Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1897 — Page 2

BICYCLES IN WASHINGTON

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWI* SATURDAY, JULY 17. 1897.

national capital a great PLACK PON WHEELS.

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Opccia! Com «pond*np« Th« Indiana poll* »wa. Wa*htn»ton. D. C.. July IL-Tha lull 1* loKtalAtlon In tha Houae while the Senate was oonalderinc th# tariff bill In«r«Aa«d th* number of wheelmen in W*ahin*ton. Many A member from remote parta of th* country learned to rid* the wheel. Washington has been called the heaven of bicycles. It has over 306 miles of concrete pavements and the roads In Its vicinity are far better than the Average. It Is the only city In $he United States where the streets Are .better than the sidewalks. A trip to Baltimore and back is no novelty. Wheelmen KO there In large parties and return the same day. To a stranger, the city seems to be alive with bicycles. Men and women, girls and boys flit through the streets like swallows, darting here utd there between cars and vehicles. Borne are bent on business, and others Are out for pleasure alone. Thousands emtdoyfed In the various departments go to and from their work upon wheels. The courts of the Interior Department, of the War and Navy building and of the PostoiBce building are crowded with Ucycks. In every department provision Is made for them. The crypt of the Capitol is Ailed with them. There Is a place set apart for them on the ground floor of the pension building. Theaters advertise them checked and stored without charge ^ A Congressman who Is a member of the L. A. W. rode past the city postoffice recently at 7 o'clock in the morning. The streets In the vicinity swarmed with wheelmen In gray uniform. They trooped away from the building In platoons, north, south, east and west, making the morning delivery. These letter-carriers run to the extreme limits of the oity. They use the wheel In the delivery of letters. Collections from the street boxes are most all made by carriers on wheels. Some carriers ride to their field of delivery and leave their wheels at a pharmacy or a grocery while they distribute their letteik. The Congressman saw oq* carrier leave his wheel at the. residence of Senator Stewart. and from there make his deliveries

on foot. "

Ride to Bwainess. It is estimated that from 12.000 to 15,000 persbns employed Ip Washington use their wheels in going to and returning from business. Nearly 90,000 are employed tn the departments alone, and of these it Is safe to say that more than one-quar-ter use the wheel. The sight In the morning hours Is exhilarating. Rosycheeked typewriters in natty costumes, machinists employed at the navy yard, department clerks, male and female, old and young, school girls and school marms, all dash to their work mounted upon wheels. Borne sail along with charming grace and even abandon, while other nervously grip tbs handles of their wheels and dismount when in doubt. Many sit straight ramrods, with bands behind their backs, driving the wheels as though they were parts of themselves. Others maintain an unconscious, but easy; attitude, apparently thinking over the work of the day. A few bend to the low handle bars, and speed along as though suffering from curvature of the spine. Darwins theory is apparently reversed. Instead of " — 1<m t hrougn long ages of hnlan, W« have the *apM ■Ike simian from man. j OonflnAd to the R)rds of nb lady hgb ever been seen »ts of Washington riding a wheel with ram’a horn Handle-bars. Nor are the patrons of the wheel conthe Caucasian. . Though tha i can not change his color, he extremely facile la charigtng his of locomotion. The colored girl, octoroon, quadroon, mulatto or s th the front on the wheel. She ‘illy,, If noit artistically. ipAnled by a dusky adtfiaae admirers attracts Tall and *lende% he his tinted inamb rata, bicycle suit. The suit Is a lay^ a bhie Cap with a , And a snowy button on aeries the Princeton black. His knickernavy blue, and his golf it plaid that would throw

Into convulsions,

also a‘favorite with tbe Chinese legation. Several r are * experts. All ride i on account of their flowing

If he succeed* himself bis advent among the wheelmen will be balled with delight. A new criminal has been developed In Washington. He le akin to the scoundrel who ruins ladles’ dresses by throwing vitriol upon them. Ho scatters chunks of broken glass in places frequented by wheelmen. His operations extend throughout the city. A hint from the chairman of the District committee to the commissioners might secure his apprehension and conviction. In his excursions upon the wheel. Mr. Babcock U accompanied by his wife, who la a graceful rider. Nor Is he the only Congressman whose wife accompanies him in his expeditions. Mrs. Qeorge B. McClellan frequently rides to Alexandria and back with her husband. In riding about the city you often meet Representative Bhafroth, of Colorado, Senator Bacon, of Georgia; Senator Tilman, of South Carolina; Senator Wetmore. of Rhode Island; Senator Perkins, of California; Senator Butler, of North Carolina; Senators Elkins and Faulkner, Of West Virginia, and Senator Kyle, of South Dakota. The latter has as a companion his daughter, who usually sets the pace for her father. Senator Wolcott. of Colorado, now absent In Europe, is greatly missed by the wheelmen in Washington during the present session. Represent Uvea Foss of Illinois, Taylor of Ohio, Latimer of South Carolina, Sherman of New York, Curtis of Kanma^and other*, belong to the congreselorjal bicycle brigade. All are enthualasUc wheelmen. Representative Sprague, of Massachusetts, has won more than th* usual notoriety by appearing on tbe floor of the Senate In a wheelman's costume. The ooetume fits him to perfection, and is evidently the work of a Boston tailor. Jerry Simpson is an old rider, and one who understand* tha ethics of land navtgaUon. He wears knee-breeches, and is not ashamed to wear them. More aator.lshtng than this, however, ts the suit of Coi. William G. 8t«rwtt, of Texas. He appeared upon the floor of tbe House the other day with golf stockings and a butternut roundabout. Tbe suit 1* unique and charactarletic. Tbe coat may have come from the plain* of Texas, but tbe stockings are a symphony In hosiery. The services of no Boston tailor were required. It recalls the story of a werll-known captain in the navy ,of whom H was said that he made Me own cJoithes and cut hi* own hair. A Conspicuous Figure. A conspicuous figure In quiet streets of a cool afternoon is Commodore Samson, of the Ordnance Bureau. He ride* a highframe wheel with aplomb and dignity. In days gone by the commodore was a favorite in the tennis court with Secretary Otoey, of Massachusetts. They pUyed on the lei adjoining tbe residence of Mrs. U. 9. Grant. Tbe commodore la f-uliy as graceful on the wheel as in the tennis

