Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1893 — Page 3

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1893.

HIS FIItST SERMON

Dr. Coultas Preaches to His New Flock at Roberts Park Church. The Impression Mailc Was a Distinctly Favorable One Minister and Ilia Work Talk to Yoniiff People. Her. Dr. Coultas, thft new pastor of Roberts Park, preached bis first sermon In Indianapolis yesterday morning. A largo audience beard the remarks of the new minister and left the church highly srati lied with the impression made by the new divine. Some special preparations bad been mado for the occasion in the way of floral decorations and the altars were appropriately banked in potted plants and palms. Dr. Coaltas's text was based upon the words of Cor. 1. 23. which raads, 'We preach Christ crucified." lie opened bis remarks with a lew words calculated to introduce himself to bis audience, and hoped that tho congregation would at once receive biin as its pastor and as such patiently hear him. He explained the embarrassment witn which a minister meets as a stranger the people with whom he is to be identified. and begged that be be not beard critically. Dr. Coultas is in the prime of bin years and possesses a pleasing person ality, which, with his expression of sincerity and candor, at oncft took him into the hearts of his bearers. The new pastor ia of stout build and speaks m a quick, decisive manner. Kev. Coaltas's remarks were deToted to the Christian minister and what be should be. Two spccilic essentials went to make up the Christian minister. The lirst is the office, the second, the- object. .Theouice is to preach; the object is the supreme exaltation of Christ. Dr. Coultas pointed out the ureat Paul as the true and grand exemplification of the Christian minister. Between the life of Paul and the life of fcaul bo drew a tine comparison, although in the life of the latter could be found that same uncompromising allegiance to principal found in the first. Taking Paul as an example the speaker went on to define the duties of the Christian minister. This world is full of trumpet voices calling upon tho Christian minister for help, but amidst this work let him not forget his special function; let him not forget that which ditlerentiates bim from the world, that his commission has been written in the blood of the Lamb. Paul declared that be was not to baptize, butto preach. Otoor sacraments were put into the bands of others. He bad only to preach, and if churches are wise they will relieve the pastor ot many demands so that lie may be permitted to preach more. We are led into the delusion that there is not the demand for preachers there once was. but there has never yet been a successful religious movement that was not brought about through the eloquence of the preacher. The church needs a tongue of fire; a cold, impassiouate tongue ia useless. The church needs men who can place tho imagination and tire in the heart as w,ell as men who can instruct tho head. We need brains in the pulpit. It is a fatal mistake to trust in the sanguine youth, where experince is needed. Christ is the preacher's theme. Boundless, limitless and unconquerable he stands before and above all. Who can begin to understand such an utterance? The preacher's theme he cannot see unless he becomes great. In order to see goodness there must be some good In the man. We preach a Christ to-day that is related to all the interests of men, and He came to save not only from the retribution of the next world bat the sins ot a guilty conscience. The Christ we preach is He who can save the whole man as well as the sonl. Those who sweep the heavens with the telescope doubtless see something of Him but they only sue the fringe of His robe as compared with those who walk with bim in the soul. The man who preaches Christ according to his opportunities is applying a greater good to his fellowxnt.ii than ever before. In coucluding his remarks the pastor expressed the belief that the members ot the church would continue in the evanttclistio work for which they have been noted and congratulated tb church upon ita good work in the past. With theaasistance of the youth and vivacity with whioh the younger members of the congregation are endowed be hoped that the church would move on with asweeping bound that would be well nigh resistless. SERMON TO YOUTH. Rev. Frank O. IUUarrt Talks to Young Tropin nx 31moriul Church. Rev. Frank O. Ballard, of the Memorial Presbyterian Churcb.lastevening preached the first of a scries of five October evening sermons to young men and women to a crowded church. His subject was "The Gift that Comes but Once." and his sermon was devoted to youth, its characteristics, ita joys and its opportunities. In the course of his remarks be said: "You are tho ureat reserve, corps of humanity. You will be the owners of all tho property on tho globe. You will remold tun laws and tho institutions ot men. Where vice and virtue grapple, where light ami darkness contest it will rest with you to turn the battln at the gate. Whatyou are to-day in purpose the world will tomorrow be in power. In tho rise and fall ot empires, in the drcuy and regem-si of system the now generation is tuer the aent ot divine Providence to curry on the truth. "We can easily efe why the race must couio in wnvrn. generation after generation. It n le cause ouch generation can do only a limited work. Generally it can think but omt great thought; it enn do but one ureat truutf. Alter that it Minplv broods upon what it has thought and done. Humanity is like a ttrand army which in its veteran days holds its camp fires and rebettraen it contests, builds its monuments and writes its history. 