rlBHPIIlllM ITEiyF LUZON, ysteries of a Great Island Where "White Travelers Are Unknown. LIKEIXAXOLDCBATEB. 3 Outlet a Subterranean Birer Through a Tolcano's Heart. SADI AND BELLES WHO TATTOO. e of the Standing irmies of Spain Con sists of Six Soldiers. EPS IXTO THE XATITE DWELLINGS. jcorrz6roxdence or thx dispatch. j La Tekodad, Phiixipixe Islands, April 10. r TEK300 years ago g European civiliza- ti tion gained a foot- ' L 1.-1.1.--1 :-i 3 UUiU 1U U1C3C 151&UU5, and yet there still reraaiu portions of them into whose re cesses few, if any, whits men have ever penetrated. This Island of Luznn, which is the largest of the group, Lai an area almost equal to that of Pennsylva nia, and if the whole group of islands, or hipelago, were set down in the Atlantic ean, along the eastern seaboard of the I MM f-i-' .U2i-7r nimr" i." .W' !' U ill) j,,.- THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, LA TRUTIDAD. rth American continent, it would stretch m Nova Scotia to Cuba. Ten days ago the opportunity was pre lted to tue for T.siting the northern in ior and little-known portions of the and of Luzon. An English friend, a pro sional globe trotter, orchid collector and -io liunter, invited me to accompany him & ?'ch ior rare orchids and a isit to the d fields and natural wonders of the big and. The party which embarked on the tie Spanish steamer Butuan consisted of - friend and myself and three native vants. rhisyet me remark, is pre-eminently the id of servants. Everybody has a servant; nkees and Englishmen often two and The reason is that they are cheap J e'ever, and perform all the duties of a eneh valet at about one-sixth the cost. The Carious Little l'onies. Two days coasting along the western ire of Luzon brought me to San Fernan- and wc were soon in the saddle-bound and 40 ki, or 60 miles, to La Trinidad, ich was to be the basis of our explora- ii- and operations. Nothing that might written could do adequate justice to the tnt of ponies which brought us to La i'i dad. They were of the size of the .land variety, shaggy, patient, sure- id and strong as oxen. It seemed an rage at first to mount one of these di- i utive brutes, with one's feet dangling .inn 12 inches of the ground. I became ustomed to it, however, hardened my rt as .t were, until on two occasions, le descending the foot hills, I found elf slipping forward on the neck of my ed. To prevent a catastrophe, I walked wn every hill afterward. With the exception of the wood and 3Si sggggsyaS- BULLOCK CART, SEA ither on my saddle every other portion of 7 pony's gear was of rope. The stirrup aps, bellv-oand, lines and bridle were of arter-mch Manilla twine. It was the 1st lemartable outfit I ever saw. The !lj-bard had three knots iu it I broke at the firt gallop and the native driver nk another hitch in it and that made four otv. Our roai icr th? ant twenty miles I along the seaho'e past scattered native ts, vhich stood In the midst of small Ids v.. th embankments along their edges keep the rain water from flowing away d viastlug itself on barren ground. The U is rich, bat these Christianized natives bs'et year in and year out on rice, fish and Ik. with nothing but a pair of trousers r the men s.nd a skirt and -scarf for the imen as olothii.g. The women never wear ts or head covering of any Vtnd. The n wear hats and upon meeting a stranger variably raise them as a token of respect t our road to the mountains wc iirquently t women carrying babirs, or s.ck of sin or tobacco on their heads. Their utation to the strangers was a smile and jend of the knee, Ttnflalors as Itrasts of Burden. One of the queer features of thi ride was e number o' buffalo cirts nhirh we en jutered. On the lowlands they are to be jnd everywhere. The great, patient ts with wide-spreading horns, are used biasts of burden or else harncsed to at, clttnuy carts, with solid discs of iod for wheels. Our first stop was at the casa of a Spanish ncco planter en the banks of a river ich at this scison of the year is nearly In the rainy season "it is broad and id, frequently inundating the entire dis- (. Just as we reached the rier I uo- 1 a young priest coming down the op- e bank at a gallop. As lie enteied the iw stream he rained a snowcr of blows s porjy, urging him .ilong in'a sneces- pr jumps that sent the water flying in of ipray. I regarded the youthful --cs -""tau-A and musculir ccclesiast with something of wonder at his evident crueltv. The reason for his action was tnsde manifest a few mo ments later when mv pony entered the water and proceeding feimrely to the mid dle of the river paused to drink and then tried to roll. Several natives came to my assistance, and by shouts and blows got the stubborn little brute in motion again. It is a necessity, born of the nature of these di minutive hore, to keep them on a lively jog while fordine a stream. At 4 o'clock the following morning we started on the final stage of our inland mountainous journey. The naked Indian carriers had pushed oa during the night itith our luggage. Each one had a bamboo frame on his back held in place by shoulder straps and a broad leather band around the forehead which supported the bulk of the weight AH the carrying into the moun tains is doi.e in this primitive fashion. Our guide was an Indiar. whose clothing con sisted of a loin cloth and a soup-plate hat of pia:td straw. Jtie carried our umbjellas and the cmer. The servants followed on foot, helping themselves up the steep paths by hanging on to the tails of our ponies. The Natives of the Interior. As the topography changed the types of natives aiteiea. xne inaians encountered in the occasional mountain huts were a finer, more spirited lot than the subdued looking, dusky inhabitants we met in the valley and along the coast. The peculiarity of these mountain tribes is that while they are luoie active and better developed than the lowland clans they are less to be trusted- The sea coast "Indians are good natured and lazy, but they are honest as lr.