Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 18

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will and order that ho who hath been crucificd with mc should ro in. should receive remittor! of sins throxtgh mo: ar.il that he, having fv-t n our Incorruptible body should go into .paradise, and dwell whore no one hath ever bem able to dwell." Now the Lord saw about the crns His mother standing, and John the Kvangellst. whom He recuüarly loved above the ret of the apostlen. because, ho alone of them wa a virgin In the body. And the Lord's molar. standing and looking, cried out with a loud voice. saying. "My Fori! My Jon!" And Jesus turning to her, and seeIn John near her, weeping with the ro5t of the wonun. raid. "Behold thy sen." And He g.'ve John the thann of Holy Mary, faying i:r.io Lira. "Uehohl thy mother." Trom that hour the holy mother of the Lord remained specially in the care of John. r. Ions as she had her habitation In this life. Dut Mary wept much, saying, "For this I weep, my ?on. because thou pufferest unjustly, because the lawless Jews have delivered thee to a hitter death. Without thee, my son, what will become of me? How shall I live without thee? What sort of life shall I srer.d? Where are thy disciples., who boasted that they would die with thee? Where are these healed by thee? How hath no one been found to help thee?" And, looking to the cross, she said: 'JJend down, O cross, that I may embrace and kiss my son. whom I suckled at these breasts after a strange manner, as not having1 known man. Bend down, O cross; I wish to throw my arms around my son. Hend down. O cross, that I may bid farewell to my son like' a mother." Hut the Jews, hearing the.-e words, came forward and drove to a distance both Mary and the women and John. THi: Til A NS FIGURATION. Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. The sun was darkened, his fiery blaze was cheeked, and his heat became moderate; the moon became blood and the stars fell down from heaven. Many, also, went about with lamps, supposing that it was night, and fell down. And the Lord cried out, saying, "My power, my power, thou hast forsaken me." And again He said. "I thirst." Then one of them said, Give Him to drink gall, with vinegar." And they mixed and gave him to drink, fulfilling all things, and accomplishing their fin against their own head. Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, "Father, into Thy hands I shall commit my spirit," gave up the ghost, and was taken up. And Immediately the veil of the temple -was rent in twain. For In that hour the virgins who ministered In the temple saw all things 'created change. And, fearing, they iled Into the tabernacle into the holy of holies and shut the door of the temple. Straightway, then, they saw a great and strong angel come down from heaven, being in great anger, with a sharp sword drawn In his right hand. And when they saw him they fled Into the shrine, being afraid and exceedingly troubled, fearing that he would smite them with the sword that was in his hand. But the angel said to them. "Be not afraid, I will not slay you, neither shall evil befall you. Surely those who are dead, also, shall arise and come forth from the tomb to enter into the city, and appear unto many men, reproving and convicting the folly of the cursed Jews, and their shamolesness which they wrought against the Lord of the inhabitants of heaven and of earth." Straightway, then, the angel stretched forth the sword which was In his hand; and he brought it 1 41 II -t 1, . . . . . 1 K. n.llnn UOvvii upon uif en ui m temple, kiiui.iö it In the midst, and dividing it from the top to the bottom. And the virgins heard a great voice from the horns of the altar, saying, "Woe to thee, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee. Often would I have gathered thy children, even as a bird gathcreth its eggs together under its wings, but ye would not. Behold your house, I have left it unto you." They looked again and saw the angel assigned to the altar fly up on the canopy of the altar, and the angel also having the sword, both being in great mourning and anger. And when they saw all these things come to pass they knew that the Lord was angry with Ills people, and had left them. So they hasted and came unto Mary, and were with her in order that they might not come to be under the curse which they had heard from the mouth of the angel of the Lord, who rent the veil. A GREAT DISTURBANCE. And in that hour there was a very great and violent earthquake over all the earth. The rocks also were rent, and the tombs of the dead were opened; the sanctuary fell down with the wings of the temple, a lintel of -which was broken asunder. Many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down; the sea was heaved up from its depths, and all the elements of the universe, bewildered by the strange events, were