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6 THE SCB ANTON TRIBUNE-. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1896. ADDRESS OF THE BISHOPS r .' ; A Document That Covers Every Ihasc - of Methodist Work. OP tHE GREATEST INTEREST Chorea Extension Tho Froodatoa-Chrls-tisa I nity-Different Conferences. Epworth - Doctrine-Amusements. Intoxicants-capital aad Labor Cltlicnahip. Below are salient pr.rts of the eplsco pal address of the bUhops of the Meth odist church, which was read at the Cleveland general conference. May -The address In full contains nearly !. 000 words: We most heartily congratulate the church on the success of the last four year. The country hns been depressed. The world has bwn in financial straits. Vast railwav systems have none lmo the hands of recivcrs. Great corpora tions have been wrecked. Fortunes have disappeared like mist. .Men s hearts have failed them for fear, but the church or the living; God has moved riisht on to certain victory. The King of -Kings an nually makes a draft on our recrultms office, in the church militant foe a rein forcement of the church triumphant. This .ln Ifltroa ft-rtm III nhAllt 32.0t) mOniwTS a year. Our church records also suffer from the enterprise of our itinerant people, thousands going into new states ami ter ritories where their names are lost to. us. But notwithstanding tills, our gain in lay membership in the quadrenniiim lias been 3S6.U0O, making a total membersnip Including probationers of 2.7IK.6M. We find our conferences more and more crowded every year. One reason for this abundance and excellence of ministerial candidates is that we have In our col leges and schools an army of 3,aj2 stu dents, Of this army there hns been a gain of over l.Ooo the past year and a steady Increase for twelve years. The Sunday schools of the churches numbered In 1895 30,219. a gain of 2.7tW in the qim drennlum. The number of teachers and scholars Is 2.938.303. a gain In the past four years of 2M1.KJS. The total number of conversions reported In the Sunday school In four years is 533.4SG. The quailrennium has abundantly dem onstrated that the church is divinely ap pointed to evangelise the world. The con version of India Is both more thorough and more rapid than was the conversion of Europe. There Is a power turning the world upside down that cannot be ex pressed in the language of civllzation and secularism. .Uesldes preaching the Gospel in fifteen languages in the rnited States, our beloved church has ISO.000 communi cants and as many adherents outside the country; 40.W0 students in tralning'sehools and aro.000 in Sunday schools. During the quadrennlum we have been able to send out but: fifteen more American missiona ries, but the native ordained missionaries have 'increased ! per cent., the unor dalned 60 per cent. We could double our foreign membership In the next four years if we had the money to send the teachers. FINANCIAL GROWTH. A few material facta deserve statement. During this time of financial depression we have not only kept good and preserved out $113,000,000 worth of church and par sonage property, but we have gained $11. 600,000 more. In pastoral support the gain has been over ir.uo.000. This has not been so much a gain to individual pastors, but a gain In consequence of 1,400 more paslors In the growing field. The Income of the missionary treasury from the contribu tions of the people through the confer ences In 1891 was $1,078,541; the gain on that In 1892 was $41,355; In 1K93, $20,910;. in 1894, $9,645; the loss in 1895 was $5,551, leav ing a total gain of gifts to this cause in the quadrennlum of $J5,35. The Woman's Koreign Missionary so ciety and the Woman's Home Missionary society arc among the best outcomes of the Christianity of our century. The In come for the quadrennlum for the first has been $1, 143,797. A gain In the amount given in 1891 amounting In all to $S8.9"". The Woman's Home Missionery society bad an income last vear of cash $IS.09O, and of supplies $55,363, a total of $7Mi." for the quadrennlum. As a result of new organisations and greater efficiency of old ones we are giving for missionary -purposes $932,000 a year more than we were, twelve veurs ago. The Methodist Kpiscopnl church has Arty-one deaconess' homes, hospitals and !'- friianages, of which fifteen are In foreign ands. There are 574 deaconesses, of which ninety are In our foreign work: 100 are f rn ina, mmoa Tho nrffnn vulmn hn $641,850 worth of property, which has been mostly given during the past quadrennl um. During the past year the deaconess es, who work without salary. Have made (62,461 calls, held 11,060 religious meetings nd helped to care for 6.209 sick people either In hospitals or their own homes. The board of church extension Is or ganized on the principle that the strong ought to bear the burdens of the weak. During thirty years It has administered nearly $5,500,000, niding about 10.000 churches. Besides the aid given outright It has a fund of nearly $1,000,000, which ! constantly loaned to churches at a low rate of Interest, to bo soon returned and loaned out aguln and again to help other churches. FREEDMAN'S AID. The Froedmen's Aid and Southern Edu cation society Is of tho greatest service to the negroes and whites in the south. It-has been in existence for thirty years end during that time has expended $4,000, no In establishing and sustaining Instltu- tlons of Christian learning in the south. It has taught Industry and letters, trades and learned professions. There has not been a time in the past thirty years, and we Judge will not be In many a year to come, when we can withdraw our aid from these people who suffer so many dis abilities. In the midst of the severe stringency of the times, and the prostration of nearly all kinds of business, our Book Concern, besides the necessary additions to its per manent capit il, bus gone on pnying Its dividends, from-' actual