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rWTHTTES MR THB DIsrATCH.1
At the loot of a high mountain in one of
the Eastern countries stood a small cottage
in which lived an old shepherd with his
two children, Paul and Helen. Although
they were poor, and had little money, they
were good and honest, and lived very hap
pily In their humble home. One time the
shepherd fell very ill, and when it was
certain that he could not recover, he called
his son and daughter to him and said: "My
dear children, I must now leave you alone
in the world. I have no riches for you; this
little co twee and three sheep are all that I
possess. They are yours; do with them as
you think best."
After the old shepherd had died, and been
laid to rest in the old village churchyard,
Paul said to his sister: ".Now, Helen, you
shall have the cottage and all that is in it
for yours. I shall take the sheep, and go
out into the world to seek my fortune.
"When I have become a rich, great man, I
shall return for you, and we shall leave this
poor little house, and live in some grand
palace."
Helen had great confidence iu her good,
brave brother, and, although she bade him a
tearful good by. she firmly believed that he
would, as he said, become rich and creat.
and then return lor her. For many days
Paul traveled over the dusty highways and
through green fields without meeting any
adventures. Tired and discouraged, and
not knowini; which way to turn, he stopped
to rest one day under a large tree that stood
at the cross roads. Suddenly he saw near
bim a man with three large black dogs.
"Good day, my boy," said the man; "I
see you have three fine sheep there. "What
do you say to giving them to me in ex
change for my dojs?"
In spite of "his sadness Paul could not help
laughing at this strange proposal.
Vliy," he said, "it costs uie nothing to
keep my 6heep, for they feed on the prass by
the roadside. But how could I buy meat for
the dogs, when I can scarcely get lood
enough tor mvself ?"
"My dogs are of a peculiar kind," said
the stranger, "and will furnish you with
food, instead ot your providing lor tbem;
and they will bring you great iortune. If
jou say to the smallest one, 'bring food
you will immediately e supplied. If you
say to the second one, 'kill him" he will at
once destroy your enemy. And if 10 the
third you cry, 'help me,' he will deliver you
in time of trouble."
Paul was finally persuaded to make the
exchange, and when the stranger had led
away the sheep he said, 'bring food,' and at
once the small dog darted awav. and soon
returned carrying a basket of the choicest I
fond. The boy now lived very comfortably
and grew quite lond of his dogs. Ode bright
morning as he was trudging merrily along
he met a carriage draped in black drawn by
four noble black horses, which hung their
heads and walked slowly, as if conscious ot
some sorrow. The coachman wore a black
livery ami had bands of crape around his
hat. AVithin the carriage sat a beautiful
young girl, on whote fair face were traces of
tears and great distress. Paul asked the
cause of all this sadness, and learned that in
the mountains there lived a huge dragon
that threatened to destroy the city and its
inhabitant- unless the King's daughter was
sacrificed to Iiiru, and in order to save his
people, the King must give his daughter to
be swallowed by the monster. Therelore,
all the city was iu mourning while the
Young girl was being carried to the moun
tain. Paul had great compassion for the King's
daughter, and followed a'ter the carnage.
Ay hen the Princess alighted, and sadlv be-
g.m her walk up the mountain, the boy
walked beside her, although the coachman
warned him that he would perish. AVhen
ther had gone about half way they heard a
great noise as of thunder, and beheld com
ing toward them from the summit the dragon
with its huge mouth open ready to devour
them.
"Kilt him," shouted Paul; and immedi
ately the second dog rushed upon the dragon
and soon stretched him lifeless upon the
ground. Paul sprang upon the great body,
aud taking three of the monster's teeth, put
them away in his purse as trophies of his
victory. The Princess shed tears of joy
over her happy escape, and wished her res
cuer to go with her to ber lather's palace,
where he would be richly rewarded.
The boy replied: "I wish to travel
farther in the west, but in six months I
shall return."
Tbey now descended the mountain, and
found the coachman who from below had
been a witness ot the scene. As they drove
back to the city a daring thought came to
the mind of the coachman, and stopping the
carriage on the middle of a bridge under
which rolled a great river, he said to the
Princess:
"Tour rescuer has gone away, and did
not detire your rewards. I am a poor man,
and it will please me greatly to receive
honors lrom the King. Therefore, you must
tell your father that I saved vou lrom the
dragon. Unless you do this'and promise
.roe never to reveal the secret, I shall hurl
you into this foaming river, and none shall
De the wiser; for they will think that you
have been devoured by the dragon."
The Princess was compelled to yield to the
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wishes of this wicked man, and promised to
declare him as her rescuer. There was great
rejoicing in the city when the King's daugh
ter returned. The black flags were taken
down, and in their stead waved gay banners,
while shouts of joy and music were to be
heard in the streets. The King sent forth a
decree that in six months a grand festival
should be held, at which time the coachman
shnnlrl he rmwned the first knight iu the
kingdom. The poor Princess hoped Tor the
return of Paul, but did not dare to make
mention of her true rescuer. At last came
the time for the great testival; and as the
procession was marching through the streets,
a stranger, leading three dogs, entered the
city. He asked the cause of all this rejoic
ing, and being told, he cried: "It is lalse;
I saved the King's daughter!"
