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THE PROPOSAL-

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She.?Do I ? Thanks very much ! youare handsome as a Prince, Charley, in yourdress suit.

He.?Give the credit to the DiamondShirt, my We, which I wear for the firsttime to-mglifc; it is that which gives toneto my toilette. Here is its prototype (slip-ping the Diamond engagement ring onher finger).

Si*.?May our love be as enduring asthe fame of.

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PUOFESSIO-iAL DIRECTORY.MEADE F. WHITE. A. C. GIOEDON.

WHITE * eOBDOS,ATTOR_.EYS-Al'-LA\\j,

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Courts.-Augusta and adjoining counties.Federal Court at Harrisonburg, Court ot Ap.peals of Virginia, at Staunton. ggg-g

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,? J*."" STAUNTON,VAOfllce ln Stout Building, Court-house Alley

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Special attention given to the collection olclaims, and prompt returns made.

Courts?Augusta and Rockingham.Office?No. 2 Law Building. __£_____

WM. A. HUDSON. WM. PATRICK.

HCUSON A PATRICK,ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

STAUNTON,Va.,Will practice in the Courts of Augusta and

adjoining counties. Special attention paid tocollections. feb!2-tf

J. R. TUCK.' -, H- ST. GEO. TUCKER,Lexington,7... Staunton, Va.

TUCKER mi FOCH-EK,AXTOS___l_ .

S-AT-LAW,Staunton, Va,,

Will pra. _ _.- \u25a0 .?_u Cc li'ts of Augusta and theadjoining tz ...io-. Also in the Court of Ap-peals of Virginia,and will attend regularly theCircuit Courts of Rockbridge. an22-tt

H. M. MATHEWS. ALEX. F. MATHEWS.

MiI'HKWS <*-. _!,WHIIWS,4 XTOR KTEYS-AT-LAW,

Lewisburg. West Va.,practice regularly iv the Courts of Greenbrier,Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, W.Va., the Court of Appeals, and the FederalCourts for the District of W. Va.

-SS-Particular attention paid to Collectionsnd tospecial cases anywhere in their State.may 17?ly

__r MOMAS I>. KANSON,ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

Staunton. Va.?*tt_. X his professional services in the Countymd CircuitCourts of Augusta, and in the Hus-tings Court and the Court of Appeals held inStaunton. Will also prosecute claims else-where through legal correspondents In this andather States. may 30?ly.

PRESTOJf A BAYLOR,ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,Ana Solicitor in Chancery, Staunton, Va.,

practices in all the Courts of Augusta and ad-oining counties.Office?The same formerly occupied by his

lather, Col. Geo. Baylor,dec'd, oa Augusta St.,apposite the Court-house. no 21

WM. Id. NeAlif.mTF._t,ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

Warm Springs, Va,Courts?Alleghany, Bath and Highland, Va.,nd Pocahontas, West Virginia.-__r-Speeial attention given to collection olclaims and proceeds promptlyaccounted for.dec 23? tf

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Office :?Over Turner <__ Herman's Grooerytore. dec 21?tfT. O. ELDER. WM. J. NELSON.

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?Chrles Kingsley.» » \u2666

THE PEOPLE'S SONO OF PEACE.

BY JOAQttIN MILLER.

The grass is green on Bunker Hill.The waters sweet ia Brandywine;

The sword sleeps in the scabbard still,The farmerkeeps his flock and vine;

Then who would mar the scenes to-dayWith vaunt of battletleld or fray ?

The brave corn lifts, in regiments,Ten thousand sabers in the sun;

The ricks replace the battle tents,The bannered tassels toss and run.

The neighing steed, the bugle'sblast?These be the stories of the past.

The earth has healed her wounded breast,The cannons plow the fields no more;

The heroes rest: Oh let them restIn peace along tho peaceful shore.

They fought for peace, ior peace they fell;They sleep in peace, and all is well.

The fields forget tho battles fought,The trenches wave in goldengrain;

Shall we neglect the lesson taughtAnd tear the wounds agape again?

See Mother Nature, nurse the land,And heal her wounds with gentle band!

Lo! peace on earth! Lo! flock and fold,Lo I rich abundance, far increase,

And valleys clad in sheen of gold,Oh rise and sing the song ofpeace I

For Theseus roams the land no more,And Janus rests with rusted door.

? Southern Exposition Programme.

Still he knew that Aunt Betsey's sparelocks thinly sprinkled with gray, were uotdressed in modern style, and he could notfor the life of him see whereabouts on thatdear old head any of these gypsys or fan-chons would rest. He remembered thatlong ago Aunt Betsey was wont to twisther hair with the same energy that distin-guished all her movements, and that thisoperation resulted in a hard knot at theback ofher head like a door handle, whichcertainly would not harmonize with thesecapeless head-dresses.

Just as his brow was overcast with thothought, the pale girl came near UncleAbel, her cheek blushing as she did so indefiance of the other girls, holding iv herhand a plain Leghorn bonnet, trimmedwith violet ribbons.

She wore a mourning dress, and the plainbrouch at her throat held a lock of grayhair. "I think this might suit you, sir,"she said. "If your wife don't dress herhair in these fashions, these bonnets wouldnot do at all. This is rich and plain, andcovers the back of the head and neck."

"Wa'al now, tell me, for I have got sobothered with these things that I don'tknow one from the t'other. I want to gu_'a.bonnet for Betsey, and I mean to. 'Nowjust tell me if you would like your motherto wear one like thia. Oh, I beg your par-don, ma'am. I didn't see," and he touch-ed the sleeve of her black dress, "I?l amsorry!"