court.

Ttte Conduit road and the ahady drives gbout the ’Soldiers’ Hxxn^ are favorite courses for wheelmen.. Toward night they ttppt*8LT Jh&TQ by hwdreds. A.oci'd'CiiX'ts &re comparatively few, because scorching Is ASricWy forbidden. The ordinance is enforced by a bicycle squad of uniformed police officers. TO those standing upon th* esplanade of the Capbtol on the last night of the session to the early evening. Pennsylvania avenue preaen'ted a fairyUke spectacle. It was filled with wheelman, and their lights were a* numerous as fireflies in summer. The avenue was fairly phosphorescent with them, and ‘toe scene was made more animated by the music of the bonds which were to take part in the Inaugurat procession. The plaza fronting the Capitol presented a scene even more stirring. The olr was filled with the tinkling of tiny bells, and Mghi-a glimmered bur and near on every

road in the Capitol grounds.

‘ ‘ aUU Ahe old fogy doubts! A mem-

the NConfedShate Cabinet recently hi* astoontamen’t at seeing a a vthsei. “It Is the only indi-

nacy th

you,”' be remarked.

And sa ber |f th ggfs

friend upon a wheel. “It la the only indication of lunacy that I have ever seen in

you,” be remarked.

Tbe wheelman replied, "In a quarter of a century you will see one hundred wheelmen where you now see one. All the rising generation are Infatuated with the wheel. It is even more useful than orna-

mental.’’

"You an* craxy," was the reply, “it is

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you now see

one wheel where J. CUMMINGS.

Everybody Ridas.

In fact, everybody rides the wheel—the clergyman and the Congressman, the lawyer and his cllegt, the doctor and his patient, the mistress and the maid— everybody but ' tbe office-seeker. He walk!. Not Jong ago a,_ Congressman took tea on a Sunday afternoon with a family living In the northwest. The lady of the house was busy wtupding to the wants of those around' the t&bia One of tha children at th« table asked its mother where Oertffi, th* servant girl, woe. “She and the cook have gone out on their wheels. This ts their Sunday off,"

replied the mothe.r

"Has your servant girl a wheel 7” the Congressman asked, in astonishment. "No," was the reply, "she hires one for IK cents aa hour." , . She then told a story of her' washerwoman. “She comes her* every Monday," tha lady said, “to do tha, washing. lost Monday I waited ail day tor her and the never came. Bhe appeared blight and eiiiy on Tuesday morning. I asked her why she failed to come on Monday, and she replied, T hired a wheel. A lady out beyond the SoldMcs Home owad me 60 cents and I went out there to collect it.’ " > ■ After a long morning ride the Con*' gressman breakfasted at his rooms, and, mounting hi* wheel, rode to the Capitol. He had hardly turned the corner * before ha passed a gentleman in knlcka negligee shirt, sack cost bit stockings. Th* costume was eta with tbs exception of the

THE FLORENCE CRlfTENTON MISSION, First Convention of Repcne Mission Vv. Worker*.

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Correspondence The Indianapolis News. Mbitotota Lake Park, Md., July !«.- Here in tbe mountains Is being held the first national ocswwntion of the Florence Critteokm. Rescue Mission Workers. The convention loots from July 13 to 19. Mr. Crittereton arrived here with his co-labor-ers to his special evangelistic reecue ear Good News on Monday evening. TucaJay afternoon tbe first meeting was held. Tuesday night "Mr. Crktenton preached a sermon of great power on the subject of “Personal Consecration." Wednesday was filled up with routine work and th* reception of delegatee. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrertt, the national superintendent, spoke, her subject bring “What is itbe National Florence cm teuton Mission, Its Objects and Methods?" In the afternoon “Mother” Prtndle, as she U familiarly known to this country and England, and probably the best known rescue worker to tbe world, spoke on "Pensooal Work Among Street Glrla." In th* evening the Rev. Mr. Strouse, a young man of wealths who, three years ago, abandoned the world and gave himself up to the work of the evangelists, preached a remarkable sermon.

