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Indiana Progress, INDIANA, PA. R. M. BruicMAK, Editor and Proprietor. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1878.

The Album. My photograph album Cortninly, You can look, il you wish, my door; To me it just like grovoynrd, Though I go through it onco a oar Any new luces No, indeed. No I stopped collecting some years And yet, Joivnnotto, look well at the book: It is hill of histories strange; The are just an index, dear, To stories of pitiful change-Drama and poem and tragedy, Which I alone have the power to see. Ah! I thought you would pause at that laoo; She was fair as a poet's lay, The sweetest rose ol her English homo, Yet she perished far, far away: In the black massacre at Cawnporo She suffered and died--wo know no more. And that Ah, yos, 'tis a noble head! Soul site on the clear, lolty brow; She was my friend in the duys gone by, And she ia my enemy now.

Mistake, and wrong, and sorrow--alas! One ol life's tragedies--let it pass. This toco Ilofwus my lover, Joannette; And perchance ho remembers to'day The passionate wrong that wrecked xis both When ho sailed in his anger away. Heart-sick and hopeless through weary ycnm, At length I forgot him--despite thoso tours. That handsome fellow Ho loved mo too; And ho vowed ho would die, my dear, When i told him long ago: Ho married tho very next year. That one I liked a little, but ho Cared much for my gold, nothing ior mo.

Brides and bridegrooms together, dear, And most ol them parted to-day; Some famous men that are quite lorgot, Some beauties lauod and gray. Close tho book, lor 'tis just as I said- Full of pale ghosUt from a life that's dead. --Harper's Weekly. Mrs. Stoughton's Diamond, Greta had seen her household gods fall about her before she was able to put pride into her pocket, wLoro there was plenty of room, and turn iier hand to the only work she understood.

It was some five years since she had begun to go out by the day to make and rucnd carpets, old and new, for tho housekeepers of Hampton. She had plenty of employment now, some money in the bank, and a lover. She looked forward to the time, not so far off, when she should begin iipon her own carpets, when the aioney in tho bank would bo drawn out to biiy the parlor set and the household pictures and kirickknackory perhaps, tho wedding gown and bride- cake. She had been working for Mrs. Stoughton for several days, when her troubles began, and had gone home, quite tired out with the conflict over that lady's chamber carpet, which had seen its best clays.

She had been obliged to rip and match figures and insert patches to deceive the very elect, and at the end Mrs. Stoughton had told her she would settle the bill when she heard from her husband, who had gone away on business, and key of the money drawer with him by mistake. Grota shrewdly suspected that the drawer was as empty as a drum, but made no demur. She would oblige a neighbor, and never remember it. The following day she was engaged at Dr.

Carclamon's, when she hoard Fred rush in from school, and shout: "I say, ma, 's supper ready? Give me a hunk of gingerbread, anyhow. Where's Grota Loring I want to ask her if she's stole Miss Stoughton's diamond out of her ring! Jack Stoughton says his mother's going to haul Grota over the coals. I don't believe a word of it, and I want to ask her--" "Hush, Fred, hush!" said Mrs. Stoughton. "What do you moan Don't ask Greta any such silly question." "Well, I don't want Jack Stoughton saying things, and I'll just thrash him for it." "Diamonds laughed Grota to herself.

Who would suspect Mrs. Stoughton of one?" Then she suddenly remembered having picked a ring oft' tho floor of the chamber whore she was sewing at Mrs. Stoughton's--a gold ring in which a stone of good size had no doubt once sparkled, and she had dropped it on the mantel, and thought no more about it. as that cavity going to bear false witness against her? What nonsense But that evening, when she returned to her lodgings, she found a note awaiting read: "If Miss Loring can give Mrs. Stoughton any information about the diamond missing from a ring left in the chamber where Miss Loring was at it will be gratefully received, and no mortifying disclosures made." Poor Greta slept little that night.

