jr -t r S'VaHB" PlTTSBtma" DISPA0XD3SCrND"AY.-4 DEOEMBEE" 18; 189S '20 3 a mttu ' fc UNCLE TJfS CABIH WMe It Is Too Intangible to Show at Chicago There Is Another Belie A HALF JIILLION WOMEN Signed the Address to Their Sisters in the States and THE SIGNATURES STILL EXIST. Eecord of the Teecher Family and the lurvivinjr llcmbers. ELTEBITI OF THE PEEACDEE EATHEB nmTTTEV TOR THS DTSFATCTLl Within the last few weeks, another of the nation's most cherished traditions has been imperiled. The ruthless hand of the idol breaker has already chattered public con fidence in that iond idyl of childhood, "Washington and the cherry tree, and the tame iconoclastic agent has shaken the beautiful laith once so universally yielded to Whittier's heroine, Barbara Freitchie, and novr, aiasl the ax of doubt and unbelief is laid at the root of another treasured pil lar in the American Temple of Tradition and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is pronounced a ravth! With characteristic enterprise the man agers ot the Chicago Exposition, in reach ing out for striking attraction, decided to have the original cabin of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's dusky hero at the ap proaching Fair, as a sister attraction, prob ably, to the miniature Parthenon, Libby prison, the Columbian caravel and the Shakespeare cottage. They had been informed by some imagina- c. Harriet Beeeher StotM. tive Southerner, that the genuine cabin, in tact and but slightly impaired by time's ravage;, could be found upon a plantation at Natchitocnees, La., on the Bed river, lormcrly owned bv a planter named McAl piu, and now by a Mr. Chapin, who has guarded the cabin as an almost sacre 1 relic lor many rears. This alleged re.ic was cir cumstantially described as being built of cypress logs.'aad ktandiug in-the middle of a cotton fit Id. How the T!onli TTas Suggested. Unfortunately for the conclusiveness of tbe identification, there is not iu anv of her writings, n pinch of evidence that Mrs. Stowe was ever in Louisiana, or knew of the existence 01 the canin in question, or of its owner. With her open pen, she has ex plained how the umqne character of TTnde Turn cau.e to be introduced to the world. In an introduction to the earlier editions of her amous book, she relates that she 'had been called upon to write the letters lor a former siae vonian a servant in her own Jsniily to a slave husband in Ken tucky, who, ihoagh trusted with un limited liberty, and free to come and go on business b-tween Kentucky. and Ohio, still refused to break Ins pledge 01 honor to his master, tnoujh the latterdclerred Irom year to year the keeping ot Ins promise ol free dom to the slave. "It a the simple honor and loyalty of this black man, u ho lemainrd in slavery rather than violate a trust, that lir-t impressed her with the pos kibility ot Mich a character as vears after ward, was lelinea!ed in 'Uncle Tom.' " But though ths cabin itself, so tronght with sympathetic memories to two genera tions, mav well have been the Action of the writer's creative genius, and hence too in tangible to be fcuccesfullv put on exhibi tion bv the entei prising Chicago managers, there is a s ibs.nutial and accessible memo rial ol "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that should Henry Ward Beecher. not be overlooked It lorms a part of the history of the nation. Mrs. Stowe's book sppeafed in 1852, and between April and Decvn.ber ot that year, had run through 12 editions in England nlone. It set the phil anthropists ot the world to thinking, and then to acting: U;-on its modest author there poured -ucli a torrent of letter from all parts ot the enlightened world as hnrdly any book had provoked since Guttenberg set his first tyres. tt hit Jliut Be Shown at Chicago. Whittier, Garrison, Jenny L'.nd. Gold tebmidt, Prince Albert. Dioens, Macaulav, Heine, George Sand, Florence Nightingale nnd Frrderika B-emer were among the first to recognize the great spirit of human free dom and a unlit v which the quiet and un- asuming young American matron had called into sudden activity. Translated into ' many laugraies the book was red and wept over m almost every nonie in Christen dom. In the infidel countries of continental Europe It excited a great spiritual revival. An ?dilre "to tl.e women of America," begmi bv Lord Shaftesbury in England, tiuvrlru ns far as Jerusalem, so great was the desire to eign it, nndwben all the names were written it made a compact mass of 26 Icum voiuinesnith the names of over 500,000 wfmieu oi all ranks, from royalty to the porest. It is still inoct in its solid oak case "a monument ot feeling" and worthy to grace the ery iront of historic exhibits at Chicago. Few American families have produced more hSttorr-aiakrrs than the -Brechers. Lvinau Beecher. vi Boston the progenitor ot the ikuious group ot six sods who entered the minlt.rrf and lout daughter was a 1 " -4 cirfv .w vk. xsiSnsow leading OalvarHstic preacher, forefbleiln'the pulpit and addicted to sectarian denuncia tion to an extent that might nbt be comiil red in good taste in these days of liberalism, and "higher criticism." An amusing inci dent concerning him is related by Mr. C K. aTuckerman, who happened to be one of his auditors on aTainy Sunday when the thema selected for discussion was procrastination in religions observances. The clergyman, after tbe usual Calranistic manner, depicted In vived tones the punishments that awaited the impenitent procrastinator. To better illustrate the point, he referred to