Earlier text: CHARACTER"NONSENSE!" said Mr. Wheaton, shortly. Mrs. Wheaton's face flushed scarlet; she looked up at him, and, if I mistake not, a sharp reply got up as far as her throat, but she choked it down; it did not part her lips. She looked furtively at me, but I looked steadily at the fire. Mr. Wheaton all the time was quite unconscious of the stir his word had made in one tender and sensitive heart. Then Mrs. Wheaton murmured something about her scissors and slipped out of the room. Mrs. Wheaton had ventured to make some remark on some business question; I think it concerned the morality of some Wall Street operations. The subject was one with which she had no great acquaintance, and perhaps her woman wit was at fault. Indeed I remember thinking at the time that it was, at least in part; but what she said was not nonsense. After Mrs. Wheaton had gone out there was a moment or two of silence; then I broke it. Mr. Wheaton and I are old friends, and I presumed a little on that fact. "Tom," said I, "how long have you been married?" "Twenty-four years next May," said he. "A year from next May, if we both live so long, will be our silver wedding. And yet it seems but yesterday that Lucy and I were sleighing it in the moonlight that Christmas that I ran away from home for my holidays, much to the chagrin and vexation of my sisters, because I found greater attractions at Lucy Vine's." "I wonder," said I, speaking slowly and musingly, and as it were to myself—"I wonder if that Christmas holiday you would have spoken to Lucy Vine as you spoke to your wife just now?" "How?" said Mr. Wheaton; and he turned sharply upon me. "Nonsense!" I repeated; and I threw into my own voice all the vigor and the sharpness there had been in his. It was a hazardous experiment, but Tom and I were old friends; and at all events, there was no drawing back now. He looked at me sharply for a moment, and I looked at him; then his eyes went back to the fire. "Shoh!" said he, speaking to himself, "I wonder—" and then quickly turning back to me, "Do you suppose she minded it?" "What did she get up and go out for without a word in reply?" I asked. "To get her scissors, I believe," said he. I laughed at him. "It is taking a long time to find them," I replied. "Yes, she did mind it. If you had seen the quick flush in her face, and the choking at the throat, and the nervous movement of the hands, you would not have doubted that she minded it. Suppose she had said to you 'Nonsense!'" and I fired it at him as explosively as I could; "how would you have liked it?" He shook his head slowly; he was still studying the fire. "Suppose I had said to her, 'Nonsense!'" (explosively as before): "how would you have liked it?" "I would have said you were no gentleman," said Mr. Wheaton; "but—but—" "Pshaw, John, a fellow can't be studying all the time how he'll talk to his own wife, you know. If he can't be free at home, he can't be free anywhere. She ought not to be so sensitive. She knows I didn't mean anything." "Tom," said I, "if anyone else accused you of saying something when you didn't mean anything, you'd get redder in the face over it than she was just now. You did mean something. You meant exactly what you said. You thought what your wife said was not right, and you blurted it right out." "Well, it was nonsense," said Mr. Wheaton. "I am not so sure of that," said I; "but if it were, that was no reason why you should tell her so." "Do you always weigh your words when talking with your wife, as if you were in a witness box before a Philadelphia lawyer?" "No matter what I do," said I. "Perhaps I have learned a lesson here to-night that will make me more careful hereafter. Of one thing I am very sure, Tom: if we were as careful of our wives after twenty-five years of married life as we are of our girls in courtship—" But I did not finish my sentence; for just at that moment the door opened and Mrs. Wheaton came in. I had barely time to notice that she had forgotten what she went for; for she had no scissors in her hand, when Mr. Wheaton, in his warm, impulsive way, reached out his hand, caught hers, drew her to him and said, "Lucy, my dear, Mr. Laicus here has been giving me a regular going over for speaking to you as I did just now. It was nonsense, you know; but I had no business to tell you so; at least not in that brutal style." She flushed redder than before; then stooped down; brushed the rich, black hair off from his forehead; put a kiss upon it; thanked me with her eyes; and then said, "I declare I forgot my scissors after all," and slipped out of the room again. "John," said Mr. Wheaton, grasping me by the hand, "I am much obliged to you. I remember Lucy always had a sensitive soul; I wonder if I have been pricking it with sharp words without knowing it all these years. I think I have learned a lesson to-night which I shall not soon forget." "I think I have learned one, too," I replied.—Christian Union. "A WRITER in Golden Days tells a 'true story' of one Mr. Blank, who occupied a confidential position in a great railway corporation. It was rumored that the company was about to assume charge of a languishing railroad. If so, the stock of the latter would rise in price. "Now one bold speculator—or operator, as they are called in broker's parlance—was an intimate friend of Mr. Blank. "After long reflection, he came to the conclusion that the best thing he could do was to call on Mr. Blank, ask in confidence for some definite information on the subject, and offer to share with Mr. Blank the profits of any venture that he might make on 'points' given him. This he did. 