1 say. again, no generation cm think much new tbought or do much new tired. Tber'b must cornea day tor each generation when it shall be taken olY tho stage, and the world be put into the hand ot a new generation. "The young are earnest. They ought not to be solemn. They ought to bo glad, as only earnent people can really be. They may bubble over with health aud good nature, but that is by no means contrary to reliioon; it is part ot it. "There is no opportunity like youth. Thero is no eeusitiveuess t God and truth like youth; there is no unpreoccupie J soil ltkt youth. Let these advantages go and yon may cry at the gates: you mav struggle at the doors. You may in late years beat your callous heart and strive aaintt your eutaugliug conditions, but your former advantages will never come back. You may ensily brush from the urape tho delicate bloom which covers it touch will su tlice but no viueyardist can ever put it on attain. And m, if yon let this rude world touch your innocence brush the . A Weak Digestion strange as it may seem, is caused from a lack of that which is never exactly digested fat. The greatest fact in connection with SS3tt'8 EiMifeliA appears at this point it is partly digested fat and the most weakened digestion is quickly strengthened by it. The only possible help in Consumption is the arrest of waste and rencwal cf new, healthy tissue. Scott's Emulsion has done wonders in Consumption just this way. fTTCfd rnt 1 1 Down. X. V. AUdrofvifts.

bloom oft vonr spirit dash from it the i

light and color left by the lincer of heaven, the cluster of your life may be fouled upon tho street or broken in the wino vat, but never will there come again by God. or man, or ansel the bloom that childhood left when it fondly and sadly departed from you with farewell kiss and holy prayer. O keep, keep, as with the armor of battle that which is committed to thy trust. "When the lover goes to see the lady of his dreams and steps into the garden that be may pluck for her a flower be passes by the rose full bloom and takes the just-opening bud. That is tho perfection of a Uower. And so my lover of God. if yon want to present to the Chiefest among Ten Thousand what is most choice and most worthy yon must take your justopeningyoungmanhood and young womanhood, with the dews of the morning on it and bring itfresh into his waiting hand. Do not wait to blow into the faoo of God the wasted ashes and snulfof a long spent, selfish, worldly and lustful life and call that an acceptable sacrifice. Do not be so mean. Give Him the fairest-in your whole life's crardcu. Give Ilira your youth. His own rarest His unreduplicated tifttoyou." For St. Andrew's Brotherhood. At St Paul's Church, last night. Mr. Silas MoBee. an entertaining speaker of tha University cf the South, at Sewanee. Tenn. addressed a large audience on behalf of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. The address was well chosen and was highly appreciated. VACCINATION STATISTICS. A Follower of .Tenner Closes tho Debate for His Side of the Case. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In your issue of Friday Dr. Clark, of Indianapolis, replied to my communication of Wednesday in regard to tho Keller statistics. I now desire to add a few remarks upon the subject and I am done. The Doctor says "the real question at issue is not whether the little set of Keller statistics, merely cited by me and not laid great stress upon, as he states aro reliable or not. but is whether or no vaccination is a safeguard against smallpox." 1 agree as to the "real question at lsam ' but 1 am of the opinion that the Keller, c : any othe statist tics cited are important as to their reliability. What I objected to was Dr. Clark's quoting Keller's statistics when he knew they were gotten up with the intent to deceive. He quoted the statistics, but did not quote what the Reference Hand-book said about them. The Doctor agatn says my "ancient history regarding the 'had been' of smallpox a hundred and more years ago. before the introduction of vaccination, was interesting but musty, and really has little bearing on the question in hand." The "ancient history" may tuivo been 'moaty." but I contend that ifhas a decided "bearing on the question in band. By means of that bit of "ancient history" I conclusively proved that smallpox ha9 decreased wonderfully since the introduction of vaccination. What has caused this marvelous decrease! Has it been vaccination or has it merely happened sot It Is the all but universal opinion that vaccination caused it. Vaccination, like every important discovery which has over been made, has had opponents from tho very outset. Galileo was