the neglect of a mother one of his congrega tion who pat off the -presentation of her baby for baptism till too late. The child met with an accident that caused its death. "That infant," said the preacher, "who might have been an angel in heaven, is now, through the negligence of its parents, a tenant of belli" Consternation seized the audience. One gentleman near the pulpit rose, seized his bat. and signified bis dis gnrt by leaving the building. His Sans Not So Severe. Strangely enough, the severe Calvinism of the father was distinguished among the traits of his children by its absence. Lyman Beecher's sons and daughters and their de scendants are to-day widely distributed over the Union. Catherine Beecher, the eldest daughter, after a brilliant career as yO JUrx. Entry Ward Beecher. an educator, died some years ago aged SO. Harriet, the most famous ot the girls, and for a time associated with Catherine in edu cational enterprises, married Prof. Calvin E. Stowe, of Andover. Three daughters and a son were born to them. Mrs. Stowe now a widow and quite old and feeble is quietly fading away at Hartford, where she lives in a quaint and pretty house adjoin ing Mark Twain's more pretentious domi cile in the rear. Her intellect has weak ened perceptibly in the last few years and she is not permitted to go out unattended. Her household consists of her twin daugh ters, maiden ladies of 47, a couple of ser vants and a nurse. Her son, Bev. Charles Stowe, lives half a mile distant and her sister Isabella Beecher Hooker, famous as a Woman suffragist and orator, lives nearby. The Eev. Edward Beecher the mono genarian of the family, and a most remark able specimen of well preserved physical manhood has been widely distinguished as teacher, pastor, college president, author and editor, for nearly half a century. All the Beechers were endowed with vigorous physiques, but Edward was about the most remarkable in this re spect. He never smoke or drank, and yiT fK Edward Beecher. he was inordinately fond of exercise. The life of Henrv Ward Beecher is, of oourse, familiar to the public. Considered Greatest or All. "William Beecher. whose home for many years was in Chicago; Charles Beecher, pastor of a Congregational Church in Penn svlvania; Thomas K. Bccher, also a Congregational preacher at Elmira, N. Y., are all members of the original group, and men of means, fame and distinction in their several spheres. In his own imme diate section, at least, there are manv who consider that Thomas Iv. is the greatest of all ot Lyman Beecher's sons. He has been occasionally drawn into politics, having been candidate for of fice on the tickets of the Bemo cratic,Greenback and Republican parties in different campaign". Thirty o-sd vears ago, he founded a church in E miraand declined to dedicate it until, it was out ot debt. In all that time it lias never been quite clear and lias consequently never ben dedicate I. But it is a very successful church, never theless. Thomas, who, dimmer nnd winter, wears a starched t el vet cati and rustv cat, lile a German immigrant, devotes nearly all his salary to cl.arity. He has no tethetic tastes, like his brother Henry "Ward, who loved a horse and had a passion for billiards and fine paintings. He calls on his peusioners with a bushel of pota toes or a sack of flour and is not above letting people know that he can drink a glass of beer with appreciation. He can mend a clock quicker than an ordinary Ciockmaker and has repeatedly overhauled the city timepiece and corrected its faults. He is greatly loved and his immediate con gregation to say nothing of its beneficiar ies almost worship him. If good works keep every one, it will be many rears be fore Thomas IL Beecher now 68 grows reallv old, Colonel James C Beecher, now dead, was the soldier of the lamous larailv a career that has a flavor both of Hedley Yickars and Havelock. Many instances are related of his bravery and magnanimity. Ebes Clayton. A New Mexican Hallway. It is learned that the Mexico, Cuernavaco and Pacific Hallway Company is about to establish permanent offices at Denver. It is now constructing a broad-gauge line from the City of Mexico almost directly south to the Pacific Ocean. The terminal point will beat Palasaida. a fine harbor. Here con nection will be made with the Pacific line of coast steamers. m tp . Thomat K. EkcSt A TENMILLION-DOLLiAR CATHEDRAL. ;rf; . . ... IPi'lllyi Jate"etf CcOKRispoJTDiifCi or rax dispatch. J New Yoiik, Dec. 17. The cornerstone of the great Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be laid with imposing cere monies on December 27, and a few of the men prominent in the movement since its in ception who will go back in memory to the eventfnl meeting at the deathbed of Bishop Horatio Potter will see in the exercises of the day the consummation of the devontest wish of that great clergymen. The idea of erecting a Protestant Episco pal Cathedral, of creating an epoch-making event in the history of the Church, had its inception in 1870 in the minds ot many who were near and dtar to the late Bishop. In trusted to him, it grew in scope and gran deur until, at least in conception, it became the great structure of which the corner stone is now to be laid. The first 17 trus tees were named at abont this time, but the stirring events of the next few years, end ing with the great panic, gave the project a set-back from which it took a dozen years to recover. In 1883 and in 1881 meetings were held, but all to no purpose. At the Bishop's