1 o0 THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1890. ' ' HITCHJJABIT Is a Featnre of the Present Adminis tration, but Xot So Impor tant as Former Ones. CLA..KS05 IS THE BEST MEMBER. Wanamaker Has Influence, Dan Kansdell Stands in and Chairman Mich- ener is a Tower. riFrEnExcE is CAimiGX methods. Tie Sew Corgrtss nd Eoe TTcrds About the Hen Who Hits Pillea ly tie YTtysida. tCPr.REPPOXDESCE Or TltE DISrATCH.l WASHi2.-GTON.Noven.ber 15. The Fifty second Congr'ss will be practically a new body. A new element has jumped into politics, and fresh blood, whether for good or evil, will for a time flow through the veins of legislation. During the past two years death and defeat have been playing havoc with our politicians, and the elections ot last week add to the many who have fallen by the wayside. For 20 years one of the strongest men in the House of Representatives was Samuel J. Kandall, of Pennsylvania. He was an original thinker, and his iron will molded the work of a large section of his party. He fought for his ideas through many chances of party sentiment, and during the present Congress he died in the harness of a pro tective tariff. The famous Pig-iron Kelley came into the House while Lincoln was President, and for nearly a generation Ms strong voice and keen brain had tneir effect upon the Republican side of the tariff ques tion. He, too, was a leader of men, and as Father oJ the House he had great influence and a large lollowing. THE DEATH ROLL IS LONG. Now he is dead, and the eulogies of his iellow members are in the Congressional Kecord side by side with thote of Samuel Sullivan Cox, the brightest wit in Congress for the past generation, and a Democrat who was as strong in the free Jrade element of his party as Sam Kandall was ou the side of protection. The death of Senator Beck took John G. Carlisle (rom the ranks of the House. Morrison was long ago shelved by being put on the Inter-State Commerce Com mission, and now all that is left of the Democratic lights of years ago are William S. Holman, the great objector, and "Iiise TJp" "William Springer, who has been tramped upon again and again by the pon derous lectof Sneaker Heed, butwhosprings to his feet with all the elasticity of the India-rubber man at the circus. The Republicans, though they have been less afflicted by death than the Democrats, have lost everywhere bv defeat. McKinley, after a close fight, will have a chance to practice law at Canton, O., and Speaker Eeed will have to come down out of the chair and take the leadership of the Repub lican party on the floor of the House. REPUBLICAN LEADERS MISSING. He will find many of his licutenauts miss ing. Major Ben Butterworth has retired from political life and has accepted the management of the World's Fair Exposi tion at Chicago. General Cutcheon, of Michigan, after eight years of active service, is replaced by a Democrat, and bold Bob Kennedy, of Ohio, notwithstanding his attack upon the Senate, is elected to stay at home. One of the most noticeable changes in the West will be the retirement for the time of Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois. For 18 years he has been a member of the House. He came here when be was 36 aud left a tplendid legal business and the chances of a fortune. For nine Congresses he has served the Re publican party, and for at least cignt ot these he has been one of the leaders on his side ot the House. Kow, at 51,be goes back to bis district aud to private life, a com paratively poor man. He once told me that his Congressional life had been a poor investment for him, and that he would have been much wiser to have stayed at home and continued to be a money maker. FAT MES "WHO AKE GOSE. Among other changes, T note that the oldest and the fattest man in this House have both been lelt. Geoige Ban.es, of Georgia, who weighs 400 pounds, and says be would not sell an ounce of his super fluous flesh for 51,000, w ill co back to his law vractice in Augusta. General Yan derver, the old stager ot Caliiornia, will carry his 74 years back to his district, and he will probably not be heard in Congress again. General N. P. Banks is another old stager, who is replaced by a young man, and Sherman Hoar has his scat in the Massa chusetts delegation. A number of the old est members in point ot service have been retired, and about one-third of the House is made ur oi new men. The average life o! a business man is 20 years. The average Con gressman lasts only four years, and every Congress sees about one-third of the beads of its members chopped off to make room lor others. Tne rewards of politic? in the United States grow less and less as the years go on. The average Congressman oi tu-day is nothing but the errand boy of his constit uent and he gets paid for his services, a sal ary which will not enable him to live as w ell as he does at home. CLAEKSON HAS ENOUGH. I understand that General Clarkson will retire from politics with this campaign. His health is broken down by the work ot the Congressional campaign, which he man aged from Washington, and he has gone to Ashviile, X. C, to recuperate. He said the other day that he was tired of being in a buMnss which brought him no monev, and though he is worth perhaps 5100,000, he feels that he cannot afford to hold public office. He sold out his half interest in the Dcs Moines Register to his brother when he came here, ana tnis property was worth SM.000 a year. It was built up bv his father and himself in connection with his brother, and it has a circulation of from 15,000 to 20,000 daily. Clarkson's father was a printer, and young Clarkson set type in the Cincinnati Gazette office when Whitelaw Keid was writing letters to that paper under the sig nature of 'Agate." Iteid now gets about 5500,000 a year out of his Tribune, and both he and Clarkson have been working together in the administration. COULD HAVE HAD A PORTFOLIO. General Clarkson has for years been prominent in Iowa politics, and be has had several chances at public office before he ac cepted a place under Postmaster General Wanamaker. When he was 25 years old he was offered a Swiss mission, and he could have been a Cabinet officer under Garfield, but he would not leave his paper. His father was offered the Commissionership of Agriculture by Grant, and Clarkson might have been Postmaster General in Wana maker's nlacc, had he so chosen. It was largely due to his masterly efforts at the heJ ot the National Committee that Harrison was elected, and Dudley, Quay and Wanamaker were anxious that he should be given a place in the Cabinet. The President, however, told them that the slate was already filled, and Wanamaker told him that he would rather not havea place himself than see Clarkson left out, and he offered to retire in his favor. Clarkson heard of this, and he went to Wanamaker and told him that under no circumstances would he accept a place under such condi tions, and it was his friendship lor Wana maker that made him take the First Assist ant Postmaster Generalship. CLARKSON'S CAMPAIGN METHODS. As such he had the control of the big po litical machine of the Postoffice Department, and, as an evidence of his ability, out of 25,- 000 appointments that he made not