ss?rv ; y T-T-B T6 THE FETTSBTJEGr DISPATCH,' SUNDAY", . JANTJAIIT 24, 189a . - '-.-. V - - V- "Hatchment" The -nife felt that the hones-front was standing about all it could well Etand, in that way; the prospect of another stunning I decoration of that nature distressed her, and she wished the thing had not occurred to !, him. She said, hesitatingly: "But I thought such an honor as that wasn't allowed to any but very, very near relations, who " "Eight, vou. are quite right, my lady.per iectlv rig&t; hut there aren't any nearer relatives than relatives by usurpation. "We cannot avoid it; we are slaves of aristocratic custom and must submit." The hatchments were unnecessarily gen erous, each being as large as a blanket, and they were unnecessarily volcanic, too, as to variety and violence of color, but they pleased the Earl's barbaric eye, and they satisfied his taste for symmetry and com pleteness, too, for they left no waste room to speak of on the house front. Ladv Bossmore and her daughter assisted at the sitting up till near midnight, and helped the gentlemen to consider what ought to be done next with the remains. Bossmore thought they ought to be sent home with a committee and resolutions at once. But the wife was doubtful. She said: ""Would tou sendiall of the baskets?" "Oh, ves-r.ll." "All at once?" 'To his father? Oh, no; by no means. Think of the shock. JS'o, one at a time; break it to him by degrees." "Would that have that effect, father?" "les, my daughter. Bemember, vou are voung and elastic, but he is old. To send him the whole at once might well be more than he could bear. But mitigated, one basket at a time, with restful intervals be tween them, he would be used to it by the time he got all of them. And sending him in three ships is safer, anyway, on account of wrecks and storms. " "I don't like the idea, father. If I were his father it would be dreadful to have him coming in that that " "On the installment' plan," suggested Hawkins, gravely, and proud of being able to help. "Yes dreadful to have him coming in that incoherent way. There would be the strain of suspene upon me all the time. To have so depressing a thing as a funeral im pending, delayed, waiting, unaccom plished" "Oh, no, my child," said the Earl, reas suringly, tnere woula be nothing or that kind; so old a gentleman could not endure a lone-drawn suspense like that. There will be three funerals." Lady Bossmore looked up in surprise, and raid: 'How Is that going to make it easier for hin:? It's a total mistake, to my mind, fie ought to be buried all at once; I'm sure of It." "I should think so, too," said Hawkins. "And certainly I should," said the daughter. "Von are all wrong," said the Earl. "Tou will Eee it yourselves, if you think. Only one of those baskets has cot him in it." "Verv well, then," said Lady Bossmore, "the thing is perfectly simple bury that one." "Certainly, "said Ladv Gwendolen. "But it is not simple," said the Earl, "because we do not know which basket he is in. "We know he is one of them, but that is all we do know. Vou see now, I reckon, that I was right; it takes three funerals; there is no other way." "And three graves and three monuments and three inscriptions?" asked the daughter. "Well yes to do it right. That is what I should da" "It could not be done so, father. Each of the inscriptions would give the same name find the same facts and say he was under rarh and all of these monuments, and that' would not answer at all. The Earl nestled uncomfortably in hli chair. "Xo," he said, "that is an objection. That is a serious objection. I see no way ont." There was a general silence for a while. Then Hawkins said: "It seems to me that if we mixed the three ramifications together " The Earl grasped him by the hand and shook it gratefully. "It solves the whole promlem," he said. "One Ehip, one funeral, one grave, one monument it is admirably conceived. It 3oes you henor. Major Hawkins, it has re lieved me cf a most painful embarrassment and Mistress, and it will save that poor, stricken, old father much suffering. Yes, he shall go over in one basket." "When?" asked thewife. "To-morrow immediatelr, of ooursa." "I would wait, Mulberry."" "Wait? Why?" "I'ou don't want to break that childless old man's heart." "God knows I don't!" 'Then wait till he sends for his son's re mains. If you do that you will never have to give him the last and shapest pain a parent can know I mean the certaintv that his son is dead. Eor he will never send." "Why won't he?" "Because to send and find ont the truth ould rob him of the one precious thing left him, the uncertainty, the dim hope that maybe, after all, his boy escaped, and he will see him n;ain some dav." 'Whv, Polly.lhe'll know by the papers that he was burnt up." "He won't let himself believe the papers. He'll argue against anything and every thing that proves his Eo'n is dead, and he Till keep that up and live on it, and on nothing else, till he dies. But if the re mains should actually come, and be put be - fore that poor old dim-hoping soul "Oh, my God, they never shall! Polly, you've saved me from a crime, and I'll bless you for it always. "Sow we know what to no. We'll place them reverently away, and he shall never know. CHAPTEB X The young Lord Berkeley, with the fresh air of freedom in his nostrils, was feeling invincibly strong for his new career; and yet and yet if the light should prove a "very, very hard one at first, very discour aging, very taxing on nntoughened moral sinews, he might in some weak moment want to retreat. "Sot likely, of course, but possibly that might happen. And so, on the whole, it might be pardonable caution to burn his bridges behind him. Oh, with out doubt. He must not stop with adver tising for the owner of that money, but must put it where he could not borrow from it himself meantime, under stress of circum stances. So he went downtown and put in his advertisement, then went to a bank and handed in the J500 for deposit. "What name?" He hesitated and colored a little; he had forgotten to make a selection. He now brought out the first one that suggested itself: "Howard Tracy." When he was gone the clerks, marveling, said: "The cowboy blushed." The first step was accomplished. The money was still under his command and at his disposal, but the next step would dis pose of that difficulty. He went to another bank and drew upon the first bank for the 5500 by check. The monev was collected and deposited a second time to the credit of .Howard Tracy. He was asked to leave a fevr samples ot his signature, which he did. Then he went away, once more proud and of perfect courage, saying: "Jfo help for me now, for henceforth I couldn't draw that money without identifi cation, and that has becomelegally impossi ble 2Jo resources o ln.ll back on. It is work or slarve from now to the end. I am ready and not afraidl" Then he sent this cablegram to his rather: "Escaped unhurt from burning hotel. Have taken fictitious name. Goodby." During the evening, while he was wander ing about in one of the outlying districts of the city, he came across a small