A SHORT time ago a lawyer of Portland, Oregon, was found dead in an opium den. This naturally made quite a stir, and people very properly say that such places should not be tolerated. But the case has its parallel, and the Los Angeles Mirror treats of it in the following rational manner:—
The finding of the dead man in the Chinese den at Portland, Oregon, very properly excites comment, and we hope will lead to the adoption of stringent measures to suppress such gateways to perdition. It appears the deceased was a prominent lawyer, and a husband and father. He entered the den in a state of partial intoxication, probably intending to allay his nervousness by the narcotic, but being too much inebriated to care properly for himself, partook too freely of the poisonous drug, and perished in his inebriation. The circumstance has a parallel in a case which occurred in this city a few years since. A husband and father who was addicted to occasional carousals when in possession of means derived from laboring at his profession, stood at a bar on Spring Street and drank until he was past care for himself. The keeper of the den, not willing to expose himself by thrusting his victim into the street, let the man lie on the floor where he fell, and locked the door upon him. On opening the door in the morning, the poor man was found lying just where he was left the night previous, but stone dead! He had been allowed to lie there by the brute who had furnished him with the poison that had terminated his career, and die within half a mile of his loving wife and tender children! No remonstrance was ever uttered against the manner of the man's taking off. A verdict of the jury that he died of apoplexy was the finale of the investigation into the case, and when the time came round the den-keeper was duly licensed to continue his murderous business for another term! Our contemporary of the Herald says the Chinaman who kept the opium den in Portland should be indicted for manslaughter on no other evidence than the finding of the man dead on his premises. What will he say of the Los Angeles case? Is the sin of the ignorant Chinese heathen greater than that of the white Christian?
TOBACCO.
By Dr. F. H. Hanaford
I as firmly believe that tobacco is the sensual partner of whisky as I do my existence. Though it does not produce the immediate effects of alcohol, does not produce the same boisterousness, the same temporary insanity, it feeds the same general stream of vice and ruin. I never knew of but one drunkard who did not use tobacco, though all tobacco-users do not use spirits regularly. The tobacco creates an abnormal state of the system, creates an unnatural thirst, naturally demanding alcohol as its proper ally. I as fully condemn gross habits of living, the immoderate use of stimulants, including the excessive use of the more stimulating flesh (see the Scriptures, in which drunkenness is coupled with “riotous eating of flesh,” excess, and wantonness). The contents of the castor—containing no nourishment whatever—all of the irritants, all unnatural food, so far as they tend to produce unnatural conditions, must sow the seeds of intemperance, quickened into activity and growth by any and all favoring influences. For this reason the “temperate in all things” are the least liable to become drunkards.—Dr. F. H. Hanaford.
Hope and Purification
He that hath this hope, purifieth himself.
Little Foxes.
“Don’t be overcome yet. May be you’ll change your mind before the end, Miss. I’ve got a bit of advice for you, and a promise to make first. The advice is to leave off the piano for six months, and to take to the kitchen. Men can’t live on love and waltzes, much less a man of the Seldom tribe. I know ’em. If he don’t have good food, he’ll be sour first and then he’ll have dyspepsia, and there’ll be a sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees; which things are a figure. But that’s the advice.”
That is the way grandma Jarvis vented some of her views as to Mabel Lee’s approaching marriage.
“O, grandma!” replied Mabel, “I can make splendid cake, and ice-pudding too, and charlottes, just as good as Cross.”
“Fiddlestick! You can’t make bread, or boil a potato, or broil a steak.”
“But anybody can do that.”
Mrs. Lee smiled, and grandma turned a withering look on Mabel.
“Don’t be a fool! There isn’t one in a hundred can do either, and I doubt if you’ve got brain to; but you might try.”
There rose up instantly a mighty resolve in Mabel’s feminine soul to show Grandma Jarvis that she could do more than she gave her credit for; that she would learn to cook, in spite of this discouraging prophecy. It is just possible grandma knew to whom she was talking.