one ap pealed to the Postmaster General nor the President General Clarkson, though he led the forlorn hope this fall, is a man of great ability as a campaign manager. He is a far different man than either Quay or Dudley. He deals in the sentimental in politics, and believes in running campaigns with the use of plenty of documents, and he addresses his efforts to the reasoning powers of the voters. Quay deals in master strokes, and an ex ample of his political methods was seen in his turning the sentiment of the sporting classes to Harrison during the last cam paign. The betting wa all m lavor of Cleveland, and Quay saw that it was going to influence the election. He sent General Swords one night with $10,000 in cash to the Hoffman House and told him to bet this money on the election of Harrison, and to bet even. If odds were offered he was not to take them. QUAY'S BIG BETTING BLUFP. The Democrats were surprised at the bluff. Ten thousand dollars is a large amount to put tip on a moment's notice, and the Dem ocrats had some trouble in raising it. They saw, however, that they would have to cover it, and they took the bet. This fact was telegraphed "out over the country, and also the statement that the Republican Na tional Committee had made the bet. The next night. General Swords appeared again at the Hoffman House with another $10,000, andtheDemocratshad more trouble in cover ing this than they had in raising the money for the first one. Tne next night Swords appeared again with 510,000 more, and the fourth night Quay sent him up again with another $10,000, and the managers of the Democratic party saw that this was also taken. By this time, however, the bets on the re sult had been even on both candidates, with the chances, if anything, in favor of Harri son, and the change in the sentiment had considerable to do with the election, Dud ley's strong point in the last campaign for the Presidency was his wonderful power of organization. He is a great man for details, and he knows how to keep his men in good working order. EECREX.OF DUDLEY'S SUCCESS. As an instance of how he manages such matters, he had in the Stateof Indiana alone 1,000 personal political correspondents, and he knew how to keep every hustler hustling. Dudley did as much as any other man at the Republican Headquarters to make Harrison President, and he has, I am told, not had an interview with the President since his elec tion. Be is devoting himself strictly to the law and pension business, and his income is, from these sources, about $40,000 a year. It was Clarkson and Dudley who saved Harrison at Chicago. Clarkson led the Iowa delegation, and it started out to vote lor Allison. As the convention went on and it was seen that Allison could not be elected, a number of the Iowa delegates bad a secret understanding that they were to desert Allison and go to Sherman. Clark son did not hear of it until late that even ing, but when he did he rushed about and got the delegates to vote for Harrison, and this was not because he loved Harrison but because be was a triendof Dudley's. Since be bas come to Washington, however, a strong friendship has grown up between bim and the President, and he is one ol the members ot the kitchen cabinet of the pres ent administration. nAKKISON'S KITCHEN CABINET. And has President Harrison a kitchen cabinet? Well, yes. Not a very big one, nor a very strong one, but it is a kitchen cabinet ail the same. It has not the weight with him that Henry A. Wise and others had with President Tyler during his admin istration, and it does not write his messages as did the kitchen cabinet of Andrew Jack son, when Amos Kendall and Major Lewis remodeled the political ideas of "Old Hick ory." Still.it keeps the President posted to a certain degree on what is going on about bim, aud tries to help him in doing what is best for himself, for it and for the party. General Clarkson is one of the members of this cabinet. The President looks upon bim as one of the best posted men on the in terior workings of the party, and he advises with him as to party matters. Another member of this cabinet is Postmaster Gen eral Wanamafcer. He and the President are closely associated iu social and church matters, and they talk- over many of the ad ministration points outside of their cabinet consultations. WANAMAKER KNOWS HIS MAN. Wanamaker is a good deal of a diplomat. He has studied the moods ot the President, and he is blunt enough at the same time to tell him be is wrong if he thinks so. The Attorney General has very close relations to President Harrison. He is not, how ever, in touch with the politicians and don't know enough about what is going on to be much of an adviser. He was Presi dent Harrison's old law partner, and under stands him very well. Secretary Tracy has had much closer relations with President Harrison since his wife died, but he can hardly be called a member of the kitchen cabinet, and the same is true of Secretaries Proctor and Noble. One of the closest friends here and one in whom he feenis to have implicit confidence is Dan Kansdell, the Marshal of the Dis trict. He is a one-armed soldier and an old comrade of President Harrison's. He is al ways around and among the people, and he keeps the President posted to a certain ex tent as to what is going on. It was he who was the go-between of the President and Tanner at the time of their trouble, and he is assuredly one of the kitchen cabinet. AN OUTSIDER'S POWER. Another man in whom the President has great confidence and who will have more in fluence than ever, is Louis T. Micnener, the Attorney General ot the State of Illinois, and the Chairman of the State Republican Committee. He is, I understand, coming to Washington to be a partner with Dudley in his pension and law business, and he will be a constant visitor at the White House. As to the President's own family, I don't think Elijah Halford is as good a mixer as Dan Lamont, but he is the watchdog of the Pres ident's private office and has more or less in fluence. Russell Harrison is not here enough to give his opinions and Bob McKee is devoting himself to his shoe business iu Indianapolis. This man would be a very valuable addition to the President's political family. He is a quiet, pleasant-mannered fellow of S6 with good address. He does the Piesident good wherever he goes, and he is very plain and outspoken iu his expressions of the situa tions to him. Frank-G. Carpenter. THE NEW MILITARY TENT. Description of.tlio Host Popular Means of .Protection Yet Provided. rrovldcnce Journal. The umbrella tent is one of the new designs for military purposes. The method of construction of this tint admits of open ing either one section or at many sections as maybe desired. It can also be entirely closed by hooking up the tent flaps and losing the entrance in case of a storm, or when being used for bathing purposes. In warm weather the walls of the tent should be staked two or three inches from the ground, which, in connection with the large opening between the umbrella and side walls, will cause a constant draught ot air. The special feature of the tent is its simple construction and portability. It folds up, and the bundle, including po-cs. stakes, guy