w 18 THE PITTSBUEG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, - APKIL 12, 1801, " ' l - . .,- ----- j, ... . - -titr-vri- . , - - . . (- -X.ir. 7 " VX" ,,, - ' ' V ', '- ' ' "T J i j ,t f . der it must be done ia the convent. TJnorna hesitated, bending her brows and poring in imagination over the dark cata logue ot all imaginable evil. A momentary and vasrue terror cast its shadow on her thoughts. Br some accident ot connection between two ideas, her mind rent hack a month, and reviewed as in a flash of light, all that she had thought and done since that day. She had greatly changed since then. She could think calmly sow of deeds which even she would not have dared then. She thought of the even ing when she had cried aloud that she would give her soul to know the "Wanderer safe, of the quick answer that had followed, and of Keyork Arabian's face. Was he a devil, indeed, as she sometimes, fancied, and had there-been a reality and a binding meaning in that contract? Keyork Arabianl He, indeed, possessed the key to all evil. What would he have done with Beatrice? Would he make her rob the church murder the abbess in her sleep? Bad, but not bad enough. diorna started. A deed suggested itself so lyrtlisb, so horrible in Us enormity, so far beyond all conceivable human sin, that for 'one moment her brain reeled. She shud dered again and again, and groped for sup port a lid leaned against the wall in a bodily weakness of terror. For one moment she, who feared nothing, was shaken by tear from head to fool, her face turned white, her knees shoot, her sight failed, ner teeth chattered, her lips moved hysterically. But she was still strong. The thing she bad sought had come to her suddenly. She e5dy vJCH I'll J Command You to Sleep. set her teelh, and thought of it again and again, until she could face the horror of it without quaking. Is there any limit to the hardening of the humm heart? The distant bells rang out the Call of mid night praj er. Unorna stopped and listened. She had not known how quickly time was passing. But it was belter so. She was glad it was so late, and she said so to her self, but the evil smile that was sometimes in her face was not there now. She had thought a thought that left a mark on her forehead. Was there any reality in that jesting contract with Keyork Arabian? She must wait before the did the deed. The nuns nouldgo down into the lighted churcb and kneel, and pray belore the eltar. It would last some time the mid night leiion, the psalms, the prayers and she niu-t be sure that all was quiet, for the deed could not be done in the room where Beatrice was sleeping. She was conscious of the time, now, and every minute seemed an hour, and every second was lull of that one deed, done over and over again before her eyes, until every awful detail of the awful whole was stamped indelibly upon her brain. She had sat down now, and, leaning forward, was watch ing the innocent woman, and wondering bow she would look when she was doing it llutihe was calm now, as she felt that she bad never been in her life. Her breath came evenly, her heart beat naturally, she thought connectedly of what she was about to do. But the time seemed endless. The distant clocks chimed the half hour, three-quarters, pas: midnicht Still she waited. At the stroke of 1 she rose from her teat, ami, standing beside Beatrice, laid her band upon the dart brow. A few questions, a few answers followed. She must assure herself that her victim was in the right state to execute minutely all her commands. Then she opened the door upon the corridor and listened. Not a sound broke tne intense stillness, and all was dark. The hanging lamp had been extinguished, end the nuns had all retired from the mid rjignt service to their cells. 2so one would be stirring now until 4 o'clock, and half an bonr was all that Unorna needed. She took Beatrice's hand. The dark woman rose with half-closed eyes and set features. Unorna led her out into the dark passage. "It is light here," Unorna said. "Ton can see your way. But I am blind. Take, my hand so and now lead me to the church by the nuns' staircase. Slake no noise." "I do not know the staircase," said the sleeper in drowsy tones. Unorna knew the way well enough, but not wishing to take a light with her, she was obliged to trust herself to her victim, lor whose vision there was no such thing as darkness, unless Unorna willed it. "Go as you went to-day, to the room where the balcony is; but do not enter it. The staircase is on the right ol the door, and leads into the choir. Got" Without hesitation Beatrice led her out into the impenetrable gloom with Bwift, noiseless footsteps in the direction com manded, never wavering, nor hesitating whether to turn to the right or left, but walking as confidently as though in broad daylight Unorna counted the turnings and knew that there was no mistake. Beat rice was leading her unerringly toward the staircase. They reached it, and began to descend the winding steps, Unorna holding her leader by the band, steadied herself with the other against the smooth, curved wall, fearing at every moment lest she should stumble and all in the total dark ness. But Beatrice never faltered. To her the way was as bright as though the noon day sun had shone before her. The stairs ended abruptly against a door. Beatrice stood still. She had received no further commands, and the impulse ceased. "Draw back the bolt, and take me into the church," said Unorna, who could see nothing, but knew that the nuns fastened the doors behind them when they returned into the convent Beatrice obeyed without hesitation and led her forward. They came out behind the high carved seats of the choir, behind the hnjh altar. The church was not quite dark as the staircase and passages had been, and Unorna stood still for a moment In some of the chapels hang ing lamps of silver were lighted and their tiny flames spread a faint radiance upward and sideways, though not downward, suf ficient to break the total obscurity to eyes accustomed for totue minutes to no" light at all. The church stood, too, on a little eminence in the city, where the air without was less murky and impenetrable with the night mists, and though there was no moon the high upper windows of the nave were distinctly visible in the gloomy height like the great lancet-shaped patches of gray upon & black ground. In the dimness, all objects took vast and mysterious proportions. A huge giant reared his height against one of the mllara. crowned with a High, pointed crown, stretch ing out one great shadowy hand into the gloom the tall pulpit was there, as Unorna knew, and the hand was the wooden crucifix standing out in its extended socket The black confessionals, too, took shape, like monster nuns, kneeling in their heavy hoods and veils, with heads