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There are ongs for the w alitor who leaps to
tho fray.
To fight for his country, her foemen to slay.
There aro songs ior the dreamer whose fanci
ful brain
I" liusily building the castles In Spain.
2 uere ere sont for tho noble, the true and
tne bravo.
To gladden tb Journey from cradle to
grave;
Bat no one has Jims; since cxlstenoe began
A sons lor the "no-account" sort of a man.
, Oh, the "no-account" man is a sorrowful
j soul,
.' With scarcely a trait we can praise or extol;
I He s a sort of a something nobody can lore,
And evervoua gltes him a push and a shore.
He was born 'neath an evil, unfortunate
sv.
And ho couldn't do right, It would seem,
sho.ild he try,
Tor the lioodoos forever Industriously plan
To make him a "no-aocounf sort of a man.
He'd like to be thought or mnoh better ac- ,
count.
But with so many barriers he'd have to sur
mount, Confrontin - each good resolution of hi,
'Tis easier far to remain as he Is.
And so this poor soul, who has less than his
share
Of good things and more than his portion of
caie
This heart on whose purpose the pods lay a
ban
oeiiis uown as a -no-account" aort or a
man.
His life Is so freighted with failure and
fuss.
This thought has at times been presented to
nsi
A heart that through life that 1 bereft of a
smile.
Should enjoy better things in theglad "after
while."
And theie may be a way, as we fancy there
is.
To sn eoten and quicken this nature of his,
And tho angels, In love and in mercy, may
plan
To -nelcomo this "no-account" sort of a
man.
What TJttlc Things Result In.
Careful observers of men long ago arrived
at the conclusion that there is just as much
difference in some folks as there is in any
body. So one possesses a sufficiently clear
1 nowlcdge ol people and things to unerr
ingly point cat the "no-Mconnts" of this
i-orld. And but few cs.h explain why thev
A Xn-Account Sort of a 3fan.
ficmtelvcs are what they are any more that:
thi-T can trll which horse to bet on before
fitm; a tin from the jockeys. The world
kow that the tinker. Bnnyan, wrote his
1 iMoriin's Progress" and became iamous as
an author be cause he was for years locked in
a prison. Our own Barnum became noted
a a showman because previous to enibark
i ir in that line ol business he had in a
measure failui in almost everything else.
'iuce there vis a boy who was clande
stine'y practicing on a trapeze bar in his
father's hajrnow, expecting later on to run
swar lrom his home and travel with a
en- is. llut he fell and broke his aim,
r.a ! Before it pot well he decided to
y rd to his mother's wishes and study
ioi - e .ainivtry, which he did, and he
is row one el the nation's prominent dl-
'ips. 1 he merest triSes cuange our course
in ! , this way or that. The finding of a
r op button in his matutinal plate ot hash
n.a cause a ouug nun to leave one board
ii g house and go to another, where he meets
a voung lady divinity student, whom he
v i and who changes the trend ol his
ti oughts from prize fighting and horse
racing to pr.yer meetings and missionary
ivork. And all because of a misplaced shoe
button. The coward who in retreating from
tne thick ol the light stopped a bullet that,
lia'i it course not been intercepted, would
have Killed the General just then riding up,
did not enlist in vain. It is hard to esti
H, a. c the worth ol parposes and influences.
A i times our best-meant endeavors produce
E-i hect directly opposite to that which we
iktcjd.
A 'Histako at a Temperance Revival.
A temperance revival was being held in a
"V estern town and was meeting with great
Eucrpss, when the leaders of the reforma
t'"n committed one of those fatal errors
vh,eh some students of human nature say
everr person is responsible for in the one
"lool hour" of his or her life. One night
a ter the assemblage, composed largely ol
the drinking, smoking, chewing, swearing
six bad for a time enjoyed the songs, ad
dresses and exhortations of the evening,
the management presented a member ot the
gossiping, tight-lacing, painting and
powdering gender and annonnced that she
would tavor those present with a recitation
entitled, "The Lips That Touch Liqnor
Must Never Touch Mine."
Whether thf management made a mistake
in the selection of the speaker or the
speaker in the selection of the matter
spoken is not lor ns at this late day to say.
But letting bygones be bygones, certain'it
JUpt That Touch
Liquor ShaZ Ntemr
Mint.
TWA
was the two formed a very unfortunate
combination. The speaker's face was
Mt eaaurgi.
telMs Ai ov J
THX OIgPATCS.1
would admit that mnoh. As a typewriter
she would hare stood well In the estimation
ol her employer's wife. She was ol that
type of woman who, when they attend a
dance, are on the floor oftenest if it is a
masque ball. And as for kissing her lips,
well some of her family may still reside in
this ceuntry, so it were better, as it were,
to sav nothing, o to speak. Before she had
finished the peem, in which in the closing
line of each verse she took occasion to in
form the gentlemen present that the lips
that touched liquor oould never touch hers,
there seemed to be an anxious uneasiness
manifested by the men. The instant she
made her farewell bow there was a rush for
the door, and scores of men who had never
before touched liquor hurried across the
street to the saloon, where they fell over
each other in their mad haste to get the os
culatorj preventive. She meant well, and
had the probable loss of her kisses seemed a
sacrifice her recitation would have been
efficacious.
Shattering ot a Beautiful Idol.
By way of turning the tables on the sexes
let me call your attention to this little
ditty, which I might call "Lips That Are
Painted Can Never Touoh Mine."
