n THE . HTTSBUBQ XtfSPATOHT SUNDAY,-' MATtOH . 24. 1889. MODEMAGNOSTICISM Attacked by Gail Hamilton and Its Inconsistencies Pointed Out. THE SO-CALLED KEW THEOLOGY, Is Promulgated by Sirs. Humphrey Ward, Tronounced an Absurdity. IN COSFLICT WITH CHRIST'S TEACHING imiuuo roB thb DiErATCn.1 VEEY human sonl in which the. voice of God makes itself felt enjoys, equally With Jesus of Nazareth, the divine sonship." This statement or formula which seems to Mrs. Humphrey "Ward utterly, sub versive of the Chris tian religion is in truth the very soul of the Christian religion. It means something or it means nothing. The something meaning is that which lifts man to the level of Christ. The nothing meaning is that which lowers Christ to the level of man. This is the meaning which Mrs. "Ward's representative Church of England rector is made to assume, which plunges him into tribulation, and from which he spends what remains to him of life in trying, to get away. It is the nothing meaning. It leads to and it is ab surdity. Jesus Christ, he says, with the utmost gentleness to his wife and with entire cour tesy to Jesus Christ, is only a great man. This is the final outcome of his long, sharp struggle, and he immediately assumes to ward Christ an attitnde which, if Christ were indeed only a great man, wonld be simply maudlin. Oneoftherulesof the Chris tian brotherhood which .Mrs. Ward founds on a recoil from the Godhood of Christ, is that every meeting, every undertaking of what ever kind shall open with tne special word or formula of the brotherhood, "This do in remembrance of me." There is no objection to this custom on the old orthodox idea of Jesus, the Christ,if one finds in it a help to right living. But it is futile and grotesque as an attempt to trick out a mere Jewish peasant in the heavenly robes of a discarded Divinity. Mrs. 'Ward will have Jesus of Nazareth a mere man, but she cannot leave Him to take His chances beside othergreat men. SHOCKING DOCTKHfE. "We have as good men in our own day and country as the world has ever seen, but no man ever spreads his hands over conse crated bread before the people, and says with reverent lips, "This do in remem brance of Lincoln." "When the sermon is ended and the prayer offered, no congrega tion is ever dismissed with the benediction, "Go in peace, in the love of God, and in the memory of his servant George Washing ton." The very suggestion seems like mockery, irreverence. One feels a moral shock. Do I seem to take undue advantage of the word equally? Do I seem to give scant and refuse to give saving attention to the explanation in which Mrs. Ward qualifies ber statement, by making her agnosticized rector declare to his wile that "God was in Jesus pre-eminently?" No; for he imme diately adds, "as He is in all great men." ".Not otherwise not otherwise in kind than He is in me or you." The doctrine is put forth as if it were the momentous mod ern conclusion of a serried host of argu ments. It is placed upon the stage with the usual accessories low groans, moans of pity and misery, a great deal of deadly pal lor, piteou6 cold fingers, .stupefaction and stun, yearning, sunken eyes, shivering and passionate hand-kissing, hollow cheeks, feverish, quick, uneven breaths, rigidity of silence and rigidity of self-control alter nating with tumultuous speech, vibrating protests of passionate faith ringing infer entially even when not ringing audibly, gults which never could be bridged, fright ful separateness of experience, broken words of fire and pain, night of struggle and spiritual wreck, haggard changes in 'he beautiiul set stern mouth in all of which the one note of nature is that "infi nitely more terrible than His actual words was the accent to nning through words and tone and gesture." It is much lor so spasmodic a philosopher to confess that thematterof her great revela tion was far more sane and sound than the manner. Nothing certainly in the con soling and sustaining Scriptural assurance of divine kinship requires the spiritual con tortions and bodily convulsions which prop erly enough threw the sensible orthodox wile into a fainting fit Mrs. "Ward's posi tion is not changed by her not only admit ting Christ to be a great man, but proclaim ing Him to be the greatest man. THE CHBISTIAX'S VIEW. It is not changed when she declares Him to differ from man in degree, though not in kind. The something meaning overlaps and absorbs the nothing meaning, and this terrible communication from husband to wife left the truth but half told. For what is true of Christ is true also of God. There is no difference between God and man ex cept in degree. "We have the word of the Bible for all who believe the Bible. "We have the word ot the savans for all who re ject the Bible. God made man in His own image, says the Genesis, and those who, like Mrs. "Ward, have but a pitying scorn lor us who "still regard the first chapter of Genesis as a valid and important counter on the board of tnonght" may read their Genesis out of Herbert Spencer: "The power manifested throughout the universe distinguished as material, is the same power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness. The power which manifests 'itself in consciousness, is but a differently conditioned form of the power which manifests itself beyond con sciousness." The Genesis of Moses and the Genesis of Science agree that the power which created man is the same in kind as man himself. It is a scientific confirmation of the Bible Genesis which, if one must go mad, one might go mad with joy over; and none more quickly than he who, reared in the old Orthodoxy, accepting its truths, loving its Spirit, emulating its self training, yet cannot adopt the tra ditions and impossibilities which 'have accumulated to its hiding. If it be not truth, it is vet to be explained how the ear. liest glimmer ofthe light npon the nature of man siiouia snine Harmoniously with the latest gleam of the light which science has so ardently and industriously kindled. JIBS. TVABD'S EBBOB. If it be not truth, it is certainly a wonder ful culmination to the proving of error that the oneness of humanity with Divinity, vaguely and variously hinted at in many ways by many philosophers through many ages apparently demonstrated by science in these later times, should conform so exactly with the sages, the word incarnate in Christ, outbreathed by Him as light and immortality brought to light; good tidings of great joy communicated to His followers by the thousand-fold touch of personal as sociation, and by them preached to the world through doctrine and enthnsiasm and martyrdom that humanity partakes of the Divine natures; that man alone of all cre ated beings is in the image of God. He took not upon Himself the form of beasts; he took upon Himself the form of man, thereby consecrating and certifying human ity ai the image of God. This oneness of humanity with God Mri. ward must have entirely forgotten when she made the oneness of humanity with