it u 18 me up some of the finest pearls that lie there, such lack of faith trill merely in crease my own in yourself, since it is never hard to associate distinction with modesty. But here we are, almost at Eric's very doors. You are doubtless tired, and I have come to meet you, I am well aware, with a kind of pitiless unexpectedness." As the King passed he put his hand into that of Alonzo, letting it rest there with a transient yet earnest- pressure. Nothing could have been more simply royal than the wav in which he performed this quiet act while standing at the arches and ivy-muf-fied gateway which led to Eric's monastio residence oidark pray stone. To Alonzo his depar ure aud that of his merry court were as graceful as had been their coming and their salutations but abrief while since. When they had all passed away toward the prand approaches of the neighboring pal ace be turned to Erio with an agitated sob in ths throat. "For a poor devil like myself, old fellow, such goodness positnely is painful!" Eric fondly took his arm, and they walked together below the Gothic gateway up toward the little round-towered medie val abode which rose just beyond. '"My dear Lonz, this is one of the happiest mo ments I have ever known since I came to Baltravia, and saying that certainly is say ing much. But for you to call youiself a "poor devil" you, whom I once envied as the luefciest of mortals, with your talents, Sour good looks and your millions! It's ke dreaming a grisly dream." "I never had any real talents, Eric. Like my good looks, they're only something you've dreamed." "Preposterous! You're slow, I admit." "Slow? I'm the merest plodder." "But some day you might produce a mas terpiece. And some day I believe vou wilL As it was, all that wealth stood in the way of it. 2ow your luxury slips from von like a purple robe, and below it is the dress of plain taffetas that an occasional paint stain will rather adorn than harm. Besides, you will have another potent incentive." "You meau ?" "Leisure. Most r-en who lose their money arc in a turmoil of distress about their "butcher's bills. But after all, though the salary offered you by the King is not precisely enormous" "He is exceedingly liberal, Eric." "Still, for Saltravia, it can't be called meager. And you will find, my dear Lonz, that it possesses one pungent charm you can so often draw it with an entirely guilty conscience." "I see. You mean that I shall not have much to do." 4'You will have a great deal to do, in one sense little in another. The King, you know, is enormously rich, and has, notwith standing his many chanties, a passion for purchasing and possessing what is beautiful in art Ke will require you, at the end of every three months or so, to show him a certain proof of faithful stewardship." "I quite understand, Eric I must ac count to him lor the sums of money that I have expeu-ied." "Good Heavens!" cried Eric, giving one of his laughs which smote the bland even ing air'ith almost (lute-like sweetness; "yon must do nothing of the sort. II you fail to convince Clarimond that you have made your purchases with avoidance of al. rash and reckless economies that you have, in other words, been prudently and discreetlv extravagant I am not at a!l sure what adverse views he may adopt regarding your proper endowments lor the position you nave assumed. .He would prefer to take lor granted that vou have broueht him treasures of art which have been rather chosen for their excessive ideal value as bits of true beauty than because fashion or false tradition had touched them with any vulgar spell. But I babble on, and you are fatigued. You long for your bath, for a change of linen, and then for a quiet little dinner, at which you may wash down more of mv inanities with some really choice wine, a gift from the King himselt" They nrt-sently passed within doors, but before they did so Alonzo begged to linger a few monicnU on tjie terrace which they had now ascen;lfi.,i The huge hills had deepened from j"j,lji."to the mellowest azure, and the hart vHf btta3 Kl'tnmered below a heaven ?wi?5vM Yas but newly in- kTadf Jft1 j ia tw'rijif s of earlier stars. "U Vith sorae'aifir " luc, i"":0 1B-fc O.'flfMV in the casern ,t': ,7.. "IT'JftB, of the J i',,i in jr,ytB u lue ulqvuiiue diiln HtjSedapale pool of skv thartT-Ke mountains flanked like cossts, srJpjd way between either, like a water liuy of throbbing fire, burned the evening star. Freshening each instant with the advent of darkness, a breeze played at so brisk a speed along the valley that you might wonder how it could bear such heavy odors of pine, ot garland flowers and of tt ilil flowers as well, in its viewless but dewy clasp. The dwelling of his friend, as Alonzo soon found, was in no way suggestive of be ing inhibited by a King's petted idol. So brietv and simplicity prevailed everywhere, yet the cloister-like sombreness never be came too grave, and now and then it re vealed bursts of refreshing brilliance in a fall of rare tapestry or a stretch of blazoned window. While the two friends tarried late that evening in the groined dining room, with its tall wax candles (having been left to their cigars, coflee and Bur gundy bv a servant of perfect training), thev talked of many thirgs. But chief among these topics the recent troubles of Alonzo stood forth. He had told all which had passed between himself and Kathleen, finally adding: "I oon't altogether approve my own con duct, now that I lookback upon ft." "Approve it!" exclaimed Eric. "My dear bov, you arc delicious. "Why, it's just as if Caligula should declare to-day that he had behaved a trifle impolitely yester day." ".Really, Eric, I was not prepared " "To be called cruel? Of course you were not. You expected to have me agree with you that you've been a martyr." "I have been to that horrible Jin, Ken naird." "But by your own showing yon quite de feated her. Kathleen was willing to defy her authority." "Willing yes." "And you wanted the poor girl to pros trate herself before you in an ecstacy of submission. Of course you did. All lovers, in like circumstances, da Don't bite your lips and glare at me, dear Lonz. It shows in you a new spirit of rebellion for whiih I am totally unprepared. Al1 ays before this you have recognized my right to scold yon when you deserved it." "But you've never before scolded me un justly, Erie. Let us talk, however, of something else. How is it that you, so sapient in the1 nsy of lovers, have found no wife among all these charming ladies of Baltravia?" "I marry a Saltravian lady!" broke from Eric, while he nearly spilled the glass of Chambertin that he was lifting to his lips. "Yoa might as well talk of my marrying some celestial creature w ho had lately ar rived here