thrown Into confusion. And when the philosophers at Athens were not able to explain these events by natural causes they concluded that the God of nature was Buffering, so that the people raised an altar to uds God and put on it the inscription: To the Unknown God." And from all these things that had happened the Jews were afraid and said: 'Certainly this was a just man." And Longlnus, the centurion, who stood by, glorified God and said: "Truly this was a con of God." And all the crowds who were present at tho spectacle, seeing what had happened, beat their breasts with fear and turned and went away. And the centurion, having perceived all these so great miracles, went away and reported them to Pilate. Now, when the procurator and nls wife heard them, wondering and astor.l-.hcd. they were greatly grieved. And from their fear and grief they would neither eat nor drink that day. And Pilate sending notice, all the Sanhedrln came to him as scon as the darkness was past. Then he said to the people: "Ye know how the sun hath been darkened, ye know how the curtain hath been rent. Certainly I did well in being by no means willing to put to death this good man." Hut the malefactors said to Pilate: "This darkness Is an eclipse of the sun, such ui hath also happened at other times." And Pilato faiu to them: "Ye scoundrels! Is this the wry ye tell the truth about everything? I know that never happens but at new moon. Now, ye ate your passover yesterday, the 14th of the month, and ye say that it was an eclipse of the sun. And what fay ye that the other disastrous signs were?" And they could say nothing in reply. For It was not an eclipse of the sun. because the moon was then in the fifteenth day of It course and far from the sun. Moreover, an eclipse doth not deprive all parts of the world of light, and cannot endure thro hours. But this eclipse was seen at Ilellopolis, in Egypt, in Rome, in Greece and in Asia Minor. Now the Jrws were troubled lest the sun F t whilst Jesus was yet alive. So they raid to Pilr.te. "We hold the last of unleavened bread to-morrow, and we entreat thee, sine? the cruel :ivU are still breathins, that their bone bo broken, and that they be brought down." And Pilata said. ' -J . v. .V4AAC: CV.ik Sit, dlers, and they found the two robbers yet Veathinp and bral:e their less; but finding JXru? dead they did not touch Him at all er-e?t that Longlnus, a soldier, speared Kim in the right side with a lance, end immediately there came forth .b!ooj and water. Now this goldier, vrho was oae of

ihos who buffeted and spit upon Jesus, had for th'rtv-eight ycara been troubled with sore eyes. Yet wnen the drops of Chrirt'a blood, coming from the wound, lell upon him, Imtr.cdiatcly he was healed. And the kinsfolk and acquaintances of Jesu, together with the women who had followed him from Galilee, stcod afar off, beholding these things. Now ary, by means of John, had asked of Joseph, who was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, that he might care for and bury tho body of Jesus. This man was well born, rich and the holder of olfice, a friend of Jesu and also of rilate. He was, moreover, a God-fearing Jew, waiting for the kingdom of God, who did not consent to the counsels or deeds of the wicked. Ar.d he finding Nicodemus, whose sentiments his foregoing speech had shown, since he had seen what good deeds Jesus had done, saith to him, "I know that tnou didst love Jesu3 when living, and didst gladly hear His words; and I saw thee fighting with the Jews on his account. If, then, it seemeth good to thee, let us go to 'Pilato. and beg the body of Jesus for burial, because It is a great sin for Him to lie unburlcd." Nicodemus said, however, "I am afraid lest Pilate should be enraged, and some evil should befall me. Put if thou wilt go aTone, anel reg the dra and take Him, then will I also go wiiii thee, and help thee to do everything necessary for the burial." Nicodemus, having thus spoken, Joseph directed lis ryes to heaven, and prayed that he anight not fail in his request. Then Joseph went away to Pilate ana having saluted him, sat down. And he saith unto him,- "I entreat thee, my lord, not to be angry with me, if I shall ask anything contrary to what seemeth good to your highness." Then saith Tilate, "And what is it that thou askest?" Joseph saith, "Jesus, the good man whom through hatred the Jews have taken away to cruelly. Him I entreat that thou give me for burial." Pilate saith, "And what hath happened, that we should deliver to be honored again the dead body of Him against whm evidence of sorcery was brought by iis nation; and who was in suspicion of taking the kingdom of Caesar, and so was given up by us to death?" Then Joseph, weeping, and In great grief, fell at the feet of Pilate, saying, "My lord, let no hatred fall upon a dead man, for all the evil that a man hath done should perish