&p RIMES- ywbittzx ron the dispatch, i Under an old ulIow tree, whose grace fully drooping branches hunp low over the clear water of a broad late, sat little Carl playing with the daisies and buttercups, which grew near, and makinc friends with the grasshoppers and katydids sporting so jraily about him. As he sat there in the deep grass, the wind blowing his fair hair and his bine eyes shining with childish pleasure, he might have been taken for one of the woodland fairies, who were thought to have their home in the grove nearby. I As he turned a moment from his play, and allowed his gaze to wander over the water, he wished, as he had so many times before, lor a Doat, in which he could glide over the smooth surface of the lake. And he looked through the lorest, as if half ex pecting to see the little elves coming in a body carrying the desireaof his heart. But no one appeared, and an old rotten plank which had been washed ashore was the near est approach tp a, boat that was to be seen. To this the boy was afraid to trust himself; ohi ne continued to look longingly over the water, and thought when he grew large he would build a canoe,,and then he would spend da- acd night o'n the dancing waves. Suddenly his attention was attracted to a large, white swan, far out on the lake, floating majestically on the water. How proudly it swam; now this way, now that, thought. The desire, however, became stronger and stronger. His bright face grew pale and sad; but when asked the reason would say: "I am only tired; I shall soon be better." The fairies grew anxious about their little iriend, and brought him all kinds of dainty food; but he could not eat. Then thev tried new games in order to please him; but all in vain. Carl now spent most of his time in the garden on the shore of the lake. One day while here there suddenly appeared before him a hideous old woman with brown lace and glaring eyes. The boy was much fright ened, and was about to "cry for help when the ugly creature, in a shrill voice, said: "I know your trouble, and that you wish to go home. Now it you will bring me a handful of pearls from the palace I shall take you to the village for a short time, then bring yon back, and the fairies will be none the wiser." "Out of mv way, old witch," cried the boy. "I shall never leave my friends with out their consent; and I shall not rob them of their jewels." The old woman disappeared, and in her place stood a beautiful lairy. "I have heard your words," she said, ''and for your fidelity to us you shall have your wish, and return to your home to-morrow." Although Carl shed tears at the thought of leaving the fairies, vet he fell n.lecr. f ht night thinking of the" joy that was in store for him. When he awoke the next morning he was lying under the old willow on the Opinions and Advlco of Four Great BellRlous Teachers. DE. COYLKR SEES ONLY THE EVIL, Cardinal Gibbons and Dr. Armltaco Are llore Liberal, BISHOP FOSTER OPPOSES TIIE STAGE OCT OF MY WAT, TOTJ OLD WITCH. and finally toward Carl, who gazed with de light on the beautiful bird, which he had never before seen, and whose name even he did not know. On came the swan, nearer and nearer the shore; then suddenly it turned, and gliding rapidlv in the opposite direction was soon lost to view. The next day it came again, and Carl al lured it with cake aud bread crumbs. A great desire to have this beautilnl bird for his own seized him, and he wished more earnestly than ever for a boat, that he might pursue this white swan and hold it in his arms. Finally he threw the old plank in the water, and to his surprise it did not sink. When he sprang upon it and it still floated, his joy knew no bounds. "With a loud hurrah he began using bis hands as oars, and was toon speeding through the water. Bat the swan always kept in ad vance, and would never be overtaken. After a time great weariness overcame Carl, and his arms dropped helplessly at his side. "When he saw himself in the midst of a great lake, he trembled with fear, and tried to direct his boat toward the land. But the treacherous plank turned over, and the boy sank beneath the blue waves. "When he again recovered he was lying on a Bmall snow-white couch around which hung silken curtains. Bending over him and gazing tenderly on his pale face, was a little creature not so large as himself, whose dress and features at once proclaimed that she belonged to the race of fairies. "How came you here?" she asked in a silvery voice. At first Carl was too astonished to speak. Then he replied: "I do not know. I was on the lake chasing a beautiful bird; and the old plank on which I sailed npset, and I fell into the water. "When I awoke, I found myself here on this soft, beautiful bed. But tell me, where am I, and who are yon?" The fairv answered: "This is one nf h fairy palaces. It is my dutv to stav here during the day, and take charge o'f the house and the servants. But when night comes many ot my brothers and sisters meet here, and we hate a grand bail. It is veryi wicii uicuj uuunc aajs seem long and lonesome. How I wish that you would stay with me. I should show you all the wondensol fairyland; and when the stupid people in the village are sleeping vou could dance in the moonlight with the fair ies or glide oer the crystal lakes in our sailboats." In his eager, childish way, Carl cried: "I shall stay witli jou always, beautifuHairy, and you shall never be lonesome any more." "You must remember," said the fairy "that if you stay with me three days then you can never return to your home, but must live here always. And unless you are content to do this, you must at once leave the paiace, and I shall conduct you to your home." But Carl did not want to be led away, and was sure that he would be happy always to live here on the sboreof the lake. The fairy then led him through the palace, where each room was ricner than the other, and showed him splendors of which Carl, whose home had been a humble one, had never dreamed. There were heaps of pearls and dia monds, and in the garden, which to the boy was the most beautiful place of ail, were Inscious Iruits and rare flowers. Gav-col-ored birds sang among the trees or flitted through the branches: innumerable white swans glided over the smooth surface of the water, and did not seem the least disturbed when Carl approached and stroked their glossy plumage. AVhat a royal welcome the fairies gave their new friend when they held their festival that night; and the banquet and sweet music brought new pleasures to the little stranger. The weeks and months passed bv, every day bringing new joys, and the fairies spared no pains entertaining their guest One evening at sunset when the fields and woods were glowing with its rosy light, and the birds were singing their good night songs, while Carl was gathering flowers in the garden, he began to think of his home j""11 e kIe village in which he had lived. Ir "TTV Wlhnl tfl ip.tnlnp ama.. f it .