Deathbed. In 18S6 it was found that but nine of the seventeen, trustees were among the living, and nnder the original compact it took a majority to act. The bishop lav dying. Several of the trustees were abroad, and after almost superhuman efforts the eight men were finally brought together, and the first steps looking to the actual construc tion of the eathedral were taken at the bed side of the late Bishop Potter. The vacan cies in the Board of Trustees were filled, and then work began. Bishop Potter, the NO SOCIAL BARRIERS. Dnbrotherly and Unchristian Rela tions Rapidly Disappearing. HCL0SIVENESS IS NOW A SIN. Progress of the pirit of Democracy in Church and cliool. DUTI OP TI1K PKITILEGBD CLASSES nrnrrrw roa thi dispatch.! God can answer prayer. And man can answer prayer. It is a great mistake to think that all reply to our petitions must be left to Go'. A company ol men and worsen imploring God to stir up the hearts of his people to acts ot Christian generosity, and meanwhile keeping bark their means from the treasury of God, is a spectacle to make all evil ang'ls smile. The best way to get prayers for money answered is to an swer them ourselves. God works by mak ing good example contagious. One gives and another gives. A single generous soul, fired with the "passion of compission," e iger to help, glad to make sacrifices, in spires a neighborhood. Sometimes prayer is pernicious. Prayer is a hindrance to the spiritual life whenever it takes the place of action. Let us, by all means, pray. It is impossible' that there should be too much right praer. We migbt pray without ceasing and yet not pray too olten if we pray aright Bnt prayerwhich is pretense for idleness, prayer which is but an indolent desire that God should do for us what we arc quite able to do for ourselves that is pernicious prayer. Helps Those Who Help Theinseltes. God always does His part, but He never does our part Sometimes God waits for us to begin before He begins. When the peo ple of Israel, in the old story.'were to cross the Jordan, God purposed to help them over by making a path for them throngh the midst of the water! But no path appearel. Down rolled the tumbling stream swelled with all the harvest rains, until the feet ot the foremost touched the brine We must act, then God will ac'. We pray, "Thy kingdom come." Every day we say that prayer. But what do we expect that God will do in answer? Will He cleave tbe heavens and come down? Will He turn into literal reality the glow ing symbols of New Testament prophecy ? Will" He come in clouds, with myriads of attendant angels, and soinewhere,'at Jeru salem or London or New York, sit upon His golden throne ot rlory and compel the homage of mankind? How shall the king dom come? It is evident that when the King came he surprised e Terr body. Men looked for crown audrcepter, or at least for sword and buckler. Tile King would come, they thought, in appearance like the kings of Borne, a Herod, an Augustus. But ihe King came as a little child, born of ob scurity and poverty, cradled in a manger, born in the household of a village 'car penter. People could not believe it It was incredible that this son of a Nazareth merchant, whose mother and brothers and .' - ' in ww i-Wii- H-H- 4 liiBjii-lll 1 lliy y? i!lF" i it i (e-dpal Up ao & n a 0 3?000 && x H Gsround fldn Qass o o Jrasi- present head of the diocese,issued his famous address, in which occurred the following notable remarks: "It will be the people's church, in which no reserved right can be bought, held or hired on any pretext whatever. It will be the fitting shrine of memorials of our honored dead. It will supply the especial need oi this material age, a commanding witness to faith in the unseen." The fund grew. Contributions came in from the Yanderbilts, the Asters, Pierpont Morgan, from the estates of deceased mem bers ol the Protestant 'Episcopal Church, and in 1887, less than a year alter the mem orable meeting, enough of a fund for a good payment on the site was at hand. The Mte Cost Nearly a Million. In November, 1887, the old Leake and Watts' Orphan Home grounds were bought for 5850,000, and the new cathedral will stand in perhaps the most picturesque spot on Manhattan Island. Its towers will look down upon the Hudson and the Palisades will be within view. Far off the busy cities of Hoboken and Jersey City will be seen from the towers of the edifice, and its great spire will, on the east, be in sight of all Harlem and the hills of Long Island. Fresh appeals for funds met with hearty responses, and a sum that would cover the erection of a portion of the proposed struc ture was at last at hand. It took 13 vears to build St Patrick's Cathedral on Filth avenue, and it -was proposed to have the new building several times asjarge. Time was valuable, and event) must follow quick upon event in tbe history that was to cul minate in America's greatest church struc ture. It is now believed that 15 years will elapse before the building is completed. This means that 37 years ti ill have elapsed between the conception and the culmina tion, more than a generation of time, in sisters everybody was acquainted with in credible that he could be the Christ The Kingdom Is In the Hear .So fond are we of the spectacular! So desirous of the dramatiel It is next to cer tain that the kingdom when it fully comes will be found to have had its first subjects, and even at its meridian glory still to have its chief citizens, in carpenter shops, and tailor shops and mills. Cobblers and cooks