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DOMESTIC LIFE IN MEXICO. A Chapter for Cadies, Which Geutlemeu Are Expected to Skip, A Typical Mexican Casa—Parlor and liedKouzn, Court, Corral and Harden “The Wicked Flea’ I—A 1 —A Poetical Laundry, Correspondence of the Indianapolis JonrnaL Saltillo, Oct. 3. — ln the architecture and furnishing of Mexican houses there is no such variety as in the United States, but one “casa” of the better class is almost an exact counterpart of thousands of others. Let us take a survey of this in which I have for some time been living, as it is a typical home of the average, well-to-do Mexican. Like most others in this ancient city, our house was built at least 200 years ago, and its adobe walls, five feet thick, look capable of defying all storms-to come till the resurrection morning. After the manner of all Mexican houses, it has a great number of rooms built around and all opening into a central court, which latter large unroofed space is paved with small, sharp stones, walking upon which makes one feel like a penitential pilgrim with peas in his shoes. In this court figs, bananas and pomegranates are growing, and flowers blossom the whole year through, planted in adobe boxes elevated several feet above the ground. In the center is the inevitable deep, deep well, its adobe frame and inner walls draped with ferns and lichens. In many houses these inner courts are very beautiful, each with its fountain among the flowers, surrounded by a pink cement paved corridor, under whose bright-hued awnings the family swing their hammocks, take their afternoon chocolate and spend many hours of every day. Wooden floors are unknown in Mexico, all houses being paved with large square bricks, or with a cement which resembles polished stone. Woolen carpets are rarelv indulged in, except in the form of rugs. There is a native carpet made from ixtle (the fiber of the century plant) which is much like our hemp, only far more durable. It is painted by hand after being woven, generally rose-pink, with dashes of purple and green, and, strange to say, these delicate colors are fadeless. There is also a pretty matting of Indian manufacture, called petate, which is made of shredded palm leaves, braided in seamless squares as large as required. Really, these paved floors, which shine like marble, of a soft gray color or tinted the usual strawberry pink, are too beautiful to be hidden by much of our ugly stiff-figured Brussels or ingrain. Besides, bare floors are more appropriate to this in-sect-breeding climate, and far more healthful and cleanly. But it must be confessed, they have their disadvantages. The cement mucu saltpetre, wnich holds damoness eternally, so that, owing to. frequent ablutions the floors are seldom perfectly dry. However hot the days, we have generally chilly nights, and one feels like going to bed in ones boots rather than put bare feet ppon floors which are then as cold as the charity of the world. Every casa has itssala de recibo (drawing-room), of more or less magnificence. It may not contain much in the way of furniture, but is always by fur the largest room in the house —very ’ long and narrow, like a town hall. Haying hut one story and a flat roof, the walls are extremely high, and the artistic eflect of grayish piaster, outlined by painted dado and fresco decorations, the reddish wood of the sabine beams overhead left like “'beauty unadorned” or covered with painted canvas, combined with the gray or pink paved floors, 4s exceedingly pleasing to the eye.

A Mexican housewife has other ideas than ours in the disposition of her furniture. There are always straight rows of sofas and chairs set stiffly against the walls all around the room. Though there are few occasions ;s life when so great a number of seats could possibly be required, yet the family feels itself poor indeed which does not possess enough to reach in an unbroken line around the entire circuit of the sola. Into each corner of the room a triangular table 13 fitted, and in the center is a large one—round or oval—which has always its tall lamp in the middle, and a row of empty vases and china figures ranged at regular distances straight arouud the outer edge. This central table is generally covered with an enormous crocheted or knitted spread sweeping the floor, which represents years of patient labor, vast expenditure of precious eyesight, and hundreds of spools of fine linen thread. The mistress of the manse began it when a child, and succeeded in finishing it only in time for her wedding. There is a noticeable dearth of those little ornaments in which American ladies especially delight, for bric-a-brac, easels, brackets, etc., are not within the reach of all here as in the U. S. A. Chromos and engravings sparingly adorn the walls, and the corner tables are each loaded with glass lamps and vase3. which are valued for ornament rather than use. A chromo dreadful enough to set one’s teeth on edge, which may he bought in Imhanpolis, frame and all, for two dollars, is in Mexico, owing to outrageous duties, almost as expensive as a decent oil painting. At the extreme end of the sala de recibo, furthest