persecuted, tried and forbidden to "ever agaiu teacn the motion of the earth and stability ot the sun." Very lew people believed his theory, and those that did wereimprlsoned. Yet this has been overcome, and it is now the accepted theory, although some people still believe the snn revolves around the earth. Kev. John Jasper teaches that the "sun do move," and just a few years aso (within the past eight years) a debate took place in . an opera house in the enlightened State of Indiana between Capt. Horace Bates and the Hon. Adam Smith (not the authorof tbe"Vealth of Nations") as to whether or not the sun moves. ' And it is even said that Mr. Smith proved, by the Bible, that the earth is stationary and the sun revolves around it every twenty-four hours. The judges decided the question in favor of Mr. Smith. Does this decision sottlo the question in Mr. Smith's favor? The large majority of tho people of civilized countries are Christians, and it ia the generally aocepted religion, but in the'eity of Indianapolis are a number of estimable and educated people who aro followers of .Madame Blavatsky. Is this an indicatioa that Christianity is wrong! Jenner stated, in 1S01, that six thousand persons bad been vaocinated. At the present day a fair estimate of the annual number of vaccinations performed throughout the world may be stated to be at leat "0,000,000, which would amount to 40 per cent, of an estimated annual number of births of 5J.000.OCO. It is an indisputable fact that more persons have bcon vaccinated than there aro Christians or . believers In Galileo's theory. In view of this fact the attitude of the anti-vaccin-ationists reminds mo or the position assnmed by the one lono juror, with eleven men opposed to his verdict. He afterward said "thero were eloveu of the most contrary men on that jury that 1 ever Haw." There are as good reasons for saying that theosophy in right and Christianity wrons. or for Haying that the aim revolves around the earth as to say that vaccination does not prevent smallpox. Kuceno Foster (president of the Board of Health ot Angiittta. Un., say: "In the broad field of natural science no fact is better established than that vaccination, if universally practiced, ia capablo of cll'ectnally preventing smallpox in man." In view of the prophylactic power of vaccination it should be regarded as an especial and solemu duty upon the part of municipal authorities to annually provide gratuitous vaccination for the indigent poor, and whenever smallpox threatens the community, no expenditures of mouey within tho lin of duty compatible with tho public good should be itp&red by the authorities in order to protect the people under their charge. The timo has not yet arrived, and, in democratic America, where the cry of infrtngment of nernonnl liberty is the shibboleth of the demagogue, tho day may never coma when it would be wise to resort .to compulsory vaccination. Until that day we snail continue to have epidemics oT smallpox. Thero can be no question but that every uuvaccinated person is habit1 to oontract smallpox, and thereby dUeminnto it among his fellows. This fact constitutes every unvaccinated person a public enemy and ho or she should be dealt with as such. In conclusion I desire to say 1 am very Clad to bear that the Union city Kasle "positively doclares that vacoination is no safeguard aaalnst smallpox," and avers that it "has abundant proof to back up every assertion, aud we challenge the medical lraternity of Union City, of the State of Indiun i. or of the United States to take up the gauntlet which we now and hero cast down." This "positive declaration" of the Union City Kagle, in conjunction with the Keller statistics, undoubtedly settles the question beyond the shadow of u doubt! Let it now bo proclaimed to tho world that the Union City Kagle positively declares "that vaccination docs not protect against smallpox." and vaccination will bo no more! I repeat, "comment is unnecessary." SAMur.r. Kennedy, Pb. G., M. D. SllELBYVILLE, Ind.. Sopt. 30. CITY NEWS NOTES. "Spot." a lifty-dollar dog. belonging to Harry Lawrence, was killed under the wheels of an elsctrie oar Ht Illinois and Market streets yesterday afternoon. The Christ Church branch of the Woman's Auxiliary will meet this afternoon at halfpast li o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Armstrong. No. .YI2 North Delaware atreet. William Pegg. the fugitive, was taken back to Cincinnati yesterday by detectivo Call ihan, of the Cincinnati police department. Pei; was captured by Chief Splann lust Saturday, and charged with grand larceny on information from the Cincinnati police. He is wanted for horse stealiur. FE II SON A li AND SOCIET V. Mrs. G. M. Ballard ami Miss Ballard go. to Crawfordsville on Monday for u week's visit. Mr. L. S. Ayres and family returned, after a three moths' utay at their couutry borne in Piunesvilc, O., ept. John Towers has been appointed one of the vico preaiilrnrs. for New York, of the New York State Music Teachers' Association. Mis DuggMi. of Tipperary, Ireland, on her way to the world's fair, is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. D. Brosnan, No. 743 North Delaware street.