inclined, be hind the fluted pilasters, just within the circle of the feeble chapel lights. Within the choir, the deep shadows seemed (o fill the carved stalls with the black ghosts of the long dead sisters, returned to their familiar seats out ot the damp crypt below. The great lectern in the midst of the half circle behind the high altar became a hide ous skeleton, headless, its straight arms folded on its bony breast The back of the high altar itself was a great throne whereon sat in judgment a misty being of awful lorm. judging the dead women all through the lonely night The stillness was appalling. Rot a rat stirred. Unorna shuddered, not at what she saw, but at what she felt She had reached the place and the doing of the deed was at hand. Beatrice stood beside her erect, asleep, mo tionless, her dark face just outlined iu the surrounding dusk. Unorna took her hand and led her for-" ward. She could see now, and the moment had come. She brought Beatrice before the higb altar and made her stand in front of it Then she herself went back and groped for something in the dark. It was the pair of small wooden steps upon which the priest mounts in order-to open the golden door of the high tabernacle above the altar, when.it is necessary to take therefrom the Sacred Host far the Benediction, or other conse crated wafers for the administration of the Communion. To all Christians, of all de nominations whatsoever, the bread wafer whed once consecrated is a holy thing. To Catholics and Lutherans there is there, sub stantially, the presence of God. No im aginable act of sacrilege can be more un pardonable than the desecration of the tabernacle and the willful defilement and destruction nf the Sacred Host. This was Unorna's determination. Beat rice should commit this crime against heaven, and then die with the whole weight of it upon her soul, and thus should her eod I itself be tormented for ever and ever to ages of ages. Considering what she believed, it is no wonder that she should have shuddered at tremendous thought And yet, in the dis tortion of her reasoning, the sin would be upon Beatrice who did the act, and not upon herself who commanded it There was no diminution of her own faith in the sacredness of the place and the holiness of the consecrated objert had she been one whit less sure of that, her vengeance would have been vain and her whole scheme mean ingless. She came back out of the darkness and set the wooden step in their place before the altar at Beatrice's feet Then, as though to save herself from all participation in tbe guilt of the sacrifice which was to follow, she withdrew outside the Communion rail, and closed the gate behind her. Beatrice, obedient to her smallest com mand and powerless to move or act without her suggestion, stood still as she had been placed, with her back to the church and her face to the altar. Above her head tbe richly wrought door of the tabernacle caught what little light there was, and re flected it from its own uneven surface. Unorna paused a moment, looked at the shadowy figure, and then glanced behind her into tbe body of tbe church, not out of any ghostly fear, but to assuie herself that she was alone with her victim. She saw that nil was quite ready, and then she calmly knelt down, just upon one side of the gate, and rested her folded hands upon the marble railing. A moment of intense stillness followed. Again the thought of Keyork Arabian flashed across her mind. Hai there been any reality, she vaguely wondered, in that compact made with him? What was she doing now? But the crime was to be Beatrice's, not hers. Her heart beat fast for a moment, and then she grew very calm again. The clock in the church tower chimed the first quarter past bhe was able to count the strokes, and was glad to find that she had lost no time. As soon as the long, sing ing echo of the bells bad died away, she spoke, not loudly, but clearly and distinct ly: "Beatrice Varanger. go forward and mount the steps I have placed for you." The dark figure moved obediently, and Unorna heard the slight sound of Beatrice's foot upon the wood. The shadowy form rose higher and higher in the gloom, and stood UDon tbe altar itself. "Now, do as I command yo. Open wide the door oi the tabernacle." Unorna watched the black form intently. It seemed to stretch out its hand, as though searching for something, and then the arm fell again to the side. "Do as I command you," Unorna re peated, with the agony and dominant intona tion that always came into her voice when she was not obeyed. Again the hand was raised for a moment, groped in the darkness, and sank down into the shadow. "Beatrice Varanger, you must do ray will. I order you to open the door of the tabernacle, to take out what is within, and throw it to the groundl" Her voice rang clearly through the church. 'And may the crime be on your soul for ever and ever," she added, iu a low voice. A third time the figure moved. A strange flash ot light played for a moment upon the tabernacle, the effect. Unorna thought, ot the golden door being suddenly opened. But she was wrong. The figure moved, indeed, and stretched out a hand and moved again. Then the sudden crash of something very heavy, falling upon stone, broke the great stillnes the dark form tottered, reeled and fell to its length upon tbe great altar. Unorna saw that the golden "door was still closed, and that Beatrice had fallen. Unable to move or act by her own free judgment, and compelled by Unorna's She Gazed on. the Sleeping Woman. determined command, she had made a des perate effort to obey. Unorna had forgotten that there was a raised step upon the altar itself, and .that there were other obstacles in the way, including heavy candlesticks and the framed Canon of the Mass, all of which are usually set aside before the tabernacle is opened by the priest In attempting to do as she was told the sleeping woman had stumbled, had overbalanced herself, had clutched one of the great silver candlesticks so that it fell heavily beside her, and then, having no further support, she had fallen herself. Unorna sprang to her feet and hastily opened the gate'of the railing. In a moment she was standing by the altar at Beatrice's bead. She could see that the dark eyes were open now. The great shock had re called her to consciousness. "Where am I?" she asked, in great dis tress, seeing nothing iu the darkness now, and groping with her hands. "Sleep uesilentand sleep!" saidUnorna, in low, firm tones, pressing her palm upon the forehead. But, to her amazement Beatrice thrust her aside with such violence that she almost fell herself upon the steps. "No nol" cried the startled woman, in a voice of horror. "No I will not steep do not touch mel Ob, where am I helpl Helpl" She was not hurt With one strong, lithe movement, she sprang to