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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY. MARCH 13. 1892.
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such a thine. You couldn't expect a person
would fall in love with a waxwork; and this
one doesn't even amount to that."
He went on grieving to himself, and now
and then giving voice to his lamentations.
"It's done, oh, it's done, and there's no
help for it, no undoing the miserable busi
ness. If I had the nerve, I would kill it.
But that wouldn't do any good. She loves
it; she thinks it's genuine and authentic. If
the lost it she would grieve forit just as she
would for a real person. And wjio's to
"break it to the family! JTot I I'll die first.
Sellers is the best human being I ever knew
and I wouldn't auy more think of oh, dear,
why it'll break his heart when he finds it
out" And Pollys, too. This comes of med
dling with such infernal matters! But for
this, the creature -would still be roasting in
sheol where it belongs. How is itthat these
people don't smell the brimstone? Some
times I can't come into the same room with
him without nearly suffocating."
After awhile he broke out again:
"Well, there's one thing sure. The ma
terializing has got to stop right where it'is.
If she's got to marry a upecter.let her marry
a decent one out of the middle ages, like
this one not a cowboy and a thiet such as.
this protoplasmic tadpole's going to turn
into if Sellers keeps on lussing at it. It
costs 55,000 cash and shuts down on the In
corporated company to stop the -works at
this point, but Sally Sellers happiness is
north more than that"
He heard Sellers coming and got himself
to rights. Sellers took a seat and said:
"Weil, I've got to confess I'm a good
deal puzzled. It did certainly eat, there s
no getting around it Hot exactly eat
either, but it nibbled nibbled in an appe
titeless way, but still it nibbled, and that's
just a marvel. Xow the question is, "What
does it do with those nibblmgs? That's it
what does it do with them? My idea is
that we don't begin to know all there is to
this stupendous discovery yet But time
will show time and science. Give us a,
chance, and don't get impatient"
TIIE SHADY TIEXD
But he couldn't get Hawkins interested;
couldn't make him talk to amount to any
thing; couldn't drag him out of his depres
sion, but at last he took a turn that arrested
Hawkins attention.
"I'm coming to like him, Hawkins. He is
a person of stupendous character abso
lutely gigantic Under that placid exterior
is concealed the most dare-devil spirit that
was ever put in a man he's just a Clive
over again. Yes, I'm all admiration for
him, on account of his character, and liking
naturally follows admiration, you know.
I'm coming to like him immensely. Do
you know I haven't the heart to degrade
. such a character as that down to the burg
lar estate for inonev or for anything else,
and I've come to asfc you if you are willing
to let the reward go, and leae this poor fel
low" "Where is he?"
"Yes not bring him down to date."
Oh. there s mv band; and my heart s in
it, too'"
"I'll never forget you for this, Hawkins,"
said the old gentleman, in a voice which he
found it hard to controk "You are making
a great sacrifice for me, and one which you
can ill afford, but I'll never forget your
generosity, and if I live, you shall not
suffer for it be sure of that"
Sally Sellers immediately and vividly re
alized that she was become a new being; a
being of a far higher and worthier sort than
he had been such a little while before; an
earnest being, in place of a dreamer; and
supplied with a reason for her presence in
the world, where merely a wistful and
troubled curiosity about it had existed be
fore. So great and so comprehensive was
the change which had been wrought, that
she seemed to herself to be a real person
who had lately been a shadow; a something
which had lately been a nothing; a pur
pose, which had lately been a fancy; a fin
ished temple, with the altar-fires lit and the
voice of worship ascending, where before
had been put au architect's confusion or
arid working plans, unintelligible to the
passing eye and prophesying nothing.
"Lady" Gwendolenl The pleasantness of
that sound was all gone; it was an offense
to her ear now. She said
"There that sham belongs to the past; I
will not be called by it any more."
"I may call you simply Gwendolen? You
will allow me to drop the formalities
straightway and name you by your dear
first name without additions?"
She was dethroning the pink and replac
ing it with a rosebud.
"There that is better. I hate pink some
pinks. Indeed -v es, you are to call me by
my first name without additions that is
well, I don't mean without additions en
tirely, but "
It was as far as she could get There
was a pause; his intellect was struggling
to comprehend; presently he did man
age to catch the idea in time to sive em
barrassment all around, and he said grace
fully: "Dear Gwendolen! I may say that?"
"Yes part of it But don't kiss me
when I am talking, it makes me forget what
I was going to say. You can call me bv part
of that form, but not the Jast part Gwen
dolen is not my name."
"2ot your name?" This in a tone of
wonder and surprise.
The girl's soul was suddenly invaded by a
creepy apprehension, a quite" definite sense
of suspicion and alarm. She put his arms
away from her, looked him searchingly in
the eye, and said:
"Answer me truly, on your honor. Yon
are not seeking to marry me on account of
my rank?"
The shot almost knocked him through the
wall, he was so little prepared for it There
was something so finely grotesque about the
question and its parent suspicion, that he
stopped to wonder and admire, and thus
was he saved from laughing. Then, without
wasting precious time, he set about the task
of convincing her that he had been lured
by herself alone, and had fallen in love
with her only, not her title and position;
that he loved her with all his heart, and
could not love her more if she were a
duchess, or less it she were without home,
name or family. She watched his face
wistfully? eag'erly, hopefulIy, trans
lating his words by its expression; and.
when he had finished there was gladness in
her heart a tumultuous gladnes indeed,
though outwardly she was calm, tranquil,
even judicially austere. She prepared a
surprise for him now, calculated to put a
heavy strain upon those disinterested pro
testations of his, and thus she delivered it,
burning it away word by word as the fuse
burns down to a bombshell, and watching to
see how far the explosion would lift him.
"Listen, and do not doubt me, for I shall
speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I
am no more an earl's child than you are!"
To her joy, and secret surprise, also, it
never phased him. He was ready this time
and saw his chance. He cried out with en
thusiasm: "Thank heaven ior-that!'.' and. gathered
icr to .his arms.
To express her happinessjras almost be
yond her gift of speech.