from the entrance, is always seen precisely „lie same arrangement of furniture in every casa—a rug or square of carpet, with four or six chairs placed in two straight iines, vis-a-vis, upon it, bounded upon tire further side by the sofa against the walL To this little island in the sea of the big bare room guests are shown with great ceremony on entering, for in this particular spot the hostess concentrates all her forces, as we understand the art of doing in spiritual seances and revival ineeti ngs. Mexican windows are peculiar institutions, whose like is not to be found anywhere else under the sun. They usually reach from floor to ceiling, are wider than church doors, and have always wooden or iron bars before them. A comparatively few casas luxuriate in window glass, but as the dutv on that substance is little less than robbery, the vast majority dispense with it altogether. The inside shutters are of solid wood, usually unpainted, and opening both ways in the middle, forming four square doors. As this peculiar construction renders curtains an impossibility, the only way to secure the slightest degree of privacy when the household machinery isnoton exhibition, is to close the lower half of the snutters—and then outsiders frequently climb up and gaze at you over the top, with sharpened curiosity, because of the evident attempt to deprive them of their rights. Mexicans believe that windows were made to look in at, as much as to look out of. and it is a matter of daily ocenrrence for men, women and children of the lower classes to congregate outside the bars, and stand calmly watching you by the hour. In the deep recesses these window openings form in the thick wails is ample room for placing chairs upon the ledges, and therein the family assemble in the cool of the day. 111 summer weather this is very delightful. but when lone, chilly rains come on the absence of window-glass is a serious discomfort, for to close the shutters entirely means total darkness within. In Saltillo ;:nd other mountain cities the winters are ’ -“ally cold, and how they bear tltern without : nv protection from the outer air is a mvst| v. There is not a house in Mexico with

any provision for grate or stove or possibility of making a fire, except that for cooking purposes in the kitchen, which does not warm the room in the slightest degree. When the winter of their discontent has come, all hands, from oldest to youngest, wrap themselves in rebosos or serapes and possess their souls in patience; for never having known of any other mode of life, they do not dream of the possibility of making themselves more comfortable by knocking out a chimney. The first sight of those barred windows strikes the stranger in Mexico unpleasantly, and he is apt to fancy himself in prison behind them, with his stone floor and iron bedstead for suitable accompaniments. In time, however, he sees not only the convenience but the necessity of them, and by and by comes to feel a sense of insecurity if by rare chance he finds himself not thus protected. It must be remembered that the greater portion of Mexico is a land of perpetual summ -r, where widows must be open both night and day, and these gratings cannot be "picked” like locks or noislessly cut like panes of glass. Though one may sleep in perfect security, it is well to remove one’s effects from too close proximity to the bars, for the ladrones have a cheerful habit of throwing in ropes with hooks attached and dexterously drawing out even your garments, from which perhaps originated the slang word "hooking” for stealing! I wish I could paint you, right here, a picture of the room which for many weeks has been my own especial sanctum. As the Mexican bed-room is a fair sample of the majority, permit me to describe it. Its ancient doors, carved by hands that were dust more than a century ago, have been guiltless of paint since their making, and are garnished with enormous iron hinges and staples like the fastenings of a barn. One of them opens into the salade recibo, and the other into the "hall,” if we may so call the main entrance to the casa through which carts, guests and donkeys alike find ingress. My one wide window looks out into the flowery court, and is, indeed, “a thing of beauty,” The pale gray of its wooden bars brightened by a few vines clambering up outside, and a fineleaved mesquit branch swaying its blossoms across one corner, the broad adobe .ledge serving me for book-case, writing-desk and curiosity shop in general. lam blessed with ; the rare luxury of two yards of wool carpet and a tiny goat-skin rug, which my sole appreciates, I assure j’ou, between it and this pretty pink floor, whose bricks feel like tombstones. Here are chairsenough to seat the entire Mexican army, ranged in funereal rows against the walls, the usual triangular tables loaded with lamps and vases, and quaint articles of furniture in solid mahogany which would delight the heart of an antiquarian. But the chief treasure, which would adorn any collection of ceramics in any land, is the great water jar and bowl, of native pottery from Guadalajara,—dark red, with strange figures painted upon them, which it