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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JANTTAET 5, 1890.
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IT MTEIADS SLAIN.
Eow the Bison of the Prairies Was
Euthlessly Exterminated.
MHORNADAT'S INTERESTING BOOK.
E- The last Herds Which Once Darkened the
Western Plains
HATE DISAPPEARED FEOM THE! EARTH
WKIlliLN FOB TBI DISPATCH. 1
Hornaday haB
published a little
work, dealing with
the history and
gradual extermi
nation of the
American bison.
No one is better
qualified to speak
with accuracy ot
J the Behemoth of
the prairies than
our experienced
National Park Su
perintendent; and
this,his latest pub
lication, is well worthy of the fame he has
already acquired in every department of
zoology. The book, entitled "The Exter
mination of the American Bison,"
has been amplified from Sir. Horna
day's Beport of the Rational Museum;
and contains many of the plates which
adorned that work. According to Mr. Horn
aday, we may soon have to mourn the last
of the buffaloes. Xbe miehty race which
once spread its myriad legions from the
frozen north far jnto the orange groves
which fringe the Mexican gult has been re
lentlessly hunted down and slaughtered un
til a few paltry herds alone remain of the
true blood of the American bison. The dis
covery ot the buffalo, as first made by Euro
peans, occurred, says Jlr. Homaday, "in j
AN INDIAN
the menagerie of a heathen king." The fa
mous Montezuma, 'as Lord Macaulay's
schoolboy is no doubt aware, was a most en
lightened monarch; and in addition to his
many other distinguished attributes, he be
came the Barnum of his day. "When Cortez
reached Auahuac, in 1521, he fonnd in the
second square of the royal palace a collec
tion of wild beasts, presented to Montezuma,
or taken by his hunters. Among these was
the American bison, brought from the prov
ince of Couhuila, over 400 miles away.
BUFFALO BILL'S PEOTOTYPE.
In 1530 Alvar Ifunez Cabeza, "of the cat
tle," prototype of "Buffalo Bill," found
bisons in Southeastern Texas. This was the
first discovery of the buffalo in a wild state.
From that date Spanish and English ex
plorers found ths "wild cattle" as they
called them, in various parts of the conti
nent. The range of the bion in those early
days started at the Atlantic coast, and ex
tending westward through the dense, path
less prairies, stretched even to the spurs of
the Bocky Mountains. Had he remained
unmolested and uninfluenced by man, it is
more than likely he would have crossed the
Sierras and roamed far and wide throuch
the valleys of the Pacific slope. But fate
had ordained it otherwise. The white man's
rifle resounded amid the forests; his bullets
whizzed across the sage-brush, and the buf
falo fell before him in countless thousands.
There is a painting by Mr. J. H. Moser, in
the National Museum, which brings home
to the mind with extraordinary iorce the
terrific destruction done among the
shaggy nomads who once mar
shalled their innumerable herds from
California to Maine. The picture represents
a vast stretch of prairie, spreading far be
yond the gazer's kens, and sparkling here
and there with pools of sunlit water. Over
all this waste lie heaped the blancbing bones
of long dead buffaloes. Millions and mil
lions of bones; millions and millions of
dusky skulls, from which hide and flesh
have years ago been torn, are strewn by the
sides of the limpid water, and along the
billowy undulations into the hot, missy
distance. -
There "the millions" lie their tomb is
worthy of their numbers a continent, sky.
roofed and mountain-walled, is their match
less mausoleum.
Kb species of quadruped ever multiplied
to such an extent as the Amercan bison.
Forty years ago the total number of buffa
loes in America exceeded in numbers all the,
quadrupeds which Scuth Africa possessed
Aear the spot where Clarion, Pa., now
stands the early pioneers saw
BUFFALOES IN THOUSANDS
come week after week to drink of a salt
spring in the neighborhood. W. John Fil
son, writing of Blue Licks, fey., in 1789,
says: "The amazing herds of buffaloes
which resort thither fill the traveler with
amazement and terror. Colonel Daniel
Boone declared that in the Bed river region
of Kentucky "the buffaloes were more num
erous than cattle in the settlements." Boone
also found vast herds of buffaloes grazing
in the valleys of East Tennessee. Marquette,
declared that the Illinois river praries were
"covered with buffaloes;" and Fatner Henne
pin, writes ot tbe Chicago district, that
"there must be an innumerable quantity of
wild bulls in that county, since tbe earth is
covered with their horns. Their
pathways are beaten like our great roads,
and no herb grows therein."
Near the mouth of White river, in Da
kota, Lewis and Clark saw a herd, in 1806,
of which they wrote thus: "They are now
so numerous, that from an eminence we dis
covered more than we had ever seen at any
time?" These travelers furthermore state
that it was "impossible to count the moving
mass which covered the whole plain."
Colonel Dodge, of "Great West" fame,
wrote in 1877: "The great herd on the
Arkansas could not have averaged over 20
individuals to the acre, but was not less than
25 miles wide, and was abo'ut five days in
passing a given point. Prom the top of
Pawnee Bock I could see from six to ten
miles in almost every direction. This whole
vast space was covered with buffalo, looking
at a distance like one compact mass, the
visual angle not permitting the ground to
be seen. I have seen such a siebt at times,
but never on so large a scale. That was the
last of the great herds."
If Colonel Dodge be correct in the par
ticulars given and there is no reason to
doubt his accuracy, the advancing herd
'must have numbered at the least over 4,000,
000 buffaloes. And vet in four yean that
dSsk
n
same Southern herd was almost totally an
nihilated. To dwell upon Mr. Hornaday's collect
eana to any extent would be impossible in a
limited space. Suffice it that the portion of
the book describing the habits and disposi
tion of the buffalo Is one of the most inter
esting chapters.
