Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1881, Page 9

LIGIOUS. The Shakers of Mount Lebanon —Their Preaching and Their Practice, Mean Stanley’s Last Article—Doc- trinal Changes in the Revision. Clerical Oratory a Lost Art Among Modern Preachers. General Notes at Home and Abroad— Personal Mention—Sabbath Musings. BOOK OF LIFE, ‘Over and over again, No matter which way we turn, ‘We always find in the Book of Life Some lesson we have to learn.” ‘We must take our turn at the mill, We must grind out the golden grain, ‘We must work at our task with a resolute will, ‘Over and over again. ‘We cannot measure the need Of even tho tiniest tlower, Or check the flow of the golden sands ‘That run through a single hour. But the morning dews must fall And the sun and the summer rain ‘Must do their purt, and perform it alt Over and over again. Over and over again The brook through the meadow flows, And over and over again The ponderous mill-wheel goes; Once doing will not sutlice, The doing be not in ¥ain; And a blessing failing us once or twice ‘May come if we try again. ‘The path that has once beey trod 1s never so rough to the feet. And the lesson we once hnve learned Is never so bard to repeat. ‘Though sorrowful tears mny fall, And the beart to its depths be driven. ‘With storm and tempest, we need them all To render us meet for heaven. AMONG THE SHAKERS. - THEIR PREACINNG AND THEIR PRACTICE. Correspondence New York Tribune. SHAKER VILLAGE, Mount Lebanon, N. Y., July 25.—I have been nearly a week a guest among these friendly people, listening to their conversation, reading their books, eating their healthful, well-cooked food, Jookwg into their shops, and walking about through their thrifty fields, gardens, and or- chards. They are divided into six families, or zroups, four here on the mountain side, in the Township of New Lebanon, and two about three miles distant, in the Township ofCanasn. One of the families is subdi- vided because of its size into two house- holds, known as the first and second orders. ‘The New Lebanon groups ars called re- spectively the North, South, Second, and Church families, the latter eccupying the centre of the settlement close to the church and having the subdivisions Ihave men- tioned. : The day of my arrival found Elder Giles Avery, one of the four ministers who form the hierarchy of the whole Shaker Church in the United States, dressed ina tow blouse, wheeling mortar fora new building. Elder Evans, the head of the South Family, was at work prunning apple irees when I came. Promptly at 6 o’clock’ the families breakfast and immediately after the men go the fields and the women busy themselves with the housework, the gathering and canning of fruit, the making of garments, and other suitable avocations. Dinner is at 12 and sup- perat6. By 9 o'clock every oneis in bedand the lights are out. Everything goes like clockwork. . The family with which I am domiciled consists of about sixty members. There ure perhaps a dozen adopted children. Among the adults the women outnumber the men in the proportion of nearly two to one. ‘There isnotas much strictness in regard to dress asl expected to find. The form is rigidly prescribed, but a number of plain colors are worn, Butternut dyes were formerly used, but blue jeans is now the favorite material for the men’s garments. One of the Elders has a coat of mohair of a color that is nearer red than anything else, and Brother Timothy, who takes care of my room, puts on in the evenings, after his work is done, a pair of handsome black trousers and a light blue coat, which give him quite the air of being “dressed up.” The women wear drab, gray, blue, and butternut brown. Their costume isadmirably designed to conceal all beauty ot form and face, and makes them all look Bs near the same age as possible. The waist of the dress is skort and the skirt is fastened to it by numerous thick plaits. Around the neck is worn a big kerchief, crossed over the breast and coming down to the waist. While at work the kerchief is of some coarse, dark material, but on Sundays and at evening meetings it is white. An apron reaches frum the neck to the toes. A. quaint white-lace cap hides the whole head except the face, and when they go out of the house this is surmounted by an ugly scoop Donnet of straw, with a little blue cape hang- ing down over the neck. The bonnet comes so far forward that the face is hidden within its cavernous interior. If youcome upon a Shakeress face to face, and she does not look down, as she is almost sure to do, you can just see that there is a face back under the shadow of the projecting,roof of the hideous headgear, and that is all. In this costume a girl of 10 looks like an old woman. ‘The men ‘wear broad-brimmed hats of Straw or felt, Their hairis combed straight back behind the ears, and reaches down to the low coat-collar. In some families shaving is discouraged; in others each follows his own preference in this respect. The Shakers use no alcoholic drinks and no tobacco. The North