Eamsszz3zszsMaWWmim?ap. ffJ5WWWea!3B5B33i f SSBSSSWPlSiSf "llSi-J 5S??y "'SsrW", W$!in? ' J"3 """Ty3"r""""'S"";v fT- T7'iK'!i 'lP, 7"M5f nrP , THE PITTSBURG--- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MARCH. 6. ,1.892: wou.. a sufficient one. I've never heard of the Ydsa before." "Vou seem to prefer pinks. Is it on ac count of the color or ti'e forta?" "Oh, no," he said simply, "they are given to me 1 don't think 1 have anv prefer ence." .. "They are given to him," she said to her self, and she felt a coldness toward that pink. "I wonder who it is and what she. is like." The flower began to take up a jrood deal of room. It obtruded itself every where, it intercepted all Jews and marred them; it was becominc exceedingly annoy ing and conspicuous for a little thin?. "I wonder if he cares for her?" That thought gave her quite a definite pain. ohc had made everything comfortable lor the artist; there was "no further pretest tor staling So she said she would go now, and asked him to summon the servants in case he snould need anything. She went away unhappy, andshe left unhappincss behind her, tor she carried away all the sunshine. The time dragged heavilvfor both now. He couldn't paint for thinking of her; she couldn't design or millinerizc with anv hi art for thinking of'liini. Xever before had painting seemed so empty to him; never before had millincrizing seemed so void ol interest to her. She had gone with out repeating that dinner invitation, an al most unendurable disappointment to him. On her part well, she was Suffering, too; for she had found she couldn't invite him. It was not hard yesterday, but it was im possible to-day. A thousand innocent privi leges seemed io have been filched from her unawares in the past 24 hours. To-day sh"c felt strangely hampered, restrained to her liberty. To-day she couldn't propose to herself to do anything 01 say anything con ctrning this young man without being in stantly paralyzed into nonaction by the feartbat he might "suspect." Invite him to dinner to-day? It made her shiver to think of it And so her afternoon was one long fret, broken at intervals. Three times she had to go downstairs on errands that is, she thought she had to go ilslltf? r.-i- &jJ-' . Time -Dragged Heavily for Them. downstairs on errands. Thus, going and coming, she had six glimpses ot him, in the aggregate, without seeming to look in his direction; and she tried to endure these electric ecstacics without showing any sign, but they fluttered her up a good deal, and she lph that the .naturalness she was putting on was overdone end quite too frantically sober ami Hysterically calm to deceive. The piinter had his -.hare of the rapture. He l.iil his sit glimpses, and they smote him with waves of pleasure that assaulted him, brat upon him, washed over nim dcliciously and drowned out all consciousness ot what he was doing with his brush. So there were six places in his canvas which had to be done ocr acain. At lat Gwendolen got some peace of muni bv ending word to the Thompsons, in the neighborhood, that vhc was coming th- re to dinner. She wouldn't be reminded, at that tallc, that there was an absentee who ought to be a presentee a word which she meant to look out in the dictionary at a calmer lime. About this lime the old carl dropped in for a chat with the artist, and invited him to stay to dinner. Tracy cramped down his jo at'd gratitude by a .sudden and powerful eiercise ot all his forces, and he lelt that now that he was going to be close to Gwen dolen and hear her voice and watch her face during 1scveral precious hours, earth had nothing valuable to add to his life, lor the present. Tne Earl said to himself, 'This specter csm eat apple, apparently. We shall find, ou', now. if that is a specialty. I think, mvself that it's a specialty. Apples, with out doubt, constitute the spectral limit. It vas the case w ith our first parents. Xo, I am wrong at least only partly right. The line wav drawn at apples, just .as in the present case, hut it was from the other di rection." The new, clothes gave him a thrill of pleasure and pride. He said to ltnuvelf, "I've got part ot l.im down to date, anyway." bellers said he was pleased with Tracy's work, and he went on and engaged him to restore his old masteis, atid said he should sKo want him to paint hi: portrait and his wile', and po.sibly his daughter's The tide ot the attist's happiness was at flood now. The chat flowed pleasantly along while Tracy painted and Sellers carefully unpacked apkturc which he had brought with him. It was a chromo, a new one, just out. It was smirkiug, selt-atisficd por trait ol a man who was inundating the I'mon with advertisements inviting every body to buy his specialty, which was a $3 rhoe or a dress suit or something of that kind. The old gentleman rested the enromo flat upon his lap and gazed down tenderly upon it, and became silent and Meditative, Presently Tracy noticed that he was dripping tears on it This touched the youus lellow's sympathetic nature, and bt the same time gave him the painful Fcnse of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. But his pity rose superior to other considerations and compelled him to try to comfort the old mourner with kindly "words and a show of lnendly interest. He said: "I am ery sorry is it a friend whom " "Ah, more than that, far more than that a relative, the dearest I had on earth, although I was never permitted to see him. Yes, it is young Lord Berkeley, who per ished so heroically in the awful con 11 a why, what is the matter?" "Oh, nothing, nothing. It was a little startling to be so suddenly brought face to face, so to speak, with a person one has heard so much talk about. Is it a good likeness?" "Without doubt, yes. I never saw him, hut you can easily see the resemblance to )ii- "lather," said Sellers, holding up the chromo and glancing from it to the chromo misrepresenting the usurping earl and back again w ith an approving eye. "Well, no, I am not sure that 1 make out the likeness. It is plain that the usurping earl has there a great deal of character and a long lace like a horse's whereas his heir here is smirky, moon-faced and character less." "We are all that way in the beginning all the line," said Sellers, undisturbed. "We all start at inoon-faced tools, then later -we tadpole along into horse-faced marvels of intellect and character It is by that sign and that fact that I detect the resem blance here, and know this portrait to be genuine and perfect. Yes, all our family are fools at first" "This young man seems to meet the hereditary requirement, certainly." "Yes, cs, he was a fool, without any doubt Examine the lace, the shape of the head, the expression. It's all lool, fool, loo!, straight through." "Thanks," said Tracv, involuntarily. "Thanks?" "I mean for explaining it to me. Go on, please." "As I was saying, fool is printed all over the lace. A body can even read the de tails." "What do they say?" "Well, added he, he is a wobbler." "A which?" "Wobbler. A person that's always taking a firm stand about something or other kind of a Gibraltar stand, he thinks, for unshaakble fidelity and .everlastingness and then, inside ol a little while he begins io wobble; no moie Gibraltar there; no, sir, a mighty ordinary commonplace weakling wobblinz around on stilts. That's Lord Berkeley to a dot, you can see it look at that sheep. But why, you are blushing like sunset. Dear fir, "have I unwittingly oflended in some way?" "Oh, no, indeed; no. irdeed. Far from it But it alvvays-makes'rne.blush to hcara Bin revile his o"wn blood," he said to him self. "How strangely his vagrant and tin guided fancies have Kit upon the truth. 