J t - PUREGOtO ur je Clmrclies of Russia Lit erally Covered TOliilifiu Precious Metal. OXE $40,000,000 EDIFICE In Which Ten Thousand People Gather onSundays toWorship. THE LARGEST BELL IN THE WORLD. Amusements or the Feasant Folk and in Evening in the Gardens. ,3!ACES AT MOSCOW AXD CARD PLATING rcoEErsroxnrxcE or the rjtsrATCH.3 Moscow, Sept. 17. OSCOW is still tbe capital of Rus sia. The Czar .lives at St, Petersburg during a part -of the year, but the center of Russian and religious thought is Mos cow, and it is now the center of com mercial Russia as well. The.greatest railroads of the Empire come to it, the highest of the Russian factories cend their smoke a&mtm i ivy. i" into the blue sky Chier FritsL ab6ve it and its business blocks are among the larcest of the world. It has the finest churches of Russia, nnd the people consider it so holy that they make pilgrimages even Ironi the borders of the r.lack Sea and from the edges of Siberia to pray at its shrines. The mightiest citadel in the world is the (3Iremlin, which stands in its center, and the treasures of its churches are uusur passed by the cathedrals of Rome or the mosques of Constantinople. "We hear but little of the Greek Catholic Church, but it lias one of the most lively religions in the world to-day, and the holy synod of Russia Las a capital of 525,000,000, which it can v.sc as it pleases, and its income is some thing like 50,000,000 a year. A rorty million Dollar Hollaing. I visited this morning the Church of Out Savior, which was completed only a few jers ago and which surpasses in beauty any church of modern times. It was built to comrnemmorate the dcliverauce of Moscow from the Fiench, and it has cost about 540, 030,000, or three times as much all told as T,e have spent on the Capitol at Washing ton. This church htands on the banks of the Moscow river jnt outside the Kremlin, and its great gold dome may be seen blaz ing out under the sun from any part of Mos cow. It covers almost two acres and it is huilt of a clear, white stone in the shape of a Greek cross. It has golden cupolas at its careers and a Russian dome in its center, nnd these cupolas and this dome are covered v-itli conper and plated with polished gold. It took 900 pounds of goldto -plate this dome and tl)&re ii more than $1,000,000 tiCih. of gold upon it. This dome is in the shape of an inverted Bermuda onion, and if von can imagine an onion of gold the top of "which isjrst 100 feet in diameter you iray get some idea of this 51,000,000 srolden onion which crowns this temple of the Savior. The cupolas cost 5800,000 to gild and there are bells within this church which have cost nearly Sl,O00,O00. The biggest one here cost 5300,000 aud it weighs just 13 tons. Fat Together With Jewelers' Skill. I have visited the temples of India and the ii.terior ot this new Russian church re minds me of ti.c wonderful architecture vlr.chyon find at Delhi. It is finished like a jewel and it is a beautiful mosaic of B.aruU', gold an 1 wondertul frescoes. Its altar is as delicate in its combination of prpcijras stones and marble carvings ajV jadv's breatpin,and this altar, beiore it was enriched bv its golden icons, silver orna ments and srered pictures, cost nearly 5000,000 The marble in the building cost almost 52,000,000 and the floor, and walls are of wonderful marbles of malachite and of Janis lazuli. Prom the floor, runninz around the entire church, there is first a dado of jasper.- Above this runs a panel of white alabaster and marhles of difierent colors succeed one another until they lose them selves in a great lrieze of carvinss and frescoes by the most noted of the Russian painters. Everywhere there is gold and gold carv ing. Galden pictures hang upon the wails. Twelve hundred cnlden candelabra hold as many candles under the cupolas, and all the vessels used by the prksts are of solid gold. .Upon the walls are golden tests lrom the m&z . fm& tss-s ZUrLLLL $. Tl World's Largest Bell Scriptuies shining out of the white marble and the church is lighted by 56 windows of etained glass, each ofjhicti is 90 feet high. Th s chrch will accommodate 10,000 peo ple and ii hen" I. entered it this Sunday morfiing itwas packed "to, bursting. ' Upon its steps were the usual number of dirty beggars, and I.fonnd that of the 10,000 wor slupers at least 0,000 were peasants. Priests in Clothesof Gold. The priests who conducted the service wo'e clothes.of gold and silver cloth and the chief priest had on a tiara set with dia . inonjs. The service was 'very "impressive ' and nearlv everyone in the church par ticipated "iii 'it The priest-droned out a ientej.ee and theie.lO.O'JO .heads bowed in unison. He uttered another fcand the thou sands fcctlt upon the floor and pressed their heads against the marble. As the servioe went on'l0"C00 hands crossed 10,000 breasts ct the same time, and of the 10,000,laces I did not see one that was not sober and rrTcr,t. During it, the musio of a great choir of men and boys swelled up through the vaulted nrche?, and I -could not but leel the jimprcMiiveiiess of- the cereflieny nor wonder why tits gorgeousness so. appeals to these people. Religion is the life of- the Rufxian peasant. It enters into his every act, and though it may be to a largp extent "ft matter of form he devotes the greater mi ex p J -A. f .(&& mv - t-vukmi sj8$&m 5Z. ' ifii-Sa'jtVRMi part of his life to it, and it cannot but hare an influence upon his character. Russia is more a land of the orient than of the Occident. These people are as fond of gold and precious stones as are the rajahs ot India or the priests of Stain. There are 400 churches in Moscow, and nearly every one of them has a golden dome. The holy buildings of the Kremlin are crowned with gold and there is enoush gold plating ill Russia to carpet your Fifth avenue ox to gild the postoffice building and Court House inside and out twice over. A ralace Plated In Gold. , The Czar has a palace just outside of St Petersburg known as Tsarskoe-Selo, which was built by Catharine- ihe Great. It is of yast extent and it was plated with gold. It took nearly a million dollars worth of bull ion lo do the work. and. .when, owing to the dampness ot the. climate, it began to over. Some Russian speculators wantedto scrape oil the. old gold and melt it over again and they offered Catharine 500,000 for the job. She sent them to prison for insisting her with the proposition, and covered the palace with yellow paint. This Dalace has rooms willed with am ber. It has a parlor covered with lapus lazuli and the walls and ceilings of one drawing room are of the