'Mr. Blank,' said he, 'if I knew that the transaction which it is rumored is about to take place in a few days were really to occur, I could by buying up the stock of the company that is now in the market, make both you and myself rich men. Can you not, by a word, say whether the rumor will be realized or not?' 'I cannot say,' Mr. Blank replied. 'But a word,' the broker persisted; 'it shall be share and share alike.' 'I cannot say,' Mr. Blank repeated as before. 'You need not speak,' then, the broker said, excitedly. 'Lift your arm, nod your head, lift your eyebrows.' 'I cannot,' Mr. Blank replied, as calmly as was possible. 'Do you not understand your own interests?' the broker burst forth, hotly. 'Mr. Blank, you are a poor man! Now if you will only heed me, you may become a rich one in a day. Are these reports true? If so I can clear three hundred thousand at a stroke! The half of that sum shall be yours. I do not ask you for a word; you need not open your mouth. Only wink your eye! It is possible for you to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, sir, by simply winking your eye!' "How vast a sum to Mr. Blank, who, though intrusted with grave secrets, was still only a clerk, receiving but a moderate salary! "He was staggered for a moment, but soon regained his composure! he looked the eagerly-expectant broker in the face, and answered, 'I cannot do it,' and left the room instantly. "The broker went away crestfallen. In the absence of all definite information, he feared to take the great risks which always attend speculating in the dark, and did not invest any of his money. In a few days, however, the whole matter was settled. The great company really did take the smaller, and the stock almost doubled in value. "A few days after that, the broker met Mr. Blank on the street, and smarting keenly under the feeling that an enormous gain had slipped through his fingers, just for the want of a word, he rashly upbraided Mr. Blank for his 'obstinacy.' Mr. Blank, like all men of true power, kept his temper, and turning to his rash reviler, he said, 'The temptation with which you assailed me was great indeed; but I had a trust to fulfill, and my honor is beyond price.' "Although everyone should do his duty for duty's own sake, still it is always a pleasure to see great deeds of honor meet with deserved reward. It was so, I am glad to say, in Mr. Blank's case. His capabilities and his perfect reliability soon secured one of the very highest positions in the company whose secrets he had guarded so well, and he is now paid a salary at least half as large as that which the President of the United States receives. "Solomon tells of the 'naughty person,' the 'wicked man,' who 'walketh with a froward mouth.' 'He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers, frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.' Prov. 6: 12-15. "The world is full of winking and squinting—of signs, and grips, and cheats, and ciphers, and hypocrisies; and a man can make himself a rascal by a wink or a nod, as well as by a forgery or a falsehood. Thank the Lord, an honest man can do his business without winking about it; and a man who sells his winks for money may find that he has sold his reputation and his soul also, and has made a poor bargain, even if he has received a high price." In these days character is of immense value and should be held at a high premium, whenever a place of trust and responsibility is to be filled in church interests as well as civil affairs. The man who will not "wink" for his own enrichment, who will not deceive or withhold censure of wrong for popularity's sake, who will fearlessly do his duty by those for whose instruction, guidance, and help in Christian work he is consecrated or appointed, is of inestimable worth, and such should be held in honor; especially so, if with the supreme qualification of character, they combine wisdom, humility, and capability for the work.—Bible Banner. They are slipping away, these sweet, swift years,
Like a leaf on the current cast;
With never a break in their rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past. As silent and swift as a weaver's thread,
Or an arrow's flying gleam;
As soft as the languorous breezes hid,
That lift the willow's long, golden lid,
And ripple the glassy stream. As light as the breath of the thistle-down,
As fond as a lover's dream;
As pure as the flush in the sea-shell's throat,
As sweet as the wood-bird's wooing note,
So tender and sweet they seem. One after another we see them pass,
Down the dim-lighted stair;
We hear the sound of their steady tread
In the steps of the centuries long since dead,
As beautiful and as fair. There are only a few years left to love,
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet
These beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet,
By the dusty way of life? There are only a few swift years—ah, let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And fill up the measure with love's sweet wine,
But never an angry word! A CHILD'S FAITH.