NOT AN INTELLIGENT BKUTE.
He places the bufialo very low indeed in
the standard of mental capacity; and makes
this stupidity the cause of his extermina
tion. But if the monarch of the plains
lacked intellect, he certainly did not want
for affection. The manner in which the
bull buffaloes protected the calves ot the
herd is a glorious example of paternal in
stinct An army surgeon related the fol
lowing instance to Mr. Hornaday: "He was
in camp one evening when his attention was
arrested by the curious action of a little knot
of six or eight buffaloes. Approaching suffi
ciently near to see clearly, he discovered
that this little knot was made np ot bullsl
standing in a close circle witn neads out
ward, while in a concentric circle at some
12 or 15 paces distant sat at least a dozen
large grey wolves (excepting man, the most
dangerous enemy of the buffalo). The doc
tor determined to watch the performance.
After a few moments the knot broke up,
and still keeping in a compact mass, started
on a trot for the main herd, some half a mile
off. To his very great astonishment, the
doctor now saw that the central and con
troling figure of this mass was a poor V'.ttle
calf, so newly born as scarcely to be1 able
to walk. After going 50 or 100 paces
the calf laid down, the bulls disposed
themselves in a circle as before, and the
wolves who had trotted along on each side
of their retreating supper, sat down and
licked their chops again, and though the
doctor did not see the finale, it being late
and the camp distant, he had no doubt that
the noble lathers did their whole dnty to
their offspring, and carried it in safety to
the herd." The buffalo, it taken when
young, submits with surprising readiness to
the restraints of captivity. Mr. Hornaday
declares bufialo calves make excellent pets.
The real destruction of the buffalo began
about 1820. Take the published accounts
of those killed bv the Bed river half breeds
onlv. From 1820 to 1825 some 118,950
buffaloes, worth 594,750, were shot. From
1825-30. over 146,250 were killed, their value
being $731,250.
From 1830-1835, 174,525 were killed, their
value being $872,625. From 1835-1840, 212,
600 were killed, their value being $1,062,750.
Thus in 20 years, by a single body of
BUFFALO HUNT.
hunters, over 534,000 'buffaloes were slam.
What must have been the number slaught
ered by all the hunters, who swarmed in the
Western plsins? From 1876 to 1884, Messrs.
Boskowitz, of New Xork, purchased 246,175
buffalo hides, at a cost of 5924,790. From
1880-1884, Mr. Joseph Veeman, of New
York, purchased 111,000 hides. Mr. Vee
man's figures show the terrible decrease
which has come to pass in the buffalo trade.
In 1882 he purchased 50,000 hides; in 1883
only 8,000 were bought; in 1884 the amount
were as low as 2,000, and in 1885 Mr. Vee
man declares "the collection of robes
amounted to little or nothing."
Interesting particulars are given by Mr.
Hornoday with reference to the buffaloes in
their new character of domestic cattle. Our
author emphasizes the fact that a breed of
cattle is needed for the wilds of the West
and North which will be able to withstand
the rigorous cold and other hardships of
those regions. This breed, he says, can be
produced by crossing the buffalo with the
domestic cattle. Says the Superintendent:
A buffalo can weatber storms and outlive
hunger and cold which would Kill any domestic
steer tht eve.- lived. When nature placed him
on the treeless and blizzard-swept plains, Bhe
left him well equipped to survive whatever na
tural conditions be would have to encounter.
The most striking feature of his entire tout
ensemble is his magnificent suit of hair and fur
combined, the warmest covering possessed by
any quadruped save tbe musk ox. Tbe bead,
neck and fore "quarters are clothed with hide
and hair so thick as to be almost. If not entirely,
impervious to cold. The hair on the body and
hindquarters is long, fine, very thick, and of
that peculiar woolly quality which constitutes
the best possible protection against cold. Let
him who doubts tbe warmth of a good buffalo
robe try to weather a blizzard with something
else, and then try tbe robe,
Mr. Hornaday gives the causes of buffa lo
extermination, as follows: 1. Man's reck
less greed, bis wanton destructiveness and
improvidence in not husbanding resources.
2. The total absence of protective measures
and agencies in the Western States and Ter
ritories. 3. The preference of hunters for
the hide of the cow over that of the bull.
4. The phenomenal stupidity of the buffalo.
G. The perfection of modern firearms.
COMPLETE EXTERMINATION.
The different modes of slaughter are stated
at length, and the whole progress ot destruc
tion, from 1730 to 1880, caretully followed
and admirably described.
The completeness of the extermination
may be judged, from the following figures,
taken on January 1, 1889: Number of wild
buffaloes in Texas. 25; number in Colorado.
20; number in Wyoming, 26; number in
Montana, 10; number in Dakota, 4; total in
United States of wild buffaloes, 85. In
Athabasca, Northwest Territory, there are
550 buffaloes. These make a total for all
North America of 625. Add to the above
the total of pure-blooded bisons in captivity
and the whole number of individuals of
Bison Americanus now living is 1,091. Mr.
Hornaday rums np the situation as follows:
In these days ot railroads and numberless
hunting parties, there is not the remotest pos
sibility of there bernc anywhere in tbe United
States a herd of a hundred, or even fifty, buffa
loes, which has escaped observation. Of the 85
head still existing in a wild state it may safely
be predicted tbat not even one will remain
alive five years hence. A buffalo is now so
creat a prize, and by tbe ignorant it is consid
ered so great an honor (T) to kill one, that ex
traordinary exertions will be made to find and
sboot down without mercy the "last buffalo."