For his impudence, as the peorjle called
it, Paul was thrown into a dark prison.
After a short time, he heard a pawing and
scratching at the door, and recognized the
whining of his faithtul dog.
"Help me," he cried, and in a moment
the largest dog had broken through the iron
door and sst his master at liberty. -
Then Paul said to the smallest animal:
"Bring foodtfrom the King's table."
"When the dog entered the banquet hall or
the palace the Princess recognized it as be
longing to her rescuer, 'and begged her
father to send for the owner. Paul soon ap
peared, and, having told his story, he
showed the three teeth which, he had taken
from the mouth of the dragon.
The wicked coachman was then thrown
into prison, and the poor shepherd boy was
given his place in the royal palace. Paul
did not now forget his sister, but, with the
permission of the King,he. again visited his
native village and returned, bringing Helen
with him, who ever afterward had a happy
home in the palace, and lound in the Prin
cess a kind and loving friend.
One morning, as the brother and sister
were walking in the palace garden, the three
dogs ran toward them and began to speak.
They said: "You have made your iortune
now, and no longer need us."
They then became birds and flew away,
and were never again seen. Paysie,
A TUBTLE FIGHT.
A Singular Contest Among Threo Ill-Sinn-
nered Jcney Turtle
New York San. J
Some boys who were gathering water
cresses in a pool beside the Passaic river,
near Avondalc, N. J., yesterday, witnessed
a singular battle among three turtles. Two
of the combatants vera common water
turtles, each about the size of a
man's hand, and they were arrayed
against a small but exceedingly vicious
Death ot the Dragon.
snapper, hardly half the sjze of one of
its opponents. AVhen the boys arrived on
the scene of action the battle had evidently
been raging lor some time, for all the rep
tiles seemed to be pretty tired. One mem
ber of the dual alliance occupied a masterly
position. It was holding the snapper's
small tail in its mouth, and, though the
jaws of the common turtle are not usually
very formidable, it maintained its grip with
the tenacity of a bulldog.
The snapper had tiken the other turtle by
its wrinkled throat, and it would soon have
brought that part of the combat to an end
haa it not opened its jaws every few mo
ments to try to see what it was that was
chewing so vigorously at its rear. Owing
to its anatomy this was, of course, impossi
ble, and each time it turned to renew opera
tions against the enemy in iront that cau
tious creature had drawn its head deep into
its shell, and, though it did uot attempt to
run away, the snapper, hampered as it was
b-hind, found considerable difficulty in
pushing its own smaller neck into the aper
ture and dragging out the reluctant fore
quarters of the water turtle.
At last the snapper seemed to understand
where the remedy for its trouble lay, and
the next time it seized the lacerated throat
it took hold to stay. The water turtle's
eyes bulged, and then the lids slowly closed.
Tt was soon dead, and then the snapper
brought its whole strength to bear upon its
tail, which it tried to pull into its shell. It
might have succeeded, but the lads were be
coming impatient, and they slaughtered the
two survivors with their sticks. Through
out the battle the turtles had not noticed
their presence.
PAPEE IK JAPAtf.
It I Used In n Vnrlely of Novel Ways by
Bolb tbe Sexe.
The Japanese use paper for everything,
says Iron. The string with which the
articles you buy are fastened is made of
paper. Do you want a piece of string ?
Tear a sheet of paper, roll it between the
fingers; it requires a strong wrist to break
it. The handkerchief thrown away after
use is paper! The partitions dividing the
houses arc paper 1
The pane through which an inquisitive
eye looks at you is paper I The pane is truly
wanting in transparency, or is not at all
transparent, and the Japanese, especially
the ladies, who are just as curious there as
they are in other countries, are none tbe
less embarrassed to see, without troubling
themselves, what is taking place outside.
Tbe method is very simple. ' One finger is
passed through the paper that is all I
AVhen one has had a good look, a small
piece is stuck on this opening with a grain
of rice.
The yakounine hat which passes you is
paper; the porter's cloak, who carries his
burden, singing a cadence through the rain;
Jhe garment or the boatman who conducts
you on board; the tobacco pouch, cigar case
all are paper 1 Those elegant flowers
ornamenting the beautiful hair of the Ja
panese ladies, and those robe collars which
are taken for crape paper I
THE
THE WORLD GREW.
Concise Statement of the First Prin
ciples of Evolution.
THE WIDESPREAD PEAR OP IT.
A Combination of Matter and Force Seems
to leave God Oat.
