."-' K- !;C THE HTTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, IBRCJAET 16, 1890, 15 aUSIC OF THE BODY. t TheGlorions Melody of Motion That l Makes Up Womanly Grace, 12JD0LEKCE LEADS TO UGLINESS. Tlit Cushioned Cocking Chair Responsible for CnrTed 8pln.es. HOW 10 BIT TTELL AKD WAIdT WEIL luiuriur roa thx dispatch. "WTiat constitutes womanly grace, that "swete attractive kinde of grace" of which the ancient poets wrote that "dumb music of the body, that won drous melody of femi ninity" of which Heine sang, which we in this latter day renaissance of physical testheticism hear discussed so uni versally? It is, in deed, only the outward and visible sign of some secret favor of the immortal gods, as the Greeks argued, or is it not rather the expres sion of energy and sincerity of character, nicety ot judgment, 'houghtfulness, unsel fishness, sagacious cal- 1 Jfc culation, and consum mate deliberation? Might Way to Walk. There is occasionally a woman so divinely fashioned that, ai Emer son says, "whenever she stands or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, she confers a favor on the world," for whom the chasm of grace has glorified the crown of beanty, who ronld no more make an awkward motion than a nightingale could utter a discordant note. The women of Andalusia possess the gift of grace, perhaps, more universally than those of any other race. Spanish women are noted for their majestic carriage quite at ranch as ior their dark flashing eves and dusky hair. The women of lower Italy have such elasticity of gait and superiority of conformation 'that tbey are said to pose un intentionally, and French women proverb ially make up in grace what tbey lack in beanty. A French girl can express with her shoulders more than some girls can ever say with lips or eyes. Occasionally this enviable gift of grace manifests itself in some little child whose melodious movements, harmony of action and poetrv of gesture while entraged in simple childish games unconsciously elimi nate the most abstruse mysteries in the science of grace. But it is only in rare mo ments of inspiration that the Creator thus endows some fortunate being with the at tributes of faultless beauty, and His handi work on the average woman gives little evi dence of His divinity. Just why He chooses to create one woman a goddess and another a caricature is one of His ways that are past finding out; it would be a goad question for me -rresoyterian aomimes to wrangle over when they have finished the discussion of the confession. At rare intervals a musical genius is born into the world, to whom harmony is instinct And melodv an intuition, but the majority oi people nave to learn five-finger exercises "before they can render symphonies. Now though a lifetime of practice will sot make of the ordinary ungifted mortal a Liszt or a Subinstein, there is no reason why the most common place littl e woman Bay not learn by study just enoutrb. melody to play an accompaniment to John's Ante of an evening, and though no amount of vocal culture can make her a Patti or a Kilsson, she m a v learn quite sufficient harmony to sing Wrong Way to Walk. lullabies to her babies that they will love if so one else appreciates. The theory of graceful movement is founded on a few fixed and unalterable principles, which taken in analysis seem as unimportant and monotonous as whole notes ondthalf notes, but in their entirety enables one who masters them to run the gamut of Harmonious action with a sure and expres sive touch and bring out melodies of move ment that are beautifully effective. The first and greatest impediment to grace is simple indolence. The awkward woman is the com fortable woman every time. She sits downin a chair in such a way that the back shall support her and touch her soinal column all the way up and down, instead of making a little effort to hold herself erect and teach all those intricate, shiftless little muscles sronnd her body to support her. What is the result? She hollows her chest, throws her abdomen out, ten chances out of a dozen crosses her knees with her toe in the air for some one to fall over, or else sprawls her feet apart in easy nonchalance. Long practice of this attitude allows the muscles to relax about the waist, settle down fold on fold, and presently that woman realizes that she cannot button her own shoes as she used to or wear the dress she wore when she was married. The modern rocking chair with its luxurious cushions has made more prominent abdomens and curving spines tban any other agent ot de struction to womanly grace. The old New England housewives and spinsters sitting erect in their straight-backed, splint- uuiwmeu cnairs never uaa to worry over an exuberance of adipose abdominal tissue. The awkward woman establishes herself in a street car as lazily as if arranging her attitude for an after noon siesta. What is the result? In the first place she shuts her self up like a jack knife in the sloping seat, puts her feet ex actly where they are sure to be stepped on, allows her umbrella to slide down where same one will trip over it, bangs her bonnet and her back hair against the win dow at every jolt, and when she reaches her destination arises only by an effort and a little see-saw .motion, repeated more or less times accord ing to her weight, to get up ner momentum. There is no attitude at wbich a woman is Going UDttatru more graceful than a devotional one. Indeed one old cynic nas saiu wuuieu uugnt to uo all the praving in the world, since the kneeling position ii so beantifully adapted to the lines of their slender figures. But see the awkward woman at her prayers. Slowly the muscles relax, and she sinks lower and lower down in a little huddled heap, bobbing her bead about for a com fortable place on the' edge of the pew in trout of her, all so lazily tbat one wonders if ber prayers are earnest enough to be answered. The mischief of all this is leu in the ridiculons picture she presents than in the permicious effect upon both form and carriage. To sit well may be quite as great an rt as to write a poem, and to accomplish either requires efiect The pretty pose of the head, the erectness of the trunk, and the graceful disposition of the lower limbs are clearly emphasized in our drawing of a type of I woman with which habitues of tbe opera-are I familiar. Now, this particularly graceful, n isrsr- r i E i5i3S?SLk JL Tmgmr alert, bird-like pose, which even-in repose tu??ests something of action and enenrr. is only attainable by .strengthening, the mus-J cles about tne waist and tups. There are varions exercises tor muscular development which, of course, the average woman, who even with no house to keep or children to rear is always more hurried than the Prime Minister of a nation, never has a moment to practice; but the best and most effectual of them all she can attend to with a little thought on her way to the matinee, in the midst of the musicale, or the rush of a sample expedition, and that is to hold ber body perfectly erect for half an hour each day, touching neither chair, carriage or car seat back, and sitting well toward the edge of the seat with the right foot slightly in advance of the left, ready to rise quickly without help from the hands at an emergency. After a time prolong the half hour to a whole hour, two, three hours, and finally, so elastic, sinewy, and inde pendent will those lazy muscles become that sue will cease to care tor spinal supports and