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Charles Kingsley's Sitting Room and Study.
of Eversley. What could be more strik-
ing than the long sweep of open moor
land. extending many miles, all aglow
with masses of purple heather, the
straight. smooth road. lined on either
side by banks Of tall ferns, broken here
and there by patches Of the delicate
English forget -me-not!
After several hours of this most charm
ing drive we suddenly came into Bran
hill Park, a spot we'll remembered by
friends of Mr.. Kingsley. The noble ave-
nues were lined on both sides by stately
elms, oaks and lines. Here we saw the
famous old Scotch frs, the boast of the
park, said to be the finest frs in all
England.
Kingsley, in one of his letters, tells
what fascination this park had for
him, and how it had colored many of
his boyhood dreams with horror long
years before he ever saw it. Curiously
enough. it is connected with the ances-
try of the Kingsley family.
Archbishop Abbot, in the time of
James L., was an intimate friend of Lord
Zouche, the owner of Bramhill Park
and was accustomed to come hither for
days hunting whenever parish duties
would permit. On one of these occa.
sions an arrow aimed at a stag, missed
its mark and struck the keeper, killing
him instantly. The archbishop was sus-
pended for time, but after many years
reinstated. 1t was. however, an expert
ence which changed his whole life. He
could never Danish from his thoughts
that scene of death. He became a sad
and broken hearted man. Among the
family portraits that lined the walls of
the dining room of the Chelsea home
stead was one of the archbishop. painted
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Happy Homes.

