PITTSBURG- . DISPATCH, ron anv knowledge of the Hennepin Aluminum airship?" He turned suddenl. to the inventor. "I think J. -would tr; ust . . - . invsclf in that. ""Look here, gentlemen!' the inventor burst forth, springing to his feet, 'that's wy airship. I inented it H,ennep;n was mv draughtsman. He has t keil the credit to himself. I am utterly cleaned out fighting him in the courts. "But I've pot an airship just completed. The courts do not know where it is jly a,t dollar is in it. Gentlepen, ifyou want to go to the Norh Pole in twodays, and ston there as long as you please and come hack when vou are a mind tcv take my airship and me. Ve are both yo'ars. " If thePi was a sensation when the Arctic rxr"-.,rer revealed his identity, there was a riommotion when the little, nervous, eager 'inventor revealed his identity and his tragedv to these chance acquaintances. At that moment, so absorbed were they, that it came as a shock when the train halted at its distination. "I have followed the case," said the mer chant, taking the inventor's hand, "and liave always thought that you were wronged. Gentlemen, I stand to mv word. I am in a hurry now for a most important meeting, but it the Sergeant approves the airship end will take charge of the expedition, I will delray all expenses, and I see no reason w hy you shouldn't go." jiacn man started to speak up. Mr. Van derh n was perfectly dignified and in earn est. He waved them back. "Dine with me to-morrowat 6. I hope vou will all be present." With these words he, stepped into a fine turnout in waiting and drove off, leaving his companions looking at one an other in silence. Who could have guessed that the maddest, the most adventurous scheme of the century had been born in that quiet, stuffy smok ing compartment ot the shuuter Pullman eleepcr? CHAPTER II. GREAT PREPARATION'S. "It's the queerest looking thing I ever saw in my life." The speaker stood with his hands in his pockets surveying a large object that certainly was extraordinary. "Don't let the Professor hear yon," whispered Mr. Trederick Ball, touching the young man upon the shoulder. "He thinks it the finest thing in the world. It certainly is the most remarkable."' ' "1 didn't-mcan that it was absurd at all," said Jtoyal Sterne. "It's stunning. To think that we are in for taking a journey in it! I can't get it rightly into my head. I seem to be dreaming. It beats the Dutch!" The young men stood looking at the aerial TCsstl tor a lew moments without speaking. Presently they were silently Joined by a tlii id. The airship, as she resfed before them in that vast, high inclosure. was, indeed, strange enough te inspire dumb, not to say "dumfounded," admiration. Five mouths had realized the great ex pectation of a few excited and daring men. The Hennepin, or, rather, let us sav, the Wilder airship, after several trials, had been quietly pronounced by Sergeant Willtwig to be perfect for the purpose. And now, under the munificent patronage of the public spirited millionaires under the sublime en ergy of the Arctic explorer, under the mightv faith of the inventor, under the scientific suggestions of the youthful astronomical tutor, and under the enthusiastic urgings of the two very young gentlemen of the party, the preparations for an aerial voyage were about completed. The attainment ot the North Pole was believed by every one of the six men to be a sure thing, "only the expedi tion must, aboe all things, be a secret one," the merchant bad said betore they separated at the dinner "If successful, I will claim a share in the honor for Chicago. If not silence." In this case, as in so man v others. the mtn who paid decided, and so it hap pened that on that June morning only six men in the world had an inkling of the inost daring project of the century. The voungcr men had overcome the ob stacles to taking a personal share in this daneerous expedition, each in his own way. "I'm going on a short tiip to the West, snd expect to be back in July," wrote Royal Sterne to his guardian in Boston; and as the young man had a moderate fortune of his own, was usually able to look out for him self, snd was moreover to come of age in a week, that guardian asked no questions. He had only seven days of authority left, end took it lor granted that Royal was fish ing or trapping. If be had known the truth, it is doubtful if he would have offered any objections. He and his ward were both sons ot the "first State in the Union," and the good man would probably have said, "I guess a fellow that's born in Maine can stand the North Pole." Jmk Hardy was quite his own master. "I luvvn't anybody but a jolly" old aunt," he had confided to Roval. "What will she ay?" asked Roval. "She?" cried Jack Hardy. "She's been through Africa' She'd go herself it she could. We're a family of travelers and explorers. My grandfather fell down A'esuvius. I had a great-uncle who froze trapping in British America. My father and mother went round Cape Horn when I was 6 ears old, and never came back. It's in the blood. We all go somewhere. Aunt Maria wouldn't care!" As for Frederick Ball, the tutor, he said goodby to his mother and went "on an as tronomical trip to the North." He never prevaricated. So the three young men had met in Rock- lord, had been dr:en at night to Prof. Wilder's inclosed workshop, five miles up the rher, and now they stood on the morn ing of the 1st of July in a tremor of wonder before the vehicle ot their dreams. "When is it? Twelve to-day?" asked Royal. "Yes," said Jack, with an assumption of indifference. "I believe that's the time we Etaru Seems to me," added he, "I'd rather trust myself in a balloon. This " "No you wouldn't" interrupted the tutor, "not a bit of it. The conquest of the air is just as possible as the conquest of the sea. Since the time of the first ascension by Montgolphier in 1783 is that right?" "I won't contradict you. Go ahead!" said Royal lightly. "At Miy rate, since then the dream of mankind has been to fly. We have come to the time when the public demands a medium of motion where friction is prac tically a minus quantity, and where cor orations build no tracks, get no grants and lave no" "Collisions?" suggested Royal. . "Well. I suppose there will be a col lision or two, unless different elevations are set apart by law for different direc tions." "Is that idea patentable?" asked Jack J-uruy. The tutor stopped with a flush of annoy ance. "What were you going to say, Mr. Ball?" said Koyal, soothingly. "I was going to say," replied Mr. Ball, speaking more rapidly, "that a balloon is nothing more or less than a bag of, silk filled with rarified air or hydrogen, to which is attached a little basket big enough to hold two or three madcaps, who allow the drunken, staggering, unwieldy mass to blow about through the. air wherever it listeth. That's a balloon, Mr. Hardy; and a man is as sensible, or as scientific, to start on a journey in a balloon as he would be to navigate the Atlantic