GIVEN TO THE CHUECH

Beautiful and Impressive Ceremony at St. Joint's Yesterday. Sacrament of Confirmation Administered to a Class of One Hundred .and Forty-Five Souls. The most beautiful and ono of the most impressive ceremonies of toe Catholio Church is tho sacrament of confirmation. It is the turning point in the lives of mauy young Catholics, when they are made fully Catholics and become soldiers for thoir faith. To a Catholio it is truly what its name eignities, a confirmation, and no Catholic would dare to receive the sacrament without a truly penitent spirit and a devout love for the Christ whoso body they partake of in their lirst communion prior to the confirmation. For weeks prior to the receiving of tho holy sacfament the young souls are imbued with the vital importance of the preparation for it. and no time in their young lives is so anxiously looked forward to. Protestants are not able to appreoiato the fullness of the Catholics' adoration of this sacrament which brings them fully into cse kingdom of Christ. To them their Savior is actually present in body and blood in the form of the bread and wine in the holy eucharist. and hence the bumble and devout manner in whioh they approach the altar. The usual 7:80 services at St. John's were delayed tillSo'cIock yesterday morning oa account of the confirmation, and low mass was said by Bishop Chatard. He was assisted by the Kev. Fathers Joseph F. Webberand James Wade and Kev. Father F. H. Gavisk had charge of the communicants. For three daya prior to yesterday morning they had been in retreat preparing for this, the moment of their lives. The thre days retreat is time spent in prayerful consideration of the sacrament which they are to partako of and the performance of religious exercises. There were seventy-two girls in tho class, fifty-three boys and twenty adults. The girls formed at St. John's Academy aud marched in a body to the ohuruh. arcorupuniod by others, who wero not to receive the ecrament. They were all dressed in while, with veils and wroaths of flowers upon their little heads, and at tho head of the class marched a little girl carrying a lloral cross, from which dancled tour ribbons supported by as many little tots of four or hvrt year, and from thoir eyes beamed a childish joy. touching in its simplicity. The boys formed at the Brothers' Scbcol. and were escorted to tho church by two of their teachers. They were all dressed is black, with white ties, and each little lad had upon his arm a bow of white ribbon. The front seats were reserved for the little cues, as it was their day yesterday. The day on which the children are continued being givgn uo to that sacrament. it is made a sort of "red letter" day for the little ones. The communion rail was opened and the little ones received their first communion at the altar steps. After tbe receiving of the communion the mass was said. Being low mass the recital was all in undertone and not audible. After the mass the class marched by twos to the altar steps acam where they roccived contirmation from Bishop Chatard. In the afternoon those who bad received the continuation assembled before vespers and renewed their baptismal vows, when tbey were each presented with a lithograph certificate of their first communion and confirmation. This certificate is the treasure of the day to tho little ones and old members of the church take pleasure in the possession of the certificate in after years as a memento of the occasion of their first communion. The entiro class remained for vespers and then returned to their homes u band of little soldiers for Jesus really and truly "confirmed" in their faith. Retreat of the lloinan Orgy. The rotreat of tbe clerey of tho Diocese of Vincennes will begin at St. John's Church his evening and continue during the week, till Friday. The retreat of the clergy is the occasion for the retirement of the Catholio clercy to a self-examination of their consciences and prayerful meditation. It includes all tho clergy of the diocese, who assemble half at a time. This week the half of the clergy of this diocese will assemble in retreat, during which time they will stop at tho clrry house on Georgia street; next week the remaining half will assemblo for the same purpose. OT III IUCI) TAIiUXTS. How Four Thousand Pennies "Were .Made to Ilrliifr $.1,000. Philadelphia Record. Ths returns of the investments of four thousand talent pennies for the erection of the new Temple College building were made yesterday at bcth services in the Temple Baptist Church. Some talents had gained ten talents, others ten thousand. All had increased, and 352 of tha envelopes which In June contained a shining penny fresh from the mint came back yesterday filled with increases amounting to nearly $3,000. Thl3 was from tho members of the congregation alone. The Sabbath-school children will make their return3 next Sunday. Tho Idea of this accumulated method of raising' fund3 wns originated by Rev. Rusuo!l II. ConTvell three months ago. Its object was also to draw people into church work and persuade outsiders to come Into the church. When the returns v. ere made yesterday Mr. Conwell called upon those vho know that one of the talent pennies, as they wero called, had induced some one to Join the church to raise their hands. Tven-ty-clght responded at .the inDrnlr.ff service and two In the evening. Mr. Conwell stated that this was probably half the whole number, as he himself knew of more than that. In tho same manner thirty-six were induced to attend church regularly who had never gone before. Then those who had taken the talents rernies filed up from all parts of the huge church in a steady stream to deposit the money that the coin had earned. Each envelope contained' a history of how the talent had earned their talents. Some