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paid, and the slave-holder left Philadelphia a wiser, and propably a sadder man.

Jacob Leaverton and his wife, Hannah W. Leaverton, the latter a minister among Friends, were noted Abolitionists. Their home was the main stopping place for the Underground R. R. in our neighborhood. They were descendants of the band of "New Quakers," or Nicholites, who were noted Abolitionists in this county (Caroline) during the last century. This was before the birth of the martyred Elijah P. Lovejoy, or William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, or President Lincoln. One morning, during wheat harvest, whilst a number of hands were at breakfast, a bright colored girl walked up and was seen by all. She had blood stains on her garments caused by punishment. Some one in the company had seen her before. She was taken in, fed, and clothed. That night Jacob's carriage was seen on the road going northward, though no one inside was recognized. The next morning the slave-owner traced the fugitive and called at Jacob's house, inquiring for his slave girl. Jacob said in substance that he supposed she had been there, and that he had carried out the Scriptural injunction, that he "took her in, fed her, gave her another garment, instead of her bloody one, and let her pass on." For these things he was sued, and the slave-holder had many witnesses summoned. The case was removed to another county for trial and postponed for several years before it came up. Jacob had counsel employed, but in part he plead his cause, and quoted to the court several scriptural injunctions, one of which was “Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that has escaped from his master

unto thee." But the case went against him, costing him one or two farms to settle it. More than that, attending court in inclement weather, and being an old man, he was taken sick and soon passed away.

This trial made many friends to the cause. The appearance of the plain old Friend in court, with his broad beaver hat on, pleading for the cause of humanity, was an object lesson. After the trial, some liberated their slaves, some others willed them to be free at their death.

Hannah Leaverton later on moved out West to a son's, in Indianapolis. She was called a beautiful speaker, was a very large woman, and was much afflicted before she went West, where she died, I think, about 1860. W. T. KELLEY.

Preston, Md.

FATHER, We thank thee for our great faith in life, in thee, in love, that love shall never lose its own; that somewhere, somewhen, we shall find all that belong to us, and shall know that this life was only a portal, a gateway of that house of many mansions, in which dwells the family of God, visible and invisible, forever.-M. J. Savage.

CHURCH membership in its only true sense means transformation of character, and that, as we all know, tends to prosperity, despite a prevailing notion that only unprincipled people really prosper.-The Luth

eran.

FRIENDS (O.) AT CHICAGO.

THE Friends of the other body have erected a new building as a place of worship in Chicago, and a picture of it, in the American Friend, shows a handsome church," with a square tower and gothic windows. The cost is stated, including lot, at about $16,000. It has a seating capacity of 350.

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The Chicago Times-Herald of the 3d instant announces the opening of the new house in the following manner :

QUAKERS' NEW TEMPLE.-Chicago Quakers will worship in a new temple to-day. It is in Indiana avenue, near Fortyfourth street. Services will be held at II a. m. and 7.45 p. m. The new church building was begun last fall and cost $16,000. Rev. J. J. Mills, president of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, will preach the dedication sermon and conduct the services, assisted by Rev. Thomas C. Brown, of Carmel, Ind. The Society of Friends, which is the official title of the church was established in Chicago in 1865 and is the only congregation of that denomination in the city. Among its original members who still remain active in its affairs are Rev. Charles T. Coffin, Rev. William Henry Matchett, Abraham Wing and wife, William Mettie and wife, T. B. Hill and wife, A. H. Pickering and wife, and S. C. Hill and wife. The present elders of the church are Edward Jones and wife, A. H. Pickering and wife, Josiah Sims, Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp, and Mrs. Charlotte Vickers.

WIND-MILL IRRIGATION IN NEBRASKA.—Prof. Barbour tells this story in the Farm Implement News :

The largest and best known jumbo wind-mill in the eastern third of the State is probably that of John Tannahill, market-gardener and nursery-man, of Columbus, Platte county. It rises like a great winged spectre above the lake of water which it supplies by its two heavy pumps. plies by its two heavy pumps. This mill irrigates ten acres successfully, and is now so surrounded by a growth of timber that it stands in the midst of a miniature forest which cannot be penetrated by the camera. Photographs taken six to eight years ago show a level prairie diversified chiefly by a huge jumbo and a pond. This sudden transformation can be better understood by the Westerner than by the Easterner. On the treeless prairie the cottonwood and other trees often attain, in eight years, a height of fifty to sixty feet, and a diameter of ten to twelve inches. The writer has seen many a house in eastern Nebraska surrounded by a forest so dense, though not ten years old, as to shut out the camera, or rather shut in all the farm buildings, the irrigating-pond, and the stately windmill and tower, so that photographs, no matter how desirable and instructive, were not possible.

