ggsgisaas- v THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY. - JULY 10, 189a 17 . - w9 AN ISLANDJTRAGEDY. Tlie Experience of Judge Ad vocate General Eemey Off the Coast of Brazil, a couriers sad end. He Swam to an American Man-of-War to Plead for His Liberty. RETURNED ONLY TO BE SHOT. ?acts About One of Mary Anderson's Most Touching Eecltals TOLD IN METER BT LORD LTTTOX'S BON tWTtlTTEJf TOR Tit. DISrATCH.l TJDGE Advo cate General Eemey, of the United States Navy, has a handsome office on the East side of the great War and Havy De- . partment Build, ing. General Bemey is the highest officer 'vv" 0fr Jt. rfiv?. records of the court martial trials of naval ifficers. He also j attes upon con tracts and ques- .1 Cry of JMfi. tions of 2egal in terest. His position is that of a judge of a court of the highest appeal in the service of .he navv. He is a gentleman in the neigh borhood of 40 years of aire. One dav, when I was in his office, he turned from the perusal of some papers on Ihe desk before him and told me a most re markable story. TniR story was suggested by a map of South America attached to the papers which he was examining. Pointing to a little spot npon the map to the north east of the coast of Brazil he said: "That is Salute Island. It is a French convict station. It is a barren strip of sandv deert, bare absolutely of vegetation. It lies very low and is wholly unprotected fmm the glare of the tropical sun. Life here has not one attractive feature. Only onvicts of the most unfortunate character re sent to the island. Almost rqnlvalent to Death Sentence. Fevers are common. In the despair and liscomfort of this hideous life the prisoners lie like sheep. To be sent to this island is Jmost eauivnlent to being sentenced to teath. The Sisters of Charity go there and y their devotion show the unselfish spirit" hat animates them. They go there and share the miseries and discomforts and ceaths which are common to all on the land. as attached a nnmber of years ago to eet in the South Atlantic, and during ourse of our journeying we anchored alute Island. One night I sat upon the k in the company of another officer. We djust finished dinner below. It was a ft moonlight night with occasional scur--.-3 ot cloud, nhich made the night light at mes uncertain and dim. We were lazily ranking our after-dinner cigars, when I noard a cry of 'Help!' from the water be leu. tallowed by a splah. Iran immedi ately to the rail, as I thought it was a case of man overboard. But there was a tgk -q VJt.ii jj 'iiasm arsSmitfSS? ll4-1 5&ql'Ka!yiS5!SHJ B&Pmfe iMtf; - e.. JtTi W The Man Beaan la Tell Bis Siorv. ,ailor ahead of me, who tossed a rope to a ';an who was swimming in the water be tr. In a moment he .was drawn up on leek and at once he began an explanation t his appearance. "He was a convict from the dread station m the island. He had seen our flag, and he ia'l swam out to the ship. "Would we take um aboard and enable him to escape?" Tells III torjr to the Admiral. "I did not listen to another word of hla xplanation. It was altogether too serions i matter for me. The Admiral of the 'fleet jras then dining on board the Tery ship irhere T was. I sent an officer to him ask ng him if he could come on deck. I ihall never forget the picture presented nrnen the Admiral appeared. He was in the ull dress ol his rank, as the dinner was one if ceremony. He was a handsome officer vith snowy white hair and short white ieard. In striking contrast was the atti ude and the appearance of the prisoner, "lie latter was tail, eaunt and haggard. He lood dripping in his convict dress in an at itnde of intense entreaty. "The Admiral said, "Well, sir,' and then he man began to tell his story in the clear, veil modulated French of an educated per--m. According to his story he had com muted no crime. He had teen exiled for i:s political opinions. He had a wife and dimly at home. He had come out to the Inn at great peril in the hope that he would nd here ireeuom. lie swam out to the ae -if the country the emblem of which i-ant liberty. Had he made his appeal in ain? "Tlie character of the man was most im resive. The Admiral believed that he as listening to the words of a man of truth nd honor. He was deeply moved, but his -e was stern as he said: 'I am sorry, sir, ut I can do nothing for you. It is not ar life or mine that would be at stake. If ere to take you aw ay I would be guilty ' interfering with the police regulations of '-lendly foreign nation, and that would be -ufiicicnt cause for a war, in which many ii.oceut lives would he lost I am sorry, ji you must go back. A Kara It 1th MnfU-d Oars. "The prisoner's attitude was now one of itense dejection. He said without further -guroent, 'Sir you hate just condemned e to death.' 'How is that?" asked the Admiral. According to the regulations of the d, which is governed by military law,' vflWi wmm M frffllL V tSH?7 53 N K . Mtf WW replied the prisoner, 'any prisoner who at tempts to escape is shot. A 9 o'clock the rounds of the cells are made. If a prisoner is absent at that hour his absence is con sidered as proof of an attempt to get a war. "Our American Admiral started at if lie had heard the crack of a shot. " 'My God, man!' said he. 'what time Is it rlow?' "He pulled out his watch as he spoke with a nervous wrench. " 'It is only 20 minutes to 9! I will get yon back.' "Without a second's delav the Admiral turned to the side of the ship opposite the island. A few hurried orders were given in a low tone. A boat was dropped. The oars were promptly muffled and a boat's crew clambered down like monkeys. The prisioner was hidden in the bottom "of of the boat and within four min utes from the time the onler was given the boat shot out on Its errand of mercy toward the island. A little black cloud came across the moon just as the boat started, as if the elements were lending a kindly hand In con cealing the return ot the unhappy man. The officers who had heard the story all warmed to the rail with their glasses. We watched in the darkness for the appearance of lights or some signal of alarm. The boat landed without a single sign of disturbance. The prisoner was back a few minutes before 9. in ample time to return to his celL A sigh of relief was breathed by us all when we saw the boat coming back and nowhere any evidence of anything unusual in the ap pearance of the island. Many Doubts and Misgivings. "But still we felt very uneasy. The Ad miral walked up and down talking about the poor man. Some way we felt that it was not all right. We could not feel cer tain ot his escape. We sat up nearly all night studying the island through our glasses, "The next morning we felt that we must satisfy soma wsy our doubts. The Admiral decided to pay a visit of ceremony to the French military commander of the island. The officers on hoard our ship were invited to accompany him. We