mmi WX&X&mifM s ITonr or five men kept the secret of the island treasure, but all the Provinces of Mexico were at lat honeycombed 'with the plots of a broadening revolution, guided by a master hand. The Secretary of the Vice roy had changed in a few years from a. dreamer to a man of action and a master of events. At last he knew what a great des tiny lay before the land of New Spain. Once separated from the mother country, it should extend from the isthmus of Dancn to the Russian fur settlement of Sitka. If the Viccrov -would lead in the revolution he should rule till the day of his death, bnt if the Viceroy could not "rise to the situation he must be set aside. There were other men in the world, even he himself, the Sec retary! In the midst of all this the Secretary was stricken with so sore a paralysis that he could neither speak nor move. The Vicc ,roy, alrcadv on the eve of his fatal recall, hastened to his side So strange anil pow erful -was the look in the eyes of the man that his master sat for hoars trying to dis cover the secret that they tried to telL "You have something to tell me?" "Yes! res'." said the agonized look. "Is it the revcnues?"'the Viceroy asked at last. "Tcs!ycs!" said the look of the Secre tary. "My poor friend, all that you have taken from Mexico, Mexico gives to you, and asks no further question." Still the eyes glowed -with stronger desire of expression and the master saw that there was more to tell, but he could not reach the full solution of the problem. He only dis covered that there was a treasure a hidden treasure of enormous value, and that it had been accumulated for an cpecial purpose. There the clcwfailcd,andltcviliac;igedoafew daK later followed the body of the Secro tafv to his grave. The executors found nothing for many years. At last, among the Secretary's papers, a mt ol parchment turned up, headed iu his precise penmanship: "The llevillagigedo I'und." Then followed item for item, as follows: Estimated value of Yaqui gold $ 78,000,000 Value of pearls and pr.-ciou stones. 13,000,000 Value cf silver, in liar 26,000,000 Value of otnernrticles contributed tothefuncL. 2,000,000 Tola! .'J119,00,0( The Rcvillngigedo family were iu old Spain, liing iu poverty on "the memory of former greatness. The'Vicuroy was a feeble old man, ho liad lost ail his asnbitions. The Secretary's descendants and Ids execu tors became almost frenzied with the lust of gold, and they it is who accumulated the gradual narrative which, in a doz-n different handwriting, lias now become the "famlly romance" f one of the mom noted of Spanish Californians. But bv the time thai; the story was gathered from so I many sources, and ly so many mosaic liint the brother of the Secretary and the two or three men who had helped to hide the "Kcvillagigcdo Fund" were dead, this one L shipwreck, that one in a low brawl 5n a Mcx'ean "foadn," another the victim of en Ap.r.-V raid. All were gone, long be fore the searchers lor the treasure knew that it lay in tho rocky islands off the coast of Lower CaliforniaT The revolution broke ua the families that knew the s-torr, rendered them penni less, and made tiie immediate bread-an'd-butier d"n:ands of life so pressing that the. had no lime to think oi the forgotten poli tician's iiui-se of EorHmatus in the lava bed of the isle of Saint Thomas. A few of them sneaked over to the islands once or twice, in a half-hearted way, as fishermen or coast trader:., but thev found no treasure. Not thus lightly did that thief-hero, the pa tieit Secretary, hide his viceregal funds for the equipment of fleets and the arming of Foldier. ' Only a man that is as great as he in tiic elements of foresight aud endurance thall ever cleave his way to the Itevilla gigedo storehouse. The Caliioraia representative of this old Spanish family once planned to fit out an expedition (o the island, but the American conquest of the province brought him to poverty, and lie was never able to carry out liis scheme He prefers to sit in the wine uliop aud tslk with his old companions of the days before the 'Gringos" came. His old ambitions are dead, and he has no de fendants. He keeps the manuscript that nlatcstothe llevillagigedo treasure, as he keeps every scrap of paper that lias ever come into his pescssion none of them ever c out ot his hands. But if a man has won his favor he will sometimes read him some of these old documents, aud in this way -the story of the Viceroy and his Secretary came to mv knowledge. Note. Evsn while this account is being prepared for the press, tidings come of the death of the man to whom this last para graph refers. General Manuel Castro, to whom the writer is indebted for the greater part of the information contained in the prece ling article, died a few days ago in an old Spanish mansion near Castro lille. Monterey county. "With him dis appears one of the most stately relics of-a lanishing civilization. c. II. s. AJIEltlCAX SEKIAX, STOMES. THU DISPATCH, lias concluded arrange ments Tor serial stories by novelists of renown, whose names are a sufiiclont guar teeortho intrinsic excellence of the works to be presented in these columns. They are Tnles. Verne, TCrct Harto, Edgar Fawcott, Kmina .Sheridan and Anna Katluirlne Green. The first novel of the series will begin in THE DISPATCH or Sunday next, Jnne SI. It will be entitled "The Californians; or Cap tain and Captain's Wife," lay Jules Vcrno. In this bPilal the great Trench author shows nn astonishing familiarity with thin csuntry. Its people, custom, geography end re fconrces. Kegin -with tho opening chapters :EXT &TJXDAY. CATCHING A SH0PLIFTEB. Tho Experienced Detective Doesn't Inter rupt Iler at Her Work. Xeir Tort Sun. 3 The experienced detective allows his sus pected shoplifter to leave the store. He fol lows close behind, and often allows her to go a block or more before he touches her on the arm, lifts his hat politely, and says with a smile: "Madam, don't you think it would be bet ter to go back and pay for those articles you took from the store? If you take my ad vice you will co quietly, "for I am a police oCiecr and will arrest "you right here if necessary. But there is no need of having a public scene unless you choose. Go hack with me quietly and people will think I am an acquaintance of yours." The woman generally accepts the situa tion with a woman's quickness of compre hension, aud returns -with a bow and a rrnile. But there is generally a scene of lamentation in the quiet upstairs room, to which the detective takes her for an inter view with the superintendent- of the store. POCKET OF A SHOPUFTEB. The Old Sty!c Kind "Would Hold Enough to Start a Small Store. 