The sweetest and happiest homes
homes to which men in weary life look
back with yearning too deep for tears;
homes whose recollections linger round
our manhood like light and the sunshine
and the sweet air, into which no base
things can intrude-are homes where
brethren dwell together in unity; where
because all love God, all love their
brothers also; where. because all are
very dear to all, each is desrer to each
than to himself.-Rev. Dr.. Frederick w.
FdrFdr.
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The REMARKS of DIR. Adams in the
March number of To. Day on the neglect
in our system of education of the most
formative years of the child's life. will
be keenly appreciated by all who are ac-
quainted with the kindergarten and its
method Of utilizing that precious por
ton of childhood. Observation of the
work in the kindergarten, conducted in
connection with his own church, and
careful study of child life have induced
the conviction so forcibly uttered in the
article. Here is a golden statement:
"The kindergarten is the natural ally of
all who are trying to lift our education
al methods from a drill in mental ab.
sorption to an exercise in mental devel-
opment.'
1t is said to have been proved by
experiment that mind unprepared for
the sensation requires from one eighth to
one-fifth of second to apprehend a
flash of light. II forewarned that it is
coming it requires but one-thir.
teenth of a second. Such "tests" are
what may be called fine work. But
if one were going into the subject 80 deep
ly he should make allowance for the fact
that the mental machine does not act
wholly like mechanical. 1t is able to
lengthen or shorten the period of percep.
tion by process of self adjustment. 1t
often takes more than fifth OF second
in-the-pan.
The book in which Jacob Riis sought
to show one-half the people OF New
York how the other half lives, was, pro-
badly. one of the most useful works ever
written. The one half was the comfor-
table. we'll to-do and intelligent; the
other half the struggling, ignorant and
ill-todo. The information was passed
up from below. A still more useful book
would be one in which the lower half
should learn how the upper half lives.
To pass down information from above
and get it adopted below is the true
means of the redemption of society"
The most obvious and the most
damaging criticism on the usual meth
DDS of extending help to the poor and
the unfortunate, is, that the help which
would do most for these classes is with
held, viz, help to do as the better classes
do, and live as the better classes live, and
become what the better classes are. I'm.
providence goes with poverty uniformly.
Foresight, calculation, economy are vir-
tues too seldom found among those at
the bottom of society. Tact. taste, art,
mental resources and moral strength are
almost altogether wanting. But these
are the very things whereby the pros
porous thrive and wherein the better
classes" are better. To exhibit that fact
to the needy, the ignorant, the discour-
aged and wretched, we're to let light in
on their darkr ess and put into their
lowly lot the energies Of redemption.
Prof. James is credited with the re.
mark that the ideas gained by men be
fore they are twenty-five are practically
the only IDEAS they shall have in their
lives; they cannot get anything new"
The ground Of this dictum is, that before
twenty five the brain is plastic; after
that the mental grooves and channels
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N the pretty little village of Eversley
inaccessible by railroad, and far
from the general route of travel, is the
home of CHARLES KINGSLEY. The route
from Winchfield to Eversley is through
a region of great historical interest.
The ride. usually made in an open car
riage, is delightful. Six miles over
the silent moors, through country
whose features. while they may not
be called grand, are certainly pictur-
esque. is just the preparation needed to
put one in sympathy with the memories
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OF university lie. loothouse
Like many another young man, he
started out to believe nothing he could
not see proven to his senses, and like
many another young man, had the usual
struggle back to more settled and
happier state Of mind. He was a man
of powerful nature; progressive spirit
combined with unusual executive abil-
ity, but at the same time uniting with
this the sentiment and romance of
young GIRL intensely sympathetic for
the weak and helpless, always the cham
pion of the oppressed, he was fearless
fellow who could deal the heaviest blows
and utter the sharpest reproof of evil
doing and yet with it all so sensitive
that his very health was injured in later
life by the mental sufferings resulting
from the attacks Of his opponents.
Every one knows the dangers to which
such man is exposed. Referring to
this period of his life, he says Of himself
II was saved at this time from being
tossed in the darkling tempest of scepti-
cism. from sensuality and dissipation
>. saved from hunters life on the
prairies, from becoming savage, and
perhaps worse" What was it that
saved him? In some respects he owed
the victory over himself to the fact that
he was by nature a man of refinement.
Coarseness Of every description repelled
him. He loved nature, his enthusiastic
enjoyment of the beautiful and good,
must also have powerfully held him back
from life of vice, but Charles Kings ey
was saved as many another man has
been saved-by the transforming infu
ence of noble passion. He fell in love
with good woman. Who can read the
letters to his home circle without being
sure that Fanny Kingsley was the bright
star that appeared in the midnight of
his life, and guided him into the blessed
heritage of pure and unselfsh living that
has made him the ideal of so many
hearts. He has himself been first to
assign this cause as the incentive and
end of all his living. When upon ore
occasion he was asked what one thing
he desired future genel ations to remem.
ber of him. he replied, "That with my
whole nature | loved one noble woman
and wss true to her in thought and deed
all the days Of my life
When they began their life together
at Eversley Rectory, the parish was
run down and neglected. The villag.
ers had long ceased to care for the
church. Its services meant nothing
to tt EN-. 1t was the last parish to have
been selected by an ambitious young
man. 1t was made up of heath croppers
and had very few educated gentry
among its Inhabitants. His appoint
ment marks distinct epoch in the his
tory of the parish. At his first com
murion he invited all who could not
readsor write to meet at the rectory. He
at once turned the tool house into a
school room, and before long he had not
only the children, but in many cases the
parents as well, busy learning the fun
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DID BUT DREAM.