finest tortoise shell. There are 600 apartments in the pal ace and the ballroom covers nearly halt an acre. Its floor is of wooden mosaic, and there are other rooms in which the finishing is in ivorv, bamboo and ia bronze. The palace miist have cost millions and it is only one of a dozen which belong to the Czar I have written you of the wonderful cathedrals of St. Petersburg and of the riches stored awav within them. Stlsaac's Cathedral cost 516,000,000 and there is $500, 000 worth of gold upon its dome. Single columns within it cost 530,000, and the PH.GEIMS OJT THEIB WAT cheapest candles! icks inj the Cathedral of Kazan are of solid silver. The richest churches, however, are those of Moscow, and I have-wandered-about through golden ornaments here during tbe past week until my eyes are tired of the yellow metal and I long for a change. The Tower Built by Ivan. I find Moscow one of.the most'interesting cities I have ever visited. It is built upon hill and hollow along the winding Moscow river and it is almost circular in shape. It is 25 miles around it, and the shortest street car line from one part of it to the other takes you a distance of nine miles. In tbe very center of it is the great fortress known as the Kremlin, which has. a vast wall 60 feet high running around it and in which are the old palace of the Czar, a. half dozen churches, the cathedral and the tall tower it In the Summer Gardens. built by Ivan the Terrible. This tower is' five stories high and its golden dome rests in the air .'J00 feet above the ground. I climbed to its top'this morning and took a look over the city. A vast ocean of green trees andgreen houses seemed to move up and down in bil lowy waves below me, and out of this sea rose the golden spires of hundreds of churches. There were thousands upon thousands of trees and the roofs of all the houses were painted green. I could see the vast dome of the Church of Our Savior near the river, and the Moscow draeged its slug gish course like a black snake in the form of the letter S through the city below. Be yond the citv I could see the smokestacks -of the factories in the suburbs and just un der me was the triangular walled space known as the Kremlin. This contains about 200 acres. It is paved with cobblestones, ana its massive wall is entered by hve gates. .Each of these gates has a history, r and one is known as the gate of the Redeemer, or the sacred gate. It has a famous, picture of 'the Savior above it, and every. one, lrom the Czar to the peasant, takes oil his hat before passing through it . Where All the Czars "Were Crowned. In that church there all of the Czars of Russia have been 'crowned, and in the treasury to the left are the thrones of all the Emperors of the past and the historic jewels and the choicest plate now ownd bv the Russian Crown. There are 5600,000,000 gold and silver and precious stones in that treasury, and there are basins of gold there which are as big as a baby's bath tub, and two card tables of solid silver which are worth a King's ransom. There are in this tower two bells of solid silver and the bells of this tower of Ivan the Great arc among the most wonderful in the world. Russia is a land of bells. Every village church has its sacred bell, and there are. more than 2,000 bells lathis city of Mos cow. The biggest bell in the world lies at the 'foot of this tower, and, though it is against the lans, I took a photograph of it this morning while the guards were not looking. 1 posed a young Rusiian upon it while I snapped my camera, and had an- bth'er photograph taken with myself stand- ing beside it This bell was cast in the fourteenth centnry, but the tower in which it was hung was burned again and again and nhen it fell about 200 years ago it was broken into pieces. It was cast in a larger, size, and it is said that the ladies of Moscow, in a frenzy .of religions.enthusiasm, threw, their Jewels into the metal, and -this ren dered it so imperfect-ihat that.when.it was rung a great piece broke .out pf its side. It fell to the ground during a. fire wb,ich oc curred about ISO years ago, and it has never been restored. It now. stands on, a granite, pedestal, and it is -as big as a -two-story house. ' The Largest Bell in the World. It is C5 feet'in circumference, is two feet thick, and the pjecewh;ch has been.brpken out of its' side is taller .than a man and you can walk into the hole where this piece was and yon find yourself in a sort ot bronze tent. The piece lies on the' ground, beside, the pedestal, aud though the bell itself is of dark green, this piece Ins been so polished, by'thc people leaning against it that its' edges are as briglit' as" a ' brass breastpin.' Tnis hell weighs more than 200 tons, and it would tal;e:400 good horses to pull it if it could be loaded on & wagon. The biggest bell that strikes is in this towerof St., Ivan. It is only half as large in -size as-the bell at the foot t)f the tower, aud.it is, I judge,1 about 2,0 feet high and 15 feet ' in diameter.. .You could hardly put it in the average cot tage parlor, and it has a tongue ; which, weighs hundreds npon hundreds of pounds. It takes about six men to make this tongue strike the bell, and I tried to push it from 'I .THE one side of the bell to the other, but I found that I was not strong enough to- move it. The city of Moscow has about 800,000 people. It is a growing city and it will be the biggest citr in Russia in the future.' The Moscow University is one of the largest in Russia, and it has from time to time been the hotbed ot nihilism. It was founded' bv Peter the Great, and it has about 2,700 students, which is more; I think, than any colleec in the Unitta' States. Manv of the merchants of Rosshf'are very wealthy and some of them have very curious tastes. One of the merchant princes here has a palace whiohMspainted dead black, and-it.ii the most funereal-looking, house 1 nave ever seen. It lies within, a stone's throw of the Kremlin, in the-hesrt ot the ctty. . An Evening In the People's Park. I went out one night to the People's Park to see how the Russians amused themselves in the evening. 