THE DEATH of Mr. Joseph Livesey, of Preston, the veteran Temperance reformer, removes a wellknown and valued member of society from our midst. His career has abounded in interesting and striking incidents illustrative of the worth of perseverance, fidelity to principle, and industry, in the battle of life. He has been justly called" The Father of Teeto alism," having himself written out the first total abstinence pledge, on September 1, 1832. As an author, a lecturer, and philanthropist, he labored indefatigably in the cause of godliness and social reform, and won for himself in all directions the good name which is better than precious ointment." He has passed away at the ripe age of 91, and will long be remembered with grateful and respectful affection by a large circle of admirers and friends.-The Christian. The Monthly Record says of the same distinguished reformer: "Like many more of Britain's noblest men, Livesey sprung from the poorest ranks of life, and by honest, hard work and selfdenial, combined with a large-hearted sympathy for his fellows in their struggles with poverty and temptation, won his way to a comfortable position and the sincere respect of his fellow-men. His life's story reads like a chapter from SelfHelp. When a boy he learnt to read, and studied grammar and arithmetic from books fastened with cord to the breast beam of his loom. The crowning act of his life, which has rendered him famous in the eyes of millions of his fellow-men, was when, on September 1st, 1832, he, with six other noble men of Preston, signed the first pledge of total abstinence from all liquors of an intoxicating quality. Joseph Livesey's parents died when he was seven years old, of consumption. His constitution was not a strong one, and on fifty occasions he suffered from rheumatic fever. His principles were thus severely tested in his own experience, and his long life is ample evidence of the non-necessity of alcoholic drinks to preserve a lengthened vitality. A SIGNIFICANT Statement was lately made by a citizen of Denver, who chanced to have been at one time its mayor. "Whenever we extend the saloon limit a little," he said, "we have to add to the police force. And everybody doesn't seem to realize that the extra policeman costs more in a month than the saloon nets in a year." IOWA finds it much more easy to enact Prohibition than to enforce it. In addition to the ordinary obstacles to the vigorous execution of the law, legal difficulties have been found in the way. The friends of the new policy made the mistake of imposing rather heavy penalties for its violation. This they find takes the jurisdiction of such cases out of the hands of the justices of the peace and prevents any kind of summary punishment. The liquor dealer can not be "railroaded" through in the style which the popular imagination delights in. He must be committed for trial, indicted by a grand jury and impleaded before a jury. Judge Hayes, of the Iowa bench, now decides that under the law the purchase of intoxicating liquors is as much an offence as their sale. Consequently, those who have purchased for their own use cannot be required to give evidence against the dealer, as this would incriminate themselves. Spies who purchase in the service of temperance organizations are as much liable to punishment as those from whom they bought, and the responsible officers of these organizations are liable to indictment for conspiracy to solicit crime. How any convictions can be effected under a law so interpreted we find it difficult to see. session of the Legislature shall so alter the law as to Nothing can be done until the next make the sale and not the purchase, a criminal act, just as several states punish bribery but legalize the acceptance of bribes if the receiver turns State's evidence. But, if the declaration making the sale of liquor a criminal offence be a part of the constitutional amendment recently adopted, even the Legislature can do nothing in the matter. -American. LORD WOLSELEY, the Commander-in-chief of the British troops sent to relieve Gen. Gordon, is a strong temperance man. By his directions tea will be served as rations to the men selected for the Nile expedition. STRICTLY HYGIENIC.-A rather eccentric, yet eminent physician was called upon to attend a middle-aged rich lady who had imaginary ills. After many wise inquiries about her symptoms and manner of life, he asked for a piece of paper and something for somebody." In the gravest manner wrote down the following prescription: "Do he handed it to the patient and left. The doctor heard nothing from the lady for a long time. One Christmas morning he was hastily summoned to the cottage of his Irish washerwoman. "It's not meself, doctor, it's me wrist that's ailing. few bits of wood, when me fut struck this basket. It Ye see, I was after goin' out into the darkness for a stood there like a big mercy, as it was, full of soft flannel from Mrs. Walker. She told me that your medicine cured her, doctor. So, if you plaze to put a little of the same on me wrist, I'll be none the worse for me nice present." "It's a powerful remedy," said the doctor, gravely. And more than once in after he years wrote the prescription, "Do something for somebody."