of these little histories of work were very interesting. The highest returns for any penny was $1,000, which was paid by a woman for one of the talents. One holder of a talent took it and bought two bananas with it. He sold each one for a cent and reinvested in fruit each tlmel until his envelope contained $27.5"). Two business men who took pennies returned 5250 and $30 as part of the lncreas2 that had affected their business since the talent came into their possesion. The former said that sum was a tithe of the profit of his business over what it had been last year during the same period of time. One young woman of tha congregation bought rolls of pln3 with her penny. She got cost prices, two for a cent. She sold the pins, boujht others, then dress shields and stays, an so continued until $20 took the place of her penny. Many were at a loss to know how to make their talent grow. On 2 woman said to her husband: "What shall I do with it?" He offered to sell her some of the molasses in the house for a cent. She bought It and turned it into molasses candy. This rhe cut up and sold until she counted out $1.81. An Ingenious and methodical man secured a s?t of account books In whioh to ke?p track of his p?nny. He bought a large amount of lard, paying the cent on account. He koH to an advantage, and, with the profits bought a lot of paper which went cheap at auction. Th2 paper likewise was disposed of with prollt, and th2 sura finally turned in contained two larg? figures. Another man's ingenuity was shown when ho went to his place of business with the declaration that he was sure he had one talent, and would prove It for ten cents a look. He started a side-show with his new coin, an.l reaped a profitable harvest for the tolege. One of the girls in the congregation turned in a neat sum, which she secured simply by selling pretzels. Another sold cut flowers, and many turned thoir talent to candy with profit. Some po??esstcr of one of the colnr, went to a prominent politician whose oiilee is in the City Hall and asked him to give two pennies for one. "Oh, no!" said he, "I don't do business that way." Theu he was told of the plan to raise money, and before the owner of the penny left the talent had become 150, with promise of more. The Uible class of the Sunday cchool be

lieved In the strength of unity, so they clubbed together with their coins and bought a model of the proposed Temple College building. Each stone and brick was numbered, and a price set upon its head. The main tablet, bearing the inscription, "Temple College," was set at $100, and other less prominent stones were valued at $1, and side bricks at 10 cents. There are 2.3S0 pieces in the whole model, and if all are sold the profit of the pennies will be many thousand per cent. A number of other interesting cases were recited about the adventures of the bright coins, and the plan was taken up with an enthusiasm worthy of the cause.

SECItETS OF KIXUS AND PRINCES. .Many Skeletons in IJoynl Closets That Even Deutli Doesn't Open. Marquise De Fontenoy. Much speculation exists In Europe Just at the present moment with regard to the contents of the mysterious sealed envelope which King Leopold, of Belgium, has just handed over to the Director of the Bureau of National Archives at Brussels, with orders that it is not to be opened until after his demise, and if the latter occurs prior to 1S33, its seals are not to be broken until then. Absolutely no one not even the King's confidential secretary, has any Idea as to what the document may refer to. All that is known about it is written entirely in his Majesty's own hand. By some it is believed to refer to the new constitution Just promulgated; by others, again, to the Congo Free State: by other people, that It f Cals with questions relating to the immens3 fortune of Leopold's crazy sister, the ex-Empress Charlotte, of Mexico, which he is believed to have squandered in his costly African enterprises. No matter what it may contain, the document constitutes just now the all-absorbing topic of conversation, and columns are being printed about the so-called "secret du Hoi." Royal personages seem to be fond of making mysteries of this character, and there aro two iron boxes full of important documents pertaining to the father of the present King of Bavaria, and which, according to hi3 directions, are not to be opened until the year after next Both the English royal family and that of Prussia have among their archives boxes of documents packed by princes and rulers dead and gone, and which are not to see the light of day until a date fixed by,thelr last will and testament. Unfortunately the public is seldom, if ever made aware of the purport of these mysterious documents when the date does expire, and we are generally left under the impression that either the Information is of such little Importance as to render any publication thereof unnecessary, or elso being calculated to affect the prestige and even the honor of the reigning family, its publication would be impolitic. And yet how many of these royal secrets are there which the world at large would like to see elucidated, and which .might well be made known for the purpose of putting a definite stop to the extravagant stories which, in default of knowledge of the real facts of the case, have been created by fantastic imaginations. For Instance, who Is there who would not like to know the true circumstances of the terrible death of the Crown Prince of Austria and of the alleged suicide of King Louis of licvaria, of the mysterious death of Klng.redro of Portugal and of his wife and brothers by poison, at only a few weeks distance from each other, thirty years ago; of the death of the late King of Saxony, who is popularly belleved to have survived for several years his official