l did but dream. / never knew
What charms cur steInest season wore.
Was never yet the sky so blue?
Was never earth so white before?
Till now never saw the glow
OF sunset on yon hills of snow.
And never learned the boughs designs
OF beauty 10 its lifeless lines
AS Thou hast made Thy world without.
Make Thou more fair my world within;
Shine through its lingering clouds of doubt;
Rebuke its haunting shades of sin;
Fill. brief or long. my granted span
OF life with love TO Thee and man;
Strike when Thou wilt the hourof rest.
But let my last days be my best
WHITTIER.
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the we'll being of Evers-
ley parish. Here his lit
tie children, to whom he
was so tenderly attached
were boru, and here also,
under the great cedars
of Lebanon on the lawn,
were born the children
of his brain-a collection
of more than thirty vol
umes-which have made
bis name a household
word ia so many homes.
During his colleg Q
days he had been under
a cloud of religious
doubt. had fought hard
with his own nature a.
gainst the popular vices
of university life.
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Shut the doors!' cried Father
Andre one day to the SW iss on duty,
when he observed the Archbishop of
Paris asleep during his discourse. Shut
the doors! the shepherd is asleep. the
sheep will get out~ "Some men Preach"
said Sydney Smith, las il they thought
sin is to be taken out of a man as Eve
was taken out of Adam, by casting him
into a profound slumber." So, at any
rate thought not South. who, preaching
one day at Whitehall, observed King
Charles ii. and several Of his attend.
ants asleep. STOPPING down. he cried
out to one of the delinquents. MY Lord,
| am sorry to interrupt you, but if you
snore so loud you will wake the king"
His majesty thereupon awoke. and,
turning to his neighbor, remarked with
his accustomed good nature, This man
must be made bishop; remind me on
the next vacancy"
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what Abbotsford was to Scott, Eversley
was to Charles Kingsley. Whether as
Canon of Chester, professor of modern
history at Cambridge, Canon of West
minister, or as "Parson Lot" the author,
Kingsley loved best throughout his en-
tire life to be known as. the rector of
Eversley. 1t is not merely that his
name had become associated with the
place, but rather that he made himself
so much a part of it in his devotion to
it's welfare. 1t was one Of his pet theo-
ries that human beings secrete their
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made bookshelves, the box of half used
clay pipes, all remind the visitor of the
days of his life there. Under the great
cedars of Lebanon on the lawn still
stands the rustic bench where he used
to sit and write. Opening off from the
study is the sitting room made sacred
by so many precious memories, of which
one has said, 81 XII ow of no other private
room in all England, that has gathered
within it's four walls SO many famous
personages from the Prince Of Wales
down."
When death came to claim this
"knight-errant of God England desired
to bury him in the Poets Corner in
Westminster Abbey. but before his
death he had made other plans.
wherever 60" he had said, "in this
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inaccessible by railways, it still keeps
its charm and romance despite the rava-
ges of our modern civilization, and the
baneful influence Of the professional
traveller.
Here Kingsley came early in the year
1s42, fresh from college honors at Cam
bridge, eager to prepare the home life
into which he was TO receive the woman
he loved, and whoee life was SO closely
intertwined with his during the thirty
three years they lived and labored for
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. MAR. 81, 1895,

CHICAGO, SATURDAY, MAR. 81, 1896
Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
February Days in the american Italy
Charles Kingsley's Home.
Forgiveness and Repentance.
Page Two.
Pauperism and Crime.
Jesus.
Hens0Rism.
Noted Men and Women.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Sunday School Topics for Adult Classes.
Page -Four.
Fulfllment Beyond the Grave.
Charles Kingsley's Universalism.
Innate Altruism.
Universalist Personal.
Press Notes.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm. Garden and Dairy.
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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bodies from their souls
much the same as a
snail fashions the shell
he carries around with
him, until they finally
become in personal ap-
pearance like what they
are in character. So
Eversley, to those who
have learned to know
and love Kingsley, has
become a continual re
minder Of his own per
sonality.
1t still retains many
of the characteristics
which belonged to it in
his day. Being off Of the
p,osp lines of frouol md
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So far had l written on the last
day of winter, when the clouds be-
gan to gather and the long desired
and welcome rain began to fall and
for the most of three days it poured
down its blessed baptism. It
soaked the earth, insuring fruitful
summer, and on all the mountains,
down to the very verge of the oranges
and roses, the fakes descended. On
the mountains it piled its arctic
drifts to fill the reservoirs, and in the
vicinity of the gardens it fluttered a
few harmless flakes, counterfeiting
the petals of the orange orchards.
And such landscape as now re-
mainsl The lofty peaks are white
with snow covering many feet in
depth; the nearer SUBMITS are dap
pied with scattered drifts and it is
even sprinkled along the neighboring
foothills.
What contrast between the arctic
winter holding empire only sixty
minutes away by the electric railway
that runs into the frigid realm, while
we stand among the oranges and
roses and enjoy it from a distance
but quite as near as we ever desiie
to be!
There cannot be on earth a more
perfect continuation of sights and
sounds, of beauty and perfume, fall
that delights the eye and ear and
heart, in any winter cline than we
have rejoiced in during the twenty
nine February days in the american
Italy"
PASADENA. CAL. March 6, 1896.
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ever it may be elsewhere, there is no
such season as winter here.