'I found, perhaps, 10,000 people moving about unacr the trees in couples or in groups -and a quieter crowd I have .never seen. There were all sorts of Amusements going on lrom the "American Hill,", as the roller coaster is called here, to the dance under the trees and the shooting gallery, but there was no noise and no loud taming. xoung. girls, as well dressed as our girls of America, moved about without tneir nats on, in light summer cos tumes, chatting together, and there were faniilv parties, and parties of friends enjoy ing the evening. There were thousands of children., and a curious feature of the life was' the tea parties, which were given in little bowers of creen. These howers were cut out of a bushy, thicket aud in each bower there was a table and seats. Each party paid a few coppers for the use of this a teapot and a samovar of hot water. Manv families brought their tea with them and made it themselves, and, by buying a roll TO MOSCOW'S SITRINE3. or a piece of cake of the numerous vendors of these articles' about the grounds, they could have a supper in the open air for -a very small price. Leaving the People's Park I drove to the Ermitage gardens. This is one of the in stitutions which you find connected with every large city of Russia. It is d sort or open air concert and garden combined. You pay a certain amount for the privilege of the garden and the concert is free. There is a restaurant connected with the garden and between the acts yon may get your dinner, a cur ot tea or coffee or a bottle of wiile. A curious thing about the concert is that it is a sort of a mixed varietv show, and the young ladies who take part'in the performances are bv no' means of the high est character and they are known not to be so. One of the Institutions of Russia. They dress very mo'destly in black.and tbe night that I was at the Ermitage garden there were at least 50 of these girls ranging in age from 16 to 25, and of all the various shades of Russian beauty- They, were all dresse'd alike and they sang from time to time on this open-air stage to a crowd of aoout , iHJu - men, ana wonjen. Between the acts they moved about among the peopled talking -to'everyoue and 1 ready to take a glass of wine or a cup of coffee from any comer without an introduction. There was nothing immodest aboct their actions, and they were apparently very well treats L by oil classes. I found a similar garden at ITijni-Jfovgorod and they'exist" everywhere in Russia, The Russians are fond of amusements, and they have excellent theaters. One of the largest theaters in the world is here at Moscow. It is beautifully finished, and it will seat 7,000 spectators. Its six galleries are drapped in scarlet velvet and its stage machinery is of the best St Petersburg has a theater which will seat 3,000, and I heard Materna sing at the .Aquarium there to at least 4.000 people. There are five regular theaters in St. Petersburs, and dur ing the summer there are a number of open air theaters, and the parks are filled with people every night Here in Moscow I have spent some very pleasant days at the luan't Toicer. races, and the Russians run good horses and bet high. Pools are sold jnst as they are at our races and both men and women bet freely. There seemed to be no restric tion as to betting at the race course, and these people take very naturally to gam bling. Everyone play's cards, and even at the family games 'no one thinks of plaving without stakes. Lotteries are prohibited by the Government, and the only 'ones which have been permitted for veari were , those for thebenefit of the famineuflerers, tnrougn wmen millions ot dollars were raised. Peauk G. Cabteitxee. PEERCH LADIES IH BUSINESS. They Have Proved Themselves to Be Super ior to Any Other Nationality. . Philadelphia Telegraph. There is one point in which French women surpass all other women in the world, and that is in their gift for business. American .women, brilliant, intelligent, practical, and enterprising.a they may be, are almost in varibly deficient in this peculiar talent One sees .continually the Frnch wife associ ated with her husband in the management o'f his affairs, "'and often surpassing her spouse in keenness of intellect and of per ception. In one instance which was brought to my notice some years, ago, an English man, who was the head ofan important com mission house in this citj and who married a French woman, ioupd'himself finally on the verge of bankruptcy, Disheartened and overwhelmed, he told his wife the whole history of his 'reverses. Her answer was:, "You have tried to make a fortune and have failed. Will you let me take charge ofthebusiness and see what I can: 'do?'' Her'husband was only' too glad to 'give his consent "to this arrangement In a very lew years '-all difficulties had been surmounted, the transactions of the 'house, were mbrthatf doubled, add when the sons of the wdrthy."J)atr grew to manhood they, succeeded to ope ot toe most nourishing es- taoiiinmenis oi its type in rani. " j Good Should use made Far from the best superior to the Italian. Sold, by grocers. Try ill & Ji ood Housekeepers? ' "Boral-Effi- Macrnnl." American material. TXBPgJXpBi "ST" PRAYER AND PLAGUE; X I Disinfection Better Than Devotion With Which to Meet Cholera. WORK OF-THE PROPHET JOEL. His Call for Religious Ceremonials in: the Face of tbe Locusts. FACTS ON THE ANCIENT PEEACHEE. rWEITTZT roil THE CtSPATOH.l The subject of this sermon isthe Prophet Joel. I will begin by, setting down some of the things that we do not know about the Prophet Joel. In the first place we do not -know what Joel's name was. It may" have been JoeL That is what one would naturally think. On the other hand, Joel's name may not have been Joel any more than Malnchi's name was Malachi. Some one may have found these old. sermons, anonymous as so much old writing was, and n 1th the author's name forgfitten, and have pnt this name at the beginning of them, because they con sidered it a good name. It is not likely, in any case, that the man ,who wrote this book had a better name, than 'Joel. The name means "the man whose God is Jeho vah," and he is distinguished as the son of Pethuel, "the man who has been persuaded by God." Out of heaven there has some how shined for this man the very truth of God. Others may have fallen amidst the manifold temptations of the time, and have chosen some of the more popular creeds which named some other than Jehovah as the one true God. Here is faith, here is loyalty, here is unfaltering allegiance, in this man who has chojen for himself whom he will serve, and he has chosen well. Championing the Unpopular Side. What a difficult choice that was and isl Bow hard to stand for unpopular truthl We breathe the same air that other people breathe; how can 'we keep 'from talking the same language and speaking it with the same accent and saying the same things? It seems a fine thing, that attitude of Athana sius when he stood, as it seemed, against the world. But how hard to take that atti tude and keep it! When the thermometer in the street goes down below