Family are strict vegetarians. In most other families some meat is eaten: but pork is tabooed by all of them, Lam told. With their knowledge and practice of the rules of healthful living they would show a remarkably fayorable death Yate were it not for their practice of celibacy. ‘The remarkable thing about Shaker celib- acy is that it is practiced without any bar- riers between the sexes save those of the or- dinary customs of e1vilized society. Men and women mingle together trecly in the ordi- uary avocations of the day, eat in the same Tooms, and sleep in the same buildings with no partitions or locked doors dividing the dwellings into male and female wings. The dormitories open upon hallways used by ‘There 1s, however, a of. the younger members of the community by the Elders. No one, except perhaps the aged, has an apartment to himself of herself. Each sleeps alone ina narrow bed, but there are two or three beds fnaroom. ‘The women go in couples when away from the house, so there is sinall chance for future love-making. At the church there are separate doors for the sexes. labele “entrance for males? and “entrance for fe- males,” which is a little singular considering the free common use made of halls, stairs, and doors in the family houses. Perhaps it 4s a relic of a timeof stricter forms than now prevail. % With’ all the watchfulness of the Elders and Eldresses, Deacons and Deaconesses, and the constant’ religious tension kept up to exalt the mind to a high pitch of self- abnemation, occasional evolutions of the Jaw of celibacy occur, but they are by no means common. The punishment is dismissal an the community. Much more commen is i for young menibers to fall in love and open- ly to leave the society for the purpose @ Inarrying. No constraint is put upon meta to hold them back save that of expostulat neon and regret. The Shakers want no memocts ‘who do not of their own free wills desire to stay with them and conform to, their aye Any one is at liberty to depart, but nose who go must go without, scrip or stat nd leave behind them the fruits ot their tal te ne the pleasant home, the orchards am it c Gelds, the sleek cattle, and the fall granaries., The adult men show the elfects of cell ba cy and a monotonous round of life devoi aS Jerehnal ambition Jess than the sworn 5 ‘o. all appearances they are healthy. bo ‘women have pallid faces, Jook ne! and weary. Lam told they are Tiable to at- = wher diye are. 4 other nervous diseases. Sexes. ful oversight THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1 No doubt their t greater sen: fubversion of their affectional patra seme ge f ie think, however, that they are the peal nen th of the Shaker communities, Failte the daily conversation and the ies v4 levotional exercises of these peculiar Wag could be studied by an- outsider, it theses found that the women who suffer syst trom celibacy are its most carnest ad- yociites, and. that ‘they, much. more than the y Keep up the religious zeal and fervor of e Se ‘The Shakers, to their honor be it sai y 2 it said, im- pose no burdens upon their women which Tie une do not bear, and divide all honor mu authority equally between the sexes. Each family is ruled by two male and two Temaie elders, and there are deacons and dea- conesses to manage details of household and industrial affairs. Nothing is decided with- outa consultation of the authorities of both sexes, And the men assume no air of supe- Mority either in church or business affairs, This is an inevitable outgrowth from the he- liet of the Shakers in Mother Ann as the female embodiment of the Christ_principle. They think there could be no perfect Chris- tian Church until there was a inanifestation of the female part of the Divine nature. As a natural sequence of this faith they demand e 1 civil rights for women, yw Ihave got upon the delicate ground of theology I will venture to give an outline of the chief points of Shaker belief. God, says the Elder who ismy authority on points of doctrine, is the centre-life and governing force of the universe. The first circle of spiritual life around Deity is the Christ- heaven or sphere. Further out are the sph inhabited by spirits which had their beginning on this and other planets. God is dual, having both male and female natures. A baptisin or inspiration from tho highest order of spirits in the Christ-sphere came to Jesus, who was a man, and in no mysterious sense the Son of God. ‘This was the male manifestation of Christ. The female manifestation was through Ann Lee, called _by the believers Mother Ann, an illit- erate Enghlishwoman, who born in 1786, came to this country in 174, and died at Watervliet, N. ¥., in i784. Celibacy washer chief injunction. She also taught commu- nity of property and-codnerative labor, but the practical arrangement of the Shaker system of societies was the work of Joseph Meacham, her disciple and successor. ‘The Shakers do not believe in the atonement in the sense the orthodox Christians teach the doctrine, and their heavens and hells