THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE JfATUB DAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 189f5. 11 WORIiD OF SCIENCE AND FAITH. That the concluding decade of the nineteenth century marks the begin ning of a reaction against the scientific skepticism of the generation Just pre ceding will, we think, be generally con ceded . Science no longer is ostenta tiously heM as a club over the head or religions belief, for the beating to In sensibility of faith. The novelty of the Ingenious but Insufficient hypotheses of Darwin and Huxley along the lines of scientlllc materialism, and of Her bert Spencer along those of philosophic agnosticism, has begun to fray at the edges, and where once there was the tension of battle there is today the lan ffutd relaxation of incipient In difference. Whether this nascent reaction from materialism will yet eventuate in a recurrence to extreme and unquestioning religious literalism or mid vent In some new method of attack upon the faiths of the fathers is as yet indeterminable; but the publication of a few such books as "William W. Kinsley's "Old Faiths and New Facts" (New York: D. Appleton & Co.) will be likely to decide the matter in behalf of rational and helpful spir ituality, allied to restful reasoning fac ulties and intellects satisfied with the genuineness of properly interpreted re ligious claims. I NATURE OF THE DIETT. Mr. Kinsley's book is subdivided into three parts: "Science and Prayer"; Science and Christ" and "Science and the Life Beyond." The first of these is the most interesting and the most con vincing. We shall, in this notice, con fine ourselves to It. merely saying for the other chapters that they merit careful study by themselves. In that chapter the author meets the scientists on their own ground and with their own weapons repels the charge that prayer does not avail. Hut before we undertake to follow the line of. Kinsley's contention as to the ef ficacy of prayer, let us Ilrst consider the nature and the extent of the divine presence, bearing In mind the author's observation that "If we would have Ood become to us a definite personality, a being whom we can love nnd to whom we can pray, we must form for our selves a conception of Him havlug somewhat at least of definite and ap preciable outline, however inadequate that outline may be to the great ordi nal." For "if we are led to regard tlod simply as an Immensity-filling force, as an unknowable and unthinkable Intel ligence, we have absolutely nothing left us to which either love or faith or hope can cling." For purposes of Illustration Ood's omnipresence is likened by the author to an infinitely multiplied expansion of that unconscious, self-revealing power possessed by men of making their pres ence felt by other meuns than the bod ily senses. "Suppose, then" says he and we call attention to rhetorical as well as the substantial merit of the quotation "God to be a spirit as dis tinctly different and apart from this universe as are our spirits from these garments of flesh that now enwrap them; suppose He can see every object and watch every phenomenon in every part of His wide domain as readily and as perfectly as we can the things and the happenings in any single room In Which we may chance to be, His organs of vision being not only telescopic but microscopic, and possessed, moreover, of what we understand by clairvoy ance, a power to see throuh the densest substances, so that the most distant, the most minute and the most opaque lies within easy and perfect visual grasp; suppose His means of acquaint ance with such other qualities of His material universe as are revealed to us In part through our different organs of sense are also equally comprehensive and exact; suppose lie Is so perfectly conversant with all the delegated forces and the conultions that unfetter them that He can release or enchain them at His pleasure; suppose that His will can operate as directly and as ef fectively everywhere over both dead matter and living force as our wills do to the utmost confines of these incas ing bodies of ours, His will working in precisely the same way, only with a wider sweep and a more commanding power; suppose He Is placed so en rap port with every thinking being that He not only knows what Is passing in the most secret self-communlngs of every mind, but can opportunely introduce Ills own thought and leave it to the luws of association and suggestion to work its transformations; suppose He can entertain at the same Instant an unlimited number of ideas without ex periencing any more embarrassment, or even as much, as we when we enter tain the few possible to our capacity, so that He can take ready cognizance of everything occurring and divide His attention among as many changes as there are changes momentarily effected throughout habitable space;-.suppose, in other words, all the secrets of the universe He open before Him, and all the forces are made servitors, directly or Indirectly, of His sovereign will then we may affirm of Him not only omnipotence and omniscience, but also omnipresence as a natural and neces sary result of these two, and yet predi cate of Him no means of knowledge or resource of power or phase of per sonal presence we ourselves do not pos ses in a limited finite form, He differ ing from us in not a single attribute, but simply in the perfectness and in the unlimited comprehensiveness