business done, amounting to J I' .0,000, for the aid of neces sitous cases nmongr our effffectlve preuch ers, whose salaries nre deficient, and to as sist in supporting our veterans, worn out in the service, and their widows and or phans. Thus It Is evident that the church of God, dependent on the free gifts of the fieople, Is the most substantial, most firm y founded and best supported business establishment In this country. We congratulate the church that within the pBt four years, as In all Its previous history, there has come Into it no division cf sentiment with regard to its funda mental doctrines. This does not Imply lack of thought. It Implies that the truth has been rightly apprehended, that It au thenticates Itself to the mind und heart and employs all Us adherents in rapid progress. , , EPWORTH LEAGUE. Among the great ngencles for the In crease of spiritual lire we cannot speak too highly of the Epworth league. In It are enrolled 1,350.000 of our young people organized Into our 21,000 chapters. They are turning away from amusements of n , pernicious character which are always the peril of advancing wealth and conse- TheBestGMs PfPe fopdwith fit OottoMM Joaa auras aie "CMtofme" aad SMr'i featf . iimnt wt-wM oi every ua. -TNI N. X. rolRBANK OOMPANV. CsJihi,h,1iis Mil If his, Flttlkir. quently Idleness, and are facing earnest and intelligent work to bring this world to Christ. This vut army ot young pro plo is being trained by appropriate cours es of reading. By I'W.lwo copies of the Kp worth Herald issued weekly, by taking art in religious and social asaemtiliM and by personal work In the department of mercy and help to become aw:v. hi -il'-gent and devoted members of our own church. We cic...v n.mv. ... tendance of these young people on the public preaching services, because no d votion to any single department, however excellent, can be as productive of a wait- rouiuiea i nr:tian character as atieitii- . a uce on all the means of grace. We r.re Impressed with the importance of encour- j aa i'if our pastors and young people to I establish and maintain Kuwerth Ungues I rather than other aocletles In order that ' they may have the benefit of our literature and be trained to be loyal and Intelligent Methodists. CITY EVANGELIZATION. ' Another cheering evidence of the rlcht direction of the spiritual power of the church is seen in the wilier and more . Iiiioiide Interest In city eNangtfllzatio'.i. The separate organizations in ltosion, New York, I'ittsburg, Baltimore, Cincin nati. Cleveland. Detroit. Chicago. Km-, as City, Denver and a half dozen othur cities have associated together in the Na tional City Evangelization union. These thirty different organizations ro port J173.WO as raised in a single year. They reiuvigorate churches from which the former members have moved away, select new sites, open Sunday schools and missions and give to undeveloped Chris tian forces an ample field of work. They have spiritual life enough to attack tho worst places and attempt tho most dif ficult things for Christ. There are cen ters of crime and sinks of iniquity 0 wicked that the average church does not touch them. Think of a snuure mile of a city that has 1,000 saloons, nearly 800 broth els where 3.000 girls live In tries vestibules of hell that have no backward swinging door, to whom In their average life of four years no hand reaches sympathy and help, but to whom many a hand offers ab sinthe, delirium and death. Few churches have fastings and pruyer enough to he able to cast out such kinds of devils. Tho problem of our cities is the problem of our national existence. To deal success fully with this is no power but the power of God unto salvation that can do it. THE ITINERANCY. We congratulate you and the church you represent that our peculiar polity has re ceived another four years' Indorsement as God's plan for the working of the Method ist Episcopal church. In over 60.000 ap pointment's during the quadrennlum, the cases of friction and discontent have been extremely few. Both preachers and peo ple' have been loyal to the itinerant sys tem and co-operative therewith. , The peo ple recognize that the system of regular annual appointmnfe gives them a stated pastor all the time without long Intervuls of anxious seeking ufter supplies, and that It economizes the resources of the church bv obviating the necessity of one church bidding ugainst another, to offer a man a higher cull than the place' he now iills. The preachers recognize the fuct that It gives them regular work, and a salary without anxletv, during the whole period or their effective strength. And both churches and pastors see that In these regular und necessitated changes the able and young ministers have facilities to rise to positions of greater usefulness. Wo do not recommend any material change in the time limit or in the mode of making appointments; but suggest thut vour wisdom mighl provide some method by which, under ample safeguards, the piistoral term might be extended to meet very rare cases of manifest anil grave emergency. And we do earnestly pray that our Itinerant system, so venerable in Ha history, so illustrious for unparalleled success, so dear to millions who have been saved under Its operations, and bo manifestly owned of God for the conver sion of the world may not be subjected to subversive utterances from platform or press, nor be handed over while yet so vir ile and strong to the dissecting tables of doctors who are not yet wise from ex perience nor philosophy.' but that it may be held by you In grateful reverence and handed down in unimpaired efficiency till God's church militant be merged into the church triumphant. We believe the time has fully enme ween the church should recognize, in the condi tions to admission on trial to our confer ences, the preparation mined in the theo logical schools. The church has already advanced one step In this