are much like those described by Swedenbore, no future condition of. the soul being neces- sarily of eternal duration. In fact they hold that progress out of evil is as feasible in the future life as in this. ‘They also believe that the spirits of dead persons can visit the earth. and under certain conditions influence the thought and actions of the living. THE REVISED VERSION. EXTRACTS FROM DEAN STANLEY'S LAST ARTICLE. London Tisnes. ‘The question will arise in many minds, Is there any change produced in the doctrine presented by the New Version? To tnis question the answer is No and Yes. There isno change in any of the great doctrines, which alt Christians alike hold; the impor- tance of charity, of mercy, of irdgment, the transcendent and diyine beauty of the Char- acter in the Gospels, and the force of the in- cidents and arguments in the Acts and in the Epistles are beyond any possibility of alteration from a new reading ora new col- location of phrases. But if it be asked whether some of what are commonly called doctrines are placed in a new light, then the answer inust be in the affirmative. For ex- ample, the very word “doctrine,” perhapsnot from the fault of the translators, but from the change of meaning which has taken place in the lapse of time, has undergone a trausfor- ination which converted a perfectly general expression into one synonymous with dog- matic teaching. The error, if so we may call it, has been removed almost uniformly in the present revision, which renders the original word, not by “doctrine,” but by “teaching.” Heresies ” and “heretical,” which in ec- clesiastical parlance for many centuries have come to mean “ error in opinion,” have now the mask taken from off them, and they ap- pear in their true lightas “factions” or “ party spirit.” - All the modern fancies which havecon- gregated round the words “hell,” ‘everlast- ing,” and “damnation” have from different causes been exploded in this'version. ‘The words which have been hitherto. trauslated “hell” are now, either in the text or the margin, reduced to their original_meanings of “Gehenna,” “Hades,” or “Tartarus,” each with a very different signification the one from the other. and all from the meaning which they had acquired in modern popular language. The word “everlasting,” at least in the inargin, is always accompanied by an indication that its real meaning ts “for the age” or “ for the ages,” or else the far more sublime and ethereal word of “eternu.” “Damnation,” which had acquired so harsh a signification in later English, is now. entirely banished from. the sacred volume, and appears only either as “condemnation” or “judgment.” “ Inspi- ration,” although it might have been inter- preted in a less technical sense, yet now in the one text which was employed for vindi- eating the verbal authority of the Sacred il has been transformed from “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable.” Some of the great. scholastic doctrines have lost their chief supports, and that sometimes by variation of interpreta- tion, more often by variation of reading. The passage in Phil., ii, 6, is_ now not trans- Jated, “He thought it notrobbery to be equal with’ God,” but “He counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God.” The word “person,” in Hebrews, i., 3, has made way for a phrase which in the Athanasian Creed is used as the opposit of it, and reap- pears as ‘‘substance.” The text “ God man- ifest in the flesh’? is now “ Who was mani- tested in the.flesh,” and the old reading, we are told, rests on no sulficient evidence. The last twelve verses of the last chapter of St. Mark, which formerly were quoted as _deci- sive. for the rigid character of the Gospel teaching, are now separated by aspace from the genuine narrative, and we are told that the two oldest Greek manuscripts and some other authorities omit them. The King of the Belgia is reported to have said to Bishop Wilberforce, “Tsay with Athanasius, the only ground for a Church to stand on is, * Believe this or ou are dainned.’” te would have found useit at a loss in the new translation, both in the spirit and in the letter. The curious appearance of Patri-passionism in Acts, 3 9s, is permitted to bear the alternative rei dering of the words ‘the Lord.” ‘Lhe doxo- logical passage in Romans, ix., 5, has a shad- ow of uncertainty cast over it by a long mar- ginal variation. ‘The verse, 1. John, v., 7, which in the last century was regarded by divines as the surest bulwark of an orthodox representation of 2 cherished doctrine, has now disappeared from the Epistle, and its place knows it no more. The angel at the Pool of Bethesda (John, v., 4), which has supplied many a text for ser- mons at the medicinal waters at Buxton and Bath, is relegated to the gin with ex- pressions of disparazement. The implicit recommendation to fasting contained in ix, 29, and [ van e and is doubtfully mentioned in the other. Tne e are, other hand, some passages which still remain unshaken in their support of established modes of expression. 