of every one." Such a view of the Deity violates no canon of science and jars upon no prin ciple of reason. But it leaves unan swered the question whether God, in the majesty of His unbounded power, cares for the feeble beings who, through prayer, crave His active inter ference among the affairs of earth, and Invites the personal affection, trust and confidence of each of His myriad sen tient children. To the consideration of this question the author now devotes himself, laying aside all preconceived opinions or Inherited beliefs and view ing the problem from the vantage ground of science itself. II. WHAT SCIENCE SATS. The utmost frankness characterizes Mr. Kinsley's statement of the position of science. Says he: "Scientists smile at what they style the childish credulity of the Christian's creed. Our Investigations, say they, have disclosed a universal reign of unchangeable law, not only In the production of material, but even of mental phenomena. 'We have found that within the walls of Directory Wholesale. BANKB. . . lAsstewanM Treat and Bate Deeeslt Co. Merchant; Mia Mcho.ieeV4 Lacka. Tracers' National, 24 Lackawanna. Weat Bide Bank, 10 N. Main, ... erantto Barings, U2 Wyoming. - , BEDDING, CARPET CLEANINQ, ETC. ThaCtatwtaa Bedding Co., Laoka. BREWERS. Bobtnton, X. Bona, 4tf N. Seventh. oMnaoa, Miaa, Cedar, oor. Alder. ' . OHXKAaftD OLAB9WARH. tuppmat, Xmtta, m Pea a. . TOTB AKD COKITtCTIONKRt HTUllama, J. XX aro. 1 Laoka. FLOUR. FBXD AND GRAIN. ' Matthew, C. P. 8oa Co., 84 Laoka, . . The Weston Mill Co., 47-41 Laoka. PAINTS AND SUPPLIES. 71attoMdMaprue. - LETTERS.: every particle of matter4.! lodged a force; that these forces are of sixty four or more- different kinds, and their differences Iq -nature and effect make all the differences in the substances about us; that they bear to each other certain unalterable fixed relations, and exert over each other. unalterably fixed Influences. "" .These relations we have been able-by our -experiments to" reduce to mathematical formulae. We have, found that these forces never manifest themselves unless certain conditions are fulfilled, and that, when they are, the forces invariably appear and act always in precisely the same way. It is also claimed tnat as far back as we can peer into the past, this same order has prevailed; that this rock ribbed, wave-washed, verdure-clad, densely-populated earth of ours has come up out of chaotic fire mist by the operations of none other than these very forces which at the llrst were hid den within it; that the earth has devel oped from Its unorganised primeval state Into Its present complexity with as regular giadatlons of growth as those through which the oak passes In pushing up from the walls of the acorn its sinewy stem and outreaching boughs and waving pennons; that the earth Itself is an organism as truly as tho tree, has like complemental -parts, has had a germinal beginning, has been and still Is Incarnating under pre-established laws of evolution, point by point, oge after age, a certain set Ideal under the guidance of a central- germ power, divinely commissioned, it may be, but commissioned even as to the de tails of its finest microscopic work, un told millions of years ago. How Idle, then, it Is, they claim, for weak, blind children of ft day to "pre sume to break In on this grand order of the universe! Uo out into Nature, thoy tell us. and you Will find that not a single one of her laws IS ever" abrO gated, that from their control not the least thing is for an instant released. Gravity holds wlthlu Its grasp not only the ponderous suns with their whirling satellites, but every infinitesimal mote that floats In the air. The force shut up within the walls of an atom of car bon is never dislodged and never loses a single characteristic. .Manacle. It with fetters of frost. immerse ltJn tTie white heat of a furnace, amltt It with a trip-hammer on the face of an anvih hurl it into the chemical embrace of an affinitive element, do what you will with It. it will reappear Identically the aamo atom informed by precisely the same mysterious force. This speck of matter defies all powers of earth or sky to batter in its walls und drive out Its occupant, livery force, the world over, says that only those who find Its secret and meet the conditions can command Us services. Do you want bread? Here Is the sued, the soli, the air, the shower and the sunbeam. Matter and force are ut your bidding, but their laws are Inexorable. Huys of light will travel t)",,0OO,O0O miles to serve you; the atmos phere will gather Its clouds from the ocean and Moat thcin- across a continent to pour their treasures at your feet; the mountains will furnish you with mill stones, and therunning brooks will turn them. The forests that grew a hun dred thousand yeafs ago you may find packed away in beds of anthracite, waiting to heat your ovens so soon as your dough is ready for the baking. Not a force In Nature but will serve the veriest outcast If he will comply with the conditions; not one, even the hum blest, will condescend to move so much as a hair's breadth even for the Csar of all the Husslas, unless he does. -. The prayeiiess sinner and the praying saint meet here on a common level. All those stories about producing thunder storms by prayer, healing the sick, turning buck shadows, stopping the sun In the heavens, raising the dead, are thoroughly unscientific and absurd, and the