2TCTT York Sun.l The shoplifter's pocket is a well-known device. It is made of muslin and was origi nally so big that when fastened under the dress at the waist, it reached below the kne . There is a long opening through the dre-s just below the waistband, sometimes big enough to thrust a baby in. The open ing is covered from view by a flap of the uist. which, however, can be lifted up. swim-times these pockets are found -with al mdst enough merchandise inside to start a tmall shop. Large pockets are seldom used nowadays, because most stores are so carefujly watched that professional shoplifters are therefore contented with smaller daily hauls than formerly. Besides, modern. fashions do not permit of the safe gathering of much bulk about the person of the shoplifter. Keeping Their Distance. rMladelphla Time. There is no denying that the ladies'in charge will readily and familiarly talk to ttrangers over the telephone without the formality of an introduction, but no caviler will deny they keep them at a distance. ie FAULTS OF -HAMLET. Tho Most Serious Was That a Chap Named Shakespeare Played. COULDN'T WORK ANY LOCAL GAGS. The Play, Itself, Was Kottcn, and Had Too '. Much Bed Blood on It A CEriTCISlI "WITHOUT ANY PASS I WW 11 IX FOR THI DISPATCH. HE following so far as I know unpublished criticism of the act ing of Mr. "Will iam Shakespeare in one of his ownplays,is given herewith, those parts only having been sup plied where the writ ing has become so ex ceedingly dim that it cannot be longer de ciphered: Last evening Mr. "William Shakespeare appeared at this place in a piece which he has written himself, and called "Hamlet," a play with which he has been aforetime do ing the one night towns. His troupe came in from the "West on a load of hay at about 11 o'clock and played before the Mayor at 2 oicldck in order to get a liceuse to play here' this week at tlie Globe, under the manage ment of John Burbagc. Wanted an Unbiased Criticism. "We would naturally think that John Bur bage would have enough "savey" about him, even if this young scene cater of his did not, to see that the press might be decently treated and suitable seats provided for its representatives, but, as nearly as we are able to make out, the bright yonng poacher from Avon desired to have an en tirely unprejudiced opinion regarding his debut, and if lie will cat his eye ovcrthese columns he will probably read in these lines a good imitation of a man trviug-to write an unbiased mid entirely unpartisan opinion of a plav afterpaving for his tickets. Dick iiurbsge-, Larry I'lelcher, Gus Phil lipps."Jack Heminge, Haak Condcll, Billy Sly. Bob Arnim aud Dick Cowley supported Shakespeare fuirly well, but not so well as his wife used to do. if we are not occupied in barking up tho wronsitrce. "Hamlet" is r tint ilacfin.rl r nth hAllilannaHnnnnnna in the opinion of the critic of this paper. If we had written it he would give it a souvenir night, and in answer to a loud and pressing call on the part of the public he would substitute "Fanchon,"with Maggie Mitchell in the title role. Shakespeare's Stomach Was Kmptr. "Hamlet" is a sort of Scandinavian or Danish play. Shakespeare takes the title role, but he lacks a good deal of taking the cake. Most of the audience were worried all the evening, and several even inquired of the star openly w hat was eating him. Shakespeare said afterward that he thought the play was too subtle for our people. Also that he cculd have played better it he had had something to eat during the day. Shakespeare is essentially a tank actorand when he tries to elevate the stage he should do it by mechanical means. "We could not help feeling sorry for Dick Burbage,.who played Ophelia, last evening. His whiskers cast a gloom over the charac ter, and when he stepped on his dress and tore out all the gathers in the front breadths he would have been indeed tough who could have sat there andlaughedaldcrackedhick ory nuts, as some near us dqne last night The day may come when the stage will be elevated, hilt if Bill Shakespeare is going to do it he will have to get more of a move on him than he had last night, he can safely bet his sweet life. As it is now an actor is re garded here as a sort of a leper in grease paint, and we look to somebody with more intellectual pap and high purposes than this canvas covered Iftunlct from the interior to jerk the profession out of tie sinkhole to which it has sunk. no Apologizes In IUiyme. Shakespear; knows as well as anybody this sad condition ot things, for last "even ing after the alleged play, and while wash ing off his makeup at the horse-trough back of the old Globe Theater, he was approached by a young schoolmistress from "White chapel road, who had a plush album, and lifter drying his hands on her apron with profuseapologics, wrote as follows: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence Comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdnod To what it works in like tho dyer's hand. "You are welcome to the verse," he said, as he gave her back the album and stylo graphic pen, "but if there be yet anything in your dinner. Jail, e'en though it be but a despised Bacon rind, I would take it most kindly, fair one, if I might sock mr snoot beneath tho lid and find, mayhap, besides, the pelt of a forgotten prune," With that Poimvay I NO h'PRFF lUST.j (THIS frMsO he did straightway clean out the dinner bucket of the wench, as he had fasted all the way from Albuouerque, where he last plavcd. Jfotnld, it would appear, is a prince wbese father dies in such a manner as to create talk, and a sort of Staten Island in quest failslto throw any light on the subject, though JIamUt has his suspicions that his uncle and his mother together have put up a job on the old man. This works on JTam Irfsomuch that some think he is a little warped mentally, and in order to do a little detective work iio permits people to think so. The Ghost Vf as Unsatisfactory. His father finally returns in the form of a ghost and describes the whole thing to Ham let. Last evening the GkoU was played by an unknown party who has formerlv pkvved the Croak of a Concealed Prog in "iTancnon the Cricket" He has also played the croak in "Uncle Tom's Cabin."" He is not a good actor, being altogether too restless for a ghost. In a ghost the chief charms are, If you please, cheerfulness and repose. Moreover, the Ghost last evening was noticed by those who had good seats in front of members of the press to wet its finger and pinch a flea that had concealed itself beneath the royal armor during the' most tragic portion of the play. And now; briefly, M us speak of the play. Passing over the" fact that Shakes- peare cannot act a little bit. and that all his methods are peculiarly the property of a former decade, also tbat his business is decade, let us treat of the nlar with which this sometime poacher and sometime play r Aityy ii Lly X'fcP fn? W -1 IVlM. V .M. wright has come to town, v JTot onlyis Hamlet abnormally fatal, being nothing but a funeral procession and lunatic asylum on a high lonesome, but it is a secret stab' at re ligion. Was Soured on Kollglon. "We need not "go far back in the career of this rural playwright to discover the cause of this attack upon all that is good; Shakes peare, it seems, several years ago, at Avon, owing to his somewhat tardy nuptials and general shiftlcssness, was blackballed by the Young People's Society for Christian En deavor, and ever since that time he has sought in every way to get even. He now goes out of his way to say to the priest in the fifth act: "Wanted an Unbiased