"You make me the proudest girl in all the
earth," she said, with her head pillowed on
his shoulder. "I thought it only natural
that you should be dazzled by the title
maybe even unconsciously, you being En
glish and that you might be deceiving
yourself in thinking you only loved me,
and find you didn't love me whe nthe decep
tion was swept away; so it makes me proud
that the revelation stands for nothing, and
that yon do love just me, only me oh,
prouder than any words can tell!"
'It is only you, sweetheart, I never gave
one envying glance towards your father's
earldom. That is utterly true, dear Gwen
dolen." "There you mustn't call me that. I hate
that false name. I told you it wasn't mine.
My name is Sally Sellers or Sarah, if you
like. From this time I banish dreams,
visions, imagjuings, and will no more of
them. I am going to be myself my genu
ine self, my honest self, my natural self,
clear and clean of sham and lolly and fraud,
and worthy ot you. There is no grain of
social inequality between us: I, like
you, am poor; I, like you, am with
out position or distinction; you are a
struggling artist; I am that, too, in my
humbler way. Our bread is honest bread;
we work for" our living. Hand in hand we
will walk hence to the grave, helping each
other in all ways, living for each other,
being and remaining one in heart and pur
pose, one in hope and aspiration, insepar
able to the end. And though our place is
low, judged by the world's eye, we will
make it as high" aa the highest in the great
essentials of honest work for what we eat
and wear, and conduct above reproach. We
live in a land, let us be thankful, where this
is all-sufficient, and no man is better than
his neighbor, by the grace of God, but only
by his own merit"
Tracy tried to break in, but she stopped
him and kept the floor herself.
"I am not through yet I am going to
HAD KSTFED HER.
purge myself of the last vestiges of artific"
iality and pretense, and then start fair on
your own honest level and be worthy mate
to you thenceforth. My father honestly
thinks he is an earL "Well, leave him his
dream; it pleases him and does no one any
harm. It was the dream of his ancestors
before him. It has made fools ot the house
of Sellers for generations, and it has made
something of a fool of me, but took no deep
root I am done with it now and for good!
Forty-eight hours ago I was privately proud
of being the daughter of a pinchbeck earl,
and thought the proper mate for me must be
a man of like degree; bnt to-day oh, how
grateful I am for your love which has healed
my sick brain and restored my sanity I
could make oath that no earl's son in all the
world"
"Oh well, but but "
"Why, vou look like a person in a panic.
"What is it? "What is the matter?"
"Matter? Oh, nothing nothing. I was
only going to say" but in his flurry noth
ing occurred to him to say for a moment)
then by a lucky inspiration he thought of
something entirely sufficient for the occa
sion, and brought it out with eloquent force:
"Oh, how beautiful you are! You take my
breath away when you look like that"
It was well conceived, well timed, and
cordially delivered, and it got its reward.
"Let me see. "Where was I? Yes, my
father's earldom is pure moonshine. Look
at those dreadful things on the wall you
have, of course, supposed them to be por
traits of his ancestors, Earls of Bossmore.
"Well, they are not They are chromos of
distinguished Americans all moderns; but
he has carried them back a thousand years
by relabeling them. Andrew Jackson
there is doing what he can to be the late
American earl; 'and the newest treasure in
tha-collection is supposed to be the young
English heir I mean the idiot with the
crape' but in truth it's a shoemaker, and
not Lord Berkeley at alL "
"Are you sure?"
"Why, ot course I am. He wouldn't
look like that"
"Why?"
"Because his conduct in his last moments,
when the fire was sweeping around him,
shows that he was a man. It shows that he
was a fine, high-souled young creature."
Tracy was strongly moved, by these com
pliments, and it seemed to him that the
girl's lovely -lips took on a new loveliness
when they were delivering them. He said,
softly:
"It is a pity he could not know what a
gracious impression his behavior was going
to leave with the dearest and sweetest
stranger in the land of"
"Oh, I almost loved him! "Why, I think
of him every day. He is always floating
about in my mind."
Tracy telt that this was a httle more than
was necessary. He was conscious of the
sting of jealousy. He said:
"It is quite right to think of him at
least, now and then that is, at intervals
in perhaps au admiring way but it seems
to me that"
"Howard Tracy, are vottjealous 0f that
dead man?"
He was ashamed and at the same time
not ashamed. He was jealous and at the
same time he was not jealous. In a sense
the dead man was himself; in that case
compliments and affection lavished upou
that corpse went into his own till, and were
clear profit But in another sense the dead
man was not himself; and in that case all
compliments and affection lavished there
were wasted, and a sufficient basis for jeal
ousy. A tiff was the result of the dispute
between the two. They made it up, and
were more loving than .ever. As an affec
tionate clincher of the reconciliation, Sally
declared that she had now banished Lord
Berkeley from her mind; and added: "And,,
in order to make sure that he shall never
make tiouble between us again, I will teach
myself to detest that name and all that
have borne it, or ever shall bear it"
This inflicted another pang, and Tracy
was minded to ask her tp modify that a
little just on general principles, and as
practice in not overdoing a good thing but
thought perhaps he might better leave
things as they were and not risk bringing
on another tiff. He got away from that
particular, and sought less tender ground
lor conversation.
"I suppose you disapprove wholly of aris
tocracies and nobilities, now that you liafe
renounced your title and your father's earl
dom?" 'Keal ones? Oh, dear, no, butl've thrown
aside our sham one foe good."
This answer fell just at the right time and
just in the right place to save the poor, un
stable young man from changing His politi
cal complexion once more. He had been on
the point of beginning to totter again, but
this prop shored him up and kept him from
floundering back into democracy and re
nouncing aristocracy. So he went home
glad that he had asked the fortunate ques
tion. The girl would accept a little thing
like a genuine earldom; she was merely
prejudiced against the brummagem article.
Yes, he could have his girl and" have his
earldom, too;. that question was a tortunate
stroke.
Sally went to bed happy, too; and re
mained happy, deliriously happy,' for nearly
two hours; but at last, jnst as she was sink
ing into a contented and luxurious uncon
sciousness, the shady devil who lives and
lurks and hides and watches inside of hu
man beings, and is always waiting for a
chance to do the proprietor a malicious
damage, whispered to her soul and said:
"xnat question nau a narmiess iook, Dut
what was back of it? what was the secret
motive of it? what suggested it?"