I am coming to woo you, hut not as of yore
When you hastened to welcome my step at
the door;
When your pretty red cheeks and your light
golden cnrl
Jiade me think you were the brightest and
truest oi Kins.
I was young then, yon know, and not able to
tell
There was anything wrong when you kissed
me farewell;
But your face to me now is a much frescoed
81K11,
And tho lips that are painted can never kiss
mine.
I think of the night In the garden alone
When I thoushtyour complexion was wholly
your own;
When j our beantiful cheok to my bosom I
pre-sed.
And never once dreamed It wonld ruin my
vot.
And the exquisite tint on your neokand
your throat
There is some of It yet on the sleeve of my
Of course I'm. too manly to kick or to
whine,
But tho lips that are painted can never kiss
mine.
Ah, me! Ton forever my future have
queered! (
Unthinkingly I the next morning appeared
In public, and oh ! Just the thought makes
me Mid,
For I looked like a rainbow gone hopelessly
mad.
The whole wide, wide world seemed to see
my illsaraoe.
And I said in hen I saw the red stains on my
lace.
Which looked like the drippings of rasp
berry wine,
That the lips that are painted can never kiss
mine.
I love yon, of course; there is naught to pre
vent Our lovinz as long as yonr pa has a cent,
Uut my faith is mnch shattered and part of
it's gone
Since I learned your complexion Is only put
on.
And finer I'm not sure 'but your teeth or
your hair.
Or even your form is a shop-made affair,
We must now kiss by proxy or tho telephone
line,
For the lips that are painted can never touch
mine.
The First lilss of Love.
The mention ol lips and kisses reminds us
that there are great differences in the qual
ities of osculatory greetings, so -we have
been informed and believe, and so change
the facts to be. Some of the poets have
dared to convey the impression that of all
kisses the "first kiss of love" is the only
one worth mentioning, but who is there
among us who was not willing to trade the
first kiss for a subsequent one, and that for
one a little later on, and so on down to the
present moinrnt? Kisses art like fire
crackers; all those we have exploded In the
past are not worth the half-dozen we are
anticipating in the future. There is no
doubt hut what kissing stirs up the heart
and sets youn; people to sUr gazing. The
truthfulness ot the song which informs us
that "kissing leads to braver deeds" was
demonstrated in Kansas last winter when a
voung man kissed a young lady on the way
home from a dance, and ten days later
eloped with her, incidentally taking with
him her lather's horsts, harness and wagon,
a lot of agricultural implements, nine hams
that were in the smokehouse, a pet rattle
snake, and an SO-Ioot stock well. About
the only thing he left was the farm mort
gage. This teaches ns that we should be careful
In making a selection of those to whom we
intend giving our kisses. We should not
scatter them about carelessly and indis
criminately, as the train boy docs his C-cent
boxes of mediasval figs, and who, when he
discovers, as lie always does, that we hare
sampled them just the least little bit, tells
us to pay a quarter for the rest ot the box,
which we throw out of the car window.
Women Wasting Kisses on Women.
Kissing, like most other blessings, has its
evils, one of which we desire to call atten
tion to in "an open lettor."
Dxar ladies: Quite often Is brought to onr
skht
A custom wherein you are prodigal, quite;
For It seems that whenever yon happen to
meet
Tou kiss in the home, or the ohnrcb, or the
street.
Don't i ou think It were better, perchanoe,
non and then,
To offer your favors to hungering men?
Oh, kiss ns as friends, or a lover or brother,
But don't waste yonr kisses in kissing eaoh
other.
Ton know very well that when two of. you
kiss
There isn't that exquisite something of
bliss
That mystical message that comes with a
flash
Where one has a whiskery chin or mustache.
And if you have kisses you wish to bestow
On ladies we'll pass them about to and fro.
Yes, kiss if you wish till you pretty near
smother.
But don't waste your kisses In kissing each
other.
The Pathetic Side of It
There are as many kinds of kisses as
there are religions, but a dying kiss is the
saddest, sweetest demonstration of hnman
aSection. There was a German youth who
drove a baker's wagon and delivered bread
to the baker's patrons. He started out early
in the morning and went up and down the
streets until late in the evening. He could
scarcely estimate the number of stairs, he
climbed daily, but this fair-haired boy, with
large, honest eyes, the color of a happy
summer skv, knew there was one- flight of
stairs, the golden steps of which led up to
where he caught glimpses of Paradise, as it
shone through the pretty eyes of a German
servant girL He could never forget the
first morning when they exchanged glances
as he handed her a loaf of bread at the
rear door of that upper fiat. They were alone
In this country, and each felt the need of
a friend. Gradually they became better
acquainted and after awhile he lingered just
a moment every morning to hear the voice
that was as sweet to him as the songs ot
birds he remembered In the meadows where
itar4lBbefkee4, fttvtr
born In his heart The i ingle of his horse's
harness became the echo of wedding hejls
and the homely baker's cart itself took on
the trainings of a gilded coach.
And tne laithinl servant girl saw a new
beauty in the common tasks of life and as
her hands delved amid the pots and kettles
she lottly sang: a sweet little love song shs
had heard from the lips of her mother, now
sleeping in the far away churchyard In the
Fatherland.
The worm passes by the weed to feast
upon the heart of the rose. Death seems
otteneat to eome where most it should not
enter. The servant girl sickened with a
fever and one day the parish priest cam
and spoke the words that seemed to wreath
and make mere beautiful the gateway to
death aid to set hope's candle in the gloomy
doorway of the dark house. And when he
ailed her if there was ao friend she woald
like to have summoned to her bedside she
s?.id there was one. It was the baker's boy.