The young lady brushed off a tear quick-ly, as she said, "I have no mother now;but you'll trust me, sir, I think this willsuit."

She stood, hitherto, justout of the rangeofJohn Dare's vision, and had not seenhim at all. Something in the sound of hervoice attracted him, perhaps, and whenUncle Abel called:

"Here, John Dare!" he stepped hastilyenough toward them. The girl thrust thebonnet into Uncle Abel's hands, &nd wouldhave been out of sight if her dress had uotcaught one of the branching stands andheld her fast.

"Amy!" and .lohn Dare, with a hotflush on his face, caught her hand and sodetained her.

"Anfy Egbert, have I found you atlast?"

The girls face grew white and red byturns, and the words she spoke came soslow and broken that only John could catchtheir meaning.

Uncle Abel pushed his'spectacles up onhis forehead, still holding the hat iv hishand, looked-open mouthed from one tothe other.

"I guess youmust haveknown this youngwoman afore, didn't you?" he said; butJohn was too busy with eager questions,and Amy was trembling and flushing asshe tried to speak calmly, and so his ques-tion was unanswered. Pretty Josie wasdividing her attention between a new cus-tomer and the strange scene' beside her,and between anger and mortification shelooked in no need of help from rouge, asshe tossed her head and muttered variousuncourteous remarks in regard that AmyEgbert, and her beau.

"Uncle Abel held the hat a while longerquite patiently, but at last despaired of theinterview being ended, so he coughed andthen said:

BETSEY'S BONNET.' 'Well, Uncle Abel, now you are off for

home, I suppose; trading all done, cropg allbargained for, eh ? and John Dare lifted hishat and pushed back his thick hair as hestood on the hotel steps talking to a plaincountry farmer in a suit of kome-spuagray-

"Wa'al, not quite yet, John. I want toget Betsey a bonnet?a real nice one?justas good as a Yorker might want. 'CauseBetsey's worked awful hard this spring.Times are good, too. So I guess we'll seeif my Betsey shan't look as good as any-body. S'pose you don't want to go alongwith me, do you?''

"Let me see?four o'clock?yes, I'll goUncle Abel. I'll look at the pretty girls,though; you won't mind that. Come on."

So they walked up tho street, the fash-ionabte attire ofthe young lawyer contrast-ing strongly with the antiquated cut of thefarmer's garments, which at homo werewont to lie in solemn state in the spareroom all the week, only to be worn on Sun-day with becoming carefulness. Therewas little likeness in the face?a trifle toofair for manly beauty, with its blondemoustache and setting off close browncurls, to the bronze and beardless one,with tho few locks; spare and gray, be-neath the well brushed hat; and the blueeyes were the same in'both and like thosethat were closed forever under the sod inthe apple orchard on Uncle Abel's farm,where his dead sister was laid when Johnwas a tiny child. It troubled John not awhit to be seen with the plain countryman;in spite of his perfumed hair and well-glov-ed hand, his heart was true as Steele to thegood friends of his boyhood, and the in-quiring glances ofhis companions gave himno annoyance whatever.

They reached Madame Rozette's at last,and John lounged in the doorway andstraightway engaged in the laudible em-ployment of finding out the prettiest faceof the girls in attendance. Josie Molliet,radiant with smiles, and I think a little ar-tificial bloom, came forward with the mostbewittching glances to wait upon the far-mer who brought so attractive a personwith him; and fancying that she wouldshow her superior quality by so doing,made up her mind to quiz Uncle Abel un-mercifully. Poor man! He was never somiserable in all his life. In llopetown hewould have made no trouble whatever.Miss Crabtree, inher plain dress and capwith lavender ribbons, would have told himat once what to get; and little gray eyeswould not have confused him in the least.

But here was a fine lady, with a greatcircumference of black silk trailing outalong the carpet, a waist no bigger than awasp, a head ou which the hair seemedstruggling iv crimps and curls to get away,from the shining bands strapped tightlyaround it, aud a pair ot bright black eyeslooking straight at him, while the damselheld up one style after the other, or triedthem on coque.ishly, but derived no helpfrom him.

"I'll take the bunnit. Twenty dollars isa good deal. Betsy's worth it, ain't shoJohn!"

John need not have started so, or said"Very," which wasn't a suitable answerat all; but Uncle Abel laughed a little tohimself, and said, soi'tly, "Oh, boys will beboys!" and he was obliged to'tell MissEgbert the direction over twice, too, andfelt quite uneasy lest it should not arriveat his hotel in time.

Outside the door John turned to leavehis uncle and looked as shy as a girl, as hesaid: "It's all right, Uncle Abel; you'vefound a uew bonnet, and I've found a?a?an old friend."

Uncle Abel held his hand fast, and look-ed a moment, without speaking, in John'sfaco in a wistful way; then said, looking inthe young man's eyes, "she's a motherlessgirl, John."