direction by or daining as deacons those who have been local preachers, have Been students for two years In one of our regular theological seminaries, and have completed the first two years of tho conference course ot study. We now recommend that the churrli take one more step In advance and enact that any student shall be cred ited on the conference course of study with examinations in any of thetbooks of the first two years of the conference course which' any theological school, whose professors are nominated or con firmed by the bishops, shall certify that he has satisfactorily passed. AMUSEMENTS. A spiritual church must always be op posed to nmusements that are dissipat ing rather than recreative. To all such pleasures the church must oppose Itself or dwindle ns a spiritual force. Churches do not perish by sacrifices or self-denial. Persecution from without often makes them flourish within. Hut churches have perished by Indulgence In what seemed to be at first Innocent delights, but grew at length Into destructive habits. There arc nmusements that deaden nil spiritual life, leave one without a sense of power with God, cause men to lose their first love and leave them only a name to live while they are dead. With an Intense, and ever grow ing aversion to all that deteriorates the spiritual life of the church, we lift UP a voice of warning against the Increasing prevalence of amusements that are deteri' ollg to our spiritual power. - The constant and rigid adherence to the priclple which Is embodied in our general rule, a part i f the fundamental law of the church, wnicn requires us to avoid "taking such diver sions as cannot be used in the name or tne Lord Jesus," cannot be too earnestly In sisted upon, and should be enforced by the godly examble of all spirltually-mlnl- cd people. We sincerely desire that the action of this general conference may be such as to awaken the conscience of the whole church to tho perils rising from in considerate Indulgences In harmless pleas ures. The press of the church should sneak out on this subject, and the minis ters should lay down the law of the church tho teaching of Scripture and the sad Il lustrations of history till the whole church shall . be- sensitively ullve on this sub ject, INTOXICANTS. The church has no new word to utter, nor new position to take in regard o those seductive but deadly poisons that blight and destroy nil that is great and linlv In humnn life. The accursed Influence of Intoxicating drinks and drugs on every interest of man, the family, social life, politics and religion, Is earthly, sensual, and devil-possessed; By the" power ot heredity it lays on children to the third and fourth generation the curse of physi cal deterioration, deficiency and idiocy. It hurries men Into Insanity with dreadful rapidity. The ideal legislation, the enactment of which is to be constantly sought, or the utter destruction of this monstrous crime Is total prohibition. And while we are seeking the enactment and enforcement of this Ideal legislation wo must seek to annihilate this arch-enemy by every available weapon. Any law that shuts tho saloon on Sunday, or on election day, keeps It a certain distance from a church or school, that restricts the places where or the classes to whom . this fiery death may be sold, should be executed to the full. The position of our church in regard to political parties Is clearly stated in tho bishop's address of 1S92, thus: "With re gard to politics, the attitude of our church is strenuously mon-partisan and non-sectional-. It acknowledges no alle giance to any political creed or associa tion. It urges nil Its members who have the right to vote, to discharge that duty, but It leaves every voter absolutely free from eccleciastlcar Interference to deter mine for himself for whom his ballot shall be caBt. ' The right of- suffrage, or the franchise, we regard as a great and responsible trust,, which should - In all cases, ecclesiastical and civil, be exercised conscientiously, but-in absolute personal freedom. When moral Issues are before the public our people are Invariably found on the side of the highest stnndard; but even then they choose their own party af filiations, and refuse to be dictated to as to the matter of their votes." We recommend hat the general confer ence make an. earnest appeal to the gov ernment of the United States to so adjust its Internal revenue, lawa-as not to seem to legalize tho traffic In ardent spirits, In sections of the Union where prohibitory laws exist. A popular government- shnul.'l not aid In forcing an infamous traffic on unwilling people. We are glad that awakened public sen timent has made It respectuble to decline to drink, and to urge others to refrain, glad that .great .railroads- and- factories hvp concluded that men cannot be trust ed with material -Interests, and precious human lives,-who are addicted to Intoxi cating drink, glad that life Insurance com panies and mutual hannflK Metlna hava H Warned that all drinker btstntoxlcant r v are deteriorated risks; and especially glad that the cioeing of the saloon on the Lord's uay has oeeii effected in the great city of New York. EDUCATION. . , Among the greatest victories In the Methooist Episcopal church have been those achieved in the tie.d of education. Insisting on a gospel that teaches a lofti ness of ideal for man which has elsewhere found no higher expressions, and inti mately relatiug the attainment of those ideals to human endeavor, the church was logically compelled to give every on of its members the best possible means of de velopment. Hence it has founded schools by the hundred, sometimes more than could be maintained. Just as God over flowing exuberance of Ufa makes a thou sand seeds for every one that grows. No one of these schools has ever lived in vain. We owe very much of our o-ent greatness to our oldest university founded by Wilbur. God sees no