If OBBBSWS&gSB, SSJS!S5155S3S2SSK BgTiiTff sSpf fn- J..?" 18 A Wonderfnl Construction of the Enormons Army of Germany, With THE KAISER IN COMMAND. All the Plans Ready for War With Any Nation at Any Time. PERSONALITI OF THE EUPEROE. Famous Hunting rietnres and Photographs of Bis Home life. BEFORE THE QUARBEL WITH BISMARCK tCOBEISrOSDKHCE OT T1TE DISFATCR. Beelut, Nov. 16i I have had a good chance to learn something of the young Emperor during my stay in Berlin. I have seen him a number of times on the street. I attended one of hie reviews and saw him march up and down tne line in the uniform of a Prussian colonel, and you can't walk along the streets of Berlin without being always in sight of Lis photograph. There is no monarch in the world who likes to be photographed so much as the young Kaiser. There are at least a hundred different sittings of him for sale and you can get photographs of him at every stage oi his existence from babyhood to manhood. He has been photographed again and again since he has been Emperor, and his poses are so many and so ostenta tious that they are really laughable. One of the most striking of the photo graphs in the light of the present situation is one which was taken at Friedrichsruhe, Bismarck's home, in 188S, when the young Emperor visited him there. Bismarck Etands with his dog beside him, leaning on a cane and with a military cap on his head. The young Emperor is also in military un dress uniform and the two are smiling at one another like two lovers, and no one looking at them would suppose that trouble could ever come between them. Now Bis marck has been humiliated by the young Emperor and dislikes him heartily. The young Emperor reciprocates the feeling, ami the photograph is the personification oi s. diplomatic lie. One Photograph With a Scowl. Another photograph which is equally in teresting ii one taken on a steamboat where the Kaiser and the Czar met last summer. The Kaiser here leaus against one of the smokestacks oi the ship and his face wears a terrible scow L He has a cane in his hand and lie looks as though he would club the 1 man at the right ol him, wnue tne lace oi .Aiexanure Hi. is as piacia as me waters oi i a mill pond. The picture is a fair repre sertau in ol the wo men, and Alexandre is I ha plegmatic as the Kaiser is nervous and epssmodie in his actions. The Czar is on lrieudly terms with the Kaiser notwith standing the newspapers to the contrary, b..t he has sized up the young man in his ivrii way, and his estimate of him was given ben he made the remark, which I have iled before, in which he said, "Der Gott ist alles, abtr der Kaiser weisst alles er," which, being translated, is, "The 1 God knows everything, but the Em ir thinks he knows all things better." he Emperor is very tond of hunting and y winter he goes to Russia to hunt. He a couple ol iriends who have large .es in Eussia, whom he visits, and in The Empress. their vast lorests Epends a week or so going out bear shooting. Not long ago he killed big brown bear on these estates, and at the moment of the shooting a photograph was taken ot the Emperor standing beside the bear, and there are photographs ot him in the stores hem representing him just ready to start out to hunt. He has his pantaloons in his boots and a fur cap on his head, and, curiously enough, there is a long porcelain German pipe in his mouth He is by no means ashamed of being a smoker, and he is loud of good tobacco and good beer. He is not a heavy drinker, though he likes wine with his meals. An Infirmity Skillfully Concealed. To see Kaiser Wilhelm on horseback you would never imagine that he had only one hand. At this review of his troops he rode a magnificent black stallion and be gal loped oer the field at the top of his horse's speed. He managed bis horse periectly and he seemed to be in his element. This parade took place on tbe great drilling grounds near Berlin. These are about tbe tizs ot a 1,000-acre farm and they are as smooth as a floor. Nearly the whole of this ground was covered with troops, and it took hours for them to march along in front ot the Emperor and his staff. Tne Em peror wore a helmet and a military uni form, and the Empress watched the review with him. She was also on horseback, and the two formed a magnificent pair. A pho tograph was taken of him as he came home irom the field, with tbe troops behind him, and in it it looks as -though he was holding his horse nith two hands instead of one, and, as usual, he rides at the head of hit army. His photographs hive been taken in nearly everj diflerent uniform that the armv'has. He watches the drilling oi the troops very carefully, and if a regiment pleases him he puts on tbe uniform of this regiment and the soldiers consider this a reward and are very much complimented by it. He is very rigid in his conduct with the army, and he is doing all he can to make Germany a vast military camp. He encourages the. establishment oi a military club in every village and a constant drilling goes on oyer the whole empire. The soldier is omnipresent here and you can't get out ot the hearing of a military band in Ger many. A Most Wonderful Machine. There are nearly half a million soldiers in the army, and it is the most wonderful machine that was ever gotten together. Think of 1,000 horses being so trained that they keep perlect step and so that they make so many steps to the minute and march in perfect harmony with one another. The soldiers themselves move like clock work, and tbe artillery and the infantry move across the field like one machine worked by cogs ol even magnitude. I hare seen the Russian soldier' and the French soldier, but they are nothing like these, and I doubt whether in all the world there has MIGHTY MACHINE WW been at any time such an organization as this. Speaking of the German army we have had here until within a short time ago one ot the best of our military attaches. You know the War Department sends officers as attaches to our different legations with in structions to report from time to time upon the condition of their army and inform us whether any new military inventions are made. 