Earlier text: CAN WE KEEP THE SABBATH?WITH still deeper denunciation did the father speak, striving in this way to shock the feelings of his child, and extort signs of penitence. But it was the hammer and the anvil—blow and rebound. Very different were the mother's efforts with the child. Tearfully she pleaded with him—earnestly she besought him to ask his father's forgiveness for the evil he had done. But Philip said:— "No, mother, I would rather go to sea. Father don't love me, he don't care for me. He hates me, I believe." "Philip! Philip! don't speak in that way of your father. He does love you; and it is only for your good that he is going to send you to sea. Oh, how could you do so wicked a thing?" Tears were in the mother's eyes, but the boy had something of the father's stern spirit in him and showed no weakness. "It isn't any worse than he did when he was a boy," was the answer. "Well, it isn't; for I heard Mr. Wright tell Mr. Freeman that father and he robbed orchards and hens' nests, and did worse than that when they were boys." Poor Mrs. Browning was silent. Well did she remember how wild a boy Jonas Browning was, and how, when she was a little girl, she had heard all manner of evil laid to his charge. Very unexpectedly—at least to Mr. Browning—the minister called in on the evening of that troubled day. After some general conversation with the family he asked to have a few words with the deacon alone. "Is it true, Mr. Browning," he said, after they had retired to an adjoining room, "that you are going to send Philip to sea?" "Too true," replied the father soberly. "It is my last hope. From the beginning that boy has been a rebel against just authority; and though I have never relaxed discipline through the weakness of natural feelings, yet resistance has grown with his growth, and strengthened with his strength, until duty requires me to use a desperate remedy for a desperate disease. It is a painful trial; but the path of duty is the only path of safety. What we see to be right, we must execute with unflinching courage. I cannot look back and accuse myself of any neglect of duty toward this boy, through weakness of the flesh. From the beginning I have made obedience the law of my household, and suffered no deviation therefrom to go unpunished." "Duty," said the minister, "has a twin sister." He spoke in a changed voice, and with a manner that arrested the attention of Deacon Browning, who looked at him with a glance of inquiry. "She is as lovely and gentle as he is hard and unyielding." The deacon still looked curious. "When the twin sister of duty is away from his side, he loses more than half of his influence; but, in her beautiful presence, he gains a dignity and power that make his precepts laws of life to all who hear them. The stubborn heart melts, the iron will is subdued, the spirit of evil shrinks away from the human soul." "The name of that twin sister is kindness." The eyes of Deacon Browning fell away from the minister's countenance, and dropped until they rested upon the floor. Conviction flashed upon his heart. He had always been stern in executing the law—but never kind. "Has that beautiful twin sister stood ever by the side of duty? has love been in that law, Deacon Browning?" Side by side with the minister stood duty and kindness—the firm, unshrinking brother, and the mild, loving sister—and so his word had power to reach the deacon's heart, without giving offense to pride. "Kindness is weak, yielding, and indulgent, and forgives when punishment is the only hope of salvation," said Deacon Browning, a little recovering himself from the emotions of self-condemnation. "Only when she strays from the side of duty," replied the minister. "Duty and kindness must always act together." Much more, and to the same purpose, was urged by the minister, who made but a brief visit, and then withdrew, that his admonitions might work the desired effect. When Deacon Browning came in from the front door of his house, after parting with the minister, he drew up a chair to the table in the family sitting-room, and almost involuntarily opened the large family Bible. His feelings were much softened towards his boy, who, with his head bowed upon his breast, sat a little apart from his mother. The attitude was not so much indicative of stubborn self-will, as suffering. Deacon Browning thought he would read a chapter aloud, and so he drew the holy book closer, and bent his face down over it. Mrs. Browning, observing the movement, waited for him to begin. The deacon cleared his throat twice. But his voice did not take up the words that were in his eyes and in his heart. How could they? "As a father pities his children—" Had there been a divine pity in the heart of Deacon Browning for his rebellious and unhappy boy?