1n Lebrews i., 5, the torty-fifth Psalm is still cited in the form most conducive to the reccived doctrine. ‘The exclamation of Thomas in John XX., reinains intact. In John i., 18, there is a ne expression of singular force introduced into the margin, with the support of many ancient authorities, in which the “Logos” is desig- nated ** God only begotten.” Other variations have been accepted, which will in different ways give a shock to the public, mind, In the Lord’s prayer the expression * ev iy Which in the Sermon on the Mount is used tiree times over (Matt. v., 11-37, vi, 3), is in this one instance not quite consistently translated “the Evil One,” |“ Evil,” or ee. evil,” however, appears on the margin. The doxology is altogether omitted (Matt. vi-, 15). Jn the version of the same forin of prayer In Luke xi., 2-4, the varieties are still more nue merous.” The gracious and beautiful story of the woman taken inadultery (John viii. 1-11) is preserved indeed in the text, bab a doubtful characteris clearly indiEated, The passage so often quoted in pena of Christian forbearance in the ret uke to the disciples who would have called down fire froin heaven (Luke, ix., 54) is now s ROT of its most. persuasive appeal. The sill more pathetic and solemn prayer, “Father, f orgive them, for they know not what they do,’ at mains in the text (Luke, xxiil, 34). on ine. without a statement in the margin thet its omitted in some ancient authorities, at yariation in such a matter is painful. But we inay console ourselves that in all these three instances the dou td eet and SO. ete in the spi ay unlike the spirit of the fourth entry, that we may fairly accept them as_ parts the genuine tradition of Apostolic times. ‘ ‘Tt may-be asked srhatare:the prospects 0: new version taking the -place of that whieh already exists. ro this no positi answer can as yet be given, but something may be augured from the history of that previous verston itself. We have already seen that the translation of 1611 never re- ceived the sanction of Parliament, Convoca- tion, or the Sovereign; it came by use, and. by use it still holds its ‘ground. ‘There is no reason to doubt that, if the present version should win 2 general acceptance, it will in its turn supersede the old; first in private houses, and then by public. reading in the chureh. By the Nonconformists it will be ‘accepted as the substitute of the older version, in all probabilty, after a faint: struggle. In the church it wilt ist side by side with the earlier translation, in the same way 2s the Psalms already are dear to churchmen in two Versions, neitherof which excludes the other, In any circumstances, it may be hoved that this revision, conducted, as it has been, with such singular harmony by the various bodies of Christians in these king- doms and in the United States, will act, not as a disintegrating, but as a uniting, element to bring together the thoughts and the devo- tions of thousands into a nearer and more ex- act Sprectation of the book which, above all other books,—above even the Hebrew Script- ures themselves,—has been fitly called the Word of God. THE LAST OF A DEVOTEE. THE EALY VANITIES OF A CONVERT SOLD AT AUCTION. Iomdon Letter to Dublin Freeman's Journal. The sale of Lord Beaconsfield’s effects at Christie & Manson’s was followed by that of the wardrobe, jewels, and laces of the late Miss Helen Gladstone, The world had al- most forgotten her. She had once been greatly admired in society, and, in possession. of a goodly fortune as well as great beauty, her hand was sought after by many suitors. Suddenly and without previous warning Miss Helen Gladstone disappeared from the world; and, before rumor .had time to frame one of her improbable stories, it was sumounced that she had turned Cath- olic and entered a convent. It was simply the teaching of one of our most eloquent and pious Catholic preachers which had caused her to turn thus suddenly from the empty and periShable joys of this world to those which never fail and never decay. She wisely left England at once, and reti toaconvent near Paris; but after a while went to the Sisters of Coblentz, where she died about three months ago. She had lived. for years in religious seclusion, following the rules of the convent she had chosen, but had never taken the veil in consequence of strong prejudices of her elder brother, Sir Thomas Gladstone, to whom she was tender- ly attached, and who had to the very hist in- dulged a secret hope that his sister would grow weary and disgusted with the restraints and puxatons peculiar to convent li nd, would return to the easy path of salvation followed by Protestant ladies of fainily and fortune. But the change in this instance as in every other of the like nature was waited for in 3 Helen Gladstone lived and died in the faith she had chosen, not from caprice or weariness of the world’s pleasures, but from conviction of the utter worthlesness of any enjoyment which has not its source in de- yotion to Heaven. ‘This sett-denial—for