Cnnrticnicislpoiiif, an agonizing truth, the crisis of intense and even destructive epintual struggle. The trouble is that her ideal truth-seeker is not, as she fancies,, at the mercy of truth or of thought, but of words. He does not think them out far enough or deep enough to see that a quanti tative difference may, by reason of intensi ty and immensity, become a qualitative difference. God "is in the beast, the same God that is in man, yet so differently in degree that the beast is classified popularly and practically as different in kind from man. "We cannot mark the boundary line, but we never fail to recognize it. Theoretically, it is elusive. Practically, it is insurmount able. Science amuses herself with detail ing our oneness with the beast, but no Hux ley makes a contract with his horse. John Bright never asked that sheep should have the ballot. Matthew Arnold did not urge an intermediate school for elephants. The most strenuous evolutionist is at one with the most bigoted of Pietists in treating talking animals as on an entirely different plane from dumb animals. WHAT GOD TEACHES. In and out of the Bible God speaks to us in terms of humanity as needs must, leaving thus to human reaso'n wide scope for exer cise as also needs must. God is represented as our Father, Christ as our elder brother. In this world, the son often becomes a greater man than the father. The younger brother often outstrips the elder in wisdom and stature, in favor with God and man. We do not on thataccount suppose ourselves to be greater than God. We need not on that account suppose ourselves to be equal with Christ. What we may learn from it is that we partake of, we share in, the Divine nature. I believe and maintain that the world has never seen better men than those whom we know and honor, "whom we love and live with; and if the difference between the best of them and Jesus Christ was not a quanti tative difference which amounts to a quali tative difference, Jesus Christ was a very self-conceited manl Mrs. Ward's ideal agnosticized Church of England rector is a noble, devout Christian, but he is no thinker. He is ever at the mercy of words. Unable to get at the meaning ot the old forms he betakes him self to new which prove but desiccated travesty of ihe old; jet thinks he has enun ciated a new truth. , Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God, is the rock on which was built the Church of Christ. "Jesus of Nazareth become to us by the evolution of circumstances, the most mov ing, the most efficacious of all types and epitomes of God's work in man" is the rock of the new church. The statement is un doubtedly true as far as it goes, but is it so much more adequate and accurate a state ment that a man should wreck his pastoral office and his domestic happiness on its pro duction? It is surely a far less fundamental ntterance, a far more partial and local asser tion than the one which it supplants. TEE AGNOSTICS' AIMS. "A new social bond, a new compelling force in man and in society is the modest goal at which the agnostic aims; 'that diminution ot the self in man which is to enable the individual to see the world's ends clearly, and to care not only for his own but for his neighbor's interest; to make the rich devote themselves to the poor and the poor bear with the rich. If man only would he could, you say, solve all the problems which oppress him. It is man's will which is eternally defective, eternally inadequate. Without religion you cannot make the will equal to its tasks. Our present religion fails us; we must, we will nave another. With the roar of Jonathan Edwards still reverberating through New England theology, Old England's Agnosticism puts forth its pronnnciamento on the eternal in adequacy of the will as a fresh discovery. With the voice of Christ ringing a thousand changes on the heavenly corrective, Thou shalt lore thy neighbor as thyself, the votee of Mrs. Ward clamors for a new compelling force in man and in society which shall make a man care not only for his own but for his neighbor's interest. With thousands of churches and Young Men's Christian Associations and all sorts of Societies of Christian Endeavor, she gathers another assembly as like as the peas in a pod, and, because she calls her assembly "The New Brotherhood of Christ," she imagines that she is materializing a new religion. The Agnostic's prayer at his first religious service of the new brotherhood is "rather an act of adoration and faith than a prayer properly so called. It represents, in fact, the placing of the soul in the presence of God. It is essentially modern, expressing the modern spirit answering to modern need." THE NEW RELIGION PUBPOSELESS, But before Mrs. Ward was "born the old fashioned churches were singing: Prayer Is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a bidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the bnrden of a sigh. The falling of a tear. The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. The old religion fails us and we evolve a new religion out of our moral consciousness, and this new leligion, upon examination, presents not one single person or purpose, principle or idea which is not borrowed Irom the old, only so dismantled and de graded and betiuselled as to seem almost a deliberate burlesque. Mrs. Ward turns away from the old re ligion, not because it has failed her, but be cause she has failed it Its spirit has pene trated and possessed her heart, but her in tellect has not yet mastered its philosophy. She is like one who got .on comfortably enough with the system of things so 'long as the earth was the only world in the uni verse, but wnose mind shrinks and shrivels before a universe of words. At the very moment when the grand sweep and scope of Christianity seems outliuing itself in the light of day, the light of heaven shining full upon our dark, revealing it to us as the heir of all ages, the proof and promise of all our future, she reverses her field glass and seei in Christianity only "something small and local." Gail Hamilton. WHEKE THE HOSES BLOOM. A Pretty Little Tlllngo Which Fnrclinea Flowers to New York Belles. Most of the roses that New York belles wear are raised in the pretty village of Madison, in New Jersey. Probably more roses are grown there and sold than in any other place in the world. There are 85 enormous green houses in the town and 150 people are em ployed in the cultivation of roses. At least a score of men have grown rich from the sale of the queen of flowers. On an aver age 40,000 cut roses are shipped from Madi son to New York every day in the year. From June to September the shipments are heavier and are not confined to New York. Iiong Brafch, Manhattan Beach and a score of fashionable seaside resorts take thousands of the roses. The roses are shipped in small chests, each se cured with a lock and bearing the grower's name Tbechests are returned empty in the evening. Boses picked late at night are in the hands of wholesale