perfect Individual nor per fect service of him that does not Inclule both mind and heart. He does not want His church nor His heaven an asylum for fctble-minded children. Our sys'era requiring that a sermon be preached on education every year, and a collection taken in both church and Sunday school for the aid of schools and students, makes It possible that every determined person who exercises his free will in that direc tion may acquire a liberal education. But for the proper and needed development of our schools we need at least $1,000,000 In gifts every year. CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP. It Is doubtless true that Christians seek a better country, even a heavenly. But It Is now the supreme duty of every man to make the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ. Once It was supposed that a patriot was a warrior in the field 'ready to die for his country. But m?n and women can be m patriotic In the quiet walks of every-day Christian life as In tho fierce excitements of doubtful battle. The time has come when every Christian should assume the duties and bear the burdens and respon sibilities of true citizenship. This would belongs to Christ. He made It, upholds It, owns It, and will Judge It. 'His purpose In this world Is not merely the regenera tion of the state. The state Is as truly divine as the church. Nay, the state Is tho designed outcome of the perfected church. A man may be as much a mis sionary of Mod In tho politics of America as In the forests of Africa. Every man owes It to God and his country to be pos sessed ot a sound, unbrlbable manhood, of a personal righteousness, and a perpet ual, persistent, aggressive activity, to bring honesty into all dealings, justice be tween mun ana man ana purity into pon tics. We count It among the auspicious signs of the time that Christian men are able to forego the allurements ot gnln nnd even of ease, and descend into the arena of political life. Never has better work been done for clean municipal adminis tration than in recent campaigns from one side of the continent to the other. It has not been done In the Interest of any parly nor through any party, but for the sake of decency and right. Let the pulpit mane manhood eminent, a desire to save one's country supreme, and that Intensest for?e will find Its own way of working. Men must be willing to serve on Juries, work on committees, for the public welfare, put their standing and property In peril, and defy the vllllllcutlon of a corruot press In daring to enforce laws unpopular with those who feel the halter draw. Kor the country must be saved by the victories of peace no less than by those of war. There are certain things every church that ever holds a great gathering should utter ring ing protests against them. Divorce has been made so easy In some states that all the sacred Interests of the home are put in peril. Tho churches should demand and secure oue national law to cover all states alike. But no follower of Him who Is the Re deemer of all mankind can limit his view to any one country. We see In Armenia such atrocities as we never deemed possi ble of execution In this age.' We are no more appalled at the ravage, rapine and murder of a . hundred thousand by the Turks than at the apathy and Inaction of the so-called civilized nations. Through our whole history and national polity we have complications. But we believe that the whole diplomatic and moral power of our government should be put forth to bring these gigantic wrongs to a sudden end. ARBITRATION. For the settlement of disputes between different organizations of men, between money, capital and labor-capital and be tween the different nations of the earth, we believe that tho Spirit of our Savior, as set forth by our church, demands that the great principle of arbitration ahull be tried to Its utmoB't, and that the vast ma jority of disputes can be happily settled In that way. The United States has already set an example to the world by decorous ly submitting to arbitration nearly fifty occasions ot differences with other na tions, CAPITAL AND LABOR Tn the progress of our liberties and the widening of our development we have come upon perils unknown in the earlier periods of. our history. Classes are ar rayed against each other with mutual misunderstandings. A ripple has com-.-upon our shores from the far-off tidal wave of tho French revolution declaring that nil property Is theft, that men may be ns much enslaved by law as by force; de prived of their rights by trusts and com bines as by arms. In these misunder standings, and It may b great wrongs, the church must not be silent. It Is her very nature to defend nnd care for '.ho poor. Like her Master, the Spirit of the Lord God Is upon her to preach the Gos pel to the poor. Peculiarly Is this true of our church. It bcaan Its ministry to the wretched prisoners In Britain, continued It among the poor colliers, has alwiys' sought tho sorrowing, wretched, wander ing and lost. It has never pandered to tho rich, nor been silent at Injustice,- In this seething discussion concerning, the rights of property we think these posl tions are grounded on Justice nnd right: 1 Every man has a right to acquire prop erty by the legitimate means of activity, foresight. Invention and Inheritance. 2 No man has a right to use his pos sessions to oppress his fel'ow men. 3 Every man has a right to the profit of his own labor. In that respect he is a capitalist. 4 No man hns a right to use his labor to oppress his fellow men. 6 Every free man has a right to refuse to work for another. 