CORRESPONDENCE. PHILADELPHIA, Twelfth mo. 30th, 1884. TO THE EDITOR OF FRIENDS' REVIEW:-I have read with much interest and satisfaction the letter of Jonathan Grubb to the Editor of the London Friend, which appeared in the last number of Friends' Review, and I felt a willingness to give some evidence of my approval of some of the sentiments which he has expressed. "Rejoicing." as every true-hearted Christian must, in the indication of an "awakening from a state of formality to one of zeal and earnestness," I cannot, on the other hand, see that it is right for people holding the views which our Society has always held upon the subject of worship, to allow that "zeal" to go so far as to lead to the introduction of anything which tends to "confusion or noisy demonstration." Again, my experience with reference to singing has been very similar to that of the writer of the letter referred to, but I should be very unwilling to have that forced upon any of our meetings, considering that everything vocal which is heard in our meetings for worship should be under the promptings and guidance of the Holy Spirit, without the intervention or dictation of that which is merely human. And in regard to the ministry, let there be nothing within our borders which even approaches a "paid ministry," in the true sense of that term. The life of the Apostle Paul furnishes an admirable example in this respect. With all the loving earnestness of true loyalty to our living Head, may we hold fast to our “ spiritual views of Christian truth and liberty in Christian life," which are truly beautiful, and not allow ourselves to be hampered by anything which will tend to weakness, or which will give evidence to those who are not of our fold that we are turning again to that which is "weak and beggarly." JABEZ WOOD. A VISIT TO SOUTHLAND COLLEGE. new I obtained a minute from my Monthly Meeting, Ninth mo., 1884, to attend Kansas Yearly Meeting and the colored mission-school and meetings in Arkansas, and appoint meetings, going and returning, for religious service. After performing the first part of my visit, I arrived at Southland College Eleventh mo. 14th, 1884, and spent ten days at the school and meetings to good satisfaction to myself and those who attended, and the Lord was manifested amongst us. On Fifth-day Calvin Clark took me twelve or fifteen miles to Beaver Bayou, where they were erecting a meeting-house. The friends there, with the assistance of Calvin and Alida Clark and Elwood Scott, held a meeting there last summer under a bush arbor, and the Lord wonderfully blessed their labors to the conversion and bringing in of many souls. I visited and held meetings with the members; the Lord bless ing us together. Fifth-day evening and Sixth and Seventh-day attended Monthly Meeting at Hickory Ridge with a very good attendance, and a blessed good meeting, with many testimonies showing a full glowing heart backed up by the power of the Lord. I then returned to Southland and attended two meetings and their Sabbath-school and temperance meeting on First-day to good satisfaction and to the strengthening of believers in the Lord. I also on Second-day, as well as at other times, was present at the opening of the day-schools and the recital of several classes, and was very much gratified with the good order and religious deportment of scholars and the untiring patience of the teachers. I was particularly drawn to notice the watchful tongue and hand and the quick step of Henrietta Kitteral, a colored girl, who I learn has been there twenty-one years, faithfully filling her place to the glory of God in the school-room and meetings, as well as in the family. The two white girls, Josephine Graves and Mary V. Clark, are also nobly filling im portant stations. There are now eighty-six members in the meeting at Hickory Ridge. Sixty joined during the summer revival; the spiritual feeling is very good, There are fifteen old members and a number of new ones at Beaver Bayou; in all the meetings about four hundred members, and seven recorded ministers; four of them colored, good, earnest workers. Then add the unflinching and untiring energy put forth by Calvin and Alida Clark in the face of many discouragements by the white population. I think the Southland Col. lege a grand success, and I hope Friends will not tire in supporting it. Springboro', Ohio. THOMAS MILLER. DUBLIN MONTHLY. MEETING has a home member ship of about 350, divided in the proportion of about 250 to Dublin Preparative and 100 to Milford. For two years past the interest has been steadily maintained, with almost as steady a growth in unity and spiritual life-over one dozen have been received through conversion and convincement, all of whom are apparently "standing fast," and an equal number of our own members were converted and renewed, and are manifesting great steadiness of purpose. Praise the Lord. Our young people of Dublin have for two years past maintained a cottage prayer-meeting with great advantage to themselves and the church. Our H. M. Committee have been holding large cottage prayer meetings in the country, which have been remarkably blessed. They also visit the sick as well as the members generally in a social-religious way. Our last Monthly Meeting occurred on Christmas day, was of good size and interesting. Ann Gause and Lydia Miles each got minutes for service in adjoining Quarters of this Yearly Meeting. Two members reO. WHITE. ceived. Dublin, Indiana. HEALTH.. A WORD OF WARNING.-Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the Second Sanitary Division, is doing good work in his department, investigating as to the quality of the prepared goods put upon the market by the various canning and preserving factories. Many and stringent as the laws are for the protection of the public, certain advantages can be taken with impunity by the manufacturers. No prepared goods placed in the windows are more tempting or alluring than the jellies and canned fruits, and in regard to these Dr. Edson says: 66 Few persons know to what extent aniline is used to color jellies and preserved fruits, such as are sold in the markets. The dealers who use aniline in that manner are guilty of commercial fraud, but they cannot be punished under existing laws. No serious harm would result from the practice if the dealers were careful to use only pure aniline, but some use the drug adulterated with arsenic. Thus the appearance of the fruit and jellies is improved by the aid of poison. Of course the amount of poison in a can of jelly would not be great enough to cause immediate sickness, but the constant reception of the poison into the system of any person will work mischief finally. The laws against adulteration of foods ought to be more stringent, in order to protect people against those manufacturers who would risk the lives of their fellow-men in order to make money. Christian Union. SINCE the outbreak at Toulon almost every medical man in France has become either an ardent microbist or an equally ardent anti-microb. ist. Prior to this visitation the microbists or bacillists were carrying all before them; but their theories sustained such rude shocks at Toulon, Marseilles, and quite recently in Paris, that the balance has clearly turned against them, and it is the anti-microbists, the opponents of Dr. Koch, who are now shaping public opinion. The microb ists' theory of cholera propagation rests mainly on the hypothesis that water is the agent that spreads the disease. Now, Paris is supplied with water from four different sources, and the cholera broke out almost simultaneously in quarters the furthest removed from each other, and furnished with totally distinct water supplies. It was predicted that those who drank the Seine water would be the chief sufferers, owing to the extent to which it is contaminated. The prediction has not been verified. The most virulent outbreak was in the charitable institution kept by the sœurs hospitalières, where over sixty inmates died in a few days. This home is supplied with the water of the Vannebeyond all comparison the purest that is brought into Paris.-N. Y. Evening Post. ANIMALS AS BAROMETERS. Says a writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer: I do not know of any surer way of predicting the changes in the weather than by observing the habits of the snail. They do not drink, but imbibe moisture during a rain and exude it afterward. This animal is never seen abroad except before rain, when you will see it climbing the bark of trees and getting on the leaves. The tree snail, as it is called, two days before a rain will climb up the stems of plants, and if the rain is going to be a hard and long one, then they get on the sheltered side of a leaf, but if a short rain on the outside. Then there are other species that before a rain are yellow; after it, blue. Others indicate rain by holes and protuberances, which before a rain rise as large tubercles. These will begin to show themselves ten days before a rain. At the end of each tubercle is a pore, which opens when the rain comes, to absorb and draw in the moisture. In other snails deep indentations, beginning at the head between the horns, and ending with the jointure of the tail, appear a few days before a Mother Carey's chickens, as they are called, predict foul weather. Take the ants; have you never noticed the activity they display before a storm-hurry, scurry, rushing hither and yon, as if they were letter carriers making six trips a day, or expressmen behind time? Dogs grow sleepy and dull, and like to lie before a fire as rain approaches; chickens pick up pebbles, fowls roll in the dust, flies sting and bite more viciously, frogs croak more clamorously, gnats assemble under trees, and horses display restlessness. When you see a swan flying against the wind, spiders crowding on a wall, toads coming out of their holes in unusual numbers of an evening, worms, slugs, and snails appearing, robin redbreasts pecking at our windows, pigeons coming to the dovecote earlier than usual, peacocks squalling at night, mice squeaking, or geese washing, you can put them down as rain signs. Nearly all the animals have some way of telling the weather in advance. It may be that the altered condition of the atmosphere with regard to electricity, which generally accompanies changes of weather, makes them feel disagreeable or pleasant. The fact that the cat licks herself before a storm is urged by some naturalists as proof of the special influence of electricity. Man is not so sensitive. Yet many people feel listless before a storm, to say nothing of aggravated headaches, toothaches, rheumatic pains, and last, but not least, corns. ITEMS. THE CAPE MAY SORGHUM PRODUCT.-This year's product of sorghum molasses and sugar at the Rio Grande sugar mill and sorghum plantation, Cape May county, New Jersey, is, as far as heard from, as follows: Molasses, 1,700 barrels, of fifty gallons each, or 85,000 gallons, and of sugar between 350,000 and 400,000 pounds. The proprietors of these works and owners of the plantation are doing a good work, not only for New Jersey, but for the whole of the country capable of growing the sorghum cane. NATURAL GAS VS. COAL.