would be no sin to worship, they being not ‘‘in the likeness of anything in the heavens above or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth.” My little brass bedstead, whose slender framework is polished to the glitter of gold, is ruffled and canopied like a French woman’a We have no springs in Mexico—only socalled mattresses, to which good, soft boards would be a blessing—and no ‘“quilts” or blankets. Each bed is gorgeously decked with a single spread oi flowered damask, crimson and green or scarlet and yellow, fringed lit'®. a window-curtain, and carefully disposed so as not conceal the fine linen sheets trailing far helow iC puaU sides. Mexican pillows are not soft, flat and stJSare?, like those of Hoosierdom. but are flat and narrow, each exactly as long as the bed is wide; like our bolsters. Their crimson "tioks” are stuffed hard as rocks with cotton, and the cases are the especial pride of the housewife, of finest linen, with broad strips of crocheted or lace insertion set in at the sides and running the length of them, and much dainty needle-work and lace ruffling at the ends Over the various species of auiruals who ooCUP.v that couch conjointly with myself, disputing its possession, and often gaining the day—or the night, rather —it is discreet to "draw the veil, ’ merely remarking, iu scriptural language, that other creatures than “the winked flea” abound “when no man pursu.uu.” In this tropical climate trunks are never placed flat upon the floor and left to the tender mercies of mice and cockroaches, but, very sensibly, aye- elevated upon racks made for the purpose. Every room in every casa has its reminders, more or less numerous, of the all-prevailing faith, ip crosses and pictured saints, and generally somewhere about the premises is a family altar containing an Image of the Virgin and a bloodstained Christ in perpetual crucifixion*before which young and old daily tell their beads and whisper their prayers. The chief beauty of this “Home, sweet home,” and of thousands of similar ones in Mexico, is in its gardens—

though one would never mistrust its existence without a guide to first find it out. Past kitchen and dining-room (winch we will visit later) and numberless other rooms, for storage and heaven knows what—through an arched passage and barred door—we emerge from the court into the corral. This latter big, barren space, which answers all the purposes of an Indiana barn, is surrounded by a wall as high as the house itself, and is in reality a continuation of the casa. Here are kept the goats which supply the family dairy; stalls are arched into the wail In one side, wherein donkeys feed; swine wallow in pools of greenish mud, and colonies of chickens, turkeys, doves, and other “domestic animals" abide together in vociferous content. No sign of our beautiful garden here; but climb some high abode steps, open a couple of heavy doors, wander through an arched passage, and —presto! the scene is changed a* by magic! Here are acres of roses in perpetual bloom, the greenest of verdure, anti old apple-trees like those at home, under whose branches one might almost forget the weary leagues that lie between, did not growing oranges, figs, et cetera, remind of “stern realities.” Within tiiese cool and silent shadesone is completely isolated from the worid, and finds it hard to believe that all around lies a city which was hoary with age before Uncle Samuel’s lusty infant, the United States, was born. No sound of human life or labor penetrates here—only the ringing of cathedral bells falls softly upon the ear. Between the branches one catches glimpses of various church towers, each pointing with uplifted cro*> the Catholic route to heaven; and the mountains on every band present their ever-varying pictures of light and shade. In one corner of the garden is a large circular tank, of pinktinted adobe, whose polished sides shine like marble. It is about five feet deep, fed from never-failing springs, and answers the triple purpose of bath, laundry and irrigating reservoir. A flight of stone steps leads up to the top. and another down into it, for the benefitof bathers. Pipes and ditches convey the water, which may be turned on or off at will, all over the extensive grounds. The overflow forms a shallow pool, beside which are kept the small wooden trays, and piles of amole (the root used for soap), which are all the furnishings a Mexican laundry requires. No tubs or wash-boards, lines or clothespins, or perspiring over steam and boiling suds, but the hard • work which we make of it becomes quite a poetical process here. The pool is fringed with tail catla lilies, and the creada kneeling“mong them, like Moses’s mother among the rushes, is a not unnicturesque addition to the landscape, as she softly croons her Castilian songs while slapping away at the family linen in her little tray, and scrubbing it with ragged amole roots, regardless of wear and tear. Fanxie Bkiuham Ward. DANDRUFF Is Removed by the Use of Coooaine, ami It stimulates and promotes the growth of , the hair. BL'HNKTr’a Flavouiso Extracts are the best.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OUTuBEK 13, 1883.