head rests like a pseudo-invalid. This Btrength and elasticity will help her in walking as well when once more the indo lent woman is the clumsy, ungraceiul figure. Dignity and grace of carriage depend upon simple things, yet a graceiul walk is one of the rare charms among American women, borne one has given a pretty formula or walk ing correctly as follows: Fancy a slender cord about your chest, just be neath the arms, the ends of which an aneel bears aloft, fluttering i'ust above your ead, and walk so gently and smooth- y and erectly tbat be trail cord shall remain taut, yet ot be permitted o break. Remem ber, too, to hold ourself firmly at the waist; step lightly on the ball rather than the heel of the foot; do The Wrong Way. not bend tne Knees ffTmt -rerv. very slightly in taking a step and keep the toes in a straight line rather than turned outward. There is a grest deal said and written about the bad effects of shoes, but, after all, the modern shoe is a very comfortable and well-cut affair, and In finitely better adapted for walking with a heel that emphasizes the arch of the instep than the flat-bottomed schooners advocated by reformers that let your foot down into the mud and wonld fit a Cherokee Indian better than tne Pittsburg woman. The awkward woman lets her knees bend a great deal because they are inclined to, leu her body sway and slop and turn, her head bob and shake, plants her heels firmly in the mui of the crosswalks, splashing it over boots and skirts as well, settles down into her clothes so comfortably that her ab domen portrudes, and her bent back allows her skirts to sweep up the dust and ashes and garbage on onr beautifully kept pave ments. When she mounts the stairs she re verses her position with an energy worthy a better cause, and, leaning far forward, falls into her dress 6kirt, tears the lace off her petticoats, trips and tugs along with her center of gravity pulling in some absurd place where it holds her body down in a half horizontal position, and makes her carry almost more than her own weight up, besides cramping her longs so that she is all out of breath, puffing and perspiring when she reaches the top. The easiest way to go up stairs is to hold yourself erect, and liftingyourweielt continually with the chest step after steps, 1 i g n 1 1 y mounting on the toes, makes climb ing the dreadi d stairs of city nouses one of the best forms of ex ercises yet in vented, according to a famous phy sician, who claims that great ad vantage is de rived from its de velopment ot the muscles of the heart. Coming down stairs the position should be the same, and Boarding a Car. each step made as lightly on the toes as thongh the stairway was of porcelain and the supports of spun glass. There are some muscles in the calf of the leg that ought to bear the strain ot the ascent and descent, and will if not imposed upon by throwing upon them a lazy load of flesh that the muscles about tne waist ought to carry. The awkward woman, too, is usually a careless, thoughtless creatute, and always in a hurry. She ploughs along through the mud on wet days with her skirts grasped in both hands, and yet trailing and dipping here and there, to wipe up filth, wipe off car steps, and sweep crosswalks, while her inevitable bundles drop unheeded from be neath her arms as she signals the car to stop, and gets into it literally head firstwith the lurch of its sudden starting. It is a picture and a poem to see the graceful woman accomplish the feat of mounting a car in rainy weather. With one inde scribable, all comprehensive touch with one hand she lifts her skirts just enough to es cape the pavement and skims the puddles like some light, swift-winged Mercury, cal culates with a nicety of reckoning that would be a fortune to an astronomer or a bank expert just when to signal the car in order to have it stop on the crossing instead of three step beyond in a pool of muddy water, trips daintily up the steps, braces for the jar of tne start, sails in as serene and spotless as a white swan on a midsummer pool, and sits down with a pretty tilt ot her skirts and throws them in graceful folds, and poises like a skylark, alert, easy, erect, and symmetrical. It re quires years of practice and sustained, con tinuous effort to master these simple princi ples, but it is, after all, tbe. simple notes and half notes of grace tbat we learned in the old finger exercises tbat constitute the symphonies of melodious action. Another consideration wbich must be entertained by the would - be graceful woman is her age, and the style of her physique must also be adapted to that peculiar kind of grace which best becomes it. The slender, wil owy woman, with the ending, delicate urveof swayinz til 's, may have a buoy nt. swift, vivacious 'tyle of motion, but me targe ana stately girl or woman must accustom herself to the equally impres sive grace of dignified moderation. The un assuming, flexible,un dulating, gracious air belonirB to the slender The Wrong Way. beautv; the majestic, queenly poise to stately ladies. In. her youth a woman should be a Hebe her motions light as a zephyr's wing, ber gestures full of glad, unstudied abandon, her strp as swilt and light and free as that of the wild woodland fawn; as she approaches the meridian of life she mnst be a Diana, with every action tender and subdued, with the chaste dignity and intelligence of per fect womanliness; tbe meridian once passed, she becomes a Juno, a Minerva, the com bined power of beauty and wisdom pervad ing every act and motion with the dienltj and serenity of consummated Womanhood. If one were to define cracefalness In a single word, no better simile could be found tban womanliness, for womanliness means carefulness, thoughtfulness, consideration, earnest enaeavor, progression, and sell' dependence, and woman's graos is the ideal!-. zation of each and all these attributes. S. lw . '' S r - M r 'iigggsA yji i J 1 1 I Iffl EiuumimmyKPi FOUR-FOOTED ACTOES Horses, Dogs, Elephants and Other Animals on the Stage. (he THE AMUSING CAPERS THEY COT. LoTe-Making Dick Who Hakes Eyes Laura Moore in the Oolah. at EACE COURSE IN THE C0UKTI PAIR JCOHRESPOXDZKCI 05 Tffle PISrATCH New Yobk, February 15. Animals have for years had important parts to play on the English and American stages, but a glance at cotemporary plays reveals an astonishing number of roles in which neither men, women nor children can be cast. I Henry E. Dixey and Bichard Golden, did very well some years ago as joint understudy for a heifer, but the genuine beast is much pre ferred nowadays to the counterfeits. A New York manager ot experience received a parrot of ability from a London friend by a recent steamer. He could not help giving utterance to the regret that bis friend across the seas had not sent him with so accom plished a bird, a play in which it could star. On the Parisian boards not very long ago was a drama of "Eden." Adam and Eve in the course of the play named tbe animals. Nearly every known creature passed in pro cession before the original pair. There never was snch a piece for the plavers who do not articulate. The American manager wno gets abead of tne drama of "Eden in four-footed, hundred-footed, winged or finned novelties will have to put on his studying cap. Yet the popularity of this species of stage realism may be interred from a glance at even an impromptu list of plays now act ing in which animals have important roles. Such, for example, the "County Fair," "The Oolah," "Booties' Baby," "The Still Alarm," "The Old Homestead," "Theo dora." "Kerry Gow," "Mazeppa," Frank Frayne's and Joe Emmett's and W. S. Steven's pieces, and "Around the World in Eighty Days." Acting tjitwbiiteh pabts. The literature of tbe animal actors and actresses furnishes a comparatively nn worked field for the dramatic writer. Ii one of the elephants in "Around the World," chose, he or she might elevate the stage in an ad mirably real manner. The horse, Dick, who played in "The Oolah" during its run at the Broadwa Theater, tried to "mash" Laura Moore, tbe Darinoora of the Opera. in the most approved, not tasav Bellewsaue style. There is a legion of good stories yet untold about the heroes and heroines of the beasts' greenroom, or, shall we say stables? When one of the road companies was pre paring "B6otles' Baby" a fine dominicker rooster and a lat little white pig were en rolled.tofigureof course in the race at the bar racks in Mrs. Stannard's amusing)play. The particular dominicker and piglet in question behaved themselves quite well until one day at dress rehearsal the rooster, who must have been am ad wag at heart, insinuated his bill shyly into the pig's ear and there against the very drum itself of the unsuspecting beast's sensitive auricle, sounded such a clarion blast as to drive the poor creature from the stage in frantic pain and terror and convulse the two legged and unieathered actors with inextingnisbable laughter. 'Tbat pig incontinently changed his vocation, he acts no more, and the chances are he walks aroundabl.ck to keep out ot a rooster's way. ORIGIN OF THE EQUINE DBAMA. The equine drama of this age dates prob ably from Astley's, in London, where a number ot horse plays were produced early in this century. Among the earliest plavs produced with real horses on the boards in this country was "Putnam, the Iron Son ot '76." Dick Turpin. who "Vunst on 'Onns- low's 'Eath his black mare Bess bestrode, 'er," also bestrode his black mare Bess iu the play of "Dick Turpin." "Heme, the Hunter," also had horses in the cast. "Bichard IIL" has been played with a horse for botb Richard a.nd Richmond in the battle scene. It didn't seem so ridiculous then for the unhorsed humpback to make his famous offer of barter. Ahorse mayoften have been worth his sovereignty to a king on a battle-beld. But tbe horse drama must make most peo ple think of "Mazeppa." Talent, if not genius, itself, enough to .make another Byron easily and perhaps to spare, has been expended in the rendition of" the sta?e ver sioi of his immortal poem. Who was the first Mazeppa? Your theatergoer of to-day remembers, if he is old enough, there is no sort of doubt. Charlotte Crampton wonld, had she been two inches taller, have startled the world, according to Macready. She did some things so well as to startle most people. For instance, she would play "Hamlet," "Bichard IIL," "Meg Mer- nlies, "Tbe .French Spy," "Mazeppa," and some other standard drama all in one week. She would play them all well, too; so well, that she narrowly fell short of even Maoready8 measure of her greatness. What a woman she was with the foilsl And she had eight husbands, too. So she ought to be fprgiven for being deficient in inches. ADA ISAACS MENKEN. The next Mazeppa one naturally remem bers is Ada Isaacs Menken. It is hard to write anything new about the beauty, the coarseness, the genius, the melancholy of that wondenul woman. Her Mazeppa, however, was by no means the greatest. She rode with nothing like the daring of Leo Hudson, who was fatally crushed by a fall of her horse in St. Louis "while playing this very part. Then there was Kate Fisher wbo rivals either Menken or Hudson. The best exponent of the part, however, was Bobert E. J. Miles, now known as "Bob" Miles, the manager of the Grand Opera House in Cincinnati. He was the beau ideal of a leading man in his day. That's what sucb experts as John B. McCormick say. "He used," said Mr. McCormick, "to ride his horse upon the roof of the Front Street Theater in Baltimore and then ride the beast all over tbe roof and even around the very eaves." Of recent years Fanny Louisa Buckingham has played Mazeppa in a desultory way. The "County Fair" is a well-known co temporary play in which genuine race horses appear before the audience in the lant burst of speed of a race. Tbe horse has a good part in "Shenandoah" also. It is said that the jockeys who are engaged to ride the thoroughbreds in the "County Fair" have seriously asked Neil Burgess to change the finale so as to permit some other beast than Cold Molasses to win all times. ' EASY TVHEN TOP KNOW HOW. How is the race arranged? Easily enouirh when you understand it. Electric motors beneath the stage keep the fence in front of the race track moving ata speed of 20 miles an hour. Behind this fence are the horses, genuine racers, plunging lite mad on tread mills invisible from the auditorium, and so perfecting an interesting illusion. The horse which puts its head in at a window in the first act in "Shenandoah," and afterward dashes across the stage wi(.h Sheridan on his back, has in more than one of the companies developed unusual acute ness. In one case he learned his cue, and pricked up his ears whenever he heard the sentence part of the ordinary stage dialogue which preceded his entry. The equine understudy in "Shenandoah'"' one night got so contused at the lights and 'people and noise that he refused to dash across the stage with Sheridan on his back. This is said to have convinced Mr. Frohman of the opin ion, he is said theretofore to have enter tained, that "any horse could do the act." In "Kerry Gow," Joseph Murphy, as the blacksmith, shoes the rsce horse before the audience with his lonre in full view. He is supposed to "fix" tbe .noble animal in tbat scene, but be doesn't do it. Lelex, the racer, appeared as the horse for a long time. In "Kerry Gow" carrier pigeons bring news of the race. Pigeons and lovers seem easily accustomed to the footlights. - DICK, TBE HASHES. Dick, the mashing horse of "The Oolah,1' belongs to Hr. 'Cohen and is a favorite in mate or one of the riding schools near Cen tral Park. Hubert Wilke used to ride Dick on the stage in the first act. Laura Moore, the pretty little Darinoora, discov ered, she said, the very first week she played with Dick tbit he had begun to uiak.3 eyes at ner. one oegan Dnugiug "" sugar trom tbe Vendoine dinner table just across the street, and Dick began watching for her and the sugar with two big eyes that marked "her comingand grew brighter when , she came." One night when she lorgot his sugar Dick is said actually to have brushed his lips with hers. Dick figured in equine roles in many of the productions of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House and has been on the stage hundreds of times. He easily learns his parts and gives nobody any trouble. Hujdreds or supes warriors, dancers and attendantsof all kinds pass and Tepass Dick, stroke his back and brush against his heel; he never rebels. Francis Wilson paid well for his use and wanted to buy him to go on the road as the recognized horse of the company. Mr. Cohen wouldn't sell him, however. Dick is too popular with his riding pupils. DOGS ON THE STAGE. While lions, tigers, hyenas, and even leopards have been utilized more or less as properties, in such plays as "Theodora," and in' Frank Frayne's purely sensa tional animal dramas, dogs tip ore on the