dealers in New York by 9 o'clock the next morning. It is seldom that the supply of the early morning is not exhausted soon after dusk. Those that are not sold are readily keptuntil theday after, particularly in cool weather. Where Land Is Cheap. Lone Horseman Can yon tell me how far It is to the Crawford ranch? New Mexican Farmer Can't stop now. Me an' Bill Buckera is playin' a game of checkers, an' it's my move. Puck. EUROPEAN JOURNALS. They Differ Very Considerably From the American Article A DEARTH OP OPEN EDITORIALS. The Advertisements ire the Host Interest ing Feature. ANOMBEK0FBATHERN0YEL SAMPLES fWRlHAN rOB TUE DISPATCH. HAVE often been amused by the advertising columns of newspapers when travel ing. Indeed I'm not sure but the advertisements are often better reading than the editorials. A comparison of the newspapers of the world is difficult if one must judge the whole paper, but there are many curios ities of advertising which are of interest. The German newspaper is at once a thing of wonderful dullness and mysterious inter est. Every nation of strong intellectual ac tivity has its own kind of newspaper, and the German journal, as befits the vigorous German character, is like that of no other country. To the American, of all newspa per readers, it usually appears the strangest. Take the Cologne Gazette, which is the most typical and about the most important Ger man newspaper, since it is the favorite un official or semi-official organ of Bismarck. There are no headlines in it, and no clew to the nature of a piece of news is ever writ ten at the top of it beyond the name of the country whence it comes. It is very fully stated at the head of the newspaper who has charge of the different departments of its management, the name of the chief editor being of course given, but there are appar ently no editorials. insidious editobials. Editorial remarks, however, are insidious ly inserted in communications nominally from correspondents in different parts of the world. These curiously placed editorial re marks are usually of an orthodox, govern mental and unstirring character, but occasionally they contain information or ac cusations which set Europe in an uproar, nd to which an American newspaper wonld call attention by at least half a col umn of headlines. This was the case with the charges against Sir Kobert Morier, the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, which were printed merely as communications from a staff cor respondent, but which were furnished di rectly by Bismarck. Sometimes state se crets are divulged, and explanations of the Chancellor's most remarkable actions given, by these gifted mythical correspondents. The other day the Cologne Gazette printed the news of Prince Alexander of Batten berg's marriage to Eraulein Loisinger and referred to a rumor current in Berlin at the time when Battenberg and Princess Vic toria of Prussia were so unalterably devoted to each other, and which was to the effect that if the pair should be married, and the Emperor should live some time, he would secure the succession of Battenberg to the chancellorship. As t.he Gazette is very frequently the organ of Bismarck, and never says what is obnoxious to him, this statement probably contained the true explanation of Bismarck's furious opposition to the Battenberg-Vic-toria marriage. OTHER TEATUBES. One of these ebulitions in a German newspaper is like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, but the foreigner must be fore long get tired of the news part of the paper. Let him then turn to the advertise ment part, which is by far themost original and refreshing. The announcements of engagements, mar riages, births, deaths and desires to marry are very quaint and quite different from anything to be seen anywhere else. These notices occupy considerable space, which differs usually according to the importance of the persons concerned. They are more over made attractive by type varying in size from the letters in which the titles of the American dailies are put to the smaller kind of Gothic, and exclamation points are plen tifully used. Here is a notice of a betrothal, which is a legal ceremony in Germany : W. Prang and his wife Elizabeth, nee an de Loo. have the honor to announce hereby the betrothal of their daughter Mincnen to Herr Itojal Forest Assessor Frederick Klemme. My betrothal to Fraulein Minchen Prang I most joyfully announce. Frederick Klemme, royal forest assessor. The usual announcement of births is like this: ' By the happy birth of a lusty boy are highly rejoiced Paul Rusche and his wife Line, nee Lanimert. IITEBABY OBITTAErES. The notice of death is often a literary effort. The following are specimens of an ordinary kind: To-day, at 9.30 A. M., softly went to sleep, in consequence of paralysis of the heart, my most beloved husband, our never to be forgotten father, father-in-law and grandfather, Herr Commercial Councillor Wilhelra Peters, In the nearly ended 75th year of his life. Amille meters, nee rremerey, aoidus -eiers, Aiellnka Peters, Willy Peters, Matbilde Wotalar, nee Peters. Oskar Peters, Ida Peters, nee Scholler, Elly Peters, nee Banning, Robert Wetxlar and four grandchildren. Eupen, 4th March, 1889. This morning, about 10 o'clock, passed quiet ly and in submission to Ood, after short bat severe suffering, fortified with the holy sacra ments, our most dearly loved wife, mother, daughter, sister, sister-in-law and aunt, Frau Sibylla Franziska Mager, nee Offerman, at the age of nearly 40. For silent sympathy begs in the name of the sorrowing ones left behind. Josef Mager. This is an elaborate but heartfelt appeal from a young bachelor: Marriage. Whose warm, strongly beating heart responds to that of a young man, aged 27, of Catholic religion, well-born, of university education, stately, handsome presence, and considerable fortune? Young ladles, healthy, experienced In household duties, of pleasing appearance. Catholic religion and some lor tuneare invited to reply (not anonymously), with the object of marriage, to Herr A. D. J., to the care of this paper. WANTS HIS PICK. This advertisement does not mean, as some may think, that the young man has the object of marriage with young ladies in general, but that he thinks such a man as himself ought to have considerable oppor tunity of choice. The ladies insert these advertisements quite as often as men. One "young lady, blessed by nature and by for tune, wishes to marry an honorable gentle man, even if a widower." There are plenty of advertisements by marriage brokers, and thej are usually headed "Marriage! Mar riage! Marriage!" aud promise to secure good parties for all customers. The Austrian journalist has the same literary methods as his German relative, but he must supply a livelier and larger paper to his Teaders, who are a rather frivolous lot and he has not such amusing advertisement columns. Frequently the Austrian cditor'makes extensive use of his imagination and he can invent thoroughly. Some time