Mr. Hadley is a notable character. Up to eleven years ago tie was an awful drunkard, and be woe a thief, a forger and a bad man generally. He went to the McAutey mission, and, under the Influence of Jerry McAuiey, was Induced to go to tbe altar and try for a better life. He succeeded end became an honest, sober man. When MoAuley died Hadley was eeieoted as his successor. To-day he stands out before the world as a modern miracle of grace. He Is so sweet to spirit, so tender, loving and kind, that all who heard Mm were melted to tears ss he told the story of Ms life and the work of his midnight mission. In Che afternoon W. V. Wheeler spoke on the subject of "Rescue Work in the West." Mr. Crittsntoo preached at night. Thus far thirty-one missions from different ports of the country are represented to the convention More are expected to-morrow. Groat interest is manifested to this first national convention.

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Th* gentleman wore a black Tbe breese was wooing his silvery Dundreary whiskers. He had a magnificent presence, and rode tbe wheel with tbs ease of on expert. He was Boar Admiral John G. walker, of the United Btatea navy. The admiral waa lost to sight in a bevy of young ladles who crossed hie track and fluttered under Ms bows like Mother Cary’* chickTwo blocks away the Congressman another object of interest. It was Chandler, of New Hampshire. ■ and salt suit, a straw on his ankles, but firm and was making good time, a mile behind him came

Illinois, the past 1 of tho comHe wore a felt

business suit, and was itlmldad. He has eel for several years, he was the first man Speaker Reed to mount

a n

woman, who Is to charge of the Rescue Horn* In PbtladripIHa, will speak. There are a great many noted characters to attendance here. Inuianapolis is repro- * * by some thirty people here In this

»ln resort

I* a delightful place to spend th* hot days of summer. Th* thermometer seldom goes higher than M or 85 degrees. The might* and mornings are oool. Wednesday the thermometer stood at 48 degrees The mountain air is pur* and

invigorating.

A national holiness camp-meeting, farreaching to Its Influence, closed on Monday night. The Mountain Chautauqua, with a fine program, opens here August 1. Th* season does

ber 31.

not clos* until Octo-

W. V. W.

fa Washington. Trim Main* nsver uses His form is fasvenue. He i Capitol, rolling to '-lave. Those th* wheel in an Interesttakes his the Capitol, room, as wheel-

RIOTS FEARED IN VALPARAISO. Obc Thousand. Workshops Ordered ■ Closed by the Mayor. New York, July 17.—A dispatch to the Herald from Valparaiso says: There is a general tear hers that a repetition of the bloody riots of 1390. when scorea of rioters were shot down and killed by the police and militia. Is at bond. The situation Is critical. It was brought about by the action of the mayor of Valparaiso to ordering 1,000 workshops closed, thereby throwing thousands of men out of employment. Unless something Is done immediately to provide for the idle .thousands serious trouble will result. The authorities only quelled the riots of If90 after a groat loss of life. The rioters at that time looted many stores to obtain food and clothing, and the reault waa the police and mtUtia were called out to put an end to the troubles. Scores of Ml* men were shot down and cut down In the

the lost House. Offlo* desks of all styles. Win. U Elder.

DOWN BY THE SEASIDE.

HOW PEOPLE ENJOY THEMSELVES AT THE RESORTS.

Daegeroue Elements to Bring Together—A Word or Two as to Laws of tho Beach—A Crab Social.

She was a Swimmer. Atlantic City Letter Phllsdelphia Press. “A cold bottle at dinner, then. If she wets It I sign the check; If she doesn't wet It, you pay." "Agreed.’* The young men ought not to have spoken so loud that the young lady could hear them. She frowned at first, then her eyea flashed and she smiled. Turning to her maid, who followed her with a wrap such as French ladles wear before and after the bath at TrouvllK she whispered a few words that made Nannette laugh. The scene was the beach on Friday morning. About 11:30 the two young men. who are New Yorkers stopping at one of the hotels patronised by the Four Hundred, strolled on the sands before entering the water. Along came a finely built young woman wearing Ihe most stylish-looking surf toilet seen hero in more than ’ one season. It whs In no sense flashy, but great pains must have been expended on It by the dressmaker. It was made of cream-colored corded silk laid upon some heavier material, probably very fine shrunken white flannel. The trimming at the edgec and the belt waa of baby blue, and a large anchor was embroidered on the breast. The stockings were of an elaborate flowered pattern on a ground of dark blue, and the lady also wore. sandals. The young men are familiar figures on the beach. Both are fine swimmers and their feats In the water invariably attract admiring at

tention.

From their chaffing remarks It seemed that they Intended to astonish the natlvee by swimming around the pier. Before doing so, however, they amused themselves by criticising the women on the sand. ( On seeing the young lady in the costume described they Jumped to the conclusion that It was a “surf toilet," of the kind never Intended to be spoiled with water. They were to share a cold bottle' at dinner, anyhow, and they made It contingent on the probabilities

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as to whether the young lady would take a bath to determine who should pay for the wine. Thay continued to chaff each other and flirt for about fifteen

minutes, when one of them exclaimed:

"By Jove! Look there!”

The other followed with hts eyes the direction of his companion’s outstretched arm and exclaimed, sententiously;

"By—Jove!”

