Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1891 — Page 9

SUNB SstVsAASan PAGES 9 TO 16. PART TWO. A PRICE FIVE CENTS. l'lilCK FIVE CENTS. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1891-TWENTY PAGES.

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ved MERCHANDISE SOLD, 9 nOW HE COT AWAY. A Hindoo Robber Who Could Glre Our JailIlreakrrs Points. AUaLabad Pioneer. For some months Raojee Koli, a notorious robber, behaved well. Ilia devoted wife then appeared and petitioned for Rome jewels, which she asserted were Her own property. Anyhow, sho loitered about, and it in said she had nn interview- with him. 'Whether she helped or not in what happened afterwards is best known to those who must have assisted our native Jack Sheopard in his wonderful escape. It ia asserted that at 5 r. i. he was locked up in one of the solitary cells, which had an ironbarred door and walls sixteen feet high, with a batten and Mangalore tiled roof. The next morning Kaojea was non est. His eseape was no mystery when tbe mode was carefully examined. He appears to have been provided with a light lope some twenty-two feet Ions:, which is usually used for the weaving weft. To this was knotted atape from his pyjama; at the end of tbe tape ho ia sunposed to have tied his cap withalittlo mad in it. and had adroitly thrown it so an to pass between tbe beam of the root and the tiles, By a little shaking the weighted cap brought down this end of the rope within reach. When all was quiet he appears, or is said, to have swarmed up tbe rope and most professionally removed the heavy tiles, placing them carefully one on top of the other. When the hole was sufficient to admit his body he got through and drew the rope after him to assist in getting down from tbe roof. When this feat was accomplished he had to circumvent the watchers and clear the inner and outer wall and pass the sentries. Nothing daunted, he appears to have made for the central tower by getting out of his own ward, wriggled into the hospital ward and made for the outer ward at the back of the hospital. Here he placed an iron tin against the wull, but found he was too short to reach the top with its aid, so he went to the buildiugand wrenched off one of tbe shut ters of a window, thereby procuring nails, which he fixed in the wall to assist in getting on the top. This was easily accomplished. To descend on the other side was nothing for him; but tbe nxt question was a more serious one that was surmounting the outer wall, which varied from eighteen to twenty feet in height. Even this had be?n thought of, as be walked half round the jail to the blacksmith-shop, situated between the outer and inner wails, where he forced open the chest, armed himself with an implement sufficient for his pur pose, and next proceeded to the superintendent's otlice. which it next to the Sepoys' guard-room. The padlock offered little resistance. The contents of tbe prisoners' property-box were soon ransacked. Appropriating forty rupees in cash and riggiug himself out in the best suit of clothes of under-trial prisoners, he proceeded to the outer wall, where he must havo been some time listening to the footsteps of the sentinel, and at the same time working through the wall with his blacksmith's implement daring the interval between the sentry's visits. At last, when all but through, his keen hearing pointed to the time for the removal of the last impediment, and he was free,, with forty rupees in his pocket and a good suit of clothes to his back. Thus ended a well-planned, skillful and daring escape, much to the chagrin of the jail authorities and tbe contingent guard, whoso sentry shortly afterwards stumbled over the debris accumulated on his footfiath, which bad not been there when he ast passed that way. In a Religions Conference. Boston Transcript. Conservative doctor of divinity objeets to temale preachers, especially on account of their feebleness of voice and indistinctness of aiticulation. Distinguished and indignant lady membei (from tbe rear of tbe hsll. in the voice of a lioness)"! will thank th brother to speak louder; in this part of the hall I caunot hear a word he says." Doctor of divinity fsuaviterj "I Leg to advise our sister to apply at once to my friend. Dr. of Boylston street, the celebrated aursit. who will relieve, if anybody can, the painful infirmity to which she refers."

