HE CZARjS ABUSED
Much Better Man Than, the
Press of England Has Led
Us to Believe.
OES OUT UNATTENDED
nd Hasn't a Drop of Coward's Blood
la His Herculean Body.
PHYSICAL AXD MORAL MODEL.
icugh He Did Not ITarrj the Woman of
Bis Choice, He Lores Her.
EJI0CE1TIC TR1ITS OF CHARACTER
fCOREXErOTDMfCI or THS oisrATcn.3
Sx. Petebsbubg, Aug. 19.
HE Czar has returned
with his family from a
visit to Denmark akd
be is now dividing hit
time between his two
favorite suburban pal
aces of Gatchina and
Peterhof. He never
spends his .summers in
St. Petersburg, but he
comes to the city about
once a week, and it will
be surprising to Amer
icans to know that he
rives about quite like an ordinary citizen.
saw him on the Nevski Prospect, ukich is
ne Broadwav of St. Petersburg, a few days
CO. His carriage was a rich dark bine
tndau, and he drove without outriders, the
oly sign of his rank being his liveried
oachmen and foottnen.
Down at Gatchina you see him almost
ny afternoon walking about the palace
rounds and now and then taking a stroll
atMde of them. He may have a guard
bout him. but if so it is invisible, and as
ir as I can see his majesty has fewer at
endants than any other monarchs of Europe,
Tlie English rri-M I Unreliable.
The most of onr information concerning
he Czar comes from England, and the En
lish newspapers disseminate more false re-
orts about public men and matters than
ry other newspapers in the world. They
epresent the Czar as lending his whole
ime trembling in his palace. They say he
s a tyrant and a sensualist and that he
eierhas a peaceful moment. The truth
eems to be just the reverse. Of all the
eople I have n.et in Bussia, including
aauy enemies of the Czar, I have not found
me who could say anything aeainst his
jrivate charact:r. "All say he is a brave
md conscientious man and his relations to
lis wife and lamily-are the models lor the
taipire.
I saw the Sultan of Turkey at Coustanti
leple a year or so ago and the contrast be
ween him and Alexander III is striking.
The Sultan is a lean, sallow, nervous fellow
aithalranie and a face for all the world
jke that of Jay Gould. He lacks, however,
Jay GouldV nerve, and as I looked at him I
:ould see by the way his eyes restlessly
jtaadered from one part of the crowd to the
ur -;
Czar JLUxamler 1IL
other that he was afraid of assassination.
He had a troupe of about 7,000 soldiers about
him and General Osman Pasha, the hero of
Plevna, sat in the carriage by his side.
Nevertheless he trembled as he passed along
on the way to worship at the mosque and he
inspired me with pity rather than with re
spect. I was told at Constantinople that he
feared to go to bed at night and that he
oiten sits up until daybreak. He has his
watchmen always about him, and in the
towers of his palace there are guards who
are erer on the lookout.
Ilist zar In Not a Coward.
The Czar has nothing of the coward about
liim. He looks like a monarch and every
inch of his C feet 4 is kingly. The
Romanoff family from which he comes has
always been noted for the splendid
physiques of its members, and Alexander
III is a giant. He stands G feet 4 inches in
his stockings and he weighs. 250 pounds.
His biceps are as big around as the ordinarv
man's leg and his strength is prodigious.
He can take a horseshoe, I am told, and
fceud it double in his hand, and he can take
a gold coin the 6ize of a dollar and fold it in
halves with his fingers. His head rises
ahove those of his suite, and the Bussian
costumes which he wears make him look
even taller than he is.
"When I saw him the other day at Gatch
ina he had a visorless Bussian cap on his
head and his massive frame was clad in a
long overcoat and his trousers were thrust
into a pair of top boots. His uniform was
that of one of his regiments, and he wears
different uniforms from time to time in com
pliment to such companies of his soldiers as
most see him. A regiment considers it a
great Cattery to have the Czar wear its Uni
term, and this is one of the ways in which
he thows his approval of the drill of hia
soldiers. He U very fond of his soldiers.
He addresses them as Lis children, and they
call him tie "father Czar."
!! w the tz.r lakes Exercise.
The daily lile of the Czar is simple in the
extreme. He keeps Ins great frame in
pood condition by regular exercise, and like
Gladstone, he often goes out and cuts down
trees in his forests. He sometimes saws
these trees into lengths Tilth a cross-cut
saw and he does all sorts of manual work;
He is an athelete ol the first order and he
is fond of playing with his children, and
during his stay at Denmark he hnd nnm-
ber of wrestling matches at the palace
there, in each ol which, I am told, he came
out victorious. He is fond of horseback
riding and he has 150 saddle horses in his
stables here. His stud contains some of
the finest horses in the viorhl and he knows
all about horses and is anxious to improve
ins stocK and is very careful as to the char
acter of the horses which are brought into
the army. He often drives himself, with
his wile betide him, in a phaeton about
Gatchina and he holds his reins with his
arms still, in the Bussian lanhion.
I visited the museum in which the impe
rial carriages are kept the other day and
spent hours wandering through the hun
dreds of golden coaches and gorgeous lan
daus, each ot which is worth many, many
thousand dollars. I handled harness which
was inlaid with precious stones and the
metal work ol which was of solid gold or
silver. I saw harness cloth embroidered
with pearls, and the total value of these
trappings and coaches runs high tnto the
millions of dollars. As I looked at them I
could not but think of the simple carriages
which the Czar really uses and how far his
jpirit is removed from that ol ostentation.
JIrx-nder Does ot Care for Sly e.