-iiaus go. At length we came to La Trinidad, a scattered pueblo in a cup shaped basin in the mountains with no visi ble outlet for the rain that is prceipitated during the wet season. The water, how eer, is drained off by a subterranean river. At every Indian hut our cavalcade was an object of attraction to the inhabitants. The natives in the fields ran to meet us and stare at us. The men wore nothing but a short girdle about the waist to which n as attached a snail bag in which they carried a knife, toLacco and pipe. The women were clad in gaudy colored blankets wrapped around the waist, with a vividly colored scarf thrown over the shoulders and bosom. Their long hair fell straight and nnconfined to their waists. The younger girls wore considerable less clothing and had their hair banged." We took possession of a wooden thatched roof house on the outskirts ofthe village. On the first floor is a kitchen and dining room. Immediately beneath are the sta bles. Ou the second floor there are three bedrooms containing iron cots. During the day the bedding is rolled up and hangs suspended in a net against the side of the apartment. The village itself consists of a wooden mission church and school, several very good ration houses the Governor's residence, conrt house and barracks, and a lot of native huts. The Governor ana His Army. Our first duty was io call upon the Gov ernor, a lieutenant in the army who has seen nine years' service in these possessions and who resides in a large wooden building or residence with his wife and two prettv children. His garrison consists of a hand ful of six soldiers in charge of another lieu tenant The Governor received us very graciously after we had explained the ob ject of our visit and presented our pass ports. He Invited us to dinner, but as we were tired out and needed a siesta we com promised by taking his chief of staff, a lit tle lieutenant, back to 12 o'clock dinner with us. He looked very imposing, after he had donned his dress parade outfit, as he strode along, his sword clanking at every step, and his white helmet and gold lace and aigrettes shining in the sun. This show of uniforms and guns there are two cannons mounted in front of the barracks is a potent influence among the natives, al though the little garrison would not be a mouthful ior one of the tribes if they should revolt Just as the sun was touching the mount ain tops on this afternoon of our arrival, we were treated to our first view of savage life. Accompanied by the Lieutenant we visited an Indian or Garoties camp in the southern part of the valley, where a three days' feast and dance was in progress in celebration of COAST ROADS, LUZON. the completion of the new '"house" or pow wow building. These Garoties are the true aboriginies of this island; a different race from the Malay "cross" on the coast, some of whom have been brougnt up here to. help influence these savages to come under the sway of the Church. Thus far all proselyting efforts have been proven un availing. The Malay half-breeds are a small, tbin, yellow, consumptive looking lot, hile these mountain 'avages are darker, stoutei and more muscular, some of the men reaching the height of 5 feet S and 9 inches. The Women Lov Their Tobacco. The women are net handsome by any means, but in this tillage there were sev eral with tolerably regular feature-) &nj splendid forms. Tib Oaioties women smoke cigars ar.rl cigarettes, rolled from the native tefcreo without special preparation, almost incc8uv'y, perform all the household and a good portion cf the f eld work, and in every sense are the hewers of wcod and drawers of wttcr in this wilderness. Their houses are of one room, raised 011 bamboo piles to a height of six or eight feet from the ground. The roofs are thatched and the walls consist of a light wicker work which the women weave as the house is in course ot construction. The danceis were resting when we arrived at the new "pow-wow" house. This was the second day of the celebration, and, as they keep np an almost incessaut movement day and uignt, with but two or three hours devo'ed to sleep, they were a pretty haggard looking lot ot 'savages. In lienor ot this event they had killed a buffalo, two or three pigs and a lot of chickens. These meals were served with boiled rice in wooden platters. AVe had scarctly seated ourselves en the outskirts of the circle of natives vhen three very comtly young women, whose adornment censisted" of a blanket fastened around the waist, a native cloth jacket, a string or glass beads around the neck ami an ernansive smile, hrninrnt us a drink of some kind -of fermented liquor I jFXStt&VS&iBtB -H " " $HE served in nolished cocoannt bowl. It was j a Very mild drink, not unpalatable, with a pleasant uruuiu. xne Auaiuas urtu& u dt the gallon, for it requires about that quan tity, I judge, to have any eflcct on a person, A Xtaucn for the Visitors, Two dancers, an old nan with homely, wrinkled face and tatooed arms and hands, and a middle-aged woman leaned into the center of the circle in the middle of the "pow-wow" house and executed a short dance in our honor. The music was fur nished by a band of native instruments, con sisting of two gong players and two drum- inches in diameter at the head and tapering down to an opening of 2 inches. The head was covered with dried snake skin and the musicians beat time with the flat ends of their fingers. The dancers circled around in perfect time to the music, with a hopping, shufflinc step, swaying the body and arms gracefully, and maintaining a very sober face. The male dancer kept his arms outstretched almost constantly, occasionally changing the position of the two blankets which hung from his shoulders. The woman swayed her body with greater freedom and grace than the man, varying the movement with an an occasional serpentine twist of her waist Her blanket hung from her left shoulder and reached nearly to her knees, but unlike her male companion she never changed its position. After the dance more wine was passed around, and then wooden platters ot smoking boiling pork. It wasn't half bad this supper of pork and wine, mers. The gongs were of copper, gently tapped with small sticks in time to the evo lutions of the dancers. The two drums were wooden cylinders, 3 feet long, about 6 The cup-shaped nollow, a mile or so across, in which La Trinidad is situated, was at some remote time the crater of a vol cano. It is at least 4,000 feet above sea level. The nights are cool enough for a thick blanket, 'and the morning after our arrival I was surprised to find that the air was so chill that it turned my breath into a licht vapor. The water, which is precipi tated in rain into this crater during the rainy season, finds an outlet in an under ground river which flows from a beautiful little lake and disappears abruptly into fis sures at the base oi the rim ot the old crater. It emerges on the other side of the mountain and goes rambling away