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tanglements, we announce our sole purpose to be the suppression of the liquor traffic, and for this we propose: 1. To create and intensify public sentiment, by the pulpit, the platform, and the press. 2. To educate the young, in the public schools and elsewhere, as to the nature and effects of alcoholic liquors. 3. To use all legitimate civil legislation, and to refer the question, for final decision, to the constitutional verdict of the people. We invite persons of all classes, creeds, parties, and states to unite on this platform, and work and vote against the liquor traffic, without exposing the cause with its varied interests to the schemes of personal politicians and the perils of party politics."

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"The spirit of the convention was decidedly against the abolition of Greek as a requisite for admission to colleges giving the degree of B. A. As to the Latin, there was no difference of opinion as to the advisability of its retention. In fine, the belief was that each of these ancient tongues should❘ be required of the entrant, and each should be taught, more or less, in the regular college course. All this was in the line of wisdom and safety.

"Positively stated, the purpose of the association was to stimulate the study of the modern tongues, to awaken such a new interest in the departments of French, German, and English, that more attention should be given to them in preparatory schools, more attention in colleges, better methods of teaching them be adopted, and their necessity and advantages be more urgently pressed upon the attention of educators and the educated public. If it be asked whether such anticipated results would not lead necessarily to some diminution of classical study, and, more especially, of Greek, in our colleges, the answer is, that it would; and it is just at this point that the controversy between the old and the new arises. Granted that

the ancient and modern languages must alike be taught in our higher institutions, are they henceforth to be taught in that disproportion of time in which they are now taught? Or, is there to be something like an equitable adjustment of hours? Teachers of the classics defend, as a rule, the former view. Teachers of the modern tongues, as a rule, defend the latter; and, to this latter viewthe equal adjustment of claims the association now organized is committed. This is all it claims. This is just what it claims."

Or the 275 students at Johns Hopkins University, 140 are "graduate students" from nearly 80

different institutions. The result of this, as a writer in the Evening Post remarks, is to produce an atmosphere of mingled geniality and hard work that is very attractive. Men who have completed college courses elsewhere do not come here and devote several years to studying for higher degrees without the full determination to utilize every advantage. Most of those at this institution are men of limited means, paying their way from funds earned by teaching, or farming, or otherwise. They are men of from twenty-five to twenty-eight years of age, ready for the higher problems of biology, chemistry, physics, philology, history, or political and economic science.

THE following items are from The Student for Second month, 1885.

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE.-The Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, at a late meeting, made the following additional appointments, viz :

osophy and Logic in Haverford College, to be Pliny E. Chase, LL. D., Professor of PhilLecturer in Philosophy and Logic.

J. Rendel Harris, A. M., Associate Professor of New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins University, to be Lecturer on Bible History and Biblical Study.

Edward Washburn Hopkins, A. M., Ph. D., author of "The Four Castes" and co editor of Manu, to be Associate Professor of Greek, Sanskrit, and Comparative Philology.

Paul Shorey, Ph. D., Associate in Greek and Latin.

Edward H. Keiser, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.

Anna E. Broomall, M. D., Consulting Physi

cian.

Anna M. Fullerton, M. D., Lecturer on Hygiene.

There remain two appointments to be made in the corps of instructors, one for German, the other for Romance languages.

Preparations of various kinds are being pressed forward for the opening of the College, and the prospect for students and fellows is now very favorable.

WHITTIER COLLEGE, at Salem, Iowa, has grown wonderfully this year. Beginning in the fall with fifty, it is now full, with one hundred and fourteen students. The faculty is as follows:

John Morgan, A. B. (Earlham), President; Levi Gregory, B. S. (Whittier,) Secretary, Mary Edwards, A. B. (Wilmington); Anna Hinshaw, A. B. (Wilmington). The President teaches Latin and natural science; Mary Edwards, mathematics; Anna Hinshaw, German and English.