There, sure enough, was somebody evidently bent on taking tbe wind out of their sails by swimming around the pier. They looked at each other dubiously. Already people on the beach were watching the progress of the swimmer. * "Let’s overtake the beggar,” proposed

one. "Co:

v^me on,” acquiesced the other. Suiting the action to the word they

entered the water, but by the time they had reached a depth suificient to enable them to strike out the other swimmer had increased the advantage of the start. Scores of people on shore had an inkling of tbe contest by this time, and watched

it with interest.

At last nothing but the heads of the swimmers could be seen, but the leader was evidently keeping the original distance In advance of the well-known cracks. Finally all three disappeared at the end of the pier, and a large crowd who had been watching with suppressed excitement, crossed to the lower side to witness the return. The relative positions were apparently unchanged, but as the swimmers came nearer, it was seen that both the cracks were gaining perceptibly on the leader. This Increased the excitement. The leader kept pluckily at work, and it was evident that unless some accident happened the cracks would be beaten to the race for the shore. Only a few yards separated the contestants when the first line of breakers was passed. The waves carried the leader farther to toward the shore. Then ground was touched, and there uprose the white-clad figure of a woman, who never looked behind, but waded out. She was breathing hard, but far from exhausted, as he maid stepped forward

will enjoy

and threw the cloak over her. "I hope,” she panted, "they

their cold bottle/’

The crowd made an avenue for her to

Ished countenance as they murmured In dejected unison: “By Jove!” Dangerous Elements. Ella Wheeler Wilcox In New York Journal. The July moon, an attractive man and a summer girl ore dangerous elements to bring together. No wonder there seems always a leering smile on the face of the full moon when It contemplates the follies it has led sensible people to commit. I think th* blushes of the dawn are ofttimes caused by thinking of the night’s misdemeanors. Sentiment belongs to moonlight as much os sparkle to champagne. The summer girl feels that life has done her an Irreparable wrong If a July moon wanes without allowing her an opportunity for a flirtation, at least. There are so few moons which one can enjoy out of doors! There are so few years when one can be young and Indulge In the dangerous delights of flirtation. It Is to this way she reasons in her heart, while she Is usually saying aloud to her friends that she is glad there is no moon anywhere around to bother one. • Meantime, when he comes, however, young or old or unattractive he may be, she utilises him. Many an unsophisticated youth has learned the lessons of a lifetime between the fulling and the waning of a July or August moon. Mairy an oM fitflow has relived his ywth in that time. For the greatest temptation which the season holds for the summer girl is the temptation to teach men how to flirt. I have often wondered why some enterprising hotel proprietor did not advertise a “Summer school of flirtation, wtfih tbe very beat teachers to attendance,” as a feature of his resort. Th* summer girl is usually confident of her skill to the art, and certain of her own ssfiety; yet sometimes she retires tram the field In the autumn a captive and a slave to Oirpid; and again she retreats, beaming hidden scats which death himself can not For the man flirt also is s/broad to th* outing season. And a man fl-.rt is always a more dangerous being tihon a girl flirt. Once tot a fisscinatin* and attractive man acquire tbe thirst for conquest, and he quickly toms ail honor and pr^.olpa] In his assoatotlan wvth women. HR approach to a summer reeort should be henaWed with a danger signal.

Three Girls on the Bench. Asbuiy Park Letter New York Times.

The pretty girl who wouldn't go Into the water was out In her bathing suit today, and with her were the two young men who were bound to drag her In egalnst her will. There were three of her in one part of the beach at once. All thro* of her were blessed with pretty figures, which even a blue flannel bathing suit could not disguise. The first edition of the pretty girl was really afraid of the water. By struggling she managed to free herself from her tormentors (?) before she had done more than wet her feet. They let go of her then, but she wo* not only not going to be sacrificed herself, but the best beloved of her escort* was not to be lost, either. As her hands were loosened, and the men turned toward the water, she reached forward and, with an air of great concern, grabbed one .of them by the wrist and drew ran also up safely on the bench. The second edition of the pretty girl sat high up on the beach nnd let me sptnt force of the water after each wave* wash up around her, and whan It sur

rounded her entirely atm acrearned uh great glee and looked back to her fru ids further up on the beach for applause for