the ground and stood with her back to the altar, her hands stretched out to defend her from Unorna. But Unorna knew what extreme danger she was in, if Beatrice left the church awake and conscious ol what had happened. She seized the moving arms and tried to hold them down, pressing her face forward so as, to look into the, dark eyes she could but faintly distinguish. It was no easy matter, however, for Beatrice was young and strong and active. Then all at once she began to see Unorna's eves, as Unorna could see hers. and she felt the terrible influence stealing over her again. "No no nol" she cried, struggling des perately. "You shall not make me sleep. I will not I will not!" There was a flash of light again in the churcb, this time irom behind the high altar, and the noise of quick footsteps. Bet either .Unorna nor Beatrice noticed jhe light or the sound. Then the full glow o! a strong lamp fell upon the faces of both and dazzled them, and Unorna felt a cool, thin hand upon her own. Sister Paul was beside them, her face very white and her faded eyes turned from the one to the other. It was rerr simple Boob after Compline 4 was over the nun had gone to Unorna's room, bad knocked and had entered. To her surprise, Unorna was not there, but Sister Paul imagined that she had lingered over her prayers and would soon return. The good nun had sat down to wait for her, and telling her beads, had fallen asleep. The unaccustomed warmth and comlort of the guest's room had been too much for the weariness that constantly op pressed a constitution broken with ascetic practices. Accustomed by long habit to awake at midnight to attend the service, her eyes opened ot themselves, indeed, but a full hour later than usual, she heard the clock strike one, and for a moment could not,beiieve her senses. Then she understood that she had been asleep, and was amazed to find that Unorna bad not come back. She went out hastily into the corridor. The lay sister had Ions: ago extinguished the hanging lamp, but Sister Paul saw the light streaming from Beatrice's open door. She went in and called alond. The bed had not been touched. Beatiice was not there. Sis ter Paul began to think that both the ladies must have gone to the midnightservice. The corridors were dark, and they might have lost their way. Sbe took the lamp from tbe table and went to tbe balcony at which the gnests performed their devotions. It had been her light that had flashed across the door of the tabernacle. She had looked down into the choir, and far below her had seen a figure, unrecognizable from that height in the dusk of the church, but clearly the figure of a woman standing upon the altar. Visions ot horror rose before her eyes of the sacre ligious practices of witchcraft, fpr she bad thought of nothing else during the-whole evening. Lamp in hand, she descended the stairs to the choir and reached the altar, providentially, just in time to save Bea trice from falling a victim to the evil fasci nation of tbe enemy who had planned the destruction of her soul as well as of her body. "What is this? What are you doing in this holy place and at this hour?" asked Sister Paul, solemnly and sternly. Unorna folded her arms and was silent No possible explanation of the struggle pre sented itself even to her quick intellect She fixed her eyes on the nun's face, con centrating all her will, for sbe knew that unless she could control her also, she her self was lost Beatrice answered the ques tion, drawing herself up proudly against the great altar and pointing to Unorna with her outstretched hand, her dark eyes flashing indignantly. "We were talking together, this woman and I. Sbe looked at me she was angry and then I fainted, or fell asleep, I cannot tell which. I awoke in the dark to find my self lying upon the altar here. Then she took hold of me and tried to make me sleep again. But I would not Let her explain herself what she has done and why she brought mehere!" Sister Paul turned to Unorna and met the full glare of her-unlike eyes with her own calm, half-heavenly look of innocence. "What have you done, Unorna? What have you done?" she asked very sadly. But Unorna did not answer. She only looked at the nun more fixedly and savaeely. She felt that she might as well have looked upon some ancient picture of a saint in heaven and bade it close its eyes. But she would nol give up the attempt, for her only safety lay in its success. For a long time Sister Paul re urned htr gaze steadily. . "Sleepl" said Unorna. putting up her hand. "Sleep, I command you!" But Sister Paul's eyes did not waver. A sad smile played lor a moment upotv her waxen features. "You have no power over me for your power is notof good," she s&id, slowly and soltlv. Then she quietly turned to Beatrice and took her hand. "Come with me, my daughter," she said. "I have a light and will take you to a pla:e where you will be safe. She will not trouble you any more to-nigh. Say a prayer, my child, and do not be afraid." "I am not afraid," said Beatrice. "But where is she?" she asked snddenly. Unorna bad glided away while thev were speaking. Sister Paul held the lamp high and looked in all directions. Then she heard the heavy door of the sacristy swing upon its binges and strike with a soft thud against the small leathern cushion. Both women followed her, but as they opened the door again a blast of cold air almost extin guished the lamp. The night wind was blowing in from the street "She is gone out," said Sister Paul. "Alone and at this hour Heaven help her !" It was as she said. Unorna had es caped. To be Continued Next Sunday. 1 Want Fan In a Harry. The public is getting tired of freaks. Thousands are fond of museums and visit them quite frequently, but they spend but ittle time in the curio halls. The stage per formance is what they want and the mu seum gives them as good as they get in the variety theaters. People are getting so that they even want their fun in a hurry. They also want it cheap. The museum fills the bill. For 10 cents you can go in, sit down comfortably for hall an hour, and see a very fair show at almost any time of the day. A CAPIILAET PHEHOHEHON, How to Slake a Compact Baft Out ot Seven Ordinary Corks Can you stand seven corks upright in water? Not unless you know.how. This is the way to do it: Stand one of the corks upright on the table, arrange the other six close about it, also in an upright position, fr3n thi PrtmTiinafind m in one hand and 5" 1 .,.. si :,. .... water in the tub, so as to completely saturate the corks, then rahe them partly out of tbe water and let go yoi r hold, says the Boston Globe. The wattr which has penetrated between the corks by capillarity will hold them close together (see illustration), and thoneh separately each cork has an unstable equilibrium, the combination obtaiued in