ANY one can carry his burden, however heavy, till nightfall. Any one can do his work, however hard, for one day. Any one can live sweetly, pasun goes down. tiently, lovingly, purely, till the And this is all that life ever really means.—British Weekly.

You can't jump away from your shadow; but, if you turn to the sun, your shadow is behind you, and, if you stand under the sun, your shadow is beneath you. What we should try to do is to live under the meridian sun, with our shadow, self, under our feet.— F· B. Meyer.

Conferences, Associations, Etc.

NEW YORK ANd Brooklyn.-The Young Friends' Association of New York and Brooklyn held a regular meeting Firstday evening, Third month 27, in the library room at Sixteenth Street and Rutherfurd Place, New York City.

The Conference Committee reported that Jesse H. Holmes will read a paper at our local Young Friends' Association Conference, on the Sixth-day evening preceding Quarterly Meeting.

The Executive Committee was directed to send to the New York Evening Post, a communication commending the action of that paper toward furthering the cause of peace. The Post has recently published a number of articles setting forth the horrors of war.

The Brooklyn Bible Section reported a consideration of the diseases mentioned in the Bible at their meeting on Third month 20.

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Elizabeth Stover opened the discussion of the evening by reading some selections from Anna Robertson Brown's What is Worth While?" and applying some of the views set forth, to us as Friends. We were asked if all the testimonies of the Society are worth while. The subject of the taking of oaths was mentioned and a plea for greater sincerity was made.

In the discussion we were advised to strive for the correct proportion in all things, so that we may get all that is worth while from everything that is worth while. Adjourned to meet in the Schermerhorn Street meeting-house Fourth month 10. A. H.

ALLOWAY'S CREEK, N. J.—As there are so few of us to take part, the Association, which we organized first in Eleventh month, 1896, is conducted in a very informal manner There have been three meetings held this year. The last was on First-day afternoon, the 27 ult., in the meeting-house at Hancock's Bridge. Anna P. Ridgway presided, and after a few moments of silence read a selection from the Psalms. Roll-call was followed by the reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting.

A very interesting and instructive paper upon "The Religious and Political Conditions in England in the Time of George Fox, was read by Dr. Frank B. Harris. Next was an account of the life of George Fox up to the time of his first visit to Swarthmore Hall, condensed from the "Life of George Fox," by Dr. Hodgkin. Questions upon this paper were followed by Whittier's poem upon Fox's experience in the Vale of Beaver, read by Anna M. Stackhouse, and an extract from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus, anent Fox's leather breeches,

read by Sarah W. Fogg.

Eric Carlson read from the Christian Herald an article upon the religious faith of Lincoln; and Sarah J. Powell read part of a most excellent paper upon "Paul the Apostle," kindly lent us by Sarah Acton Hilliard, of Salem. As our time was limited, we had to leave part of the paper till our next meeting. Questions upon this were given by Samuel Powell. A few items of business were discussed and after silence the Association adjourned, to meet at 3 o'clock the last First-day afternoon in Fourth month. LOUISA POWELL, Secretary.

MILLVILLE, PA.-The meeting of the Young Friends' Association, held at the Friends' meeting-house, Third month 13, was opened by the Superintendent reading a selection from the Bible, after which the roll of membership was called and responded to by sentiments from Whittier. The general order of business was then taken up, and reports from the different committees heard. During the literary portion of the meeting parts of the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters of John Woolman's Journal were read by Ellen Russell, Sarah Kitchen, and Myron Eves, respectively. In these chapters was set forth his earnest work among Friends, in behalf of the African slave, in the very earliest days of the Anti-Slavery

movement.

The question "Can we be useful and consistent members of Society without attending our meetings for worship and discipline with a good degree of regularity when health permits?'' was talked upon at some length by Sarah T. Eves (as leader), and others. The general opinion expressed was

that we could not be useful and consistent members of society without complying with the conditions as set forth in this question.

Under general remarks our friend William Burgess urged that we all be more earnest and follow more closely the good examples set for us by such men as John Woolman. MYRON EVES, Cor.

BUCKINGHAM, PA.-Young Friends' Association met at the meeting-house on the afternoon of Third month 20. After a short impressive silence, the President read the 141st Psalm, after which the Secretary read the minutes of the meeting held in First month. (There was no meeting in Second month, owing to a severe storm.)

The minutes standing approved, we next listened to a report from the Executive Committee by Elizabeth C. Slotter. Discipline, Sallie M. Watson; Recitation, Lettie Watson; Paper, Which is the greater virtue, Justice or Charity? to Anna J. Williams; Historical paper, by Jane Atkinson ; Reading, Lillian Cadwallader.