her bravery HMH

‘ ird

go near the water, but enjoyed the sand and the company of a young man dressed In the ordinary respectable garb of a cltlsen, and the alternating visits of the bathers. But she was not to be saved. Only once she stood up for a moment's change of position, and then she was grabbed and. in spite of all protestations, carried down to the water and Into one of the biggest waves It was dreadful. Even h*r hair was wet and It did not curt naturally. But amende were ’ made. A handkerchief was borrowed from the young man in cltlsens’ clothes, and the young man to a bathing-suit, who hod assisted at the water ceremonial, holding her face by the tip of her chin, wiped every drop of water from It. Perhaps the big policeman on the beach. If he saw that, considered it a necessary duty. Anyway, ho did not Interfere, but the beach laws in many ways are strict, and do good duty in place of chaperons. For Instance, a young man may not lie with his head to a young woman's lap no matter how many really bona-fide chape, rons there are around. That was what the beach policeman told a young man who was enjoying himself In that way the other day, and he desisted immediately. But as the officer came that way again, and naturally turned his eyes In the direction of the couple, he found them on tho lookout for him fc* the time he reached them the young woman had her head In ths young man’s lap. But Asbury Park rules will work two ways. The officer was a strict disciplinarian, and this one waa enforced. What a Crab floolal Is. Atlantic Oily Letter Philadelphia Record. It is a pretty poor kind of a season that doesn’t see some new fad. whether It bo In the eating, drinking or bathing line. This season the distinctive fad Is called the “crab social,” and It Is Just as pretty and unique as It Is enjoyable. Its pouularlty, and the people who participate make no bones In saying so, la due largely to the fact that It is quite Inexpensive. Supposing the young gentleman who Is stopping at tho hotel or at a cottage, as the case might be. suddenly develops a surpassing dislike or concerts, music, theaters and Ice-cream. That Is a sure Indication that he Is retrenching and that a proposition to a crab social will be highly acceptable. A description of the old-time crab party would fit the preliminary work of this newest function. A gay party of young folks of both sexes go to the thoroughfare, end without any difficulty catch the requisite number of crabs, These are brought home and cooked, but the most totaresttof part is ^to lady given has dyed with prel'ty colors a dozen or so of the omb shells and an equal number of ohiw*. When nicely cleaned and polished a crab shell will take on a very beautiful color If dipped _ in hot dye. These colored shells and daws ore then put into a grab bag. Each girl draws out a shell and each young man a daw Those whose colors match are paired off for the evening. After supper, composed mainly of crab*, there Is dancing and other amusements. The whole affair costs each but a trifle. Expected to Nee It Rise. Tape May Special Philadelphia Frees. The fascinating pastime of bathing has had many recruits, and as the crowd Increases the number of amusing Incidents alao grows greater. There was an old gentleman on the beach yesterday morning whose gaze was intently fixed upon a stick which wus thrust Into the sand near the water’s edge. He was an Intelligent looking man, although there was sometihlng In his dress and manner that strongly suggested the backwoods. He looked perplexed, and a bystander questioned him ns to^the mean.lng^of^he into the water at once wou*j cau«? n iu rise, and I wanted to see how high It would , « * J ..3 * /-w

ierstand If. Do you think up by the bathing suits?” The old fellow evidently was not aware of the fact that the tide was going out, and that the bathing suit of the average summer girt is too small to soak up enough water to dry up the ocean. The phenomena of the tides was too deep for his comprehension, and he walked away with a look of perplexity on his eouav tenance as If ha wanted :o get somewhere by hhnseM and cogitate over the problem. B— — » ■ —*t I I *— NO BELIEF IN TBE ALLIANCE.

Views of the Spanish nnd Japanese Consuls at New York.

New York. July 17.—Th# Times says: High Bpcnish authority In this clty-Consul-Generol Arturo Baldasano — and high Japanese authority—Consul Uchtda —agre* that no credence should be given to the report from Europe that an alliance against the United States has Wn formed by their respective governments. Seror Beldasano, however, does not regard tbe relations between the United States and his country as other than strained, while Mr. Uchlda thinks that matters can be softened with the empire ot Japan with a graceful acquiescence on the part of the new rulers of Hawaii m the claims which his government makes for a continuance of such Japanese rights and privileges as at present exist. When Benor Baidasano was asked to give his opinion on the alleged alliance, he assumed an appearance of Incredulity, as he said: “There is no truth whatever In any such reports. It Is Just like the statements which the filibusters make.” "Do you think, then, thlt the relations between Spain and this country are Improving?" was .asked. "Oh, I can not say that they have improved. They are no worse than they wore. They are to statu quo. Of course. I can not say anything as to what may be taking place. That Is tho province of Senor De Lome, to Washington. But the filibusters will exaggerate everything and newspapers will be round wrongfully to construe the slightest rumors. The filibusters know *.liey ore defeated and il at fepain is dominant to Ouba. They must get up some new excitement. We ki ow they have many friends in th s country. When the American struggle for independence was going on, Bpain helped the colonists. I tog treated to an ungrateful manner. When reminded that Japan was accused recently of having designs upon th# PhUioetn*. Senor Baldssano sa d that idea never Prevailed in Boaln. He characterized the opinion of the London newspaper which Miid that Japan could easily ravage the Pacific coast while Spain attended to the Atlantic seaboard

as nonsense.

The Japanese View. At th* Japanese consulate, Mr. Uchlda s&w the reporter. It was quite evident that he regarded any trouble between hi* country and the United States as a serious matter. , . "We are anxious to maintain friendly relation* with this country,” he said, "and the papers at home are surprised to hear of th* rumors that are current. You may contradict all this talk about an alliance with Spain. We have no thought of war.” •‘What rights have the Japanese In Hawaii which they fear to lose In case the United States takes sovereignty of

the islands?"

"Well, they have vested rlghte—rights of residence and property. If the United States respect our veeted rights we should have no objection to annexation. “Are you afraid that this Government would not treat you as fairly as did the

Hawaiian republic?"

“We know that we have certain rights now." he replied, “and If they are con. tinned, the diplomatic objection will pass

away." ....

"Do you not think that the Japanese government is desirous of assuming authority to what goes on in regard to the islands of the Pacific, and that it wishes to assert Itself as arbiter of their desti-

nies?" .

•Oh, no; we do not mean to annex the

islands. » , "Does not the Japanese government want to be consulted as an important party to the creation of a balance of power in the Pacific even where It doee not claim treaty rights?” “No; we are simply trying to keep what we have now under our treaty with

Hawaii."