this way will keep them steady the width of our improvised raft being more than the height of one cork. THE TRIBUTE TO GBEELEY. Statue In His Memory to Be Erected by the Printers. . The illustration is from a photograph of the plaster model of the statue of Horace Greeley which Alexander Doyle has just completed on order of the printers. With its pedestal it is to cost $15,000. The move ment originated immediately after Mr. Greeley's death, and over $10,001 was sub scribed. Then the project was allowed to lapse. The printers picked it up two years ago, collected as much as possible of th sub scription, and pushed it- to a successful issue. It Is not decided where, it "will be erected, but probably it jiill'be in Central Park, New York, &$ TfpMM "ELiijizij-r,-jf A BANQUET OF DEATH. Unsophisticated Heiamoan .Fall's Into the Snares of Cleopatra. ICE CREAM AS FATAL AS THE ASP. Nye Gives a Free and Easy Translation of Theopbile Gantier's STORY OF EG I Ml AN -'EETELKIES I WIHTTEN TOR THE DISPATCH, j (Translated with considerable recklessness from the French of Theopbile Gautier by "Will iam JJye. Esq. HE delicate shrimp pink heel "of Cleopatra salut ed the quivering flood as she slipped into tbe pleased and highly de lighted waters. About her waist and arms silver and pearl girdles and bracelets clung when the surface of the wa ters broke over her, and opaline bubbles caught and kissed her dimpled cheeks as the fair Queen sazzled about in the rippling tide or snrieked with laughter as sbe lammed a trusted eunuch in the eye with a bunk of colden mud. Her wealth of wonderful hair floated out behind her over the water like a magnifi cent mantle. She swam to and fro, some times treading water with her cherubic feet or scooting dog fashion like a beautiful water bug across the pond. Now she would seem to sleep on the surface of the water like a slumbering lily, and then anon she would rise from her wet environments like a Venus rising to a point of order in the convention at Mount Olympus. Surprised at the Euth. Suddenly Cleopatra utters a sharp and startled cry, as did Diana when surprised by Acteon. Through the foliage she had seen the earnest and somewhat ad miring eye of a total stranger. It was that of Meiamoun, the wretched lover of the Queen, who had never met her, but who was a great admirer and constant reader. He was from the middle walks of life, and did not know much, but, oh, how he did seem to lay aside what other business he had on hand and worship the magnificent woman who, as these lines are penned, slid softly into the all embracing waters like a beauteous muskrat! Her startled' cry brought to the bank her two armed eunuchs, who had been froggwg farther down the stream. Cleopatra pointed out to them tbe clump of trees behind which Meiamoun was concealed. Defense was use less, and so be attempted none. He said that he was sorry such a thing should hare occurred, but he would try to avoid any thing ot the kind in the future. It was in deed a coarse thing to do. She told him distinctly that it was no way to do, and ask id him if he were not ashamed of him self. Spared the Young Man's Life. Quickly "covering herself with her call- sins, she bade tbe eunuchs spare the life of the rash young man and bring him before her. They done so. The queen could not understand why he should have come, at the risk of his Hie, where no man was admitted upon penalty of death. Surely he had not come to steal her clothes and hide them just to chuff her, for she bad still other clothes which were yet good, besides quite a lot that could be made over and still look real well. No, iie must be an assassin hired by bloodthirsty Home to steal in upon her and kill her. But bis clear, honest eye and trembling lip told a story of truth and of a heart at once pure and sweet. "May my soul be found light in tbe bal ance of Amenti," he said, "and may Imci, daughter of the Sun and Goddess of Truth, punish me if I ever entertained a thought of evil against you, O Queen, Saying this upou his knees, Meiamoun wept and tried to bite the dust, but his nose seemed to be in tbe way. He was a flue-looking young man, as Cleopatra saw at a glance, of great nobility of character, and a little less heavy set, perhaps, than'Antony was. He said be came of a common set of people living bark ol town, and had just bouzbt a mils: route of his father, which he thought was going to be a good thing in time, if he could sort of build it up and extend it'a little. He- Was Willing to Sacrifice. "Of course, it is not the life to which you have been accustomed," he said; "your folks have always been well off, I know, and you have never had to put your hands into dishwater or scald milkpanS or wean calves from the parent stem, bul I love you very much, indeed, very much, indeed. We will have to live plain at first, but I am a steady young person and have alreadythis year accumulated $8. In 40 years this would, as you will see, amount to $320. My folks like you, and say that you would make me a good wife if you stiddied down a' little. Do not, oh ! do not refuse me," he said. "Tbe Alliance people will soon be on top, and I am almost sure that I will he at some time overseer nf highways atourplace, which is as good as $2 a day just for working on the roads in June, which is a dull time She Snrteted for Help. with us anyway, add almost like finding S48 in the street" The queen gave a low laugh as she pro ceeded now more calnilv. "By St Oms," she said, "dog of hell, thou art a foolhardy wretch. You think that with your castiron impudence and budding milk route you may win to wile a queen whose fame is good lor a column in. every Sunday paper from the Kongo Basin to Singapore! You should be Killed, of course, but I cannot decide yet how to do it Whether to fry you in the fat of these negligent eunuchs aud feed you to my aquarium, or shock you to death with the early humor of France'I know not' Bis Last Fond Favor. "Queen," said the youth, now standing on the other foot awhile, "I deserve to die. Be clement, but let me die. You will find nearly $7 worth of milk tickets in my In side pocket Take them; they are yours. 