“Then, as to the promise. I’m going to send you over a motto—one of those painted gimcracks everybody hangs up everywhere. I don’t know why they call them illuminated, I’m sure, except by the rule of contraries, for they need extra spectacles and a calcium light to read them by. But you can read mine!—I rubbed off the curlieues. Only promise to read it every morning before breakfast, or I can tell you you won’t get the tea-set; please remember.”
“O, of course I’ll read it, grandma—the idea!”
“Well, well, if you read it you’ll think about it, I’ll warrant. Now I must go home and send Johnny over with the things;” and, with a frosty little caress on Mabel’s fair cheek, and a nod to her mother, she went. “Grandma kisses me just like a clamshell,” said Mabel, in half-soliloquy, as she sat down again by the window. Her mother could not help laughing, for the cool nip of thin lips, that was grandma’s substitute for a kiss, certainly did suggest shells and clamminess. John came directly back with the package, and Mabel eagerly untied and unfolded it. The motto was printed in large German text, easy to read, though gay with gold and colors, and it ran thus:—
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes.”
Mabel started.
“Mother, what on earth does it mean?”
Mrs. Lee smiled and sighed both, as she read the legend over the girl’s shoulder. “Look here, Mab.;” said she, slipping a flat gold loop over her third finger, and the girl read inside, “Beware of little foxes!” and looked up, freshly astonished, into her mother’s face.
“I suppose grandma means me to tell you a story, Mabel, which she told me when I was first engaged. It hurt her bitterly to tell it, but it did me much good. I think she could not bring herself to tell you. You are not her daughter, and cannot love her as I do, and you never had reason to pity her as I have. You never saw grandfather Jarvis, Mabel.”
“Why, I thought he died before I was born.”
“No, he died ten years ago, in Brazil. I never saw him myself, Mab.; he never knew he had a daughter.”
“Mother!”
Mrs. Lee’s lovely dark eyes filled with tears as she drew Mabel down beside her on the sofa.
“I have been told that grandma was a very beautiful, high-spirited girl at your age; dear, animated, brilliant, thoroughly satisfied with herself and her surroundings, especially when Jonathan Jarvis fell in love with her. Her father died when she was three years old, and her invalid mother adored the child, and spoiled her, even more than I do you.”
Mabel kissed the soft hand laid on her shoulder, and gave it a willful little bite.
“As if I was one bit spoiled!”
“If you were not, my child, you would not need grandma’s lessons. She was spoiled, as I said, and Jonathan Jarvis knew it; but he was bewitched by her spirit and beauty, and thought, as men are apt to think, that he could control and cure all that. She loved him, too, very deeply, after her fashion, and there was nothing to delay their marriage; but the day was scarcely fixed when her mother suddenly sank and died. Grandmother did not mourn so hopelessly that it was thought best to put off her marriage, though out of respect to her mother’s memory there was no wedding party, and the happy pair began their life at once in the old homestead where grandmother lives to day.
“The outlook before those two was very fair; youth, health, competency, what seemed to be devoted love, made them an enviable couple. But no sooner were these two unbroken wills brought into daily contact than trouble began.
“You may laugh, Mabel, but their first dispute was about a coffee-pot. Mother preferred the old-fashioned urn; her husband, the newer style of pitcher. Neither would yield in a mere matter of taste, and this was the beginning of evil.
“Silly? Yes, it looks wonderfully silly to us; but I think I heard a very warm discussion only yesterday on the proper style of riding-hats for a lady.”
Mabel colored to the waves of her dark hair, and tried to smile.
“They came to a compromise on this matter, agreed to drink chocolate instead of coffee; but other small disputes followed—they all burnt in, on grandma’s mind; but I forget most of them, so slight and trivial were the matters of discussion, though they grew to active means of torment.