The shady devil had knifed her, and could
retire now and take a rest; the wound
would attend to business for him. And it
did.
"Why should Howard Tracy ask that
question? If he was not marrying; her for
the sake of her rank, what should suggest
that question to him? Didn't he plainly
look gratified when she said her objections
to aristocracy had their limitations? Ab,
be is after that earldom, that gilded sham
it isn't poor me he wants.
So she argued, in auguish and tears.
Then she argued the opposite theory, but
made a weafc, poor business of it, and lost
the case. She kept the arguing up, one
side and then the other, the rest of the
night, and at last fell asleep in the dawn;
fell in the fire at dawn, one might say, for
tnat Kind ot sleep resembles nre, and one
comes out of it with his brain baked and
his physical forces fried out of him.
ITobe Continued Next Sunday.
THE H0H0RS OF MACKENZIE.
Tokens Showing Dow Royalty Appreciated
the Great Doctor's Services,
rail Mali Budget.
Sir Morell Mackenizie kept a framed
Utter on the wall oi his office. It is in
English thus:
CHAM.OTTEITBDBQ, April 1ft 1S88L
My Deab Sib Morell You were called to
me by the unanimous wish of my German
medical attendants. Not knowing you my
self. I had confidence in voir In consequence
ot their recommendation. But I soon learned
to appreciate yon from personal experience.
Tou nave rendered me most valuable serv
ices, in recognition of which, and in remem
brance of my accession to the throne, I
have the pleasure to confer on you the
ross and Star or my Royal Order of Hohen
zollern. Totrs truly, Fredeiuck.
In May, 1887, Dr. Mackenzie'was sum
nioned to Berlin to attend the Crown Prince.
On the 28th of the following August, Queen
Victoria wrote from Balmoral Castle to her
royal son-in-law:
Dear Fritz I shall have much pleasure
in conferring a knighthood on the physician
who lias rendered you and ns such great
services; for Dr. Morell Mackenzie has
indeed treated you with the greatest skill. '
The letter, from which the foregoing is
but an extract, was given to Sir Morell by
the Emperor. It is written in German, and
signed: "Always your affectionate mother,
R, V. I."
The breastpin which Sir Morell Mac
kenzie often wore belonged to the same cat
egory and had a curious history. It is in
diamonds, forming the figure oO.surmounted
with a crown set in pearls. It is one of the
few identical in value and design that the
Queen had made in celebration of her jubilee
year. She presented one to each of her
children, their husbands and wive. The
late Emperor received one, and when he
died the Empress sent it to Sir Morell
Mackenzie with a note saying she would
like him to keep and wear it, since it had
been particularly, precious to her husband.
IHE DOSE OF -QUININE.
It Depends on the Disease ana the Habits
of the Patient.
St. Louis Globe-Demoerat.
The quantity of quinine which some peo
ple can take without trouble is .so great as
to be almost wonderful. There are many
people who think 4 grains is a dose, and
very few people ever take more than from
10 to IS grains at one time. Even then the
latter dose is apt to cause unpleasant sensa
tions, such as a buzzing sound in the ears
and a sort ot dull, heavy feeling next
morning.
Yet cases have been known where the
patient had as much as 100 grains of quinine
in him and did not suffer from the effects.
Of course, such doses can be administered
only in extreme cases, where the fever is
very high and heroic measures are neces
sary. Yon know that a person suffering
with great physical pain can safely take
doses of morphine which would kill a well
man, and people with a high fever can
take doses of quinine without bad results
which would drive a healthy person half
crazy.
Q nails as Fighting Cocks.
The Chinese of San Francisco use quails
as fighting cocks, and one who has 'never
seen the ferocity with which these birds
hght, would be surprised at their energy.
They will fight to the death, pecking,
scratching," striking one another with their
wings and their feet,andin everyway appar
ently doing what they can to'injnre each
other. The Chinese are very fond of the
sport, and will frequently spend hours over
the pit where quails are fighting, many a
dollars meantime changing hands on the
fortunes of the contest
CATARRHAL DYSPEPSIA!
AS DESCRIBED
IX A POPULAR LECT
URE By Dr. S. B. Hartman at the Surgical Hotel,
Golumbns. O.
. SEPORTED FOB THE TBESS.
Catarrhal dyspepsia is a disease which, in
some degree, affects thousands of people,
and is the result of chronic catarrhal in
flammation of the stomach or the duodenum.
The catarrhal state may have been brought
about by irritating foods or poisons, intem
perate use of alcoholic drinks, or catarrh of
the throat extending into the stomach. In
either case the result is the same, namely.
chronic catarrh of the lining membrane of
the stomach. This state leads to diminished
quantity of the digestive fluids, or else to a
vitiated quality of them.
The symptoms of this particular variety
of catarrh are more painful and damaging
to health than catarrh of any other organ.
Food taken into the stomach at once pro
duces pain or heavy feeling. As soon as
the stomach is empty there is gnawing pain
accompanied by belching of gas. The
tongue and throat look red and angry, with
sometimes patches of white coating. The
peculiar character of catarrhal dyspepsia, as
distinguished from the other varieties, is
pain, but if it is complicated, as is frequently
the case, with the other 'kinds of dyspepsia,
the symptoms will vary. No kind of food
agrees with"' the stomach, but some kinds
cause less uneasiness than others. The
bowels may be loose, constipated or irregu
lar. The introduction of food into the
stomach often causes an immediate passage
of the bowels.
For this condition I find Pe-ru-na to be
an admirable remedy! In all cases it brings
prompt relief to the1 painful symptoms, and
in a large per cent of the cases it makes a
permanent cure. Pe-ru-na soothes the in
flamed mueous surface, and thus strikes at
the root of the disease. In' cases where the
inflammation has been so severe and con
tinued as to produce extreme irritability of
me siomacn, me remedy may be taken in
small doses at first, diluted in water; but, as
soon as the improvement is sufficient to
permit the full dose to be taken undiluted,
it is a better way, and the cure is much
more rapid. In catarrh of the head, throat
and lungs, Pe-ru-na excels all other rem
edies. There is m other medicine that so
perfectly restores the yictim of la grippe,
either in its acute stage or in its after ef
fects. A valuable pamphlet of 32 pages, setting
forth in detail the treatment of catarrh,
coughs, colds, sore throat, bronchitis and
consumption, in every phase of the disease,
will be sent tree to any address by the Pe-ru-na
Drug Manufacturing Co., of Colum
bus, O. This book should be in every
household, as it contains a great deal of re
liable information as to the cure and pre
vention of all catarrhal and kindred diseases.