3y accident he has described me. I. am' that contemptible thing. When T left England I thought I knew myself; I thought I was a verv Frederick the Great for resolution and staying capacity; whereas, in truth, I am just a wobbler, simply a wobbler. Well, after all, it is at least creditable to have high ideals and give birth to lofty resolu tions; I will allow myself that comfort" Then he said, aloud, "Could this sheep, as vou call him, breed a. great and self-saeri-ficin; idea in his head, do you think? Could he meditate such, a thine, for in stance, as the renunciation of the earldom and its wealth and its glories,and ivolnntary retirement to the ranks of the commonalty, there to rise by his own merit or remain forever poor and obscure?" "Could he? Why, look at him look at this simpering, self'nghteous mug. There is your answer. It's the very thing he would think of. And he would start in to doit, too." "And then?" "He'd wobble." u "And back down?" "Every time." "Is that to happen withj all my T mean would that happen to all 'his hfgh resolu tions?" "Oil, certainly, certainly. It's the Koss moreofit "Then this creature was . fortunate to die." "Suppose, for argument's sake, that I was a Rossmore, and " "It can't be done." "Why?" "Because it is not a supposahle case. To be a Kossmore at your age, you'd have to be a fool, and you're not a fool".. And you'd have to be a" wobbler, whereas anybody that is an expert id reading character can see at a glance that when you set your foot down once, it's there to stay; an earthquake can't wobble it." He added to himself. 'That's enough to aay to him, but it isn't half stron? enough for the facts. The more I observe him now, the more remarkable I find him. It is the strongest face I have ever examined. There js almost "Super human firmness here, , immovable purpose, iron steadfastness of will. A most extraor dinary young man." Hepresentlv said, aloud "Sometime I want to ask your advice about a little matter, Mr. Tracy. You see, I've got that young lord's, lemains my goodness, how you jump." "Oh, it's nothing; pray go on. You've got his remains?" "Yes" "Are you sure they are his,' and not somebody else's?" "Oh, perfectly sure. Samples, I mean. Xot all of him." "Samples?" "Yes: in baskets. Some time vou will be going home, and if you wouldn't mind taking then, along " "Who I?" "Yes, certainly. I don't mean now, but after a whilerafter but look here, would you like to see them? . "Xo; most certainly"not I don't want to see them." "Oh, very well, I only thought heyo, where are you going, dear?" "Out to dinnei, papa." Tracy was aghast The Colonel said, in a disappointed voice: "Well, I'm sorry. Shot I didn't know he was coing out, Mr. Tracy." Gwendo len's face began to take on sl sort of appre hensive what-have-I-done expression. "Three old people, to one young one well, it isn't a good team, thats"a fact" Gwen dolen's face betrayed 4a dawning hopeful ness, and she said, with a tone ot reluctance which hadn't the hall mark on it: "If you prefer I will send word "to the Thompsons that T " t "Oh, is it the Thompsons?" That simpli fies it; sets everything right We can fix it -Aithout spoiling ypur arrangements, my child. You've got your heart set qn " "But papa, r"d fust as soon go there some other " . "Xo, I won't have it. You arc a good, hard-working, darling child, and your father is not the man to disappoint you when you " , "But papa, I " "Go along, I won't hear a word. We'll get along, dear." Gwendolen was ready to cry with vexa tion. But there was nothing to do but start; which she was about to do when her father hit upon an idea which filled him with delisrht'becanse it so deftly covered all the difhculties of the situation and made things smooth and satisfactory. "I've got it, mv love, so that you won'fbe robbed of your holiday ,acd at .the same time we'll be pretty satisfactorily fixed for a good time here. "You s'end'Belle Thomp son here perfectly beautiful creature. Tracv, perfectly beautiful; I want you to see that girl; why, you'll just go mndj'you'll go mad inside of a minute; yes, you send her right along, Gwendolen, and tell her why she's gone." He turned she was already passing out at the -gate. He mut tered, "I wonder what's the matter; I don't know what her mouth's doing, but I think her shoulders are swearine." t "Well," said Sellers, blithely, to Tracy, "I shall miss her parents always miss the children as soon as they're out of sight; it's only a natural and wisely ordained partial ity but you'll be all right, because Miss ' Belle will supply the youthful element for you and to your entire content; and we old people will do our best, too. We shall have a good enough time. And you'll have a chance to get better acquainted with Ad miral Hawkins. That's a rare character. Mr. Tracy one ot the rarest and most en gaging characters the world has produced. You'll find him worth studying. I've studied him ever since he was a child, and have always found him developing. I really consider that one of the main things that has enabled me to master the difficult science of character-reading was the livid interest I always felt in that boy and the baffling inscrutabilities of his ways and in spirations." Tracy was not-beariog.a word. His spir its were gone; he was desolate. "Yes, a most wonderful Character. Con cealment that is the basis of it. Always the first thing you want to do is to find the keystone a man's character is built on then you've got it Xo misleading and ap parently inconsistent peculiarities cap fool you then. What do you read on the Sena tor's sitrlace? Simplicity; a kind of rank and protuberant simplicity; whereas, in fact, that's one of the deepest minds In the world. A perfectly honest man an abso lutelyhonest and honorable man and yet without doubt the profoundest master of dissimulation the' world has ever seen:" "O, it is devilish." This was -wrung from the unlistcning Tracy by the anguished thought of what might have been if only the dinner arrangements hadn't got mixed. "Xo, I shouldn't call it that," safd Sel lers, who was now placidly walking tip and down the room with his hands under-his coat-tails and listening to, himself talk. "One could quite properly call it devilish in another man, but not in " the Senator. Y'our term is right perfectly right I grant that but .the application " is wrong. It makes a great difierence. Yes, he is a mar velous character. I do not suppose that any other statesman ever had such a colos sal sense ot humor, combined, with the ability to totally jconceal- it I may except George Washington and Cromwell and per haps Robespierre, but I draw the line there. A deep-drawn, yard-long sigh from the distraught and " reaming artist, followed by a murmur, "Miserable, oh, miserable." ''Well, no, I shouldn't say that about it, quite. On the contrary, Ladmire his ability to conceal his humor, even more if possible thanl admire the g"jt itself, stupendous as it is." Another thing,-General Hawkins is a thinker; a keen, logieal, exhaustive, analytical thinker perhaps the ablest of modern times. That is, of course,' iipon themes suited to his size,, like the glacial period and the correlation of forces, and the evolution of the Christian from the(catter pillar any of these, things; give him a sub ject according to his size .and lust stand back and watch him think.' Why, you can see the place rock. Ah, yes, you, "must know him. Perhaps the most "extraord inary mind since Aristotle." " , To be continued next Sunday. t A'.FRIEND.OF.THE'SEX, Yho;Did So Much to: Elevate; It, . HafrJ.nst Passed Away. k ANOTHER DUCHESS FROM AMERICA. Grave -Situation r in France,- and the "Breakers in Wilhelin's Path. COMMENTS ION. KECEST HAPPENINGS Iwrittkv ror. Tin dispatch. Women everywhere owe a great deal "to Miss dough, the Principal of NewnhanY College, Cambridge, who died a few"days ago. 