He came and for the first tiase he took her
hand In his, and for the irst and last
time his lips touched hers. And if she that
day walked In glory land shs saw nothing
holier, or purer, or grander than that kiss
which passed between those who were
prince and princess to one 'another, but
whom the world might have thought to be
of little or "no account." There are no
simpler lives. Those that seem to us to be
but light and airy farce-comedies may have
hidden withia them the elements and inci
dents of sublimest tragedy. All other lives
are to themselves as great as is yours and
mine to you and L
Judging by the Worst Standard.
How differently we would judge men and
women could we but know
The brooklet's babble weave the tones
That comes from all its hidden stones.
The weed is not a flower because
It Is a weed by nature's laws.
The river's tide reflects its souroe
And all that joins it on Its course.
Lire's causes He so deep and far,
And men are only what they are.
Oh, oonld we read the hearts of those
About usl know their hidden woes.
The secret sonroes of despair.
The birth and burden of their prayers;
See thrown about their lives the mesh
Of pain from thorns within the flesh,
Onr charity would lend the grace
Of goodliness to every face.
But alasi we do not know each other and
hence we judge all persons by the worst
standard. Men doubt each other's honesty
and integrity, and in the commonest busi
ness affairs there lurks a suspicion that
somebody is not doing the right thing by
somebody else. For example:
Catching tho Telephone Girl.
"Hello, central! Is it true that yon girls
are not allowed to listen to what is said over
the wires?"
"Tes, and what's more we wouldn't waste
the time if we had it to throw away in
listening to the silly stuff that people ponr
into etch other's ears. The publio must
think we are dying te hear something when
we trv to catch what it has to say."
"All right then, give me 1314."
"Thsre, you've got 'em."
"Hello, 13UI Say, I've got a secret T
want to whisper to you, but first let me tell
you that yesterday I saw the telephone girl
who answers our calls at the central office
the one with the cracked, rasping voice
and, snflerihg saints! she's got a lece that
is naturally so homely that any sort of sn
accident that might befall it would im
prove its appearance; and her hair Is such a
bright red that persons, with weak eyes
can't look ,at it except through smoked
glass; and she's got freckles -as distinct as
the squares on aehecker-board, and "
"Say, you horrid man! if I hear anymore
ofthatkindof talk over the wire I'll re
port vou to the manager 1 So yen under
stand ?"
"3r-r-r, hello, 1314! I'll call around this
afternoon and tell you what I've got to say.
I'm afraid it won't do to send it over 'the
'phone, because well you understand
how it is."
Wail or tho Pessimist.
Notwithstanding the numerous evidences
of insineerity to be seeu in the social and
commercial world the average man takes a
more favorable view of the situation than Is
expressed in the following, whioh may be
appropriately firmed "a pessimist's plaiat"
Oh, who is there among ns that Is honest
through and through!
The Snntlav sermon even. whv. we can't ba
sure it's new.
And men who write for papers, so they tell
us, lie awake
ThrouRhoutthe nirrht and conjure up some
wild and woolly fake.
For cettinz riches while you wait that
seems to be the race
Kow crazing everybody in this green-goods,
shell-game age;
By shady speculation now a fortune must
bo won;
We're busv doing, up tho rest the while
we're btina done.
Our fathers ol imbed the ladder very slowly,
round by round,
Sut that's gone out of fashion now, because
of late we've lound
That life's too short - to toll along the way
they used toao
We plan to razzle-dazzle and we work the
srand razoo.
It's trne tbe jails are crowded and asylums
all are full
Of men, who, hating honest toil, havo sought
to work a pull.
We haven't time to eat or sleep, bnt scheme
from sun to sun;
We're Dusy doing np the rest while we are
being done.
Nrxoir 'Waterman.
Copyright ISK, by the anther.
THE TJSB or H&HDKEBOHIXTg.
The Empress Josephine Was the First One
to Introduce Them.
Chicago Inter Oeean.l
It was not until the reign of the Empress
Josephine in France that the pocket hand
kerchief was toleiated at all as an article
for public use. No lady would have dared
to use one in the'preience of others. Even
the name was carefully avoided in polite
conversation. An actor who would have
ventured to uin cne on the stage would
have been hisiec! ofl the boards. It was
only in the beginning of tbe present cen
tury that Mile. Liuchesnois, a famous
actress, dared to appear with a handker
chief in her hand. Having to apeak of it in
the course of the play she could only sum
mon courage to refer to it as "a light tis
sue." A translation of one ef Shakespeare's
plays by Alfred de Yigney was acted, and
the word was used for the first time upon
the stage and produced a storm of indignant
hisses from all parts of the house.
The Empress Josephine, although really
a beautiful woman, had verv bad teeth, and
to conceal them she was in the habit of
carrying small handkerohlefs, trimmed
with costly laeea, which the raised grtoe-
fully to ber lips to conceal her teeth. The
luliai af the eoart followeeThar exanmla.
aad haadkerotJefs rapidly keoase aa
eatssafiatfeslMtatsti,
JTt Could Xever Forgd.
ARE 2"0T ALL SPIRIT.
The Wise Parson Will Recognize the
' llaterial Side of Life.
EYEET MAH HAS HI8 STRUGGLES.
Ur.
Stead! Proposer f the Theater and
Saloon in the Chnreh.
YISITS AMONG Till FARISHIONEBS
fwBirriy roa th Brsrn.TOH.1
The purpose of the parson in the parish
is te help the people and to get'the people
to help him. People need help both in
soul and in body.