He leads a more simple life, in fact, than
ftiy
S ', XV If JJW 111 I "I .-J
I many of his nobles, and he cares nothing
I -whatever for style. He is one of the hard-
Iest-worked men of his empire. He rises at
daybreak and takes a cup of coffee, says his
"prayers and then begins work, looking
over his state papers. At 1 o'clock he
takes breakfast with his wife, and after
breakfast he exercises for awhile before
going back to work. He keeps his system
in perfect condition and his stomach never
goes back on him. He has his dinner at 0
o'clock, bat like many big men, he eats lit
tle, and Jus drink is: con6ned to a glass of
Burgundy. He always dines with his fam
ily, and his familv relations are most beau
tiful. The Czar of Bussia is in love with his
wife. This is an extraordinary thing for a
Bussian monarch, and both peasants and
nobles have spoken to me in the highest
terms of his purity in this regard. He
spends his evenings with his family and
often reads to his wife while she embroid
ers, and there are a number of stories here
which illustrate this part of his character.
It is now 25 years since be attended a court
reception at Paris and there met Empress
Eugenie. All the beauties of the Paris
court were present, and as the Empress
chatted with him she asked him to point out
to her the most beautiful woman in the
The Empress o Jtorii
room. The future Czar replied that be was
too much of a barbarian to think any
woman more beautiful than his own wife,
and bis actions toward her from that time to
this hare shown that he has continued of
this opinion.
A Diplomatic MorrLze That VFa Happy.
Still his marriage to her was one ot
diplomacy rather than of love. She is, yon
know, the daughter of Christian IX. of
Denmark, and her name was the Princess
Dagmar. She had been engaged to the
Czar's elder brother, who died at Nice, and
iu this way the present Czar became heir to
the throne. The Princess Dagmar was
much in love with Alexander's brother,
and she did not want to be married to her
present husband. Alexander himself had a
sweetheart whom he was anxious to marry,
but State reasons made both these young
people give np their cherished ideas, and
Alexander IIL wooed the Princess Dag
mar and married her. Love came after the
marriage, and, though this was more than a
quarter of a century ago, they are lovers
stilL
The Empress of Bussia is the reverse of
her husband in appearance. She is as
slender and petite as he is strong and
massive. She is not beautiful and not
homelv. Her nose is slightly retrousse, but
her features are otherwise well formed and
her eyes are bright and kindly, one is one
of the most beautiful dancers in Bussia and
she n as fond ot dancing as a Danish coun
try girL At the- winter palace in St
Petersburg are given each year some of the
most wonderful balls of the world. Seven
thousand people can live in this palace, and
thousands of dancers trip the light fantastic
toe oer floors of ebony, of rosewood and
ivory.
Some Costumes of the ISmpress.
Now and then the empress appears in her
royal robes. She wears a gorgeous crown
which fairly blazes with diamonds. Her
necklace is of many strands of the purest
pearls and her vest is a mass of rubies, sap
phires and diamonds put together so that
they blaze like fire. One of her gowns is of
emerald velvet with a train of white velvet
which is fairly covered with gold embroid
ery and the front of which is linked with
strands of the purest corah The jewels on
one ot these robes would make an American
village rich and their value surpasses com
putation. In the treasury at Moscow I saw
the empresss' coronation robe. The train
of this was of woven silver and there was
enough of woven silver cloth in the robe to
have carpeted an ordinary parlor. I noted
the- shoes she wore at this time and I can
tell you her majesty's foot has a high in
step and that her size is No. 2 B.
The Empress is the member of the imper
ial familv who most fears the assassination
of the Czar. She isin suspense whenever
her husband is away lrom her, and every
time that his lile is attempted her nerves
become shattered. She worries about her
children, and I doubt not she often longs
for her girlhood lile in peaceful Denmark.
It is lor this reason largely that she is so
fond of dancing. She can forget herself
when she is on the floor, and as long as the
mad gallop goes on she does not feel the
Eresence ot the specter which continuously
angs over the Bussian throne.
Consider A ssasilnatlon a Matter of Destiny.
The Czar narrowly escaped assassination
at the funeral of his father. He knew of
his danger and he went away with his wife
and children down to Catchina, talking
about other matters as though nothing had
happened. It was not until the eh;Mr.
had gone to bed and that he was out driving
alone with the Empress that he told her of
it. She was terrified and she wept bitterlv.
He told her he looked upon it as a matter'of
destiny and said he was ready to do his
duty and he would do it whatever happens.
.An incident occurred here at St. Peters
burg a short time ago which illustrates the
cnaracter ot tne uzar ot Bussia and -which
shows his bravery and kindness as a man.
His English nurse, whom he loved greatly
and who taught his baby lips to prattle in
the Anglo-Saxon tongue, died. This nurse
was living at the winter palace, audi think
she died there. The Czar and his brother
came to see her while she was sick, and
after she was dead the two lifted her with
their own hands and placed her in the coffin.
At the time of the funeral the Czar arrived
five minutes late. He came in wsltlno m
said: "Mr friends, I am sorry I havskcpt 1
j" mnug. ii me rngnsn woman s
desire that she be burled after the cere
monies Of her Own Church, and the aerrleea 4
were held at a little English chapel on too I
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The Crown Prince.
ATHE,
Xevs. In going to the ehureh the Em
peror walked behind the coffin with
his hat in his hand and he took his
seat in tho church during the services.
"While these were being pronounced lis
teemed greatly moved and held his hand
kerchief to his eyes. "With hat in his
hand, he walked behind the hears in the
middle of the street to the cemeterv. This
was quite a long distance. The streets
were lined with crowds of people, and sueh
policemen as were present must nave been
in citizens clothes. Through these masses
the Ccar marched without visible maids.
When he reached the cemetery be kneeled
down in front of the grave and then he and
his brother lowered the coffin into the
grave. This is only one of a number of
funerals he has attended in this way, and
whenever he goes toafunercl he walks,
after the Bussian custom,; behind the
hearse.
The Czar Is a Han ot Religion.
He is pre-eminently a religions man, and
ne oeiirTes iu sue urees vatnollo religion.
