The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MARRIAGE AS A TEM.—HOW remarkable it is that whenever an enthusiastin religion gets now light, and adopts who, he considers "advanced views,' he almost invariably begins to tamper with marriage: In this tampering he always betrays the charlatan, and sufficiently warns all who are tempted to follow him to beware of him. This is no better test of a new system or scheme of life then its relation to Christian marriage.  If-it tampers with that it is always bad, and can by no possibility be good. The Shakers form a community built on this rotten foundation. They destroy the family, root and branch. They have no place for love. and enter into a determined and organised fu-dd with the God of Nature, who, by the strongest passions and impulses He honorer implanted in the human soul, lias commanded them to establish families and homes. Shakerism is good for nothing if it is not good universally—if it ought not to be adopted universally. Bur universal adoption would be the suicide of a race, nod a race has no more right to commit suicide than a man. Besides, the damming of one of the most power fill streams in human nature only sets the water back to cover the hanks it was mended to nourish and to drain. It is too late to talk about the superior sanctity or the celibate. We have no faith in it whatever. The vow of chastity simply emphasises in the mind the passion it is intended, for spiritual reasons, to suppress, and fixes the attention upon it. The Shaker, in denying love to himself and all the hallowed influences that grow out of family and home, gains nothing in holiness, if he do not lose uretrievablv. He is the victim of a shocking mistake, and he disgraces himself and his own father and mother by his gross views of an institution before whose purity and beneficence 'tie and his whole system stand condemned. Of course we do not need to allude to the Mormon. His views of marriage— revealed,. of course—are simply beastly. But these new schemes of life, religion, and philosophy are con. gently springing up. It is very difficult for auy system of social:Bm to estalnish itself without tampering with marriage. and one of the best arguments against all sorts of communities and phalanateries and whatnots of that sort, is that the family, as a unit, is unmanageable within them. They can take in and organise a miscellaneous mass of individuals, and provide some sort of &dirty substitute for marriage. but the family bothers them. It is a government within a government, that they cannot get along with. So the marriage Wet is a good one in all cases of the kind.— Serihrter. 2Aasters ---'lb-re , smiling to Unnfeue, no fewer thin lorly-sra,ll 5111..•. es or pesrotz.. Brisson says there are mimi, ;)- Cr- give 150. It is, in fact, not possible to ,totr- t.lucol correctly, as diuciaveries are continually made of species previously unknown to lottoralics. These birds may, however, be classitied in six g•neral divisions— womb% meow., eocketoos, parr,on, ivrries, and I love-birds. Ovid alludes to parrots. These were Indian parrots. or parrakeet., upon whore red beaks and prismatic hue of plumage the poet appears to hang with deli At. These were known in Rome as being imported from Eas,ern Init:a about the middle of the first Christian century, and were principally from Africa. Vliny, a great authority during his day, dilates upon the ' parrot's rospcoloured neck, emerald garb, and rubv-thited bill. They wery all, as they are now, natives of the tropics, and therefore require for a long life an equable and warm•temperature when removed irons this., countries betweeu the old and new world. Their ,rrltsing gift of memory was aoticed by Plutarch. Tho, I.:Whit) of speech not only introduced them in,o the chroubers of royalty, but secured a certain amont of veneration for them from the people. Monkeys iised.to be the prevailing pets of the aristocracy. as evidenced by the portrayal in many paintingi and engravings ot' remote eenturies, and even of the beginning of this. The parrots beak, honorer, his put the monkey's nose out of joint.—AU Ilte rear Rowed, your sleep be neee.ary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and convs,mtmces id nature; and sometimes !e curious to see the preparation which the nun makes in hi, coining forth from his chambers of the Evst.—,7errmy Tayfor.  WHAT'S the matter, my dear s.lid a kind wife to her husband. who had sat for half on hour with his fare buried in his hands, and apparently in meat tribul.tion.--•• Oh. I don't know tv felt like a foetal day." Well.— tai I he. wife, con- fingiv. you lock thevery pietnre of what you feel."