How could any one suspect her of such a dreadful thing? Where could the diamond have gone? IIow could she do- fend herself except by hur word? Ought she not to have been above suspicion, ike Cicsar's wife? What had she done to deserve it? In an angry moment she returned this misjudged reply: "Mrs. Stoughton is at liberty to make whatever mortifying disclosures she may choose, but she must excuse Miss Loring from rendering account of a diamond of whoso existence 'she was ignorant." This naturally exasperated Mrs. Stoughton, who flattered herself that she had transacted the affair with great delicacy aid decorum. She had expected to bring Miss Loring to her feet, with contrite tears and confessions, and here was absolute defiance! Did such a hussy deserve consideration at her hands? And if Mrs. Stoughton was more or loss afraid to say her soul was her own before that impecunious other half of.

herself, how much more was she afraid to say that lipr diamond was no longer hers! Accordingly she made haste to put the matter into the hands of the law and the moul hs of the Hampton gossips. Doubtless Greta would have been lodged in jail at this time had not Mr. Grafton secretly espoused her cauw, while ho undertook the case Mrs.Stoughton had intrusted to him. Mr. Grafton was a wealthy bachelor, somewhat "ray, and a good deal bald; lie had smilca upon Greta more than once, without receiving any answering smile; pfrhaps ho thought now that every tiling' nrrivtM to him who can afford to wait-I hat this opportunity.

X.3X j. V-t 5 5 i Soar TMs so a housekeeper had om'O engaged Greta to make carpels at Graft on Place, and lie had taken pains to show her over the house and grounds, and had no.arly snatched a kiss in the shallow of the lindens, as he put her into his carriage to send her home. Greta liacl never worked there ngain; but perhaps she was too grateful at finding a friend at her side in such stormy weather to refuse a favor from Mr. Grafton. and perhaps she had forgotten his audacity.

Yet in the midst of her humiliations Greta remembered with a heart-throb that she had a lover to come to her rescue if she chose to call him--that she should not be dependent upon Mr. Grafton's tender mercies after Stephen Sotherne had been notified of her strait. At the same time, she felt disinclined to break the bad news to him till after all was over. For how could it be possible for an innocent person to sutt'er? But Greta was not a little stunned one morning on receiving a letter in tho handwriting of her true love," which ran in this wise: "Mr GRETA--It is some time since I had the pleasure of hearing from you, and it has occurred to me to ask if time and distance were not weakening our hold upon each other; to wonder how long you would continue to love a man whom you saw only once or a year, it seems to me that owing to the bad times our marriage is as indefinitely postponed as the millennium. Now.

my dear girl, I do not wish to stand in your light; if you were not engaged to me, some more eligible partner would seek you, I feel certain. More-' over, my health is precarious, and the doctors have advised me to try the air of California. It is a proscription more nauseous than drugs, since I must leave you behind me; but I could not, in honor, carry your promise with me for an indefinite space of time for my own selfish satisfaction merely. At the same time, believe me, it is no easy thing for me to say adieu' to the dearest girl in the world. Sincerely, STEPHEN SOTHEBNE." To say that Greta was surprised would be the same as if we should call an earthquake "unpleasant." She was thunder-struck, overwhelmed, with just enough spirit left to return Mr.

Soth- crne's letters and presents by the next mail without a word. He has heard all about the diamond, and believes it," she thought. It would bo a comfortable arrangement if one could cease to love the instant a lover proves unworthy, but hearts arc not fashioned after that manner. When every thought and motive of one's life is woven up with thoso of another, one cannot unravel the tangled web all at once. "Another such shock will send me to tlic insane asylum," sighed Greta.

But thoro was another yet in store for her. Mr. Grafton had taken to dropping in her after her day's work. One evening he said: "Miss Greta, what if you should be found guilty of this--this--" If they should find nio guilty! IIow can they find an innocent person guilty If 1 took the diamond, where is it?" Mr. Grafton smiled indulgently.

People have been imprisoned, branded, exiled, hanged, and quartered for sins they never committed. If you were guilty, you would be more likely to escape; you would have laid your plans." Groin gave an involuntary sob; the tears shone in her eyes. And (here is no ono to help me," she gasped, thinking aloud, rather than speaking to Mr. Grafton. Yes, yes, there is some one ready to help you, Greta," said that gentleman; I will help you, if you will only give me the right," lie petitioned.