from the planet Mars." "What do you mean? I thought they adored you." "Some of them detest me, my dear Lonz." "Ah! jealousy of the King?" "Partly. But there's another cogent reason. Many of them look upon me as a hideous vandal." "A vandal, you?" "Yes, and it's so odd when one thinks of it. A andal of culture! I swooped down on their dear valley and shattered (at Clari mond's command) its immemorial ugliness. Talk of the romance of the past! Adobe huts are scarcely dissimilar than were some of their ancestral lodgments. Oh, yes, I've been to them, as it were, a very barbarian of civilization." "But this was the King's tyranny, not yours." "They imagine that I have put all these atrocious refinements into Cl.irimond'a head. They realize that he is that anomal ous and unprecedented person, a nineteenth century King; but they blame me, at the same time, lor aggravating his fallacies." "Then they think it is a fallacy to believe in surrounding oneself with beauty?" "They prelcr to surround themselves with memories. And they had many, baltravia, you know, is ridiculously old. Alter all, it was a very stern demolition. I probably tore up hearthstones that were eight or nine centuries old. I was quite pitiless." "Pitiless as Caligula?" "Ah, Lonz, you're angry at met" "No." "Well, well, persevere in your grudge, and you'll make me apologize. Here Erio looked with melancholy at his half-consumed cigar. "An apology, you know, is the murder of a prejudice, ana I'm sofond of my prejudices! They're my cherished children. I spend half my time in training them to live thrifty, renutable lives. Be sides, we're not to begin our bachelor days' together by even the semblance ot a quar rel." Alonzo started. "Are we to liva here to gether, you and I?" he asked. "Not unless yon desire it." "Oh, Eric!" And Alonzo's eyes fffled with tears. "In this lovely castle!" "A castle rjour vivre. my friend." "But but, Eriol It's too infernaHyH sweet of your "Internally sweet is just what I want to be called. It reminds me of fin de sieole art. It makes me think of Leconte de Lile's poetry. Baudelaire (as that wonder ful saver of happy things, Oscar Wilde, not long ago declared, when he dropped into Saltravia and spent a few days in the pal ace with Clarimond) is chiefly great as a poet for having discovered the beauty In ugliness. Nothing except that is left us now in this unacademic age. The moment that one is classical nowadays ho is de nounced as commonplace." But Alonzo was not listening. If his wounded life needed a balsamic touch it was just these tidings that here in" this lovely valley, in this choice abode, he should secure a lasting home with the friend of his heart. "It is too kind, too generous of jovl, Eric," he at lengthfound voice to say. "And when I make my trips here and there about the continent you have decided that I am alwavs to return to yourself?" "Unless vou are verv bored. Then you will be frank and tell me, and then we shall certainly quarrel. For the instant I become conscious that I have bored anybo iy my egotism will leap forth like a tiger. It's a crime of which no one has yet had the audacity to accuse me. I keep a jew eled Eastern dirk ready to plunge into any such offender; for when he commits his offence 1 wish my crime as an assassin to possess at least the saving grace of pic'.ur esqueness." "Oh, Eric, how good yon are, how good you arc!" "Crime," continued Eric, pouring himself another glass of Burgundy, "w as never so disreputably prosaic as now. That reminds me, dear Lonz. I shall speak to the King to-morrow on this particular subject. I shall ask him if he will not kindly punish any new act of assassination at which the weapon used has been of an inferior and vulgar sort, with something prettily six teenth century in the way of torture pre vious to tne actual infliction of death." "I am back with you again in Paris," smiled Alonzo, while listening like this, to all yourserious absurdities. But are you sure that if I don't take the place of any Saltravian bride I shall not stand in the w ay of one with "a different nationality? Yon tell me that the hotels off yonder by the springs are often peopled by American residents." "Oh, yes. They come here in summer, though they have not yet fully found out the marvellous quality of the springs. You see, beiore the unexpected accession of Clarimond to the throne, Saltravia had been for years in desuetude. The old King, his kinsman, ill and half-blind for nearly twenty years, had a loathing of foreigners, and resisted even the requestor so august an authority as the Emperr himsell that the hotels should be redecorated and made at tractive for a wholly new order of guests." "And Clarimond has changed all that. He opens his arms to Americans. And you? Don't yon open your's to any one feminine American in particular?" Eric answered at first with a shrug. "My dear boy, I've been so homily busy. Be sides " "Ah, there's a besides?" "Oh, a very commonplaee one. If you recall, I staid on in Paris for a good wile after you left." His voice fell, and for an instant there were tears in it. "Some day I'll tell you just what happened. Only don't ask'me until I offer to tell you, Lonz; and that maybe never." He suddenly tossed his large, virile head, and gave his yellow beard a quick, nervous pull. In another moment he was the old, radiant trifler, with not a hint of that hidden sorrow, which, it occurred to his hearer, that he might possi bly never learn. "Frankly, as I've now made up my mind, I could never marry an American woman unless she were a mute." "Eric! what do you mean?" "The voice of the Ameriean woman, my dear Lonz, is a horrorl" Alonzo laughed. "Why except the Am erican man?" "I don't But one doesn't marry the Am erican man." "True. One doesn't. But I've known not a few American girls whose voices " "Of course you have. So have L Oh, yes, these exceptions are vocally enchant ing. But the ordinary girl of my own coun try always reminds me, when she is charm ing, of a splendid, full blown thistle. There are few lovelier flowers than the thistle, when seen in perfection. It has unique per fume, and a symmetry that repays the clos est observance. But try to pluck it and you are sure to recoil." "Bah!" replied Alonzo, laughing; "it's the same affair with a moss rose." Eric frowned with a great gloom. "Lonz you have done the most scandalous injury. I can pardon the man who smites me on the cheek or who robs me from the person. But for him who wantonly spoils one of my smiles I can only cherish a Borgian hatred." Then they both broke Into a laugh, their eyes meeting in anneal joyance under the wax lights that beamed on their fruits and wine. "I won't admit your hatred to be quite Borgian," urged