obsequies, kept under close restraint in a secluded mountain monastery in consequence of his homicidal mania? We would also like to know the real amount of the fortune left by Queen Victoria's husband, the late Prince Consort; the mysterious laws regulating the succession to the throne of Austria and which are known only to the reigning sovereign and to the minister of the imperial household for the time being, and the true cause of Archduke John of Austria's expulsion from the bosom of the imperial family and of his mysterious disappearance in South America. Many, indeed, are the mysteries connected with the reigning families of the old world, the revelation of which would furplsh far more sensational reading than anyof tho most exciting novels of the present day. TIIE RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. A Series of Appalling- Dlnnsters Within n Short Time. Philadelphia Press. The slaughter on the railroads goes on. Hardly a day passes without the public being pained by the account of a disaster involving a large loss of life and a long list of wounded. Yesterday brought its complement in the collision on the Wabash railroad near Kingsbury, Ind., the sickening details of which are told in this morning's Press. This is the seventh disaster that has occurred to passenger trains on the railroads running east of Chicago during the last lays of August and th? first twenty-two days this month. And in these disasters about seventy-two persons have been instantly killed and 116 have been wounded, some of whom have died afterward. It is a record sickening to the public and dingarceful to tho companies on whose road these disasters occurred. Happily such a table as the following cannot be often made up from the events of twenty-eight consecutive days. The record stands as follows : Date. Railroad. Kill'd. W'nded. Aug. 26.... Harlem 5 4 Aug. 27.... Long Island 18 17 Aug. 31.... Boston & Albany.. 14 28 Sept. 5.... Big Four 6 HO Sept. 7 Panhandle 12 12 Sept. IS.... Illinois Central 8 13 Sept. 22 Wabash ll 20 Total 72" 116 Intimated. There is no way to account for these disasters except by admitting blundering and carelessness. All but one of them were the result of "head on" or ".rear end" collisions, neither of which can occur If the railroad employes do their duty. The one exception was the breaking of a frail Iron bridge at Chester, Mass., which precipitated the train to th ' stream below, and was caused by the lack of supervision over the workmen by the railroad ofilcials. It Is true that the number killed and injured in these disasters is only an inconsiderable fraction of the thousands carried over these railroads during the time the accidents occurred. But that is no excuse for blundering and incompetency. The railroads have been economizing at the same time that a largely increased travel has c.om to them by the visitors to the Chicago fair. It is to be feared that they may have dispensed with some necessary help and have substituted incompetent hands for competent employes because they were cheaper. The public which pays for safe traveling will not submit to have Its security endangered by an effort to earn dividends at the risk of passengers' lives and Hmb3. A LIST OF MARVELS. Remnrknhle Thlnarw Which the State of Washington Claims. Seattle Press Times. Here are a few of the many remarkable things which the State of Washington has produced: , . m An apple weighing two pounds and four ounces. . One strawberry ten inches in circumference. A bunch of grapes weighing six pounds. An onion weighing four pounds and one ounce. , . , A potatoe weighing eight pounds and four ounces. , . . A radish weighing nine and one-half pounds. A beet weighing thirty pounds. A pumpkin weighing ninety-three pounds. A watermelon weighing sixty - four Iounds. A cabbage weighing fifty-three pounds. A squash weighing 12i itounds. Timothy seven feet eight inches high. Clover five feet high. Alfalfa from a yield of twelve tons per acre. ... Corn stalks fourteen feet high. A hill of potatoes that yielded forty-three pounds. Slxty-pevcn pound3 of potatoes from two pounds planted. Hops from a yield of 9,592 pounds per acre. Wheat from a yield of sixty-eight bushels per acre. Oats from a yield of 125 bushels per acre. A blackberry bush showing a growth of twenty-one feet this year. A branch from a prune tree thirty-three inches long, with forty-six pounds of fruit on it. A lump of coal welshing 1G,SV) pounds. A plank fifty Inche3 wide, thirty inches thick and thirty-two feet long, and not n knot in it. 'A Thought for Posterity. Boston Transcript. - Few women or even men, for that matter realize that tha costume of the day

is pretty sure to become a ridiculous thing in ten or twenty years. "Other fashions have been ab3urd." they say, "but at last we have one that is sensible and becoming," and they put on their puffed sleeves, and their hats ornamented with fruits, ana flowers, and foliage that never were on land or sea, and go and have their photographs taken, never dreaming that people of another generation shall take up these pictures and burst into shouts of laughter at sipht of them. Even If they realized this, the ladies who do It might perhaps themselves be quite willing to afford future generations a little hearty amusement: but their children, or those who will hold them in a sort of veneration after they are gone, will feel a pang every time these old costumes are laughed at. It may seem a sort of affectation, at this present moment, to have one's picture taken in the neutral draperies or wrappings which may be said to belong to all times, and yet our memory, we May hope, will belong at least to one more generation than our own, though we ourselves belong to none but this, and it is no affectation to have a little regard for that.