will be among its honorable men and women. Certain it is that the kincdom of God comes not by observation, is not to be found where most people would be likely to Iook for it Certain it is that the kingdom of God is within us, is not to be seen in dress, nor uniiorm, nor badge, but is in the hearts, and shows itself in the lives ol those who belong to it. The kingdom of God has come .already. What we prav lor is not its beginning, but its consummation. We pray thai it may fully come, that evervbodv mav some day, and speedily, promise allegiance to the King. And this, I say, is one of those prayer which we ought to ansnerin large measure our own selves. For it is plain tharthe al legiance of all is the allegiance ol each. Whoever desires the conversion of the orld, let him be first converted. Who ever wishes for the betterment of society, let him improve himself. We who pray for Hie kingdom of heaven, are we all of us subjects ot that kingdom loyal, earnest, enthusiastic and aggressive in its service? Always Works ith Tools. It is true that God can work without ma terials or tools. It is also true, however, that God always works uith materials and tools. When He has a message for the race He never delivers it Himself out of tbe clouds, He sends a man to carry it; He tells His great truth to a saint or a scholar; to a poet or a prophet, and so it reaches all the rest ot us. The revivals of God, the revo lutions which have dethroned the powers ot darkness, and have crowned the light, began every one of them in the heart ot some good man who had learned some great truth from God and went straightway and told his brother. It if idle to dream ot a regeneration of the race without a regenera tion of the individual. The kingdom of heaven,, i hieh Cometh not by observation, cometh not by legislation, either. Not from without but- from within work the energies whioh will some day convert the race. God's chief instrument for the bringing in of the kingdom ot heaven is the inspiration ot example. The greatest of all reformations began when one man can.: out of a carpenter shop and went about doing good. There is no book like it, no argument like it, no sermon comparable to it. It is tbe lite that tells, that influences, that kindles the fires of en thusiasm. The kingdom of Heaven In our immediate neighborhood waits upon us. When we become its loyal subjects there will be no lack of others. Whether or not the Lord's prayerwill be answered depends upon ourselves. "Thy Kingdom corns" first in my own soult "Ihy Kingdom cojae" O King, behold me here to-day, thy subjectl ,The Democrat and the Aristocrat The question, then, is what constitutes a loyal subject of the kingdom of heaven. And I want to say this morning that no body can be a loyal subject to the kingdom of heaven unless he is a democrat, not an aristocrat An aristocrat is one who cares a great deal for a lew people; a democrat is oue nho cares a. great deal for a great many people, lor ali people. The anstocia't chooses the society lor the congenial, de sires to associate with the elect ot the eleot, sympathizes to the depths ot his. soul with West E,le?atioi' which many noted Injthe work have already passed away. The Design of the Structure. The architects from whom plans were asked took up the task in a most commend able spirit, and four men fieured in the planning of the great cathedral. Thevars Messrs. Heins and La Farge, W. "W. Kent and General W. Sooy Smith. The structure which they evolved in thought is of the round-arch Gothic order, planned in many details after tbe early Christian churches, following notably the Santa Sophia Church at Constantinople and St. Mark's at Venice. But Gothic characteristics could not be laid aside with impunity, as the church was to some extent wedded to this style of archi tecture. So the centraldome is surmounted by Gothlo spires, and the conspicuous feat ure of this design is in the manner in which these spires'seem to grow out of the struct ure seem to take root in the very founda tions. The Latin form is followed in the plan, but striking departures are made in the termination of the transepts, which are simply the apses of the chancel swung around. These accentuate the Bomanesque character of the design. The 12 great piers which support the dome are to be dedicated to the apostles.the one of especial magnificence being that de signed for St. John. The dome is enriched by scenes from the Apocalypse, and the symbolic decorations as they are carried upward change from the particular to the general. 'The Board of Trustees. The plans were accepted in July, 1891, and the Board of Trustees, in which few changes have since been made, comprised the following gentlemen: Bishop Potter, Geo. M. Miller, Dr. P. K. Cady, Morgan Dix, E W. Donald, Geo. H. Houghton, W. B. Huntington, E. A. Hoffmann, David H. that great poet who said, "People bore me beyond endurance; I detest folks." But to the democrat nothing human isunconeeuial, all people are interesting, all the needs, the interests, the ways of men are of concern. To. him the lotos gods, whom that great poet pictured, "careless ot mankind," are desti tute of all iiivinity. He puts his iaith in a God who cares, who loves, who is the father of us nil. Nothing can be plainer than this: That to love those who love us, to please those who please us, to invite those. who will invite us in return, and to stop there, is not Chris tian. That is simple human nature. Jesus Christ did not need to come into this world and