'She lived to see her efforts for the higher education of her-sex crowned with success. It was in October,' 1871, that -Miss' Cloiigh opened a house in Cambridge" "for the reception of young women who desired Miss Cloiigh. to attend the Uni versity lectures. Girton College had gained a foothold then, and had extorted recogni tion for girl students from the dignified dons of. the great university. But Girton was three miles from Cambridge, and this presented a disagreeable difficulty to those fair scholars who wanted to attend lectures delivered outside their own college. To remedy this Miss Clough opeued her modes t, house just outside the town. She had five students to begin with, but the number increased so rapidly tha four years later, in 1875, Miss Clough opened the first hall aVXewnhain, called South Hall. The new college, from such a humble beginning, prospered abundantly, and the throng of candidates for admission waxed so great that in rapid succession two other halls were added. The third hall was finished in 1818. Xewnham College now consists of three halls, namely, Clough Hall, named after the principal of the college; Sedgwick Hall, named .for Professor Sedgwick, who wits the first to advdeate lectures fdr women in Cambridge,' and for his wife, who was for two vears vice principal of Xewnham Col lege," and the Old Hall, which was the first built, and originally called South Hall. Xewnham i-f picturesque in architecture, and situated inthe-tnidst of old-fashioned gardens. Americans who ' have visifed Xewnham, and' it Js a favorite feature of vamonuge wiin travelers generally, may have had the exquisite pleasure ot meeting the gracious woman who presides over the college and who'has now passed to her final vacation. She had a beautiful face, crowned with hair almost as white as the lace cap which rested upon it; and her eyes dark, deeply set and lliminons were full of kindliness as well as wisdom. Those who did not meet herinhe'rown temple, may remember the picture of her. painted by -T. J. Shannon, which hangs in the College Hall, and from which ihe accompanying portrait was sketched. Royalty' Collision With Progress. . The German Kaiser's declaration of his belief in the divine right of kings last week is practically a repetition of what his grand father said 30 yeareago, when the jeweled crown of Prussia was placed upon his head. There was one essential difference in the proceedings following the delivery. In 18G1 the people shouted lustily "Amen;" in 1892 they arc inconsistent enough to digress from the main question-anjl cry for "bread" as well as kick up a "shindy" right in front of the Jung's palac. -.. The divine right of kings! How queerly that sounds! And -it was- only the other day that this same monarch expressed him self in favor of anything that represented progress, o'r was in" touch with, the advanc ing age. Perhaps the vouthfnl and alto gether too impressionable William IT.- is blinded by the career of William I., who as related above held precisely the same ideas with regard to the kinglv prerogative. However, it would- be well for the present monarch not to go too far back in search of precedents for,hi pet theory and he has be side neither a Salmasius nor a Sir Robert Filmer to ba.ck hiin up against the com bined argument and common-sense of the entire living world, while in the tombs ot England, France and his own Fatherland, the ashes of those slaughtered for maintain ing just such doctrine, cry out against it Tim Baccarat Scandal Recalled. Considering the part which Arthur Stan ley Wilson played in the almost trasic game of baccarat, wherein Sir William Gordon-Cumming wagered his honor and lost and the Prince of Wales made a world wide reputation as a professional gambler, it is singular that so little notice, has been taken of the young man's marriage to Miss Grace Filmer last week. It is singu lar, too, that this respectable ship, builder's son, vrho testified during the trial that he had been at Cambridge University for a year when he left it "because his father thought it a waste of time to remain there," has married a descendant of the redoubtable old royalist whose name is mentioned above, Sir Robert Filmer. It will be remembered that the Wilson family hasgiven substantial .proof of its attachment to the reigning house, if not in the form of pamphlets in faTor of absolute monarchy, as Filmer did in Restoration days, in. en dorsements quite as satisfactory upon royal notes. The elder Wilson fs said to have loaned the Prince a 51,000,000, or en dorsed his paper for that amount." Tne youthful Arthur is not quite so clearly entitled to Albert Edward's grati tude, lor it was he who precipitated the baccarat scandal by accusing Cumming of cheating. The Prince, however, lor the sake ot Mrs. "Wilson perhaps.twhois.still good-looking, has shown her son consider able favor, obtaining his election to the Marlborough Club, the most exclusively fashionable in London, and in otjier ways allowing the light of his royal countenance to fall'upon him. Glldlns TJp t o the Orth Pole. Dr. Fridjof Xansen, the .Norwegian savant who is the latest aspirant for Polar honors, is now mak ing arrangements in London for his de parture, which is timed to take place in January or. Fe b ruary of next year. Dr. Xansen has al ready achieved -tame as an explorer in the arctic region, and his feat of crossing the mysterious ice-coated continent oi t,reen- j. jraiwen. - land still stands unparalleled. He proposes to get at the Xorth Pole by a new route. He assumes that there is a current across the polar region running from the iforth coast ot Siberia to the east coast of Green land, and of this current he will try to take advantage. The expedition will pass through the Bering Straits and proceed north as long as there is open water, trust ing to strike simultaneously the ice and the current that beat back and baffled the ill fated Jeannette.' Dr, " Xansen de pends upon ' the current to pull him through to the open sea between Spitsbergen and Greenland. The fact that relics of the Jeanette were" fonud, three years after the foundering of that ves sel, upon the .southern coast of Greenland, together with other evidence ' of a like nature, make Dr, 'Xansen confident of the existence of such a currehL .As pr. Nan"seq fcx.pcct .to make most it the vpyage imprisoned by ice floes, the vessel in wjiich he will sail is to be built specially. for. the expedition. Strength will be the'ehief feature of the vessel, which will be about 250 tons burden. Her hull will brf of oak and an arrangement of cross beams and braces will make her hold loon like a spider's web. Her bows will be even stronger than the rest tfher.