The parson will do well to remember that
his people are not disembodied spirits.
They are not all soul they have bodies.
Christ never forgot that men are made with
flesh and blood, that they have hands and
feet and eyes and ears. He was forever
doing what ne one expeoted, and saying
what no one else would have thought ef
saying; but the element of unexpectedness
enters fust as remarkably into His silence.
How many times He preached no sermon,
when the occasion, in eur judgment, called
very loudly for a sermon! How many times,
for 'example, He helped people out of .their
bodily distresses and never said anything to
them about their soulst Jesus Christ was
not exclusively concerned with the souL
He wanted to save ns, body and souL And
He very often began with the body.
The Material Side or Hla Duties.
The parson will, accordingly; do what he
can to better tbe environment of his people.
He will account that clean streets as well as
clean hearts belong within the province of
religion. He will point his people, in
deed, to the mansions which are prepared
for the faithful above; but he will also be
profoundly concerned about the miserable
tenements which are prepared for some of
them down here. The parson longs to save
people, to save them from their sins. And
though he may know well enough that "to
get a man soundly saved It is not enough,"
as General Booth says, "to put on him a
new pair of breeches, or to give him regular
work, or even to give him a university edu
cation," yet he knows also, as that great
leader further says, that It is of no use
"preaching the gospel to men whose whole
attention is concentrated upon a mad, des
perate struggle to keep themselves alive.
You might as well cive a tract to a ship
wrecked sailor who is battling with the surf
which has drowned his comrades, and
threatens to drown him."
So the parson tries somehow to get a line
out over tho surf to pull in these drowning
brothers of his, and to build some sort of a
break-water to keep the great sea from roll
ing In so murderously upon the rocks.
The Life of the Society.
The parson will be profoundly interested
in all that concerns the physical, social and
indnstrial welfare of his people. Nobody
will be so diligent in the study of questions
of sociology as the ideal parson. He will
account it as a large part of his mission to
bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to bear not
only upon that which is wrong in the life of
the individual, but upon that which is
wrong in the life ef society. The moral
issue of all publio and political questions
will interest him directly. The question of
drink and the question of rent will be of as
much importance to him as they were to
Isaiah.
The parson ought especially to make it
his purpose to know what the workingmen
and the poor people in his parish are think
ing about, and what the capitalists and the
employers of labor in his parish are think
ing about. He is tbe only man who can
bring the rich man and the poor man face to
face and effect an interchange of thought
These are days when no parson has any busi
ness to be reading theology to the neglect of
sociology.
Theater and Saloon In Church.
The parson's purpose ought to be to make
the parhh church the center of ail sorts of
uplifting, humanizing and Christianizing
influences. Mr. Stead prophesies that the
church of the future will run a theater and
a saloon. But that will be, I hope, not by
turning the chancel into a stage and setting
up a bar in the vestry room, but by convert
ing the owners of the theaters, and the
writers, and the actors of p'ays and all the
steciators into goed Chrisians, and by get
ting a Christian spirit Into the makers and
venders of intoxicating drinks.
The church is meant to be used for the
service of God, and that, as I understand it,
tseans the service of man. That is but a
false notion of sanctity which kee'ps out of
the church building anything that is for the
real glory of God or the good of His people.
I would have the walls hung with helpful
pictures the Mother and Child, the sym
bol of the sanctification of the home, the
Crucifixion, the symbol of the lave of God;
and the music ef the great religious com
posers, the oratories, the masses, with full
chorus and full orchestra, open free to all
the people every Sunday afternoon. There
might well be a popular library in every
parish, and a reading room bright and at
tractive, with all 'the best magazines in it
and writing tables here and there, open also
en Sunday afternoon for the young men
whose homes are rooms in lodging houses.
Auv way to help anybody, is a good maxim
for the parsou ef the parish.
The Damp Tomb of Dead Kcllglon.
The parson, like the enterprising man of
business, ought to make it his purpose to
be on the watch for every way of getting
people into the church, and of making it
possible for them to get more eut ot the
church. The church building ought to be
used. It as never meant to be the damp
tomb of a dead religion.
It is for the purpose of helping people
that the parson nakes his parish, visiti
The parson's morning belongs to his' parish,
but his afternoons beleag te his parishion
ers. That is, he ought In the first half of
the day to be working at that which is for
the good of the people collectively, but in
the other halt he will do best to minister to
the people individually. The morning is
the time to have the study door looked on
the inside, but the afternoon is the time to
have it lecked en the outside to get out
into the streets and into the people's homes.
He who has spent the morning reading
printed beeks, ought to spend the rest of
the day reading living books, getting ac
quainted with aisa and women.
May Overdo the Social Side.
How many times a year ought the parson
to call upon" the people? Let us not waste
time in trying to answer. It is as profit
able to ask how many times a day a mother
ought te kiss her children. There is no
place here fer rules and calculations, and
statistics, and machinery. Let the pastor
call as often as he can. He ought to know
his people If he is a good man he desires
to know his people. It is for their good
and for his own tliaf there should be the
closest personal friendship between them.
No call is wasted whioh cements this per
sonal relationship. When the hour of need
comes, as come it must in every heme,
when the seul cries out fer help, for com
fort, for counsel, it ,i a blessed thing on
both sides then, if the minister of religion
can come net as an official, bnt as a known
and trusted friend.