suffer on the cross in order to teach us that, or persuade us to lo that The very publicans and sinners, He declared, do as much as that. But to love those who hate us, to serve those who revile us, to do good to those who would willingly harm us, to seek the society ol the uncongenial, to give to those nho cannot give to us, to ask to our houses those who cannot ask us in re turn, to seek no', so much to get pleasure for ourselves as to give pleasure to others, to love our brethren even as Christ loved us that is what I man by democracy. It is synonymous with Christianity. The Duty of Personal Obedience. Evidently the first characteristic of a loyal citizen is personal obedieuee. And the last characteristic of a loyal citizen is personal obedience. Whoever would be long to the kingdom of heaven, which is tbe kingdom ol Christ, must do the will ol Christ That is essential and imperative. He is a Cnnstian who follows Christ, who measures all things by the standard of the approbation of Christ, who would not will ingly say a word which he would not like to huve Christ hear, nor do an act which he would not like Christ to' see. He' is a Chris tian who tries to be like Christ, to speak as Christ would speak, to deal with all hard questions as Christ would deal with them, to be the kind of neighbor Christ would be, and the kind of citizen Christ would be, to be a Christ-like man or woman. The best Christian is he who most reminds the peo ple with whom he lives of the Lord Jesus Christ He who never reminds anybody ot the Lord Jesus Christ is not a Christian at all. And it is plain how democratic Christ was. Down He came among tbe people, shared their poverty! sorrowed in their sor rows, helped them over their hard places, called Himself the Ron of Man. They were all his brothers and his sisters; yes, the most ignorant; yes, the meanest and the lowest. Nobody ever accused ,Tons of Naznreth of being an aristocrat Nobody ever turned to Him to find an example of social narrowness. Jesus loved the people. He devoted Himself to the people. He made Himself the servant of the people. He came not to be ministered to. He said, but to minister to others. Eellglon Is(Not Narrow. The trouble is that we commonly take Christ as our pattern tor only a small part of our lives. We do no not realize as we 0U"ht that the kingdom ot Christ includes under its rule the whole ot hunia-i life. Christ is to be followed just as closely iu the domain of business nnd ol society us He is in those matters which we narro'vrly call "religious." The subject of the king dom is a subject and a citizen no matter where lie goes. Every hour of social lile must be brought to the test of the example and the approbation of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do not know where tbe kingdom of heaver; should more naturally be looked for than in the Church. Properly the Churcli and the kingdom of heaven should have the same boundaries. Xtu Church jf Green, "V7. Bavard Culling, "vT. "Vy". Astor, B. T. Auchmutv, J. Pierpont Morgan.Ham- ilton Fish, Cornelius Vanderbiit, J. B. Eoosevelt, Samuel D. Babcock, S. P. lash. The completed building will nave the following dimensions: Feet. Total lenzth 6M Total width through transepts 293 Width or front J5 Height of frontgaule IS Height of front towers MS Helrht of flanking towers 158 Height of central towersi 5 Height of dome (Interior) 233 Width or nave .. 93 Span ot central tower 96 .Length of chain and ambulatory 15 The contributions to the cathedral fund have now gone up to much over a million, one contribution of $500,000 having recently been made, but the name of the donor is not to be made public until January. The first part of the structure to be completed is the choir loft, which will have a seating capacity of 2,000. The Exercises Next Week. Services in connection with the corner stone laying will be exceedingly impres sive, invitations having been extended to and accepted by all the bishops of the church. The venerable Bishop Williams will take a prominent part in the ceremon ies, and among the addresses to be delivered will be one by Bishop Potter, the celebrant bishop, and one by Dr. Deane, of Albany. The musical portion of the programme is In charge of Bicbard Henry Warren, or ganist and choirmaster of St Bartholmew's Church. A floored space' to accommodate 1,000 is being provided, and the roof, a tem porary structure, will be' covered with can vas. V The cathedral when complete will cost fully JIO.OOO.OOO. ought to be made up altogether of citizens of the Christian kingdom, and all who are subjects under that allegiance ought to be in the Church. Social democracy ought to prevail within the Church. Everybody knows, however, that social democracy doe's not prevail either in the Church or any where else. The rich and the poor stand apart, each an exclusive company. Even farther away from all others vou will find the people who are neither rich nor poor, but who are kept by what they call pride Irom associ ating very freely with either rich or poor. At any common gathering ot Christian people for social purposes you will find the rich talking to the rich, and the middle class to the middle class, and the poor to-tbe-poor. True Conception of Society. If, as most people think, the chief end ot society is personal enjoyment, and the right purpose iu going into it is the purpose not ot giving as much pleasure as possible, but of getting as much pleasure as possible, all that distinction is right But such a con ception oi society