brick church, with a bill posted there with these words printed on it: "Mechanics' Club debate. All Invited." He saw people, apparently mainly of the working class, entering the place and he "illowed and took his seat. It was a hnm- "ittle church, quite bare as to ornamen- n. It had painted pews without cush- ions, and no pulpit, properly speaking, but it had a platform. On the platform sat the chairman, and by his side sat a man who held a manuscript in his hand, and had the waitine look of one who is going to perform the principal part. The church was soon filled with a quiet and orderly congregation of decently dressed and modest people. This is what the chairman said: "The essayist for this evening is an old member of our club whom you all know, Mr. Parker assistant editor of the Datty Democrat The subject of the essay is the "American Press," and he willuse as his text a couple of paragraphs taken from Mr, Matthew Arnold's new book. He asks me to read these texts for him. The first is as follows: Goethe says somewhere that "the thrill of awe," that Is to say, reverence, Is the best tbinz humanity lias. Mr. Arnold's other paragraph Is as fol lows: I should say that If one were searchinfor the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of respect, one could not do better than take the American news papers. Mr. Parker rose and bowed, and was re ceived with warm applause. He then began to read in a good, round, resonant voice, with clear enunciation and careful attention to his pauses and emphases. His points wore received with approval as he went on. The essayist took the position that the most important fnnction of a public journal in any country was the propagating of na tional feeling and pride in the national Our At the WorleincmaCt Meeting. name the keeping the people "In love with their country and its institutions, and shielded from the allurements of alien and inimical systems." He sketched the man ner in which the reverent Turkish or Bus sian fulfilled this function the one assisted by the prevalent "discipline of respect" for the bastinado, the other lor Siberia. Con tinuing, he said: The chief function of an English Journal Is that of all otherjournals the world over; It must keep the public eye fixed admiringly upon certain things, and keep it diligently diverted from certain others. For instance It must keep the public eye fixed admiringly upon the dories of England, a processional splendor stretching its receding lino down the hazy vistas of time, with the mellowed lights of 1,000 years clin ting from its banners; and it must keep it diligently diverted from the fact that all these dories were for the enrichment and aggrandizement of the pet- leaanaprivnegeuiew, atcosc 01 tne oiooa and sweat and poverty of the unconsidered masses who achieved them but might not enter in and partake of them. It must keep the public eye fixed In loving and awful reverence upon the throne as asacred thing, and diligently divert it from the fact that no throne was ever set up by the unhampered vote of a majority of any nation, and that hence no throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, living from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbonesof that kindred industry which differs from royalty only business-wise merely as retail differs from wholesale. It must keep the citizen's eye fixed in reverent docility upon that curious invention of machine politics, an established church, and upon that bald con tradiction of common justice, a hereditary nobility, and diligently divert it from the fact that the one damns him if he doesn't wear its collar, and robs him under the gentle name of taxation whether he wears it or not, and the other pets all the honors while he does all the work.- The essayist thought that Mr. Arnold, with his trained eye and intelligent observa tion, ought to have perceived that the very quality which he so regretfully missed from our press respectfulness, reverence was exactly the thing which would make our press useless to us if it had it rob it of the very thing which differentiates it from all other journalism in the world, and makes it distinctively and preciously American, its frank and cheerful irreverence being by all odds the most valuable of all its qualities. "For its mission overlooked bv Mr. Ar nold is to stand guard over a nation's lib erties, not its humbugs and shams." He thought that if during 50 years the institu tions of the Old World could be exposed to the fire of a flaunting and Ecoffing press like ours, "monarchy and its attendant crimes would disappear from Christendom." Mon archists might doubt this; then "why not persuade the Czar to give it a trial in Bus sis?" Concluding, he said: , Well, the charce is, that our press has but littlo of that Old World qnality, reverence. Let us be candidly grateta! that it is so. With its limited reverence it at least reveres the things which this nation reveres, as a rule, and that is sufficient; what other peo ple revere is fairly and properly matter of light importance to us. Oar press does not reverence kings, it does not reverence eo called nobilities, it does not reverence estab lished ecclesiastical slaveries, it does not reverence law which rob a younger son to fatten an elder one, it does not reverence any fraud or sham or iii'.ainy, howsoever old or rotten or noiy, wnicn sets one citizen above his neighbor by accident of birth; it does not reverence any law or custom, how soever old or decayed or sacred, which shuts against the best man in tho land the best place in the land, and the divine right to Frove property and go up and occupy it. n the sense of the poet Goethe that meek idolator of provincial three-carat royalty and nobility our press is certainly bank rupt in the "thrill of awe" otherwise rever ence; reverence for nickel plate and brum magem. Let us sincerely hope that tills fact will remain a fact forever; for, to my mind, a disciiminatine Irreverence is tho creator and protector of human liberty even as the other thing is the creator, nurse and stead fast protector of all lorms of human slavery, bodily and mental. Tracy said to himself,- almost shonted to himself, "I'm glad I came to this country. I was right. I was right to seek out a land where such healthy principles and theories are in men's hearts and minds. Think of the innumerable slaveries imposed by mis placed reverence! How well he brought that out, and how true it is. There's mani festly prodigious force in reverence. If vou can get a man to reverence your ideals, he's your slave. -Oh, yes, in all the ages the peo ple of Europe have been diligently taught to avoid reasoning abont the shams of mon archy and nobility, been taught to avoid ex amining tnem, Deen taught to reverence them, and now as a natural result to rever ence them is second nature. In order to shock them it is-sufucient to inject a thought of the opposite kind into their dull minds. Por azes any expression of so-called irrever ence from their lips has been sin and crime. The sham and swindle of all this is apparent the moment one reflects