zero how shall we keep our own thermometer up in the nineties? When everybody else is cold how.can we be warm?i In'the midst of un belief, how shall we believe? ' -We'all know,-more or less abundantly ami. accurately, howthese questions try us aud find weakness in us. And we are all "able in some degree to appreciate the splendid audacity, the deep faith, the fine assurance and the courage of .the man who -upholds his own convictions in the face of general contradiction. The man who wrote this book and bears this name, whether his mother gave him the name or not, deserves our admiration. He was the "man whose God is Jehovah," altogether a good kind of man. Really, it matters not at all what the man's name was. It may. have been Joel; it may have been James or John. Who care? Judging Things on Their Merits. , A great portion of Holy .Scripture is anonymous. Who wrote the Psalms? A. few have a name set to them, but the ma jority are unsigned and without mark of authorship. ,Do we get help from a Psalm in proportion as we .know its history? Or does it matter not at all; the Psalms Helping us just because.they.are helpful? Nobody is absolutely certain about the authorship .of the Epistle, tathe, Hebrews, except that it was not written -by St. .Paul, jhe Old Testament histories are .mostly without signature, -their, apthors .quite -.forgotten.-;. iiut do we reau tnese-Dooics withrfcas inter est or cet less eood out ot-thom? Wc have our opinion of people who reer,ve their. opinion of.a beautiml piece ot china until they have turned it over'to look at the mark on the bottom. And we have much the same opinion of those whose interest in a beautiful picture is determined altogether by the little scribble in the. corner which tells the artist's name. And we ourht to 'have an opinion not at all different of the readers ot the llible who think more about questions of authorship than they do about the books themselves. It is a good thing that so many of the books of the Bible are anonymous, for thus they come to us commended not by the au thority of the author's reputation, but by their own intrinsic merit If these sermons which are here written under the name of Joel are really anonymous, so much the better must they be. For only good ser mons could have lasted as these have lasted. , A Difference as to Dates. Here is a second thing that we do not know about the Prophet Joel. We do not know when the preacher ot these sermons' lived. All the scholars have their guesses at the date, but the guesses are some of them 400 years apart And that is a long, time, as long as lrom Chaucer's day to Ten nyson's. It is as if, some time in the dis tant future, someone should discover a vol ume of Spurgeon's sermons, and there should be a discussion among the critic at to whether the writer lived in the time ot the discovery of America or in the time of the opening up of Darkest Africa. You see how old these last books of the Old Testament arc It makes one think of the fixed stars, which indeed look to be side by side in the night sky, when one may be a million miles farther from us than its neigh bor. Shall we put Joel with the earlier or with the later prophets?1 Did he write in Uzziah's day,-coteniporary with 'Amos, or in Nchemiah's day, cotemporary with' Mai-" achi? The latest judgment favors the latest date. The argument is chiefly one of silence. ''It is based upon the thiiigs which Joel does not say." 'ihus he never men tions the Northern Kingdom. . The infer ence is that that kingdom had ceased to ex ist. He has no leproofs tor idolatry. J wnereas until tne return irom exile toe Hebrews found fascination in idols, and were all the time falling into that strange temptation. He seems to know no king. The nation is ruled by priests and elders. That agrees with, the condition ot things in the time of Nehemiah, alter the return. The Argument of Silence. The argument from silence is never a very safe one.' Take the sermons ot Phil lips Brooks and make inferences from their omissions concerning -the pplitical and ec clesiastical state of things in this country at the close of the nineteenth century; one would arrive at some remarkable conclus ions. Joel does, however, speak of a re turn frohi .captivity,. and. he describes- the .meat offering as offered by the people, which before the return was- offered by the. 'king alone. "It is ' likely that Joel lived 'about 400 years or more.before Chrisfc . Besides these r doubts touching tbe name of this-preaeher andtba time in-which he lived, there is even some uncertainty as to 'what he, ia talking about! , ., He seems to be speaking of a plague pf locusts but mostextraordinary locasts! The locusts, 'it is trire, were terrible creatures, a 'worse plague than tbe pestilence, aud it is natural to speak in strong langua'ge of their wide desolation, eating up the country as they went, drying up the rivers, and dark ening the sky a vast, swift, irresistable, coasuming tempest; the, land before them like the Garden of Eden, and behind them a waste howling wilderness. But Joel goes bevond this. Joel says that these locusts were as big as horses, and that. they 'had teeth like lions! And that is saying so much that some have held that he was 'sricakiDg under this figure of some invading '.The language of Exacgeratioa. It is likely, however, that the speaker is simply using the 'common language of his land and time. Joel did not live in Penn sylvania in the year of grace 1892. He I lived abont twenty-three centuriei ago In 1 ,PITT8BTIRG"' FSUNDAY OCTOBER Syria; and Svria is in the East; and the East and the West have never spoken quite the same language. We aro plain, un poetical people, loud of arithemetio and machinery and statistics and accuracy, and not giveu to me'taph'or nonhf peroole. But the Oriental mind has-always delighted In imagery and exaggeration, and is.natprally poetical. Joel was an Oriental, and used the picturesque comparisons of his time. It seemed , to him that these rapacious locasts were as svift as horses and as fierce I as lions. Of Joel's sermons ; we have two, each preached upon a special occasion, one" lor a fast and the other for a thanksgiving. There are three chapters in this book, a chapter and, a half in each sermon. . r The-vfastday sermon is a call to repent ance. The place is probably Jerusalem. A little remnant of the once great'nation has crept back after the long captivity, and the ancient town has been rehuiided. The old wal)shave,been restored. '.The splendid templeiias been cleared of its broken stone, rescued from the desolations' ot destroyers and