By Dr. Newton
A LITTLE child was once taken to a funeral of one of his young companions. He had never seen a dead body before. He looked long and earnestly on the beautiful form of his friend, as it lay, like a piece of wax-work or of polished marble in the dark coffin, with flowers all over it. He did not go to the graveyard. His mother took him home, and let him stand at the window, where he could see the funeral procession of his playmate go by. He looked at it with fixed attention for awhile; then he turned to his mother, and his face all lighted up with gladness as he said, "O mamma! how beautiful it will when Jesus says, 'Baby, come forth!'" The little fellow was thinking, no doubt, of what he had heard about Jesus standing by the grave of his friend, in Bethany, when he said, "Lazarus, come forth!" That dear child was making the right use of what the Bible teaches us about Jesus and the resurrection. In the morning of the resurrection Jesus will speak in that way to all the dead children and to all his people who have died believing in him; and it will, indeed, "be beautiful when they come forth!" —Dr. Newton. -The total French forces now in Tunis, number 30,700 men. -According to the recent census, the population of London is 3,814,571. -The Police Captain reports 162 arrests in Oakland for the month of May. -The church books of Mr. Spurgeon's church show a membership of 5,284. -There are 500,000 persons in the city of London who never enter any place of worship. -The consumption of sugar in the United States during the year 1880, was 900,000 tons. -The shipment of wheat this season from Long Wharf, Oakland, amounts to 41,944 tons. -A Brazilian agent is in the United States, trying to secure 3000 Chinese for work in Brazil. -The last census shows that in the United States there are 1,000,000 more males than females. -The Roman Catholics of Cochin recently burned publicly a large number of copies of the Bible. -Prof. Denton has concluded his lectures in San Francisco, and gone to Australia. Poor Australia! -Three hundred men, women, and children, arrived in New York, June 2, from Europe, bound for Utah. -There is a strong sentiment in favor of making Moscow, instead of St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire. -A bill to permit clergymen to sit in the House of Commons has been defeated on its second reading by a vote of 110 to 101. -The British Government, through Sir Edward Thornton, has paid the £15,000 of the fishery award due to the United States. -The business of paper making in the United States is estimated to employ over $100,000,000 of capital, and forty thousand persons. -Santa Cruz has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to sell or give a cigarette, cigar, or any tobacco to any person under 16 years of age. -Two Leadville, Col., boys were killed June 2, by the explosion of a giant cartridge which they were attempting to break open to see what was inside. -The Turkish Premier has written to the Khedive of Egypt, declaring that the Porte cannot tolerate a continuance of the attacks published in the Egyptian press upon Turkey. -The late Stephen Paxson, Sunday-school missionary in the West, established fourteen hundred schools, their aggregate numbering 70,000, besides 11,000 teachers. -May 31, various parts of the State of Texas suffered from tornadoes, accompanied by severe hail. Several persons were killed at Taylor, and nearly every house in town was damaged. -A dispatch from Naples says slight shocks of earthquake at Mount Vesuvius have been followed by strong eruptions. Broad and active streams of lava were flowing down the north-east side of the mountain. -Oakland was visited by a heavy thunder shower, May 31. There was also quite heavy rain the 2d and 3d inst. Reports show that the rain in the interior was not sufficient to damage grain to any extent. -At a meeting of the Anti-Slave Trade Society, held in Madrid, Spain, June 2, a resolution was passed demanding the abolition of capital punishment and the immediate liberation of all slaves in the Antilles. -Director Burchard, of the Mint, has authorized the coinage of standard silver dollars for the present month as follows: San Francisco Mint, $1,300,000; Philadelphia Mint, $600,000; New Orleans Mint, $400,000. -The people of England spend for intoxicating liquor two hundred times as much money as they give for missions. In the United States about two hundred and forty times as much is given for intoxicating liquor as is given for missions. -The ringleader of the anti-Jewish rioters at Kieff, Russia, has been sentenced to three and one-half years' penal servitude and the loss of his civil rights. His most active accomplices have been sentenced to 18 months, and twelve others to short terms of imprisonment. -The frontier men anticipate Indian troubles. The North Cheyennes have notified agent Miller that they must be permitted to depart in peace within twenty days, or they will go forcibly. They say they cannot live in the country allotted to them, and will return to their old home. -The total production of the iron and steel works of the United States in the census year 1880, was 7,265,140 tons, an increase of 3,609,925 tons over the production in the year 1870. Thirty States were concerned in its manufacture, and the amount of capital invested was $230,971,884. -Mexico has a good prospect of being soon known to the outside world. She is waking up to the necessity of improvement. There are now twenty lines of railroad in construction, and as many more in contemplation. The government has already paid out more than $12,000,000 for subsidies. -The total yield from the culture of the grape in California last year, was $3,500,000. The sale of grapes for table use yielded $150,000, and that of raisins, $100,000. There