I am not ef those who depreciate the
social side of parish work. It has no doubt,
its strong temptations. It offers Invitations
to indolence. It steals, time. It makes the
clergyman who misuses it a mere ereatnre
of sooiety, a foolish and trifling talker. It
may be a hindrance to religion. A bright
young woman aaid te me the other day that
aha waa verv sorry that she knew her min-
later m well. His mmom helped her aara
IvatantHlMiMiM aBBflmajk w
with all this the social tide ef the work of
the ministry is worth while.
Social Work for Every Afternoon.
The minister of a former generation,
whose visit was a visitation, whe was so
much ef a minister that he had ceased to
be a man, who preached in the parlor, and
never spoke except in sermons, and whose
oateehisings scared the children, is not an
example te be followed. It is true, how
ever.that the most profitable calls are those
whioh have at the heart of them a dittlnot
spiritual errand. And tnero it no end to
these errands. The pastor Is te call upen
the sick, and the aged, the people who are
in trouble or affliction; he it to look up the
heep who are .newly come into hit fold that
he may give them welcome, find out who
they are, and what their tpiritual needs
are, and establish relations of confidence
and affection; and he is to go on after the
sheep who are straying away, ana to per
suade them back, and after the ether sheep
who are net shepherded as yet in any fold
and try te bring them in; and he it to take
eounsel with his under shepherds, his fel
low workers.
The probability Is that this disposal of
his visits will take the parson out of his
study almost every afternoon of the week,
and into tbe house of every parishioner at
least once a year.
A Distinct Errand Once a Tear.
That will be an unusual familv in whiah
'for a whole year there is no sick nor aged
person, no trouDie nor affliction, nobody
who stays away from church or from the
Lord's Supper, nobody who needs to be
baptized or confirmed, and nobody who is
helping in the parish work. Some time
every year the pastor has a distinct errand
into every house within his parish.
The purpose of the parson in the parish
ought also to be to get tbe people to help
him. This is partly for their sake and
partly for the work's sake. No parson has
any business to do anything in his parish
that he can get anybody else te de. The
parson is the general of his . parochial
division of the church militant, and the
duty ef the general is to direct the nhtlno
The general is not to manage the hospital,
nor to distribute the supplies, nor to drill
the recruits, nor to lead the military band.
There are other people upon whom these
responsibilities are directly laid; the gen
eral is responsible for them. The parson
ought to leave the details of the parish
work, so far as he can, to his assistant; that
is, to his parishioners. There ought to be
as many assistant ministers in every parish
as there are communicants. And, in pro
portion to their strength, as the master in
tne parable distributed the talents, so
ought they to be made leaders, captains,
responsible directors of various branches
ot their Lord's work.
Salvation by Machinery
The wise parson puts no great confidence
in constitutions and bylaws; does not care
mnch for a multiplicity of societies; does
not believe in salvation by maohlnery; pre
fers simplicity; would rather have a few
societies and nave them necessary and
efficient than a parish laid out, like a specu
lator's town, with improvements which
exist chiefly in his own enthusiastic im
agination. The parson also recognizes the fact that
every man who lives a good Christian life
in business, and every woman who lives a
good Christian life in sooiety.is doing parish
work of the highest order. He does not
imagine for a moment that he can find out
how many workers he has by adding up the
membership lists of his parochial organiza
tions. Yet the parson knows that it is best, both
for the take of the work and for the sake ot
the workers, that people should work to
gether. And he gets all the people he can
lm,A li navl-l. .j.-!-:... . J 1.- ..'- . I
Aunv ,, jiiiau Buuickici, auu ueiries to nave
seme kind of work for everybody te do. He
lies -aicake nights trying to think of new
ways ot doing good. He desires to have no
unemployed Christians within his parish
limits.
Men Are Not All Alike.
Finally the parsen, in all his dealings
with his parishioners, recognizes the faet
that people are different They do not all
look like the parson, ner do they all think
like the parson, nor did the universal
Father ever mean they should.
The ideal parson, accordingly, is forever
on the watch against sectarianism. He
prays that he may be as catholic as the
church. He is as unwilling to have his
parish belong te a sect inside the church as
he- would be to have it belong to a sect out-
siue oi tne historical society. Beoaute the
sectarian temper is a contradiction of the
divine order. It is an overlooking of the
divine fact of human difference. It says
that all people ought to be exactly alike,
and that those who do not precisely fit our
standard ought to have no place in the
Church of Christ The sectarian parson
asks all, people how they pronounce Shib
boleth, and wheoever he finds anybody who
says Sibboleth, he bids him stand aside till
he learns better. The sectarian parson sets
the bed of Procrustes in the poroh of the
parish church, and cuts off the heads of all
the very tall people, and stretches out the
legs of all he very short people. He wants
his parishioners te be all of one size. Ho
would turn the army of the church militant
Into regiments of tin soldiers.
Door of the Sectarian Church.
The Sectarian Church is constructed upon
the principle of keeping out as many people
as possible; rather than upon St Paul's
principle, who desired to bo all things to all 1
men mat Dy any means ne migkt save some.
The door of the entrance is built so low
down that enly the very short people can
get in; or so narrow that only tho very tall
people oau climb over the threshold and
gain admission. Whereas the Church of
Christ ought to be built like the pattern
which St John saw in the vision of the
Revelation, four-square, and with three
doors on every side, and with the doors all
open, so that there is more door than wall.
The parsons ought to want to hare the par
ish church big enough to hold all the honest
men and women in the parish.