'We have an excellent man of this kind in St. Petersburg in the person of Cap tain Allen and for the past few years the German army has been the study of Captain Bingham, who was lately removed from Berlin to Borne. I talked" with him belore he left and he cave me some interesting in side matter regarding the constitution ot I the troops here. He saia: "xou can nave no idea of the wonderful machine that this German army is and how well they are pre pared for war. They have a chart made out which shows just w'hat they must do in the case of wars with the diflerent nations. And every officer's place in the scheme is laid out beforehand. There is a schedule of trains which will supersede all other sched ules the moment war is declared, and this is so arranged that the commander of the army here could go and telegraph to any officer to take such a train and to go to such a place at a moment's notice. Beady Tor Every Emergency. "When the Franco-Prussian war was de clared, it is said that Von Moltke was awakened at midnight and told of the-fact. He said coolly to the official who aroused him, 'Go to pigeon hole No. blank in my sale and take a paper from it and telegraph as theie directed to the diflerent troops of the empire.' He then turned over and went to sleep and awoke at the usual hour in the morning. Everyone in Berlin was excited about the war, but Von Moltke took his morning walk as usual, and a friend who met him, said: 'General, you seem to be takinsr it very easy. Aren't you afraid M thi situation? T should think von would be busy.' 'Ah,' replied Von Moltke, 'all 1 BISMAKCK XXT of my work for this time has been don long before hand and evervthing that can bt done now has been done." " "The army ha stores at various points," Captain Bingham went on, "and they are ready for emergency, and everv companv and every officer is down in the scheme lot every situation that might come up, and tne whole works like clockwork. Germany is reaily for war with almost any nation here "at any time. If the Emperor presses the button the army will do the rest. The improvements in army methods are wonderful, and the German Government here is experimenting all the time on pow ders, balls and guns. It keeps its chemical experts at work upon the food for the army, and it has been experimentingon potatoes and peanuts and corn as meal for bread Hdrse food is quite as important astiuman food, and they have here condensed food for horses. They have balls ot horse food so small that a man can carry enough in his pocket to teed a horse for a week, ami they are studying the concentrated essence of food for horses. Upon such ioo.l the horses, will run down, but they can march a week and live. The Head of the Army. The Emperor is the head of the army, and be has tne entire .control ot it. It is not subject to public opinion and the German troops have to obey bim unconditionally and they swear an oath ot fidelity to him. The Emperor is now not yet 31 years old. He has hardly reached "his prime and it would be wonderful it he did not feel some what inflated by the power which he has under him. Think of itt He knows he has tbe best military machine ever gotten to gether and he has 500,000 men always under arms. He knows that he can call 2,000,000 soldierse'nto the field by raising his finger and he has 250,000 horses to mount hi cavalry. There are oiher trcops which can be called Irom the people which make his war strenath fully 3,000,000 ol trained fighting men and this vast arniv is so organ ized that it can be directed by him sitting in his palace in Berlin and pressing his finders on the telegraphic button which calls his officials to him. The machine-like character of the whole is wonderful and a German officer is ex pected to be a machine and he is-punishedit he acts on his own responsibility. One of the most lamous officers.of theArar ol 1870 achieved a victory by acting quickly with out orders against the enemy. In America or in France he would have been made a hero, but in Germany he was stripped ot The Young Kaiser at Some. his command and ordered to go home. This was 'General Steinmetz. And I am told here that officers are not given places be cause of their bravery, but because of their ability to handle troops. There is no such thing as tavoritism in the army and promo tions are.by mexitrathcr than by length oi service. Influence counts for nothing, and while Bismarck was Chancellor his two sons were serving as privates. A Change In School Studies. Beturninz to tbe Kaiser and his photo graphs, a large number of his pictures repre sent him with his family. He has a beauti ful home life and is very fond of his chilj dren. He has five children, all healthy, bright and good looking, and the little Crown Prince, who is now about 10, is an officer in the German army, and he puts on quite as manr airs as his father. He often rides with hfs father, and his father makes him obey him and salute him just as one of his soldiers. When he is at home, how ever, he is a father among his children, and Ir " THE they crawl all ever him and play with him just as though they were American babies in an American home. He has good rules as to their training. They rise with the sun and go to bed about o'clock. They have prayers and they heva heir schooling iust like'othera children, though the oldest boys are under the care ot a military tutor ami are waited upon by men servants. The two youngest have an English governess and are taught to speak English and French as well as German. The Emperor pays a great deal of attention to their recitations and he devotes a great deal of his lime to the subjects of the common schools of the Empire. Not long ago he had quite a discussion as to what should be studied in these schools, and he made the teachers change the his torical studies and devote more time to the study of German historr. He called some of the officials before him and said: "Gen tlemen, I believe we ought to know more about our own country. I have studied Boman history and Grecian history, but I believe that the history of Germany is quite as important as the history of Greece and Borne, and I decree that in the common schools of my kingdom the children shall be taught their own history first" This decree was put into operation, .and the young Germans now are studying the heroic deeds ot the great men of Germany and the tacts ot its history. About the Kaiser's Religion. The Kaiser is a very religious man. You remember the story ot his hymn book "Well, there is a good deal of question whether he wrote that book or not. I am told that it was gotten up by bis direction. He goes to church, and he has