Crltlcltm. I tell thee, churlisb priest, A mlnistoring nngel.shall my sister be When tliou llest howling. This shows the littleness of the Smart Alick of Avon, who lias cotno to town to elevate the metropolitan stage. .And now regarding the fatal nature of "Hamlet." From the time the curtain eocs nn-on the ' "first act until it descends on the last oue there is nothing but death and lunacy. We came home last night wondering why some enterprising man did. not', go to Denmark and open nn asylum with an embalming works connected with it. "While tha right ful King is sleeping off the effects of a dinner and reception given to Major Pond and Henry M. Stanley on the previous evening, his wife, who has been looking over the royal bedstead with a small can of corrosive sublimate, suddenly decides to fill the old man's ear with "what she has left, and in less than a week the throne has been probated. A Veritable Jack tho Kipper. And so it goes. Death reigns everywhere after that. Each act closes with enough carnage to tickle the. palate of Eront ue Bceuf or to gorge the appetite of Herod, the Great. In fact Shakespeare may be termed the Jack the Kipper of the English stage. Hamld sticks his sword into the currant Shakespeare Explain. bushes and kills Pdonius. Ophelia gets to thinking too hard on The Higher Education, aud coes crazv, after which she jumps off the docc. finally, the huh, or Philip ' Armour abattoir act. closes the play with tour dead people on the stage and ISO dead heads in the audience. Shakespeare ought to dramatize The Del uge, or The Plague, orCustcr's Last Charge, or Greenwood Cemetery. "Hamlet" does not give him scope enough. An old lady who sat in the stall forward of our own last eveningwoudered why Shakespeare did not marry JTamlH and Ophelia, and put them in charge of a large and thrifty asvl urn, instead of killing them off. "We could jiot tell her. So one could tell her. How It Slight Be Improved. "Hamlet," in short, is morbid and itn- Eossible. Denmark was chosen as the. scene ecause no one knows anything ol Denmark, and an unprincipled dramatist feels free 'to toy with the truth in his treatment and his motif. AVe predict that "Hamlet" will finish out the week with a papered house and a biting frost. The play will never again be heard of. It is ephemeral, ribald, coarse, morbid, sacrilegious, untruthful, devoid of local gags, and does not in any way appeal to the better element of this place. If Hamlet could jump into the tank and rescue Ophelia, and then sing a popular song while she was putting on some dry clothes, she getting back in time to strike in with a clear contralto and skirt dance, the plav might go oil, but instead of this Laertes in-1 suits the priest at the grave of his own sis ter, Hamlet picks on his mother through five acts and thon gives her a gourd full of poisoned boncset, stabbing his stepfather and cutting Laertes open from the anterior convolution of the windriff southwest to the left lobo of the watch pocket, thus allowing the cold night air to whistle through the drapery ofhis digestive doings. Briefly, let its say "to the provincial press and maaagers that "Hamlet" will not do. Yfe arc glad to hear that the company as embarrassed. In an interview with a re porter of this paper last evening, when asked abont his gestures, Shakespeare flip pantly replied that his "Hamlet''" gestures were "attached at Jasper, and so last night he had to use the gestures that belong to "Othello." Bill Nye. EDISON AS A MONOPOLIST. Ho Owns the Slagnotlc Oro and "Will Make the Iron Men Sweat. Xew York Sun. It is not generally known that Edison is a mine owner and an iron smelter. But it is a fact that he probably controls more iron ore than any other one man. There are vast beds of magnetic iron ore in New Jersey, but the process of smelting magnetites was" not profitable because hh itB difiicultv. It struck Edison one daythat he could sep arate the iron from tlie reck by means of a magnet. He broached his scheme to sev eral large iron smelters, and they laughed at him. He kept trying, he said recently, for several years to interest iron men in'h'is plan for the reduction of magnetites, but without success. Finally, he defprmined to go into it himself. He organized a company among the work men in his laboratory. "The company se curctl leases on evcrv magnetic bed of prom iscthis side of Michigan. There arc plenty of iron men now who are wildly'anyious to go into the scheme. But Edison does not want them, "liiey can't get in now," ho says. "I've got all the magnetite beds. I can make pig Iron lots cheaper than those fellows can, and I'm going to wipe those Lehigh Valley fellows off the face of the earth." UTS THAT INTOXICATES. It Doesn't Have to Bo Tut Through a DIs ' tillcry to Do It, Either. Taris Edition Xcw Tort Herald. In several of the commun situated in the Department of the Dordogne tho rye of last year's crop has shown singular and very clearly marked poisonous properties. Persons who had eaten it were seized with a general sensation of numbness, and sonic of them fell into such a condition of torpor and distress that it was necessary to pick them up and carry them home. Animals, dogs, pigs and poultry, to which bread made from this rye has been given, became listless and stupid, and refused tp eat or drink for 24 hours. The effects pro duced by this poisonous rye are not similar to those produced by ergot,' It should also be mentioned that a similar occurrence has recently happened near Yladivostock, in the Russian possessions in Asia. The study of the grains of the intoxicating rye has shown that there is in their interior a fungous growth that invades the external layer of the albumen. Once tried, no more corns. Daisy Corn' Cure. 15 cents; of druggists. I STA&E.D00R.T. GLOBTHETRE r. Ha ADMIS,9sA I SrOTATOH, SUNDAY, :JTJNEV:1A 1891." CLUBS FOE . WOIEN. Not Those of Wood, bnt ttieKind That ffave Constitutions. SOME LEADING -ORGANIZATIONS. The Third Term Question and "What the Fair Sex Think of It USUAL EFFECT OF PEATER MEETINGS rwitrrnN ron nn dispatch.! As we all know there is an unwritten law in the United States against a third term for a President. Perhaps it should be called a pet prejudice. "Why a man whom the people are deligf ed to honor, who has endeared himself tp them by bis uprightness and ability in their service, who has shown himself to be worthy of the high position by purity of character and exalted powers of statesmanship, who has filled the office with credit to himself and. in a manner to best serve the interests of the country, should not be eligible to a third term is hard to sec, and can only be explained that though "a fear of change perplexes monarchs," change for the people- has great charms. .Or else the idea is held as principle that eight years upon a throne is honor enough for any man. A poor, weak, miserable King serves as a ruler for life by virtue of his blood, but no man in this country is permitted to as sume the powers of President for more than eight years by either blood or brains. This is a good rule when Presidents, as does occur, are merely puppets