“A child was born, and Jonathan in his sad and sore heart, thought that would bring peace, and his indignant and grieved wife hoped it also; for each blamed the other, as combatants will. But the baby’s eyes never saw the strife; it died, and the hope died with it. Little frets are what wear away love and life, Mabel. My poor father!—and my poor mother! There was no kind friend to say a judicious word to either. They showed a smiling front to the world outside, but became more alienated daily.
“There was no real quarrel, no vital disagreement; but the hourly fret of undisciplined tempers, impatient natures, strong wills, and a self-consideration that forbade yielding, that cherished pride and petulance, that recognized no duty except as owed to itself.
“The end of these things hastened. Before the nameless baby had been in its grave a year, father had set out for Brazil in a vessel, leaving this short adieu to his wife:—
“‘You can say I have gone South on business, Mehetable, but you must know I shall never come back, I am tired of living in torment, and you will be glad to part with one who never could please you. So farewell.
“‘Yours at command,
“‘JONATHAN JARVIS.’
“Mother was frantically angry at first. She raved in her own chamber over what she termed a mortal insult; but, as day after day came on, and her loneliness and weakness grew over her, she began to see things more honestly; and when news came that the ship had foundered at sea and all hands perished, then she was entirely prostrated. As she told me, her past life rose up, looked her in the face, and struck her down.
“I was born after my father’s departure, and a very long illness carried her on to the gates of the grave. She recovered at last, a stern and saddened woman, with only one interest in life; but she brought me up with strictness and care, tenderly as she loved me; and when I was about to take up my life for myself, told me this story, and gave me this ring.
“‘If I had killed the little foxes,’ she said, sadly, ‘I might to-day have a goodly vineyard of my own. Beware of them, Hetty. They have spoiled my life.’
“And after all, Mabel, my father was not lost on the wreck. He was picked up by another vessel, and, under an assumed name, lived on in Brazil. In the grasp of mortal illness, he wrote his wife, asking and giving pardon. It was from him that all her wealth came, but she has never forgiven herself.”
“Poor grandma!” sobbed Mabel, “and I have been so hateful to her.”
“It will console her for all your freaks, my darling, if you profit by her pitiful story.”
The next time Grandma Jarvis came over, Mabel greeted her with a stringent hug and a heartfelt kiss, not at all of the clam-shell order.
The old lady drew back with astonishment and looked at Mabel; but she saw the brown eyes fill, and her own grew dim.
“Go along, child, go along!” she growled, under her breath. “And now you’ve got your lesson, don’t forget.”
It would have been hard for Mabel to do so, when the exquisitely wrought tea-set that adorned her table through all her married life bore on every cover the sly and eager head of a tiny fox, and the very cream pitcher had for its handle the slender form of that treacherous animal, its eager head peering over the brim, and its long, bushy tail curving outward at the base. Many and many a time, when some trifling matter irritated her, and a quick or stinging word rose to her lips, a glance at the tea-set shut her pretty mouth closely just in time; and when grandma Jarvis came into Boston a year after Mabel’s marriage, to eat her Christmas dinner at Mr. Seldom’s, she nodded quaintly at the lady of the house, as she said, “I congratulate you now Mehetable; I can do it with a clear conscience. It’s been a good hunting year, I see.”
Mabel colored and laughed, and her husband stared, but nobody explained the sybilline utterance; only Mrs. Lee gave her mother a loving and grateful look, and grandma Jarvis wiped her spectacles.
And the moral is—let us all go fox-hunting.—
Christian Woman.
The Home Circle.
By Mrs. Helen Barron Bostwick
THE KING'S PICTURE.
The king from his council chamber
Came weary and sore of heart;
He called for Ilaff the painter,
And spoke to him thus, apart:
"I am sickened of faces ignoble,
Hypocrites, cowards, and knaves;
I shall shrink to their shrunken measure,
Chief slave in a realm of slaves!
"Paint me a man perfected,
Gracious and wise and good,
Dowered with the strength of heroes,
And a beauty like womanhood.