lines, etc., when the tent is made of ten-ounce duck, weighs about 46 pounds. The tent was first used by the New Jersey troops at the last encampment at Sea Girt. HISSING A -DUCHESS. Untitled Folk Will Insist on Their Eights at the Theater. SHERMAN CATCHES IT AT TIMES. Beauty Kowadays Tries to Hide the Little Boles in tbe Ears. ANGORA KITTENS ALL THE BAGE NOW COHBllSrOXDENCE OF TBS DISPATCH. New York, November 15. EATJT Y must behave itself at the theaters, and all the more so when it is ou exhibi tion in a proscenium box. That is the rule enforced rigidly by New York audiences, and no exception can be made even in the case of so distin guished an embodi ment of loveliness as the Duchess ot Marl borough. She has been hissed here because she indulged in loud conversation, after the manner ot aristocrats in London theaters, and doubtless it served her right, for she grew up an American girl, and should know that we regard Duchesses with no awe, however great our curiosity may be. Why, that grizzly old warrior, William Tecumsetr Sherman, is highly respected in this city; but for his bad habit of loud talk in theaters his disturbed neighbors often hiss him. Therefore the exquisitely beauteous Lillie Price, who became Mrs. Hamersley, and now is the Duchess of Marlborough, may depend on't that she will not be permitted to interfere with un titled folks getting their money's worth. JUDGED BY THE EARRINGS. Well, usages are whimsical, anyhow. A funny man in a comedy once got a huge laugh from his audience by saying: "I know she's a lady because she wears diamond earrings." That phrase was really a good bit of sarcasm at that time upon the preva lent fashion ot ladies iu society in wearing earrings of great value. Time flies by, and as it goes the observant man is made aware of gradual but marked changes in all such habits. It so happens that the lady of especially good breeding now emphasizes the excellence of her taste by appearing at most times without earrings. Whereas every child of 8 was unhappy until she had her ears pierced, not many years ago, most of tbe society young women of the present day do their best to disguise the tiny punct ure that almost invariably mars their auricu lar perfection. A yonng man who had become engaged to a particularly stylish girl desired to present his fiancee with a thoroughly elegant and appropriate gift, so he went quietly to an expensive jeweler's and picked out a pair of solitaire earrings that cost him every cent of the ready money he had. That evening he handed to his sweetheart the package ZX &' ." VPVJg The Fad Won't Last Long. containing the earriugs, observing as he did so that it was a venr slight . testimonial of his boundless devotion, and he hoped it might be favorably, if not enthusiastically, regarded. WHAT A LOTEE LEARNED. She tore open the box, her eyes sparkling with anticipation, and as the light ot the diamonds broke forth to view she gave a little cry of delight. Then her face fell suddenly, and she looked up into the eyes of her lover reproachlully. "Why, those are earrings," she exclaimed, and the tone of her voice indicated plainly her disappointment. "Yes, they are," replied the young man. "Are you not fond of earrings." "Ye-e-e-s," replied the girl hesitatingly, "only they are not in tbe least fashionable, you know." The young man was much surprised, but he soon understood that earrings were bad lorm, and he confessed himself very sorry at the mistake made. "Yes," said tbe young lady pouting, "you are sorry, but it isn't very gratifying to know that you have not noticed me care fully enough to be aware that I have not worn earrings for fully six months." "Don't speak of it, dear," said the young man. And as he spoke he leaned over and kissed the place where the pretty creature's earring was missing. THE BAGE FOB ANGORAS. The girls on Murray Hill are crazy over tortoise shell Angora kittens. These little animals are rare in America, and cost any where from $25 to $30 apiece. Only yester day I was calling on a pretty young woman, when a tiny kitten trotted into the room, jumped on to its mistress' shoulder and sat there contemplating me and tbe other fix ings about the place. My charming hostess had brought this example home from Paris, where Angoras cost a dollar each. All the girls, she said, were devoting themselves to kittens now instead of dogs. It is the fash ion to put large silk ruffles on one of tne tore feet. Angora kittens really possess enough wis dom to render them admirable pets, and, as it is a passion with them to sit on a woman's shoulder and press their faces against hers, their value as an ornamental companion can be imagined. A perfect tortoise-shell kitten in a pale blue ruffle on the shoulder sf a girl with golden hair, brown eyes and a creamy skin is really one of the prettiest sights you will comeicross in a day's search. I don't suppose tbe fad will last long, how ever; nrobablv until the present lot of reg nant kittens shall have grown to cathood. A PICTUBE FROM LIFE. Somebody writes to me that I devote too much attention to sketches of wealthy girls and neglect phases of life among the unfortunate. It happens that I have just chatted with a well-known novelist, who told me that he had spent all of last night seeing sights to transfer to a novel. One thing that he witnessed will serve my pur pose of giving a picture of pitiful life in New York. "A enp of coffee and a plate of butter cakes, seel" The speaker was a pale-faced girl with burning eyes, a slender, consumptive figure, and a cough. The scene was a coffee and cake restaurant on Sixth avenue and the hour was 4 in the morning. A colored man was sweeping the wooden floor and a youth in a white apron in front of an open fire was dabbling a white paste upon a large pan and watching with eyes that were not only fatigued, but also crooked, tbe spots assume a russet tint. "How many cakes kinyereatdismornin,' Lottie," called out the young man in front of the fire. "Two of 'em, I guess, Jimmie," responded r ,4tl rt fyjNL Irk! .W. &f s I mm the girl. "And have tbe coffee hot, will yer. I'm shiverin inside." There was a few instants of silence, and then Jimmie spoke again. SILENCE AND SYMPATHY. '.'Don't you want ter sit up here by der fire, Lottie," suggested Jimmie. "Oh, I guess not," was the reply. "I'll take me coffee and get home." A few more moments ot silence. "I'm going to the hospital ter-morrer, Jim mie," were the next words that broke the stillness. "What fer?" asked Jimmie. "Me chest is weak," replied Lottie. "I got a friend that's a doctor and he's gnin' to put me into the hospital. He says I'm all run down an' I guess I am. 1 can't stay up late now like I used to without coughin' an' I ain't got a appetite all day. I'll miss your butter cakes while I'm in the hospital, Jimmie." The young man in the white apron looked studiously at the girl's face as he put the cakes and coffee on the table before her. He arranged the butter, sugar and spoons about her and care'ully placed his towel at her side in lieu of a napkin. "Well, yer ain't lookin' well, Lottie, sure enough," observed the young man' "Ycr've got red cheeks but yer thin. Per haps ver stav up too much nights." "Well, what