with Him in His death. And I know, your highness, how eager thou wast that Jesus should not be crucified; and how much thou saldst to the Jews on His behalf, now in entreaty, and again in anger, and at last how thou dlst wash they hands, and declare that thou who wished inm to be put to death; for all which reasons I entreat thee not to refuse my request." Pilate, therefore, seeing Joseph thus lying, supplicating and weepmg, rfl-ed him up, and said, "Go, I grant thee this dead man; take Him and do whatsoever thou wilt." PILATE AND HEROD. Then Pilate .sent to Herod and asked the body of Jesus. And Herod said: "Brother Pilate, even if no one had asked for Him, we purposed to bury him, especially as the Sabbath draweth on; for it is written in the law, that the sun set not upon one that hath been put to death." Then Joseph, having thanked Pilate, and kissed his hands, and his garments, went forth, rejoicing indeed in his heart, as having obtained his desire; but carrying tears in his eyes. Accordingly he goeth away to Nicodemus, and discloseth to him all that had happened. Then having bought myrrh and aloes, a hundred pounds, they, along with the mother of the Lord and Mary Magdalene and Salome and the rest of the women and John, went to do what was customary, for the body of the Lord. And Joseph and Nicodemus prepared to take the Lord's body down from the cross. Now the body of the robber on the right was not found; but of him on the left, as

the form of a dragon, so was his body. And they set two ladders against the arms of the cross. Then Joseph, with a hammer and a pair of pincers, ascended one of the ladders and drew out the nail from the right hand of the Lord. Very fast it held, for it was long, and so deeply imbedded in tho cross that it pressed the hand of the Lord very close. But in good time Joseph got it out. Then did John make to him a sign that he should deliver it to him secretly, lest Mary seeing it, her heart should burst. Likewise, Nicodemus went up the ladder on the left side, and with great difficulty drew out the nail from the other hand, giving it to John secretly. Then Nicodemus descended to draw the nail from the feet, and whilst he did so, Joseph supported the body of Jesus upon his shoulders. Mary, seeing this, raised herself upon her feet so that she was able to touch the hands of her son, for the arms hung down from the shoulders of Joseph. And she kissed them, gladly, weeping and moaning bitterly. When, then, the nail of the feet was drawn out, Joseph descended from the ladder, supporting on his shoulders the body of the Lord, whilst Nicodemus aided him. And they extended the body upon a white cloth tht they had placed upon the earth. And when they did so, the whole earth quaked and great fear arose. Then Mary received In her lap the head and shoulders of the Lord, taking the crown of thorns from His head, and Mary Magdalene took Him by the feet before which she had found the forgiveness of her sins; and all the others gathered round the body. THE MOTHER OF SORROWS. The poor, bereaved mother held upon her knees the sacred head and could not cease kissing it or watering it with the abundance of her tears. Sighing dolorously, she said to her son, "Alas, dearest son, what hast thou done? Why have they thus put thee to death? Alas, sorrowing mother, what shallst thou do? How is that joy which I received of thee when I conceived thee turned into great sorrow?" Then she began again to kiss the visage of her son and to water it with her tears, so that it even seemed then as if she were about to öle. And she remembered how she had conceived without sin and brought forth without sorrow. How, when He lived, nothing was wanting to her. since she had in Him God, Lord, father and husband. Now she saw Him dead, which was an evil so great that It was not possible for it to be. And in great sorrow she said. "Alas, my sen, the life of my soul, my joy, why hast thou gone away from me? My God, have mercy upon me. " Alas, my sweet son. and who shall comfort me now?" The other women, her companions, mourned with her for the pity they had to see their Master dead before them, as well as in pity for the sorrow of the glorious Virgin Mary. And she was surrounded by angels from paradise, who mourned with her for love of their Lord and for pity for their lady. Now, Joseph of Arimathea, seeing that tho day rapidly declined and night was near, went to Mary and began pityingly to say to her: "Dolorous lady, be content at last to suffer that the body of thy son, our Master, be shrouded in these beautiful linens; so shall we bury Him in the sepulchre." But Mary, greatly troubled, replied: "Alas! haste not in taking away from me the sight of my son, or bury me with Him." And they knew not what to say to that, save to beseech her. Incessantly she looked upon the countenance of her son, which she held in her lap; tenderly she regarded the wounds which the thorns had made. She looked at that face from which they had torn the beard and the hair, at that count nnce divine soiled with spittle and fcloci. .J-