-V- - "---- ...- uuic uain mrougu inciatuiuar streets and to loot on his shore of the well-known lake. Looking up he saw the white swan which seemed to nod a goodby to him, and then disappeared. There was great rejoicing in the village over Carl's return, and a large crowd gatn ered to hear his story. The little ones never grew tired hearing of the fairies and their beautiful palace, and they watched on the shore of the lake for the white swan, but it never again was seen. Paysie. EATHTG 'WITH. THE ITJJGEES. Table Ettqnetie In tbe Days When Forks nnd Their U.e Were Not Known. Harper's Young l'eople. Did you know that Queen Elizabeth ate with her fingers? You may have known that she loved show and style', that she was so fond of fine clothes that when she died she left 3.000 dresses and any quantity of jewels; but did you ever imagine that such a great lady could be so inelegant as to eat with her fingers? But she did, and so did Shakes peare, and Chaucer, and AVilliam the Con queror, and King Alfred, and everybody else who lived before her time. These last were more excusable than she they had no forks; but even she was not without excuse, for though she had several, they had been I-"'" "" curiosities, wnich, l suppose, nobody expected her to use. Thr..nJ of crystal garnished with gold and sparks of Soiu", uuuiuer 01 goia with two little rubies and two pendent pearls, and still another of coral. Why didn't she use them? you ask. Well, because she had never seen or known anybody that used one, and they were some thing new; and, besides, there was a preju dice against this invention just from Italy. But you must not think because there were no forks that the old-fashioned dinner ma.le no pretentions to elegance or refinement. The guests had knives and they had fingers, and with these two implements they man aged nicely. From their old books of eti quette we learn how they did it In the first place, the fingers must be publicly washed belore beginning the meal, even if this had just been done privately, it must be repeated at the table, that no one might feel uneasy in eating after his neighbors' fingers had been la the dish. To aid lurther, the meat was prepared as far as possible before it was brought on the table. If in a stew, as was usually the case, it was in bits; if roasted, it was cut by a carver, and passed in large plates with a knife. As to the way or helping himself, each guest must choose and keep a particular part of the dish for his own. He must help himself daintily from this place, using only three fingers; afterward, in carrying the food to tne mouth, which, of course, was done with the hand, these same three must be used, taking care, however, not to touch the nose with them, to do which was ex tremely inelegant, and showed a lack of good breeding. Of course all this soiled the hands, and in refined households at various intervals bowls of perfumed water and different napkins were passed, and no one must refine to wash. This old fashion of handing round a silver bowl or dish of rose water is still sometimes seen in Europe. MBS. CLEVELAND'S WATT, Her Retirement From the While Home Iln.n't Yet Affected It. ew York World. Mrs. Cleveland's mail has not vet suffered any diminution Bince she left "the White House. Howdearsheistothewomen and the school girls of America is best expressed in the notes and cards that continue to come from the North, South and West filled with "sorrow that she could not have remained," and "hopes prayer and good wishes for her return the next time." The sincerity and genuineness of these expres sions of admiration is ioundiu the addresses and full names or the fair writers. Tbe begging letters are simply countless, snd the audacity of the scribblers incredi ble. The autograph hunters are legion, and then there are those contemntible busv ladies who hump up disagreeable para-1 m? iff .fflRl fft rwniTTxx ron ins msrATcn.i How far professing Christians may be comingly indulge in worldly amusements has been a vexed and much debated question ever since Christianity shed its first lumin ous rays over the pagan hearts of ancient Borne, more than 1,800 years ago. The early fathers of the church, in their anxiety to gain converts to the new faith, did not deem it advisable to prohibit the less harm ful diversions that the heathen religion had countenanced, but they strove to impart to them something of a religious character and to associate them in some way with sacred persons or things. From that time to the present there has existed among Christians of all shades of belief a wide diversity of opinion as to the propriety of certain worldly amusements. Prominent among such is theatergoing, which, while it has been violently de nounced and strictly forbidden by some sects, has been tacitly countenanced if not openly approved by others. Thus the Pres byterians, Methodists and Baptists, espe cially in years gone by, have bitterly opposed it, while the Episcopal and Catholic churches have not forbidden indulgence in it, and have welcomed to their communion as members in good standing, many persons connected with the theatrical profession, evidently taking that view of the matter so gracefully expressed bv the late Georee Vandenhoff in his poem. "The Little Church Around tbe Corner:" "What Is there in the player's art Should close the fount of Invar He who on earth acts well bis part May hope a seat above. With a view to ascertaining tbe present status of the various denominations with re gard to this matter, I recently