-Phrenological Journal. ITEMS. A "FOSSIL FIND" IN DELAWARE COUNTY.-An Junior Class of Haverford College, while on a geointeresting discovery was made a few days ago by the logical excursion in the vicinity of the college, under the guidance of Professor H. Carvill Lewis, the Professor of Geology. On arriving at the summit of the hill, between Haverford College and Cooperstown, which latter is about two miles west of the college, the which, as the Professor explained, might be regarded class stopped to examine an ancient gravel patch, as a "patch of New Jersey stranded on the Haverford hills." It was an isolated outlier of the New Jersey marine gravels which had escaped erosion. Similar patches were said to occur on the city line road near Chestnut Hill, at "Sandy Bank," back of Media, on the continuation of Market street in Marple township, and at a few other elevated points. These are all on hill tops at an elevation of 400 to 450 feet above the sea. These remnants of a once continuous oceanic deposit afford a striking proof of the oscillations between land and sea, due to movements of the earth's crust. This gravel, which Professor Lewis has provisionally called the "Bryn Mawr gravel," was made in preglacial times, during probably the Tertiary age, but its precise age has not yet been determined on account of the absence of any fossils in it. Prof. Lewis impressed upon his students the desirability of making a search for fossils in this gravel, in order to determine its age. Within five minutes afterwards, one of the members of the class, Horace E. Smith, in breaking open a piece of iron conglomerate, was fortunate enough to discover a twig of fossil wood, completely changed into iron, and imbedded in the conglomerate. A larger piece of wood, also replaced by iron, was subsequently found in the same block of stone. This is believed to be the first fossil found in this formation in Pennsylvania, and, with the exception of a mastodon's tooth found in a kaolin mine near the Brandywine many years ago, it is thought to be the first fossil discovered in Delaware county. It is of considerable scientific interest, and will be deposited in the museum of Haverford College --Public Ledger. THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics recently handed his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury. It is shown that the value of the products of the various industries of the United States is seven times the total value of our foreign commerce, nearly three times the total value of the foreign commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, and five times the total value of the foreign commerce of France, including in each case both imports and exports. The total value of the products of industry in the United States is also shown to be a little more than twice the total value of the exports of merchandise from all the countries of Europe. The United States is now the largest manufacturing country on the globe. NATURE OF COMETS' TAILS.-Prof. Robert S. Ball, Astronomer Royal of Ireland, who recently visited this city, in an address on "Comets," delivered before the British Association, thus briefly sums up our knowledge respecting the tails of these interplanetary bodies: "As the comet draws near the sun, the heat it experiences increases, so that the materials of the comet begin to dilate and to be driven off into a vaporous condition. The matter is thus resolved into a state of extreme subdivision. These separate particles are charged with an electricity similar to that of the sun, and, in virtue of their minuteness, the intensity of that repulsion has become sufficient to sweep off the particles in a stream and thus generate the tail." As for the masses of comets, Professor Ball maintains that we have good reason to believe that they are very much less than those of the planets. Indeed, from the circumstance of the little or no disturbance which the irregular disposition and passage of comets among the planetary bodies produces in the order and arrange. ment of the solar system, it is contended that comets cannot have any considerable mass. "If comets had mass, then organic disease would be introduced into the solar system which would ultimately prove fatal." PREJEVALSKI'S HORSE.-We had occasion, sometime ago, to call the attention of our readers to a new species of horse from Central Asia, which had been discovered by the Russian traveller, Prejevalski, and which had been named by naturalists, in honor of the discoverer, Equus Przevalski. This animal, apart from certain peculiarities of structure, is interesting as being the only known form of living horse which still exists in a naturally wild state, and which differs specifically from the domestic animal (Equus Caballus). A correspondent of Nature points out the very close resemblance existing between the outlines of this animal and the representations found incised on antlers from the famous cave of La Madelaine, which figure so extensively in works on archæology. "There is the same massive head, the same hog-mane, ab sence of forelock, pointed ears, short body and powerful legs, while there seems even an indication that the long hairs of the tail spring first from the middle of that organ. In that [prehistoric representation] from Creswell Crags, as well as those from La Madelaine, the jaw is heavier than in the recent specimen."