thought surely in a visit ot this kind we would hear if any unusual event like an attempt at an escape or an execution had taken place. "We all put on full uniforms for a visit of ceremony. The Admiral's gig was lowered and we set out for the island about 10 o'clock. We were received with great po- The Bout on lit Errand of ilercj liteness. The French commandant invited us to remain for a middav breakfast We accepted his invitation. We chatted with the officers of the station, but during the wait and daring the long breakfast there was not a word said upon any subject which gave us the slightest information concerning what we wished to know. Naturally we did not dare to ask any questions. Yet this lack of information, this absence of any ref erence to anything unusual did not some way satisfy us that everything'was all right At the close of the breakfast the command ant selected a young officer ot bis staff and directed him to turn out with a guard ot honor to accompany us back to our boat The commandant in giving his instructions added, 'When these gentlemen are ready to depart give them my message.' This phrase sent a cold chill through our company. We felt that everything was not all right no Was Shot at Four O'clock. "We marched back in silence to our boat When everyone was in position and the oars were apeak ready to let fall and pull awav the young French officer said, with his hand at his head in an attitude jof mili tary salute: "This is the message of the commandant of this post He wishes me first to present to you his compliments. You pre brave and honorable men. You have attempted to do a merciful act Last night a prisoner escaped from this island. He was seen by the sentry as he entered the water. He was seen to swim out in' the direction of your ship. We all saw that he was taken on board. Every gun in-the battery on this island was brought to bear on your ship awaiting your decision. We saw ;ou when vou let fall the boat to bring the prisoner hack. We watched the boat advance to the island through our night glasses. We received the prisoner as soon as you landed him. Gentlemen, the prisoner was shot at 4 o'clock this morning." This remarkable story, remarkable from its dramatic and pathetie qualities, made a deep impression upon my mind. Several months afterward I was a guest in the house of Miss Mary Anderson, the celebrated actress, at her home at Hampstead, near London. Miss Anderson spoke of the dramas of real life and as an illustration of her thought I related to her General Bem ey's story. Kecltrd by Mary Anderson. She asked me to write it out for her just as he told it She said that she had never heard a story which had so deeply moved her, and which presented iii a simple fash ion such a cruelly vivid picture of uuhappi ness and misery. "Two years later I met Miss Anderson in Marseilles. She' was then on her way with her mother to the Biviera in search of rest and health. She said that one day in Paris The Omvict Was Drawn on Deck. she. was a guest of Lord Lytton, the British Ambassador. After the dinner Miss Ander son was asked if she would recite something. She complied and recited the story of Sa lute Island. Miss Anderson said that she had never in her life made any dramatic recitation which had produced a greater eflect It was at a reception after the din ner that the recitation was made. The room was filled with distinguished guests. During the recitation there was absolute silence. The brutal climax of the story came upon the audience with a shock like a blow in the face. LordLytton's son, then 15 years of age, was present He had inherited"the literary qualities pf his distinguished grandfather and father. The lad was so deeply moved by the story that he took up his pen a day or two afterward and embodied the story in a poem. This poem has since been published in England. X CL Crawford. A 20-10, 000th" part or an inch difference In the thickness or the strip makes a differ ence In the running of a watch of about six minutes per hour. DISHES OF THE SOUTH. Kecipei From a Delightful Old Cook Book the Aunties TJs.d The Virtue of Cora New Ideas on Tomatoes Hot Weather Delicacies. fWRITTElf TOR TUX DHPATCH.1 We bear bo much of the good old days "befo' the wah," the mystio charm of the Southern cuisine, and the unattainable con coctions of our grandmother's days, that one may be pardoned for experiencing somewhat the feelings of a second Colum bus upon discoverin g a key to many ot their culinary. mysteries. The appended recipes are taken from a cook book yellow and tattered with its three-score years, hav ing drifted by the exicencies'of fate from the romantic ' realms of Auntie Chios to plain, prosaic Northland. The following formulae for the preparation seasonable vegetables nave been selected with the view of helping the housekeeper in her incessant effort for "something new" in the summer menu. Here is the recipe for green corn cakes: Mix a pint of grated sweet corn with three tablespoonfula of milk, a teacup of flour, a large spoonful of melted butter, a teaspoon ful of salt, a little pepper and one egg. Drop tho mixture Into a pan, fry until brown, us ing fresh butter for frying. These cakes are served with meat at dinner and are deli cious. Sweet corn succotash after the Southern manner is prepared as follows: Boil together for half an hour lima beans and salt pork, cut the corn from the cob, boll with the beans and pork until tender. Just before lifting add a pinch of celery seed and a portion of rich cream, which has previously been warmed. They Knew How to Use Tomitoes. Notwithstanding the prejudice against tomatoes in the days when this book gov erned "pots and pans," that vegetable enacts qnite a role in gastronomic affairs. So wholesome and universally used a vege table is not to be overlooked, while its cheapness and plentifulness render it ac cessible to all classes. Prepared in this mode and you have a dish "for the gods:" Take six large tomatoes, wholly ripe, after removing the skin place them In a large dish with nlternate layers of bread crumbs, sprinkling each layer with salt, white pep per, a dost of sugar, small bits or butter, a teispoomul of rich cieam ana twociove. Place In the oven and bake for three-quarters of an hour. The flual layer should be of bread crumbs. Another equally delicious recipe is called "Tomato Soy." Why "soy" deponent saith not and, lor those who are tond of onions, is worthy thetronble of preparation: Prick ripe tomatoes with a fork, lay them in a deep dish, and to each layer put a layer of salt Let them remain thus for several days, then take them oat of the salt and pnt them In vinegar for one night The next da' drain on the yidegar, put the tomatoes in a jar with sliced onions in alternate lay ers, allowing half a pint of mustard seed, half anonnce each of ground cloves, black pepper and celery seed to each