gland unfortunately is no less sel- with a slight excess of courage, fish in her policy. Mr. Gladstone some with that eccentricity which represents the conscience but not makes common-place sentiments the purse of England, and the seem original. What is the sum of purse seems to rule the conscience it? One and all admit that Turas far as the action of the Disraeli key is no longer an Empire, or Government is concerned. I am even a State, in the true sense of confident, however, that the Chris- the word; that she is utterly bad, tian people of England will not some say from choice, some from allow her rulers to fight another necessity; that, whether or not she Crimean War, and will force them can resist the arms of Russia, she to keep neutral at least so long as cannot prevent Russian influence Russia does not threaten Constan- from estranging her people, cortinople. And it seems to me from rupting her functionaries, and parwhat I can learn that Russia does alyzing her administration. She not aim at Constantinople, but at can protect herself no better than Armenia and the ports of the she can her Christian subjects, and Black Sea, to strengthen her Asiat is perishing. alike in peace and in ic power, and at the emancipation war. The best thing that can be - of the European provinces of Tur- said for her is that Russia twists key from Mohammedan rule. Turkey round her little finger, and Constantinople-the finest city in can make her people massacre one the world by situation and natural another whenever she wishes. capacity of power-ought to be- Whatever Turkey does, whether come a free city with political and she be steeped in her ancient povreligious liberty for all under the erty or rich with fresh loans, whethjoint protection of Christian na- er left to herself or strong in European alliances, she is still sinking, tions. The solution of the Eastern ques-depth below depth, and falling to tion has begun in earnest, and we pieces. Some, indeed, hold out a stand in awe of events to come. hope that if left quite to herself No one can foresee the result. We she might carry out reforms; but hope and pray that the war may on one point all are silent, and that end in the overthrow of the politi- is, what all these reforms are to cal power of the Turks, and of the end in, and what is to be the resupremacy of the Koran, and pre-formed Turkish Empire of the fupare the way for the moral and re- ture. for the moral and re-ture. It is a castle in the air. ligious regeneration of the lands The Turks are incapable of repreof the Bible. Then and then only sentative institutions and constituwill the Mohammedans themselves tional government. Their pretence become accessible, and present to the Christian world a vast field of missionary labor.-N. Y. Observer. TURKS ON TRIAL. The grandest jury in the world eits in judgment on one of the greatest delinquents, if not the greatest. Each speaks his own mind, some with asperity, some of it, whether honest or not, is an illusion. They have it neither in their race nor in their creed, nor even in their circumstances. It is the common assumption of every speaker, on whatever side, that Turkey is in this evil case. Whether she be oppressor or oppressed, mistress of her actions or under evil possession, it all comes to the same thing-that the world is see ing the last of Turkey. Her visble and awful changes are not those of development, but of dissolution. -London Times. MONTENEGRO. A STATE RULED BY Among the Holland Possessions there is a remarkable little State which, in its constitution and the original customs of its inhabitants, surpasses the boldest dreams of Montenegro, which has carried American emancipation ladies.down through four centuries, in Upon the Island of Java, between the midst of a constant surge of the cities of Batavia and Samarang, perils, a charmed life, we may say lies the little kingdom of Bantam. with confidence will not die. No Although tributary to Holland, it Russian, no Austrian eagle, will is an independent State, politically build its nest in the Black Moun- without importance, yet happy, rich, tain. The men of Tsernagora, and since time immemorial, govwho have never allowed the very erned and defended by women. shadow of a Turkish title to grow The sovereign is indeed a man, but up by silent prescription, will claim all the rest of the government betheir portion of an air and soil longs to the fair sex. The King is genial to man, and of free passage entirely dependent upon his State to and fro over the land and sea Council, composed of three womwhich God has given us. It is en. The highest authorities, all another question whether their State officers, court functionaries, brethren of the Serbian lands will military commanders, and soldiers amalgamate with them politically are, without exception, of the feon an extended scale, and revive, male sex. The men are agriculeither by a federal or an incorpo- turists and merchants. The bodyrated union, the substance, if not guard of the King is formed of the the form, of the old Serbian State. female elite. These Amazons ride Such an arrangement would prob- in the masculine style, wearing ably be good for Europe, and would sharp steel points instead of spurs. go some way to guarantee freedom They carry a pointed lance, which and self-government to the other they swing very gracefully, and European provinces of Turkey, also a musket, which is discharged whether under Ottoman suzerainty at full