He goes to mass every morning and crosses
himself often end prays much. He gives a
great deal to the church, and one of the
chief troubles with him is that he is too
much influenced by the church. The
church is the millstone around Bnssia's
neck. It drags the people to the earth and
grinds them financially to powder. The
priests of Bussia are continually bleeding
the people. They are opposed to' education
and advancement and their whole tendency
is backward. The Czar is the head of the
church, but he is influenced by the priests,
and it is largely through them that the per
secutions of the Jewe and the restriction of
free thought comes. The Czar himself Is
very kind to his people. They call him
their father and he looks upon himself as
such. He gave a large part of flis imperial
revenue to the famine and millions of dol
lars went from his own pocket into the
hungry districts. Both he and his wife are
very charitable. They Tlsit the various
hospitals and they are always giving.
Idon't tuppose thare is a family in the
United States which has a more happy
home life than that of the Czar. He has
five children three boys and two girls. The
eldest is the Grand Duke Nicholas, who is
now 24 years old, and who shows himself to
be a bright, aggressive yonng prince. He
has had charge ot the whole of the famine
fund, and he has worked as bard at
this as his father does at governing his em
pire. He is a far different looking man
than his father. He takes after his mother,
and his slight form and delicate features
look but little like those of the Bomauoffs.
He is of a studious temperament, and his
manners are pleasant.
The IvroYonncer Children.
The second son, George, who is how just
21 years old, has more of the Bomanoffs
about him. He is said to take after his
father, and is rather obstinate and capri
cious in his disposition. The eldest daugh
ter. Grand Duchess Zenia, is a beauty. I
had a present of a nbetograph of her "from
one of her friends this afternoon. She
looks a little like her mother and her form,
though smalj, is beautiful and her face is a
The Princes .Xenia.
winning one. She was 17 years old last
March and the question of her marriage is
one that is already whispered about here at
SL Petersburg. She is probably destined
to marry one of the great princes of
Europe and she will not likely nave much
to say in the matter. She is very bright
and she is said to have one of the sharpest
tongues in SL Petersburg. She knows a
number of languages and she has considera
ble artistic Ulent
All of the Czar's children speak English,
French, Bussian and Danish. The Czar
himself speaks half a dozen different lan
guages, and the Empress -can talk in
French, German, English, Danish or Bus
sian equally welt
"With all his greatness the Czar is more
simple in his manners than any monarch in
the world. There are no frills or furbelotrs
about him. He talks in a simple way to
his friends and to his officials, aud though
he is the Czar in every sense of the word,
he is not puffed up with conceit.
The Kichent Man In the M orld.
He is probably the richest monarch in
the world. His income amounts to more
than 10,000,000 a year and he owns more
land tuan any otber person In tne world.
He has more than 1,000,003 square miles of
cultivated land and forest, and he has gold
and silver mines in Siberia, and his re
ceipts are so laree that no one knows how
large they are. He uses his money just as
he pleases. No one has any right to criti
cise his cash account, and his will is law
over his subjects. No matter what the
laws of Bussia may be the Czar's will or
the Czar's word is above all law and things
are right because he sajrs they are right.
I wish I could describe for you his won
derful palaces. There are nothing like
them on the face of the earth, I saw a sin
gle crown in the winter palace whieff had
more than $1,000,000 worth of jewelry in it,
and the treasury at Moscow contains cart
loads of gold and silver plate. The winter
palace is so large that it covers acres, and
there is a story that when it was burned not
lone ago a cow was discovered in one of the
unused rooms where a servant had been
keeping it, and the people of the palace
knew nothing about it There are 2,000
acres about one of the summer palaces near
here, and it takes 600 men to keen these in
order, and the palace of Peterhot surpasses
in its beauties those of Versailles.
FeankG. Cabpestee.
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bility to disease, "he months oi August,
September and October always bring with
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millions of spores, or egjrs, with which the
water is nued. people annKingsucu water
have malaria. Or. again, if such water
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dry, and they are carried from place to
filace by the wind, which are inhaled br
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year. Malaria does not always produce a
distinct chill and sweating, but far oftener
manifests itself by the following symptoms:
Slight chilliness and flashes of heat, furred
tongue and loss of appetite, continuous dull
headache and sleeplessness, biliousness and
dyspepsia. '
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PITTSBURG DliSPATGH.
SLEEPING ON SUNDAY.
Every Man Has Free Choice ot Doing
That or Going to Church,
IT IS A QUESTION OP REWARD.
Ftrafcle of the Great 8nppir and Its Lesson
on Impulsiveness.
A BEBMOK BT RET. GEORGE HODGES
rwEmsjr roa th ntsPATCH.i
The parable of the Great Sapper was
spoken at a great supper. If the importance
of a feast is to be measured not by the num
ber of the dishes but by the character of
the guests and by their conversation, that
was a most notable feast that was held that
Sabbath in the house of one of the rulers of
the Pharisees, when the Lord Christ Him
self sat at the table.
They had been talking there, as was most
natural, about the day and how to Keep it;
about what might be done and what might
not be done upon the Sabbath, And there
had been much difference of opinion, most
ot the guests believing that man was made
for the Sabbath, while Jesus taught that
the Sabbath was appointed for the use and
for the benefit ol man. Our Lord's asser
tion about the Sabbath continually scan
dalized the orthodox people of bis day.
However, there is not much good in argu
ing with one who can vindicate his position
by a miracle. And when Jesus healed a
sick man on that Babbath day in the pres
ence of all the scrupulous Pharisees, they
wisely held their peace.
Feasts That Ara Social Bargains.
Then the talk turned to the feast, and to
the fashions of feasts, and Jesus gave ad
vice which nobody in the room was minded
to follow. When you ere, a guest, he said,
take the obscurest seat at the table; do not
be among those who crowd into the highest
places. And when you are a host, do not
give your best dinners to your friends, nor
to your relatives, least of all to your rich
neighbors. Do not make your feasts social
investments from which to get dividends in
the shape of invitations to the -feasts of
your guests; but invite a lot of poor people,
the maimed, the lame and the blind, and
let theti sit down at your finest table; and
tnon shalt be recompensed in the resurrec
tion of the just AVe are not even yet good
enough Christians to be satisfied with such
a remote compensation, and to give suoh
Christian dinners as that
Just here it was that one of them that sat
at meat with him, and heard these things,
said nnto him, Blessed is he that shall eat
bread iu the kingdom of God.