"Uncle Abel!" and John turned angrilyaway, or would have done so if the detain-inghand had not held him with a graspwhich sixty years had not weakened."Look; here my boy, I meant no offense.None of my blood turn villains," he addedproudly "but you see she's young and pur-ty and forlorn, and maybe, if you gee toomuch of her, she might get to thinkm'more ofyou than would be good for her,and if you ain't in earnest I guess 'twouldbreak her heart. Shake hands with youruncle, my boy, I mean no harm; but Ipromised Liza, when she was on her dyingbed, that I would alius try to give you goodadvice, and the last words a'most that shespoke, says she, 'Abel, watch over myboy.';""My dear.|kind uncle, I thank you, indeed,

I do, Cor all your kindness, but I couid notbear to think that you should misjudgeme. 1 knew Amy, long ago, when herparents were both living, and she had allthat wealth could give. I loved her thenin,a quiet way, but I was too poor to tellher so. Then came reverses, and death,and in her poverty and pride the girl hidherself from me resolutely until now. Shetried to earn her bread by her accomplish-ments, but fa led, and gladly took thismeans to do so. Now if I can win her forfhy ;wife I shall bring Mrs. John Dareto see you some fine day this summer; mayI, Uncle Abel?"

So they parted, and the passers-by littledreamedofall that had been said.

"Wa'al, wa'al, if things don't turn outqueer?" soliloquized Uncle Abel, home-ward bound, with a band-box placed on theseat before him. "To think how near Icame to gettin' one of them gypsies forBetsey. Why she would have laughed aweek about it. And then to think thatpainted picture of a girl was making gameof me all the while. And then the otherone with her gentle way, taking the trou-ble to tell a stupid fellow like me what wasthe right thing to buy. I guess she wouldmake our John a good wife; and after Bet-sey and me has passed away, there'll be anice bit of property coming to John andthat'll help him on."

How pleased Aunt Betsey was, to besure, when the old man gave her tha newbonnet! How fair and young she looked inthe fresh ribbons and coft blonde aroundher face! And how she laughed at thoidea of wearing one of them dish covers onher head!*'

Just when the country was in its Juneglory, John Dare brought his bride to thefarm-house where he had spent so manychildish hours, and he led her to all the oldfamiliar spots, from the weir in the brookto the grave by the orchard. But as longas a straw and ribbon may endure to keepthem both in mind how John Dare foundhis wife, they tell the story of the timewhen Uncle Abel bought Betsey's bonnet.

"Now, young woman, show me some ofyour bonnets; real nice ones. None of ,your old fashioned poor things for mywife."

Having said this, Uncle Abel felt that hehad stated the case clearly and shouldhave no trouble.

Miss Josie sailed about aud returnedwith a white chip gypsy, trimmed withbluo, a shirred green satin with a rose onit, and a gray straw trimmed with scarletpoppies.

"Now that will be justwhat you want, 'I am sure; only twenty-five dollars, too; socheap and so becoming."Uncle Abel confessed afterwards that he ifelt quite confounded at the great price, ,but ho did not mean to let that Frenchified -girl know it, so he only said, "Oh, that'sthe style, eh? It ain't a bit like Betsey'sold one, though." !"Oh, no, sir; the fashion has changed en-

tirely. Now this gypsy is the newest thingout, and your wife would set the fashion,I don't doubt."She looked up at John Dare merrily, butshe could not interpret the look in hiseyes, so taking it for granted that it was 'an expression of admiration, she pursued

the same strain."Just fresh from Paris; I am sure yourwifewould like that. Shall I try it on foryou?""Wa'al, yes, I can tell better how itlooks then. Now it looks like a dish "

..«££"_£? this way>" and'

Josiepitched the little thing over her rosy facetied the strings in a big bow knot andswept down the length of the foom."Don't you like it ?"

"Wa'al, it's kind o'purty; but it's aw- 'ful queer; ain't it, John?"John thus appealed to, could onlyanswer lthat he "knew nothing in the world aboutwomen's bonnets," and took up his reve- irle, whatever it was, justwhere it wasbro- Iken off. But looking idly in the long mir-ror opposite, he saw Josie making-signs toanother girl, and he saw that they wereamusing themselves vastly at the perplexityof their customer. He saw, too, that a, ipale, quiet girl, with smooth brown hairlooked up from her work indignantly, andhe rather saw than heard her say, "For Ishame," and grow crimson as she*spoke.His own face flushed a littleas hebecameaware that Uncle Abel was being made the .butt of their jokes?good Uncle Abel, whowas looking so admiringly at the labricks iincomprehensible to him, his old heart onlyfull of the thought how he should make his ipresent worthy of the patient soul forwhomit was intended.Then John was greatly perplexed; for,as he said truly, he knew nothingabout all :that mysterious and bewildering arrange-

ment of dress that he saw every day.

» 9 .

Gooseberries.?An English gardener saysthe gooseberryprefers a loose holding soil,which readily imbibes, but does not retain,much moisture. The plant is propagatedby cuttings and should be transplanted inautumn, the trees being ranged in lines.Tho trees should be formed with singlestems a foot high, and the suckers, if auyspring up from the root, should be careful-ly removed, The ground on which thebushes stand should be forked over once ayear, but only slightly, so as not to disturbthe roots. Manure should be applied eith-er as a top-dressing or in a liquid form.Powdered white hellebore is the only cer-tain remedy|for the caterpillarswhich attackthe plant.

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The crusaders (Catholic) of Minnesotahave decided that members frequentingsaloons for the purpose of purchasing ci-gars, billiard-playing, etc., violate theirpledge in so doing, and their names will bedropped from the rolls.

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The Florida law forbidding the sale ofintoxicating liquors except on petition ofa majority of the voters of the election dis-trict has been declared constitutional bythe supreme court of that state.

STAUNTON, VA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1884.

