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WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN INDIA.

THE need of women physicians in India has re

cently been brought to the notice of the profession through the following letter addressed by Ann J. Thoburn, a graduate of the Women's College of Philadelphia, now in India, to Rachel L. Bodley, Dean of the Faculty of the college.

"My object in writing to you at this particular time is to ask your help in the securing medical women for India, either missionaries, or those who are willing to come for a specified salary, and work here just as they would anywhere else. I went yesterday at the request of Lady Dufferin, the wife of our new Viceroy, to talk over plans for establishing dispensaries and training schools for native women all over India.

"The idea was suggested to her first by the Queen before she left England, and now she is making an effort to carry the idea out. Her plan is to raise a fund in India, from whatever sources she can, and from this support the work.

"I am not able to say what salary could be guaranteed, but it would probably be equal, all things considered, to what an ordinary doctor would make at home, and then it would be an assured income, which, of course is an advantage. Lady Dufferin says that she herself would prefer those who would come as missionaries, but that some object. I told her, what persons of more experience than myself say is true, that the natives will choose the missionary physicians in preference to the others.

"A new hospital has just been opened in this place (Simla), and the surgeon in charge is anxious to get a lady doctor to take charge of the women's ward, and one who can train classes of native women for midwives. He is willing to give $80 per month and a house, and as living in India is cheaper than at home, this sum is equal to a little more than $1000 per year."

Since this letter was published, the London Times, in a recent issue, gives the satisfactory intelligence that a National Association has been established for the supply of medical aid to women, through women physicians. We give herewith the article on the subject.

Lady Dufferin is president of the Association, and the Governor General its patron. Several native princes have promised their support; and the intention is to form branch societies in every province, with a small central committee in Calcutta. The Association hopes to collect means for importing skilled female teachers from Europe and America, and by their assistance to train a large number of capable native nurses, midwives and medical practitioners. Scholarships will, as the opportunity arises, be founded for the maintenance of apt pupils. In itself the movement is not new. A very benevolent Christian enterprise, styled the Zenana Mission, has long aimed at conferring on women, in addition to other benefits, those of European medical science. More recently the English advocates of the admittance of women to the medical profession have recommended India as a promising field for the ambitious. The pe

culiarity of Lady Dufferin's Association is that it has nothing to do with theology, and that its final object is the education of the women of India to furnish the medical attendance their sex requires.

Every intelligent Hindoo recognizes the magnitude of the evil which the Association will strive to amend. Male Hindoos are well aware of the advances of the medical art in the west. They avail themselves of its resources without scruple whenever they are able. Their women are debarred by social customs from consulting male practitioners, and the number of competent medical women is still infinitesimal. Women naturally are more habitually in need of medical assistance than the stronger sex. In India they remain abandoned in childbirth, and in all extremities of sickness, to a traditional treatment which probably is less reasonable now than when it was invented many thousands of years ago. In the worst surgical cases they cannot seek the services which are freely rendered in hospitals to their husbands, brothers and sons.

Sickness to the Hindoo woman signifies condemnation to a mournful solitude. Her sick bed becomes a prison, with little diversion but the monotonous gossip of zenana to which she appertains. The grievances of a different condition of life are easily exaggerated. Use doubtless renders immurement in a zenana endurable for women in possession of moral health and activity. But there certainly is no margin or superabundance of joyousness and vitality which will bear curtailment. A Hindoo woman so ailing as to be incapacitated for a share in the general current in the feminine society can hardly be other than a being to claim the keenest human pity, unless she is either above or below it. Competent medical succor is for her thrice precious, in view of the extraordinary wretchedness in which sickness plunges her.

THE work which Christ did, and is doing, is to bring us to God and to man, to reconcile religion and morality, piety and humanity. It is to fill all of life full of the sense of God's presence; to remove all estrangements, all separation; to make the atonement which unifies man and God, man and man. This work he does, not by an outward process of civilization mainly, but first of all by sending this vital power into each individual soul. When we are willing to follow him, when we are able to trust in him, then he becomes our Saviour. The love to him springs up naturally and necessarily in the heart. Then, he is as near and dear to us as the nearest and dearest earthly friend. When he brings us to God, he makes the Universal Father also near. He gives us a childlike piety, which prays to God without ceasing, as the child prattles incessantly to its mother all day long. Follow him, trust in him: this is the whole condition of his influence.-James Freeman Clarke.

ALL weakness falters, fumes, is full of jars,

While Power and Peace ofttimes are reconciled. Frail rivulets fret. Earth, whirled amid the stars, Wakes not a nestled bird or slumbering child. -Youth's Companion.