ENOUGH has been subscribed for the new build

ing at Westtown School to warrant the Building Committee in preparing to start the actual work, and they are holding long meetings and carefully maturing the plans. It is decided to build on the same site occupied at present, only the new houses will extend much farther to the east, down the lane at the boys' end. The proposed plan comprises

three buildings placed in line, connected only on the first floor, where the school rooms are to be.

FROM imperfect returns to our questions, we conclude that there are over eight hundred Friends teaching in the United States, and twenty-five thousand pupils under their instruction.

Indiana Yearly Meeting has over two hundred teaching, nearly as many men as women; Western, sixty men, one hundred women; New York and Philadelphia, about fifty teachers in each; but the proportion of men thus engaged is not so great in these mercantile communities.

ITEMS.

LEOPOLD VON RANKE, the Nestor of German historians, has just entered upon his ninetieth year, and recent papers from the fatherland have given him and his work considerable and appreciative attention. Ranke ceased to deliver lectures in the Berlin University in 1872, and since then is devoting his whole time to historical investigations. Notwithstanding his age, he works with the energy of a beaver and the system of an expert scholar. He engages a number of aman. uenses, who consult authorities for him, write down dictations, correct proof, and the like. These young men are, in most cases, specialists in history themselves. One peculiarity of Ranke's ways is that he loves to change the subject of his studies quite frequently. If he has been dictating on universal or ancient history in the morning, he will turn to special or modern history in the evening. His work, even now, frequently extends to the midnight hour and later. His only recreation is a walk in the Thiergarten of Berlin for about an hour or two each day, He has lived for many years in one of the most retired spots in Berlin, on the Louisenstrasse.

A VERY INTERESTING experiment is reported by a recent visitor at Tottingham, Lancashire, England. This community contains 400 houses, occupied by cotton operatives, and most of them built of stone, and very neat and substantial. A quarter of a century ago Tottingham was noted for drunkenness; an earnest man started a temperance movement there, induced the people to give up drinking, and to set about building homes for themselves; just at this critical moment the co-operative idea was laid before them,

and, as the result of the single co operative store in the place, enough money has been saved to build 200 houses. In the last eight years this store has returned in dividends $150,000. Even the children have felt the influence, and have been educated to habits of thrift; $8,275 credited to their account in the store, and $3,000 in the Post-office Savings Bank deposited during the last year, are the solid evidence on their behalf. Twenty years ago, with a population of 4,000, there were eleven hotels and beer saloons, all drinking places; at present, with a population of 6,000, there are six hotels, and one of them has lately been transferred into a co-operative store and its billiard-room into a library. Similar experiments are being tried in a number of towns in England with almost uniform success; a success not all in material things, but in intellectual and spiritual things, shown in the building up of libraries, churches, the establishment of courses of public lectures, and various other educational instrumentalities.-Chr. Union.

HAMPTON INSTITUTE has no teaching of the dead languages, and makes manual labor a regular part of its course of studies.

BISHOP WHIPPLE has ridden 30,000 miles on horseback during his 40 years of missionary work among Indians in Minnesota.

SENATOR COKES' bill for alloting lands under a protected title has passed the U. S. Senate. CONGRESS has appropriated $25,000 to employ farmers to teach the Indians.

THE first Bible ever printed in America was John Eliot's Indian Bible.

THE Indians at Sisseton Agency have adopted a constitution patterned after the Constitution of the U.S. Three distinct departments of government, the legisla tive, judicial and executive, are provided for. These Indians bid fair to become qualified for American citizens.

Two hundred and seventeen of the Indian pupils under the care of Capt. Pratt at Carlisle, have been placed out on farms and in families during the past year.

THREE car-loads of harness, tinware, wagons, etc., made by the Indian boys at Carlisle, were shipped last month to different Agencies in the West, some going as far as the Pacific coast.

AN Indian Territory Educational Association has recently been formed, and resolutions adopted in favor of the establishment of an Industrial School at Fort Gibson.

IT is said that in all the deeds of land in New Eng. land which were given by the Indians, they reserved for themselves the privileges of gathering nuts and taking fish!