IS THIS CONCLUSION JUSTIFIABLE?
rwBITTXX FOB TBE SISrATCB.1
There is charge, and charge means cause,
and cause goes back to the First Cause.
That is the first step in the argument for
God.
There are two effects of the First Canse;
one is nature, the other is man. These
effects we study to learn what the First
Cause is. AVe begin with nature. AVe find
in nature the facts of uniformity and ad
justment AVhat kind of cause must that
be which has such facts as these for its
effects? Among all the causes or which we
are aware there is only oue which is ade
quatethat is an intelligent will. AVe say,
then, that the First Cause is an intelligent
will. That is the second step in the argu-
ment for Ood.
The other effect of the First Cause is man.
AVe study ourselves. AVe find the facts of
intelligence, will, personality and con
science. The first two emphasize the teach
ing of nature. A cause must be adequate
to its effect. Conscience must have come
from a righteous cause; personality from a
personal cause; intelligence and will from
an intelligent will. To the objection that
personality and invisibility go strangely to
gether, we answer that we ourselves are as
invisible as God is. No man ever saw
another man. AVe are convinced of the-existence
of spiritual and personal beings
about us, to whom we give the names of
men and women, by manifestations of in
telligence, will and personality in human
speeech and action. AVe are convinced of
the existence of a Supreme Spiritual and
Personal Being, to whom we give the name
ot God, by manifestations of intelligence,
will and personality in the world about us
and within us. To the objection that per
sonality and infinity cannot possibly go to
gether, we answer that the limitation which
is involved in the word "personality" is
altogether in human speech and thought.
It is an infinity of expression. The truth
about God includes personality and goes an
infinite way beyond it. This is the third step
in the argument for God.
THE DIFFICULTIES TO MEET.
But the argument is not yet concluded.
There are certain difficulties which arise
along the line of the argument, which have
been noticed in the previous papers, and
met in one way or another, but which in the
opinion of some people still remain. Alter
the argument is ended there are questions
which continue to give trouble, and which
ought to be more particularly and ade
auntely answered. There is the scientific
difficulty which centers about the doctrine
of evolution; there is the intellectual diffi
culty, which centers about the limitations
of human thought, and which takes shape
in agnosticism; there is the ethical diffi
culty which centers about the problem of
pain.
The first of these difficulties asks: After
all, is there a God? Has not the doctrine of
evolution made the "hypothesis ot God"
unnecessary? The second asks: 'If God is
still can it be possible to know Him? The
third asks: If God is, and can be suffi
ciently known, what shall we nay of the
pain and sin of the world? Is God good.
To these difficulties, accordingly, we ad
dress ourselves, beginning with the first.
There is a First Cause that is unquestioned
by philosophers, tbeistic and anti-theistio
alike. But were we in the right when we
affirmed that the first cause is mlhd? Has
not the doctrine of evolution taken all the
uniformity and adjustment of nature, and
all the intelligence, will, personality and
conscience of man, aud resolved all into
matter? If the doctrine of evolution is true,
have we really any mind or any soul, and
is there place left anywhere in tbe universe
for God? Is there any God at all?
It is not to be disputed that the doctrine
of evolution has had the eflect of unsettling
a good many people's theology. There are
many who have but an indefinite notion of
its actual meanings, who are filled with a
vague alarm, and are prepared to find at
any moment that the whole structure ot re
ligion has been undermined and is begin
ning to tumble down. Step by step the doc
trine of evolution seems to these frightened
thinkers to be poshing in aud slowly bnt
irresistibly crowding God and the soul out.
OTHER SIMILAR CASES.
There was a similar alarm, however, when
it was discovered that the earth is but an in
significant star amid vast systems ot stupen
dous constellations. There was a like un
rest when the law of gravitation was pro
claimed. Religion, some people thought,
had been discovered to have only a sand
foundation. Religion, however, kept
straight on. There is the presumption at
least of a possibility that the doctrine of evo
lution may be Droved ana still religion be
found to be as strong and ime as ever.
The firft thing is to ascertain precisely
what the doctrine of evolution is. The doc
trine of evolution is stated by its foremost
teacher, Mr. Herbert Spencer, in these
words: "The integration ot matter and con
comitant dissipation of motion, which pri
marily constitutes evolution, is attended
with a continuous change from indefinite, in-
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coiierenb uoiuugeueujr iu ucuuiie, conerent
heterogeneity, through successive differen
tiations aud integrations."
Tbe doctrine of evolution, taken out of
the exact language ot science, and putinto a
single English word, meaus growth. It as
serts that the old notion of special creation,
which imagined God making each species
full-grown and by itself framing a fish, a
bird, a man, either out of previously exist
ing materials, as a watchmaker would make
a watch, or else out of nothing is untrue.