Alonzo, "for I'm sure this velvet Burgundy hasn't been poisoned." "You poison it with your own sarcasms," returned Eric Then, after a slight pauses "There will be a late moon to-night Shall we watch it for a moment from the ter race?" They were presently standing together on the-stone walk outside, feeling their tem ples fanned by a breeze that seemed to blow straight from the ruddy moonrise at which they gazed. The moon herself moved through a lair of stagnant ebon cloud, edg ing it w ith spectral' fire; but her light flooded the hollow of a great gorge in tho mountain just below her, and stole from its coverts of clustered leafage shapes that were mystic enough for the pictured thoughts of a darkened souk Alonzo had some such fancy as this, and had just lost himself in the easy witchery ofjt, when his friend's voice roused him with a faint, impatient cry. "What is it?" he said, starting as if from a real dream. "Look the palace," replied Eric "It's faiily ablaze with lights. Alonzo turned and saw that this was true, and that throDgs of shadowy shapes were gathered in the grand courtyard before the wide-flung illumined doors. Suddenly the crackings of whips were hcanLNind three or tour vehicles that might have been coaches of state rolled into momentary distinctness, and were then swallowed again by the gloom. "She has crossed the frontier once more, after numberless threats," muttered Eric "Intolerable woman, to come at such a time as this! But so like her so like her! It has all been premeditated, just to cause talk and give trouble. Hark! They are cheering her. Alonzo listened, and heard a volume of sound by no means deafening. "Is it not absurd?" pursued Eric "It's like an opera bouffe with a grand chorus of Saltravian citizens, you know, about two dozen strong. And what's ab surder still, she's horribly unpopular here; they quite detest her." 'Of whom, pray, are yon speaking?" asked Alonzo, with evident interest "Of the Princess of Brindisi, mother of the King, and the most insolent and arro gant woman in Europe." 2b be Continued next Bunday. There's hardly a point on the Continent where Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is unknown. THE STUDYING THE PLAY. Bill Ifyo Investigates Mathematical Accuracy Upon the Stage. FASHIOff KOTES FOE BOTH 8EXE8. Etiquette Often Keqrires Dress Bnils4 B Worn in the Morning. WOKE TOLL Bui BOMB UEW CWJTHES f COTraSSPONOEJTCK OT THE BI8TATOJM New Yoke, Oct 23. Recently I went to the London theater for an afternoon of pure and innocent delight The London theater is not so English as I had expected to find it from its name. It is an American theater where one can see a play that is mathemati cally and dramatically accurate. Friends of mine told me to go there and study the mechanism of a play so that when I write another border drama I can see how to put the border on without puckering the drama. I can never be thankful enough that I did so. I put in the entire afternoon studying the con struction of a play that has been thrilling the Bowery for a long time In this play a maid with a feather dnster is seen at the beginning of the first act dusting the parlor and trying to think of her piece." This is well done and dramatically accurate. The plot now proceeds to unfold itself. In the second actaillain appears with pink whiskers made for a smaller man. He moves about the stage to melancholy music IMPEESSIONS OP EVA HAMILTON. The piece all the way through is so dra matically accurate that I could go out for an hour and know exactly where they would be when I came back. But I went there mostly to 6ee Eva Hamilton. I wanted to see how she would succeed as an actress. I thought that if she acquitted herself nicely I could write a play for her next year. But she did not do very well. She wore yacht ing clothes and a scared look, but her voice was as devoid of emotion as that of John L. Sullivan, and her statements were as devoid of sympathetic effect as those made by the man who calls trains in the JXnion depot at Pittsburg. Go home, little Eva. Go back to your old life, whatever it may be. Do not attempt to be emotional when an Eastside audience frightens you and your lines light out like a scared jack rabbit at the early dawn. It is high time you called a halt Go not to the quiet grave of that deluded man whose name you are pasting on the deadwalls in order to get new clothes and bait the old deadfall for new victims. I am glad the press united on this evil angel of a soft hearted man whose life was ruined by her. Such women dis courage a young darmatist like myself from writing the great American play. Let us change the play. FASHIONS FOE MALE BIPEDS. Men's clothes this fall in New York will present more bright colors than heretofore, and the cherry, scarlet, crimson and other bright Bhadesfor scarfs, mainly in satin, are very noticeable. I writs these items regarding men's apparel because very many friends sort of look to me as authority each season, and expect me to furnish tips on etiquette and clothing, as I am constantly in touch with the highestand best authority. Four-in-hands now are now no longer the only scarf that is tied by the proprietor. There are two or three of them which re quire a steady nerve, a Christian spirit and an outside income It is no longer de rigger to part the coat tails and arrange them in the lap on sitting down. It has been ta booed because it gives the impression that one is too thoughtful of his clothing, and economy and ettiquette do not harmonize Gloves will run in various shades of tan and black and tan; also the color of the Colorado and Colorado Claro cigar. A navy blue cheviot suit with a tan colored glove makes a very pretty contrast The cheviot in dark blue and black will be very popular. Efforts will be made to force into favor tho old-fashioned vest, made of all kinds of brocaded, twilled and startling designs, but quiet people who desire to lead different lives will adhere to the vest made of the same material as the suit WHEN DRES9 SUITS WILL BE WOE2T. Full dress will be worn this winter in New York after 6 o'clock and until day light on the following morning. It will also be worn on the following day by men from" Staten Island and New Jersey who have missed tho night boat Nothing can look sadder than the mail from Perth Am boy who is coming home at noon in a dress suit which has a little chocolate eclaire down the front to remind him of the an nual dinner of the Society for the Preven tion of Publicity for Charity. A movement is now on foot to open a sort of gents' exehauge, to be called the Subur ban Gents' Consolidated Exchange, where Studying a Play. out of town men may drop in and shuck their business suits and assume the evening dress, then