THERE is a young Choctaw Indian studying the ology at Yale College. He is a graduate of Roanoke College, Va., and a B. A. in full standing.-Southern Workman.

THE breaking up of the mission of the American Board at Bailunda, West Africa, through the malicious cunning of a Portuguese liquor-dealer and slave trader, was narrated in our columns last week. From the Illustrated Christian Weekly we learn that the king has repented of his hasty act; the wishes of the people, who had become attached to the missionaries and were ready to receive the truth they taught, have prevailed, and the enemy who had poisoned the king's mind has apologized, saying that he had no idea that they were Christian teachers! Two of them have returned to their former station, and have been warmly received.

THERE are two things it is impossible to desire with sufficient ardor-personal holiness, and the honor of Christ in the salvation of souls.

THAT IS ALL.

A little dreaming such as mothers know:
A little lingering over dainty things;
A happy heart, wherein hope all aglow,
Stirs like a bird at dawn that wakes and sings-
And that is all.

A little clasping to her yearning breast;
A little musing over future years;

A heart that prays, "Dear Lord, Thou knowest best,
But spare my flower life's bitterest rain of tears "—
And that is all.

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A little spirit speeding through the night;

A little home grown lonely, dark and chill;
A sad heart, groping blindly for the light,
A little grave beneath the hill-
And that is all.

A little gathering of life's broken thread;
A little patience keeping back the tears;
A heart that sings, "Thy darling is not dead,
God keeps him safe through His eternal years "—
And that is all.

-Macmillan's Magazine.

From Faith and Works.
NEW YEAR'S EVE.
"My presence shall go with thee."

Between the old year and the new,
To-night I stand:

Beside a current swift and true
Hath been my way, till now I view
A border land.

The kindly moments, as they go,
Have made a space

Between the river's hurried flow,
And the dark rapids, just below,
For thought a place.

This little bridge-a holy hour

Between the years-

Oh, who shall tell its wondrous power? On it is laid the mortal dower

Of hopes and fears!

Fain would I cross; yet shrink-aghast ;
Speak!-is it well?

O strange Beyond, O mingled Past,
Weird shadows o'er my path ye cast!

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The following lines were written by a mother in a Bible; her gift to her son. A business man of Waterford, in middle life, on going home from hearing Mr. Moody, being awakened by the truth, went to his trunk and found the Bible his mother had given him eighteen years before, when he parted from her in New York. Led into scepticism while in America, he had lived a godless life, and the Bible had been unopened by him during all that time. That Sabbath evening, as, alone in his room, he opened the Book, the memory of his mother, who some years ago had departed to be with Christ, was brought vividly before him. He remembered her parting kiss, her sobs and tears, and the earnest prayer that he would meet her in heaven. When, from the opened Bible, there fell into his hand the printed slip, and he commenced reading the lines, it seemed as though his mother were speaking to him, and every word went like a dagger to his heart, God's Spirit using and blessing the appeal.

Wiping the tears at every line, and filled with anguish at the thought of the suffering he had caused that dear mother, and his treatment of God, it was a long time before he finished the reading. When he did finish he was on his knees, a repentant sinner, asking God for mercy; then and there God met him, and he received Christ and found peace; he is now a humble, earnest disciple, a witness for the faith he once destroyed.

Remember, love, who gave thee this,
When other days shall come;
When she who had thy earliest kiss
Sleeps in her narrow home.
Remember, 'twas a mother gave
The gift to one she'd die to save.

That mother sought a pledge of love,
The holiest, for her son;

And from the gifts of God above

She chose a goodly one;

She chose for her beloved boy

The guide to life, and light, and joy ;

And bade him keep the gift-that when
The parting hour should come,

They might have hope to meet again
In her eternal home.

She said his faith in that would be
Sweet incense to her memory.

And should the scoffer, in his pride,
Laugh that fond gift to scorn,
And bid him cast that gift aside,

That he from youth had borne,

She bade him pause, and ask his breast,
If he or she had loved him best?

A parent's blessing on her son
Goes with this holy thing;

The love that would retain the one
Must to the other cling.