The world was not made; it grew. The
parallel of creation is not to be found in the
manufacture ot a watch, but in the growth
of a man. The world grew, as we grow. It
ought to be said here that the doctrine or
evolution does not assert that man is de
scended from tbe monkey, as is commonly
supposed, but rather that man and the ape
are divergent descendants from some exceed
ing remote and long extinct ancestor. The
essential word ot the doctrine of evolution is
the word growtli.
Now, growth is marked by two steps, a
rise and a decline. AVe call the rise "gen
eration," and the decline "degeneration."
A grain of wheat is put into the ground
and begins to grow; it sprouts, shoots up a
stem, floners, and bears its fruit. Then de
cline begins, and the stalk dies down to the
ground, and is dissipated into its original
elements. The wheat which the stalk bore
is sown again, ana the tame process of
growth and decay, generation and degener
ation, evolution and dissolution, is re
peated. JJATUBE'S GUIDING POWER.
But all the, time nature is standing by
and guiding growth with both hands. The
name of one hand is "natural selection;"
the name of the other hand is "survival of
the fiitest."
Suppose that a grain of wheat in the sec
ond harvest, being planted in better soil,
grows bigger than was yielded in the first
harvest. There are now two kinds of wheat,
an inferior and a superior, a smaller and
weaker and a larger and stronger. The two
are plantedtogether aud there comes a sum
mer which is not favorable to the growth ot
wheat. Only the superior kind will live.
Nature chooses between the two, and the
fitter kind survives. There is an advance
iu the quality of wheat. But suppose there
is something ia the nature of the soil by
reason of which a grain of wheat, having a
little tinge of red, will get more nourish
ment from the food stores o( the earth. The
red-tinged wheat will survive. The more
red there is in the wheat the better will be
its chance. At last all wheat wjll be red.
And suppose that by some change in tbe
character of the environment of soil tbe
more of tbe shape of a triangle a grain of
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
wheat had, the better would be its chance.
Little by little nature choosing every year,
and the fittest surviving, wheat would loso
its present shape nnd become triangular.
All wheat wonid have the form and color of
a little red triangle.
Now begin back incalculable millions of
centuries with an atom of star dust acted on
bv force. Change follows change, conditions
differ, environment is altered, on this side
and on that diverse shapes of matter come
into being,nature kneading and molding the
original atom with the two bands of natural
selection and survival of the fittest. Out of
the star dust comes a nebulous vapor; and
out of that a universe of whirling worlds;
and among them an earth; and out of the
earth, plant life; and from that, animal life;
and from that, human life, until we come
upon this very day in this year of grace in
which we live.
This is a statement, not, of course, in the
dialect of science, but yet sufficiently ac
curate of the doctrine of evolution; a doc
trine which some people think will explain
everything all existence, all life, all civil
ization, all religion, all things in heaven
and earth and under the earth.
IF TRUE, THEN AVHAT?
Now, this doctrine of evolution, what
shall we do with it? Why, suppose we ac
cept it. It is not proved yet, but it looks
exceedingly probable. There are serious
gaps in it, but they may be. bridged over
presently. The evolution of the plant into
the animal, still more of the mineral into
the plant, and still more of the animal into
all that we mean by man, has not been
shown yet. But perhaps it will be shown.
AVhere the ultimate atom of star dust came
from, and what made it behave in a fashion
so extraordinary, so like the transformation
of the conjurer and so exceedingly deserving
of our gratitude, is not told. Nevertheless,
the men of science, who know a great deal
more about these things than we do, and
whose business it is to find out truth and
tell us, are for the most part agreed that the
doctrine of evolution is based on facts. The
best thing we can do is to take their word
for it. The doctrine of evolution is true.
AVhat does it mean?
There are some who say that it means tbe
complete overthrow of the argument for
God. It means that the world, instead of
beginning with God, began with matter and
force, and instead of culminating in the
hnman soul culminates in matter and force.
There is no mind within us, there is m God
above us. Nothing exists save matter, mat
ter, matter and force.
There are two kinds of people who say
this. There are timid theologians who say
it in fear, and there are enthusiastic
philosophers so enthusiastically philo
sophical that they "congratulate" them
selves, as someone said, that they are going
to die like the beasts, who affirm it in
hope. Materialism, they believe, is gaining
ground. And now thatevolution has come
up with reinforcements, there is no chance
for the armies of the living God. Day by
day the phenomena which were explained
by the working of miracle are finding
better explanations by the working of
matter.
AS THE SAVAGE FEARS AS ECLIPSE.
Day by day the known is gaiuing upon
the province of the unknown, religion is
retreating before science, the "hypothesis of
God" is becoming more and more un
necessary. Matter is taking the place which
used to be held by mind.
"As surely," says Prof. Huxley, "as
every future grows out of the past and
present, so will the physiology of the future
gradually extend the realm of matter and
law uutil it is coextensive with knowledge,
with feeling, and with action. The con
sciousness of this great truth weighs like a
nightmare, I believe, upon many of the
best minds of these days. They watch what
they conceive to be the progress of ma
terialism, in such fear and powerless anger
as a savage feels when, during an eclipse,
tbe great shadow creeps over the face of the
sun."