else kin I do," asked Lottie, nibbling at a cake, and as she looked away through the glass front of tbe saloon into the dark street, her eyes filled with tears. THE nELPINO HAND. "Say, Lottie," said the young man, mak ing an awkward attempt to brnsh off the table and offer a little sympathy at the same time; "would you like me to send up A Plate of Mutter Cakes, See 1 some butter cakes to the hospital once In a while? I can't have 'em hot but they might remind you of your good old break fasts in here." Lottie declared she would be delighted to get butter cakes at any time, and when she got up to go she assured Jimmie that he was an awfully good fellow. "Well, my little wife is about your age, Lottie, d'ye see," said Jimmie, "an' I know she'd like some one to think of her if she was in your luck." Lottie smiled as she coughed out a reply to this. "Your wife, Jimmie, never could have my sort of luck." As the wretched girl went out into the dark frosty air, Jimmie stood contemplating her, and when she had disappeared in the gloom he observed to himself: "I wonder if it's whooping cough?" Going back to the table where the girl had sat he noticed that she bad eaten a small section of one butter cake and drank half of her coffee. It was only yesterday that I talked with a Fifth avenue married belle aged 35. She was a beanty as to the synmetrv and health of her body; so much so that I begged her to tell me how she had so handsomely pre served, if not developed, her shapeliness and vigor. IMPBOVINO THE FIGUBE. "For improvement of the figure," she said, "there is nothing so good as swimming. The muscles about the shoulders and chest and back are all exercised the arms and the hips and knees. Rowing fills out the arms, but it is hard on the hands. Dumb bells and Indian clubs are likely to make one rather muscular above the elbow. Ol all things swimming seems the best, for lungs, skin and muscles, too; but ask your doctor. Washing every morning above the waist in hot water, rinsing in cold water, and drving briskly will keep the skin hard and white, and cultivate the pretty blue veins that are ready to show about the shoulders and neck. The hot water clears the skin's pores, tbe cold shuts them up and maKes the texture firm and elastic, and the rubbing sets the blood in motion. "If all this is done once or twice a day your skin can hardly help being nice, can it? Of course, if you can stand it, a bath all over of this kind is good; but believe me, better not indulge too freely in the tub, ex cept with your doctor's permission. It is very English and all that to take a cold bawth in the mawning,' but it may be jolly bad for you all the same, and no one but your doctor can give you advice about bathing." CABBYING THE BODY. The lady gave some information which may be of practical value to growing girls if not to matured women. "Your shoul ders," she said, "will not be pretty if thev are not well poised. They will probably not be well poised unless you stand so as to give the proper curve of beauty down the back. What you want is aa absence of sudden, ugly, outward curve just below the waist-line in front that ugly effect that makes the chorus girls in the Amazon march, so many of, them, look very tubby when their figures show in profile that unfortunate fullness which the dressmaker tries to counteract by an enormous bustle, and which, when the bustle is in place, makes a woman look like a bust of herself set on a hogshead. Have I said enough to make my meaning clear? "Well, unless the figure has been ruined by tight lacing, proper poising of the spine will do away with this unsightly line in front, and give it to you in the back, where it is graceful and beautiful." Claba Belle. COFFEE OF THE TUBES. It Is Browned, Founded, Boiled With Sugar and Then Served. New York Herald.J The Mohammedans are strictly a temper ate people. Under the laws of the Koran intoxicating drinks are prohibited. This abstinence is almost universally adhered to except by such persons as have, by living in foreign capitals, imbibed the vices thereof. The universal beverage is coffee.and thou sands of cafes are scattered throughout the cities and hamlets of the empire. In a cafe in Constantinople one may frequently see several hundred citizens and soldiers, the whole assembly as quiet and peaceable as a family party. Turkish coffee is prepared in a peculiar way. The bean, after being roasted brown, is pounded into a powder and boiled with sugar, and then served in small cups of the size and shape of an egg shell. It would probably take eight such cups to fill one of our ordinary coflee cups. The price of this coffee varies from one quarter of a cent to a piastre about 4 cents. CAH'T JUDGE DISTANCE. Prairie Dogs Will Walk Off a Table If Left to Themselves. Dr.Wilderhasmadea discovery relative to prairie dogs, says Chambers' Journal. They seem to lack any sense of height or distance, owing, it is thought, to the nature of their ordinary surroundings a flat, level plain, destitute of pitfalls of any kind. Several dogs experimented with, walked over the edges of tables, chairs and other pieces of furniture, and seemed to be greatly surprised when their adventure ended in a tall to the ground. One dog fell from a window sill 20 feet above a granite pavement, but hap pily soon recovered from the effects of its tumble. BROKE IN THE EOOF. How the Friends of the Paralytic Got Him Before the Savior. ALL OF THE FIVE HAD FAITH. Every Barrier Should be Broken to Get Hen Into the Gbnreb, THE WORK OP THE SALTATION ARMY rwBrrTEK tob thi DisrATcn.i "And behold, they brought to him a man sick of tbe palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy. Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee." They wanted to get this man into the pres ence of Christ. He was a sick man, and tbey were his friends, and they wanted him to be made a well man. They had heard cf the wonderful works which our Lord had done. And they believed that the surest and speediest way to bring back strength into this palsied body was to carry the man into the presence of the Master Healer. That is true to-day. Tbe way to get help for men is to bring them where they can look into the face of Jesus Christ. Christ is the supreme uplifting influence. And what people who are down need is to know Him. That will help them. That will heal their spiritual maladies. If we can but play the part of these four friends, and bring men into the presence of Christ, we shall do well. That is, we need to teach men more and more, by word and bv example, that Christ is the heart of the Christian religion, that to believe in Him is the essence of the Christian creed, and to follow Him is the ideal of Christian conduct. We need to care less for articles of faith which do not center abont Him, and to care more for tbe shaping of our lives according to the meas ure of His example. We need to empha size the supreme pre-eminence of Christ. That is what I mean by bringing people into Christ's presence. And you can see at once what healing that would bring to the spiritual malady of doubt, and to the spirit ual malady of sin. OYEECOMING OBSTACLES. The men were wise who wanted to get their afflicted friend into the