down a rocky gorge and amid scenery which, to say the least, is sublime. An Island In a Crater. An island in the center of this crater lake is inhabited by a Spanish trader who has spent seven or eight years up here, traffick ing in gold dust principally and occasionally buying a little silver and copper ore from the natives. We visited his island home. The road ran along the pebbly shore ot the lake to a stone pier, at the end of which was a ricketty bauibuo platform extending far ther out over the placid wateis. At its ex tremity we found a boat about 15 ieetlong and two wide a dugout with a paddle wheel at the stern rigged to work by band. Half a dozen ducks rose from the reedy holders of the lake as we pushe6on, which led the commander in chief of the army of Spain in tuee parts to remark that there was some excellent duck shooting here abouts. We found the trader working in his car den: planting coffee bullies atouud his little kitchen. AVIille our host was showing us through his house his housekeeper.a stoutly built Indian girl, was set to oik pounding corn in a stone mortar. Grain is pounded into meal only as it is used. Tho dwelling of the trader was comfortably fuinished with modern fnrnitutc, every bit of which had been canied up the mountain on the backs of native carriers. Ills mat ble-toppcd side board was coveted with choice glass and chinaware, and it was evident that though he lived among tho barbarous he retained his lovo or civilization and its luxuries. lie lore wo left his dusky housekeeper served a dinner which in quality and service was as lino as any I had sat down to in Manila, the metropolis of Ooenntca. The news that my fi ieud and companion waB an orchid hunter had s mead through tho mountain within 48 houis of our an ival, and on the fouith day tin Indian appeared at tho door loadod down with laie specimens of these beauti ful plants One of the most striking was puie w hite growing directly from the stem. Two others had Bpotted leat folntgo. It did not tuko long to stuke a bargain with the Indian, who sold his treasure ior a mere tiifle. A Trip to the Gold Field. The gold fields to which I have referred are situated further up the mountains, out side the crater, and they are worked in the most primitive manner. The trail led through gorges and along precipices that made me dizzy. At one point where we wound around a spur in the mountains the ledge along which our ponies clambered was not an inch over four feet in width, with a sheer descent at our feet of 800 or 900 feet Kapouga, IS ki from La Trinidad, is the gold legion village. Our arrival attracted universal attention, but the unlucky natives who crowded atouud us were seut skurry lng on all sorts of missions by the chief, some to bring grass for the horses, others to pound plain ior oakes for our dinner. Haifa dozen women were seated under tho main house. Their hands and arms, were tatooed in uiemarkablo way. One young woman with boautiiul daik eyes and long glossy black hair had her shoulders and neck fan tastically anU indcllibly decorated in this manner. One featuro in the chief's bouse was two copper bnins, two lectin diameter, made by a native workman out of tho cop per which they had mined In the hills. The old 14 lound in a creamy quartz rock. Thoquartzisbion.cn oh the ledges, then gioiuid between stones and this powdered stuff is wii'hod in spiing water to obtain the tiny purticlus 01 gold ior traffic. In the first gully, or ticncn. I lound one man and two women at work. The women sat flat on tlis giound whilu tho tnnii squatted on his haunches alternately smnshiuir quartz and washing the residue in a small copper basin. The surroundings were barienuud clieeilexs in the extreme. It strikes me that an enter prising Ameilcan miner might, tn connec tion with a Spanish pal titer lor ptotection, find enough to repay him ampiy for his trouble among those mountains of Luzon. Jobs Eabe, 1). 1). S. PXTTSBUKG AND LAKE ERIE It It. CO. Spscial Kates for I'ennsylvanla State Teachers' Assoclntion. From July 2 to 8 inclusive, this line will sell tickets on the card order plan from Pitts burg to Beavor Falls and tecum, good lor return passage until July 18-lncIusIvo, at 85 cents each. Dz Witt's Little Early Blsers. No griping, no pain, no nausea: easy pill to take. Vollobrao. Made from puro malt and hops by Kber hardt and Obcr. The great hot weather drink, iiottlcd or in bulk. On tap at all first class restaurants and saloons wrsu Cm plain Awnittos, latest out.at ilatnaux i Sou's, KTJ Peuu avenue. wsu SS Sf. It " v Avm wj "ii K A Ka'ive Valet, Luton, Philippine 1'lands. PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, THE GROWTH OF MIND As Indicated in the Change From Polytheism to Monotheism. REVELATION IS PKOGRESSIVE. The Conception of the Trinity Is Another .Advance in thought. BELIGIO.Y AJ.D PHJIOSOPHX AGREE rWTtlTTES FOR THE DIIPATCtI.1 "There is one God; and there is none other." The Old Testament and the New agree in that asseition. A Jewish scribe said it, and Jesus Christ approved the say ing. Here religion and philosophy are in ac cord. The saints and the scientists alike maintain the unity of God. Authority and reason join thus far in the recitation of the creed. God must be one, cannot be other than one. Polytheism is possible only among people who have not learned to think. With the growth of intelligence, with the increase of ability to reason from effect to cause and so back (o the initial cause, the unity of God becomes one of the imperatives of thought. It is out of the question that there should be two Gods or three Gods. There is one God, and there is (and can be) none other. The revelation of God is of necessity pro gressive. All education is progressive. Because acknowledge is conditioned by the mind of him who knows. You may take a whole ocean of water, but you can get only two pints of it into a quart cup. The water is conditioned, is limited, by the cup. So is knowledge conditioned by the mind. Truth does not grow greater, but some people know more of truth than other people, because of a difference in their ca pacity for truth. Conception of the Supremo Being. The highest truth which the mind can touch is truth about God. The supreme knowledge is knowledge of God. But this, like all other knowledge, is conditioned by the mind of him who knows. God changes not; but year by year in the life of a man, and age by age in the life of the race, the conception ot God changes. It is