'You can get your milk in that way of my successor free, and milk is quite an item with anybody who keeps as much hired 'help as yon do. Take my life. It is use less to me tince'I love you and you lore me. 3" .. .,. a in SsS: "Well, then," said the Queen, as she smilingly shed a mouthful of hairnins, for her smile was wider than she had thought, "you shall have your wish, but first you shall know what it is to have what .we call fun. You Alliance "people think you have some little pleasure in lite, but you do not You are extraneous, as we say, or-not in it You are my guest for this evening. You die in the mornin?. You will join me at dinner.will you not? We keep an all night house, and we have some wassail on hand that has never been used; also a can of orgies that has not bten opened yet May I count on you?" "Indeed thou mays" said the youth, as he went out into tbe courtyard and washed his face in the rain -water barrel, and walked for a time in the dewy grass to re move the milk spots from his bespattered boots. Preparations for tho Banquet Cleopatra now gave orders to have the banquet hall prepared, and sent away to the village for a fiddler who could also call off. She was cool, yet watchful of her help. She was everywhere ordering victuals cooked, the smell of hot preserves came from the royal kitchen, and one eunuch named Oleander, .who was a good man, and pointed to himself with pride on account of his singularly pure life in the midst of the corruptions, temptations and fines and costs ot a court, was sent to the neighbors for more sauce plates and a two-gallon ice cream freezer. While Cleopatra sang a little sons for the young man, slaves and eunuchs were busy opening cans of cove ovsters and Betting tbe table. Suddenly it occurred to the great potentate that her guest ought, perhaps, to make some slight changes in his togs. Showing him tbe way up to a pleasing room and handing him a small key, the young man lost no time in opening a large leather bag with Egyptian hieroglyphics on it, and finding Antony's regular banqueting clothes. Shlnlnc In Antony's Vestments. Donning a linen tunic with golden stars upon it, like the costume of the Goddess ef Liberty, and a purple mantle, he bound a fillet de bcouf about his brow, and passed down to the dining hall, smelling quite sweetly ot Antony's hair oil, perfumed, with .Lilly ot the A lie. Cleopatra wore her other dress. it con- Cleopatra Turns Out the Gas. sisted of a pale green crepe de Chine open at the sides and clasped with golden bees. It was an evening dress, and therefore almost entirely concealed as she sat at the table. On her arms she wore two strings of pearls as big as hickory nuts, and a pointed diadem valued at $11 rested on her marble and massive skull. As she seated ber guest beside her she clapped her little hands, and instantly the Egyptian glee dub struck up a song called "My Gum Tree Canoe," red lights sprang out along the costly dados of the rooms, and a concealed fountain in the front yard, lighted by beautiful opaline candles, squirted fnlly a rod high. Huge flames palpi tated in tripods of brass; giant candelabras shook their disheveled light in tbe midst of ardent vapors; the eyes of dark carved sphinxes flamed with phosphorescent light nings; the bull headed idols breathed flames; the alabaster elephants, in lieu of perfumed water, spouted aloft bright columns of crimson fire; prismatic irises crossed and shattered each other; soft music sensuously stole thronzb, in and out among tbe potted ceraniums, and sifted through tbe in tertwining leaves of the smilax came tbe low, soft bellowing of the buhl buhl. The orgy was now at its height, the dishes of phenicopter's tongues, the livers of scams fish, the eels, fattened upou the bodies of prominent people and cooked in brine, the dishes ot peacocks' brains, tender loin of terrapin aux filley, hot Sauterne, boars stuffed with living birds, etc., etc., were the menu. Wines of all kinds, from the vintage so common at the post keller or the ratz keller to the wines of Crete and of Massicus, were served by Asiatic pages, upon whose rich and voluminous flowing hair the beautiful and somewhat finicky Cleopatra wiped the Egyptian gravy from her taper fingers. Her companion also did the same as soon as he got onto it, but prior to tbat he contented himself wibu ULM14UIK tuc uurroweu vestments 01 the absent Antony. Yet we should not re proach hi in now. Treading as he was upon the borders of a yawning grave, but seeinsr across tbe groaning board the grinning face of death, we may forgive him. if in an un guarded moment he did things that were outre. Toward the close of the east mum mers (both dry and extra dry) entertained the young people with song, dance and walk around. The President of the Cairo and Egyptian Central dropped in on his way home from the depot and spoke briefly re gardidg the tariff, and a local humorist gave a tunny little anecdote and took home a cold goose in a newspaper as a reward of bis wonderful genius. The Queen,Does an 'Act Then Cleopatra herself arose. She cast aside her mantle, and stating briefly in a few well chosen words that she could not make a speech, not having been constructed that way, neither could she sing a song or Ul a story, she would, with the consent of the audience, otter a selection from an Esvntian bieakdoivn composed by herself. and which they might like to hear. While the beauteous Queen sashayed up and down to the lascivious pleasm? of a lute the pic nic ice cream came in. Cleopatra said that she would not. chase any, but the rash young man from the Spring Valley Milk farm ate heartily of it. As he finished and wiped his spoon on the hair of a, eunuch the gray of the dawn was stealing in through the rich hangings oi the hall. An ashen look also stole over the face of the young yahoo. "and quickly clasp inghis hands to the base ol his chest, he gave a startled cry like that of a tomcat who has unwittingly swallowed a hornet with a mean tern pera'ture to it . Not having read tbe papers mucii, he had not' noticed how many people were being mowed down by ice cream, and so as the day began to dawn the rash young ass who had loved the Queen, and swapped his life, bis hopes, his soul and his milk route for $2 worth of good .victuals, curled himself up in a shapeless mass, and, kicking two or three times con vulsively, although, of course, it was worse than useless, he gave up the ghost. Pouring a little vinegar ou a large pearl, the haughty Queen dropped a tear for the late milkman, aud, swallowing tho molten gem as one might a sherry flip, she turned off the gas, rang for the undertaker and re tired to her apartments. Bill Nye. Druggist's Colored Bottle. Bottles of colored water are as distinc tively signs for druggists as striped poles are for barbers. There, is no doubt that originally the color ot tbe water was'red, just as many physicians in this and other countries hang red lamps' outside their office doors. In both instances the idea was originally to call attention to the fact that a doctor "or bleeder "dwelt "within, the red, pej;-', ii.'-. 1, . 