that he is himself the only legitimately qualified judge of what is entitled to reverence and what is not Come, I hadn't thought of that before. but it is true, absolutely true. What right has Goethe, what right has Arnold, what right has any dictionary to define the word irreverence ibr me? What their ideals are is nothing to me. So long as I reverence my own ideals mv whole duty is done, and I commit no profanation if I laughat theirs. I may scoff at other people's ideals as much as I want to. It is my right and my privi lege. If o man has any right to deny it." Tracy was expecting to hear tha essay de bated, but this did not happen. The chair man said, by war of explanation: "I would say, for the information of the strangers present here, that in accordance with our custom, the subject of this meet ing will be debated at the next meeting of the club. This is in order to enable our members to prepare what they may wish to say upon the subject with pen and paper, for we are mainly mechanics, and not ac PffW t- - s-- r zljl j --- , 8 customed to peaking. We are obliged to write down what wo desire to say." Many brief papers were now read, and several off-hand speeches made in discussion of the essay read at the last meeting of the club, which had been a laudation by Bome visiting professor of college culture, and. the grand results flowing from it to the na tion. One of the papers was read by a man approaching middle age, who said he hadn't had a college education, that he had got his education in a printing office, and had grad uated from there into the patent office, where he had been a clerk now for a great many years. Then he continued to this effect: The esayist contrasted the America of to-day with the America of bygone times, and certainly the result is the exhibition of a mighty progress. But I think he a little overrated tho college-culture share In. the production of that result. It can no doubt bo easily shown that the colleges have con tributed the intellectual part of thjs prog ress, and that that part is vast but that the material progress lias been immeasurably vaster! think you will concede. Now I have the been looking over a list of inventors creators or this amazing material develop ment and I find that they were not college bred men. Of course, there are exceptions like Prof. Henry, of Princeton, tho inventor of Mr. Morse's system of telegraphy but these exceptions are few. It Is not over statement to say that the imagination-stunning material development of this country, the only century worth living in since time itself was invented, is the creation of men not college-bred. We think we see what these inventors have done: no. we see only the visible vast frontage of their work; be hind it is their far vaster work, and it is in visible to the careless glance. They have reconstructed this nation made it over, that is and metaphorically speaking, have multiplied its numbers al most beyond the power of figures to express. I will explain what I mean. What constitutes the populatioh of a land? Merely tho numerable packages of meat and Dones in it cauea by courtesy men ana 'women? Shall a million ounces of brass and & million ounces of gold be held to be or the same value? Take a truer standard the measure of a man's contributing capacity to his time and his people the work he can do and then number the population of this country to-day, as multiplied by what n man enn do now, more than his grandfather could do. By this standard of measurement this nation, two or three generations ago, consisted of mere cripples, paralytics, dead men. as compared with the men of to-day. In 1840 our population was 17,000,000. By way or rude, bnt striking illustration let ns consider, for argument's sake that four of these millions consisted of aged people, little children and other incapables, and that the remaining 13,000,000 were divided and employed as follows: Ginners of cotton 2,000.000 Stocking knitters (women) 6,000 000 Thread spinners (women) 2,000,000 Screw makers. ., CC0.000 Reapers, binders, etc 400000 Corn shelters 1,000,000 iveavers tu,uuu Stitchers of shoe soles 1,000 Now the deductions which I am going to appen-1 to these figures may sound extrava gant, bnt they are not. I take tbem from miscellaneous documents No. 50, second ses sion Forty-fifth Congress, and they are offi cial and trntwortby. To-day tho work of those 2,000,000 cotton ginners is done by 2,000 men; that or the 6,000.030 stocking knitters is done by.000 boys; that of the 2,000,000 thread spinners is done by 1,000 girls; that of the 600,090 screw makers in done by 500 girls; that of the 400,000 reapers, binders, etc., is done by 4.000 boys: that ol the 1,000,000 corn shell ers is done by 7,600 men; that of the 40,000 cavers Is done by 1,200 men, and that of the 1,000 stitchers or shoe soles is dono bv six men. To bunch the figures, 17,000 persons to-day do the above work, whereas 50 years ago it would have taken 13 000,003 or persona to do it. Xow then, how many of tnatignor ant race-rour fathers and grandfathers with their isnorant methods, would it take to do our work to-day. It would take 4O,t)O0.OO0,OP0 100 times tho swarming population of China 29 times the present population of the globe. Ton look around yon and seo a nation of 60,000,000 appar ently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eye, Is the true popu lation of this republic, and it numbers 40, 000 000,000! It is the stupendous creation of thoe humble, unlettered, un college-bred in ventorsall honor to their name. "How grandthatisl" said Tracy, as he wended homeward, "What a civilization it is, and what prodigious results these arel and brought about almost wholly by com mon men; not by Oxford-trained aristocrats, but men who stnnd shoulder to shoulder in the humble ranks of life and earn the bread that they cat. Again, I'm gla'd I came. I have found a country at last where one may start fair, and, breast to breast with his fellow-man, rise by his own efforts, and be something in the world and be proud of that something; not be something created by an ancestor 300 years ago. 7b be Continued Nex Sunday. HOW TO MAKE BBEAD. 