Mr. Uchlda admitted that tb® Japanese

In Hawaii were merely lapoMrs, and ig. norant. He said they all went there to

make money and return to Japan. A $50,000. Fir* at Troy, N. Y. Troy. N. Y.. Juiv 1“.—Fire has de-

■troyed the Interior of the three-story bullding. occupied by the Troy Northern Budget, owned by Charles L. McArthur

A Boo. Loss, 850,000.

POVERTY OF OUR CLERGY.

London Spectator. Th* blttsr cry of an underpaid priesthood does not seem to be confined to England or to th# clergy of the Established Church. American ministers, who are paid for the most part upon the system described here ts thal of nonconformists, are beginning to complain that they find their position a hard one to endure. The clergy of the rural districts. who form, of course, the immense majority in America, have always been poor, singularly poor considering the reverence of Puritans for th* profession, and they are now either worse paid than of old, or they have become more conscious of their Insufficient payment. They begin to murmur audibly, they dissuade candidates from seeking to enter the profession, and they discuss radical remedies, with as little result As any curates In th* Anglican communion. They have, we fear, too much reason. Whether, as is often alleged, there Is any decline ef desire for their ministrations we are unable to decide, though observers draw sad sketches of districts, both East and West, in which ths very attempt to maintain churches would seem to have been abandoned; but the freehold farmers, pressed by falling prices, are more and more reluctant to subscribe with anything like adequate liberality. They economise to every direction, arid one of their first economies is In their ministers’ stipends. They have always, as we underatand the accounts we read, been exceedingly Jealous of raising the pastors to a position above their own, fearing, they say in excuse, lest difference in worldly circumstances should Involve a diminution of sympathy, and they are Just now .reluctant to pay even tha few dollars which they agree are essential to decent maintenance. They try. too, many of them, to pay by contributions to kind, the collection of cash become* .almost unbearably difficult, and the unlucky rural ministers, who want a little more than food for their families, are reduced to humiliating straits. They find it nearly impossible to exchange their livings, they complain and complain without redress, and, if they threaten to resign, they see very young men elected who are content to serve practically for any little they can pick up, or in some Instances for nothing. Hampered with wlvea and children, unable or unwilling to abandon their profession, and In many cases full of spirit of self-sacrifice, they struggle on, providing for their houses like laborers to Europe, and fretting first of all over their difficulty to procuring professional education for their children, or any kind of liberty or comfort. The result Is a tone ot_angry resignation which Impairs their usefulness, a cleavage between pastors and flocks which renders cordiality impossibls, and to too many Instances a submissiveness toward the few who are well off, which threatens grievously their ministerial Independence. There are, of course, hundreds, possibly thousands, of exceptions, but outside the citiee we are assured this description is too generally correct, with the result that the clerleal office Is every year more avoided by those who feel In themselves any promptings of ambition, or any overplus of energy, and the work falls more and more into the hands either of those who are content with a narrow and laborious but quiet life, or of men who. with much seal and little culture, would, to Europe, be described as a peasant clergy, with all the defects and some of the merits of that very separate and peculiar class. The literature which they themselves produce is full of their repining*, and. If we may say so, of their Inner rage, and unless we are deceived by some descriptions we have recently read, they are beginning to feel an almost savage dislike for the system under which they are chosen, and maintained, and, to too many Instances oppressed, more especially by that spirit of mlnuto espionage and criticism which seems to be the curse of American villages, wherein a sort of education is universal but broad or general interests are extremely few, so that all eyes fix unceasingly upon the drama of the life around them. This spirit Is bad enough In Scotland, as it would be to England, but that the Established clcigy are irremovable; but in the United States, owing to their vast area, and the consequent seclusion of multitudes of small communities, it rises to a hlght which many ministers, and especially ministers raised by a little cultivation or thought above the average of their fellows, find to be positively tolerable. The narrative In a book like "Illumination” is, of course, fictitious, but seems to the sympathetic reade_r as If it were written with drops of blood. We dare say many of the Nmi conformist clergy to the poorer rural districts of England have as much to suffer, but somehow one expects to the United States more of external happi-

ness.

There Is plenty of discussion, of course, as to the remedy; but as yet no proposal seems to have taken any general hold. ''Ths'T'lergy want advocates who dare preach as one of the first of truths that the teacher, to be of the highest utility, must not be wholly subservient to the taught, or compelled to waste energy and courage to tho effort to preserve an independence which ought never to be threatened; and the laity are perhaps a little bewildered by the fact that the desire to preach still affects so ninny young men that a pulpit, however unfairly emptied by tbe congregation, is sure to be almost instantly filled again bv candidates who. in their inexperience, think that they personally will soon overcome all that is disagreeable. There are four methods to which, as experience shows, when poverty impairs the usefulness of a ministry, a remedy, partial or complete, can always be found. One, th* steady resolve of the congregations to prosperous years to endow their

pulpits, would probably be unacceptable to America, where the majority of church-goers are penetrated from tradition with the belief that an endowed ministry is sure to be a "dead” ministry, an idea which may have some a priori foundation, but which is contradicted by the whole modern record of the Anglican establishment, and. wo may add. by that of some Roman Catholic provinces on the continent, where a little more "deadne*s,” or absence of seal, to the benefleed priesthood would be ac-

cepted as an improvement

The second plan, tl»at of the sustsntatlon fund, has succeeded In Scotland. but is, we suspect, opposed to tbe root Ideas of those churches to America which can not endure that a congregation and Its pastor should be even partially independent of each other. From good motives and from bad they wish the minister always to feel that hie worldly position depends exclusively upon his influence with those whom he la set to teach, an Idea which would only be sound If the search for a stipend did not always tend to lower the character of that

Influence.