From the Atlantic Monthly
THE ORIOLE'S SONG.

THIS bird's song consisted

HIS bird's song consisted of four notes, and it is curious that although there is a peculiar, rich, flute-like quality by which the oriole notes may be recognized, no two sing alike. Robins, song sparrows, and perhaps all other birds sing differently from each other, so far as I have observed, but none differ so greatly—in my opinion—as orioles. The four that I have been able to study carefully enough to reduce this song to the musical scale, though all having the same compass, arranged the notes differently in every case. The oriole is, of course, not limited in expression to his song. I have spoken of his cry of distress or of war, which was two stones slurred together. The ordinary call, as he goes about a tree, especially a fruit-tree in bloom, seeking insects over and under each leaf or blossom, is a single note, loud and clear. If a pair are on the tree together, it is the same, but much softer.

An oriole that I watched in the Catskill Mountains regularly fed his mate while she was sitting, and as he left the nest after giving her a morsel, he uttered two notes which sounded exactly like " A-dieu," adding, after a pause, two more which irresistibly said, “Dear-y.” There was a peculiar mournfulness in this bird's strain, as if he implied "It's a sad world; a world of cats and crows and inquisitive people, and we may never meet again." Perhaps it was prophetic. for disaster did overtake the little family; a high wind rocked the cradle-which also was on a small mapletree-so violently as to throw out the youngsters before they could fly. The accident was remedied as far as possible by returning them to the nest, but whether they were injured by the fall I never learned.

Scolding is quite ready to an oriole's tongue, and even squawks like a robin's are not unknown. The female has similar utterances, but in those I have listened to her song was weaker, lacked the clear-cut perfection of her mate's, and sounded like the first efforts of a young bird. In the case of those now under consideration, the female reproduced exactly her partner's notes, only in this inferior style, which seemed rather unusual. The sweetest sound the oriole utters is a very low one, to his mate when near her, or flying away with her, or to his nestlings before they leave the home. It is a tender, yearning call that makes one feel like an intruder, and as if he should beg pardon and retire. It is impossible to describe or reduce to the scale, but it is well worth waiting and listening for.

OLIVE THORNE MILLER.

THOSE Who understand the value of time treat it as prudent people do their money,-they make a little go a great way.-Hanway.

THE preaching of the day does not lack eloquence, does, not lack earnestness, does not lack scholarship, does not lack vigor. But it does lack directness, boldness, frankness. It would be better calculated to arouse and quicken if it were less genteel.-Tribune.

It is evidence of an odious spirit to be better pleased to detect a fault than to commend a virtue.

NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS. -The latest news from Professor Huxley is very discouraging. His health seems quite broken down, and he will most likely spend what of life is left him in Italy. A government pension of $6,000 is talked of.

-An Association for the Protection of Plants has been started at Geneva; the object is to preserve Alpine rarities from the extermination with which the annually increasing number of botanists, mercenary collectors, and mountaineering tourists generally is said to menace them. The projectors of the Association announce that they are going to cultivate the flowers of the Alps in nurseries, and sell them at such low rates that it will not be worth any one's while to dig up the wild plants.

When first the oyster is born he is a simple, delicate dot, with his two shells upon him. For some unknown reason he always fixes himself on his round shell, and being once fixed, he begins to grow, growing only in summer. An oyster shell is marked with distinct lines. As the rings in the section of a trunk of a tree denote the years of growth, so do the markings on the shell tell how many The beard is years it has passed at the bottom of the sea. not only a breathing, but also a feeding organ. When the warm, calm days of June come, the oyster opens his shell, and, by means of his beard, begins building an additional story to his house. This he does by depositing very fine particles of carbonate of lime, till at last they form a substance as thin as silver paper and exceedingly fragile. Then he adds more and more, till at last the new shell is as hard as the old.

-A number of Russians are to settle in a valley north of Sitka, Alaska, an agent of theirs who is now journeying across the continent having recently selected the site.

-In cotton yarns dyed with aniline colors antimony is to be found, and, without great care in cleansing the yarn, enough may remain to prove injurious to the skin.

-Glass fish-globes, paper-weights made of a pyramid of glass balls, and lenses of stereoscopes have been found to act as a burning glass in the sun, and to set fire to paper, cloth, etc. Brightly tinned or nickel wash-dishes have been known to do the same. Such things in a house will bear watching.