set np by poli ticians for their own purposes, or when they are only the creatures of accident or compromise, as has happened. Vfliere TTo Are Inconsistent. "Why this undefined law of change should be enforced as "to some officers of the Gov ernment and not to others is somewhat of a mystery. The judges of the Supreme Court are rarely selected for eminent ability, but rather by 'favoritism, partisan, or political influence. They are, to be sure, presumed to be learned in the law and to be above reproach as to character, but not necessarily to be men possessed of the greatest brains and powers of judgment. They are appointed by the President and serve during good behavior, which means mostly for life. . The Supreme Court is. held in vast re spect, but after all some of its members have in no way distinguished themselves beyond the ordinary lawyer. They are luckv in having attained to life positions, high hon ors and fat salaries. A softer sit than that of a Supreme Judge it would be hard to find in the way of an office. No thorns as to re moval or the chances of election in his pil low if he behaves himself. No uncertain tics, iio tidal waves of change upset his soul or roll across his peaceful breast. He can sit around in silken gown with the satisfac tion of securitv in place and power. No rushing or hustling in canvassing for votes or mending of fences print wrinkles upon his brow or give care to his heart. How Men So la Ituslnesi. As concerns their own special business, men believe in continuity of office and not rotation. A. laitntul, capable man is held on to with tenacity. On the presumption that it is better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of "o'ld and tried ser vants" are preferred. In all companies, corporations and associations for making money trusted men of years and experience are the mainstay and the rock of repose for their employers. To men versed in the best methods of conducting business, it would seem the height of idiocy to retire their trained and efficient assistants at the end of a four years' term and take on new and green hands. The New York Central would not dream of retiring Chauncey Depcw as President to give some other man a chance to show his mettle. It would never occur to the Pennsylvania Railroad to continually change their officers on the chance of getting better ones. Having men who come up to the requirements of the position, they are retained in office regard less of any rules of rotation. By a raise in wages, by increase ot privileges and other devices of appreciation, valuable assistants and treasured officials are retained in both business and domestic life. Only in politics is "rotation in office" held as a principle. No matter how good a man the Mayor of this city may be, no mat ter how well fitted he may show himself for the place, nor how well pleased the people may be with his administration, he steps down and out at the end of his term, and makes way for a new and untried man, A President, however popular, may get a sec ond term, but not a third. Washington Couldn't Gt Three Terms. Even the beloved "Washington was sub jected to the most scurrilous abuse and de traction to prevent any prospect of his elec tion for a third term. Not that he desired it, for he keenly felt the truth of Ben Jon son's saying: "His cares must still be double'to his joys, in any dignity." Jef ferson, one of the greatest of Americans in judgment and intellect, was accorded but two terms. Jackson, the idol of the people, was retired at the end of eight years, though he may be said to have been smart enough to have scoured a third term through Tan Buren. Lincoln, so loved and revered, had he lived, would doubtless have been "left" by his party at the close of his second term. Even Grant, the great General and be loved President, failed of the third term, so ardently desired and so bitterly opposed. The mighty power of the famous 30t ould not beat down the prejudice against a third term. The luck of obscure men, not wanted by the people, in attaining the high honor of the Presidency is famous and, we may add, infamous. To rise to the princely powers of the "White House chair docs not require that the candidate should be a man of towering intellect -or the possessor of noblest executive powers, but rather that he should be a man managable by the poli ticians or an embodiment of a compromise. "Wliat Women Think of It. All of the argumentspro and con on this subject of rotation in office seemed to be on the ends of the tongues of the women com posing the Council of the Confederation of Woman's Clubs. A limited term of office was stoutly and ably advocated by several of the sisters with reference to the official organization of the Confederation. But their views met with strong opposition. The diversity of opinion made the discussion exceedingly entcrtainiug, but no conclusion was reached. Having no pecuniary per quisite attached, with no official gifts to be stow, with much of rork and responsibility, the position of President of a woman's club is not "run after" as is the Presidency of the Republic. But, as a show of trust and mark of appreciation, it is highly valued, and that it is not unworthily bestowed 'was made very plain at the recent council, which represented the -woman's clubs throughout tho country. Julia "Ward Howe, who has been Presi dent of the New England "Woman's Club, since it was organized a number of years ago, will never be allowed to retire froi the position judging from the enthusiasm of the club women of Boston in her favor, and the prestige of her name. Although over the three score years aud ten limit, she seems to be yet in the prime of her intel lectual powers. With her wealth of knowledge, her wisdom in management and "wearing the triple crown of poet, scholar and reformer," she maintains her hold upon the hearts and votes of her fellow members as firmly as does Gladstone upon the Liberal party of England. She Keeps to tho Front. , Her daughters Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott and Mrs. Florence Howe Hall arc follow ing closely in their mother's intellectual footsteps and are winning fame as writers, but she is no more remanded into the chim ney corner or the retired list than are Salis bury and Brother Blaine. As may be in ferred, she is something of a mugwump on the Massachusetts pattern, and f.tvoVs the retention in office as long as th incumbent iB honest, capable and deserving. Mrs. Robipson, also from the good old town of Boston, who has somehow gained the name of a "chronic kicker" made a strong speech in opposition. Her idea was change, change, change so as to give every woman a chance to show her powers. Her plea was not so much to hold fast to that which is good, but to let go every year in the hope of catching on to something bet ter. The sense of the meeting seemed,to be against this view. Many old raws, the con densed wisdom of poverbs, and modern instances were quoted by both sides in lively style. In very many of the clubs repre sented the term of office is unlimited, with a secret ballot as the rule, full freedom of choice is given and the members follow bus iness principles and hold on to those who recommend themselves by good work and executive ability. The President of tho Confederation. "Which plan is most desirable and profit able is for the members of each ciub to de cide for themselves. But it is a matter of larger moment as to the Confederation, which nowncludes somewhere about 160 clubs. Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown, the now acting President of the Confederation, favors rotation in office. She argues strongly that fairness and common justice demand rotation that "it tends to harmony and good fellowship, that it sets up new mile stones in the march of progress and pre vents falling into ruts." Mrs. Brown's argument was directed chiefly at the presi dency. Changes in the Executive Board should be made very sparingly. Mrs. Brown is a tall, handsome woman, of fine presence and most agreeable manners. In tne management of affairs she shows great tact, knowledge of human nature, and skill inarding off antagonisms. She is a near relative of Ralph "Waldo Emerson, and shows some of the philosophical traits of character of that great man. On of the best" off-hand speakers was Mrs. Ketchara, of the Indianapolis "Woman's Club. She re ports that in Indiana the club idea is raging. In that part of the country the old fashioned sun-bonnet meant darkness, the adoption of a hat is the first step in pro gress, the next is when the wearer of the hat goes in for and learns to play Moody and Sankey upon the cabinet organ then she joins a woman's "club," and enlight ment follows. In Indianapolis the women have erected a fine three-story building for club uses at, a cost of 20,000. There are 00 stockholders, the shares were $25, and the money was raised with but little trouble. The originator of the project was Mrs. May Wright SewalL It is named classically "the Propylaeum." Some of the misguided men soon christened it "the Cockalorum" much to the amusement of the sisters. Don't Like Hensel and Pattlson. Another of the good sneakers was Mrs. Mary A. Mumford, President of the New Century Club of Philadelphia, organized in the centennial year. The women of this club have also engaged to erect a building for their own use and to rent. Thev paid tiu.uuu lor tne lot; tne ouiiaing will cost about 530,000. The shares are ?50, and have all been taken except 3,000 by the members of the club. This New Century is the club which applied for a charter, and the Attorney (general Hensel decided that such could not be issued to married'women. In this opinion Brother Pattison coincided. This rather gave the club sisters a cold chill, and the most conservative of them felt that they had not all the rights they wanted. In order to lose no time they de cided to take out the charter in the names ot the "spinsters" in the club. By this time the tact was brought out that Mr. Hen sel and Governor Pattison were wrong, so the charter was secured without going into the Legislature for a new law. The hall of this clubhouse will be rented for women's meetings and various purposes for which it is suitable, and the club mem bers have no feara that it will not be a pay ing investment. In the town of Fryburg, in Maine, the Woman's Club had secured headquarters by one of its wealthy mem bers paying the rent and buying the carpet, while each member contributed her own chair. The Uses of the Club. How the world has changed as to women and their ways in a score of years or less I The direst things were predicted of the homes and the cradles when women began to hold meetings and attend conventions, none of which have come to pass. "Women find in their club meetings rest, refreshmefllt, pew thoughts and fresh inspiration for their business in life. One busy mother of six children told the writer that she never had time to go anywhere bat to "the club," and this did her more good even than going to church. In her busy hours of sewing and doing housework she had new ideas, new knowledge to think over and talk over with the children, and thus she was educating them, in this way, as well as herself. The prayer meeting used to be supposed to be about the only little bit of recreation that a busy and burdened mother should steal an hour for, but whoever found rest and refreshment from the melancholy and" long-winded prayers of an old drone of a deacon who fondly imagined he was gifted in that line? Whoever found recreation and enjoyment iu dolorous hymns that moved to nothing but depression and the blues. The same old story of sin and satan, of punishment and death, the horror of non election, and the uncertainty of salvation do not conduce to cheerfulness or joy. Broadens a Woman's Mind. A woman's club widens a woman's mind; it lessens prejudices and kills superstition. It gives her pleasure to meet her fellows; it answers to her desire for knowledge, it trains her to express her thoughts, and takes from her that narrowness of mind which can see no good outside of her own creed or set. It leads her to recognize the good in all and to respect the rights and opinions of those who differ. It encourages her to think for herself, to use her own brains, to cultivate her own powers. Al though the clubs for women are growing on all sides, the home is still preserved, the country is still safe, and the world still goes around as of old. The croakers are not all dead, but they are a little more chary of their prophecies of evil. The men who once professed to be greatly alarmed over women's wanting to know,"you know, are beginning to get over their scare. They are not "yammering" so much now for the angelic beings so sweetly ignorant as not to know that two aud two made four without asking their husbands at home. The day has gone by when women only showed brains enough to be bigoted, and when ignorance was one of her greatest charms. Bessie Bbasible. HOW THE BANANAS OH0W. The Mission of a Tree Is Finished When It Has Borne One Bunch. New York Herald. It is a peculiar fact that but onebunch of bananas grows on a tree. After the fruit has been cut the tree is then cut down to the ground, and from the stump another tree sprouts, which bears another bunch the fol lowing year. The greatest trouble of farm ers is to keep the farms clear of spouts. They shoot up from the roots of the tree for a radius of ten feet and grow like weeds. As the fruit is cut from the trees it is placed on the backs of little pack donkeys and transported in this way (o the coast. One donkey can carry from three to six bunches, according to the size of the bunches and the distance from the coast. In the sea son at Baracoa there are more than 3,000 donkeys that stretch along in a line for miles plodding toward the coast with their loads of bananas. During the past year or two, however, this mode of transportation has been improved upon at Baracoa by the advent of a railroad. The fruit from Jamaica is considered by dealers to be the largest, best and most salable. This is said to be owing to the fact that the fruit is allowed to remain longer on the trees and is more fully matured than from" any other