The third plan is what may be described as the ladder plan, now pursued in an unaolentlte and rather stupM way by all Episcopal churches. Poverty In the manse or parsonage does not signify nearly so much If there Is hope of promotion; and even in America, where care is universal, there would he cheerfulness In ministers* houses If there were hope or certainty that In mature years the vllpastor would b* always called to the easier circumstances of the city ts. Unhappily the gulf between town country Is nowhere deeper than to America, while th* wealthier churches would fiercely resent any such limitation upon the perfect freedom of their choice. They would think themselves oppressed on a vital point for ths benefit of their inferiors. . ^ ^ The fourth plan, which the Daily Chronicle of Tueoaay deokure* upon local evi-

circumstances a binding, custom. A celibate clergy can live on little, and retains, as far as worldly circumstances go. a large measure of Independence. It (s very difficult to bully a Thoreau to the pulpit, and exceedingly easy to main tain him. There Is no doubt that this system, if accepted, would solve th* difficulty: but then it will not be accepted. Protestant communities nevsr Hfc# a celibate clergy, not. we think, b*caus« they have any doubt of their personal purfty.

but because they dislike castes which stand apart from the rest of mankind; and the candidates, feeling no moral, or, so to speak, canon law, obligation to celibacy, would regard it as an additional and heavy burden upon th* profession. There 1s, to fact, no remedy visible *x> eept a greater desire in th* churches to relieve the pastors of cares which interfere with their spiritual life: and in the existing materialization of ordinary Ufa in America, that improvement must wait some great and real “revival” such as occurred to England In -the middle of th# eighteenth century. Of the kind of strike among candidates which we se« a correspondent of the New York Post recommends wo believe there Is no chance whatever. The desire to preach, to make people better by one’s spoken word, or by persistent cr.unsel. ts too widely spread; and each good lad who feels it thinks at heart that he will be too little like the rest of bis profession to fall under the common doom. There will always be a crowd of candidates for th* ministry to America, as there will always be a crowd of curates to England, the real danger being not that the caste of ordained men will grow insufficient In numbers, tut that it will be constantly recruited by men of Inferior Intelligence or Inadequate power of impressing Divine truths. We knew little of most of th# apostle*, but the Jew of Tarsus, who molded Christianity, was not only a gentleman, but a man of lofty Intellectual power and broad attainments. A peasant clergy may be very useful, but It will hardly possess the power of resisting the tendency to secularism which marks American society to-day a* It marks German society, and more than a century ago marked our own.

CHURCH LIFE AND WORK.