The sum of the whole matter is this; the
ideal of the parson is the Lord Jesus Christ
The purpose of the parson in the pulpit
ought to ba to say that which he knows
Christ would wish to have him say. The
purpose of the parson in the parish ought to
be to do that whioh he knows Christ would
wish to have him da "He is a good man,"
it was said of somebody, "but somehow he
does not remind me of Jesus Christ" Tbe
ideal parson reminds his people, in the pul
pit, and in the parish of the Lord Jesus
Christ Geokoe Hooqxs.
A BEVOLTJTIOH IK WHEEL1
The Introduction of Fnettmatte Tires May
Oaxue Better Boads. ..
Minneapolis Tribune.
"" The advantages of ball bearings and pneu
matio tires have been recognized by man
ufacturers snd riders of bicycles so long
that the wonder Is, not that those friction
saving devices have been applied to track
sulkies, but that .they were not utilized on
all varieties of light vehicles long ago.
Wheels of the bicycle pUtern can be made
as strong as necessary. The pneumatic tire
passes easily over the uneven surface of a
roadway, helping itself over obstructions
by its elasticity. It is better than springs
for making a vehicle "ride easy."
It is estimated that the combination of
ball bearings and pneumatic tires added
irom two to three seconds to Nanoy Hanks'
speed by lessening the draft of hor sulky.
A gain of such a large percentage in light
ness of draft will be appreciated by owners
of good roadsters, and now that their at
tention has been called to it, the time can
not be far distant when they will want
pneumatie tires and ball bearings on their
buggies.
. The pneusaatio tire will not reaoh the
farm wagon, for it cannot stand rough usage,
but there wonld seem to be no reason why
the ball bearings should not be applied to
vehicles of that class. The change would
work a great saving1 in horsflesh and in
time, for it would make possible the haul
ing of heavier loads.
With the march of these Improvements
will come better roads. This It the age of
wheels, and the gentleman driver, the
farmer and the bieyelist will soOn be in
Uaj-ne fer jaipreyei hifbwari u olty and
CHILDREN AS NURSES.
How Little Folks of Japan Carry
Smaller Ones on Their Backs.
6B0EEN IK BY HEAHS 07 DOLLS
The Statue of Buddha and the Bolivians
of the orient
A WHITE HORSE" THAT IS POPDLAE
rCOEETBPOKDINCI Or TBS DISFATCH.l
Tokio, Japan, Sept 3.
It is amusing to see the Japanese children.
As the houses are too small to live in dur
ing (he day the children all swarm into the
street Japanese children never think of
playing in the house there isn't room.
The house is a doll's house with no chimney
and no fire except a half-pint of charcoal
A osour or
burning in a little earthen bowl called a
habachl. There are no bedsteads, ohalrs or
tables. They all sit and He on rice straw
mats on the floor as primitively as a Co
manche Indian family. The father and
mother have a head rest of wool, but the
children lie around in piles like kittens.
"Doesn't that hard piece of wood hurt
yonr neck?" I asked.'
"So. Our neoks are strong. We are
used to it; but see, there are five pieces of
paper over the wood."
In the morning the babies are strapped
to the backs of the children and turned
loose into the street Swarms ot children
can Be seen at any time In the streets romp
ing and racing, each with a baby strapped
to its bacfc In the midst of the most ex
citing games the babies will be sound asleep
while the bigier brother or sister will be
running and screaming with laughter.
Get Into Training With Dolls.
As toon as a baby can walk its mother
straps a big doll to its back. This is a sign
of manhood or womanhood, and the baby
boy it as proud of his doll as an American
boy is of a pair of high boots; and a girl
oh, myl I saw a mother oae day stirring
some barley which she was boiling for the
ebildren, and saidt
"Why doesn't your husband help you?"
"Oh,'heistoobasy."
"What is he doing?"
"He is flying a kite."
These children are playing a game with
the old man to amuse him. In ten minutes
27l Gnat Idol of Japan.
they will have a baby strapped on their
backs and will be romping in the streets.
The Christopher Columbus, George Wash
ington and St. Patrick of Japan is Buddha,
often called Daibutsu. His statue is every
where. It confronts you like the Madonnas
oi Raphael in Italy. There are five colossal
bronze statues of this patron saint in Japan,
distributed as follows: Kioto, 58 feet high;
Kara, 53 feet hizh; Kamakura, 49 feet high;
Hyoga, 48 feet high, and Tokio, 21 feet high.
Besides, he is in every Buddhist temple and
Shinto shrine in Japan. He is always the
same benign looking old woman.with ear
rings and a shining' jewel in his forehead.
He seems to say to himself constantly, "I
am perfection. Many of these statuss
were cast from 600 to 1,000 years ago, The
children play hide-and-go-seek around them
and climb up into them, and the birds
build nests in poor old Buddha's ears and
nostrils. No one seems to have any concep
tion of what Buddha is for. He is really
the Sphinx of Japan.
Tho Japanese Account of Kamakura.
The Japanese have a description of the
great Buddha or Daibutsu at Kamakura,
lour miles from Yokohama. The notice
shows the Japanese way of "setting up"
characters in the printing office instead of
letters. The Buddhist priest tells me that'
this notice, occupying four inches in a col
umn, if translated, would make a third ot a
column of English.
When I asked a Japanese why he wor
shiped Buddha, he said:
"We must worship something. Mv rrand-
father worshiped him. Who is better than
Buddha?"
"The missionaries will tell you of Christ,"
I said.
"Yes, but the Unitarian missionaries who
come here from Boston say Christ and
Buddha are about the same, and Sir E I
win Arnold makes Buddha The Light of
Atia.' "
"Well," I said "Buddha has a sweet face
and he does always look benignly down
upon us in Kamakura, and when I look at
him I do not blame the poor people, but
those Boston Unitarians ought to know bet
ter." When I asked N. Amenomori, the noted'
Japanese writer aad linguist, what whs the
difference between Buddhism and Shinto
ism, he said:
Uuddlilsm and Shlntoism.
