poor children cast on his care. The most striking | all they seem to have in common. In doctrine and chapter of his last novel is" Massacre of St. Bartholo- opinion they do not unite. What can be the form mew," in which three children demolish an old manuscript in the midst of La Vendee. The book of poetry by which he appeals to the human heart is L'Art d'etre Grand-Pere. There was no greater as there was no more beautiful side to his character. His relations to his children and his grandchildren rose to the level of the ideal. His sons-one of them Shakespeare's best French translator, both of them brilliant publicists-in the Democratic ranks were men after his own heart. The ties of father and sons were never more beautiful, and their home life was all that England thinks France ignorant of. It was more than an English home, for it was pervaded by great thoughts and generous enthusiasms, such as the Englishman eschews, and was characterized by a frank interplay of affection which would suffocate him. of worship in such a gathering? The Friend could FROM AN ABSENT FRIEND. France has lost her best and greatest son in losing Victor Hugo. French letters, rich in fancy but poor in imagination, has lust an imaginative writer of the first order. But humanity has not lost the great heart which beats in sympathy for all its miseries. FRIENDS EDITORS.-Having received a letter from That has but entered upon a fuller life, and taken up a dear friend who was not able to be with us at our higher tasks, while "the emphasis of death makes Annual Meeting, but who has long labored for the perfect" such record as it left of its beatings.cause of Truth, I feel to send it for publication in American. COMMUNICATIONS. MORE SERMONS AND LESS FIRST-DAY SCHOOL. your paper. M. M. T. As our Annual Session has closed, I hope thou wilt have leisure sufficient to tell me how you got DEAR FRIENDS.—Having attended our late Year- through, and whether, in thy judgment, anything has ly Meeting and observed an earnest desire to hear the been gained by the labors of the large committeecommunications of our dear friend Sunderland P. passing up and down, to and fro, all through the Gardner by Friends generally, I think a continuation did Queen Esther when she said to him who had the Yearly Meeting: I was not able to go, but feel as of all the sermons extant of the friend, and even to go back to those of Elias Hicks, John Comly and power to kill or save alive, "My life at my petition, and my people at my request." Oh for my people, others, might very profitably occupy that portion of that they keep near our Holy Helper, and never run the paper; and in view of the manifest desire that before, or suffer self to be exalted in the temple our principles and testimonies shall be held promi- above all that is called God and is worshiped. Acnently before Friends, I would suggest that a part of the space now allotted to the First-day School move ahead as the outside world, or we shall be in the tion, action is the motto of the day. We must go ment be supplied by suitable extracts from the writings of our early Friends, having a bearing upon the Heavenly Guide. He will not give His glory to rear. I find my safety is in keeping_close to my subject; and, inasmuch as the reading matter of the paper is limited, I would recommend that the Libra-sign to the young people places in the Church for paper is limited, I would recommend that the Libra- another, or His praise to graven images. If we asry department devote not more than half of the which they have no experience, it will not benefit space now allotted to that particular subject, the them, nor will the expectations of some be realized room to be supplied by other pertinent matter. With a desire that the INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL shall rise higher than the fountain head; the Lord only in seeing the waste places built up. No stream can be an earnest advocate of the principles of Friends. can build up Zion and fortify Jerusalem; by agents I remain, etc. of His own choosing and anointing will He bring it to pass. Byberry, Fifth mo. 18. *** AN INQUIRY. EDITORS INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL:—One of the advices left by George Fox, that our meetings be held all of them in the power of God, leads to the inquiry, What does this permit, and what does it require? The answer may be given by example A hundred families in a new colony, representing one hundred sects, under the all-pervading sense of a common need, meet on a first day of the week to worship. They are drawn together by the one element of attraction, love to God and man. That is * FRIENDS EDITORS.