6 No man has a right to prevent another from working when, and for whom he will. 7 Every man is accountable to God for the uso of his time, lulior and their out come, wealth. All these fundumentnorlnciples of pro gress nnd personal development should he plainly taught by the pulpit, If the spirit of Christ be accepted and practiced by the church, all unjust dl;rlbiitlons of prop erty therein will be remedied. This is a Christian communism which reaches tha hand of sympathy and help from above downward, rather than a hand of violence and murder from below upward. The equality that Christianity tenches is ac complished by raising the lowlv to the highest places, even the heavenlles; not by dragging the lofty down. If managers of business requiring va rious sorts of labor would take, whenever practical, the individual workingmen Into partnership by establishing a scheme of I profit-sharing for all who nre engaged In I productive labor, then all occasions for carelessness, wastefulness, strikes, vio lence and heart-burnings would be avoid ed. Hundreds of great concerns go on suf' cessfully year after year, by adopting God's fundamental law . of social unity and success. A general statement has been made that 61 per cent, of employes belong to the church employees. If this were true It would be partly accounted for by the fact that a large proportion of the la borers have hut recently come to our land. But we gladly affirm that no such dis parity of percentages of employers and employed obtains In our church. There are thousands of workingmen who do most 'effective work to bring their workmates to the church nnd to Chrlrt.- Th Meih. odists in the armies of England have long been recognised us a very potent factor of the organization. And Methodists In the' mines, factories, shops and on farms of me united mates are a most effective agency for the nation's good. 1113 LAST liLOW.OUT. "My last blow out In Work," said the farmer as he slowly undressed. "But I'm In for a good lme. No two ways about II1MI. ' , , Then he went ovpr to the fii-A mi.bm mv rolled it and threw the end out of the win doy In case of emergency, 'Can bet your life,' he said, ns he rolled nu ms domes up in a uaii, witn nls watcn, pocket-book and excursion ticket In tho middle, and put them under his pillow. "I'm hero for a blow out. But I ain't takln no chances," . "My.flirt and last blow out ill N'Tork,", he repeated,, as he locked and bolted the, door before planting the bureau and ward robe In front ot it. . Then he blew out the gas, It was his last blow out.-fat York World. . TBEOSOPBY IH ANECDOTE Recollections of the Two Leading Apostles of That Calk THE BLAVATSKY AND MR. Jl'DGE Several - Feats of Alleged Mysticism Which Were Found Out to Be Quit Materiallstio aad Practical Whea Ones Understood. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Students of the occult, theosophlsts, or whatever may be tne prctei t desig nation of the society founded by li.a- vatsky. are guldci in A me. lea torn a dr.rk ia! I. et. V. Q. Judgs h ad of ha cult In this country, is dead, t'resent ly his ashes, divided Into three c,Uul parts, will be n.lnRled wKh thoe of ti.e princess. Judge specified t:ie manner of the post-mortem proceedings In hl3 own case. After cremation he wl.-h d one-third of the reman s sent to Lon don, another third part taken to India and the remainder retal red In America. The different fractious he desired burled with the ashes o Ulavatsi'.y. whose will provided that her reirali s should be equally divided In the three parts of the world. Arothtrteetio of JuJfe's w.llnam d his successor. The executive co mit teo Is enjoined to Conceal the id nt ty cf this person for one year. Mr. Julj?e described the present head of the so ciety as "a crrat adopt." This ia tio general to enable the ordinary the-vo- j phlst to name the man. Sevei.'il of the ; thousand: of disciples in the United ttiates claim greatness. The best that can be done Is to surmise. Many b lit ve Elliott B. Page to be the new h"ad. lie has been a close student and pro fuse writer on the theosOphical nub Jctts, and may be nt ope. ly classified ns an adept. He Is the Ideal type, too; spare of frame and self-poised. He 1h ' nseetlo in every sense cf the word and looks like a Hindu. Could anyone pre sent better qualifications for leader ship? Whoever the chief may be. ho hn al ready assumed central. His fir it ofllc l H act was the changing of the place of this year's convention. It was to havo'! been held In Chicago. Under the new dispensation New York will have t" en tertain Kut Hun If he comes as a dew- gate. The gathering la dated for April M and 27, The Prlneers Blavatsky taught many years In the open, and has been dead dead to all physical purposes and uses at all events for several years, It has not yet been thoroughly established that she was not a charlatan. Neither has it been legally proved that she was. She came to America In the early "70s and became one of the staff of tho Eddy brothers, who called themse.ves sp rlt mediums, In 1874 Colonel Henry r), Olt-ott, a lawyer and a newspaper man, and a person thirsty for absolute know ledge on supernatural affairs, met the Kussian woman, Iilavatsky had the soul of a ru'er and could not satl fy her self In a subordinate part In the Eddy combination. She associated herself with Olcott and founded the Thecsoph lcal Society In America. Judge, a young lawyer In the office of Olcott's brother, and a glutton for the mysterious, was taken Into the enterprise, and when Olcott and Blavatsky left this country succeeded to the control of affal a. C I onel Olcott has been In America but once cilice he left with the princess for far-away India. Certain court orders and tlecreeb of record In New York make It to the colonel's interest not to pass tiunrantlne. When his wife ob tained a divorce from him, subsequent to his negotiation with Blavatsky, she was awarded alimony. Olcott haw lwver observed the legal formality of complying with the order of payment. It la (llt)ictilt for one w thout the circle to pet def'nlte Information concerning thensophy and Its characteristic pne notrena. C-ne comes up against dead, walls of argument, so as to say, As, for instance, a truth seeker once asked