it really was a difficult task for Melen Gladstone to continue, as it were, in the ob- servance of only half the sacrifice, while her soul entirely devoted to (od—will ac- count for-the circumstance that although leading the life of a recluse, and having put away the. world and all its vanities, she still retained possession of her jewels, laces, and valuables, which, as a rule, become the property of the religi community when the novice takes the veil. That she had once been 2 woman of the worid—delighting in its frivolities a expending much taste upon the trifles which for her had formed in early life the sum of human things—was_evident enough in the refinement and delicacy manifested in the trimmings and laces with which she had Joved to adorn herself in former times. The laces were all of exquisit beauty, and were sold at immense prices. There had evident- ly nestled the vanity of the world’s favori for the jewels, although carefully preserve in boxes of scented wood and wrapped in perfuined cotton, were all evidently souve- nirs of friendship,—or perhaps of love—gifts neither to be worn nor yet neglected. “The secret of such mementos is buried with their owner, and no survivor has the key to the mystery which caused them to-be kept with such tender care. ‘The great prizes in the sale were the beautiful pieces of point d’Alengon, older than the edict of Nantes, which dispersed the lace-makers of Alengon, and caused the loss of a great portion of the particular stitch which once made this Jace the finest in the world. The stitch was woven over a hair from the lace-making head, and cannot be undone to give to modern artists the secret of itscunning. All went well up to this portion of the sale, but the mourntui impres- sion upon the mind ot the spectator began with the disposal of the wardrobe. There is something indescribably painful in witness- ing the tossing about, the pulling over, and te hauling to and fro of the garments once worn with such dainty pride by the delicate owner now no more; and at the sale of M Helen Gladstone’s wardrobe the scene was rendered yet more painful still by the ir- reverent jokes and vulgar depreciation of the dealers at sight ot the quaint, old- fashioned cut of the dresses which had lain unheeded and unseen ever since her retire- ment from the world and her renunciation of its pomps and empty vanities. CLERICAL ORATORY. A LOST ART AMONG THE PREACHERS, August Atlantic Why do not our preachers study uraiory? As preachers, not pastors, their business is to work a certain effect, and all help to its production it should be a part of the educa- tion to learn. 1 presume I shall not be mis- understood to mean the effect of displaying self, and winuing adiniration for personal gifts. What the true preacher seeks to do is to inform the intellect with Christian truth; to stir the heart, and thereby influence tne will, of his hearers. Half the sermons an- nually preached are, so far as human ins goes, a W: te of labor and breath. things partly account for this; one is that a majority of the men set to preach are out of their real vocation,—good pastors they may be, but tit preachers they are not; anower is that these with more aptitude for preaching do ‘not yet understand the means to be em- ployed to attain their object. Sometimes the preacher has some concep- tion of the,needs of hninan nature, and knows that the truest truths fail to move when put befure men ina dull, dry way; perhaps he does his best to wequire a good style, and succeeds in making an_ably-wri d course. But when he comes into his pulpit to give it to his people, where is the impres- jon it should produce? What becomes of choice words, his considered sentences ? ere they fie upon the paze he holds; he eeds to read them. Why do they tail of any result? It is for want of delivery, of the oratorical art of making mere words “tell.” His faithful effort goes for little; he seems to his hearers te be reading something to them, as he is,—not to speaking to them from the heart. GENERAL NOTES. Only five of the 125 young men graduated this year at Yale propose to enter the min- istry A wealthy Jewish synazog in New York has decided to hold its services on Sunday hereafter. In the last five year more Baptist churches have been builtin Scotland and more old debts paid off than in its previous history. The work of building Immanuel Baptist Chureh has begun on Wabash avenue, a Jarge toree of men being at work on the old building. Mormon “ missionaries” are scouring the world for recruits. Forty of them left Utah Jately for work anrong the ignorant people of the Old World. ‘The expenses-of the American members of the New Testament Kevision Committee are reported at $3200. ‘They have been paid by yoluntary contributions. It is nowthree months since Moody and Sankey left San Francisco, yet the Gospel ings and the noonday prayer meetings pe kent up with unabated interest, At each service the hall is well filled, and nightly there are many men remaining as inquirers. funeral of