4. Formula From Mrs. X.wtus Known Bo Well to Chautauqua Devotees, rwalTTEN rOB THE DISPATCH. After 20 years' practical experience In handling dough, I have no hesitancy in say ing that for making bread of the choicest quality bread that is sweet, nutty-flavored and nutritious there is no simpler, easier or better method than the one I follow, This is the formula; To each pint of lukewarm wetting, com posed of sweet milk and water mixed in equal proportions, I add half a teaspoonful of salt and a half-ounce cake of some relia ble compressed yeast, thoroughly dissolved in a little cold water, and stir in flour with a wooden spoon until a dougha is formed of sufficient consistency to be lifted in a mass from the mixing bowl to the molding board, where I work in flour until it be comes smooth and elastic and ceases to stick to the fingers or the moldiDg board. I then put the dough into a warm, well greased earthern bowl, brush lightly with melted butter, cover with a bread towel and blanket, and set to rise for three honrs, or until light, when I form it into loaves or rolls, put in greased pans, brush and cover as before and set to rise for an hour, or until light. Put these loaves in an overt whose tem perature is about 380, or in which a spoon ful'of flour will brown nicclv in two minntM and when thoroughly baked take them fr,om the oven, remove from the pans, and place in such position as will expose the'greatest amount of surface to the fresh air and al low any gas or steam that may be in them to escape, and thus prevent their sweating and becoming soft Bough that is made with good flour and yeast and mixed and kept at a temperature of 7G which is the correct temperature for perfect bread making will almost invari ably become light in amass in three hours after being set to rise the first time, and in loaves in one hour after being set to rise the second time; and will usually be ready to bake in four hours from the time the yeast is mixed with the flour. A loaf of bread weighing from a pound and a quarter to a pound and a half, to be thoroughly baked, requires to remain in the oven when at the proper temperature from 45 to 60 minutes. I never use sugar or grease in bread, as they both 'detract from the quality and flavor, but people who persist in having their bread and rolls "shortened" with'but ter or lard, stated approximately, as one measure of wetting and three and one-half or three and three-quarters measures of flour, and a pint of wetting, which weighs a pound, is usually sufficient to make dough enough for two loaves of bread that will weigh from a pound and a quarter to a round and a half each, according to the brand of flour used. Emma P. Uwino. GOIIiri DOWN OH A BEEL. A Pocket Fire Ejcjpo That May Salt People WlthLoU ofjferre. A fire escape, which is said to justify the faith of those who have had the courage to test it, consists of a metallic tape a quarter of an inch wide, and a thirty-second of an inch thick, running on a steel reel which is fastened to a web belt that passes around the waist The reel is provided with a brake, whereby the person using it can con trol the speed of his descent There .is also an automatic brake to keep the required tension on the tape, and thus prevent a sud den drop. The end of the tape is provided with a thumb screw, which can be fastened to the" window sill or to -any object in the room. The device is in appearance like a fisher man's reel, and is about twice the size of a bpool of thread. HEIRS TO CROWNS. Changes in the Thrones of Europe a Lot of Deatha Would Bring. A BUSSIAN MIGHT BULE ENGLAND. Echlenrig-Holstein Might Ee Beisstated Should Wilhelm Die. AIJSTBIA HAB TWO TEEI BAD HUES rwarrrxx to tits dispjltcs.1 HE death of Prince Albert VictorofWales invests the question ot suc cession to the English crown, and, incident ally, that of the heirship to the various mon archies of 'Eu rope with an unprecedented interest Sailor Princes have always been popular in Eng land, the maritime traditions of the country favoring the cultivation of such a sentiment The late Prince Albert Victor developed early a fancy for a career of arms. Equally decided was the desire of Prince George to adopt a sailor's life. Each had his way, but the sailor's choice was sufficient to insure him the greater popularity. At the age of 14 years Prince George, ac companied by his elder brother, started on, a voyage which was to include the circuit Prince George of England. of the globe. After a three years' cruise on board the Bacchante the royal brothers re tnrnedhome in 1882. Thenceforth they de voted themselves to their respective pro fessions. Prince George's aptitude for sea manship was marked. In March, 1890, he received command of Her Majesty's ship Thrush. The Montreal Story of Scandal. While attached to the North Atlantic squadron he visited Canada, and for a time the anglomauiacs of New York were flut tered over the rumor that he intended to visit us. The story of his alleged midnight adventure while ashore in Montreal excited a wide interest This was apparently a re porter's "yarn" of the most aggravated type. Public feeling in the Dominion be came aroused, and the prosecution of the 'journalist who, it is claimed, invented the whole tale and caused it to be published and disseminated quickly ensued. Prince George was promoted to the rank of commander in Her Majesty's fleet in Au- fust of last year. In the following Novem er his serious illness, resulting from an at tack of enteric fever, created a feeling of wide concern among the Queen's subjects. He is now 23 and would be eligible to wield the scepter of the Guelphs should the as sumption of that exalted station at any mo ment devolve upon him. Should Prince George meet with his brother's untimely fate there is no contingent danger to be apv prehended to the Hanoverian succession. Were he also to die, his father, the Prince of Wales, could be directly succeeded by his daughter, the Duchess of Fife. Upon the' failure of this her two younger sisters could either of tbem follow. A Russian on England's Throne. Next in the line of succession Is the Duke of Edinburgh and his children. As he is married to a Bussian princess, sister of the Czar, it fate should decree that any one of his children comes to the throne the curi ous spectacle might one day be presented of an English Ring or Queen, as the case might be, halt Briton and half Romanoff, defending India against the hordes of the Czar. Perhaps even this anachronism would, in The Czarewitch of Russia. the eyes of many of the English nobility, be preferable to the succession of the Duchess of Fife, an event that would make her husband Prince Consort, because the peers of England could never become recon ciled so the political and socia.1 influence which would thus be wielded by the Duff" family, coupled with the probable invasion of the-precincts of the English court by an entire clan of canny Caledonian retainers, who, to use the words of Labouohere. "would afford Londoners the pleasure of watching a host of Scotch Presbyterians hopping around with bare legs." Trlnce Imperial of Germany. Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Emit von Hohenzollern, Prince Imperial of Ger many, was born May 6, 1882, and is, there fore, now nearly 10 years old. He and his younger brother, Eitel-Fritz, are two of the most remarkable specimens of Teutonic in fantile sturdiness that can be found in the length and breadth of the Fatherland. 