You, Mr. Grafton What right can I give youP I don't understand If you were my promised wife --Ah! my dear Miss Greta, don't turn away your head disdainfully; hear me out. Mr. Stoughton is under some obligation to me; if you were my promised wife, I could write him. There would be no more said about the missing diamond; it would be accounted for in some natural manner.

You would be no longer suspected. No one could suspect the woman whom Thomas Grafton delighted to honor." You---you arc very kind. I thank you: but 1 do not love you, Mr. Grafton. "1 don't ask you to love me.

Of course you don't; the idea has never, perhaps, entered your head before. I only beg that you will marry me. Love will come sooner or later, as I deserve it at your hands. And, my dear Greta, what better can you doP Who will give -you employment, with this blight upon you? How will you earn your daily bread?" "I don't know," returned Greta; "how shall indeed? But, all the same, it would be contemptible to re- waid your unselfishness by merely marrying you for A home." "Only Agree to marry me, and I will not quarrel with the motives," he implored. What could Greta do Pi Her lover had deserted her: her good name was tarnished.

Without home, friends or work, was it not tho height of folly to refuse such a way of escape? And yet, how could she love him But might not one survive tho luxury of loving? Come wealth, ease 'and position; vanish all that make life sweet. She begged a fortnight for consideration: something might turn up to her advantage--the diamond, for instance. But the fortnight psissed, as fortnights will; nothing happened, except that Mr. Gi'afton, feeling confidence in tho woman who hesitates, refurnished his parlor in blue satin and pale gold, fitted up an apartment for his wife's boudoir like a suburb of fairy land, bespoke the parson, the ring and the cateeer. "Do tell!" said one gossip to another; Greta Loring's going to step into clover, and no mistake." "It's a powerful change for her.

I hear Mr. Grafton's always had a hankering for her. He told Mr. Jobson any man could marry any woman lie set his heart upon, if he'd only work hard enough and wait like a spider in his web." "I guess lie got Greta for tho asking, eh?" "I dunno; there was that Sothernt who was sweet on her." "Ireckon that's blown over--only a young man's pastime. I'm surprised at Tom Grafton, though, with all his airs and frills, with his family tree and his coat of arms, and his ancestors and his money.

How does he get over that little 'iftair of Mrs. Stoughton's diamond? I s'pose he expects folks to visit his wife imd ask no questions, once she's a Grafton." "Law! it's the way of the world: a pretty face makes a man forget trespasses und get rid of his judgment. It's no use quarreling with such things at our age. Greta'll make a fine lady, and I meim to ay my respects at Grafton Plneedirectly; 'ID crazy to see the new fixings. I'd just like to see how I'd look in the blue-satin parlor." AnxV all this time Greta had not even consented.

Jt is true, wealth and comfort were alhiring. She had told herself that Providence would provide; and how could she know but this was the very provision made for It would; be delightful, no doubt, to enjoy such an establishment as Grafton Place. Only let her say Yes," and she might wear her velvets and laces with any lady in the land, drive in her satin-lined carriage, and have servants under her and all that heart) council A11P all but self -approval, 11 love and'Stephen Sotherno. Still, let her answer "No," and Stephen and love would still be lacking, and hardship, wont and public disapproval be superadded. "The miserable little thief!" thought the exasperated Mrs.

Stoughton. She has. played her cards to perfection, cozening that old fellow into marrying her. No doubt he'll rue the day, and serVe him In the meantime, as Greta had not given him a refusal, Mr. Grafton chose to consider Trimself accepted.

Ho consulted her about the wedding journey, about the new servants to be engaged, as if the marriage was a matter of course. She acquiesced in his suggestions, but she had no choice to make; she was drifting with the stream, not rowing hard against it; she was making believe that sue could love him by-and-bye; his attention, his consideration for one so forlorn, hia generosity, touched her; that was all. One day Mrs. Stoughton's husband returned home. It would seem a if no event could have less effect upon ipeta's fortunes.