ocean on an inflated feather-bed." "I suppose so," said Jack, demurely. "Can an you guarantee this creature against intoxication, staggeration and an occasional tilt? Of course we are in lor it, -Lituun, uub 1U Ilia II1UC MVJfcli&Ui f The inventor. Professor 'Wilde-, had jhst come out to invite his guests to breakfast He stopped a moment to listen to the tutor's reply to Jack. "I tell you, this vessel is the forerunner of the private air-coupe of the future, which every rich family will own. It is the first perfected and tested airship that has the necessary buoyant power of pro pulsion, and the property of beine di rected. All others have failed in the mo ment of trial but this one. I consider Prof. "Wilder the most remarkable nian of this century, for he has solved the most difficult problem that has confronted our modern age. This vessel can be guided up or dow n, here or there, more easily than you guide your horse or yacht; it is a ship inde pendent of tornadoes or cyclones, gas bags or grappling hooks; it is a vessel, in short, as safe and as scientific as an 'Atlantic liner' and ten times as swift." "Whew!" cried Royal "Hear! hear!" ejaculated Jack. "That's just it!" broke in Professor Wild er, beaming all over. "You'll find, gentle Jnen, we'll carry you as safely as your mother's arms. Alter breakfast, our last meal ashore, you shall inspect and prepare your own quarters in the Aeropole. The Sergeant is waiting for us. Come on!" While the young men reluctantly turn their backs upon Professor Wilder's airship let ns attempt the difficult task of describ ing it. Imagine a Brobdignagian cigar 175 jcci iuug, uuu nun a uiameier oi lorty leet, constructed entirely of light, tensile alumi num. This revolutionary metal can be rolled so thin that this whole structure will w eigh only one ton. Fill this aluminum cigar with hydrogen gas, and unless it is moored to the earth it will rise, for it will then weigh 4,000 pounds less than nothing. Supposing, further, that this tremendous aerial fish be provided with a dorsal fin 15 feet high which shall end in a vertical rud- THE GREAT SHIP READY FOR THE JOUBXEY. der at the stern. """ Add to this etherial narwhal horizontal fins of 40 feet breadth upon each side, end ing in a movable horizontal rudder at the stern. Add a propeller in front, the diameter of whose blades is slichtly in excess of the diameter of the body of the vessel, these blades receiving the' air all along the for ward edge and discharging it over the outer edge. Revolve this propeller at a high rate, and the ship will enter the vacuum thus partially formed. But the vessel must rise. Attach to an elevator a large fan of four blades, revolve it swiftly enough, and the elevator will ascend. Flying tops have b:en made on this ancient prinoiple. In the broad hori zontal fins place four of these horizontal propellers, two on each side, well forward and well back, and we get plenty of rising force. When the ship reaches the desired height, the power is disconnected from the auxiliary propellers to the great propeller in frout," and a moderate speed of only ten miles an hour will suffice to sus tain at a given altitude a large weight upon the lateral fins. Below this huge curar with its propellers, fins, its horizontal and verti cal rudders, is the car: very much like a Pullman car in shape. In this car are sta tioned the electrical engines and batteries, and there is ample room besides for ten pas sengers. This car, attached rigidly to the upper part of the ship, forms its solid base. It has six legs, in place of wheels, upon which the whole car, weighing battery, ma chinery and everything complete, only 14.000 pounds, may rest This means that the airship, ready for the trip, weighed only five tons; the reader re membering that the huge aluminum cylinder, charged with hydrogen, weighed two tons less than nothing. It can ' now lift and carry in the car a dead 'Height of nearly a hundred thousand pounds, on the principle that a small parachute can sustain the weight of a very heavy man. The faster the ship goes" the less sustain ing tension comes upon the side horizontal fins. At a speed of 200 miles an hour they are not needed at all. The freight which such an airship can carry is only propor tional to the lifting power of the horizontal propellers and to the power of the propel ling fan in front. Construct on this principle an airship 1,000 feet in length, and it would carry as large a burden as the dismantled Great East ern once did. "Do we start at 12 sharp?" asked Royal of Sergeant Willtwig. "What sport the trip will be!" "Sport!" breathed the explorer in con tempt. "If I had my way you boys that is, Mr. Ball excepted wouldn't stand a ghost of going. Sport! Bah!" "Well, we're in for it; and you'll find, as far as I'm concerned, I'll do "all I can to make the expedition a surcess," said Royal in a manly, conciliatory way. "At least I can analyze ioebergs." "That's the stuff, my young friend," said the Sergeant, turning a kindly face upon his rudd v companion. "What can you do?" he asked Jack Hardy. "I can obey you," answered the real estate agent, soberly. Delighted to be upon a firmer footing on the expedition, whose import they but dimly understood, and with the man whom thev. understood still less, the young men fol lowed their chief to the airship. The Sergeant would have been the last man to choose these boys for an Arctic ex pedition. They had insisted, and the gen erous patron of the expedition, who con sidered their enthusiasm of as much im portance as their fitness, had consented. But the Sergeant was troubled. Men for such an adventure must be picked as one would choose heroes to storm Gibraltar. He knew Royal and Jacte were both unmindful ot the eternal temperature, 40, CO, 60 below zero; of the .endless, crunching, jagged floes of ice; of that unique desolation, that congealing hunger, that solitary death! As the Sergeant silently added some last stores to the ship's outfit he was thinking how Grecly's party subsisted for weeks on sea-flies caught with night mare toils, of these diminutive Crustacea it ' required 2,300 to fill a gill measure, and I how, when they were too weak to gather these, they died. "I'll be hanged if the ship isn't suspended in the air!" ejaculated Royal, coming to a full stop before the wonderful machine. "I hadn't realized that." "Yes," answered the inventor, radiant with pride. "Her lifting wheels seel Four of them. They are going so fast yon can't very well distinguish them. They have been under full power for two weeks, as an experiment. Ten feet in the air is as con vincing as 10,000. Cut off those cables that hold her in position and she would rise out of sight in a few minutes." "How on earth is that huge mass going to rest on those six legs when she comes to earth? I should think that she would top ple over." The inventor looked exceedingly hurt. 