peek of to matoes. In the course of ten day they will be in fine eating ordor and should be kept and served thoroughly colli. Tomato soup U given thus: Take the remains of roast lamb or mntton, Teal and beef: boil in sufficient water to cover it. When quite tender take It oat of the liquor, cut off all the fat, and, mincing the lean meat, place in the liquor, together with skinned ripe tomatoes in the propor tion of a dozen to three quarts of the liauor. Boil the whole together tor three-quarters of an hour, season while boiling with a spoon iul ot suirar. nenDcr. salt, mustard seed snd a few cloves: strain and serve, adding a cup ofscalding milk. A Snbstltnte for Figs. A delicious and wholesome conserve ii thus prepared and yclept "Tomato Fgs: " Allow three pounds of sugar to six pounds of tomatoes. Take those that are fully ripe and single or pear-shaped, scald them and take off the skins; stew them very slowly in one-half the sugar, not using water, as the juice of the tomato will suffice to forma syrup. When the sugar appears to have thoroughly penetrated, spread them on dishes and dry In the sun, sprinkling over them the reserved sugar while drying. When perfectly dry pack them in jars with a layer of sugar between each layer of to matoes. Preserved in this manner they will keep for a year ana resemble figs in flavor. Care should be taken that no "moisture neither the rain nor the flow shall fall upon them while drying. In this fashion is egg plant made very palatable: Boll for a few momenta to extract the bit ter flavor, then cut in thin slices, gnrlnkle salt between eaoh layer, letting them re main so lor an hour. Then dip tne slices in the yolk of an egg, dusting over each slice a little salt, peoper and grated bread. Fry la butter until brown. According to this authority "salads should be gathered and placed in cold water an hour before using." Then draining the water ofi the leaves should be placed on the table, each individual dressing his own with a sauce prepared in this way:N Take two eggs beaten to a froth, mix with them a teaspoonlul or mustard, a large spoonful of iuar, a little black-pepper, one half teaspoontul each of mustard aud celery seed, a teaipoonful of butter una one-half teacup lull of vinegar. Place on the Are, stirring constantly. Allow the mlxtuie to thicken (It must never boll). Bemovo from the fire, and, after cooling, stir In a teacup full or cream or milk, uitnolng with it a hard boiled eg. v Some Hot Weather Foods. For hot weather discussion potted cheese is excellent It is prepared thus: , Take rich cheese cut into small pieces, the rind excluded, place In a mortar and pound into a tine mass. Having thus resolved It, mix brandy with It In the pronortlon of a tablespoontul ot brandy to each pound of cheese. When thoroughly mixed, put the whole in an earthen pot, press it down tight, turn a little brandy oyer the top of. cover it and keep in a dry, cool placn. Potted cheese is best when a year old, but will keep for a number of years. An excellent "Sally Lunn" is made in this way: BoU mealy potatoes and mash them quite fine, mix with a enp nf the mashed potatoes a large spoonful of butter, a pint eaoh of milk ana water, a teaspoontul ot salt three eggs, and flour enough to make a stiff batter; add two largo spoonfuls or yeast, turn into buttered pans, having the batter about an inch) and a hair in thickness; let it rerifaln four or five hours to rise, then bake and eat hot The following is the direotlon for making herb spirits tar soups: Take, when in their prime, the following sweet herbs: thyme, sweet marjoram, sweet ba'sil, and summer savory. Urv, pound and sift them; steep In brandy for'a fortnight; the spirit will then be fit for use. The famous corn dodgers of the South are thus made: Scald a quart of Indian meal, when sifted, -with just enough water to moisten the whole; iidd a teaspoontul each of salt and sugar, mull them op Into cakes the size of a large biscuit and nearly an Inch in thick ness. Bub flour on the bands when mold ing to keep them from sticking. Drop them into sufficient fat to nearly cover them. When quite brown on the under side tarn them. From 12 to 15 minutes Is necessary to cook them, but when finished .they are the Joy or more hearts than Pompey's or his master's. Almost as indispensable as the tea stable of the present day was the hospitable tender ot wine served with an accompaniment of little cakes called "vanities," in the Vir ginia house. This is tbe recipe1: i Beat a couple of eggs, stir in a very little fait, and rosewater to flavor; add sifted flour till of the right consistency to roll oat Itoll as thin as possible; then cut into fanci lul strips with a "Jagging iron" and fry in laid. There should be considerable lat, and it should be qnite hot when they are put In Silt white sugar on them while still hot When thoroughly cold serve them in Southern fashion, and methinks 'the guest will exclaim with the wisest man barring a slight alteration "Vanities! Vanities! Let ail be vanitiesl" Bobbe. Strong Argument Against Cremation, Dr. Buchanan, the New York wife mur derer, says that he regrets that he did not have the remains of his wife cremated. This suggests a grim possibility whose truthtulness cannot be questioned. Tbe facility for getting ridtH the victims of poison, and at the same time of the most convincing evidence of guilt by cremation, is one of the greatest tbieotinTi to tM. method of.diaposing of th deai FORM IN THE CHURCH. It Is Neeessaiy but Must Not De generate Into Formalism, THE U8E OP A BOOK OP PRATER Eanctloned Not Only by Antiquity but by Intrinsic Excellence. GETTING THE PEOPLE TO PEAT JWBlTTEIf FOB THB DISPATCH. 1 Golden bowls full of lpeense, which are the prayers of the saints. Key. v., 8. The prayers of the saints are part form and part spirit There is utterance and there Is aspiration. The goldeu bowls are full of incense. Tbe difference between the prayers of the saints and the prayers of indifferent and ir-, religious people is cot a difference in form so much as in spirit Tbe utterance may be alike iu both eases. The saintly person and the unsalntly person may kneel side by side, and recite the .same sentences of de votion. The difference is in the hidden as piration of the heart Every worshiper in the congregation has a golden bowL But the golden bowls ofsome of the worshipers are empty; the golden bowls of other wor shipers are filled with foolish, unworthy and unseemly things. The golden bowls of the saints are full of incense. Difference In Form and Formalism. All public worship, even the plainest, baa in it the element of form. The moment a word is spoken thpre begins a form of prayer. The only way to have a service without a use of forms would be to have it in unbroken silence. All Christian people, even the Society of Friends, agree in the use of some kind of form. What we