She watched him walking by, and wondered if Mrs. Stoughton was glad to see him. "Any news in Hampton?" he asked, dinner table. News enough. Mr.

Grafton is going to be married," returned his wife. "That reminds me--I must see Grafton directly. Married, eh? Well, he's old enough. Who's the bride elect?" That little hussy, Greta Loring." Softly, softly, my dear: it sounds envious." "I envious of that little thief!" Thief What has Greta stolen--old Grafton's heart? Nobody knew he had, one before. Perhaps she has only developed a latent organ in him." "Oh, Herbert, I am so sorry to tell you--I never could make up my mind to write it; but she was at work here-Greta Loring--by-the-way, I haven't paid her yet--and--and my diamond ring was in the same room, and--it's there yet, only the diamond's gone.

Nobody else had been in the house. What could I think? Of course she stole it, though she brazens it out as she docs." Mr. Stoughton turned ash-color, laid down his fork, and stared at his wife. And you accused her of stealing the liamond I wrote to her very kindly and considerately. She replied in a high and mighty tone, which was simply insulting.

I put the case into Mr. Grafton's hands." "Into Graflon's hands! Well, and what did he say about it?" "Say! Why, he's going to marry her!" "Looks as if you'd win your case," laughed Mr. Stoughton, uneasily. "And so Greta is going to marry the old fox. A pretty kettle of fish! My dear, I really wish you had notified me of your loss." Ho took up his hat and went out grimly.

He had a very disagreeable duty to perform, and he wanted it over with; it had spoiled his dinner, and that was enough. He knocked at Greta's door. The diamond again," she thought. "After all," he cogitated, "why not let well enough alone? Perhaps she loves the fellow." Greta bore herself like one with good news: a tender color trembled on her check, a sort of suppressed joy shone in her eyes. An open letter lay before her, and Mr.

Grafton'sat in her easy-chair. Mrs. Stoughton, watching from her window, wondered what under the sun Herbert could have to say that would take so long, and hoped he was Greta a piece of his mind, but grew all the more bewildered when he and Mr. Grafton came out together and separated without a word. I guess her cake is dough," she conjectured.

When Greta was left once more alone, she turned to her open letter, written in a strange hand: "What does it mean, my dearest Greta?" it began. "I sometimes think I'm not quite sane yet, and it's all a fiction of my disturbed brain. Hero I was, just picking up from a fever, in a strange city, when I received all my old letters and keepsakes from my sweetheart, and not a word of explanation. It was like a bombshell. I was out of my head for a month afterward, and small wonder.

Greta, I love you--love you; so much love was never meant to be wasted. The hospital nurse kindly writes this for me, since I can only swear that I am still, and ever will be, your 'dgvoted lover, "STEPHEN SOTIIEUNE." Mr. Stoughton looked very sober when he sat down to his tea table that night. I'm dying to know what Miss Greta had to say lor herself," remarked his wife. The stronger vessel smiled.

Your tea, my dear, resembles the church is neither hot nor cold." It waited for you long enough to cool. I wonder you didn't see that you wore Ac trap at Miss Loring's." "I tnink maybe Grafton found me de trop. In the mean time, my love, I am happy to restore your diamond," and he passed a tiny box across the table. "Then she has confessed!" sparkled Mrs. Stoughton.

"Youjump at conclusions. Women are fond of such gymnastic exercises, I hear. No; the confession comes from your humble servant. I am the culprit, Mrs. It was I who, wanting some ready money for business purposes, abstracted the diamond from your ring, and pawned it to Mr.

Grafton. He advanced a considerable sum upon it, and never meant you should know it till I had redeemed it--perhaps not then. After all, perfect confidence is the only safe thing between you and me, I find. Now we must go and beg Greta's pardon." "And Mr. Grafton--" The blue satin parlor is a mistake, as well as the boudoir; he will remain a bachelor." "How --how docs he explain himself?" All's fair in love and War, even forgery, is his creed." Then Greta will j'eturn to her cur- Not if Stephen Sotherne can help it." --Harper's Bazar.