'i TURNING FROM SIN. Repentance Is the Only Door Into the Kingdom of Heaven. CONTRITION IS NOT ENOUGH, Though It Is a Step Nearer Than the Feel ing of Conviction. THE LESSON OF THE PRODIGAL SON rWBITTEX FOB TDK BISPATCII.l What is it to repent? Th'e word is famil iar enough. The emphasis which is laid upon it in the teachings of Christ and His Apostles is evident enough. We must repent That is the message of the Christian religion. John the Baptist preached that before Christ came. Christ took John's text and preached the same sermon, only more em phatically, more lovingly, more divinely but still the same sermon: "Bepent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." There is no way into the kingdom of heaven ex cept by this repentance-door. Mr. Spurgeon compares faith and repent ance to a door-post and a door. Faith is the post, and repentance is the door. What is a door-post good for without a door? and what is a door good for, unhung, flat on the ground, swinging not from its post, opening not into anywhere? We must repent But what is it to re pent? Is it to be aware of the dreadfulness of sin? No. Tbat is conviction of sin. That is what I was preaching about last Sunday. Is ij to be dreadfully sorrv lor sin? No. That is contrition. Conviction and contrition are steps along the way to repentance, but they are not either of them repentance. It is possible to be aware of the sinfulness of sin, and to be exceedingly srtrry that we have sinned, and yet not to be genuinely repentant for sin a, all. Lost In the Black Forest A man is lost in a dense forest, in one of the poisonous jungles of "darkest Africa." Suddenly he becomes aware ot that tragic condition of things. He looks about him, and there is no path. His companions are out ot call. Above him are the black trees, and all about bim are the black trees, end lessly. The man is filled witn utter dismay. His heart is sick within him. Does that save him? He knows that be is out of the way, and he is as sorry for it as a man can be--does all that set him on the right path, and save him? So you see thatifrepentanceisa condition of spirit which really saves a man, really gets him inside the blessed boundaries of the kingdom of heaven, it must be something more than conviction, and something more than contrition. To have our eyes open to the fact of sin is not enough; to have our eyes full of tears on account of sin is not enough. We have not yet repented. The parable of the prodigal son will help us to understand just what repentance is. Here we will find a definition of repentance, not in the language of theology for our Lord never talked that language but in the plain, every-day, understandable lan guage of human experience. That wonder ful parable so absolutely parallel to human life, so packed with helpful meaning in evey shortest .syllable of it, so divinely true, so encouraging, com orting and tender. Here we lay our hand upou the very heart of the gospel. Coming to One's SelC The young man "came to himself." There he was among the unclean swine. This young man, well brought up, carefully taught, and nurtured and blessed with the love of a good home he had come to this, that he should be a keeper of pigs. Nay, a very companion with pigs; lorced . in this dire famine to fight in the trough with them at meal time for the empty "busts which the swine did eat" Forsaken by his false friends who had led him into ail this mis ery, turned away from all tbe hospitalities of the evil land which he had chosen for his residence, everybody's back against him. and no man giving to bim like any drunk ard. Here he was among the pigs. And he "came to himself" and saw jnst where be was, and realized it Step by step leads the pleasant path, and the gay traveler does not notice how it changes, little by little, getting down gradually, little by little, the bloom fading out of the flowers, till pres ently all the attraction has vanished out ot it, and on it goes, steep, jagged, horrible to look upon, into the pit Happy the young man whom some mis step, heavier than commoo,orsomerevelation as by lightning out of heaven, causes to stop and look about bim, and perceive where he is, and whither all this goes, and so brings him to himself. When he "comes to him self" he is convicted of sin. And when the man in the pigpen came to himself, he said: "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger." That was not tbe SDeech of hope, nor of happiness. The young man was overcome with sorrow. He was away down in the depths of despondency. He was sorry for himself to the bottom of his heart After the Enjoyment or Sin. That is the feeling of a man who is some how suffering tbe punishment of sin. He has done the evil, and got all the nleasnre out of it he could, and now nothing is left but the ill-taste of a bitter memory. He is ashamed of himself. He could have done so much better, could have made so much more of himself, could have kept back that unkind speech, left that misera ble lie untold, busied his fingers in so many hundred better places than his employer's cash box, could have chosen such diflereut company, and have encountered decent people with such a different face, could have said "no" instead of "yes," could have kept himself clean, sober, honest, reputable and Christian. The evil is done now, and he is looking at the under side of it Such a lair pattern, in such pleasant color, so gracefully done on the right side! That is bow the evil looked before he did it But now how seamed, and snarled, and twisted out of shape, and tangled out of comliness, how poisonous in color, how pernicious, how devilish looked at on the other side! The man sits down and Jhinks in the quiet which follows tbat season of riotous living, and all the shrieks ot unclean laughter ring in bis memory like the shrieks of the fiends of the nether pit lie despises his own soul. Such a weak will ! such a weak fool I But this is not repentance. It may grow into repentance, but it is dot that as yet The liar is repenting of the consequences of bis cowardly lie; the thief is repenting of the fearful chance of being caught. The gambler is repenting of bis empty pockets and bis hungry children; the spendthriit is repenting ot the famine; the drunkard is repenting of bis headache; the vile liver is repenting of tbe pains of his vile diseases; the prodigal is repenting of the pig-pen. But of sin not one ol them. This griei may be contrition, but it is not repentance. The Prodigal's Bepentance. i Then said the young man of the parable: "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no mors worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants!" That is re pentance. Bepentance implies a recognition of sin as something more than a deed to be ashamed of, as something more than an act which is followed by consequences of misery, by famine, forsaking oi friends, company of swine, company (everlasting) ot devils. Bepentance means a, sense of sin as an of fense against a father. "I have sinned against heaven," against the power of God. And I am to be righteously punished lor tbat; indeed, am.tbis moment being right eously and rigorously punished. But that is not the whole of it; "in