There being no new business, we took up the program for the day. Anna C. Atkinson read from the Discipline about Members in Need, and Burials. A few remarks were made about the burials; it was thought caution should be used how they allowed people to bury in their grounds when not of the Society of Friends. The paper assigned to Esther W. Hibbs was not presented, so we passed on to a recitation by Ellen D. Smith, she selecting one of Whittier's; this was well rendered and enjoyed by all.

Paper by Albert S. Paxson, "Local History of the Society.' This article deserves more than a passing mention ; it took three-quarters of an hour to read, and I feel I can say He told us how our meetit was thoroughly enjoyed by all. ings in Bucks Quarter were started, how the buildings were built, who by, and of many of the marriages and funerals in the old meeting-house at Buckingham; how the house had been used as a hospital in the Revolutionary days; how all seemed to enjoy the silence which the stately old building seems to impress one with; and how the Young Friends' Association seems to be awakening a new interest in the welfare of our Society. .

There being no other business, after a brief silence, we adjourned. I. L. W., Secretary.

TRENTON, N. J.—A regular meeting of the Trenton Friends' Association was held in the lecture-room of the meeting-house Third month 28. In the absence of the President, the Vice-President, Edward B. Hancock, filled the chair. The attendance was rather small, but deep interest was manifested, almost all present taking some part in the discussions of the evening.

The usual routine of business was transacted, after which the literary program was taken up. The first was an interesting paper presented by Caroline Preston upon the following subject: "It is claimed that religious meetings are not as well attended as formerly-what reason can be given for this?'' The writer assumed that "religious meetings" had reference not to Friends' meetings only, but to all organized Christianity. She gave statistics showing how poorly the churches are attended in New York City alone, and that our own meetings are not as well attended seems to be generally conceded.

In reading the history of early Friends, we find they increased fastest when they were persecuted and suffered most. The writer felt that one reason why Friends do not hold and increase their membership, is that there is little to attract the young—and they are easily led off to other churches. She felt, however, that this might not apply to Trenton Meeting, where every effort is made to awaken an interest in the young mind.

An interesting discussion followed the reading of this paper, which was participated in by many present.

The next paper, by Arthur E. Moore, on the question : "Would not the money expended for Foreign Missions be used to a greater advantage to educate the American Indian ? The paper brought forth some interesting remarks concerning the Indian question, much sympathy being expressed for the Red man, and the belief that his rights should be protected,

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and educational advantages given him; while there were felt to be many avenues at home for the expenditure of foreign mission money.

The hour for adjournment having arrived, the meeting closed after its usual silence. L. C. W.

BRISTOL, PA.The Temperance Conference, under charge of Bucks Quarterly Meeting's Committee, on First-day the 27th ult., was, a report states, lively and interesting. Samuel Swain presided and stated the purpose of the gathering. Excellent readings were given by Louisa Iredell, Lulu Parr, Elizabeth Laing, and Anne H. Stradling. John K. Wildman presented a view of the progress of the cause. Professor Charles M. Stabler, of George School, delivered an extended address that gave general satisfaction. Others, including two ministers of other cities, spoke briefly.

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JAPAN burst open the front door of the Chinese Empire ; and now, much to her disgust, European nations are walking in and taking lodgings without asking leave either of China or Japan.-Christian Register.

WHEN all the world learns that opinions concerning the origin of books of the Bible and the authority of creeds are no necessary part of the religious thought of the world, heresy trials will become impossible.-Christian Register.

THE Royal Commission appointed to report on the restoration of the white pine forests of Canada, among other interesting facts, says, that the prevailing opinion that when a forest is cut away trees of some other species follow is not correct. They find white pine seedings following the cut-away white pine timber in frequent instances.

LITERARY NOTES.

THE English Friends have been earnestly exerting themselves to secure the abolition of the slave system in East Africa, in the regions which are subject to the rule of Great Britain. The Friends engaged in foreign mission work have an industrial mission station at Banani, on the island of Pemba, just off the African coast, and north of Zanzibar, and Henry Stanley Newman, editor of the London Friend, who made a visit to the country last year, has produced an interesting book, "Banani: The Translation from Slavery to Freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba," in which he describes, as his title suggests, the conditions in those regions.

Slavery and the slave-trade die hard in Africa, as they have done in all countries the world over. Human greed and viciousness contend powerfully with every effort to establish the rule of freedom, and in a region like Africa, unclaimed from savage conditions in so many respects, the process is exceptionally difficult. In this volume H. S. Newman describes clearly and graphically the features of the transition period, and devotes several chapters to studies of the social capabilities of the African natives, the Arabs, Hindus, and English.