gallop. The throne is inor otherwise. There is another heritable by the eldest son, and, in question deeper and more vital. case the King dies without issue, a Rudeness and ferocity are rapidly hundred elected Amazons assemble, vanishing; when their last trace in order to choose a successor from disappears, will the simplicity, the among their own sons. The truth, the purity, the high-strung chosen one is then proclaimed lawdevotion, the indomitable heroism, ful King. The capital city of lose by degrees their native tone this little State lies in one of the and their clear, sharp outline, and most picturesque parts of the will a vision on the whole so glori- islands, in a beautiful plain, and is ous for them, so salutary and cor- defended by two well kept forrective for us, die away, And fade into the light of common day?-W. E. Gladstone. tresses. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. TELL YOUR WIFE. stead of inflicting the punishment on the child. It was a regulation T the ; If you are in any trouble or that almost Christianized quandary, tell your wife-that is if school. One day an unruly boy you have one-all about it at once. violated a regulation of the school. Ten to one her invention will solve He was called up, and the master, your difficulties sooner than all holding out his hand, commanded your logic. The wit of woman the boy to lay on the blows. The has been praised, but her instincts boy seemed to be moved from head are quicker and keener than her to foot, and after striking one blow It was, reason. Counsel with your wife, returned to his seat. or with your mother, or your sis- said the preacher, "natural that ter, and be assured that light will the boy should act in that way. flash upon your darkness. Wo- It is natural for human nature, men are too commonly adjudged looking on the substitution thus of verdant in all but purely womanly the chastisement of the ruler for affairs. No philosophical student of the punishment of the subject, to the sex thus judges them. Their feel two things-first, that the viointuitions or insights are the most lation of the law is not excused subtle, and if they cannot see a and secondly, that there could not cat in the meal there is no cat there. be brought to bear upon the rebelI advise a man to keep none of his lious subject any motive so likely affairs a secret from his wife. Many to bring him to loyalty. People a home has been happily saved, and say that the illustrations of the many a fortune retrieved, by a Atonement are imaginary; but, if man's full confidence in his wife. you please, this is from the phiWoman is far more a seer and a losophers, and one of the Concord prophet than man, if she be given philosophers." The rule of Mr. afair chance. As a general rule, Alcott's school, with the practice wives confide the minutest of their under it, is so good an illustration plans to their husbands. Why of one or two points of the docnot reciprocate, if but for the trine of the Atonement, that it pleasure of meeting confidence may become as celebrated as that with confidence? I am certain no of the king who made his law man succeeds so well in the world sacred by putting out his own eye as he who, taking a partner for for the crime of his offending son. life, makes her a partner of his purposes and hopes. What is wrong of his impulse or judgment she will check and set right with her almost universally unerring instincts. And what she most craves and most deserves. is confidence, without which love is never free from a shadow. Judge Allison of Philadelphia, who has been upon the bench now more than a quarter of a century, said recently, that of the hundreds of murder trials which had come before him in that long period, the cause of the crime in fully ninetyfive out; of every hundred cases was the use of intoxicating drinks. Mr. Bronson Alcott formerly And yet there are intelligent kept a school in Boston, and made Christian men, who speak of init a rule that whenever a child temperance in drinking as on a par violated the regulations the master with over-eating or extravagance in should take the chastisement, in-dressing. THIERS AT HOME. having been reached a few weeks ago. The Czar is older than VicThat tough little statesman, M toria by about a year, having been Thiers, has entered upon his eighty- born on the 29th of April, 1818, first year, and may live to may live to be and having thus entered upon war called again to the helm of affairs with his neighbor and his sixtieth in France or to see the Third Em-year at the same time. The King pire. Who knows? At present of Italy is some nine or ten months he is hale and hearty, and his walk, younger than the Queen of Encarriage, dress, and conversation gland, the date of his birth being are not those of an old man. He March 14, 1820. The Emperor wears neither whiskers nor mus- Francis Joseph is not yet fortytaches, and, like the Iron Duke of seven. He was born in the year England, shaves himself with an of revolutious, 1830, and ascended untrembling hand; indeed, the the throne in the year of revolumorning hour devoted to the razor tions, 1848. The youngest reignis his favorite time for receiving ing sovereign is Alphonso XII. visitors. Conversation does not of Spain, who, if he were a British divert his attention or put his chin subject, would still be an infant in in peril; he goes and comes, his the eye of the law, and continue so face hidden in white suds, from till November 28, 1878. Of Vicvisitor to looking-glass and back, toria's more immediate predecessors gesticulating with his brush, and on the throne of Great Britain, with it punctuating and empha- George I. lived to be sixty-seven, sizing his argument. His faith Great Britain, George I. lived to that he will live to see his hun- be sixty-seven, George II. to be dredth birthday is umimpaired. seventy-seven, George III. to be He has never known what a head- nearly eighty-two, George IV. to sche is so he says-and has no be nearly sixty-eight, William IV. infirmity but a nervous twitch of to be nearly seventy-two. the eyelids. This health he ascribes to his excellent and unabused digestion.