section. , Quick Work. Johnstown, Pa. Rev. Solomon E. Dorer, of the German Baptist denomination, says: We have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on several occasions. Once on a boy for .cholera morbus.. It gave relief in 20 minutes. I believe it is a good medicine and should be in every home. wsn LEARNING TO REST; Most Tcople Do Not Do It Until It Is Too Late to Be of Use. , THE NONSENSE' ABOUT INSOMNIA. Wcll-ireaning-'Cooics Are Jlesponsiblo Brainworkera' Woes. for NEED OF GOOD FOOD AND PHILOSOPin rwBrmiT ron toe DisrATcn. O doubt between 35 y j ?p and 45 we learn more I N. I I than in the generation I nJ A we lived before. Be- I V AJ fiaaan Ah nrtA AK TTO accomplish moro,prob ably, than in the scoro of working years which precede that time. Alas, that when the machine runs at its surest and smoothest we awaken to its pos sibility of wearing out, and have perforce to learn the last and wisest lesson of useful ness how to rest and take care of ourselves. "We have made attempts and pretenses at rest before, which consisted in changing one pleasing toil for another, racing through Europe or the Pacific tour, or spending sum mer at a seaside hotel or the Thousand Isles, which is very much like going to a Dutch dance for a night's repose. In the forties, just half way through life, with its ripest and best before us, we are compelled to learn to recruit in earnest. We nave spent much more than half our vital force in half our lives. There are but two alternatives, to go on as others do, keeping ourselves up to the mark by men tal and physical stimulants, to feel our en ergies die out as miserably as most or to study the real wants of the human machine, to keep it in good working order to the last. (Tho Art of Uvlng. A few accomplish this in every age, not seldom against untoward circumstances, and the result is so enviable that it is a wonder the race does not make it a prime study to learn how to live. The art is very little understood, and those who think they know it best arc signally wanting. The people who live by rule lay life out on too narrow lines; they think entirely of the oiling and cleaning and polishing of the machine, not of the lacework or the finely forged steel it turns out. Between taking pills and powders and "treatments" of some sort and testinc their effect, they lose effi ciency for anything else. If you and I could go back to 20 years again, don't you think we would lay our lives out diffriently? Instead of romance and sentiment, we would have paid more at tention to physiology, readfewertwo volume novels at a sitting, sat up fewer nights talk ing till 2 o'clock and routed a host of melancholy moods and nervous symptoms by discovering that outdoor work half the time was the one thing indispensable for nervous-muscular people. What alight' Have Been. Instead of worrying about questions of love and whether the attraction of the moment was the lifelong destiny or not, we would have kept crude susceptibilities well in hand, secure that years would render them no less keen, but vastly more vibrant Eossessing and inspiring. We would not ave' taken failures to heart in such pros trating fashion, foreseeing that men outlive many failures in a life and many burnt fingers, and we should have quit worrying about the universe and trying to shoulder its woes much sooner than, we did, and have attended strictly to our own affairs till we had the mastery of them before undertaking much for those of others. Still, 40 is not too old to begin over again, with health or the capacity for regaining health. Nature is very much kinder than we think, and often offers us terms of relief we are too blind or too despairing to see. She says softly, "There are a thousand years to be lived for every one you 'have lost, in which the memory ot mistakes how ever dreadful can be overlaid by so much that is blessed and happy that no mortal mind can have room for the failures. There is health for the distempers which you suffer. You can outlive this chronic in flammation, this ulcerated lung, this tumor, this prostration. The world will look very different to you then. You can begin to do the things you have left undone, especially in matters oi sieep, rest uuu uiei, auu uuu& the things you ought not to have done, and there will be new health in you." Good living and Bearing TrouDlo. Settle it in vour mind that you will be well if you have to study out your own case anu reau uiueii weuiemc uurseii to learn how to do without, it. At midlife, health and happiness are exchangeable terms. You are well and failures do not crush, for you can work out success again you are we'll, and untoward things do not chafe and gall beyond endurance, and black thoughts do not close down over your mind. It is a great relief when one learns to say to one's self: "Things look hopeless this morn ing, I will wait and see how they seem after breakfast," when somehow they turn bear able after all, or you see a way out which escaped a famished brain. Affairs are apt to look very dismal to people who lay awake nights, when memories grow heartbreaking, the future unbearable and it is a.very ray from heaven. which says to the overburdened spirit, "Wait till you have had sleep. You will find God not so unheeding of you, life not so merciless after all." And it is a fact that after middle age few troubles are un bearable, provided we can have right food and plenty of sleep. What Good Food Will Do. You recall that best saying of Colonel Ingersoll, asking at a hotel if they had good butter he had been wayfaring and, getting the landlord's cautious answer that "it was tolerably good butter," the Colonel shouted "Tolerable butter! I'd as lief have a tolerably virtuous wife." No tolerable food will do for you in any description. It must be perfection in essentials, and if any one thinks this is an easy matter to attain let him try it. Still, it is worth the pains and the money. The next ingredient indispensable in the hygiene of happiness is sleep, and those who suffer from wakefulness will agree with me that of all rubbish in the name of advice the greatest is talked about going to sleep. "Lie perfeptly still," says the Men tor. '"Do not moveeven a finger, this will save unnecessary expense of "nerve force," when the trouble nine times out of ten is that the Overwrought nerves need to bal ance their strain by muscular exertion,' and the tossing relieves tension jus't as a laugh or a cry does. "You have overworked and time and again forced the unwilling body o labor from which it shrank," says Mentor, "so now we can meet and conquer only by force of will. Do not complain or hesitate to use your will to keep.yoursclf perfectly quiet." All right, only for the unwilling body 1 Af Tfi&xGEiVlrtE IMPORTED ARTICLE fV5T HAVE. TttE aiOriATVAEi' .OF-"J0HWSSH0FF" 01 JftE ttECftTOFEYERY BOTTLE.,, JOriA BEWAREStBSrClOTES -S'OCD jomhbtmsiEtt J1SNE.K .k m nvjypyi Iforojd to labor, read brain, for the over- I. .1 J 1.-3.' .. .'