WOMEN'S INTEREST IN "WOMAN. They Will Only Be "Emancipated" When They Forget Themselves. Helen Watterson, in the Forum. 9 "Woman" is a species of high and heroic and "emancipated" womankind, as Serviceable to the sex for the purposes of rhetorical and impassioned address as that gentle and vapid species, "the fair sex," is to men for after-dinner gallantry. She is wise with the wisdom of clubs and strong In her inheritance of instincts. There' is nothing of which she is not sure, except that man was designed by nature to be her helper; and there is nothing which she will not do for the good of her own species, except to do nothing. She believes uevoutly in a hereafter for her kind, compared with which the opportunities of the here are as shadows in the night And about all these things she has altogether too much to say. She gets columns, nay pages, of the newspapers, written by her for her. The wide-awake editor Insistently presents considerations of public affairs from "The Woman's Point of View," as if the structure of the feminine brain necessitated a woman's looking at things in an inverted and peculiar way, somewhat as Timothy Tittlebat raw the landscape, looking through his legs. The magazines bow to the pressure of her personality, and review her profoundly in the light of history and of every possible and impossible modern circumstance. In recent Issues of "Poole's Index" I find whole pages devoted to her consideration. She is discussed as a smuggler and as a school director, as a detective and as a drunkard, as a public servant and as a guardian angel, as a tactician and as a merchant, as a mannish maiden and asva skeptic. Somebody finds things to say about "Women as Women," somebody else retorts with "Women as They Are Supposed to Be," and Etlll another gives the tall of the argument a last and, presumably, authoritative twist, in the discussion of "Women as They Are." Nor when ink fails her does her interest flag. She goe3 into councils and congresses for the purpose of self-celebration, and, announcing as her motto, "Not Women, but Woman," restricts her study of the world's interests to such aspects as are either directly affecting women or directly affected by women. Into the "women" side of all these subjects she burrows with utter unconsciousness that by so doing she is defeating the very purpose for which these women gatherings ara called namely, "the amelioration of the condition of women." Whatever amelioration the condition of women may need to-day, it is not to be accomplished by going into rhetorical or executive session about it. The individual wrongs from which individual women are suffering are not, alas! to be righted by papers in congresses, and the sex wrongs from which all women are supposed to be suffering are only aggravated by being made the subject of excessive consideration. Take for example the one wrong of which women complain with most sharpness and, most Justice unequal payment for equal work. Anything that helps to emphasize the fact that women are newcomers in any field of work tends directly to lower the wages of that work; 'anything that helps to arouse the prejudices of men, and 60 keeps up unfair discrimination apalnst women workers, tends directly to depress wages; anything that introduces a false distinction Into work anT the sex distinction is a false one will lower wages; any sentimental consideration that serves to obtrude the fact that women are not equal to men in units of horse-power Is sure to lower wages. The fact is women workers are at a consldable physical disadvantage in comparison with men, and the less said about it the better. So it is with other favorite themes of discussion among women. The less sald.for example, in declaration of women's rights and in glorification of her achievements the better for both rights and achievements. For to declare a right implies a question f it, and ostentatiously to parade ability is not to dignify it. The strongest assertion of a right is the assumption of it, and the only proof of equality of work is equality of work. No better and sadder illustration of all this can be given than the national one lately before us. I mean the woman's exhibit at the world's fair, for which I do not think it possible to find a ralson d'etre, . either in logic or in sentiment. The world's fair Is an exhibition, not of workers, but of work and results. If the work of women, judged by the standards of work alone, has been of sufficient dignity and gravity to entitle it to recognition in a representative exhibition like this, then by all means let it be put in Its proper place, alongside the work of men, and win acknowledgment on its merits alone. The fact that it is the work of a woman has no more real significance than the color of the hair or the shape of the face of the woman who did tho work. To make a separate exhibit of woman's work does no honor to