The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-01

A volume OF good sense 10 CONDENSED In
this paragraph, and foreigners. of whatever
faith, will do well to consider it.
An odd sort of controversy is going on In
Q Philadelphia church. 1t is Baptist
church with a large congregation. and the
ministerial duties became so heavy that the
pastor, Rev. Wayland Hoyt. was inclined.
some months ago, to accept call to ST.
Louis, where the demands upon his time
aud strength would be less oppressive. He
was induced to remain, however, by the
promise of additional deacons to relieve
him of some work, and of q church visitor,
or assistant pastor, to take all the parish
visiting off his hands. These appointments
were made. but it now turns out that the
plan of relief will not work. Much to his
disgust. DR.. Hoyt finds that the congrega-
tion will not accept the services of
the visitor as a substitute for his own. The
visitor is godly person. and his prayers
and exhortations are not complained of as
lacking in feryor or sincerity. but the peo-
pie look upon him as hired hand and his
calls and prayers as perfunctory and by no
means as effective as those of the pastor.
who is apparently regarded as spiritual
guide and friend, with no flavor of hire"
attaching to him, although he is paid
liberal salary. 1t is a queer situation. and
the only satisfactory way ont of 1t seems
to be for the trustees to employ a spiritual
John Sullivan. whose physical and relig-
ious powers will enable him to minister in
person to the exacting people. who are not
pleased with the simultaneous services of
flo rfax,,
of heaven.
THE manufacture of wood pulp is getting
to be a large industry in Maine, several
mills being in successful operation. and
others under way. Three processes are
used. viz, the soda, the sulphite and the
grinding. Most of the pulp-mills are of the
latter class. using machinery of enormous
power, which pulverizes the hardest wood.
There are thirteen mills of this class in
Maine. turning ont $50 tons of pulp daily.
A cord of wood will make about 1.650
pounds of ground pulp, 1000 pounds of
sulphite fiber, or 500 pounds of soda pulp.
so that the present daily consumption of
wood is about 500 cords. When all the
mills now building, or soon to be erected.
are running, the pulp business in Maine
will eat up 1000 cords of wood per day.
Soda mills use all kinds of mill refuse, thus
effecting great saving of expense and
utilizing a vast amount of material that
would otherwise go to waste, but sulphite
and grinding mills require wood in the log.
Ground wood pulp is worth from s22 to S2S
per ton. 1t has been the salvation of news
papers, bringing the price of white paper
down to or cents pound. and providing
an article that readily takes ink, and is
especially adapted to fast presses. Ground
pulp constitutes over so per cent. of the
common white newspaper in use. rags and
sulphite fiber making up the remainder.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, who died re-
Gently, was schoolmate of Thackeray. and
later a classmate of Gladstone. If Upper
was not a great poet. he was, from all ac-
counts, a very loveable man. visitor
asked him, q short time before his death,
how he came to write "Proverbial Philos-
ophy." He replied:
Well. in 1928 was very much in love with my
cousin Isabelle, who was afterwards TO become
my wife, and so thought would transcribe my
notions on the holy estate OF matrimony. A
happy thought struck me. I will convey them I'm
the manner OF SolomOn's proverbs, and did so
III arlcits, Irct on marriage, tnen Oh love. tnen
on friendship, and. fourtbly, on education. N.
r. Willis, the famous American poet, finding
copy which had been beautifully printed by
Rickerby, OF Abschurch Lane. fancied the book
was that of some forgotten author OF the Eliza
bethan era, and quoted IL, week after week. in q
periodical of his, the Home Journal, and years
after, when he met the author. he was scared to
find healthy, ruddy young man in one whom
he thought had been dead 800 years.
An exchange says Upper never wrote
but one line worth remembering. viz: "a
babe in house is well-spring of pleasure"
That occurs in his poem on education. 1t
is hardly correct to say he never wrote
another line worth remembering His writ
ings, amid much that is commonplace, con-
tain some good thoughts we'll expressed.
His philosophy was sound. his sentiment
true. and it can truly be said of him that
he wrote
Not one immoral. one corrupted thought.
One line which. dying, he could wish to blot
A VIRGINIA jury has decided that it is
not stealing to take an umbrella for which
the taker has not acquired title by pur-
chase. The culprit would have been con-
victed had not his lawyer told a story of an
umbrella being left near the dining room
door of the SpottswoOd Hotel, in Richmond,
but safely anchored by being tied, for the
purpose of seeing how many persons would
undertake to carry it away. The result
was that every guest who left the dining
room laid violent hands on the umbrella,