presoace of the Master. But what shall they do? Tbe bouse where the Master sits is full, and even tbe street before the door is crowded. Here they come along the Capernaum road, hastening with their burden, four men are at each corner and the sick man borne upon his bed between them. And here is this great crowd. What shall they do? You remember what they did do. They hurried up the outside staircase to the flat roof, and broke a great hole in the midst of it, and let the mau down through. There was the Master teaching, and the people all about Him listening; and of a sudden there was a noise of trampling feet over their heads, and a sound of breaking timbers. Down falls a rain of chips and splinters over the shoulders of the congregation. And then the bed comes, let down by the iour corners, like tbe sheet of the apostle's vis ion, and the man with the palsy lies at the feet of Christ. That was a most irregular proceeding. That was not at all the conventional way of doing things. Nevertheless Christ ap proved of it. He commended the men. He recognized the faith and tbe earnestness which inspired this extraordinary act of theirs. He knew what tbey meant by it. And it pleased Him. After all, the great thing is to get men into Christ's presence. Sometimes it is well to break through a roof to do that. Sometimes it is a rubric wbich needs breaking. Re ligion if always in danger of being conven tionalized, of being so thronged with crowds of conservatives, and so roofed over with precedents and orderly procedures, that it becomes absolutely necessary to break something before men can get in where Christ is. WORK OF TKE SALVATION ARMY. The Salvation Army are breaking in the roof, but they are bringing men into tbe presence of Christ that way, and we ought to applaud them for it, as, I doubt not, Christ applauds them. Any way to uplift men, anyway to teach men the truth of God. It ritual will do that, let us have all the ritual we can. If revivals will do it, let us have revivals. Let us be on guard ourselves against conventionalism iu re ligion. And let us welcome any innova tion, any method, any breaking of the roof, which will bring men in where they can see the face oi Christ. Christ helped this man, thus uncermon iously thrnst into His presence, because He saw in this act an evidence of faith. He saw "their faith." Whose faith? The faith of the four stout men who let the paralytic down, or the faith of all five of them, counting the paralytic in. You can read the record either way, but I would say the faith of five. If there are five men and four are good, that does not make the fifth good. Indeed, as things go in this disordered world, there is fully as much likelihood that the fifth will make tbe four b.id as that they will make a saint oi him. The taith of our friends will not save us. Every one of vs stands alone, face to face with God. We must answer for our ownselves. Some people have a queer, materialistic notion about Heaven. That it is a fine place somewhere, with a high gold wall about it and a big gate in the front of it, and that if thev can get through that gate they will be saved. And they think that because tbey have a good father and mother, or a devout wife, or belong to a religions parish, they will somehow get in along with the other's in a crowd. Heaven mav be a place, but it is a good deal more truly a state of heart. Nobody will find himself in any heaven after he dies who has not been living in heaven right here on this earth. Life goes straight on through tbe gate of death. Nothing which belongs to character is left behind. The next life follows this as to morrow follows to-day. Heaven is largely A MATTER OF APPRECIATION, of ability to appreciate heavenly pleasures, and to think heavenly thoughts. Whoever unfits himself here forappreciating Heaven cannot possibly appreciate Heaven. And that is equivalent in the language of theol ogy to being in bell. And, as nobody can live our own life, nor think our" own thoughts, but our own selves, nobody can answer for us. If we are the fifth among a saintlv four, it will make no difference with us. When they let the paralytic down and Jeius saw "their faith," I think He saw the faith of five; and very probably tbe para lytic's faith was the strongest of them all. You remember what He said: "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee." Was that what the man with tbe palsy wanted? Was it for this they had borne him between four and broken in the roof ? God knows what we need better than we do. Aud you remember that Christ came to reveal God to us. The most comforting, tbe most bcantiful, the worthiest thought which we can have of God is that God is like Christ. The Christlikeness of God is one of the supreme doctrines of the Chris tian faith. How often in our own experi ence God does just what we see Christ doing here. We want a material blessing, and God gives us a spiritual blessing in the place of it. Aud He does not always give us tbe material blessing In addition, as He doe here. We may believe that God gives us the material blessing when He sees that it will really be a blessing. We may think that it will be the greatest kind of blessing. That is what St. Paul thought when he prayed so many times that God would take nwav the bodilv weakness he had, whatever I it was. But God knew better. And a good . . ! ... a 4V. ., ta.inl hln.nl ...... ... .. .. n QiailT UUIC3 UIC UlAWliat 1lEaiiU BCCUJ3 IIU best for us. Anyway, we don't always gef it But we have a spiritual blessing." Isu't that better? Or is the body more valuable than tbe soul? AN ASSUMED POWER. Our Lord looks down upon the man with thepalsy and bleties him with a ipiritual blessing. Mav He so deal with us also, whether we will or not, whether we know what is best for usornot giving nsspiritual gilts; and the other gifts, too, if He will, but the spiritual ones first and best, as He did here. But this- gift which is so freely given here is it a posrible one to give? It is the blessing of the forgiveness of sins. But who can forgive sins? Man cannot, say the scribes, looking on and listening and whispering horror-stricken accusations of blasphemy. God cannot, say the philoso phers, studying the laws of cause and effect, teaching the doctrine of inevitable conse quences, and taking for their text, "What soever a man soweth that shall he also reap." And yet Christ is perfectly confident. He declares His power to forgive sins. There is no mistaking that. And He claims the be stowal of this gift not only for God, but for man also. The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins." Presently we hear Him sending His apostles on their mission into the world, and He commissions them not onlyto bear the message of the forgive ness of sins, but to forgive sins themselves. "Whose sins thou dost forgive, thev are for given." Can anything be plainer? What shall we say, then? Between the doctrine of inevitable consequences, and the doctrine of divine forgiveness, which shall we choose? Why, both. Because they are both true. We may be quite sure of that beforehand. There can be no contradiction between Christ and truth. But look at it. What is it to be forgiven for our sins? That may mean either one of two kinds of pardon. Because all sin bears a two-fold relation a relation toward the sinner, and a relation toward God. CAUSE AND EFFECT. So far as the sinner is concerned, the con sequence of sin is spiritual injury. Sin is always followed by an effect on character. That is inevitable. An offense against the laws of the soul is just as sure to be followed with harm to the soul as an offense against the laws of the body is sure to be followed with harm to the body. There is no pardon in the world which can intervene between the burning ot a finger and the sense of pain. There is no kind of forgiveness which will heal a cut hand. And this is just as true of a lie and the soul. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap," is as true as truth can be. And there are no spiritual excep tions to it. Every sin will have its proper consequence of punishment. At the same time, there is comfort in re membering that the law of cause and effect in the spiritual world, as in the physical world, includes a thousand possibilities of modification. Good may be made to grow even out of evil, and curses mav be translated intpblessings. Suppose thatimprudenceleads to illness, and that illness teaches so sharp a lesson that the sick man when he gets well is prudent ever after. Probably he is a stronger man all the rest of his life because he was sick. Suppose that some sin teaches a sharp lesson, too, the sinner's repentance may change bis whole life. Even along the path ot sin and sorrow he may draw near to God. This is common experience. Every day good men and women are turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones. There is no interference here, no removal of the consequences ot transgression. The offense .3 punished. And that is the best part of it. To interfere between the sin and tbe penalty, even if it were possible, would be to blot out the salutary les'son. THE RELATION TO GOD. But sin is also the setting of a separation between the sinner and God. Whoever sins repeats the beginning of the parable of the prodigal son. He departs from his lather, and mam his way into some other country. And that is the evil of evils. To be away from God, to be at enmity with God, to be setting the will of God at naught and defy ing His commandments and despising His love this is what sin is. This, you see, is quite a different way of looking at sin from the point of view which we occupied a mo ment ago. Now, can anything be done? That de pends entirely upon God, and upon the sin ner. This consequence of sin that it sep arates between God and the sinner mav be done away, 'if God will anil the sinner will. Is there any thing difficult about that? Your child disobeys yon. There is separation between you and the child. Shall the separation last? Shall there be no reconciliation between you two? That depends upon you both. There is no doctrine of inevitable consequences to be preached here. Suppose the child is sorry, and all his old love comes back, and he wants to make amends for his offense, and to have your trust and love again. Shall anv law of any world forbid you to forgive him"? But this is what forgiveness means in Christ's re ligion. Just this. It means a reconciliation between God and man. It means that the old dreadful distance which sin made be tween the child and the father has been bridged over, and there is love again be tween them; there has been an atonement an at-one-ment made. This is the Christian doctrine of forgivenesss of sins. And so the spiritual gift which Christ gave here to this man at His Jeet was the gift of this blessed revelation of the Father's love: "Son, be of gooJ cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee." Thy Father loveth thee. MESSAGE OF THE SON. That was what our Lord was forever say ing. He came here to say that. You know very well how He was forever going about among the prodigals, and saying "You poor children, wanderer;, sinners and miserable; listenl I have a message for you from borne. Your Father loves you. You have dis obeyed Him, you have grieved His heart, you have refused His love. But He loves you, nevertheless. Why not turn away from the swine and the husks, and come back to Him." Cnrist gave His life for us sinners on the cross, that He might be lifted up within the sight of all of us, to tell us this. He died that He might make this blessed truth of the love of God for every sinning mortal on this earth so plain that everybody might be able to read it, and so tarn from sin, and come back to God, and be reconciled to Him, That is the atonement. And when Christ sent His first disciples to teach His religion to the world, this was the message which He gave them, this divine message of forgiveness, this blessed revelation of tbe Heavenly Father's unend ing and unwearied love. "Go find out sin ners, and whoever repents him of his sin, and wishes to turn back to God, tell him quick that God forgives him. Nay, you yourselves forgive him in the name of God." And that is absolution. God awaits us, everj; one. Though our sins be as scarlet, He will make them white as snow. As far as the East is from the West, so far will He set our sins from us. And our transgressions He will remember no more against us. For our God will abnndantly pardon. The Father loves us. Far away as some of us are from Him, slight and cold as is the love in some ot our hearts toward him, He loves us still. For tbe love of God Is broader Than the measures of man's mind, And the heart of tbe Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. George Hodges. WHAT AHGHY MEH DO. Bonyngo'a Feeling Toward Mackcy Will Be (nlt in a New Cable. New York Press. 3 A guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, who has an important mission here, is C. W. Bonynge. He is an old Californian who "struck it rich" in the days of bonanza mines, and has been living in Loudon. He has a fortune of $5,000,000 or 56,000,000, and with other capitalists proposes to establish a new Atlantic cable. The Europeaa end will be at Valentine Bay and the American end as near New York as possible on the Atlantic coast. There is said to be a personal antagonism of some kind between Mr. Bonynge and John W. Mackey, and if the new cable is constructed there will doubtless be another cable rate war. The True Beason. Boston Courier. 