Ol cott: "Are there In existence uch persons as mahatmas?" "Certainly there are," replied Colonel Olcott; "certainly they exist." "Could you establish the fact of their existence by absolute proof; evidence that you as a lawyer would term 'legal evidence'?" "Nothing easlei4," responded Blavat sky's lieutenant, taking a soft cambric handkerchief from his pocket. "Noth ing easier. This very handkerchief was given me by a mahatma." -This Is the sort of argument that must satisfy honest Inquiry. Backsliders from the faith have been known to question the integrity of the leaders, and theosophists well advanced in the cult have not hesitated to im pugn one another's motives. Witness the mutual rending of Mrs. Besant and the late Mr. Judge. It is to be said for Blavatsky that she would not talk of the miracles Bhe worked, but It may also be said that she did not attach fetters or padlocks to the vocal organs of her adherents. They were at llber tytotell what wonders they chose of the princess' performing. She never con tradicted a report. On the other hand one of the pledges exacted by converts to the esotorlc session is that they will controvert every statement that may discredit Blavatsky or her cult. They deny without regard to Its truth the matter in issue, Blavatsky was not a mahatma; she was an adept. In disposition the prin cess .was too erratic to attain the high est development of soul. She was hot of temper and of coarse fiber. At times her conversation .was such that there were well-grounded suspicions that In Blavatsky's ample frame the soul of the celebrated Catherine of Russia had found Its abiding place. Vulgarity Is a soft and a smooth deception of Blavat sky's conversational style. As is known, she was an incessant smoker of cigarettes. She made her own, and had become so expert that history ac counts foi but one personage who was her peer in the art. Blavatsky would place two cigarette papers on the table or desk at which she might be sitting, and placing upon each the proper quan tity of tobacco would roll both simul taneously, one with her left and one with her right hand. Both would be perfectly constructed. Having finished them she would hand one to the person to whom she might be talking and In sert tho other In her own mouth. Prince Louis Napoleon It was perhaps some French potentate In any case the only other ambidextrous cigarette-maker to come into public notice. As to the miracles worked by Blavat sky there are many opinions. The music which sometimes was heard in her vicinity Is explicable on the theory of small music boxes sowed In the opul ent raiment of the mahntma's friend. There Is another theory to account for the bell ringing In harmony. The yan kee at King Arthur's court whose ad ventures are carefully reported by Mark Twain noted a singular thing. A knight would be absent for several days and, returning, would tell wondrous Btorles of princesses he hod rescued and dragons he had slain. The yanken remarked that while each one knew ho was lying personally he accepted the stories of his brother knights with un questioning credulity. In the case of Blavatsky nnd her disciples, all one he" to do to get a' reputation for esoteric wisdom wa to assert that he had heard Btrango sounds, and his state ment went as It waa made. No one doubted, but on the contrary united to spread the news. One night at a gath ering at her home a young man sud denly exclaimed; "I hear a bell." Ho had previously been advised that If he sought popularity the hearing of bells waa an easy way to get It. Ho he said he heard a bell, and afterward .told Ms adviser, he had sald.,wh.t waa not, for hatfead haard no bell To him came toward the close of tha evening another novice In matters occult. "Where did tne sound of the bell aeem to originate?" he asked. . ' In the madam's room,' was tho re ply. "How many chimes did you hear, one or three?" "Three," said the liar, unblushlngly. "I heard it myself." responded the other, "but I didn't know but ii iuif.it be another bell." The affair between Mine. Blavatsky and Mrs, Cr.-nnr two years or thr aboutfl before the madam's death be carno more widely celebrated than an ordlrary fljrht between two women, for the r ntn thai It waa attended by a "phenomv-nor." or Incident explicable cn occult grounds opl;. Mrs. O-env waa a (rtot rt PliiVv'i 'pw in London, and was a promising addition tcJ 'ho IniRr cl clA fho r-a; ...i y and educated ard wns wifhrl t y-t ore of tho handsomest women In her set. Mr-v rVerr - r- ... t ' Mr. Hodgson a practical, rude person who characterised Mme. Blavatsky's mlrn-Clen p Hcks ed f"".riv- 1 h - n a mountebank. Mrs. Cremer said It wan a well written nnd Interestlrg pro duction, which statement was carried to Blivstslry. wi5 et o.rd Cremer In vigorous though mutilated Knglish to dr"t t--' .--. -. Cremer went to the house of a friend, from which, as from a fortaikt. she hot criticisms and assertions and all IMnrf rf b-sh n-ordaThe madtm railed and replied with a wealth ot epithet, KRtkt-rcd from tho seven modern lan guages with which she was conversant When the hostilities were raging the hottest Blavatsky surprised her home circle one night by suddenly arising and reel tins-, as If she read from a newspaper, an article oa Mrs. Cremer. "What crs you reading, madam T fn what rtiper Is It prl. ted ? Tceie su.1 a score of similar questions weis asked by th avditors. "It la In tha Poonah Times" (an In dian newspaper). Then, at the request of her friends, the pttnceFS repeat: d the art o'e end ,t was tokn down by a stenographer. Mrs. Annlo Besant and C a-do Falls Wrlgnt, one of the Blavatsky's sti'd.nts. went out to find a Poouah Times to veilfy the madam's report. They four.d the ar-' tide word lor word as Blavatsliy had lilvcn it. In this connection Mrs. Bes ant's memory performed her a surpris ing trick. At the time she and Wr:gnt verified Mme. Blavatsky's reo'tatlin tho Honah