-Do encourage every member of our Society to feel that the name "Friend" is so much more appropriate than a name given rather in scorn than otherwise. However great our respect for a person of thinking powers, it has always seemed to me as given for our humiliation. (The INTELLIGENCER AND Journal of Second mo. 14th had a suggestion on this point by B. W.) M. H. J. York, Pa. sent. NEWS OF FRIENDS. -The Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia) Committee of Fifty held a second meeting on Seventh-day last, at Race Street, at 10.30 A. M., the session continuing until nearly 2. Most of the members were preThe sub-committee appointed a week before to prepare suggestions as to a plan of action made a report, which was united with. The Committee previously named to visit Meetings and families in Bucks Quarter was set at liberty to proceed in their concern as they might find way to open. Besides Joseph B. Livezey, Watson Tomlinson and Charles and Harriet E. Kirk, the Committee includes Anne S. Clothier, Barclay Knight, Elmira Twining. Another sub-committee was authorized to visit the Monthly Meetings of Abington Quarter (proposing, as we understand, to go in the Eighth month), consisting of Henry T. Child, Clement Biddle, Amos and Rachel W. Hillborn. The general Committee adjourned to meet again at 10 A. M., on Seventh-day, the 20th, prepared to hold two sessions if necessary. -The Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia) Committee on Temperance Work met to organize for its present year's work on Seventh-day, at 1 o'clock, at Race Street. Annie C. Dorland and Lydia A. Schofield acted as Clerks, the latter for the day, sequence of the absence of James H. Atkinson, who, together with A. C. D., were chosen Clerks. The Committee felt encouraged to proceed with its work. A memorial to the Park Commissioners of Philadelphia was agreed on, asking the enforcement of the law against selling liquor in Fairmount Park, and it was united with that a memorial be addressed to the several Monthly Meetings, in behalf of a more precise answering of the Fourth Query. in con -On First-day, 31st ult., Samuel B. Haines, of New York, attended Race Street Meeting, Philadelphia. On the same day, Samuel S. Ash was at Merion Meeting. Notice having been spread, about 75 persons attended, and it was a satisfactory meeting. -On Fourth-day, Sixth mo. 3d, David Newport was at Race Street, Philadelphia, and was drawn to address the scholars there assembled. -On First-day, Sixth mo. 7th, at Race Street, Philadelphia, after Samuel S. Ash had appeared in testimony, Abigail R. Paul, of Salem, N, J., knelt in supplication. —Samuel S. Ash and wife have a minute to attend the approaching Genesee Yearly Meeting, and also a prospect of being at Buffalo Meeting, N. Y. -A visiting Friend writes of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, N. J., held on the 4th inst.: "The meeting was small, but a lively one, and there is much of love and unity here. Dr. John Shotwell ministered vocally. "In the business meeting a committee was appointed to see what could be done in regard to starting a First-day school. "After a season of refreshment, physically and socially, which was greatly enjoyed, a Temperance -Prof. Appleton has gone to Europe to spend his summer vacation. He sailed from New York for Glasgow on Fifth-day last, and will probably confine his visit to England and Scotland, where he will pursue his studies with reference to his work at the College in English Literature. -The Commencement exercises will take place on the 16th inst., Third-day of next week. The regular graduating class numbers only four members, though there are other candidates for degrees, including three graduates of previous years who will now receive their M. A. The graduating class is small this year in consequence of the action, some two or three years ago, by which the grade of the classes was raised, and vacancies were caused in the regular order of promotion. The other college classes are now quite full, the transfers now made from the freshman into the sophomore for next year being larger than heretofore, while the promise of the College generally is very good. will take place on the 15th, the day before Com-"Class Day" exercises of the graduating class mencement, at 3 P. M. -On First-day morning last, the gathering at the Meeting-house was felt to be an extremely impressive and profitable occasion. Richard Watson, of Bucks county, was amongst those present, and spoke on the rise of the Society of Friends, giving an interesting sketch, with many historical details Lydia H. Price then spoke, in a very acceptable manner, at some length, and the meeting closed apparently under a due sense of the religious value and importance of Friends' testimonies. THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. The nineteenth anniversary of this organization was celebrated at St. George's Hall, Philadelphia, last week, on Fourth-day. The Philadelphia Ledger says: The President, Alfred H. Love, presided, and T. Elwood Longshore and Mrs. A. L. Washburn acted as Secretaries. The morning session was largely taken up with the reading of letters received from were received from Zebulon E. White, one of the members and correspondents of the Union. Letters Vice-Presidents; Charles Henry Plumer, of the Rhode Island branch society; Frederick Passe, President of the French Society of Friends of Peace, Paris; R. H. Thomas, Commissioner from the State to the New Orleans Exposition; R. B. Howard, Clara Barton, of the Red Cross Society, and others. From