And looking at these things, she was not able to leave off lamenting. vAnd John, seeing that night approached, said to Mary: "Lady, see what hour it is; the night begins to overcome the day. Consent to Joseph, and suffer the body of Jesus to bo shrouded and burled." Then Mary remembered how the Lord had given her into the keeping of John, and to him she consented. So Joseph and Nicodemus began to envelop the body at the middle. And when they had come to the feet Mary Magdelene said unto them: "I pray you, leave this part to me. I wish to put in tho shroud the feet before which my sins were forgiven." Then she looked at the feet very attentively, beholding how they were pierced by the nails, torn and bruised and smeared with blood. And she washed with pitying and compassionate tears those feet which formerly she had washed with tears of contrition. Afterward, very gently, she dried them with her hair; then enveloped and shrouded them the best that she could. FAREWELL TO THE SON. And Mary, putting her face upon that of her son, said to Him very sadly: "My dearly beloved son, now art Thou dead upon my bosom. It must be that I, Thy sorrowing mother, bury Thee. But how am I able to live without Thee? Most gladly would I be buried with Thee, but since bodily I cannot be, I leave Thee my soul, and recommend it to Thee. Dearest son, how full of anguish is this separation!" When, now, she had bathed His visage with her tears, she kissed Him on the mouth, then shrouded and enveloped the head. Now, when they had done what was customary for the body of the Lord, and washed Him, it remained but to put him in the sepulchre. Joseph also had collected, in the vessel which the Lord had used to drink and break the bread at the last supper, the drops of blood that fell from the wounds, after the body was taken down from the cross. For as soon as he knew that the Lord was dead, he had gone to the house and carried away the vessel for this purpose. And he preserved it always with veneration, for it gave to Its possessor the privilege of being in direct communication with God. Nicodemus, also, preserved the linen cloth upon which the body of the Lord lay, and upon which Its image was imprinted. Then they placed the body in Joseph's own tomb, hewn out of the rock, in which no one had ever lain, In what was called the Garden of Joseph. And thU tomb was once prepared for Joshua, the son of Nun. And in carrying the body of Jesus to the sepulchre Mary supported the head, Mary Magdalene the feet, and the others the body, weeping tenderly. The bereavd mother, also, when it was in tho tomb, so looked at it, and to touch it bent so lowthat almost she fell In, so that Joseph and Nicodemus raised her up. And they rolled before the sepulchre a stone so great that scarcely could three men move it. Now this stone was the same out of which water once flowed forth In the desert for the children of Israel. And Mary, in great grief, said, "O friends, have pity upon me, and help me to take away this stone, putting me In with my son." BITTER LAMENTATIONS. And the mother of tne Lord said, weeping: "How am I not to lament Thee, my son? How should I not tear my face with my nails? This Is that, my son, which Symeon the elder foretold to me when I brought Thee, an infant of forty days old, into the temple. ' als is the sword which now goeth through my soul. Who shall put a stop to my tears, my sweetest son? No one at all except thyself alone if, as Thou saldst. Thou shalt rise again in three days." Mary Magdalene also said, weeping: "Hear. O peoples, tribes and tongues, and learn to what death the lawless Jews have delivered Him who did them ten thousand good deeds. Hear and be astonished. Who will let these things be heard by all the world? I shall go alone to Rome, to the Caesar. I shall show him what evil Pilate hath done in obeying the lawless Jews." Likewise Joseph also lamented, saying: "Ah me, sweetest Jesus, most excellent of men, if indeed it be proper to call Thee man, who hast wrought such miracles as no man hath ever done. How shall I enshroud Thee? How shall I entomb Thee? There should have been here those whom Thou fedst with a few loaves, for thus should I not have seemed to fall in what is due." Then Joseph, along with Nicodemus, went home. Likewise also the mother of the Lord, with the women. John also being present with them, returned and abode on Mount Zlon in the house where the Master supped. And the apostles, with their companions, were grieved, and, being wounded In mind, they hid themselves, for they were being sought for by them as malefactors and as wishing to set fire to the temple. And upon all these things they fasted and sat