READING FOR THE SABBATH Whoe'er hath wept one tear or home one pain (The Master said, and entered into reel), Mot fearing wrath, nor meaning to he blest, Simply (or love, hnwlieit wrought in vain, Os one poor soul, his brother, being old, Or sick, or lost through satisfied desire, Stands in Goa’s vestibule, and hears His choir Make merry music on their Uarps of gold. What is it but the deed of very Love To teach sad eyes to smile, mute lips to move? And He, that for a score of centuries Hath lived, and calls a continent His own, Giving world-weary souls Heaven’s best surprise. Halts only at the threshold of the Throne. —A. U. Benson, in Spectator. Religious Motes. The Church of England has appointed a bishop for Japan. Rev. Dr. Granville Moody is preparing bis autobiography. It will be published by Messrs. Walden & Stowe. There is in man a higher than love of happiness. He can do without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness.—Thomas Carlyle. Mr. Gladstone contributes to the Nineteenth Century a translation into Italian of Cowper’s weli known hymn, "Hark, my soul, it is the Lord.” The American Presbyterian missionaries, who returned to their posts in Egypt after the war, are laboring as diligently as ever, but with more manifest tokens of success. The Methodist, of London, says a Church of England Bishop said to a Wesleyan minister, "You are better endowed than we are.” It is stated that there are in the established church 4,000 ministers unemployed. The average length of missionary service in Japan has thus far been no more than seven and one-third years for men and four and two-thirds for women. The average for men in India is nearly eighteen years. Mgr. Capel defines charity as including all that is meant bv philanthropy, and' added to it, the love of man, because he is a creature of God, a friend of God, and because God has imposed it upon us as a duty. Dartmouth College is to receive SIO,OOO from the estate of the late Judge Jason Downer, of Milwaukee, Wis., under the provisions of his will. Judge Downer was graduated from that institution in the class of '3B. In her last moments an old U. P. Presbyterian sister is reported to have summoned all her strength to gasp this ante-mortem protest against the organ: ‘‘When I am gone, I don’t want no patent thing a-squeakin’ over me.” There is a religious movement afoot among the London police. Meetings and Bibleclasses are being organized, and a Christian Policemen’s Association has been organized, with the cordial sanction of Sir Edmund Henderson. Mr. Spurgeon says: “Thereasons whieh a good woman presented for objecting to a preacher were striking ones. She said in the first place he read his sermon ; in the second, he did not read it weli, and in the third place it was not worth reading. What is there so beautiful as lovely old age? What docs it matter if the hair is white and the cheek has lost its glow, if the eyes shine with a triumphnt light, and one can fairly feel that faith that lends a sweetness to the glance, a cadence to the voice? It is stated in the Philadelphia Presbyterian that “the fifteen Presbyterian ehnrehes of St. Louis have among their congregations about 350 public-school teachers, or nearly one-third of the entire corps of teachers engaged in the St. Louis pubiie schools.” Sankey would have none but Christian choirs in church. He says that when he and Moody went to England they sent word to places where they were to hold meetings that they wanted pious singers only. So far as they departed from that rule they did not prod nee good results. After a pause of six years, Dean Howson has decided to proceed with the restoration of Chester Cathedral, and has made an appeal for £15,000 for the execution of the work. A subscription of £2.000 has been received for the erection of certain handsome mosaics in the edifice. If any naan among you seem to be religious and Uridletb, not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion, anil nnUef'ded before God anal the Fattier, is visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.—St. James. Myatt Kya, a handsome young Burmese, has spent thirteen years in Michigan, fitting himself to teach the gospel to his countrymen* has studied medicine in the meanwhile, and also the use of the plow. He expects to astonish the people at home with a steel plow he is to take back with him.

A Presbyterian clergyman, when visiting an unfinished ritualistic church, in this city, wrote with the carpenter’s chalk upon the wall: “I publish the banns of matrimony between this Church and the Church of Rome." A wag seeing the notice chalked under it: “l forbid the banns, the parties being too near of kin." A Presbyterian church was organized recently in Monterey, Cal., in the room in which the California Legislature sat in 1849, and in which the first constitution of California was adopted. Tue old town has taken a fresh start and has grown tanidly the past two years. There are now 1,000 inhabitants, half of them Protestants. According to the “Catholic Directory,” the number of Catholics in the United States was 5,760.000 in 1874, and in 1882. This is equivalent to an increase of about 20 per cent. in. ten years. Bat the census of iBBO shows that the total population of the United States increased 30 per eent. in ten years—half as fast again as the Catholics. The Basle Missionary Soeiety, which has already contributed so many trained missionaries for serviee in heathen lands, continues in full activity. In July it sent out nine newly-ordained men to divide their services between three great countries, A fries, India and China. There remain no fewer than seventy young men nnder its training in its coi