— A. H., in the American. AN ENGLISH PARTY STORM.-A cable despatch from London, published recently, gives evidence tending to show that at least two of the British Princes are not of that Bourbon type represented as learning nothing from the world's progress. It is said that both the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, as members of the House of Peers, have given notice to Lord Salisbury, the Tory leader of that House, that they intend at this autumn session to vote for the "Franchise bill "—that is, to vote for the bill which the Lords threw out at the summer session, because it was not accompanied by a bill re-distributing the seats in the House of Commons. Their reported purpose in this regard is entirely right, though the reason which they are said to assign for it is not of a very high order. The action of the Lords in rejecting a bill which extended the voting franchise to two millions of adult men in England and Ireland has caused a great deal of agitation throughout the United Kingdom, demanding the abolition of the House of Peers, or at least its discontinuance as a body of hereditary legislators, to be continued-if continued at all-as a smaller body to be selected from existing Peers as a deliberative or revising chamber, but with no legislative power. This agitation has become so wide-spread and so aggressive that some of the Peers are alarmed at this threatened suppression of the hereditary privileges of their order; and the two Princes referred to are said to fear that a like hostility may extend to the Crown, unless the Lords take counsel of prudence and pass the Franbill from the Commons as the price of it. If Wales chise bill, without attempting to exact a Redistribution and Edinburgh entertain that fear, it is quite a natural feeling, but to give it as a reason why they will vote for the Franchise bill is not very creditable to their way of looking at so important a matter. One would think that giving votes to two millions of their countrymen who are now deprived of them would have been quite sufficient as reason for supporting the bill, especially as it had been passed in the Commons by an overwhelming majority. Still they do take note of the progress of events towards a more democratic element in their Government, and for this they are entitled to credit.-Daily Paper. CAPTAIN PRATT, Superintendent of the Indian training school at Carlisle, Pa., recently returned from New Mexico, bringing seventy-seven young Indians of the Pueblo tribe, ranging in age from nine to twenty years. The autumn term of the school will be attended by 400 pupils. THERE are four Indian newspapers published, well worth the reading of persons interested in Indian civili zation. The “Iapi Oahe, or The Word-Carrier," at the Santee Agency, Nebraska, by the Rev. Alfred L. Riggs. Last year it was printed in English and Indian, the pages alternating. This year they have separated the languages and print an edition in English and an edition in Indian. A paper is printed in English at the school for Indians at Carlisle, Pa.,' called "The Morning Star," which contains facts regarding the Indians connected with that school. There are also "The New Era" and "The Indian Citizen." The New Era " hails from Pawnee Agency, Indian Territory, and is an attractive sixteen-page monthly. The "Indian Citizen" comes from Forest Grove Indian Training School, Oregon, and is a diminutive four-page paper, published monthly, at fifty cents a year. It makes the boast that it is entirely edited and published by Indians.—Amer. Missionary. " O Summer sunlight, filling earth with splendor, We listen, as we nestle in thy radiance, To what thou teachest of celestial things. O cheery sunlight! whereso'e'er thou shinest Be God's own lights, illumining life's day! O priceless sunlight! how the world would mourn thee If thou wert hidden never more to shine! Would earth mourn us if we were straightway summoned At once to leave it, by a Voice Divine ? O loyal sunlight! faithfully fulfilling And finding them most sweet, thy will surrendered- [From the German of Meta Heusser, by H. L. L.] No crown, no palms for me! Turn not Thy face away! Deal not in wrath with Thine unworthy child! Yea, I have sinned; yet there is grace with Thee. Thou givest mercy, pardon full and free, To fallen wanderers on the desert wild. No thought of triumph now! That dream is over-rest is all I crave; A glimpse of hope and heaven beyond the grave. And for what yet remains