propounded, to the most dittinguished and representative clergymen ol each, the following question: "Is it wrong or inconsistent for a Christian to visit the theater?" Four of the answers will be found below. Fkakk Fern. THE EXTREME VIEW, other's face. But he remembered the graphs and send them to her pasted on the lairj s .words, and tried to banish the I back of postal cards. - A ,. N A Sweeping; Oennnclntlon of the Stnge In Its Entirely by Dr. Cnyler. Eev. Theodore L. Cnyler, of Brooklyn, will certainly be accepted by all Presby terians as a representative clergymen of their denomination. He is widely known, not only as a distinguished preacher, but as a successful writer and lecturer as well. After reading bis appended reply to my question no ono can entertain any doubt as to his position with regard to the stage. He is flat-footcdly against it and may be meta phorically said to have knocked it down and then to have jumped on it with both feet: "DEAR Sin No pastor expects his youth ful church members to go into the impure moral atmosphere of the theater without a terrible damage to their piety. No wise Christian mother wants her sons and daugh ters there. The theater has sent thousands of souls to perdition. Has it helped any toward heaven? I am not surprised that you should ask the question you do, for the theater daily grows more clamorous for at tention and patronage. In some of our cities theaters are growing more rapidly in number than churches, and theater-going is increasing more rapidly than church-going. Pictorial representations, some of them so disgustingly indecent that the law should suppress them, are flaunted on walls and in store windows within full view of our church doors. What must be the character ot performers and performances when their pictures are so shameless? "Before answering your qnestion let us consider tbe dangers to our moral nature and our immortal soul likely to be encountered there, and when we have done so we shall .find your question to have been sufficiently answered. "One great danger of the theater is that, like wine-drinking, it too often becomes an appetite, and a very greedy appetite, caus ing thousands of young people to squander profusely their time and money. Just as the hab'itual drinker of alcoholic liauors constantly craves greater quantities and stronger stimulants, so the frequenter of the theater finds its performances grow dull and insipid unless supplied with new excite ment Other and purer recreations become utterly tame and distasteful. Indeed, it is not recreation, but excitement that is de sired by one who has become enslaved by the appetite for theatrical performances an appetite which steadily becomes more and more importunante in its demands. "Dangerous associations are encountered at the playhouse. It Is a prevalent habit with young people who attend it to remain until a late hour amid the excitement of the plays, and then to finish off with a midnight supper or a wine drink at some neighboring restaurant Long after sensible people have laid their heads on their pillows the habitues of the theater are apt to be adding a second scene of dissipation to the first one. To this perilous practice a young lady of my acquaintance owed her downfall. It must be pretty hard work for a Christian to finish up such an evening's experience with an honest prayer for God's blessing. That is indeed a poor business aud a poor pleasure on which we cannot with a clear conscience ask our Heavenly Father's apnroval. Certainly there are enough in nocent, wholesome and beneficial recreations without venturing into the dangerous atmos phere of the playhouse. That is a dear bought pleasure, which involves even a risk to the immortal soul. Your eyes and ears are windows and doors to the heart What enters once never goes out. Photographs taken on the memory are not easily effaced or burned un; they stick there, aid often be come tempters and tormentors for a lifetime. 'I'd give my right hand,' said a Christian to me once,'il I could rub out the abomin able things that I put in my mind when I was a fast voung man.' He could -not do it; neither will tbe Christian be able to efface the lascivious images or the impure works which the stage may photograph on his very soul. "We donot afiirra that every popular play is immoral, or that every performer is im pure, or that every theater-goer is on the scent for sensual excitement; but tbe stage is to be estimated as a totality, and the whole trend of the average American stage is hostile to heart purity. The exceptions do not alter the rule. Nor have honest at tempts to bring the stage up to a high stand ard ot moral purity been successful. The experiment, .once made in Boston, of so managing a theater as to exclude every in delicacy from the stage, ended in pecuniary failure. "The stage must be taken as it is. It Is an institution for which the Christian becomes morally responsible if he patronizes it, as much as if he were to patronize a public library or a public drinking saloon. As an institution it un sexes woman by parading her in man's attire. Too often it exposes her in such scantiness of attirft that it you saw your own sister in such a plight vou would turn away your eyes in horror. Will vou, then,(pay your money to have some body else's nittcrs and daughters violate womanlv delicacy for your entertainment? If the Christian becomes a patron of tbe theater he goes into moral partnership with the theater. He cannot evade, before God, his accountability for the theater if he habitually supports it. "lours truly, XHEODOBB Al.MJuYIiEE," Dr. Armlmso Is Opposed lo Ecclesiastical Dloimlon In Ibe Binder. Eot. Dr. Tbomts Armltoge, of New Xork, ii generally conceded by Baptists to bo the most eminent and distinguished clergyman of whom their denomination can boa it, with the ilnglo exception, perhaps, of Eev. Charles II. Spurgeon, of London. As will be seen by his letter, he takes precisely the same view of the matter under consid eration ai does Cardinal Gibbons, evidently thinking that there Is good and bad In tbe stage as In everything else In life, and that the Christian must discriminate between them. He is also evidently opposed to ecclesiastical dictation in the