. .... iiwleep after walking the floor with them hiight and day, and worn out soldiers sleep -wniie waiKinir. It Is overwrought Drain with too 1 1 ,le muscular exercise which 'brings on sleeplessness, especially with in digestion to aid the demoniac work; I . The Nerves Must Have Host. This talk about going to sleep by force of will power is poppycock, as one knows wljo has tried it night after night to the verge of distraction. There is jnst as much will power in getting up and takiijg a warm bath to rest both muscles aud brain, with a good rubbing down and a warm, clean bed to get into after, or a cool, clean one, according to the season. If you fall sleepless in town these warm nights don't put your taxed nerves in irons by forcing yonrself to lie still without moving a finger till you sleep, for you may go delirious before. Your nerves are stronger than you, and they may jump on you.somc time when you little ex pect it. Get out of bed, dress, if the bath don't make you sleepy, and take a walk. An hour of pure breeze and gentle motion will do more to calm vour nerves a nd tret them under control than chloral or any amount of "will power." If the trouble lies' with digestion, a draught of plain hot soda may set it right, or a laxative, like compound "licorice pow der. If nourishment is needed, a cup of hot cocoaor chocolate, with a coarse cracker or two, is a good sleeping draught, or a fresh cgg broken and stirred into a half cup of bouillon such as yon can buy for 50 cents a bottle, and rriake with cold water. The liquid foods, when fresh and good, answer admirably as nightcaps, with the advantage of being easy to "take, but they are either very good or very bad very good when perfectly fresh, kept very cold and free from the slightest change; very dangerous when change begins. The fresh egg beaten in liquid beef extract with a toasted cracker is much better, when one cannot be sure of the quality of liquid food. Malt foods injure by creating or adding to the interior fer ment which causes the mischief, and one had better get the soporific influence of malt liquors by taking a dose of hop tea. Alco holic stimulants are safer than malt, Tho Mind at Games. The stock prescriptions for going to sleep are counting a flock of sheep, repeating poetry, saying the multiplication table or preaching a sermon, but I have for years been looking for anyone who was ever sent to sleep by these means, and have failed to hear of one. The device which catches the fag end of one person's mind and furls it into close reefed sleep will not do for any one else. I hesitate to mention my own prescription, which has secured sleep a thousand nights, to read a bright novel live or ten minutes on going to bed. A dull oue does not hold the mind. But I can give an unfailing recipe for notgoing to sleep in case of people who use their brains during the day. and that is to spend an evening in those diversions so dear to people whose minds are not much called upon, word making with shuffled letters, "authors' games" save the mark and "buried cities," tasks with which the juve nile mind delights to tax fagged elders. There are many who share the repulsion for these tasks in name of pleasure with me,and find rest massacred bv a round game of cards or a Chautauqua lesson evenings more effectually than by a hard day's wprk in of fice hours. I had rather do a day's work in a day than to play at any of the popular amusements an evening. Light chat, good humored and diverting, is the only real rest for a tired mind, but this is an accomplish ment not taught in children's magazines. Follow Your Own Bent. The secret of rest, of health, of happiness and long life is to follow one's own bent, under control of right principles. What injures is to be given up. But, this aside, men serveGod nnd the world better by fol lowing their natural gifts and tastes than by any distorted life. The world has but half learned this, and to-day crowds more duties upon all who aspire to any. social place. Women's clubs and societies squander time and effort to keep up a thousand petty organizations, each having hundreds ofnoti fications to be sent out, the annual fuss of elections and skirmishes overnew members. The societies for small benevolences entail more work for willing members than they ever begin to do good. The hunting up and sending off old newspapers and books, making benevolent scrapbooks, bcdquilts and post card autograph collections, wastes work and nerves for ends which by no means recompense the wear and tear of strength involved. I have had this so ground into my own experience that for years, in "writing to (busy persons, the clos ing sentence has been, "No answer needed," and when some scrupulously polite public person felt obliged to send thanks, etc., I did not feel complimented at alL Newspaper people are the only ones who know the value of time and .nerves, and their courtesies -are brief oi- taken for granted, and no one is the worse for it. The Seople with no interest in life and little to o may indulge in these benevolent ways of l-Ml! f 4! I...J. .1... .. I. , Killing ui lime, uut, Luc luuiuenb one nnas real work in the world, their pastime kills the person, too. Taking Lite as It Ik Pretending is very hard work save for natures which are spawn of the Old Ser pent, End somehow people find them out by the hiss, the rattle or the sting. It is easier to be sincere, and tells less on the nerves in the long run. The most fascinating woman I have known for a long time is one of the frankest, and 'she never wastes herself un necessarily. She has laid out her life for having the good of it, and refuses to assume anyresponsibilily which will iuterferp wi;J with it. She knows how to take hold of worries by the handle, not the poker end. She is a very efficient business woman, but business done sho leaves lesser -duties to those whose work it is. She will not make her own bed or hang up her own gownr, for she pays some one else to save ner ti.ese minor exertions. . She takes time for punctilious toilet, and to see her come to you as fresh as the morn ing, sweet as bath and violet powder, well washed and coified hair and a becoming gown can make her, is as reviving ::-i the lragrance of a newly opened ro&v. She works hard and she resls'weil, amines her self to her taste evenings, and sleeps soundly. She has had heavy loes, but bears them well, and recoups herself admi rably by taking the best personal care of herself; and a bright brain repays her by food spirits, which are a delight to all about er; clear sense, which prompts the right word and action, and poise which it is not easy for circumstances to disturb. . " Men and women both like her, she is so sound and sweet, and not afraid to speak the'most unwelcome truths when necessary. Speaking the truth is an accomplishment with her, she says it so fully, and yst with out ill natured sting; you get the good of it, and yet your feelings are saved all that is possible. You know people put salt with rose leaves to keep the scent. Shirley: Daee. lie v. Adam Baker's Cure for Dysentery. We ussd Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, and will sav that it proved itself to be an excellent medicine. , Rev. Adam Bakek, wsu Shady Grove, Franklin