the French Society was received an album containing photo graphs of Victor Hugo, Garibaldi and other friends of the peace movement in Europe. Mr. Love read his annual report, a long document, giving in detail a history of peace movements during the year. Several committees were appointed, and the meeting adjourned to meet at 3 o'clock. At the afternoon session the election of officers was held, resulting in the choice of the following named persons: President, Alfred H. Love; Secretaries, Thomas E. Longshore, Elizabeth Underhill and Mrs. A. L. Washburn; Corresponding Secretary, Amanda Deyo; Treasurer, Thomas J. Whitney. The list of seventy vice-presidents, made up of persons in all parts of the world, and the executive committee of fifty, were re-elected with but few changes. George May Powell, Chairman of the Committee on a Permanent Court of Arbitration, presented a report that such a Court would soon be established and open to the use of those who are willing to allow its action to be final in their cases. It says: tion need not antagonize the civil courts, but it may give them relief from much that is overwork to them, a burden to taxpayers, and promotive of strife and immorality. "The success of an arbitration court will cause very many others to spring up, at home and abroad, and so work greatly needed reforms. By such courts matters may be adjusted where civil courts have no jurisdiction. Thus, individuals or communities may find-as nations are finding-that this way of settling trouble saves both time and money, while peace and more real justice are secured by kindly arbitration than by the expensive delays of strife and contention." At the evening session the Treasurer's report was read, showing a deficit in the account of the Peacemaker, the Union's official organ. There is at present over $2,000 in the reserve fund. SALVATION BY CHARACTER. In this clear, strong language James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, defines his position on the subject of the Salvation of the Human Soul. He defines so clearly this Christian doctrine as it is and ever has been understood by our own Church, that we gladly give his words place in our paper. He shows how the simple faith in the inward Christ-the Word of God in the heart-the manifestation of the eternal Heavenly Father to his dependent children, is not only reasonable but scriptural. We clip from Christian Register: "The fourth point of the new theology will be Sal"Arbitra-vation by Character. Salvation means the highest peace and joy of which the soul is capable. It means heaven here and heaven hereafter. This salvation has been explained as something outside of us, some outward gift, some outward condition, place, or circumstances. We speak of going to heaven, as if we could be made happy solely by being put into a happy place. But the true heaven, the only heaven which Jesus knew, is a state of the soul. It is inward goodness. It is Christ found within. It is the love of God in the heart going out into the life and character. The first words which Jesus spoke indicated this belief. The poor in spirit already possess the kingdom of heaven. The pure in heart already see God. 'This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.' He who has the faith which Jesus possessed has eternal life abiding in him. The water that Jesus gives becomes a spring of water within the soul, 'springing up into everlasting life.' Do not look for an outward heaven, saying, Lo! here,' or 'Lo! there; for the kingdom of heaven is within you.' When we come to study the words of Jesus as we now study human theologies, we shall find that he identifies goodness with heaven and makes character the essence of salvation. As long as men believe that heaven is something outward, to be attained by an outward act of profession or belief, they will be apt to postpone such preparation as long as possible. But when we apprehend the inflexible law of consequences, and know that as a man soweth so shall he reap; when we see that spiritual tastes and habits are not to be formed in an hour, and that all outward professions, prayers and sacraments avail nothing, unless the heart is pure and the soul upright and the life one of integrity; then a new motive will be added to increase the goodness of the world, then the formation of character will be the fruit of Christian faith to an extent never before realized." The Committee on Convictions reported a series of convictions which were discussed and adopted. In them the Union renews its inherence to the plan of employing arbitration as the proper mode of settling all disputes. It recognizes labor and capital as equal wealth-producing factors, as two friends not to be separated and having equal rights. Strikes and lockouts are deprecated as in the nature of war, and not legitimate modes of settling disputes. The Union "reiterates its strong convictions" against war as a "barbarous institution, which is not calculated to attain any reasonable end," but contrary to true religion and inconsistent with the spirit of the age. It protests against the proposed encampment of militia