matter, and deems it purely one of personal responsi bility: "My Deab Sir In reply to your letter asking me tbe question, 'Is it wrong or in consistent for a Christian to visit the thea ter?' I would say that I never find it pleas ant, nor do I thint that it is ever profitable to write on the current subjects of every-day life, which are and constantly have been topics of bitter controversy throughout many hundreds of years, which, so lar as it is possible for the human mind to foresee, must continue as such for manyhundreds of years to come.and which, at the expiration of that time.will stand exactly where they do now. The subject to which your qnestion re lates is most certainly one of these. The dis cussion as to what amusements are and are not proper ones for Christians and to what ex tent Christians may indulge in them has always been a very warm one, but the mat ter seems no nearer a settlement than when the debate first began. ' "In my opinion theatrical performances and other forms of worldly amusement arc subjects upon which every Christian must act for himself. This rule is applied to many similar things, then why not to thea ter going? Take literature, for example. There are many books some even by so called standard writers so evil in their tendency that no one, Christian or other wise, should read them, but for that reason would anyone presume to say that all lit erature is to be condemned and that we must not read anything? "It is just so with the stage. There are good plays and bad plays, good players and bad players, so that tbe subject must be handled with very great discrimination. We must closely examine each case and it must stand or fall on its own merits. The stnge has a certain class of opponents who will not admit that it or anyone connected with it has or can have a single redeeming trait. It has a certain class of advocates who will not ad mit that it or any one connected with it can have a single fault Now this is one of the worst mistakes which is made in connection with this subject that treatment of it which sweeps orallows the whole lot, nolens volens. Both of these classes forget the great princi ple crystallized by Sbakespeate when he wrote: Evolution Only Another Indication of the KxUtonco of God. ASSUMPTIONS MATERIALISM. Proof That They Are Unprovable, Improb' ablo and Unscientific THE BJBLK ACCOUNT OP CREATION For nought so vile that on tbe earth doth live Hut to the earth some special good doth give. Nor aught so good but straln'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbllnc on abuse: Virtue Itself turns vice, belne misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified. "This malt-shovel way of handling the matter is lamentable, and simply disgusts all sensible folk on every side. The best way, therefore, is to leave the question which you ask me to be decided by each man for himself, according to his brains and conscience if be has any. Authoritative answers irom persons likely to command re spect may do good to some, possibly, but I greatly doubt whether they would weigh so much as a feather In the long run. "Yours affectionately, "Thomas Abmitaoe." AN UHHKAT.THFUL EXCITEMENT. Bishop Fostor Kara Christians Find Enough Pleasure Without Theaters. Bight Beverend Randolph S. Foster, of Boston, Mass., Bishop of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, like Cardinal Gibbons, has no personal knowledge of the stage, as will be seen by his letter. "MyDeabYounoFbieitd: I never, in the whole course of my life, attended a theat rical performance. Indeed, I really do not see how it would have been possible for me to have retained my religion if I had in dulged in such frivolous and worldly amusements, so wholly devoid of spiritual ity and all that can aid tbe Christian in fighting the good fight and Keeping the faith. This, I think, is a full and complete answer to the question you ask me namely, 'Is it wrong or Inconsistent for a Christian to visit the theater?' "I think every true Christian will find that he or she obtains spiritual comfort and strength by abstaining from all such doubt ful forms of so-called amusement , "An earnest Christian life cannot fail to furnish the true Chrislian with pleasant em ployment for every moment of bis or her time, and will so occupy the mind that it will leel no desire for the unhealthiul ex citement of the theater. I am absolutely cer tain that sucn a lire can never fail to be full of perfect peace and great contentment Y lining you success, 1 am "Yours truly, "R. S. Fosteb." GOOD PLAYS ABE GOOD. Cardinal Gibbous &nys Each Person Slust Exercise Discrimination. His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Catholic Cnurch in this country, sends the following reply: "Cardinal's Residence, "Baltimobe, March 13, '90, "My Deab Sik In reply to your letter of inquiry asking my opinion with regard to the consistency and rightfulness of a Chris tian's visiting the theater, I beg to say that my knowledge of the moral effects of the play house is derived entirely lrom such in formation as has been communicated to me by others, since I have never in all my life crossed the threshold of a theater. "I am firmly persuaded, however, that some plays are not only entirely harmless, but are even elevating, refining and instruc tive to a high degree in their tendency, though I must say that I fear the great ma jority ot theatrical productions are highly permoious and even demoralizing. "My advice to Christians, therefore, would be that they should avoid bad plays alto gether, quite as carefully as they wonld avoid noxious food, and that they should indulge in even the best plavs w'ith very great reserve just as they should in rich and luscious meats. "I am yours faithfully in Christ, "James, Cardinal Gibbons." TAIHAGE'S BIG OEGAN. The Tabernacle Will Contnln n Kins; of In struments Conine 830,000. Hew York World. The new organ for Talmage's Tabernacle is rapidly approaching completion. The first organ for the Tabernacle was built in 1873, and at that time was one of the largest and most complete in the conntry. It was destroyed with the Tabernacle in 18S9. The new organ is much larger and more complete in all its details and one of the most powerful in the