The Newtown bee., 1895-03-08

l Roman Catholics and Baptists and Pres byterians and Congregationalists, and all of these were attentive listeners The old story never had such meaning I dare say, to any of us and the best o1 is is, the old, old story is true. How large is the theological platform upor which you stand, my brother, and how wide Is your theological creed? It has two principal dimensions so far as kno W, and it's length and it's breadth are the length and the breadth of the cross May the prayer which was offered at this service be answered in the case o1 us all, whether we be preachers from the pulpit or hearers in the pew 70 Lord, our precious Saviour, as it may be our sacred privilege to walk through the land forever made holy by Thy footsteps and conseerated by Thy tears of sacri- fieial woe, may our faith in Thee be quickened, may our love for Thee grow warm, and may we returnsin newness of life and in healthfulness of hope to re- peat Thy sweet message to men,"
 At sea one day is much like another. It is lazy life that voyagers lead; the crew and captain do the work. and the passengers do the part of looking on. To attend to three meals day, five if you wish them, served with great deal of red tape and ceremony, is no small business. Many, after while, give up the effort in despair and come down to two appearances at the table or even one, with lunch of sandwiches and lemon ade brought to the staterooms by the stewardess to fill in the gaps. The cuisine of the Red Star Line is excellent; :; in fact, the company
 PRIDE THEMSELVES ON THEIR ELEGANT
 DINNERS,
 and well they may.
 Still, even the glories of table d'hote soon pail; and, after eating few spoon- fuls of corn which has been served on a big plate and then waiting 10 minutes for bit of roast duck to come, you long for the simplicity of home life with it's one or two plain dishes and the loved one at the other end of the table to give the food relish and make it sweet. But one cannot always eat and sleep and toward evening grand walk begins on the promenade deck, the ''constitution- af' of the day, to get up an appetite for the big dinner that follows and shake out the slumbering foot.
 Monotonous as sea voyaging may seem to be, there are numberless diver sions for willing away the time, an il- lustration of the old fact that necessity is the mother of invention" There is shuffieboard, game peculiar to the ships deck and probably never seen on land. It consists in propelling wooden disks along the floor of the deck and having them rest in certain rectangular spaces, which are marked off with chalk. And then there is the concert or lecture in the dining saloon in the evening, after the dishes have been cleared away. A few evenings ago this entertainment took the form of mock trial. William A. Wilson, of Kansas City, Mo-, had beer so unfortunate during the storm of last week as to be thrown violently upon the deck and thus to break bone in the up- per arm. MT Williams, therefore, enter ed suit against the Red Star Line com pany to recover $l50,000 for his injury Mrs Helen Cougar, of La Fayette, Ind, appeared as leading attorney for the plaintiff, and Col A. T. Brinsmade, who has just resigned the position of United States District attorney in Cleveland, O., appeared for the defense. Mrs Cougars plea was a forcible demonstration of the fact that women in all the learned pro- fessions can be the full equals of their stronger companions, and that they are no longer to be regarded as the adver- tisemeuts of foolish fashions or the mere petted dolls of society, but part of the
 HEART AND THROB AND LIFE
 that set in motion the great activities of the world. Her plea showed that MT Wilson lad come from the far West, that he was wholly unacquainted with ocean travel, that he supposed the Allan tic ocean was like the Ohio river, hence the company should have fully protected him, should have ssroped him in,'' should have posted notices of caution. every where before his eyes. In conclusion, the lady attorney made an earnest appeal to the gentler sex in the jury box to pity the misfortunes of this much abused and shamefully maltreated man and to award him the full damage that he claimed; For the defence Col Brinsmade made a masterly plea. He spoke of MT Wilson as coming from the region of grasshop- pers and drought; that for many years he had been surrounded by adverse cir cumstanees that had ruined his fortunes ]; that this breaking of the arm bone was a put up job, he having taken out q $20 GOO accident Insurance policy just before he sailed and, moment or so before the ac- eident occurred, he had been heard whis- |