county, Pa. ,extr7(X t5,tqb ."S&t NBHOFFSjlALTFXm&Er tUK;jnojLrNnuLDiLijjjL. (ZOMevZ-YortSSTeAfjenb, -- H. P. B. IN HISTORY!. An Estimate of Madame Blaratskj From One of Her Followers. HEE WOETH HOT YET EEAIIZED. She Was Consistent and the lustxess of Bidden laws of Nature. NEYEK BOASTED OP HEE PHENOMENA wairrzx toe the msrxrcn. Mr. William Q. Judge, of New York City, lawyer and theosophist, gives the fol lowing interesting facts concerning the de ceased Madame Blavatsky in the June num ber of the Path: I met H. P. B., he says, in 1875, in tha . city of New York, where she was living in Irving Place. There she suggested tha formation of the Theosophical Society, lend, ing to its beginnings the power of her indi viduality, and giving to its President and those who have stood by it ever since the knowledge of the existence of the Mahatmas. In 1877 she wrote "Isis Unveiled" in my presence, and was helped in the proof read- i ing by the President of the society. This book, she declared to me then, was intended to aid the cause for the advancement of which the Theosophical Society was found- ed. Of this I speak with knowledge, for I was present, and, at her request, drew np t the contract for its publication between her and her New York publishers. "When the document was signed she said to me on the street, "Now, I must go to India." As an Organizer in England. In November, 1878, she went to India, and continued the work of helping her colleagues to spread the society's influence there, working in that mysterious land until she returned to London, in. 1SS7. There was then in London but one branch of the so socicty the London Lodge the members of which thought it should work only with the upper andcultured classes. The effect of H. P. B.'s coming here was that branches began to spring up, so that now they are in many English towns, in Scotland and in Ireland. There she founded her magazine Lucifer; there worked night and day for the society loved te the core of her heart; there wrote the "Secret Doctrine," the "Key to Thcosophy" and the "Voieeof the Silence," and there passed away from a body that had been worn cut by unselfish work for the good of the few of our centnry, and of the many in the centuries to come. It has been said that she went to India because she merely left a barren, field here, by sudden impulse, and without a purpose. But the contrary is the fact. In the very beginning of the society, I drew up with my own hand at her request the j diplomas of some members here and there ! in India, who were of different faiths, and who were in correspondence. Some of them ' were Par jees. Always Intended to Visit India. She always said that she would have to go to India as soon as the society was under way here and "Isis" wa3 finished. And when she had been in India some time her many letters to me expressed her intention to re turn to England, so as to open the move ment actively and outwardly there, in order that the three great points on the earth's surface, Indias England and America, should have active centers of theosophical work. This determination was expressedlo me before the attempt made by thePsychial Research Society on her reputation of which also I know a good deal to be U3ed at a future time, a3 1 was present in India be fore and after the alleged expose and sha returned to England to carry out her pur pose, even in the face of charges that she could not stay in India. But to disprove these she went back to 'Madras, and then again rejourneyed to London. Her Phenomena Only Incidental. Much has been said about her "phe nomena," some denying them, others alleg ing tricks and device. Knowing her so many years so well, and having seen at her hand in private the production of more and more varied phenomena than it has been tha good fortune of all others of her friends put together to see, I know for myself that she . had control of hidden powerful laws of nature not known to our science, and I also know she never boasted of herpowers, never advertised their possession, never publicly advised anyone to attempt their acquire ment, but always turned the eyes of thosa who could understand her to a life of al truism based on a knowledge of true phil osophy. Such phenomena were not the aim of the society nor were ever more than in cidents in the life of its'lcaderH. P. Bla Tatsky. Further on Mr. Judge quotes approvingly from an editorial in the New York Trihunt as follows: Few women of onr time havo heen mora persisently misrepresented, slandered and defamed than Mdme. Ulava tsky, hut though malice and ignorance did their worst upon her, there are abundant indications tbat her life work wilr vindicate itself", that it will endure, and that it will operate forgood. For nearly 20 years sho has devoted herself to tho dissemination of doctrines tha fundamental principles of which are of tha loftiest ethical character. However Utopian may appear to some minds an attempt in the nineteenth century to hrealc down tha harriers of race, nationality, caste, and class prejudice, and to inculcate that spirit of brotherly love which the greatest of all Teachers enjoined in the first century, tha nobility of the aim can only be impeached by thoso who rcpndiate Christianity. JIadame Blavatsky held that the regenera tion of mankind must be has ed upon the de velopment of altruism. In this she was at one with tho greatest thinkers, not alone of thedav, but or all time. xnisaione should entitlo her teachings to tho candid and serious consideration of all who respect the Influences that make for righteousness. One Good ICesolt of Her Wortc In another direction, though In close asso ciation with the cult of universal -fraternity, sho did important work. So one in tha present generation, it may bo said, has dona more toward opening the long sealed treasures of Eastern thought, wisdom and philosophy. Xo one certainly has dona so much toward elucidating that profound wisdom religion wrought ont by tha ever cogitating Orient, and bringing Into the light those ancient literary works wbosa scope and dentil have so astonished tlis Westerns oriiL Her own knowl edge of Oriental philosophy and esotericism was comprehensive. No candid mind can aouoc tms nicer reuuwg ner two principal works. The tone and tendency of all hsr writings was bracing and healthful and stimulating. Her work has already borne fruit, and is destined apparently to produce still more marked and salutary ef lects in tho, future. A broader hu manity, a raoro liberal speculation, a dispo sition to investigate ancient philosophies from a higher point of view, havo no indi rect association with the teachings re feired to. A full and trustworthy account of tha life of this remarkable woman is probably one of the forthcoming events of the not far distant future. The above quotation more over would seem to indicate a growing comprehension of Madame Blavatsky' real character and real worth, so long un justly oversliadowed by the persistent ef forts of certain disgruntled and malicious detractors. E. T. a 0 inftBjMNLjF' mp Svtj.xqmi - . SAo; Vfc
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