There is no possible chance for tbe race to be
perpetuated in a wild state, and in a few years
more hardly a bone will remain above ground
to mark tbe existence of tho most prolific
mammalian species tbat ever existed, so far as
we know.
And so ends the story of tbe American
Bison. It is a sad story, but an old one; a
story of human greed and human selfish
ness: a story of the good things which man
fails to appreciate till they are lost to him
forever. Bbenak.
The American Bison.
EVERY DAT SCIENCE.
Relative Yalne of Different Paving
Materials for Cities.
UTILIZING THE POWfiROF NIAGARA
Effect of a Diet Consisting Entirely of
Heat and Water.
SpiEKTIFIC AKD INDUSTRIAL flOTES
rTKXPABED FOB TBI DISPATCH.'".
Headers of The Dispatch who desire
information on subjects relating to indus
trial development and progress in mechani
cal, civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this column.
Some interesting facts concerning pave
ments in regard to their comparative
safety for traffic have recently been
made by the Horse Accident Preven
tion Society of London, England. After
50 days observation it was proved be
yond doubt that before meeting with an ac
cident a horse would travel a far greater dis
tance on wood than he could either on
asphalt or on stone. It was found that when
the surface of the pavement was dry a horse
before meeting with an accident would travel
646 miles on wood, 223 on asphalt and 78 on
granite. The damp weather figures were 125
miles for asphalt, 168 for granite and 193 for
wood. When the -weather was thoroughly
wet a horse would travel on asphalt 192
miles before meeting with an accident, 432
on wood and 537 on granite.
The statistics collated appear to show that:
1. Asphalt was most slippery when merely
damp, and safest when perfectly dry, and
that a horse might be expected to travel on
the asphalt without an accident nearly twice
the distance when the pavement was dry
that it could do when damp. 2. That gran
ite was most slippery when dry and safest
when wet; that a horse might be expected to
travel on granite without accident nearly
seven times the distance when tbe pavement
was wet that it would when the pavement
was dry, and that the granite was about
twice a's safe when merely damp as when
dry. 3. That wood was most slippery when
damp and safest when dry; that a horse
might be expected travel on the wood more
than three timestbe distance when the pave
ment was dry than when damp, and that the
wood was more than twice as safe when wet
as when damp. It will thus be seen tbat
only under a single condition, and that the
least persistent, is granite sater than wood
and asphalt, and that wood is safer than
asphalt under all circumstances. As in
this country under normal conditions dry
weather greatly preponderates, it would ap
pear that granite is tar behind asphalt as a
preventive to slipperiness. While the fore
going figures are most instructive, their
value as pointers in the matter of the adop
tion of any particular class ot pavement in
this country, is materially lessened by the
fact that the number of horses in our streets
will, in all probability, rapidly decrease
with the general adoption of electricity as a
motive power, not only for street cars, but
for all kinds of vehicles.
A Diet of Lena Steal and Water.
Can life and health be sustained in
definitely upon a diet of lean meat and
water without any farinaceous food at all?
Physiologists tell us it cannot; experience
seems to negative their assertion. It is
highly desirable that this question should
be cleared up and finally set at rest, both
from a practical and from a purely scien
tific point of view. A diet of lean meat is
now being advocated for several purposes in
practical medicine, and it is of the highest
importance that we should know for certain
for what period it should be carried on with
out injury to the patient. In this country
it is being used chiefly for the reduction of
obesity, but in New York several physicians
are making an extensive use of a d,iet con
sisting entirely of lean meat and water, not
only lor that purpose, but also in the treat
ment of dyspepsia, phthisis, ectasia of the
stomach, and in the absorption of new
growths; in the latter case it being claimed
tbat by increasing the metabolism ot the
body recently formed tumors can be ab
sorbed. In order to procure these results
the use of a diet consisting entirely of lean
meat and water is continued for a period of
at least several months, and the advocates
of this new school claim that the benefit to
the general health of the patient is marked
andabvlute. On a consideration of this
subject two conclusions inevitably present
themselves: Bither the generally received
opinions on the subject of diet as contained
in works on physiology are unreliable and
should be revised, or that it is possible so to
alter the metabolic mechanism of the body
by hereditary influence as to enable the in
dividual to exist in defiance of all the or
dinary physiological laws ot nature.
The Sewage of Cities.
In a paper read to the London Society of
Arts on "London Sewerage and Sewage,"
Sir Bobert Bawlinson stated that the entire
volume sf the London sewage is now valued
at $8,750,000 per annum. Land is not cor
rupted by sewage irrigation, but is im
proved, as the solids out of 100 tons spread
over one acre of land would not give a sur
face deposit of l-100th of an Inch in thick
ness. In the discussion which followed
the paper, Dr. Charles Drsydale said that
all European nations were looking to Eng
land for a solution of the sewage question,
and many of them had sent engineers over
there to study what had been done. Paris
bad now a very successful sewage farm of 1,
500 acres which produced most magnificent
crops, and the effluent was so pure that any
one could drink it, as he had done himself.
In Berlin, also where the authorities had
sent engineers to studv English s'ewage
farming, thev had now about 11,000 acres on
the north and sonth, and not a particle of
sewage was now sent into the river. So far
as the disposal of sewage went, every pos
sible plan had bee tried, and it was well
known now, said Dr. Drysdale, thattheonly
possible way of purifying sewage was by
passing it through fitting soils.
Electrified Steam.