—Nay, had not there been wrath instead? From a hundred places in the mind of Deacon Browning there seemed to come the echo of these words, and they had a meaning in them never perceived before. He closed the book and remained in deep thought for many minutes, and not only in deep thought but in stern conflict with himself. Kindness was striving to gain her place by the side of duty; and cold, hard, imperious duty, who had so long ruled without a rival in the mind of Deacon Browning, kept all the while averting his countenance from that of his twin sister, who had been so long an exiled wanderer. At last she was successful. The stern brother yielded, and clasped to his bosom the sister who sought his love. From that instant new thoughts, new views new purposes, ruled in the mind of Deacon Browning. The discipline of a whaler was too hard and cruel for his boy, young in years, and by no means as hardened in iniquity as he had permitted himself to imagine. A cold shiver ran along his nerves at the bare thought of doing what a few hours before he had resolutely intended. Kindness began whispering in the ears of duty, and crowding them with a world of new suggestions. The heart of the stern man was softened, and there flowed into it something of a mother's yearning tenderness. Rising up, at length, Deacon Browning said in a low voice, so new in its tones to the ear of Philip that it made his heart leap— "My son, I wish to see you alone." The Deacon went into the next room, and Philip followed him. The deacon sat down and Philip stood before him. "Philip, my son"—Deacon Browning took the boy's hand in one of his, and looked him full in the face. The look was returned—not a defiant look, but of yielding wonder. "Philip, I am not going to send you to sea with Captain Ellis. I intended to do so, but on reflection I think the life will be too hard for you." Very firmly, yet kindly, the deacon tried to speak, but the sister of duty was playing with his heart-strings, and their tone of pity was echoed from his voice, that faltered when he tried to give it firmness. The eyes of Philip remained fixed upon the countenance of his father. "My son," Deacon Browning thought he had gained sufficient self-control to utter certain mild forms of admonition, but he was in error; his mild voice was still less under his control, and so betrayed the new-born pity and tenderness in his heart that Philip,685 melting into penitence, exclaimed, as tears gushed from his eyes— "O father, I've been very wicked and am very sorry!" Involuntarily, at this unexpected confession, the arms of Deacon Browning were stretched out toward the repentant boy, and Philip rushed, sobbing, into them. The boy was saved. From that hour his father had him under the most perfect subordination. But the twin sister of duty walked ever by his side.—Selected. SOMETIME, when all life's lessons have been learned,
And sun and stars forevermore have set,
The things which our weak judgments here have spurned,
The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet,
Will flash before us out of life's dark night,
As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue;
And we shall see how all God's plans are right,
And how what seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh,
God's plans go on, as best for you and me;
How, when we called, he heeded not our cry,
Because his wisdom to the end could see.
And e'en as prudent parents disallow
Too much of sweet to craving babyhood,
So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now
Life's sweetest things, because it seemeth good. And if, sometimes, commingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink,
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine
Pours out this portion for our lips to drink;
And if some friend we love is lying low,
Where human kisses cannot reach his face,
Oh, do not blame the loving Father so,
But wear your sorrow with obedient grace! And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath
Is not the sweetest thing God sends his friend,
And that sometimes the sable pall of death
Conceals the fairest bloom his love can send.
If we could push ajar the gates of life,
And stand within, and all God's workings see,
We could interpret all this doubt and strife,
And for each mystery find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart!
God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart—
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold,
And if, through patient toil, we reach the land
Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest,
Where we shall clearly see and understand,
I think that we will say, "God knew the best."
—Selected. OPINIONS ON THE IOWA LAW.