Tho Christ of History.[From the "Living Christ, the Life and Light

of Men."]The history of the world for nineteen cen-

turies has been so intimately related to thelife and teachings of Christ that it is im-possible to trace the fortunes of any nationor people without giving prominence to hisname. Whatevermay be tho faith of thehistorian, or his want of faith, the problemswith which he has to deal bring him face toface with Jesus Christ, as a great factor inthe sum of human destinies.

"The author of the "Decline and Fall oftho Roman Empire" exhausted his wit andlearning in his bitterness against Christian-ity, but he could not write the history ofRome without acknowledging that the chiefcause of the overthrow of that colossal em-pire was the rise and growth of a new relig-ion uuder the leadership of Christ. Thatthis new religion vas superior to the old headmits. It was this superiority which pre-pared the way for its triumph. Two greatcauses, iv the opinion of Gibbon, achievedthe conquest of Christianity overpaganism.

The first principle of conquering power inthe new religion was the certainty of a fu-ture state, a doctrine which was advocatedwith unwavering confidenceby apostles andteachers in the Christian Church. . Amongthe Greeks and Romans the immortality ofthe soul had been alwaysa hope rather thana belief. But this hope, in the decliningage of Roman society, became obscured inproportion to the moral corruption of thatsociety, which could scarcely desire to seeitself perpetuated in a future state of exis-tence. The advance of Christianity pre-sented a new ideal of life, a higher, holierstandard of human action, in which theprinciples ofpurity and justice were incor-porated as essential qualities of spirituallife.lue.

The second principle was iutimately re-lated to the first, inasmuch as it was thebasis upon which tho first was established.The purity of morals prevalent among theChristians attracted the attention and wonthe admiration of their bitterest enemies.?This moral purity recommended itself to allmen, and the contrast with the vice and de-pravity of heathenism gives to the new re-ligion an eloquence that it was impossibleto resist. On the one side, the best elementsof Roman life and character, those in whichstill lingered the sentiment of the sacred-ness of marriage and the estimate of thefamily life as the essential foundation ofgovernment in the State?all the elementsoflaw, order, justice, and social virtue, in aword, drawn to Christianity by the chaiinof a practical creed which consecrated thedomestic hearth-stone, and made the head-ship of the family the symbol of the Divinogovernment itself. On the other side werearranged all the elements of lawlessness,rapine, riot?the various forces which wererapidly working the ruin of the State.?Gathering into itself the best and strongestrepresentatives of heathen morality, theChristian Church imparted to them the in-spirationofa high and holy system of re-ligious culture, in which the Spi.it of Godwas the chief agent in the elevation and en-noblement ofmen.

The history of the Roman Empire, iv itschief city and center, has been the historyofevery country in which the gospel hasbeen preached. It has found man the slaveof sin and vice, aud it has emancipated him,and endowed him with the glorious libertyof the childreu of God. The nameof Christhas been the watch-word and the synonymof purity aud holiness. Account for it aswe may, the chaugo for heathenism of Chris-tianity has always been followed by a higher moral aud social life ineveryland beneaththo sun.

Can it be that error and delusion willmake men better citizens, husbauds, fath-ers, brothers? Is it possible that a religionthat has no basis in atrue philosophy of lifemay yet lift up the fallen, and carrystrength,purity, and power wherever it goes'. 1 Canfalsehood sweeten the joys ofdomestic life,bind communities and peoples together in anoble brotherhood, and enrich the humanrace with every specimen ofmoral greatnessthat is possible to humanity ?

It cannot be. Precisely to the extent thatthe religion of Christ is accepted, believedaud lived, tho moral powers of our race aredeveloped, and tho highest results are soenin a state of exalted civilization. There canbo no stronger evidence that a religion isfrom God than the fact that it producesf'uits like these. The philosopher andphilanthropist can claim no more, and thevoice of historyproclaims these fruits as thecredenitals of Christianity. Thatmen havenot risen to a nobler life than has been yetattained in any country is not the fault ofthe religion itself. Men have not been trueto the faith which they profess; they havenot practiced the virtues which Christianityinculcates, and therein alone the faiiurerests.

Throughout the eighteen centuries pastthe spotless character of Jesus is attestedby friend and foe alike. The virus of in-fidelity, vigorous and poisonous as it hasbeen in every age, has spent its force uponthe followers, uot upon tho personal char-acter of the Master himself. He stands be-fore us, pictured by the hand of unbelievinggenius, as the great model of human life.?Xrlen have doubted the reality of the portraitdrawn by the evangelists, but they have nocharge to briug agaihst the portrait itself.They have called it the ideal of the fancy?

the creature of the imagination?the like-ness of a desired perfection, which has notbeen seen ou earth, and cannot be seen;they have calledit a dream, a myth, a poem,a legend; but they all admit that it is a per-fect life. Little as we know of Buddha, ofConfucius, of Zarathustra, of Mohammed,we know enough to see that they were menlike unto ourselves, full of faults, some ofthem full of vices and weakness. But theChrist of history is a perfect being. Grandin its proportions, perfect in its symmetry,developed in its beauty and strength, thecharacter of Jesus leaves nothing to be de-sired, suggests nothing as an addition to thecatalogue ofhis perfections.

His character touches the extremes of hu-man life. The infant in the cradle?thestrong man in the vigor of his mauhood; theking upon his throne?tho peasant in hiscottage; the lowest valley of human abase-ment?the highest pinnacle of human hon-or and fame; the sweetest smile of childishinnocence?the bitterest pang that rends theheart of guilt; all states, all conditions, allages, all degrees ofhuman experience, standin closest relationship to the man of Nuza-r?th. Infant purity is drawn by the gent-lost chords to the shelter of his protectingarms, and hoary age, bowed down beneaththe burden of its sorrows, finds a refuge inhis bosom. Close to his side, warmed bythe glow of his love, the human soul knowsno want, no desire, no aspiration. Filledwith the measure ofhis Spirit, life's caresand sorrows are transformed into duties,and the loses of earth become the treasuresof heaven.