ever it may be elsewhere, there is no
such season as winter here.
And then the birds! All day long
they fit, and dart and futter and
sing from tree to tree, and on fence
and roof Linnets in crowds, and
sparrows and blue birds and warblers,
and meadow-larks, and fy-catchers,
and best of all, mocking birds. l
have tried to tell the readers of this
paper something about this wonder
full singer, the very incarnation of the
locality, who sings every day in the
month, and every hour of the day
and every minute of daylight, even
in mid winter. In the summer he
sings all night, but for twenty-nine
days in this leap year February he
has filled the bright hours with his
triumphant music. We pause many
times day and ask, ''Is this Febru-
ary, where fower-petals take the
place of snow fakes, and bird music
is substituted for bowling winds, and
sunshine and fragrance are every
where7"
The thermometer has ranged from
60 to so degrees every day, and even
the distant mountain submits that
are usually white in winter. are blue,
without snow, in consequence of the
absence of rain; for when rain falls
in the valleys and ON the foothills
the cold mountain air transforms it
to snow in the higher attitudes.
There has rarely, if ever, been so
warm February, even here, nor
often SO little rain. In fact, Febru-
ary has counterfeited June. "What
is so rare as day in Junes" the poet
asks. He means June in New Eng
land.
Any Californian will answer the
conundrum by saying, Twenty nine
days in February, in California" I
have never found and never expect to
find on earth, February so faultless
with weather SO divinely perfect.
Accustomed to it day after day
though we are, we never become so
familiar with it as to cease from the
expression of our wonder with the re-
turn of each day, which is new mir
acle, evoking the same expressions of
delight as though it were the only
one of its kind, instead of our aver
age specimen of the perfect days of a
perfect cline.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT 1. NJ. ATWOOD, DID.
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prietors of the Globe hotel of that place;
that he remembers meeting Hillmon
there at the hotel during that winter and
early spring; that Hillmon was accom-
panied by one Mr.. John II. Brown; that
they stayed at their hotel a short time.
about a week in December, 1873, and
left, returning again in about a month,
when they stayed several weeks; that he
saw a great deal of these two parties
during their stay in Wichita; that they
seemed to have nothing special to do.
but merely passing the time off;
that they and other parties board
ing there at the Globe hotel
heights and weights of each other: that
witness took part in some of these and
that Que day they measured out in front
of the hotel, against a post, and indicat-
ed their respective heights on this post
by the initial of the party; that witness
measured Hillmon, who was feet
inches, and a man named Nichols who
measured fraction over 6 feet, and
Brown, whose height was feet 8 inches;
that witness himself and a number of
other persons were measured; that he
had observed vacant place in Hill
mons upper jaw; he did not know
whether a tooth was broken off or out
entirely; that Hillmon during his stay
in Wichita the last time showed witness
q 1Ahky 20 "a q IAob "4Lu0SS saw Ills
picture several times, Hillmon showing
it to several parties. When witness was
asked if he had recognized any one in the
room as the original of that tintype, he
stated that he did; that it was Mrs. Hill
mon; that he recognized her without
any one having pointed her out.
Mr.. Charles S. Gleed of Topeka was
then called to the stand by the attorneys
for the defense. Mr.. Gleed testified that
be was an attorney-at-law, residing in
Topeka; that in 1889 he was one of the at
torneys for the defendants in this case
that, as an attorney, he had procured from
the governor of Kansas a requisition on
the governor of Arizona for the
delivery of John w. Hillmon to the Kan
sas authorities, HiIlmon having been ar
rested in Arizona; that H. j Franklin
was appointed special messenger to
serve such requisiIion.
Mr.. Levi Baldwin, whose testimony
was read on behalf of the plaintiff some
days ago. came to Topeka today. and the
defense asked permission to recall him
for the purpose of examining him upon
one or two points omitted in the cross
examination, as read from the testimony
given at the last trial of the case. This
the court granted. but there was nothing
new brought out.
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Betrayed by a Client.

