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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-09
LONDON ADJUSTMENTS

The total number Of places of amuse-
ment in London is about 556, and OF
these more than $50 are music. halls.
The places Of amusement in the prov
inces are over 1900, and of these only
about 100 are music-halls. The theaters
in London are about 80; in the provinces
they are about 200. The concert halls
and palaces in London are about 30, while
in the country they reach the enormous
number OF nearly 1000. Many of these
halls in the provinces are doubtless the
aters in this sense, that they have the
power OF representing stage plays on
their ill-adapted platforms; but at the
same time they are often supplemental
chapels and churches and places of polit-
ical meetings. The capital invested in
London in places of amusement can be
little short of four millions, without reck-
oning places like the Crystal Palace, the
Albert Hall, etc. This gives direct en-
ployment to about 10000 people, be-
sides indirect employment to host Of
tradesmen and their workpeople. The
seating, or rather holding, capacity of
these places in London theaters, music.
halls, and concert halls-may amount to
about half million sightseers. The
capital invested in similar places Of
amusement in Great Britain Excluding
Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Chan
mel Islands), and comprising about $50
towns and cities, is over six millions ster-
ling. This gives direct employment to
about $4,000 people, besides indirect
employment to many more, and provides
seating or holding accommodation for
nearly million and quarter of sight
seers. The music-halls in town and
country are more than two to one of the
theaters, and these are beaten by the
general halls, which are nearly 100 be-
yond the totals of theaters and music.
halls put together. The proprietors of
these places Of amusement probably pay
very little less every year in imperial and
local taxation than one million sterling.
Evening Post.
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A STORY IN A WORD.

Sincerity is one of the most beautiful
words in the English language; and, like
many other words, it has history. 1t
comes from two Latin words, sine and
cera, without cement; and its origin was
in this wise. In the golden days of Ro-
man prosperity, when her merchants
were very affluent, and dwelt in marble
palaces on the banks of the river Tber,
there was very natural sort Of emuls-
ton in the grandeur and artistic sdorn-
ments of their dwellings. Their success
full wars had made many of the gems of
Greeian art the possessions of the Roman
people. A taste for sculpture had been
awakened, and the sons Of Rome set to
work themselves in the school of design.
Good sculptures we're quickly drawn up.
But lodges sometimes took place then as
now. For instance, if the sculptor came
upon flaw in the marble. or il his chisel
missed its aim, he had carefully con-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-09
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRIM
IDAD ASIATICS.