-The steadily increasing Virginia, and Ohio, for manufacturing purposes as use of natural gas in Western Pennsylvania, West well as for lighting, suggests the possibility that its employment may soon have a depressing effect on the anthracite and bituminous coal business over a considerable section of country. A Pittsburg paper, referring to this matter, says: "In so far as natural gas has been applied to the manufacture of iron, steel and glass, the quality of the products is rather in its favor. merely in the lessening of labor and freedom from For steam raising it is very superior to solid fuel, not ashes, but in that the heat can be more equally distributed lengthwise and around the boilers, to the benefit of the latter in the matter of safety and durability. It is safe to say that the use of gas fuel in this locality now supplants the use of several thousand tons of coal each week, and there is no doubt that the use of gas fuel will largely increase in the near future. Coal proprietors who have depended upon manufactories for their business already feel the local rivalry of this wonderful and valuable agent for the industries, and this competition between coal and natural gas can only be measured by the gas developments of the future."-Scientific American. THE PHILADELPHIA Public Ledger says: The British Minister at Washington, Mr. L. S. Sackville West, has made a report to his government on the discovery and consumption of tin in the United States. The tin question is one of great importance to both this country and Great Britain, upon whom we have heretofore been mainly dependent for our supply. Mr. West's report, which appears in part IV of the British Blue Book, says: "The Etta tin mine is situated in the Black Hills, in Dakota. The deposit is found on the ridge ending in Harney's Peak, and consists in a mass of what is called 'Grieson' ore; 50 cwt. were lately raised, and the assay has shown it to be of an unusually pure character, exceptionally free from copper, iron or zinc. The work on the mine has only recently been commenced, and promises important results as affecting the import of tin from England. According to the latest statistics (1874) the production was: England, 10000 tons; Banka, 4000 tons; Billiton, 3000 tons; Malacca, 7000 tons; and Australia, 6000 tons. It is affirmed, however, that the production of the Cornish mines has been steadily decreasing during the last ten or twelve years, and it is hoped to supply the deficiency by native produce. Tin is now worth an average of $400 a ton in the United States. The duties on tin and tin products range from 30 to 40 per cent. In certain tin products, used for canning purposes, the English manufacturer has hitherto had the monopoly of the American market, and the high duty imposed has not affected the demand for the metal in this shape. The consumer of American canned fish and meats simply pays the enhanced price which the duty on the article necessary for the process of preservation entails. The canning of fish on the great salmon rivers of the West at present depends for material on tin sheets imported from England, but should the working of the Etta mine lead to extensive discoveries of this metal in the Black Hills of Dakota, or in other districts where it is supposed to exist, the English exporting houses of tin products will to a great extent lose the United States market." THE PRINCIPLES of constitutional and religious liberty are making progress even in South America. The Chamber of Deputies of Chili by a vote of 45 to 30 has approved a measure for freedom of worship recommended by the Government, which proposes to grant aid to the church. " "THE UPPER CLASSES in Japan do not allow their daughters to visit the theatres, because the pieces which are played there are justly considered demoralizing." This is the authoritative testimony of J. J. Rein, in his large work, recently issued, upon Japan. Travels and Researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government." Now, if the Emperor William, the head of the latter government, would, with the imperial household, place himself in accord with "the upper classes in Japan" in this particular, what a morally stimulating effect the example might have upon the upper classes in Berlin! J. W. L. THE SHAH OF PERSIA and his Court have determined, it appears, to resist and prevent the spread of European influences in their land. Persian youths are no longer to be sent to Europe for training, as has frequently been the case hitherto. A College has been started at Teheran, where all branches of education are to be taught, for the express purpose of preventing the resort of Persian students to Western Universities. The construction of railways is also forbidden, not one existing in the country, and that simply to prevent the spread of Western civilization. It is not to be won dered at that most recent accounts of the country speak of the general mismanagement of public affairs, and of the corruption of official systems. Reforms must come, and, for the sake of the people, the sooner the better.