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CHILI'S BIG CELEBRATION

A Patriotic Display Prescribed by Law, and Refusal to Participate Is Risky. A Celebration Which Continues Several Days and Remits in Various Sorts of Excesses Barbarities of the Recent War. Special Correspondence ot tit Sunday Journal. Concepciox de Chili, Sept. 5. Returned to tbe haunts of man, we learn that during those weeks of journeying in the wilderness, surrounded by unconquerable Indians, our lives have been more secure than had we remained in any city of Chili, where war has been rampant in its worst formthat of brother against brothor attended by mob rule, incendiary conflagrations, rapine ond murders innumerable. The telegrams, which brought you the main facts of rebel victories, have told you none of the grim particulars. I want to impress npon my friends in the distant north that in forming their judgment of this Chilian controversy & few things should not be left out of account. In tbe first place, remember that the faction now dominating Chili oontrols all telegraphic and cable communication with the outer world, and therefore no accounts unfavorable to themselves ore being sent abroad. On the contrary, their paid disseminators of alleged "news'' have scrupulously omitted auy allusion to tbe court-martials that invariably end in murder, confiscation of tbe property of many private individuals whose only crime was that of having remained loyal to tbe government, countless assassinations, and carte blanche to pillage and destroy, which is known tohave been given in several instances by the triumphant leaders to their blood-crazed followers. They speak, instead, of the "merciful policy of the victors" and even while riots were, raging in the cities and unparalleled , atrocities being hourly committed, declared that "peace and order havo been restored." A mark of the civilization of any land is its treatment of a conquered foe. A fair sample of the "mercy" that prevails in Chili was shown in tbe illumination of their homes and other demonstrations of joy by the powers that now be, when the deposed and conquered ex-President, who certainly could do no more harm, lay dead in the capital city, having taken his own life in the voiu nope of saving from further persecution his few faithful friends, and in the wholesale- dispensing of free wbisky for tbe purpose of inciting the irresponsible ri 11-rnLt to a ghoulish celebration of that sad occasion. Bemeraber. the end is not jet. Impartial history will by-and-by render a different account of these stirring ovonts, and then poor Balmaceda, now suu'erintt the world's contumely, will be written down as one who. though perhaps misguided, held the interests of his couutry nearer at heart tban docs tho prtest-controlled faction which defeated him. assisted by English brains and capital, for mercenary purposes. HOSTILITY TO AMERICAN'S. The hostile feeling toward .Americans, industriously fostered by interested Britons, grows more and more bitter in Chili, with the Itata farce and the action of tho United States government in not sooner recognizing the rebels for a presrnt excu3e. If it were .not rtk6so' alleged caases others would be trumped up to suit the occasion equally well. The fact is, as one with half an eye should see, our English cousins are making too much money ont of this far-away corner of the globo to willingly share any portion of it with Americans. In the lineof monopolizing all there is of value in a couutry on which he can lay hands or gai u a foothold 'by hook or crook" the thrifty Briton stands without an equal, us witness in Baja, Cal., Belize, the Mosquito Coast, and other sections of the western hemisphere. To an "inside observer" it Feems atrango that the world is slow to understand tbe secret animus of the present conllict the last struggle of the Church of Home to regain its lost grip, allied, in Us desperation, with a few English capitalist-, wboso interest is not in Chilian patriotism or religion, but in Chilian nitrate and other article of commerce. And it is amusing to note how some excited journals call upon tho President of the United States aud his Cabinet to tremble in their shoes because of the hostile attitude assumed toward thorn ' by this pnny and unstable republic. Ucclu Samuel is still abundantly able to tauo euro of his own in any part of tho world, and in time even this arrogant "junta" may come to understand that its favor or disfavor is a matter of profound indifference to the citizens of "God's country." In spite of his conceit, ihero ia something refreshing in the patrirtism