lege. Goethe said: “Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities for good actions, but make use of common situations." That is good advice, Johann Wolfgang. Not long since a man was polite to an old lady in the cars, and she left him a huge fortune. It is safe to be polite all the time, even to the aged and ugly, and then tlic unexpected may happen. Rev. Dr. L. M. Vernon writes to the mission rooms of the death, on Sept. 13, of his little daughter, Margherita, but eighteen months old. She is laid beside her little brother at the Oetian Gate, by the walls of ; the Eternal City, among the stranger dust from every nation and tongue. Un one side sleeps Dr. Maclay’s grandchild, from Japan; on the other, the little son of a Russian lady. The following are the Presbyterian Churches in the United States with over 1,000 members: The Tabernacle, Brooklyn, 2,755; Third, Chicago,2,oßs; Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, 1,920; Fifth Avenue, New York, 1,899; Fourth Avenue, New York, 1,463; Bethany Mission, Philadelphia, 1,407; First, Rochester, N. Y., 1,335; University Place, New York, 1,226; West Church, New York, 1,077. The Rev. Dr. Thayer tells a good story of the neat wav in which a wealthy parishioner silenced one of his complaints. The old gentleman, whenever lie had fairly settled himself in his family pew, used immediately to drop off into a refreshing nap. Bui Dr. Thayer noticed one peculiarity—if any other than himself occupied the pulpit the pillar of the church was wide awake ai don

the alert during the entire service.” Accordingly, the Doctor went frankly to his old friend and questioned him as to the why and wherefore of this double dealing, so to speak. “Well, Doctor, you see, when you are preaching I know everything you say is all right, but as to these other men, I have to keep my eye on them.” There are some great troubles that only time can heal, and perhaps some that can never be healed at all; but all can be helped by the great panacea—work. When grief sits down, folds its hands and mournfully feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim shadows that a little exertion might sweep sway into a funeral pall, the strong spirit is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our master. Nearly all the important journals oi Vienna report the transition of great numbers to Old Catholicism. In Isargau the movement is now gainings large increase; at Tawnwald and in Hoflitz very many persons have announced their secession from the Roman church and their adherence to the Old Catholic church, and new congregations are forming. Also in Vienna over one hundred members have very lately declared their accession to the Old Catholic congregation there. At one of the colored ehnrehes in Charlotte, N. C„ on a recent Sunday evening, a woman shouted so energetically that she dislocated her jaw, making her mouth stand open to its fullest capacity. She left the church and went through the streets with her mouth standing wide open, followed by the greater part of the congregation, in search of a doctor, and one being found, the unhinged member was forced back into its place. She was judiciously advised to keep her mouth shut hereafter. A friend of the Church of England writes to the London Times in favor of disestablishment, claiming that it would be a gain to a large number of the clergy. There is. he says, among the clergy of the Church of England an amount of personal jioverty simply appaljjng. Among this class there are many w®> are hard-working, efficient, scholarly and intellectual. To suoli, he thinks, disestablishment would be a blessing, for purchase would cease and the people would have a voice iu the election of their own pastor. According to a correspondent of the Independent: “Os nearly 3,000 ministers who hold a pastoral relation to Congregational churches, only eight were inducted into the office which they still hold previous to the year 1840. Between 1840 and 1850 were settled in pastorates which are still retained only seventeen ministers; between 1850 ami 1860, only forty-one; between 1800 and 1870 the number inoreased to one hundred and fifty-five; between 1870 and 1880 it comes to amount to ten hundred and thirty-six, and from 1880 to the time of compiling the statistics, a period not exceeding three years, it aggregated 1,723. Os late years, and particularly since Rome became the capital of the Italian kingdom and came under the control of the secular law, all kinds of churches have sprung up in the Holy City. Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, and, quite recently, Unitarians have hired or built places of worship, and the cry is, "Still they come.” The latest ecclesiastical iuvasion of Rome is by the Salvation Army. The skeptical and Catholic journals of the city have begun to find material for sarcasm in these repeated invasions and in the changing aspect of things. They say that soon the Eternal City will become a veritable Tower of Babel of religious parties. A London pastor has been writing somewhat sharply in the Christian World on what he calls "religious eccentricities,” and giving some hard knocks to ex-prize fighters and others who hastily, and without any real fitness for the work, assume the role of preacher. An angry Salvationist writes iu reply, promising him “Hell in this world, and hell and damnation in the next, if he ever Again abuses Christ's army with tonpne, pen or paper.” Correspondence has since been lively on the subject, and while much sympathy has been expressed for the editor, and also for the London pastor, the writer of the artiele, it is generally admitted that there are such things as “religious eccentricities.”