Remember, 'tis no idle toy;

A mother's gift. Remember, boy!
-The Christian.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.—Advices from Europe are to the 3rd inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The Court of Appeal, on the 27th ult., on the appeal of Charles Bradlaugh from the decision of the Divisional Court which refused him a new trial in the case of the Government against him for taking his seat in the House of Commons without taking the oath, decided that he had the right of appeal; but the appeal was dismissed the next day on technical grounds.

Numerous letters have been sent to the authorities, threatening to destroy various public buildings, and others professing to give information of plots for such purposes. Probably many of these are simply intended to deceive and to keep up the excitement and alarm. Extra precautions are taken respecting all important public offices and the bridges in London. The railway companies preter to protect their own property, and have put hundreds of extra men on duty to guard their tracks, tunnels and stations.

After a careful examination it was concluded that the structural damage to the House of Commons and Westminster Hall was but slight. The repairs in Westminster Hall will be a formidable task, owing to the height of the roof. An Irishman recently returned from America, giving his name as Cunningham, but who had passed by other names, was among those detained in the Tower by the police after the explosion, and not giving a satisfactory account of himself, was committed for examination on suspicion of complicity. This examination was commenced on the 2nd in the Police Court, and he was remanded for a week.

A man with dynamite in his possession was arrested at a railroad station in Derby on the 31st, being suspected of a design to blow up the Town Hall.

At a conference of representatives of the British industries upon the subject of wages, C. Bradlaugh advocated compulsory cultivation, under penalty of forfeiture, of all tillable lands now uncultivated, as a measure for relieving the commercial and wages depression now existing.

The U. S. Consul at Liverpool has requested the Mayor of that city to publish the act of Congress forbidding the landing of foreign paupers in the United States, in order that poor persons may not be deluded into spending their last shilling for passage to America.

In the course of a speech at a great Liberal meeting at Birmingham on the 30th, John Bright strongly denounced war as a means for settling international disputes, and deprecated further annexation of territory by Great Britain. He said that England's wars during Queen Victoria's reign had cost £150,000,000, (nearly $750,000,000,) and the lives of 68,000 men.

FRANCE. The municipal authorities of Paris have decided to raise a large loan for the purpose of accomplishing some long-projected public improvements, in order to furnish work for some of the large number of unemployed artisans in the city, and to relieve in some measure the increasing poverty.

It is stated that the President of the International African Association has been in Paris negotiating with Prime Minister Ferry for a treaty between France and the Association; but that the effort has failed, owing mainly to the refusal of Portugal to give the Association a passage to the sea through the Portuguese possessions, in exchange for land in the interior of the Congo region. Premier Ferry does not wish to provoke difficulties with Portugal. The place of negotiation will now be changed to Berlin.

The Chamber of Deputies, on the 2d, by a vote of 274 to 180, rejected a clause proposed to be inserted in the extraordinary budget, providing that all real

property not specified in the Concordat, held by the. clergy, the income from which is not devoted to the use of the Church, be sold and the proceeds applied to educational purposes.

GERMANY.-The Reichstag has rejected a proposition to make compulsory the official use of the German language in all the provinces of Germany.

ITALY. The Minister of Foreign Affairs declared to the Chamber of Deputies, on the 29th, that an agreement existed between England and Italy on the Egyptian question, although unwritten. Italy's action will be parallel with that of England, and is meant to facilitate her work in Egypt.

EGYPT.-The force under Gen. Stewart, after the battle of the 17th ult. at Abu Klea wells, advanced to the Nile, and is entrenched at Gubat, near Metemneh, about half-way between Berber and Khartoum. The advance was an almost continuous fight, the principal battle occurring on the 19th. In this, Gen. Stewart was severely wounded, and Gen. Buller has been tempo. rarily appointed to command in his stead. Five steamers sent by Gen. Gordon from Khartoum, with troops, have reached Gubat and joined the expedition, and on the 22d, they bombarded and nearly destroyed Shendy. Another detachment, under Gen. Earle, are proceeding to Berber along the Nile, partly in boats and partly on land. On the 2d, an official dispatch stated that they had occupied Birti, the Arabs having deserted their intrenchments.