is unchristian. We may be quite sure that in the kingdom of heaven the people who have gifts and graces and ideas and experiences and opportunities, will not be content to exchauge tbem among themselves, they will desire to share them with those who are less fortunate. What a hopeless task, to have all the dough in one pan and all the yeast in another, and expect bread! What a hopeless prospect, to have all the culture and the wealth and the refinement and the arts of pleasurable living, bound up within the circles of an exclusive society, and all the people need ing inspiration," encouragement, leadership and sympathy outsidel Thank God, that tve are beginning now adays to see what a shame, what a loss, but an unbrotherly and unchristian state ot things, this is. And in city alter city though not yet in Pittkburg men and women of highest education and social po sition and advantage are seeking nut these brethren of ours, who, afterall, differ from us chiefly in not having had the chanee we have, and are making their homes among them and bringing tbe Light of Culture and Christianity into dark places. They do not go in con descension, they do not put oil a mauner which they would not think of using with their friends in eltgantly furnished rooms. They are as natural and friendly and as courteous with a laundress as they would be witb a lord. They g as friemlsl They have emancipated themselves Ironfall arti ficial and foolish and wicked narrowness, nod have made themselves the neighbors ot the poor. Everybody appreciates a friend. Jesus Christ was a friend. And what He asks of us who are among the privileged classes is that we be the friends, honestly, unre servedly, personally the friends, ot the unprivileged. Only by beginning villi genuine and equal friendship can one very greatly help another. Tliese College Set tlements where those who have had a chance take the hands of those who have had no chance, and become their triends, are outposts, everyouo of them, of the kingdom of God. Every jiarish ought to be a colouy of the kingdom of God. Geokge Hodges. Calculations based on the observation or the refraction of light have caused it to be supposed that the air becomes so rare at the height of about 60 miles that the dis tance may be regarded as the limit to Its sensible extent, but othor calcnliuious, made during the present century, of the dis tance linm tile earth at wnicti meteors lituite, indicate that the atmosphere extends to upward of 100 miles. A POPULAR OLD MAN. Washington Very Much Interested in 90-Iear-Old Gen. Jones. HOW SEWAED BAD HIH ARRESTED For Writing to Jeff Davfo, Though He Was Ignorant of Secession. HAD A HAXD IX SEYE.V GREAT DUELS fcosaesrosDixcz or Tnz dispatch.! Washington; Dec. 17. X remarkable national character is now in Washington a 90-year-old statesman who had the honor of naming two great States of the Union, and who has been an intimate friend of all the Presidents, with one exception Grover Cleveland from James ilonroo down to Benjamin Harrison. He descended upon the capital on the reassembling of Congress, and so great a furor has he cre ated since his arrival in official circles that he is now feted and petted by society as no one else has been for years, and has become tbe rage of the hour. He is General George Wallace Jones, of Dubuque, la., the oldest ex-Seflator of the United States, the last delegate from Michigan Territory, the first delegate from Wisconsin Territory and the first Senator from the State ot Iqwa, having served in that post 12 years. This man, though thus old and linking in his own personality the distant past with the living present, is still in the very prime of health and Intellectual vigor, and pos sesses without doubt a greater fund of in teresting reminiscences of public men and things in America th'an anybody else now 7i& Gen. Oeorgt fTallace Jann. living. His memory is perfect, his man ners that of a Chesterfield, and his conver sation simply charming. The Intimate of Great lien. A person with only a slight develop ment of the bump of veneration must needs uncover in his presence, even out of doors, n knowing that be was an attendant on the Marquis de Lafayette while touring in America, that he was the class mate and e-mrade in the Black Hawk War of JeSerwn Davis, Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass, that he was the bosom friend of John Q'lincy Adams, the confidant of Andrew Jackson, John C Fremont, Mar tin Van Bnren and Franklin Pierce, the in tl mate companion of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John G Calhoun, the col league in the House of James K.PoIk,John Bell, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H. Stephens, and In the Senate tbe everv-day associate of Thomas H.Benton, Charles Sumner, Stephen A. Douglass, William H Seward, John a Breokinridge, Howell Cobb and James Buchanan. At Vincennes, Ind., where the General was born, he was often as a boy dandled on the knee of General William Henry Harri son. In 1827, owing to delicate health, he went to the then Territory ot Michigan and engaged in lead smelting. In 1832 he served in the Black Hawk War, and in 1835 he was elected Democratic delegate (the last one) from Michigan Territory, which in cluded the vast domain now comprising the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon. Ever "since he has been a Democrat, although he voted in 18S8 and tbis vear for Harrison in the consideration of the fact that "Old Tippecanoe" had dandled him on his knee when a boy. Speculating With Webster. On the Fourth of July, 1836, at General Jones' instance, the great Territory of Michigan was divided, and the Territory ot Wisconsin 'ras Iramed from it and named by him in a bill he introduced for the pur pose. Wisconsin Territory then em&raced the whole of Michigan Territory except' tbe present States of Michigan. With Daniel Webster in that same summer va cation be engaged in some land speculations in the new Territory, Webster furnishing the money, loaned him by Messrs. Corcoran & Biggs, and Jones the experience and supervision, with the result that Webster reaped 530,000 in profits and Jones 520,000. Shortly afterward General Jones was elected as delegate from Wisconsin. He served lour years, but nas defeated for the third term by his connection as second with Hon. Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, in the fatal duel with Hon. William J. Graves, of Ken ucky. On the Fourth ot July, 1838, through his instrumentality, the Territory ot Iowa was in turn created from the Territory of Wisconsin, and named in accordance with his suggestion. On General Jones' retirement irom Con gress President Van Buren appointed him Surveyor-General of the new Territory ot Iowa. When Iowa was admitted as a State, in 1847, he was made Senator Irom that State, together with Augustus Csear Dode, sou ot Senator Dodge, ot Wisconsin. Young Dodge and General Jones drew lots for the long term and Jones won. Through his close friendship with President Pierce, dat ing fromtllie latter's service in Congress, he was larcely instrumental in having Jeffer son Davis appointed Secretary of War in 1853. He Believed In the Code. Senator Jones in his time was a great be liever In the "code," and figured in seven different "aflairs of honor," although a principal in onlv one. In 1826 lie carried a challenge from Governor Dodge to Dr. James H. Balph. Shortly alter that he carried a challenge to Dr. Balph from R b ert TL Brown. Neither challenge waa ac cepted, ami Balph was set down as a cow ard. In 1827, while studying law in St. Louis, Jones was himself challenged by an ovet-hasty young army nlScsr, Lieutenant Williams, ot South Carolina. He promptly accepted, and all the arrangements were per'ected, when the Lieutenant, being the aggressor, apologized, and the affair w is de clared of). Later iu the ame year Jones served as seennd in a bloodless duel be tween Thomas W. Newton and Ambrose H. Severe. But the greatest duel with which General Joues was connected was the historic con flict in 1838 between Cilley, of Maine, and William J. Graves, near the Marlborough road, outside ol Washington, growing out of a heate 1 debate in Congress. In that debate Cilley charged that James Watson Webb, editor ot the New York Courier and Enquirer the man nho gave the naiue Wlii " ,ne wing party nan accepted bribe. Webb arrived in" Washington that evening, and, hearing of the incident, sent a letter to Cilley iu regard to it by the hand of Gravea Itifles Chosen as the Weapons. Cilley declined to receive the letter, where upon Henry Clay, surrounded bv a 'quad ot admiring Whigs, declared that thir re fusal to receive it was a personal insult to Graves, Graves, though a close friend of Cilley, was then prevailed on to challenge Cilley, naming rifles as the desirable wea- -fions. Through the influence pf Frank! fa Pierce, then a Congressman, General Jones was induced to act as Cilley's second. Thref rouu ds were fired, and on the third round Cilley fell dead. The hubbub that ensued In Congress and throughout the country was extraordinary. An investigation was ordered, which after long and animated de bate resulted in tbe passage of stringent laws characterizing duelling as murder. In 1850 Jones again aeted as a second, thil time to General John C. Fremont, who had Challenged Senator Foote, of Mississippi, on the field of honor, but tbe duel was never fought Eight years later Jones carried a challenge once more from Senator Dodge, of Wisconsin, to Colonel William Selden, formerly Treasurer of the United States under Jackson and Van Buren, bnt the quarrel was compounded and the duel did sot take place. General Jones and Jeff Davis. Four days after General Jones' terra as Senato'r expired, on March 8, 1859, President Buchanan nomi nated him as Minister to Bogota, the most Important diplomatic post in South America. After President Lincoln's in auguration he was recalled, and right hera comes in a strange chapter of Senator Jones history. In May, 1S61, while still m Bo gota, and thinking iu the absence of any in formation to the contrary that Jefferson Davis Fas still a United States Senator, ha wrote to him as an old friend requesting; his good offices in the desired promotion of his son, who bad been appointed Second Lieu tenant in the cavalry service bv President Pierce. ' This letter was inclosed with official dispatches to the State Department, but owing to the unsettled condition of South American affairs and the tardiness of the mails, it did not reach Washington until after Davis bad become President of the Southern Confederacy. The letter was accordingly intercepted and held at tho State Department, and, nnder the peculiar circumstances, its contents were miscon strued by the powers that were. Beturning to America, Jones reached Washington on December 5, 1861, saw his old friends, President Lincoln and Secre tary Seward, was received at the White House by the President, and was accorded a diplomatic dinner by the Secretary of State in the mansion now occupied by James G. Blaine, facing Lafayette Square. Arrested by Seward's Order. At the State Department then in the Treasury building on December 19 Jones) badegood-by to Seward, who on parting; pledged him over a bottle of wine, and then took a train to New York with his niece, intending to proceed thence home to Iowa. Arriving in New York, he went at once to the New York Hotel and registered. Before laying down the pen and leaving the clerk's desk, be was arrested and next day conducted before Chief of Detectives Kennedy, whose only explanation oi ths arrest was the production of a telegraph, tape, on which was written this dispatch: Washisotox, D. C, Dec 19. 