of the typical Chilian, though it consists in killing everybody who dibagrees with him, if ho can. While we, as a Nation, have grown somewhat ashamed of our old-fashioned Fourth of .Inly, and the Declaration of Independence, to which we nre indebted for existence, is remembered for little more than the butt of professional jokers, the true Chlleno will cut the throat of any man who refuses to celebrate with him the 18th of September. There is a law in tho land requiring every house to have a flag staff, to hang out the national banner by day nnd a lantern at night, on nil anniversaries of the republic. Chilian vanity goes still further, and insists that all the schools must use text-books by native authors, all' the bauds must play the musio of native composers; and visiting opera or concert singers must introduce the songs of the country into all their performances. Although there is nowhere a more discordant and unruly people nowhere so much murder and other serious crimes yet the cruel sold:er and the hunted bandit, tbe tmaghty don and the patient peon are one in their love of country and their firm conviction that it is the mightiest on the face of tbe earth. POTEST WORDS. In the Spanish language, Diez y ocho (ten and eight) means eighteen, and among Chilenos the words have special reference to the national independence, which was declared on Sept. 13, 1818, The finest residence street in proud old Santiago, the city of palaces, is named the calle (street) of Diez y Ocho. All over the land there are Diez y Ocho plazas, Diez y Ocho saloons, manufactories and estates, and many children, male and female, who wore so unfortunate as to be born near that patriotic date are burdened with the three cabalistio words for a front name. At this festive time of the year the law compels the people to paint their houses, to clean tbe streets and to furbish up things generally, both inside and out. Every woman in Chili mt'it have a new gown for the Diez y ocho, and in the matter of bonnets, it is to tha creme de la creme of Santiago what Earter Sunday is to society belies in the North. Flags streaming over ever doorway transform the street into long vistas of bunting tbe beautiful Chilian banner, with its single white stripe on a blue ground, and two stripes, one white one red interspersed by the colors of foreign officials. Even the cook in our house has felt the contagion of reform, and this morning I found her industriously pushing tbe dirt from the middle of the kitchen floor into the corners. "Why are you doing tbatf Dolores." I asked. "For the Diez y ocho. Senorita," she replied. Thongh the people are poorer tban ever this year, it will be a f:reat day or rather a great week. The ower classes are always ready for frolicking, whether the occasion be a wedding or a funeral; and for a wealthy family to refrain front celebrating, whether their hearts are in it or not, would be dangerous at this juncture, for the "Junta" might construe it into an evidence of sympathy for tbe "lost cause" of Balmaceda. The municipalities usually recognize three days as the legal time for feasting and rejoicing, daring which no

body can be compelled to labor the lth instant for assembling of the people from the conntry, the lbth for horseback riding and general jolification, the 19th for abatn battles between chosen divisions of soldiers, tbe tournament, racing, etc Most of tbe people, however, spend tho entire week, night and day. in one uninterrupted round of festivities, in preparing for which many of the poor soil everything they possess in order to secure pocket money for the occasion; and in some circles the merrymaking 18 kept ud far into October. By the way. here is a hint for travelers. In most foreign countries, and especially m Spanish America, it is quite the correct thing to visit pawn-shops, wherein may be picked up many choice and curious souvenirs, sucn. for example, as diamonds in antique settings, golden spoons, silver candlesticks, splendidly-embroidered shawls, silver-plated spurs, prayer-books bound in mother of pearl, etc A few weeks after Diez y ocho, when the short time has elapsed daring which these may be redeemed by their owners (and they seldom are redeemed) is tbe best time for pawn-shop purchasing. The funniest part of this patriotic seasou is the preliminary spree which always precedes tbe regular celebration by just two weeks, and is supposed to appropriately lead up to it. This extra jollification is known as Diez y ocho chico, "Little Eighteen," and is continued from one to three days. Though participated in by all classes, from tbe