boards next often to horses. In "Tbe Dog of Moutargis" a dog came on the stage in a heroic part, and really did many wonderful things. The name of the piece was entirely appropriate. It was tbe dog's play, "The Forest of Bondy" was also a good dog play. JoeEmmett, in several of his pieces, has used dogs to excellent advantage. W. T. Stevens, who is ont with Minnie Oscar Gray, has magnificent dogs in bis company, and utilizes them with . fine effect. Frank Frayne has dogs as well as many other animal actors usually confined in a menagerie. When Frank Frayne killed his fiancee at the Coliseum Theater in Cincinnati some years ago he gave up rifle shooting for the time and built up bis stage performances to suit various animals. Most of these reputably ferocious beasts were in reality old and quite harm less, but they didn't alwats look it, and the audience was generally delighted with their appearance. Lions, leopards and hyenas have figured in the Frayne dramas. Visitors to his summer home, down on Coney Island, have the privilege of going out to .the backyard and inspect ing the animal actors during the dull sea son. There are sometimes as many as a dozen of the beasts quartered there at once, some of them quite impressive. The ani mal drama has yet to have its tragedy not down on the bills. Elephants have been used in "Around the World in Eighty Days" and in many speo tacnlar plavs. Many years ago in a wild drama called "The Laplander," a real sleigh was pulled across the stage by real reindeers in a mad rush to escape from wolves whose cries at all events were real istic. Who can tell whether the seaserpent and the bison may not appear on the boards long after tbey have vanished from the waters and prairies of this sublunary sphere? John Paul Bococe. ATTRACTED BY A MIRROR, A Group of Women MIm a Train While Fixing; Their Bans. St. Louis Republic 1 A mirror is to most women what a razor is to most men an indispensable adjunct of the toilet and though the razor has been relegated to the possession of the colored brother, the pocket mirror finds a place in the vest pocket of every well equipped so ciety beau purely, or course, for tbe accom modation of the ladies. The Man About Town was forcibly impressed the other day with the high esteem in wbich a woman holds her mirror, by the desperate means some women resorted to when need ing a reflection. The darkey employed at the Laclede Bank was busily engaged polishine the brass siens of tbe institution. He rubbed and scoured and brightened and wiped until tbe perspiration stood ont upon the black marble of his brow, not withstanding that the day was chilly in the extreme. He finished his task with a sigh of satisfaction, gathered up the uten sils he had employed and disappeared into the bank just as threa-ladies turned the cor ner on a semi-gallop to catch a cable train which had already reached Broadway. Strange to say, they made no attempt to stop the train. The bright convex brass surface, glistening in the occasional burst of sunshine, focussed their attention, and in just three seconds the group were busily en gaged in front of it arranging their bangs, putting on little dabs of powder where they would do the most good with a powder-rag, and in sundry and divers ways finish ing their toilets. It was an exhilarating spectacle and was hugely enjoyed by the dudes loitering, in the vicinity. The Man About Town is firmly convinced that a re tailer could attract attention in no way bet ter than by exposing a French mirror in Borne conspicuous position where it could be available for use. PEOPLE WHO COURT DANGER. A Workman Tnlki About a Cloai That Give the Coroner Jobs. PhlUdelphl Inquirer. "The number of people who will walk under an iron safe while it is being raised to the top floor of a tall building would sur prise a Coroner," said tbe foreman of a gang of safe hoisters wbo were maneuvering with a ten-ton mass o iron which dangled from the fifth story window of a Chestnut street trust company's edifice. "Look at 'em," as a hurrying crowd of men, women and children passed under the sate, not thinking about crossing to the other side of the street, which was compara tively clear of people. "That's the "way," mused tbe safe man. "People court dan ger. If those ropes would happen to break there'd be a few less people in this world, and a mighty big mess on the pavement. They like the sensation of passing under tbe dangerous affair, and looking up as they pass under to see if the thing's going to fall. It's no use to warn them. There isn't one out of a hundred that will take the opposite side of the street when there's a safe in tbe air. It's human nature. They all like it." Remarkable Cnre of Rheumatism. Dei Moines (la.) Dally New. A 'News reporter, learning that Mrs. N. M. Peters, of East Des Moines, who was long afflicted with rheumatism, had been completely cured, concluded to call on the lady and get the facts direct from her for the benefit of anv of our readers wbo may be similarly afflicted- He found Mrs. Peters to be a very pleasant lady of middle age, in goqd health and doing her own housework. On being questioned, she said: "I had suf fered with rheumatism the, greater part of the time Tor nearly seven years. At times I was almost helpless. I had doctored a great deal for it with physicians, and tried electric belts and almost every thing tbat is recommended for rheuma tism, as no one will suffer with it as I did, without aomg ait that can be done to relieve it. Finally a neighbor woman ad vised me to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm and was so sure that it would help me, that I procured a bottle. It did help me right from the start, but it took five 60-cent bot tles to cure me, so vou can gness bow bad I was, as one or two bottles will oure any or dinary case. It is a grand good medicine and has done me a power of good, and I hope you will publish the tacts in your valuable paper, that everybody may know 1C For sale by E. G. Slnckey, Seventeenth and Twentv-tdurth streets, Penn avenue and corner Wylie avenue and Fulton street; MarkeIfBros.,corner Penn and Frahkstown avenues; Theodore E. Ibrig, 3610 Fifth ave nue; Carl Hartwig, Forty-third and Butler streets, Pittsburg, and in Allegheny by E. E. Heck, 72 and 194 Federal street Tbomas B, Morris, corner Hanover and Preble ave nnes; F. H. Egcers. 