are all desirous to avoid is not form, but formal ism. Formalism is tbe use of empty form. It is the utterance ot the words of prayer without the aspiration of prayer. It is the hearing of petition with the ear while the thoughts are away outside the church and quite apart from devotion. It is the up lifting of bowls empty of incense. Formalism does not depend upon the form which is provided for the use of the wor shiper. There is no possible arrangement of the service that can keep formalism out It depends upon the individual Christian. It is true that an elaborate service must al ways and of necessity be entered into with a certain amount of formalism by a stranger. The stranger is obliged to occupy some of tbe time of service in finding the places, and in trying to understand what is beingdone, and in wondering what is going to be done next His thoughts are in a measure di verted from bis prayers. Whatever he says or does while he is thus preoccupied Is said or done formally. Formalism to the Stranger. But the stranger would be very much mistaken who finding this element of formalism in his own unaccustomed use of the service, should think that everybody else in the congregation is equally a formal ist, and that the service itself is but an empty form. This formalism is all his own. The service may be simple or it may be elaborate, it may be extemporaneous, or it may be read out of a book, the petition may be a "long prayer," or it may be a li any, the formalism of it depends largely upon the individual worshiper. Wbere ever anv single . person is not intent with his whole heart upou every single word, there is formalism. It is true that the greater the. length and the more, complicated tbe .conduct of the service, the wider opportunity is there for formal worship. And the more words that are set for the worshiper to say the more danger is there that he will say some ot them with his lips rather than with hir heart It is equally true, however, that the man who had ten talents had more of his master's money to squander, if be chose, than the man who had but one.. Bnt he had also more to use, if he would, for his master's service. Opportunity and respon sibility always go together. Yet we do not decline oar opportunities. We know that much will be required of those who have much; nevertheless we desire to have all that we can get Formalities Are Like Affections. How much pain might be avoided by living all alone in a cave and never entering into any of the relationships or friendships of litel Every new affection is a new avenue for grief to get into the soul Bat we want our lives to be filled with affection. No doubt, also, but a good deal of the danger ot formalism might be avoided by having the simplest service possible. In deed, we might escape formalism altogether by never saying our prayers at alL But the more there is in the service, so much the more is it freighted -with possible blessings, so much tbe more may we get oat ot it into our life. We have, no doubt, a great deal of formalism in all the churches. We are all formalists at times, to our great shame. And some of this formalism is very likely due to the beauty and the richness of the service, and to the very high spiritual standard that is set in it. But that is our fault The best thing to do is not to bring the standard down to our own lower level of living, but to try to live closer and to think and pray nearer to that high ideal. Formalism grows out of a lack of zeal and a lack of love. And I am afraid that we must all of us plead guilty without much dis tinction ol denomination. Where is the Christian whose golden bowl is always lull of incense? Two Reasons for Going to Church. The golden bowl is the symbol of wor ship. The church ought to emphasize the fact of worship. There are two reasons for going to church, which ought to have their place in the purpose of every Christian. We ought to go partly for the praying, partly for the preaching. We ought to go thinking of God, and of our own souls. It should be our purpose, on tbe one hand, to make an oflering to God, the offering of our adoration, ot our praise and prayer, of our renewed consecration ot ourselves to him. It should also be onr purpose, on the other hand, to Dnng away a blessing irom uod, a blessing upon our souls. We desire to learn the will of God, to get the help of God. Both of these reasons for church-going ought to be fully recognized in the church. The service is not a preaching service only, nor a praying and praising service only; it is both 'together. The emphasis, indeed, should be rather upon the side of worship than upou the side of, instruction. Our thought should be directed even more toward God than toward ourselves. This element of worship in the service of the church is best emphasized by the use of some form of prayer. There are two grounds upon which this method of conducting the service may be commended. One is the ar gument irom antiquity, the other is tbe ar gument from excellence. T7se of a Book of Prayer. The use bf a book of prayer is older than the Christian era; it goes back into the days ot the earlier dispensation. Qur Lord and his apostles, who attended, the services ot the temple and the synagogue, used the prayers which were there read out of the appointed books. Jesus himself not only gave a form ot prayer which his disciples might make a part and pattern of their de votions, but he chose the phrases"of it, for the most part, from the familiar sentences of the Jewish prayer book. When Chris tian people use a form of prayer, they use a way of worship which was used by Christ himself. ' This example was followed, down to" the davs of the Reformation, by the whole Christian 'world. Every church had a prayer book as naturally as it had a Bible. The Hebrew service of the synagogue was christianized and translated into Greek. Then when the balance of power changed from the East to the West the Greek book, changed to meet the-, spiritual needs ol the day, was translated into Latin. Finally, with new changes, enrichments, and amend ments, the Latin book was translated into English, and in that form Is used to-day, either in entirety or in selection by almost all English speaking Christians. The value of tbe use of a form of prayer has thai the attestation of the Christian past Mot Only Old Bat Good. - But the argument from antiquity if not the most convincing argument The most persuasive kind of reasoning to-day is that which is based on tbe solid foundation of actual excellence. We have no great rev erence in" these days for things that are old simply because they are old. We are in clined to believe that the new i the better. We have improved upon our fathers. In deed, is it not true that the young men are older than the old men, because they have had the benefit of a whole generation more of human experience? We