At the last meeting of the Physical So
ciety, of London, England, much interest
was created by some very beautiful experi
ments by Mr. Shelford Bidwell, F. B. 8.
In one of these experiments a powerful
electric light cast a shadow of a steam jet
upon a screen, but the shadow was barely
visible, nor did the jet appear very brilliant
under the illumination. A needle point
was then held near the jet and electrified by
beinc connected with a Wimshurst machine.
Instantly the shadow became conspicuous
and of a dark brown color, while tbe jet
itself became far more luminous and occa
sionally colored. The effect of the electrifi
cation is apparently instantaneous. It is
probable that the explanation may be
closely connected with Lord Baleigh's well
known experiment of electrifying a jet of
water, which then ceases to scatter and fall
lmmall drops, but instead draws itself to
gether and tails in large, faltering drops.
As Lord Baleigh's experiments explain the
large drops associated with a thunder storm,
so Mr. Bidwell's seem to throw some light
upon the cause of the extraordinary black
ness of the tnunder clouds and the lurid
light so often seen in tbe sky before a storm.
Present nnd Future of Petroleum.
Some interesting figures have appeared in
connection with the petroleum industry.
The present annual product is aboutJ2,000,
000,000 gallons, of which abont one-half is
produced in the United States. Tbe Caspi
an region of Baku produces about 420,000,
000 gallons, and many of the wells have
had to be closed because tbe oil could not
betaken away. Gallicia produces abont
36,000,000, Burmah about 7,000,000 and
Canada 25,000,000 gallons. The resources
of Burmah and Canada are only- just be-
finning to be developed, and it is impossi
le to tell what magnitude the trade will
amount to when improved means of trans
port have been provided. In the basin of
tho Mackenzie river is believed to be the
most extensive oil region in the world; but
it is about 400 miles north of the Canadian
Pacific Bailway. There is no doubt that
when the difficulties of transport have been
surmounted and cheaper oil is available,
that it is destined to be a formidable rival
of coal for many purposes, especially the
firing of boilers, and for various metallur
gical processes, for which its freedom from
sulphur, etc., renders it particularly suita
ble. New Street-Cleansing Machine.
A new street-cleansing machine has just
been tried very successfully in the London
streets. It is a combination of water cart
and circular squegee. The water from a
wrought iron tank is delivered by a perfor
ated tube, which directs it on to the roadway
in fine jets, the object of which is to com
bine with the mud and loosen it. Behind
the jets is a rotary brush, set at an angle to
the roadway, and formed of short pieces of
rubber arranged in a screw-like manner.
These rubber pieces brush or rub the road
way and deliver the mud sideways toward
the gutter, leaving it quite cleaa. The India
rubber brushes are claimed to do six months'
constant work, and can be renewed at mod
erate cost. This machine can in summer lay
and collect the dust into the gutters, while
in winter, by the use of saltwater, it can
melt the snow and flush it down the sewers.
American Coal In the West Indies.
The import of coal from the United States
to the portof Havana during 1888, is stated to
have amounted to 97,547 tons) as against 63,
255 tons in 1887, and tbat from Great Brit
ain to 50,378, as against 74,843 tons. Thus,
the American import exceeded the average
of the last ten years, which is calculated at
abont 66,000 tons, while tbe import from
Great Britain fell far short of its average" of
80,000 tons. That a further alteration in the
relative proportions of the coal imports from
Great Britain and the United States may
take place is not improbable. American
speculators are arranging for large ship
ments of coal from the Alabama mines to
Cuba and other West Indian islands. Should
this enterprise prove successful, the effect on
British trade would be most unfavorable, as
it wonld obviously be difficult for British
exporters to compete with American in the
matter oi freights.
Growing Demand for Electrlo Motors.
The uses of the electrio motor are multi
plying daily, and one of the indications that
its adaptability is recognized by the public
is that machines for both constant potential
and constant current systems have been
manufactured during the past year at the
rate of upward of 250 per week, and their
rating will exceed 700 horse-power. In
spite of this great ontput of electrical ap
paratus, every portion of it finds an imme
diate sale, and nearly all the factories are
behind in their orders to such an extent that
it is nearly impossible to fill orders under 60
days. Motors have been introduced for all
conceivable purposes to which power can be
applied, and small industries run by electri
cal power have started up in many places
where steam power could not have been util
ized. The use of the storage battery is also
growing rapidly.
Electric Light In Woodworking;.
The electric light is being more and more
used among the manufacturers of tbe wood
working class. It is practically the only
light in use at the present time in sawmills,
sash and door factories, furniture factories
and all the woodworking establishments
where a superabundance of inflammable
material and, more or less, dust is unavoid
able. Manufacturers recognize that they
cannot afford to risk the lighting of their
plants with lamps or even gas, with the
danger from fire which these illuminants
entail. As a rule, too, where motive power
is abundant and cheap, electricity, besides
offering the best and safest light, is in the
long run the cheapest
Musical Gns Machine.
A-musical gas machine, called the pyro
phone, has been brought out in England.
Its compass is three octaves, and it has a
keyboard and is played in the same manner
as an organ. It'has 37 glass tubes, in which
a like number of gas jets burn. These jets,
placed in a circle, contract and expand.
When the small burners separate, the sound
is produced; when they close together, the
.sound ceases. The tone depends upon the
number of burners and the size of the tubes
in which they burn, so that by a careful ar
rangement and selection all the notes of the
musical scale may be produced in several
octaves. Some of the glass tubes in which
the jets burn are nearly 11 feet long.
Economical Freight Steamers.