TOPICS OF THE TIME.
A Sketch of General Sam Houston
Apropos of the Monument Talk.
SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE TRADE.
Tiro
Yictorias Who Hare a Chance
Succeed Victoria Begins.
to
WARLIKE PREPARATION OP FRANCE
tWBITTZN FOB THE DISPATCH.
For the honor of the nation, as much as
.for that of Texas, the monument to General
Samuel Houston,
whicbisbeing talked
of, should be erected
in 'Washington.
There it will keep
green the memory of
a patriot who has
far more than local
claims to fame. How
many Americans are
there who could ac
cent Houston. curateiy aescrme me
events nnon which Sam Houston's fame
must rest? For the millions who could tell
you something about the to rn,of Houston,
Tex., there are only hundreds who know
more than the name of.the hero after whom
the town is called.
Eight or nine years ago the Staff of
Texas erected on the spot where the battle
of San Jacinto was fought and Texas made
free, a monument which is chiefly in mem
ory of General Houston. There is no more
romantic figure than General Houston in
American history, whether you take him as
the pioneer living with the Cherokees in
the woods of Tennessee, as the soldier earn
ing the praise of General Jackson for his
reckless bravery in battle with the Creeks,
as the Governor of Tennessee, who laid
down all his honor and fled from the sight
of man because he found his wife had only
married him through filial duty and he felt
he must release her. as the man who went to
Texas when she cried for freedom, cut from
her the Mexican bonds and established the
Bepublio of Texas, or as the t man who
brought the Kepublicinto the United States,
and who, when the crucial moment came,
preferred the Union to his State, and cried
as the roar of the cannon announced the
secession of Texas, "My heart is broken!"
Pioneer, lawyer, soldier, statesman and
patriot, he is a good example of the Amer
icans who built the first story of this great
country. It is rather hard to realize that
it is little more than CO years since Houston
played such a great part in bringing into
the Union a slice of territory equal at the
time to one-third of the United States. If
a monument in "Washington a statue of
Houston should only keep us from for
getting how our magnificent heritage was
won, it were well to erect it.
The Story of Sam Houston's Sacrifice.
The separation of General Houston and
his wife, to which allusion is made above,
created a tremendous sensation at the time.
Geueral Houston was Governor of Tennes
see when he married Miss Eliza H. Allen, a
lady of distinguished lineage in that State.
This was in January, 1829, and in the fol
lowing April just as he was entering upon a
campaign for a second term as Governor, he
suddenly left home in disguise and disap
peared from his friends for months. Why
he relinquished his office and his home to
make his abode with a Cherokee chieftain,
whose friendship he had won in his youth,
General Houston never explained to the
world. All sorts of odd and disgraceful
reasons for the act were assigned at the
time, but Mrs. Houston contented herself
with a divorce upon the ground of deser
tion. Years after General Houston confided to
his second wife the secret of his first failure
in matrimony. He 'said that during the
honeymoon he noticed that his bride ap
peared to be in low sprits, and after much
pressing confessed that she had married the
General to please her father, while another
man had her heart To a man of Houston's
mold to hold her to her promise was im
possible, and with singular nobility he gave
his wife her freedom and took upon himself
the odium. She afterward married the man
of her choice.
Farce of Suppressing the Slave Trade.
The granting of an imperial subsidy to
the British East Africa Company last week
by Parliament, is another act in one of the
most hypocritical dramas ever played by
the English Government For many years
it has been conducting a sort of imaginary
war against the African slave trade. Be
ginning with Sir Samuel W. Baker, and
really before his time a great noise has been
made about this crusade against slavery.
Repeatedly, and by different methods, the
suppression of the horrible traffic has been
promised. Nobody has beaten this same
British East Africa Company at promising.
They promised to do wonders as soon as
they had enough money. The bait was
strong and the philanthropic Sir Thomas
Powell Buxton, Lord Kinnaird and many
others were caught, the first for ?50
000 and the second for $25,000. But, after
the money was subscribed, the slaves
dropped out of sight and the commercial
objects of the company became paramount.
Hot a single, isolated effort v. as made in
behalf of the poor slaves. Instead, excuses
and promises have been as numerous as
bacteria in milk, and in the meantime the
slave trade gees bravely on.
In a recent private letter to a friend Emin
Pasha, the Governor of Equatorial Africa,
states that th( traffic is as bad as ever it was.
Durmg his march to the Albert Nyanza
last' year he experienced all its horrors.
Following the track oi a well-known driver
named Ben Chalia for six days he counted
in that time no less than 51 fresh corpses.
worn to skeletons, S9 with their skulls
beaten in, and he was told that a short time
previous one party ot 1,200 slaves of both
sexes, chained together in squads, was
dragged to Mengo. It is at this juncture
the East African Company makes demands
of the Government, under a threat to with
'draw from the savage country in which they
have accomplished nothing in the direction
promised.
Explorer Baker said many years ago that
nothing would or could be done until the
civilized nations banded together for a com''
mon purpose. There H not much indica
tion of this, consequently the slave trade is
likely to continue for at least some time to
come.
In this connection it maybe apropos to
recall the fact that Captain Timothy Mea
lier, a noted steamboat man, who died on the
3d of the present month, was the importer
of the last cargo of slaves brought to the
United States. That was in 1861 and the 30
negroes in the party settled in the neighbor
hood of Mobile, Ala., where they are said
to still preserve their native language and
customs to a remarkable degree, even to
being ruled by a queen of their own choos
ing. V
French Fortification of Northern Africa.