arcpractlcal people, little given to sentiment We do not care very much where things came, from, no matter 'how far back in the past, bat whether they can do their work. We are on the watch, not for the oldest but' for the best We are ready to pnt away any, even the most venerable, lristitutfon'that we have, if we are assured, that we can get something more serviceable, something really better, in the place of it, ' We insist upon (eating all thingi to-day, not by their age, but by their excellence. , Accordingly we lay most emphasis upon the real spiritual advantages which attend' the use of a form of nraver. One advan tage is the securing of reverence. Another is tbe maintaining oi truth. To Make the WorshlplteTerent. A form of prayer helps to make the church's worship reverent It is necessary for the securing of reverence that the service should be taken in large measure out of the ordering of the minister. All ministers, unhappily, are not men of pro found spiritual gifts. If we conld have the Archangel Gabriel in every parish, there is no doubt but that an extemporaneous, service, such as he would arrange Sunday after Sunday, would be the best arrange ment possible. An extemporaneous service conducted by a saint is the ideal service of the Christian Church. We must take men, however, not as we wish they were, but as they are. And as they are, with all their imperfections. shallownesses, prejudices, low ideals, some times in the spirit, and sometimes oat of the spirit, we account it better that the service ot our worship should be lifted effectually above the littlenesses of " men, above the fluctuation of spiritual heat and cold in the human heart, out of dependence upon the weather or the size of the congre gation or the health of the officiating minis ter, and made permanently reverent, worthy, uplifting; religious Let .us make sure, at least, of the golden bowl. Leaving to Individual Preachers. Nor is it enough to have a golden bowl. We want a golden bowl that is large enough. We want a bowl that is round, that bears in its shape the circle of completeness and of comprehension. We desire not only rever ence bat truth. Not all ministers, unfortunately, are-men either of wide experience of the spiritual needs of human nature, , or of deep ac quaintance with all tbe phases of religious truth. The chances are that if the services are left to the individual minister, some spiritual necessity will go unheeded, some prayer will be without a voire. All men, indeed, even with the best intentions and with the largest advantages, are one-sided; that is, they naturally look at truth more from one point of view than from another. It is natural, and probably inevitable, that men should dwell most upon those truths which most appeal to them. With all the helps that can be provided in a form of prayer, there is a constant temptation to teach religious truth unequally. Without a prayer book the temptation meets with uut uiiio uiuuruuce. Dome ministers will teach that God is our Father, and say little about God as our judge; some will empha size the first and great commandment so as to obscure that second commandment which' is like unto it; some ill dwell much more upon the doctrine of the incarnation than upon the doctrine of the atonement Mot a Monopoly of the Parson,;-.. Every religious teacher knows' how diffi cult it is rightly to divide the word of truth and to preach the whole gospel-Of God.!But here, a prayer book is a constant guide and inspiration. Week by week, as the Chris tian seasons pass, the church herself in the prayer book, whether the minister wishes it or not, can set forth the great round of Christian truth. Not one essential or help ful article of faith can be left out Finally, the use of a form of praver se cures reverence and maintains truth not only by taking the worship of the church out of the exclusive ordering oi the minis ter, but by putting a considerable part into the lips ot the people. Beligion has always suffered, has always fallen into superstition and falsehood when it has been allowed to become a monopoly of the parsons. The church needs the good sense ot the people. The people, too, have their rights in the church. The people are the church. The " worship ot the sanctuary ought to be the peo ple s worship, in tne prayer book it is. George Hodoes. A TBEASTIRE IN A BUCKET. The Effusion or a Voeteas ot Fastlon That Went to the Wrong Fellow. ' "Socrates Snooks" sends the following for publication: The other day, while proD ing the mysteries of my dinner bucket, I came across a scrap. of paper on which was written a song that I found as easy to digest as the pie on which it rested. It didn't take me long to discover that that song had been put into the wrong dinner bucket Alas! Would that my name were Frank! Now, as I know neither the fair authoress nor the lucky swain of whom she sings, it is maifest that I am guilty of no breach of confidence in sending that song tor publica tion. Moreover, it is desirable that Frank should see that song, so that he, according to his temperament, may fly to the arms of his loved and loving one, or fight shy of possible future poetess of passion; and where, I ask, is he more likely to see it than in the colnmns ot The Dispatch? The lady neglected to prefix a title to her love lay, and it is with diffidence that I suggest that it be called "How Frank Got There With Both Feet" Here it is: When my Frank first came a-woolng uasninuy ne nung nis neauj My delight was in rovlewing All the things he left nnsaldl Ilev, for the summertime! Jlo. for the summertime sweet! When my Frank came a-wootdg. When mv Frank first came a-woofng, Tremblingly he pressed my hand, While his eyes were mutely surtng All his love I'd understand. Hey, for tbe summertime! eto. When my Frank first came a-woolng, . Mock yexation I would play; Pouting lips were his undoing, For Jie kissed the pouts away. Hey, for the summertime! etc It seems to me that the best thing about that song is the etc. the things that were left unsung. Possibly Frank, will think differently, but that, at all events, is my opinion. 