New-York tribune., 1890-05-30


coored has issued general appeal for aid in building
National Headquarters edfce in Louisville. Ky.
" Such buding' says the appeal, "will cost a
least a3O 600, but when erected ii will be lasting
monument and tribute TO the progress and energy Of
the negro race. At the last National convention,
Louisville was selected n the site Of the future build.
ing. Now we hope that every negro and all the
white people Of this country will the good Of the
work. and aid Us literally in it, All subscriptions 10
be addressed. by postal note. 10 Evangelist Albert
Mack, Louisville, Ky. We make this earnest appeal
to the generosity Of the people Of the United staeS'
on Famc's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents spread
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivOuac Of the dead.
These celebrated lines Of Theodore O'IIara viii b
widely quoted to day, and yet there IS Disagreement
to the text. some maintain that the first word of
the third line should be Andr printed above
While Others assert that O'IIara wrote Butt in this
place. The latter view IS accepted by Robert Burns
wilson Rossiter Johnson and The Century magazine
ASIDE However, from the question to which of the
two words the author used. and seems more eu-
phonions and less harsh than but
If any story of fiction !, more romantic than the
history Of The great Cornell University case. as given
In Tho New York Tribune Of Monday, We not
familiar with it.-lChrstian Advocate.
The primitive ways OF the old time preachers would
create a sensation nowadays. Two hundred and fifty
years ago the Rev. Thomas Hooker was the preacher
great occasion in Cambridge, Mass. GOyernor
Winthrop and many other distinguished people from
Boston were present. In the quaint words OF the
chronicle, Mr.. Hooker, who had high reputation
a painful preacher began his discourse with much
strength Of voice and intention Of spirit" But after
preaching for quarter Of an hOur he stopped, and
informing the people that God had deprived him Of all
his power, left the pulpit and went into the woods
by. The congregation quietly waited, and after
half hour SIR. Hooker returned and, resumng the
ha had
on to very good purpose for about two hours
Stranger CaccOstng FOgg in the strect)-can you
Fogg-Sow, look here. this thing is getting too
frequent. Of your fellows az the house this
morning and got the whole history of my life and
crimes
,taneer-I was going to ask you the way to the
Forg-6hi all right; straight ahead. thought
terrogatiOn points enumerstos, they call them
selves, believe. .T-(BOSton Transcript
Henry Ward Beecher not the man to depreciats
the tremendous influence Of the daily newspaper; but
at the same time he understood that by the very neces
sy of the case often obliged TO ignore perspective
in giving the OF the world. This fact Is brought
out in one of his letters, published for the first time
in The Christian Union" rou would think 10 read
| the newspaper he says, that heaven and earth
were passing away with great noise. SO, on sum-
mer morning, the barnyard resounds with such shril
uproar that you think the last catastrophe must have
| NO-ltS only a nttie egs tnS ldyeI Oh ~
cackles and every hen that wishes that she could lay
an egg cackles and every cock In the yard caches,
and those oudest that had least TO do with the getting
| up Of that wonderful egg-which is the only silent
| thing. and the only one that has value.'
Going Back on His Promise" Yes sighed the els,
appointed mother, brought up my son very carefully
AKA pionslv As soon as he was old enough | got
mm TO join the church and made him give me his
solemn promise that when he married he'wouid marry
"A Christian woman.
And didn't he IT, A.. ,-
40. he married one of the girls of the choir. -
| Boston Courier.
saws a corresp spondent: "some time ago. The
Tribune called attention TO the way in which the
word grand was ovorworSed by many Of the clergy.
the country clergy especially. lon ought 10 stir ths
brethren up occasionally on this matter, for many Of
them Use this word much that It's meaning IS do
,troyed. For instance, a religious paper the other
day reported some remarks Of a clergyman, as FOL.
flows: Last week we had grand meeting. Brother
Meek made a grand prayer. and Brother Jones
preached crandy the sinfu;neSs of sin. The sing
| inc was grand and altogether We had grand good
tmc' Doubtless. this is extreme example OF this
| fault but not very extreme either. The fact Is
some religious people Of an emotional nature work
the word grand as hard circus men do. and II
make, a good many Of Us laymen just little tred'
Thirty cents for pSeon,' said an uptown usa
| 10 A dealer In game. that is a big price for few
| ounce~ Of fowl Do you know that have sold
pigeons for p cents dozen many time Tat
!
birds were caught with net. hundreds Of them AZ
| a haul - Kingston Freeman
The Baptist Index gives good specimen of tho
far fetched sermon once in such vogue The preacher
took a. his text. A certain man went down nom
Jerusalem To Jericho and fell among thieves And
this Is how he began: My brethren. the Bible IS
a wonderful book. II says 50 much in a word Now
there is very little said here about the character OF
mi, man that fell among the thieves, but l know
iu,t what sort of man he was. And. first, he Wa
4 sober man. secondly, he was punctual man; third
ly he was industrious man. and fourthly, lie was
married man. Aud | learn al this about the man
from one single word that the Bible says about him:
! Il SAYS he WAS a certain man. Now, We all know thai
there /, no certainty in drunkard there is no GER
| iaintv in a man who is not punciual 10 his engage
mcnts certainty IN An idle loafer, and there Is not
one OF these bachelors in forty that you can trust
| II Catches the >uckers.-A convict named Thomas,
now I'm prison Joliet. has sent out word 10 sevesai
| striking men I'm Chicago and elsewhere that he mas
49, 900 in gold buried IN a certain spot They hasten
10 utcr,le him. leave money for his use, buy sons
article Of furniture for his cell, and 90 away 10 uS
up-dlrt Detroit Free Press.