after the dinner, If still suffi ciently lucid, they may swap back and go home. There have been, of course, small places of this kind before, bnt this is to be arranged on a larger and broader plan than ever before known, and a competent person will preside at all hours.' A great improvement in men's apparel this year will consist of the coat shirt, which is open the entire length in front and o therefore saves that terrible wear and tear of the soul caused by climbing hand over hand up the dark interior of a hot and freshly-ironed shirt GETTING ISTO A SHIET. Let those whose lot has been a more pleasant and accessible one speak sneeringly and lightly mayhap of the man whose sex has doomed Him to a life of unceasing struggle upward through one of these stiff and airtight garments, but to a man whose hair has been worn off in this way it is no laughing matter. Nearly all laundresses pin the shirt together at the neck, and no man is ever prepared for this, so he drifts farther and farther away from that direct and narrow way which I am "told is ex tremely lonesome The coat shirt is not open in the back, but otherwise of course is, to the casual observer, similar to the shirt in common use except that it may be put on without the usual affidavits. The chest protecror worn in the evening oyer the shirt front, with evening dress, is growing in favor along with the lung pad, the liver pad and the foot pad. Those who cannot afford the gorgeous satin chest covering, which costs from $10 to 512, will find a cheap and pleasing substitute in the Sunday paper. Some put the street vest on underneath the shirt on cold evenings. This gives to the thin and narrow chested WW ISP PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, child of wealth a better figure also and ob scures his bright and piercing wishbone Try it A BONNET OF BLTJEJAY'S BREAST. Ladies will .have different clothes this year throughout A great deal of mauve is to be worn this year, also green and every shade of browns and chestnut Soft and fussy effects will be sought after con siderably. A nice warm bonnet direct from Paris, is made of a neat little bluejay's breast with satin strings which tie under the chin. A very fascinating bonnet for street wear during the more bitter cold weather will consist of a mauve rosette with muskrat skin ear tabs. For skating and Christmas merry-making a dainty little beetle with narrow velvet strings makes a cozy and very healthful hat for cold even ings under the wintry sky. Guipure and Venetian laces will be nsed to keep Jack Frost out of the otherwise ex posed chest of society. Shoulder capes will be more brief this year than usual so as to show the figure Those who have abandoned the corset will wear the Paisley or Bay State shawl. ' Corsets will be worn TM Umbrella Fiend. by those who prefer them, and there will be no fuss made oyer the fact More inde pendence will be shown this year than usual, both among the women and the men, in the matter of dress. This is a hopeful sign. The newspaper paragrapher has done much, I believe, to kill off the extremist and the toady. Comfort will be the first thing to consider. FATE OF THE SOUVENIE SPOON. Table etiquette will continue to be in favor among those who can afford it The souvenir spoon will hold its place for the winter, perhaps, but not longer. Those who retain their faculties will not go very largely into the purchase of spoons that are so heavily embossed and oxydized in the bowl that they injure the teeth and inflame the mouth. The true gentlemen who remain seated In the street car while elderly ladies cling to the roof and stand up in the aisle, will con tinue to ostensibly slumber or read the paper and thus endear themselves to the public The man with the wet umbrella, who eats onions and then seeks to conceal tho fact by the use of stimulants, will still continue to frequent crowded cars and rest his elbows on the bosom of the meek merchant from the country. Money will be plenty this winter amon well-to-do people, it is said, and should they fear a temporary stringency the rem edy is easy, for they will only have to skip a dividend or two, a practice wnicn is De coming more and more popular among our foremost financiers. Bill Nye. THE TBAHSFEE OF POWZB. Experiment of Can-Tine the Force of a Water Fall Over a Hundred Miles. .all Mall Budget A momentous experiment has beea suc cessfully made at Frankfort-on-Main. En ergy in the form of the electric current has been transformed from Lauffei 'ori" the Neckar to tho Electrical exhibition at Frankfort a distance of some 108 English miles. The power is originally obtained from a turbine placed in a channel of the river Neckar. This turbite, which is of 300 horse-power, drivesa "rotation current" dynamo, which converts the "energy" into the form of a combination of alternating currents. These currents are next "trans formed" into a current of high pressure and small strength the current which is sent on its hundred mile journey to Frank fort. It is transmitted through thres thin cop per wires of no Biore than 4 mm. diameter. These wires are erected in the same way as ordinary telegraph lines. The poles to which they are attached are eight metres in height and placed at a distance of about sixty metres from one another. The num ber of poles employed amounts to about 3,000, and the necessary copper wire is of about 930 kilometres length and 60,000 kilo grammes weight It may be noted in con clusion that the useful .nergy recovered at at Frankfort is about 75 per cent of the en ergy expended in Lauffen. About a quar ter is lost on the journey. AN EDITOR'S TESTIMONY. A THREATENED CATARRHAL, LUMG DISEASE AVERTED. A Permanent Recovery Made, After Doe tors and Medicines Failed A Wonder ful Recovery. It is conceded by all who have used Pe-rn-na that it is the best remedy in existence for Acute and Chronic Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis and Consumption. Scores of unsolicited testimonials from all parts of the United States leave no room for doubt as to the permanent efficacy of this remedy in such cases. When everything else fails Pe-ru-na cures. When other sources of re lief have been sought in vain Pe-ru-na brings prompt and. lasting benefit The following letter from Editor Powell, of Ohio, gives in a few, clear, concise' sentences exactly what Pe-ru-na did for him, in such a convincing manner, that a volume of argument could not make it stronger: Clarington, Moneoe Co., O. Dr. S. B. Hartman & Co. Gents: Per mit me in th,is connection to state (unsolic ited) what your wonderful medicine, Pe-ru-na, did for me. I was taken sick last February with bronchitis and catarrhal fever. My head was in a terrible condition could neither see nor hear