-Jumbo, the $300,000 elephant belonging to Barnum, was killed on the Grand Trunk Air-Line track half a mile east of St. Thomas, Ontario on the night of the 17th inst. His keeper was leading him along the track to load him, when a freight train came up behind unnoticed and ran him down. He was injured so badly that he died in thirty minutes.

The height of Jumbo was eleven feet and a half. His immense bulk was such that a front view of him was about as imposing as a side view. Other elephants looked like pigmies beside him. His trunk for several feet after leaving his head was as thick as a stout man's body. When he lifted his head and stretched his trunk upward, he could reach up twenty-six feet, or five feet higher than the largest of the other elephants in his owner's extensive herd.

"The passage of the Local Option Bill," says the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem.), "is a monument of the endurance of one man. J. G. Thrower, in 1867, organized in Atlanta a lodge of Good Templars. He announced that Georgia would yet be a temperance state. Through good and evil report, and discouragements which would have disheartened a less sanguine man, he kept at work. He pushed others into the leadership in order to compel them to work, keeping himself well in the background. He spent his own money freely, and richly deserves the success which has followed his labors.

CURRENT EVENTS.

THE State Fair of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society has been open in this city, during the week. The exhibits in some departments are very large.

DORMAN B. EATON, one of the three Civil Service Commissioners, (and chairman of the Board), has resigned. The pressure to break up the operations carried on by the Board, under the Civil Service law, is very strong, many Democrats desiring the President to remove Republican officials immediately.

THE deaths in this city last week numbered 361, which was 27 less than during the previous week, and 22 more than during the corresponding period last year. There were 43 by consumption, 11 by diphtheria, and 21 by typhoid fever.

THE Governor of Georgia has signed the State Local Option bill. Under it any county can have an election on the question on petition of nine-tenths of the voters, It is said there are 100 Prohibition counties in Georgia, but none of them includes any of the five large cities, Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Columbus.

Work has been resumed in the coal mines at Rock Springs, Wyoming, where the massacre of Chinese occurred. The Union Pacific Railroad Co., which owns the mines, is determined that the Chinese shall continue to be employed, and U. S. troops will protect them. About 100 of them, and a few white men, are working.

IN Texas, very heavy rains, last week, did damage to the cotton crops.

SERIOUS prairie fires have occurred in Dakota, and the wheat crop on a hundred farms, between Jamestown and Bismarck, is reported to be burned. Other dispatches name Dickinson and Steele as in the neighborhood of bad fires.

SMALL-POX Continues bad in Montreal, and has spread from there. Many cases are reported from Toronto. The deaths in Montreal and suburbs, from this disease, on the 21st, numbered 36. It is said that those dying by it are almost entirely French Canadians, and of the whole number last week only twenty-one were over ten years of age. The physicians explain this by the fact that the crusade against compulsory vaccination was started among the French Canadians ten years ago.

THROUGHOUT Spain, on the 21st, there were 759 new cases of cholera, and 270 deaths. The disease prevails frightfully in southern Italy, especially in Sicily. In the city of Palermo alone, on the 21st, there were 214 new cases and 175 deaths. Thirty thousand persons have fled from the city; all the shops are closed and the streets are almost deserted. There is great scarcity of food and water, and the epidemic is increasing with frightful rapidity. The sanitary officials are attacked by the people every time they attempt to disinfect the houses where the disease prevails, and meet with great difficulty in carrying on their work. A large force of military has been sent by the Italian government to maintain order and enforce sanitary rules.

TREMENDOUS rains in southern Spain are reported, causing floods and loss of property. At Cartagena the water was seven feet deep around the city walls.

U. S. CONSUL Tzschuck, at Vera Cruz, reports that the yellow fever epidemic at that place has been very malignant, about 50 per cent. of the cases proving fatal.

W. E. GLADSTONE is reported as much improved in health. He has issued an address to the voters of Great Britain, explaining the Liberals' programme, and its tendency is conceded to be to compose the differences that have existed in the party.

A REVOLUTION has occurred at Philippopolis, in Rumelia, a province of Turkey, the people declaring themselves independent and demanding annexation to the adjoining nationality of Bulgaria. There is much concern expressed in European diplomatic circles, lest this should involve the different countries and cause a rupture of the peace.

THE controversy between Spain and Germany over the possession of the Caroline Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, is not settled, but the present feeling between the two countries is pacific, so far as appears on the surface. Spain has been making warlike preparations, however, and has bought in England two warships.