President down to tbe humblest peon, it is not considerd quite so swell as the later celebration. THE FICKLE POPULACE. I spent last Diez y ocho chico in Santiago only one little year ago. and what changes have taken place. Then the hero of tbe hour, surrounded by his happy family, was tbe now despised Balmaceda. The troubles that culminated in bis melancholy suicide were already begun, but nobody dreamed that they would end in war. At tbe races last year, and the subsequent dress parade on tbe fashionable drive, the Balmaceda coach, containing the President, his handsome wife and two young daughters, were the observedof all observers; ami the rabble who lately shouted with joy at his death were as ready then to rend tbe air with vivas in his honor. With that irresponsible element it is "Le roy est mort; vive le roy." Their allegiance is given to the star that happens to be in the ascendant, and they will be just as ready to welcome another overturning. One year ago the late President was not only a popnlar and happy man, bat very rich one. and that poverty could ever overtake him or his seemed entirely out of the question; yet he died so poor that all the money ho possessed had been given to him by his wife from her private fortune to assist his flight Tho widow and her children aro left not only penniles?, but homeless, for the victors wantonly burned and sacked their house, as well as that of Balmaceda's aged mother. in this third city of tho Republio the patriotism of Diez y ocho chico has been rampant for twenty-four hours, and still cannons are booming and bands are playing "viva Chile." and carriages dashing to and fro carrying gaily-dressed people with glad faces. Hundreds of yonng caballeroi, mounted on prancing steeds with wonderfully ornamented saddles and trappings, nro galloping about like mad to display their equestrian skill and prepare for the afternoon's tournament. Tbe fashionable resort of Concepcion is tbe Alameda, which lies in the outskirts of the city, snng up against a hill which rises abruptly to the height of a thousand feet, and though at least fifty years old few attemptshave ever been made to beautify it. Lombardy poplars grow thickly in long rows from end to end of the Alameda. On either side of : tho first line of noble trees, rows of tents have been set some inado of boards covered with cloth, some of old carpets and others of canvas. These motly houses are occupied during Diez y ocho by thousands of country people, ail dressed in their best whole neighborhoods toiteiner. bent on haviug a week ofr tborouk' enjoj-ment. Every tent appears to serve as a hotel, for iu front of each womvn ore constantly preparing foodsome knediog dough, othors brewingsoup, and others frying onion-odorous tomales in kettles of boiling fat. Inside, on fibelve, more delicacies are exposed for sale such, for instance, as huge turkeys, each baked with bend and feet intuct aud a green olive in his bill. Should you call for a meal at one of these hostelrtes you would find the menu about as follows: Soup, made of chopped clams. beef kidneys, cabbage and onions; tho lungs of fat pigs, broiled; boiled sea-crabs, garnished with tbe grilled entrails of pigs; roosted "sea-urchins," served in their purple shells: fried li&h, with sauce prepared from ow feet; roast turkey, stuffed with onions, spices, red peppers and coriander: fried peas, pepper salad, bread, cheeso and verba mate the tea of Paraguay, sipped, boiling hot, through a silver tube the sizo of a straw. You can take the whole course, standing, lor the modest sum of about g'J; or, if more economically inclined, you may find a cheaper alternative on tho back side of the same tent, where, for 25 cents, yon can joined the family dinner of boiled meat and vegetables, all eating from the same wooden bowl; and an extra medio (6 cents) will secure you two or three glasses of wine with which to wash it down. DKVOTKES OK PLEASL'ItE. Every tent is a ball-room and a saloon, ns well as a hotel, whero two or three young women sing the plaintive airs of tho cuaca, accompanying their voices with guitars, while couple after couple come solemnly forward, twirl their handkerchiefs aud dance, and the bystanders keep time by the clapping of hands. Casks, barrels and bottles of wine are strewn all about, and so, while some "trip the light fantastic," others drink; and they in turn dance ana drink again, until all become too top-heavy tor further effort. Here comes a handsome country girl, in high-heeled shoes and closefitting gown of navy blue, with bright black eyes and cheeks like roses. She twirls her handkerchief in the euaca with a young rustic in poncho, boots and spurs until loino old woman remarks: "Oh, she must have her wine to keep her heels going." "So sho must." echoes tbe rustic .and he tills a goblet to the brim which she tosses otl, laughing, at a single gulp. Other swains come in for a dance with the same damsel, she is so protty and sprightly, and each admirer must treat her to a