- She will be equipped with engines giving her the speed of six or seven knots and she will be also fuHjrrigged-for sailing. It is hoped to ar range her lines so that the ice will raise her above its embracoiifstead of crushing her. An vncqnqnerbte Tribe. Xeaily 2,000 years ago the Romans drove the Kabylian tribes inhabiting the Mediter ranean coasts into the mountains of the At las chain. The Romans desirednot onlyto subdue 'these people, but also to drain the country of any resources it might have to supply- the. luxury-loving citizens 'of the Eternal City. 'In- the latter .project they succeeded. When did'the, Romans fail in that respect?' Bui conquer the Kab'yles they did -not '-Instead, the proud barbari ans, knowing they were unable to cope with the mailed 'warriors, who made" fighting's business,'flcd to the inaccessible retreats of the mdunlains. . Later on they sallied forth to assail their enemies, and after a long and. bitter contest finally repulsed the Roman power. '. To-day these people are practically as un conquerable -as they were of old. 'The French-i Government, which now controls their territory, is having continuous trouble with .them. When first France obtained control it was by promising to respect Kabyle customs.and communal affairs. Re cently the. French have failed in that prom ise, and the result is the Kabyle tribes have risen in .revojt' i At last " accounts the French were getting considerably the rorst of it i Another Frame for American Beauty. Again rumor, has it that an American girl, a Miss Van Wart, will shortly wed "the D'uke of Norfolk. If this sort of thing keeps up most of the famous baronial halls of England will be frames for Amer ican beauty. It will be quite an achieve ment for one of our Yankee girls to oc- oupy the place once held by the famous Duchess Mary of Duchess of A'orf oik. Norfolk, she who has been described as having been "gifted with areat talents, easy and dignified in her njanners and singularly insinuating." Duch ess Marv took an active part in the politics of her time, and to prove that she had influ ence and ability," itis only necessary to turn back to the chronicles of the time. Her home was a sort of general rendezvous for all parties. Many of the createst men of the dav frequented it and there came Fred erick, Prince of Wales, with his Princess when they quarreled with George IL, and there in o"ld Norfolk House was born the future King, George III. The house of .Norfolk stands next to the blood royal of England. The Duke is the Earl-Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The .family name' is Howard, and has a llueage running back to the Con quest. The first duke was killed with his master at Bosworth field. Arundel Castle, the ancestral home, is one of the largest and oldest structures of the kinjl in the country. It is mentioned as a manor in King Alfred'sr will That monarch once made it his royal residence. Many famous historical incidents have taken place within its walls. A Bad Whisky Conflagration. I think it was Harrigan, the comedian, who used to play a little afterpiece called "Bad Whisky,'' or some such suggestive if not euphonious title. In it an Irishman came home to his wife intoxicated not an unusual condition for him, so it is inti mated and the play treats humorously the troublous experiences of the couple. The Keely cure being as yet uninvented, the "wife tries physical force as a specific for her man's bad habit. This fail ing of success, she tries moral suasion as only a woman, and particularly an Irish woman, can. "Blarney" intermingled with soft-spoken reasoning. One of the most ef fective arguments took the form of a story. Well I remember the laughter that story produced at the time, although the chief provocation seemed to he its utter ab surdity, or, at least, it appeared absurd. It was to this effect: A mac well known to the wife, so she said, had been in the habit of drinking to such excess that he was fairly soaked with 'liquor. One nigh; he came home in the usual state, tumbled into bed and fell asleep. After some time he awoke again and discovered a burning candle on a, table near the bed, which he should have extinguished. ""Reaching out he takes the candle in his hand, places it.near his mouth and blows a mighty blast upon it Imme diately, and you ought to have heard this spoken with a brogue, "the flame of the candle caught fire wid Dinny's breath, spon taneous combustion ensued and the poor man was burned to a crishp." Now, in a discussion of this very subject among European scientists it is admitted as possible, that the body of a person addicted to the use of spirituous liquors might be consumed under just such circumstances as were suggested in this seemingly ridiculous drama. Thus again does the old adage: "There's many a truth spoken in jest," prove its force. France on the Verge of a Crisis. There is no doubt that affairs in France are now in bad shape. The trouble Presi dent Carnot. experi enced in getting a Cabinet together,and the almost utter lack of confidence in the one he has arranged with so much dfficul ty, indicate only too clearly how narrow the line is that sepa rates the country from a crisis. De Freyci- net, Ribot .and Ron- M. Constant. yier, who remain in the Cabinet, are tall powerful statesmen, but this man Loubet, who is given the Premiership, has never given any indication . of extraordinary abil ity, and experiments "are dangerous at such a juncture. -. Bat the strongest indication of future complications is that M. Constans, who is generally, considered one of the foremost figures in France, is compelled through cir cumstances to Temain out of the Ministry. The very man who has been credited with knowing how to guide the ship of State re moved lrom. his .position, and an absolute bar raised to prevent his return, and a Chamber ot Deputies racked with dissen sion and ripe for dissolution, show that the Gravity ot the French situation can hardly e overestimated. W. G. Kaufmans. The Noise or Electric Can. -By a new invention of Mr. John Chris tiansen, of Quiney, Mass., in the driving mechanism attached to such motors as have heretofore been nsed, most of the noise of electric street cars is prevented says the Electric Iiailicay Advertiser. All the wheels are driven simultaneously by one small mo tor. The wbeels'of the car"liaye serrated rims, so that ice.and snow are no obstacles. A car equipped-wiih his apparatus has been operated ou the Quiney road durine the recent snow and ice period with remarkable success.. - t A-Soothing Reply. New York Fresi.3 Irate Customer (in a restaurant) I've been waiting here half an hour. Waiter Half an hour! -I've. been wait