ago one of the best known Vi enna papers published a long paragraph purporting to be a telegram irom London. It was very interesting. It told how the three daughters of the Prince ot "Wales were walking down White hall when they observed that a wretched looking woman selling flowers was doing no business. They therefore took her basket and sold flowers for about three hours, mak ing a great deal of money, which they gave to the poor woman. The story did not have the least foundation in fact, of course, apd the princesses were not in London anywhere near the time the incident was stated to have occurred. S2TOZ.ISK PAPEES. On studying European papers one is in clined to . the belief that the amount, of amusement to be derived from their adver tisemeats is great in proportion to their weakness in news. The London dailies are better newspapers than the German, and they cannot show such interesting adver tisements, while on the other hand the New York papers are superior to the London dailies in news features and can shownoth ing equal to the agony columns of the latter. This theory is strengthened by the fact that the paper which publishes the most ex cruciating things in its "agony" column is the London Standard, the mouthpiece of the most stolid and respectable Toryism. The second column, front page, is devoted to this purpose, and many of the love-letters in it are such that the reading of them in any breach of promise case would make & cause celebre of it. Often these communi cations are in code, more often partially in code 'and' frequently transparently dis guised like this: "Eisle rof Gnignol dna Gnitiaw Gnihctaw,' which obviously means, "watching, waiting and longing for Elsie." Sometimes the lovers drop into poetry. Their advertisements are somewhat appro priately interspersed with those of private divorce-inquiry men. ACROSS THE CHANNEL. The French papers, although not news papers in the strictest sense of the word, are the wittiest and best written, but they con tain very few agonizing advertisements. They publish, however, a few advertise ments of matrimonial agents, always women, and of persons who want conjugal partners. They are printed in a batch with the head ing "Marriages," are always very business like, nnd are very much abbreviated, both as far as the words and the statements are concerned. Here are some from the Figaro: Rich marriages 23d -rear of business. Widow Guyot. bureau 68. Misses, widows and orphans (female), 18 to CO ycirs, 40,100 to 5,000,000f. Madame Gruet,30 Rue Manbenge, Serious Gentleman. 40 years old, distin guished, 250,000f. Would marry pretty person, honorable, good musician, or having fine voice, simple and respectable tastes. Nothing to do with agencies. Write L. M., poste restante, bureau 42. It is interesting to note that the French man is always careful to stipulate that his would-be wife shall be respectable, honor able and of unimpeachablo antecedents. Blakely Hall. THE MANUFACTURE OP PAPER. la There Sncb a Thing Now Obtainable n Paper Blade Parelr From Ragsf Glasgow Mail. The employment of lignose, cellulose, and other substitutes for rags in the manufac ture of paper has now become so general that many persons doubt whether any paper is at present made purely from rags; and as considerable doubt also exists as to the dur ability of most of the paper which is now being manufactured, there is here a serious question for the editors of costly books and other such works. A considerable quantity of the paper used by foreign editors between 1830 and 1845-gave very unsatisfactory re sults. Yet at the time there were no substi tutes employed for rags; but the art of bleaching paper by the chlorine process was only in its infancy. The result has been the partial destruction of many valuable works that were printed during those 15 years. It appears from experiments "recently made on a large scale in France that cellu lose and lignose, if properly treated, can be safely employed without endangering the durability of certain kinds of paper. Those substances, however, cost at present nearly as much as rags. The onlv extra cost of the paper made from rags is the expense of reducing the raw material, the rags, into pulp. At the present price of rags, which ranges in the western departments of France at from about 35 francs per hundred kilos for white to 20 francs for gray, a well-situated factory with plenty of water-power at its disposal could now obtain handsome profits by manufacturing pure rag paper, which would find a ready sale with the pub lishers of high-class works. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. It is said that more money has been spent by the United States Government in the investi gation of the diseases which affect swine than of those which affect the human species. Db. Chaixxe, the well-known statistician, states that the average life of woman is longer than that of man, and in most parts of the United States woman's expectation of life is greater. M. Pasteuk'S system of treating rabies, al though it has Tnany enemies, has also many friends and advocates. At a recent lecture, given before one of the medical societies of London, a Prof. Horsley gave an Illustrated lecture on the Pasteurian methods, in which it was said that the use of these methods of treatment had reduced the mortality in cases of hydrophobia, from 15 per cent to L3 per cent. Philadelphia, American. A process of engraving on glass and crystal by electricity has been communicated to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Plante. The plate to be engraved Is covered with a con centrated solation of nitrate of potash and put in connection with one of the poles in the bat tery, and the design is traced out with a fine Slatinum point connected to the other pole, he results are said to be of marvelous deli cacy. London Public Opinion. Siaji is rich in minerals. Gold, iron, tin and copper are found in many parts of the country; but the want of roads, and consequent diffi culty of getting these metals to market, pre vent their being worked, except for thellmited wants of the natives. As regards gold, this metal is found in many places, but the mines at Bang Tapan on the west coast are said to contain tbe purest gold in the country. They have been worked by the natives by simply turning over the ground, tbe gold being found in tbe shape of nuggets. When nuggets over a certain size were fonnd, the miners were obliged to band them over to the Government, but tbey were paid for the same according to a tariff fixed by tbe authorities. A syndicate of foreigners has been formed, with a concession from the King, for working these mines, and has now a number of workmen employed, the prospects for rich developments being good. Science. Pkof. Lodge, assuming that light is an electrical disturbance, reasons that all our present systems of making light artificially are wasteful and defective. We want only a par ticular range of oscillations,but to obtain them we havo