O Son of God I how base and vile must betbe heart that confesses thy excelleuco andbeauty, and yet refuses to bear thy easy yokeand burden of love !

The babe of Bethlehem, the carpenter ofNazareth, the crucified teacher of Jerusa-lem, has been placed upon the throne of theages; and the many voiced Muse of His-tory oxclaims, Behold the Perfect Man I

The Jew, with the veil of darkness cov-ering his face, catches, through its tangledmeshes, a glimpse of the peerless glory ofthe Son of man, and hails him wisest andbest of men ! The words of life that fellIrom his lips are seized by scribe and rabbi,aud in mangled forms and broken sentencesthey constitute the jewels of the Talmud.The glorious unity of his life, so rich, soabundant, is parted into fragments, andwith the dismembered characteristicsa thou-sand heroes of Jewish legend shiue with theborrowed luster of the Son of man. Thehalo ofhis wisdom has given beauty to thograndest imagery of Hebrew prophecy andpoetry, and one sentence from his lips hasunlocked the mysteries of forty centuries !The scarred wanderers of thefated race havewritten the fulfillment of his prophecies insighs and tears and groans, and owe thetolerance of their desperate obstinacy to thomeek and gentle spirit of the Messiah theyhaye rejected.

Sptitatot.Philosophers have laid aside the absorb-

ing studies of nature's laws to investigatethe story of the Man of Nazareth. Men ofscience have turnedaway from the map ofthe universe to study the works and words

' oftho Teacher whose short career endedupon the cross of Calvary. Poets in everylanguage have caught new inspiration from

\u25a0 his name, and many thousands have mount--1 ed the chariot of the martyr's flame in testi-

mony of their loyalty to his service.Alexander the Great carried his Macedo-

nian phalanx into India ana Egypt, andlaid the foundations of his empire on thefour corners of the world; but where arethe descendants of Alexander to-day, andwhere are the legatees of h_3 power and

' glory ? How many swordswould leap fromtheir scabbards to avenge an insult to hismemory ? What institution of learning, orhouse of charity, ormonument of hisbenefi-cence, stands to-day in attestation that hisinfluence is a power in the earth? Is therea living man that can trace to the King ofMacedou a word or deed that has helpedthe struggling race ofmeuiutho battle withsin and wrong ?

Julius Caesar towered above his fellows inthe commonwealth of Rome, and snatchedthe rod of empire from the mistress of thoworld. But where is the human heart thatleaps for joy at the mention of his name !The conquerors and orators and poets andstatesmen of earth have wielded in theirseveral generations a potent influence forgood or ill, but of one Man alone has his-tory written the words, "He was holy,harmless, and undefiled." And as the agesof the past recede farther from our sight,the influence which human genius and ex-cellence swayed over men gradually disap-pears from view, whilst in this one Charac-ter alone time increases the number of hisfollowers, multiplies the forca ofhis humanpersonalty, and reveals the completeness ofthat Word of God which is rapidly becom-ing "the desire of all nations."

The Christ of History is the IncarnateGod!

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_B!_. lnst '' May 28th, 1884.

, To the Board of Trustees:Sirs?Mr. Leonidas Poyntz, in an article. in the State of the 20th inst., in reply tocertain papers of Col. James 11. Skinner. makes some unjust and erroneous imprest

sions in regard to the sign-language as amedium of instructionfor the deaf.He begins by assailing Col. Skinner as a"one-sided partisan" and as an assumptive, instructor of the Board of Visitors; but ofMr. Poyntz's one-sidedness, verbum sat.It is not my purpose to depict or portray

a model man to be Principal here. I sim-ply propose to show that the sign-language, is indispensablein teaching the deaf, andi to show that articulation is not so much asMr. Poyntz has been led to believe it is.

Mr. Poyntz endeavors to indicate thatthe ora of this oral method of teaching the? deaf has justbeen inaugurated, while, infact, it dates back many yearsprior to the

sign-system, the system adopted at this In-stitution and every other State Institutionin the land.

Every man of any consequence andprominence in the education of the deafknows that signs are still used in Germanyand France as of old. It seems as if Mr.Poyntz has given his attention exclusivelyto the oralists, whohave once more trimmedand lit their candle, and are working witha vigor akin to that of the Roman Catho-lics of the Jesuit order of old, who usedevery agency to win friends and crush foes,to gain supremacy in this country, whilethe true friends of the education for thedeaf?those who uphold the CombinedSystem, i. c., articulation for those whomit will benefit and signs for all, the systemwhich has been the rule of this school al-most from the time of its foundation?sitcomplacently back, knowing, by experi-ments tried, that this articulation crazewill, ere many years, when it shall havereached its zenith of glory, with one blowof the sign-language fall to the ground inpieces, like the image of Nebuchadnezzar'sgreat vision of which the Bible speaksthe sign-language being the "stone thatsmote the image and became a great moun-tain."

A Rare Old Volnme.THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY WRITTEN 800

YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.