height of absurdity is reached when it is claimed that the all-wise Creator can be induced to change His plans by the importunate pleadings of a little creature to whom He has given a brief existence on one of the obscure satellites of one of the million suns that make up one of the nebulous clusters with which the heavens are swarming." III. SCIENCE ANSWERED. As against these high-sounding dec larations of the supremacy and im mutability of natural law, Mr. Kins ley advances five counter propositions, to each of which he devotes a separate sub-chapter. He affirms: H). That the phenomena and the pro ducing forces with their laws or modes of working broUKht to light by scientific In vestigations in the fields of physics and of metaphysics, harmonize perfectly with the scripture view of prayer, and abound In suggestion of how tod can Interfere in nature without destroying any force or abrogating a single law. f2). That, as a fact, He has thus actually interfered again and again. (3). That It is not only not presumptuous but most natural and reasonable for us to expect that He will Interfere for us. In significant though we may seem to be. (it. That He will Interfere because we ask Him, doing for us what otherwise He would not have done. (j. And, lastly, that He will not In a single Instance withhold uny real blessing which Is asked for in the right spirit, and the bestowal of which lies within the compass of His power. The most causual study of nature reveals, says the author, that every where ample provision has been made for the efficient Interference of direct will power. The influence which man's will has in superseding natural law- Is shown, for example, when you will that your light hand arise. According to natural law, gravitation would pre vent such a lifting up without the In terposition of some palpable, external force paramount to the law of gravita tion. But here is a mysterious, intang ible volition, a giving forth of that singular spiritual power within each human being before which science, with all Its microscopes, dll Its scales and all Its mathematics, stands dumb, which decrees that the natural law of gravity shall for the moment be super seded, and accordingly the arm is raised. This, Mr. Kinsley claims. Is as much a miracle, according to the can ons of science, as any that we read of In sacred writ, nnd yet we know that miracles like this are of dally and hourly occurrence. Elaborating this point the author exclnims: "What marvelous effects have been produced by this Intelligent will power of man, cunningly directing to its own uses the ever-waiting ele mental and vital forces. How many livers have been bridged, beds of riv ers shifted or tunneled, mountains dis crowned or their rocky centers pierced to open highways for the world's com of Wholesale MONUMENTAL WORKS. Owens Bros., Ill Adams avenue. MILK, CREAM, BUTTER, ETC. Scrantoa Dairy Co., Penn and Linden. v ENGINES AND BOILERS, Dickson Manufacturing Co, DRT GOODS, MILLINERY, ETC. Tho Fashion, 3W Lackawanna avenue. PLUMBING AND HEATING. ' HOTTley, p. F. M. T., 21 Wyoming av. GROCERS. , . . Kelly. T. J. A Co., 14 Lackawanna. Megargel r Connell, Franklin a venu Porter. John T., 2 and 18 Lackawanna. Rice, Levy Co., 30 Lackawanna. ' ' HARDWARE. ' Connell, W. p. a Bona, U Penn. Footo a Shear Co.. ut H. Washington, Hunt CoumU Co., 424 Lackawanna, merce! The very lightnings have been turned Into flying Mercury to carry the thought-messages of this busy brained master," the oceans whitened with his sails, the continents covered with his net works of railways and canals, barren deserts changed into vineyards and palm groves and orange orchards, the) tvuphapely quarries of granite and of marble transformed Into palaces and statute-crowned temples to body forth his ripest culture and most holy thought. "The Influence of the human will has had even a wider circuit assigned to It. Many of us have known instances of weak wills being overawed by stronger ones, and the domination be ing so absolute as for the time being to actually blot out every distinctive trace of personality and suspend in dividual responsibility. Not one of us but has felt, time and again, the in direct power of another's will reaching us through channels of argument, per suasive kindling of the fancy, eloquent appeal, shrewd suggestion, or show of appreciative sympathy. There are a thousand avenues to the heart, a thous and ways to arouse the conscience, in flame passion, fill the chambers of the soul with dread alarms, and these are discovered and utilized by positive and aggressive souls atliirst for -wealth, power or prestige. Society has Its born leaders. Individuality and responsible free choice are with the vast majority still retained, but It is through these multiform influences of personal char acter that the life of the world's sub tile social organism Is, under pre-established spiritual laws, regulated and maintained. "Thus we see that at the touch of the human will all Nature is plastic, that every facility ha seemingly been pro vided for Its efficient Interference. Think you that, in a world where so many doors have been so invitingly left onen for the will of the creature to enter and occupy, the will of the Creator has been studiously excluded? Can science, which has so conclusively proved the one, consistently deny the other?". . 1V.