a Christian Chinaman in Boston Inst Sunday, about fifty Chinamen were present, and the singing of Congrega- tional hymns in the Chinese language was a iliar and touching phase of the cereimo- ‘The remains are to be sent to China Mies. after three years. wie reyationalist, referring ep- nang Gomars case, says that “Congrera- .tignalism, wesuppose, 1s very ‘loose,’ but we thank the Lord that. it has not yet fallen to the adoption of any such ‘views? as to ‘crime andimmorality’ as those put forward. by the Committee who investigated the mat- er. ‘The late Dean Stanley was rather too lib- eral in his views to suit the majority of his Church people. One of the Episcopal papers says of him that ‘he was in the Church, out not of the Church; and_ his ecclesiastical in- fluence was always exerted in-favor of that Jatitudinarianism which we believe to be op- posed to true Christianity.” Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria, is not satis- fied with the training of students at theo- logical seminaries. They get too much of a smattering “of the highest and inostdiffienlt of all sciences,” but not enough of “real theological knowledge to cnable them to perform their duties a5 priests satisfactorily.” Hence he wants a new institution founded in which the best of students, as they leave the present seminaries, shall study from two to six years longer. ‘There are about 200 Chinamen who attend the diferent Sunday-schools in Brooklyn, N. and on Sundays they go through the streets following each other like Indians, marching in single file. Two rarely walk side by side, and when addressing each other they talk over their shoulder. Their Sunday clothes include embroidered, — thick-soled. sandals and black cambric blouses, buttoned up at the side. ‘They- are. taught in the schools the English ‘language and the duties of citizenship, as well as the truths of the Bible. They are very fond of their schools, and soon become much attached to their teachers. 1n a recent issue of the Pall Mall Gazette some interesting figures, based on the census returns, are given in regard to the religious beliefs of the Irish people. ‘There are in Ire- Jand_ 3,951,885 Catholics, 635,670 mem! the Protestant Church of Ireland, 485,503 Presbyterians, and 47,669 Methodists, The Baptists, Quakers, and members of other de- notninations number ¢ ‘The decrease in the ten years in the number of Catholics and Protestants were about the same—ts per cent. The decrease in the number of Pres- byterians was 2.4 percent, while the Meth- odists have increased 9.7 per cent, 4,228 mem- bers haying been added to the Church. All Saints’ Chapel in Newport, R. 1, is much criticised by the people of the other Episcopal church Although it is an Episcopal church, it is owned by one gentle- man, Who keeps it open only during the sum- mer. The wealthy and fashionable people resort to it, and neglect the other churches of thesame faith, All Saints’ has neither Reetor, Wardens, nor Vestry. | ‘The most eminent ministers whose services can be secured supply the pulpit, the pay being $50 a Sunday. ‘The other Episcopalians in New- port think their churches would be much more prosperous if this chapel were closed, ‘The rich people who now attend it might then distribute themselves and their contribu- tions among the other churches. ‘The pres- ent state of affairs has existed for twenty years or more, the same objections having been made against it all the time. The Churchman, which is the leading or- gan of the Liigh Church wing of the Episco- val Church, takes up the cry against the committee which whitewashed hepherd Cowley, and is very severe in its rebuke of yehat it considers a disgrace to the Chureh, ‘The Observer devotes nearly a column to an. editorial ina similar steain AU the religious papers which refer to, the-subject regard the action of the committee as open to the most severe criticism. Meanwhile, the ex- Shepherd himself comes before the public for money wherewith to pub- mony, Which he declares to be He wants to show that ny s, who hired children and others to perjure themselves in regurd to the alleged acts of cruelty. It is understood that Cowley’s appeal for funds has not yet resulted in a liberal flow of the contributions of the benevoient. PERSONAL, ‘The Rev. Robert Laird Collier. D. D., has been appointed United States Consul at Leipsic. i ‘The Rev. and Mrs. C. §. Shattuck, of North Adams, Mich., are spending their vacation in this city. : The Rev. A. G. Wilson, D. D., of Lake For- est, has been called tu the Principalship of Elgin Academy, Ilinoisy Bishop MeLaren’s addvess during August is Point Pleasant, Océan County. N.. J. Bishop Burgess is at York Harbor, Maine. The Rey. Dr. Locke, of Grace Church, this city, is taking a rest in the White Mountains. The church will be closed during August for repairs. ‘The Rev. James Black, the oldest member of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, died recent- Jy at his residence in Cincinnati, after an ill- ness of two months. It is