A Mr. Shapira, of Jerusalem, a booksell-er and dealer in antiquities, has just depos-ited in the British Museum fifteen slips ofblack sheepskin leather, on which are writ-ten, in characters similar to those on thecelebrated Moabite stone, portions of thebook of Deuteronomy, differing materiallyfrom the received version. The date of theslips is the ninth century before Christ, orsixteen centuries older than any authenticmanuscript of any part of the Old Testa-ment. Mr. Shapira bought them from anArab/ and ho asks for them So,000,000 fromthe British Museum. If genuine, the in-terest and importance oftho discovery can-not ba overrated; and so far as variationsin the sacred text are concerned, there ispromise of one of the greatest controver-sies that scholars have ever entered upon.The decalogue furnishes a good examplefor comparison with the received version.I quote from the Shapira record:?I am God, thy God, which liberated thee

from tho land of Egypt from the house ofbondage. Ye shall have no other gods.?Ye shall uot make to yourselves any gravenimage nor any likeness that is in Heaven 'above, or that is in the earth beneath, orthat is in the water under the earth. Ye 'shall not bow down to them uor serve 'tbem.

lam God, your God, sanctify. In sixdays I have made the Heaven and theearth and all that there is therein, andrested on the seventh day. Therefore rest 'thou also, thou and thy cattle, and all that :thou hast.

I am God, thy God. Honor thy father 'and thy mother.

lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not kill jthe person of thy brother.I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not '

commit adultery with the wife of thy neigh-bor.

I am God, thy God. Thou shalt notsteal tho property of thy brother.

lam God, thy God. Thy shalt not swear !by my name falsely, for I visit the iniquityofthe fathers upon the children unto the '.third and fourth generation of those whotake my name in vain.

lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not bearfalse witness against thy brother.

lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not cov-et his wife, or his man servant, or his maidservant, or anything that is his.

lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not hatethy brother in thy heart.I am God, thy God. These ten words

God spako. 'Dr. Ginsburg, the eminent Semitic schol-

ar, to whom Mr. Gladstone has just given '£50 toward the production of his work onMasorah, has deciphered the above, and isbusy completing a translation and deter-mining on behalf of the museum the genu-ineness of the fragments.

? 9 \u25a0?Uncooked Food for Pigs.?l begin,

says a Vermont farmer, to feed my pigswhen small on uncooked food ofall kinds,such apples, potatoes, green grass andweeds, corn fodder, &c., with a little waterand tour milk to drink. Sour milk is bet-ter for them than sweet, for it gives theman appetite and keeps them healtny, so thatthey grow faster. When lam ready to be-gin fattening the animals I feed dry feed orcorn, and a little while after they eat it, Igive them a little sour milk, if I have it,and if not a little clear cold water. Thismethod of feeding saves labor and food,and consequently saves expense. The drymeal will stay on the stomach until it is en-tirely digested, while sloppy food will passthrough the animal more quickly, and be-fore it has had time to do half service. Ihave tried a good many experiments in pigfeeding, and have finally settled down up-on this as the best. You must begin theuse of uncooked food when they are young.

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To MAKE GOOD PORK?NEW ENGLANDHomestead.?To make pork of the bestquality, especially for smoking, no strongtasting food should be given during thelast few weeks of the pig's existence. EvenIndian meal is considered much too strong-ly flavored by English farmers who makechoice hams and bacon a specialty. To therefuse milk of the dairy they add barley oroatmeal and well boiled potatoes. Theyare careful about killing the pig, and singethe carcass instead of scalding it, becausethis opens the pores of the skin and makesit too salt. In curing a liberal proportionof sugar is added to the salt. ?

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Sheep.?Sheep, says a writer, will en-dure severe cold if kept dry; but exposureto storms, either rain or snow, is very hurt-ful. The water remains in the wool, andin an atmospherelittle, if any, above freez-ing, it chills the body a long time. It isfor this reason that an open winter is gen-erally unfavorable for feeding sheep. Ifkept housed they are too warm, their ap-petite fails, and they lose flesh, no matterhow fed. The coarse-wooled sheep aremore impatient of wet thanthe fine wooled,the heavy, oily gum on the wool ofthe lat-terkeeping the water from penetrating tothe skin. (

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CncRN Often.?The American Dairy-man says there is one point that should bedeeply impressed upon the dairyman'smind, and that is, if he wants to make afirst-class article of butter he must churnoften. Never let the cream get over threedays old, no matter how cold it may bekept. If cold, it will get old, flat andfunkey. If sour, the whey will eat thebest .butter globules. Churn as often ascan.* A Paris young lady, who is engaged toa gambler, calls him her beau-high-deal.?Beacon,

To show that I am not in error in statingthat signs are still used in Europe as here,I extract the following from Mr. MoritzHill, of Weissenfels, Prussia, a man of thewidest experience and highest standingamong the oral teachers of Europe. Inspeaking of abolishing signs, he says;

"Such an idea must bo attributed to ma-levolence or to unpardonable levity. Thispretence is contrary to nature and repug-nant to the rules of sound educationalscience. If this system wero to be put intoexecution, the moral life, the intellectualdevelopment of the deaf and dumb, wouldbe inhumanly hampered. It would beacting contrary to nature to forbid thedeaf-mute a meaus of expression employedby even the hearing persons. Even inteaching itself we cannot lay aside thelanguage of gestures, the language whichthe deaf-mute brings with him to school,and which ought to serve zb a basis for hiseducation. To banish the sign-languagefrom the school-room and limit ourselvesto articulation, is like employing a gold keywhich does not lit the lock of the door wowould open; and refusing to uso the ironone made for it; at the best, it would bedrilling the deaf-mute, aud not mouldinghim intellectually and morally."