I mourning and weeping night and day until the Sabbath. But the scribes and Pharisees and elders, being gathered together one wi;h another, when they heard that all the people murmured and beat their breasts, saying, "If by His death these most mighty signs have come to pass see how just lie Is," were afraid. And they went away to Pilate, beseeching him and saying: "My lord, that deceiver said that after three days He should rise again. Give us soldiers and order His tomb to be guarded for three days lest His disciples come and steal Him away by night and the people, led astray by such deceit, suppose that He is risen from the dead and do us evil." And Pilate gave them Petronius, the centurion, with five hundred fcoldiers to guard the tomb. Who also sat round the sepulchre so as to guard it after having put seals upon the stone of the tomb. This also they fastened with iron cl amps so that It was impossible to open it by ordinary means. And with them came the elders and scribes to the sepulchre. These watchers were Issaehar, Gad, Matthias, Barnabas and Simeon. They, too, affixed ceven seals to the tomb, and, pitching a tent, together with the centurion and soldiers they guarded it. J. DE Q. DONEIIOO. Copyright. FAILED UNDER TRIAL. (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1?.) palace was plundered, yet there was practically little looting done in he palace itsei., and none in the private apartments of the Emperor and Empress Dowager AN ORGY OF LOOTING. ' The day of the march of the allies through the palace some "souvenirs" were taken. For about a quarter of an hour a perfect orgy of looting took place in a dark storeroom filled with camphored chests and boxes. Jade vases were stuffed into bulging pockets, and a Frenchman was to bo seen pressing his knee on top of a high, richly wrought golden vase ur.tll he pressed it concertina-like, so as to make it fit inside his tunic. One or two plunderers were stopped and made to give up their treasures, who attracted attention by the abnormal developments of their figures. It was not until about a fortnight after this triumphal march that the private apartments of the Lraperor and Empress were lJted. Through the ccurtcsy of General Wilson I was afforded an opportunity of being one of the first to see them. He made me promise that I would not take anything, and I pave my word not to take anything except photographs. We had an opportunity of examining the magnificent throne of the Emperor at leisure. In the throneroom, as well as throughout the great courtyardj and halls of palace, a garment of dust

and decay covered everything like a shroud. The pattern In the rich, soft, yellow carrot of the imperial five-clawed dragon was almost indistinguishable from dust. The paint on the pillars and walls was blistered and hung in flakes, and the red enamel and gilding had almost lost their lustre. I photographed a pretty American girl of the party seated on the Emperor's throne. Thrones are very becoming to American girls. We have the example of how gracefully one is filled In . India, and we are shortly to have another occupied by an American girl in Dublin Castle. I suppose their adaptability to this position is due to the fact that, more than any other woman in the world, the American girl is used to keeping her foot on the neck of man things, and the foot is such a pretty one that the man things like to have it there. There was a strange and striking contrast between the private apartments of the Emperor and Empress dowager and the rest of the palace. The latter showed every sign of neglect and decay, but in these imperial private apartments everything was kept in the most exquisite order. Great bronze ornaments of beautiful workmanship stood under the trees in the courtyard, plate glass windows t filled the front and back of each set of rooms, and along these windows were ranged the most beautiful ornaments of green and white jade, which were in such a position as to catch the sunlight and show to the best advantage the chaste artistic delicacy and refinement which is alone to be found in jade stone. There were a large numbci of costly ornaments of Western manufacture, which were evidently presents which had been made to the Emperor by European poten