The book has a number of illustrations and a good map. It is published by Headley Brothers, London, price five shillings, and may be ordered through Friends' Book Association, 15th and Race streets, Philadelphia.

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Dr. Bushrod Washington James, of this city, has added to the list of his literary works a stout volume, liberally illustrated, on "Alaska: Its Neglected Past, Its Brilliant Future. His object, he states in his Preface, has been "to supply a present need for a finely-illustrated, thoughtfully prepared descriptive book on the strange and mysterious, but now attractive Arctic possessions of the United States. tents are descriptive, and there are no less than sixteen maps, besides over thirty illustrations. He has added, also, a Bibliography of Alaska, and it may surprise many of us to learn that already the list of books, reports, etc., relating to the country, covers nearly twenty pages, with the titles pretty closely printed.

The future of Alaska, if we understand Dr. James's Note on his map of the Arctic Circle, is not so much dependent on near-at-hand gold strikes in the Klondyke or other regions, as upon the ultimate melting of the ice and snow in the North. This, he states, will certainly occur, "in the centuries to come," and then the Arctic region, being easy of access from Stockholm, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and other cities, will become a popular place.

The price of the book is $1.50. Sunshine Publishing Co., Philadelphia. Author's address, 18th and Green streets, Philadelphia.

Arguments against monopoly and excessive wealth are in the mouths, or, if not in the mouths certainly in the minds, of many, but the counter argument,-that monopolists are natural products, and therefore justifiable, and that extremes of social conditions ought not to cause remark, -is not so commonly made public, however much it may be privately held. A book is sent us by mail from the "Equitable Publishing Company," 143 Chambers street, New York, by Freeman Otis Willey, which takes up many points in regard to trade, industry, wages, and other economic themes, and argues them along the line of things as they are. The writer is vigorous in his language, and handles with success some of the statements and claims, carelessly or excessively made, of his opponents. He does not, so far as we observe, go to the foundation of the matter-the ethical basis of all true social organization.

BOISE CITY, Idaho, is to pipe into its houses warm water of 170 degrees temperature from a subterranean lake 400 feet beneath the surface.

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Maximum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a.m., 57.5 on 20th.
Minimum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a. m., 24 on Ist.
Mean temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a m., 40 3.
Maximum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p.m., 59 on 19th.
Minimum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p. m., 23 on 2d.
Me n temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p. m., 43.
Mean temperature of wet bulb thermometer for this month, 41.6.

Note.-The month just closed was unusually warm for the Third month. The monthly mean temperature being abont nine degrees above the normal

The total amount of precipitation was a trifle less than the average During the first half of the month the weather was generally clear and fair, with very little rainfall. The latter half was mostly cloudy and damp, some rainfall almost every day.

The total snowfall during the month was but 1.5 inches; which fell on the 2d and 4th. No snow on the ground on the 15th, nor at the end of the month.

JOHN COMLY, Observer. Centennial Avenue, Philadelphia, Third month 31.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

TRUTH.

TRUTH lies not at the bottom of the well,
But far o'er head, beyond where yet we see ;
Of her bright presence but the few may tell,
However long their earnest gaze may be.

Glimpses of her are caught, unlike the one
That men have idly worshipped in the past-
Error, whose presence so malign and dun

Long o'er the world, her sombre shade has cast.
She still enthrals us with her wretched wiles,
And fain to Earth directs our searching eyes ;
Heedless we turn us from the winning smiles
That Truth would give, to tempt us where she lies.
Philadelphia.
J. F. BYRNES.

THE POET-LAUREATE'S LATEST. [The London newspapers, last week, published a new poem by the English Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, and it was at once telegraphed to this country. It was preceded, when published in London, by a brief extract from a dispatch from New York, reporting a feeling in favor of an entente "-condition of good feeling-between the United States and Great Britain. The poem will be read with interest, no doubt.-EDS. INT LLIGENCER.]

WHAT is the voice I hear

On the wind of the western sea? Sentinel! listen from out Cape Clear, And say what the voice may be :

"Tis a proud, free people calling loud to a
people proud and free.