Miss Sarah Porter, ono of the best artic-ulation teachers that Northampton has bad,says:

"Every oral teacher knows that fightingsigns is like righting original sin. Put thechildren together and they will make signssecretly, if not openly, in their intercoursewith each other."

The Report of this school for the yearending September :>otb, 1881, contains anable and unbiased statement in regard toarticulation, and instead of referring theBoard to many other arguments on thesubject, I simply refer them to the Reportmentioned, believing it (sufficient in itselfto convince the Board that articulation hasbeen given a thorough trial here, and oftho fact that it is not the best method ofteaching the deaf.

It surprises us beyond imagination thatthere is a man in this house who would beso ridiculousjjas to compare our sign-lan-guage with the 'Pennsylvania Dutch." 1have no doubt but that he will be glad tochange his opinion when he reads this ex-tract from Mr. Gilbert O. Fay, M. A., whohas been engaged in teaching and superin-tending the deaf for over fifty years and isknown to have taken great interest in ar-ticulation:

"It is not necessary, nor is it desirable,in any system to omit, to prohibit, to ex-tirpate the language of pantomime, spring-ing up and ripening as it does in the socialinstincts and overtures, the mental life ofeverydeaf person. Hearing gone, shall werefuse, shall we hesitate to extend to the :drifting, drowning mute the poor, perhaps,but effective, temporaiy assistance of an- 'other language, already his?a language 'which, latent in every human being, has Iantedated in the human constitution the 'existence and protection of speech itself,and to which ipvived, the mute, finding it 'difficult to go beyond, thankfully for awhile returns?a language, using whichthe restless infant enters upon and the tot-tering veteran closes life's career?a lan-guage which, upon the stage of the pol- 'ished and as woven into the dialects of theless civilized races, and also into the morestirring commercial nnd metropolitan ne-cessities of the moving, mingling masses land people of every tongue, has still a ;prominent meaning aud use?a languagewhich, in its moie glowing periods and 'loftiest flights, oratory always adds toscanty speech?a language which, underthe tutelage of the remaining senses,reaches, as used by the educated deaf-muteand their teachers, a clearness, an elo-quence, a power as impressive to them asany spoken language is to any hearing au-dience?a language which exercises overthem, through the whole range of humanthought, a supreme influence wjiich nowords spoken, written, or finger-spelledcan hope to equal."

Though Mr. Poyntz has not had the op-portunity of experimenting as tho3e men of20, 30, 40 and 50 years standing have bad,he seems to be of the opinion that the dayis not far distant when he can come forward ;with Caesar's words, "reni, vidi, vici," butalas! his name is not Ca_sar, it is Leonidasaud with his hand full of the re-hashed 'oralists' argument, will fall like Sparta's '\u25a0Leonidas with his hand full of three hun- ',dred braves against Xerxes' million at 'Thermopylae. !

It is not unfair in me to say that, at Mr. jPoyntz's request, his semi-mute child was iput, at the beginning of this session, in the Isecond deaf-mute class, where signs are iused, after having been in the articulation Iclass for four successive sessions with seem- ]ingly no progress, and Mr. P. is too honor- 'able a gentleman to say that she has not imade better progress this session. Thedeaf-mute children who entered the schoolthe same year his child did, are now in the 'Fourth and Fifth classes while she is in the 'second. Her weakness can not be put up Ias an excuse for this. Articulation is theonly thing which has retarded her and I be- ilievo Mr. Poyntz is convinced of thisfact.

It is complained that the mutes do not iuse good English in expressing themselvesand that the sign-language is the impedi-ment to correct English. I admit that the >majority of the pupils do leave school withvery little practical information, but it isnot at all their fault, nor is it the fault ofthe sign-language. It is the fallibility ofthe instructors, who, not being thoroughlyefficient to express themselves with goodEnglish, find it difficult to teacl the chil-dren to do so, and resort, almost exclusive-ly, to the text-books, giving them no prac-tical information at all. If I am mistakenin this, theu it is certainly the inertia andthe lack of energy on the part of the in-structors, for the mind of the deaf-mute isas fertile as that ofany other person.

Very respectfully yours,J. W. Michaels,

Teacher, 2nd Class Deaf-mate Dep't.*

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THE SLAVE OF A. BOTTEE.

Iknow a young fellow, broad-shouldered andtail.

With a beautiful smile and a classical face.3 His handsi and his feet are exquisitely small,> And he moves and he speaks with a dignified

i grace.\u25a0 Of his birth and degree

' He Is proud one can see.And ycl the poor slave of a bottle Is he.

1, "I'd be ruled byno woman," he often declares,f "There never waa fair who was prudentand

wise;. And he who yields meeklyto petticoatprayers

Or petticoat scoldings I trulydespise., No she-tyranny,

[ I thank you, for me."i And yet the poor slave of a bottle is he.

Advice he will never/accept from a friend;' "It may be all true," he'll admit, "what you

1 say;But let those without brains upon others de-

-1 pend,I happen to have some, I'll go my own way,

1 Unfettered and free,In blessed liberty."

[ And yet the poor slave ol a bottle Is he., And when called by his master he quickly

obeys,? And soon loses dignity, beauty, and grace;| The charming smile turns to an Idiot's gaze.

And the mask of a clown hides the classical? face.

Ah ! the worst slaveryThat ever could beIs his, for the slaveof a bottle Is he.

?Margaret Eytinge, in N, Y. Independent.

SOMEHOW OB OTHER WE GETALONG.