services in the open air with his troops and he put down gambling in his regiment when he was in the army before he became Em peror,, He is doing all he -can to develop the moral condition of his people, and with his idosyncrasies he has many good points. He is not a iauatic, though he has been THE KAISER. ictnred as such, and his religlan seems to e a broad one. " I understand that he is a very genial man n private and that he throws of his dignity hen he is oft duty. He has no frills nor furbelows about him at such times and his hole face lights up when he talks to his riends. He has a way ot winking at people in the partv during his conversation, and when he shakes hands he shows that he The Crown Prince. means it He is full of personal magnetism, and though it is hard lor a King to have a friend, I believe that the "Little Kaiser," as he is called, has his friends here in Berlin. His best friends ale men of solidity and nerve, and as for the Emperor himsell there is no doubt of his having his lull share of courage. He shbwed this when he dismissed Bismarck an(l took the reins of government into his owHa hands. It is generally conceded npw that he could not have gotten along with BUrnarck, and though the Germans here are 6orry to see the old Chancellor out of office andjjthough they respect him, they are fast becoming to admire the Kaiser and to think that Bismarck's expulsion might not have been such. a bad thing after all. As be tween Bismarck and the Kaiser, the Ger mans will always go with the latter. ft Fkank G. Caepejtteb. A GBEAT CHAHC3 GAME. Napoleon's tuck Once Depended Upon a 5 Young Officer's Gambling. WasnWtonStar.3 Lord Holland relates in his memoirs how once the military career of Napoleon L,j and therewith to a certain extent the fate of Europe, depended upon a game of hazard. Whbn Napoleon was appointed for the first time as an independent commanding general of the Italian army, the directory then at the head of France were not will ing, or perhaps not able, to provide enough money fur him to deiray the expenses of himsell and his adjutants to the seat of war and to make a proper show as commanding general of so considerable an army at its headquarters. NaDoleon borrowed money from his friends,and alter exhausting all his credit had succeeded in collecting20,000 francs. . He gave the whole amount to Junot, & young officer, who was known as a frequent1 visitor ol the gaming table, and told him'ieither to lose the whole sum at the game W to win enough to return him the amount doubled, as it would depend upou his success whether he could accept the appointment as commanding general of the Italian a rmy, and also appoint him, Junot, as hih adjutant, as he had in view. Junot -went, as ordered. Napoleon waited almost the whole night for his .return.- Finally at 4 o'clock in the morning Junot enteredl and gave Napoleon 65,000 francs with the) remark that he had gambled away nearly th wtfole sum of 20,000 francs until he had attlast succeeded in winning several high snakes in succession. Then Napoleon accepted the appointment, which was destined to omer tne nignesi giory upon him. Junot became one of his marshals. TbboaV ffiseuts ir .ore throat. "Bro nsaese wttt a eeotfh, eoM. immediate rtueC Bold inly la boxes, Price Xu. w W PITTSBURG DISPATCH, A CHRISTIAN, LAITY Of the First Importance to the Ad vancement of Religion. NONE OF THE AP0STLE8 A -PRIEST. The Master Called Them From Among the Publicans and Sinners. A QUESTION FOE BACH INDIYIDDAL "Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James." These men looked one day ont of the windows of an upper room, and behold, in the street below, there passed a funeral pro cession the funeral procession of religion. Faith was dead. And Boman, Greek and Jew walKed together in the company of mourners. For the Romans and Greeks the aifclent creeds had long since lost their charm. ,The Gentiles believed nothing but the absurd, the grotesque and the incredible. Worship had turned to witchcraft The old divini ties ot Greece and Borne had, at least, been stately and dignified and beautiful. And they had symbolized great truths. They had met, In some measure, that deep long ing in the heart of man to draw near to God and to have God draw to him', which is satisfied for us in Jesus Christ. But now they were all dead. Great Pan was dead, and all the household of the Pan theon lay dead beside him. A plague of doubt had slain the gods. Some Hope of Publicans. There was some faith, indeed, among the Jews. But even here the air was pestilen tial. Two classes of men led the religious thought of Judea. And one of them, the Saducees, had lost faith in the supernatural; while the other, the Pharisees, was given over almost altogether to the study of dress and posture, of mint, anisf and cummin, ot the petty, the inconsequential, and the im pertinent. When Christ came, looking for religion, he was rarely able to find any except among the irreligious. He had some hope ot publicans and sinners, bnt there seemed to be nothing whatever in common between the Son of God and the representatives of devotion-and ot ortho doxy in tbe day in which He came. He said distinctly that they were the children of the devil. The disciples loooked down from the windows ot the uppe.r rom, and the streets were full of mourners. Some of them were sad enough; others were foolish and indif ferent; like the people in the carriages at any luneraL But on they went with empty hearts. For faith was dead. And then this little company hurried down out of that upper room into the street, and stopped the funeral procession, and brought the dead to life. An I faith rose up and began to speak. From that day Christianity has been the gospel of the res urrection. It began witn the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and it will never end its work until it has accomplished the resur rection of the race. The old, dead religion of the world began that morning in Jerusa lem to live again, and to live a new life, difierent and better. Light and hope and faith and joy and love began once more to stir the hearts of men. The Christianity and the civilization in which we live to-dav go back for their origin to that scene in old Jerusalem. All that is best in human life date, like the century in which we live, to the advent ol Jesus Christ; and after him to Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Mat