Words depend mo much upon the expres
sion of the face, and the tone of the voice,
and the whole character of the speaker, that
when thev are taken by themselves, and set
down in black ink upon white paper, with
out any of these illustrative accompani
ments to explain them, they mean this, or
they may mean that, we cannot absolutely
telL .
lien Tho Think of the Future,
The speaker, in this instance, may have
been one of those obtrusively pious people
who are forever talking in the language of
religion. No doubt there were many of
them among the Pharisees, more than there
ore now. This man, sitting next to the
Master, and desiring, like some people now
adays, when the parson is present, to say
something appropriate to the occasion ven
tured this remark. The faet that he looked
so iar ahead into the future suggests that
he was one of these religioui talkers, and
that his lips were a good deal more pious
than his life. For the religious thinkers,
the real saints, concern themselves with the
present They desire to do the will of God
to-day; and whatever blessings God may
have to-morrow for those who do his will,
they are content to leave until to-morrow,
and to God. It is not well to spend a great
deal of time thinking about the celestial
future. The chief thing for good people to
think about is this terrestrial present
Beligion does not greatly consist in
speech. Not in word, neither in tongue,
are we to love God, but in deed and in
truth. They are not always mpst religious
wuo iai& must, uuuut reiiiuu. xb is easy
to understand how our Lord must fiave de
tested that sort o! affectation, He who was
so sincere, so genuine, so manly, so plain of
speech, so set against hypocrisy.
Impulsive and shallow Temperaments.
It is perhaps more likely, however, that
the speaker was of an Impulsive temper,
enthusiastic, given to emotion; and that his
words, while tbey were the honest expres
sion of his feelings at the moment, were not
the voice of any deep conviction. Christ
saw into the hearts ot men, and spoke to the
real needs of men. He wished to make
emotion permanent, to translate impuUe
into character, to change the flash ot enthu
siasm into the fire of enduring service. And
He knew that to effect that betterment,
men must be made to think. They must be
stopped and set to 'studying the meaning of
tnetr noras.
Thns when a woman, listening to His
teaching, called out from the edge of the
crowd and blessed the mother ot such a
teacher, you remember how He answered,
"Yea, rather blessed are they who bear the
word of God and keep it" And when
Simon Peter decrared that he was ready to
go with Him even to prison and to death,
you know how He immediately foretold
thstt Peter should deny Him. "Lord,"
cries an impulsive disciple, 'Twill follow
Thee whithersoever Tbou goest." "The
foxeshave holes,'' is the Lord's reply, "and
the birds of the air have their nests, but the
Son of man hath not where to lay His
head."
The Christ Never Utilized Excitement. '
Christ was thus continually renressinc en
thusiastic people that he micht make them
.strong and enduring. He never made use
or tne attraction of excitement; alwavs
taught quietly, appealing not to the
emotions, but to the reason and to the will
He handled men as a skillful horseman
handles a spirited horse. The horse is eager
to break into a gallop, but the jtrong hand
on the rein keeps him down into a better, a
more lasting pace.
Jt is stranee that, with the spirit of
Christianity thus exemplified in Christ,
fieople should ever Imagine that right re
igion is a matter of emotion. Christianity,
as it was taught by Jesus Christ, appeal) to
the highest and the best in human nature,
rather represses than encourages excite
ment, and deals with the reason and the
will. "Do not think!" is the maxim of the
devil. "Come now, and let us reason to
gether," is the invitation of religion.
Our Lord answers the exclamation of His
neighbor at the table with the story of the
Great Supper.
The Best Reward It iho Idistlnc
"Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the
klnkgom of God." One would think that
everybody must recognize that benediction.
The permanent is better than the tran
sitory. The best reward is that which lasts.
God is greater than man. The highest
blessing is the blessing of God. The soul
is better than the body. That is of most
consequence which effects the soul. These
assertions do not need the reinforcement of
discussion. They are divinely true, every
one of them. To eat bread in the kingdom
of God is better than to live sumptuously
every day anywhere else. It may have been
that to tne enthusiastic speaker at the sup
per this seemed for the moment so gloriously
true that all men must perceive it, must ac
cept it, mnst act upon it The conversion
of the world may have seemed an easy task;
to persuade men to follow their best inter-
ests may hare seemed speedy ot accomplish
ment We are all able to sympathize'wlth such
enthusiasm. There was a time in the life
of us when we anticipated, not perhaps
such an easy and quick conversion of the
world, but at least the entire and enduring
surrender ot our own selves to that which
wo distinctly saw to be tho highest and the
sukday;
SEPTEMBER '
best. It was all so plain to us in that
blessed moment; we perceived so distinctly
the vast difference that there is between
duties and dollars; Christ: seemed so close
and so beloved and the opposing world so
remote and so worthless, that we were per
suaded that neither lile nor death, nor prin
cipalities nor powers, nor business nor so
ciety, nor the world nor the devil, oould
erer come in between our souls and Him,
Seems Supremely Desirable.
The benediction of Christ seemed 'so su.
premely desirable 1 Prayer, which brought
us Into His nearer presence, seemed so de
lightful I The house of God, the sacraments
and the services of the Lord's day, the bene
diction which, awaited the two or three who
met together in the Lord's name U this
had such pre-eminent attraction for usl We
could not believe that we would ever lose
our interest '
And then the old ittorr of the wheat and
the tares was repeated in our own experi
ence. The cares of this world and the de
ceitfulness of riches played their accus
tomed parts. Gradually we cam to under
stand what was meant by the parable of the
Great Supper. We listened to the divine
invitation, and we all with one consent be
gan to make excuse. We found ourselves
preoccupied withlarms and merchandise,
and so weary with providing for our bodies
that we were fain to let our souls go neg
lected. One had bought a piece of ground
and must needs go and see it; he must be
excused. Another nad bought five yoke of
oxen, and he goes to prove them; be must
be excused. A third had married a wife;
he cannot come; pray, make excuse for
him.
Sotting; the Real Beside the Ideal.