SOME time since, Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, put to the forty-one superior and distinct judges in that State, a number of inquiries concerning the expediency of repealing the prohibitory law. Of the whole number four favored repeal, nine were non-committal, while twenty-eight were in favor of maintaining the law. The following are extracts from some of the opinions favorable to the law:— Judge Traverse, Bloomfield: "My experience is that, wherever saloons are closed, crime is diminished." Judge Harvey, Leon: "It has reduced crime at least one-half, and the criminal expenses in like ratio." Judge Lewis, Sioux City: "The law is as well enforced as any other, and has decreased criminal expenses at least two-thirds." Judge Deemer, Red Oak: "In many of the counties the jail is getting to be almost an unnecessary building, and in the last three counties I visited there was not an occupant." Judge Carson, Council Bluffs: "When in the Senate I favored local option, but I am now satisfied the statute should stand." Judge Thornell, Sidney: "I should regard its repeal as a calamity." Judge Band, Keokuk: "This was the first and only term in my recollection that there was no criminal business transacted in court." Judge Wilson, Creston: "I was not in favor of the law, thinking that high license would work better. I have carefully watched its workings and am convinced that I was wrong." Judge Wakefield, Sioux City: "As the saloons were driven out, other business came in to occupy the vacant places." Judge Wilkinson, Winterset: "Crime and criminal expenses have been lessened." Judge Johnson, Oskaloosa: "The effect of the prohibitory law has been to reduce very materially crime and criminal expenses in this district." Judge Kavanaugh, Des Moines: "It has decreased crime over fifty per cent., and added largely to individual happiness." Judge Granger, Waukon (now of the supreme bench): "The closing of the front door of the saloon, whereby it is destroyed as a place of social resort, has canceled nine-tenths of the drunkenness. . . . Our grand juries have comparatively nothing to do. . . . Our criminal expenses since the closing of the saloons have been comparatively nominal." WHEN we enter Persia we are in the poor man's paradise—a country where existence is possible upon 4d. a day, where meat costs 1d. a pound and bread a quarter as much in ordinary times; where a fowl may be purchased for 6d, a partridge or wild duck for 2d.; where a serviceable pony can be had for a £5 note and a valuable thoroughbred for £20; where a servant can be hired for 8s. a month and his rations, and you can feed a horse upon 3d. a day. In most of the cities a large house can be rented for from £10 to £30 a year, and all the necessaries of life are to be had at the very cheapest rate. The very mules upon which we are to march to the capital, each of which will carry a load of 280 pounds, are hired at the rate of 9d. a day; and yet from this small sum the muleteer, if he be fortunate, will obtain a good profit. The beasts are fat, there is plentiful herbage for the first five stages, and a handful of barley and eight pounds of cut straw is all that the mules will get during the other six days' journey, and each day the mules will march their twenty to twenty-five miles, and go merrily along under their 300-pound load, for the great pack-saddle cannot weigh less than twenty to thirty pounds, while the load itself is seldom less than 280, and they will steadily maintain their pace at an average of four miles an hour, save in the case of mountain passes, storms, swamps, and the numerous contre-temps incidental to Eastern travel. The pack-saddle is a very important part of the mule's equipment. Save when he is curry-combed, the pack-saddle never leaves him by day or night. It supports the load and acts as his clothing, for however severe the weather may be, the hardy Persian mule gets no other. Of course, the pack-saddle is of the most solid construction; its high peak towers at least eighteen inches above the withers of the animal, and the padding is nowhere less than six inches thick. This padding is composed of cut straw, and the muleteer is accustomed, by means of a packing needle thrust through the lining of the pad, to shift this stuffing in such a way as to remove the pressure from any part of the animal's back which may become tender. Of course a mule with a sore back is useless and has to be turned out to grass; and, strange to say, though there are many millions of mules and ponies used as beasts of burden in Persia—for, be it remembered, there are no railways, no rivers, no canals, and only one road, that from Eirvin to the capital (except a few that have been made for the Shah's personal convenience)—still a mule with a sore back is a very unusual sight. This says a great deal for the care, intelligence, and skill of the Persian muleteer.