'Topple over?" he repeated. "Young man, that car is placed directly under the Acrooole's oenter of gravity. The enormous weight of the car pins it down and holds it in position." , "But supposing the ground is uneven, what are vou going to do?" continued Royal. "If the ground were covered with eggs, Mr. Sterne, the lifting wheels could let my ship down so gently as not to crack a single shell; and they would hold the Aeropole suspended there. I have not experimented in vain, i assure you. The young Tech. student again took in the marvelous mechanism with a critical eye. This recent graduate had no idea of being caught with surprise in his face. He debated in his mind for another question. Jack Hardy, Mr. Ball and the Sergeant had already disappeared by a side door within the car. "There is one difficulty, Professor Wilder. How are you going to supply your storage battery between here and the Pole? I have heard of no power stations being established along the route." "What kind of a storage do you think I use?" ''It must be exceedingly large and weighty to accumulate energy enough to keep on the wing." "All the energv is produced by a 50-ton plant in the shop there, and transmitted by the cable at our feet to the accumulator. The current goes night and day." "Your accumulator must weigh a hun dred tons." "There you a'e wronsr. mv boy." said the inventor, flapping him on the shoulder. "It weighs just 1,250 pounds. That is my great invention. It has taken years. The right kind of a motor has been the only lack of aerial vessels. I do not manufacture energy. I spend it. I have discovered a new surface upon which to store the electrieity.It is a wonderful condensor. It holds the fluid and gives it up only at my will. The larger the surface, the more I can store. How Tnany spider's threads does it take to make up the thickness of the human hair? Sup posing that you could concentrate on a skein of silk power enough to run a street car four miles? Then the weight of the accu mulator required to run the same car a month would be of no account. This is the analogy of my invention. I have found that a web of a certain substance spun into threads finer than the finest silk that a ton of this, I sav, can receive and contain an energy equal to that amassed in the best of modern storage batteries weighing five hundred thousand tons." "This is simply tremendous," said Royal in a subdued voice. '"Then we can have electric locomotives and electric water ships. No more trolley! No more relief stations! No more electrocution in the streets!" "That's it it will all come when I give it out," said the inventor. "There are millions in it," said the bov enthusiastically; "I wish "he stopped with a bright flush. "When we come back from the Pole, you shall," said the inventor paternally. "I need young blood that believes In me you shall." "Shall we really get to the Pole?" asked Royal, with a choke of his voice, putting out his hand. "?? iame is staked on this expedition. If it tails I shall never hold up my head again," answered the inventor solemnly. . "Hullo, what's that?" cried Roval, look ing toward the high enclosure that "encircled the three acres upon which the airship'and her temporary buildings stood. "Boys iooling, I guess. We have let no one in on any consideration since our trial trip. The Sergeant and I went up and came back alter a two hours' spin all right But it created a great furore. Everybody wants to come in. Hennepin has been trying to serve an injunction, but I guess he's given that up by this time." "I read about it in the paper, but it was tunsiuerca a reporter s vara. Bang! Bang! Bang! The noise upon the inclosure increased. Shouts and curses were heard outside. "Open! Open in the name of the State of Illinois!" came a great cry. The Sergeant bounded out of the car. "We wish serve an injunction!" howled a man outside. "From whom?" answered the Sergeant. "Open, or we'll bust you in!" answered the man outside in a brutal voice. "They mean to destroy mv airship," said Prof. Wilder with quivering lips. "This is Hennepin's doing. How can we get to the Pole if they come in?" "They shan't," said Sergeant Willtwig undauntedly. "We'll give you ten minutes!" shouted the man from over the board enclosure. "We have fifty armed men here and we'll give you ten minutes to open up." 2b be Continued JVfert Sunday. SO FAIR AND YET FALSE. Air Kathleen Mavonrneen. Oh, false to the core was the Idol I cherished Oh, false was the fair one.my lite did con trol, And all of my fond hopes in this world have perished Since she proved nnworthy the love of my soul; 'Twas death to my Cay dreams when fate came disclosing That she whom I loved was like the scented rose , That sheds its perfume on wboso'er breast reposing , Tet still 'twas apoison exhaled by the rose. Oh farewell, false idol, the grave is a yawn ing My heart feels tho hand of the merciful tomb And when the sunshine of the morrow is daw nlng My soul will have passed from this world and its gloom; But still the last wish from the lips did caress thee Is that from your folly and sins yon depart And God in His mercy may pardon and bless theo Oh farewell forever, thou'st broken my PlTTSBCEO, Fa. ucuru Altbzs Mobtojt. DICTUM OF ST, PAUL The Ban Against Women in the Pnlpit Will Be Lifted When a Little More Light Breaks. ' A PART OP HIGHER CRITICISM. Already the leading Divines of the World I ave Welcomed the Sex as Min isters of the Gospel. QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE WORK. Ih' Creed Revision Prints Toward the Abolition of the raallne Injunction. fWMTTEV FOR THE DISPATCH, i Forty-two years ago Antoinette Brown Blackwell pursued ,a course of theological studies at Oberlin College. Forty years afterward, in 1800, she was formally recog nized by Oberlin as a theological graduate. The tardiness of Ober lin, however, in according her the well-earned hon ors, did not pre vent this brave Rev. Florence EKoUock. woman from as suming the duties for which she had pre pared herself, nor a certain congregational council from according her regular ordina tion to the ministry. In the year 1853 the church over which she was presiding called a council of clergymen and made their pastor a regularly ordained minister of the congregational body, and for 25 years she was known throughout her denomination as one of- the most earnest, logical and eloquent ministers of that faith. Ecclesiastically authorized exegeses of certain Pauline injunctions against a pecu liar class of women of the great apostle's day have been an almost insurmountable obstacle lyiog between woman and her en trance upon the work of the ministry. "Let the women keep silent in the. church," reiterates conference, council and synod. It is beginning to be noted that this injunction has never been obeyed. The voice of woman In prayer and song has always mingled with that of man. Woman, "last at the cross and earliest at the tomb," has never kept silent iu the places of wor ship. The teaching ot the Bible has in a great measure been intrusted to her