ing'here two years. B? BsUB WmMJXFmv Tff-' KEEPING -HOLT XENT; It-Is aji-rie of Religions Drill to De? Telopthe Christian. . FASTING . HAS ITS TURP.0SES. Assists' the Memory and the Will inbjngates the Tody. and nOW PRAIEK .BECOMES PERFUNCTORY twnirrnx for tok nrsrTCH.' The apostles had beeu trying to cast out a devil, and had failed. Jesus was telling them the reason of their failure. "This kind,"ihe said, "can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting." The lesson is that anyone who would do spiritual tasks must have spiritual strength; and that spiritual strength, like any other kind of 'strength, comes by exercise. The apostles had been taking too much for granted. "They supposed that their com panionship with Jesus would of itself make them spiritually strong. And when the father came to them while the Master was up' on the mountain, and brought his de moniac boy for them to heal, they at once undertook to heal him. But thev failed. They failed, as 'any man who has been liv ing an ordinary, quiet life, without much experience, will fail to lift a heavy weight That sort of n ork needs training. Whoever will do it must give 'special attention to himself The apostles had not been taking cnoueh spiritnal exercise. That was what was the matter with them. As Jesus said, they had not been praying enough, nor fast ing"enough. . The Cmtlnc Oat ot Devils. It is the business .of every one of us to cast out devil". All reform, all betterment, is an exorcising of the devil. In the early churches they had a regular official in every congregation who was called the exorcist, and who cast out devils every Sunday morn ing. But we ought a"l of us to be exorcists, casting ont devils every day in the' week out of ourselves first. We often wonder, like the apostles, why it is that we make so-little headway in this Christian, fight. The world is still a bad world, in spite of eighteen centuries and more of Christian preaching. The city di rectory is crowded with the names ot heathen. the daily papers arc daily records of the triumphs of the devil. The devil is not cast out ot the world of business; the devil is not cast out of the world of society; the devil is not even cast out of our own Christian hearts. And we wonder why. We come to Christ, sometimes in despair, asking the apostles' question, Why could not we cast him out? And the Lord's answer is the same rieht here between the two rivers as it was off there ,-t the foot of the mountain: "This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting." An Extraordinary Drill Needed. That is, what we need is more attention to spiritual exercne. We go on like the apostles, taking things for gramc We imagine that our common decent living, daily praying and weekly church-soing will give us all the spiritual training that we need. But that is .v mistake. We need something special. We need to put our selves under some sort of, extraordinary drill. We need to devote ourselves some times, in an unusual way, to pr.i) er aud fasting. Of course I am thinking "about Lent. It seems to me that we have here the real reason lot kecpinc Lent If we are no better than the apostles, if we find it just as hard to cast out devils as they did, if we had the same spiritual needs that tbey had, then here is our opportunity. For Lent is a season of prayer and fasting. I know that Lent is commended to us by its venerable antiquity, and by its position, in the prayer hook; but we keep it for a more practical and vital reason than either ot these be cause it helps us and we need it One of the good things about Lent is that it does not last all the vear round. If, it did it would probably be neglected alto gether. And it would certainly lose a large part of its value. We ought, indeed, to try every year to lilt up our ordinary lives a little closer to the key of these extraor dinary weeks. The Lents ought To Make a Spiritual Lidder, climbing step by step, and year by year, toward the better realization of heaven. But the great thing about Lent is its usual ness. It comes with a message, with a re minder, with a word from God. It stops us as we go about our business; it arrests our attention it makes us think. And before it grows to be such a familiar presence that we no longer heed it, it is gone. The truth is that human nature needs the unusual. There is no use 'talking about Keepipg bunrtny crery day in the week. That will, indeed, be the arrangement of the almanac of heaven. But the conditions will be somewhat different then. Just now, made is we are, set under limitations of hu manity, we need the interruption of Sun day. To take out this unusual day in be lief that thus we would keep a holy week is to imagine a contradictiod of experience. It is evident in the lives of most people who are privately leaving Sunday out, who put away the ancient customs of that relig ious festival, who stay away from church, tljat the result is spiritual degeneration. Inevitably, in due course of time, they leave God and the soul out The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches crowd in fast enough' even upon those who make wise use ot all the spiritual opportu nities there are. The Constant Tend-ncv Downward. Human life is all the time in peril of becoming secularized. A thousand influ ences are forever tugging at us to pull us down. All growth is a victory over degen eration, and a victory that is won only by an effort. The easiest kind'of life for a man to live is the life of an animal, to eat and sleep and play. It is a good deal hard er to live in the plane above that to think, to cultivate the mind. Every busy man and woman knows bow the daily drudgery of life makes intellectual existence difficult. But the hardest kind of life to live is the spiritual life, in which we learn to listen to the still voice of conscience, aud draw near to God, and fill our minds with the greatest thoughts that man can think, and keep our souls within reach of the influences that make toward spiritual growth. Every Christian knows what a fight it is to live that life. The slightest relaxation of effort lets us down toward one of the lower planes. When we stop we drop. And so we need all the help that we can get, all the reminding voices, all the days with messages, all' the unusual seasons of devotion with their salutary interruption and their blessed inspirations, all the Sun days and all the saints' days and all the Lents of the Christiamcalen'dar They help us to put the emphasis where we ought to put it, and , to think the thquchts that we ought to think. - They eive us spiritual strength to cast out the persistent devil Test for Keeplnc It Kl;htly. There are two 'ways of keeping Leqt, a right way and a wrong way. It is easy enough to see the' difference If our Lent helps us, if we can feel and know that we are better for it, we have kept it in the right way. For that is the purpose bf this religious season to get help. Not to go a certain number of times every week to church, not to stay away from the theater, not to abstain from certain'articlcs of food these matters are all on the outside, they are but the distant fringes of the outer gar ment of Lent. The heart of Lent is the need of help, the need of spiritual help, and thedesire to be helped. Any kind of Lent that helps us'is a right Lent What we all want to do is to keep Lent in ihe right way. We will be likely to get help out of Lent in proportion to the denniteness ot our pur pose. 