ADVANCED THEOLOGY. Mr. Beeoher Expounds the New Doctrines for Benefit of a Texas Man. Waco Correwoudeuce Galveston News. The News representative was to-day accorded an interview with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at his hotel. With a cordial greeting at the door of bis private apartment, the reporter was introduced to Mrs. Beecher, adignifted grav-haired matron es benignant and motherly appearance, and was inv. ted to a seat. At once proceeding to the object of the visit the reporter said: “Mr. Beecher, will you favor me with vour views on the new theology? Wbat is to be toe outcome of all this new theological upheaval which is now agitating the great thinking masses?" "You mean the advanced theology?" “Yes; that is the phrase bv which it is now known—advanced theology.” "I believe it is so styled in a lat- volume of Mr. Hunger’s sermons—a book I could wish every thinking man, at least, would read. I think the new or advanced theology is to supersede the old. It has already permeated more or less all of the churehes.” “Bnt, Mr. Beecher, how is this to be accomplished? You know that it is said that the history of all religions reformations shows that there has never been a reformation iu the ehorch. While the movements have usually been originated in the eburch, yet no good has ever eome of them except through new organic forms.” * “That is true, and doubtless the advanced theology is destined in the near future to assume definite shape and organic form. It will revolutionize the old and reverse ends. The old theory is based upon a supposed knowledge of God, His nature and atributes, Mis decrees and the supposed Divine procedure in the government and administration of the universe. This is the mistake of the Cal vinisticsehool, and the Arminian theory, while professing to avoid the errors of Catvanism, yet virtually builds its theology upon the same false premises. Their theology is false, because it builds upon assumption and the unknowable. Cattst thou by searching find out God? said Job. Men know only so mueh of God as there is di rinty within them, just as the lower animals can only comprehend so much of man as there is animal in man. For instance, you tell your dog to lie down, get up, go out, come here, and the like, and he understands you perfectly. But if you talk ethics, science and philosophy to hint he does not comprehend a word you say. He can only'know as much of the outward man as there is dog in the man. The advanced theology reverses ends. It builds on wbat we know of man, and repudiates that bused on what we may never know of God. It assumes nothing beyond the facta of human nature —the capabilities aud possibilities of man." “What relation will the advanced thecnogy sustain to the Bible?" “It cannot afford to dispense with it, but it will find > w moles of interpretation iu the light of modern science and progressive intelligence. It can discard the errors which it contains and retain the good without the obarge of sacrilege." “All great movements, Mr. Beecher, ean but be subverted through organic forms. How is the advanced theology to obtain tlie supremacy?" “in many ways: It has, as i have said, permeated, more or less, all of the churches. The new ideas are studied and examined, and compared with the old hy all ttiinking people. It is no longer a sin to try and know the truth. I bad hoped that tire large liberal element which bas of late years dominated the Can-

gregational Church—my own denomination —would, before a great while, bring about such a revision of its creed as to make it the medium for the diffusion of new truths; but, anyway, I feel sure that at uo distant day it will find ample means for expression and diffusion. But every advocate of free thought and religious liberty is in danger of making the same mistake as did the Unitarians. They built a splendid system of ethics, beautiful to behold, but it is lacking in vitality, life, and soul, and aggressiveness. The new religion has got to be eminently aggressive. It must cultivate largely the emotional and devotional part of man. It must appeal to the judgment witli a fire and energy which will lift men right outof theirboots.” "But, Mr. Beecher, when the dogma of a hell is knocked in the head how are you to appeal to men in such a way as to lift them out of their boots?” "Preach retribution,” answered the great thinker in a very emphatic wav, "No intelligent person believes in a literal burning hell, but when men come to learn that their sins will find them out, and that there is no chance of escaping the punishment of wrong doing, you have got a moral lever that will control the violence of human nature and send it on through the ages of eternity in the right direction.” TRANSUBSTANTIATION. Monsignor Capel’s Definition of the Mysterious Doctrine. From Sermon in Washington. When Jesus was about to part from ns He declared in language which came from Him, the God of truth, that He would never leave us; that He would be with us always, even to the very end of time. We were not to be orphans here upon earth ; we were to feel the presence of Him, our Redeemer, who loved us with the fullest love. It is here upon this altar He exercises His mercy—that He is to be the dispenser of that wondrous mercy which He brought from heaven to earth. He is here as prfest according to the order of Melchisedec. Do this, said He, in commemoration or remembrance of me ; and in making this declaration He imposed upon His apostles the obligation of perpetuating His priesthood, according to the order of Melchisedec. So then, my brethren, when the priest of God Almighty will in some three-quarters of an hour take the bread into his hands and biess and break, and when he will take that chalice and repeat, after a blessing, those words of Jesus Christ, then there will be performed a wonder the like of which is not known on God’s earth. We look with wonder upon the discoveries of science, we behold with astonishment the power of electricity or the transmission of sound; but what are these wonders of science in comparison with that wonder in the presence of which each one of us will be awed? Jesus Christ, the son of God, will exercise the priesthood which He possesses, and in order to tielp us——for, as the words come from the li[>sof the priest, the omnipotence of God Almighty will be brought into play, and that which is bread will by that same power be changed into the sacred body, into the sacred blood of Jesus Christ. There will yet be to eye what there was before; there will yet be to taste what was there before the consecration took place. There will be the form, there will be the color, there will be the taste of bread as before, but the omipotence of God Almighty will have been exercised on the substance of that bread, and the substance will become the very body of our blessed Lord, will become His blessed blood; and there wiil be shown forth on that altar that death which He endured on Calvary’s height Brethren, I can well understand that many will stand aghast oa hearing a proposition of this kind; I can understand that you who assist at the holy sacrifice every Sunday will, when thetrutb is put before you, stand in its presence with awe—with great respect; yet brethren, while awe is upon us, and respect is upon us, there is the light of faith, which tells us that God in His omnipotence laid it down as the law that we were todo this in rememberance of Him even to the very end of time. At the very moment there is presented to God on high that pure oblation which iu itself is a perfect satisfaction for sin. It is at once a true thanksgiving to God Almighty for the graces and blessings that he has bestowed upon us. Iu that moment there will ascend from the altar to God himself that one acs of adoration embodied in the person of the second person of the I most holy trinity,clothed in human flesh aud whot is there as our brother, and will offer to God Almighty a true and pure sacrifice. God will look’down, from on high o>n us: who are here assembled, and there upon that altar wifi see a spotless and stainless sacrifice. His own Son. presenting once more that suffering whieh he endured for the sins of men. ; Then will the countenance of God Almighty be turned toward us, and the sins of our : daily life, and the wrongs which rise from earth as a stagnant pool in his sight will be ; lost iu the completeness of that sacrifice which i& offered by Jesus Christ in this wondrous mode. This is what Christ fulfills here on earth,, and,; therefore, verity may we say: This is indeed the house of God!