were 10,000,000 gallons of wine made, and 450,000 gallons of brandy. Over 10,000 acres of land were planted to grapes last year. -A few days since, a woman was arrested in New York for deliberately setting fire to a house in which many persons were asleep. The floor of the basement, and a heap of straw and rags collected there, were saturated with kerosene. The object of the fiendish act was to obtain the insurance, which was $4,500. -A London dispatch says, "Nearly all the cattle by the steamer Phoenician, which arrived at Glasgow from Boston, were found to be affected with the foot and mouth disease, and were slaughtered." Very vague. That's what they do with them all. The question is, What did they do with them afterward? -The total number of sentences for crime, in Boston, for the past year was 16,897. Of these, 72 per cent. were directly traceable to intoxicating liquors. Twelve per cent. more were given to persons under the influence of liquor at the time the crimes were committed, thus making a total of eighty-four per cent. due to liquor. -The Missouri Legislature has passed a law making gambling a felony, and the gamblers are planning to circumvent it. The law, they say, does not reach to the middle of the river, and they propose to charter a boat for short trips up and down the river. As soon as the boat leaves the wharf, gambling will commence, and continue all night. -Postmaster-General James is doing effective work in the P. O. department. In unearthing the star-route frauds, he has already saved the country several hundred thousand dollars. On one of the star-route lines the average cost to the country of carrying the few letters was $700 per letter, while on another, the mail bag traveled back and forth regularly with nothing but a circular for contents. -Superintendent Seaver, of Boston, says that the practice of reading trashy, sensational novels, is a much more grave and rapidly spreading evil than is generally supposed. The pupils of the public schools draw from the public library a literature that wastes their time and injures their mental tone. It is proposed that the trustees of the library shall take some action toward remedying the evil. -The immigration for the month of May exceeds that of the same month last year by 21,000, and the number is larger than for any month previous in the history of Castle Garden. The total number of arrivals for the first five months of 1880, is 135,336. The number of arrivals for the same period of 1881, is 482,108. The number of immigrants arriving at Montreal during the month of May, was 6,600. -A company of New York capitalists, interested in a railway project in Newfoundland, have recently closed a contract by which that government indefeasibly cedes to them 2,000,000 acres of land, and guarantees them an annual subsidy of $180,000. The 2,000,000 acres contain copper in almost unlimited quantity, and comprise nearly all the known mineral wealth of the country. That country will thus be virtually controlled by citizens of the United States. -The law requiring saloon-keepers in cities with over ten thousand people to pay a license of $1,000 a year, and those in smaller towns to pay $500, also requiring a bond of $5,000, and that all screens be taken down, went into effect in Nebraska, June 1. It was entirely ignored by the Omaha liquor men, who propose to fight the law on the ground of unconstitutionality. The liquor men throughout the State have organized, and raised a large sum of money to pay legal expenses, and have secured the best legal talent. -The trouble in Ireland increases every day. Parnell advises the tenants to refuse to pay their rents, and the police, assisted by the military, are daily making evictions, but meet with severe resistance. Serious riots are occurring, and many outrages are committed. Men who have been witnesses of the three great agitations in Ireland during the past 40 years, say that this is by far the most formidable. It is believed from the universality of the movement, its widespread ramifications, and its perfect organization, that the mere suppression of the Land League as a means of public meeting would not stop the agitation. The climax must certainly be reached soon. A SWEDISH RELIGIOUS MONTHLY.—PUBLISHED AT BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, AND CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY. 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A WRITER to the San Francisco Jewish Times advocates with much earnestness the observance of Sunday instead of Saturday as a day of rest and worship by the Jews, on the ground of convenience, and says: "There is no denying the fact that in San Francisco the Jewish Sabbath is almost a myth, and that those who adhere to the strict letter of the fourth commandment are few and far between. * In America, where commerce is so largely in the hands of the Jews, and the business they transact so completely through persons of other denominations, the Jew is compelled to ignore what are supposed to be the teachings of his religion, for to act up to them would necessitate a cessation of almost all social intercourse with his non-Jewish neighbors." By the majority of persons this will doubtless be considered an indication of progress on the part of the Jews, as those are usually considered the most progressive who have the least regard for law. It may, however, be considered as an indication of consistency on their part, for, having rejected Christ, their keeping the law could not profit them. Should this move be adopted, they will have progressed one step ahead of their Christian brethren, who accept Christ but reject the law. This is an age of progress. The whole world is moving—downward. CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1881.