in Fairmount Park as "needless and tending to cherish a war spirit," and in violation of the intentions of some of the men who gave the land composing it, and deplores the decoration of the soldiers' graves, as such, as also tending to keep alive the war spirit. The Union expresses its profound satisfaction at the settlement of the Anglo-Russian difficulties by diplomacy instead of recourse to arms, and extends congratulations to Mr. Gladstone for his "wisdom and courage in adjusting the difficulty so as to pre vent war. 11 THE Shoe and Leather Reporter, which is to some extent an organ of the manufacturers, says of the trouble in the boot shops of Spencer, Mass.: "The complaint of the men is that they were promised last winter their wages should be raised half a dollar a case on outside and ten cents a case on inside work, and now the employers only offer half the advance agreed upon. We imagine there must be some mistake or misunderstanding about this, as manufacturers are not the kind of people to break their word. We hope they will see fit to accede to the demands of their workmen, and make it up by charging more for their boots, which they can easily do. The American people do not want to be shod at the expense of honest labor, surely; if they do they ought not to be." WASTED TIME.-We heard the other day of a Chicago lady who boasted that she "had attended twentyfour progressive euchre parties this winter." She had mildly drunk the bewitching wine of prize-winning, which, in its unvarnished forms, is known as gambilities and shock her moral sense. bling, and under that name would appal her sensibilities and shock her moral sense. This, like all other dissipations, is held to strict account by a Providence that will go on weakening the fair gamer's interest in other things, weakening her grasp on other pleasures, lessening her holy helpfulness to other lives, until she wakes some morning to the sense that she and the Infinite have been working at cross-purposes, and that she is on the losing side. It may need the bed and the doctor to persuade her that the thriftless life is the wicked life, and that the way of even the merry, polite and guiltless transgressor is hard.-Unity. SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. He kept to the end that eternal childhood which is the special grace, and perhaps the special power, of genius. Through accurate science he had reached the true poetical life with Nature, and his old age had greater pleasure in the beauty of the world than his boyhood. Building up by philosophic thought the palace of the universe, he filled it with the love and feeling which all the loveliness of the universe stirred within his heart. Disdaining nothing, finding in all things interest and delight, he gave as much thought and rapture to the fungi of the wayside hedge as he gave of old to the southern stars in those four years of lonely work nigh to the Cape of Storms. Nor did he miss the higher and more poetic thought which made the universe, whose laws he knew, not the slave of law, but alive with the spirit and wisdom of God. He rejoiced to see, not force alone, but a Divine will moving in all things; and so it came to pass that his "common thoughts were piety and his life gratitude." He wore his learning lightly as a flower," and wore it as the gift of God. STOPFORD A. BROOKE. CURRENT EVENTS. Domestic.—With the first of Sixth month commences the strikes of the iron and steel workers of that district which lies west of the Allegheny Mountains, and north of the Ohio river. Eighty-thousand workmen are thrown out of employment by their own act. ROBERT TREAT PAINE died in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of eighty years. He was a native of Boston, and the grandson of Robert Treat Paine, a distinguished jurist of the last century and signer of the Declaration of Independence. THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has despatches from the agent at San Carlos Agency which state that the Apaches who have been committing depredations, are confined to members of the bands which were under the charge of the military and which were brought in by General Crook about two years ago. None of the San Carlos Indians have left their reservation. It will be remembered that General Crook some time ago wanted to turn over his Indian captives to the Indian Bureau, but Secretary Teller and Commissioner Price refused to take them on account of their bad character. ACCORDING to an Associated Press despatch from New York, "the recent sensational reports regarding the health of ex-President Arthur are without foundation." During his stay at Fortress Monroe, and for several weeks after his return to New York, he suffered considerably from malaria and had a slight attack of sciatica, but his health is now completely restored. GENERAL CROOK has telegraphed from Fort Bayard that the hostile Indians are again moving south. He adds: “From the best obtainable information the following number of citizens have been killed: Seven on the Blue river and around Alma, five near Silver City, two near old Camp Vincent and