like the ascent of a hill which overhangs a plain. The plain does not change, does not get wider mile by mile, as the beholder climbs up foot by foot. No; the beholder changes. The higher up he gets the more he Bees of the plain. Step by step as the race grows, as the man grows, the human conception of God becomes more adequate, more true; man gets to think of God more nearly as he is. Thus religion grew out of belief in God as many into belief in God as one. Some have seen a curious trace of this old change out of the polytheistic into the monotheistic idea of God in the fact that at the beginning of the Bible the name of God is plural, while the verb which is written with it is singular. Men began to fee that the gods of their imperfect creed were but personifica tions of the attributes of the one God. In and above the gods, men began to find God. That was a lesson hard to learn. It is evi dent in the Old Testament that faith in the unity of God won its way little by little. The greatest men held it, but people in gen eral were slow to realize it. Many References to Other Gods. Even in the psalms, God is often spoken of as the greatest of the gods. Jehovah was the tribal god of Israel. The other nations also had their gods. The highest thought that most people were able to think was that their God wasa mightier than any other. The revelation of God is slow, but when the new troth is learned it becomes one ot the permanent conditions of men's thinking. It is almost impossible to unlearn it. We can scarcely imagine ourselves as believing that there is one God for Pennsylvania and another for Ohio, as men believed in the days of Moses and David. Nor even that there is one God for the United States ot America and another for the British Em pire. Perhaps the only trace of that old tribal theolosv. ot that obsolete polytheism, is to be found in the language of those who speak as if the God who is prayed to in the prayers of the pagans is somehow not our God but theirs. Other people talk as if the God of the Old Testament were a God who is now dead. They say all manner of hard words about Him, aud rejoice that He has be,en driven out of the throne of the uni verse. But these people are polytheists only in their language. It would be a good deal better it they would speak not of pagan gods, but of pagan ideas ot God, not of the Hebrew God, but of the Hebrew idea of God. The Savage Idea or the Creator. All religion, however imperfect and mis taken, is au endeavor after a better knowl edge of God. And as men grow, they are able to know more to know more about everything, even about God. And so God is able to reveal himself more aud more. At first, every tree is a god. Then there is a god of the trees, and then ot all the uni verse and of man in it. God is one. Then there grows in the heart of mau an increas ing application of the righteousness of God. The savage in the forest cannot understand a God who Is love. Love, in that sense,ha3 no place in his vocabulary. You might as well expect a baby to understand a demon stration in quadratic equations. The baby has got to be educated up 10 that. The savage has got to be educated up to that. Between the man who believes that God de sires him to extirpate the Canaanites, to kill the whole community of then, and their wives and little children, and the man who knows that God desires him to love his enemies what a diameter of difference! But the difference is not in God; it is in the man. We have not yet learned all the truth of God. We have not yet quite learned, for example, that God cares a great deal more for deeds than he does for creeds. But we have learned that God is one. At least we have abandoned polytheism. The Doctrine of the Trinity. The Christian doctrine of God, then, does not mean that there are three gods. It has sometimes been so taught that this has seemed to be its meaning, but all such teaching is mistaken. God is one. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity begins with that truth, and depends upon it, and is to be tested by it Whatever contradicts that essential assertion abor.t God is false. The Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yetthey are not three Gods but one God. The Father is God. This is the first idea of God, that he is the source of life. This vast illimitable universe about us where did it come from? These manifold and in terminable wonders which are revealed by microscope and telescope and spectroscope what is the cause ot them? This varied life going on incessantly about us and within us, we ourselves in the midst of this world ot matvels who can tell the story of the beginning? Thus we look up to God. There Is no proof which is irresistably con vincing of the existence of God. There is no infallible demonstration of the existence of God, There Is "an unreasoned conscious ness of dependence on a Beiug or Beings who are to us invisible." Aud this is em phasized by arguments fioin the appear ances of order and design in nature and from the mental and spiritual nature of man. But there is no proof, so that one may point to it as to a demonstration in geometry saying, Behold, and be convinced. J10 Proof of a Creator's Existence. . Religion, like science, begins with an act of faith. Science begins with the assertion that nature exists, an assertion which, as every philosopher well knows, is not cap able of proof. 'And religion begins with the assertion that God exists. Bacc oi all causes, infinite, absolute, eternal, the source ot all life, is God the Father. When we look up into the night sky, out .among the ranges of the stars, aud think; when we STJNDAT. JUNE". 26, pronounce the name of God; it is God the Father whom we have in mind. But we desire to know God. Of what avail is it to think of God, if all our thoughts must be punctuated by question marks, if w e can got no answers. What is God like? What is the revelation of God to us? Especially, what does God think" about us? Does he care about us? Does he love us? AVe crave a revelation of God.