pldnderers, and once more consecrated toiheuses of.religion but now.so small, so poorj so mean, that the old men weep when they look at it. The Moment for the Preacher. Nevertheless, the people are beginnineto take heart,' and to lookjnto the future with some hope,whenthey are suddenly terrified by tidinzs ot calamity. Outside the citv, away across the plains,"are the locusts, rush ing on like an invading army. The people are gathered in the squares and markets. What can be done? Evcrbody is asking that despairing question, and there is no answer. It is the moment for the preacher. A voice is heard speaking in the midst of the crowd, and all turn to listen. The speaker is a man of the people, not a priest nor an official; but one who sees tha right thing to do, and declares it They who hear recognize the truth of his sermon and obey. You can imagine the anxious and excited multitude, and the eager speaker. He pict ures the fearful peril. Let us pray, he says. Let us humble ourselves before God, and implore His mercy. Proclaim a fast; let men with trumpets go about the streets and call the city to fast and pray. Help can come from God alone. Are we iu agreement ifith the preacher? Did the invading locusts mean the indigna tion of God? And was prayer the very best recourse in that time of peril? At once we answer "no." They used to think that earthquake, flood, fire, "pestilence were symbols ot tbe n rath of God. Yes, and more than symbols; actual instruments in the hands of an angry God wherewith He punished His offending children. Devotion Instead of Disinfection. God Himself, they would have said, set the curse ot cholera in the steerage of the Hamburg flips, and sent them over to this country to chastise us for our sins. And we would have no right to hedge ourselves about with the precautions of the quaran tine. Ihiit would be an evasion of the penalties of God. We mjght resort to de votion, but not to disinfection. We have learned better than that The plague is always a punishment for sin, the older tbe race grows the snrer we are of that. Disease is the certain consequence of dirt. When the lawsof God are broken the penalty must inevitably follow. But we know now that the right order of action in religion is not prayer first, aud then re pentance, and then amendment; but that repentance aud amendment must precede petition; and that prayer, is of no avail un iesj precaution lias gone before it. It is of no'use to ask God to do His part until we have done ours. It u'ouM have been better back in Joel's day,-to have hurried out and barricaded the city against invasion by building up great bonfires in the road of the locusts, and after that to have lighted1 the fires upon the altar. The first call of cholera is not for the priest but for the health officer. Make the streets clean, arid then we can go on and try to make the people's hearts clean. Nature'd Inexorable Laws.- God does not send the pestilence in anger, anv more than he burns the child's finger .inanger when it is. put too-near-the fire.. We will not teach tbe children to touch hot iron, and. pray that they-may not be hurt. The wiser way is .too instruct them to keep awav fr'onrthe hot Iron. 'And if wedo not. teach tbem that essential, lesspn,-the.a Godi win auo nuisf. t xtisaguou tuing to scnu for the minister in the time of sickness, but for the doctor, too. , t Yet here is 'Joel crying out for a prayer day and a fast day. "Who knows btit that the city had already done its "best? Out side the alls blaze the great fires and we can do no more. What then? Why, let us pray. We have used our strength and wisdom to the limit of them. Is there no one stronscr and wiser than we are? Yes; God is beside us. O God our Father, help us! Who will teach us silence from such words? "From plague, pestilence and famine, good Lord, deliver us." That is the lesson of disaster. It reveals our weakness and God's might It makes us think of God. Wc have need of all the fast days and the prayer days iu the calendar. Then follows a day of thanksgiving. God has wonder fully helped. A great storm has broken the army of ths locusts and driven them into the desert and the sea. A gentle rain has refreshed the land. Everyone is glad. And Joel preaches his second sermon. Hope for the Future. Over all is God, the preacher says. God will surely bless us. The prophets were foiever declaring that. They were not pes simists, any of them. There was always hope somewhere in the future. The night was black enough sometimes, but they were sure that the day star would shine and the clouds would flee an ay. The preacher looks afar into the future, and out of this p3ge of Hebrew history he reads a chapter iu the annals of the race. God who sent the rain will likewise send the blessing of his Spirit. God who sent the destroying storm will likewise destroy all the enemies of Israel and of the right The prophet sees two great and terrible and blessed days approaching, the day of Pentecost and the Day of Judgment "I will 'pour out my spirit upon all flesh" the prophet hears that divine prom ise spoken. At the Day of Pentecost St PeteV quoted the words as now fulfilled. And, by and by, I will come to lead all righteous causes in the worid to victory. The prophet sees a battle. The sun is dark ened by the dust of tramping armies, and the moon is turned to the color of blood, and, there -arc "multitudes, multitudes in' the Valley of Decision." Then shall all workers ot iniquity be defeated, all wrongs righted, all injustice requited, and the Lord alone shall beKing oi all the earth. Geoege Hodges. ' ENGLISH NOBIXIIY IN CHTJECH. The Worthy Peeresses Took Offense Be cause an Outsider Wjts let In. New York Tribune. The Queen has given orders that the pews in the Chapel Koyal of St James' Palace are to be.most carefully reserved for the persons who are entitled to -the use of them, 'and that outsiders nre on no account whatever to be admitted to them. Her Majesty has been much exasperated by the recent fuss about the gallery which was re served exclusively for peeresses and their unmarried daughters. It seems that the second wile of a certain well-Known noblemau attended divine serv ice accompanied Tiy her daughter by a iormer marriage with a commoner. The other peeresses were exceedingly irate, and quite a hailstorm ol protests against the ir regularity' disturbed 'the' serenity ot the offices of 'the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward.' One lady of high nobility inti mated the intention of reporting the matter to the Duchess of Buccfeuch in order that it might be mentioned to the Queen,, who would at once have interfered as the offend ing peeress is very far from ,being in favor, at court The result was, however, that the husband received an 'Official iutimation lrom the Lord Chamberlain that although his wife was entitled to sit in the peeress pew id the'Chapel Boya!,' yet that his step daughter 'had no claim to b'e there, and that if she came again she would he. refused ad mittance, 'v Tes careful mother. always keeps Salva- tton OU handy for outs and b: ruises. 