to produce all tbe inferior ones lead ing up to them. The force thus expended is thrown awa. With his energy properly directed, a boy turning a handle could produce as much real light as we get with all our present expenditure. The waste is worse when we get light by combustion than with the electric lights, for then tbe air as well as the fuel is consumed, and the low heat-rays that are thrown ont cause Inconvenience as well as being wasteful. The light of glow-worms and of phosphorescence is produced without waste. We must learn to obtain light with equal economy. Popular Science Monthly. Philosophical. Bnrllngton Free Press. Doctor Bummer, I. will tell you candid ly, every glass of liquor you drink is a nail in vour coffin. Bummer Well, doctor, you can't ex pect a fellow's coffin to hang together with out nails. Ber Interest at Stake. New York Sun.1 Old Hubby Don't go on so,my dear, just because I spent a little money. I have enough for life. Toune Wife But just think of me after you are gone. Satiety at a Stamford Poker Party. Mr. James Whad's d' mattah wiv Ho wells? Mr. French To' see, Mistah James, we's usin' clams for chips, an' Mistah Howelli's done eat up he's hall stack. Judge. I 4 PALACE AND PKIS0N. Oar Correspondent Shows tbe Ball Flayers the Sights of Paris. THE CHIEF OBJECTS OP INTEREST. Strolling Through Places Where Proud Sings Once Lingered. HOW ARRESTS ARE HADE IN FRANCE rcoEBXsrosrjAcE or tbx disfatch.1 ABIS. March 9. We had the baseball players with us for nearly a week, and I showed them as much attention as possible, ' assisting Mr. Spalding to find grounds and to arrange with the local authorities. Two or three of the men went with me ont to Ver sailles, and I also showed them the lockup and the Black Maria. Not having much time at our disposal, we peeped in the gal lery onlv and hurried on to the Grande and the Petite Trianon. M. Thiers used to be very fond of going out and refreshing himself with a cup of asses' milk supplied him by the head gardener at the Trianon. The great little man often feared that quadrupeds of the same kind as those which supplied him with drink might get into the game of running a Government. An English writer once said that when a cart was conducted by a donkey, a man and a monkey, it was the ass alone that pulled straight, and the facetious writer alluded to the cart as the "state chariot." 1$ POBMEB TIMES. Some persons believe that the small Tri anon is the work of Marie Antoinette, but she only made the English garden and laid out the'hamlet in "disperse order," as it is styled by the military. This Trianon is the work of Louis XV., while Louis XTV. laid out and planned the large one. In St. Simon's Memoirs is an anecdote which is always swallowed by modern credulity. When Louis XIV. was visiting the build ing of this royal block he thought a certain window was smaller than the others, bat Lugois vigorously contested this assertion, even with insolence, whereupon the King, tiring of the dispute, told a courtier to measure it, which was done and the archi tect was pronounced in the wrong. The war of the Palatinate followed this testy ex hibition. The Trianon was created bv Louis XIV. because he wanted to be free, as he was not at Versailles, in the midst of so numerous a court, in which he felt himself as much of a slave as he was master. However, a few years later courtiers and etiquette again in vaded him in his new royal abode, and so he built another place and called it Marly. This last mentioned spot is now the country home of Victorian Sardou, the famous dramatist. PABISIAN PALACES. When Louis XV. conceived the fantastic idea of constructing the Petite Trianon, he entrusted the architect Gabriel with its exe cution, and although of great merit he got very little for his trouble. He had already built the Ecole Militaire, also the Garde Meuble in fine style. It is this Garde Meu ble that stands at one of the corners of the Place de la Concorde, and is now the Navy Department. The corresponding building to it on the other side of the Bue Boyale is occupied as private residences and by one of the leading clubs of Paris. Very little is known of Maria An toinette's occupancy of the Trianon. Louis XV. and Madame Du Barry left traces be hind them much more dishonest but less familiar, perhaps, than those which are drooped in the enchanted spot by visitors. The enchantment has long since vanished, however, and the pretty English garden is no more than a swamp. I am very much afraid that instead of your taking away a favorable impression of the place, whenyoa come over, you will carry off a fever. One of my French acquaintances has in his private gallery a painting showing us Louis XV. seated on the lawn facing the little canal which runs past the Grande Trianon. His eyes are following a gondola promenade that was organized by the Duchess of Burgundy, and a small yacht filled with musicians is behind the gay court. The King could not take part in his pleasure trip on account of his rheu matism. AN AQUATIC PROMENADE. That night, after the pretty promenaders had supped, they went out again, the even ing being mild, and paddled their own canoes about until nearly dawn. Another picture in my friend's gallery represents "Trianon sous Bois," that is to say, an annex which was inhabitated by the Dau phin under Louis XIV. and afterward by the Duke and Duchess of Burgundy. The old King of Poland, lodged in tbe Trianon. Here, too, Charles X. made his first halt when on the road to exile, and during the year 1810 Napoleon took his wife Maria Louise into the place. But that part of France to which the Austrian Arch duchess paid most'attention was the neigh boring palace, the Petite Trianon, which was still occupied by ber aunt, the Queen. The following year the King of Borne, who was just born, was carried about on a coach in the grounds. Napoleon put a fine library in this little dwelling, a house always more sumptuous than it was handy. In 1815 -the Prussians pillaged the Trianon; then they had a pen chant for books, 'but later on clocks seemed to be their hobby. GOKTG TO BUI1T. At the present time the Grande is in a still more dilapitated condition ihat is the Petite Trianon. I cannot understand why the Government should let these two his torical places go to decay, as they are very attractive to visitors and draw many per sons out to Versailles. I do not think for eigners would mind paying a small fee, and this would, aid in keeping up the two places. Coming hack from the country, we rode through the Bois du Bolougne, around the Arch de Triumph and down the Camps Elysees. There is a police station in one corner of the Palais de l'Industrie, and just then the Black Maria was leaving with several prisoners for tbe principal lockup. Over here this prison vehicle is called the "salad basket," and last year nearly 57,000 persons had free rides in it. The place to which they are conveyed from the "violin" or district station is called the "depot," and