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TheGlorions Melody of Motion That
l Makes Up Womanly Grace,
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"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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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FOUR-FOOTED ACTOES
Horses, Dogs, Elephants and
Other Animals on the Stage.
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THE AMUSING CAPERS THEY COT.
LoTe-Making Dick Who Hakes Eyes
Laura Moore in the Oolah.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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