tates, or possibly by concession hunters. All these looked vulgar in the extreme In comparison to the native works of art. Both in the Emperor's and the Empress dowager's rooms there were an enormous collection of clocks clocks of every design and description, from those richly orna mented with diamonds to the commonest painted description which may be seen in any saloon. If they were all kept going they must have been the only thing to mar the delightful repose of these tree-shaded courts, for in all else there was a delicate atmosphere of refined rest and repose, cush ioned with every adjunct of Oriental luxury. A PATHETIC PICTURE. If these walls could speak, what a strange story they would have to tell of the tragic struggle that quietly went on within them; the Imperial radical, the nominal despot of 400,000,000 of people, engaged in struggling against all the forces of conservatism focused in the person of the Empress dowager. When an imperial despot turns reformer he is apt to go too fast, and this was tho fault committed by the young Emperor. Still, there is something extremely pathetic in the unsuccessful efforts made by this delicate, sad-faced young man, and the pathos is accentuated when, from an Eastern standpo'nt, we consider the ban that he is under from not having given a male heir, the greatest misfortune that can afflict a Chinese household, from the highest to the lowest. The greatest pride in the life of the poorest coolie In the land a boy child was denied to the Son of Heaven. It is a curious thing that when the Emperor left the palace he did not take iae imperial concubines with him. The hurry of hl3 desperate flight, which only took place the diy we were actually In Peking, was probably the reason. They remained behind, an! remain there to the present day. Although many things have Ven looted from the palace, and the apartments of the Emperor and tho Empress dowager entered, yet the seclusion -if the ladies of the palace has never been Invaded, nor have they yet been seen by Western eyes. On the day of my visit with General Wilson he was curious to see ihem. He told the old controller of the palace to open their apartments. But he replied that it was Impossible. The general insisted, and explained to him that he had to see them, that he, the controller, could not help himself in the face of the arms of the American soldiers. Still the old man refused and protested, and finally put it to General Wilson that he would most certainly lose his head on the return of the Emperor if he were to gratify his curiosity in this matter. It was only at this that General Wilson ceased to press him, and allowed him to keep his head. FATE OF WOMEN LEFT BEHIND. Ine Imperial ladles of the palace have therefore enjoyed the distinction of being about the only mystery of China which has remained unseen by the eyes of the invaders. Nearly all the Pekingese ladles seemed to have disappeared before we arrived. On the first day or two a few were occasionally to be seen escaping in carts, or glimpses of them were to be caught painfully toddling along on their tiny feet, supported on either side by their maids or being carried on their backs. Any of those that remained had a bad time of it if found by the soldiery. There was one instance of a Manchu girl who was "discovered in her house by a correspondent. No one could understand how she came to be left behind. He found her In the inside room of a house where she was absolutely alone and deserted. The corpse of a Chinese gentleman was lying in the yard. She was a Manchu lady, and, like many of her race, extremely beautifuk Her trousers and coat were of richly embroidered silk, her black hair was ornamented with jeweled combs and rows of pearl ornaments of peculiarly Involved pattern, and the coil of her hair was carried over a delicately carved stick of white jade somewhat in the shape of a flat paper knife. She was terrified at his approach and he had great difficulty In persuading her of his harmless intentions. After much trouble he managed to get an old man and his wife from the neighborhood to come in and occupy the house with a view of protecting her, and he got them to supply her with coolies' clothes In place of the rich ones which she wore and to take off her pearl ornaments, which would offer too strong a temptation to any marauding soldiers who might perchance visit the .house. For over a month, by some wonderful chance, she succeeded in living there undisturbed,and was supplied by the correspondent with food and necessaries. Her gratitude for his services was unbounded, and, rlthough there was no communication by means of language between them, she expressed her feelings in many pretty ways. When occasionally he came to sec her in the evenings, she would sing to him in a high falsetto voice, which was more agreeable in the Intensity it displayed than in th actual performance. One day he began to make a sketch of her, and the universal instinct of her sex was shown by her running away to change her coolies clothes and to come out in all the glory of the gorgeous habiliments of the Manchu lady. One evening, after a couple of days' inUrval, he came to see her, found the house deserted, and neither she nor the old man or woman anywhere to be found, and was left-blankly to speculate on what had become of them. GERMAN "REVENGE." No one knows where the hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of Peking disappeared to, and it will never be known what hardships these poor people, outcast and homeless, must have had to endure during the rigors of thta trying winter In