Butit is over the faceof the earth, ns Prof.
Flint remarks, that the shadow creeps. The
sun shines all the same behind it, and will
keep on shining. The eclipse even an
"eclipse of faith" scares nobody who be
lieves in the sun. The burning of a little
straw upon the ground may hide for a time,
as Dr. Holmes reminds us, the shining of
tbe everlasting stars, but the smoke will
drift away; the stars will shine on forever.
There is no need for the fear of the theo
logians, and no ground for the hope of the
materialistic philosophers. That I hope to
show next week. George Hodges.
THE" GAEITELD STATUE.
A Magnificent Work of Art to be Dedicated
on Memorial Dny.
Cleveland is making elaborate prepara
tions for the dedication of the Garfield Me
morial on Memorial Day. The statue rep
resents Mr. Garfield just risen from his chair
in the national House of Representatives
and about to speak. It is of Italian marble
and is pronounced a niarvelously correct
representation oi the second martyred Presi
dent. It stands on a paved dias, and, with its
base, is about ten feet in height. The statue
is placed directly in the center of the great
architectural pile of marble and sandstone
which forms the Garfield monument and
tomb. It was the intention of those in
charge oi the memorial to dedicate it on
September 10 last, the eighth anniversary of
President Garfield's death, but a postpone
ment was made necessary by a discovery in
Italy six months before that date. The
statue had been nearly completed when the
sculptors discoveied a black streak in the
marble which no chisel could efface. The
almost finished st.itue was cast aside and
the work done over again on a new block ot
marble. This proved to be faultless, and
the new statue was shipped to New York
last October, where the finishing touches
were made.
FOOLING THE GAMBLERS.
Row nn Irishman Rot Ills Fockcli Filled
Willi Money at Monte Carlo.
AVhltehall Review.
The legend goes for I suppose there is
more fancy than fact about it that the au
thorities connected with the gaming tables
at Monte Carlo endeavor, if anyone commits
suicide within their grounds to place bank
notes in the dead man's pockets
so that it cannot be urged that
the suicide was occasioned through
losses at the tables. Aware ot this practice,
an Irishman, firing his pistol in the air,
instantly lay down, and remaining motion
less feigned to be dead. In less than no
time the attendants had rushed in the di
rection from which the shot had proceeded,
and, discovering the prostrate man, imme
diately stuffed his pockets full of bank
notes. 4
The next step was to rush off and collect
disinterested witnesses who would be able
to declare that the man must have been a
victim to love or madness, but not to losses
at the tables. It is, perhaps needless to
add that on his discoverers' turning their
backs the suicide became very much alive,
and evinced a pressing anxietr to retch his
hotel in safety and unobserved.
IfejHBf
The Garfield Statue.
SUNDAY, MAT 11,
THE INGALLS IDEA.
Bessie Bramble Pinds it Throws
Much Light on Politics.
VITUPERATION IN TIMES PAST.
Party Methods In the South Compared
With Those of the florth.
PESSIMISTIC YIEW OP THE FUTURE
tWBITTXK FOE THE DISPATCH.
"Politics is a battle for supremacy. Par
ties are the armies. The Ten Command
ments and the Golden Bule have no place
in a political campaign."
This plain, open-spoken definition of poli
tics, as announced by Senator Ingalls, does
not altogether accord with that lurnished by
the dictionary, but it gives tbe practical
understanding of the matter by 'politicians.
"Webstar defines politics as "The science of
government; that part of ethics which con
silts in the regulation of a nation or State
for the preservation of its safety, peace and
prosperity; comprehending the defense of
its existence and rights against foreign con
trol or conquest, the augmentation of its
strength and resources and the protection of
its citizens in their rights, with the preser
vation nnd improvement 61 their morals."
The further information is also given by
AVebster that "politics, in a bad sense
means political trickery." That this is the
meaning attached to it by Mr. Ingalls is
made very plain by his remarks. AVith the
decalogue and the Golden Bule ignored, it
is bard to see bow the morals of the people
are to be preserved, or their rights protected.
In a struggle for power in which, according
to Mr. Ing-ills, it is lawful and legitimate,
and in accordance with the practical render
ing of the Constitution to deceive the ad
versary, to hire Hessians, to purchase mer
cenaries, to mutilate, to kill, to destroy, it
could hardly be expected that honesty or
decency could prevail.
A HINT AT ISSIDE WOBKINGS.