through the medium of the Sunday school. Women Are the More Faithful. It is being further noted that in attend ance upon and membership of the churches, women vastly outnumber the men; that the care of the poor and unfortun ate within the church precinct are turned over to the women; that the foreign missionary work is largely provided for through their efforts; that their willing hands and busy -Km. -A- "? Slacltviell. brains are called upon to raise money to supplv the many deficits that result from bad financial management of the official board. In short, it is an acknowledged fact that there is no work too severe, too prac tical, too vital or too sacred in connection with the church that the women are not doing. These and other facts of like significance have sent some oi the thoughtful and right minded people to a re-examination of the Pauline injunction concerning women and the ministry, and with what results all are familiar who have noticed, for example, the strong tide of opinion that has set in in the great Methodist body in favor of women not only as delegates to the general conference, but as eligible candidates for the office of the ministry; who note the frequency with which the religious journals recount the or dination of Mrs. A. or Miss B. to the minis try in the Congregational, Free Will Bap tist, Wesleyan Methodist and other smaller bodios endowed with more of the spirit than the letter of tho GospcL This certainly is not a vrev encouraging outlook to aspirants for the ministry among the women of that body. But let such remember that this injunction was issued before the days of the Westminster Creed Revision Council and the memorial Briggs controversy. Great bodies move slowly, but they move, and it is only a question of a quarter of a century or less when this in junction against woman's preaching will be ascrioeu to tne inaccurate scnoiarsntp ot 250 years a;o, and the Pauline injunction on this question will be subject to the same "higher criticisms" that to-day are being applied to certain authentic dogmas with the most salutary effect There Sects Recognize Women, Three sects of the Christian church have, from their earliest history, stood committed to the woman m i n i s t rv Quakers, Uni- versalists and Unitarians. In the Quaker c o mmunion theTe are 350 women who are known as "re corded speak ers," which is the highest ec clesiastical au thority granted its members by that devout and body of be lievers. Cftetpin, In 1856 tho Uhtversalist denomination founded a theological school at Canton, N. Y. This school was opened in conjunction with St Lawrence University, a college of letters and science, and the opportunities for study were offered to young men and women on equal terms. Rev. Olympia Brown was the first woman who took advan tage of this opportunity. She entered the theological school, the only woman in this department, pursued a lull course of study, received a diploma, and in the springy of 1863 was regularly ordained to the ministry of the Unhersalist denomina tion. A lew months later Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, .who was fellowshiped by the Universalist Church in 1860, atd had been preaching since 1859, was also regularly or dained to the ministry, and almost unin terrupted for 31 years she has proclaimed the gospel from a prominent pulpit Rev. Phebe Hauaford, who was ordained in the latter part of the '60s, has done beau tiful work for the church of her faith, not only as a preacher and pastor, but as editor ot one of the choicest publications of that body and as contributor to the columns of all its leading papers. Some of Mrs. Hana- ford s poems will live as long as the noble sentiment of worship reigns in the soul of man. There Is No Rnth to the Pulpit Much might be said of many of the .younger women in the ministry to the end of showing that the calling has drawn some Mif& .Er1 if Rev. A. J. of the most earnest and gifted women into service, ana tne service they are rendering is the strongest evidence of their divine right to serve. The early success of these pioneers at tracted the atten tion ot such young women of strong re ligious fervor as Miss Caroline J. Bartlett and many Rev. C J. Barlett . other zealous and successful workers to this new field of labor. Meadville Theological Seminary was open to women of the Unitarian Church, and while in neither denomination have the women crowded into the ranks of the ministry there has been a slow but increasing tendency toward assum ing the duties of this profession on the part of women. Hartford Theological School, within the past three years, has also opened its doors to women. The Universalist register contains the names ot 40 women in its record of something over 700 men ministers. The Unitarian Year Book bears the names of 70 women. Of these numbers all are not at present in charge of pastorates. borne are doing missionary worK. In a few instances the women ministers are wives of ministers and have been regu larly ordained so that they may aid more authoritatively the work in which their husbands are engaged. But of the women ministers a sufficiently large number are in charge ot important churches to demonstrate their capacity to the most incredulous. Woman's Fitness for the Place. Woman has demonstrated such peculiar fitness tor these tender and sacred duties tnat all that is necessary in order to allay the prejudice of the most conservative op ponent to her ministry is to place him where he will learn from observation how easily and naturally she goes about her "Father's business." The woman minister has no truer friend than Rev. Dr. Thomas. Prof. Swing is fully committed to the practicability of the woman ministry, iev. .isouen uoiiyer said many years ago to a young woman who had just entered upon the work of the church: "Stay there, mj- young woman; don't move until youhave proved, as you can, that the ministry is a9 much a woman's w ork as it is a man's." Brooklyn in Darkness In $7i The Presbyterian body, as recent as 1874, felt itself called upon to go to the rescue of the sanctity of the pulpit, ow ing to the Chris tian grace man ifested by the Rev. Dr. Cuy ler toward Sarah Smily, in inviting her to preach in his pulpit. This Christian cour tesy toward one who was u n i - 1 ersally rccog Ohimnia Brotm. nized as an effi Rev. cient and consecrated laborer in the vine vard of the Lord called out from the Brooklyn Presbvtery the following, which is a reiteration of n decision of the Gen eral Assembly, dating back to 1837: Meetings of pious women by themselves, for conveisation and prayer, we entlicly np. piove. But let not the inspired prohibition of the areat apostle, as found In his epistles to tho Corinthians and to Tlmotliy.be vio lated. To teach and to exhort, or to lead in Emyer In public and piomlscuous nssem lles, nrocleaily forbidden to women in the holy oracles. Dr. Collyer's pulpit is always open to the woman minister and his hearty "God bless