The tendency in Atlantio steamers has for
a long time been to sacrifice economy to
speed, but a new departure is indicated in
one of tbe new boats of the Hamburg-American
line, tbe "Scandia," whioh uses only
68 tons of coal a day. -In very good weather
she can make 14 knots an hour. Allow
ing for an average of little less than 13
knots an hour, or say 290 knots a day, she
can travel five miles on one ton of coal, and
her cargo space enables her to carry 4,000
tons of freight; so that with one pound of
coal she can carry a ton of freight 10 miles.
Probably this has never heen surpassed in
point of economy, and still Jess equaled.
Prompt Egress for Theater-Goers.
An admirable arrangement looking to the
quick and safe emptying of the house has
just been adopted at the Tremont Theater in
Boston, and is also in use in one theater in
New York City. At any time, by simply
tonching a button in any one of eight handy
places in different parts of the theater, 17
sets of folding doors leading to as many
exits open simultaneously, actuated by
electrical apparatus. The expense of the im
provements is said to have been considerable,
but it is safe to say that the public will ap
preciate the advantage of being able to take
their pleasure without any dread of fire or
panic.
Utilizing the Power of Niagara.
A device for utilizing tbe power of
Niagara Falls, invented by a Chicago en
gineer, has been awarded the gold medal
offered by the Buffalo International Fair for
the best invention for this purpose. The
device consists of an overshot wheel 60 feet
in diameter, to be mounted behind tbe fall
ing sheet of water, and moved by proper
machinery toward or away from tbe water
fall, as the power is needed. This wheel is
to drive dynamos bv friction clutch con
nections, and the power will be transmitted
by wire to any desired place. There were
over 150 competitors for the prize.
1
In Tbti Age of Progress.
$i MS',
Mr. Benfrank M-m-mar-r-rial
(Sweet voice from next room) Yes, dearie,
Mr. Benfrank Th' (b-r-r-r-r-r) 'lectric
hairbrush has got (b-r-r) crossed with th'
telephone (b-r-r-r) wireliTuctyg.
CHRIST AT, DECAP0US
Why the Savior Left the City of Ca
pernaum for a Long Jonrney.
PAGAN PREFERRED TO PHARISEE.
Avoiding the Arguments of Hair-Splitting
Theologians.
HIS W0EK AMQKG THE P00E HEATHEN
IWBrrTml FOB THE DI8PATCH.1
It is related that upon one occasion the
Master made a long jonrney. 'He went
away up toward the North into the neigh
borhood of Tyre and Sidon, and thence re
turning came down into the region of
Decapolis.
It was not the custom of Christ to go far
from home. He has set us an inspiring ex
ample of the patient and humble doing
of the nearest duty. He was content to
talk to the peasants of Galilee, to the fisher
men of Capernaum, to the scribes of Jeru
salem, and to spend His days, for the most
part, within the narrow boundary of the
contracted territory of the Jews. And this
long journey is on that account the more
singular and significant.
It may repay us, then, to look this matter
up a little, and find out why it was tbat tbe
Master departed on this occasion irom His
usual custom, and into what sort of place
He went. Why did He go away from Gali
lee, and why, going away, did He venture
into such places as Tyre, Sidon and Decap
olis? I may as well begin by putting the an
swer in advance of the problem, and tell
you at the start, in one sentence, that He
took this journey to get rid of some very
disagreeable people.
The land of Palestine was in one way like
the State of Pennsylvania. It had a great
city at each end of it. Only instead of being
like Pittsburg and Philadelphia, at the
eastern and western boundaries, one was in
the north and the other in the south. In
the north was Capernaun. and in tbe south
Jerusalem. Now, each ot these great cities
had a character distinctly its own. When
men spoke ot Capernaum, they thoughtfof
business, lor Capernaum was a city of mer
chants; when they spoke of Jerusalem, they
thought of religion, for Jerusalem was
A CITY OF PBIESTS.
And the cities were good representatives
of the adjoining country. Galilee was like
Capernaum, Judea was like Jerusalem.
So that the Babbis had this proverb: "If
anyone wants to be rich let him go north; if
he wants to be religions, let him come
south."
The Babbis had not the smallest doubt as
to the choice which a good man ought to
make between the two divisions ot their
country. But it is quite significant that
Christ, who differed from-them in so many
ways, differed also in this.that He preferred
the north. The city which the writers of
the Gospels call His "own city" was not
Jerusalem, as one might have thought, but
Capernaum. It was in the north that He
preached most of His sermons, did most of
His miracles, and spent most of His life.
When a name had to be invented to describe
His followers, men fonnd a fitting one in
a town of Galilee, and called then
Nazarenes. When among His disci
riles He, chose twelve who should
be closest to Him, and to whom He might
teach His profonndest lessons, only one of
the whole company came from the South
and his name was Judas Iscariot. Christ
was known throughout all Palestine as the
Prophet of Galilee.
I call this significant, because it means
that Christ found acceptance where many
people would have least expected Him to
find it. It- is one of the revelations which
Christ's coming made, that they were really
the farthest away irom Him who thought
and talked the most about their goodness,
and that a, knowledge of theology and an
intimate acquaintance with the whole rubric
of ritual may exist without any real religion
at all. The busy men and women who put
their duty into daily practice, and were
quite ignorant of definitions were the people
who accepted Christ. In the shops and
along the wharves of Capernaum He found
a hearing which was denied Him in the syn
agogues of Jerusalem.
YISITOBS FBOJI JERUSALEM.