By his definition of politick the pict
uresque Senator shows on what principles
the political parties are conducted, and by
what motives they hold themselves justified
in securing supremacy by bribery, by steal
ing votes, by malignant libel, by atrocious
lying, by forgery, by murder, by all that is
bad and mean and immoral. By this defini
tion of politics, which Mr. Ingalls voices,
may be explained the vile abuse, the scan
dalous defamation of Washington during
his political career, why hatred and malice
and all uncharitableness prevailed, when
Jefferson and Adams were so strongly held
up to scorn aud reproach by their oppo
nents, why Andrew Jackson was denounced
as a rogne, a hypocrite, a despot, aud the
reputation of his wife covered with mali
cious odium; wjiy the election oL Adams
was held to be the result of cheating and
corruption, and why Henry Clay was abused
and vilified in the most malevolent aud
scandalous manner unto his life's end.
This definition of politics, ns furnished by
Mr. Ingalls, explains why General Harri
son, simply a military man, was preferred
for political reasons to the great leader,
Henry Clay, who, in his famous speech in
his own defense, denounced the cars of
party barking at his heels, and the blood
hounds of personal malignity springing at
his throat; it explains also how Pennsyl
vania was carried for Polk by
stratagem and fraud, on the tariff issue, by
Buchanan and other leaders of the De
mocracy; and how the adored chieftain was
set aside for the obscure Polk in the final
result, as say public men, by fraud as
monstrous as unprecedented, by religious
and political fanaticism without a par
allel." THE SLANDERS CIiAT ENDURED.
The calumny and slanders heaped upon
Henry Clay by his political enemies are
something amazing to the readers of Ameri
can history. They embittered his latter
years and saddened: his soul to the last de
gree, and yet, this is what Mr. Ingalls says
is legitimate politics. Daniel AVebster
suffered from the same cause, as has almost
every distinguished man who aspired to
high office.
In later years, by this principle of polities,
in which the decalogue and the Golden Rule
have no place, no one, perhaps, was more
scandalously abnsed than the martyred Lin
coln. In the annals oXiufamy and chron
icles of slander there were scarcely to be
found adjectives or epithets vile enough to
defame him. The malignant curs of party
manufactured lies concerning him without
end, and no man of high honor and noble
character, save perhaps Washington, have
been more vilified and vituperated. Even
Grant held in respect by North and Sonth
was not secure against the sort of politics
that does not hesitate to bribe, to corrupt, to
steal, to kill, and destroy. Perhaps no cam
paign ever gave a viler exhibition of the
mud-throwing politics that Mr. Ingalls up
holds, than that of Blaine nnd Cleveland,
when partisan ministers from the pulpit did
not hesitate to publish the vilest stories con
cerning the Democratic candidate, who, as
tbe possible standard bearer of the Democ
racy, Sir. Ingalls makes no bones of de
nouncing in advance, as "a cheapand brazen
hypocrite," while Blaine, his opponent, was
published as a hypocrite in religion, a man
not to be trusted, who was dishonest, whose
marriage was irregular, who was guilty of
"bargain and corruption" all this and
more.
A LOOK AT INGALLS.
Bribery and corruption, bargain and sale,
defamation ot character, malicious scandal,
religious prejudice, anything that will gain
the end, are, by Mr. Ingalls' code, fairly to
be used. The leader who would lose a bat
tle through the activity of his moral nature
would be "the derisiou and jest of history,"
is how the Senator puts it.
All Mr. Ingalls' remarks go to show that
not a scruple exists in his mind on the sub
ject of how political campaigns are to be
won. His theory of politics entirely justi
fies "Blocks-of-Five Dudley," and the addi
tion, division and silence policy of the
Pennsylvania bosses, and the tactics of Hill
and Piatt, of New York. And not only
does he thus justify this policy of using nil
manner of fraudulent means for carrying
elections, but it is evident that his definition
of politics will equally apply to the Demo
crats of the South in their alleged endeavors
to nullify the Bepublican vote of the
negroes. How, under his theory and prac
tice of politics as a war, in which tbe end
justifies the means is it to, be counted a
tremendous wrong for tbe Democrats to so
conduct their elections in the South that
negro supremacy may be suppressed, as In
galls himself says they do.
If the agonies of Brother Bced and In
galls and other Bepublican leaders as to the
bitter wrongs and atrocious injustice suffered
by the colored brethren in the Democratic
Slates were genuine, whv do not thev in
their ardent sympathy aud anxious solici
tude move heaven and earth and find w.iys
and means to get all of these oppressed peo
ple to come North or go AVest, where their
votes will be honestly counted and where,
if in the majority, they would be allowed to
control politics and fill the fat offices?
TURNING THE TABLES.
Would Mr. Blaine, Mr. Reed and the
Senators and Representatives of Maine, for
instance, retire happily to obscurity with the
pleasing consciousness that the colored
brethren, by virtue of their numbers and
their votes, had the right to rule over them?
If by contributions in the churches, and
donations from the politicians who are so
dreadfully exercised in their minds over the
fact that Bepublican votes are not honestly
counted in the South, all of the negro popu
lation of Georgia'could be transported from
that State to the free air, tbe picturesque
scenery, the wood-crowned hills of Pennsyl
vania where pure politics, honest counts and
all the blissfalness of Republicanism is the
rule of life, would Quay and Cameron and
all those engaged in lamentations over the
suppression of political opinion in the
former State be willing to surrender to them
in case they shonld establish a majority?