Human dwelling places are rarely in
teresting in the tropics. A roof that will
keep the rain out is all that is needed.
The more free the passage given to the
air under the floor and through the side,
the more healthy the habitation; and the
houses, when we came among them,
seem merely enlarged packing cases
loosely nailed together and raised on
stones foot or two from the ground.
The rest of the scene was picturesque
enough. The Indian jewellers were sit
ting cross-legged before their charcoal
pans, making silver bracelets and ear
rings. Brilliant garments, crimson and
blue and orange, were hanging to dry on
clothes lines. Men were going out to
their work, women cooking, children (not
many playing or munching sugar cane
while great mango trees and ceibss
spread cool, green roof over all. Like
Rachel, the coolies had brought their
gods to their new home. In the center of
the village was a Hindoo temple, made
up rudely out of boards with verandah
running round it. The doors we're locked
An old man who had charge told us we
could not enter; crowd, suspicious and
sullen, gathered about us, as we tried to
prevail upon him. So we had to content
ourselves with the outside, which was
gaudily and not unskillfully painted in
Indian fashion. There were gods and
goddesses in various attitudes; Vishnu
fighting with the monkey god, Vishnu
with cutlass and shield, the monkey with
his tail round one tree while he brandish-
ed two others, one in each hand, as clubs
I suppose that we smiled, for our curiosi-
ty was resented, and we found it prudent
to.withdraw.-"The English in the West
indies" By James anthony Froude.
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such food than there is escape from the
will OF God, and those Chinese who re-
fused even to struggle were the happiest
Of all, because the quickest dead. Over
territory of 10000 square miles, or two
Yorkshires at least (for the missionaries
report a wider area), over thousands Of
villages-3,00O certainly, even il the cap
ital is not gone, as is believed-the soft
water passed, silently strangling every
living thing, the cows and the sheep as
well as their owners; and for ourselves,
who have seen the scene on only petty
scale, we doubt whether the "best inform
ed European in Pekin is not right when
he calculates the destruction of life at T.
OO0,000.-The Spectator (London).
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let the land, worked the garden, and sold
the surplus fruit of the orchard. They
had an ever-present interest in their only
brother and his family, who lived near
but sensibly preferred home of their
own, to sharing that of another.
Why these women, "girls," the eldest
sffectionstely called the others, though
the youngest was twenty-nine,-had not
married, I do not know. A sense OF
filial duty possibly prevented; relent-
less death have come between; or,
again, there may have been no "good
chance" But this I know, there was no
sign OF pining, the most was made Of
life, and peace and plenty abounded.
The wood-fres were very cheerful; there
were papers and tempting piles Of old
magazines, and scrap books in bulky
volumes, and the whole house was per-
vaded with that peculiar feeling best de-
acribed by the word TOMBSTONE.
But not only do women in the common
walks Of life need the home. Fame it
self is not substitute, and no special
work can atone for it's absence. Astron-
omer, author, or philanthropist, can only
be in her best estate in that abiding
place to which the heart as instinctively
turns as does the needle to it's pole.
We read of the charming home Of Alice
and Phoebe Cary in New York, where
they entertained, sometimes delightful
guests, and wrote the tender poems
which won their livelihood. We hear
also, of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps home
by the sea; and that made by Louisa M.
Aloott, in which loved ones have been
tenderly cared for.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, with whose
exortation this article began, has prac-
ticed the thing she recommends, and has
improved and beautifed home of her
own. In the library, where her morning
hours are spent, are her fathers arm
chair and secretary; belongings of her
mother are in other rooms; and here the
mistress of. but not servant to well-or-
dered home, finds place to think her own
thoughts, and to dispense on occasion, to
invited friends charming hospitality.
The orphan child and homeless wand
erer always move upon our sympathies.
Only in less degree does the solitary
being who has no right to the vine and
fig-tree under which is found shelter.
But in the case of woman in mature
life, this seems so absolutely unneces-
sary.-knowing her power in home crea-
alton, and that home may consist either
OF one room or a mansion that pity is
largely mixed with blame Woman's
Magazine.
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glre Hone Paoe.
WHO SHALL GO FIRST?

Who shall go first to the shadowy land
My love or l?
Whose viii it be in grief to stand
And press the cold, unanswering hand,
Wipe from the brow the dew of death,
And catch the softly futtering breath,
Breathe the loved name nor hear reply,
In anguish watch the glazing eye:
His or mine?
Which shall bend over the wounded sod,
My love or 1?
Commenting the precious soul to God,
Till the doleful fall of the muffied clod
Startles the mind to a consciousness
Of its bitter anguish and life distress,
Dropping the pail DER the love-lit past
With mournful murmur, 1.-THE last-the last u
My love or 1?
Which shall return to the desolate home,
My love or 1?
And list for step that shall never come,
And bark for voice that must still be dumb,
While the half-stunned senses wander back
To the cherries life and thorny track,
Where the silent room and the vacant chair,
Have memories sweet and hard to bear:
My love or 1?
ALL then, perchance to that mourner there
My love or Ii
Wrestling with anguish and deep despair,
An angel shall come through the gates Of
prayer,
And the burning eyes shall cease to weep,
And the sobs melt down in sea of sleep,
While fancy, freed from the chains of day,
Through the shadowy dreamland floats away
My love orI?
And then, methinks, on that boundary land,
My love and 1!
The mourned and the mourner together shall
stand,
Or walk by those rivers of shining sand,
Till the dreamer, awakened at dawn of day,
Finds the stone of his sepulchre rolled away,
And over the cold, dull waste of death,
The warm, bright sunlight of holy faith,
My love and II
-Presbyteridn.
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THE YELLOW RIVER OF CHINA.