- The Christian. THE ENGLISH railroads have been built at an average cost of $240,000 per mile; those in the United States at $59,400. THERE ARE nearly 1,500 Chinese children in San Francisco, but the State Superintendent of public schools has decided that they cannot become pupils, as the public education there is intended only for those who can become citizens. THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-At the meeting of the British Association at Montreal, Sir Richard Temple gave an address containing some interesting particulars as to the extent, &c., of the British Empire. What a speck this " tight little island" is, compared with our other possessions, is shown by the fact that while the land absolutely British has an area of more than 8 millions of square miles, Great Britain herself scarcely furnishes an eighth of a million of this amount. When we come to include the countries that acknowledge our political control, the latter amount to nearly 10 millions of square miles, or about one-fifth of the 50 millions of square miles composing the habitable globe. We have a coast line of 28,500 miles, with nearly 50 harbors in which our largest merchantmen can drop anchor in safety. Overcrowded, too, as is England, there is comfort to be drawn from the vastness of our Empire, seeing that hardly one-fifth of the 10,000,000 of square miles is cultivated or occupied in the widest sense of the term occupation. Australia and Canada are, of course, the fields where there is the greatest sparsity of popula tion. These two divisions measure upwards of 2,000,ooo of square miles, and they have room, in Sir Richard Temple's opinion, to support 200,000,000 of souls. Of the 315,000,000 of British subjects, or those more or less under our political control, only 46,0c0,000 profess Christianity, whilst 188,000,000 profess Hindooism. There are 60,000,000 of Mahometans under the flag of the Empire, a number greater than in any of the Mahometan States; it is actually the half of the Mahometan world. The Aboriginal tribes are classed chiefly as Pagan, and these amount to about 7,000,000. Monthly Record. PATHETIC as it is to see an invalid watching, with full consciousness, the gradual ebbing of that tide which is to carry him to the beyond, there is a sight even more pathetic than that. It is the sight of a man or a woman sinking gradually into a state of moral and spiritual death-conscious all the while of the steady progress downward, and yet struggling, every day more feebly, against the current that is carrying the soul down into the black depths. Consciousness that one is sinking, is very far from implying that one is seeking, or able to reach, a haven of safety. Something more is needed. The man must be armed against himself; the weakened will must be prompted to assert itself with its old-time strength. Here it is that the weakness of man may become the strength of God. Where the man himself is impotent to save, and no human help can reach him, a single faith-filled cry will bring to his aid all the strength of the Divine.-S. S. Times. MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around: The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. When such musick sweet Their hearts and ears did greet, As never was by mortal finger strook, Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringèd noise, As all their souls in blissful rapture took: The air, such pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. Such musick, as 'tis said, Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, His constellations set, While the Creator great And the well-balanced world on hinges hung; And cast the dark foundations deep, Peor and Baälim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-batter'd god of Palestine ; Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shrine; 367 In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn. FOREIGN INTelligence.—Advices from Europe are to the 6th inst. GREAT BRITAIN. -The Greenwich Observatory began using the new system of universal time adopted by the late Conference at Washington, at midnight closing the year. By this system, the time of Greenwich is adopted as the standard, the astronomical day begins at midnight with the secular day, instead as heretofore, and the hours are reckoned up of noon to 24. An explosion, believed to be either of dynamite or gun cotton, occurred on the underground railway in London, between Gower St. and King's Cross stations, lights extinguished in them and in one of the stations, at 9.30 P. M. on the 2nd. The windows of two trains which were passing at the time were broken, and the and some passengers were cut by the glass, but no one was seriously injured, though many persons on the platform and some even on the surface road under which the railway runs, were thrown down by the shock. Houses in the vicinity were shaken. No clue to the perpetrators has yet been found. On the occasion of W. E. Gladstone's 75th birthday, on the 29th ult, messages of greeting and addresses And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. expressing confidence and admiration were sent him The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathèd spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. from various quarters, and the newspapers, without distinction of party, published articles in eulogy of his character. A Cabinet Council, held on the 2nd, postponed a discussion of the request of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a renewal of the Crimes act relating to that island. Gladstone opposed the renewal. The Chief Secretary for Ireland was instructed to make a further report on the condition of the country. Strong dissatisfaction with the present land laws is felt in Wales, and a vigorous agitation has been begun with the view of obtaining a land act similar to that of Ireland. Many farmers are joining the English Farmers' Alliance, and a Welsh League is in course of formation. An earthquake was felt in Wales on the 29th. Some houses were injured. IRELAND. A Nationalist demonstration announced to take place at Coal Island, County Tyrone, was proclaimed by the authorities, because a counter demonstration was threatened, and a collision was feared. A Home Rule demonstration at Belfast on the 29th ult. passed off in an orderly manner. FRANCE.