4 Wanted Bis Charge to Make Sacifloe. Tr. Pierson, who has so acceptably filled Spurgeon's pulpit for several months, re cently preached a sermon asking for money. He inquired why some of his auditors would not give up smoking and devote the results of this economy to charity and sug-' gested that ladies might likewise make sacrifices by selling, or Banding him to tell, some of their jewelry. The very next even ing, while he was sitting with his deacona in council, a box was handed into the room, and, upon examination, was found to be full of costly jewels. Southern Republican States, St. Louti Globe-Democrat.l Sooth Carolina went Republican in 1872 and also in 1868' and 1876. In addition to South Carolina '-the following ex-slave States also went Bepublican in 1872: Dela ware, Arkansas. Virginia, West Virginia, Nortn Carolina. Florida, Alabama, Mississ-' rjjpl tod Louisiana;' --" DUCKED BY A DEER. V Ml I SI A Boastful Nimrod'a Lively Experi ence With a. Wounded Brick, DUEL IK THB BED OP-A CREEK. The Animal Got Mad anil Soused Ills As v tailant Unmercifully. ITARD SLASHING AT THE JUGULAR rcoBirasroxiMirci or Tin msrATOH. ! Botjlette, July 7. f ever a man got a rattling up by a deer, that man was me, "said Dave Calk ins, of Fishing Creek, who has had a good deal to do with deer and bears In, his time. "It was when deer were more numerous around on these hills than most of the larmers had sheep, M and that wasn't such 'il, a long time ago, either. One day in .tuj the fall Leroy Ly- - tvittn wlin hud killed - more deer and bears 2ft Game of Jl AIL and wolves than any other man in Pennsylvania, thought he'd givethe game a rest aud go cbestnuttinz, over on the bead of Card's Brook. I knew something of tbe lay of the country around there, and I concluded to go chestnutting with Leroy, and rigged up fo the nutting by picking oat one of his guns and tying his best dog loose. When I joined the old hunter with his gun over my shoulder, he wanted to know of me: 'What are yoa go ing to do with that gnn?' "I told him. that I might maybe see a chestnut that nothing but a' rifle could reaoh. Just then his dog came trotting up. " 'Who untied that dog? he asked. " 'I did,' said L " 'Well,' said Leroy, "you'll get him all full of hedge-hog quills and spoil him. You'll have to pay for him, that's all!' A Big Back Lying In Ambush. "I didn't say anything, and we went on toward the place where we were to do our nutting. Jonathan Card was along. We got up on the hill near the head of the creek, had cat down a chestnut tree, and had only just nicely begun to pick the burrs Out Jumptd the Buck off, when, suddenly Leroy Lyman jumped up, turned round like a flash, grabbed the gun that I had set against a tree nearby, aimed toward a clump of high bushes and blazed away. I hadn't heard anything, and didn't see anything when Leroy shot, bat when the gun cracked ont jumped a big buck and went off down the hill. He was hit, of course, and Leroy said to me: " 'Go for him! He's our meatl' "Now in those days I thought it wasn't much of a trick forme to do to outrun the dogs when I took after a deer, and I started for this one. I soon passed the dog, and chased the deer to the bank of the creek. The' dog had gone up over a point of the hill. I discovered the buck in tGe creek lying in a deep hole. There was a pile of drift lumber in the creek below him and the bank was quite high, I started toward the deer and he rose to his Knees. J. Knew something had to be done right away or the buck would get out of there and make trouble, so I picked up a big three-cornered stone and hurled it at him with both hands. It struck him on the head and down he went. He was up on his knees again in a second, though, and I downed him with an other stone. Getting a Good Bath. - "But still he wouldn't stay down, and so I made up my mind it wouldn't do to take any more chances with stones, and I pitched into the creek to settle the deer there. X seized him by one horn with my hands, and placing my foot on the other horn, prepared to flop him over and drown him. Well, for the next minute or two that buok churned and soused me up and down in that creek as if he was a washwoman andlwasabed quilt, and he was going to give me an all-pervading rinsing. . "Every time he sloshed me down in the creek the water flew up three feet or more and kept going up and coming down over ns like a fountain in steady play, so regular and rapidly did the buck keep up his churn ing. Added to this ducking and .tossing that the buck, now mad as' fury, was treating ma to, he was able to give me a dig every now and then with one of his sharp fore feet, catoh ing me at the shoulder and slashing it down almost the full length of my arm. This soon, removed what cloth there was be tween his hoof and my arm, and thin began on the hide and flesh. I didn't know that I dared let go of tbe buck, for his dander was np lo far that he would haye come at me with hoofs aud horns too, as I was well aware, and I was well enough acquainted with deer to ietl that he would probably have me down and spiked and punched full of holes before I could get up the bank. a he Otner Man Was Having the Fan. "The reason that I didn't know that I dared to let go of tbe buck was that I didn't know that Leroy-Lyman had arrived on the scene, and was -peeking out from behind a big tree, enjoying himself enough to burst at the way I was whipping the deer. Of course, if I had jumped away from the deer and the deer had jumped after me, Leroy would have put a ball through him so quick that he never would haye known what hit him. But I didn't know Leroy was taking the buck" and me in from behind the tree, and consequently held on for dear life, and felt around in my pocket with one hand to find my knife, for if that fight was to be ended In my favor it had to be done before daylight was churned out of me by the buck. "I found my knife, opened it with my teeth, and, with all the deliberate calcula tion I could command under the circum stances, being.np in the air one second and under the water the next, I felt for the buck's jugular. When I thought I had the keen blade' just right I plunged it into the deer's neck, but my calculation was a trifle off. I thrust in the knife clear to the hilt It struck against a bone and the blade snapped off close to the handle and stayed in the wound- Bnt the sousing and tots'ing and raking with the buck's sharp hoof kept right on with a steadiness and regularity that would have, made the walking beau of a itaaaaboat ashasasd of itself. My shoulder udtflswtn talerably veil tutted and ,1 y m mn PSl-ff-i .v r gouged br this time, and I began to get my own dander up. Anxious for Reinforcements. ''Just as I made my lunge at the .deer's neck with my knife, with a result so dis astrous to the knife, Jonathan Card came up, and was taking in the circus from the bank. 