world, aud a veritable "king of instruments." It will contain four manuals of five octaves each, a pedal of two and aTialf octaves, the largest of which will be the deep C C C. C 32-foot cathedral tone, the same as in the large organ in Westminister Abbey. It contains more large stops than any other organ in the country, if not the world, there being 11 stops of 16 feet and 32 of 8. The entire number of stops is 110, of which GG are pipe stops running through tbe entire scale: the rest are couplers, pneumatic combinations, tremulants and pedal movements. The total number of pipes are 4,448 and the cost over 530.000. It will be driven by a powerful electric motor on an Edison circuit Among the novelties of this organ will be a "Chinese gong" a chime of bells and three drum effects as follows: Long roll, bass drum and drum nfiAnlr- Mani. .i.a .t.ni nn en tirely new in this -country and some are I urigiuui trim me DUlluers, rwniTTEK ron tub dispatch;.! I tried last week to show what evolution is, and what some people think it will ac complish by way of destruotion in tbe realm of religion. I spoke of the fears of theolo gians and hopes of philosphers. There is no need for the fear of the theolo gians, and no ground for the hope of the philosophers. Much which is "conceived to be tbe progress of materialism," to taue Prof. Huxley's careful phrase, is not really the progress of materialism at all. "Mete realist" is a handy stone to throw, but nine times out of ten to-day it hits the wrong person. Whoever thinks that "every at tempt,to interpret mental manifestations by a reference to material structure involves the assertion of materialism," is very much mistaken. There is much less actual mate rialism in modern philosophy than a good many people imagine. And wfienever there is a genuinely materialistic inference from the doctrine of evolution it can be shown to rest upon true foundation assumptions which are not only unscientific, but are ab solutely unprovable and improbable, not to say impossible. One of these baseless as sumptions is that matter and mina are identical; the other is that matter and force are eternal. The first of these assumptions irresistibly involves three evident absurdities. One is the absurdity of denying an absolutely un deniable tact The fact is a mental fact It is one of those assertions which we have seen already to be the most certain of all truths. I mean the fact of personality. Whatever else we know or know not, this at least we are superlatively sure of that we exist. I am. That I know. Between mv body and me, between my brain and me, between my thoughts and me, there is a distinction of which I am irresistibly conscious. All facts are reported to us by consciousness. If, in this initial fact consciousness is deceiving me, then I must stop thinking. Ihave com mitted intellectual suicide. But the fact of personality involves the fact of mind and its distinction from matter. mental pboducis not material. Another absurdity implied in the initial materialistic assumption is the absurdity to which that assumption would logically lead of asserting that the products of mind can be described in terms which express the properties of matter. The materialists do not make this assertion; but why not? If there is no existence except matter and force, there should be no fact which could not be described in materialistic language. Can a thought be triangular, or red, or capable of mathematical expression? Can it be meas ured with a yard stick, seen through a mi croscope, or weighed in scales? Can it be given an adequate physiological descrip tion' A third absurdity lies la the identifying or an organ with an organist. If tho body is ill-conditioned, thinking is also ill-conditioned. The removal ot certain portions of the brain will affect the mind. The ob struction of certain "transit lines" will "obliterate certain specific memories." Without phosphorus there is no thinking. Well? With a poor organ there will be In ferior music; will there also be of necessity an inferior organist? With no organ, there will be no music, and therefore no organist? j.db statements oi tne materialists, taken as bare statements, are mere platitudes. They express what everybody has always known. We cannot see without an eye, nor think without a head, nor play an organ without an organ. The inference which is made lrom them, that mind and matter are therefore identical, is entirely unwarranted. f WHAT MAT BE DONE. The time may come, Mr. John Fiske says (Cosmic Philosophy, ii.,442)whenitwill be possible "to furnish algebraic equations for every curve described by every particle oi matter during toe entire series ol trans formations, from the arrested molar motions of the gravitating particles of the sun down to the endlessly complex molecular motions which take place within the cerebral tissue of a mathematician engaged in solving par tial differential equations," still, we would be not one step nearer to the identification of mind and matter. "Have we made," asks Mr. Fiske, "the first step toward the resolution of psychical phenomena into modes of motion? Obviously, we Ijave not. The closed circuit of motion, mo tion, motion, remains just what it was before." A parallel is established of which we are already well aware, but the antithesis between ' the phenomena of mind and the phenomena of matter is not and cannot be destroyed. Molecular motion 'can never be identified with love, or with grief, or with nnger, can never be translated into self-consciousness; the translation is itself unthinkable. "Tbe latest results of scientific inquiry, whether in the region of objective psychologv or in that of molecular physics, leave the gulf between mind and matter quite os wide as it was judged to be in the time of Descartes. It still remains as true as then, that between that of which the differential attribute is thought, and that of which the differential attribute is extension, there can be noth ing like identity or similarity. (Cosmic Philosophy ii, 445), the organist uses the organ, but the organ is not the organist. THE OTHER ASSUMPTION. The other materialistic assumption is that matter and force are eternal. It has alread v been shown, however, that there