—Good Words. THE most intense and fatiguing of toils is pursued almost uninterruptedly; food is neglected, and the claims of exercise and sleep are imperfectly admitted. Two hours' exercise in the open air, daily, is probably a minimum, and might prudently be exceeded. The brain worker must live sparingly, rather than luxuriantly; he must prefer the lighter classes of food to the heavier, and he must be very prudent in the use of alcohol. Tobacco and tea are apt to be favorites with him, and their immoderate use may require to be guarded against. It is a nice question whether he needs more or less sleep than other men. Many men of genius are light sleepers, probably in some cases a misfortune, but there seems some ground for the notion that more than a moderate indulgence in sleep is unfavorable to successful mental effort. The Cincinnati Medical News, commenting upon the above, says mental effort causes waste of tissue elements quite as much as bodily exertion, and this demands a full supply of food. What with dyspepsia and absence of appetite, the results of deficient exercise, and the influence of preconceived ideas as to the use or disuse of special articles of food, the brain worker is very apt to receive too little nutriment to make up for the waste. Especially is this the case when he, unconsciously, perhaps, replaces food by the use of tobacco, tea, alcohol, or opium. Some advise to go supperless to bed. This most medical authorities of the day think is a wrong notion. It is a fruitful source of insomnia and neurasthenia. The brain becomes exhausted by its evening work, and demands rest and refreshment of its wasted tissues, not by indigestible salads and "fried abominations," but by some nutritious, easily digested and assimilated articles. A bowl of stale bread and milk, of rice, or some other farinaceous food, with milk or hot soup, would be more to the purpose. Any of these would insure a sound night's sleep, from which the man would awaken refreshed.—Selected. Intemperance and the Nation’s Suffering
By Rev. John H. Aughey
THERE is no longer any doubt that nine-tenths of the crime, poverty, and suffering of this country is caused by intemperance. The flood of evil passions that threatens to overwhelm the country flows directly from the saloon.—Rev. John H. Aughey. Treating Chloroform Failure
IN France, when a patient is under chloroform, on the slightest symptom appearing of failure of the heart, they turn him nearly upside down—that is, with his head downward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him; and such is their faith in the efficacy of this method that the operating tables in the Paris hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be elevated with one end in the air, so as to bring the patient into a position resembling that of standing on his head. Smoking and the Health of Boys
A medical man struck with the large number of boys under fifteen years of age whom he observed smoking, was led to inquire into the effect the habit had upon the general health. He took for his purpose thirty-eight, aged from eight to fifteen, and carefully examined them. In twenty-seven he discovered injurious traces of the habit. In twenty-two there were various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the heart, and a more or less taste for strong drink. In twelve there were frequent bleedings of the nose, ten had disturbed sleep, and twelve had slight ulceration of the mucous membrane of the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing the use of tobacco for some days. The doctor treated them all for weakness, but with little effect until the smoking was discontinued, when health and strength were soon restored.—Medical Monthly. —Frozen sturgeon are being shipped by the car load from Portland, Oregon, to New York. —The British ship Bolan, from Calcutta for Dublin, is reported lost at sea and thirty-three lives lost. —Prohibition in Kansas is no myth. A hotel keeper was recently convicted for selling hard cider. —There is a new gold excitement in Nicaragua. The reputed rich fields lie along the San Juan del Sur River. —President Harrison has designated Thursday, November 28, as a day of "national thanksgiving and prayer." —The German Government has begun the construction of four 10,000-ton iron-clad vessels, at a cost of $2,500,000 each. —The Westinghouse Electric Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., has secured a contract for a large electric light plant in Peking, China. —The British wheat crop is reported considerably short; consequently the requirements from abroad will be much larger than last year. —Three car loads of Pacific Coast delegates and visitors to the W. C. T. U. meeting at Chicago, left the Oakland depot on the 30th ult. —The nail factory at Bellaire, Ohio, was demolished by a boiler explosion on the 30th ult. Damages are reported at $200,000. No lives lost. —The opium business, like the liquor traffic, is hard to keep within the bounds of the law. It is smuggled into the country by land and by sea. —A telegram from Guatemala states that the revolution is ended and that the government triumphs. All the revolutionist prisoners were shot. —It is rumored that about forty clerks in the Pension Office, who were implicated in the irregularities of Ex-commissioner Tanner, are to be dismissed. —The Prince of Wales is suffering from Bright's disease, and it is said he is more than ever certain of his long-felt presentiment that he will never be king of England. —Miss Clara, the adopted daughter of C. P. Huntington, of Southern Pacific Railroad fame, was married in London, October 28, to Prince Hatzfeldt, of Schoenstein, Germany. —Five Chinese lepers were shipped for the Orient last week, by the health authorities of San Francisco, on the steamer City of Peking. This is said to be all that are known to the officers in the city. —Reports from Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, are to