1 Wooden Why do bald-headed men always want to sit in the front row at the opera? Smart Why, to they can catch the 'airi WINES OF FEANCE Are Not Finer Than Those of South America's Western Coast. TflET ABSORB THE SEA'S BREATH And Grasp the Golden bnnbeams to Sparkle In Milady's Glass. LIFE IN THE SUGAB CASE DI8TBICT rCOBBISFO-TOESClI OP TUB DISPATCH.J Palpa, Peru, October 12. The village of Pisco, which is situated about 100 miles south of Callao, in the broad and fertile plain ot Canate, is a fair specimen of tbe coast towns of Peru. Its charming little plaza is surrounded by pretentious casas of adobe, whose outer walls are tinted pale blue, pink, yellow or gray. The smaller dwellings of the poorer classes, who are principally negroes and half-breeds, are one room hovels of tbe simplest construction. There are whole streets where the houses on either side are built of wild cane stuck up right in the ground, having cross-pieces tied on at intervals, without a nail from top to bottom, this wickerwork foundation being plastered with mud and roofed with straw. Though generally wlndowless and often floorless, these poor abodes, being well white washed inside and out, present a neat and cheerful appearance; and over each doorway a glass lamp is suspended, rendering the streets better lighted than those oi many more pretentious cities. One side of tbe plaza is occupied by a very large and hand some ehurcb, built in the Limenean style of architecture, wbich is a conspicuous land mark for vessels far out at sea. RETREAT FOR THE MONKS. Near by is tbe old chapel of the Jesuit Fathers, which possesses, among other in teresting relics of 'departed glory, a high altar most elaborately carved and heavily gilded. An avenue of willow trees leads to the dilapidated BrancescanMonastery.which was suppressed nearly half a century ago by order of tbe Bepublican Government. For many years its cloisters have been deserted, its halls empty and its "pleasure grounds," with their long lines of olive trees, allowed to run wild with weeds aud thistles. The records tell us that this ancient gar den was intended for a place of religious contemplation, wherein the pious monks might enjoy communion with nature as well as with their own souls and combine pleasant exercise with their evening prayers. We read that countless doves once lived in the olive trees, which were so tame that they wont to alight upon the shoulders of the friars, when tbe latter were pacing to and fro "in the cool of the day" reading or repeating their orisons. A SAVING DITCH. This region nsed to be proverbially un healthy and the people of Pern suffered much from malarial fever until a ditch, eight feet deep, was dug all around the town, a few years ago, which has drained off tbe moisture and made it one of the most salubrious towns on tbe coast: Tbe plain of Canate is 13 miles long, and extends in breadth from the Cordilleras to the sea. To the southward are many small swamps, where reeds are cultivated for making the matting which supports tbe straw roofs of the houses; and then a barren bit, covered with stony mounds and clumps of date palms, stretches away to the desert. But to north it is very different. In the immediate vicinity of Pisco are rich pastures Tbe grapes grown hereabouts are ar de licious as those of Southern France and seem to have absorbed the breath of the near-by sea, as well as the sunshine of per petual summer. Great quantities of wine and brandy, called "Italia" and "Pisco," are exported from this place, and their man ufacture is the principal industry of tbe valley. We visited the storehouse of the winemaker and found it to contain nearly a thousand casks, each cask holding 300 gallons. The amount of liquor made is marvelous, considering the limited district. and the value of the exports are in full pro portion. PRETTY STRONG BOOZE. "Italia" is the favorite white wine of Peru, though much too strong for general use; and "Pisco," though a moit innocent looking beverage, being colorless as water, contains more intoxication to tbe cubic inch than any other known liquid, unless it may be the mescal of Mexico. There is a Portu guese here who produces three distinct kinds of wine ironi the same grape, one an excel lent variety resembling Maderia; another similar to the best Bucellas, and a third much like the interior Rhine wines. There is also a very fine and correspondingly ex pensive liquor distilled from thelarge white crape, flavored with chirimojas, the latter being the most delicious fruit to be found in tbe tropics. All along the beach are im mense warehouses where the common "Pisco" is stored in huge red jars shaped much like an eggshell, waiting shipment to tbe various ports of Peru and Chili. The estates of Canate are mostly culti vated by negroes, assisted by a few China men. The negro population of these coast valleys was originally imported from Porto Bello, tbe great depot for the slave trade, which was chiefly in the hands of English merchants during the first century after the conquest. THE SUGAR CANE FIELDS. Next to grape growing the cultivation of sugar cane engrosses the people in the neighborhood of Pisco; and as rain never falls, though the weather is sometimes quite cold, the necessary irrigation requires great care and labor. But though tbe cane is backward in maturing, it is of closer tex ture, containing more juice than in milder regions and yielding a greater amount of mgar. The proprietors oi tbe Canate haciendas are mostly Englishmen, and an excellent clas3 of country gentlemen they are, hos pitable, upright and much kinder to their dependents than the Peruvians are inclined to be. The buildings on the estates are uniformly large and hancisorae, and a description of one applies equally well to all the rest One side oi the extensive inner courtyard i3 devoted to the trapiche, or sugar mill, the boiling house, refinery and store rooms; while the other side shelters the owner's family, in long, lofty and airy apartments, all on the ground floor and ex tremely well furnished. Adjoining the house is always a chapel, and a resident priest is maintained whose duty it is to look out for the spiritual welfare of everybody on the estate, from the lord of the manor to the meanest dependent. LIFE ALONG THE COAST. Life in these isolated communities is by no means disagreeable. Everybody rises very early, takes a bit ot bread and cup of coflee and goes about his or her especial avocation, the master riding over the fields and the mistress attending to the house servants. At 10 o'clock A; M. breakfast is served; and tbe meal invariably consists or soup, eggs, poached or fried and garnished with slices of fried banana, various dishei of meat and chocolate. At 4 o'clock cornea dinner soup, fish, a roast, some vegetables well garnished with ahi or sauce of red pep pers, dulces (sweetmeats), wine and coflee. About 9 o'clock P. M. there is supper of tea, bread and dulces. The negroes appear to be as happy and contented a lot ot people as one can find in a loug day's .journey. Though no longer slaves, their labor is still forced; and while they receive little more than food, poor clothing and poorer lodging, they are at least sure of that, of medical attendance when ill, and exemption from the taxesthat so oppress those who undertake to be inde pendent. Early in the morning, before going to work, all the women and girls re pair to the door of the chapel and chant a hymn ol praise upon their knees; and again at sunset when the labor ot the day is con cluded, thanking Heaven for their lives of servitude. A GRADUAL EMANCIPATION. X think it was in 1821 that the rather am biguous law was passed which declared that all those then in slavery ahoaild remain so during life; but that their children should be free when arrived at tbe age of 50, and the grandchildren were born free. Tbe avowed object of this slow process was to gradually accustom the slaves to the idea of libertv, and to fit them for it; while at the same time their owners might make ready for th- change bv importing ChJoesetwhose cheap labor, it was thought, would prevent