THE YELLOW RIVER OF CHINA.
The Yellow river, from the enormous
rapidity of its volume when swollen by
melted snow, is the worst of offenders.
Its new bed, even in twenty-five years,
has risen far above the plain, and as the
dikes grow from hillocks into hills, from
mere walls into ranges Of earth-works
like fortress sides, hundreds of miles
long, the effort overtaxes the skill of en-
gineers and the perseverance even of
Chinese laborers. The ablest engineers
in India were beaten by the Damoodah,
though it is, compared with the Hoang-
Ho, like trumpery European stream,
and though the labor available could
hardly be exhausted. The truth OF the
matter is that, in all such cases, the up
per sections of the bikes cost too much
for complete repair, and tend to be mad
equate; and when the Yellow river gorg-
ed with water from the mountains till it
forms in reality gigantic reservoir, av-
eraging mile broad, from 300 to 500
miles long, and seventy feet deep, all sus-
pended in air by artificial supports,
comes rushing down in autumn, the
slightest weakness in those supports is
fatal.
On September 81, the river was at its
fullest, its speed was at it's highest, there
was almost certainly driving wind from
the west, bit of dixie gave way, the rent
spread for 1900 yards, and-our readers
remember, for Charles Resde described
it, the rush into Sheffield of the Holm
firth reservoir Multiply that, if you can,
by 1000, add exhaustless renewals of the
water from behind-fve Danubes pour
ing from hight for two months on end
and instead Of long valley with high
sides which can be reached, think of
vast, open plain, fiat as Salisbury Plain,
but studded with 5000 villages, all
swarming as English villages never
swarm, and you may gain conception of
a scene hardly rivsled since the deluge.
The torrent, it is known, in it's first and
grandest rush, though throwing out riv-
ers at every moment at every incline of
the land, had for its center stream thirty
miles wide and ten feet deep, travelling
probably at twenty miles an hour-s
force as irresistible as that of lava. No
tree could last ten minutes, no house
five; the very soil would be carried away
as by a supernatural plowshare, and as
for man-an ant in a broken stop-cock in
a London street would be more power
full than he. Swim 4? As well wrestle
with the Holyhead express. Flee =? 1t
takes hours in such a plain to reach a
hillock three feet high, the water the
while pouring on faster than hunters
gallop. There is no more escape from
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-09
THE LARKs SURPRISING SONG.

THE LARK'S SURPRISING SONG.
Rev. J. G.. Wood, in an article on "The
Wonders of the Spring." says that the
volume of sound produced by the skylark
is most wonderful. 1.-The lark ascends
until it looks no larger than nudge, and
can with difficulty be seen by the unaid-
ed eye, and yet every note will be clearly
audible to persons who are fully half a
mile from the nest over which the bird
utters its song. Moreover, it never ceases
to sing for moment, feat which seems
wonderful to us human beings, who find
that song Of six or seven minutes in
length, though interspersed with rests
and pauaes. is more than trying. Even a
practiced public speaker. though he can
pause at the end OF each sentence, finds
the applause of the audience welcome
relief. Moreover. the singer and speak
or need to use no exertion save exercising
their voices. Yet the bird will pour out
a continuous song of nearly twenty min
utes in length, and all the time has to
support itself in the air by the constant
use of its wings"
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structed cement with which he filled in
the chink, and so cleverly fixed it as to be
imperceptible. In time, however, and after
the purchase had long been completed,
heat, or damp, or accident would affect
the cement, and it would reveal its pres
ence there. The consequence was, that
when new contracts came to be signed for
commissioned works of art, there was a
clause put in that they were to be sine
cero, or without cement. What a pict-
ure-story in world What moral mean
ing in it,-namely, that true characters
should be sincere, or without cement
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asarrf1, 9tn1me and Oarden.