The lesson of the parable, so far as it was
nn answer to the enthusiastic disciple at the
table, seems to be this setting of the real by
the side of the ideal. Blessed indeed, is
the man who shall eat bread in the king
dom of God; but let no man think that that
benediction is easily attained. Again and
again will the devil prompt the invited
guest to decline the invitation. Because
we clearly see to-day that the privilege of
nearness to God is better than any number
of new-bought fields and droves of oxen
does not mean that we are sure to see that
difference just as clearly to-morrow.
The Christian life is a continual contest
He who is bound for the Great Supper will
be assailed with countless other invitations,
and tempted to excuses. He will be way
laid, like the wedding guest in the "An
cient Mariner," by those who wonld keep
him from his place. Let him not be de
luded by any fancied shortness or smooth
ness of the nay. He must be ready to en
dure both weariness and hardness who
wonld be the guest of God.
It does not seem like human nature for
people to decline an invitation to a supper,
especially when the case is put as it Is in
that other parable which is so like this, the
story of the marriage of the king's son.
When the king's son is to be marrlea every
body wants to be invited. It seems incredi
ble that such an invitation should be so
scornfully declined.
An Honor Every Day Declined.
But the banquet of the King of Kings is
every day declined. Divine opportunities
are every day neglected. Men and women
are every day making a choice which seems
at first incredible and impossible; they are
preferring pebles to diamonds; they are
choosing that which lasts only an hour to
that which lasts forever and ever; they are
valuing the body higher than the soul; they
are electing to strve men rather than God.
And then follow the excuses. Every
body sees how true to human nature that is.
Men and women no, not often choose the
evil without first trying to persuade them
selves that it is really the good. They dis
cover an excuse. They must go here and
go there, rather than along the way where
Christ stands and oeccons tnem, Because
because well, there is a reason for it I
pray thee have me excused.
I ought to go to church more often and
more devoutly than I do, but, you see, I
have to work so hard all the week long, and
when Suuday comes I really need the rest
Have me excused. I ought to take more
part than I do in the Christian work of the
parish, and to do my share better towards
the helping those who need my help, but
my business or my social engagements take
up all my time, and those must be looked
afteri Have me excused.
I ought to think more than I'do about my
duty to God, and to be more diligent in
pr,iyer, and to be more true to my con
science, and to be a better Christian than I
am, but there are so many things to take
my thoughts, and so many temptations
crowd about me, and my friends are not
such as to encourage me muoh, and alto
gether it Is a very hard thing for me to dc
exactly right.- I pray thee have me ex
cused. Excused From Celestial rrlvllec;!.
Excused and excused! And by and by
excused from eating bread in the kingdom
ot God.excused from the privileges celestial
and immortal.
Sitting down at a banquet can hardly be
described as a duty. It is a pleasure. Thus
God sets forth His invitation as an 'invita
tion, not as a command. To do the will of
God, to learn the truth of God, to approach
God, and'to increase in the love and knowl
edge of Jesus Christ, which is the knowl
edge and love of God, is the supreme privi
lege ot human lile. And the punishment
for rejection of the privilege is simply loss
of the privilege, just as the punishment for
staying away from a supper is the loss oi
the supper. In the parable the places of
the invited guests who did not come were
given to others who accepted the invitation.
The people who declined went their ways
and made'.the best of their preferences, and
then were allowed to stay away. That was
their only punishment "None of those
men which were bidden shall taste of my
supper," said the host; but that was no great
hardship, the men had already chosen not to
taste the supper.
AVe ourselves punish ourselves. We
make our choice and God gives us exactly
what we choose. Jesus said that the Phar
isees who prayed at the street corners had
their reward. They received exactly what
they wanted. They chose to be seen and
praised of men rather than to be heard and
praised of God. Aud God gave them just
that choice.
Sleenlnsr or Going; to Church.
If the alternative is between a Sunday
sleep and a Sunday service the choice is
free. A man may take the sleep or the
service. In either case he has bis reward.
The only question for the man'to decide is
which reward is better.
Bometimes the sleep is better? There are
lives in which the Sunday rest is essential
to keeping on of lite. God knows how some
of His children live in slavery, and how
they have to run a fierce race six days out
of seven under the lash of that pitiless
slave driver, poverty. And I can well be
lieve that the divine Father fulfills in their
case that old blessing of the Psalms: He
fivcth to His beloved in their sleep. God
nows who needs to sleep on Sunday.
The punishment for staying away from
the church service is loss of spiritual re
freshment and spiritual strength. The pen
alty for leaving religion out ot life is loss of
the blessing, ot the consolation, ot the in
spiration ot religion, and of the ability to
appreciate spiritual privileges wlthou'c
which the world to come will be as blank to
us as a pictured canvas is to the eyes of the
oiina.
Blessed is he that shall est bread in the
kingdom of God. We are all invited to the
Great Supper. He may come who will; he
who will may make excuse.
UEOEOE HODqpS.
Pistols or Historical Interest
In Pike county, 111., the pair of pistols
used by Aaron Burr upon the dueling field
when he killed Alexander Hamilton have
been found and will be exhibited. The
will make good companion pieces he the
articles once ownedby Blennerhasstit, with
whom Burr afterward associated, which are
to be placed on exhibition at the World's
Fair by the Ohio Historical 8ociety.
Ten Rest American Poets.
Hew Tort San. J"
Question: "What aro the names ot the
ten best American poets?" Answer: JEmer
son, Poe, Longfellow, Bryant, Whittler,
Halleck, Lowell, Holtr.es, and two.ladies,
Mrs. Julia Ward Jiowe and Mrs. Bose
Terr Cooks,
.
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BID FOR THE SPOOKS.
Splritualtuts Bad a Bad Tear of It at
Cassadaga and Onset Bay.
THEY CONDEMNED EACH 0THEB.
How
ft New Tork Jawjer renounced the
3 ricks of the Medium.