1S61. To the CWer of Detectives. New York city: Hon. George W. Jones, returninz Minister from South America, leaves hero for the Hew York Hotel. Arrest him and send hist to Fort Lalayette. Wixliax H. Seward. No charge was brought against General Jones, but nevertheless he was confined for several months at Fort Lafavette as a polit ical prisoner, and no explanation has been given to this day of Secretary Seward's con duct in tne matter. In this connection General Jones' last ac counts as Minister to Bogota, amounting to several thousand dollars, were never al lotted by tbe State Department and remain unsettle'd. It is to have these settled by act of Congress that the venerable nonogen arian is now in Washington. Once wealthy, he is wealtv no more, and he needs what is due him. Bills to that end were last week introduced in the Senate bv Senator Wil son, of Iowa, and in the House by Coa gressman.Henderson, ot the same State. AH EZIBAOEDINABY E2ITAPK, Hovr an .English Nobleman Got Even With, ills Dead Predecessor. Philadelphia Press.i In a shady lane near Totnes the attention of visitors is attraeted by a tall cross of tho finest Aberdeen granite, which, together with a ponderous slab of the same material, occupies tbe corner of a field. On it is in scribed the name and arms of the late Duke of Somerset, with the following extraordi nary lines at the toot: "The tweltth Duke was the Sheridan Duke. He defrauded and nearly ruined ths Seymour family. This stone was prepared by the thirteenth Duke in his lifetime and was erected here in pursuance of his ex press direction." It appears that the Duke, who died last vear, suffered all his life from an idee fixes concerning some imaginary wrong done by his predecessor, and the obnoxious head stone was refused admittance to Bury Pom peroy Cnurchyard, although a fund was left in perpetuity for its maintenance and it cost over 100. As a matter of fact, the twellth Duke was a min of considerable talent The Miss Sheridan he married fig ured as a queen of beauty in the E.'linton Tournament, and in no way deserved the as persions thus cast upon her by this inexcusa bleactof posthumous spite. The "Somerset Stone" was visited during the summer by thousands of tourists. BAiTLES IN THS OCEAff. The Warfare of lower Animals Very Simi lar to That of Slan. Pall Mall Gazette J Becently a lecture was delivered at tho Boyal Normal College for the Blind before the Upper Norwood Library and Scientifio Society by Dr. Benbam of Oxford on "War and Its ESec:s,ax Seen in Marine Organ ism." At its close.Dr. Conan Doyle, why is the President, in proposing a vote of thanks to the lecturer, remarked that Dr. Benbam had spoken of tbe struggle which is continually going rn between animals, as, for instance, between shark and shark and mackerel and mackerel, and so it was in our own daily lives. Just as in animal life the weakest went to tbe bottom, and nothing more was heard of them. It was only now and azain that they had some idea ot how strange a power li e was. He remembered reading that of 1,000 students that matriculated on one oc casion 890 were unacc unted for. Life with us was just as strange a power as in the low est animals. Although we do not learn to develop spicules, as in the case of soma ol the fish which had been illustrated by the lecturer, we do try to improve and bet ter ourselves. Curious as it might seem to some, just as with the lower animals, ws are working to some glorious goat As wa develop it was possible, he humorously re marked, men would be as far above us as we are above the jellyfish, but not in our time. . m LETTERS OF HEINEICH HEINE. A Collection Written to nis Favorite Sister About to Be Published. New York Tribune.; The admirers of Helnrich Heine in Ger many are rejoicing over the decision of Mme. Charlotte Embden, the poet's favor ite sister, to publish 122 of bis unpriuted letters, now in her possession. The letters wete written to Mme. E'nbden and her mother. Beginning in the poet's univer sity days and ending a few weeks before his death, 40 years ago, they are said to thro-v a bright and favorable light upon his char acter, and to show deep love tor the mem bers ot his family. They will form, in a sense, a continuation of the poet's me moirs. Mme. E'nbden intends also to publish at the same time a volume of remimsce.ices of her brother, aud to correct therein a num ber of mistakes in existing biographies of Heine. AsMme.Embden is now IT.' years old and correspondingly teeble, she will be as sisted in the important wore by her son, Baron Ladwig Embden. The books will bo illustrated, and will contain among other things a portrait of "Fntti Mathilde," tha poet's wile, su well knoitn to readers nf hit poems. No portrait of her, it is said, hM ever been published. ilalasV Tiff
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