Roast Spring Lamb.-Select hind
quarter and roast in a moderate oven
until thoroughly cooked. All young
meat, such as veal and lamb, requires
very thorough cooking. Serve with
mint sauce made as follows: Remove
the leaves from the stalks OF whole
bunch Of mint. Cut in fine bits and
place in the sauce bowl. Bruise with
three teaspoonfuls of sugar. Pour over
the whole half pint of vinegar, which if
very strong should be diluted.
Leg of Beef Broth.-Take leg OF beef,
break the bone in several places, place
it in pan with gallon OF water, remove
the scum as it rises and add three blades
of mace, crust of bread, and small
pinch of parsley, boil till the beef Is ten
der; toast some bread, cut it in diamonds.
lay it in the bottom of the tureep, put
the meat on it, and pour the broth over
all.
SteaUed Cod.-Cut some OF the finest
pieces from the thickest part of the fish,
place them in stewpan with lump of
butter the size of walnut, or larger;
three or four blades of mace, bread crums.
pepper, salt, small bunch of sweet
herbs, and some oysters, with little of
their own liquor. Stew gently until
enough.
Chicory Salad.-Select fresh crisp chi
cory in quantity according to the size of
the heads. Wash carefully and break the
leaves. Never cut salad leaves as they
lose their crispness. Place the chicory
in a salad-bowl. Dissolve in one table
spoonful of olive oil, one saltspoonful of
salt and half saltspoontul of pepper;
put over the chicory. Add five spoon
fulls Of clear oil, then toss the chicory
until we'll mixed, and just at the moment
of serving add one tablespoonful OF vine
gar and again toss. This quantity of
dressing may not prove sufficient; in
that case double the quantity, using the
same proportions. For many people a
few drops of onion juice make pleasant
addition to any salad, but as each per
sons taste varies, this must be left to dis
erection.
Lettuce and Tomato Salad.-Select
fresh, crisp lettuce, wash we'll and lay in
cold water for half an hour. Shake the
water from the lettuce and place on
platter. Slice in thin slices selected
Florida tomatoes and lay them on the
lettuce; place piece of ice on top and
serve with Msyonnaise dressing
Beef Salad.-Take half a pound of
boiled fresh beef and cut it into small
pieces; take the crisp leaves from two
heads of lettuce, cleanse and put them
in the salad-bowl; add the beef. To this
add a tablespoonful of finely chopped
Spanish pepper; pour over the whole a
plain dressing and mix lightly before
serving.
Strawberry BdCdrian Credm.-Dis-
solve quarter of an ounce of gelatine
in three or four tsblespoontuls of hot
water, then add to it four ounces of pow
dered sugar, and put it through sieve.
Whip pint of cream, and, when firm,
put it on ice for quarter of an hour.
Press four ounces of strawberries through
sieve, which put in bowl with your
gelstine and sugar. When beginning to
stiffen slightly, add the whipped cream
which remove from bowl with skinner.
so as to drain off all moisture. Mix all
well together, and pour into a mould,
which put on ice for about an hour
then turn out of the mould and serve,
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1t is not the high summer alone that is
Gods. The winter also is his. And into his
winters are his-the winter Of our poverty, the
winter of our sorrow, the winter of our IN
happiness-even the winter of our discon-
tent" George Macdonald.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-09
Art Thou the Light?

To Thee then, in the sunshine or the cloud,
Or in my chamber lone, or in the crowd,
lift my sight.
Francis Z. Abbott.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-13

For sale by c. NJ. CROSBY & co
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THE cONyICTs.

Total number OF persons in the
Georgia penitentiary up to August
1st, 1888, was 1866. In for life
103. There are 10 in for murder,
q for arson, for riot, for beastiali-
ty. $40 for burglary, 255 for larceny,
124 for rape and for the attempt Of
rape, 200 for assault with intent to
murder, and Z tor kidnapping. Five
counties, Murray, Towns, johnson,
Catoosa and Colquitt, have no rep
resentattves in the penitentiary.
Nine counties have one convict
each, Schley, Fayette, Glascock,
Habersham, Heard, Miller, Charlton,
Dawson and Echols. Chatham
county has the largest, 1853; Fulton
133, Muscogee 55, Bib "a, Rich
mond 35 whisky is sold in all these
last named counties, being larger
cities, these FIVE counties furnish
Ala convicts to the penitentiary.
From 500 to 700 are discharged from
the penitentiary yearly.
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ADVICE TO ANXIOUS MOTHERS.

If your husbands salary is small,
don't try to live in the same style as
your neighbor who has twice your
income. 1t will cost you dearly in
the end. Don't dress your children
and furnish your house the same as
theirs. They can have their sewing
done and their rooms busted you
you cannot. Don't wait until you
can get as costly books as they; a
cheaper edition will furnish just as
much intellectual food. Be content
in a cottage when you cannot afford
a mansion. Don't send your
daughter to Vassar because they do,
or that she may associate with them
as equals, while you spend the
weary hours from ) a. m. to II p.
m. to devise the means. Do try, by
all means, to give her solid,
practical education first; then, if
circumstances permit, the ornamen-
tai afterward.
Be systematic, but do not be so
systematic that you cannot drop
your work for holiday or an
evening out. Slight it, if need be,
and let me say, you can slight
Systematically. For instance, don't
mind ironing those sheets or dish
towels nor those wooden hose,
Don't scrub the kitchen floor every
day. There will be time enough
when it is soiled. Have place fol-
everything, a certain day in the
week for certain work, also GER
tain portion of each day for recrea.
ton. 1t may be only few minutes
but it is wonderful what you gain
in that short time.-N. o. Plea.
yune.
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A LUCKLESS LOVER.