is, so to speak, a sort of house of detention, not only for special categories, but for all kinds of crimi nals, and where they are locked up tempo rarily. This rule is not without exception, asnot only certain persons have a lorced sojourn there for whole months, but a special class of criminals remain until the expiration of their term of imprisonment, GBEEN BALL PLATEES. It would have done your heart good could you have heard me going on in a sort of guide book fashion with these young men from the TJniled States. It is true they are crack baseball players, and are on a trip around the world, but tbey were the greenest lot of fellows lever saw in Parish so far as sight-seeing was concerned. They went to the students' ball and they, were crazy to have a look at Boulanger. I think they witnessed a balloon ascension, but all other things seemed uninteresting to them. It was not until we struck the Black Maria that they showed genuine animation. Perhaps it was almost like being at home again, and they questioned me a lot about the system, even expressing a' desire to visit the '"depot." Eight such prison vans are employed in Paris daily, and there are two arrivals at the depot, one in the afternoon and one in. the evening. The latter is the most important, for those it brings In "are usually arrested on grave charges, or are persons not able to give sat isfactory accounts of themselves. On get-1 ting out of the "salad basket" each prisoner is searched carefully. Their names are then entered in a book, and as soon as they are registered information is sent tbe magis trates. The prisoners are then served with a small loaf of bread made in the Saint Lazare prison, and the quality of which is equivalent to that furnished to French soldiers. When this food is ealen they are locked up, but not until their clothes are taken off and put to one side, other gar ments being famished them while they re main incarcerated. PBISOIT LITE. The depot is divided into two parts, one or males and the other for females, and they are very alike in appearance. There are 100 cells for both classes, some- of them large, some small, and the furniture in each is very limited. A gas light is always bnrning in each cell, and I think they are clean and well aired. There are no sheets on the mattress, but if a prisoner wishes one be may obtain it for 8 cents for the night. In cell No. 14 dangerous criminals are locked up, and to be therein locked up is considered the zenith of one's happiness. Everyone has hh peculiar vanity. Fre quently the number of cells is inadequate, and then the prisoners are turned loose in the large halls, but are closely watched by extra squads of policemen. In tbe women's part fallen women are separated from other females, and in the men's quarter the old and the young are separated. In the men's quarter is one large cell that is known as the "dress coat hall." This is a room looked after with care, and the windows are spacious and curtained. Only persons of distinction, those who are believed to-be honorable and who may have been drinking too much, are ever locked up in this cell. Directly beneath it is the place for young children arrested for vaga bondage or begging, and a little further on is the quarter lor mad people. Four or five such are generally gathered in daily, and they are sent to the hospital of St. Ann as soon as possible. TBE TEAMS AT "WOBK. It was not till this afternoon that the two teams gave us an exhibition of their skill as ball players. The grounds were in a ter rible condition, covered with water in sev eral places and muddy everywhere. For four or five days we had had the finest weather, but yesterday it rained, and the balloon park did not dry up sufficiently to make the in and outfield fit for playing. But it was decided to go on with the game, and taking all the circumstances into con sideration, I think the boys did very well, indeed. A home run was made on each side, but it seemed to me that the All Americas both out-batted and out-fielded the Chicagos. The famons Anson was the poorest player on his side, and Captain Ward made a splendid impression. The attendance was very large Unfortunately the United States Minister is suffering with a severe cold, and was kept to his room, bnt Miss MacLane did the honors of the grand stand, assisted by a very charming young lady whom I am told is the sister of Mrs. James Brown Potter. She looks like her actress sister and has the same voice. I wonder if she has the same peculiar manners. All the Colony went to see the game and so did many English people. But it is big odds that British lovers of outdoor sports will never let baseball take the place of cricket, "Why, it's rounders, don't you know?" some of them kept on repeating. It is about as much like rounders as a donkey race in a Kent lane is like a run for the Derby. Henet Hatkie. DON'T TOSS THE BABY. A Very Risky Gamp to Play With the Little Chernbs. Harper's Bazar. The throwing a baby into the. air and catching him again is always a risky prac tice, certain though the tosser may be of his quickness of eye and sureness of hand. A sudden and unexpected movement of the child in his mid-air flight may result in a cruel fall. A gay young father snatched np his baby boy one morning and tossed him to the ceil ing. Twice the little fellow went flying through the air and came down safely into the waiting arms. The third time the ex cited child gave a spring of delight as his father's hands released him, plunged for ward, and pitching over the father's shonlder, fell head, downward to the floor. When the poor baby came out of the stupor in which he lay for hpurs it was found that, although no bones had been broken, the brain had sustained an injury that would, in all probability, render the child an imbecile. Another baby snatched from the floor and tossed into tbe air received a fatal wound in the top of the head from the pointed orna ment of a chandelier. Still another child slipped between the father's hands as he caught at her in her downward flight, and although his frenzied grasp on the baby's arm saved ber from falling to the ground, it wrenched muscles and sinews so cruelly that the girl's arm was shrunken and practi cally useless to her all her lire. These are extreme cases.but the fact of their occurring at all should be enough to warn one from the habit ot relinquishing one's hold on a child when tossing it. HE PAID LIKE A MAN. Settled a BUI of $90 With 10 Cent! and Got a Drink for Nothing;. Xansas City Globe.: Ben was one of the chattiest and pleasantest newspaper men that ever wielded a blue pencil at a Kansas City desk. Ben who? you ask. That cuts no figure in the story, for it has to deal with one of his weaknesses, and why mention names? The weakness was not exactly a passion for strong driuk, for that had be come a habit, but it consisted in an inabil ity to pay for his dozen daily "fingers." So mine host Gaston one day counted up something like $90 slated against Ben. He never expected Ben to pay it, and finally refused to add another scratch to the long column of figures. For two days Ben stayed away. The third day bright aud early Ben dropped in as chipper as a lark and fresh as a daisy. ' "Say, Gaston, what'U settle my bill?" Gaston wanted to get rid of Ben quickly. "Ten cents," said he, in a disgusted tone. Ben put 10 cents on the bar. Gaston was delighted. "W11, Ben, what are yon-waiting for?" "When a man settles his bill isn't it cus tomary to set 'em up?" Gaston fainted nnd Ben helped himself. Utilizing the Old Man. 3! I V rjgiira "What shall I do with your husband? he's pretty full." "Put him where he will do the most good against that shutter.it keeps bang ing all the time." Puck. , THE FIRESIDE SPfflM k Collection of Em'snaM Its for Home (Mill Address communication! for this department to K, R. CnADBOUB2r,.rffoni Maine. 