"Buddhism is a philosophical religion a
yvcrv luiiiMauJiiiiai icuiuu, lb js tu
philosophical that the common people
can t understand it, and 1 can t explain it
It personifies all the virtues aud people
pray for these virtues. It is a religion.
Buddha is always worshiped in a temple, as
a personification of virtue."
"And Shintoism, what is that?" I asked.
"Shintoism means shrine worship. We
don't have Shinto temples. They are shrines
or'mausolta. A Shinto 'shrine is really a
ouryiog gronna piaoe wnere atstin-
trnlthot
srnlahed aaoestert are burled,
We goto the
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wood Cemetery with a prayer upon their
lips. It Is not a religion, it.Is ancestor
veneration. Yon. hare this same sentiment
when yon observe Decoration Bay. I have
teen Americans take off their bats at the
first light of the American flag in Tokio. A
Shinto Shrine it filled with monuments to
illustrious warriors, teachers and poets. The
Shoguns built their own shrines. before they
died. They are at Kikko, Tokio and all over
Japan. When the people enter these beau
tiful shrines and stand in the presence of
the distinguished dead they reverentially
take off their hats as yon do at the tomb of
wasnington.
"You put Buddha in the Shinto shrines,
too?" I said.
Shrines of the Emperors.
"Yes, Buddha is always there. The Jap
anese and Chinese all respect Buddha. He
was a good ancestor. Many blunder by
calling tbe mausolea and shrines at Nikko
temples. They are shrines like the tombs
of the Ming Emperors at Fekin. To illus
trate: Before tbe death of the second Sho
cuu of the Tokugawa dynasty he built In
Nifcko a magnificent shrine to his father
levasu. His lather's body was carried from
Tokio in great pomp, attended by the living
Shogun and a representative from the
lATAmsn.
Mikado at Kioto. It Is simply a grand
monument to the Tokugawa family. I
hear the Yanderbilts and Goulds and other
rich families in America have built maus
olea or shrines in Greenwood and Wood
lawn." The Tokugawa family after a while be
came so great that they didn't consider it
any honor to even have Buddha in their
mausolea. In fact the family finally re
moved the Buddhist gongs, bells, prayer
hooks and other paraphernalia.
"Do the people worship the mythological
statues in the Buddhist temples?"
"Yes, the ignorant do. They pay.money
to the priests for the privilege of praying.
After praying they throw wads ot paoer
which they have chewed up in their mouths
at the statue of Buddha. If these wads
stick they think their prayers are answered.
If they fall off the ignorant go away grumb
ling ai displeased at Bsddha."
A VThito Horse With Ho Red Head.
The Siiintoites believe in the doctrine of
the transmigration of souls and in the
grounds ot almost every Shinto snrine is a
wild-eyed white-horse. It has grown rest
less from being tied up and overfed by the
people, and stands there wild-eyed and
swaying like the wolf or bear in the Zoolog
ical garden. Every worshiper imagines
that the old white horse contains the soul oi
some dead aunt, uncle or brother.
Standing near tbe tomb or shrine of le
vasu, In Kikko, was that same wild carica
ture an imprisoned white horse. His
eyes were ready to drop from their sockets.
He looked like an animal anarchist
I asked General Combs, our Minister to
Japan, what soul he thought was troubling
the old horse.
"No soul at all," taid the Minister.
"Carrying out the theorv of transmigration,
he il probably now the impersonator of
George Jones' dead Greenback Craze, John
George's deceased land theory, or the mor
tified spirit of Senator Wolcott's decom
Eosed Free Silver Bilk The old white
orse may live through it. but if the ghost
of that red-headed syren of free trade strikes
him, he's a gone boss." Eli Pebkis3.
FICIUBES BY THE SPOOKS.
A Tonnj Man Who Develops Artlstlo Talent
While in a Trance.
A spiritual phenomenon which Is causing
much discussion at present in Vienna is the
case of an auto-somnambulistio person, a
yonng man belonging to one of the best
families of the city, say's the St Louis Post
DispaieK He can neither draw nor paint
except in this occult state, when he does
both with wonderful rapidity and ease,
The Indian of Artistic Instinct
producing portraits and designs. While in
this somnambulistic state he has been fre
quently examined bv prominent physicians
and scientists, who have found that, as in
the cose ot cataleptics, bis arms are stiff and
cold to the elbow joint, yet lie paints and
draws with utmost facility. He works with
both hands, the right hand wielding the
pencil, while the left rubs over the paper
in a hatching sort of way. For a
Face of the Emperor.
time the paper seems a perfect chaos of zig
zag lines without the slightest sign of out
lines, until suddenly the medium develops
from this chaos a fantastic landscape, or a
ghastly countenance with vacant staring
eyes. Both cuts are reproductions of these
queer designs, one representing the head of
an Indian, whose spirit, it is said, controls
the young man; the other being an exact
likeness of Emperor Maximilian, the un-
lortunate ruler oi Mexico. To this it also
attached the autograph ef the martyred
vaam
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KRUPPS GUNS COMING
The
Great Steel King of formaiy
Will Exhibit at the Fair.
ONE PIECE WILL WEIGH 15 TOIB.
How the Plant ITai Grown Under
Generationi of Geniuea.