One of Clayton's popular young
men called on his best girl several
weeks ago, and while pleasantly
chatting away in the afternoon I'M
luckily the wind rushed through the
hall and blew his hat from the rack,
and Trip, the little pet dog, finding
it, carried it out into the yard where
he very artistically dissected it. So
the next Sunday, his i'll luck being
fresh on his memory and the embar-
rassment ne had experienced over
ruled his longing for a glimpse of
his best girl, so getting into his
buggy he drove eight miles to see
his next best girl, where he intend
ed to spend the afternoon.
But before time to leave arrived
the rain began to fall in torrents
so great was the fall that he was
compelled to spend the night at the
home of the young lady's mother.
Preparing to retire he very nom
chalantly threw his trousers over
chair and pushed it back against
the window, but, the window being
minus pane of glass, one leg fell
partly out, where it met the gaze of
a cudless and hungry calf, as it
were, for when he arose the next
morning his pants were missing,
and looking out, he saw one prong
of them lying off to itself and the
other a shapeless mass not far away.
Just picture his troubled counte-
nance when he thought of being
without breeches at the house of a
widow, with mo- son, with no males
whatever on the place. But mus
tering up the courage ola Scott he
communicated his embarrassing
position to the inmates of the house
and the good heart and common
sense of the young lady overruled
what is often called modesty, and
she kindly sent him a large bonnet
and the ever-comfortable mother
hubbard" into which he sprang,
and the last seen of this unfortu-
nate young man he was whipping
up"sorgum"-was homeward bound
had passed a resolution inwardly
that he would Cas- he is at an age
that is most SUSCEPTIBLE never 90
back again.-J0ncsboro Herald.
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SHE'S A NICE GIRL.
goose

A pretty, talented girl who has
just completed her school course
with credit, and by reason of rather
special talents has received more at
tention and admiration than falls to
the lot of most girls, was asked the
other day how she was enjoying her
vacation. "Oh, I'm enjoying it
very much" she answered brightly.
''Fm doing the house now, and
letting mother have a little rest"
"Your mother is away on a vaca-
ton, them" was the natural ques-
ton. ooh, no, she's at home, but
I'm giving her chance to rest in
the morning and to dress up and sit
out on the piazza when she feels
like it. | think it will do her good
to have little change" The good
mother. She had worked hard,
dressed plainly, striven faithfully to
give her children a good start in
lite, better chance than she had in
her own young days; and is it not
her sweetest reward that her bright,
petted daughter instead of thinking
of her own vacation pleasure, is
willing and happy to take up some
of the work that mother" has
patiently done so long, and give the
tired mother rest? 1t is rather an
unusual idea, to be sure, in these
modern days.-Springfeld Home
stead.
Wealth ia shadow, says the
Yonkers paper. We like to have
that shadow following us.
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MARIETTA, GA
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT, 10, 1888.

Persons who respond to an adver-
tisement that promise twenty-five
useful household articles for %
cents" are receiving by return mail
a literally pointed response-twen-
ty-6ve needles. The surprising
thing about it is that the sharp who
operates the scheme doesn't send
pins, as they are cheaper.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-09-13

Twenty years ago j. T. Patton, of
Oglethorpe county, stuck locust
thorn in his wrist. He thought at
the time he got it out, but from time
to time since he has felt some pain
in the region of the wound. Re-
Gently this pain increased, and on
Wednesday last he went TO DR..
Faust to get relief. DR.. Faust sue
ceeded in finding the cause, and
making a slight incision in Mr..
Patton's arm near the elbow, ex-
tracted thorn more than an inch
long. 1t was evidently the same
that had been stuck in Mr.. Patton's
wriss twenty years ago.