Earlier text: CATHOLIC INFLUENCE IN ROME“JOHN THOMAS!” Mr. Belknap spoke in a firm, rather authoritative voice. It was evident that he anticipated some reluctance on the boy’s part, and therefore assumed in the outset, a very decided manner. John Thomas, a lad between twelve and thirteen years of age, was seated on a door-step. A slight movement of his body indicated that he heard; but he did not lift his eyes from the book, nor make any verbal response. “John Thomas!” This time the voice of Mr. Belknap was loud, sharp, and imperative. “Sir,” responded the boy, dropping the volume in his lap, and looking up with a slightly flushed and sullen face. “Didn’t you hear me when I first spoke?” said Mr. Belknap, angrily. “Then why didn’t you answer me? always respond when you are spoken to. I’m tired of this ill-mannered, disrespectful way of yours.” The boy stood up, looking now dogged, as well as sullen. “Go and get your hat and jacket.” This was said in a tone of command, accompanied by a side toss of the head, by way of enforcing his order. “What for?” asked John Thomas, not moving a pace from where they stood. “Go and do what I tell you. Get your hat and jacket.” The boy moved slowly, and with a very reluctant air, from the room. “Now don’t be all day.” Mr. Belknap dropped his paper, and going hastily to the bottom of the stairs, called out:—
“You, John! John Thomas!” “Sir!” came a provokingly indifferent voice from one of the chambers. “Didn’t I tell you to hurry—say?” “I can’t find my jacket.” “You don’t want to find it. Where did you lay it when you took it off last night?” “I don’t know. I forget.” “If you’re not down here with your jacket on, in one minute, I’ll warm your shoulders well for you.” Mr. Belknap was quite in earnest in this threat, a fact plainly enough apparent to John Thomas in the tone of his father’s voice. Not just wishing to have matters proceed to this extremity, the boy opened a closet, and singularly enough, there hung the jacket in full view. At the expiration of the minute he was standing before his disturbed father, with his jacket on, and buttoned up to the chin. “Where’s your hat?” now asked Mr. Belknap. “I’ve looked everywhere.” “Look again. There! what is that on the hat rack, just under my coat?” The boy answered not, but walked moodily to the rack, and took his hat therefrom. “Ready at last! I declare I’m out of patience with your slow movements and sulky manner. What do you stand there for, knitting your brows and pouting your lips? Straighten out your face, sir! I won’t have a boy of mine put on such a countenance.” The lad, thus angrily and insultingly rated, made a feeble effort to throw a few rays of sunshine into his face. But the effort died, fruitless. All was too dark, sullen, and rebellious within his bosom. “See here!” Mr. Belknap still spoke in that peculiar tone of command which always stifles self-respect in the one to whom it is addressed. “Do you go down to Leslie’s and tell him to send me a good claw hammer, and three pounds of eight-penny nails, and go quickly.” The boy turned off without a word, and was slowly turning away when his father said sharply:—
“Look here, sir.” John Thomas paused and looked back. “What did I tell you to do?” “To get a claw hammer and three pounds of eight-penny nails.” “Very well. Why didn’t you indicate in some way that you heard me? Haven’t I already this morning read you a lecture about this very thing? Now, go quickly; I’m in a hurry.” For all this impatience and authority on the part of Mr. Belknap, John Thomas moved away at a snail’s pace; and as the former, in a state of considerable irritability, gazed after the boy, he felt strongly tempted to call him back and give him a good flogging in order that he might clearly comprehend the fact of his being in earnest. But, as this flogging was an unpleasant kind of business, and had on all previous occasions been succeeded by a repentant and self-accusing state, Mr. Belknap restrained his indignant impulses. “If that stubborn, incorrigible boy returns in half an hour, it will be a wonder,” muttered Mr. Belknap, as he came back into the sitting-room. “I wish I knew what to do with him. There is no respect or obedience in him. I never saw such a boy. He knows that I’m in a hurry; and yet, he goes creeping along like a tortoise, and ten chances to one that he forgets his errand altogether before he is half way to Leslie’s. What is to be done with him, Aunt Mary?” And Mr. Belknap turned as he spoke, to an elderly lady, with a mild, open face, and clear blue eyes from which goodness looked forth as from an angel. She was a valued relative, who was paying him a brief visit. Aunt Mary let her knitting rest in her lap, and turned her mild thoughtful eyes upon the speaker. “What is to be done with that boy, Aunt Mary?” Mr. Belknap repeated his words. “I’ve tried everything with him; but he remains incorrigible.” Aunt Mary paused, and seemed half in doubt whether it were best to give utterance to what was in her mind. “Tried what?” asked Mr. Belknap. “May I speak plainly?” said Aunt Mary. “To me?” Why, yes. The plainer the better.” “Have you tried a kind, affectionate, unimpassioned manner with the boy? Since I have been here I notice that you speak to him in a cold, indifferent, or authoritative tone. Under such treatment, some natures that soften quickly in the sunshine of affection, grow hard and stubborn.” The blood mounted to the brow and cheek of Mr. Belknap. “Forgive me if I have spoken too plainly,” said Aunt Mary. Mr. Belknap did not make any response for some time, but sat, with his eyes upon the floor, in hurried self-examination. “No, Aunt Mary,” said he, “not too plainly,” as he looked at her with a sobered face. “I have needed that suggestion, and thank you for having made it.” “Mrs. Howitt has a line which beautifully expresses what I mean,” said Aunt Mary, in her gentle, earnest way. “It is —