Now, sometimes the South made a visit to
the North. And just before the beginning
of this long journey which ended at Decapo
lis we find the record of such a visit. There
had come a deputation of Pharisees, and
certain Scribes also in their companv, who
having arrived from Jerusalem, sought out
the Master and proceeded to hold an inter
view with Him. They were good types of
the characteristics of Judea, and they
brought their Sonthern temper with them.
For we find that they at once attacked Christ
about insignificant matters or ritual. They
had a grievous complaint to bring Him
about the way in which His disciples ate
their dinners. In tbe first place they had
neglected certain rubrics about the washing
of their hands before they ate; and. besides
that, they had allowed their taste to stray in
unpermitted directions; they had for
gotten some of the complexities of
the law "of forbidden food. These
complaints they brought to Christ.
To Him, with His perlectly true judg
ment as to what was great and what was
small, all this was simply annoying. He
had come to make men's souls clean; they
might keep their hands clean in their own
way. He had come to make men true and
pure and profitable of speech; as to what
went into their mouths, what mattered it?
At last, to get away from these triflers with
religion, with whom there was no persuad
ing and with whom it was no good to argue,
He left Capernaum, and started off into the
long roads toward the North,getting finally
out of Palestine altogether into tbe bounda
ries of Tyre and Sidon. And then retiring,
as it would seem, fearing that some Pharisee
might still be lingering in Galilee, He
struck off toward the Hast, along the
wooded passes of Lebanon, and crossing the
Jordan, journeyed to the South until
WE FIND HJtM IN DECAPOLIS.
And Decapolis was the abode of pagan
ism. The people of tne Decapolis district
were all heathen. Even paganism Christ
seems to have accounted better than Phari
seeism. He preferred a good, honest,
straightforward and sincere heathen rather
than a petty, narrow-minded, prejudiced,
dogmatic, even orthodox believer. I read
in the visit of Jesus to Decapolis His pro
test against unmanly and unhealthy re
ligion. To be so occupied with worldly
thoughts that there is no room for petty no
tions, to be so interested in great and wide
purposes for the helping on of all tbat is
best in life, that there is no time for the
complications of ritual and small patience
lor the study of the fine shades of rubrics; to
be free from the "infirmities of a false per
spection" which magnifies molehills into
mountains. This is a part of what it means
to be upon the side of Christ.
So Christ came to Decapolis. And here
tbe whole population crowded out around
Him, bringing their sick, attracted some of
them, no doubt, by the fame of Christ. Be
cause Decapolis Was neighbor to Galilee;
tbe renown of tbe words and works of tbe
great teacher must often have passed the
narrow boundary of the Jordan. Some of
the people ot Decapolis had indeed with
their own ears heard Christ speak. We read
how they mingled with tbe multitude who
.listened to the sermon on the Mount. Some
of them had seen Christ's wonderful works
or had at least been told them by the men
who saw the demoniacs of Gadara and
hastened to tell tbe story of their cure
throughout Decapolis.
And if there were any who had not heard
or known, and to whom the fame of Christ
was no attraction, I am sure that the face of
Christ was attraction enough. "He could
not be hid," the evangelist says. Even
away np In that far off Tyre and Sidon dis
trict they found Him out. There must have
been something
INDESCBIBABLT ATTRACTIVE,
winning, encouraging about Hit face, to
whom little cbildren held out their hands,
into whose presence the sorrowful came for
comfort and the Bick for healing, and of
whom nobody, not even the humblest sinner
was afraid, except the Pharisees! Christ
mizht have come alone and a stranger, with
no fame and no name, and yet they would
have thronged about Him. You cannot very
well hide fire. You cannot very well con
ceal strength. I have not much faith in
"mute, inglorious Miltons." If anybody
has got tbe spirit of Milton in him, he can
not be mute. Christ could not be hid. With
common consent men recognized the Helper.
And Christ, even among those poor
heathen was the Helper. They brought
their sice and laid them at His feet, and He
asked no questions, either abont creed or
character. They were in need, .and He
ministered to them. He helped them every
one. The fact that they were heathen made
no difference to Him. 'indeed, as we have
seen, He preferred them before some of the
most orthodox believers of that generation.
The question is sometimes allowed to
trouble people what will become of the
heathen? And there have been some good
Christians who have built up so high a
barrier of "texts" between their religion
and common sense, between their theology
and the revelation of the Father in heaven
that they have permitted themselves to
imagine that the preaching of the Christain
gospel draws a line in this world between
the living and the dead, that God hates
everybody who has not heard.
I like to set beside that doctrine this
living picture of Christus Consolator, of
the Healer among the heathen. Here is
the light which lighteth every man bora
into the world, here is the Savior who came
to save not the Jews, not the Christians, not
any set or sect of men, but all men, all the
children of God, the civilized and the savage,
the favored and the unfavored, all who fol
low the best.religious light of love, every
where. Geoboe Hodges.
A GBEAT ART UNION.
The American Fins Aria Society Organized,
Backed by Eminent . ArtiiU nod
Wealthy Patrons A Great Ed
ucational Advantage.
Netv York, January 4. The organiza
tion of the American Fine Arts Society has
practically been completed. Five of the
most vigorous art societies of this city,
namely the Society of American Artists,
Architectural League of Art Students'
League, the Society of Painters in Pastel
and the New York Art Guild, have all
united in the plan and agreement. The en
tire capital stock, 150,000, has been raised,
and over 150 artists, sculptors and architects
are on the list of subscribers. The well
known list of life fellows includes
the names of 210 of the leading
citizens and art patrons of New York. In
addition to these resources the gift fund of
the enterprise already amounts to $30,000.