172 Ohio itreet. and F. H. Eggers & Son. 199 Ohio itreet and 11 Smitbfield street. - trsa. MDIHG THE. EAPIDS. Another Letter From the Grand Canon Exploring Expedition. THE PHOTOGRAPHER BADLY HDRT. Rue Beauties of One of Nature's Host Ma - jeatlc Wonderlands. MEMORIES OF LABI BUMMER'S TRIP tCOBBXSPOKDXXCS Of TUX DISPATCH. Flagstaff. Aeiz.. January 22. This etter is written at Camp No. 68, of the Den ver, Colorado Canon and Pacific Bailroad Exploring Expedition. The camp is in the Grand Gabon, IS miles below the mouth of tbe Little Colorado river and is sent to Flagstaff by messenger. Our expedition left Lee's Ferry, from which point I wrote you last, December 23. We had quite a flattering farewell from the good people at the ferry. The whole settlement to the num ber of 32 turned ont to see us depart, and to witness our little fleet run the first rapid at the headJof Marble Canon. This rapid, No. 101 from the head of the river, is about i miles long, and very steep. The little company standing upon the bank at the middle of the rapid gave us a hearty cheer, as our boats went pitching and dancing over and through tbe heavy waves, and as we disappeared behind, the cliffs, they waved us a God-speed with their hats and bonnets. This was the first real test of the ability of our new boats to cope with the rougn waters of the canons below, where our smaller boats of last summer's expedition suffered so disastrously; and it was with feel.ngs of the greatest satisfaction that we came to the end of this first exciting and somewhat dangerous run. Our boats were each loaded with between 3,100 and 3,200 pounds (including men), and yet they danced over the waves and through the huge breakers almost as lightly as swans. Engineer Stanton stood up in i the bow of boat No. 1. the whole way down, showing his confidence in the sturdy boats, and the faithful steersman and oarsmen at his back, while some of the waves dashed their spray completely over his head, drenching the whole crew. WHEBE PEESIDENT BEOW1T DIED. We camped that night, and spent Sunday eight miles below, at the mouth of Badger creek. We reached the next Tuesday, the spot where President Brown lost his lite on that sorrowiul 10th of July last, and it is not surprising tbat the silent surroundings and the inscription cut on the side of the canon should call out some little feeling ot depression in the party at this time. But what a change in the waters! What was then a roaring torrent, now, with the water some nine feet lower, seemed as we looked upon it trom the shore, like the gen tle ripple upon a quiet lake. We found, however, in going through it in our boats, that there was the same current, though without waves, the same huge eddy, and be tween them, the same whirlpool with its ever changine circles coiner round and round and on Ind on, like the brook, for ever. With one exception we have had a most successful journey all through the Marble Canon and to this point in the Grand Canon. On January 1 our photographer, Mr. F. A. Nims, while going up on a little bench "to take a photograph, slipped and fell about 22 feet onto the sandy beach below, giving him a very severe jar and breaking the small bone just above his right ankle. Having plenty of bandages and medicines, and an experienced man in our first boat man, McDonald, we made poor Nims as comfortable as possible until the next day, when we loaded one of the boats so as to make him a level bed, and making a stretcher of two oars and a piece of canvas, put him on board and floated down river a couple of miles to a side canon which led out to Lee's Ferry road.. OABSTINO THE INJURED Tjp HILIr. The next day Mr. Stanton, after finding a way out on top through the side canon, walked 35 miles back: to Lee's Ferry for a wagon to take Mr. Nims wbere he could be cared' for." But then came the tug of war. the getting of Nims up from the river 1,700 feet to the Mesa above. Eight of the strong est men of the party started with bim early Saturday morning and reached the top at 3:30 p. M., having carried him four miles in distance and 1,700 feet uphill; the last half mile being at an angle of 45 degrees up a loose rock slide. In two places the stretcher had to be hung by ropes from above, while the men slid him along a sloping cliff too steep to stand npon, and in two places he was lifted up with ropes over perpendicular rocks 10 and IS feet high. The party reached the top, however, without the least injury to the sick man or themselves. They did not receive the warmest reception on top, for Mr. Johnson, with the wagon from Lee's Ferry, did not arrive till late Sunday morning, and the men spent that' night in a snow storm, without blankets, supper or breakfast, and with no wood except small grease wood bushes, to make a fire. Late on Sunday we bade Mr. Nimsgood by, leaving him in tbe hands of Mr. W. M. Johnson and his estimable wife, where he would get tbe best ot care, and we returned to our camp in tbe canon below. Mr. Nims' loss is a great blow to the expedition. He was a most experienced photographer, and had great success in taking the views of this country last summer, as his 200 photographs 'will testify. Ever since the accident Engi-c neer Stanton, with the assistance ot the cook, JamesJIogue, has been taking all tbe pictures of the canon and the surrounding country, bnt with what success the future development of the negatives can only! de cide. 10W OB HIGH WATEE. We continned our journey oyer the same part of the river that we traveled last sum mer till January 13, when we reached Point Betreat, where we left the river on our homeward march just six months before. We found our supplies, blankets, flour, sugar, coffee, etc., which we had hidden in a marble cave, all in good, condition, and they made up for the provisions used in the five days delay caused by .Nims accident. Traveling oyer about 38 miles of Marble Canon twice,, with quite high and very low stages of water, gives one an opportunity to study the much disputed point as to which is the better time of year to run the many rapids in this angry river. Two or three points are already settled. At the lowest stage of water all the rapids are much shorterand the waves much smaller. In those rapids formed by ledges of rock, across the river, what was a sloping rapid in high water becomes a single fall with short rapids below in low water. T.hose formed by boulders washed in all across the stream become masses ot bou'ders with numerous currents between them, impossible to run with boats, but easy to portage, while that class of rapids formed by slides ot rock crowding the water into narrow channels and penning it up above tbe partial dam, thus forming chutes of rushing, boiling and surging waves, at low water become simply swilt draws -and splendid rnnning water. Only one class of rapids, all things consid ered, are worse at this stage of water. These are the long rapids .ormed by gravel bars. Over these the water is spread out so thinly, at low water there is hardly enough to float our loaded boats. One ot our boats stuck in the center of one of these yesterday, but was gotten off without damage by throwing O line to the men from the bther boats. SHOOTING THE EAPID3. From the head of the Colorado river to this point, a distance ot 290 miles, there are just 200 rapids not counting' small draws or rifiies and from Lee'$ Ferry to this point, n distance of 80 miles, there arevjust 100 rapids. "We have run,,the greaUrpart of this 100, arid portagedLbqt, few, dnd over many of them our boats have danced" and jumped at the rate of 15 .miles per hour, and I over'feome. bv"nntnal mMinrpmnt of. ihn L rate of 20 miles per hour for a'half:Hiiie, at 1 a time Standing in thebow of one,ol the boata as Bhe goes through one of' these chutes," With first the bowand then the Stern jumping into the air as ahe shoots from wave to wave, with the spray of the breakers dashing over one's head'is something' the excitement and "fascination of wbidb can only be understood by being experienced. That part of Marble 'Canon, from Point Betreat for 40 miles down to the month of the Xittle Colorado river, is tar the most beautiful and interesting-canon we hive yet passed through. At Point Betreat the marble walls stand up perpendicularly 300 feet from the water's edge, while the sand stone above benches back in slopes and cliffs to z,ouu leet nigh. J ust beyond this the canon is its narrowest being but a little over 300 feet wide from wall to wall, while the river in places at this stage of water is not over 60 feet wide. The marble