‘For love hath readier will than fear.’ Ah, if we could all comprehend the wonderful power of love! It is the fire that melts; while fear only smites, the strokes hardening or breaking its unsightly fragments. John Thomas has many good qualities that ought to be made as active as possible. These, like goodly flowers growing in a carefully-tilled garden, will absorb the latent vitality in his mind and thus leave nothing from which inherent evil tendencies can draw nutrition.” Aunt Mary said no more and Mr. Belknap’s thoughts were too busy with a new train of ideas to leave him in any mood for conversation. Time moved steadily on. Nearly half an hour had elapsed, in which period John Thomas might have gone twice to Leslie’s store and returned, yet he was still absent. Mr. Belknap was particularly in want of the hammer and nails, and the delay chafed him considerably, the more particularly as it evidenced the indifference of his son to his wishes and commands. Sometimes he would yield to a momentary flash of anger, and resolve to punish the boy severely the moment he could get his hands on him. But quickly would come Aunt Mary’s suggestion, and he would again resolve to try the power of kind words. He was also a good deal strengthened in his purpose by the fact that Aunt Mary’s eyes would be upon him at the return of John Thomas. After her suggestion and his acknowledgment of its value, it would hardly do for him to let passion so rule him as to act in open violation of493 what was right—to wrong his son by harsh treatment when he professed to desire only his good. The fact is, Mr. Belknap had already made the discovery that, if he would govern his boy, he must first govern himself. This was not an easy task. Yet, he felt it must be done. “There comes that boy now,” said he, as he glanced forth, and saw John Thomas coming homeward at a very deliberate pace. There was more of impatience in his tone of voice than he wished to betray to Aunt Mary, who let her beautiful, angel-like eyes rest for a moment or two, penetratingly, upon him. The balancing power of the look was needed, and it performed its work. Soon after, the loitering boy came in. He had a package of nails in his hand, which he reached, half indifferently, to his father. “The hammer!” John started with a half-frightened air. “Indeed, father, I forgot all about it!” said he, looking with a flushed countenance, in which genuine regret was plainly visible. “I’m sorry,” said Mr. Belknap, in a disappointed, but not angry or rebuking voice; “I’ve been waiting a long time for you to come back, and now I must go to the store without nailing up that trellis for your mother’s honeysuckle and wisteria, as I promised.” The boy looked at his father a moment or two with an air of bewilderment and surprise; then he said earnestly—
“Just wait a little longer. I’ll run down to the store and get it for you in a minute. I’m very sorry that I forgot it.” “Yes—yes,” he murmured, half aloud. “Mrs. Howitt never uttered a wiser saying.” Quicker than even Aunt Mary, whose faith in kind words was very strong, had expected, John came in with the hammer, a bright glow on his cheeks and a sparkle in his eyes that strongly contrasted with the utter want of interest displayed in his manner a little while before. “Thank you, my son,” said Mr. Belknap, as he took the hammer; “I could not have asked a prompter service.” He spoke very kindly, and in a voice of approval. “And now, John,” he added, with the manner of one who requests, rather than commands, If you will go over to Frank Wilson’s and tell him to come to work two or three days in our garden, you will oblige me very much. I was going to call there as I went over to the store this morning; but it is too late now.” “Oh, I’ll go father—I’ll go,” replied the boy, quickly and cheerfully. “I’ll run right over at once.” “Do, if you please,” said Mr. Belknap, now speaking from an impulse of real kindness, for a thorough change had come over his feelings. A grateful look was cast, by John Thomas, into his father’s face, and then he went off to do his errand. Mr. Belknap saw and understood the meaning of that look. “Yes—yes—yes,” thus he talked with himself as he took his way to the store. Aunt Mary and Mrs. Howitt are right. Love hath a readier will. I ought to have learned this lesson earlier. Ah! how much that is deformed in this self-willed boy might now be growing in beauty.”—Yankee Blade. WITHIN their tiny hands my children hold
A ball of yielding clay,
And, as they try some dainty form to mould,
I hear them softly say,
“What shall we make? an apple or a vase?