It is rather odd that France should fortify
Bizerta, the'most northerly town ot Africa,
and that so energetically, employing, it is
stated, no less than 3,000 men. No other
reason can be assigned for this action other
than that France contemplates having im
portant use for this place later on. Bizerta
is really a natural fortress, Agathocles, the
Sicilian tyrant of a couple of thousand years
ago, erecting defenses there as early as 307
B. C. With this place as headquarters, he
repeatedly defeated the Carthaginians and
Macedonians, besides ravaging the seacoast
of Italy. The town is burrounded by mas
sive walls and defended now by two castles.
It is only vulnerable from the land side, the
height a short distauce away commanding
it I understand that these heights are now
git f V.
being fortified with such precautions it
would take quite a large force tov reduce the
town.
It offers one great advantage, if the
French choose to take it. It is situated
upon a deep gulf of the Mediterranean and
at the mouth of a lagoon, connected with
the gulf by a narrow channel. Its port was
formerly one of the best on the Mediter
ranean, but has gradually tilled up until
now only small vessels can enter. Should
the French take the trouble to clear it, they
would be able to shelter an entire fleet
from direct attack. They might not be able
t. use it as a rallying point as Agathocles
dra, bnt it would certainly give them an ex-
uejieub vauipge point on ine jucunerisucau
that could be used with telling effect in case
of war.
The Chances of Two Victorias.
Everyone surely likes to manage his own
love affairs, but,according to the ideas of
the European royal
families, the princi
pals appear to have
nothing to do with
the case. For in
stance, there i s
Prihce George, the
heir presumptive to
the English throne, a
very nice young man
of undoubted intelli
gence and one who
could be depended
upon to do nothing
rash, particularly in
affairs of the heart
Victoria of
EcUeswig-Bolsisin.
Whatever George's personal preferences
may have? been in the past, he is not likely
to have any future trouble in the matter of
selection, from this on. Avery careful and
solicitous royal grandmother has consider
ately taken charge of all the details
and all that George will have to do
is to step up to the altar and be made one,
two or the Irishman's half dozen, as the case
might be, with some scion of royalty with
whom, perhaps, he has previously not had
tne pleasure ot a speaKing acquaintance.
Of course, the royal grandmother insists
that she really does not interfere, excepting
so far as demanding that the Princess'
name shall be the same as her own. Victoria
holds very fixed opinions on this point.
She loses "no opportunity of perpetuating
her own name. The royal "consent" has
been given on many occasions to bestow the
name on towns, parks, bridges, colleges,
decorations, flowers, vehicles, etc., and it is
quite generally known that when the Duke
of Clarence engazed' himself to marry the
Princess of Teck, it was not long before
pretty "May" was warped into heavy, hard
sounding "Victoria."
The same sort of favoritism caused the re
cent exaltation of a common nurse in the
queen's apartments, who happened to be so
named, high above any of her companions,
and now when it has been determined that
George must marry and that right away, the
eligible princesses have gradually reduced
themselves to two, both of whom are named
"Victoria." Victoria of Srhleswig-Holstein
is English by birth and a sister of the Prin
cess Louise, whose marriage to Prince Ari
bert of Anhalt was one ot the sensations of
last year. Victoria of Hesse was also born
in England, but has dwelt the most of her
life in the German province ruled by her
father, whose dangerous illness was an
nounced during the past week. She is said
to be a charming young woman of ex
cellent education and high order of intelli
gence. It w.i! said at one time that she was
devotedly attached
t- the late Albert
Victor and a mar
ridge was consid
ered among the pos
sibilities, if Albert
Victor's affections
had not been fixed
elsewhere, to the
everlasting good
fortune ot the Hes-
sianprincess, if am
bition to reign over
England had anv-
Tlctcna of Hase. thing to do with her
ove for the English prince.
The Romans Off on Their Dates.
It is reported that the three hundredth
anniversary of the death of Torquato Tasso
will be celebrated with great ceremony in
Borne this year. If the Bomans paid as
much attention to their dates as they evi
dently, do to the ceremony, the affair might
attract greater and more general interest
There does not seem to be the slightest dif
ference of opinion among biographers that
Tasso died in 1595, consequently the
Komans' celebration of his demise, if the
report concerning it be true, antedates the
event by three years.
A Phenom-non in Mathematics.
A living calculating machine, a youn g
man to whom the multiplication table never
had terrors, is mak
ing Parisians open
their eyes and shrug
their shoulders in
amazement. He is
not a Frenchman,
but an Italian, born
in Piedmont, and
named Jaques In
audi. Wheu he was
a boy he astoun ded
the good, simple
country folk of his
Jaquct Inaudt.
native place by reckoning without use of
pen or paper ar.d with lightning sfeed.
Then he set out on his travels and at every
place he stopped created a furore by some
teat of mathematics. But he did not have
much of a chance to tax his mind with
footings of his own fortunes, until Gill, the
famous caricaturist, took hold of him in
Pans, and procured him an engagement
in the cafes chantants as a lighting calcu
lator. He is being taken more seriously
now; scientific men area specula ting-as to
his methods, which he is wise enough to
keep secret, and he is being likened to that
mathematician, inventor and mechanic,
Charles Babbage though the reports of
Inaudi's performances hardly justify the
comparison. Inaudi's genius seems to be
wholly mathematical, and it is wonderful
enongh within those limits. Though he has
no knowledge of algebra, and in fact has no
education at ail to speak of, he has no diffi
culty in mastering the most difficult ques
tions, and in all complicated problems given
him he has never yet failed to give correct
answers, and in a marvelously short space
of time. As has been said, he conceals his
methods, and to those who ask him how he
does it he replies, pointing to his forehead:
"It's here, but how it came there I can't
say."
Grip With a New Complication.
A new kind of "grip," or influenza, has
arisen to terrify the Hungarians. Becently
in the prison at Agram, a town of 30.000 in
habitants in Hungary, the doctor noticed
that some of the prisoners who were suf
fering from influenza, or what is popularly
called here "the grip," showed symptoms
which were new and alarming. First, the
patient would be seized with shivering and
fever alternately, together with cramp in
the stomach. The pain was so intense that
delirium usually set in, and in the case of
women hysterics. After the first attack
the patient generally fainted away or fell
to the ground exhausted. So violent were
the convulsions and delirious attacks of the
prisoners that a dozen jailers had to be
tolled off at one' time to attend to those suf
fering from the complaint
It is supposed by some that this is a new
epidemic, but the doctors sent by the Aus
trian Government to investigate the out
break are inclined to think that it is "la
grippe," supplemented by a nervous dis
order arising from the depressing influence
of imprisonment Luckily, the approach
of warm weather renders "it unlikely that
the grip in its new shape will reach this
country. The original disease is quite suf
ficient for our needs. W. G. Kaufmans.