are two distinct existences. There is matter and there is miud. But our thonght is unable to rest fl the conception of two distinct ex istences which are equally eternal. Either one of these must be the cause of the other, or else there must be behind them both a third existence which is the cause and source ot both. But each of these alterna tives contradicts the eternity of two distinct existences. Only one can be eternal. Which is it? Is it matter or is it mind? But this throws us back at once upon our original question, which is the first cause, matter or mind? And all the arguments by which we have already decided that mind rather than matter is the first cause hold still. Evolution does not weaken them. Indeed, we shall see that evolution both confirms and emphasizes them. For evolution does not, as some imagine, ex plain the growth of the universe. All that it proposes or attempts to do is to describe it. It is not explanation, but description. And if the description could be carried back with continuous accuracv to the uti- mordial atom of star-dust, and it could be shown how out oi that primordial atom everything had proceeded, step by step", into this nineteenth century, still no explanation would have been given. We would (till be compelled to ask who or what did this? What lies behind it all matter or miud? That initial bit of star-dust, how came it into being? That unspeakably remarkable atom in which lay folded this whole mar vellous universe, with all its infinitely varied lire, with all the thoughts of all its thinkers that first world-acorn, whence came it? What power brought it into being matter or mind? It would seem that there could be but one reasonable answer to such a question. A MIOHTY DRAMA. Or take the world as it stands to-day, and look back along its past, with evolution tor interpreter. What do wo see? We see a might drama, with all space or a stage and all existing things for players. Act after act, millennium after millennium unfolds this wonderful drama of the universe. Here is a mfchtv shamnc iand enldinir r ex istence,' with a nebulous cloud., at tbe begin- ning,'anu,tnBfmentaiiauaispiritualinature or man at the end. All is dlreoted toward this supreme culmination. All bends toward the accomplishment or this supreme result. A man sets up some distant ideal. Hero is a purpose which be binds himself to win. Every day he works with that end in vlsvv. This ho learns and that he leaves, here ha gors aud tbero turns awny, nil for the sake of tho supreme purpose of his life. Gradually ho gains the object which he strives after,1 Wo look back over his life and we see .what, many strango things about it really mesnt The purpose interprets them. All in telligent work, indeed, is a gradual shaping of things toward tbe effecting of soma desired purpose. And here is tbe cause which is behind all lile, working just, as tho worthiest man works, shaping all ex istence, step by step, toward the climax of a great world-drama. Wherever we see that kind of working, wherever we find this shaping of things toward an end, we say at once, "An intel ligent will is doing this." Wo turn away from the little marks of design which we were studying, nnd which we found very wonderlul, and heboid a mighty universe, marked through all its reaches of time ana space with the evidenceof ndesign infinitely mojer wonderful. The doctrine of evolution confirms and emphasizes the argument irom design. It is a contribution to religion. AN EVER-ACTING CXUSE. Evolution not only supports religion in its affirmation of an intelligent will behind all existence, but it goes farther and asserts that the cause from which tbe world proceeds is not only intelligent and self-determining but is ever-acting. The world, as inter preted by evolution, is evidence that this intelligent will, instead of making the uni verse, and completing it years ago, and since then sitting down somewhere on the outside of it, and working in it only by miracle, is forever acting all along. The world has grown, says evolution, by natural selection seizing favorable variations. But what has caused these favorable variations, and what is this natural selection which has seized them? What is this persistent and ever acting cause, without which tbe doctrine of evolution cannotstand? Religion calls this intelligent, self-determining and ever-acting cause the living God. There have been two conceptions of God among men. Some have held that God is far away, outside the circumference of our horizon, sitting on a gold throne, and only looking on at human life. Others have maintained that God is close at hand, think ing in all thought, working in all work, in whom we live and move and have our be ing. It is this higher idea of God which all doctrine ot evolution emphasizes. The doctrine of evolution takes the argu ment for God and confirms and strengthens it George Hodoes. PLANS FOR A NEAT COUNTRY HOME. It Is Impeiing and Convenient and Can is Built for 95400. .ALL THE HODEff ACCOMMODATIONS V IWB1TTXH TOSS THDISrTCH.l The prevalent belief that-architects' esti mates are too low, fostered by iKwe whose interests such a belief will serve. Is itaor tunate for owners, becanse it leads many of them into signing contracts that are too high. That there are occasional mistakes in estimating, and that there are a few architects who habitually estimate too low, is admitted, but to accuse the entire pro fession is as absurd as to say that all physi cians are incompetent and dishonest be cause there are "quacks" found in their ranks. The imitators (and they are few) are the "quacks" of the 'architectural profession. Never having originated a design they are unacquainted with the ' materials and labor required for construction. Usually they abuse other architects, especially those from whom they have borrowed most liberally, and they proclaim their "originality" with great vehemence. If the intending builder will avoid this small class he can hardly make a mistake in consulting architects anywhere. Following will be found a brief descrip tion of the design illustrating this article: A Robin's Nest Above tbe Anvil. I'altMallOaiotte.J la the villaje bUcksmlth's shop at Aud lem, Cheshire, hard by the blacksmith's