the negroes from striking for too high wages, when entitled to any wages at all. In 1853, however. General Castilla, who was then President of Peru, issued a decree proclaim ing the freedom ol all slaves. As was anticipated, the majority of them were unwilling to leave their former mas ters, to whom they were endeared by almost paternal kindness and tbe recollections of childhood; and therefore? the condition of things were not perceptibly changed. It ii calculated that the "keep" of one of thess negroes costs his master not Jess than 540 a year, and few of them earn very much xuore than that amount. If left to themselves, to work or play according to their own diaires, they would certainly earn much las. A CURIOUS TREE. The northern edge of the valley of Yea is fringed with an enormous growth, oi carob trees, or algorbas, as tbey are sometimes called. This curious tree growa to great size and resembles tbe live oak. Ii bears a pod which is highly prized as fodder for mules and horses. Bo very hard is the wood that its weight actually bends down the trunk, twisting it round and round into corkscrew shapes and making the branches tie knots in themselves, till the tree as sumes most fantastic forms. An ixaagina tive person may see Dore figures a ad laces in every misshapen trunk, and lung arms stretched forth in wild despair. The valley of Yea, bounded on one hand by tbe snowy peaks of the Andes, and by arid sands on tbe other three sides.is covered with vineyards and cotton plantations. We visited one of the former, which is situated at the mouth of a ravine, through which a mountain road winds up into the interior. Like others in the neighborhood, it formerly belonged to the Jesuits; and though the yield has fallen off since their day, it now produces an average of 20,000 arrobas of wine in a year, which sells for S3 per arroba. The married workmen of this model hacienda are each allowed a small piece of ground rent free.on which, they may raise pigs, poultry and vegetables, which their wives and children peddle In the mar ket place, thus enabling the industrious to earn considerable extra money. Palpa is also given up to vineyards and cotton fields, except where wheat enough is grown to supply the small population (about 4,000), and there are two mills worked by water for redncing the grain to flour. The village of Palpa is surrounded by luxuriant gardens watered from a cler stream whose banks are shadowed by wil lows and fig trees. Fannie B. Ward. THE SDXTAJTS BEtvEVOLEHCE. Ex-minister Strauss Tells How Ho Contrib uted for Johnstown Soflerers. I had the honor of meeting the Sultan fre quently, of dining with him a number of times and of often conversing with him on subjects both important acd unimportant, writes ex-Minister Oscar C. Strauss. In general appearance he represents Jay Gould, perhaps a trifle taller than our well known financier and with a nose a little more prominent He is about 46 years of age, has a very kind and gentle eye and is extremely re served and modest in his demeanor. There is nothing of the show or glitter about him one would expect to find in an Oriental monarch. His dress is neat and very plain, with no gold lace or gaudy additions, except upon extra official occasions and even on such occasions it i? very simple. He is extremely kind hearted, and whenever any class f hi subjects, either Christians, Armenians, Turks or Jews, are afflicted with any cal amity, as for instance, a fire or famine, he invariably assists them liberally out of his personal or private purse. To show how wide are his sympathies I will here relate an incident I bave given to the public before. At tbe time of the Johnstown disaster I was summoned to an audience with the Sultan with reference to some matter. In the course of the evening, without reference having been made to the subject by me, he said that he had iearned from the papers of the dreadful disaster that had visited a portion of our countrv and asked me whether I would be the medium of transmitting to the proper authorities a small contribution from him. Ot course, I assented, and the following day he sent me 200 Turkish pounds, equal to about ?8o0, which sum was promptly transmitted to the Secretary of State. BISMABCX'S IRON BXKG. How the Chancellor Came to Wear It and Its Significance. Little romance is associated with our idea ' of Bismarck, says an exchange, but when the story ot "Nitschewo" is told, it is evi dent he is not altogether devoid of senti ment. He wears a large iron ring with the inscription of "Nitschewo," a Bussian word, signifying "no matter" and much used by the natives of that country. The story of the ring, which everywhere excited remark, was told by the Chancellor himself. In 1862, when he was Ambassador at St. Petersburg, be received an invitation to an Imperial hunt; but, unluckily, ha missed the rendezvous. A peasant under took to drive him in his two-horse sleigh to the spot in time, and Bismarck accepted. Being an enthusiastic huntsman, and afraid of losing the sport, he said: "Vou'll be sure to be in time?" The answer of the peasant was a curt "Nitichewo," The pace was not swllt enough for Bismarck; the peasant, therefore, with another "Nitschewo," lashed the horses into such a pace that the sleigh was over turned and its occupants thrown out. Bis marck threatened punishment, but still his answer was the laconic "Nitschewo." How ever, they reached the hunt in time. Bis marck did not forget to pick up a piece of iron from the broken sleigh which he had made into a ring as a memento of the occa sion. Bismarck is said to have added: 'My good Germans have often reproached me with being too indulgent to Bussia, but tbey should remember that while I am the only one in Germany who uses 'Nitsohewo' on critical occasions, 100,000 In Kussia are laying it at the same moment." TOBKISH HOSPITALITY. How Guests Axe Served With Coffee and Cigarettes In the Orient. New York HeraldJ The first ceremony after you enter a Turk ish house, no matter what the errand may be, is to be served with coffee and cigarettes. The cigarettes are made of the finest Turk ish tobacco, the wrappers being ot rice paper. This is probably the best cigarette in use, the tobacco being well suited for the purpose. The custom of serving coflee and cigarettes is universal, so common that when a foreign representative calls upon any of the ministers at the Sublime Porte, it is the invariable rule, before beginning with his business, that he and the Minister shall be served with a cup of coffee and a cigarette. When this ceremony is over the business commences. In fact, in every well regulated Turkish home there is a man known as a caffegee, who stands by a charcoal fire in an adjoining apartment, and who, on the ar rival of guests, at once prepares and serves as many cups of coflee as there are guests. There is considerable extravagance of dis play iu the sarfs, or holders, in which the egg-shaped cup rests. Such services are frequently studded with precious stones. Not Kren a Silver Mine. Boston llcraU. Count Poorboni My dear, will jou-aba-a, mine-a? American Beauty Sorry to disappoint yon, but I am. not an heiress.
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