reported, says the Congrcaationalist, that the Rev. Brooke Merford,: of this city, has declined the cat! to the First Parish Church at Cambridge, Mass. The Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of this-city, is read. ing and revising, in proof, his series of di courses on “Isms,” for speedy publication by Messrs. S. C. Griggs & Co. The Rev. William ker, author of “Blessed Saint Certainty,” in the “No Name” series, has returned to the pastoral office, taking charge of a Presbyterian church in Phitadelphi The Rey. Edward Anderson, lately pastor of the Congregational Church in Quincy, UL, is engaged to supply the pulpit of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Toledo, O., for six months. Prof. Robertson Smith has, it is stated, in- timated his intention not to entera pulpit till the General Assembly's decision in his case hits been reversed. ‘Two of his principal lay supporters have left the church, or are about to du so. Mr. Charles Darwin, the famous “ evolu- tionist,” is credited with a generous act of Christian courtesy in giving the rent of a I in Downes, England, to a zealous evangelist for several weeks of carnest re- ligious labor. orge C, Baldwin, Jr., was recently or- dained as a Baptist minister at Burlington, t., and engaged in the ordination serv were the Rev. Charles J. Baldwin, of Roch- ester, his brother, and Rey. Dr. George C. Baldwin, of Troy, his '. A daughter of the Rev. Dr. Henry High- land Garnet, recently. appointed United States Minister to Liberia, is. teaching a mis- sionary school in Liberia, on the spot where Dr. Gamet’s grandfather was taken prisoner more than a hundred years ago and sold into slavery. . ‘The Unitarians have lost another of their enerable preachers. by the death of the Kev. vorge Leonard, of Marshfield, Mass. He was SO years old, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1823, He succeeded his father, the Rey. Elijah Leonard, who had been minister of thi st Parish Church in that town forty-five years. PIOUS HUMOR. ‘The man whose wife was squeezed by the minister does not believe in the religious press. Maye you read the new version ?—Boston Post. Yes. Have you read the old one?— Philadelphia News. * Johnny, do you know it’s Sunday ? What have you been up to?” “Central Park.” * tiave you read your Bible to-day?” ‘No, mother. I’m waiting for you to buy the new edition.—Prck. An English lady in one of our street cars paid her fare and handed the conductor a tract. “Much obliged,” he said, “but we are forbidden to take anything over and above the price of the seat.” “ Whatshall I tell people who ask whether you are engaged 2” said a young lady at the dinner table to a somewhat eccentric theolog- ical student at Andover. “Tell them that you don’t know,” was the reply. Sunday-school teacher (about to comment ‘on St. Paul’s direction for conduct of nen and women during divine service): “* Now, do you know why women do not take oif their bonnets in church?” Small boy: “Gos they ain’t got looking-glasses to put em on again by.” “Yes, sir,” said the old colored man, “ de first year, when I gave $50 to de church, dey call me Mistah Richard Johnson, Esquah; de secon’ yeah times were bad an’ T couldn’t ive no more than $25, an’ dey call me Brud- der Johnson; de next yeah I couldn’t give nuffin’, dey call me ole niggah Johnson. “Do you think,” he asked, raising his eyes toward” the heavens; “do ‘you think that yonder gorgeous pageant of starry worlds is the result of mere accident,—a blind azgre- ion of jes uncreated and eternal ? ” returned his.companion, the machination of his enemies, from the cordial manner in which you grasped my hand that you were going to Sk nie to drink, and [’in awfully thirsty.” «A clergyman was once forced to say to a congregation that persisted in depositinee buttons in the contribution-box:. “ Brethren who wish to contribute buttons will. please not hammer down the eyes, for while that process does uot dnerenes the) valu coin impair their usefulnessas 5-7 Boston Post. oe Teacher— What was the sin of our parents 2? Bright pupil—* Stealing ap Hee Teacher—“ Correct. But did it ever oceur to you to wonder what kind of apple it that Eve gave to Adam?” Brizht pupil— “Often.” Teacher—* Well, have you made up your mind about itv? Bright pupil— Oh, haven't £2 It was a‘ Fall’ pippin.” “Grandma, ‘I hear they’re going to take your old Bible away trom you and substi something better for it’? * Eh?” rei the old lady, raising her glasses and placing her open hand behind. her ear. The younz man repeated his observation. “ Sammy.” she returned, quite cally, but with an es Pression of firm determination, “I never tead no flash literatoor and I never will.” Many an amusing mistake has been made by people hard of hearing. We are told that a certain Dean of Ely was once at dinner, when, just as the cloth was removed, the subject of discourse happened to be that of extraordinary mortality among lawyers. "We have lost,” said~a gentleman, “* not Jess than seven eminent barristers In as