big glass of the "rosy." Her heels fly fast aud her tongue faster; but presently she steps high, as if the floor suddenly roso up to meet her. and, though still showing pearly teeth in a smile and coqnettishly waving her handkerchief, ebe staggers and sinks down gracefully In a corner. 'Tobracita" (poor, dear thing), says somebody, "ebe needs a little sleep." We look into the next tent just in time to seo a regular Sampson of a man, with a head like a bullock's, tumbling down among empty casks and other rubbish, where men and women are already piled in drunken slumber. Scores of people on every aide are in some stage of intoxication, but there is no disorder, nor quarreling, nor loud talking. Tho wine being the pure juice of the grape, it produces no ill effects but a temporary stupor, irhich soon wears oft. For tbe amusement of those not caring to dance, tbe municipality has rigged up several playthings. One of them is called a rompe cabeza, "break tbe head," and seems to be well named. It is a block of wood, in the shape of a triangular prism, about seven feet long by one foot wide, poised in a perpendicular position about eight feet from the ground, and so perfectly balanced that the lightest touch causes it to revolve. Some one places a real on the solid framework at one eud, and tells the boys that he who crawls across the balanced triangle may have the money. About one boy in a dozen succeeds in winning the prize, the others being thrown to the ground with more or less violence, to the unbounded delight of tbe populace. There is also a pole, planted firmly in the ground, straight, smooth and sixty feet long. This is smeared with grease to the very top, where a fat-looking nurse is suspended, said to contain a large sum of money, to be given to whoever gets it by climbing. There Is not a hoy in Concepcion but thinks it is worth trying for, to the ruin of numberless clean suits f linen. A fat roan suggests to tbe crowd that it is not an impossibility to climb "that there pole." Another tells of a man in Santiago who climbed hundreds of greased poles Tn the course of a long and useful life, by

merely rolling himself in sand; and finally at thn top of one ho found a purse containing S10.0U0 in bank checks. Immediately every boy rushes otl, and presently returns covered witn sand and dirt. The crowd increases to thousands, and the grease is rapidly disappearing from the bottom of the poll. Finally, after several hundred dollars' worth of Sunday garments havo been hopelessly ruined, a ragged urchin, with legs and arms tied up in sand-paper, shins up tbe pole like a eqmrrel aud comes down with the coveted package which Is found to contain exactly one paper dollar, worth at present about 1W cents in United States money. Fannie B. Waiu. SICKLY INDIANA CATTLE.

Dr. Ttjlor, of tt e State Board of Health, Girts the History of the insidious Epizootic Aptha, f pedal to tbe IndUnspous Journal. Crawfordsvillt, Ind., Oct. ia Dr. J ohn N. Taylor, president of the State Board of Health, has prepared the following facta in regard to the disease that is raging among cattle in Vorious sections of this State: "Epizootic aptha. or what is more commonly known as foot-and-mouth disease, is now prevailing to a consideroble extent in Montgomery county, as well as in other parts of the State. Epizootie aptha. so far as is known, tfrst made its appearance in England in tbe spring of ISoV. and spread rapidly over that country, Ireland and Scotland, prevailed for about two years, and then gradually disappeared. Since that time it has appeared in various localities at longer or shorter iutervals. "It is in its essential character a contagious eruptive fever that attacks all warmblooded animals, including man himself, under certain circumstances. It consists of an inflammatioii of tbe mucous membranes of the month, nose and throat, of the conjunction of the eye, the hairless portions of the skin, the coronet and clefts ot the horns. In a psnod varying from twenty-four houre to four days after exposure to the contagion, a cow will exhibit symptoms of shivering, followed by fever, the hair will lose its luster, lameness will appear, the eyes weep, the nostrils run. and saliva will drop