'There are few things so pernicious in religion as generality. We make some sort of general resolve that we will be inde finitely better. And we imagine that we are treading Satan under foot. We' might as well imagine that we are treading under foot ihe -Whole State of Pennsylvania. We persuade ourselves that we are matinc an assault upon the allied armies of the world, the flesh,ar.d the devil while really we' are only plfinni.ig such an attack as a corporal's zuard mtcht make tinon a front of battle a hundred miles in length. - -A Fact .About Good Itolutlons. And more than this, we never get beyondi the resolution. We never do anything at all.i Indefinite good resolutions-are noth ing .hut castles in 'the air. Thev have no standing on the maps of the kingdom of heaven. Npbody ever built. a real castle out.ofa good resolution without an accom paniment of plans and specifications. That is, a good resolution, to amount to any thing, must be definite. It must enter into particulars. - Lent is a-time to train ourselves into new spiritual strength by the religious exercises ofjirayer and fasting. The .words "and fasting" are omittfd in the Berised, version, as tneyare in. man v ancient manuscripts and in the lives of many modern Christians. There is .no doubt, however, about the fasts- of Jesus Christ. Whether he said- Snything just here about fasting or nor, matters very lit tle. He did say something about it in the Sermon on the Mount and in other places, and in the good example of his own life. Jesus was not an ascetic We know that very welL He came "eating and drinking" even to the scandal of sortie severe .re ligionists' who could not. think ot real sanctity apart from a long face and A Pair of Hollow Cheeks. We make a mistake, however, if we' think that .Jesus discountenanced fasting. The only kind of fasting that he disapproved of was a failing for the sake of a reputation for religion. And that is no more to be thought of as ' real fasting than the revolu tions of a prayer-wheel are to be accounted as real prayer. That is-a most subtle form of self-indulgence. . . Xo; fasting is a part bf the" Christian re ligion. It is one ot the recognized and recommended helps to holy living. It is one of those exereises in the 'training of a good Christian which have been actually proved by long 'experience to be of avail for spiritual strength. After all, the real reason for fasting is like the real reason for keeping' Lent; we need it For think of the advantages of fasting. Yes; the spiritual advantages ot literal fast ing, of abstaining from certain articles of food. Fasting is good for reminder, good for drill and good tor emphasis. The. Beneflc of Fatting. Fasting helps the memory. We cannot well forget, if we are put in mind of it three times a day, that this is Lent That does not ot itself insure, of conrse, a holy Lent, but it does avail to keep the season in our thoughts. And that is the beginning of all right observance. Fasting helps the will It is an exercise in saying "no." That is the hardest word in the English language to pronounce. We need practice in it" Fasting gives us an op portunity to practice. Of course, these Lenten self-denials do not often touch those great temptations in which wc must say no, or sutler for it; for the most part we give up thing? that are entirely barmUs'. Yet they have, after all, quite as much to do with real sins as the rowing weights in a gymna sium have to do with real water,' or as the military maneuvers of the parade ground have to do with real war. Fasting gives us drill in saying "no." Every good Lent makes us better Christian soldiers. Fasting helps us toward a better empha sizing of ourlivei. It keeps the body un der tor the sake of ihe soul. We need that Christian living ought not to be a giving up of the bad for the sake of the good. There is nothing essentially Christian abont that. The most ordinary '.ideals of decent exist ence demand that Christianity .builds up on that foundation the structure of a life in which the prevailing principle is the giving up of even the good for the sake of the bet ter. Christianity emphasizes the best. It sets the soul emphatically first rIIn; for a Definite Purpose. The most profitable fasting is that which says not "no," but "yes." That is, we get the most good out of a Lent in which we have fasted for the sake, of some kind of positive good. Suppose, that fasting from food can save money which we mar be able to use for the benefit of our brothers and sis ters who have to keep Lent all the year round. The advantage of that fasting is evident enough. Let ns live more simply; for six weeks, at least, let ns cut down the expenses of our tables; and the money that is saved let us apply to the evening up of the inequalities of our modern life. Give it to the poor. Or suppose that another form of our ab stinence is a withdrawal from social gaity. For six weeks, at least, we will not go to a party or to a play. That is of little spirit ual advantage unless the time thus saved is put to religious uses. Yes; and the money, too. If you want to spend a good, con sistent, genuine, and profitable Lent, add up the amounts that you spent since the middle of January tor theater tickets, for carriages, for flowers, for party dresses, for the kitchen and the caterer, and set that much religiously aside this Lent to be used in making this" hard life a little brighter and easier for some less favored brothers and sisters of yours. The Other Eissntlal of Lent. Xo one,! think, will deny that this is a good, sensible, and Christian way to fast Do not leave fastins out of your Lenten resolutions. The other essential of a.holy Lent is prayer. It ought not to be neces sary to say so much about that. And yet it must be confessed that we are'in too much ot a hurry nowadays to say our prayers. The morning paper has become -a general substitute for the family Bible. The daily work tends more and -more to crowd out the daily worship. How is it in your house about family prayers? That is one of the signs of the religions consecration of the home. And it is one of the sacramental signs that are real means of grace. It brings religious consecration with it It helps to sanctify the daily round of common life. It helps to make a Christian habitation some thing more than a lodging house, where peo ple eat and sleep. Lent is a good time to emphasize this helpful custom of family prayers. f Lent is a good time to emphasize prayer. And we all need to have prayer emphasized. It lapses so easily into conventionality, and Ices the heart out of it. The words that we say in the service, the words we say when we kneel down in onr rooms, are so often only words, golden bowls empty ot incense. We need to take more time and more thought We need to get more ot our selves into our prayers. Prayer is com munion with God. It is a drawing con sciously near to God, And we need it "This "kind cometh not forth but by prayer." Wnat kind? Any kind. Who ever would cast out any sort