- But how can a revelation of God be made? Shall he write a sentence across the glaring sky? Shall he make his voice to be heard in the thunder? Shall h'e drop down a great book out of.the clouds, containing the Creed, the Lord's prayer and the Ten Com mandments, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his souls health? Or shall he make his revela tion in a lancuaqe which we all can read, in a tongue which the whole race, wise and un wise, will be able to understand, and in such form that the revelation shall be for ever free from all bondage to the letter, from all that might limit human thinking? The Personal Revelation. How can there be such an ideal revela tion? Why, in the person of a man; in a life which may be lived anions us to teach. us how to live, which shall be a daily dis covering of God; which shall reveal, so that all mayknow it, how God cares and loves. Give us a revelation in humanity. And so God became man, manifested him self in the person of a man. We need a new word about God to express this new idea about God. To our faith in God the Father we add our faith in God the Son. But God is one. The Son is not in any re spect a different God from the Father. God the Son is God the Father revealing himself. And yet there is a difference in these two ideas of God. It is the difference between existence and manifestation. It is the dif ference between thought and speech. It is the difference between truth and the ex pression of truth. The whole of truth can not be got into any expression of truth; the whole of the thought is never voiced in words; after all possible manifestation there is that left in existence which has not been manifested. Try to put into words the beauty of a picture; after all is said, how much eludes the speaker! So God the Son manifests as much of God the Father as can be manifested. Christ did not reveal the infinity nor the eternity of God. What he did reveal was God'srelation to us, espe cially in his hatred df sin and in his love for us. The Teachine of Theology. It is significant that no theologian thinks of claiming that God the Father became in carnate. It was God the Son; that is, that side ot the being of God which is closest to our moral life, and which we have most need t know he it was who became man. We ask our longing questions, and we get answers in the life and words of Jesus Christ. Does God pity us when we are in trouble, nnd sympathize with us? Yes; for Christ did. Does God really love us? Yes; for behold the crtssl But we are not yet satisfied. God mani fested Himself in Jesus Christ, but the world was already old when He walked in Galilee; for ages men had laid away the bodies of the dead. And all these dead people, who died before the manifestation of God was made, and had no chance to look into the face oi Christ had God, then, no word for them? And almost 19 cen turies have passed away since Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and has since been seen no more. We can read the story which they wrote who touched His hands and heard "His voice. But is there nothing more than that? Mast we believe that God, out of the infinite reaches of space, mani fested Himself among us for a brief time, and then somewhere went away again? Third Part of the Trinity. Ko: we have a better truth about God ithan that. God speaks in our hearts. God has always spoken in the hearts ot men. God is ever present. God lives in all life, thinks in all thought, is back of all prog ress, the unceasing helper, the untiring guide, the inspirer of all that is great and good in man. This is another truth about God, and we need another word to express it. We believe in God the Father, and we believe in God the Son, and we believe now in God the Holy Ghost. But there is only one God. There are not three Gods. The word "person" which the old creed makers used to express these different ideas of God, savint; that there are three "per sons" in one God, has given rise to endless confusion. With us a person is an indi-. viduaL We take our common meaning of the word and try to translate with it the statement of the doctrine of the Trinity-, and we find ourselves in the midst ot arith metical impossibilities. We puzzle our brains over the problem of three in one. But this word person comes into English out of Latin, and in Latin was a blundering translation of a wiser word in Greek. It means "distinction." There Are Three Distinctions. There is one God in threefold distinction. There are three chief ways of thinking about God, which are not only true but essential, so that if we are to think ot God aright, we must think of him in all these ways. The higher the nature the greater the complex ity of it. That is true of all we can see about us. It is true of God. God is the great source of life, the infinite, the eternal, the Father. God has manifested himself to us so that we may know him and love him, and know that he loves us in the plainest of all mani festations, in a human personality, the Son. And God is ever present with us, speak ing to all men everywhere, in the past and now, in the voice of conscience, God, the Holy Spirit Thus the doctrine of the Trinity, taking that old truth that God is one, and holdintr to it, draws new truth out of it. It is an advance upon monotheism as that was upon polytheism. It meets the longings of the heart It answers the sage questions of men. It satisfies, for the present, our search for knowledge of God. It is the truest statement which human reason, helped by divine revelation, has yet made of the nature of God. George Hodges. Revolving shield for Can. Those who have had the ill fortune to be in a railway car when it has been "held up" by traiu robbers will appreciate at all "events the intention of a revolving shield which has been designed for banks, express cars or any place liable to attack by high waymen. The shield or turret is of metal, closed at the top and bottom, and has a door which slides in horizontal ways on its in terior. The door and the sides of the turret have sightholes through which a person in side may hre upon an approaching enemy, the holes each having' vertically sliding blinds, which can be opened or closed at will. The top of the turret has a central ventilating draught opening, in which is a tubular journal projecting through the car roof, which facilitates the revolving of the structure. The turret occupies about the same space as an ordinary heating stove, is comparatively inexpensive, and, as its in ventor specifies, "is designed to be readily accessible to an express messenger or other person in charge of valuables in time of danger." 