524 THE EGYPTIAN PEOBLEJT. CCopyright, 1S88, by E. B. Chadbonrn.l The following hieroglyphics, found on one of the Egyptian pyramids, are supposed to represent a long division example, such as the governess of the young Pharaohs used to set for her pupils in the reign of Barneses II. The puzzle is to render these symbols into Arabic numbers: li? J. H. Fezakdie. 525 A BETEBSE. My heart for place did lately throb: Like bnndreds I was smitten. And tbougbt I'd ask for some fat ion, lake Minister to Britain. Success I did not quite expect. Bat tbougbt it worth a trial; Bound turned tbe President-elect, And gave a curt denial. W. Wrzsojr. 526 TBANSPOSITIOSS. If "I get ruin." who's to blameT For such a plot It is a shame! This "unique,dicC ' you win fln4 To be uneasiness of mind. nr "A mere tune" this and nothing more, Used to compute or count things o'er. Chas. L Houston. 527 DIAJIOJTD. 1. In ''Nelsonlan." 2. A stripling. 3. Slower. 4. Tbe celling or under surface ot any part (Arch). 6. One of a group of air-breathing or scaly reptiles (Zool;. 6. Dissolute. 7. In a toothed manner. 8. Ones wbo scoff. 9. Birds jf the eenus Hallus. 10. Denial. 11. In 'Nel sonian." U. Keka. 528 COVEBED PALUTDBOMES. Old Farmer Gray is wont to say. As he shakes a dolef nl bead. That warning truths to growing youths Are worth as much unsaid. Bat this one rule be must impress "Boait not upon the dress." Then with its brother comes another. Which, heeded, oft has saved a dnel, ,"Though falsehood's tongue your heart has wrung, Unless vou fast would add new fuel. And force the Are to flame tbe higher, 'Have never at aalsifler.' " Ihen all his fretting past forgetting. He adds another to tbe store: "No tenet fight that's based on right; Though thongbtless multitudes ignore. Some time their verdict yet will be: Veneratet Reproached at vile, exists for aye a savior great." Sylvia. 529 logoghail Of the whole, the historic pages will tell; As a name for a boy, it serves verv well: Curtailed and transposed, 'tis an English estate. Oft owned by the wealthy, tbe tilled add great. Transposed again, and a native you see Of a city that's known both to you and tome. Behead this native, and a gulf will remain; Transposed, 'tis a cry of torture and pain. Behead the estate, and transpose tbe same. And you'll readily find a fair maiden's name. Now, If you transpose tbe name of this maid. It will leave lor your horse a favorite shade. Ianthe. 530 SPBING COMEE3. What thongh we are a merry band, All clothed in golden styles. In loneliest nooks we love to land. And wake a cbeerful smile: "We see a welcome In all eyes. Which beaming we return: To greet us lovely flowers arise, Which In our absence mourn. The dear old mother earth we greet, With many a warmembrace; Torturing, Disfiguring Skin Diseases Wonderful Cure of Salt Rheum. Face, hands, and arms covered. Hands useless for two years. Doctors said case was Incurable. Cured by Cuticura. I hare had a most wonderful cure of salt rheum. For five years I have suffered with this disease. I had it on my face, arms, and hands. I was unable to do anything whatever with my hands for over two years. I tried hun dreds of remedies, and not one bad the least effect. The doctor said my case was incurable. I saw your advertisement, and concluded to try tbe Ctjticuka Remedies; and incredible as it may seem, after using one box of Cuticuka, and two cakes of Cuticttka Soap, and two bottles of Cutictba Resolveut, lflndlam entirely cared. Those who think this letter exaggerated may come and see me and find out for themselves. GRACE P. HARKHAM, North St. Charles street, Belle Birer. Ont. I must extend to you tbe thanks of one of my customers, who has been cured, by using tbe Ctjtictba Remedies, of an old sore, caused by a long spell of sickness or fever eight years ago. He was so bad he was fearful be would have to have bis leg amputated, but is happy to say he is now entirely well sound as a dollar. He requests me to use bis name, which Is H. H. Cason, merchant of this place. JOHN V. MINOR, Druggist, Qainsboro, Tenn. I have been troubled with tetter on my face for several years, and doctored with several doctors, but received no benefit. I used your Cuticuba Remedies last spring according to directions and can now say that 1 am entirely cured. I am satisfied tbat your Cctictjba remedies are just what yon recommend them to be. HUGH a ATRES, Smithvule, W. Va. I have been cured of a most unbearable itching skin disease by tbe Ctjtictjba Remx dles. Tbey bave enabled me to escape years of suffering. You may use my name as a refer ence, and any one who wants to know about my case may write me, inclosing stamp. W. R BROOKS, 47 Grove street, Providence, R. L Cured by To cleanse the skin, scalp, aud blood of humors, blotches, eruptions, sores, scales, and crusts, whether simple scrofulous, or conta gions, no agency in tbe world of medicine is so speedy, sure, and economical as the Ctjticuba Remedies. Cuticuba, the great skin cure, instantly allays tbe most agonizing itching and inflam mation, clears tbe skin and scalp of every trace of disease, heals ..ulcers and sores, removes crusts and scales, and restores tbe hair. Cuti cuba Soap, the greatest of skin be auttflers. Is indispensable in treating skin diseases and baby humors. It produces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, free from pimple. D 1 1 PLES, black-heads, red. rough, chapped im and oily skin prevented by Cuticuba Soap. Ttat frr til v1 tf,lnaa WA nMWl- w- ,., . , m-.. "tfi2 rr . !-- .j.TJI ,fi. - " rr o see wnere every grace wv ? Destruction and decay? And stagnant, noisome pools remalB, , Where living streams might play.; -. v We come with helpful forcelandjii. All vOe things to consame; Who sends us asks to-be repaid With beauty aod with bloom. 8. 631 A XETTEB'S CHANGES. What letter can ba added that chances a ' lady's toy to a temple; a receptacle for fruit to , & Inrmnrt fnp ;!(.. a Tinman h.mi n itmattiln which pertains to a horse; a tblsjtyoa can lay . ' : on your linger to a iau iree; sometarojr yoa tread under foot to an equal by your side; a sign or a secret loage 10 a snarp pain;an arucio.