"Would the supreme political virtue of Penn
1890.
svlvanla voters allow the Georgians to rule
the roost, to fill the fat offices, to represent
the State, to bots things generally, while the
white folks retired to the joys of obscurity
and the sweets of private bnsiness? AVe
trow not. But yet Eeed in his pursuit of
the Presidency, Sherman in his reach for the
same high position, Ingalls with his soaring
ambition for tbe highest seat, are all slop
ping over with sympathy, boilingover the
terrible wrong, racing over the infracted
rights of citizenship where their object is
jeopardized by Democratic votes, but this is
all well accounted for by Ingalls' definition
of politics in which the decalogue and the
Golden Rule are out of place.
TRIED BY INGALLS' CODE.
Under his rnle and theory, and political
principles AVade Hampton, 'and Brecken
ridge and all of the other Democratic
leaders of the South are doing exactly right.
The politicians of the solidly Democratic
States are -working their way on precisely
the same lines as the Republicans. They
are using every means. They are hiring
"Hessians," they are purchasing mercena
ries, they are mutilating, killing, destroy
ing. They are sowing sorrow, embittering
lives, breaking hearts, covering reputable
men with infamy aud doing all manner of
cruelty and inhumanity to men to insure
political success. This is what Senator In
galls says both parties do in a political
campaign. -
But while the assertion that activity of
the moral nature should not be allowed to
interfere with using all means, fair or un
fair, to insure success, it is pretty plain that
the politicians want to pose before tbe peo
ple as virtuously indignant, as sincerely
honest, as piously shocked at any hint of
bribery, or intimidation, or forgery, or
counting out, or calumination of character,
or killing, or destroying. All they want,
as they say, is a fair election and an honest
count. But now Mr. Ingalls has let the
cat out of the bjg, and owns np .that what
they really desire, and will move heaven
and earth to secure, by fair play or foul, is
success for their own side. For this Ingalls
has spasms of agony over the ignorant vote
of the South being suppressed in favor of
tbe Democracy, but he regards with com
placency, and perhaps admiration, every
device, intrigue, fraud, bribery, corruption,
defamation that insures Republican success
anywhere. He is wholly in favor of the
representation of ignorance, and strongly
opposed to tbe expression of intelligence.
IT EXPLAINS MUCH.
The definition of politics as given by Mr.
Ingalls explains a great many questions
that have bothered many good people a
great deal, who are not committed to the
political confession of faith that the end
justifies the means as set forth by Mr. In
galls. To them it has seemed strange and
incomprehensible that men in private life,
deemed decent and reputable citizens by
their friends and neighbors, are set torth as
rascals and reprobates when they happen to
be nominated for public office. The demand
for party supremacy shows up the purest of
patriots to be utterly corrupt and base, the
enemy of his country, the most infamous of
creatures, the representative of vice and
pollution and all vileness. He, himself, his
family, his relations are made the prey of
the opposition, it by their vilification and
abuse success is more assured. This is in
accordance, we are told, with the ruling
principle of politics as defined by Mr.
Ingalls.
It also discloses the extent to which the
people are gulled and deceived by the tricks
and malignant devices of intriguing politi
cians. In view of all this vileness, corrup
tion, trickery, bribery and all manner of
wrong, unrestrained by the decalogue or the
GoldenRule.it may well be thought that
purification of politics as Mr. Ingalls
avers is an iridescent dream, and that we
are near to the day when a government by
the people will become a mere farce a
going through the motions only while the
Brices, and Quays, and Dudleys, and Platts
do the real fighting without regard to the
decalogue or tbe Golden Rule. Then the
country will go to ruin, and be overrun and
overcome by bribery, monopoly and all cor
ruption the Goths and Vandalsof the nine
teenth century. Bessie Bramble.
BrNGEUTG THE HAIR.
A Toniorlal Art That ! Quito Startling to
the Unlnlllnted.
The spectacle of one man going over the
head of another with a lighted torch is
somewhat startling, but now quite common
in Pittsburg barber shops. Singeing the
hair was first practiced about ten years ago,
but the idea never took hold of Pittsburg
barbers until recently. True some few have
practiced it for several years, but only
within a month or so has it become a com
mon every day thing.
The barber uses a lighted wax taperand a
comb. With the latter he raises the hair
until the ends show evenly, then he runs the
lighted tapei along the comb, singeing each
hair. The barbers declare it is the only
method to stop hair from falling out, once it
has begun. The singeing closes the end of
the hair, and thus stops the escape of those
fluids which seem necessary to. growth.
Thin, fuzz-like hairs soon swell out, and be
come as heavy as those of normal growth.
