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
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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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