MINISTERIAL HARDSHIPS The Constant “Moving On*’ of the HardWorking Methodist Preacher. Chicago Letter io Louisville Courier-Journal. Your correspondent has a sort of tender liking for the good preachers in the Methodist Church, having been reared in that church; indeed, later in life, reared out of it, as it were;so that one day this week, when he happened in the Methodist Book Concern on Washington street, and observed a large number of the sad-eyed brethren watching each other furtively, parrying eaeh other’s questions as to what Providence had done for tbera in their different vin.vards for the past year, and might possibly have in store far them in the year to CO me, a real earnest and true sense of the pathetic side of the Methodist preacher’s life came upon him. Tiiese men could hardly greet eaeh other squarely aud heartily like the opulent, impious lay--1 men upon the streets. They daren’t say where they might be next week. They knew that each hoped for something better, or to hold fast to what he had got. They realized they were come together for a bit of sacred finesse in this conference season, ; and that out of it all the chances were they mjglit be compelled, like Dickens’ "Tom,” to “move on." Ah. these good, pious, earnest, true, bard-working, Christian ministers! It has been going on and on ever since they passed from the shop, or the farm, or the counting-room, to the tneologicai seminary; through the bread-3 nd-molasses privation of those years of study; over and beyond the later years of itineraney; and on and on again through all the years of their apparently easy, head-hurting, back-aching, heart-breaking labors. Never has a bright nest been built; never have the household gods been set in cheery places; never have tender friendships been wanned and welded; never have sacred affections been deeply rooted, but that, just as the sweet fruition eame, the bitterness of home-leaving, and the overwhelming anxiety and dread in home-getting, have swept upon them. Unfeeling, indeed, the heart that does not warm with large and generous human sympathy toward these Christian ministers, whose lives, to withstand such an iniquitous system, must be inwrought, warp and woof, with the fortitude and heroism out of which were grown the martyrs of old. ♦Both Lydia B. Pink hem's Vegetable Com - pm! ;n! and Bleed Purifier are prepared at 233 and 235 Western avenue, Lynn, Mass. Prico of either, sl. Six bottles for $5. Sent uy mail the form of pills, or ul lozenges, ou reeclp price, $1 per box for orthsv, Mrs. TinkHam fee ely answers all letter* of inquiry. Enclose th.re-eat stamp. Road for “Guide t Health and Nerve Attain,”

THE YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN: THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. (Everything relating to this department uniat he addressed to \V. H. Gralfaiu, West Scarborough, Cumberland county, Maine. Origins) contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.J Answers to Puzzles. No. 851.R E ’ L E C T I B I. E EXPLOSION P O 1 N T E D OFFAL SEE 8 8 S E NAILS ENCORES SAXONBLUE SOOTHSAYERS No. 852.—Interlaken. No. 853. 8 N E B O N E NEBO N E 8 EBON E 8 T BONE S T E ONEB T E R NEBT E R N EBTE R N S No. 854. D— ENTO N E—C H - O R —E —V B OGOT-A Y KRGA S B—E C H—ER-O I— D lO —T R A B B —I E-V-A No. 855.—Si-Har. No. 856—Wizard of the North. No. 857.—Sehisma, Original Puzzles. NO, 872 —CHARADE. M.V flrst’s a property of alt tilings Strangs, And is produced by sudden change. In things, which, if hut left alone, Had to my first been long unknown. Many, oh many, have vainly sought, Into toy second to be safely brought; And many, oh many, vainly sigh To find my seoond by and by. My wnole Is the seat of a college great. That is well known through every State, Yea, to this alma mater grand, Students repair from every land. Hickokv Grove, Iml. Ermiha, NO. 873 —QUADRUPLE-LETTER ENIGMA! In flock, but never in herd; In aicedo, hut soaroely in bird: Iu flexion, but nowhere in crook; In David, bnt outside of Snook; In mend, but not found in fix. In slaughter, but absent in kicks; Id hizullte, elsewhere than gneiss; In raccoons, hardly ever In mice; In condemns, hut lacking in hates; Four cities of our United States. amos Quito, NO. 874 —ANAGRAM. Many thousand frightened people, Heard, while it no horrors lacked, A blasted Jar rive evil In the ocean isle tract. Silver Lake, Ind. Amos Quito. NO. 875— ENIGMATICAL ISLANDS. (Respectfully to Amos Quito.) 