bel lows, a robin has built its nest in a ledge close to the spot whero the horses are shod, and Is now sitting upon Its ejgs. Neither the tremendous din of the hammers nor the flying sparks from the anvil appear to dis turb tbe bird. WM. RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER. Cures All Diseases. All sickness Is caused by disease germs, called microbes. If you are In poor health or suffer ing frora any acute or chronic dlseass, if jour blood is impure, yon should read np on the germ theory. Our pamphlots explaining the abort', and giving history of tbe Microbe Killer are glrcfl away or mailed free to any address. Pittsbartf Braneb, 813 Liberty ave.. Room 3, Second Floo. J The Wm. Radartfcrqi3 Killer Co., SIXTH AVENUlCSB "i'OBK CITY. apl3-123-su V 1 TES TO BEWABE OF- A Cblcnffo Basilicas Man Has Collated Same Important Bales. Unlcaico Tribune. Samuel W. King, at the head of one of the largest collection concerns in the coun try, has met and seen every type of man. From bis observations he has made the fol lowing deductions, had them printed and hung in his office: , Bcwaro of tho man who "Swears by all the gods at once," or one at a time, for that matter. Of the man who slaps you between the shoulders and calls you "old man." No amount of familiarity is any excuse for this. Of tho man who hyphenates his words with "er a." Ol tbe man whose salutation is, "What's the newsT" Of tbe man who asks you when be has seen yon speak to another, "Who's your friendf Of the man who oaks von "Wham did von getltt" Ot the man who in leaving says, "Bee yon later." Or tho man who pokes you In tbe ribs when ho Is talking. Of tho man who adjusts the lapel ot yonr coat nr rubs one sleeve, or both, when be is talking to yon. Of the man who talks to you on the train, or on a street car, when he never saw vou before, unless there is a public crisis. Victor Hugo says that such salutations showcubllc anxiety, and are only excusable when there Is public excitement. Hnslblo fellow, that Hugo. Of a man who occupies a whole table in the writing room of a botel. Of the man who can't get out of a chair without kicking It from under him. Of the man who drops Into a drugstore to look up a name In the directory, and hangs onto the book as if it were a new novel when he sees three or four others waiting to look up names. Of the roan who stands at tho box office of a theater when there is a crowd back of him, talk ing about bost seats and other topics. Tbe woman who will do this is no better. She isn't as good as a man. Finally Beware of the man who comes, but nuvur kuus, ana oi nis companion picture, the man who starts to go but doesn't. 2-v. BOTTLES Removed every Speck of Pimples and Blotches from my face that troubled me for years. Miss Liz zie Roberts, Sandy uook, cc mvl5-Dwk 3IEDICAL. Perspective, General Dimensions Width over all, SO feet; depth, including verandas, 43 feet 6 inches. Heights of stories: Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches; first story, 9 feetG inches; second story, 8 feet 6 inches: attic, 8 feet. Exterior Materials Foundations, stone; first story, clapboards; second story, gables, and verauda roofs, shingles; main roof, slate. Outside blinds to all windows except those of the staircase, attic and cellar. Interior Finish Sand finish plaster. Cellar ceiling plastered one heavy coat. Ash floor in first story with an under-flooring of soft wool; hard pine floor in attic; soft wood floors elsewhere. Soft wood trim. Ash staircase. Panels un der windows in parlor, dining room and DOCTOR WHITTIER S14 PEK.N AVENUE. PITTSBDKG. PA. As old residents know and back flies of Pitts burg papers prove, is the oldest established and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. sSsNO FEEUNTILCURED MCDni IC and mental diseases, physical 1M L il V U U O decay.nervous debility, lack of energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, baibfulness, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting tbe person for business, society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cared. BLOOD AND SKIN. dtigererasPifonai! blotches, fallinirbalr, bones, pains, glandular, swellings, ulcerations ol tongue, mouth, throat, ulcers, old sores are cured for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system. 1 1 R M A R V Sidney and bladder derange UnilinlS I ments, weak back, gravel, ca tarrhal discbarges, inflammation and other painful symptoms receive searching treatment, prompt relief and real cures. Dr. Wbittler's life-long, extensive experience insures scientific and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated as if here. Offlco hours, 9 A. M. to S p. at. Sunday. 10 A. M. tc 1 P. K. only. DO. WHITTIER, 811 Penn avenue, Pittsburg. Pa. m)8-22-Duwk ifn' How Lost! WMM. VhliVlYlM 17" ;T"4 How Regained, ffiSmcEhtms tlllliut. y s, N of J t ice n fowJSa Cflrfc1 , i, OO'wile fl . . .Jfirr ! if iWlS rSicnafii i I J i ssJr slstss. jnfmVd DirwiO'rV Obrarv! fl lunuf TUWeri P' mKM :.- Librarv zvii$ I to'ftuv. &. , nail f fmrri Oft'fi jnftitv llXWrirry LLL-4a nan f Vx i jr izoxiar PaTrior' PIPf a SriftioV' J I I wu "'VSr&ndA I 6"0Vwfe' a Lg "K r it First Floor. 0VEE 100 JULES JOB A DENTIST. The Man With Toothache In n. Very TJnpleas nnt Position. Lewlston Journal. l "When I hear a man talk about den tistry," said Mr. Fuller, "I am reminded of my experience in Nevada. "I had the toothache. I had it bad. It ached days and it ached nights and it woke with me in the mornings. The miners did what they could for me. Tbey tried to dig the tooth out with their jack-knives and pry it off, and what I suffered under their ma nipulation no tongue can tell. It was furi ous. One day they suggested that I put some acid in it that they used in testing rock and I tried that and it eased it for a few hours, when it began again with redoubled fury. If we had pincers we would have had it out, but I decided it no go, and I had to give in and look forward to tramping to Aus tin. On the morning of my leaving I found a man who was going up with a pair of cattle and a pair of wheels. I went along with him, sick and weak from lack of sleep. It was 150 miles to Austin five days and nights of travel. For five days and nights 1 suliereu. 