the effect that November was ushered in by severe and extensive snow-storms, doing much damage to live-stock, railroads, and telegraph lines. —A cable dispatch says: "In England and Wales there are at present nearly 9,000 persons imprisoned as debtors, and if Ireland and Scotland were included the grand total of pecuniary defaulters would exceed 10,000." —The light-house on Mitylene Island, Grecian Archipelago, was wrecked by an earthquake on the 28th ult. At Constantinople there was slight damage, and in Italy serious damage and loss of life is reported at Gallipolis. —An immigrant agent says there are about 2,000 natives of the Bearn Department, Southern France, now living and employed in San Francisco. They are highly commended as orderly and efficient laborers and house-maids. —Just think of a whole city celebrating the anniversary of a beer establishment! In the city of Munich, Bavaria, recently there was a great uproar in honor of the third centennial anniversary of the Hofbrauhaus, or royal brewery. —A Lawrence, Mass., dispatch of the 28th ult. says: "The spread of diphtheria and scarlet fever is so alarming that in all the Catholic Churches the priests yesterday warned the people not to visit each other any more than was necessary." —Last week a party of men captured and lynched a man named Robert Berry, who had killed his mother-in-law at Lexington, N. C., a short time previously. The unusual part of the story is that twenty of the lynchers have been arrested. —The Omaha Bee is authority for the statement that arrangements have been made for carrying the east-bound mail across the continent in forty hours less time than heretofore, and west-bound mail trains will beat the old time by twenty-five hours and thirty-five minutes. —Railway matters are again somewhat muddled. An independent freight agreement between the Union Pacific and the Chicago and Northwestern roads has completely broken up the Interstate Commerce Railway Association, and the various companies are prospecting for new alliances. —Over three hundred thousand telephones are now in use in the United States alone. It is claimed that conversation can easily be carried on for a distance of one thousand miles, and the prediction is made by experts that "we shall yet be able, not only to hear, but to see our friends at a distance, by electrical methods." —Some months ago, a young lawyer of Los Angeles, named Singletary, was reported missing. He was one of many who started in search of the fabulous gold mines in Lower California. Recently some miners found his body on the desert, he no doubt having perished from exhaustion and thirst. The body is said to be completely mummified and well preserved. —Parties supposed to be old Mrs. Bender and daughter, of the family once noted in Kansas as wholesale murderers, have been arrested at Niles, Michigan. A Mrs. McCann, whose husband is supposed to have been murdered by the Benders, and the deputy sheriff, who made the arrest on a requisition from the governor of Kansas, are both certain of the identity of the prisoners. —A correspondent of the N. Y. Examiner, writing of the city of Washington, says: "The city accommodations for strangers are elastic. Nowhere else are private dwellings so easily transformed into boarding-houses. This is owing to the intermittent population, the variations ranging from none to 100,000 strangers. The residents of the District, all told, do not exceed 220,000, of which number the statistics do not inform us how many do not take boarders." —Governor Fowler, of North Carolina, protests against the transfer of Geronimo's band of Apaches to that State, but the protest is not likely to avail. Geronimo, it is said, now runs the Indian Sunday-school and is no longer a terror to his white neighbors. —Yale College has, it is said, over one hundred Roman Catholic students. —The recent Presbyterian Synod at Pendleton, Or., adopted, by a rising vote, a resolution favoring a national Sunday law. —The Evangelical Alliance for the United States will hold a national meeting in Tremont Temple, Boston, the 4th, 5th, and 6th of December next. —A recent house-to-house canvass of St. Paul, Minn., showed that not less than 3,000 church letters were held by persons in that city who had not presented them. —At the Y. M. C. A. Hall, San Francisco, there is a Bible class at 12 o'clock every Saturday, at which the international Sunday-school lesson for the next day is considered. The class is conducted by Dr. Gibson, of the United Presbyterian Church. —A correspondent of the Interior says: "Southern California is filling up with people of the better class. The era of reckless speculation has passed, and that of true and permanent prosperity has begun. Our churches there are well manned, and are growing rapidly in numbers and in wealth." —The Hebrew Journal says: "Such a thing as a 'Jewish vote' has never presented itself in our government. Outside of the synagogue we are citizens of the United States. The Jew has always been remarkable for his loyalty, because he so completely adapts himself to the country in which he lives." —The Presbyterians are establishing a new resort for summering, etc., at Santa Ysabel, San Luis Obispo County, Cal. It is claimed to be much preferable as a "retreat" to the popular "Pacific Grove," being free from chilling fogs. The place is twenty miles from the ocean, yet enjoys a tempered sea breeze, medicinal springs, a large artificial lake, and various attractions. —The United States consul to Christiania, Norway, reports that there are 120 Mormon preachers in that country, 12 of whom are elders from Utah, who are working as missionaries with a view to obtaining recruits for the church on this side of the Atlantic. Last year 70 Mormon emigrants sailed from Norway to America, and the number will be much larger this year, as 66 left for this country recently at one time. Since 1852 about 5,000 Norwegians have emigrated to the Mormon settlements of Utah. —Premier Crispi, in a powerful speech, recently outlined the policy of the Italian Government toward the Vatican. That Rome must remain a part of the Italian kingdom was very strongly asserted. Complaints and threats at home and abroad, he said, would have no effect.