yon!" falls upon her like a heavenlv bene diction from his reverent lips. This is Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage's view: "I do not think the story of the Gospel will be fully told until Christian women all round the world tell it. Sly pulpit is always open to women, and when they have preached there the impression has always been deep and good and lastins." Rev. Joseph Cook has said: "Hand in hand men and women build the home; hand in hand they ought to build the State and the church. Hand in hand they left an earthly 'paradise lost;' hand in hand they ore likely to enter, if at all, an earthly par adise regained." Ilv!ni'y Qnallfl-d for the Work. Perhaps it is left for Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, to sav the strongest word: "I cannot but feel that women have a greater Christian work to do than many of us have yet realized or admitted, and that they have it to do for the simple reason that th'ey are divinely qualified to do it. I confidently look to women who have received the heavenlygitt to recall and re-establish the heroic anu sacrificial piety of the church." The weight of such opinion from men who are foremost in the ranks ot the Christian ministry is beginning to count on the side of the woman ministry question. .The general conference ot the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America in session recentlv at Grand Rapids, Mich., struck out of the dis cipline the section prohibiting the ordina tion of women. While the Methodist Episcopal Church is not ready as a body to grant ordination to women, it is taking the surest possible means to make the ordina tion inevitable in fitting the women as it does at the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston. Ten years ago the most brilliant scholar of the class graduating in theology was Miss Mary Phillips. Other women have studied there since and at present there are two verygifted young women pre- Saring to preach the gospel. The great lethodist Church ma v just as well begin to get ready to ordain them. Women Will Find Their Level. But after all is said and done the strang est argument in favor of women in the min istry is found in woman. herself If there does not appear in her nature an eternal fit ness for the work no Bible exegesis nor fav orable report of conncil, synod or confer ence 'can place her in the ranks, of the min istry. It she does possess the qualities of mind and heart that will make her work a success, no biblical exegesis or injunction of council, svnod or conference canlong keep her silent in the churches. To woman the ministry is not a profession, but a calling. Women are natural teachers. They are born with the idea of instructing. Theyare sympathetic by nature. Suffering appeals to tnem. most women leei tnemseives tne natural guardians of the young, the aged, the sick, the poor. In the church of to-day theology is taking the background and Christianity applied is coming to the front. People are growing less and less interested in the fall of man and more and more solicitous about his rise. Outside of her place as wife and mother there is no calling upon which woman can enter where her every gift of heart, mind and brain can find a larger opportunity for exercise in behalf of the truth of God and the welfare of mankind than in the work of the Christian ministry. Flok'ece E. Koilock. PUTURE OF ANTHBACIIE COAL. Its Use Will Constantly Increase TJntll Its Price Makes It a Luxury. The comparative cheapness of bituminous coal causes its production to grow more rapidly than the production of anthracite; but the latter is so much the better domestic fuel, and so much to be preferred for all uses where the smoke and dirt that are caused by the burning of bituminous coal are objec tionable, that the growth of, the anthracite trade is likely to be seriously checked only when its increasing cost makes it too much an article of luxury to be generally used, says Joseph S. Harris in the Forum. The increase of cost will come (1) from the greater amount of capital required to open the mines as they penetrate the. earth more deeply, (2) from the greater cost of keeping them open while the dpal is being mined, and (3) from the ereater amount 'of refuse to be hoisted and the greater amount of water to be pumped as th mining reaches greater depths. If you want your house to be free from roaches, bedbugs, etc, use Bugine. M cents. ut uu ue&icra. P fe W3 I A RICH MAN'S 'MONET Spent to Build Healthy Tenement Houses Does as Much Good i AS IP SPENT FOE LIBRARIES. Another Sermon by tba Rev. George Hodges on Treatment of the Poor. GITING OPPORTUNITY AND SYMPATHY rWRITTIN FOB Till DISPATCH.1 I dealt at some length last week with the case of the unknown beggar, on account of the perplexity which it offers to the Chris tian judgment. The conclusion was that the only alms which religion and good sense can recommend for the unknown beggar is an "investigation ticket" of the Society for the Improvement of the Poor. I come now to the helping of the deserving poor. These people are poor sometimes, poor by reason of sickness, sometimes by reason of accident, or old age, or bereavement, or the incapacity or the sin of the bread-winner of the family. . More often, however, they are poor simply because they live in the nineteenth century. They are the vic tims of an imperfect civilization. They are poor just as people were enslaved in Athens and in Rome, and in countries much closer to us, both in space and in time. They suffer poverty just as great numbers of peo ple in the Middle Ages suflered from the plague. Slavery and the plague were in their day considered inevitable. They were regarded as the mysterious workings of a strange Providence, by which one man was lifted up and another thrust down, and by whose will disease was' let loose to take hold upon the nations. There must be slavery, they said,and there must be plague. Our part is simply to make the best of them. But we have learned better, than that. We have remedied that. Poverty Can Be Abolished. There is a day and we ourselves are living in it, in which it is considered equally inevitable that vast multitudes of people should live in poverty. That shows how much need we still have for civilization and Christianity. There is no more permanence in poverty than there is in slavery or plague. Poverty is not older than those twin evils that we have got rid of. It is only a little harder to fight. But we will get the better of it. Every year we are out-growing our old barbarism and our old paganism, and getting more civilized and more Christian. Let us realize that, poverty is simplv one of the signs ot social imperfection. These poor peoftle are the victims of our ignor ance of political economy. They are pay ing the penalty of our universal industrial mistakes. The great industrial machine is out of gear. It is giving some people great fortunes and wide acres and other people starvation wages and the narrow corners of tenement houses. Evidently it is out of order. We make a great blunder if we think that the poor are in general to blame for their poverty. We are all to blame for it It is the fault ot the century. Accordingly, the helping of the deserving poor is a deeper and a more diffi cult matter than is sometimes thought. It means, indeed, the dispensing of orders for groceries and coal; it means that Christian people ought to provide out of their abund ance for the immediate necessities of their poorer neighbors, and not wait to be asked. but rather to be on the watch for ways of giving to those who do not ask, and will not ask. But it means more than this. They Meed Opportunity and Sympathy. Not by dolei of clothes and money will the poor be permanently helped. 