189a BOOMING TOWN LOTS. Bill Nye Endeavors to Pat Life Into Tidd's Neck Eeal Estate. OWES ITS BIRTH TO A FELON. Struggling Up to Opulence in ""pits of War, Cholera and Fire. A BOOST WELL WORTH A COKSEE LOT .'..fronnisrosDBKCE or thi dispatch. TIDD'S Neck. Oct. a The Chamber of CommVrce of Tidd's Keck wrote me somer. months ago. asking, me to visit this place, and if possible write a letter from here for publication, 'a letter which should attract attention to the unparalleled advantages and innumerable resources of the place, and show also its remarkable growth. In re sponse to that expressed wish I have ar rived here and begun the work of gathering and classifying dita for publication, hoping by tbe general and widespread use of this information to attract immense crowds of capitalists, and at the same time get per haps a tonn Jot as a testimonial from the Chamber of Commerce. Tidd's Keck has one of the most larable climates of which we know. It resembles that of Genoa, yet without the crowded and unhealthful apartments given to the poor of Genoa for occupation. The climate of Tidd's Keck is extremely luscious and bracing. There are no extremes of heat and cold, and yet there is enough variety in the course' of the year to make the sale of cloth ing a good, active business. . . Gem City of the Everglades. What could be more delightful than this a health giving and beautiful climate, yet 'one which will give good returns to the overshoe and linen coat dealer? Tidd's Keck has been truthfully called the Gem City or the Everglades. In 1847 Peter Stuyvesant Overhung, of Musser's Hook, while looking for the best possible location to which ,he could come while recovering from a felon lost hi; bearincs while under the influence of liquor and discovered what is now called Tidd's Keck. Pinding that here he could be. alone with his felon for several days, he' remained free to make such remarks as go witii a felon generally, and sustained himself 'by means of roots, herbs and spirits, thus purifying his blood and giving himself a sharp, ravenous ap petite. Remembering thisplace in 1850, at which time he received a small pension as a soldier in one of the Jndian wars, he de cided to build at Tidd's Keck. His original homestead is shown in one of my artistic sketches, entitled "Looking Up Box Elder Street in 18i0." Mr. Overhung Looking Up Box uur treet in 1350. soon discovered that the climate was espe cially suite'd to ilia engagement ot home ties." He felt lonely at firt, but one home tie seemed to call for another till by and Vy all seemed lively and gay, aud the old feel ing of loneliness passed away. Blasted by the Breath of War. We next introduce a view of Box Elder street in 1860 merely to show what im provements have been made in that time by the early settlers of Tidd's Neck. This on ward march of prosperity and wealth was soon, however, to be checked by the war. Just as Mr. Overhung was about to inauju rate'otlier and greater improvements,among them the removal of the feather tick in the .window on this end .of, the house, the country was plunged into a fratricidal strife. Hastily calling his family to- ether 'at Foley's Grove, he stated riefly , that the war had been brought on by others who had more means than he Had, and 'also that .poor people would have to do most of the fighting and take their pay in wooden legs, so he had thought seriously of seceding from the war altogether. "Regarding this," said he, "as a rich man's war and a poor man's fiiht, I have decided to take a vacation and visit Mexico and the home of the Montezumas, XliXCraui Looking Vp Box E'd-r Street In 1SC0. Showing growth of tho town in northwest erly'directinn. with whom I was partially acquainted." He then setjiside aoonple of" days for kissing his children goodby, and quietly at even tide as the whippooruill'ssongdied awayin the. distance, Mr. Overhung did the same, and has never been seen since. Tho Original Pompcliau Crossing. At this point is given a rough drawing of the well-known 'Xidd's Keck crosswalk, brought here from Pompeii. As the streets are often flooded with water, these stepping stones nre of great value in crossing the streets, while they may be driven over in day time quite frequently without running across one of the larger stones. This cross walk has been extensively copied by other towns in the South, hut this is the original one lrom Pompeii. After thp war came a financial depression and Tidd's'Keck made- few strides for' a time except to change the grade of Box Elder street, taking off about two acres of Mrs. Overhuug's lot, and also charging her 58 75 for Che benefit 'that it. wonld be to have the street run past her house. Mayor Edwin McGargle was then em powered to go on East to sell the street im provement bonds in Kew York and Boston. At least the Board of Aldermen told him he might do so it be had a good chance, as they seemed to understand that he was going 011 to Kew York anvwav on other business. Box Elder Street From Th Side. Shotting Pomrelian oroswnlk for use In muddy we.ithor. The Mayor may be discovered at the right hand corner ot the First Kational,Bahk of Tidd's Keck in tho' drawing which I made this morninc. Expense Account of a Mayor. Much surprise was manifested by the board when the Mayor returned somewhat chastened and presented hit bill for per sonal expenses while iu Kew York flojting the bond', and also for material to float them with. The following is a risuine" of the bill sent in by Mayor McGargle: ' TOWS OT TIDD'S 3ECE. To Edwin McGariclc. Dr.: To expense item? while seeklnz to flo-it street improvement bonds' of Tidd's Neck under adverse circumstances, as follows: 187i July J-"-To nirlns; man to take eara of. jjjtjliy ifHt - llPii house while absent from home teokln? to float street im provement bonds of Tidd's eck under adverse circum stances 113 W July 8 To car fare to New York while en route to fame seekln? to float street Improvement bonds or Tidd's 2Vcte under adverse circumstances. i. 28 00 Jnly 6 To paid to porter on train while en routo. etc 23 July -5 To tolcsram to Board of Alder men of Tidd's Neck statins that I would do the very best I could, ton ard seeking to float .street improvement bonds of Tigd's Keck under adverse circumstances'. 