'Fetch me your knife Jonathan,' I shouted. "Jonathan didn't bother to fetrh me hit knife, bnt took it out of his pocket and, as I came up from a dive on the buck's horns, tossed it at ma. I missed it and it fell in the water right under the buck's neck. When I went down-again I felt around for it and actually found it. Iwasn't much en couraged, though, after I got it, fo'r it was one of these shilling knives that have to be heated before they will cut butter. "I didn't have time, though, to send Jon athan back, to town after a good knife, and so I began tawing away with it on tbe buck's neck. I began way up close to his head, bat I worked the knife all the way down to the gullet before I could find a place where It would take hold. Then I -f-ffiVN Be Chum'd ond Soused M'. raipet it across mat spot until J. finally wore the skin through, and then got the knife inside and actually tore a hole across his throat that wasn't long in putting an uu io iue ngni. "When I at last was at liberty to take what was left of me ashore, and did so, Leroy Lyman stepped from behind a tree and looked so pleased that I knew he had seen the whole performance, and that made me feel worse than the way the buck had treated me, for I had only been assuring him a day or two before that I conld whip without weapons any deer, wounded or well, that ever was rash enough to let ma get my hands on it something that I changed my mindona'fter the rattling that old buck gave me in the hole in the brook." ' Ed Mote. A FAMOUS LITTLE HA. Pen Picture of Blowltz, the Famont Paris Correspondent. I had a glimpse of the great little corre spondent of the Times, M. VonBlowitz, dur ing his recent visit to England, writes a Dispatch correspondent. He has been on familiar terms with Kings and Emperors, and without doubt possesses more valuable "inside information" about royal doings and wire-pulling than any other newspaper correspondent living. He writes all his Paris correspondence in French, not being a muster of. English, and it Is telegraphed from -his manuscript and translated info English in the Times office. He's an odd figure, dwarfed in stature, with a round, heavy brdy, a "luck npnnd". on his shoul ders, a short, thick neck, and a big, round head covered with thick gray hair. I saw him lunching at the Savoy, and when, after paying full respects to a tempt ing menu, he pushed his chair back, cat the end off a cheroot over six inches long and stuck it in the corner of his mouth, he looked like a combination of Quilp and a gnome. His" face is a quizzical one, with daring, cunning, and, if.I read his sharp, black eyes aright, something of cruelty in it He's a wit of the flintiest and brightest, and his bon mots ate well worth quoting. Though not actually a dwarf, he has tbe grotesqueness and quaint cleverness of one, and rather exploits it and takes advantage of it to make himself a favorite with ladles, and he succeeds admirably, daring to say things and do things a bigger and hand somer man would never muster the audacity to do, and would suffer tor if he did. Improved Hay Stacker. Farmers will be interested in a new hay stacker which can be erected in a shed or barn, or any place where bay or straw is to be stacked. The device receives the hay or straw directly from the fork, and can be manipulated from tbe wagon so as to dis tribute the load on any side of the stack desired. It consists of a platform with an extension frame, the latter being extended or withdrawn by two ropes or cables. Other cables aie provided by which the frame and platform are rotated upon a central post to receive the straw or bay delivered by the fork, and denoslt it directly on any side of the stack. By this Innovation it is proposed to effect a great saving in labor. Hydraulic Testing; A plant for hydraulic testing purposes is to be installed near the town of Santbla, Italy. Tho proposed establishment is in tended for the determination of many points at present more or less obscure In tho flow of water through large sluices. It is to be located between the Cavour ar d the Cigllano canals, where the requisite volume ot water for snoli experiment! can easily be obtained, the Cigllano Canal being elevated about 8S$i leet above tbe Cavour Canal. The preliminary plans provide for the con struction of a large and small sluice, meas uring basins and welts, and accommodation lor the testing of all kinds of hydraulic ap paratus. Tell 'Em Howdy. Iwjmrjt fob ths msrATcn.l Te tlnk dat chile done favah me T Well, I can't say bow dat may be, l8um tlnk he look: des lak he paw. Sum say he Imldge ob he maw. Dat nose of hls'n, flat and close, x unit nic lavau paw ue mo ; Dem gret big eyes ob his be may Git from he maw, dat wat dey say. Bat honey, wat I ca' 'boat dat! I ony kno s yuz roan' an' lat An' sot' an' cute an' mighty sweet, t An' plenty good cnuf tere.it! Now, sou, set up an' be good chile, An' mw de ludlz w'en yu smllo Dem leetle bran' new tools ob yo'n Dat bit my flngahs ter do bone. But law! he did it des in play, 'Twnz lak cz if he meant tersuy, "I knows de nae'of toots ter out, An' ycr can't fool me," dis lz meat" Stop suokln' obdat leetle lis' An'nabe yo' leetle nan' lak dls. An' tell de ladiz "bowdy." Sou! He won't show on f er anyonel De fus ting at de pees: ob day Dat chile sit up in bed an' say, "Maw! howdy, mawl" an' pull my har Wid all be might, I do declar, An when he paw go off ter work, Henabehe hansau fal'lyjuk . From out my a'ins, no' leetle man, A-yeilln' "howdy!" loud'z he can. . An' wen he paw git home at night, Hit sut'n'y am a pooty sight Ter see dat baby laf an' craw An "hgwdy" wen he paw "hello." Dat 'bout de ony wud be know, An' wen folks come an' wen dey go, Ef dey doan tek no note ob him, He call out "howdyl" leetle limb! Butef dey coax him, des dat sho He suck be leetle lis' de mo'. Hit pea'hs ter me dat des de way Dat Dig folks aotln' ebry day; Des coax, an' mek dem tlnk Uey'z sum An' all ue mailer dey, becum But des yu leab dem ter deysef Come roan' so quick hit tek yo' bref. Now wat I tell yu! des see dere! He tlnk we done lerglt ter ca'. An' so be up an' show lie trior. My brassed lamb but yu lz slick! Yes,-tell 'nt "howdy," leetle man, An' watch 'em des ez fur'z yu can, Mysef, doan tlnk a man quite right -Dat doan watoh ladia out ob sight- Am Taoian. CciHBmo-r. '-.ot JjL SAYING THE SIGHT. The Effect of Tobacco, Alcohol and Reading Upon the Eyes. A BOAT THAT CAHKOT BE BUSK. The .Amount ot Coal That Can Ba Sent la PoTfder Throuza I'ipei SETTING P TIPE WITH BOTH HANDS IWB1T1HW JTOB TOT PISPATCH.1 Dr. L. Webster Fox has, In a recent lect ure, given some hints and advice of the ut most value concerning tht care and preser vation of the eyesight in middle life and old age. While pointing out that the excessive Use of tobacco not.ooly weakens tbe muscles of the eye, bat also produces a lowering of the acuity ofvlsfon and a form of color blindness, Dn For mentions incidentally at well authenticated fact that boys whe have indulged in the use ot tobacco are not mentally and physically as strong as those who abstain. Not only have medical men recognized the tendency to a depression of the vital force in boys and young men who are constant users ot tobacco, but athletie trainers will never select their boat's crew from such ranks. They know that tobacco weakens the heart, and, although tbe to bacco smoker may be a giant in strength, when the final-test comes collapse and de feat follow. "When such facts are known to medical men' says Dr. Fox. "no wonder that 28 States have passed laws forbidding the sal of tobacco to boys." There is, nevertheless, a large gulf be tween the use and abuse of