EXPOSURES THAT SHOULD C0STINCB
rwniTiTOr roa tot dtspatcr.1
While the orthodox religious and educa
tional conventions of the summer outing
season furnished nothing startling in the
way of sensations, and were in the main
humdrum, the Spiritualist assemblies were
decidedly otherwise. At Cassadaga Lake
two mediums were exposed as frauds and a
demand has grown up that these shall be
expelled in disgrace and be debarred from
exercising their tricks and coining money
by imposing upon the most sacred feelings
of mankind. At Onset Bay, as related in
the Boston Globe, occurred the main rumpus
of the year. .
This noted assemblage is attended by the
most prominent members of society who
have faith in ghosts and spooks generally,
and such manifestations as the materializing
of spirit forms, slate writing by invisible
bands, clairvoyant visions, double souls,
astral bodies, table tlpplngs, knocks from
the other world and all the other tests that
are conclusive to many minds.
The frcqueut frauds and the disgrace
brought upon the cause of Spiritualism by
unworthy mediums has waked up some of
the leaders. The exposure of the notorious
Dis De Bar, who imposed so outrageously
upon Luther B. Marsh, who was considered
a good medium at onset, as was also Mrs.
Boberts whose fraudulent tricks were ex
posed last year.
A New Tork lawyer's Row.
Mr. C P. Poole, a New York lawyer,
as the story goes was the man who stirred
up things over the proceedings at a mate
rializing seance. His remarks were so ex
citing that they nearly resulted in a mob in
the auditorium. In his statement of the
trouble he says Mrs. Helen Stuart Bich
ings, who claims to speak under inspiration
from the spirit world, was given
among other subjects the follow
ing: "Materializations, their truth
and falsity." Mrs. Bichings spoke as
she was moved by the spirit Strange to
say, she strongly denounced ma terializationa;
said "she had waded through the filth of
them up to her knees, aye, up to her waist,
aud her deliberate conclusion was that
nine-tenths of all materializations were
frauds." In her Sunday lecture she re
peated this assertion, and took her position
plainly. Dr. Storer, the President of. the
Onset Association, thereupon took it upon
himself to publicly rebuke her, and told
her in an excited manner that she had bet
ter go home and learn before she attempted
to teach. This public insult to one who
had been invited to give her views upon
the subject stirred up the strife prodigiously.
Mr. Poole declared he had the documents
in his pocket to prove that nine-tenths of
the materializations at Onset were frauds.
Dr. Storer ordered him to stop, and the
howls and histes showed the temper of the
mob. Mrs. H. V. Boss, a materializing
medium, appeared upon the plattorm and
denounced everything tnat Jlr. 1'oole nad
said as false. 'The melee deepened, and
Mr. Poole left the place, doubtless shaking
the dust from his feet in wrath
It's a Fleht Aoon; Bolleverm.
As appears by-his statement, Mr. Poole
is an ardent Spiritualist, being one of the
oldest, and having, in company with Judge
Edmonds, helped to incorporate the first
Spiritualist society in New York. It is a
bitter quarrel. Dr. Storer heads the ma
terializing element, and Mr. Poole is one of
the most determined upon excluding trickv
and fraudulent mediums from the Spiritual
ist campmeetings.
Another thing that adds fuel to their
fires of contention is a pamphlet recently
published under the title of "The Vampires
of Onset Past and Present," which is a
compilation uf the newspaper reports of
materializing mediums who have been ex
posed as frauds aud trickster. The man
who got up this expose of frauds claims to
be a friend of Spiritualism, and interested
only in behalf of truth and honesty. He
shows up the records thus:
They are vile creatures, who under the
mask of medinmshlp have been coining
money from the most holy feelings of the
human heart; who, with diabolical cunning
and all the arttnee of the mountebank und
prostitute have piled their wiles to victim
ize and demoralize heart-broken mourners
seeking knowledge or their beloved dead.
That such vermin are permitted among
civilized and respectable people Is a matter
of profound astonishment to;mauy spiritual
1st, and that tliee posts .should l recog
nized publicly and be treated with courier
and consideration by the officers of the On
bet Ejy Camp and by prominentsplritualists
Ui matter for serious alarm and energetic
protest.
Elate TVrlrtn; Is Very E iiy.
These are strong words. It is little won
der that the professional mediums and clair
voyants are greatly excited about it Spirit
ualism must stand the test of honest and
earnest investigation. Slate writing by
spirits Is regarded by some to be a convinc
ing proof ot the truthof spiritualism. Joseph
Cook has told of a visit to a celebrated
medium who produced this spirit slate writ
ing. Mr. Cook gare a description of the
process, and stased his reputation that
there was no trick about it, that it must
have been produced by invisible agencies.
Now comes out a Prof. J, M. Snook, who
claims to be able to explain and produce
this wonderful phenomenon just as Mr.
Cook saw it, without spirits having any
hand in it Bev. J. A. Crusan, pastor of
the First Congregational Church in Port
land, Ure., certifies tnat tne professor
publicly, in bis church, stripped this part
of the delusion of spiritualism of its mar
velous features and showed clearly that
most, if not all, of tbis class of tests can be
accounted for bv trickery and sleight of
hand, sllis rope-tying, bell-ringing, spirit
hands and slate-writing tests, he adds, are
capitally dona, and his explanations very
simple. In Saoramento prof. Snook ad
vertised that he would sell the slate-writing
trick far (2, and related that two men who
were quite willing to pay the 52 if they
could not detect the trick were very much
ashamed when shown how simple it was.
Tin Tall f tbn Ftmou Slade.
Dr. Slade, who created such a sensation
in tbis business years ago, uas exposed in
San Francisco and the account of his fraud
and detection was published in the Sau
Francisco Call, together with his promise
to refrain from the practice herealter.
It would seem with all there accusations
and contradictions, with all these bitter
dissensions und wide differences, with so
much of doubt on one side and credulity on
the otber, that the spints ought to take a
hand and furnish such proof as would settle
these vexed questions without further
trouble. With Socrates, Plato. Aristottle
and all the saints, philosophers and wise
men in the "great heyond" furnishing
heavenly inspiration to mediums; with all
the wisdom and intelligence shown by the
mizhty dead in knocking on tables and
blowing horns; with all the slate writings
and manifestations and materializations as
presented at seances, surely suchkuowledge
of spiritualism could be obtained as would
furnish truth, proof and conviction.