Tkm
THE HACHIHEET AND THS MTBOD-
rwarrrzx roa mx DisrATC.!
Minister Phelps has succeeded In In
ducing Barou Krupp to make an exhibit ot
his immense guns at the World's Faln
Owing to the heavy expense attending the
transportation of such ponderous armament
it required a good deal of coaxing on the
American Minister's part It is estimated
that it will cost 1300,000 to transport the
guns from the factory at Essen, Germany,
to Chicago, an amount equal to the appro
priation New York State makes for the
World's Fair exhibit
Herr Baensch, tbe Chicago Resident Im
perial Consul General of Germany, haa
notified Lieutenant Baker of the Depart
ment of Transportation, that four Krupp
guns would soon be in transit to Chicago.
The exhibit to be made by this great estab
lishment will bo one of the largest individ
ual exhibits at the exposition, One ot the
guns exhibited will weigh 130 tons, and a
ship is now being especially prepared to
transport it to this country. It will coo
mounted on cars built for that purpose, a
there are no cars in America strong enough,
to carry it
The Man -Who Owns it AH.
The present proprietor of this immense
plant is Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose
picture accompanies this sketch. He haa
been in entire charge of the factory tince
the death of his father, Alfred Krupp, In
July 1887, and is now the sole owner of
this extensive establishment which employs
2,700 persons.
The present plant is the outcome of three
generations of efforts. Friederich Krupp,
the grandfather of the present owner, waa
the founder, ne was the descendant ot aa
old and honorable family in Esten, and waa
born July 17, 1787. lie passed an apprentice
ship as a foreman, and in 1810 he starttd
business in Essen, establishing a small steel
oruciole factory, from which he turned out
files, stamps, dies and various small tools.
s$r
Fricdrick Alfred Xrupp.
His business incresed7Vad in 1819 he1
opened a large place, which is sTnrttandfas;'
amid the prueift array of buildings, shown
in the accompanying illustration. Hla
earliest successes, however, were followed
by subsequent misfortune, in the midst or
which he died in 1S2G, leaving his family la
straitened circumstance's.
The Business in Charge of a Boy.
His son Albert tucceeded to the business
although only 14 years of age at the time or
his father's death. He had, however, been;
carefully instructed in the trade secrets die-'
covered by his father, and although a mere)
boy, he took charge ot the business. For a
long time he acted a3 smelter, lorgeman and
clerk. His diligence, energy and great in
ventive faculties produced success. The in
troduction ol railroads enlarged his market,
and his invention oi a process for hardening
steel increased his reputation largely. Hi
methods ot producing rails without welding
the pieces together was patented through
out the world in 18o3.
By 1865 he bad been so successful that he
began to acquire iron and coal mines. Hit
first guus were produced in 1847, but It was
20 years later wiieii the superiority of his
steel for firearms was recognized.
The entire city oi Esien is dependent up-,
on this great plant The population being
to a great extent composed ot more or less
skilled artisans, who live in comfortable
houses built by Herr Krupp. A visit to
the works is very entertaining, but the
operations differ only in detail from those
to be seen every day in Pittsburg's larger
mills.
The steam hammers are of immense sire
as might be supposed. The largest of all
has been named the "Hammer Fritz," and
its striking force is said to eqcal filty toua
and may be much more. This was con
structed by Mr. Allred Krupp himself, who)
takes great pride in it It has formed the
model l'or'all other steam hammers. This
gigantic hammer has an anvil to correspond,
consisting of a solid piece of iron weighing
1,500 tons, and is connected by powerful
beams ot iron to a solid stone foundation.
So perfect is the mechanism and ao perfect
the control of the hammer, that it may be
I made merely to touch the steel on the
' anvil. Yet large a- "Fritz" is it is too
small lor the purpose, and two others are
under construction which will exert a toroe
of 1,900.000 and 2,000,000 respectively.
The Bessemer works and the rail-rollins
mills have separate biiiluincs. The Besse
mer process was first introduced on the
Continent by the Krupp works in 188i
His process is used mainly in the produo
tion of second-grade steel, which is used to
car wheels. The Piemens-Martin process,
so called from its co-inventors, Siemens, a
Frenchman, and Martin, a German, la
based upon cooking the metal by turning
off the beat as it lies on the forge. This
process is by far the least efficient of the
three.
Krupp Makes His Own Tools.
The machinery and tools needed are mad
in the worSs. A drilling machine 46 yard
long and a turning lathe 12 yards in diam
eter, both weighing iOO.000 pounds, jtra
shown with mnch pride. Heavy crane,
fastened to the walls and operated by
steam, are used, one ot which 13 capable of !
lifting 430,000 pounds. j
The gun manufactory occupies the greater,
part of the works. The steel used for themj
has to be hardened in oil, whicn materially x
increases its elasticity. Every piece mad
is thoroughly tested before it is allowed to
leave the place, the company owning a large
tract of land which is reserved for this puri
pose.
The show rooms offer an interesting place
for studying the different instruments of
destruction. Models of all guns ever made
here are on exhibition. The guns are not
the only product of the Krupp establish
ment The list embraces steam engines,
screws and a great variety of machines thai
are exported to all quarters of the globe. The
world-renowned efccie icy of the faoteriea
has civen it an enviable position.
Comfortable houses, schools, hospital and
churches luve been built by Herr Krupp
for his employes. He a!?o maintain tev"''
eral charitable institutions. F. A. Q,
Good Housekeeper
Should use "Boyal Egg Macaroni-moV
from the oest American material. Ftw
tuDerior te tae ittnaa. Bold ov
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