nr devils must sircngmcu juuiyeii uy uie tpiruuai ejtcrcisu of prayer. Georcje Hodges. MIHIATDEB MOXIHTAIH BARGES. Novel Experlm-nt In Geology Ileloc Hade by Government Sharps. The Governmcntfrock sharps arc Engaged just now in building imitation mountains, for the" purpose of studying the way in which the eternal hills were formed by the crumpling due to the contraction of the earth's crust. They are built of wax, hardened or softened1 by mixing it with other substances, so that it shall resemble in cousistency the brittle rocks near the sur face of the earth or the plastic rocks which are in that condition because of the great pressure that exists even at depths of only two or three miles, as the case may be. The mixture is cast in layers of giveh'thickness bv meltiug and flowing it in wooden trough. When each layer has hardened, it is taken out, and a number ot layers thus made are superimposed one upon the other like layers ot jelly cake, representing geological strata. The next process is to place the layers i a machine, piling shot on top of them to represent the force" of gravity, after whieh pressure is applied from the ends very slowly by a piston advanced with a screw". This causes them to crumple up, and under the artificial contraction they are fouad to take precisely the forms of mountain ranges like the Allegheniei. POMP OF THE DEJD 1 t , That Lie in the Fairest Cemetery of "the Western Hemisphere. TOMBS THAT ABE LIKE PALACES. Montevideo's Great Theater and the World's Richest Hospital THE SERVICE AT TUB FOSTOPFlCE rconRisponDEvcr or ma disfatcii.v Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan. 29. - XE of the sights of Montevideo which the traveler must not miss is the "Ce mentario. Central," of principal ceme tery, situated a long way from the citT's busy center, near its south beach, within sound of the mur muring sea. Though its natural beauties are not so ereat as those of Greenwood, Mount Auburn, Spring Grove, and many other cities of the dead in the United States, and though a few tombs in each of the latter may equal any of these in point of elezance, yet, taken as a whole, there is nowhere in XortlKAmerica such an aggregate display of wealth in any one burial ground such luxurious inter ment ot dust to. dust as here. This is by all odds the finest in South America. It has-a monumental entrance and a very costly and elaborate chapel, which aloue represent the expenditure of a 51,000,000. The chapel IiJ3 an ornamental dome, floors and inner walls of purest marble, a beauti ful alabaster altar,candelabraand ornaments of gold and silver, and a basement of equal elegance wherein some of the more illus ions dead, such as Bishops and Presi dents are interred. Itoso or Marble-Fhc-rt Vaults The cemetery i3 divided into three sec tions and surrounded by walls 25 feet high, being a continuous sries of vaults.one above another, each vault having an opening just large enough to let in a casket. Each of the innumerable little niches is fronted by a marble tablet bearing in letters of blaek or gold the names of those whose mortal re mains were deposited inside. So precisely alike are all of them, save the slight differ ence in lettering, that if it be true spooks walk abroad at "the witching hour when graveyards yawn," it must be as perplexing for each to find his especial niche again as for the occupants of those endless rows of red brick houses with marble steps, alike as so many peas in a pod, that characterize certain streets in 'Philadelphia and Xew York, to distinguish their own doors when coming late from club or caucus in the be fuddled condition that sometimes confuses shoebuttoners with latchkeys. To reach the upper cells.coflins are wound up by means of a portable stepladder and elevator combined a creaking aDparatus that swings and jolts and bumps the cadaver about in a shocking manner, while the pall bearers skip up the ladder to receive it and shove it fnto the narrow receptacle. The whole surface of the walls is garlanded with fresh flowers and hung with wreaths of im mortelles aud decorations made of black and white beads, and long streamers, of rib bon, all of which show to the best advant age against the white marble facing. Kot a Continuous Resting Place. But, alas! As everywhere else in Span ish America, the vaults are not owned ab solutely by families, but are rented for a term of years, or for as Ions a time as the friends continue to pay a stipulated amount per annum; so that the helpless dead are not sure of a "long home," however much display of wealth may be made at the time of interment In case the family move away, or die without having left provision in their wills concerning the grave for all time to come, or from failure to pay the rent from anr cause, the remains are evicted and dropped into the common pit and the vault rented to other comers The ground floor, so to speak, of the vast cemetery Is fully occupied with "private or family vaults (owned, not rented), all of them very costly and elaborate, crowded close tog'ether with narrow, well-paved streets between. Such an array of splendid monuments, and exquisite works of art, done by the sculptors of Kome and Milan, may perhaps be equaled in some European cemeteries, but certainly nowhere else in the Western world. The vaults are all built up from the ground, of marble or alabaster, bake-oven shape or in the form of temples, and most of them have plate-glass doors back of the gilded gates of open wrought iron, plainly showing the interior. The inner walls are covered with pictures and other adornments, profusely decorated with flowers in costly vases, and everywhere are crucifixes and burning candles. A V-tintlns That Servs a Fnrpose. I noticed several tombs furnished like parlors,' with carpeted floors and upholstered furniture; and in one was & startling oil painting of the Blessed Virgin, seated on ;i raft which floated in a sea of flame, engaged in the pbilantropic work of pulling souls out ot purgatory, xne agony depicted on the faces of the poor things in torment, who are pleading for succor with uplifted arms, is warranted to haunt the most hardened for many a day; and a forcible argument in favor of Hasser, for the dead, is set forth in the Virgin's attitude, who is portrayed as watching the prayers on earth and effecting rescues accordingly. I do not imagine that Uruguayans mourn their dear departed more deeply than the. people of the other parts of South America where cemeteries are neglected. It is merely a natter of fashion; in Montevideo thestyle has gone to such extremes that not infre quently families impoverish themselves in making the irresponsible dead keep up a grewsome rivalry, vieing with one another in pious luxury and magnificence of sur roundings. Considering the crowded space, the vegetation of this cemetery is remark able. Besides the usual yews, and willows, and cypress trees, there are blossoming shrubs' of many kinds, while the multitude Brandreth's Pills No other medicine has such an enviable reputation as Brandreth's Pills. For more than sixty' years they have had the unqualified confidence of both the people and the profession. They have never failed to perform the work required of them in a safe and