835 MEN'S SUITS FOB 310. Fa'ltr'g Dissolution Sale. To-morrow morning we will place on ouf tables 650 men's custom-tnaue suits im potted i.oods, lined throughout with silk and uiado to sell for $33 You can pick ono out to-monow only (Monday) for a Ten Dollar bill. Only 0110 suit sold to each cus tomer. Saixeii, Corner Smithfield and Diamond stieets. Those vhoso real estate or otherpioperty is mort cased, should ndtliesa the undersigned for inlounation showing how such inottgage can be pictected against foieclosutu at a nominal cost. Give ao. name and addiess. H. B. MoES<, Malinger, wssu 631 Wood stieet, Pittsburg, Pa. Lies, the popular photographer, will please yoj. Fhst-class work, moderate juices, pi ompt delivery. 10 and 13 Sixth street, su CAnRiRA Awslxos Don't fail to see them it you want uwninirs. At llamoux 4 Son's, 633 Penu avenue. Tel. 1972. wsu 1 Men's Negligee Shirts. Wo sell at prices to defy competition. Head large advertisement to-day, page 0. WEISSER'a. 1802. rwarrrnr fob ttib dispatch, t Now in the days of Benjamin I, who judged the land four years and maybe longer, and whose hat was so mighty that not any man, no, not even though he be fatter than Ebnd the Moabite, might knock it off with an exceeding tall pole, the children of TJnkelpsalra went up and down the land in the caravans that journeyed on the highways of iron, for so did men jour ney in the days of our fathers, before th6y had learned to fly. For all the highways of the caravans were paved with steel. Therefore did men call them the iron roadways. And it was so that if a sojourner in the land was exceeding rich in silver and gold and stocks and bonds, that when he would travel, the sons of Ar-Ar, who were masters of the highways, sent unto him a free pass, saying: "Of a verity it shall not cost thee a shekel to travel from Dan to Beersheba and back again with thy family, thy men servants and maid servants; art thou not rich enough to have everything ior noth ing?" Bat when a poor mau of the land desired to fare to a distant point, they bade him pay full fare for himself and half fare for the man with the pass, for they safd: "We are not running this railroad for our health; somebody must pay for it Shall we ask a man as rich as ourselves for money?" Very Tou;h on Laznras. And it was hard lines on Lazarus. For in those days there was no judge for the trusts, but every corporation did that which was right in its own eyes. And it was so TMnkest Thou ofFMhy Lucre t that whatsoever was right in its eyes was right In its hand, jnst the same. And Laza rus increased in children and waxed strong in numbers. And he took to pullintr down gates, and plaving with foxes and fire brands, and he" carried the jaw bone of a walking delegate about with him and smote sundry people with it, and he got to throw ing dynamite. And the elders of the land and the nobles and the chief men who sat in the gates, rent their garments for they had plenty of others, much better, at home and cried aloud: "Behold an anarchist, and a social ist, and a dynamiter! Let us cast him into prison and leed him with bread and water of affliction, "lest he disturb the existing order of things," and tney cast uusi uyuu their heads, for a sign that the country was in danger. And when Lazarus saw that there would not be enough dust to go around, he mingled bricks, which himself had made, " with the dust, and helped the elders of the land, and them which sat in the gates, to throw it on. For he said within himself "it will get there without siting." And it was so. The Priest and His Hire. And there journeyed in those days Wun wordmoar, the priest, which was the son of Seventhly, the prophet, which was the father ot Eighthly and Ninthly, and Butto gen and Turasmne the Laster. Now Wnnv wordmoar was a Stayer, and it was so that he traveled half fare, for the sons ot Ar-Ar, the highwayman, said, "Of a verity, he is but half a man, put him on the 10-year-old rate." But Wunwordmoar was a meek man. Oft times had he been smitten on both cheeks at once, so that he had no other one to turn. And he had been pelted with words of de rision by the people for whose good he spent his strength and time, which was about all he had to spend. And it was so that when the landlord thrust him forth from the khan because he could not pay the rent, that he went to his trustees and be sought them that they would pay the month's salary which pertained to the month before the last month before the month which had been two months ago. And the derided blm and rebuked him, saying: "Art thou a hireline that thou preachest for money? Seest thou the low state of Zion, and thinkest of filthy lucre? Carest thou not for perishing souls, that thou askest for salary?" And they handed his resignation unto him. But when he preached his farewell sermon the brethren wept over him, aud fell upon his neck and said: "The Lord bles3 thee, and keep thee in the way whither thou goest" And they wist not which way that was, neither did they core, so long as it i as some wav out of town. And it came to pass when they wrote the annual letter to the Sanhe-1 drim tnat tneir ncans smote mem auu wietr consciences troubled them. And they spake one to another and some said: "Of a verity We cannot, stand this thing, let us say that some wild beast hath taken him from us and devoured him and we wist not where he is." But others said: "Nay; we will lay it on the Lord." And theviwrote the Sanhedrim that the hand of the Lord had afflicted them and led the beloved pastor away lrom them. Now the members of the Sanhedrim were grave, and, reverend men and they never laughed at anything. Aud when Wun wordmoar was led away he put up his light ning rod and journeyed ud and down the land, for he said within himself: "It is the time of the great feast of Summer when all the world goeth up to London and Berlin and Rome and Paris to worship. Perad venture I may light upori a city pulpit with my great sermon- on the Battle of Armageddon and draw down upon myself an unexpected and entirely unsolicited call." And it was so. The liraverj or llfoJJrummr. Likewise there journeyed in the same,, caravan Denims, the son of Millprints, which was ot the tribe of Drummahs. Now Denims was a La-la. And he called the Conductor, who was the servant of the sons of Ar-Ar, "Jounie." But the name of the same was George. But Denims saved "George" that he might call tne president 'of the iron Highway thereby. For it was so that Denims was a mocker, and he feared no man living save only the 1 head of the house. Him he called "Sir," when he spake with him face to face, and he uncovered his head and his knees smote together when he stood before him, and his flesh became as goose flesh under summer gauze on a December