scarcely and my lungs were very badly affected, being so tight and sore that I could hardly breathe. I coughed almost constantly. For two months I tried all our local physicians, all the cough medicines I could get"hold of, and many other medicines whicli were recom mended to me. About the middle of March I concluded to try Pe-ru-na. I had not taken half a "bottle until I began to im prove My lungs were relieved of their soreness and tightness, and my cough stopped entirely. I used three bottles of it and was completely cured, and have felt better ever since than I bad for years. Yours truly, W. T. POWELL, Editor and Publisher "Independent" Anvone wishing to correspond with Mr. Powell in relation to any detail of his case should enclose stamp for reply. Pe-ru-na cures every case of Acute Catarrh, Colds, Coughs, Bronchitis, Laryngitis, La Grippe nd Influenza, without exception. Pe-ru-na cures nearly every case of Chronio Catarrh, Ozoena, Chronic Follicular Pharyn gitis, Catarrhal Deafness and Consumption, fn first and second stages. Pe-ru-na is also very useful in the last stage ot consumption, and never fails to bring relief, however bad the case may be , 'For treatise on Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Consumption and all dims tic diseases of winter, send for Family Physician No. 2. Address Peruna Medicine Coipany, Colum bUB, Ohio. HAIR. KfcAO TTsE i Jtr- ? BUNDAy, OCTOBER 25, THE DITINE - LOYE. A Snpreme Ideal Set Up by the First of the Commandments. CHOICE MAKES LOYE POSSIBLE. TteTree In the Garden of Eden 37aa Eeally a Tree of Liberty. BET. HE. HODGES' 6TODAY SEEHOH rWBITrEI POR THI OISPATCH. 1 We ought to love God. It !s our duty to love God. We are commanded to love God. "Thou Bhalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength." The Old Testament and the New Testament unite in emphasizing that injunction. It is not likely, however, that text ever persuaded anybody Into loving God. Love laughs at injunctions, pays no heed to duty, absolutely cannot be com manded. Obedience can be got that way, but love, never. It is of the very nature and essence of love that it must grow in a willing heart Figs will grow on thistles quite as readily as love at the word of law. There is no such thing as love by regulation. Love is the manifestation of an nntrammeied choice If the choice is hindered, unwillingly di rected, made under dictation,it is no choice, and the object chosen is not loved. Proba bly God sent temptation within reach of man that he might thus make it-possible for .us to really love Him. The test of love is preference Love comes out into the light and is discovered when there is a choice to be made between two, or for and against THE DOCTKJNE OF FEES WILL. Man, hedged about with imperative inno cence, without a chance to choose between God and the devil, compelled to obey God, having no way of showing any voluntary loyalty to God, would never have loved God. God set that forbidden tree in the midst of Eden that man might use His gift at will, and might thus be able to render God a will ing service; that is, a loving service He took away bondage and compulsion when He planted that old tree in Eden. That was a liberty tree. That was the one fact in the world which kept man from being a ma chine With that great tree shading his path, man was a man, haying the power of choice, a responsible being, the possessor of a free wilL And so able to love God. Every tempta tion, every opportunity to do wrong, from Eden down, has given man a chance to vin dicate his manhood, to choose as a man may and show God that he loves Him. The best way in the whole world'for a man to show his love for God is to say "no" to the devil and to stand up on the side of God. But we must not do that because we are com manded to do it, because we are afraid not to do it, but because we want to do it; if there is to be any real love in it Love must be the free choice of a willing heart Love cannot be commanded. THE IDEAL OF THE BIBLE. The purpose of the great commandment is not to establith obedience, but to pro claim an ideal. The spirit of it is not that we must love God because we must, but that God wants us to love Him. The two snpreme commandments of the gospel show us that sort of man that God approves of. They hold up an ideal They reveal the Divine standard of human manhood. The manliest man to be found nnvwhere in this creat kfamily of God is he who loves God with all his heart, and soul, and mina, ano sirengin; and who loves his neighbor as he loves himself. But if we desire to love God better than we do, we will have to find some other text than that to help us. Take this one: "We love Him because He first loved us." God loved us. Before Christ came, bringing that'message 'from the divine Father, and writing it in the sight of all the world over the arms of that Good Friday cross on Cal vary Hill, people deemed it too good to be true In days of prosperity, in the sun shine, in the strength of health, and in the time of content, it was thought that per haps it might be true Up above there, somewhere among the everlasting stars, there might, perhaps, be a beneficient Crea tor, a kindly Euler, possibly a loving Father. But WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN and darkness came down upon the earth, when adversity nd accident lay in wait along the path, when pain came and death after it, and all things seemed to be going wrong, almost everybody lost sight of that beautiful dream. It was uot true God did not care. God is not love. The psalm ist and the prJphets who had" better eyes than other people to see God, somehow kept their faith. But others lost heart, feared God, but did not love Him. The truth is. there is no revelation of the love of God in all the pages of the Book of Nature; 1 mean ot that side ot God s love that touches us as individuals. History teaches plainly enough, moBt people think, that God cares for the race God has all these centuries been teaching and bettering the race. He has seemed sometimes to be a stern schoolmaster; He bos punished those who would not learn His lesson with inevit able and unsparing severity, listening to no excuses, never pardoning human ignorance; that is, so far as this' world goes. And that is inst as far as man can see But it has all been for the best That is plain enough. We can look back now and see that All the plagues and the famines, all the wars and the martyrdoms we can see their place in the general bettering of human life The world has all along been growing better. This year, which is getting now into its last months,, is the best year that men ever lived in since the year 1. God cares for the race. He ib a careful Father, possibly a loving one, at