Breeches 01 contract--Those that shrink. TIMELY TOPICS. A Chinese paper gives an account of the cruel treatment to which the coolies are subjected, who are employed in the Dutch islands in the Straits to clear land and plant tobacco. Everyman, on his arrival, is tattooed on the cheek, and' once arrived they are never released. No letters are allowed to be transmitted; if one is sick no medical attendance is furnished: they are dressed in cocoanut bark, and have for food one pound of rice in the husk daily and a little salt fish.

On account of the unhealthinese of the climate nearly half die the first year, and the total number of deaths since the trade began is more than 10,000. Such a rigorous watch is kept upon them that no ono has ever been known to escape. The grave can have no terrors for an eccentric individual out in Illinois. He scoffs at the comforts of a patent spring mattress, with the accompanying pillows, bolsters, sheets and snowy 1 cover- lids, and even deems the Indian luxury of a blanket and fire effeminate ana unworthy of man. In hia back yard there is a shallow trench, in which' he lays himself each night at bedtime, and a faithful man servant shovels earth over him till nothing but his head is left uncovered.

He has no fear of fire or burglars, but sleeps serene and happy in.his couch of earth. If he should wake up and find himself dead some morning, he would be both dead and buried. It is hardly necessary to say that he is not a married man. The recent marriages of several wealthy girls to coachmen and others out of their set," leads the Philadelphia T-'mes to remark that New York fathers with good-looking daughters are instituting a reform in the matter of employing and using coachmen. Information from the intelligence offices is to the effect that deeply-colored, ugly and aged drivers are in great demand, and their services command a better price than those of young and better appearing men.

When the employment of the latter kind has been found unavoidable, the most thorough inquires arc made into their social habits and possible latent qualities. The absolute determination of so many young women to marry somebody, little regarding whom, has set matrimony forth in new shapes and made the position of a father a hard one to bear, as a general thing." It has been stated that desperadoes in the West have been known to kill men in order to test the quality of a weapon! This became known through confessions made at the gallows. Recklessness in the use of all fneornis is the characteristic of most outlaws, who nevertheless understand their weapon perfectly. A sheriff of one of the counties in New Mexico was killed not long ago. The desperado who did the killing owned a beautiful revolver.

lie was mortally wounded, but standing on his knees facing the sheriff. The latter bade him turn the weapon around and hand the breach to him. The wounded ruffian did so, holding on to the tip of the barrel. As the shorifi bent over to receive the pistol, the wounded man, with the rapidity of lightning, threw it back, seized the handle and pulled the trigger on tho sheriff, whose heart was pierced by the ball. Thomas Moron, an English laborer, was arrested for not contributing Si.25 a week toward the support of his six children in the workhouse.

His wife is in an insane asylum. lie said that about a fortnight after the children entered the workhouse he was laid up ten weeks through an accident. When he got better the frost set in, and he could obtain no work for thirteen weeks. Through his long illness he cot into debt; but he had paid the guardians as much as he could. An entry in the police I ook showed that Moran was carried to the infirmary on a stretcher in September.

Notwithstanding this, the magistrate sentenced the defendant to a month's hard labor. The defendant burst out crying, exclaiming, For God's Hake, gentlemen, give me a chance! I was never in prison; if you send me, I'll lose my work; if you give me time I'll pay all." He was, however, still appealing bitterly for mercy. The London 'Pimes has sensibility enough to call this a haivl case." If any one should be required to express in brief terms the immediate motive oi Peru in causing the three-sided war between Chili on the one hand and Peru and Polivia on the other, it might be done very fairly in this way: the mime diate cause of the war is the effort of Peru to get up a corner in fertilizers, guano and nitrate of soda. Behind this, as a contributory cause, was the great earthquake wave a year or so ago, which swept destruction along the coast of Peru, crippling her fertilizer works and shipping depots. Further back is Peru's heavy public debt, mostly due to England, which debt end interest is secured on her guano and other trade in fertilizers, which trade and her ability to pay her obligations on her bonds were embarrassed by her losses and by competition springing up among Chilians domiciled on Bolivian territory, and by Chili- ans on their own territory, in which nitrate and guano beds arc now being worked.