-The New York Tablet. "We The N. Y. Observer says: congratulate the Pope on the success of his 'Donation visit,' as we AGES OF EUROPEAN RUL- are accustomed to call it in this ERS. country when a pastor's parishioners call upon him to express their As the Queen of England has good-will and present their gifts. recently completed her fifty-eighth A dispatch from Rome, of the 7th, year, it is of general interest that inst., says: 'The receipts of the only twelve others of the reigning Vatican from the Pope's jubilee, sovereigns of Christendom (out of were six and a half millions lire in thirty-eight in all) have attained to gold ($1,800,000) exclusive of valthis age. The oldest on the list is uable presents.' This exceeds all the Pope, who was eighty-five on the 13th of the present month. the donation parties of which we Of temporal princes, the German have any record in this land where Emperor has seen the greatest num- the people are so generous toward ber of years, his eightieth birthday their pastors." EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Illinois Female College graduated a in Southren Illinois in the shape of a few days ago a class of sixteen. The Moravian Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., sent out ten graduates recently. The Springfield Republican is authority for the statement that the Rev. Joseph Cook of Boston, is about to be married to Miss Hemmingway, of Fair Haven. He is mentioned as a candidate for the chair recently resigned by Professor Barbour in Bangor Theological Seminary. The little country of Switzerland has 46 scientific societies, with a membership of of 54,955, and 816 educational societies, with 54,424 members. The income of Yale College from all sources last year was $140,162.90. Its expenses were $145,417.84, being in excess of its income. The university which the Russian Government has for some time been intending to found in Siberia will be opened on July 1, 1880. Instead of Tomsk, which was mentioned at first, Omsk will be honored by its presence, the latter town being the official centre of West Siberia, conveniently situated for communication with the Orenburg Government and Turkestan, and free from that convict element which is supposed to be alien to science. A Kolyvan merchant has contributed 100,000 roubles to its funds. A petrified forest is one of the natural curiosities of Nevada. It is situated about natural bridge. It is near Pomona, on the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad, and is a wonderful freak of nature. It is of pure sandstone, 100 feet in length on the top, and 76 feet from one abutment to the other. It is sixty feet high, and eight feet broad on the top. The average thickness is nine feet, and a team is said to have crossed it in perfect safety. President McCosh, of Princeton College, has added to his well-deserved laurels by his vigorous measures against hazing. He has entirely suspended the entire outgoing Freshman class for acting like a mob of plug uglies toward the incoming Freshmen. If every suspended collegian is received, as he should be, in his village home with an ovation of disgrace, Princeton will not have to repeat this suspension. But why should college students secure immunity from the ordinary penalties of rowdyism? If these roughs had not been collegians they would have paid by fine and imprisonment. Society punishes the ignorant severely, and the educated not at all. It reverses Christ's maxim; the servant that knows not his lord's will is sent to the penitentiary, the servant that knows it is-sent home to be the admiration of the young ladies and the envy of the boys. Mr. John B. Trevor, of New York, has just given $25,000 to be divided equally between the Rochester University and the Rochester Theological Seminary. He had heretofore at various times given $55,000 30 miles from the Black Rock range of to the University, and a much larger sum mountains, in the desert of Northwestern Humboldt. Stumps are still standing with their roots in the ground, which have become changed into rock. Some of them are said to be very large, and indicate that mammoth trees composed a part of the living forest which was once there, probably thousands of years ago. Now the only living thing in the shape of trees or vegetation is the stunted sage brush. to the Seminary. Nearly two weeks have been added to the Hartford school year, and the people are indignant. The addition makes the school year nearly 42 weeks long—an unheard-of thing in New England. A petition signed by a large number of cultivated people has been presented to the Mayor of Chicago, asking for the admission of women to a share in the management of the public schools of that city.. There is a remarkable natural curiosityThey ask to be put upon the School Board. |