women, no matter how good the work may be, for it seems to make a marvel of what is no marvel at all, namely, that women areas capable as men in most things, more capable than men in many things, and utterly incapable of a few things that men do very well. Since, therefore, a clever woman is hardly to be regarded as a precocity or monstrosity, like a trained monkey or a "dog walking on his hind legs," the fact that she has painted a remarkable picture, or embroidered a wonderful tapestry, or invented a churn operated by electricity, or chiseled a piece of marble into poetic form, offers no warrant for such segregation on the part of women workers as this exhibition displays. Even the imposing collection of books, written exclusively by women, and kept with such devotional spirit in the library in the Woman's building, has no significance, except possibly a humorous one suggesting, as it doVs, tha Immodest modesty of a New England spinster, who once set all the volumes written by men in a row on one side of her library, and all those written by women in chaste seclusion on the other. If this collection of books were not worth making for Its intrinsic value, it certainly does not redound to the glory of womankind that it should have been made for any other reason. If the genius of the writer and the understanding of the people be not enough to keep a book from perishing, no antiseptic of sex can do so. During the late woman's congress In Chicago the phrase, "the emancipation of woman," sounded like a recurrent Wagner motif through all the storm and stress of the seven days' gathering. But the real emancipation of woman will come only when she is emancipated from herself. WHAT WILL TIIE WEATHER mzt Some Rules Which the Cnrlous Mar Test to Their Own Snf iNfaetiou. Philadelphia North American. The autumnal equinox, one of the Important astronomical events which are watched with great Interest by old sailors and weather prophets, occurred yesterday afternoon at precisely forty-five minutes and thirty-six seconds past U o'clock. According to the "signs," the prevailing weather for the next six months was indicated by te direction of the wind at the time of the passage of the sun acrors the equator. Northerly winds are said to predict cold weather, while southern breezes indicate a warm, open winter. Easterly winds suggest rain and snow, while those from the opposite direction proclaim the prevalence of clear weather. From these primary theories the weather prophet can form " predictions suited to every point of the compass. If the wind fhould blow from the northeast, he makes ! plenty of snow, and, if he is a granger, he ; will lay In an extra quantity of firewood. If northwest. It will be cold and dry, but with southwestern winds, as was the case yesterday, we may look for a warm and , comparatively dry winter. Southeast

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To what am I indebted for the honor of " "That's what I am coming to. When I saw your name on the sign I said to myself: 'There's a relative! Ho spells his name with a "u" G, a, 1, 1, u, p and I'll go in and see him a moment. You don't know how homelike it 6eems, when you're among strangers, to run across a member of the family, albeit a member possibly, of a more or less remote branch ot the family, and when I find my conjecture made almost a certainty by the circumstances that you are of Eastern parentage New York or tho Eastern States, of course in addition to the similarity of tho spelling, why, it emboldens me, as it were, "My friend," Interrupted the man In they chair, "my parents came from Ireland, and spelled their name G, a, 1, 1, o, p, e, and I changed the spelling to suit myself when I came of age. I was born in western Pennsylvania, and none of the family, or any branch of it, that I know of, ever lived in New York or anywhere in New England. Still," ha added, putting his hand In his pocket and drawing out a silver coin, "it's worth a half-dollar to have met as original and entertaining a member of the Gallop family as you are if you don't stay too long. The gentleman In the shirty coat took tho coin, thanked him profusely, and went our, It was more than he had expected, "Dear Sister, "They charge you with bem or restless, irritable, excitable; and exacting'. "They don't know the horror that oppresses you. " EVery hour pains run ram. pant through your body. You suffer secretly as long as you can, then go all to pieces and 'don't care what happens. "The iron grip of female disease is upon you. 44 Dear sister, Lydia E. Pink havis Vegetable Compound has cured thousands like you. " It has cured me, and I want to tell everybody. " It kills the pain. No more backache, no more 'bearing down no more restless days and sleepless nights. Oh I what a blessing! take it and be well! it's a sin to hesitate." Mrs. P. A. 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