-DIVINE INTERVENTION. Coming to his second proposition, that God not only can Interfere In nature, but that He has actually interfered again and again, the author accepts the doctrine of evolution so far as it Interprets facts, but trips it In a sen tence. Insofar as It denies the existence of an omniscient and active Guiding Hand. "Those who affirm," says he, "that In this unfolding (of the evolu tionary processes and results) there are no evidences of the active presence of an Intelligent personal will power are confronted by seemingly Insuperable objections which science Itself has fur nished. Science discloses a law of In ertia so far-reaching that not a single particle of matter In all the wide uni verse can set Itself In motion. It also discloses that there Is not a single par ticle that" Is no at rest. Whence that mighty ini'tlul Impulse ' that thrilled through space and is still felt after the lapse of untold ages peopling the heav ens with whirling worlds?" Science alone discloses that matter Is made up of sixty-four or more different kinds of atoms, each enclosing within its walls a force peculiar to Itself, and unalterable by any revealed human or natural power. "If there was once a time, as every evolutionist not only con cedes, but stoutly contends, when ev ery atom was precisely like very oth er and not a single one hud the faintest touch of attractive or repellent or af finitive force, through what Instrumen tality In some far past," the uuthor asks, "did these elemental forces, these individualized somethings, find birth and an abiding place within infinitesim al and Indestructible walls of matter?" This question Mr. Kinsley umrms that science cannot answer. Over its solu tion hangs a veil "whose hiding folds no hand on earth has powed to lift, ex cept the reverent hand of faith." However, this Is not science's only perplexity. It admits now that It can not uphold Its former hypothesis that under certain conditions vitality might spring by spontaneous generation from dead matter. Science can muke an ar tificial egg, exactly like, In chemical In gredients, the real ovum of the fowl; yet in the latter only is the potentiality of life. There is today no scientist who can prove that germinal force Is a prop erty inherent In matter. All must agree that It Is "an organizing impulse intro duced from without, separable at any time from the mass over which for a season it is made dominant, the pro duct of a personal creative will whose Impalpable thought it is commissioned to incarnate into living form." Not only are the evolutionists utterly unable to account for the presence of life, Its sub-division Into ISO, 000 differ ent species, and the origin and varia tion of bodily organs; but they are com pletely stumped when brought Into view of the ever-recurring phenomena of in stinct. Why, for example, does the spider build Its web with an ease and nicety surpassing the finest architec tural achievements of man? or the sluggish fish detect coming danger and dart to the remotest retreat with an Intuitive accuracy not paralleled even by reasoning humans? Last of all, how Is evolution going to account for spiri tual self-consciousness within man, ex cept upon the hypothesis of an Intelli gent and sympathetic First Cause? In concluding t'hia sub-division of his subject, which we have very imperfect ly summarized, the author Is led to re mark that "facts brought to light by modern scientific investigation . and closely analyzed by modern scientific methods are dally diffusing and deep ening the belief among the candid and thoughtful that the progress through the ages from the simple to the com plex, from amorphic matter to a peo pled world, has been something more thnn a methodic, self-originated, and self-sustained evolution of elements held hidden in matter from all eternity, that absolutely new forces have from time to time been introduced from with out through direct creative flats of a personal will, the old forces, inside their limitations, being, as the work, pro greased, utilized, when found available, simply as avenues for ushering In the new." V. DOES GOD CARE? There probably come times to every man when, under the spell of the over whelming and almost Incomprehensible sense of God's universality, he Is wont to ask himself the question, "After all, does God really care for me, an Incal culably minute and insignificant' atom In the great universe over which He presides?" Thp Bible, to be sure, teach es the affirmative. Hut what of sci ence?. "If any one, in his hours of depres-' sion, is haunted," says Mr. Kinsley, and Retail City and Suburban Representative Business Houses. FRUITS AND PRODUCB. Dale a Stevens, 27 Lackawanna, Cleveland, A. S., 17 Lackawanna. - DRY GOODS Kelly a Healey, 20 Lackawanna. Flniey, P. B., 610 Lackawanna. LIME, CEMENT. BEWER PIPE. . Keller, Luther, sis Lackawanna. HARNESS a SADDLERY HARDWARE. Frlta O.'W.i 410 Lackawanna., Keller a Harris, 117 Penn. j. WINEB AND LIQUORS. . , Walsh, Edward J., 22 Lackawanna, LEATHER AND FINDINGS. Williams, Samuel, 221 Bpruce, BOOTS AND SHOES. V " Goldsmith Bros., 204. Lackawanna, , . . : '' WALL PAPER, BT(i Ford, W. M.