from the mouth. The animal then ce asps to eat. and an examination of the month will show the cause. The inside of the lips and cheeks are covered with vehicles, if examined within eighteen hours, after which time there appear shallow nlcors with intensely reddened margris. An examination of the feet will show that in the clefts of tbe hoofs are the same vessiclcs and ulcersf.causing great pain and lameness. "Usually, in favorable cases, at the end of the fourth day tbe animal begins to Improve, and soon all symptoms disappear. It sometimes happens, however, that tbe ulcers become very deep, blood poisoning sets in and the animal either dies or recovers very slowly. "As soon as it is discovered that one of a herd is so attacked it should be separated from the others, and a veterinarian sent for who will institute such measures of cure and preventive as are heeded." m FIRST ALUMIXIU3I 1IOAT. Made In Germany and Successfully Tried on ibe Lake of Zurlclu rhtladeJplila Telegraph. The aluminium factory of Esher. Wyss & Co., in Zurich the first company in Europe that has achieved any practical results in the manufacturing of the new metal by means of an electrical current has just turned out the first aluminium boat of the world, and nas sent it to the electrical exposition at Frankfort, in Germany, writes a Berlin correspondent. Before it was sent away, however, it was tried on tbe Lake of Zurich, where, also, tho first trial of the naptha motor and tho electrio launch took place. The new boat has the sizo and shape of an ordinary steam launch for ten .perbons, aud is driven by un engine very similar to that of the naphtha boats, with the only diff erence that the llame is kept constantly going, whether the boat is in motion or not. The hull looks as if it were covered with slate-colored paint. Upon closer inspection, however, it is been that this is the dull gray sheen of tbe metal itself. Insido everything has the same gray color with the exception of a few wooden benches and utensils, of course for everything is made of aluminum, the screws, bandies and hinges, as well as tbe small smokestack, which is polished so as to resemble frosted silver. Not only the visible parts, but also the rudder, the screw and the engine-house are made of the new metal. Tbe engine-house alone weighs pounds, or noarly half the weight of nearly all the aluminium in tho boat. As one pound of the metal at present costs about $2, it is easy to calculate the average price of such a launch. The weight of the whole boat with its boiler and pipes of copper and the anchor and one anchor chain of iron is b0 pounds, nearly one-half the weight of a two-horse-power naphtha launch of tbe same sizo. The fact that it ean be made so much lighter than any boat of wood or iron for the specific weight of aluminium compared to iron is 2 to 7 of course is ono of tbe advantages of the new boat. At the lirst trial of speed at Zurich it made seven miles an hour, two miles more tban the average speed of the Zurich naptha launches. In a boat of auother construction, and with a more powerful motor, of .course, the rate of speed could be considerably increased. Another advantage which will recommend itself to most boatbuilders is thatnone of tho more important parts, like the screw or the rudder, have to be protected against rust, for aluminium neither rnsts nor tarnishes. It is thisquallty. also, together with its lightness, which has recommended it extensively for cbeaD jewelry, curl' buttons, cane handles, operaglasses and the like. Whether the new boat will have such a commercial success remains to be seen. IIow Gravy Hoped a Woman Journalist. London Truth. 1 never saw any one who filled a station of dizzy height with a more lovel head or a more charming graciousnest of manner than the late ex-President. His deportment at great receptions was ideal. The broad red ribbon of the Legion of Honor athwart his waistcoat appeared to stimulate him. One could take small liberties with him. "M. le President. I'm dying to have a good close view of Queen Isabella, who is now surrounded by tbe diplomatio circle. How can I manage it!" said a lady joornalist one evening to him. "I'll manage it." was the answer; "go into the greenhouse and wait there." M. (Jrevy a little later took her Majesty round tbe groundfloor rooms. ' She had on a lace dreas. and he contrived that it should, through no apparent fault of his, get caught in a thorny plant. The lady journalist was asked to disentangle the flimsy garment, and to pin up a rent. This done, tbe much-obliged Queen, to whom M. Orevy presented her, returned