Of my sad pilgrimage, grant, O my God, Meek, humble faith, to suffer and be still; Meekly to watch Thy hand, to do Thy will, Humbly to bow beneath Thy chastening rod. Dark stream of life, rush on To the eternal ocean, full and fast! If only o'er the waves may fly the Dove Of heavenly peace, and beckon from above To where a pardoned soul shall rest at last. -Selected. MEADOW TALK. A bumble-bee, yellow as gold, Sat perched on a red-clover top, "We people that work," "Find a benefit sometimes in stopping; Can keep up a perpetual hopping." The grasshopper paused on his way, And thoughtfully hunched up his knees; "Why trouble this sunshiny day,' Quoth he, "with reflections like these? I follow the trade for which I was made; "There's a time to be sad, A time both for working and stopping; And for me to do nothing but hopping." SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 21st inst. GREAT BRITAIN.-A Conservative demonstration announced for the 13th at Birmingham, was prevented by an organized mob of professed Liberals, who forced an entrance to the Town Hall, where a meeting was to be held, by battering the doors with heavy planks, overpowered the Conservatives, and drove the officers of the meeting and the speakers from the platform. Sir Stafford Northcote and Lord Randolph Churchill endeavored in vain to address the people, and were obliged to retire to a side room, where t! ey made short speeches. In a Conservative meeting on the Franchise question at Wycombe on the same day, the Liberals were found to be in the ascendancy, and much disorder ensued, ending in the Liberals putting a motion indorsing Gladstone, which was carried. Sir Charles Dilke, a member of the Government, declared in a speech at Oldham that if the Tories would propose a reasonable redistribution scheme, the Government would be found anxious to meet them. When the steamship Nevada, from New York for Liverpool, arrived off Queenstown on the 17th, it was announced that fire had been discovered among the cargo, two days before, and was got under control only after hours of hard labor, in which many passengers 'assisted. The crew were so much exhausted that fresh men were shipped at Queenstown to relieve them. The vessel proceeded to Liverpool, and reached that port on the 18th. The cargo was found to be much damaged, but the vessel was little injured. No general panic is said to have occurred when the fire was discovered, but one steerage passenger, an Irishman, is reported to have died from fright. The depression in the ship building trade and the consequent distress are increasing in the North of England, Forty ocean steamers lie idle in the docks at Sunderland. Most of the ship-yards are closed. Public subscriptions are in progress for the relief of the laborers :hrown out of employment. IRELAND.-A. M. Sullivan, a leader and one of the founders of the Home Rule movement, died in Dublin on the 17th. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 18th, a member questioned the Government respecting the economic crisis, and demanded the same protection for agriculture as for manufactures. Premier Ferry replied that the Government was equally solicitous for both industries, as was shown by the proposed increase of tariff on cereals; but he thought the time inopportune for the discussion, and proposed to pass it over, which was agreed to, 257 to 173. The Minister of Agriculture, it is asserted, will support the bill increasing the duties on foreign live stock, amending it to make the duty on oxen 50f., on sheep, 5f. and on swine 10f. per head; and will also favor the demand of the Council General of Alsace for a duty of 2f. per hundred weight on wheat, and 4f. on flour. The Budget Committee has decided to reduce by 5,000,000 francs the appropriations for distribution by the Ministry of Public Worship. The allowance of the Archbishop of Paris is diminished by 72,000 francs, and various sums allotted for the repair of cathedrals are disallowed. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 21st, an amendment was offered to the Cattle Customs bill, fixing a duty of five francs per hundred kilogrammes on foreign corn; and empowering the municipal authorities of the province to fix the prices of bread and meat. The increase of the municipal budget of Paris by 3,500,000 francs for the assistance of the poor, shows the extending destitution in that city. A petition of French merchants at Alexandria, Egypt, has been presented to the Chamber of Depu ties, urging the immediate payment of the Alexandria indemnity, to save the French residents there from ruin. The Committee on Petitions reported urgency. An agent of the New Orleans Exposition has had an interview with President Grévy and Premier Ferry, to urge that France shall take a larger part in that exhibition. Ferry pointed out the obstacles, and expressed regret that France could not be worthily repre sented, but promised to make fresh efforts. The commander of the troops in Tonquin states that an effective force of 20,000 is necessary to continue offensive operations and repel the Chinese invasion. This would necessitate considerable reinforcements and a heavy credit. GERMANY.