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Most Hen Are Too Busy to Travel the
Way to Demonstration. -
THEI TAKE OTHERS' WORD FOR IT.
It Is Not Necessary to Master Theology to
Have Christian Faith.
THE GREAT FACT FOE BELIETEES
rWBITTET FOB THE DISPATCH.
We are all able to sympathize with the
man who said, "Lord, I believe; help Thou
mine unbelief."
This man believed; he had faith. But no
sooner had he said his creed than there
came upon him a deep consciousness of the
weakness, of the inadequacy, of the igno
rance, of the limitation, of his faith. What
did he believe? He believed that Jesus of
Nazareth could help him. He looked into
His face, he heard His voice, and he recog
nized in Him a helper in his time of need.
Yet had you asked him questions about
Jesus of Nazareth he would have been puz
zled how to answer. Was He only another
rabbi? was He the long expected Messiah of
Israel? was He the incarnation of the Son
of God? this man would have replied, "I
know not Yes; He is a rabbi, but what
more I cannot tell." Not a Sunday school
scholar in any Christian parish bnt could
have posed him. That is, this man had
faith, but he was notably lacking in knowl
edge of theology.
Didn't Know His Theology.
Yet Jesns helped him. The density of
his theological ignorance was not dark
enough to keep the light of that benedic
tion out The man was blessed, though he
was ignorant of systematic divinity. The
inference is that there is a diflerence be
tween tneology and faith.
That there must be a difference between
theology and faith would seem to be plain
from the fact that theology is difficult, com
plicated, full of entanglements, and impos
sible of acquirement except to people of in
tellectual ability and training, while faith
is expected from the simplest Christian.
Faith, indeed, is set beside the gate of en
trance into religion. It is one of the pre
requisites ot the initial sacrament First
faith and then baptism. Evidently this
cannot be theological faith, or else nobody
should be baptized without a satisfactory
theological examination. Only the gradu
ates of divinity schools would have any
right in the Christian Church. Only the
parsons could be saved. The parsons?
How many of them, in these unuogmatic
days, could stand the test? Few are even
the parsons who could get into this theo
logical heaven except on large conditions.
Theology Does "ot Inclnds Faith.
Another reason for being sure that theol
ogy and faith are not by any means identi
cal is the fact, which is attested by many
unfortunate experiences, that it is quite
possible for men to be excellent and accur
ate theologians without being very good
Christians. Everybody knows that when
our Lord was here the people with whom
He was able to find least in common,
against whom He had to use the strongest
language of condemnation, were the pro
fessors of systematic divinity in the the
ological seminaries ,.of Jerusalem. Jesus
found more good in publicans and sinners
than in scribes nnd pharisees.
There is a diflerence, then, between the
ology and faith. The Christian religion in
its demand for faith must not be understood
as requiring a knowledge of theology. The
Apostles' Creed may be recited by very im-
Eertect theologians. "iiord, 1 believe;
elp Thou mine unbelief," may rightly be
the voice of our own heart. What, then, is
the difference between theology and faith?
This will best be understood by asking,
first, "What is theology?-and, then, What
is faith?
A Definition of Theology.
What is theology? Thcology.is ordered
religious knowledge. It is the technical,
scientific and exact statement of religious
truth. The buiness of the theologian is to
gather together all the religious truth that
can be found, to classify it, to set it in a
system, and to draw inferences from it He
is to do in his department what the man of
science does in his.
Plainly, then, theology will contain a
great many statements of a great many de
grees of importance. Part of it will be of
very considerable value; part of it might be
lost or forgotten and the world be quite as
happy. Plainly, also, theology will include
a great many mistakes. It will not, in this
respect, be much different from the similar
statement of physical truth. It will have
Its guesses and its misses. It will have its
working hypotheses, some ot which will be
presently found to be unworkable. It will
advance 'and recede. It will abandon some
of its positions. Theology, that is, like any
other scienoe, will grow with the growth o'f
man. And there will never be a time per
haps not even in heaven itself when the
whole of any man's theology will be true.
For that would mean the end of growth.
Tne Realm of Metaphysics.
There is no sense in decrying theology.
There has always been theology, there al
ways will be theology, and there always
ought to be theology. Theology is to be
censured only when it forgets its place.
Theologians are not to be accounted per
nicious members of society so long as they
mind their own business. Yes; there is a
large element of good in even the most
metaphysical theology.
There will always De metaphysics not only
in theology, but in every other department
of thinking, so long as man continues to be
a rational and inquiring being. Meta
physics is the region into which we get
when we take for our guide the mark of in
terrogation. It is the only possible answer
that can be made to certain questions. Every
object of thought, if it is questioned long
enough, takes us into metaphysics.
Here is a scrap of paper. There is no ap
pearance of metaphysics in the look of this
paper. But ask the paper where it came
from. Yon will not ask very long befoie
you get back to a plant growing in a field.
And there you are in the presence of mys
tery. The mystery of growth, and the
mystery of life these are even yet beyond
discovery. Nor can thejr be 'adequately
discussed without the aid of metaphysics.
Windows Into the Infinite,
Every stone in the streat represents the
mystery of matter. The wisest man of
science does not know what matter is.
Every 6it of metal represents the mystery
of force. Whb will define force? Emerson
said that every object that can be seen by
human sight is a window into the infinite.
It is also a great wide-open door into the
metaphysical.
Take the simplest question in morality,
"Thou sbnlt not steal. Is there any meta
physics about that? Is there anything
transcendental about being honest? Sup
pose we set beside the commandment as
we must if we think the question, Why?
Why must we keep the moral law? At
once we are precipitated into an arena of
gloditorial metaphysicians. We must keep
the moral law because it is the will of the
Supreme Moral Being. We mnst keep the
moral law because it is the dictate of our
own enlightened conscience. We must keep
the moral law because this is the verdict of
the world's experience of pain and pleasure.