-s oi neaagear to a geograpnicai point; a uray movement to a feeling of anticipation. F. il. Jonsso. 532 HE BAD OLD 1LUT. . The old man seized a pack of cards "- , ' And went out on a snree. O, don't you thinEit was a shame To be so one two threet He metsome cronies at a two Who were like him ail one. They bad some lively one-iwo-thret A Khh. 1.k ,h. rtt th. .n Auuuk lug .in gg w .wo eu.i. - j A. one ooy stole nis once wane nas Bntnowaaite brown with three: -&. He scampered down behind the two And flung it in a tree. xne om man caugnt tne piayiui ooy i Anri thraKherl him with s. Wffd: 2 O. don't you think this old, old man Was very one indeea? Georgia Bbowtt. ; 533 thbee "wobds. """.,""!" '""" "" "- " - tj tua mujc. The spelling differs each from other: One means donble, duplex, as you see; One is accord, the other is over. Tbe spelling is different, as I said before. And we use them each day, over and over. Elva, 7ESBTJAEY WIN NEKS. Da,fn.K.tt 7ahra.Ma.,,M,w,?4lAl M Thomas Hogan, Pittsburg, and A. B. Or, Alio gheny. Answers. 518 Sample, ample; needles, needless. 517 Rides, dries. 518 Key, liock(e). Sickles, Ash, ShoveVHotf " Auger, Glass, Sand. Mallet, Bait Pole, Flint; Steel(e), Sparks. Clay, Stone, Head, Swift, Back, Armlelt, Birch. 510 A mountain-brook. 520 Parliament. 521 Blank -book (containing pages ant leaves). 522 Hart-ford. 523-1, Life. 2. Strong drink. 3, A bad tootU extracted. 4, A lad-aer. 5, A wheel. 8, A match. 7. A secret. 8, A falsehoods 9, Ad vice. 10, The book of nature. 11, The winds. EEL1GI0US SUMMARY. Lttettnga, on the Congo-river, has a Baptist Church of 70 members. Tbe number of places of religious worship in England and Wales, certified, recorded, and on tbe register atrthe close ot lS8was 25,857, an increase of 630 in the year. The Bev. Dr. A. F. Beard says that the Got, ernment's wars with less than half a million of Indians hane cost tbe United States S500.0UO, 000. enough, to plant missions in all the heathen tribes of the worla. Spirit of Missions. Some statistician asserts that tbe net gain of new churches In the United States during the year 1888 was 6.434, tbe increase in tbe number of ministers was 4,505, while the increase la church members was 774,861. Tbe average gairi for each day of tbe year was 17 churches, 12 ministers, and 2,120 members. D. L. Moody announces that on the 4th day April. 189, he will begin holding in Chicago a convention of Christian workers, similar to that held in tbe summer at Nnrthfleld. Tneso meetings will continue from 30 to 60 days, and instruction will be giren by well-known leaders oi unnsuan tnougnt ana action. These are Ifim Young Men's Christian As sociations in America. 623 In England. Ireland and Scotland, 1,392 In Germany. Holland and Switzerland, 200 hi Japan and 553 in IS other couutnes. It is an interesting fact that thera is an organization at Nazareth, where Christ, lived for 30 years, and at Jerusalem, where he was crucified. w The first prize of 3700 offered by the Cougre-!.' gaiional Sunday School and Publishing So-"1 ciety for the production best salted to bov issued as a Sunday school book has been woa -by Miss Cathenne Lee Bates, ot Wellesley, College. Mrs. Caroline A. Mason, of Brock.' port, N. Y., has won the second prize of 2300. Twelve years ago tbe Modoo Indians were) uncivilized heathen. Now they are a com munity of Industrious farmers, with half their number professing Christians. It cost the United States Government $1,848,000 to cars for 2,200 Dakota Indians seven years while) tbey were savages. After tbey were Christian ized it cost, for seven years, (120,000, a sayinc of gl,72S,000. ,K It was a genuineSunday at the White House ', Both ends of tbe honse observed it. Not a stroke of work was done in tbe executive of flees, and the family rooms were as quiet as tba Harrison borne at Indianapolis used to be of a? Snnday. Few people came, and not one off tbese on anything approaching business or pot-. Hies. So strict was tbe observance tbat tha. President's mail lay unopened on Private 8eo" retary Half ord's desk. Washington Post. A Snre Sinn. New York Son.3 Dillettante Do you distinguish the work I of an amateur artist by the technique? Artist It is safer to judge by the big) ie.iexs lie uses ta signing nis name. A minister and his little boy Cured of Snob ttinata Skin Disease by the Cuticura Rem. dies. Piaises them everywhere la the pulpit, home, and in the street. For about thirteen years 1 havn been troubled. with eczema or some other cutaneous disease which all remedies failed to cure. Hearing of the Cuticuba Remedies I resolvedito give them a trial, and purchased one bottle ot Crm cuba Resoivent. one box of Cuticuba, and one cake Cuticuba Soap. I followed the' directions carefully, and it affords me much, pleasure to say tbat before using two boxes of tbe Cuticuba, four cakes of Cuticuba Soap, and one bottle of Cuticuba Resolvest, I was entirely cured. ' In addition to my own case, my baby boy, then about five months old, was suffering with what I supposed to be the same disease as mine to such an extent that his head was coated over with a solid scab, from which there was a con-, stant flow of pus which was sickening to look upon, besides two large tumor-like kernels on, tbe back of bis bead. Thanks to yon and your wonderful Cuticuba Remedies bis scalp Is perfectly well, and tbe kernels have been scat tered so that there is only one little place by his left ear, and tbat la healing nicely. Instead of a coating ot scabs he has a fine coat of hair, much better than that which was destroyed by tbe disease. 1 wonld that tbe whole world of sufferers from skin and blood diseases knew the value of your Cuticuba RTrHgnrpg as Ida Tbe Cuticuba Soap and Cuticuba Resol vent are each worth ten times the price as which they are sold. I bave never used any other toilet soap in my house since I bought ths first cake of your Cuticuba Soap. I would Be inhuman as well as ungrateful should I fan to speak well of and recommend your Cm. cuba remedies to every sufferer wao camev in my reach. I have spoken of It, and shall continue to speak of it from the uulnlt. In the borne, and In the streets. Eraylng that- yon may live long, and do others the same amount of good you have done me aud myJ child, I remain, yours gratefully. kd (REV.) a M. MANNING, x' Box 23. Acwoith, G. j,J Cuticura spot or blemish. Cuticuba Rxsoiwxst, t41 new blood punfler, cleanses the blood of a35 imnnrities and nataanAn TTnnt , n.wl removes the Cause. Hence the Cuticuba xvemedies cure every species oi agonlziBjr, humiliating, itching, burning, scaly, and pimpfy uueues ox me sum, scaip. ana Diooovwiw le Of hair, from nimnles to scrofnli- Sold flTerrvhftn. PHcjl rru I'li'iim b.. SOAP- 2Se R-KKftT.VTCTffT. 11. PronaMil brt.l Potteb Dbuq asd Chemical Cobpobatio,1 Boston. J 43-Send for "How to Cure SUB Dte.il eases," 64 pges.5uuluKraHoa, aad M0 tMtdi MMllttf . ""- HANDS wJlUe' umiiuv? n4 redness By satse Cbl'KtlKA. AX. .wWKKl S : J A