eighty, is
lively little old man and great chum
of the Prince of Wales, who greatly adj
mires him. Lady Keppel is rather ill,
bred and brusque, even to the Prince,
when she takes notion, and as she is the
moneyed side Of the house Sir Harry has
to endure various sights. 1t Is related
that recently when the Prince was near
Sir Harry's house be stopped off TO see
him, and Lady Keppel not only shut
herself in her room, but sent answer TO
request for luncheon that there wasn't
thing III the house to eat.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

CHARLES Lamb relinquished in early
youth all dreams of love, all thoughts of
marriage, and gave his whole life and in
ceesant care to beloved sister who was
afflicted with periodical fits of insanity,
in one Of which she killed their mother.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The poet Whittier. although very
grave man, has humorous impulse now
and then. An instance Of this appeared
when gentleman wrote to him, asking il
he had copy of the poem called "Maud
Muller's Reply" His answer was es fol-
lows:
AMEsBURY, l mo-, rs, 1873. Dear SIR: Inever
saw or heard of maud Muller's Reply" I
am glad that the poor soul could speak for
herself. Thine truly. JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The bath in which the infamous
Marat was when Charlotte Corday rid the
world of him has been sold by priest OF
the diocese Of Vannes to Paris wax
work Snowman. The price was 81, 1000,
which will be devoted to the uses of a
religious school.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The skeleton of Bishop Courtepay
Edward Tvs lord privy seal, has been
discovered in coffin built up in masonry
in the crypt of Winchester Cathedral.
Courtenay, it will be remembered, was at
Bosworh, and is mentioned by Shakes
peare in Richard I'LL"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

On the balustrade of little stair
case, in small, three-story stone front
building, built in Cincinnati in the early
fifties, with smaIl-paned windows and
ornate paneled doors, one can still read
the little sign, IS. P. Chase and Flamen
Ball, Attorneys at Law" No one has re-
moved it, and in the little Office it directs
one to where the famous lawyer did some
OF his most wonderful legal work.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

A man has died in the almshouse
at st. Petersburg at the age of one hun
dred and twenty-five years. He had
been an inmate since 1918, and was in
good health, physically and mentally,
until four years before his death, when a
general failure set in.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18

The great Lord Bacon was refused
by lovely young widow, Lady Hatton,
who accepted in his stead Attorney Gen
eral Coke, a widower of forty-six, with
ten children and an immense fortune. 1t
is believed that this marriage was con-
cocted by Sir Thomas Cecil, father of the
lady, who was at enmity with Bacon.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14
Wives of Noted Men.

In Washington, place where all the
world meets is at the market, and on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and more es-
pecially Saturdays, all the world is
there. While waiting for the roasts to
be skewered and the chops "frenched,"
the matrOns have chance for a stray
word with their friends; and notices of
charitable meeting and other important
communications are quite regularly
kept to be given during the market
hour.
The women who shone most by
dresses and diamonds at an evenings
entainment are to be met in the market
houses. Mrs. Blaine was always a reg
ular patron of the large market, and
her eagle eye was not to be misled by
any tricks or false appearances. Other
ladies of equal eminence are still met
there, and Mrs. John Davis, Mrs Cur
tin, Mrs. Sheridan and a quorum Olsen
ators' wives are regularly to be encoun-
tered before the stalls Of the butchers,
fish and game men.
The attractions of the market here
are the numerous florists stands, where
cut flowers are piled in fragrant heaps,
grouped in jugs and sold fora song, and
the ladies can never resist their attrac.
tions. 1t has passed into a standing
joke in some families for paterfamilias
to cast a rueful glance at cluster o
fresh flower on the dinner table, and
if the floral display be specially attrac
tive, to declare that they know thai
the dinner is going to be short of some
thing to make up for the heavy pur
chase of flowers. Men have not yet
reached the stage where they can dine
on Jack roses.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14
Suits Against the Railroad.

Mrs. Mary E. FARRELL and Mr.. James
S. Willis have brought suit against the
D. & c. Railway for $1,000 damages
each, growing out of, as alleged, the
faulty construction of a culvert over
Jarrell's branch, near Greensborough
They alledge that the water of the
branch is made to overflow and dam
age their lands by:reason of the con-
struction of the culvert.
Last December Miss Margaret F..
Prentice, of Caroline county, while
waiting for a train at the Chester, Pa,
depot stepped upon an insecure trap
door in closet, which gave way be-
meath her, and she sustained a fall,
which it is alleged, injured her serious
ly internally. Marshall S. Mutchler
and Albert Constable, her counsel,
have entered suit against the p. w. &
B. Railroad for $4,000 damagegs in the
Circuit Court for Caroline county
George Y. Massey and George w. Rus
sum appear for the Company.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14
About Oysters.