It shall hang in my inmost chamber,
That thither when I retire,
It may fill my soul with its grandeur,
And warm it with holy fire."
So the artist painted the picture—
It hung on the palace wall—
Never a thing so goodly
Had garnished the stately hall.
The king, with his head uncovered,
Gazed on it with rapt delight,
Till it suddenly wore strange meaning,
And baffled his questioning sight.
For the form was his supplest courtier's,
Perfect in every limb;
But the bearing was that of the henchman
Who filled the flagons for him.
The brow was a priest's, who pondered
His parchments early and late;
The eyes were a wandering minstrel's,
Who sang at the palace gate.
The lips—half sad and half mirthful,
With a flitting, tremulous grace,
Ah me! were the lips of a woman
He had kissed in the market-place.
But the smile that their curve transfigured
(As a rose by its chrism of dew),
Was the smile of the wife that loved him,
Queen Ethelyn, good and true.
"Dost read, O king," said the artist,
"This truth which the picture tells—
How in every form of the human
Some hint of the highest dwells?
How, scanning humanity's temples,
For the place where the veil is thin,
We may gather by beautiful glimpses
The form of the good within?"
—Mrs. Helen Barron Bostwick.
A Good Wife.
By Examiner
A GOOD wife is to a man wisdom, strength, and courage; a bad one is confusion, weakness, and despair. No condition is hopeless to a man where the wife possesses firmness, decision, and economy. There is no outward propriety which can counteract indolence, extravagance, and folly at home. No spirit can long endure bad influence. Man is strong, but his heart is not adamant. He needs a tranquil mind, and especially if he is an intelligent man, with a whole head, he needs a moral force in the conflict of life. To recover his composure, home must be a place of comfort and peace. There his soul renews its strength, and goes forth with renewed vigor to encounter the labors and troubles of life. But if at home he finds no rest, and there is met with bad temper, jealousy, and gloom, assailed with complaints and censures, hope vanishes, and he sinks into despair.
—Examiner.
Religious Notes.
By Editor
—Germany has a Roman Catholic population of 15,000,000.
—The British people gave $5,310,950 for foreign missions last year.
—A cathedral, costing $300,000, has just been consecrated in New Zealand.
—A Japanese Sunday-school paper, published in Tokio, has a monthly circulation of more than three thousand.
—A discussion is going on in the columns of the Christian Union as to whether or not death ends probation. The C. U. inclines to the opinion that it does not.
—Bishop Levi Scott, senior bishop of the M. E. Church, died at his home in Delaware, July 13. He had been in the ministry over half a century, and had been bishop for thirty years.
—The people of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, by a vote of 26,729 to 17,945, have adopted a law prohibiting unnecessary labor on Sunday, theatrical representations, street processions, etc.
—The General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church have resolved, after a full discussion, that "the doctrine of sinless perfection is not authorized by the Scriptures, and is a dogma of dangerous tendencies."
—As a specimen of modesty, the following is refreshing. The writer has just before given an abstract of a sermon preached by himself: "I have given a sketch of this sermon; it is better heard than read, and if people want to have some light that is shining in a dark place, that God has been pleased to give me, call me out, and stay up my hands with the necessaries of life, and I will be glad to give it to you."
—Of infant baptism, the present Church-of-England Bishop of Salisbury, has said: "I must candidly and broadly state my conviction that there is not one passage one word in Scripture which directly proves it—not one word the undeniable and logical power of which can be adduced to prove, either in any way of fact, that in the Scriptural age infants were baptized. Nor, I believe, is there any such direct statement to be found in any writings of the Fathers of the church before the latter end of the second century after Christ."—Christian Index.
—The Independent has the following; "It is pleasant to see how surely, if slowly, our western borders, however full of ungodliness they may be, gradually come under Christian control. Probably California contained for some years the most godless population in the land. For some years, the church seemed to be utterly without influence, while all the wealth and fashion of San Francisco was irreligious beyond description; but now the churches are a decided power, and the whole Pacific Coast is becoming as Christian as other parts of the country." Can anybody tell whether this is intended as a compliment to California, or a thrust at the other parts of the country?