Ajjd beyond all this are the treaties and other relics of an old dispute between Chili and Bolivia about a piece of sea-coast territory lying between the two countries. Occasionally the newspapers contain accounts of the exhumation of bodies that give what is called unmistakable evidence having toeen buried alive. Speaking of this matter, a city paper opposes the belief which prevails in the minds of many that persons are frequently buried while the spark of life has not yet left the body. It says that "while such things have happened, add may still happen, they are of the rarest occurrence. Winslow, the celebrated anatomist, is said to have had two narrow escapes from burial alive, and to have published in consequence, a treatise on the signs of death.

Bou- clmt, Michel Levy and other physicians have also expressed their views on the subject: but all testimony procurable. establishes the fact that burial alive hardly ever takes place in these times. In corroboration of this, many Gorman cities have in their cemeteries mortuary houses, in which the dead are kept some days before final interment, the bell-pull being so arranged that the slightest motion of the body would sound an alarm. So far these precautions have been superfluous In more than forty years not one supposed corpse lias proved to be anything else." During the seige of Paris there wns nobody more popular, and afterward there was nobody more unpopular than Sergeant Hoff. He with his own hand slew twenty-seven Germans dur'ng the first six weeks of the seige.

His gallantry was rewarded by praise lavished in 1m regimental order of the day and in a general order of day, the Legion of Honor wag bestowed on him. feter of War told him it was very important that a dispatch should reach Marshal Bazaine and offered him 94,000 to undertake the mission. It was perilous, lie staked his head on success. It was easier for him than for many Frenchmen--he was an Alsocian and spoke German well. He said to the Minister of War: I accept the mission, but I re fuse the money." Howl after howl of indignation went up when it WM found Sergeant Hoff had disappeared.

It was laUMthat he had always been a Prussian spy and was now a traitor The government gave the key-note to these howls to save Hoff life if he were discovered as he passed through the enemy's-lines. He safely reached Bazaine. The war over he was made keeper of Vendome Column. The keeper of the Triumphal Arch died the other day, and Sergeant Hoff, to the delight of the Parisians, has been appointed to the vacant place. A New York paper has an article in regard to the proposed plan of General Fremont, Governor of Arizona, to extend the Gulf of California by tapping the northern end and letting; it run into and fill up the great Colorado Desert.

It seems that the sediment carried down for ages by the great river Colorado last collected at what was then its mouth, in sufficient quantity to dam off the northern arm of the Gulf of California from any connection with the ocean. The water in this unfed reservoir then slowly evapurated, leaving a dry basin 130 miles by thirty, and this, together with the surrounding slopes, soon became a "Modeless desolation," while the river turning southward found entrance to the gulf many miles below. Between this arid waste and the present head of the gulf lies some thirty miles soft earth, just lifted above sea-level, and through this Governor Fremont proposes to cut his It is a highway of commerce that is now contemplated, but originally the main object aimed at by pouring the desert full of water was to restore the natural harmonies which had been disturbed by the drying up of the sea. Human remains prove that the desert was jately fertile, and an old Spanish map is mentioned which places the boundaries of the gulf far beyond their present positions. Mr.

McCormick, Commissioner-General from the United States to the Paris Exposition, is engaged in dispatching the diplomas and medals recently received from Paris to the fortunate exhibitors. The latter are of gold, those silver and bronze not having yet arrived. They are about two inches broad, weigh three ounces, and are worth 50. On the obverse side is the medallion of a female, the head of tiic republic of France, inscribed Republique Francaise." On. the reverse are the, figure of fame, with the legend, "Exposition Universelle International do 1878." A youth beside the figure holds a tablet, upon whichjis engraved the name of the exhibitor.