thew, James, the sonot Alphaeus.and Simon tbe Zealot, and Judas, the brother ot James. Not a Priest Among Them. One of the most remarkable things about these men is that'they were laymen. Tnere was. not a priest among them. It is true that they had received the highest and holiest of all ordinations; they had bien commissioned to their office by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Nevertheless, it is plain enough they had no valid orders as theologians in those days measuied validity. They were simply laymen. Presently we read that a great company of the priests were obedient to the laith. Where did they learn the faith? Why, irom these devout, enthusiastic laymen, who had a better understanding ot the .truth oi God than the priests had, and were an example and an inspiration to the pries:, as laymen Rave been upou a thousand occa sions since that day. Everything 'that, grows in this world needs revival. Spring, stimmor, autumn and winter are the stages ot the succession of life, not only in the world ot nature, but in the realm ot human history. Winter is inevitable. The .1 run conies to maturity and is harvested, and the boughs are bare. By and by even the leaves blow oil The lrost3 fall. The brooks are frozen over. Life appears 'o st p. That is true also in the realm of religion. They were living in the winter time "hen Christ came. It is significant that He was born in the chill December. And the winter had returned a good many times since then, and, I suppose, wilt come again. But spring comes also. The miracle of the resurrection is re enacted. Life goes on, stronger and richer than before. Tliauk God, spring is as sure as winter. The Reviving Sunshine What is it that brings about this glorious spring-time? Why, the sun, shining clearer than belore and nearer than be. ore. When the sun shines like tnat in the sky, there U an end to winter. And when the sun of righteousness shines like that in the hearts of men there is an end to another kind ot winter. Hate and selfishness melt into love; truth shows signs oi life; and presently all spiritual nature is anake. But it has proved true, again and again, that this reviving sunshine has gloned the brightest and the warmest in the hearts of laymen. The laity have saved the church. There was -the thirteenth century. At the beginning of it the whole world lay lrozen in the depths ot winter. There seemed to be no lite in religian. It was next to impossible to find anv company of the priests who Were obedient to the faith. And then the sun began to shine in the heart ot St. Francis ot 'Assissi; and out of his heart into the hearts and lives of hundreds of good men, laymen like him self; and they went every" here, arrying sunshine, preaching the gospel, the ble'ssea gospel of the resurrection. And spring came. The Church All One Party. There was the eighteenth century. Be ligion never -seemed nearer to death in the Church of England than at that time. The Pnritan revolution had ended in defeat. The Restoration had followed; The leaders of the dominant party in the Church bad taken advantage of their power and-had ex pelled their opponents." They had suc ceeded in accomplishing that which foolish enthusiasts in theXhurch are forever desir ing to accomplish they had put the other party out. There was nobody left who did not agree with them. The Church was all one party. - And then came wiuter, fast and hard. Beligion fell into the cold fetters of for malism. And then at last the warm sun began to shine again" In the heart ot St John of Epworth. And he went about preaching the word ot God and distributing sunshine. And the priests who were not obedient to the faith stood as far away from him as they could, and held up their prayer books between them and him to keep the bright light ont of their eyes. And the consequence was that John Wesley had to get laymen to do the clergy's work. And valiantly they did it The service which was done in the Middle Ages by the Lay men's Leagne of Franciscans was done, and done better, BOO years after by the Lay men's League of Wesleyans. The marvel ous growth of the Methodist Church ii the natural result of a movement which set the laity at work. In Getting- Alone 1TUh the laity. Christianity cannot get along without the BUKDAT, NOVEMBER 27, labors of the Christian laity. The Lord never meant that there "should be only one minister in a parish. He meant that there should be as many minis ters as there are Christian men and women. There must be pastors, priests and preach ers; there must be men who shall be the leaders of the people. There must be gen erals and captains in tbe militant army ot the Church, as there are in any other army, to decide, to represent, to direct, to lead. That which is everybody's work is in danger of being done by nobody, unless the respon sibility is set upon individual shoulders. Yet no worX goes on as it ought unless every worker shares .the consciousness of responsibility. No regiment everv won a battle in which the captain did all the fight ing. The finest army that ever fought, the army that never lost a field, was made up of men who were as interested in the purposes of the fighting, every man Qithem, as Oliver Cromwell was who led them. Peter is not enough, nor even John and Peter. The Church needs Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaem, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the brother of James. There is no more hopeful feature of the life of the Church to-day than tbe emphasis which is being, pat upon the work of the laity. Men and women are recognizing on all sides that they are called to service. Membership in the Christian Church is now understood to carry with it an obligation to do something 'ior Christ There are still, no doubt, a good many Christians .Christians in name who need to be labored with as if they were pagans. The militant Church is still delayed in its march by these laggard soldieis, who must be coaxed and urged and pushed to keep up with the ad vancing ranks. But I believe that the number to-day is smaller than it nsed to be. The Test of Christianity. Nobody is a goo J Christian who is not in some way helping forward the canse of Jesus Christ There is no standing still in the warfare. Whoever is not for Christ is against Him. We are coming to realize that that is true. And here is the Salvation Aimy, a great aggress'ive