( 120 Penn. . . . . ' " .. CANDY MANUFACTURERS. Bcraatoa Candy Co., U Lackawanna. '' "with the feeling that, he is too Insig nificant to attract Clod's personal atten tion, much more to be the object of Ills cunstaut loving care, he will find himself wonderfully reassured if he will lay down the telescope and take up the microscope. Such an examination will disclose to him that, as a positive fact, God has somehow found abundant time, notwithstanding the multiplicity and the magnitude of the Interests of His vast universe, to give His personal attention to the equipping and provis ioning of beings of infinitesimal min uteness. That mighty hand, in whose hollow the heavens are held, has also sufficient delicacy and precision of touch to fashion the finely reticulated wing of the ephemeron. The same art, conception and marvelous skill that paint the sunset and bend the rainbow have touched With the most brilliant pigment each feather In the plumage of the fly. The same musician who has conceived the grand organ harmonies of ocean billow and thunderburst has also adjusted, part to part, with loving care, that sweetest of musical Instru ments, the throat of the sky lark." This exhaustlcssness of patience and Infinitude of forethought is true as well of the Inorganic as of the organic aorld. It is an omnipresent truth in nature. If it be true of ephemeral in sects living only for a day, who shall say that It is not equally true of man, the perfected crown of creative effort? VI. DOES GOD HEED PRAYER? Unless we credit Ood with eorilluiicd personal oversight of all kingdoms of His created universe. He becomes, "in stead of an exhatistless fountain of outflowing, energizing thought. Instead of the very personification of living force, of tireless mental buoyancy and zest, a picture of changeless, thought less, emotionless calm, cf absolute mental stagnation." The uuthor con tends thut not only is this conception of the divine existence repellent to every earnest active soul, but that further more there Is nothing in the discoveries of science to compel such a belief. But granting that Ood Is still active In every department of Ills creation, does Ho or will He chnne-e His plans because of a humuji prayer? Mr. Kins ley answers yes. ObJ.H-tlng to the hy pothesis thut God, having foreknuwn all things for all time. Is therefore changeless In purnose, the author de nies that His foreknowledge is all coinpreheiullng, and contends that such a denial can be shown to be in perfect consonance both with sound philosophy and with ' the rightly-Interpreted Re vealed Word. Were Ood's fore-knowledge all-coniprehendltig, Ho must, since the Infinite past, huve been In a state of stagnation, which the vital ity of His universe no less than the dictum of Ills printed word disproves. Our uuthor elaborates this proposition with remarkable thoroughness, reach ing at lubt the conclusion that (Sod, too, id progressive; that, "being able to forecast the general trend, the or dinary tendencies, of the lives of His children, bus unquestionably pre-arranged His providences to meet their probable wants'' while, "for the ex traordinary and unforeseen He has made provision by leaving Himself amnle facilities for immediate Inter ference," such Interference being pos sible of solicitation through prayer. "Such a view of Ood of His matur ing and executing plans, of His In tellectual and emotional Hie ns I have endeavored to present Is," says Mr. Kinsley, "the only one, after all, ac tually conceivable by finite minds. To pronounce Him unconditioned, un changeable, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, using these wnrrif In their ordinary and fullest acceptation, plac ing no restriction upon their meaning, Is simply falling, unintentionally no doubt, Into nothing less than word-jugglery, affirming what to human minds must of necessity bo absolutely un thinkable. The only rational course Is to take for our basic thought that we have been created in God's linage, and then to picture God as a spirit posses sing In perfection attributes analogous to our own, although our own are yet germinal und sin-distorted." This view affords an opportunity for a rational belief In the efficacy of pray er, and certainly broadens and deep ens the foundations of thoughtful re ligious faith. L. . R. MISCELLANEOUS. THE EFFECTS OK TH E GOLD STAND ARD; or BlmelallltMs' Catechism. By W. H. Smith. Paper, 202 pp, 20 cents. Chicago:. Charles 11. Kerr Co. 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A skillfully slotted novel along con ventional lines, forming number 178 in the Linpincott's Select Novel series.. I, II' il FOR PLAIN WOM KN ON LY. By George Fleming. Cloth, 12 mo, foimlnn one of the Aiayfalr ct. U.K. New York: the Memaiii Co.; London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. These dozen and one pnpers are re printed from tiio Pall Mall Gazette, where they did service as contributions to an Anglicized style of "woman's page.". They purixirt to be dialougea between a . fine old aristocrat. Aunt Lavinlg, and her modern nephew, and from the former's lips fall the volume's pearls. We shall hazard just one quo tation, from the chapter "On Mirrers." It is the aunt who snenks: "My mind is full cf the Average VYoinnn. Sc is the world. So aro tile -rctiinx pa pers. So are the "buses. Whep you iimio to think of II, the newspapers, and Hit 'buses gem-rally re foil of th sniiie ort of thinir." mv aunt rpi-nt.'-l thought!" -illy. "Jut-t now it Is tile Plain v..";i v Wo man who pii3idipi-a in l-' ir in-' Aver age Woman Is plain. I beli.v that r.o woman under 4. undltsu'.s-i by man ual lbor; no woman, i :'. has th irciul right to look Irretrievably plain. No woman is p!uln, rlghiy considered; and these W'ao submit La.al..' and hope lessly ta audi a fate sliou'. 