Some marbles, or a fan?”
One little boy, a smile upon his face,
Says, “I shall make a man.” Straightway, with lengthened face, he at his task
Begins, and ‘neath the hands
Unskillful, weak, and yet too proud to ask
For aid, a form expands,
Crude, and yet not too poor to show the man
Hid in the maker's thought,—
How different yet if some skilled artisan
The ball of clay had wrought. To-day within my hands my children lie,
I shape them as I will,
And seek for aid from Him that is on high,
That he may with his skill
Teach my weak, willing hands to rightly mould
The clay that I have sought,
That in true forms of beauty may unfold
The Maker's highest thought.
—Transcript. JOSEPH PALMI, a laborer, died recently at Bellevue Hospital, New York, of that fortunately rare but extremely painful disease, trichiniasis. This disease may be described to the non-technical reader as the propagation and infinite multiplication of minute living worms in the muscles of the entire system. It usually arises from the use of raw or partially cooked pork. According to the New York World, he was at first supposed to be suffering from inflammatory rheumatism when brought to the hospital, but from the description of the approach of the symptoms, the resident physician decided that it must be trichiniasis. Palmi at first denied that he had been eating pork, but finally admitted that about a week before the pains appeared he had purchased some pig’s feet of a butcher on Mulberry Street, near his residence. His wife and children had eaten the food with him. The man suffered terribly; and the physician was compelled to administer opiates, both internally and hypodermically, to ease the excruciating pain caused by the myriads of worms invading every muscle of his writhing body. Though the patient was able to take slight nourishment, he continued to grow weaker day after day until death finally put an end to his sufferings. “Although I have not yet completed my diagnosis,” said Dr. Williams, “I have no doubt that the case is one of trichiniasis. Palmi acknowledged having eaten pig’s feet during the last week in May, but he must have eaten other kinds of pork, for pig’s feet contain very little muscle, being principally composed of tendons, cartilage, and gelatinous matter. According to his statement his wife had a slight attack of abdominal spasms, which are the first symptoms of the disease. She, however, seems to have recovered, though I should not be surprised if the woman was brought here in the same state as her husband was. Trichiniasis consists of the breeding of minute worms in the muscles, and they go on multiplying until the entire system is filled with them. Being in the muscles of the pork, which has not been properly cooked—and it must be submitted to a heat of 255 degrees to kill the worms—they are taken into the stomach. Here they begin increasing and produce the abdominal spasms which are the initial symptoms; then following the intestinal track, they finally pass through the abdominal wall and so enter the lymphatic organs. From that moment the patient is doomed, unless he is so constituted that his system can resist the trichinæ when they become encysted and die. If they are too strong for resistance they go on living in the muscles until the latter decompose and death ensues very quickly. “When Palmi was first brought here I took a piece of muscle from his forearm and discovered that he had previously suffered from the disease, because there were encysted worms visible in it. After he died portions of the muscles in the calf and shoulder were removed, and these we intend examining under the microscope just as the portions are, and then they will be hardened and their transverse sections prepared for further examination. But there is no doubt that our diagnosis is the correct one. One of the symptoms is an intense thirst and agonizing pain, both of which were present in this case. Usually trichiniasis is developed from pork which is eaten raw, and people frequently have it who are in the habit of eating raw Westphalia hams and bologna sausage. But pork is not the only meat which is capable of developing trichinæ, for they are found in the muscles of dogs and cats, rats and mice, and even moles, all of which animals eat pork. The origin of trichinæ is unknown, and they may be inherited for all we know.” Palmi came to the United States in 1885, and he was thirty-four years of age. His wife is also a native of Italy, and they had three children. So far as could be learned the children of Palmi have not suffered any of the symptoms which were developed by the father, and Mrs. Palmi seemed to be in good health, though in terrible grief over the death of her husband.—S. F. Examiner, July 15, 1889. Poisonous Properties of Eel Blood