company of lay men,' making the light shine in Darkest England, setting the unemployed at work, feeding the hungry, providing homes for the homeless, giving a new heart to the dis heartened, leading the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low by easy steps toward respectability and Christian living; and writing beside the great names oi St Francis, of Assissi, and St John, of Ep worth, another name worthy of their com pany, the name of St William, of London. Here is the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, the center ot unmeasured spiritual influences; here are the St Andrew's Brotherhoad and the Society of Christian Endeavor" whose great conventions during the past few months have been the amaze ment of two of our greatest cities. In the midst of the poorest neighborhoods of New York and London, of Chicago and Boston, good men and good women, whom no church has ever authorized by an formal ordination, but whom the Lord Jesus Christ has called by His Spirit as he called Peter and John and James and Andrew, are studying the prob lem 'of poverty, and bringing their culture to the aid ot ignorance. Yes, and in every parish theie are organizations of laywork ers, societies which 'the fathers never dreamed of, all kinds of endeavors being made to reach ail kinds of people in all kind? ot ways. This is a' day .when the builders of a church build also a parish house beside it, as the headquarters of all these parochial industries which the laity are carrying on. The parish house is tbe symbol of this new idea ot parish life which is yet as old as Pentecost The Church exists not only for worship Dut for work. And the Church de sires that the people shall be not only wor shipers but workers. Allegiance the First Thins. The first thing is allegiance. The Chris tian layman must be true to Christ He must work not ior the work's sake and not for his own sake, but for Christ's sake. The sole purpose of all his efforts musj be to set lorwara tne Kingdom oi-onrisu ne is to win the wills of men ior Christ That may be accomplished by Christian speech, by the direct appeal of a mau to his broth er. It may be accomplished also in a thou sand other ways, by every plan which com mends the Church of Christ to the approval of good people. The Christian layman will help to the best of his strength in every en deavor in the Church and out ot it which looks toward the betterment of men. He will evince the genuineness of his Christi anity by the warmth ot his sympathy for all good causes. He "ill be interested in politics u the promotion of good govern ment, in the mht ruling of the city, in sanitation, in the relorm df tenements, in the question of tbe evils of drink, in the problem otipoverty, in the bringing in of better brotherhood, in the securing ot the efficient missions ot art, of music and ot books. He will realize that it is his duty ae a disciple ot Jesus Christ to do something to make this world a place nearer to Christ's ideal of a Christian world. The next thing is opportunity. The Cnristian layman wrill discover his own op portunities. ' He will not wait in idleness till somebody else invents an opportunity. Surely it does not need along look noreven a particularly keen look into tbe world we live in to see that it is not an ideal world. The Kingdom ot God for which we pray, and whose citizens we are already, has not as yet gained universal allegiance. Nobody who reads the newspapers, or even walks along the streets, will fancy that we are living in the millenium. There is no lack of the need ot betterment But the need of betterment is only another name for oppor tunity. Here are all these cvih in the so ciety about us. And here are we pledged to resist evil, to be the enemy of it, to hate it with.all the zeal and fervor ot hatred w hicli is voiced in the old Psalms. Pidinly there is enough to do. A Question for Individuals. And as for the way to do it the Christian layman must largely determine for himself what way is best for him. Peter and John and James and Andrew and the rest ot them ueremen of different abilities, difler ent purposes, different ideas. They were at one only in their allegiance to Jesus Christ It would have been tolly for them to have waited till Peter should have set them each at work. Peter knew what he cuiil 1 do best and he proceeded to do it. But he could hardly know hat was the ideal service ot Simon the Zealot, or of Judas the brother of James. Simon and Judas must use their own minds and their own hands. They must enter in their own way iuto their own opportunity. The Christian layman has consecrated all that is good in him to the service ot Jesus Christ And he looks about to see what he can do for tbe uplifting ot those who are' worse off than he is. What can he do with bis money for the good of men? Or if he has influence among his fellows, how can lie exercise it ior the best? Here are peo ple about us whose lives are full of sadness; they are sick, or afflicted, or ignorant, or poor. They live in houses which' are not so pleasant as ours. And their lives, at best, are grievously monotonous lives. They lack the inspiration of those interests wliich make up so much of the best of life for us. It would help these people if we were only to make iriends with them. What can we do for them? Or better still, change the question, and ask it over again like this: What can I do tor one of them? There is no excise for uselessness. No body can honestly answer at the last great day. "I had no chance to help." Every man and every woman and every child can be ol the most efficient help to somebody ta-morrow. There is plenty of work in every narrowest neighborhood, for- Peter and John and. James and Andrew and Philip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Mat thew, James the son of Alphaeus, und Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of. James. George Hodges. Kissing 300 Young Ladles. The Lord Lientenant of Ireland1 is ad dressed as "Sir," Jnst like the Prince o'f Wales, and he has the privilege of kissing the yonng ladies presented at the drawing rooms. $ome of the past Lord Lieutenants have kissed as many as S00 young ladiui in the course of a single afternoon. 