The New York Market Journal of
March 9th, in an article headed "All
About Oysters" has this to say:
''Twenty-five or thirty years ago,
Mr.. c. S. Maltby, the great oyster deal
er of Baltimore, and a relative of the
family, was school teacher in New
Haven; he fOresaw the future of the
business, and going to Baltimore,
started for himself in a very modest
way. His wealth is now estimated at
ten million dollars. He still retains an
interest in the business, although he
resides in New York Since that time
more than twenty young men from the
the vicinity of Fair Haven have gone
to Baltimore and embarked in the Oys-
ter business, and it is stated that not
one of them is worth less than 100000.
So much for the profits of the trade in
time past. 1t is said that at present at
least one heavy freight train leaves
Baltimore every day for the West car
rying nothing but oysters.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14
WHOLE NO. 1903.
For 1tS smyrna Ru,ei.
Death Of Miss Georgia ]. Spear.

Mr. EnITOR-Dedr Sir:-As far
back as some of our oldest inhabitants
can remember, the greatest and most
select OutpOuring OF the people 10 do
honor to the dead was here on Thurs
day morning last, the occasion being
the funeral of Miss Georgia J. Spear,
of Massey's from st. Dennis Roman
Catholic Church. The little Chapel Of
st. Dennis was packed with relatives
and friends of the deceased, many Of
whom, during Father Flynn's touching
discourse, evinced no uncertain signs
of emotion.
Miss Spear was lady much beloved
by all who knew her, and her numer-
Gus friends cannot soon forget one so
amlable and true to the dictates Of con-
science. Among her many good quail
tiles she always manifested steadiness
of purpose, and from the manner in
which she labOred for the common
good, she might be justly termed one
of the main stays of our county.
In religion she was Methodist up 10
within four days of her death. Hav-
ing been taken suddenly i'll about mid
night, the lst inst, and apprehending
the near approach of the Angel Of
Death, she besOught one of her faith
ful servants to hasten TO Galena, and
summons the Catholic Priest of that
place. The pastor of St. Dennis
! Church, Rev. Dennis J. Flynn,
answered the bell himself at
one o'clock in the morning, then
learning that his presence was needed
in Deaths chamber seven miles distant,
| hastened there Immediately, finding
Miss Spears mind in perfect condition.
! lie had no difficulty in explaining the
! essential things to be believed in order
to become a Catholic. Suffice to say,
before the dawn of day that morning.
Miss Georgia J. Spear had wholly re-
nOunced all former claims to Method
ism and had unreservedly given her
heart to God by embracing the Roman
Catholic Church.
A meager number of audaciOus per-
sons (desirOus perhaps of gaining nOto-
riety), have we'll displayed the capacity
OF their reasoning powers, by giving
vent to the opinion that Miss Spear be-
came a Catholic while temporarily in
sane. Was this worth a reply, il
should most certainly receive il. But
all sensible people will not deny Justice
to the departed; so in all justice 10
her who was in our midst one short
week ago, we will not gainsay the We
racity of those who have good reason
to declare that Miss Spear retained the
full use of her senses until within one
minute before breathing her last.
The music for the occasion was fur
nished by members of st. Mary 5
Church Choir, Wilmington, Delaware
Ohnewald's Requiem Mass was sung,
the principle parts being taken by Miss
Mary A. Ferry, Miss Louisa Finn and
Mr.. B. McCauley. Miss NJ. 4. Ferry
sang Rest for the Weary" in a truly
touching manner likewise did she sing
with much pathOs, Ave Verum." The
) hour of Parting" was pathetically rem
dered by Miss NJ. A. Ferry aud Miss
L. Flynn. Master Ignatius Cava
naugh, of st. Pauls Parish, Whining
ton, Delaware, presided at the organ.
ANONYMOUS.
, Galena. Md. April. 9. 1856.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