M. Mosso of Turin, having carried out a series of experiments with the blood of eels, finds that it possesses marked poisonous properties. Even to the tongue it has an insupportable acridity, and a very small quantity of the serum is sufficient to kill a dog. Half a cubic centimeter injected beneath the skin of a dog weighing thirty-five pounds killed it in four minutes. At this rate, an eel weighing five pounds would contain enough poison to dispatch ten men. The blood of animals thus poisoned cannot be made to coagulate, just as after the bite of serpents. Fortunately the blood is inert when introduced via the stomach, and it loses its toxic properties when heated. The Mischievous Ice Pitcher
A FAMOUS physician has said that the people of the United States drink more ice-water in one year than the rest of the world use in ten years. Whether this is exaggeration or not, it is a fact that the American people have more stomachic troubles than any other people, and they are in part chargeable to what Dr. Hammond has termed “the mischievous ice pitcher.”—Sacramento Record-Union. ALCOHOL, MUSCLE, AND BRAIN.
By Dio Lewis
WE put a drop of alcohol into a man's eye. It poisons it. We try it upon the lining of a living stomach. Again it poisons it. We study after death the stomachs of drinking men, and find that alcohol produces in regular stages, redness, intense congestion, morbid secretions, deeper hurt, destruction of parts, utter ruin. We study its influence upon the health and strength of sailors and soldiers, and find it helps to freeze them in the Arctic regions and exhaust them in the tropics. We watch two regiments on a long march in India, one with and the other without grog, and are driven to the conclusion that even moderate quantities of alcohol weaken the muscles and break the endurance. We visit the training grounds of oarsmen, pedestrians, and prize fighters, and learn everywhere the same lesson—alcohol is a poison to muscle and brain.—Dio Lewis. —The debt of New York City is now $132,000,000 and the legal limit is $157,000,000. —George S. Ladd, a prominent electrician of San Francisco, died in London July 29. —There are 150,000 carbons burned daily in the electric lights used in the United States. —Of 26,000 criminals arrested in Paris during the past year, 16,000 had not attained the age of twenty. —Work on the Nicaragua canal is going steadily forward, and two thousand men are at present actively employed there. —Evareste Carazo, the President of the Nicaraguan Republic, died the 1st inst. Doctor Sacasa will succeed to the presidency. —Grain fires in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, Cal., recently destroyed buildings, fencing, orchards, etc., to the extent of $100,000. —It is officially stated that smallpox is raging in Lower Egypt. All foreign rags will be excluded from this country unless disinfected. —The street-car stables of Richmond, Va., were fired by lightning and completely destroyed the 1st inst. Sixty horses were burned. —Fire on the morning of the 2d inst., at Ripley, Ohio, destroyed every manufacturing establishment in the city. The loss is $200,000. —A machine gun exploded on board the training frigate Couronne, near Paris, the 31st ult. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured. —Five persons were instantly killed by an explosion of giant powder in a mine at Marquette, Mich., the 2d inst. All the victims were torn to shreds. —Scheppers Brothers, of Philadelphia, doing a business of $750,000 annually, failed on the 1st inst., on account of the recent failure of Lewis Brothers. —Advices from South America report that half the population of Belijoke, Venezuela, are dead from yellow fever, and the isolated survivors are starving. —Two trains collided with each other near Odessa, in Russia, the 1st inst., and as the result, eight coaches were demolished, and many persons killed or injured. —A gigantic trust has been formed in Hungary, by the heirs of the great Leidesdorff estate in San Francisco. The amount in litigation is estimated at $100,000,000. —The Navy Department has been notified that the new war cruiser Baltimore will be ready for her official trial the 15th inst. She will be of 10,500 horse-power. —Five hundred men have recently been discharged from the shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Sacramento City, Cal., an account of a lack of work. —The Standard Oil Company of New York has bought up all of the white lead companies in the United States. Their estimated value amounts to $60,000,000. —The treasure of $200,000 recently lost on the Steamer Granada, which went ashore near Manzanillo, Mexico, has been recovered. The vessel, however, is a total loss. —An epidemic of dysentery prevails at Warsaw, Ill. One hundred and eighty cases are reported, of whom fifteen have already died. The people of the vicinity are terror-stricken. —The owners of the Conemaugh dam at Johnstown, Pa., have been sued for $50,000 damages by one of the survivors of the Johnstown disaster. Other suits will undoubtedly follow. —The German gun-boat Wulf left Samoa, June 27, for