rapidly rises till 4 1 stands iu perpendicular cliffs 700 to 800 leet high, colored with all the tints of the rainbow, but mostly red. In many places toward tbe top it ' is honey-combed with caves, caverns, arches and grottos,with here and there a natural bridge left from one crag to another, making a most grotesque and wonderful picture. FOUNTAINS AND FEBNS. At the foot of these cliffs in many places are fountains of pure sparkling water gush ing out from the rock. In one place, Vas sey's Paradise, several hundred feel up the wall and dropping down among shrubery, are ferns and flowers, some ot wbich, even at this time of year, we find in bloom. Below this for some distance are a number of these fountains with large patches ol maiden-hair ferns clinging to the wall IS to 20 reel above the water, green and Iresb as in the month of May. The sparkling water running down over them makes a most charming picture. Our weather has been most wonderful through tbe whole winter. The thermome ter has never registered at six o'clock in the morning lower than 24 degrees above zero and in tb&sun in the middle of the day has registered as high as 75 degrees. We have had but one, snow storm down in the canon and one rain. The sun has shone brightly nearly all tbe time, though for eight days at one time it never shone directly on us, we being under the shade "of the cliffs all the time. Ten miles below ?oint Betreat as we went into camp one evening we discovered the remains of Peter H. Hansbrough, one of the" boatsmen drowned on our trip last summer. His remains were easily recog nized from the clothing and shoes that weie still on him. The next morning we buried them under an overhanging eliff. The burial service was brief and simple we stood around the grave with uncovered heads while one short prayer was offered, not only for the dead, but for the living, tnat we mignt oe spared bis late, and we left him with a shaft of pure marble 700 feet high with his name cut upon the base, as his Headstone, and in honor of his mem ory, we named a magnificent point opposite, Point Hansbrough. BEAtnrrnx, iittle faems. From Point Hansbrough to the Little Colorado tbe canon widens out; the marble benches back; new strata of limestone quartzite and sandstone come up from the river, and tbe debris forms a talus equal to a mountain slope, while the bottoms widen ont into little farms covered with green grass and groves of Mesquite, making a most charming and beautiful summer pic ture after the narrow canons above. We reached the end of Marble Canon at the mouth of the Little Colorado, January 20, and slept that night in the Grand Canon. Last evening we were much surprised to meetMr. Felix Lantear, of Flagstaff. Ariz., who is in here prospecting. He is tbe first person we have seen since leaving Lee's Ferry, and it is by him that we are enabled to send out this letter. This first section of the Grand Canon, from the Little Colorado to the beginning of the Granite Gorge some 18 miles in distance is one of the interesting and curious sections of this part of Arizona. The whole section seems to have been up turned, tumbled over an mixed up in every imaginable shape, some of the oldest and newest formations standing side by side, showing most gorgeous color ing of mineralized matter from dark purple and green to bright red and yellow. The river runs through quite a wide valley with bottom lands and eroves of Mesquite, and Mr. Lantear tavs he is go ing to plant a garden of vegetables in the spring. Tbe top walls of tbe canon are miles and miles apart and hills and knobs, with pinnacles and spires, rise up between the river and walls beyond, these being cut between by deep washes and gulches run ning iu every direction. A few miles below begins the great gran ite gorge, the mysterious and dark canon of this noted river. We start down into its depths to-morrow. May the good fortune that has followed our little fleet so far ac company us through its many winding and its rushing cataracts. Tbasip. BOOKS THIETES C0YET. An Engineering Work Is a. Favorite With Thera Everywhere. Washington Herald. 1 "One wonld naturally think," said Mr. Ganiard, the manager at Brentano's, "that in a place like ours, shoplifters would find it easy to get away with a good many ar ticles, but the fact is we lose very little. About the only thing we have stolen are copies of 'Eoper's Handbooks of Engineer ing.' The thefts of 'Eoper's "Handbooks' have come to be recognized as a sort of feature of the book trade all over the coun try. Not long ago there was a perfect epi demic ot ic in a number of- cities. One, person Beemed to be.devotiog.all his or ber time to stealing tne volumes, going from city to city and getting away with a few of them in every stopping place." "What is thereabout the books that makes .them specially attractive to thieves?" asked.the reporter. , . "Well, the 'Handbooks' arestandard pub lications, and the thieves can realize ou them almost as easily as they could on so much.old gold or silver. Then the volumes are small and compact, and they sell from $2 SO to $6 each. They are always in de mand, and tbe thieves, of course, are aware of these facts." "But don't you lose anything from klep tomaniacs, said to be very common, whose passion for books causes them to commit thett to get hold of works they covet with out paying for them?" was the next in quiry. "No, we are not troubled in tbat way," the gentleman answered. "The only people of that kind we have to deal with are those who try to beat ns by buying periodicals and books, reading them, and then eettine us to take them back on one pretext or an other." A Long-, Loud Catertraak Gardiner, Me., Home Journal. The Independent Ice Company has a whistle at its ice house tbet can make the most horrible noise ot any on the river, ac cording to all accounts. A gentleman try ing to describe the noise said if one could imagine a cat half a mile long, with a pile driver dropped on its tall, the yell that would follow might equal that whistle. She's Always Bight. Don't take on so, Hiram, Bnt do wnat you're told to do; It's fair to supnose tbat yer mother know! A heap sight more than you. P1I allow tbat sometimes bar way Don't seem the wisest, quite; Bnt the easiest way, When she's bad her say,v Is to reckon yer mother U right Courted bar ten long winters Saw her to slnRln' school When she went down one spell to tows, I cried like a darned ol' fool; Got mad at tbe boys-for callln', When I sparked her-SundUynliht, But she said she knew A.A three or two, , - An' I reckoned yer mother wak right 17 1 courted till I wuz grng - And she wuz past ber prime. -, Td have died. I guessVif she hadn't said ye . When I popped Fr the hundredth time;1 Said she'd never have-look me lt I hadn't stuck so tight Opined that we Could never agree. Ana JtxecKon yer mother wuz rizhtl Eugene JTUM n Chicago JVttei. THE GOSPEL ABROAD. Foreign Mission Work and What it 'Has to Contend Against IGNORAHCB OP THE EEAL FACTS. The Old Argument Tbat All Unenlightened Heathen Were Lost COMPETING WITH OTHER CHURCHES (WBRTSX VOX THX DISPATCH. "The field is the world." Anybody who wants to know what are the boundaries within which missionary work, onght to be done, is commended to that descriptive sen tence. Hang up a map of both hemis pheres, with all the continents and all the islands and all the seas upon it, with polar ice at the top and polar ice at the bottom, and tbe equator across the middle of it