35 July 8 To personal expenses at Hoff man" House while dolnz the very best 1 could toward float- ing the street improvement bonds of Tidd's Xeck under adverso circumstances 87 32 July 9 To tuitiori in art studios while , at Hoffman House seeking to . ilo the very ue3t 1 could, etc.. 68 80 July 10 To medical attendance Inci dent to nervous prostration resulting from efforts to do the very best I could, etc 9 CO July 15 To return fare and porter leo after doing the very hen 1 could toward seeking to float street impiovomcnt bonds of Tidd's 'Neck under adverse circumstances 23 u Total K4 27 . Disaster Overtakes the City.. Oh the night of August 28, 1878, Tidd's Keck was visited by one of the most de structive fires in its history. Box Eider street especially was a mass of flames. Tha shrill cry of fire was heard swelling into a sullen roar while the hungry flames, like 4-y- 5 Ba-JV-t jlV Y.ec rn n 1 rn -r TOJ Manic Jjuilding of the First National Bank of Tidd's Xeck. Showing 'portrait of President .Ed win Mc Gargle, who is also Mayor or Tidd's eck and resident of the Health Board. Ho says he will stand between Tidd's Keck and Asiatic cholpni till he or it U knocked out. In 1S77 he stopnod the cholera while In Philadelphia. It got to him and then stopped. great forked tongues, licked up the last pat of butter the Widow Overhung had. Great, strong men ran to and fro wringing their hands or rushing madly into the heat and trying to save the nice, new grind stone. Kow the flames licked up the husk bed tick in the window and opened up a draft of air which fanned the furious blaze into a perfect pandemonium. Then there was hush like that of death, and in the midst of it the insur ance on the building was heard to expire. For many years the great fire at Tidd's Keck will live 'in history, remarkable especially as the only fire in over 2,000 years in which no diamonds were lost Bill Kte. A HEW IDEA IN AIBSHIP1 The Aluminum Combination That an Ohio Man Sajs "Will Work. An airship designed to have large carry ing capacity, to be strong nnd yet light in 'construction, and be susceptible ot easy and perfect control, has been patented by Mr. B. F. Barnes, of Circleville, O., says the Scientific American. The balloon portion is of elongated cylindrical shape, and the cab is suspended therefrom by rods extended from the frame of aluminum bands encircling the balloon, the frame of tbe car also consist- The Latest in AirsMnsT ing of aluminum rods covered by oilcloth in which are windows and doors" On the under side of tho car is a storage battery compartment and an electro motor, the latter adapted to operate a main shaft run ning parallel with the balloon. The raising and lowering wings are arranged in pairs at the front aud rear ends of the car, these wings being operated from the main shaft, as are also two sets of propelling wheels mounted on a frame at the front of the ma chine, the frame being cfipnble of lateral swing, through a mechanism connected with a lever in the car, to facilitate the steering or guidimr of the ship. Both sets of these wings vibrate on a single vertical rod, the crank shaft at its lower end carry ing a bevel gear which meshes with a bevel gear on the Iront end of the mam shaft. The lifting and lowering wings at the ends of tho car are designed to be inoperative when the propelling wings aro working, and the main shaft, which operates both, is accordingly arranged to be longitudinally movable to eflvct the engasement or separa tion of bevel gears. To aid the flotation ot the apparatus, horizontal extensions are arranged opposite each other npon the Bal loon and rigidly supported therefrom by a suitable framework, and to the rear end of each extension is pivoted a horizontal rod der, capable of being moved vertically, the rudders being connected to operating levers in the car. At each end of the car is an auger, to be fcrewed into the ground to anchor the ship, and springs, carrying rollers at. their ends, are extended like feet from the bottom to lessen the shock or jar on the descent of the car to the earth. IHE VICTIM OF A FBAT7D. 'A leading Geographical Jlappuino Imposed Upon by a Traveler. New York Snn. '. One of the leading geographical magazines, Pttermann's2ldtheilungen,Ba been made the victim of literary dishonesty. In the April and May numbers ot the magazine a Mr. A. J. Ceyp describes a journey which, he as serted, he had made recently to the frontier ofBeloochistan. lie described the country miuutely, told of the desolate and sandy re giifcs he crossed on his way, of the robbers who lurked in the ravines ready to plunder caravans,-of the settlements found here and there in widely separated oases and of the large iown of Yezb, the original home of the'Parsis. His story was interesting, and as his route lay through a region that was almost unkrioun, aud as it abounded with geographical detail of apparent accuracy, the magazine made the narrative very prom inent. The story occupied several pages in each of the number?. In the Augtibt number of the MMfieiltmgen tha editer prints .conspicuously the facts that Ceyp's narrative proves to be nothing more than in accnrale transcript of the travel sketches of GastcigerKhan.A which were published at Innsbruck in 1881. As thirteen vears had elan'sed since their pub lication, Ceyp thought he was safe in ap propriating them as the record 0: a journey nude by himself. The traud is somewhat similar to that im posed by Captain Glazier, when he seat an article coutaininj large extracts from Schoolcraft's account of his journey to the source of the Mississippi as a record of his own visit to Lake Itasca. It is very seldom that Petemxann's Zlilthcbungen makes an im portant bluuder in geographical matters, but it has been imposed upon by the most glaring piece of plagariim that has come to light tor a long time.. 