the Marshall Islands, for the purpose of bringing King Malietoa and three chiefs who were deported there by the Germans two years ago. —It is reported that the flow of naphtha from the Russian oil wells at Baku is diminishing, and it is feared that the supply will soon be exhausted. These are the largest oil wells in the world. —The great Cheng Chou dyke of the Yellow River, which recently gave way, cost 12,000,000 taels (about $18,000,000) and the labor of 70,000 men; it was one and one-third miles long and 335 feet wide. —Destructive storms, accompanied by lightning and heavy rains, swept over Arkansas, July 29. Several residences were struck by lightning, and railroad tracks and bridges were badly damaged. —The Prince of Wales is head over heels in debt, despite the fact that he receives from the English people about $250,000 a year. London bankers, it is said, quietly fight shy of his paper, even when proffered by him. —The Ute Indians are again off their reservation in Colorado, and are creating havoc in the western part of the State. Settlers threaten a war of extermination unless the marauders are kept upon their own territory. —In New York the savings-bank continues to lead as the medium of accumulation of the savings of the masses. There are 125 savings-banks in the State, with 1,362,852 depositors, and deposits to the amount of $523,677,515. —The Grand National Monument in memory of the Pilgrim Fathers was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., the 1st inst. Elaborate ceremonies, in which thousands of visitors took part, made the occasion one of unusual interest. —A London paper states that all the people now living in the world, or about 1,400,000,000, could find standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square, and by aid of a telephone could be addressed by a single speaker. —A cyclone swept over several thousand square miles of territory in Hungary, Transylvania, and Bukovina, July 28. Hundreds of persons were killed, crops were destroyed, and enormous damage was done to houses and churches. —Recent dispatches from Yokohama, Japan, state that a terrible earthquake has recently occurred on the western portion of the Island of Kinshiu. One town was completely destroyed, thirty people being killed and over eighty injured. —Major A. P. Patrick, a Canadian land surveyor, has discovered rich deposits of coal oil in the Rocky Mountains, near Crow's Nest Pass. Samples show 96 per cent. of pure oil. The field of the discovery lies principally in British Columbia. —A severe earthquake shock lasting several seconds occurred throughout central California on the morning of the 1st inst., followed a few minutes later by a lighter shock. No special damage, however, was done, although the earthquake was the heaviest known for many years. —Much surprise has been created by the announcement that the National Bureau of Engraving, one of the most extensive lithographing and engraving establishments in the country, is on the brink of failure. The plant is advertised to be sold to satisfy the claims of the creditors. —After a lapse of fifty-eight years since the death of Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia millionaire, his will is to be contested by French heirs, on the ground of alleged infraction of some of its provisions. —Woman suffrage is rapidly becoming a vital issue in British statesmanship, and women are more engaged in politics in Great Britain than in any other constitutional country. Mrs. Gladstone, Lady Salisbury, and Lady Randolph, are devoting considerable attention to the subject. —Hostilities in Egypt still continue. The latest report is to the effect that the Egyptian cavalry have just defeated the dervishes near Toski. After seven hours of hard fighting, the dervishes were completely routed, with a loss of over fifteen hundred killed, and many wounded. —Citizens of St. Louis, Mo., have entered a protest against the prospective World's Fair being held in either New York or Chicago, and have decided to put forth every effort possible, to secure it for their own city. A committee of one hundred has been appointed to engage in effective work on the subject at once. —The gas well at Ruthven, Ont., with a flow of ten million feet per day, was fired recently by incendiaries. The heat was so great that no one was able to approach nearer than two hundred feet, until a man named C. H. Marvin, clothed himself in asbestos and performed such work at the mouth of the well as enabled the owners to extinguish the fire. —The most destructive storm ever experienced in New Jersey, passed over the cities of Newark and Plainfield, the 30th ult. On account of the giving away of several dams, the latter city has been inundated. The country above, for a distance of five miles, has been swept by the rushing waters and damage has been done to the extent of at least $250,000. —Intense excitement exists in Canada, over the seizure of