-The Chamber of Deputies on the 29th, by a vote of 351 to 127, granted the sum of 1,000,000,000 francs on account of expenses for 1885. and the Budget receipts were unanimously adopted. The British Ambassador at Paris has asked Prime Minister Ferry whether the recent report of the Governor of New Caledonia, (an island in the South Pacific Ocean, now a French penal colony,) urging the annexation of the New Hebrides for use as a penal settlement for the worst class of convicts, is approved by the French Government. England insists upon the maintenance of the agreement establishing the inde. pendence of the islands. SPAIN. Later and more full accounts show that the earthquakes have been even more destructive than was at first reported. The shocks were renewed on several subsequent days, some of them being very violent, and completing the ruin of buildings partly destroyed before. Ten shocks occurred in three days before the 1st. Terrible gales have also prevailed. Near Granada, some sulphur springs ceased to flow after the first shocks, but burst out next day, with subterranean explosions and much vapor, and have since flowed as before. The inhabitants of many of the towns, terror-stricken, have abandoned them and are encamped in the open country, women and children lodging in carts, wagons and railway carriages, or in tents. Official statistics show that up to the 4th inst. 673 bodies had been recovered from the ruins, in the province of Granada. In Alhama, 1400 houses were destroyed, and over 300 bodies have been found. At Albuenulas, 160 were killed and 260 injured, and at Arenas del Rey 135 were killed. The total mortality is estimated by some as high as 2000. In some villages the people are suffering from famine. Government delegates are visiting the region to dispense help. Committees are formed throughout the country to receive and distribute contributions for relief. The King has subscribed $8000 and the Queen $2000; and the balance remaining of a fund raised for sufferers by the Murcia floods has been devoted to the aid of those suffering from the earthquakes. A royal decree orders a national subscription, to which public officials will contribute each a day's pay. The Spanish legations in other European capitals will also open subscriptions. ITALY.-The Journal of Rome announces the formation of a "temporal power league," to establish committees throughout the world, with the object of advocating, in the press and the pulpit, the restoration of the temporal power and domains of the Pope. GERMANY.-Prince Bismarck has presented to the Bundesrath (Federal Council), six petitions from agricultural societies for protection for farm produce, asking that the duty on corn, cattle and wool be increased fourfold, and that the gold monetary standard be abolished. The decision of the Bundesrath is awaited with interest. The Congo Conference has been in recess. The Bel An gian delegate, M. Ballay, was sent to Paris by the President of the African International Association, to negotiate with Premier Ferry respecting the Association's claims on the left bank of the Congo. He has returned to Berlin, and says that M. Ferry refuses to recognize the rights of the Association and insists that its post on the left bank of the Congo shall be included in the French territory. understanding for the neutralization of the territory of the Association is said to have been arranged between France and Germany, and Prince Bismarck purposes to present to the Conference a declaration favoring an international 'protectorate; and also a statement that the principles governing civilized States must be observed in future annexations in the Congo region, without being settled by Government authority. EGYPT. It is stated that Gen. Wolseley has received a small piece of paper with Gen. Gordo's genuine seal on the back, saying under date of the 14th ult. that Khartoum was all right. DOMESTIC.-Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, voted against license by 317 majority on the 31st ult. CONGRESS reassembled on the 5th. A bill was introduced in the Senate to establish a Revenue Commission, to examine and report to Congress next winter what changes or modifications ought to be made in the existing tariff and revenue laws. The bill forfeit ing such lands of the Oregon Central R. R. Co., as lie adjacent to the uncompleted portions of the line, was passed on the 6th. The House passed the Pension Appropriation bill. A bill was introduced to create a River and Harbor Department, with a Commissioner to be appointed by the President. FOR SALE OR RENT. Desirable 2-story double cottage, II rooms, in complete order; gas and city water; one well excellent spring water, one large cistern for rain water. Lot, 100x100. Lawn in grass and shade trees. Situated in sight of Narragansett Bay, Newport, R. I., near Washington Street. 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