Among the contributors are George Yan
derbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, D. O. Mills,
C. T. Barney, Henry C. Marquand, John
D. Bockefeller, John D. Archbold and
Bobert'Goelet.
The plan of the society is to erect a hand
some building adapted to the purposes of
art exhibitions and art education on Forty
third street, running through to Forty
fourth street, adjoining the new building of
the New York Academy of Medicine,
and in the immediate vicinityof the
new Century Club. The formation of
this powerful union is doubtless the
most important step yet taken in the estab
lishment of a true school of American art.
It will correspond with the Ecole des Beaux
Arts in Paris. It brings together no less
than 300 artists and architects of merit and
as many more ambitious students. The
onion is destined to become the art power
of the country.
The office of the society is af 47 West
Forty-second street. The officers are: Presi
dent, Howard Bussell Butler; Vice Presi
dent, Frederick Crowinchild; Secretary, H.
J. Hadenbergh, and Treasurer, William
Bailey Faxon.
THE QEIP CLOSES A HOSPITAL.
Matron, None nnd Resident Physician All
Hnve the Influenza.
rirzCTAL THLEOBAlf TO TBS DISPATCH. 1
Philadelphia, January 4. The How
ard Hospital closed to-day until Monday,
on account of the matrons, nurses, resi
dent physician and visiting medical
men being sick with the grip. Mrs.
Mary A. Anthony, the matron, was first
taken sick, over a week ago. Then followed
Miss Addis, one of the nurses, who took to
her bed four days ago and is still there.
Another nurse, Miss Bosendale, was the
next victim, and she succumbed the day
after Miss Addis.
W. W. N. Naylor, the resident physi
cian, has had several attacks, or rather one
continuous attack of varying severity.
National taste clearly defined: The sale
of Atkinson's Extracts is constantly increas
ing, and must exceed a half million bottles
annually.
LOWEST FRICB ON RUGS
The People of Allegheny County Brer Heard
of, Thli Week at Groetzlnser's.
We have decided to close out all onr stock
of imported rugs, consisting of Persian,
Mecca, Daghestan and Armenian, at half
price.
Think ot iti fine rugs that have been sell
ing all along at $16, we now offer at $7 and
$8.
Lower-priced ones proportionately! re
duced. These goods will not be ready for you un
til Tuesday morning. v
You will find them on first floor. Better
come early in the morning.
Edwabd Geoetztngeb,
627 and 629 Penn avenue.
Do Yon Wnnt to Bay Goodi Cheap?
Patronize the firm that sells for cash, that
is not obliged to ask you a profit to pay an
advertising account that runs np in the
thousands, and 'has other equally extrava
gant expenses that you must settle for.
Avoid the stqre that pays fancy prices to
salesmen to worry you into buyine goods
you don't want. No one urged to buy goods
at our store. Every item a bargian. No
efforts needed to sell goods at our prices.
Come this week, if you have cash to invest.
Odd lines in every department offered below
cost to, close lots of remnants and soiled
goods. All must be cleaned up belore in
voicing. Tbe popular store.
Thornton Bros.,
128 Federal St., Allegheny.
THUMA'S DANCING ACADEMY,
61 Fourth Ave.
The second session will commence next
week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
eves, for beginners; Saturday afternoon for
children. For further particulars see amuse
ment column, this paper.
Attention, Landlords!
A very important matter to look after this
time of the year is the engagement of a re
liable agency to manage the renting of your
houses. The well-known firm of Black &
Baird have increased their facilities in this
branch and are more than ever prepared to
give special attention to the management of
properties and estates in Pittsborg, Alle
gheny and suburbs. By the uniform system
thev have adopted, better results are ob
tained tban by the owners. Monthly settle
ments, with itemized statements, are for
warded promptly.
Z. Waintvbioht & Co., make the pur
est and best ale and porter. There are the
favorite winter drinks. Families supplied
direct. Telephone 5525. vsu
The Iron City Brewing Co.'s ale and por
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It is worth reading our display In this
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DB. HABTMAFS
LECTURE ON COUGHS THINGS THAT
EVERY ONE OUGHT TO KNOW.
How to Explain How to Prevent Hotr to
Core A Congh What laCoagut
How is thai involuntary "kerchoo" which
one hears on all aides at this time of the
year to be explained?
Cotigh is a short convulsion. There are
three examples of this kind of convulsions,
with which everyone is familiar. They are
coughing, sneezing and vomiting. In
either case the physiological explanation is
the same. There is some irritation of a
nerve end which conveys the irritation to
the nerve center, causing a convulsion of
those muscles over which the nerve center
presides.
The kind of a convulsion called a cough is
excited by an irritation made somewhere in
the larynx, trachea, or bronchial tubes.
Any irritating substance breathed into the
wind-pipe will produce a cough, which
passes away as toon as the irritation is ex
pelled. This is nature's way of protecting
the lungs from harm. Tbe lungs are so
delicate that nature has provided such a
senitive membrane to guard the entrance of
the pipe that leads to them that even a few
drops of water will excite violent coughing
to expel it.
But, while cough that is excited by the
entrance of substances into the breathpipe
is not at all dangerous or subiect to medici
nal treatment, yet it serves to explain the
true cause of any kind of cough. The cough
cansed by a common cold, pneumonia, con
sumption, bronchitis, catarrh, are all alike
an attempt on the part of natnre to expel
some irritating substance from the pipes
leading to the lungs. A person catches cold,
the mucous membrane lining the pipes lead
ing to the lungs become congested, and a
watery mucus is formed, which would
trickle down the pipes into the lungs if it
was not expelled at once by a cough. Cough
is a safeguard against the accident of the
discharges of a cold entering tbe lungs,
where they wonld do great harm. Cough is
the warning of a friend, not the attack of an
enemy. Without congh tbe slightest cold
would often produce death, as then nothing
wonld prevent the mucus secretions from
accumulating in the lungs. Congh is the
act of ejecting an intruder from the breath
pipe. HABHFUL TREATMENT.