1 It tTOulil be hard to say which is the more popular with the masses, both being cun ning, playful little fellows, and as demo cratic as their parents and tutors will allow them to be. When they are sent out for an airing in the park at 'Pottsdam, the two royal youngsters are very affable to the by standers and seize every opportunity that presents itself ot invitingjuvenile onlookers to join in their innocent diversions. I well remember when in Pottsdam two or three years ago enjoying the sight of these little scions of the imperial houe romping unre strainedly over the greensward with the children of the -local bourgeois residents, totally oblivions of the fact that so deep, a social chasm separated them. Thn Empress of the Empire. Prince Wilhelm and his ever growing army of brothers and sisters owe their ro bustness entirely to their mother, a thorough type of the German housewife a large blonde with a tendency to obesity. She is the daughter of that poor little Prince of Anguitenburg, on whose pretensions to the raw &,-mi y - fis ducal throne of Schleswig-Holstein Prussia and Austria, in 1861, put an abrupt quietus by invading the Duchies and finally annex ing them. To compensate the "unfortunate princelet for this blow to his aspirations, the old Emperor Wilhelm, subsequently ar ranged a match between the former's daugh ter and hii own grandson. There are some wiseacres who claim to know that the pres ent Empress of Germany has not forgiven Prussia for the effacement of the Augusten burg family as a reigning house, and that if a son of her's should some day become Em- W1 ' Prince WOhelm of Germany. peror she will use her influence to bring about the re-establishment of the dncal dynasty in the two provinces. The Grand Duke Nicholas, eldest son of Alexander IIL and. Czarewitch of the great north land, will one day, if all goes well, be the autocrat of All the'Eussias. His comparatively recent cruise 'nroand the world, during which the notable incident near Yokohama occurred, when he was at tacked by the fanatic Japanese policeman and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the latter, is still fresh in the recollection of most people. Like his father, the Czarewitch has al ways evinced a strong, attachment for his mother's home at Fredensborg, near Copen hagen. It was there that Alexander wooed and won his bride, the sister ot the Priness of Wales and aunt of Prince George of England. She had been previously en gaged to his elder brother Nicholas, heir to the throne, but the sudden death of that un fortunate yountj man in Nice abruptly terminated their courtship. One is here prompted to ask the question whether Prince George of England will follow the Czar's example and wed his brother's be reaved fiancee. The Czar Is a Great Wrestler. .Bome of the Czarewitch's happiest' hours are passed at the Castle of Fredensborg. The present Czar, who is known to be a man of superhuman strength, also loves no place better. When there he unbends his austere and guarded demeanor, and, free from ap prehension of bombs and Nihilists, engages m friendly jousts with his brother-in-law and Ins sons, none of whom has ever suc ceeded in throwing him in a wrestlins m.itcli. The Czarewitcli was born May 6. 1869, and is six years past the limit of the legal age for accession to the throne. The law of Ilussia provides that the eldest son of the Emperor shall attain his majority at 16. Should any untoward event interfere with his tenure of life he has several younger brothers to step into his place A strange story of Prince Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, whose suicidal act threw the presumptive succession to the crown Duke of Naples, of Italy. into the lap of his cousin, Francis Ferdinand Charles Louis Mary of Kite, will not soon be forgotten. The latter is considered a char acterless, insignificant personage. He is one of those men who seem to combine in their own personality all tlio inferior qualities of their race without any of the redeeming ones. ' The Saccpssion in Italy. Italy Is more fortunate in the possession of an heir apparent who has already gained for himself the respect of foreign nations and tlfe confidence of his own people. The kingdom created more than a quarter of a. century ago by tho statesman-like genius of Count Cavour, aided and furthered by the kingly qualities of his royal masterVictor Emmanuel, will gain no unworthy ruler when, in the course of events, tho grandson of that monarch is called to the throne. It was neither Mazzini nor Garibaldi who laid tho foundations of Italian unity. Sardinia supplied the nucleus of the present king dom. Tliei eiroynl sway was based unon the truest nnd surest foundation a people's will and when the good time arrived which made it possible for Italy to become a united nation the monarchy of Piedmont wns extended over tho entire land amid the acclamation of a people. Physically and mentally Victor Emmanuel Ferdinand Maria Genaro, Prince of Naples, Is worthy of his station and bids fair to eclipse the traditions of his house. He is muster of several languages, nnd editions of the national poet Dante have been dedicated to him. Widely traveled and characterized by all the broadness of vision which travel produces in a man of parts, this Piince is universally respected and beloved. His per son Is handsome and bis presence command ing, he having inherited all the grace and beauty of his mother, the lovoly Princess Margnerita, of tho House of Savoy. Brother of the Prlncs of Wales, Prince Frederick of Denmark, son of King Christian nnd brother to the Princess of Wales, is heir to the throne of that country. He Is no longer young, having been born June 3, 1843. By his wile. Princess Louisa, daughter o'KIng Carl XV of Sweden, he has a son 23 years old, who will succeed in the event of his fathers death. The United Kingdom of Sweden and Nor way, now ruled by King Oscar II. has for its heir apparent Prince Gustav Adolph, Duke of Scania, who was born November 11. 1882. He is the great grandson of Napoleon I's great general, juarsiim .uernaaotte. The failure of issue to the marriage of King Charles or Boumania and Carmen SyJva necessitated the selection of an heir to the throne. The King's JHnisters fixed Archduke Prancis Ferdinand of Austria. upon Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, whose recent love aflair with the Queen of Konmania's maid oUionor, Mile. Vacaresco. decided the Ministers to recommend her dismissal, which, .after much negotiation, was consonted to by her royal mlstie9s. It has since been rumored that Ferdinand has become reconciled to Vacaresco and that the affair is by no means "off." Belgium recently lost her heir apparent In the person of Prince Balrtwinson of the Count of Flanders and nephew of King Leo f)Old. Tho dead youth's younger brotheiv ion ever, has stepped Into his shoes. Both Holland and Spain, having infant monarchs, are practically without heirs apparent, although many candidates wonld present themselves should either Queen Wilbelmlna or King Alfonso pass to the great majority. -VltnUlTt GBnUYZDOCT. lf?l- DOUBTS OF ST. JOHN. The Question That Ho Asked Arose from His Disappointment. AN EXPERIENCE EVERY HAN HAS. How the Teacher of Galilee Answered hy Means of Good "Works. THE CREDBKTIALS OF CHBISTlAfflTT proiTOtn ron Tint dispatch. I "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." Jesus, when He said that, stood face to face with two of the worst miseries of hu manity misery of mind and misery of body. On the one hand was a group of men who had asked a question, a crucial ques tion. "Art Thou He that should' come?" they wanted to know, "or