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They were Just beginning to come back to what were, in the majority of cases, the ruins of their homes, when the Germans, late for the first march for the relief, came up to enter upon their campaign of revenge, start their so-called punitive expeditions, and spread fresh terror into the already horror-stricken people. Even with the offer of high wages it was almost impossible to obtain servants. I managed with great difficulty to secure two. One I called Sapollo, because he didn't wash clothes, or anything else; and the other, Boxer, as he really had been one, a young fellow of sixteen, who hal been caught rcdhanded and was given over to a soldier to be shot; but Boxer just laughed in the face of his executioner, and the soldier, being unable to lire in the face of the laughing child, let him go. It was to the Japanese quarter that the people first began to come back in any number. The American and British quarters also after a while became fairly populous, but in the Russian, the German and the French districts the inhabitant? dared not return, and it is small wonder that we read in the papers of these outcasts forming themselves into bands of outlaws, who roamed, marauding, around the country. Out of this vast scene of war and terrible rapine it would be an agreeable recollection if one could think that some of the missionaries at least raised their voices in merciful protest to plead against the outrages committed by some of the allied soldiers, but no such pleading in the cause of humanity and mercy was to be heard from them. Perhaps it was because they were too busy in the sale of loot for th compensation of their converts and themselves. The Rev. Mr. Ament was presented by his admiring converts with a magnificent umbrella, which presumably was also looted. One can Imagine the three great teachers of mankind, Christ, Buddha and CönfucluF, looking down and surveying the entire prospect with pain and sorrow, thinking how little the result of their teachings was to be seen in the actions of their followers, and what deeds were materializing out of the maxims they had taught them. There is no question whatever that the cause of Christianity in China has received a severe shock by this campaign. The hatred which the Chinese felt for foreigners is now Immensely intensified, and slow ar.was any real progress being made by Christianity in China before, it will undoubtedly be slower still In the year3 Immediately to come. Staying now in New York "the City of Unrest" after a sojourn in ; China and Japan, it appears to me that, there would be an opportunity for some social missionaries from the East to come and teach us many things. A LESSON OUT OF THE EAST. "When we go into these streets here, vibrating with the clang and Jangling of street cars, the rumbling roar of the elevated, the piercing rattling of electric bells, between the hoarse eteam shrieks of steamers can ba heard cclllr.;: frcn ths river; tt!:c3 TT3 X7zi' t!:o Cr;;:i t!

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men and women all through the morning struggling down town, to that district where one sees hung up the significantly unique signs, "Quick Lunch." and sees them struggling back in the evening to snatch their morsels of rest and pleasure before the dawning of another strifeful day; when we see how many of them are getting stricken in their nerves (I know one office not more than fifty yards from where I write in which there are at present nine men suffering from nervous troubles), one begins to speculate if the Idea of repose is not passing away from our civilization, and if the art of enjoying 1 repose is not already lost. Haste and speed do not necessarily imply genuine progress. Already in every branch of our literature and fine arts the ravages being made by excessive haste are apparent. There are many other things that Oriental social missionaries might teach us about. Tha Chinese might tell us of their Idea of the family as the pivot and most important center of their life of filial devotion, where the father is considersd something more than a dollar-grinding machine, and consideration and care for the old of commercial integrity and honor. The Japanese might preach to us of cleanliness j and of politeness, and endeavor to impart i some of that wonderful artistic feeling and gtnuine leve of flowers and the beauty of nature which is instinct in the lowest as well as the highest among their people. They might l?cture on the tea ceremonies which elevate hospitality and the art of welcome to the level of a fine art in contrast to our social entertainments, which are fast developing into gastronomical competitions whose success neems measured by the amount