that is the map of missions. I like to think of Christ, standing in the midst ot that little, contracted, out-of-the-way, provincial Palestine, gathering about Him that obscure company of Galilean peasants, and looking out into the great reaches of space and time, and saying: "The-field is the world." There is nothing like it anywhere. It has no parallel in its divine andacity. Bemember that the place was Judea and tbe listeners were Hebrews. The place and the people typified religious sectarianism and nrrrowness. Bemember that the time was 1,900 years ago, or TeTy nearly, and that at that time the idea of a universal religion had never been dreamed of. The profoundest philosopher, the most daring reformer, the most prophetic statesman had not even conceived either the desirability or tbe possibility, or even the merest visionary outline, of a religion for tbe race. A hun dred and fifty years later the sceptic Celsus ridiculed tbe notion of a universal reli gionas A COLOSSAL TOLLY. We are so accustomed to the wide idea, it is so in the Christian air we live in, that we do not appreciate tbe sound of it in the ears of that little company who heard it first It was an amazing announcement "The field is the world," "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." "Go, make disciples of all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com manded you; and lo, lam with you always, even unto the end of the world." We have hardly learned the meaning of that yet We are lorever limiting the field, and asking wbo is my neighbor? and trying to put narrow duties iu the place of wide ones, and questioning the value and the use of foreign missions. Even to-day, with all the widening-out of thought, with" all the bril liant generalizations, and the bravery of Afrio- n discovery, and tbe schemes for hu man brotherhood, and the spread of civili zation, we are still behind Christ We are not yet wide-minded as He was. We still keep within the limits of a parochial and provincial Christianity. We still need ser mons on foreign missions. One of the disadvantages of foreign mis sions is that they are snch a long way off. Not many of us have visited Africa, or China, or Japan, or ever expect to. Wefind it difficult to realize tbe conditions of life 'and work in those distant regions. The im agination, always an essential element in enthusiasm, finds little to build upon. What our missionaries are doing in those remote countries, what their hardships are, what kind of s'umbling blocks they have to change into stepping stone?, and how they are succeeding in that difficult endeavor, we know hardly at alt WE DON'S BEAD TH35TB LETTEE3. This is not the fault of the missionaries. They do their best to keep us posted. They are forever writing letters, and their corre spondence is Deing printed every month in full in our missionary magazines. But somehow we do not read the letters. The whole matter is out of sight and out of mind. These missionaries represent us. They are there in our place, doing the work which is laid upon all Christiana alike, try ing, make a Christian world, and succeeding wonderfully sometimes and in some places. But somehow we are not interested. It is said that in some churches the announce ment that upon the following Sunday a mis sionary from some remote outpost of the church will be the speaker will considerably lessen the size oi the congregation. We have no wish to listen to missionaries. We do not even read their letters. One of the reasons why we do not read foreign missionary correspondence with more interest is because we are so far behind in missionary history. Tbe letters take for granted, oi necessity, a hundred things which we ought to know, but of which we are in tact quite ignorant It is like taking 'up a newspaper to-day, alter a month's interruption, and reading all tbe late t news from Brazil. It would be unin telligible. Another reason why the letters do not in terest us, is because they are not interesting. They are very quiet, unromantio letters. They tell about planting gardens, and build ing cabins, and teaching arithmetic and theology, and conducting examinations, and holding services, and preaching the gospel to small congregations. They are very com monplace letters. TVHAT TTE WOtrLD EEAD. The kind of correspondence which we would find attractive would read like chap ters out of mediaeval history. We would like to bear of tbe conversion of great mul titudes; of the dramatio baptism of Pagan warriors and princes; we wonld like to have some oi our missionaries martyred I Instead of tbat, the work is going on quietly, steadily and most undramatically. It is not verv brilliant work. Bnt we have reason to believe that it is effective and per manent work, wbich is a good deal better. There is probably more martyrdom than we hear of, but it is tbat silent, everyday mar tyrdom of personal self-sacrifice and un sparing work which does not take up many paragraphs in history, but which has its honorable record, none tbe less, upon tbe pages oi uoa s oooic oi remembrance. We are told sometimes most oiten by people wbo do not read missionary reports that foreign missions are a failure. The Board or Missions does not think so; the statistics of missionarv work do notsbow it; the testimony of intelligent travelers is not to tbat efiect Even if the work did seem a failure, tbat might not mean tbat it had failed. God knows what fails and what succeeds, and no one else does. Sometimes what we call success He calls by another name; and he who in the sight 0 men has failed wins the crown which God has promised to the conqueror. oan'x tvt rr is figubes. It is best not to try to- measure spiritual accomplishment Foreign missions are hard, slow work, like any kind of missions. And the good which is done cannot by any means be set down in figures, valued by dollars, reported in statistics, nor discov ered by every transient tourist. It is safe to multiply every missionary report by ten. Suppose we say. then, that the first barrier in the way of missionary enthusiasm is ignorance. But i we knew all that anybody can know about the results of foreign missions, and if we multiplied tbat even by 20, still wonld it not be true tbat our first duty is just here at home? Wonld it nut be true that the best place to spend missionary monev is right here? Undoubtedly it would.' Tbe first and most imperative duty Cor a man, or a nation, or'a oburch, is the duty wbich lies nearest The great work which God has given the Christian church in this land to do in this day, is not the work of foreign missions. With our great heathen cities close beside us; with the wide West every day getting settled, and every dav havlnsr it character determined more and more toward good or toward evil; we have a I plain, an unmistakable duty. It la the Christianizing of this continent OTJB OBKAT WOEK AT HOME. England may set foreign missions first. That Is the province and the duty of that Christian nation. England has no domestio missions. But our duty is quite other than that We give to-day twice as much toward the maintenance oi missions at home as we do toward the maintenance oi missions abroad. We might well give five times as much. There are two ways, however, of doing that One is to divide foreign missions by five; the other is to multiply home missions by five. To SaV that mission vnrlr At fcnmct I n-nr .first duty does not mean tbat it is our only I .3..... tr.. : ia ,. .... - uu.jr. nn imi;m as wen say tnat because the most important book for any man to read is the Holy Bible, there ore he should read the Holy Bible and no other book at all. Do the nearest task, but do not let tbat fill . the whole horizon of yonr interest Provide foryourself and for your laroily. That is well. But if you stop there, ii you shut the whole world out when you shut the door of your house that is selfish. The truth is that that man will do the near est duty best wbo recognizes remoter duties also. The penalty of neglecting wider duties is a gradual incapacity lor doing the Searer duties well. The wider interests a lan has, the better be is fulfilling the pur pose for which God has put bim here; and tbe better it is tor the man. Narrow inter ests make men narrow-minded. Narrow giving makes narrow parishes. THE CHUBCH tfNIVEESAIi. Begin at Jerusalem, the Lord said, but reach out to Judea, and to Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth. You know what "Catholic" means in the creed. When you follow tbat command. When you real ize that every offering affects the interests of Christ's religion in every remotest parish, in China, in Japan, and along the Western coasts of Africa, you gain a conception of the church universal. We live at the center of a series of widening circles. The family, tbe parish, the national cburcb, and the great church Catholic The interests of the family must not hide the interests of the parish, nor the mission of the church at home tempt us to neglect the interests of the church abroad. I am afraid, accordingly, that we will have to add a second reason for the absence of many Christians from the honorable roll of missionary helpers. We will have to say that foreign missions are hindered not only by ignorance, but by narrowness. But neither enlightenment nor breadth will breed enthusiasm. Enthusiasm begins at tbe heart Our fathers had two arguments for foreign missions wbich were meant to make men enthusiastic by touching their hearts. It used to be said that foreign mis sions ought to be maintained because in the absence of tbe preaching of the word of truth, these benighted heathen are falling instant by instant, score by score into, THE EVEELASTINO 7XA3IE3. No salvation outside the visible church; no salvation except to him who has heard the syllables of tbe name of Jesus. If that is true we have no business to think of anything else. We have no busi ness ever to forget it We may not listen to tbe ticking of a clock without the awful consciousness tbat second by second, tick by tick, immortal sonls are going down into immortal agony. I cannot believe that Even the Chris tians who have had it in their creed are trying hard in these days to get it out I do not know how God will save the heathen. Tbe Bible was not written for the heathen, and so does not undertake to answer that question. The whole spirit of revelation in regard to this and 20 other like i ques tions is in the reply of our Lord to him who asked, "Are there few that be saved?" and who got for answer 'strive to enter in." I do not know how God will save the heathen; but I do believe most firmly that everyone of them, whether Buddist or Brahmin, whether Parsee or Mohammedan, everyone of them who up to the measure of the opportunity wbich God has given him serves and pleases God, the just and loving Father in heaven who can not but do right will save them. Surely it means something when m urn nk Miaf Christ, tbe Light, Iighteneth every ums-mm-born into this world. Surely it means something when we read that other sheep J tnere. arc ooisiue our 101a. xnem, also, in His own wise and good way, will God Dnng. THE ELEMENT OF COMPETITION. But it used to be said, as a second argu mentand this argument has not yet quite vanished out of religious papers it used to be said that we ought to be zealous about foreign missions, because other Christian communions are. The motive of competition was brought in. Men's loyalty was ap pealed to. Unless we are watchful and ag gressive these heathen will all be converted into Presbyterian or Methodist or Bomaa Catholic Christians, instead or into good Baptist or Episcopal Christians, as we might desire. Tbe argument needs only to be bluntly stated to be proved unworthy. It is one of many strange positions which our unhappy divisions have made possible. What then is the motive of missions? Here it is in the words of the Great Mis sionary: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Christ said that Christ looked out into the future, century by century, down to this day in which we live, and said tbat We have inherited that That is the great com mission. Tbat is the official marching order of the militant church. That is what the churcb is for. "Into all the world," "to every creature" that means foreign mission work as plainly as if those two unpopular words were written right there in the Bible. They meant foreign missions in the Middle Ages, when our own heathen and barbarian ancestors turned the battle-ax of Odin into tbe cross of Christ They meant foreign missions a good deal more recentlr tban tbat, when a struggling church within these coasts asked offerings and help from over tbe ocean. And they mean foreign missions to-day, when we who, thanks to the care of foreign missionaries, are able to help ourselves, are asked to lend tbe same kind of helping hand to somebody else, rr is a command. A good Christian believes in foreign mis sions becanse he believes in Christian obedi ence. Christ commanded foreign missions. Who will go in tbe face of tbat command? A good Christian believes in foreign mis sions because he believes in Christian truth. He believes tbat the Christian religion is true, and that no other religion on the face ot the earth deserves tbat adjective. There is some spark of truth in eyetj religion un der heaven. There is truth In the creed ef those poor Congo savages, out of whose country Stanley comes, who believe that in every village there are men who can contrr tbe rainclouds, and whom a writer in one this month's magazines describes as sob. what less intelligent tban the chimpazet Even they hae truth in their religions Bu there is only one religion which is true, ant tbat religion is the Christian. 57 Foreign missionaries are sent out to-tescl men truth. We know what that truth has done for us. We want that same blessed, uplifting influence to get into every corner oi the wide earth. We know what that truth is to us. We want to share that bene diction, that strength, that consolation, with every needy, tempted, sinful and sor-r rowful man under God's sky. Tbe good tidings of the love of God, the good tidings oi the clearer revelation of God's truth and man's duty, the good tidings that in the midst of this blind and sinful race a blessed cross was set np 1,900. years ago, whence, as from a great world-pulpit, a. Savior preached tbe love of tbe heavenly Father Land the sinfulness of human sin, so tbat everyooav coma unaerstana it, ana nobody could forget it; this is the message oi mis sions. ho will deny that sucb a message il worth while? George Hodges. r lln-I Have B.m Chained Daws. Hlnfthsm, Mass., Jonrsal.2 There is a man now living at West Hing- . bam who has an umbrella manufactured by the late Hon. Edward Cazneau, of this town, which has been in his possession 50 successive' years, and is now in good preser ration. Beat it who can. 1 I
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