The National tribune., 1896-09-03

country are to one who has seen and enjoyed
the wonders of the great CITY.
To ]. Marshall Murphy's assertion that the
country has no back streets with accumulated
rubbish Brother Jones says: "No; but you
have what is worse, filthy barnyards that arc
stencil year in and year out"
To Lucy Margaret Mitchell, and all: IL you
care to enjoy life, come and visit US In the
cities We will welcome you and show you
the contrasts of life"
THE SWEET BY-AND-BY."
"Though we may forget the singer,
We will not forget the song.
No song of comforting assurance and simple
melody has sunk deeper into tho hearts of the
people than has the beautiful sweet By-and-
By" 1t is sung in many languages the wide
world over. and yet the name and personality
of the author have dropped almost into OBJ
iivion.
In quiet little town of some 300 inhabit-
ants in Walworth County, Wis, leading the
monotonous and selfsacrificng life Of coun-
try physician, lives Samuel Fillmore Bennett,
who four and 20 years ago wrote this much
loved hymn.
Perhaps it's immediate popularity may in .
measure be accounted for by the fact that 1t
was written at time when the people were
yet deeply sorrowing because of q Nations
slain, and were eager to grasp any comforting
word or melody, in both of which Sweet BY
andBy is exceptionally replete.
Bennett had himself been a soldier, serving
as Lieutenant of the 10th Wis. At the time
that the song was written he had just returned
from Ann Arbor where he had graduated with
highest honors, and had become connected with
the Elkhorn Independent.
The manner of the songs inception is inter-
esting. Bennett had for friend and INSOFAR
able companion the celebrated musical COM
poser, ]. p. Webster, long since dead.
Webster is said to have teen of q somewhat
pessimstic nature, subject to fits of depression,
and it often fell to his friend to cheer him in
his downcast moods. Therefore. when he ap-
peared before Bennett one day in an unusually
respondent spirit the latter inquired: Well,
what is the trouble nowP"
"Ob, it is no matter" replied Webster; lit
will be all right by. and-by."
To Bennett the words acted as an inspiration.
Like voice from the unseen the idea of q song
flashed through his brain. Turning to his
desk and writing off hand with pencil, in less
than 80 minutes he handed Webster the lines
of the hymn, written as they read to-day.
Webster improvised the music on his violin,
jotting down the notes on q piece of waste
paper.
In tho meantime the two men had been
Joined by three others, r. Z. Crosby, s. +.
Bright. now of Fort Atkinson, and N. ID. Cars
we'll. long since dead.
In less than 10 minutes a quartet, composed
of Webster, Bennett, Carsweli and Bright, was
singing to an audience Of one the Sweet By
and-B By"
"Gentlemen," exclaimed Mr. Crosby, with
tears in his eyes, that song is immortal"
And we know that the prophecy proved
true. Belle Smith, Winooski, Wis.
TRIBUTE TO WOMAN
When the Apostle Paul said OF women, III
they will learn anything let them ask their
husbands at home" he did not make very
bright future for large percentage Of them.
These have our sympathy if they never know
anything except what they learn from that
source.
Woman need not, however, think that this is
the attitude of Christianity, for Jesus whose
authority was much above that of st. Paul,
gave her high position of honor at all times.
1t is humiliating to think how tardily the
door of opportunity opened to woman in educa-
tional matters even in this country. The city
of Hartford, Conn, has the honor of having
first admitted girls to public schools, some five
years before the Revolutionary war.
The movement in behalf of female education
has been opposed at every step by many men
since that time but the world is beginning to
find out its mistake and that it does not pay to
give So 600 education to $500 boy and only a
$500 education to $4,000 girl.
Not alone in education is she coming into
rights long withheld. From the domestic slave
of sasagery she has passed up into competition
with her former lord and master in nearly
every department of lifes work.
What makes the Western nations different
from the Eastern is the manner in which they
have treated womankind. A nation does moi
rise above the level Of its mothers.
Who dare not say that the women Of to-day
are not moding the future of the Nation in the
| L. 4 Ia
in the schools, where she is employed as teacher
of the yonth ia temperance work, where sh.
| tolls on when mans enthusiasm runs low?
In the Church no one need be told how large
share of its work is carried on by the women
| On stormy days, when it is not prudent for til,
men to be ont, We find her there. The teacher
| in the Sunday schools are women. Now ant
then We see man, but he is apt to look lone
| some and ont of place. The charitable work o
| to. day, which stands first among the good act
of the race. is largely carried on by women
| On how many works Of mercy have her fee
| gone. and will 20 until hearts shall cease t.
break, and the darkness and gloom lift from
this world forever.
w. b. Longstreth, Gratiot. o.
LIScoLN's HAND WAS FIRM.
Cora Davidson writes that in the course o
| her reading she came across an incident char
acteristic of the great Lincoln. which she woul,
like every &C. and LH.W. to read.
When the Proclamation of Emancipation
which was written by President Lincoln an,
freed all the colored people of the United States
was brought to him to sign, he lifted his ham
TO the place of signature, aud then let it fall b.
his side.
Again he lifted it, and again it fell. Their
turning to someone near him, he said:
- have been shaking hands with people al
day and my hand is very weak and shaky
| II should tremble as / write my name on thi
paper. which will be handed down in history
if any deed of mine is, all the world will say
| He hesitated'"
He lifted his hand once more to the place {
signature. and steadily and firmly wrote tn
"a. Lincoln with which all the world is no
familiar; then. leaning back, satisfied, he sait
THAT will do"
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD.
Useful and Seasonable Recipes for Low;
Home Workers.
BOILED CABBAGE.
Cabbage is now in its prime for boiling an