There are three different answers. Every
one of them involves metaphysics.
A Striking Parallel Case.
Now, what moral philosophy is to mor
al' ty just that is theology to faith. Ques
tion morality and youget moral philosophy.
Question faith and you get theology. But
who will mflntain that only the moral
philosophers can be moral? How, then,
can it te maintained that only the theo
logians can have faith? A good man said
to me the other day that no one had a right
to say that be believed the Apostles' Creed
unless lie is able to answer the metaphysical
questions that are therein suggested. But
nuznt it not to be said with equal force that
no one ought, then, to keep the command
ments unless he is able to answer the meta
physical questions that are suggested by the
moral lawT
This, however, comes ont more plainly
when we leave our inquiry about theolosrv
and ask the other question, what is faith?
Faith is the accepting as true what we are
told. If I see an event happen. I know that
that event lias happened. That Is knowl
edge. If I am told by somebody in whom 1
have confidence that an event has hap
pened, I am as snre of it as if I had seen it
with my own eyes: bnt my certainty is not
Knowledge, it is faith. .'
Faith Depends on Authority.
Faith, then, has regard both to a propo
sition and to a person. It may be thought
of in both ways, as tho accepting of the
truth of a statement, and as the putting of
faith in a person. These two elements enter
into faith. Faith, then, depends upon au
thority. Authority fs one or the essential
factors of human thought. We cannot get
along without it. Authority is no more to
be decried than metaphysics. Like theology
it is both rlsht. and valuable, nnd necessary
so long as it keeps its pla ce. Authority gets
distinctly out of its place when it speaks in
imperatives, when one says to another "you
must not think, you must let nie do your
thinking for you." To such a demand no
rational being has any right to'yie!d:no, not
for one hour. That means intellectual
slavery. ,
Authority, however, is in its properplace
when instead of commanding, it bears wit
ness. Perhaps a better word than "author
ity"' would foe "ce9cimony." Authority in
its right meaning signifies the witness, tho
Judgment, tho verdict, the iHclslon of one
.whom we consider to be competent to
decide. In this sense of it, wo nre all the
time letting other people do our thinking
for us.
Original Investlga'lon Is Too Slow.
We have great reason to bo profoundly
grateful that ws aro so made that by this
hand of faith we can reach out and accept,
and make our own, wnat others give us.
Otherwise, the world would be full of grown
up babies. Each person would have to dis
cover all knowledge for himself. As it is,
we all help each other. All the generations
of the past help ns to do our thinking. All
the discoverers, all the explorers, all the in
ventors, all the deep reasoners, help us to do
our thinking. Uo man lives, though he be
the most independent of all fiee thinkers,
who does all his own thinking.
This which is true in the domain of physi
cal science is nlo true in the domain of
theological science We depend upon the
masters. We have not the time nor the
ability to reason out these great scientific
problems, whether physical or meta
physical. We must accept the conclusions
of tho few men who have the means and tne
power. And we do that. A man w orks in a
mill, going upon great principles which he
takes for granted, which somebody else lias
worked out Ho does not feel that he mnst
begin by veritying those las lor himself.
He does not wait till he understands those
hard matters. And another man or equal
good sense, accepts the great elements of
theological truth which are set down in the
creed in the same way.
Acceptance of the Creed.
The creed is the verdict of the great body
of spiritual masters upon the truths or re
ligion. Let a man. if he can, work it all out
for himself. Let him test each articlc'by all
the tests he knows. The Christian Church
welcomes all such testing. But let no man
blame another who, not being of a theolog
ical bent of mind, is content to accept what
the church teaches. This person is satisfied
that the church is wiser than he is. He is
glad to have et down in this biief form of
words the simple statement of the truths in
which tho great company of the Chilstian
saints and scholars have from the first
agreed.
He looks back and notes that questioners
have tested this old creed with every acid
known to theological chemistry, and that
the creed has endured. Ho makes up liis
mind that the tests of the present day ques
tioners are likely to result In the same as
surance of the validity of these nncient
truths. And ho asks no questions, he puz
zles himself with no problems, ho vexes
himself with no donbts. lie accepts the
Christian creed as he accepts the law of
gravitation, worrying as little about the
theological difficulties of the one as abont
the mathematical complications of the
other. It seems tome that a ucli a decision
and acceptance is a sign of most excellent
good sense.
Faith of al.lttle Child.
But faith is even simpler and easier than
the acceptance of a proposition, it is the
putting of oar trust in n person. Faith, ac
cordingly, is level to the attainment even
ot -a little child. Christian faith Is lalth in
Christ. The Christian looks into Chtlst's
face, like the man in tho text, saving: Lord,
I believe. And like the man he may not
have an answer to any ot your questions.
Yet he believes in Christ. Cau he belie vo in
Christ without knowing how the divine and
human meet inhlnrfCannot a. child believe in
his father without knowing how body and
soul, the spiritual and the physical, meet in
hiniT
That is what faith is at its bc3t. It is that
loving, personal, abiding confidence. Xo
question in the world can touch it. Xo
puzzle can perplex it. It eludes definition.
It does not lend itself to the systematic
logic of the theologian. It is a matter ot
personal experience. Tou may provo to the
Christian that even the Christian creed is
full of error. Jt makes no difference. How
that may be he knows not one thing he
knows. He knows Christ, and Christ has
helped him, and he loves Christ. ' Jesns
Chiist is the beginning, and the middle, and
the end, and the whole of the Christian
faith. George Hodges.
NEW C0ATIKG FOE HETALS.
Cottonseed United With Lead Will Resist
Weather and Water.
The new coating for metals, based on the
remarkable adaptability of cottonseed to
unite with lead, has, after a thorough test,
been found to give surprising results in re
sisting the effects of weather and water. Five
liters of cottonseed oil are placed in a me
tallic vessel and ten kilograms of lend are
melted separately in an iron ladle. When
the lead is molten, which requires a temper
ature ofabout 335, it is poured gradually
into the'oil, and stirred about so thoroughly
that every particle of the leai is sub
jected to the action of the oil. The
mixture is then alloned to cook When the
oil is poured off the lead is fonn-1 at the
bottom, but reduced in weight to 8.5 kilo
grams, the remaining lji kilograms hav
ing been absorbed Ty the oik The residue
at the bottom of the vessel is again submit
ted to the process of heating and stirring,
which is continued five times, after which
the maximum impregnation of five kilo
grams is obtained.