three near Grafton. There may have been others killed, but I can get no reliable information." be in the United States in 1985 only 96,000,000 white people as against 192,000,000 colored people. THE 1,200,000 Potomac river shad provided for planting in the rivers of Illinois have been distributed in the Illinois river at Peoria, the Rock river at Rock Falls, and the Kankakee river at Kankakee. OUT in California the farmer does not grieve to the point of despair when locusts and grasshoppers make fill their crops with them and turns out his pigs, also, their appearance on his crops. He lets the turkeys to fatten on the swarm. It is strange how fine a line the white race draws between the sheathed insects of the earth and air and the small crustacea of the sea. Crabs that feed on the oyster's juices, true parasites even if they share his food, shrimps, periwinkles, all are accounted delicacies. Yet the vegetable feeders of the land, even if they have wings, are not thought worthy to be counted in the same category with the feathered vegetable feeders with wings that we call cabbage and other such herbage is counted less clean birds. The grasshopper that feeds consumingly on as food than the wild duck that feeds on celery, or the domestic duck which, like the pig, eats anything it can get. Grasshopper fed pigs, however, are now fattening in California, and the compromise must be There is no necessity for the white an agreeable one. race to imitate the Mexican Indian in his diet of grasshoppers, but there seems to be good sense as well as a good precedent in turning out the poultry yards of a neighborhood to meet a flight of cicadas, grasshoppers or locusts. If the turkeys and other fowl do die of surfeit, they would probably make amends in patés de foie grasshoppers.-Ledger. Foreign.-A smart earthquake shock occurred around Cape Town, South Africa, on the 10th of Fifth month. SERIOUS anti-Jewish riots have broken out in Vienna. The shops of the Jews are being raided and plundered and their owners violently assaulted. The cause of the violence seems to be the result of a recent election in which the anti-Semitic candidates were defeated in some districts. UNOFFICIAL reports of the earthquake in Cashmere are of such an alarming character as to make it more than likely that the earthquake will prove even more disastrous in its effects than the first despatches stated them to be. Whole cities and towns in "the Vale " are spoken of as destroyed, and the absence of definite news is attributed to the demolition of the telegraph lines in the general wreck and chaos. In consequence the magnitude of the calamity and the numbers of the killed and wounded are left for the imagination to supply. That over 200 lives are lost is now loosely estimated. LONDON, Sixth mo. 5.—The Gazette makes the official announcement that the districts of the Niger in Africa have been formed into a British protectorate. This protectorate comprises the coast line between the British protectorate of Lagos and the western bank of the Rio del Rey, the territory on both banks of the Niger from its confluence with the river Benne at Lakoja to the sea, and also both banks of the Benne to and including Ibe. THE shipments of cinchona bark to this country from Ecuador have practically ceased. The main cause of the decline has been the wonderful development of the cultivated bark in Sierra Leone, Africa, and the East Indies. While the best quinine bark that is shipped from South America has seldom over 23 to 3 per cent. of sulphate of quinine, under cultivation in India they increase it as high, in some cases, as 10 per cent. The production is constantly increasmarkets are flooded with it. In Sierra Leone aud India the bark is grown at very little cost, and it can be sold and made profitable if the growers only obtain a shilling a pound for it. COLORED people will outnumber the whites in this country in a century from now, according to a calculation made by the Secretary of the Freedman's Aiding in quantity and quality, so that the European Society. He says that 500 colored children are born every day in this country, and that if the same ratio of increase is kept up for a hundred years that has been maintained for the past twenty years there will ITEMS. WE often think we are of great importance to other people; that they must be thinking of us and our affairs; that they watch our actions and shape their course accordingly. In general we are quite mistaken. -Jean Ingelow. THE Pennsylvania Board of Public Charities has issued a letter recommending that isolated buildings be provided for the treatment of contagious diseases in connection with the hospitals and almshouses. THE New Orleans Exposition was closed on the 30th of last month, at which time there was a celebration in honor of the State of Pennsylvania. The car containing the Liberty Bell was removed from its place in front of the Government Building to the railroad track preparatory to its departure from here on Sixth mo. 1st. EMPLOYEES in the Patent Office have been much disturbed by reports of contemplated wholesale removals in that