There arc 140 of these, and with each goes a diploma. The latter arc helio- typcs eighteen by twenty inches. The upper sections "contains an alleirory of Peace and Fame clasping the hand of an artisan at the foot of a throne. The lower portion is inscribed, "Exposition Uni- verselle de 1878. Lc Jury Internationale des Recompenses dc cernc unc Mcdille D'or," with the name of exhibitor, group, etc.

There arc 225 silver medals, 200 bronze and about 200 certificates of merit, which is the lowest prize given. Mr. R. R. Hitt, secretary of the American Legation at Paris, says that the principal officers of the French government ore very enthusiastic over the character and conduct of the American department of the Exposition.

The Mormon Creed. The Mormons, it seems to me, have no religion. They, however, have a creed and believe in it. They have a system of theology, too, but such a conglomerate affair is it that it defies description. It is worthy of mention only as a curiosity.

It teaches primarily that there are many gods, and that eminent saints become gods in heaven. They rise one above another in power and glory to infinity. Joseph Smith is now the god of this generation. Above him is Jesus of Nazareth, whose superior god is Adam. Above Adam is Jehovah, and above Jehovah is Elohim.

These all have many wives and they all rule over their descendants, who arc constantly increasing in number and dominion. The glory of a saint when he becomes a god depends in some degree upon the number of wives and children which he has. Hence it is that polygamy is taught and enforced as a duty. Wives are scaled to saints here on earth to increase their dominion in heaven. The gods are in the form of men, and are the fathers of the souls of men in this world.

The ten commandments arc the rule of lite, together with a revelation given to Joseph Smith In 1863. This revelation is called Word of Wisdom," and is regarded simply as counsel not as law. According to the Mormon creed infant sprinkling is condemned. At eight years of age children are immersed. Baptism for the dead is practiced, a living person being baptized for one or more dead persons.

Some of the great men of the nation and of the world are by proxy members of the church of Latter-Day Saints, as Washington, Franklin, etc. There have been many dispensations of religious truth, but the greatest Of all is that mode through the Prophet Joseph. This dispensation will culminate in the settlement of the saints in Jackson county, Missouri, whence they were expelled. Here will nil the saints be gathered in due time, and all others be cut off. All preaching, so far doctrine is concerned, is ringing a change on these points.

The people know their articles of faith 1y heart and are not allowed to forget them. Neither can a Gentile, though a fool, fail to learn wliat the saints believe. It is an eclectic theology that they hold, made up of contributions from every creed. It is a compound of Christianity, philosophy and mythology in about equal parts. The form of church government is that of the Methodist Church, although the leaders were originally Congregationalists in the matter church order and Baptists by This conglomerate theology is diametrically opposed to the of the Bible, (1) in being purely materialistic, (2) in teaching the eternity of matter, (3) in declaring the pre-cxistence and transmission of souls, (4) in preaching a plurality of gods, and (5) in advocating the doctrine of a plurality of wives or celestial Afternoon.

ITEMS OF INTEREST, Done with the pen--A dead pig. The diamond field--The shirt front. How many feet are there in a school yard? A modiste it not modest in hei charges. Nothing ia more shocking than an electric buttery. When a doctor lances a carbuncle doesn't he cut a swell?" Fifteen farmhouses near Parma, Italy, have been destroyed by a landslip.

What's the use of going hungry in this land of agenta? Any man can get board. A joke ii not so durable as a church bell. After it has been-tolled a few times it is worn out. The raindrops that fall when the brightness is gone are the tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. A (Iowa) boy goes to school on a donkey with his dinner basket hunjt on the ear of the quadruped.

There is nothing more likely to estrange two friends than a small debt. I and may some day be separated by an O. The annual importation of oranges and lemons in the United States is over 200,000,000, amounting in value to about $600,000. The Baltimore papers report a quie but very general revival of religion in that city, which is largely credited to the labors of Mr. Moody.