-The Congo Conference is to meet in next month. England has accepted the invitation to take part, and has appointed Sir Edward Malet, the Ambassador to Germany, as its delegate. It is said that the United States will also participate. The death of the Duke of Brunswick has raised the question of the succession to the title. The Duke of Cumberland, cousin of Queen Victoria, is the nearest male heir, but it is stated that he will not be allowed to succeed without the permission of the Emperor of Germany. A Council of Regency has charge of the government, and the Imperial Government has taken possession of the feudal and allodial property of the late Duke. The Brunswick Assembly was to meet on the 23rd to consider the question. BELGIUM. In the municipal elections held on the 19th, the Liberals were victorious at Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, Liege and 15 other towns, while the Clericals elected their candidates at Bruges, Nivelles and nine other places. The Liberals claim that the Education bill has been condemned by the people, and they demand that the Chamber shall be dissolved and the Ministry resign. The Clericals claim that the relative positions of the parties are but little changed, The members of the Cabinet, at a meeting on the 21st, decided not to resign their positions. On the occasion of the International Exhibition at Antwerp, the Belgian Government proposes to summon an International Congress to consider measures for promoting the unification of commercial law. ITALY.-The cholera is decreasing everywhere in Italy, except at Salerno, 96 new cases and 45 deaths having been reported in the whole country in 24 hours, ending on the 21st, of which 22 cases and 10 deaths were in Naples. PORTUGAL.-The Government has sent to Earl Granville, British Foreign Secretary, a protest against the annexation by England of territory in South Africa which the Boers had seized from the Portuguese. PERU. It is reported that the country is becoming gradually pacified. For the first time since the entrance of the Chilian forces, all the railroads are now in operation, and progress is noticeable in the cultivation of the land. DOMESTIC.-The steamship Faraday landed the New York end of the "Bennett-Mackay" telegraph cable connecting with Ireland, at Coney Island, on the 18th inst. Thirty-one mills in Fall River, Mass., by agreement shut down for one week, beginning on the 20th, stopping over 1,000,000 spindles of a total of 1,400,000 employed on print goods, and throwing 10,000 persons out of employment for the time. Unless the market improves, the suspension may continue longer. The loss in wages to the operatives is stated at $75,000 weekly. The following are some of the statements made by D. L. Moody during an interview reported in The Pall Mall Gazette, and reprinted in The Christian: "The more I think of it the more it is borne in upon my mind that, take it all in all, there is nothing like London in the whole world. There is nothing like it in America, at any rate. instance, your wealthy men. Take, for In London there is such a thing as sanctified wealth. That is a very rare commodity in America. The reason for that, I suppose, is chief y due to the fact that in London you have families that have been acclimatised to wealth. They can breathe it without choking. It does not crush them. incidents of their life, and, being born to wealth. It is one of the ordinary they make as good a use of it as of any other gift they possess. But in America our rich men have nearly all been born poor. They have heaped to gether vast fortunes. wealth is too much for them, and there is nothing As a consequence, their compare with the great numbers of wealthy men and women who in London devote the whole of their leisure time to the service of God and their to 197 198 Rural... EDITORIALS.-The New Theology-Friends' Review Not Political -Corrections 199 199 ...... 200 202 202 ......... 202 205 ..Christian Union 206 206 207 208 DEATHS.... Earlham College Missionary Society Kansas Yearly Meeting.. International Lesson.... Danger Ahead.. Items.. POETRY.-To Day-The Coast Guard-Perhaps.............................. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Titled ladies and wealthy ladies moving in the first Nor was that at all an isolated incident. society have gone down into the lowest slums in the districts in which we have been holding our meetings, and taken care of the children and nursed the babies while the mothers spent an hour in our hall. In some of the places they opened a crêche, where they each took turns in keeping the babies while the mothers were at the services. There has been no duty which they have not been prompt to perfact, there has been no limit to the self-sacrifice form. But it was done over and over again. and zeal with which the mission has been carried through on all hands. In such energy. |