1 be puiiil.i-l lor doing so. i would haw woiiion ui ieste.1 In the church. In the sin -t. at tea .ait!es. In tram c.ir3. whcrevir I T-u t thi :n m. I h.iulej be I'm i J il I i e of good and expropriate drcs'ln?. "'ihfir punt-hni nt," coniiincr-l my aur t. "rhould be solitary conltntuiont i.t tin- pleasure of the court In r.Hiin w'i'n a leng minor. 11 I had my way, I would muk it pcii-.d for n weman to live In a lum.-e unprovided with pier la"-os. " 'For consii'.er.my deartr. i;lu ".' 1 should say. In turn to ta b agitate 1 und con vktfd sinner, "consider your duly ns uu Average Woman. You nre the peir.in who goes to Ounces: to the palk; to chop; to the theater. You are everywhere. You are evuryl'fiily. l-'o'- In""'"'! can you not. out of mere pitbli: feellnu, out of dect ncy, tint of s!nii! good eil zenshin can you not usee: :.ii i what oir Yciiei-Hl elfect niuy be upo'i the seuslilv ptiMting eye bifoi e leuvlKK the shelter of your houxe, your club, or your w id want? " 'Lock at yoiii-.-elf, my dear inn. lain. Contemplate yourself, my pretty niiVM. Have a lunir glass hung lu the ror.in you Dniht fiequent nnl lunk '..liiiiv veniar liig cut nnioiiK lite haunt of suffering, Impressionable men. Reflect that you. too, lire a nc'inbti of lh comiuimitv a community which :n-ovhie. you with po II. i men, wii'i hu luni!i, with the Hill for the Protction of Married Women's Rights. " 'You are rhiitei-ed. llliimln.iN'd, half promised ii vole hi .1 a stake in your country to pluy w .ill. And under hh.1i circiiuutniii'es on your honor, now, ma lum, can anything in this world or In the next Justify the cross public out rage of n. 'l liii-niiKi uous. : k irt . a eoal of rlavhltig eolors.a h.-ibU of Impersonal tnib" comlnHness. it bow of suiir-rtliioiis ribbon at the wrong iiiikI. ii wreatli of (lowers over tired eyes?' " "But," said I "Theodore,'' raid my aunt, solemnly, "in the merciful yi-heine of natuu- there are no plain women. Ther" are women who dress badly, wcmpn who are ilull natured, women who take too imi-h medicine, women who lake too little food. But, given fro-h nir, exeivUc und tho sane, contented mind which follows given enough lookliiK-KlusseH, Theodore above all, large lookiiiK-nlasseH and the ma it rudimentary instruction in form uiel coloi " the ma;azini:s. The March Century Is uniini-rtlcinaldy the best number which has Isssucd by its publishers in a long time. It is chock full of good articles of live Interest, nnd In literary quality its contributions sur pass this conservative Journal's high average. If you have not rend Hun kltison Smith's story. "Tom Grognn," which Is ended In the March Issue, do so at once. It Is a smasher nnd In a vein one would never have expected from the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersvllle." II II II Brander Matthew's story, "The Twinkling of an Kye," which has al ready appeared in The Tribune, is the leading feature of The Pocket Maga zine. Poems by Kipling and Hubert Chambers, and short stories by Mrs. Harrison and Richard Henry Stoddard complete the interesting table of con tents. I II II II The Bookman for March carries Ian Madaren's serial story, "Kate Carne gie," along fo an advance of charm and Interest, and also prints a better budget of miscellaneous liteiary gossip than we have seen in several moons. The Hook man is easily the leader In its chosen field. ii ii Following are some of the articles In the March ntimher of Popular Science: "la Mars Inhabited?" "Our Debt to Al chemy," "What is) an Apple'.'" "Kloctrlc Tree Feller," "Taxidermy Sclf-Taught." "Phosphorut In War," ".Six Miles from the Moon," "Mioroscropo as a Petec tive." "Acctyletn; Lamp," ami "Mind Building lu Uoks." The various de partment!) are ititellgcntly and indus triously maintained. l! II II Apart from the Lincoln lite, which Is brought forward to the year 1S:M, the March number of McCluro's magazine Is notable for rattling good tiiort stories by Kipling nnd Ilobert Jlarr. and for posthumous verse-a by Kohcrt Louis Stevenson and Kugenc liald. Ac knowledgement 1 due to the publish ers fur a handsome portfolio of Lincoln portiaits anil pictured relics, embody ing many hitherto unpublished like nesses of the great emancipator. In terest In this pottlar study ot Lincoln the man Is steadily Increasing, na it de serves to. II !! ;i There Is no evidence in the March Philistine that th Held occupied with originality and much Ingenuity by this sprightly period Ion 1 of protest has been or Is finely soon to be exhausted. The Pliillatlne Is fit to survive which Enme cannot be f?aid of all the booklet brood. II li li An IntercrJtltifT venture In college journalism ban just bec.i nuido by the plujectois cf the Alumni Iffgister. which is published quarterly by- the general uliiiuiil tsociety of the I'niver sity of Pennsylvania. The lJeglstcr consists of 21 neritly-pi-intod double column pases, after the fashion of the Citizen, and eac-li page- has n wealth of real news about university men anil topics. To alumni of Pennsylvania it ought to be indispensable. Cowles. W. C, 1907 N. Main. WATCmtAKErt AND JEWELER, Rogers, A. E., 2IS Lackawanna. SCOOTS AND SHOES. Goodman's Shoe Store, 432 Laekawanna. FURNITURE. Barbour's Home Credit House, 423 lAcka. CARPETS AND WALL PAPER. Inglis, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Osterhout, N. P., 