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**The "Lesson Leaves" prepared by direction of the First-Day School General Conference are now ready for distribution, and will be sent free of cost to all superintendents of First-Day Schools whose addresses have been received. If any have been omitted, or not fully supplied, please address, at once, L. H. Hall, Box 97, West Chester, Pa.

**A Conference on Temperance, under the care of the quarterly meeting's committee, will be held at Friends' meeting-house North Sixth street, Reading, on First-day, Ninth month 27th, at 3 P. M.

Some of the committee expect to attend Friends' meeting in the morning.

**Haddonfield First-Day School Union meets in Haddonfield Meeting-House, Seventh-day, Ninth month 26th, at 10 A. M. All are invited.

**Edwin H. Coates will attend a Temperance Meeting at Little Britain meeting-house, Lancaster Co., Pa., on First-day afternoon, the 4th of 10th month, at 3, P. M.

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2212 Wallace Street.

'RIEND'S HOME FOR CHILDREN.

4011 Aspen Street West Philadelphia Arrangements have been made for their Third Annaul Trip to Mauch Chunk and Switch Back, Third-Day (Tuesday,) 10th Mo. (October) 13th, 1885. Trains for the Hudson and Switch Back leave Ninth and Green Sts., 7.30 A.M., stopping at Columbia Avenue, 16th Street, Tioga, Wayne Junction and Jenkintown. Tickets good from Manayunk, Germantown and intermediate Stations, and for either Trip.

ADULTS, $2.50. CHILDREN, $1.25.

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JOSEPH L. JONES,

MONTGOMERY

COUNTY MILK.

CONSHOHOCKEN DAIRIES.

OFFICE: 603 N. EIGHTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Special Attention given to Serving Families.

WHAT $5.00 WILL BUY.

IF $5.00 is sent us, either by Registered Letter, Postal Note, Bauk
Check, or Post-Office Order, we will send any one of the following
orders:-Order No. 1; We will send 6 pounds of good Black, Green,
Japan or Mixed Tea, and 18 pounds of good mild or strong roasted
Coffee. Order No. 2; We will send 30 pounds of good mild, or
strong roasted Coffee. Order No. 3; We will send 5 pounds of real
good Black, Green, Japan or Mixed Tea, and 15 pounds of fine
mild or strong roasted Coffee. Order No. 4; We will send 25
pounds of real good mild or strong roasted Coffec. Persons may
club together and get one of these orders, and we will divide it to
suit the club, sending it all to one address. To those who wish to
purchase in larger quantities, we will sell at a still further reduc-
tion. The Tea and Coffee will be securely packed and sent by ex-
press or freight, whichever is ordered. Samples of any of the
above orders will be sent free by mail to examine. In ordering,
please state whether Order No. 1, 2, 3 or 4 is desired. Call on or
address,
WM. INGRAM & SON, TEA DEALERS,
31 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

FRIENDS' WEDDING INVITATIONS. Send for Samples. No Charge.

NO. 908 ARCH STREET, DIXON PHILADELPHIA, PENNA.

FRIENDS' MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES, Correctly and Handsomely Engrossed.

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NO. 2030 CHESTNUT STREET.

INSURES LIVES, GRANTS ANNUITIES, ACTS AS EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR, GUARDIAN, TRUSTEE, COMMITTEE OR RECEIVER, AND RECEIVES DEPOSITS ON INTEREST.

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INSURES LIVES, GRANTS ANNUITIES, RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT, ACTS AS EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRA-
TOR, GUARDIAN, TRUSTEE, ASSIGNEE, COMMITTEE, RECEIVER, AGENT, ETC.
All Trust Funds and Investments are kept separate and apart from the Assets of the Company.
President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, T. WISTAR BROWN, Vice-President and Actuary, ASA S. WING, Manager of In-
surance Department. JOS. ASHBROOK, Trust Officer, J. ROBERTS FOULKE.

Reuben Wilson

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A QUAINT ANNOUNCEMENT,
ORTHODOX FRIENDS,

MISCELLANY: Coal as Fuel; Queer Partnerships; The Height
of Waves; The Post of Duty the Place of Safety; Rela-
tions of Forests to Malaria, .

THE CENTENARY OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT,
NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS,
CURRENT EVENTS,

NOTICES,

PUBLISHERS' NOTICES.

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For the accommodation of any who may find it more convenient to pay their subscriptions at the book-store of Friends' Book Association, arrangements have been made by which it will act as our agent to receive them. The store is now at 1020 Arch, but will be removed, at a future date, to 15th and Race Streets.

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NEWS OF FRIENDS:

Illinois Yearly Meeting, .

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Indiana Yearly Meeting,

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