But alas! Bessie Bkahble.
Distune Traveled In Dancing.
An average waltz takes a dancer over
about three-quarters of a mile. A square
dance makes him cover half a mile. A girl
with a well-filled programme travels thus
in an evening: Twelve waltzes, nine miles;
four other dances at a half mile apiece,
which is hardly a falrty big estimate, two
miles more; the intermission stroll aud the
trips to the dressing room to renovate her
gown and complexion, half a mile; grand
total, 11 mils - '6
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COLUMBUS AS
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A History of the Great Explorer and How He Found America
ESPECIALLY FOR
WBITTJ5- FOB THE DISPATCH
L H. WEES AND PAUL LATZKE.
Coprrlehted, 1891 by the Authors,
BY
CHAPTEB V.
ttif itrst votaoe.
THE ptesx votaok
'Eeadmitted to the presence of Ferdinand
and Isabella, Columbus thanked the sover-
eigus and was assured that nothing should
stand In the way of his advancement The
King and Queen, now that they were com-
... j . .v . i .i,... .j,ii
mitted to the enterprise, were thoronhly in
earnest Bat the officials of the court were
still opposed to the Genoese sailor aud two
months were consumed in discussing and
arranging details to the satisfaction of both
parties, It was the last ofAprll before the
commission aud contract were signed by the
King and Queen. By these -aper. Colum
SS 7jrJ$XVS
.-. ... .11 th. ir,r) thue hm mlrit
hi. h.i in-..,- Wnrihermore one-tenth
..Tf i.n ,. .n,..,. !,.. anil all
P.rt f.a.U.?. k S 'a.FuILM Z
eerv e envn her" me'thod " werPronit
covery or any other me thod, were prom-
to do business between Spain and the new
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trouble still pursued Ihe great ' P'J
Days, weeks and months dragged wearily
bv before the complete fulfillment of his
desires was achieved.
Ferdinand and Isabella kept loyally to
their agreement, but they were inclined to
economy. By a royal edict the town of
Palos was ordered to furnish at its own ex
pense two ships with arms and provisions
and money to pay the crews tor four months
and to do all this within ten days.
When this decree was read to the people
from the pulpit of the little village church
there was an exciting time. The people
The Farewell to Palos.
were unlearned and superstitious; they be
lieved all the stranee stories that were told
of the mysterious Western ocean and tbey
felt certain that tbis expedition would
never be heard from after it had once got
out of their sight Men nxe up and de
nounced the crazy adventurer who had be
witched their sovereigns, and would lure
poor men to their death. Women wept and
tore their hair at the thought of being com
pelled to part with fathers, brothers and
husbands.
"The man is in league with the evil one,"
they declared. "He will take the souls as
well as the bodies of our men when be gets
them out there in Satan's own waters."
It is not easv for ns in these davs with
our knowledge of the world to understand'
how these poor people must have felt But
the dangers that tbey imagined, although
we can laugh at them now, were all very
real to them. Criminals were drafted from
the prisons ot Spain to assist in the work of
preparation and to make np the crews of
the ships ot exploration. Tbis added to the
prejudice against the enterprise, for re
spectable sailors did not relish ihe idea of
going to sea with jail birds. It is not sur
prising that in their desperation they even
talked of killing Columbus in order to save
themselves.
In consequenee the work progressed
slowly. The people of Palos threw every
obstacle In the way of Columbus and would
do nothing except as tbey were compelled.
Another royal order, making it a treasona
ble offense to refuse assistance, was needed
before they would yield, and even then
they continued their mutterings of discon
tent The friar Juan Peraz nsed his influ
ence to good effect and the two Pinzon
brothers, Martin Alonzo and Vincente
Yanez, mariners oi Palos and men of some
wealth and Bocial standing, helped to qniet
the fears of the common people. Tbey had
been among the earliest converts to the
ideas of Columbus, and now they came for
ward offering to pav one-eighth of the ex
pense of -the expedition. They gave time,
money and influence, and announeid their
intention to join the expedition in person.
But in spite of their aid it was two months
instead of ten days before the ships were
completed. By the end of July all was in
readiness.
Three ships made up the little fleet They
were small vessels, none of them being over
100 tons burden. Only the largest, the
Santa Maria, was decked its entire length.
It was 75 feet long and 23 feet broad, smaller
than many of the pleasure yachts of to-day.
The Piuta and the Nina uere built high at
the bow and the stern, and had decks at the
ends, the section amidships being uncov
ered. All the Vessels were three-masted,
the Santa Maria with square rig at fore
mast and rqain mast and lateen sails at the
mizzen mast, and the Pinta and Nina with
lateen sails throughout Accommodations
for the sailors were of the most primitive
description. Columbus had a private room,
but the common sailors bad bundles of
straw thrown down on the deck upon which
to sleep. Only the commonest food was on
board aud the cooking was done over bra
ziers of charcoal. Stores of goods, princi
pally cheap trinkets with which to trade
with the natives of the new land, were
placed in the holds. For armament there
wcru lombards and falconets, roub, rude
cannon ot iron from which balls of irou or
stone were thrown. The members of the
crew carried guns aud stronls. In all there
were 120 persons iu the fleet Admiral
Columbus sailed in the Santa Maria, Mar
tin Pinzon commanded the Pinta and his
brother the Nina.
It was the second day of August, 1192,
that the three little vessels were finally rid
ing at anchor in the waters of the Tinto river
before tho town of Palos, all equipped and
with the crews abroad. The next day was
fixed upon for departure. Up to the last
moment the opposition of the people ot
Palos had continued with rioting and loud
and angry protestations. Attempts were
even made to damage the vessels so tha't
thev might not sail. And now when oppo
sition was no longer of avail gloom and de
spondency settled upon the community.