Times had been In London ten days, long enough for an ordlr.a y gifted person to have memorised seve oral columns. In giving an account ot tho '-phenomenon" some months later, Mrs. Besant made the very material statement that he paprr con .aini g the article did not reach London until s'x days alter the princess had seen it in the powerful Illumination ot "the astral light" Mrs. Besant and the late Mr. Judgj, as will be remembered, had a set-to In print, which much entertained skeptics and pulped theosophists. Mrs. Berant accused Mr. Judge of chicanery and ot producing miracles and phenomena by )iia own efforts, and not with the aid ot mahatmas. Another of Blavatsky's per'ormances widely celbtated at the time and often cited as an indubitable evidence ot her possession of occult powers ha become commonplace in the light of facts ob tained a year or two later. A party ot theosophiKts was at the house of an Knglish army officer near Bombay. In the evening the members were seated on the t rando. There waa a crash In side the house, and Investigation showed thst a statuette wh'ch had been or- d hall stand was lying shattered on the floor. No one had ben ner ll, and thu accident caused much surprise and upocultttlon. "Put it together," directed Blavat'ky. It was done. There were but seven or eight pieces, and the fragments were soon Joined. A triangular piece that should have fitted Into the rear of the baBe was missing. 'That piece," said Blavatsky, "Is in the upper left hand drawer of Mr. Bennett's desk at Simla." This A, P. Bennett was of the party, a recent arrival In Bombay, and was deeply interested In esoteric research. He appeared largely In theosophlc mat ters later. Bennett wrote to his wife to open his desk and search the drawer and send to him any piece of delft, or parian marble, or anything of similar nature she might And. Bennett did not believe It would be found. In five or six days a poroel came by carrier from Simla. It was the missing fragment of the statuette. Of course Its presence In Simla afiorded conclusive proof that Blavatsky had franchises over systems of speedy expressage other thsn those Incorporated under the laws ot the em pire. India, England and America, as represented In theosophy, marveled at this great evidence ot her power. Note the easy explanation of the phenomenon. The facts were laborl- I ously dug up by an honest man and pieced together into a fabric of truth, as was the broken statuette. Blavat sky knew that Bennett was coming to Bombay, and, like all other actors and entertainers, she warmly desired to make a hit with her new audience. She employed a servant In the house where she was visiting to break off a piece of the Btntuette on the side nearest the wall, where It would not ' be noticed. This she sent to Bennett's secretary or clerk a young Hindu, who was a stu dent of the occult or a confederate of the princess, whichever may be the more suitable term. She gave him ex plicit directions what to do with It and he carefully concealed It In Bennett's desk under some papers. Just before j the house party at Bombay left the drawing room for the veranda on tne evening of the second Incident of the statuette phenomenon, one of the wo men, also a friend of Blavatsky, "ri a silk thread to the Ornament. At the proper time she pulled me thread and gravitation did the rest. It required no skill to recover the thread In the confusion that followed. One thing the mahatmas did at Bla vatsky's request has never been ex plained as a fraud. It is one of the few Instances of her occult power, so called, whose Integrity has not been attacked. Bhe was riding in palanquins one day with a party of English women In In dia. One of the number remarking an uncommon appearing brooch another wore, snid: "I once had such a brooch as that, but I lost It, or a servant stole It. That was sixteen years ago," she added regret fully. "Would you like to have It again?" Inquired Blavatsky. "Certainly." "It's in that cushion you are sitting upon." The cushion was opened, and, as the adept had said, In it was the sixteen years lost piece of Jewelry. Blavatsky's disciples held two opin ions of her. It has been said she was not a mahatma, but an adept. Her in ability at all times to subject the body to the mental or intellectual part pre vented her from reaching the height of development. Many of the deeper stu dents suy it Is impossible for a woman to become a mahatma. There is an other theory concerning BlRvatsky, nnd many subscribed to it. This was that the real Princess Blavatsky died many years ago, and from that time until her second death her body wns used by various mahatmas, who ant mated It in series, and instructed the eeekers for truth. If the Baby Is Cutting Tooth. Mrs. Wlnslow':; Soothing Syrup has been used for ever Kitty Years by Mil i:.-ns of Mother: for t.eir Children while Teething, with Perfect Success. It Soothes the Child, Softens the Qumt. .Hays all Pain; Cures Wind Collo and Is tha best remedy for Diarrhoea, Bold by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wlnilow'a Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. Twenty-flve centa a bottla NERUOOS DYSPEPSIA. 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It was not long before Mr. Bates was sent for by the Mississippi river com mission government board, which had been struggling for years with one of the greatest modern problems, that of keeping a depth In the father of waters sufficient to permit even light-draft steamers to ply between St. Louis and New Orleans. Twenty millions of dol lars have been spent for this purpose, and In a recent official communication the secretary of war said the only re sult was eighteen Inches more of water for a distance of fifty miles. The dis couraging result was not the fault of the commission, which had done as best It could with the means at Its com mand and It really overcame many great obstacles. It was to the credit of the commission that It alertly, and In disregard of the traditions with which it was more or less Incumbered, sought out the young man who had achieved bo much on the drainage canal and asked him to build a hydrnnlic dredgpr for use In deepening the Mis sissippi. In fact, the members ot the hoard bullded wiser than they knew. They were after an Improvement, but they have found revolution. SATISFACTORY TESTS. Mr. Bates built a machine under con tract. He was to have $172,000 for It If It should be found capable of removing 1,000 cubic yards of earth per hour. If It was able to remove 2,400 cubic yards he was to have n bonus, or premium, of 50 ptr cent of tho contract price.