110 W. Market. Jordan, James, Olyphant. Barthold, bi. J., OlyplntnL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Snook, S. M., Olyphant. PAINTS AND WALL PAPER. Wlnke, J. C, 315 Penn. TEA. COFFEB AND 8PICa Grand Union Tea Co., 103 S. Main, i mm Physicians at the Ann Arbor Hos pital Said it was Due to Blood Clot. BUT THEY DID MOT BELIEVE (HU. The Paralysis Probably due to Nervous Causes. Finally Cured by a Nerve Food. From Iht Cazettt, Iludion, Mich. Last trpflc a reporter tif this paper was driving iu the vicinity of Hound Lake and he took in at pusscnerr a fanner who was jruiiig to Geneva. Engaging in conversa tion,, the 1'nriner friend, who win somewhat of a garrulous old geutleiuau, aikcd the re porter iio lie was and where lie lived. The reporter told him Unit he was a newspaper uuu und the old gent Icrunu said, " Well you newspaper men are always tip-to-tluto and I eager for everything new, have you heard of the news iu Geneva?" The reporter con fessed tlint he had not, hut asked the far mer to toll hint unythiui of i novel and in teresting uaturu which liud transpired in tliat pretty little hatulet. " Well," naiil the old gentli'.nm, " Geneva lias to offer in tile way of woiidi-n sjiuetltinir entirely dill'erent from anything ever heard of I h lore. It is tlia case of a in.iu cured of paralysis." Tic; reporter t uk oat iiiu noto book, to gel tin ftrs of tli" story. " liel'tire 1 b.','in to toil you what I know till it tliii, i want you to noiui- that you will go und see the subject of this interview, si t!i:tl ull umv be mode known in the report. 1 kiuw ha will be pleaed to we yon and will tell yjii all about the mutter." The re porter promised him he would sec tho man if he didn't live nt t w ;reut a distance, and th? old limner told his story. "About ten moiitlis uvo, Marion O. Sales, a stalwart bliteksmitU of SJyeurs, living iu North Ailuins, Mich., wus stricken with pa ralysis, his leifi being affected. While hu wits working at hi trade, lifting a large tire of a W:v,'oit to set it on 'the wheel, he fell to the ground, helpless und tho tire fell on him. Hi was removed to his home, his friends thinking lie was hurt by some mi.sstep. When the doctor enme ha fouud that Mr. Sales hud been the victim, not of an acci dent, but ot a puralytic stroke, untl thought from appeitrunees the case, a serious on. You kiinw, Mr. ll-.'porter, that oftentimes blacksmiths urn subject to suelt disrasu on account of tho peculiar postures they ure obliged to take. Mr. Sales was a perfectly healthy miu; I huve known him intimately from a boy, and know thut to be true; it is all tie; more wotiderful, therefore, that lie should huve this visitation. Soon utter this, perhups six weeks, hn came to his father's home iiere. He lud been to Ann Arbor to seek help and the doctors there gave him no encouragement. His father, who has lived here for years, thought belter euro could lie taken of him here thuu any cither place. He was confined to his lied or chair tor months, titiuble to tuko a step and no pros pect of over doing so uiin, depending upon his wife or parents to draw liuu in u chair from place to place. Onu of his friends in dueed hiiu to try a remedy known us Ir. Williams' link I'illa for Palo People, and you would be astouUheu to note the pro- irress the man Inn mude si lie j taking tlieui. i have given you a rather disconnected uc couut of this case, but every word of it is trutt sni you will find it worth your time to see Mr. Sales and hi-ur from his own lips the story of his recovery, it is the wonder of thu town. Jhe reporter, making good his promise and being somewhat curious, proceeded to Mr. Sales' residence to hear more of this wonderful case. After making himself known the reporter was welcomed by II r Sales. fc I hear that your recovery from a serious" pariilvtie stroke is due to Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills for Pale People? " "Yes, 1 nm sure that is the remedy that I nm indebted to for my fast returning health," he said, "It seeuis odd, don't it, DOCTOR for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption is beyond question the greatest of all modern medicines. It will stop a Couf.h in one night, check a cola in a day, prevent Croup, relieve Asthma, and curt Consumption if taken in time. " You can't afford to be with out it." A 25c. bottle may save you r life I Ask your druggist for it. Send for pamphlet. If the little ones have Cronp or Whooping Cough use it promptly. is tun to cure. lures Sites use re. sad f . All Druitists. A CKJiR MEDICINE CO., 16 & IS Chambers St., N. V. Qttlcklr.Thoro ii stilly, Forever Cared. Tour out of five who suffor nervousness, mental wnrry.attacks of " tho blues," are but paying the penalty of curly excesses. Vic tims, reclaim your manhood, regain your vlecr. Don't despair, fend for book with explanation and proofs. Mailed (sealed) free. ERIE filEBiCAL CO., Buffalo, N.Y. FLORAL DESIGNS. Clark, G. It. & Co., 201 Washington. CATERER. Hui.tlngtun, J. C, 308 N. Washington. GROCERIES. Plrle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY. Rauu, A. I!., 4i5 Spru-.'e. DRUGGISTS. McClarrah & Thomas, 205 Laekawanna. Ixirentz, C, 418 Lacka;. Linden ft Wash. lavls, O W., Main and Market. Hloes. W. 9., Peckvllle. Duvles, John J., 106 S. Main. CARRIAGES AND HARNESS. Simwell, V. A., 615 Linden. PAWNBROKER. Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. Harding', J. L 210 Lackawanna. 