least that far. CAEE FOE THE INDrVTDTJAL. That might be an argument for the reality of- God's love for you and me. We belong to the race. Our good and evil fortune is inextricably intermingled with the fortunes of the race. Whatever is good for the world at large or, perhaps, I would better say, whatever has been good for the world at lanre in the past helps us Our breth ren all along have died that we may live. Over and over men have gone to death, as the Russians marched into that tragic ditch of Schweidnitz, that those who came behind might pass over them and win the victory. But how about those poor fellows down there in the ditch? Did God love them when he gave them death instead of tri umph? You and I get into the black shadow of pain, and we look up and the face of God is hidden from our eyes. It may be that our pain may Eomehow help our brotherybut doesn't God care more, then, lor our brother than he does for us? God is love, St. John tells u We love Him, St. John says, because He first loved us. But docs God love us? Has uot God deserted us, lost sight for us, forgotten us, remembering only the great race of man? And we realize the infinity of God; and we remind ourselves that this whole planet is but a grain of dust in the vast illuminated universe of God; what is man, what is any one individual, that God should be mindful of him? Is not God mindiul only of the race? The great God, out among the ever lasting stars, must not a vast number of us small creatures be set together before we can be of size enough for God to see? THE VALUE OF A MAN. Of course, we have a ready and effectual answer to that last fear of the human heart God is a spirit, and the size of body matters not with Him. No amount of material substance can .compare in value with a thinking brain. No weight of rock can enter into competition with a souL- The great sun, and all the suns melted together into one vast white-hot furnace of intermin able flame, are not worth a soul. Where cver God finds z man He finds a being akin to His own self, something indeed Divine 'Every man is of value, must in the very 1891 nature of things be of value, in the eyes of God. But when we ask if God really loves us, then the book of nature has no satisfying answer, and the pages of human philosophy have no satisfying answer. "God is love is not written so that we can be sure of it in any book but one. "We have known and believed the love that God hath to us;" that was not 'spelled out with the alphabet of common experience: a Christian said that, a Christian apostle who had learned of ope who was different from all other men, a dis ciple of the Supreme Spiritual Master whom the Father Himself instructed. Christ is the only authoritative teacher of the.lo've of God. We know and believe the love that God hath to us, because Christ has taught us. TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE. Christ taught God's love for man in the blessed words that He spoke. The Christi n name for God is Father. God is our Father. That is the one word in which is summed up all that Jesus taught of Goi See how it stands in the Christian religion at the very beginning of the Christian Creed, "I be lieve in God, the Father," and at the very opening of the lips in the petitions of the Christian prayer, "Our Father." Jesus Himself said that name so lovingly, with such a singular and memorable tenderness in His tone.that they who heard Him speak it never forgot the sound of His blessed voice in the, syllables of the Syrian word. And they set it down in the pages of the Gospels untranslated just as He nrononnced it, to come down to us a testimony to that I.LU-3G auu uuuuuciiii, uuuuuai reiauuu wmuu Jesus held with the Eternal. "Abba" was the word for "Father" in the language of that country. It was the name wnicn the little Galilean children learned in their cradles. Abba father. Jesus looked up to tho great God and called Him, and taught us to call Him, by that loving name THE SMALLEST AND OBSCUEEST. God is our Eather. All that Is true of the tenderest and wisest fatherhood is true of God. And nothing is true of Him, though it be written in all the theologies, which contradicts that name God is our own Fatuer. "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God." That means God's individual knowledge of us. It means God's individual care for each one of us. Christ said, whatever our questioning hearts may say, Christ said tor all who are able to believe Him, able to trust Him, that God does care Christ answered the uni versal question. The heavenly Father loves the smallest and obscurest of all His children. Not one but of the whole great number, not even the prodigals, are forgot ten of God. And Christ taught God's love in other ways than by the lesson of his words. He taught it by the lesson of his life For the life of Jesus, even more than the words of Jesus, was a revelation of God. We do not need, I think, to go very deep into the pro fundities of theology to see that God must be better than any man; that is plain enough. And the better a man is the truer Is the revelation which he bears of God, the higher the idea of God which he make3 pos sible in the hearts of men about him. EEVELATION THEOUGH THE SON. And when you find an ideal man, a man who sets a standard of manhood such as no saint or hero in all history has ever touched, before his day or since; when you find such a man, snch a divine man, is he not a revelation, and the truest of all revelations, of the Most High God ? The highest truth that has ever been revealed, or discovered, or dreamed of about God is that God is like Christ And that truth must be true Henceforward, it be comes impossible for one who honestly and intelligently thinks about it to believe any thing less than that God is like Christ And every child knows how Christ was the supreme incarnation of love To love men as Christ loved them has ever since been the unrealized ideal of every Christian bene factor. How patient he was with the Ignorant, how generous'in making all allowance with the sinner, how full of sympathy with all sorrow, how he went about doing good and trying in all manner of ways to get mora love into this unbrotherly world all this Is written in the plain pages of the Christian gospcL Christ gave us a better rule for loving our brother than the second com mandment He said that we should love others as He loved us. That touches the supremest possibility of human affection. MISSION OF THE SAVIOB. The Father does seem a long way off, and very great, and incorporeal, and invisible, and almost impersonal, and so, perhaps, hard to love But it is not hard to love Christ How can anybody help loving Cnrist? And whoever loves Christ loves God. "Whoever has