'Often that sort of charity is but a hindrance; it is a menace to self respect, and endangers in dependence. What the poor are reallv in need of is opportunity and sympathy. They want a chance, and they want a friend. One way to help the poor is to get clean streets In "front of their houses. The street is the poor man's lawn. That is where his children play. The happiness and the health of, the poor depend greatly upon the condition of the pavement. The streets of Pittsburg are an amazement to every visitor. They ought to be kept clean everywhere, but in thp districts of poverty, first and fore most. There would be fewer people in the reform school, and the workhouse, and the jail, if there was less dirt in the streets. Another way to help the poor is to secure an enforcement of sanitary laws, especially to see that the tenement houses are fit for human beings to inhabit. v A man who owns a tenement has a clear path to his duty to the poor. God knows how much of the daily earnings of the poor he takes for the privileie of living in his houe. God knows what kind of fami!y life, or desecration of family life, the landlord is responsible for by the conditions of his building. And God knows, it we do not, that the man who owns an over-crowded or unclean tenement, and out of the money which comes to him from the misery and sin of his poor brothers and sisters makes pious contribution to the church, mocks God. '" Hand, Rent and Sanitation. Some people seem to think that God is blind, that He can see only in the dim light of consecrated buildings, and that He knows how people conduct themselves in church and does not know how they conduct themselves anywhere else. Some people seem to think that the only houses that God looks at are the hou!s that have steeple But God looks closest at the houses of the poor. And the question of sanitation and the question of rent and the question of land are questions of immense interest to the Lord God Al mighty. The rich are debtors to the poor, because the rich and poor are brothers, and every brother owes his brother something. There is one debt, St Paul savs, that can never be paid. It is perpetually outstanding. In stallment after installment touches only the interest, the principle 'remains. That is the debt of fraternal love. The rich ought to use some of their money in paying the interest of this debt They do use a great deal of money for that purpose, but, as it appears to me, not always with ideal wis dom. For the poor, the deserving poor of whom I am speaking, do not ask tor alms. Thev ask oulv for opportunitv and fraternal consideration. And to that they have a right Tenements Versos Ubraries. It is, of course, an easy matter to advise people how to spend "their money. The chances are that the people who have the money know their own business best. But it does seem to me that if the rich desire to really help the poor there are other ways of getting that desire accomplished besides li braries and hospitals. For these splendid charities let there, indeed, be proportionate gratitude. But equal thanks and praise belong, I think, to the equally beneficent philanthropist who builds a block of decent tenements. Men ore responsible in the sight of God for the investment of their money. The man who puts his money, into a business that is of no advantage to his fel low men, or who locks it up in stocks and bonds, will have an account to give; has, indeed, an account to give to-day for the use of the opportunity that God has given him. It is not alone the rich man who owns a tenement upon whom falls the responsibility for the family lite of the poor, but the rich man who ought to own a tenement comes in for a share ot it. That is one of the uses of money which brings in a good return for the investment, both in the banks of Pittsburg and in the bank of heaven. Discouraging the Saloon. Another way to help the poor is to dis courage the saloon. The saloon stands in the neighborhood of poverty as a fortress of the devil. It is drink that tempts men to make unclean animals of themselves, to add misery to the poverty of their 'wretched homes, and add heart-ache to the hunger of their wives and children. It would seem incredible that a sane- man, with a starving family, should take bread out of the hands of his little children in order that he may eat and drink himself. It is drink that thus makes brutes and fiends out of the sons of God. If we want to help the poor we will help all efforts that are made to kill the poor man's adversary. Those efforts have not as yet amounted to much. In spite even of the Brooks law, the con sumption of strong poisons is increasing. Every day, even in Pittsburg, human sacri fices are offered to Bacchus in his licensed temples. And these sacrifices are mostly chosen from the children of poverty. Still another way to help the poor is to see that every poor man has a chance to work, and to see that he is not taken ad vantage of by reason of his poverty, is not given scant wages, is not overtasked, is not kept at his labor so many hours that he has no time to be anything but a dull machine. Every employer of labor has his answer to the question, how to help the poor, marked out plain enough before him. The poor, so far as he is concerned, are his own men. The kind of philanthropy that we need to day is the philanthropy of practical fair dealing! The Poor Need Sympathy. And from all of us the poor need sym pathy. The rich and the poor alike need to knotr each other better. Genuine help comes along tl-e wav of personal acquain tance. Jesus' I elped the poor, not by giving them money, for he had none to give, but by giving them his time, his attention, and his love. Every Christian family ought to have some neighbor of theirs, who is not so plentifully supplied as thej are with the blessings which eo alontrwith monev. whom tbev are helping, and helping not in any spirit of condescension, not with any taint of the pernicious heresy which persuades people that the possession of a bankbook is a certificate of character, and that one who is rich is, by reason of riches, better in any sort of way than one who is poor not in that unchristian spirit, but with real