of dollars expended on them. WHEN RUSSIA GRABS MANCHURIA. These are ideas well worth looting :nd carrying back to lessen tho vulgarity of our vainglorious civilization. As we called together The Hague conference In a vain attempt to reach the standpoint from which the Chinese (with whom the pen Is really mightier than the sword) regarded war at the end of the last century, so, before the end of the present, will we be vainly trying back and struggling against the raging torrent of material progress which will then be madly sweeping us from the cradle to the grave without pause for the enjoj-ment of what makes life worth the living. Coming down from Peking across the plains, rank with the rotting decay of the ungathered harvest, of burned villages, cf white human bones gleaming in the frostgripped mud of the river banks, one felt that it would be well if we could think that this unsavory chapter of history were finished. But this is by no means the case. The crisis which was foreseen long ago by the Japanese has arisen. What Count Okuma. ex-prime minister of Japan, told me months ago European nations have come to realize that Russia means to grab Manchuria. The Japanese saw this all along. The diplomatic protestations of Russia can no more be relied on than the promises of her generals or their distinct undertakings given to the cthtr al"-d ctntrzU could La relied ca lur-

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Full Dress Evening 5uits. $25 - - C naia j-Ant mni" v litis a them men of renown in the sight of in our house. It is personal supervision of orders most careful and considerate fit Q Cents Over and over again the Russian gmral has broken his word to his companions-Inarms wherever It appeared to him that he could achieve any advantage to h!m?olf by so doing. The day before the attack on ths walls of Peking Itself he thoucht to m.a! a march on the other forces by comm :;cing his attack before the time npr ! i;; n. The attack was not successful and tln-n he sent back to General J'ukuhima fcr ieinforcements. These were, however, refused by the Japanese commander, 'aI. j told his messenger that he was not ii z to break his original agreement. For months back it has born the arl- v. desire of the Japanese to have th rr.'ral support of Great Britain or of tho l.'r.lN 1 States in sending a message to Uu:-:-ia to leave Manchuria. I asked Count Okuma would ho bo willing to send guch a message vm at t!:o cost of war. He said certainly that ) would, but that such a rmt. ?t w.t;M make for ieace. and not Tor war. Ho :- i!l that such a message, if sent with tirmno? and determination, would prevent tho p slbility of a shot being fired. Japan in more opposed than any other power to the partition of China. It is obvious that t!.e United States is almost equally so, and also, is Great Britain. Y t th se thr o powers, actuated by the same Ideas, 1m.) been,working in water-tight oompartm r.t; there has been no cohesion among th n, no unity to voice their united purpose, instead of this there has ben simply a policy of drift, and this drifting has riv. n rise to our coming up against a po :ti-n which is now extremely serious, and whi h, with some further drifting, may land th allies into a gigantic world war. Tr ir.ee, of course, would back up Russia, and the uncertainty of Germany attitude aviin leaves the Emperor in a position to be tin arbiter of the situation. The united voice of Japan, th l'r.!t I States and Great Britain should go in th Pacific. Their united mandate would b supreme In the Orient. If they giv up th policy of drift, and say with firmntff an i determination, there shall be peace, puca it must be. The Travel Care. London Chronicle. Under what conditions is travel of beryf.t In the treatment of mental diseases? TIM question was under discussion at yesterday's meeting of th Medico-P?ychoi--Kh'-'l Association. Dr. Savage, physician in charge of mortal diseases nt Guy s. h-M that to move a patient suffering from a severe mental disorder, either for a ex voyage or other form of traveling, was rjr inadvisable. The fresh surrounJlnps very often caused weariness where the r."'i was fcr absolute rest. On the otrur hand, he recognized that a sea voyage mUht !o good to one suffering from melanch Via dua to a love affair or to a failure at examination. Sir Hermann Weber agretd witl Dr. Savage's opinion, and referred to th case of a coachman who had become mentally affected. It was believed that h might recover if he were seated on a four-in-hand. The experiment was tried anl succeeded. Dr. Robert Jones took th vie that sea voyages ilo not always bnent convalescents. He said he knew of a cia of a mentally afflicted patient who was ordered a voyase. When Marseille ws reachtd the patent had a delusion that h'.s attendant vras lr.zi?, and declined to

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