1893, OTHER MEFS HOUSES. There Are Hosts Who Make Guests Entirely Too Much at Home. INVITATIONS TO BE REFUSED. Liberty Hall Not the Most Cheerful Abode That Can Be Found. THE QUESTION OP TIPPING AGAIN rWRITCTS TOB THI niSPATCH.1 One of tbe most objectionable and fre quent manifestations of bad form is to be found in the manner of entertaining guests who are staying in the house on a more or less prolonged visit" So very few persons possess the delicacy, tact and intuition re quisite to make their friends "feel at home," and so many are the discomforts both of a moral and physical character which I have been called upon to suffer under that head, that a cold shiver goes down my back when ever I am requested to "make myself at home." Thus, what can be more distressing, for In stance, than the host who is so solicitous of our enjoyment that he cannot bear to see us doing nothing. He seems to have an idea that it is a reflection upon his hospitality and that it is his duty to provide us with occupation for every wakjng hour out of the 24. To snch a pitch have I known men carry this that, even when they would see me reclining in an easy chair glancing over the day's paper and resting from some labor The Hard Worked Guest. which their forethought or ingenuity had imposed npon me, they would burst in with the unwelcome query of, ''Well, and what would you like to do now?" The Intention Is Hospitable. Of course, there is no help for it One is obliged to fall in with their ceaseless sug gestions, and one returns to one s own home thoroughly worn out both mentally and physically. The worst of it is that it is im possible to quarrel with such a man as this, either in his house or out of it, as the inten tion is so manifestly hospitable andkindly, and his manner so hearty and cordial, that one cannot even enjoy the satisfaction of asking him to leave one alone just for a short time. I am sure that there are many ot my rea'lera who will sympathize with me when they read this arid who will recall memories of their own experiences oi an analogous character. There must be certainly many of them who have been led around to see stables which did not interest them, scenery which did .not charm them, dragged from cellar to, garret for the purpose of inspecting all the household arrange ments, conducted over fields and ditches to observe the condition of crops; called upon to admire the porcelains, ivories or any other pet fad of the host every man has some hobby of this kind or else treated to till the local gossip in which one can have no possible earthly inter est or concern. Hosts, such as these, should be avoided no matter how good their heart or excellent their household arrangements. Objections to Wberty Hall. Equally objectionable Is the man who as sures you that his house is "Liberty Hall," and that you are expected to do everything when and as you please. When staying at another person's house, especially when it is for the first time, one likes to have at least some little kind of direction and indi cation as to the wavs and customs oi the place; nor does one line to be left too much to oneself. It is not pleasant, ior in stance, to come down to breakiast and either to be forced to wait an hour ior that meal or else to find it half-finished and the rest ot the things cold. . Nor is it agree able to discover the people on their knees in the act of family, prayers, snch as is still the fashion in a great many houses. Tne way people thus engaged look around over their shoulder at the person entering the room and disturbing their devotions is peculiarly disconcerting. Hosts who de scribe their house as "Liberty Hall" are, The Guest Feels Out of Place. moreover, very apt to assure you, when inviting you, that they never dress lor din ner, and that it is altogether unnecessary to bring your dress clothes. Woe betide you, however, if you take such a man as this at his word and leave your evening dress at home, for you will certainly find on yourarrival thatyocr host is in evening dress entertaining his friends on a scale ol peculiar magnificence. I have been caught several times this way, and have consequently made it a fixed rule never tobelieve a man who tells me "not to dress lor dinner," even when he declares it on oath that he never does it himselK I like wise endeavor, as I mentioned above, to avoid the host who tries to find me occupa tion, and I make a point of invariably re fnsincr all invitations to "Liberty HalL" (No man really can leel so comfortable in requires considerably more than the ordi nary modicum of tact to be able to strike the happy medium between neglectiug one's guests on the one hand or overwhelming them with attentions 'that become irksome on the other. The Question of Tipping. Another drawback y staying at other people's houses is the question of tipping the servants, which in manv places is car ried to a far greater excess than most of my readers would caro to believe. Thus, in a country house there Is the butler to be at tended" to, and the man-servant appointed, to ions; alter you, iicwiau uis ujjouiu?! maid intrusted with the care, of your-room. Then thero isa lso the coachman who drives you to and from the station, and one of the grooms, if you do any driving dur ing your stay,, and last, but not least, the gamekeeper, if your host happeni to. have any ihooting "preserves. All this consti tutes a heavy drain on the pone, when one VI r ill xr Ju 0 hi a II 1 1 if lH i? ft! 1 1 M m s U a Ik, 1 h !W ) vKs UmbtM remembers that a stay rarely extends be yond a week sometimes only a couple of days and daring the course of the summer ana autumn mouths one pays a good many of this kind of dine and sleep visits. Still another drawback to stayingat other people's houae3 is the question ot church on Sunday. If at one's own home, one wWld probably go to church of one's own free will and accord, but at a friend's house, one feels to a certain extent that one is un der compulsion to do so, and this in itself is quite sufficent to render tbe matter irk some and to give, rise to the longing to re main away irom service. Too Much of a Good Thine;. In all English and American houses where I, have stayed the attendance at r 1 What'U We Do' Now, My Boyl church has been a feature of the Sunday, and a very proper one, too, if only I had not had that unpleasant feeling thas I was under an obligation to go. In some houses this church'attendance is carried to excess, and I remember especially one country house where I stayed in England over Sun day, when I was "driven to one church in the