"Are many people having their hair
singed?" asked a Dispatch reporter of a
well-known barber.
"I have singed as many as 20 heads a
week myself," he answered. "I suppose
this shop" singes SO heads a week at least,
and this is not the only shop -in town that
singes hair. It has been practiced a good
while in the East, but the fad seems to have
struck Pittsburg in earnest only a (evr
weeks ago."
"Does it cure dandruff?"
"No, I think not; but it a man has only a
little fuzz left it will insure him a good
head of hair again. Of course, if the hair
follicle is dead, neither singeing nor any
other process will make a hair grow from it.
I have seen a full head of hair grown from
luzz that was so nearly invisible that the
victim's head looked as bare as a goose
egg."
PROFITS OF DRUGGISTS.
A Reporter Finds It Rnna From 300 to
700 Per Cent In Now York.
The New York World last week sent a
reporter to various drugstores to investigate
the profits druggists make. He got Dr. O.
J. Ward to write him two prescriptions,
which he took to a wholesale drug house,
where the following market prices of the
ingredients were furnished:
FIJESCIUPTION NO. t,
Sulfonal is valuod at f 1 35 an ounce.
SuUonal, grs. xv.. cost 4 cents 7 mills
.Bismuth, sub carb., dram,
cost I cent 5 mills
Cretae prep., grs. x., cost Ocent 2 mills
Total. Scents 15 mills
Equal to 6 cents.
PBESCKIPTIOS IfO. 2.
Tinct. opli. camph., 1 ounce,
cost. 2 cents 5 mills
MJar. glycyarrhe corup., IX
ounces, cost lccnt 7 mills
Syr. acacia, ounce, cost.... 1 cent mills
Total 4 cents 15 mills
Equal to 5 cents.
This makes the total value of the ingredi
ents 12 cents. It required about ten min
utes to put up the prescriptions. A third
item of cost were the labels, boxes, wrappers,
etc. All above these would be profit.
Here are the prices the reporter had to pay:
First 80 cents; second, 70S third, 80; fourth,
70; fifth, 60; sixth, 65; seventh, 35; eighth,
SO; ninth, 40, etc.
The reporter had 36 prescriptions put up.
The prices asked for the powders, worth an
actual value of G4 cents, varied from 15
cents to 40 cents, while those of tbe mixture,
worth an actu il value of 5 cents, were
from 20 cents to 60 cents.
An Elrctrlcnl Iiimtern.
'Prof. Strieker, of Vienna, has invented
an electrical lantern by which be can pro
ject the magnified images of objects on a
white screen in their natural colors, so that,
for instance, a small pimple on a patient
can be shown in its real appearance to an
audience of many hundred students. One
of the experiments will be a demonstration
of the palpitations of the heart of a small
animal.
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How to Enhance the Value of Land
for Speculative P.urposes. -
LARGE LOAKS FOE IIIPIIOVEJIENTS.
Flans for a Suitable Building; to Erect on a
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Speculative building is becoming quite
a regular profession in many parts of the
country. It is often undertaken by a man
of means who has a tract of land to improve,
and he secures his greater profits usually
from the increased value of the land. No
special knowledge of architecture is needed,
but the successful operator must have good
judgment as to the class of buildings that
are in demand, and he must be pretty
shrewd to get good work and full value
from contractors. He must have also the
financial skill to procure large loans on tbe
improvements at low rates of interest.
The last requirement is of the utmost im
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its financial relief to the speculator, as he
Perspective.
may have ample funds, but because it en
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improvements by paying comparatively
small snms in cash and assuming responsi
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The first house built on a tract of land
has a great deal to do with the success of a
building and real estate enterprise. It
should not be small and plain, for that will
be accepted as indicating that all future im
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nor should it be very large and ornate, as
such a house will be difficult to sell. The
design illustrating this article is regarded as
suitable in every respect.
Following will be found a somewhat de
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General dimensions: Width, 33 feet 6
First Floor.
inches; depth, including veranda, M feet.
Heights of stories: Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches;
first story, 9 feet 6 inches; second story, 9
feet; attic, 8 feet.
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and brick; first story, clapboards; second
story, gables and root, shingles. Outside
blinds to all windows except those ot the
attic and cellar, and the stained glass and
circular windows.
Interior Finish: Hard white plaster;
plaster cornices and centers in hall, parlor,
sitting and dining room. Cellar ceiling
Second Floor.
plastered one heavy coat. Soft wood floor
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Stained glass in three windows on main
staircase, tints to suit owner. Picture
molding in principal rooms and hall of first
story. Wainscot in bathroom and kitchen.
Interior woodwork finished hard oil.
Colors: All clapboards, veranda, balcony
and porch balusters, cream color. Trim
blinds and rain conductor reddish brown.
Outside doors and sashes, dark green. Ve
randa floor, seal brown. "Veranda ceiling,
oiled. Brickwork, red. Wall shingles,
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