Officers and men attended divine services
and implored the protection of heaven, al
though they had 'little hope that eren
Divine favor would ever bring them safely
home asrain. The community was stricken
with grief and spent the dav and night be
fore the sailing in tears and lamentations.
Columbus rejoiced in hope, but was im
pressed by the solemnity of the occasion.
The hazard of bis enterprise bore upon him
more heavily than ever before. He was
confident and courageous, bat he fully'
realfzed what tremendous interests were
now at stake In his hands the favor of his
sovereigns, -his own future for good or for
ill, the lives of his shipmates, the happiners
or the misery of a community, the possible
BOY AND.MHN!
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YOUNG- PEOPLE.
Hy of exalting the power and adding to th
wealth of Spain. Devoutly he confessed
himself to the friar of La Bibida and pub-
1Jc1jt vowed himself to God in the little
church of Palo. The night of August 2 he
passed at the convent in the performance of
religious duties.
rf 0krT fe" rVel7 wa7 ,n th
early hours or morning, Columbus, aecom
panied bj. Jnan perez a he77ast
friends, went down to the smjfs whence he
was to embark. Despite alffbtteoipt at
cheerfulness It was a sad farewelL Tho
' had not yet disappeared belore the
ffi?Jj!JI&& eruuH were-
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?rfiene!fshbfo"tahed iSfflf a'"' ii5
friends lor the last time and reverently
r!ne Ftlar Columbus stepped into his boat
na WM rowel ot to the banta Mana.
It was an hour before sunrise when the
"U e hoted 0 lifted!
j, fears that the fleet might be
, "f,1 eTtVlhink t&
"hM $$SihU&
j vessel and gave the order to set sail "in he
,.,, t. rhr;., .. .m, i .
name of Jesus Christ" The roral ensfon
floated from tbo masthead and with a fair
wind the vessels sped down the river. The
convent bell nas tolling for early mass, and
the farewells of those on shore broke the
silence of morning. In a few hours the
fleet had crossed the bar at the month of
the river below the town of Heulva and
striking out into the ocean took a south
westerly course for the Canary islands.
The voya;e was thus begun most agree
ably and Columbus was exultant He had
already mapped out his route due westjfrom
the Canaries and he expected to come first
to the Isle of St Brandon that was believed
to exist two hundred leagues distant, then
to discover Cipango or Japan and finally
Asia or India fifteen hundred leagues to the
west or Cipanga But treachery was still
around him. On the fourth day out the
rudder of the Plata became loose. It had
been tampered with by members of ihe
erew who more than ever wauted to turn
back from the perils belore them. It was
th 12th of August before the fleet reached
the Canary Islands and then the necessity
of repairs 'to the Pinta which was discovered
to be wholly unseawortby, kept them in
port until September 6, when the voyage)
was resumed.
There were rumors of Portuguese cara
vels cruising in the vicinity in search of
Columbus, but the fleet did not fall in with
them and slow but sale progress was made
westward in lace ot bead winds. The voy
age would not be considered eventful in
these days, but the unlearned sailors of.ths
fifteenth century were in a constant state ot
alarm over their stranie experience. A.
daily record of the voyage was kept by
Columbus and from this we have the story
of tho expedition.
From the start the Admiral was distrust
ful ot his crew, and he particularly states
in his journal that he deceived the sailors
every day so that they should not know
how far the ships had actually sailed lest
tbey should be terrified at the distance they
had come from home. The little fleet was
fortunately undisturbed by bad weather,
but the winds blowing steadily day and
night from the east made the sailors fear
that never again would they fiud a wind
that would take Ihem home It was not
until the wind had swung around to the
west on the 21st of the month that their
fears on that point were aKayed. ( -
Meantime very soon alter leaving their
last port they b'egan to note evidences of
land to the westward. They were, of
course, watching for these things which
Columbus considered of great importance,
as indicating the truth ot his ideas. On
September 14 they saw a, tropical bird
which thev believed never went farther
than 76 miles from land. Two days later
they saw large patches of weed that looked
Facing the Mutineers.
as though they had been recently washed
away from rocks. As the days went on
these indications of land increased. Fish,
such as swim near the coast, were caught,
'more sea weed with occasionally a live
crab, flocks of birds, a piece of carved
wood. So numerous were these things that
sometimes the sailors were inclined to be
lieve that thev were devices of the evil one
to lure them iurther and further away from
home to their destruction. "
But the serene confidence of Columbus
and the courage of the Pinzons controlled
the crews. There was a mutiny on board
the Sinta Maria one day and the sailors
declared thev would no longer continue on
the way. Columbus argued, pleaded and
commanded and finally the men yielded
and returned to work and to eagerly watch
out for the hoped-for land. A pension of
10,000 maravedls, about ?66, was promised
to the man who should first see land, stim.
uiated them. Each vessel crowded all can
vas, and It was on September 25 that Mar
tin Alonzo Pinzon declared he saw land.
Columbus fell upon his knees and thanked
God, and Pinzon and crew repeated th
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo." But after all
this was not land. The voyagers had beea
deceived by banks of clouds that looked
like land. Twelve days later they were de
ceived in the same manner, but allthe signs
pointing to the nearness of land increased
everv day, and a general impression pre
vailed among all the sailors that their voy
age was nearing an end.
By the evening on the 11th of October all
doubt had vanished. Everybody knew
that land was at hand. None slept that
niebt Coiumbus was on watch and about
10 o'clock he called his lieutenant
"There is a light ahesd, dost thousee it?"
he asked.
"Ay, that I do," was the response.
'Thank God, we shall now see land aeain."
The light went out, but was occasionally
seen afterward and the vessels were kept
steadily on their course westward. About
2 o'clock In the morning a gun was heard
from the Pinta which was leading. This
was the signal agreed upon and now land
could be clearly seen five or six miles
ahead. Columbus had triumphed at last
This was the proof that would confound
those who had opposed and laughed at him
during all these long weary years. But
even now he only thought that he had
reached Asia. He did not know that he
had discovered a new world.
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