'r. ti& M ELECTRIC HELMET. Insomnia Treated Wjth an Apparatus for Shaking Up the Brain. PE0F. THOMSON'S NEW TELEPHONE. Douses of the Future to Have Windmills and Storage Batteries. " LATE GOSSIP ABOUT THE CUEEEST. ' rwitlTTE TOR the prsrxTcn.i 1 The employment of vibrations of vary ing frequency has become, recognized as a valuable therapeutic, as his treatment was a local nnxsthesia sufficiently pronounced to render the patient insensible to the prick of a needle. That this anxsthesia is not confined to the surface is proved by tho painless dental operations that have been performed under its influence. JM. J. P. Michaels related 'that when experimenting with the electric rod diapason, which in volved the principle of mechanical vibra tion, he was able to produce local anaes thesia by applying the button of the appa ratus to the gums half way up the roots of the teeth and to perform one of the most painful of dental operations, that of. ex tracting the live nerves from the teeth, without the patient feeling any pain. This principle has been further applied by Prof. Charcot in Paris. Fin'ding that mechanical vibration had a marked effect in soothing the nerves, Prof.. Charcot con structed a new helmet for the transmission of vibrations to the head. This device re sembles an ancient helmet, and is made of sheets of steel which permit the top of tho head to be thoroughly inclosed. Mounted upon this helmet is a small alternating cur rent motor making about 600 revolutions per minute. At each revolution a uniform vibration is transmitted to metallic" springs inside the helmet and is thus communicated to the skull, atrainst which they are pressed. The walls of the skulL are thus vibrated in their entirety, and these vibrations natural ly are transmitted to the cerebral' structure. The number and intensity of the vibrations can be varied according tothe patient treate I, and the sensation is said not to be disagreeable, especially as the machine produces a rumbling sound which contributes to benumb the locality. At the end of some minutes the patient' ex periences general lassitude and inclination to repose, anQ the immediate eflect is to throw nervous people and those afflicted with insomnia into a peaceful and refresh ing slumber. The vibrating helmet has also been found efficacious in caes of chronic headache, and is said to have been applied with great ben fit in a large number of cases of neurasthe nia and similar diseases. Mechanical vibra tion has been used so successfully in many other branches of therapeutics ' that it is likely to be made the subject or some re markable snecial applications in this ooun try. An Electrical Windmill. A new form of windmill for electrical and other purposes has been invented by Pro J. Blyth, who maintains that electrical wind mills present special advantages -when ap plied to the lighting of light houses, which are always in exposed situations where wind is plentitul, and often in such remote places that stores and coal for generating electrio light in any other way could only be sent with difficulty. To the lighting of country houses the use of accumulators in conjunc tion with windmills is especially applica ble, as the system is very cleanly and can be adopted without the trouble of much at tendance. Beyond these applications, a reliable and efficient windmill service would be ot tJie greatest service in factory work and many other branches of industry. Prof. Blyth looks forward tothe time when each house will have its own-little windmill for storing current which may be used fpr driv ing snch machines as are calculated to re duce domestic'Iabor, besides giving light for the illumination of the houses Electricity In Medicine. Dr. "Newman Lawrence, in writ'ng con cerning tho many ways in which disreputs is brought on the application of electricity in medicine, points out that a considerable) number of medical men who use electricity in treatment simply order a nurse or assist ant to make the application, taking little or no trouble to ascertain how far such nurse or assistant is competent, and giving only the vaguest instructions This, how ever, does not alter the fact that there is a section of the profession, and happily it is increasing, that cap be relied on for careful, conscientious and intelligent application of the most wonderful of modern cura tive agents. The London Electrical fieviea has earnestly taken up the suggestion lately made that a'school oi training for medical electricians wonld be a step in the' right direction. Prof. Thomson's Ifew Telephone. Prof. Elihu Thomson's new telephone system has excited much interest. Instead of a continuous dynamo or battery power the alternating current is used with alterna tions of low periods 32 per second, or thereabouts. All local batteries are dis pensed with, the system having a closed circuit of great flexibility, and it need not be grounded- at all if desired.' The an nunciators at the exchange are worked by the-simple act of lifting off the telephone, which momentarily opens the circuit. This system docs not appear to have been practically applied to any exchange, but any new system that promises to obviate the liecessity for the costly and elaborate plant now in use in telephone exchanges is not likely to remain long untested. Electrical Fly Trap. An Ingenious grocer, who had in vain de Tised all manner of methods for clearing his store from the nuisance of flies, has shown himself to be well up with the times by starting an electrical fly trap. This is driven by an electric motor, and consists of a band smeared with some sweet substance on which the flies alight, and on which, they are carried along and swept into a wire trap. The new trap has been so successful that many grocers' shops in England aro now supplied with it, and it is also installed in many shop windows, where it serves tho double purpose ot a unique fly catcher and a novel advertisement. A New Use for Old Kalis. A new use has ben made of old rails In India, where they are being utilized as tele graph .posts. The brackets for these rail posts are of wronght angle iron, a piece of about two leet long being, bolted to the post, and the ends being bent somewhat to contain tbe. insulator pins. The wires ara kept so well apart that they do hot corns into contact during high winds, and the ar rangement presents a very neat appearance. Money In Electricity. The most recent estimate of the capital invested in the electrical industries in ths TjDited States is 5720,000,000, and of this amount $350,000,030 represents the propor tion which electric lighting-and power havs attained; $100,000,000 is also the estimated investment in electrical supplies of which the electric lighting and railway appliances constitute a large proportion. Modern Damons and. Pythlases. The Senato is a great place for chums, Beck and Allison were such a pair as wers Don Cameron and Butler, Test and Plumb, Edmunds and Thurman. Another notable case of conzrcssinnal Damon and Pythias is that of Tom Seed and Boorkt) Cocsran in tne rlons Kflfer x v WslsssssR ' ia t.Q'-Mkt mkJKJi l"sBBJIk.). ij!WWlfs"lTWBW
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