—The Boston Journal tells of a church in Massachusetts that has recently secured a pastor, after a nine years' struggle and examination as to who might prove the most desirable man. That paper says: "Two hundred and forty candidates had been heard, and the final settlement was accomplished over the protests of a minority, which broke up one council on the score of technicalities, and endeavored to prevent the action of the second. Restlessness and the critical habit grow upon such a congregation until it clamors for a fresh candidate each Sunday, very much as the Roman populace used to shout for a new victim in the arena. Spiritual barrenness and absence of religious activity, are as sure to attend such a system as night is to follow day."
—It seems that England's troubles are not wholly political, but ecclesiastical as well. A New York paper says: "The tone of the Ritualist party is rapidly becoming more and more threatening. The doctrine that the Queen is the head of the church is denounced and denied. They say that the supremacy of the Crown was admitted when the Crown was independent, but that it is now only an imagination; that the Ministry is the executive head of the Government, and is no longer appointed by or representative of the Crown, since Parliament has wrested that power and now compels the appointment of a Ministry in accord with the majority of the Commons. The Ritualists say also that it is absurd to admit that Parliament has any sovereignty or headship over the church, since in modern times it is not required that a member of Parliament be a member of the Church of England, and he be a non-conformist, a dissenter, or an infidel. The Ritualists are increasing in numbers. More than a fourth, perhaps more than a third, of the clergy are claimed as belonging to them. They now demand the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act, and the settlement of the principle that Parliament shall not legislate for the church without the co-operation of the church in convocation. This demand is accompanied with the distinct threat that unless establishment is defined in that way they will go in for disestablishment. And they say, with great appearance of truth, that if they once join the dissenters of England in demanding the separation of Church and State, they will form a balance of power party so strong in every parish of England as to compel disestablishment."
OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE FORETOLD.
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-The debt of New York is $97,952,052.
-There have been several deaths from heat in New York City.
-The great iron strike in Chicago is ended, the strikers coming out victorious.
-A gas explosion at a fire in Paris, recently, destroyed twelve houses, and killed twenty persons.
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-During the year ending June 30, the distillers of Peoria, Ill., used 4,831,568 bushels of grain, and produced 18,563,156 gallons of spirits.
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-July 14, the entire business part of Colfax, W. T., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $500,000. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.
-A train, with 217 persons on board, ran off the track on a railroad in Russia, July 13. One hundred and seventy-eight persons were killed, and the rest were more or less injured.
-We do not pollute our pages with accounts of murders, but we note the fact that the daily papers of the past week have recorded no less than twenty-two murders in the United States. As a rule, the causes of the murders are of the most trivial character.
-During a storm at Texarkana, Ark., July 12, lightning struck a three-story brick building, which fell in a mass on a saloon, burying it and about forty men in the ruins. A fire was started by the lamps, and two other buildings were burned. Several persons were killed.
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Alexandria.
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In our last issue we stated that the English Admiral Seymour had threatened to bombard Alexandria within twenty-four hours, unless the warlike preparations of Arabi Bey were discontinued. Accordingly, he opened fire on the forts, and the battle continued two days, when the Egyptian commander and his forces fled from the city, under cover of a flag of truce. The Egyptian loss was very great; the English loss was comparatively slight. Before he left the city, Arabi Bey opened the prisons, and the convicts commenced to burn and plunder, and Alexandria is now a mass of smouldering ruins.
Admiral Seymour is now in command of the city, and order is restored, but what the next move will be nobody can tell. The position of Arabi Bey is not exactly known, but he is thought to be well entrenched in the interior.
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"Public opinion favors the seizure of Egypt by England, although this intention is not openly advocated, and the bombardment of Alexandria may therefore be regarded the first step to military occupation, which is intended to separate Egypt from the Government of the Sultan, and turning it into an English province."
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