thanks, and the whole thing passed oQ" like a natural accident. F. Grevy's eye twinkled, and as cood as said: "There now! Am I not n sly old fellow, and deserving of your best thanks!'' Isabella was hia-client from 1809 to 1879. He had brought her husband to separate quietly from her, and rendered her any number of services as a counselor and friend. She usea to go and dine with Madame Grovy. and insisted on obtaining for him the knighthood of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Saw a run Swallow Ills Watch. Wasco Timr s. A rather strange as well as amusing incident happened on board tbe schooner Emma Clara whilo at sea last Saturday on her way up from Kockport. They were well out at sea. where the water was blue and clear and tho wind very light, when one of the passengers discovered a large fish, which is known in those waters as a linn, following close behind the boat. Several of tbe boys were soon leaning over the stern admiring the fish, when one of them accidentally dropped his watch overboard out of bis overshirt pocket. It was a large, old-fashioned Swiss silver watch, and when it hit tbe water it glanced oti sideways and darted on its voyage to the bottom of the sea, but the linn saw it. and as be is a fish that Litre tat everything that shines, regardless of flavor or taste, opened his huge mouth and swallowed tbe watch at one gulp. The surprised and chaarined youug mau says that the watch had just beeu wound up and was good to tick away for twenty-four hours at least. The fish seemed to enjoy the meal and followed leisurely after the boat for tome time.

METHODIST SPELL-BINDEKS

rcn-Pictares of DistlEguIsbcd Participants in the Ecumenical Council. Tersonal Appearance and Characteristics t Bishops Bovman, Keener, Carman, Fetter, Hurst, Dr. Stephenson and Others. Special Correspondence of tis fundi Jourtil Washington, Oct. a That unique body tbe only gathering of the kind ever held in America the Ecumenical Methodist Conference, is sow in setsion, and for two weeks the focus of Methodist eyes the world over will be the Metropolitan Church of this city, an edifice which, as the Immediate scene of a conclave so important and memorable, will be regarded in the years to come as one of the historio landmarks of Methodistio progress. It is not at all Inappropriate to call this a world's conference, for geographically it represents the world, the delegates coming, cot only from every part of Europe and America, but from China, from India, from Australia, and ono even from the island of Fiji. Numerically also may it lay claim to this broad deslgnanation; for, as one of the speakers has truthfully said, the Methodist faith is riot only stronger than any other on this west em continent, but it is, with a single exception, the most numerous Protestant body, among people of English speech, cs the face of tho globe In the opening esercises of such ahodx two things are Inevitable. One is sure to see on the platform its leading men; and just as surely, from what is said and done by these leaders, will a fair prophoey be at forded of the results which aro likely to ensne from its deliberations. When interest on the opening day was at full tide, thcro was turned upon the platform a flash ot light which made it possible to take an in stantaneous photograph of the scene. Pend ing the development of that picture, sup pose your correspondent, by a few rhetor. ical flashes, should offer a pencil picture of the scene. To sketch it adequately is out of the question. Those who were present felt that it was an occasion never to bo for gotten, and which it would have been al most a calamity to have missed. The first to mount the rostrum is Bishop Bowman, to whom, as senior bishop of tho M. E. Church, the honor falls of having to call this distinguished body to order. 1 his gentleman, from his diminutive stature, his clean-shaven and spiritual features, his thin, compressed lips and white, lowing locks, is said to bear a striking resecv blence to the father of this numerous famiiy, John Wesley. Under the guidance of those who have drafted the programme, Bishop Bowman begins at once to summon to their posts of honor tho other Methodist chieftains. The name of Uishop Keener is called, and tho gentleman answering to it. who is the senior episcopate of tbe Church South, is a man of middle height, with somewhat of a pallid countenance, which, however, wears an unmistakable stamp of refinement and intellectual strength, and with a forward inclination of the head that stoop, if we may so call it, which is often found in those long addicted to stndy, and