An amusing incident happened in the
circuit court at Newport. The case of
Jacob Click, who was indicted for fail
ing to take out saloon license, was
called. Senator Newman, his attorney,
made strong plea for continuance,
stating to the court that his client was
confined to his home with a severe i'll
ness. and it was impossible for him to
appear. Senator Newman was not aware
of the fact that Click was standing be-
hind him when he made this plea, but
the judge noticed him Immediately, and
when Mr.. Newman got done the judge
said, ''Well, Mr.. Click, what have you
to say on the question:"
Senator Newman turned around and
noticing his client said, HWhy the devil
didn't you stay at home as told your"
-Covington (Ky.) Commonwealth.
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Uncle Peter Bates was a local CO.
lebrity who kept the tavern in Ran
dolph, VT, in the old staging days. He
was noted for his dry humor, and was
never at a loss for a retort or for a
method of expressing his ideas. One
morning, after breakfast, as a stranger
was about to depart without paying his
bill, Uncle Peter walked up to him and
blandly said: Mister, if you should
lose your pocketbook between here and
Montpelier remember you didn't take it
out here"
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And He Passed On.

There were plenty of empty seats in
the car, but the smiling youth who wore
his hat on the back part of his head
stopped opposite the handsome young
woman in the red hat and said in his
most engaging manner:
tfCan I take this seat, miss?'
81 have no objection, sir" she re-
piled in tone that froze the smile fast
on his face, ''but 1 think it's nailed
down. Chicago Tribune.
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We'll Protected.

First Burglar Con the watch outsi 4,
to his partner who has hurriedly =
Joined him)-Wot's the matter, :?
You look scarf. Anybody bin DRAWN
pop on you?
Second Burglar-Nope Worse'n that !
They've got one of these patent clothes
racks, with as many tentacles rs devil
fish, anchored right in the middle of the
hall, an jest beyond that is one of the
latest style rockin- chairs with rockers
six feet long, an then, farther along in
the hall, there's an ottoman with horns
to it, an baby kerridge, an whatnot,
an a
First Burglar (interrupting, with a
shudderJ-Come on. Petel Let's git
away from here soon as possiblel 1t
makes me turn pale jest to think of
what close call we've had. Let's go
down an tackle the subtreasury or some
place where they hahn It SO we'll protect
ed as they air here. Truth.
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DEBS IN THE PULPIT.
Terre Haute Churchmen Ch1ded FOX
their Attitude Towards Labor.

Terre Haute Churchmen Ch1ded for
their Attitude Towards Labor.
TERRE HAUTE, March 26.-After the
First Baptist church auditorium became
crowded as never before, the ushers step
ped outside the doors and told the hun
dreds that came that they would not be
able to hear Eugene Debs tell what the
church ought to do for labor.
Debs is not believer in Christianity
but Rev. Mr.. Holmes, in his invocation,
asked divine inspiration for what Mr..
Debs should say. Debs said the church
could discuss the social and economic
conditions, if il were not afraid, and in
that way assist the cause of labor. He
said that the church, as an institution, is
not in sympathy with labor. and there is
lack of the spirit of the brotherhood of
man in the church. When ministers do
talk about labor it is to advise the wage
Garner not to break the law, but the
same advice is not given to the employer
v no is lawbreaker.
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FROHMAN AND MANsFIELD.

The Ly ceum Manager Contracts with
the Talented Actor on Colossal
Terms.
CHICAGO. March 26.-Daniel Frohman
of the Lyceum thsater, New York, who
was in Chicago last week, has signed a
contract which guarantees Richard
Mansfield 100000 for next seasons
work and 100000 Tor each season until
the year 1900.
During the term of this arrangement
new plays will be presented and Shake
sPerian plays will not be infrsquent
The principal productions will be made
as Mr.. Aansfield's own theater, tho Gar
rick in Now York, now managed by
Charles Frohman.