1. A man’s name, and the name of a tree. 2. External appearance, and a girl’s name, 3. A prefix denoting evil, and to plunge. 4. Enthusiasm, and a conjunction. 5. Brought forth, and an Islet. 6. A personal pronoun, and to kill, 7. A messenger, and a bone. 8. A fastener, and au eminent American; painter, i 9. Not before known, to set, and real estate. Hickory Grove, Ind. Ermina. no. 876 —ENIGMA. My 4 and 6 is a Dote In muste. My 3,2, 5 and lis movement. My whole is a system of pulleys. Bloomington. iDd. E. J. 8. no. 877 —amputations; 1. From a twig strike off a man of genius and leave a pronoun. 2. From an oddity strike off something donblai and leave a pronoun. 3. From a measure strike off an animal and leave a pronoun. 4. From certain paths strike off a sphere and leave a pronoun. 5. From a robber strike off an artiole used to transmit power aud leave a pronoun. Salem, Ind. Stab. (Answers in three weeks)

Gar Prize*. We offer an interesting book for the best set oC answered puzzles this week. Puzzles Answered. Bv Nloa 8., Lebanon, Nos. 851 to 857 inolosive. We award the prize book to Ninaß. Foot Notes. E. J. B.—One more of your puzzles v$ 11 com-* plate the list. Please contribute again. (i Nixa B.— A very good list of answers. We advise you to keep on trying for the prizes. Your 1 prize cards have been printed and eent youPlease tell us if they arrived O. K. THE PIONEER’S LAUNDRY. How Its Owner Became Bankrupt but Retained Mia Sign Yellowstone Park Letter. I don’t know how the conversation later in* the evening drifted into discussing different ways and methods of earning a living, and how, of all tilings, it should turn to such a thing as the keeping of a laundry. It mayhave been that we felt already the need op clean linen at this.early stage of oup journey, or that, not being able to get any washing* done at the hotel, someone suggested that a laundry in these parts for the convenience of tourists might prove a profitable venture. Indeed, a gentleman remarked that, be had been told o£ a sign, stuck against a tree somewhere around here which bore the following highly original iascription:

‘•TO PIONEER'S LAUNDRY 8 MILES. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GuT YOUR NEC 1C BROKEN AMD WORK A DIRTY SHIRTf” What was our astonishment, then, when we saw on of the drivers around the campfire get up, go to his wagon and presently return with a board of the same size and character, and remark: “fin the man thatrunn’d the Pioneer’s ivtundry.” In reply to further inquiries be told us that ho used to keep laundry in the Gardiner Valley—a general wash-house for tourists camping in the surrounding mountains wiio might require his services. “But,” he added, “it's now busted up, and it goes uukimmon hard with me, and the only thing 1 keep to reniemher t.ht old place is this.” At the same time he displayed the sign, the legend on which ran thus: “ ’TIS BETTER TO RR LOWLY ROUT AND RANCH WITH DIG ERR IS THE DIRT, THAN TO BE FtRCUEIA UtfON A MULR AM® WEAK A DUSTY SHIRT. 8 MILES TO PIONEER’S LAUNDRY." “Yes, I use the board in my wagon,” ha added, “and I keep it because theipoetry is a bit of Sliakspeare which 8 gentleman wrote out for me while he was hunting 10 the mountains eight years ago.” “Shakspeare?” wo cried in astonishment. “Where?’ 5 That was too vaueh for him, hut a gentleman in our party, who knows his Shakspeare, assured us that in Henry VIII. somewhere in the second act, there occurs a. passage very similar to the one used by the ex-geeper of the Pioneer’s Laundry. In fact, it ruus like thist “Verily I swear, ’tls better to be lowly born And range wtth bumbleHvers In content. Than to tie perk’d up in a gtletering Ariel And wear a guidon sorrow.” A North Carolina Saloon. Cincinnati Timer-Star. A North Carolina correspondent tells how the moonshiners sell illicit whisky. “On the road-side a big horn is hung to a tree. You blow a blast and a girl steps out and tells you to put your hands into her pocket. You comply.’ You drop some money in the pocket and fake out yotir bottle and go. flirting is at your peril, ior a six-foot moonshiner is in point-blank range with his baud on the trigger of his persuader.”