seen Christ and known Christ has seen and known the Father. Christ is the very closest we can possibly get to God. Finally, Christ taught the love of God lor us, not only in the life that He lived, but in the death that He died. God is our Father, and our Father loves us; and God is like Christ, and so God loves us. But that old question comes back sometimes, in spite of that that old question about the possibility of any union between love and pain. Pain comes, and we begin to doubt Then the cross teaches its wonderful lesson of strength and comfort For here is Christ, whom the Father loves supremely, set in the midst of sorrow. His friends have for saken Him; His enemies, who hate Him without a cause, crowd in about Him; He has experience of suffering; the shadow of deatn iaiis auout mm, aim mc Biwy is uiac& above Him. If pain means that God for gets, then God has forgotten. Yet, out of all these depths of anguish, out of all this blackness of desolation, He who knows God best of all who ever breathed looks up into His Father's face, and calls Him Father. We wonder if pain and love can really go together, and behold here they are together at the cross of Jesus. He whom God loves, suffers; love unspeakable, suffering un speakable Henceforth let no sorrowing soul fear that God has 'forgotten. The Father never forgets. The Father loves eternally. Geoege Hodges. A WONDEBFUL TOICYCLB. The Hovel Machine for Locomotion In vented by an Indiana Man. Henry Gantz's unicycle Is rapidly ap proaching completion out at Hazelwood, says the Indianapolis Next, as on excuse for printing the picture, which is herewith reproduced. The inventor, it is rumored, has not yet di6cov covered how to guide the "critter," but promises a completesolution of that ques tion in a few days. He claims that he can make 83 miles an hour with it, and that it will cost no more than an ordinary bicycle.. If his invention la a success then the rail roads ought to quit business, and ,Gantz ought to pay taxes on $160,000,000 of invest ed' railroad dead capital in Indiana. It is suggested that persons wanting preliminary practice for this wheel take it by rolling down hill in a barrel or tying themselves to a millwheeL Store and office furniture to order. Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water street, su BOULMGEH'S widow. Crowds of Parisians Are Visiting Iler Home at Versailles. HO PABT1NG MESSAGE FOE HEE. Uncomplimentary Stories About Baron Hirsch and His Wealth. THE HEBREW REFUGEES IN PARIS rCOBRKSrOtniNCI OP THE DISPATCH.1 Paeis, October 15. Versailles! Ho for Versailles! is the word for rich Paris in October. A la Angiaise they go on the top of the swellest of coaches, winding their lines and cracking their whips over the "backs of stylish four-in-hands. And at Versailles one sees these days not the miles of pictures in which are portrayed every thing which this restless land has done, not the dainty palaces of the Trianons, not the royal playhouse, the little Swiss .village where Marie Antoinette amused herself, not even the Temple of Love he sees the quiet home of the widow of General Bou langer. Here, since the noble General abandoned her for Mme. Bonnemain, she has b en liv ing a quiet life of devotion and charity. After the woman who had replaced her died, in July last, she offered out of pity f8r the General to go to Brussels and share ' his exile He never answered her letter. When he erected the monument to his mis tress in the cemetery at Brussels, he ar ranged that it mark the ashes of three per sons Mme Bonnemain, his mother and sons Mme Bonnemain, nis moiuer anu himself. When he wrote his farewell letter to his friends and servants, September 29, there was somethine for everybody but Mme Boulanger. The whirlwind of pas sion to which he abandoned himself blotted out all tenderness, all consideration for the mother of his children. Mme Boulanger will receive a pension $700 a year I think. He had nothing trom the beginning of his exile The French law gives the pension to a divorced widow, when th act of separation is in her favor, as in this case Terdlct of the Parisians. In Paris the news of the General's suicide produced a wave of sympathy and even tenderness. There was a feeling even among the hostile that the sad end made jeers and nnkindness out of place. The common ver dict was well expressed by the woman at the news stand I patronize: "A great Gen eral, Mile, but feeble in the head." At Brussels the Intimate friends of the Gen eral had feared such an end. His grief has been uncontrolled since Mme. Bonnemain's death. On the broken column which marked her grave he had engraved: ' MAKGITERITZ. 13 Secembre. 1833-15 Juillet, 19L A bientot. Abientotmeans simply "I shall see you soon." In spite of the sadness of it one can not suppress contempt for the weakness of the end. The world had a right to look for at least a soldier's death from General Bou langer; instead-we have that of a 'ove-lorn swain. Instead of the "Marseillaise" for a death hvmn we have the lachrymose strains of "Marguerite." Instead of a vigorous and manly last word, we have a pitiful wall: "I shall kill myself to-morrow, not because I despair of the future of my party, but be cause I cannot endure any longer the fright ful loss I sustained two months and a half ago." Had he been 18 we mizht nave for given him; but M Baht Enterprise of a Photographer. A remarkable case of instantaneous pho tography occurred at the scene of the tragedy. A photographer was working near the tomb, saw the General go to tho grave. .hc!lrd the sound of the pistol, divined the situation, and with a buslnoss-liKe prompt ness which would have done credit to an American, rushed his camera to the spot and took a picture of the scene before even the guards of the cemetery were able to get there. There was nothing In Boulanger himself to create or to sustain the following he had. His bubble was blown by advertising. If the Government will now establish in Paris a Boulanger museum, it will furnish tho people an object lesson, which they nfed more thun statues to Gambetta, arches to Napoleon or pictures of blood-curdling battles. The museum should contain sam ples of all the articles which were used to work up the General's fame; copies of the 600 or more songs composed in hid honor; samples of the handkerchief bearing his plcturo which once were so popular; copies of the pipe head, cane heads, brooches, scarf pins, bracelets, medals made in his likeness; the glassware and pottery dee orated with his exploits; packages of the to bacco, butter, cheese and what-not named arter him; -flies of the journals established to support him. After a visit to such a col lection no Frenchman. I fancy, will ever be gulled again