do we look for another?" You see how that question touches the foundation of Christianity. The supreme factthat differences the Christian religion from all the other religions of history is the fact of the life and character of Jesus. The essential assertion of Christianity is the assertion that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed He that should come, and that we need look for no other. That question set a donbt upon the central article of the Christian creed. These men were unbelievers. On the other hand was a considerable company of people, some of them blind, some of them lame, some lepers, some deaf, some mourning the dead, all of them, probably, poor. These people represented pain and poverty. Two Great Problems of the Say. We have no greater problems In the world to-day than the problem of doubt and the problem of poverty. These two great questions, like the enigma of the sphynx, demand solution. And we must somehow answer tbem, or pay a fearful penalty. Doubt threatens the Church, poverty threatens the State. Jesus Christ stood face to face with both of the problems, and answered them in the words that I have quoted. The unbelief, in this instance, came from John the Baptist These doubters were messengers of his, and that great quejtion was his question. Even the forerunner had fallen from the faith. Much of this unbe lief of John's was due, no doubt, to physi cal conditions. John was in prison. He was shut up in a black fortress of Herod's over in Moab, on the borders of the Dead. Sea. That imprisonment itself, John felt naturally enough, meant the real end of all his wort Those great walls which shut out the sun and the sky, stood straight across the path of the prophet's future. Thus Jar was he to go, "and no farther. Jesus was to increase, and he was to de crease John had already accepted that But this meant failure. The Cause of St. John's Doubt. It seemed, no doubt, to John, as it seemed in the old days to Elijah, that his life had been in vain. And he wondered, perhaps, if it had not all been a tragic mistake even from the beginning. Had he, after all, been the forerunner of the Messiah? This man of Nazareth, was He reallv the Holy One of Israel? Was He the Christ, or do we look for another? And all tfiat depression was deepened by John's bodily weakness. No man resorted to that frowning prison for his health. Whoever was shut up in one of those damp cells lost more than liberty; he lost health with it. The chances are that John was sick. That was the beginning of it His body was out of order, nnd that set his mind out of order. First disease, then de pression, and then doubt Almost every body knows how that is. A great deal of unbelief is not the real voice of the man. We are greatly troubled, we are in a morbid and weak condition of body, and we seem to be getting every day farther away from God; the sky gets black over our heads, p'ayer becomes only a formality, and faith seems to be dying. But the real trouble is that we are not ourselves. We are like one of those blind people who stood that day bv the side of Jesus' and could not see His face. He was there, and God's beautiful bright world was there also, hut these jnen were blind. Pretty soon they got better, and saw clearly. Faith Dependent Upon Health. What we need when we fall into this kind of unbelief is not the parson but the doctor. It is not theology we need, but medicine. The best plan is to realize the conditions; to recognize the fact that even the spirit in this life depends upon the body! and that what is really the matter with us is not lack of faith bnt lack of health, and so to use the right remedies, if one can end tbem, and to get out into the pure air and to regain our strength. We will find that strength of faith will return nith it Some of this unbelief of John's may have been due not so much to depression as to disappointment John the Baptist was a man whose life was devoted to one single purpose. His business was to prepare the wav for the Messiah. That great ideal hero and deliverer, toward whose coming the hope's of the Hebrew people had been turned for centuries, had at last come. And it was appointed to John to find him and make htm known. Naturally, during these yearshat he had spent solitary in the desert, he had meditated upon the charac ter and work of the Messiah day after day. He had elaborated his ideal of the Christ He had made up his mind what sort of a be ing He woujd be. Han Not Beached His Ideal. And then, when the real Christ was set beside this ideal Christ of John's, John may have been disappointed. Some how Jesus of Nazareth disappointed al most everybody's preconceived idea. The whole Jewish nation was anticipating quite another character of Christ Tbey'were grievously disappointed, so much so that they rejected Jcsns altogether. But it is quite possible that nobody was more dis-1 appointed man John the .Baptist For onr ideals are little more than our selves mirrored, and bettered, and magni fied. The ideal Messiah, as John had im agined him, was a great, emphasized, bettered and perfected John. John the Baptist, to take onlr one il lustration, was preeminently the teacher ot repentance. The fact in human life on which he.dwelt was the fearful fact of sin. He urged all men to instant decis ion tor or against uod. And to quicken that decision he preached the dreadful pen alties ol Sin, taught the wrath of the right eons God, and pictured the agonies of hell. ,If he could have had his way he would have turned the whole tf orld into a great univer sal revival meeting. And when Jesus came, speaking quietly and gently, not making any great stir in society, preaching the gos pel of growth, teaching the love ot God, aqd emphasizing the fatherhood more than the judgeship of God, John was disappointed. Why Ho Asked the Question. Could it be possible that Jesus of Nazar eth was the Messiah for whose cominir he had been sent o prepare the way? The question turned itself over and over in his mind there in the solitude of his- prison. "Art thou He that should come or do we look for another?" Or perhaps John was like Judas, and was in a hurrv, wanted the kingdom ol God to come right off, looked every day for some sudden spectacular manifestation of the Messiahship of Jesus, and looked vainly; and so from disappointment passed to doubt Anyway, we are most of usable to ympa thize with John. A great deal of the un belielf that we meet in the streets, and that we experience in our own hearts to-dayf grows just as John's did, out of disappoint ment There are thousands of people who are disappointed, may we not say, in God. They- hart aa idea of God. God ia the superlative of which they themselves are the positive, 'If I were God," they say or think, "O what a revolution I would set a going down here in this misguided worldl There would be an instant end to all op pression. Whoever raised his hand to strike an unjust blow, lightning out of the clear sky should smite him. There would be a sadden ceasing of all sorrow. No more pain, no more death all crying should be done away. All the