1 walked most ol the time, rode some on the wheels; slept at night on the earth with a pile of sand scooped up for a pillow; had awful dreams; was exhausted by pain and worn to tbe bone. At last I strnck Austin. Despairingly I hunted for a dentist. There was none. Finally I fonnd a doctor who had an old pair of tooth- pincers. He sat me down on a soap-box in a grocery store and he went tor me, and, as it seemed to me, after two hours of agony he pulled that tooth from its socket, and I rosefor the first time iu many days happy in relief. Since then I have" never looked a dentist in the face without thanking Qod for tbeir dispensation and that 1 am sur sounded by them." If Ono Only Conld. Lewlston Journal. One of the witnesses at tbe recent Oilman hearing in Waterville was a learned pro fessor of Colby University. His answer to the usual question, "How old are yon?" was a surprise to many, as the professor is in the prime of his good looks aud activity: "Well, I shall have to confess to 68." "That,'said Judge Peters in his genial way, "is a good age, it' one only could stay mere, it is just my age. Civilizing Grcculnndcrs. Detroit free Pre. The efforts of English missionaries to change the enstoms and habits of the Green-; landers have thus far been unavailing. The old are sent to a pen to die of starvation and neglect, and tbe young get drunk as often as opportunity offers. Getting drunk and dying of consumption are the only two events of any importance in a Greenlander's life, and he won't inuovato to accommodate anybody. ( A Bin IteM- Bnrrel. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The largest beer barrel ever made in the world is the attraction of an East St. Louis saloon. It is 23 feet high, 22 feet wide, and has a capacity of 154,400 gallons, or 1,700 ordinary beer barrels. A dining table is set up in thjyuterhjr .of .the. barrel,. and-many- peopie nave enjoyed the novely of taking their luncheoa-.'in the big barrel. It -iWai mnfla 1 m Q t T5in I m 1 A U.. . m l lA li tl library. Kitchen and buthroum wainscoted. Interior woodwork finished in hard oil. Colors Clapboards, bronze green. Trim, blinds, sashes and rain conductors, dark red. Outside doors, dark red with bronze green panels. Veranda floor, dark olive drab. Veranda ceiling, lilac. Brick work, Indian red. Wall shingles, dipped and brush-coated red; veranda roof shingles a darker red. Accommodations The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the plans. Cellar with concrete floor under whole house. Laundry under kitchen. Attic plastered and finished as a large play room; space for three or four bedrooms in stead, if preferred. Heater pipes and regis-' ters in all rooms. All sides or tbe house equally presentable. Open fireplaces and mantels in hall, parlor and dining room, and set range in kitchen included in estimate. 'JLT-a HI SCX3CZ7C3D OF A Scientific and Standard Popular Medical Treatise on metrrorsoi xouin, rrematnreDeciine,xervona and rnysicai Debility, imparities of the Blood, Hijslifllilkili Resulting from Folly, Vice, Ignorance, Ex cesses or Overtaxation, Enervating and unfit ting the victim for Work, Business, the Mar riage or Social Relations. Avoid unskillful pretenders. Possess this great work. It contains 300 pages, royal 8ro. Beautiful binding, embossed, full gilt. Price. only 31 by mail, postpaid, concealed in plain wrapper. Illustrative Prospectus Free, if you BTOJy now. Tbe distinguished author, Wm. H. C jter.M.D., received the GOLD AND JEW. tvtD MEDAL from the National Medical As sociation, for this PRIZE ESSAY on NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY. Dr. Parker and a corps of Assistant Physicians may be con sulted, confidentially, by mail or In person, at the office ot THE PEABODY MEDICAL IN. STITUTE, No. 4 Bulfinch SL, Boston, Mass., to whom all orders for books or letters for advice should be directed as above. aulS-OT-TUFSuwk pahs L . JBed'R. HH BedR. 1 y Jf4 l.iCtfxillBJ lO.t'llO'J (UneftC L JfiL-.-iSinra .J " y T3 Bed ff i E3 BMRra i&tiior I tins Y J- Root Second Floor. Cost 55,100, not including heater. The 1 r3-- r-.r : I Vobt T 2&j Roof w' I CniMrcrvs PtajfrJ.! j i'l Roof Attic Floor. GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE CURES NERVOUS DEBILITY, LOST VIGOR. LOSS OF MEMORY. Vnll particulars la pamphlet sent free. The genuine Uray's Specific sold by drusKlsU only la yellow wrapper. Price, ft per package, or six for S3, or by mall on recelnt of nrlce. hv addreij- inx Tiirc ukax Jii.uicji.NE cu., Buffalo, Jt. x BO old in 1'lttibnr? br S. a. HULL AN U. corner Bmlthfleld and Liberty iu. mhi7-M-DWk oolc's Oofrtoaa. UootJ COMPOUND Composed of Cotton Root, Taney and Pennvroval a recent discovery by an 'old Dhvsiclan. Ii tuccessfuOu used mnnrMu Fafe. Effectual. Price SL bv mall. eealed. Ladies, ask your druggist for CooVa Cotton Root Compound and take no substitute, or lnolose 2 stamDS for sealed particulars. Ad dress POXD LILY CO JIPANY, No. 3 Plater Block, 131 Woodward ave-, Detroit, Mlclu .83-Sold In Pittsburg, Pa by Joseph Flem ing & Son, Diamond and Market sts. Se28-23-TTSUWkE0WTT. ss&SSl estimate is based on New York prices for materials and labor. Feasible Modifications Height of stories, colors, sizes of rooms and kinds of materials may be changed. Liundry tubs maybe placed in kitchen. Foundation may be planned for a level grade. Size of cellar may be reduced and concrete floor omitted. Extent of veranda may be greatly reduced. Number of fire places and mantels may be reduced or all omitted. B. W. SnorpfcLL. Copyright A CHECK OH GOSSIP. Cever Base of a Ilomess to Teach Her finest a Lesson. Boston (iazette.: At a luncheon given not long since the conversation turned on some new neighbors who bad not made n very favorable impres sion on those who bad met them. One guest told her experience and another hers, out doing the others in disparaging the new comers. Suddenly the hostess held up her hands, exclaiming, "Why, iriends, thev are my cousins." The check was effectual," and not until everyone who had been saying the unkind thiugs had become thoroughly ashamed did it dawu upon them that it was but u ruse on the hostess' part to turn the conversation. 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