tbe fragrant weed. Hen who- have gone through a cer tain amount of mental strain are the better for smoking one,' two or three cigars daily; they have a toothing effect on the over wrought nervous system, and smoking brashes away tbe cobwebs and makes man more sociable creature. Among tbe sources of the greatest trouble to the eyesight are the chewing of tobacco (this above almost all others), the excess-' lve use of wine, spirits or beer; the indis criminate administration of quinine; the use of cosmetics for heightening the luster of the eye, and mixtures for dying the hair and eyebrows, and there is a case on record where a diminution nf vision has been traced to the wearing of an artificial wreath of flowers. Another source of failing vision may be traced to impeded circula tion. Tbe wearing of tight neckwear, such at collars which are too small orshirtbands or neckties tightly drawn, should be avoid ed, as they prevent the downward column. of blood returning to the heart, and dilata tion and development of disease is likely to follow. The same rule holds good of con-, striction of other parts of the body. - Another most serious source of eye strata is constant reading in railway carriages, which is the practice of nearly dll business men in going to and from tn:ir offices or stores, and the injury to the eye from this cause alone it incalculable. Xothing glvea tired eyes greater relief than a green disc orsqnare of sufficient size, suspended! on a direct line of vision at or against a wall on whtoti the eyes can rest; bat best of all to look upon is a green grass plot or green trees. It Is suggested that it would, be a publlo boon if oar monthly magazines were printed on paper or a neutral tint and tbe drop curtains in theaters should have scenes painted on them showing gTrat per spective. It it a rest to the eyes after tho concentrated effort made in trying to watch tho facial expression or eyes of an actor to look uporr,snch a picture. r After the last epidemic of la grippe Dr. Toxwas particularly impressed with the large number of patients complaining of the loss of po wrr ot the converging muscles of the eye. Upctn investigation be; found that while thesepatients were confined either to bed or home they would read in cessantly. Ihe result of this over-taxation was weakened eye muscles, and so long aa theyremalned unsupported, by prisma tho patient soffored (with prii pier the ffra.. region, headache- and" other evfdences "of eyestrain. Individuals suffering from any depressing disease should be as guarded as to the length or time they read or uie their eyes on straining work as they are with re gard to physical exertion of any kind. Fresh air and a moderate quantity of light are great essentials to good eyesight- High, temperature helps to ruin people's eyea moro than is generally known, while too much light especially if it be reflected, it particularly injurious. Composing With Both Hand. A foreman of a composlnz room has con ceived the Idea of using both hand! in piok lngupand setting the types la the stick. Ever since the composing stick was known tbe left hand has held tlie stick while the thumb pressed each successive type into place against the pieces already In line. A one-armed compositor came to the foreman's room and with a single hand set almost as much typo as his fellow laboters did with, two. After thinking this over the foreman worked out two Inventions, by which he pro poses to use both bandsat once. The first is a little mechanical device for taking the place of the thumb, and the second is an at tachment by which the stick can be pnt in a convenient position for receiving the type, without being in the way of any subsequent , operations. Having got so far, the foreman found that . his next step was to train the left band. This was by no meant easy, but after patience and practice a considerable degree of effi ciency was attained, and he adiled 60 per cent to his former capacity. He believes a still further advance 4s practicable, but It confldent'that anv compositor, by the use of hli Inventions, which are to be patented, will be able to add at least 50 per cent to his speed, thus enabling hand wort to maintain sturdy competition with tho typesetting jna chiues thus lar invented. A Kovel TJnslnkable Tacht A Lelth, Scotland, boatbullder Is con structing a yacht which, in regard to design and material, Is probably unique. This builder Is the patentee of a boat which bo claims is nnsinkabie and uncapslzable. Hitherto be has constructed them or steel, and he claims that owing to the manner in which the fore and art sections, which are conical in shape, are permanently and her metically sealed, the boats are rendered nn sinkabie, even If filled with water, as the water runs back into the sea through tho opening In the center-board casing. The erasing yacnt he is about to bnild will not be of steel, however, but of an aluminum alloy. The metal Is ss white us silver and possesses a breaking strain of U tons to the square inch. It Is nnaffectcd by water. The yacht, whlob, instead tit being painted will be polished, will bo about 32 feet long and 8 feet broad, and will be provided with a roomy cabin paneled in Oiik and a com modious forecastle. All the deck fittings, as well as a centerboard dingey which will accompany the jnchtwBl bo made of tho tame white metal. If this experiment Should ttrrn out successfully a new departure In yacht construction and fittings may be expected. Bobber Heel for Military Boots. The Jar communicated to the spinal col umn by the striking of the heel on the ground In walking on a bard surface Is a fruitful source of trouble nnder ordinary conditions, but in the caso of the regular marching of soldiers the rffectsarestilimoro serious. A physician In the. French army, after investigating the subject, came to tho conclusion that the regularity of the step causes a shock to the brain and bones far more Injurious than an irregular walk, giv ing rise to peculiar aches.palns and illnesses of the troops. This Shock Is repeated O,0OO times In a day's march, and tbe strain often breaks down the strongest men those who conld endure readily a much longerordlnary walk In two or three days. A partial rem edy has been tound In the adoption of a rub ber heel in military boots. The Motion of Piping Coat Apropos of the proposal to pipe coal to tho seaboard, the quantity of coat that can be carried by pipe in a given time is astonish ing. A pipe of 4 Inches diameter as 1,200 pounds pressure per sqoare Inch will de liver over 300 tons per day; a" l-inohpIpe wlU deliver 5,000 tons, and a Si-Inch, pipe will deliver 18,000 tons perM hours. It It proposed, in carrying out this principle on a large scale, to have camping stations froat 10 miles apart; according to grate. ;& f ir eg t.m i "I ' .m I a. T
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