good people should have all the good health and all the good money, while doubt should be made im possible by the writing of the creed of God in great letters of cloud and fire across the blank page of the sky." People Generally Are Disappointed. And because God does not do that, does not manage the afJairs of the universe quite as we would, (seeing, possibly, the reasons for things somewhat deeper and better than we do) people coming into contact with some of the more tragic phases of Goo'j deal ings with men are most grievously disap pointed. Nobody, I think, will deny that People are disappointed in Uod. Ana be cause they cannot understand Him, they fall into doubt, as John did. And they wonder sometimes, if in such a mismanaged universe, ns they conceive of it there is any God at all But the trouble in the case of John the Baptist was altogether with John. If John did not understand Jesus, and was disap appointcd in Him, that we tee very clearly was John's fault And it may be our fault, also, or our ignorance, when we are in the same way disappointed in God, and fall to questioning and doubting God. Whether the cause was depression or dis appointment, John the Baptist had fallen into doubt And somehow getting commu nication in his prison with some of his dis ciples, he sent them to Jesus asking this question about His Messiahship. And Jesus, confronted with this group of ques tioners and doubters, proceeded at once to answer them, not by any argument, not by any assertion, but "by the witness of His works; The Answer of Good Works. He set these men from John at His right hand and bade them look and listen; and then He went on doing what He was always doing, and saying what He was always say ing; and after a little while, turning to this company of unbelie vrs, He told them sim ply to tell John what they had seen and heard; to go home and think about the actual experience of that hour with Jesus and to tell John. "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." That was the answer that Jesus gave to the representatives of doubt. The Church of Christ stands to-day just where Christ stood. On the one hand is unbelief, and on the other is pain and poverty. Men are comjng constantly with that old, crucial question: "Art thou He thatshould come ordo we look for another?" That question touches, as J said, the very heart of Christianity. The finality of Jesus of Nazareth, the supremicy of Jesus of Nazareth, the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth this is what men are asking about to-day. They want to know if the Christian religion is the final, the supreme, the divine religion, or shall we somewhere else look for another? What are the gronnds for accepting and be lieving Christianity? What are the cre dentials of Christianity? The Answer That Convlnerg. And the answer to this question, if we are to return an answer thatshali be per 'suasive and convincing, must be not an ar gument, not an assertion, but such a sight as Jesus showed. Men must see our good worksj then we may expect tbem to glorify our Divine Master, nnd our Father which is in heaven. The credentials of Christianity are not creeds but deeds. Wherever the Christian religion has ceased to be helpful, men have ceased to believe in it; and rightly, because there it has ceased to be Christian. But wherever Christianity has been able to bid men look, as Jesus did, and see the sorrows of the world comforted, and the wounds of the world bound up, and the good news of the gospel carried, with light and hope in it, to the hearts of the poor, there the church has won allegiance, and will always win allegiance. If we desire to minister to the misery of doubt, and to do it in the Master's way, we must begin by ministering to the miseries of pain and poverty. Jesus Christ, standing between these two great problems of our age, solved the one by solving the other. He addressed himself to the bettering and uplifting of the poor. And the blessed works that He did made nil the answer that He gave, orneededto give, to the difficulties of the doubters. Geokge Hodges. THE SEAKDfNG AT HAEVAEB. Final Test of the Candidate for Admission to the Dickey. A great deal has been said of late about branding in the D. K. H. Society at Har vard. The candi date is put through all manner of tom A foolery, and the final test is brand- fling, ile is often advised to paint ;lhis arm from shoul- Mder to elbow thick ftfly with tincture of 7 iodine, so that the V burn will not hurt. And it is not infre quent that this ad vice is taken. As practiced now at Harvard, six brands are made with a lighted cigar. The "victim" is blind folded, his arm bared, and a fresh ly lighted cigar pressed against the arm till the cigar goes out. This is repeated six times, and the result is six little scars, which those who have them wear as ba'lges of honor able distinction un til they forget all about them. Mem bers of the boat The Brand. crew and football teant are not burned, for sometimes these burns are sore for a little while, and mieht interfere with training and the rough work of the football field. There seems to be no doubt that in the last few years the process of initiation has undergone some slizht chances. Men who were at Harvard between 1870 and '80, and who were then Dickeys, say that there was never any actual burning of the arm, ex cept by accident, and such accidents did not happen once in SO times. A POET SHAKES AN EUPEE03. Quiet WItBron;ht Illm a Thousand Crowns After Patient Waiting. Harper's Young People. There is a story told ot a poor Greek poet who lived in Bome at the time of the Em peror Augustus. It shows us that wit often succeeds were merit fails. The poet was anxious to gain favor with the Emperor. Every .morning he waited at the palace door, and as the Emperor passed out, the poet presented him with a verse or an enieram which he had composed. The Emperor accepted the poetry, but never paid the pcor poet anything. Indeed, his presumption rather amused the Emperor, and being one day in a merry humor he wrote a verse himself, and handed it gravely to the poet, who waited for him as usual at the gate. The poet, with ready wit, pulled out his purse and emptied the two or three coppers it contained into the Emperor's hand. "Ah," he cried, "there should be more, but I give you of my ability. If I were as rich as you, great Czcsar; I would pay a much greater price for verses." And' it is'pleasant to be told that the Em peror thought the joke worth a thousand crowni) Yk -. win W-wVv.a ..Mi Mm lnJMi mi fit m Pi PEOSE OF ASTRONOMY. Kot Much Poetiy About Watching the Moon 24 Hours at a Stretch. THEY DO THAT AT GREENWICH. . A Good Physical Constitution Is Kecesjary to the Observers. A CLOCK THAT BEGULATES EirdLATO f conitisrosDEci or titi DisrATCn.1 IiOJfDOjr, Jan. It An old sailor swung open the heavy iron gate in the massive wall surrounding the Greenwich observatory. At that same moment, as it happened to be noon, the huge, black ball, "rhich is hoisted io a poie Dy means or electricity at stated hours every day, fell down, announcing 13 o'clock to