Two Italian journalists fought a duel with pistols, near Naples, and exchanged twenty-eight shots at a distance of fifteen paces without doing any damage. There are 137 normal schools in Austria and Hungary; 115 in Italy; 41 in Russia: 41 in England; 33 in Belgium; 31 in Spain; 86 in France, and 32 in Switzerland. You may speak of chills and fever and damp air, and the great danger of taking cold, but it never has the least effect on the couple who bcnUon enjoying an evening ramble. A Hindoo has reduced laziness to A fine art. He says: It is better to walk than to run, better to stand than to walk, better to sit than to stand, and better to lie down than to sit." In digging a cellar at St.

Paul, the workmen unearthed a solKl silver chalice and salver of fine workmanship, and they arc thought to be part of a communion service taken from Father Hennepin in 1680. Small boy (entering shop)--" I wani a pennyworth of canary seed." Shopkeeper (why knows the it foi yonr mother?" Small boy it's for the bird." The Chinese have a curious mode punishment not unlike the old-fashionec practice ol placing criminals in the stocks. They fasten a heavy yoke about a convict's neck and make him wear ii night und day, and parade him about th public squares and streets of the city bj the police. Says the Iowa City Press: The culti vation of wolves is profitable. Yot don't catch a scalp-hunter killing an ok wolf.

He makes the acquaintance that old one, finds its burrow, and in tin spring, when it has a litter of twelvi whelps, kills ten of them, and saves pair for seed. Turks are not altogether in capable of good work is shown by Ahmec Vefyk Pasha, who has in two monthi drained some thousands of acres swamp in the beautiful plains of Broussa He is now employing a num ber of the unfortunate Mussulman re fugees in planting and sowing this land Paul Morphy, the once noted chee, player, in his insanity imagines himsel a great lawyer with an abundance clients. The great case that absorbs nearly his whole attention is an imagin ary one against parties who had chaw of an estate left him by his father. utterly repudiates chess, and denies eve: having known anything about it. One of the new industries of Germany reported by Dr.

Stutzer to be now 11 a flourishing condition," is the manu facture of artificial clover seed. Frog ments of gravel are sifted until partiele of a suitable size are obtained, and th substitute for the seed Is then shaken ui with some coloring substance until i acquires the desired hue. An ordinary pocket-microscope is quite sufficient however, to expose the cheat. In the government of Chereon, Russin in the bed of a river, a peasant found ai egg of unusual size. It is equal to fort: hen's eggs, whearas the ostrich ezg i equal to only twenty-four.

It is of yellowish color, and being found bctweei the clay and gypsum layers, is to Ijclong to the tertiary formation. Th purchaser of this egg offered it to th Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, for 10,000 roubles. Th academy laaled to buy it. on account lack of means, but asked permission t. take a mold from it.

The British Mu scum has now bought this unioue egg to Uie grief of the Russian students natural science. They make quick work in turning ou for fires in Chicago. The men sleep 01 the floor directly over their wagon, ii beds arranged in a circle about two traj doors opening directly over the seats When an alarm is struck, the same cur 'that strikes the alarm draws th covein from the beds, opens the trap and lowers three stairways--one leadini to the driver's scat and the other two the body of the vehicle. The men turn ble down the stairways and take thci places. Meanwhile the uorses sprint into place, are hitched, the driver seize the reins, and the wagon starts.

Fron the moment the gong is struck til the wagon is under motion but fou and one-half seconds are consumed. A plan by which young persons mid lug in the neighborhood of great cities or anywhere else, for that matter, wher mulberry tree will grow, can, witt easy, clean and ptawaut work, mak from ten-to twerty-five dollars durinj the summer, ought to meet witli Inrg. acceptance. There in a. market for tii afr- about seventy-five cents pe bound, anti thf tegs of tho worms cat be without trouble.

Placet near to a stow, the wortns appear fron the 4n a few and soon begii to The but neet pure and must be kept dry am warm. Cocoons raised noar German town were ship pod to Italy, whence 1 WHS reported tkat they wore exceJlon In quality, and reeled off The children can do most of the work which about six weeks ia liar June. The care and trimming of tb trees should be attended to by matt hut the little ones can carry to th leaves and feed the worms. The mul berry tree crows rapidly, and Ic rend, immediately the leaves appear..