the British sealer Black Diamond by the United States revenue cutter Rush, while cruising in the Behring Sea, recently. Considerable war talk has been indulged in by prominent citizens of the Canadian Government, but it is probable that the matter will be settled by arbitration without further trouble. —A contractor who furnished ice for the Mare Island, Navy Yard, California, was compelled recently to have his bill accompanied by 168 vouchers and the signatures of 744 heads of the different departments of the Government. This clearly shows that the circumlocution required by some of the rules and regulations of our Government is fully equal to that of the most approved foreign methods. —King William of Germany, landed in England the 2d inst., for the first time since his accession to the throne. He was saluted very impressively by all the vessels in the harbor, and was cordially welcomed by Queen Victoria, with whom he dined the same evening. Unfortunately, however, the great naval review which was to have occurred the next day in honor of the Kaiser's visit, was prevented by a heavy storm and had to be postponed. —Prince Bismarck's scheme to bring about a meeting between the three emperors of Russia, Austria, and Germany, bids fair to be foiled by the sullen reticence which the Czar of Russia manifests in regard to the matter. The ominous outlook on the Servian-Bulgarian frontier, where both Governments are massing their troops, the rising of insurgents in Crete, and the concentration of Russians around Kais, all go to show that the visit of the Czar would be nothing but formality at any rate, and it is probable that he desires to avoid this as much as possible under the circumstances. —There is a sudden revival of war rumors from Southeastern Europe. From Belgrade we are told that all three of the military classes of Servia have been ordered to muster on Monday, the reason assigned being that the Bulgarian troops have been ordered to mass on the frontier on that day and that Servia desires to be prepared. From Constantinople comes the report that 80,000 Turkish reserves have been called out, that work is proceeding at the dock-yards with feverish activity, that Crete is in anarchy and that the Sultan is determined to put down the insurrection there at any cost. All this may not be the beginning of the great war, but it is precisely the way in which the war is likely to break out when it comes. There are not likely to be long public diplomatic debates. The trains were laid years ago. When they are fired it will be done in a flash. If Servia is arming against Bulgaria it is by Russian instigation. If Turkey is calling out troops it is because she sees a life and death struggle ahead. The situation in Crete is serious enough, but it is not such as to call for 80,000 Turkish reserves. Undoubtedly, if Turkey should interfere actively in Crete she would need an army to keep Greece in order, but it is likely she has knowledge of something more dangerous to the northward.—S. F. Examiner. —Rev. Horatio Bonar died at Edinburgh, Scotland the 31st ult. —There are about 3,000,000 Protestants in the Russian Empire. —It is officially stated by the United States Minister in China that there are resident within that empire 1,022 American citizens. Of them 506 are missionaries. —The Missionary Herald for August says that for the first ten months of the financial year the receipts of the American Board were over $44,000 less than for the corresponding months of last year. —The American Bible Society is doing a large work in foreign lands. Within a year it has distributed in other lands, no less than 509,782 copies of one or both Testaments or portions of them. —A call has been issued for a general congress of the Catholic laity of the United States, to be held at Baltimore, November 11 and 12, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in this country. —An organized band of fifty men has determined to put a stop to the fanaticism existing among the colored people in Georgia. It is said that four people have gone raving mad, and over three hundred have had their minds unbalanced as the result of the teachings of Bell and his successors. —The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society will send a deputation to the conference called by Cardinal Lavigerie for the suppression of the slave trade. Among the topics to be discussed are, "The Support of Missions," "Introduction of Legitimate Commerce," "Prohibition of the Importation of Arms and of Spirituous Liquors," etc. —The present membership of the Christian Endeavor Society is not known, but it is said to exceed more than a quarter of a million. It is extending itself at the rate of nearly one hundred new societies, per week. Nor is this all; In some denominations which have not yet adopted the name, similar organizations have been formed known as leagues and guilds. These owe their existence to the same impulse.