Are There Too Haayt New York Independent. The question Is more or less being discussed whether w# have too mahy ministers, and here and there we hear a suggestion that young men be dissuaded from entering the profession because there are now more ministers than will supply the churches. The spirit-of the suggestion is very much like that of the labor unions, which forbid a man to apprentice his own son to his own business for tear the business will be too crowded. Pretty much every burlness is overcrowded. There are more lawyers, more teachers, more carpenters, more engineers, more tramps than there would Ins room for if every one were provided with employment to fill bis time. But that Is no proof that there Is not abundance of room for new applicants. Many a man crowds Into a business for which he Is not competent; and It would be to the advantage of the world If he were crowded out of It. A good farmer may make a very poor minister, and It would be to the advantage of the world If the poor minister were to become a good farmer or Insurance agent. The road out of a profession should be made as easy as tho road into it. This may he hard for the poor minister, but It Is a blessing to the churches. There Is room enough for good men; none too many good ministers for the churches. Comparative Religion Taught. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A summer school of comparative religion is to be held at Greenacre, Eliot, Me., in August. The purpose of the school is stated as follows to the prospectus: To afford opportunity for the scientific study of various forms of philosophical and religious thought, under competent teachers, with the primary object of the ascertainment of truth and its helpful application to life. It Is believed that such a course of study will be found elevating to the mind, broadening to the social sympathies, and quickening to i the spiritual nature. • • • It la hoped by the organisers that the course of study will alao find favor with teachers of religion and ethics of all denominations, and. particularly with those who as missionaries or teachers are likely to come to contact with nbnChrlstlan cults, and to whom an understanding of their philosophical bases and the nobler phases of their thought should be regarded as an Indispensable preparation for their work. The asuranoe Is given that no propaganda of any special system will be attempted. The purpose of the instruction Is entirely unsectarian. Information concerning the school and its work may be obtained by addressing the director. Dr. Lewis G. Jones, at Greenacre, Eliot, Me. Meeting of tke Church Congress. New York Times. The Rev. John W. Kramer, of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Bensonhurst, is to charge of the program now preparing for the church congress, a non-legis-lative body in the Protestant Episcopal church, which meets this autumn, to New Orleans. Final details are to be decided upon at an executive committee meeting, to be held in New York on September 20, but It is now known that the following clergy Intend to be present and take part: The Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington, of Grace church; the Rev. Dr. E. Walpole Warren, of St. James’s; the ReV. Dr. Cornelius B. Smith, and Messrs. F. L. Stetson and John B. Leavitt. The Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, of St. Bartholomew's, had expected to attend and apeak, but since his election as bishop coadjutor of Rhode Island, It is uncertain that he can do so. The sessions at New Orleans are to be held to tha hall of Tulane University, and will cover a period of four days. A Bishop Sails for Brasil. New York Times. Bishop Galloway, of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, sailed Saturday on his trip to Rio da Janeiro, Brasil, and expects to be on the water twenty-one days. The blsbop arrived from his home, in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, and yesterday called on Bishop Andrews, it the Methodist Book Concern. The conference he has been appointed to attend is the Brazil Missionary Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. The mission was projected in 1874, and organised Into a conference to IBM. There are twenty-five missionaries to the Jurisdiction, nineteen native preachers and 1.671 members. There are fifty-two Sunday-schools and six boarding schools, with 404 pupils. The church property is valued at 652,1)70. The business of the conference will be conducted to the Portuguese language, and an Interpreter will be seated near Bishop Galloway, to Interpret the proceedings to him. The bishop expects to be in Brasil about four months. A <A«e*tl«h of Reeonsecrntlon. Congregatlonallst. A woman committed suicide In Calvary Protestant Episcopal church to New York not long ago, and now the Episcopalians are debating whether the church must be reconsecrated. If the consecration depends upon ths acts of strangers, we should think there was such a need. If It depends upon the reverance and devotion of the worshipers, we do not see how m onsecratlon could b« possible without their act. The Baptists. Boston Wstchmsn. Baptists have in the entire country 40,6S8 churches. 27.257 ministers and the average membership of the churches Is ninety-four. In other words, to New England there aro ssvsnty-four more ministers than churches: in the Middle States 209 more ministers, and in all the Northern States east of the Mississippi, are 386 more churches than ministers, which means that one church to sixteen can not be supplied with a pastor. Leav-

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tog out the Southern States, th# excess of churches over ministers is 888. The great aggregate of 13,401 mors churches than mimsteni in the entire country 1* made up in the South, and even this aggregate is more apparent than real, for the year book atatea that in th* record for the Southern States ths report of the number of colored ministers Is very Incomplete. There are now to our theological seminaries 1,043 students, and the average number graduated will b* 848 *

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Worn** Pastors.

There are nearly thirty women acting as pastors of Congregational churches, beside several others who have been regularly licensed to preaoh. The Congregatlonallst, discussing the late ordination of a woman, objects to the growing custom of inviting other than Congregational churches to membership In a council. We seS no danger from

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SHORT SUNDAY SERMONS.

Sanshln* la Religion. Christian Register. Sunshine has its use In making our religion what R should b«—a tiling of brightness. Thera is danger of making It too ooid and gloomy. God did not intend It to be thus, ft is a difficult matter, at any rate, to induce men to accept religion, and, if they ore left under the impression that, when they unite with th* church, they are going into the sunless and gloomy region of an Arctic land, K will moke it all the more difficult to Induce them to choose th* better part. Let Joy, brightness, geniality, tempered by the spirit of Jesus, characterize our religion, and these persons will lay hold of It wi th earnestness. Let us make use of sunshlne everywhere. Do cares come, let us go at them with sunshiny hearts. They “ ‘ If ten . | _ ime darkened by the shadow of death? Sunshine will lighten it, and show us tha golden asairway up which our departed have gone. Sunshine, sunshine everywhere—in the world. In the home, to the church. There is Joy and brightness in heaven. Why should It be wanting here? Men Oaght to Pray Prayer Is an Immeasurable privilege, so great that, being extended to ua, a moral obligation rests upon us to accept and exerciae It Christ said that man ought to pray The extending of this privilege to us ig an act of inflntt* condescension on the part of God. He humbles'Himself to our Infirmities, and holds Himself ready to listen to us when we lift our petitions to Him. Th* Infinite God has regard to each of His children. He bows to hear their petitions. We sometimes talk of th* humility of tho Christian who bows himself to prayer. It is not humility, however. If there Is connected with the word the thought of humiliation. It Is honor. It la exaltation. It Is glory to be permitted to address the Infinite God. The humility involved In prayer is all on God’s part.— Herald and Presbyter, Resisting Temptation. It Is sometimes easier to resist a great temptation than a little one. We do not realise the lowering effect of a succession of trifling transgreslsona, and so we make no effort to say no to them as they confront us one by one. But we do realise the probable consequences of yielding to that which stands before us In the guise of a great power, and we the more resolutely withstand it. Persons sometimes wonder how great a temptation they could resist; but It might be & good moral exercise to try how small a one they can witnstand.— The Parish Messenger. Rubicon. Death and love are portals wide. Each mortal man doth pass inside; Ahd there forever must he dwell, Within a heaven or—a hell. —Isabel M. Jacobs in the Jewish Messenger. The Upward Way Th* upward way can not be easy—It must be climbing to the end; but. as you climb, there comes more love of

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