tby sight, my father," have I sinned; against love, hu man and divine. And my sin has been a grief and a heartache "before thee." I have set a seuaration "between thee and ns I have lost the com fort, tho strength, the refuge, the benedio- tion of thy love. "I am no more worthy to be called thy son." When a sinner recog nizes that sin itself is more dreadful than eternal punishment, then he is beginning to repent to repent of sin. Bepentance means a definite refusal to abide any longer in sin. Sin is no longer companionable, no longer endurable. The prodigal turns his back upon the swine. "I will arise," he says. I will sit here in this filth not an instant longer. I will "go to my father." Bepentance Is a Turning. For the word repentance, in the Bible, always means a change of mind. It means a turning of tbe back upon the old, and base, and a step the other way toward the new, and better. It signifies the making of a good resolution, with a good will. It makes no .mention ot emotion. Some peo ple are exceedingly emotional by 'na ture; others seftn always composed cool, attentive to reason, never very enthusiastic, never carried off their feet br anythinc. But everybody has a will. And repent ance is thus set within the reach of every body. For repentance concerns the will. Beligion has been discredited by being identified with feeling. It has been taught as if the one prerequisite for entrance in'o Christian discipleshfp were a display of passionate tears. And a good many sen sible men have accordingly given it over, with some contempt, to womeu and chil dren. Because men, as a general thing, don't cry. But religion is identified with feeling, falsely. Bepentance is the act of an in telligent will, reasonably persuaded of the sinfulnese of sin, and deliberately choosing something better. He repents, who, becom ing convinced that he is in a false posi tion, turns straight about and begins to go in another -direction. That seems to me the manliest thing not to say the sanest thing that any man can do. The prodigal son gets up lfke'a man upou his feet, and turns bis face toward his father's house. And thus comes into the condition of repentance. Tbe Father Is Waiting. The Son of God came down into this sin ful world that He might save, us from our sins. He came to show us that God is like the living father of the parable. Not an offended King, not an angry Judge a God of love, and we His beloved children. He came to tell us, in our sins strayed away into tbe far country, fallen into straits of famine, feeding swine that at home our Father waits, never forgetting us, never ceasing to love us, every ready and watch ing out along the road to catch a glimpse of us returning, however soiled, and ragged, and unkempt and poor; with a father's whole-hearted welcome for the very un tforthiest of ns. We may stay, if we will, among the swine. We may feed upon the husks. We may shut our eyes to our condition. We may stifle every inclination toward that better country. We may refuse to forsake oursin. We may reject the opportunity of repent ance. We may neyer say "I will arise and go to my Father;" and we may never go. But all the same, and all the time, the Father waits, and watches out along the way for us. George Hodges. A BABY ANATOMISE The Bemarkable Youngster Now Fnzzllns; the Medical Fraternity. The lad represented below is an honorary member of the Southern Medical Society of Atlanta, Ga. In a letter to The Dispatch his father says he "save an exhibition of bis knowledge of anatomy before said society, and was unanimously elected to honorary membership and eranted a cer tificate December 12, 1890, "to tbat effect: also, he was presented by the members of the society with a gold nrtdal as 'The Baby Anatomist of tbe World.' " His name is Albert Fenscb and be is but 5 years old and cannot yet read but he knows neailv every bone, muscle, artery and vein iu tbe human body. His father, Dr. Albert Fenach, is a steward in the hos pital at McPherson's barracks. He entered the Southern Medical College last fall, and brought his little baby boy with him to tbe college on one occasion. The little fellow seemed very much interested in the things he saw and heard at the college, and so quietly did he grasp the difficult names at tached to tbe human bones and muscles and arteries that the attention of tbe faculty was attracted and some of the members began asking tbe little fellow questions. They The Baby Doctor. saw that he was a phenomenal child. He is a perfect blonde, with large and innocent blue eyes and golden colored hair falling in curls about his shoulders. He has a baby look iu his face, but his head is quite large for bis age. He is'a very handsome boy, and has an attractive, intelligent face. He asks his mother to read page after page of anatomy to him. lie understands every thing that is read to bim out of this difficult book that tbe average s(ndent finds it so diffi cult to master on beginning tbe study of medicine. Dr. Nicolson, one of tbe faculty of the Southern Medical College, says little Albert could pass an examination on anatomy eojual to that taken by half the students at tbe col lege this year. He has frequently visited the dissecting room, but shows, none of the child's horror at the sight of i dead body. He seems not to see tbe body but looks with pleasure upon the bone, the vein, the muscle or the artery abont which he has been told. Dr. A.G. Hobbs, oneof the faculty.recent-1 ly delivered a lecture to tba students on tbe eye, telling them about tbe contraction of certain muscle". Albert was present on this occasion. After tbe lecture Dr. Hobbs quizzed bim about the points he had made. He was much surprised to learn tbat the child had grasped his ideas, for he ex plained even the most difficult pqints of the lecture, showing that he fnlly understood it On another occasion, when Albert was present with his father, -Dr. Hobbs asked him to name the three smallest bones in the human body. He 'did not know their names, and looked at his father with a pained expression on his face, as if to say: "Why have you not- taught this to me?" The next morning the little fellow came to the office of Dr. Hobbs and said: "Doc tor, I can name the bones for you now. The three smallest bones in the body are found together in the ear. Their names are 'mal leus, 'incus' an! 'stapes.' " The little fellow expects to continue his study of medicine. The New Freezing mixture. The new freezing compound is pronounced a success. Grocers will sell it in every com pressed form. The great advantage is in its not doing any, freezing until mixed with water, and hence it can be carried in a bottle or otherwise quite comfortably. Even medium-sized houses will probably use it in their refrigerators in place of ice. Boy" Games In Syria. In a recent work Bev. Dr. Henry H. Jes sup gives an account of 13 different games played by boys in Mt Lebanon, Syria. Among these are shooting marbles, leaplrog, cat in the corner.