morning, to another for afternoon serv ice, and yet a third, in the evening, lot evening service. Not content with this, our host brought home with him to the house the clergyman who had conducted the evening service. and toward 10 o'clock our hostess, who had been unable to accompany us to churchthat evening, requested the parson, as a partic ular favor, to read or recite to ns, for her especial benefit and edification, the sermon which he had preached a couple of hours previously. Thjs proved the straw that "broke the camel's back" I being tbe camel and I need scarcely add that I never stayed at that bouse again. For I consid ered that this manner ot bombarding one's guests with four sermons on one day, and family prayers added in, is not altogether good form. And yet I claim to be a re ligious man. Good Forac. THE V7ALTJ2 02" IHVBHTIOIT. Progress of the Human Race Since the Introduction of Machinery. Journal of Finance, One of the astonishing facts to be dis covered in the field of industry is the marvelous power of machinery operated by the hand of man. In the cotton trade in 1850 the average product of every employe was something less than 700, while 30 years later he was able to produce a value of $1,200. In the woolen factory the change was much the same, the hand of each worker being able as long ago as 1850 to make over 51,200 of product and in 1880 about $1,800, the proportion of material consumed by improved machinery being about the same. How much the world is indebted to in vention cannot be stated in tangible form, but with tbe strength of man remaining the same and the skill of the grr.ent artisan,,jthongh showing some ad 2u?cs, -tili nit distancing that of the ancient Egyptian, the vast increase in hu man resources is due mainly to the influ ence oi invention in discovering ways in which machines can do the work of men. The competition is no longer a competi tion in skill of labor bnt that of invention, and in America we are far in advance oiany other nation in this respect A man who 50 years ago could turn out a value equal to a scant wage, now at fairly good wages is able to bring into being four or five or six times the value. Needed a Grammar Lesson. A Washington woman was recently sur prised to receive irom her quondam wash erwoman the following note, which tbe Washington Post copies verbatim ct punctu atum: "i am Very sary i cant Wash for yon any i am all Worked out and i have got to stop it as i am gointo get marrid and try that a While But i ma Bee worst oi than all i always like to Work ior you Best than any one else." Electric Llpht and Plants. The researches ot M. Bonnier on the growth of plants and trees under the influ ence of the electric light have led him to conclude that the electric light is decidedly less effective in promoting vegetation than solar light; but as he does not state tne in tensity ot his artificial light as compared with that of solar light his conclusion is open to dispute. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION In Ohio Alive and Determined to Lead the World. Extract From a Lecture at the Snrjricai Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, on Chronlo Catarrh, by Dr. S. B. Hartman. Catarrh is the continual scourge of Christendom. It hovers omimously over every city and ne3tles treacherously in every ha let It flies with vampire wings from country to country and casts a black shadow of despair over all land". Its stealthyap proach and its lingering stay makes it a dread to the physician and a pest to the patient. It changes the merry laugh of childhood to the wheezy breathing ot croup, and the song of the blushing maiden to the hollow cough of consumption. In its withering grasp the rounded form of the fond wile and mother becomes gaunt and spectral, and the healthy flush of manhood turns to the sallow, haggard visage of the invojid. Coush takes the place of con versation, speech ijives way to spitting.the repulsive odors of chronic cat.irrh poison the kis3 of the fondest lovers, and thickened membranes bedim sight, impair hearing and destroy taste. Like the plague-stricken Egyptians, a cry of distress has gone opt from every household, and the mildew ot woe clincs to every hearthstone. Catarrh in some form, catarrh in some stage, lurks as an enemy in the slightest cough or cold and finishes its fiendish work in heart dis ease and consumption. No tissue, function or organ of the body escapes its ravages; muscles wither, nerves shatter, and secre tion dry up under its blighting preseuce. So stubborn and difficult ot cure is this dis ease that to invent a remedy to cure chronic caiarrh has been the ambition of the great est minds in all ages. Is it, therefore, any wonder that tbe vast multitude of people 'who have been cured ot chronic catarrh by Pe-ru-na are so lavish in their praises ol tliis reme y? That the discovery of Pe-ru-na has made the cure of CJtarrh a practical certainty is not only the testimony of the people, but many medical men declare it to be true. As no drugstore in this age of the world is complete without Pe-ru-na, it can be ob tained anywhere, with directions for use. A complete gnide to the prevention and cure ol catarrh and all disease of winter nnt free by the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufact uring Company, Columbus, O. THEHOMEOFGARLYLE Charming Chelsea and the Interest ing Spots in the Vicinity. THE ANCIENT LONDON BDBUEB Beplete With Memories of Kings, States men, Novelists and Poets. A GLIMPSE OF THE POWERFUL AUTHOB jroaitigroxDXjrcx of thz dhm.tch.1 Loxdoit, Nov. 14. A good sweet book could be written abont tbe folk who have loved and known old Chelsea whom we have known and loved ior what they did for the world. Many years ago I saw one of these folk on a London 'bus and had a good hour's study of him as a curious char acter without knowing who he was. He first attracted my attention by his gener ally disheveled and thrown-together ap pearance. When he entered the 'bus ht held a copy of the London Times in one hand and dragged a very old bit of a travel ing rug in the other. He slapped the latter over his knees ashe sat down, glared at the passengers savagely, and immediately closed his eyes and began a peculiar mo tion of his month that seemed like a nerv ous chewing of his nether lip. He was a scraggy "and it then seemed to me an ill-kempt man, out of sorts with all the world. I