which in a venerable prelate of Bishop Keener years and standing is as becoming as the long, silken hair which seems to fall back, as with an inclination of respect, lrom his Websterian forehead. BISHOPS CAKMAN AIO FOSTER. Others who flndTplices on the platform are Bishop Carman, of the Methodist Church of Canada, and Bishon 1L 6. FoKtcr, of the M. E. Church of the United States. The former, like the church ho represents, is small and of a rather self-deprecatory bearing. He is moro English than American in very polite, his eauvity. appearance very prim, and yet, with all looking as though he could both take his ground and keep it if the occasion should demand lirmces, and being, as those who know him aver, every inch a bishop, though his people, from an unaccountable aversion to titles which smack of prelacy, call him only a general superintendent. Bishop Foster is an ideal episcopate in all respects. His presence is massive without being m tbo least gross his face strong and yet kindly; his inaia;er dignified, though with no suggestion of arrogance, aud the glistening white hair which crowns his intellectual-looking head seems as much in place as the sheen of enow on tbe brow of a towering and mysterious mountain. To descend from bishops to common folk who, however, are only common in then lack of tho episcopal title that largelraraed man with a bald cranium, but with a beard long enough to quite make up for tho hair he lacks on his head, is Kcv. T. B. Stephenson, D. 1).. president of the largest Methodist body in Great Britain. He ia the first real live Wetdeyan president whe has ever been allowed to leave Great Britain during his term of otlice, and if all who have tilled this otlice aro as genial aud sparkling and able as the present inenmbent wo cannot but think that tbe close detention of these gentlemen in their own little island is un injustice to Methodism elsewhere which ought to be severely condemned. Next to Dr. Stephenson sits tbe idol of the Methodistio heart in both hemispheres. the saintly, scholarly, seraphio William Arthur, voluminous and great as an author, and once a llame of tiro in the pulpit, but now, in old age, laboring under such weakness of tho throat that ho is compelled to abstain from public address; a disability on his part which tinfortunately puts the conference under the disability of having to take his opening sermon at second hand or second mouth, to speak more properly which is never so good as to catch what is said as the words come steaming li;t from the lips of the man in whoso brain and heart they had their origin. if till. I)r. Stephenson, who read this discourse, did quite well with it. and if nuo was very anxions to look at Dr. Arthur while hearing from him, one had but to glanco to the left of the reader and thcro he wac, an undersized man in physique, but with an enormous soul; pale, delicate and quito feeble looking, but intellectually and spiritually a very Hercules; silent, and j-et, as another spoke his words, showing 6uch an allluence of tbo oratorical temperament, and ench deep sympathy with the thrae and tho occasion, that his eyes sparkled and his frame twitched, almost as rr should have expected them to do had tt& noble and inspiring sentiments been falling there and then from his own lips. . tiic orcxixo aidri:ssi:f." Interest on this opening day culminated with the addresses of welcome and the responses they brought out For tbrco solid hours, with only the short breaks needed to introduce the speakers, did that favored audience sit literally spellbound at the feet of those great Methodist orators. There were six speeches, each different from tho others in both matter and style, each having some distinctive excellence, all being first-class, and most of them approximating to the grand and even sublime. With years of observation and experience in great church gatherings, we do not remember an occasion when the How of speech from o many diflerent sources maintained so high a level or cave such continuous delight to those so favored as to enjoy it. Bishop Hurst was so happy and wellrolsed as to defy disturbance by even the Hash turned upon him for photograpbie tmrpotes. though, for a moment, many of the audience felt as though a llash of lightning had struck tbe plattorm; and in very truth there was lightning of the rrometheau kind playing on that ever memorable opening day all about that platform and radiating constantly all over that enraptured and spellbound audience. And to carry out oursimile.when the ornate and scholarly Hurst had finished those flashing sentences which made his hearers