day, and the cold sweat that ran down his cheeks was like unto a March rain on a gravely hillside. For of a verity the head of the house had been the chief man of the La-Las when Denims was but a kid. And it was so that thrice had Denims come out from his pres ence unable to stand before him, and had whispered hoarsely: "The old man is onto me." Which is a sign unto all men of the tribe of Drummahs that a man's sin hath found him out But on the highway Denims called the head of the house "Boss" and "Old Man," and boasted himself, and cried in the streets: "I am too fly for the Old Man." And in the caravan he called about him the men of the tribe ot Familymen, and Husbandmen, and the Frintahs and Be potahs and all the rest. And he told unto them a new storv. Now the same was written on ihe tablets'of Sennacherib, and was nine thousand and eight hundred and seventy and seven years old when it was new at first And at the first it was second hand. And while he told it they all slumbered and slept But Denims, the son of Mill prints, opened his mouth with mirth, and ceased not from laughter until the caravan stopped at the khan for dinner. And he told it thrice at dinner. And he said: "It is a corker." But they held their peace. Nevertheless, they wished that it were even so as he had said. For then eould they cork something with it and be at rest. In the Way' or tho Desert. Now it came to pass that the caravan stopped on a flag. Now a flag is a sign nnto the caravan to stop 22 seconds at New Metropolis City, where there is a water tank and a cattle chute, and thrice a year a passenger. And when the caravan stayed there joined himself unto it Haiseed, the son of Thistle pod. Now he brought his month along with him, for he said, "Of a verity I shall want to see something and peradventure to hear something." And he held his mouth wide open, and with it he heaid the oft-told story of Denims, the son of Millprints, and with it, moreover, he viewed the swift-flying land scape. And as the sight of his mouth was dim, he opened wide the window of the car, and leaning far out into the atmosphere, viewed the landscape o'er with his shoulder blades. And it came to pass that the man with the punch, who was of the servants of the sons of Ar-Ar, came softly unto Haiseed the husbandman and cried unto him, "Tiktl" But Haiseed was speechless, for he knew not the speech of the tribe of the sons of Ar-Ar. And the man with the punch was wroth, nnd spake unto him ronghly and said: "Hain chueotta tlkt?" Which by interpretation is, "Have you not a ticket?" And Haiseed, the son of Thistlepod, said, "Yea, verily," and 'straightway sought for it. Now he had upon his raiments an ex ceedingly great multitude of pockets, inso much that his garments were perforated with them. And he sought in them all, be ginning at the greatest and seeking through them even unto the least And the men of the caravan, and the merchants and the outgoing prodigals and the reformed prodigals, mocked him and cried after him. "Seek for it in thy shoe;" "Hast thou not another pocket yet in thy shirt sleeve." "Behold, thou hast taken it In with thy soft eating touaccol" But his heart melted like wax within him, and he said: "Noah didday wunbutta bleevi lostut" Which is, being interpreted, "I am positive that I had a ticket, bnt I fear I have mislaid it" Bounced From the Caravan. Tlrtf I10 mn with the nnnch lanphpd htm to scorn and cried unto Bouncer, of the tribe of Brakeman, and said unto him, "Bounce the beatl" Now Bouncer, the son of Agun, was a hustler from Hustlerville. And he fell upon Haiseed and fired him from the cara van. And Haiseed the husbandman sat by the wayside and wept And he arose and walked home. Now the way was exceeding long. And he beat Upon his breast and cried, "Woe is me, for I am undone!" Bnt the sons of Belial mocked and cried after him, "Nay, but thou art done upl" And it was so. And when he came unto his tent he told his wife all that bad befallen him. But she said unto him, "Let not my lord be cast down, for he is all right I knew thee, that thou hadst no head on thee at least, when thou wentest away from home and I knew that thou wouldest surely lose thy ticket Wherefore did I secretly take it from thy inside pocket and tie it in the corner of thy handkerchief. Lo, here is that which thou thoughtest thou haddest lost" And see held her head high and said, "Lo, what would become of these poor stupid men were it not for their wives." And she said within herself, "Now will I surely wear bloomers and vote." But Haiseed the sou of Thistlepod was wroth. And when he had thought it all over with his mouth, he cried, "Truly thou hast made me to be a byword and a scorn." And he smote her a great many .times plus more, across the shoulder blades with a hickorv ram-rod. and cast after her the sandals "of the hired man as she fled into the corn patch. And he abode in his tent, for he said, "verily the way of tije traveler is hard; and if so be that he is innocent of wrong doing, and his bands are.free from wickedness ana he knoweth not the way of iniquity, yet is his way the rockier by way of his innocence. I will dwell in my tents, and lay for the caravans of the sous of Ar-Ar with all my crippled stock, with the weaklings of the flock, and with the yearlings that I cannot sell bv reason of old age." " And it was so. EOBERT J. BOBDETIZ. EcoIse kills roaches, bedbugs, etc., In stantly. 25 cents. At all dealers. At She Fled Into the Corn Patch. 17 THE ELECTRIC FIELD. An Electroforce Shoedealer Talka Libel for Being Exposed. KEW APPLIANCES FOR 'SURGERY. Koyel and fffective Mode of KnocKing the Life Out of Weeds. BATTERY AND LAMP FOR OMNIBUSES rwnrmar tob tub dispa.tch.1 An account was recently given in tblj column of a so-called "electrolorce boot," which was being exhibited in the window of a London, Eng., store, accompanied by a description of the wonderful virtues of the "odio magnetism" which it was-sup posed to generate and impart to its "wearer. A London electrical journal 'called atten tion to this attempt "to gull the public," and spoke of it as "unworthy the name of a respectable tradesman." The legal ad viser of the "electroforce"- boot dealer haa written to the jonrnal in question for a re traction and an apology for its remarks, un der penalty of a libel suit The editor in reply says: "Many of our readers will recollect th man who was called to account foe his libel upon a woman 'She was ten years older than