mentally endeavored to place him. Perhaps he is some ono of those seedy old clerks so wondrously pictured by Dickens, thought L He may be a miserly old bachelor who daily tumbles out of his lodgings and iuto bis work and then back again, never knowing change, sleeping in his clothing, mummied to everything en earth but his ledgers and his desk. It ha have a wife and family, be cuffs the chil dren, warns the cook, abuses the housemiid and "blows up" his wife before leaving his habitation, and this particular morning he has made them understand who is master with greater vehemence than usual. A. Temporary Ucslect of Duty. Pretty soon he seemed to awake with a start, glared again at hi3 fellow passengers, and, giving his bony knees a vic.ous twist afrav from proximity to an elderly fat woman who sat beside him, plunged Into his paper as though so far he h id overlooked his duty of discovering, capturing and pun ishing some sort of sedition within. Sure .enough it was there. He scanned the edi torial page for a moment,sraashed the raper together,with his knuckly hands, dropped it upon the 'bus floor, ana, pawing it back beneath his feet, for some time gave it a nervous kind of pounding which plainly told his sentiments lor the balderdash he had discovered. Then he tell to chewing again with his eyes quite closed, and shortly awoke with a start,to lunge toward the door and soundly berate the conductor for car rying him past his destination. I could not h'ear all of this scolding; but it brought traf fic on the Strand to a standstill; and then the scraggy, hairy,tumbled-np,loose-jointed old man disappeared among the cabs and 'busses, a tangible, irascible Altercation with a Scotch dialect, prompting from dri vers as he passed the choicest blackguard quips and quirks that roll irom Loudon dri vers' ready tongues. The incident left a smile on nearly every face in the omnibus. A pleaant-taced man sitting beside me, noticing my look of in quiry and rightly judging my nationality, kindly solved the mystery. "Jly dear sir," be said with almost an air of pride, "he's a brave literary man, that. Ho wasn't born in Encland, but he's the big gest man in it. When yon get back to America vou can tell tbe Yankees you've seen old Thomas Carlylel" Battled Along: Together. In the very heart of this pleasanteji of all London outer districts, Thomas ami Jane Welsh Carlyle literally battled along to gether, from the 10th day o! October, 1834, until Mrs. Carlyle's sad and strange death in her brougham in Hyde Park, in April, 1866. The lonely old soul that was left re mained, rather than lived, in the same house to the end, in 1S8L And I somehow believe that the 47 year staying ot the sage ot Ecclcfechan in No. 5 Great Cheyne Bow has thrown more oi a poetic glamor over old Chelsea than all the other Iamou and great who have come and tarrieJ and gone. Materially, Sir Thomas More originally made Chelsea. Carlyle rounds out its fame. Vast fields oi history and romance lie between. This "pore house in Chel chith," as the ancient records speak of the home of Sir Thomas More, was not so hum ble an habitation after alL It had a great porch, many fine windows, dozens ot gables, a pretty tower, splendid ear lens lor the time, and besides housing the happiest fam ily living in England in the sixteenth century, was so attractive a place, though then far away from London, that Queen Mary was "moved to purchase it;" the gar rulous Erasmus found it a hospitable re treat; and King Henry VIIL often came up the Thames in his royal barge to debark and stroll to his first old Chelsea mansion with his arm lovingly around the neck of More, which his headman's ax severed cno July morning a little later on. A World of Memories. Chelsea Hospital itself is a world of memories not only of British history afield but of the time ol Charles II., of old King James' College, of Sir Stephen Fox, and of wayward though' kind-hearted Nell Gwynne. And as to the pensioners them selves Chelsea would hardly be Chelsea without them. Straggling along its shady thoroughfares, sitting bent and silent on sunny benches, leaning against wimpling fountains or vases and statues, resting as composedly as houpe owners on step' and in vestibules, or stumping gravely along with orders to this' or that servan-, as it long habit had given them supervisory rights over the daily affairs ot residents, they irresistibly suggest bevies of croaking cockatoos turned loose in park and garden, each one querulously harping upon some fancied grievance or delight- At the western side ot the hospital still stands Sir Bobert Walpole's house, almost precisely as it stood when he all but ruled England through the two Georges, First and Second. It is now a portion of the hospital infirmary. It was to this old red brick mansion that Walpole's rival, Bolingbroke came to dine and halt choked ior his choler; where Swilt and Gay came to get material for satire, and where Pope came with scandals of his past amours and, probably, to beg for assistance in others. Long and pleasant is one't( loitering here. If you come many days or but one, an endless host of wraiths of worthies start up unbidden in your wanderings. Ii once or many times you depart, you will ever insensibly be drawn, at parting, to the pray old habitations ot Great Cneyne Row. The windows of all overlook the turbulent river, darkening Battersea at its further "shore, and the pleasant villages upon the hills of Surrey beyond. At. the window of one, it matters not who lives there now, yonr fancy cannot but see a shaggy, stuply, haggard lace. Its gray, defiant, but sor rowful eyes are lifted across the turbulent river, and rest beyond the hills upon that material and spiritual Light that some where ever brings the blessed morning time. Edgae L. Wakbias, Narrow Escape of a Train. . The Indian mail train to Brindisi reeentl had a narrow escape of being wrected near Pescago. The two leading wheels of the locdmotive slipped off the rails, one of them being fractured, but the driving wheels re-niained-on the line, and tbe engine ran some 400 yards with the front wheels tearing the permanent way. Alter a delay of an boor and three quarter;, another engine was pro cured to convey the train to BrindiiL No one was injured. It yon so out early ta the moratet.ve may catch rheumatism. Balrauom 3 cures it
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