-blindman's buff, baseball, "tied monkey," "pebbje, pebble", (like but ton, button), and. others peculiar to the eountrj, ... , LA GBIPPE. Extracts From Dr. Hartman's Famous Lec ture on That bnbjec't. HISTORY OF FOCIt EPirK"HICS 184T, 1860. 1870 A?iD 1890, La Grippe, Eprdemlc' Influenza, Acute Ma lignant Catarrh Different Karnes for One Disease. Beported for the Public Press. I have been acquainted with la grippe, also called epidemic influenza and acute malignant catarrh, many years. Tbe first time I ever had any personal knowledge of the disease was in -1847, while yet a bov studying medicine. My study of it at tha't time was so thorough and careful that 13 years afterward (I860),- when a terrible epi demic sweptover the country, I at once rec ognized it, and was able to successfnllycope with it It was ten years before itmade its appearance again the.famous epidemic of 1870. It was at this time.it was first called "Bussian Influenza," because of the fact that it originated in Bussia and spread rap idly over the Asiatic and European coun tries before it was noticed in this country. Twenty years had elapsed before the present epidemic (originating in Bussia as before) suddenly appeared a'mong us again, this time bringing its French name across the Atlantic with it SYMPTOMS. Each epidemic presents- exactly the same symptoms. First, a "tired-out" feeling, general lassitude, cold feet and h?nds. Second, aching of the bones, transient, fleet ing pains throughout the whole body. . Third, chilly sensations, from indistinct, creeping rigors in slight cases, to pro nounced chills in more severe ones. Fourth, fever, with temperature ranging from 102 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit Fifth, congestion of the eye, lining membrane of the nose, sometimes throat and bronchial tubes. Sixth, profuse sweating occurs iu soma cases, especially after the disease has run a few days. Seventh, sneezing and less fre quent coughing are among the earliest symptoms. Eighth, usually an intense frontal headache, which, continues more or less during the whole course of the disease. Ninth, aching and soreness of the muscles of the whole body. Each case presents slight variations, dependant on age, condi tion of health, etc. During such an epi demic as this one tbe slightest indisposition should be at once attended to, as a few doses of tbe proper remedy in the start will do more than weeks of treatment after it fastens itself on the system. DAITGEKS. La gripce is becoming a very fatal dis ease; many die ot it during tbe course of each epidemic. In addition to the fatality of this disease, is to be feared the low and weakened state it produces, giving a chance for other diseases to set in and finish the work. Pneumonia, consumption, conges tion of the lungs and brain,- acute rhsuma- ' tism, typhoid fever and typhoid malaria are all frequent followers of la grippe. How ever different observers may account for it, the fact remains tbat every epidemic brings with it a fearful death rate. CAUSE. There are three distinct theories as to the eause of this disease (which has been known by tbe name of la grippe or epidemic in fluenza, and acute malignant catarrh). Each theory has advocates and defenders of equal ability as medical writers. First, that it is caused by climatic influences only, and is but a modified cold. Second, that it is the result of minute organisms or spores which float in the atmosphere and is taken into the system by breathing them in. Third, that'it is through both these causes combined that the system becomes affected in unfavorable weather, which so changes the blood as to enable spores to thrive in the body, which in a perfectly healthy body could do no harm. I am inclined to the latter theory as furnishing tbe best explana tion of all the facts. First, we have to have unusually bad weather, by which many people are partly overcome; and second, bacilli, or disease germs, which are capable of causing tbe disease, but which are resisted by all who are in excellent health. If this is true, it would seem a wise thin; dufing such an epidemic to take Vome in vigorating tonic touard against depressed states ot health, which invite these disease germs to enter the body to set up their ter rible work. Fe-ru,-na exactly meets this emergency. It tones up the circulation, gives vigor to resist unhealthy weather, and I stimulates the appetite and digestion. It juiuuuca tut. iiuuiuu uvuy tcuiuurary as sistance to tide over a dangerous quagmire into which so many fall. TREATMENT. I have long since passed through what may be called the experiment stage of tbe doctor's history. In the beginning of my medical career I, like many other physi cians, used mauy drngs, but experience gradually taught me which the reliable few were. Since the epidemic of la grippe of 1860 1 have used invariably in the treat ment of this scourge, Pe-ru-na. Tnis rem edy so exactly meets alLof tbe symptoms of la grippe tbat it is folly to lose any time ia experimenting with otner remedies. At.tbe appearance of tbe first symptoms treatment should be 'begun at ouce. and keep strictly to the house for a few days. No treatment, however effectual it may be, will always prevent quite a long siege with the disease, but no other medical treatment is necessary than Pe-ru-na. The directions, as tbey are given on the bottle, are more ap plicable to chronic diseases, and it is advis able, during the acute stage of the disease, to take a tablespoonful of Pe-ru-na ever hour for adults, and a correspondingly less dose for children. During the night, if the patients are quietly sleeping, it is not my custom to wate them tojtake medicine, but if restless Pe-ru-na should be given regu larly the whole 24 hours. The recovery is generally slow, even in slight cases. For many days the patient will complain of weakness, slight headache, want of appe tite, etc. Pe-ru-na should be taken until tbe recovery is complete, but after the fever is subsided and tbe acute stage is past it is better to take it according to the directions on the bottle. Beef tea, mutton broth, and milk should be freely given according to the preference of tbe patient People who have la grippe, the acute stage have passed and their recovery has come to a standstill, as is frequently the case, will find in Pe-ru-na exactly the rem edy that is suited to their case. It invig orates the whole system, restores the appe tite, and produces natural sleep. Even after pneumonia or consumption has begun to develop it is not too late to ex pect a perfect cure from Pe-ru-na without any other treatment whatever. 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