she looked.' Under threat of condign punishment he retracted 'She wasn't ten year3 older than she looked.' It is our mis fortune to be unable to take' in all the rig marole about 'odic force and 'odie magne tism.' If business men will tamper with things they know not of they must expect seme sharp criticism. Wc have nothing to retract from what we have said. The peo ple who are led to consider the buying of boots because of some high sounding far rago and scientific nonsense have to depend upon technical journals for words of warn ing and advice. Most emphatically the putting of a magnet in the heel of a boot is no more efficacious in curing bronchitis or in renewing brain power than the rubbing1 of the head with a piece of wood would be. The shopkeeper is depending upon tha ignorance of a purchasing public; in order to obtain a higher pries for something that has absolutely no value of the kind he puts upon it A. good boot may be of immense value in keeping the foot dry, and so prevent a pos sibility of bronchitis, but that a magnet in the heel of the boot will cure the bronchitis is quite andther matter. The moment the gentleman aggrieved will prove the efficacy of the magnet so soon will we apologize to any extent he pleases. We shall be happy to insert any communication that tends to prove him correct in his statements. Oar aim is to obtain facts, aud not to be satisfied with the exuberant outpourings of the im aginations of quasi-scientific investigators." It is almost to be regretted that there is little likelihood of the matter going further, for a lawsuit Tor libel based on the state ments in question wonld bo an immensa boon to the public, as it would result in disclosures that wonld be more convincing than any ordinary testimony as to the ex tent to which the credulity of the masses is worked upon more and more every year by bogus electrical and magnetic curative ap pliances. Electric Light In Surgery. It is astonishing that the splendid work now being done in this country by a few of the leading and most progressive electro therapeutists has been a'ceorded so"1 little recognition outside the profession. This, however, can be readily understood by thoe who realize the strength of profes sional prejudice in the matter of advertis ing and the modesty of many earnest scien tists in giving publicity to the results of their investigations. It is gratifying to know that an interchange of courtesies and ideas between the electricians of New York and their colaborers in the field of therapeutics is likely to be carried ont in the tali, when a convention will be held in New York of the American Electro Therapeutic Association. Such a commun ion is calculated to do an immense amount of good in directing attention to the admir able results that have been attained in many departments of surgery and medicine) by means of electrical applications. "Another outcome of such a meeting can be looked for with satisfaction. The field of electrotheraoeutics is covered by threa pretty clearly defined classes of practition ers: the really earnest and scientific work er; the ordinary practitioner, who, recogniz ing that electricity is "the thing now. adays," uses it in a blind and perfunctory manner, knowing, perhaps, that certain causes give certain general results, bnt not knowing or perhaps not caring to know why, and the electrical medical humbug. It is no small advantage that such an opportunity can be afforded M differentiating Detween sonnd and questionable practice. Car Lighting by Electricity. A neat portable battery with electriu lamp for the lighting of cars has long been needed something which can easily ba slipped into place, and which will light tha car "from the roof." For this purpose a flat battery with the lamp underneath, with reflector and some hooks or sliding catchei, has been suggested. An advance toward this desirable end is being made in the re sults of experiments'in lighting the London omnibuses. The battery used is a five cell batterv, constructedof special litfaanoda plates, fitted into a box. The terminals are led to two contactjpieces on one side of the box. The batterv so arranged is put into a well under the driver's feet, in which ara two contact pieces leading to a five candle power lamp. So far the battery haa been under a continuous practical test for about three months, with results bo satisfactory that a contract has been entered into ta supply and electrically and mechanically maintain the lights in the 'buses upon ona of the London Boad Car Company's routes. It is stated that from an Ksthetia point of view the new method of lighting omnibnset is heartily welcomed in London. A cotem pory remarks: "These vehicles are at no time palaces of comfort, bnt there are times when, what with the evil smell from the lamps and the flickering light, added to other discomforts, a seat in an omnibus means a minor taste of purgatory." WeedlDB by Electricity. A great source of annoyance and expensa to railway companies is the encroachments of the grass which grows around the rails of their lines. An effective mode of getting rid of this nuisance has just been devised in the shape of an electrical vegetation de stroyer. This consists of a wire brush, very much in appearance like an ordinary scrub bing brush. This is connected by a wire with a dynamo in the nearestavailable elec tric light or power station. "A powerful current is turned on and an operator dra?s the tnlly charged brush, which is supplied with a wooden handle, over the grass, kill ing it instantly. There are many ways in which this ability to instantly destroy vege tation can be utilized. Gardeners especially are likely to be grateful lor such a ready method ot getting rid of noxious weeds on garden walks as well as in Hotter beds. Da. J. G. B. SiroEirr & Soss" have obtained In the United States Circuit Court of New York City a preliminary injunction againBt "Von Glahn Bros., New York, restraining the latter from selling bitters put up.ln imt tation of the Angostura Bitters. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea . Bcmedy Can always be depended upon. It Is pleas ant to take and will cure cramp, cholera morbus, dysentery and diarrhoea in their Worst forms. Every family should be pro vided with it 25 and 60 cent bottles for sale by druggists. TVlhSu Movnto and packing" furniture a tfpeeiatty.-' ' wsu Hawjh Sxxsis, 33 Water street, - -:ji . &$
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