satisfactory manner. Being entirely vegetable and wholly composed of innocent drugs they have never done harm, and althc ugh death must finally visit us all, we believe, from long experience and thousands of leases, that life can be prolonged by the occasional use of this medicine. These pills remove all the disease producing mat terfrom the system every time a dose is taken, and since the same dose vill always produce the same effect, it stands to reason they must keep the body in a healthy state, and when man has no substance in him which will produce disease he is net susceptible toits influence. of garlands and boquets of cut flowers, con tinually renewed, burden the air with their fragrance, and the distant'voice of the sea sounds like a requiem. Tlic Great Theater of Montevideo. According to the ways of life "Front crave to gay, from lively to severe" most strangers on the route to town after a visit to the cemetery, are driven around by ths great Opera Houje Teatro Solis the pride of Montevideo. It is an enormousbuilding, with a pillared portico in front and a pair of huee oval winss, the whole covering an en tire square. One of the wings serves as a splendid wine and billiard saloon, the other contains the Xational Museum. On the second floor of the main building is a foyer of truly "magnificent distances," furnished with tables and chairs for those who wish to smoke and drink. The oval-shaped auditorium is very hand some', capable of seating 4,000 people, with five tiers of boxes decorated in reu, white, green and gold. The fourth circle is tha tazuela (gallery), reservedfor ladies alone, after the peculiar fashion of all Spanish. American countries, as well as old Spain. Xot even an Archb'shop or a dictator could sain admission to wie sacred precincts ot the cazuela; and night after night it is filled with the beauties of Montevideo, escorted thither by their hnsbands, fathers or brothers, who leave them at the door, and go away to spend the evening as they like elsewhere, or take seats in the gentlemen's gallery above, but being dead sure to-return before the close of the performance to see their ladies safely home. How a Smitten Tooth Behaved. Though men may not enter the charmed circle.no jealous rules can be rigorous enough to control the Southern propensity to flota tion, which, like murder, "will out," the more surely because of the mistaken notions oi seclusion, handed down from their Moorish ancestors, that environ aristocratic females. It is said that most of the matches of Montevideo, are made not in heaven, as the old saw goes but in this gallery, though the Jadies have no chance to extend their flirtations beyond to point of meeting eyes and telegraphic communications with fans and flowers and handkerchiefs a language natural to youth the world over, as birds know how to build- their uest3 tutliout instruction. Though a gentleman dare not speak to the fair enslaver whom he has been staring out of countenance night after night at the opera, he can follow at a respectful distance when the -author of her being hurries her home, discover where she resides, and thenceforth prance before her windows and become her shadow when she goes to church or promenades in the plaza. The mischiev ous god "laughs at locksmiths" in Uruguay as elsewhere; aud though a lover may not call upon the object of his devotion, they manage it somehow possibly with the more tagernos and success because no opportun ity is afforded for acquaintance before mar riage. A Hospital Supported by a Lottery. Another of the handsomest edifices in Urugua.'j capital is the Hospital de Cari dad, three stones high aud 300 feet long, covering more than an acre of ground and containing beds for 3J0 person". It is one of the richest hospitals in the world, and is entirely supported and maintained by a lot tery. The scheme of the lottery is as fol lows: There are seven drawings every month, the grand prize atone timebeing 5."C,000; at another, $23,000, aud at auother, S12.000. What is called a "complete" ticket (un enterito), sells for JlOingoId, and it consists of five qui'itos (filths), which mav be boueht separately at the rate of $2 each. At every drawins 12,000 complete tickets are issued, or 60,000 quintos; and there are 1,200 prizes. Should all the tickets be old they would amount to $120,000, whi'c the amount devoted to prizes would be $90,000, thus leaving to the Hospital deCaridad a clear profit of $30,000. The hospital rurs the same chances with purchasers of winning on the unsold numbers. Ihe lottery craze, like gambling, is a vice that grows upon the victims, and all Spanish-Americans, male and female, rich and poor, are addicted to it The Loteria de Caridad has a handsome building down town where its manifold business is tran acted. It reaches to the remotest parts of the Republic, and runs to Brazil and into Argentinia. Customs of the. PostoQtce. Another important institution of Monte video in which most travelers are interested is the postofiice. It occupies a rather hand some edifice built expressly for the purpose, and is tolerably well conducted, considering that it is managed by the natives, whose rule of life is the transposed axiom, "never do to-dav what can be put off until to-morrow." Among its several queer features is the open court yard into which you go to post your letter There is an opening beside the letterboxes, with the word "Inutiliza tion" painted in big letters above it; and behind the opening stands a clerk whose business it is to "inutilize" or obliterate the stamps upon letters, and'yoit must pre sent them to him before dropping them in the box. The clerk takes his own time for it, fin ishes hib conversation with some other em ploye before payinc reluctant attention to you", meanwhile smoking his cigarette; then he stares at you curiously, reads the super scription on "the letter, evidently speculat ing upon its contents, weighs it on his hand, and finally condescends to put a blotch of ink ou the big blue square of the Uruguayan stamp. rtv the way, have you ever seen the flag of Uruguay? In my opinion it is the pret tiest in the world, "next to the Stars and Stripes of "God's country," and the skv blueand white stripes of Argentinia. This is also in stripes of blue and white, with a full-rayed golden sun in the upper corner nearest the staff, where the square of stars appears in the American banner. Fakxie B. Wabd. Flxlnc Vp Imperfect Pearls. Parisian jewelers sometime ago found out a way to remove the outside, layers of the gems of the ocean, when they were not pretty, so as to reveal the beauty that was within and render them marketable at big prices. Those pearls which were found im bedded in the mother of pearl of the shell, they discovered a process for extracting, treating them afterward with acid, and ren dering them of value. In a similar fashion they transform pear shaped ones into per fect spheres. Likewise they have found means to make pearls, of any color black in a bath of nitrate of silver, or to turn them into rose color, lilac, gray or what not However, experts know how to detect all of the deceptions. - ' A l - S . ' . x . " , . " . Utfafhlr. jftJh
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