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DAKOTA, June 30 to July 5 We have just issued an edition of the tract, Second Advent, in Spanish, translated by Bro. F. Segesser. We speak for it a wide circulation among the Spaniards everywhere. Price, postpaid, in paper covers, 10 cents. Without covers, $5.00 per hundred. The usual discount to tract societies. "THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS."
This is the name of a 48-page illustrated monthly magazine, devoted entirely to missionary work. It is undenominational, and aims to give complete statistics in regard to all foreign missionary work. The May number is devoted to the Chinese. Besides interesting statistics, it contains a brief outline of the Chinese empire—its history and geography, with map; a description of the people of China, their character, laws, and religion; and an article showing the work that has been done in translating the Bible into Chinese. It is well worth the perusal of any one who is interested in the preaching of the gospel in all nations. Published by Eugene R. Smith, 64 Bible House, New York. Price, $2.50 year. ON the Friday evening after the revised New Testament was received in New York, 83,715 words of it were telegraphed to the Chicago papers. The next day, 23,000 more words were telegraphed. By this time the New Testament had arrived by mail, and the remaining 50,000 words were put in type, and the complete New Testament appeared in the Sunday papers. Five hundred years ago, months would have been required to produce a single copy. The angel told Daniel (Dan. 12:5) that in the "time of the end" knowledge should be increased, evidently referring to knowledge of the prophecies. We certainly can see a striking fulfillment of this prophecy in the wonderfully increased facilities for studying the word of God. "Whoso readeth let him understand." SUNDAY OR SABBATH, WHICH?
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THE following resolution was adopted by the late Presbyterian Assembly at York, Pa.:— "Resolved, That in the rapid increase of Sunday travel, Sunday excursions, Sunday newspapers, Sunday post-office business, Sunday visiting, etc., we see one of the most alarming indications of popular degeneracy, justly provoking the displeasure of Him who gave to ancient Israel his Sabbaths to be 'a sign between Him and them,' and who, because they 'rebelled against him and polluted his Sabbaths,' said 'I will pour out my fury upon them to consume them.'" Just what connection there is between Sunday travel, Sunday newspapers, post-office business, etc., and God's threats against the polluters of his Sabbaths which he gave to ancient Israel, we cannot determine. The passage above quoted from Eze. 20:11-13, refers to the seventh day, which, as all agree, was the Sabbath that God gave to "ancient Israel." It certainly shows a great scarcity of law against Sunday work when learned men are compelled to quote a Sabbath law to condemn it. We thus have the strange spectacle of a law that enforces two things directly opposed to each other. This is an anomaly worth investigating. "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" NORTH PACIFIC T. AND M. SOCIETY.
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The fifth annual session of this society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Cornelius, Oregon, to commence June 22, 1881. All officers and members of this society should make a special effort to attend this meeting. Officers should bring their account books. WM. L. RAYMOND, Acting Secretary. Appointments.
By William L. Raymond
NORTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE.
The fifth annual session of this Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting to be held at Cornelius, Oregon, to commence on the 22d day of June, 1881. All our churches should elect delegates to attend this meeting, and furnish them with credentials and reports of the standing and condition of their respective bodies. WM. L. RAYMOND, Secretary. Crime and Roman Catholicism in New South Wales
The criminal returns in New South Wales for 1879, show that 45½ per cent. of the whole number of criminals were returned as Roman Catholics, and 54½ per cent. as belonging to Protestant and other denominations. At the census of 1871 the Roman Catholics numbered only 29 per cent. of the total population. ALL DEAD.—Have you ever read "The Ancient Mariner"? I dare say you thought it one of the strangest imaginations ever put together. . . . Dead men pulling the rope, dead men steering. But do you know I have lived to see that time, have seen it done? I have gone into churches, and have seen a dead man in the pulpit, a dead man as deacon, a dead man handling the plate, and dead men sitting to hear.