When quite cold the oil has the appear
ance of thick varnish, and is ready for ap
plication, eithsr with a brush or sponge.
This coating unites quickly and firmly with
any material. The first coat should be al
lowed to dry 48 hours before the second is
administered.
Talae of Mother-or-Pearl.
The most valuable mother-of-pearl, which
is a product incidental to the pearl fishing
industry, is obtained from Hacassar, and is
usea ior maKing sumptuous mrnuurc
worth 51,000 a ton.
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A GOD m A BELL.
Hie Great Tube of Metal at EnosMma
in Far-Off Japan.
ITS VOICE IS LIKE THUNDER,
Tet It la Eich and Pure and Pleases With
Its Mighty Volume.
USED BI PBIESTS FOK 650 TEARS
rwBiTTEir ron thx dispatch-i
During my visit to Japan Akira, my
faithful servant, tooklme on a pilgrimage to
Enoshima. After we had finished the great
temple of Eu-gaku-ii. Akira said: "Sow
' we shall go to look at the big bell."
We turn to the left as we descend, along a
path cut between hills faced for the height
of seven or eight feet with protection walls,
madegieen by moss; and reach a flight of
extraordinarily dilapidated steps, with
grass springing between their every joint
and break steps so worn down and dis
placed by countless feet that they have be
come ruins, painful and even dangerous to
mount We reach the summit, however,
without mischief, and find ourselves before
a little temple, on the summit of which an
old priest awaits us, with smiling bow of
welcome. We return his salutation, but
ere entering the temple turn to look at the
tsurigane on the right the famous bell. ,
FecnlUr Shape of the Be IT.
Under a lofty open shed, with a tiled
Chinese roof, the great bell is hung. I
should judge it to be fully nine feet high
and abont five feet in diameter, with walls
about eight inches thick. The shape of it
is not like that of our bells, which broaden
toward the lips; this has the same diameter
through all its height, and it is covered
with Buddhist texts cut into the smooth
metal of it. It is hung by means of a heavy
swinging beam, suspended from the roof by
chains, and moved like a batterinc ram.
There are loops of palm-fire rope attached
to this beam to pull it by; and-when you
pull hard enough, so as to give it a good
swing, it strikes a moulding like a lotus
flower on the side of the belt This it must
have done many hundred times; for the
square flat end of it, though showing the
grain of very dene wood, has been battered
into a convex disk with rasged protruding
edges, like the surface of a loug-used print
er's mallet.
A priest makes a sign to me to ring the
bell. I first touch the great lips with my
hand very lightly, and a low, rich murmur
comes from them. Then I set the beam
swinging strongly, and a sound deep as
thunder, rich as the bass of a mighty organ
a sound enormous, extraordinary, yet
beautiful, rolls over the hills and away.
Then swiftly follows another and lesser and
sweeter billowing of tone; then another;
then a wondrous eddying of waves of echoes.
Only once was it struck, the astonishing
bell; yet it continues to sob and moan. for at
least ten minutes!
And the age of thi3 bell i3 630 years. In
the little temple nearby the priest shows us
a series of curious paintings, representing
the six hundredth anniversary of the cast
ing of the bell, for this is a sacred bell, and
the spirit of a god is believed to dwell
within it. Otherwise the temple has little
of interest.
A Gsd Dwells Within It
In nearly every celebrated temple little
Japanese prints are sold, containing the
history of the shrine and its miraculous
legends. I find several such things on sale
ntthe door of the temple, and in one of
them,,ornamented with a curions engraving
of the bell, I discovered the following tra
dition: In the twelfth year of Bummei, this bell
rang itself! And one who laughed on be
ing told of the miracle met with misfortune;
and another who believed, thereafter pros
pered and obtained all hi3 desires.
Xow. in that time there died in the
village or Tamanawa a sick man whose
name was Ono-no-Kimi; and Ono-no-Kimi
descended to the region of the dead, and
went before the judgment seat of Eunna-O.
Cnrions Legends of the Bell.
And Eunna-O, Judge of Souls, said to
him: "You have come too soon! the
measure of life alfoted you in the Shaba
world has not yet been exhausted go back
at once." But Ono-no-Kimi pleaded, say
ing: "How may I go back not knowing
my way through the darkness?" And
Eunna answered him: "You can find your
way back by listening to the sound of the
bel'l of Eu-gakn-ji, which is heard in the
Uan-en-budi world, going south." And
Ono-no-Kimi went south, and heard the
bell, and found his way through the dark
ness, and revived in the Shabe.
Also in those days theie appeared in
many provinces a Buddhist priest of giant
stature, whom none remembered to have
seen before, and whose name no man knew,
traveling through the land, and everywhere
exhorting the people to pray before the bell
of Eu-gaku-jL And it was at last discov
ered that the giant priest was the holy bell
itself, transformed by supernatural power
into the form of a priest- And after these
things had happened, many prayed before
the bell and obtained their wishes.
Lafcadio Heakx.
THB.EE HIHUTE3 UNDEK WAT2B.
Wonderfnl Performances ofthe Pearl Divers
of Tnamota Archipelago.
The most skillful pearl divers in the
world are those of the Tuamotn Archi
pelago. They think nothing of staying un
der water for three minutes on occasions,
and they carry no weights to drag them
down to the depth?, as do the fishermen of
Ceylon. Unlike the latter, they do not
stop their ears and nostrils with cotton
soaked with oil, but descend with no other
preparation than a few inflations of their
lungs. However, they do wcar'asortof
headdress with spectacles of glass, by tho
aid of which they are able to look down
many fathoms into the clear water and
mark the oystera which they propose to
gather. Forty years ago it was possible to
bny with a gallon of rum or a few handfuh
of flour, in those South Sea islands, most
beautiful mollnscan jewels, but since then
the fisheries have been so overworked that
they are seriously threatened with exhaustion.
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