- The official tests have Just been finished near Memphis, and his great dredger has demonstrated Its ability to do things that are well-nigh Incredible, but thev are olllc'al nnd must bo be lieved. An average of the tests In or dinary river sand, according to the re quirements, gave results of a little over 6,000 yards per hour. The maximum was as high aB 7,i!W yards. Mr. Bates, therefore, gets his bonus of $86,000, which he has been In Washington ar ranging to receive from tho treasury. 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It should be re membered, goes on all around the in take pipes, and in these pipes the suc tion of great steam-driven centrifugal pumps is pulling away at the loosentd mass of sand and water. It Is easy to imagine the result Great solid streams ot debris How in the pipes at a rapid speed. The hydraulic engineers have calculated the speed to a nicety. They know to the fraction of a foot what speed the current must have through those ples In order to carry the sand in solution. This Is the way in which the hydrau lic dredger steams up to a sand bar, attacks it. cuts its way through, al most without an eTort, and Is then ready for the next one. There Is not a bar on the Mississippi which it will not go through In three hours when fitted1 with self-propellers or tenders. These bars are usually 1,500 or 2,000 feet across. It Is not necessary to remove them altogether. The bed of a river traversing an alluvial country Is a series of long pools separated -ty bars which have formed between them. It Is not necessary to remove the bars en masse, but only to cut a channel front pool to pool, through which the steam ers can pass. When the channel la once cut the river will widen It by nat ural means. But what becomes of the sand that la taken out of the bar by the half-dozen suction pipes? It is deposited a thou sand feet away from the spot where it la taken out. The pipes run through the great floating gtant and a fifth of a mile to the rear, or to one side, or to whatever snot may be wished. The pipes are supported on pontoons and, of course, may be Bhiftcd at will. Thus the problem of maintaining a channel In the Mississippi river at low water Is polved. Where there Is now but four and one-half feet of water in the autumn there will be. after a few of these dredges have been put to work, fourteen feet. In two years It Is possi ble to have fourteen feet of water from St. Louis to the sea every day In tha year. Five hydraulic dredges will do the work if employed four or five months a year at a coBt of $10,000 a month each. This is almost magic modern made. The slcnlficance of this achievement Is that the problem of malntftlng low water navigation In all alluvlnl streams is solved. It is applicable to the Mis souri, to the Illinois, to the Sacramen to, to the Volpa, to the Danube, to the Dnieper, to the Ilooely In India, to the La Plata, to rivers in all ports of the wnriri it is fair to predict that no In vention or achievement since the de velopment of steam navigation haa done as much for water transporta tion upon rivers ns this successful ap plication of hydraulics to river bed dredging will do In the near future. LITTLE CUT A M HER SOW. A Pipe Mouthpiece Thrco Inohts Long Worth from $12 to SIS. From the Sun. "Is that real amber?" asked the man as he held up a pipe before the dealer. The pine was a handsome brlarwood one, and It had a clear amber mouth piece nearly three inches long. The price mark was $:i.50. "Yes, It's real amber," said the dealer. 'That ia, it's as real as any amber you can get nowadays In a pipe. It is not cut from a piece of amber, but is mads by a melting process. Ninety per cent, of that mouthpiece Is amber. The other ten per cent. Is a composition used to harden it and make it stick together. Some years ago amber was plenty, and a pipe like that would have a mouth piece of amber cut from a block and never melted. But the amber mines have practically given out, nnd you can't get any more big pieces. A piece of cut amber as long as thnt on the pipe you have there would be worth from $12 to $15, and It wouldn't be a bit better than the manufactured am ber. It wouldn't be so durable and would not feel any better between the teeth." "I was in England a year ago," said a man who had listened to the conver sation, "and one of the largest manu facturers there Bald that there had not been a piece of amber its long as three Inches In the marVet for five years." "That's so," said the pine seller. "You may get a pipe with a genuine cut am ber mouthpiece in some stores In New York, but If you look up Its record you will find it was made eight or ten years ago and has been in stock. This com position is used today in expensive meerschaums as well as In brlarwooda." The St. Denis Broadway and Eleventh St., New York) Opp. Once CI-.urch.-Eurepean Plan, Room. $1.00 a Day and Upward. fn a mode't aid nnobtmilro way thnra are f w bnter conducted htiteli in tli matropulls thun the Rt. Danis. Tbe Kret pnnn aritr it an acquired earn readily b traced to its nninue location, Its hem.mkft ntuuiuure, trt 1 pecullir ex -ellanet or it enialua ana atrvlou, aad Its vary tnoiUr nta prices. WILLIAM TAYLOR AND SON,