Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-13
HAVEN. CONN.,. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13. 1894.

osopher to the last. In slmost the last hour of his life he called an attendant to his bedside and, pointing to bottle of wine on table near by, said: "Take this bottle of wine to the gentlemen down stairs and ask them to drink to the mem- ory of old times." Of all the events in his busy life he was proudest of the perilous trip he took across the continent to plant the United States flag in California. He recalled this just before he died and ex pressed wieh to be remembered chiefly, as he will be, for that feat.
 The English sparrow finds defender In MT. I. N. Pray before the American Nat urslists' society, who says that 1t is not the evil-minded, litigious, greedy or pugns- cious bird which 1t has been asserted to be, but @ useful, diligent and pescesbls tomtit of creature, worth twice It's weight in cuokoos or chickadees, and of iuestimsbls service in consuming poxious varieties of tree-destroying worms and insects which other birds won't touch. If this is true, MT. Pray ought to be sent as a missionary to those communities which decree the ex- tirpstion of the sparrow and offer bountiss for Its destruction.
 Mr. Silss x Floyd, the president of the Negro Press association of Georgia and editor of the Augusta Sentinel, asked in a recent address before the Phi Kappa soci- ety of Atlanta university, "Whst are our educated young men doinei" Here Is his answer: "Of l, ,243 graduates of seventeen institutions for negroes in the South, 720, more than one half, became school teach CTS; IF became preachers, 116 lawyers, and 163 doctors, while 12 only became farmers, only a carpenter, and 3 me- cbanics. Of the remainder, 5 became edi- tors. S6 government employees, and so forth" MT. Floyd reaches the sensible conclusion that ''the main point to ob- serve is, that where they have sought em- ployment above that of menial service they have sought it in the professions. The end of education then, If We may safely judge from the way the educated act, is to fit one for those positions in life which do not require more than the small est amount of physical exertion."
 The Rev. Father Stephen Beggs, who preached the first Protestant sermon in old Fort Dearborn, now known as the city of Chicago, Is still living, and is now visiting his son in Chicago. Despite the wear and tear of ninety-four yesrs, his memory Is good. "This Is not Chicago to me any more," he said the other day. "My early impression of the city Is that of mud hole with fort pumped into its middle. more than Fort Dearborn within miles. The Chicago river was even then establish ing an everlasting reputation for filth, and the jocular remark was that @ pint of Its water was equal any day to three hard shskes of the chills and fever. In the summer of 1881 preached the first Pro- testsnt sermon in Fort Dearborn. had congregation of twenty-five people gath cred Tn the room of Dr. Harmon, the post surgeon. Afterward I preached to the sol diers of the fort from stoop in front of which the men would be drawn up ss If in line for inspection. The day after 1 ar rived here organized the first Methodist class at the Junction. ss the confluence of ths north and south forks of the river was called. Having wife to care for, was given about $100 a year then"