DOMESTIC. A company of so-called colonists, under the lead of a Capt. Couch, recently entered the Oklahama lands in Indian Territory, with the avowed intention of settling, in defiance of repeated notice that the lands are not open to settlement. Gen. Hatch, with a body of U. S. troops, was sent to expel them, and surrounding their camp, summoned them to surrender. They submitted, and were then escorted out of the Territory, It is said they threaten to return in a few weeks in larger force.

An explosion of “natural gas," conducted in pipes underground, occurred in Pittsburg, Pa., on the 31st ult. Three successive explosions took place, at short intervals, in the cellars of two adjoining houses and of one on the opposite side of the street, the first ignition being from striking a match. The gas had leaked from a large main in the street. All three buildings were much damaged, and several persons were injured, some seriously.

CONGRESS.-The Inter-State. Commerce bill has been under consideration in the Senate, without action. The Nicaragua treaty failed of ratification for want of two-thirds in the affirmative; the vote being 32 yeas to 23 nays. The House adopted a concurrent resoluton providing for a joint meeting of the two Houses on the 11th inst. to count the electoral votes. A bill was passed amending an act relative to the merchant marine, so as to permit a seaman to allot a part of his pay for the discharge of any just debt for board or clothing A message from the Presi dent recommended that the steamer Alert, presented by the British Government for the Greeley relief expe dition, be retnrned, with thanks for the courtesy. It was referred.

ALKETHREPTA

There is a large and increasing demand for this Superior Chocolate, and we would call special atten tion to it as an exceedingly wholesome beverage for the healthy and ailing, children as well as adults.

A sample package will be sent by mail by address. ing Smith's Manufacturing Co., 107 Fourth Avenue, New York. 17-261

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For Friends' Review.

MEMORIAL OF TITUS COAN,

(Concluded from page 420.)

It was after an absence of more than thirty-five years that Titus and Fidelia Coan revisited their native land. An almost playful prophecy on the part of the latter when about to leave the United States in 1834, that they would return when a railroad across the continent should be completed, had its fulfillment in the spring of 1870.

Dr. Field, in his Introduction to "Adventures in Patagonia," thus writes of their return : "When they came back they found another world than that which they had left. They made their outward voyage in a small sailing vessel. They returned in a steamship. When they landed in San Francisco, they had scarcely seen a railroad. Now they were whirled in fire drawn cars up the mountains and over the plains, across the whole breadth of the continent. The fame of the missionary had gone before him, and wherever he came among the churches he was welcomed with an enthusiasm such as had not been manifested since the heroic Judson came back from Burmah years before."

They were absent from Hawaii eleven months, and visited twenty States and Territories. They They will be remembered by Friends who saw and heard them at West Branch, Iowa, in Philadelphia and

elsewhere. They held the Society of Friends in high esteem, and largely appreciated its principles and spiritual views. When they enjoyed the privilege they had long desired of attending a meeting for worship with Friends,-one which was favored with an impressive solemnity from the sensible presence of the Lord, F. C. remarked that "she had expected much, but she could say, in reference to the preciousness of such spiritual worship and communion, as the Queen of Sheba said after her visit to Solomon, the half had not been told her.'"

In a letter, written during this visit to the States, T. Coan writes:

"Feb. 18, 1871. . .Nothing short of the full-orbed glory of Jesus, and the completed fruition of heaven affords so much joy and satisfaction as the true communion of saints on earth.

"Why is it that all the professed disciples of the God of peace and love do not more freely exercise and more fully enjoy this heavenly gift? To dwell in God is to dwell in love, for God is love."

Speaking of the blessings of peace that will attend the greater coming of Christ's kingdom, he wrote: "All this must come to pass, and its coming will be hastened just in proportion as Christians one by one come out of cruel and bloody Babylon, and by word and deed, and by patient suffering if called to it, bear witness against the heathenish and the brutal customs of war. War will never be abolished

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