To stop a cough in any other way than to
check the secretions is as loolish as it is
harmful. The true congh medicine is the
one that cures the congested membranes,
and thus stops the discharges, when the
cough ceases of its own accord. Anything
that will prevent the formation of the irri
tating secretions will permanently cure a
cough, but any cough medicine that simply
quiets the cough will not only fail to be of
any lasting benefit, but do great harm by
lulling the sensitiveness of the nerves that
ought to be constantly on the guard. It is
to be regretted that most cough medicines
have the latter effect. The operation of a
cough medicine tbat simply stops tbe cough
without removing the cause is much quicker,
sometimes the first dose stopping it entirely.
Hence . the temporary popularity of such
harmful medicines.
rational treatment.
The cough medicine that I have found al
ways reliable to remove the cause, and thus
stop the cough, is Pe-ru-na. It contains no
opium or narcotic of any kind, and is a sure
cure for all kinds of cough. Pe-ru-na oper
ates directly to heal the congested or in
flamed mucous membranes of the air pass
ages and lungs. Pe-ru-na does not work
against nature's efforts, but it assists Nature.
A wine glassful ot Pe-ru-na in hot water
before going to bed will never fail to break
up a cold. A tablespoontul before each
meal and at bedtime will enre a winter
cough permanently and quickly. A half
pond of rock candy added to one bottle of
Pe-ru-na is the best treatment for the cough
of consumption and chronic bronchitis I
have ever used in my long practice in
chronic diseases of the chest. I have relied
on Pe-ru-na so long to cure coughs in all
cases, of colds, .influenza, hay fever, bron
chitis, catarrh and consumption, with such
good results that I have discarded all other
treatment.
For the multitudes of people that I treat
annually for every imaginable form of throat
and lung disease Pe-ru-na is my invariable
treatment. People come hundreds ot miles,
at great y expense, to consult me for acute
and chronic coughs', to return home with
some advice and a bottle of Pe-ru-na, which
they can continue to get at their nearest
drugstore; and the fame I enjoy in the ,
treatment of such troubles comes from my
use of this wonderinl compound.
AS A FAMILY MEDICINE.
"Used according to the directions, it will
secure the family against colds, coughs,
pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis and con
sumption. It is a fact, at which my aston
ishment increases day by day, that so many
otherwise sensible and provident people
will, for the neglect of so simple a precau
tion as to have a bottle of Pe-ru-na at
hand, bring upon themselves the needless
suffering and foolish expense that I
am forced to witness every day. A
cold in the head, which a single bottle of
Pe-ru-na will cure, soon becomes'a case of
enronic catarrh, which will require many
bottles to entirely cure. A sore throat,
which one bottle of Pe-ru-na will cure, soon
becomes chronic pharyngitis or enlarged
tonsils, which will require many bottles. A
slight cough, which, without a vestige of
doubt, would soon disappear with the use of
Pe-ru-na, becomes chionic bronchitis, will
require a persistent use of Pe-ru-na 'or some
time. I see a great many cases of consump
tion each year due directly to a neglect of
coughs, colds, etc., which, if Pe-ru-na had
been kept in the honse andused according to
directions, would have been prevented. In no
other department of domestic arrangements
is there such stupendous disregard of the
welfare of tbe family as in guarding against
the common ills of life by the use of effec
tive and reliable family medicines. If the
following advice could reach every house
hold in the land, and with such eloquence
as to win obedience, it would convey a bless
ing to each of a value that would be difficult
to exaggerate. The advice is this: Get a
bottle of Pe-ru-na, read the instructions on
the bottle until they are thoroughly under
stood, do exactly as they direct, and I guar
antee that no cold, cough, sore throat, bron
chitis, pleurisy, pneumonia or any other
climatic disease will disturb the peace of
the household so long as this is continued.
To have this remedy at hand before the at
tack comes, to become intelligent as to its
use before compelled to use it, is only the
most common foresight used in all other de
partments of ordinary business. It has
been the greatest ambition of my lite to
compress into a few compounds the princi
pal virtues of the pbarmacopea, which I
believe I have accomplished in Pe-ru-na,
Man-a-lin and La-cu-pi-a. Now that my
standard prescriptions have come to be ex
tensively used as family medicines, I feel a
keen desire to extend tneir use not only in
the cure of disease, but also in the preven
tion of it. Not all tbe wealth of the world
could induce me to part with the privilege
to use these remedies in the cure oi disease,
yet their value in the prevention of disease
is still greater. An intelligent use of these
three great family medicines Pe-ru-na,
Man-a-lin and Lacu-pi-a wonld convert
the moaning or fretful multitude of little
children into clad and bouncing playmates,
and change the vast number of half sick
women who drag themselves wearily to their
daily tasks into sprightly, happy wives' and
sisters, and the throngs of dispirited un
healthy men into noble and stalwart hus
bands and brothers.
Opening of Thnma'a Dancing Academy
For beginners next week, Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday evenings. Children's
class Saturday afternoon. See amusement
column, this paper.
The Iron City Brewing Co.'s ale and por
ter are the most popular seasonable drinks.
'Phone 1186.
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man who is nerrmn and debilitated. Address,
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