"And it says to them 'Kinsmen, hail!
We severed have been too long ;
Now let us have done with a worn-out tale—
The tale of an ancient wrong;

And our friendship last long as love doth
last, and be stronger than death is strong.'
Answer them, sons of the self-same race,
And blood of the self-same clan,
Let us speak with each other face to face,
And answer as man to man ;

And loyally love and trust each other as none

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Of the four national parks of the West, the Yellowstone is far the largest. It is a big, wholesome wilderness on the broad summit of the Rocky Mountains, favored with abundance of rain and snow; a place of fountains where the greatest of the American rivers take their rise. The central portion is a densely forested and comparatively level volcanic plateau with an average elevation of about 8000 feet above the sea, surrounded by an imposing host of mountains. Unnumbered lakes shine in it, united by a famous band of streams that rush up out of hot lava beds, or fall from the frosty peaks in channels rocky and bare, mossy and bosky, to the main rivers, singing cheerily on through every difficulty, cunningly dividing and finding their way east and west to the two far-off seas....

And besides the treasures common to most mountain regions that are wild and blessed with a kind climate the park is full of exciting wonders. The wildest geysers in the world, in bright, triumphant bands, are dancing and singing in it amid thousands of boiling springs, beautiful and awful, their basins arrayed in gorgeous colors like gigantic flowers; and hot paint pots, mud springs, mud volcanoes, mush and broth caldrons of every color and consistency, plashing, laving, roaring in bewildering abundance. In the adjacent mountains, beneath the living trees, the edges of petrified forests are exposed to view like specimens on the shelves of a museum, standing on ledges, tier above tier, where they grew, solemnly silent in rigid crystalline beauty after swaying in the winds thousands of centuries ago, opening marvelous views back into the years and climates and life of the past. Here, too, are hills of sparkling crystals, hills of sulphur, hills of glass, hills of cinders and ashes, mountains of every style of architecture, icy or forested, mountains covered with honey-bloom sweet as Hymettus, mountains boiled soft like potatoes and colored like a sunset sky, -a' that, and a' that, and twice as muckle's a' that, Nature has on show in the Yellowstone Park. There

fore it is called wonderland, and thousands of tourists and travelers stream into it every summer and wander about in it enchanted.

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A Great Monolith in Wisconsin. FROM Out of Prentice's red sandstone quarries at Houghton Point, Wis., says Industries and Iron, was wrought some time since a monolith measuring 115 feet high by ten feet square at the base, and four feet square at the top. It was originally intended to send it to the Chicago Exposition as a Wisconsin exhibit. Engineering and financial reasons, however, intervened to prevent this, and the monolith has lain at the quarries ever since. A movement is now on foot to ship it by water to Milwaukee, and to set it up on the lake to mark the coming semi-centennial of Statehood. It is claimed that this stone is higher than any recorded single quarried stone in the world. The granite obelisk at Karnac, however, comes very near to it, being 108 feet high.

"Snubbing.'

DON'T snub a boy because he wears shabby clothes. When Edison, the inventor of the telephone, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth of winter. Don't snub a boy because his home is plain and unpretending. Abraham Lincoln's early home was a log cabin.

Don't snub a boy because of the ignorance of his parents. Shakespeare, the world's poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own name.

Don't snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of " Pilgrim's Progress" was a tinker. Don't snub a boy because of his physical disability. Milton was blind.

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An Incident in Frances Willard's Life. ONE day Miss Willard wanted to visit the Harrison Street police station. She took a great interest in all women, especially those unfortunate creatures who have fallen without the pale of the virtuous, and she endeavored to help them all she could. So we went to see the crowds locked up in the station. Among the prisoners was a poor girl who had been arrested for being drunk. She had been up several times before that. We stopped and talked to her awhile, and the sweet and gentle way in which Miss Willard pleaded with the girl had a wonderful effect upon her. The prisoner was moved to tears, and doubtless they were tears of repentance. But she had no handkerchief with which to wipe them from her eyes. Miss Willard drew from her pocket her own handkerchief, handed it to the woman arrested as a common drunk and said: " There, keep that. I will not tell you the woman's name, but that kind act saved her. She reformed and has lived a different life from that day to this. She is now doing an excellent work in saving others, and realizes what she owes Miss Willard.—Exchange.

THE old "

artist, Thomas Hovenden, in painting his pictures, at his Conestoga wagon," which was in use by the home at Plymouth Meeting, Pa., has been presented to the Bucks County Historical Society by the widow. "It will be received with some ceremony upon its arrival in Doylestown within a few days, and will finally be stored in the Society's room in the court-house.

THE reports of the Commissioners for Litchfield county, Conn., show that there were 303 prisoners, eight of whom were females, committed to the county jail during the year ending Sixth month 30, 1897. Of these only 21 claim to have been strictly temperate, 249 were moderate drinkers, and 93 were habitually intemperate.

THE immense redwood forests of Mendocino and Humboldt counties in California, are to be invaded by a line of railroad. Hundreds of thousands of acres of timber lying too distant from the coast to be cut and transported to market over sea will thus be thrown open to direct shipment from San Francisco to the East.

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