—America: Crispi is an able statesman, but a greater than he has spoken in regard to the "beast" with which he is contending: "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered after the beast." [Every book sent to us by the author or publisher will be promptly acknowledged, the title of the book, number of pages, the names of author and publishers being given in every case, together with the price, when we are informed what it is. Such other notice will be given as the merit of the several works may demand. Marked copies of the paper containing notices will be sent to publishers.] "THE NOBLEMAN'S RETURN," George N. Miller & Co., 188 West Houston Street, New York; 52 pages; paper covers; price, 20 cents. The object of this pamphlet is to show that the second advent occurred about the year A. D. 70. It is highly illogical, and is not likely to meet with any great favor even from those who do not regard as specially important the doctrine of the second coming of our Lord. RICHEY.—Died of cancer of the face, near New Castle, Cal., Wesley E. Richey, aged 56 years, 9 months, and 21 days. He had for two years expressed a firm belief in the truthfulness of the Third Angel's Message, and though his suffering at times was great, he bore it with Christian fortitude. He was a kind and loving father, husband, and friend. We mourn not as those who have no hope, but expect to meet him in the resurrection morn, when all sickness and pain will be over. GRANT ADKINS. BOOTH.—Fell asleep in Jesus at Syracuse, N. Y., September 1, 1889, George H. Booth, aged 81 years. His death was caused by pneumonia. In 1846, he was married to Lenora Booth, a lady of his own name, though not related. He was an old resident of Syracuse at the time of his death, having lived there fifty-two years. When he first located there, it was a mere burg, but he lived to see it a city of 85,000 inhabitants. For years, nearly all the time he lived in the place, he was officially connected with the affairs of the city, being constable and tax collector at the time of his death. He was a man of remarkable strength and activity, not knowing what it was to have one hour's sickness for sixty years. He attended to business till within a few days of his death. He was a strictly temperate man, which preserved the faculties of his mind to a marked degree to the very last. Several years since, he became interested in religious matters, and was fully converted, as his whole course in life demonstrated. He united with the Episcopal Church. Some three years ago, through missionary work in the city of Syracuse, two members of his family embraced the views of Seventh-day Adventists, and he became very favorable to said views. Being a man who would thoroughly investigate everything which presented itself, he studied our views some time, and at last, becoming thoroughly convinced that our positions as a people are true, he took a decided stand to live them out. Before he did so, however, as our people in the city desired to purchase property for church purposes, but were not in a condition to furnish money for the first payment, Brother Booth kindly put an incumbrance on his own property, and furnished the first $1,000 toward paying for the property. He felt very anxious to live long enough to see the property free from debt. For some time before his death he became almost a constant reader of his Bible, the Signs, and the Review, and after having read the papers himself, he would give many of them to leading men in the city, and try to interest them in that which the papers teach. He was a loving husband, and one of the kindest of fathers. He had a very large circle of friends in the city, from the fact that he was so kind and sympathetic that all loved him. He would often aid the poor to pay their debts, instead of unmercifully enforcing the law, which he had it in his power to do, and thus strip them of all they possessed. The funeral was largely attended by many of the prominent citizens of the city, Elder Place and the writer conducting the services. The writer gave the funeral discourse, basing his remarks on Ps. 116:15. Elder Place conducted the services at Oak Wood Cemetery chapel. The occasion was a solemn one, and the impression was an excellent one for good. Friends were present from Rochester, Utica, Toledo, Detroit, and other places. Brother Booth leaves a wife, two sons, three daughters, and a number of grandchildren, to mourn. But they do not sorrow as others who have no hope, for they fully believe that the husband and father will live again in the glorious resurrection morning. S. H. LANE.