office. Commissioner Montgomery said on the 4th "that he did not intend to make indiscriminate removals, because such action would be a gross violation of the spirit of the civil service law, and for the additional reason that the business of the office would be completely checked by an attempt to replace the skilled employés now in the service.' No honest, sensible clerk desires implicit confidence in its literal sense. It is only the rogue who is of fended because his employer exercises reasonable supervision over his affairs. The simple duty of the employer is to presume, of course, that those who work for him are honest, but at the same time make it his business to know what they are doing with his money or goods, and let them see that he will never be "too busy" to keep up proper supervision, by which he not only protects himself, but shields his employés from a measure of temptation to which they should not be exposed.-Carpet Trade and Review. IN the Senate of Illinois a Civil Rights bill from the House was passed, which gives colored people the same rights as whites in hotels, restaurants, theatres and other public places. It provides that for any violation the person offending shall pay not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than $500 to the person aggrieved, and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall pay a fine not to exceed $500, or shall be imprisoned not more than one year or both. A judgment in favor of the party aggrieved, or punishment upon an indictment, is to be a bar to either prosecution respectively. AT a meeting of the Climatological Society, held in New York last week, “health resorts" formed one of the objects of discussion. The New York Times says : "Their importance as a factor in the treatment of patients, especially those suffering from pulmonary diseases, was enlarged upon, and their close connection with the subject of climatology was pointed out in a paper by Dr. J. H. Platt, of Brooklyn, entitled "The Problem of Acclimatization." The belief was expressed that persons were often misled by advertisements to seek health at resorts where only the reverse could be hoped for, and that oftentimes these very places were recommended by physicians unacquainted with their real condition. To avoid this in future the association appointed two standing committees, one to investigate various health resorts throughout the country for the purpose of determining whether the climate was adapted to invalids, and the other to visit the prominent mineral springs for the same purpose. The Health Resort Committee will recommend local physicians in all places where healthy resorts are found. A third committee has been appointed to interest benevolent persons in the establishment of sanitariums at suitable health resorts." His THE regular correspondent of the New York Tribune gives a pleasant picture of the French Statesman lately elevated to the premiership. He says: "Premier Brisson is fifty; he is a tall, handsome man. superiority chiefly lies in the firmness and elevation of his moral character. I heard him speak on two great occasions in the Versailles Assembly and thought his oratory cold and stilted. It was in the didactic style in favor in the convention. But some reports which M. Brisson drew up when he was in Gambetta's place, President of the Budget Committees, showed him to have a clear business head. He is for the severe application to the religious orders of the law of mortmain, for the abolition of the Concordat, and for no immunity from military service to be granted to divinity students. Conservatives regard him as a harsh Jacobin. They are mistaken in his character. He is a very genial man in private life and is contented with keeping down any faults that he may observe in himself. I never knew him to speak in a censorious manner of friends and acquaintances. It was as a patriot and from a regard for the honor of France that he lifted up his voice when Gambetta was forming_the Grand Ministry against the choice of Madame Rouvier's husband for the portfolio of the Colonies and Commerce. M. Brisson was a member of the old Gambettist set. He was called about twenty-five years ago to the Paris bar, but never succeeded in obtaining a good legal business. แ NOTICES. MONTHLY MEETINGS IN PHILADELPHIA. AT a recent meeting of the Boston Society of Arts 18th, at Spruce Street, 10 A. M. Burlington Quarter First-day School Union will be held at Mansfield, N. J., Sixth mo. 13th, 1885. Visitors by railroad will take the 7.30 A. M. train from Market street, for Columbus, N. J., where carriages will await them. Trenton Friends take the 7.45 train for Columbus. C. E. Shreve, Sup't. Friends' Mission Fairmount avenue and Beach street.-Religious Meeting every First-day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Friends are solicited to attend. Also, Temperance Meeting, at which milk and biscuit will be served, on Fifth-day evening, 8 o'clock. Henry T. Child expects to attend Norristown Meeting on First-day morning, the 14th inst., and a Temperance Meeting at Friends' Meeting-house, at 3.45 P. M. All are invited. |