inter est and personal friendship, and delight in giving pleasure. We make a mistake if we think that the poor are able to appreciate only the neces saries of life. We expect them, I am afraid, to be quite unreasonably grateful for gifts of cast-off clothing.. We would do well to minister more than we do to the pleasures of the poor. To give a really good framed photograph of some fine picture to be hung on the bare walls of our neighbor's dingv living room, is to bestow a gift that will last looser and do more real good than half a dozen last year's dresses. Other Wats or Doing Good. To subscribe for one of the illustrated magazines for a father or mother who can read, and care to read, or for i-U Nicholas or some other of the children's periodicals for the growing bovs and girls whose parents cannot afford these luxuries, is a piece of thoughtfulness which will not cost very much, but will yield a great return of pleas ure. Or a really delicate and pretty cup and saucer, decorated by skillful nngers,as a gift for the old grandmother who drinks her tea out of cracked bonl; why not eive that? Or, tickets to a play or a concert, or a lec ture why not help the intellectual hunger of the poor? AVhy not remember the shab by little people, who have to say with the small child in "Faith Gartney's Girlhood": "There's lots of cood times in the world, but I ain't never in 'em?" It seems to be that such ministration as this to the pleasure of the poor might be a genuine help and uplifting. At any rate, it would be a sign of what is better far than pity it would be a mark of friendship. Christ is our example. Let us try to help the poor as we know we would have His ap proval. Then will we help the poor, in deed. George Hodges. IMPEE0K WILLIAM'S SPEECHES. He Is Nervous Before and at the Start hat Warm Up Well. An American who attended a recent ban quet at which Emperor William spoke writes as follows: At the dessert I observed that the Emperor abstained from conversation and nervously crumbled pieces of bread in his hand. Sud denly he rose, clinked his glass against a crystal caraffe near by and began a speech, the opening lines of which were almost un intelligible. His voice, however, gained with every sentence and finally ranged ont clearly and with almost cutting sharpness. He carries hi3 character in his voice, and is a fine speaker even from an American's standpoint A JUDGEGIVING TESTIMONY. AN IMPORTANT CASE SUMMED UP AS roixowA. Chronic Catarrh Twenty Years Settled on lames Could Get No Relief Permanent Care at Iast. 2Cew "Vienna, Ci.TNTONy Co.. O. Dr. S. B. Hartman & Co. Gents: I take pleasure in testifying to your medicines. I have'used about one bottle and a half, and can sav I nm 'a new man. Have had the catarrh about 20 years. Before I knew what it was it had settled on my lungs and breast, but now can sav lam well. Was in the army, could get no medicine that wonld relieve me. Yours truly, W. D. Williams, Probate Judje of Clinton county. While it is a fact that Pe-ru-na can be re lied on to cure chronic catarrh in all stages and varieties, yet it is not often that it will so quickly cure a case of long standing as the above. Hence it is that so many patients fail in finding a cure because of their unwillingness to continue treatment long enough. Many pedple who have had chronic catarrh for 5, 10 and even lfl years, will follow treatment for a few weeks, and then because they are not cured, give up in despair and try something else. These Iiatients never follow any one treatment ong enough to test its merits, and conse quently never find a cure. It is a well known law of disease that the longer it has run the more tenaciously it becomes fastened to its victim. The difficulty with which catarrh is cured has led to the invention of a host of reme dies which produce temporary relief only. The unthinking masses expect to find some remedy which will cure them in'a few days, and to take advantage of this false hope many compounds which have instant but transient effect have been devised. The people try these catarrh cures one alter an other, but disappointment is the invariable result, until very many sincerely believe that no cure is possible. Catarrh Is a Systematic Disease, and therefore requires persistent internal treatment, sometimes for many months, be fore a permanent cure is effected. The mu cous linings of the cavities of the head, throat, lungs, etc., are made up of a net work of minute blood vessels called capil laries. Xhe capillaries are very small elastic tubes, which, in all cases of chronic catarrh, are congested and bulged out with blood so long that the elasticity of the tubes is entirely destroyed. The nerves which supply these capillaries with vitality are called the "vasa-motor" nerves. Any medicine to reach the real difficulty and exert the slightest curative action in any case of catarrh must operate directly on the vasa-motor system of nerves. As soon as these nerves become strengthened and stim ulated by the action of a proper rem edy they restore to the capillary vessels of the various mucous membranes of the body their normal elasticity. Then, and only then, will the catarrh be permanently cured. Thus it will be seen that catarrh is not a blood disease, as many suppose, but rather a disease of the mucous blood vessels. This explains why it is that so many excellent blood medicines utterly fail to oure catarrh. Colds, winter coughs, bronchitis, sore throat and pleurisy are all catarrhal affec tions, and consequently are quickly curable by Pe-ru-na. Each bottle of Pe-ru-na is accompanied by lull directions for use. and it kept by most" druggists. Get your drug gist to order it for you if he does not al ready keep it A pamphlet on the cause and cure of all catarrhal diseases and consumption sent free to any address by the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Q. BIRDS OF THE SPMG. Robin and Blnebird Filling the Air With Richest Melodies. PRETTY LEGENDS ABOUT THE1T. Teh larger Has Qualities That Fit ITim for a Kational Lmblem. APROPOS BITS FROM IXDIA! LORE rwRrrrz fob toe msPATCir.i Bobin and bluebird are the dearest har bingers of spring and the best loved of American birds. They come like embodi mentsot the first balmy Southern breezes.the forerunners of spring delights and summer pleasures. Their presence in dooryard and air is a prophecy that makes them doubly welcome and wins for them a place in the popular heart far above that of the gay sum mer songsters. No sound of springtime is " so thrilling as the first trill of the blue bird as he flutters through the air with a sheen on his wings like the deep blue of summer skies, and a movement that sug gests a vivified .fragment of that far em pyrean gifted with the glories of song. The bluebird is the poet's ideal of spring, his wing the cobalt blue of sky, his breast the cinnamon of the brown earth, his plaint ive contralto the fit voice of springtime longing, as he flits Shirtinjr his