pendent enough to conduct local mat
ters, to large degree, on their local
merits, whether we mean by local mat
ters municipal or state governments.
And thus, little by little, let us beat up
Il sentiment that will carry into the ma
tiOnal field principles necessary to give
us dcliverance from every thing that
corrupts the nation.
Il am a firm believer in constitution
al prohibition, both state and national
lapplausel, and shall rejoice if our
friends of the nOn-partisan leagues, or
ganized to support constitutional pro-
hibtiOn in separation from party poll
tics, shall succeed. But l am dispirited
by the fact that seventeen states of the
Union, most of them under Republican
leadership, commonwealth corrupted
by great cities, have refused to allow
the people to vote on constitutional
prohibition in non partisan way. The
fact cannot be too often emphasized
that in these seventeen states on all
matters concerning temperance, the
government of the people, by the peO-
pie, and for the people, has been super
seeded by a government of the liquor
sellers, for the liquor sellers, and by the
liquor-sellers."
''At his own fireside in Portland, not
long since, Neal Dow, whom had the
honor to have for u short time as a
guest last summer at Lake George, said
to me The Republican party is likely
to be defeated in 1883. The Prohibi-
tionists are sure to grow in power. I'm
less the Republican party adopts stern
temperance principles, it is sure to be
defeated, the Democracy, is in such
close alliance with the whisky rings.
After that defeat, the Republican party
may come to its senses, and put sound
anti-saloOn planks into its platform. A
national Reform party, for which Pro-
hibitiOniSts are now preparing the way,
may then be organized, and in 1892 it
may carry to the Presidential chair the
principle Of constitutional prohibition.
Applause. God grant that it may be
true prophecy Neal Dow affirms
that his desertion of the Republican
party was a necessity of prudence and
principle. He tells an anecdOtc of a
man who offered a cracker to a dog
for turning over, but did not get the
cracker. Finally, after many cvolu-
! tiOns had been made by the dog, the
man put the cracker in his pocket A
neighbor asked him: care you not 60
ing to give the cracker to the dog ?"
mo, that will do for another time.
Now says this veteran reformer, we
have turned over and over and over
before the Republican party, asking for
protection from the whisky rings, and
we have not got the. cracker, and we
do not mean to turn over again. d
Loud laughter and applause
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

THAT WILDLY WICKED GAME.-A
correspondent, E. NJ. N, from Empori-
um, writes: Sam Jones is sound on
some subjects; but when hetalks about
progressive euchre he don't know the
true inwardness Of the game. He new
er formed twin BOBBY with some sweet
Ounce of girl, who played havoc with
his hand and his heart string at the
same moment. He never sat hopeless
ly glued to that disreputable table with
his most tried friend making light of
his misfortunes. He never had his
hopes raised by progressing with a
good partner, and then after a single
short game, was sadly compelled to
take Ounce again. He never changed
partners so that he was in Il state of
bewildering suspense as to who was
his adversary. He never heard the
bell ring down games just as he got u
lore hand. He never eXulted because
he had reached the highest top notch
table in the room, and had his hilarity
receive an untimely check, by being
sent down to the very bOttOmest round
again, like scholar in an old fashion
ed spelling class. He never felt ice
form on his spine, because he was
afraid he was going to win the BOBBY
prize. And he never split his sides
laughing because his neighbor's record
of green stars Outnumbered his own.
Oh, no, Sam Jones isn't posted on pro-
gressive euchre. Its just the maddest,
merriest, veXatiOnist, amusingest, and
sOciablest game that a funny word ever
invented.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

The Rev. DIR. Theodore Cuyler made
an address to the Yale students the
other day in which he remarked: "TO
my personal knowledge, the greatest
man in modern Germany is a christian,
and Gladstone, perhaps the most pow
erful intellect of modern times, stands
by his side in that respect. With my
own eyes 1 have seen Mr.. Gladstone
kneel by the side of a common street
sweeper and pray for the salvation OF
his soul. 1 know no grander sight
than the premier of England and the
leading statesmen of the world kneel-
ing by the side of a common street
sweeper and pouring forth his eloquent
appeal to God in behalf of his humble
brother.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

Prof. Foster, meteOrolOgist, late of
Iowa, predicts that "great storms will
pass over the United States in rapid
succession during the last ten days of
April, and all shipping interests, es-
pecially in the Northern States, should
prepare to protect their property from
heavy rains, high winds, floods, sleet,
snow and extreme changes of the
weather on land, and from dangerous
gales on the lakes and Atlantic coast.
The heaviest of these storms will be
over the Mississippi basin about April
25th or Goth, West of that earlier and
and East later"
Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

A coterie of eight men sat in the par
lOrs of New York banker the other
day and decided to limit the produc-
tion of anthacite coal of Pennsylvania
the coming year to 33,500,000 tons.
Who are these eight men to conspire
against the trade of the country
They are eight railroad Presidents, who
are to benefited by the high price of
coal, the same men having significantly
a few days before put 25 cents more a
ton on coal. This 25-cent raise
amounts to over. eight million dollars
upon the coal consumers. These are
the men who make business pay in
this country. They are the men who
struck for higher prices, but the men
who mine their coal are outlaws if
they strike.