all the vessels and small crafts on the Thames a signal for which they keep a close lookout I was then led through the well kept park with its elm and chestnut trees, some of which are old enough to have shaded the promenades of good Queen Bess, and passed a hundred feet deep, dry well with a spiral stairs leading to the bottom, which was used in former times to watch the stars during daylight Tame fawn were playing on tha lawns and approached ns confidently. Tha observatory, a picturesque building, lay on a fir clad hill. I entered the study of tha "astronomer royal." The walls and tables were covered with charts, plans, photo graphs of the moon, comets, eta People generally have a very poetical idea of the study of astronomy and it surprised me not a little to find the director such a matter of fact looking man, with much resemblance to a bookkeeper. . What tho Observatory It Tor. "We here in Greenwich are less theoret ical ?han in most observatories," observed my guide. "We leave the observation of telescopic circnmpolar, double stars to others. We want practical results. Great Britain being the first naval power in thi world, we endeavor to aid her with all tha scientific knowledge which the develop ment of navigation demands. The variety of astronomical observation has Increased to such an extent that it has become neces sary for most observatories to devote thnr- selves to one or two special studies. And our ambition to occupy ourselves exclusively with determining the position of the standard star and the planets, has gained us universal admiration." "Do vou know who founded this observ atory?" I queried. "Difficult to tell. Christopher Wren, the architect, suggested to Charless TI. tn build an observatorv in Greenwich. Tha King indorsed the idea and furnished the mean's, selecting Flamsteed who was always propagating such institutions." "How many employes are at work hire?" "One chief assistant, 8 assistants and a statTof 6 to 8 computers, a number of vol unteers and other servants. One nautical almanac is always printed in advance, so that captains gning on a long voyage, can procure them beforehand. Catching a Star by Telegraph. Then we entered the room of the meridian circles. One of the assistants was lying on an armenair with movable back, looking steadily into the huge telescope and now and then pressing an ivory button. "He telegraphs with the button to tha chronographic room whenever astar appears on the point under the observation and when it faa3 finished its transit." explained the assistant. "Here in Greenwich we prida ourselves of being tbe best in all the branches of astronomy which demand most elaborate calculation, fineness of instru ment and careful observation. We pro gress in a strictly military way. We are used to discipline like soldiers." "What hours do these watchmen keep?" was my next question. 'Twenty-four hours." "How?" I asked,, believing I bad nol heard aright "Twenty-four hours, from 3 one morning to the same hour the following morning, and in some clear winter night3 the star have to be watched from 10 to 12 hours with the naked eye which is a still greater strain." It must evidently be a very prosaic occn pation. The assistant seemed to delight in my astonishment and, with the purpose of increasing it, explained: Physical Qualities of Astronomers. And you have no idea what physical ability is necessary for an astronomer. Ha needs, for instance, a mechanical instinct that can count the fractions of a second. We are used to such extremely strict watching here in Greenwich, that we ask fecli other: How large is your personal equation? wishing to be come acqnainted with the rapidity of our ocular senses, for some eyes sea an object suddenly nppearinir on a whlta surface much quicker, one-fourtn of a second or more than others. We adjourned to tha equatorial refractor room. It contains tha most practical in struments, one might ay, that astronomers use. It reveals even to the layman soma of tbe celestial my-Ceries. It serves particu larly to watch eclipses. The colossal tole scope. of which tho lenses, 13 inches thiclr, alone costs $7,500. rests on a revolv ing tower, and, though welching ton?, can be handled by one man. A winding staircase leads us to tbe most highly situated apartment, where the posi tions of the moon are determined, which are of moro help to a captain who considers himself lost in a storm, to advance his Ion itutional calculations than anything else. The altazimuth rests on a stone column built up from the cellar. Xobody was occu pied in the room with the bell-shaped coil ing, as such observations are only made at night, bnt it Is also tho only placo wbera worJc U done on Snndays. Watching: the 3Ioon Poreyer. - It is tbe most trying part of astronomical works, the observer belns continually ox posed to the glare of the moonlight, es pecially on November nights, when tbe gusts or unfriendly west winds cause him to shiver with cold. And the argos eyes which watch the moon, know not a moment's rest: but it Is this persistent work, yenr in, year out, that has made tho observatory famous' for following the motions of the moon with as little interrnptiona as possible, both In and outside the meridian, xet, in spite of It all, Luna is their lavorlte. Tho employes spoke of her as of a human being. Sue has h. face. Is youn-r or old according to tho days whlcn have passed since her birth, I. e., new the way to the basement wo entered the chronometer room. Hundred of chronometers stood side by side and their rates tested under different temperatures. A number of chronometers wero "passing the lines" in a baking oven heated by gas to a temperature of 31 Reau mur. They wero all ordered for tropical Journeys and had to be tested whether they could stand the heat "Sow we come to tho clock accordinr to which all clocks in Great Britain are set." Tho standard motor clock Is divided into 21 hours, and It Is very queer for a visitor to notice the tlme-half-past 16 o'clock or 19 minute3 past.20 o'clock. . The chronograplilo apparatus is a clock work, marking every second on an endless slip or paper, and whenever a standard star makes its transit or the moon crossed the meridian, tho Ivory button upstair Js pressed and the needle pricks a hole in the paper- Every evening at 10 o'clock the paper Is removed. Before shaking hands I had the oppor tunity of seeing the magnotical department; built, entirely or wood, even to tho nails, anil also the nhntrmTftnhli rimm-tmitnt vtith 4.- It.- -?- J ? i .-- - IMSUUW WXUUUWS. G. A. T. A Good Point or tho Theaterphone. New York Times. The theaterphone experiment recently tried in London met with some success. It 'is expected that perplexed hostesses will soon be able to oflfer their guests at an "at home" the novelty of a theatrical perform ance without visible actors, scenery or aev cessories. The general public will welcome if introduction if some of the fashionably andnoisr theater nartln m.iv thn fV I place outside the theater- J. .&: gftWgTTyliVTlgral Y-wtd ? 9 m m'j f v
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