light load of song From post to post the cheerless fence along. Simple, sweet and fresh, his trill sug gests banks of blue violets, and his undulat ing flight the freedom of wandering sum mer winds. A Solid A merican Citizen. The robin is a different presence. Ethereal the bluebird is: staid aad practical this oth er friend of the early spring. He is pre-eminently the thrifty, energetic, self-respecting American citizen, loving his home and enjoying the society of his kind. None of the bluebird's plaintiveness creeps into his melodies. His notes ring out with a cheerv fullness and the wholesome rhythm oCcon tent, as befits one who duly appreciates the beauty of the world. Even in the days of storm and distress, when fitful spring yields for the time to wintry blasts, he still bears a cheerful mien. His repertoire is not extensive, but the ear never tires of it, and his matins are among the most charming of our birds' sonis. Maurice Thompson has remarked: "I do not envy the man whose heart doe not sometimes quiver in unison with the bird songs of spring," and surely the one who can listen untouched to the robin's in spiring welcome of the sun on an April morning has lost the capacity for the purest and sweetest pleasures of life and "is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils." Both robin and bluebird are greatly ex celled in musical capacity by later songsters. All the other thrushes, to which family our American robin belongs, far surpass it in vocal range and richness. Those who have trembled with delight at the wonderful melodies of the hermit thrush, "the swamp angel," as the Adirondack guides call it, which Mr. Burroughs pronounces "the finest sound in nature," know the robin's song is weak and prosy beside it, and it would not be difficult to select half a dozen birds of midsummer with richer vocal endowments than the bluebird. None So Close to Human Life. But both robin and bluebird are familiars. About our homes they take up their abode, and their presence gives brightness and cheer to everyday life. Even in crowded cities they continue to live under our eyes, a reminder of the freedom of forest and field lost long ago. What if that strange recluse far in the forest has more brilliant yocal powers than have they, it is the test of greatness not to weary.and however much the robin's song echoes down from the top most branches of the tree hard by, however often the bluebird's trill floats' out on the nearby air, it is still the same sweet wel come song, as full of cheer and fellowship and love as the voices of dearest human friends. It is this friendly spirit, this love for man that has associated them so closely with human life, and perhaps more than all their other good qualities endears these birds to every one. Bobin redbreast in Scotland is never mo lested because a drop of God's blood is upon its breast. An English legend ascribes the color to the piercing of the breast by a thorn from the crown of Christ, upon which a voice from the clouds pronounced the bird sacred and promised it many friends in manv lands. Another bit of folklore, upon which Whittier his founded his poem,"The Robin," is that the bird's red breast was scorched from the flames when in pitv it tried to bear a drop ot water to lost souls in torment The Devonshire superstition, which impresses upon every lad the cer tainty that all the crockery in the house will be broken if he robs a robin's nest, h is for its basis the same sense ot sacredness. Something of this regard may have arisen from the robin's mythical pirt in that childhood tragedy, the "Babes in the Woods," which is only a juvenile form of the same myth to which Webster referred in his "White Devil" 200 years ago in the lines: Call for the robin rertbreist and the wren. Since o'er shado jrroves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do co er Tho friendless bodies of unburied men. These legends by right belong only to the European robin, and onlv by a sort of pop ular substitution can they be applied to the American bird. Of the latter only one storv has come to my notice, and it, natur ally enough, is an Indian one. Our robin was the dearest biidol the Anrrns.insetts, their "mercy bird." Its esteem, the story runs, dates from the early dajs of the tribe when a Narragansett mnid o rare grace, beauty and wisdom wns saved from death by its interference. A jealous and dis carded lover determined to avenge himself for the maid's preference of another more kind and courtly prince to himself. But at he rushed upon her, knife in Innd, a mercy bird flew so spitefully in his face that he but scratched the girl's arm, and she wa-i en abled to escape. The would-be murderer struct ut the bird and stained its breast witti Diooa irom ner arm. lie met his Just fate, and the mercy bird, which before hhd been gray, ever after wore a blood stain ou its breast. Mlsbt Well Be a National Emblem. The robin would. In many ways, be a fit ting emblem of our nationality. Early on the ground in the sprinjr, a most industrious bird, strict in its attention to business, work ing to raise not merely one, but two, three and sometimes even four broods in a single season, always on tho alert, he sujrgests in his life the assiduity, persistence and thrift of American character. Would that, as a people, wa might as well appreciate the beauty of nature and thejovof life, and feel as sweet a content as sits upon the modest garb of this, our doorvard thrush. Our sprinjr friend becon es somewhat de moralized rate in the fall when the summer's hard work is ended, and like some old men who have won their ease, is apt to be glut tonous. Seekinjr the companionship of his fellows, he irrows shyer of men, as if, as an idler, he had lost some of the guarantees of safety he possessed when a toller in this work-a-day world. Flocks of them feed to gether, and It Is not uncommon to come upon'them among the carmine pokoberrios, gorged almost to helplessness. Later In the tall they migrate, though a few spend tho winter even as far north ns Sew England. The blnebird was a favorite of the Algon quin Indians and they wove about it a pretty legend. It was the "sky-bird" to them, and they believed it got its color from the em pyrean whence it came. In the coldest win ter days, when the sky of northern climes Is the deepest, darkest blue, they said tho spirits Behind the sky, who hold it up, wera getting the sky-birds ready to come down again and sing the promise of green leaves and summer. After such unusually severe winters, they thought the blue bi-ds were more numerous tnan in milder seasons. It was a favorite name for the Algonquin maidens, and though the sky-bird was not held strictly sacred, the man w ho killed one, lost standing and esteem In the AUonqnln Tillages by doing so. Samcel 6. JIcClure. As sure as fata and quick as lightning I the.way Bugine kills roaches, bedbugs, et. 25 cents at all dealers. 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