into thinking that because a man is advertised like a patent medicine he Is capahie of managing the nation. TJ-ly Stories About B ron Hirsch. But I started af Versailles. There Is another association there which Is of timely Interest. Baron Hirsch whose great scheme for assisting the Hebrews, has interested Americans so much, rented a portion of the park at Versailles, fcr hunting for several years. He has given It up now, but the people still tell unpleasant stories of how his park guardians shot dogs which ven tnred nverhis line and threatened to do the ?" f" !2. KZpltA'l AeJ?!e.2 hated their rich tenant cordially. One story tbey tell abont him Is that his guests who were invited to hunt were never allowed to carry home any game, the great Baron keeping it to sell. In Paris where be has a mansion many disagreeable things are said about Baron Hirsch, bow once he said to a great pro fessor whom he had employed to give lessons to a child: "Hero, Professor, is a cigar. You don't have 6uch at your house. That cost 25 cents." And, again, when he served strawberries in January at a dinner party, how he advised the- company to "eat all you want. They cost a good deal, but I do not mfhd." These later, however, I do not vouch ror. There Is an anti-Hebrew party in Paris which loves to circulate slurs on the race, whose influence In France they fear. Hebrew Refugees In Paris. Thero is no place in the word where one sees the necessity for Baron Hirseh's scheme for relieving the Hebrew refugees from Rus sia more plainly than here In Paris. They come here daily In troop" 30, 40, 50, 60 fami lies In a day. And such families! Ten chil dren is a small number; oftener thero are 12, It and 16. They come penniless, as a rule. Frequently they have beep well-to-do In Itussia, but the severity of the laws against them has compelled them to fly bcroi e they could realize anything iroin their property. A man reached Paris from Russia last week who had owned U houses in the town from which he had been driven. He had not sou In his poefcet. Nothing can be more dreadful than their condition. Recently, in company with some devoted friends who have gone in Toynbee Hall style among the Hebrews of Pan? to work I vUitedsome of the reiugees who had recently arrived. In the top of an old house in a street so narrow that we had UilB ulty in nasalnga cart whicn Imd ventured in, we found a family of 16 children occupying a room not more than 12 feet square. They had brought with them in fleeing their bod din ' and samovar. All the Hebrews bring this'tea urn. It is of brass, and they treas ure it as If " wero a household god. At night the bedding Is spread on the floor for the 18 prisons to occupy. Frequently refu... gees who have not even such a shelter aro allowed to sit through the nigut in this room. The hope o' most of these families is to get tickets to America or th Argentine Kepublie These aro furnished by- the Hebrew Alliance, which, has its he .dqnart en. in Pans. But how the reiugees will bo better olf In those lands than theynre here, It is dilhcult to see. They do not speak the language. Work is difficult to get. Here they can get nothing but distributing hand bills or selling small stuff. The bridges and squares theso days are dotted with vendors ot candies, cakes, shoestrings, cheap iewelry, tovs. Usually these merch nts are lebrews. so license is lequlred for the business, though if they get out of the ter ritory assigded them their goods can bo con fiscated. America's Gift to the Suffering. " The means for relieving this flood of misery are lnadea.uate. The city of Paris LUIlOblUUa V..U.W ...w n'w-- !'--- ..- ..... -..j does not give relief to foreigners. Th Eothscblld Committee is a splendid orzant za Ion, but it is so overwhelmed with appll- cations that it U difficult to eet anythhwc i from it There Is only one cheap soup house. ana only worK among Christians here Is the "Paris Mission to the Hebrews." It is tho work of three persons who. depending upon voluntary subscriptions to sustain them and their undertaking, have gone Into the He brew quarter to live They visit among tha poor daily, helping and teaching them as the case demands, giving them relfef as they have means, now a franc in monpy, now garment This summer this mission sea requests to tho Americans visiting the city to irive them any contributions of cast-of garments they might have Two bundles were received! Servicer are held several times a week and the Gospol preached. A dispensary is open once a weefc This seir-sacnQcing, devote'!, dally work among the poor has made a strong impres sion in the Hebrew quarter, and the mission, ha a host of friends among Hebrews who would not on any consideration listen to tha Gospel preached In the hull. As for Baron Hlrscb's solieme, It is for tha future. All the refugees in Pans may bo starved to death before snch a colossal or ganization can be put Into operation. What la needed now is daily bread. , Ida IL Txzbzll. BZ5BATI0H OF ELECTBOCTJTIOff. A Man Who Was Severely Shocked TelU How the Current Hade Him Foot Pan Mall Budget Albert Moyse, the master machinist of the Montmorenci Cotton Mill, near Quebec, has just had an experience which goes to show that the sensations of a criminal in the electrocution chair are rather pleasant than otherwise "As soon as I touched tha wire," he says, "I felt myself drawn up with remarkable rapidity. Blue flame" shot from my eyes. It was intensely blue, and yet brilliant I felt a sensation such as I never experienced before As far as I could realize the feelinc was pleasurable I felt that my time had come, and then I lost con- i gciousness. I afterwards learned that this exDerience had not taken more than two seconds. Those who 6aw the accident said that as soon as mv hand touched the wire I was draped ud like a Sash, dashed bodily against the ceiling four feet above the wire, and then thrown to the floor, where I lay for over an hour unconscious. At the tlma I got the shock the power was running through the wire, at 1,100 volts. The motor had not been turned off at all. "When I came to my senses," the victim, went on to say, "I was lying at the bottom, of a fiat-bottomed cart and was being driven home For over ten minutes I could not remember a thing. Memory had entirely left me The man who was driving me was one of the mill hands, and I had often seen him, yet I could not remember who he was. Finally, when I fully regained my senses, I began to suffer for the first time All over my body came tingling.pricking sensations, which were agonizing. Sparks would at intervals shoot from my eyes. My body was so sore that I could not bear my clothing." ) HE-, Horue Conrfort. 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