Surely the sanction of administering
tae wme of communion, as it now pre
vails, comes from ignorance and super
stition rather than from willful blind
ness to its evident dangers, and it is to
be hoped in the next few jars that
priest and congregation, sacrificing the
wish of a few to the good of many, and
recognizing the necessity of scrupulous
care and cleannness m preventing dis
ease, will substitute individual cups foi
the administration of communion wine,
and do away with the present plan of
using one utensil without cleansing it
as it passes from lips to lips. New
York Advertiser.
Roscoe Conkling'g Son-in-law.
Did you read in the news columns that
W. G. Oakman was elected president of
the Richmond Terminal road the other
day? Well, he Was. I'll tell you a story
about him. He is the sondn-law of Ros
coe Conkling. At the time of his mar
riago to Bessie Conkling her father op
posed the mating, and so accustomed
was Mr. Conkling to have his own way
about what concerned him that he nevei
forgave his daughter until he came to
die for thwarting his wishes. The ob
jection Conkling had to the match waa
simply because of the obscurity of Oak
man, who at the time was a humble
superintendent of a minor division of
the' Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railway, and probably did not show
up on the pay roll for more than twenty
five dollars a week.