The good wife bustled about the house,Her face still brightwith a pleasant smile,

As broken snatches of happy songStrengthenedher heart and hand the while.

The good mau sat ln tbe chimneynook.His little clay pipe within his lips,

And all he'd made, and all he had lost.Ready and clear on bis finger tips.

"Good wife, I've justbeen thinkinga bit.Nothing bas done very well this year;

Money Is bound to be hard to get?Everything's sure to be very dear;

How the cattle are going to be fed.How we're to keep the boys at school,

Is kind ofa debt and credit sumI can't make balance by my rule."

She turned her around from the bakingboard,And she faced him with a cheerful laugh;

"Why, huSband. dear, one would thinkThat the good, rich wheat was only chaff.

And what if the wheat was only chaff,As long as we both are well and strong;

I'm not a woman to worry a bit.Somehow or other we've gotalong.

"Into some lives some rain must fall,Over all lands the storm must beat.

But when the rain and storm are o'erThe after sunshlno is twice as sweet.

Through every strait we bave found a road,In every grief we have found a song;

We have had to bear, and had to wait.But somehow or other we got alODg.

"For thirty years we have loved each other,Stood by each other, whatever befell;

Six boys have called us father and mother.And all of them livingand doing well.

We owe no man a penny, my dear.We're both of us loving,and well, and strong;

Good man, I wish you would smoke again.Aud think how well we've got along."

He tilled his pipe with a pleasant laugh;He kissed his wife with a tender pride;

He said : "I'll do as you tell me, love,I 11 justcount up on the other sl:!e.''

She left him then with his better thought.And Ilft.d her work with a low, sweet song?

A song that followed me many a year.Somehow or other we get along.

Congress and tho Liquor Traffic was thesubject discussed at the Conference of theWomen's National Christian TemperanceUnion held in New York last week, atwhich delegates were present from all partsof this State and from Ohio, Pennsylvania,Massachusetts, and Connecticut. An earn-est address was delivered by Mr. A. M.Powell on the national aspect of the ques-tion, in which he vigorously denounced Mr.Blame's scheme for distributing the revenuederived from tho liquor traffic among theStates. He said, "Mr. Blame's planassumesthe indefinite perpetuation of the traffic.?Nor does he make any account of the factthat in his own State?Maine?the manu-facture and sale of intoxicating liquors fordrinkingpurposes are already illegal; thata constitutional amendment has been pro-posed by the Legislature ofMaine to foreverprohibit the traffic in alcoholic beverages.What Maine proposes to do in thus amend-ing its fundamental law Kansas has alreadydone, lowa has pronounced in favor of,Ohio recently gave over 300,000 votes for,and in seventeen States during the last legis-lative year, in one form or another, initialsteps have been taken to secure. By whatsort of moral philosophy a State which re-gards and treats the liquor trafficas a crimecan assent to any plan for reducing its owntaxation by receiving the liquor revenuederived from other States Mr. Blame's let-ter does not make apparent."? ChristianHerald,

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Lifetime of Various Animals.?Cam-els live from forty to fifty years; horses av-erage from twenty-five to thirty; oxen,about twenty; sheep, eight or nine; dogs,twelve to fourteen. Concerning the agesattained by non-domesticated animals onlya few isolated facts aro known. The EastIndians believe that the life period of theelephant is about three hundred years, in-stances being recorded of these animalshaving lived one hundred and thirty yearsin confinement after capture at an unknownage. Whales aro estimated to reach theage of four hundred years. Some reptiles"are very long lived, an instance being fur-nished by a tortoise which was confined in1633 and existed until 1753, when he per-ished by accident. Birds sometimes reacha great age, the eagle and the swan havingbeen known to lire one hundred years.

A Bond-slave to Strong Drink.?Mr.Lees, who is engaged in temperance workin Scotland, said: "I was speaking recentlyto a gentleman ou my way from Kirkcaldyabout God. He replied, 'I know all aboutthat; but I have not followed it out.'?'What!' I answered, 'yet you dare to resistGod ?' 'I know; I know,' was his sorrow-ful reply; 'but drink is my ruin. I got upyesterday morning, quite sober, yet I re-quired to take five glasses of brandy tosteady my nerves for business!' He is aman ofgood education, in a capital positionin Glasgow, but is a helplessand despairingbond-slave to King Alcohol, who, as tensofthousands can testify, is a cruel and re-morseless master. Let us be everready topreach the Gospel to these poor slaves, forChrist has power to bid the captives gofree."? Christian Herald.

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Indian Cakes.?To make perfect Indiancakes use one pint of sour milk, one beatenegg, one small tablespoonful oflight brownsugar, and a teaspoonful of salt. Stir inthis a mixture of two parts Indian meal andone parf wheat flour, until you have a stiffbatter. Add a small teaspoon of bakingsoda, dissolved in a little hot water, and thinto the proper consistency with sweet milk.This will make about twenty large pan-cakes.

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Advocating Abstinence.?Owing tothe increasing interest in the cause of tem-perance in Germany and Switzerland, tbeMethodist Book Concern in Bremen hasstarted a Semi-monthlypaper, called "TheTrumpet of Liberty," exclusively devotedto advocating total abstinence from all in-toxicating liquors.

Tempebance at the Capitw..?Th«Congressional TemperanceSociety celebra-ted its 50th anniversaryrewttUy in Wash-ington. Senator Dawet, ite latePresident,said thatdmjMHEpfty years' history theWfron. by publiclegial*.

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