9 m25U LYTIC STROKE, that after all the nodical sdvioe I hurt rs ceiveu, m the Ami Arbor Hospital, the con sultations ou my case and all the skilled help I could call, thut I should be cured of purulysi by a little pill? " "When were you stricken with this dis ease, Mr. Sulej!" inquired the reporter. "The Dint It day of lust October 1 was as work at tny trade uad the stroke came upon uie like lightning." " Did the doctors at sny f imo give you en couragement thut you would recover from your attack ? " "None nt all on account, as they said, that it was the ruiilt of blood clot." "To what ppeeialists did you go f " " Well, after all tho physicians at North Admits hud Rivet! uie up, 1 went to the hos pital at Ann Arbor a month after I wa hurt ami received the comforting uews that 1 would never have the use of my limbs ainiiu. I went to my home with feelings thut can be better imugiued tliiin described. 1 came to father's house helpless and re uiuiued in 1 hut condition for seven months. A tViend induced uie to try these pills and I begau to take them Mirjr :v. I bad taken three bones before noting anv improve ment, Ou the eighth day of July I walked with the aid of crutches, the first time I had touched tny legs to the floor in all that lime, and within a few weeks 1 have been able to wulk without the aid of crutches ia the house aud aui recovering from the at tack iu splendid uluipe, 1 riiuiiot speak to highly ot Pink Pills for Pale People. T thut simple rruiedy 1 one uiy present con Uition, und 1 look for the not very future day when I shall be able to wulk without the aid of crutches or cane. To those that know uie and know ubout my case, my re covery is regurdeil as very wonderful I think that link Pills are destined to save many from guttering and puin, and 1 hop that those who sullvr will prulit by this ia tarview." Gkskva, Mich., Aug. 31, 1895. I hereby certify that the foregoing into view is true iu every respect, and thut tha reporter of the Hudson Vazttte did visit ins Saturday, the ,11st duy of August, and ro corded these facts. Signed. Marios J. Balks. lr. W lliflm T'inlr Pill l'..r l.,l.. )....l are prepared by the Vr. Williams' Medicine Co.. of Schenectady, K. Y., a firm whose ability and reliability nre unquestioned. Pink Pills are nut looked upou us a patent medicine, but us a prescription, having been used us such for years in ectieral practice, und their successful results in curing various atllie tionsmuilc it inrjierutivetliiit they be prepared lu ouunlilies lit iti,.l I In. ImiihI I'iI t,il,li and place them in reach of all. i'hev ure uu unfailing specific for sui-li diseases as loco motor atuxiu, pariiul purui.vsis, St. Vitus' dunce, sciutica, neurulgiu, rheumatism, ner vous headache, the alter eflectsof la grippe, pulpitution of the heart, pule und willow cum. plejions, nnd the tired feeling resulting t'n iu nervous prostration, ull diseie.es resulting from, , vitiated humors ia the blood sueli us scrofula, chronio erykipelus, etc. They are also a specific for troubles perulinr to feumles, such as suppressions, irregularities, and nil forms ot weakness. They build up tiie blood, aud restore thu glow of heallh to pule und sallow cheeks. In men they eticrt u radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over work, or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loossj form by the dozen or hundred, and the publia are cautioned aguinst numerous imitations sold in this shape) ut 61) cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, und may be hud of all drug- Ssis, or direct by iuuU trout Dt. Williams' edtviue Company. -J EVA M. HETZEL'S Superior Face Bleach Positively Removes All Facial Blemishes. Azalea Face Powder is superior to any fast powder over manufactured. Used and com uieiiuea uy u-uuiut? socikij una proiession bcauties, bccaiiss it gives the best poeslblt effect and never leaves the skin rough ol senly. f rice Si) cents. Thrlxogene, Nature's Hair Grower, ia the. greatest nir Inv iterator of the present pro grcmive iuo. being purely a vegetable com pound, entirely hai mli-ss, and marvelous in lis beni-tk-ent effects. All diseases of the bait an I scalp aro rendlly cured by the use ol ThriX"f,'ene. Price V) cents and f I. For sale at K. M. Hutzel's Hair-ttressing and Manicure Parlors, 3H0 Lackawanna ave. aud No, 1 Lan iiin.- Building, Wilkes-liarre. Mail orderi filled promptly. Chlrlieatfr'a Ena-llsa Diamond Drsad. ENNYROYAL PILLS wrlfflnal and Only Genuine, arc, lwTi rHIibie, ladic ask i Urufrjrlit for CM ir Hester' Knqliik Dui-M wt m "u",a i,"'f in noil Mia uuta mctaiiiisv T i-JJboxi'i. HfKlatl with bum ririlxta. TaLa 1 toksk Sstsjlnu ot hrr. RtH damtrroua nubttitu- fiQM una tmtwtant. Al uruimt, r MS el , In rtaniM fur itartlcultri. lettiinontftii t&i i nntl. I'liUiKi i.urriooin. name rmpm bj ait Uuai Uruuiiu. rnliodav.Vi BROKER AND JEWELEH. Radin Bros., 123 Penn. DRY GOODS, FANCY GOOD ' Kresky, E. II. ft Co., 114 8. Main, , CREAMERY Stone Bros., 808 Spruce. BICYCLES, GUNS, ETOt Parker, E. R., 321 Spruce. DINING ROOMS. Caryl's Dining Rooms, f5 Linden, TRUSSES, BATTERIES AND RUBBER GOODS. Benjamin ft Benjamin, Franklin ft Spruce, MERCHANT TAILOR. Roberts, J. W., 12G N. Main. PIANOS AND ORGANS. Stelle, J. Lawrence, 803 Spruce. DRY GOODS,' CLOTHING, SHOES. HARDWARE. Mulley.Ambrese, triple stores, Proviueaee, ST
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