many months.” ‘The Dean, who was very deaf, rose i the conclusion of these ré- marks, and ga the company grace: * For this and every other mercy nuke us devoutly thankful.” CALENDAR FOR THE WEER. " EPISCOPAL. . Bie! y Aue aS ae ih Sunday after Trinity. CATHOLIC. Aug. pone Sunday after Pentecost; St. Ca- Aug. 38S. Syriacus and Comp. MM. Ang. 9—St. Alexis. C. (from July 17); Vigil of St. Romanus, M. ent & ave of St, Lawrence, SS. sanna, MM. Aug. 13—Of tho Octa: sian, MM.; Vigil of the Assumption. BULLS AND BEARS, Scenes and Incidents on °Change Yes- terday. . The bulls in the wheat market had their way yesterday, with otber markets in their favor. Seller August was 2c higher, and on tho curb- stone late in the afternoon another cent was added to tha price, the Inst quotation being $1.24. The tradingia August appeared to he more extensive than for some days past, and the short sellers.seemed quite anxious to interview the master of ceremonies, and settle with bim, “The clique evidently bus a good hotd on the reins just now," said 2 dealer, “* and tho parties on the opposit side made commotion enongh to indicate their numbers are quite lurge. ‘The combination bas. been reinforced, too, during the week by sealing to itself Lyon and Young, tne former jotning, it is said,with the agreement gaat they will divide with bim on the September About half a million busbelsof wheat was shipped in the past seven day: shipper took cargoes yesterd to the story tht he hid joined the in the day was 31.17%. The clique we: be buyers of next month, and some think it will reach $1.25. i ‘The showers and larger receipts caused corn to sell off L cent early. It was Irregular, rallying Inter to break aguln, and the alley boys bid it up in the afternoon, on’ rumors chietly. The ernp in the fields was supposed to have been sufli- ciently watered to enable it to stand another “ scorcner.”* Outs were depressed in sympatny with corn, and, under free offerings, falling of I cent near- ly. “The clique,” said a broker, * have been sell- ing out their long futures, and report says they have made a handsome thing by the late bulge, —enough to tift then out of tue deal with some~ thing in their pockets, even if they have to sell their cash property at a loss. The shipments of the week were over n million bushels. There is more than one way to skin a cat.” St. Lous parties are suid to have had a very nice little corner in rye last month, which for some unknown reason they ist slip through their fingers. The grain markets were staonger on the curb- stone yesterday afternvon, with some trading. ‘The advance in some lines was rather sharp, and revived rumors were circulated cuarlier in tho day that there had been fuilures. No names were mentioned, and no one confessed tohaving “laid down.” orto being in trouble. ‘The Committee which is acting for the Borrd of ‘I'rade in rezard to the new buikiing expect to be ready to submit to the Board of Directors next Tuesday plans for forming a Building As- sociation, and other matters pertaininx to the subject. << A PROPHECY FULFILLED. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CnicaGo, Aug. 6.—During tho most: exciting Moments of the tate Presidential campaign, when the tongue of slander was meanly striving to render the reputation of Garfield odious,— when unscrupulous partisan politicians were endeavoring to accomplish by forgery and fulse- hood what they could not ina fairand houorabie way,—the following poem appeared in ‘Te Cu- caco Tribune. It is well worth reading ugain, by reason of the remarkable manner in which its predictions have been fulfilled: JAMES A. GARFIRLD. Inscribed tu William HH. Aye! hurl at bim your shaftsof cruel slander, And seek to soil by falsehood his fair namo: The time will come whea these to whom you ander Will hang thoir heads in shame. Aye! faunicate, your lies: they will not wound him— im: Against his sterling manhood they must fall; He has been tried and trusted; you have found im s Prepared to meet you all! In goodness he is grent—in manhood glorious; You cannot fix your brand upon his brow; In battle brave, invincible, victorious— And God is with bin now. He who could face the thunder of the bartle, Who boldly rode into the bloody fray, Amid the bursting bombs, the roarand rattle Of Chickamauga's day, Unflinchingly can face your darts of rancor, Those burbs more pitile3s than sbufts of st Tne envious snecr, the vile and festermg canker ‘That truitors only teel! Aye! forge your falsehoods; they will not alarm him, For he bas worn about him, trom his youth, A cburin more potent than your power to harm bim— ‘The amulet of Truth! Aye! strive to ruin his fair reputation: The lustre of big name shall now grow dim; He yet shall be the leader of the Nation, ‘And you will follow him! Garfield, we meet and greet you with affection, Knowing your worth and proud of your fair ‘ame. God keep you always in the right direction, And bless your honored name. True to your trust, and in your mission holy, Bringing the Nation into brighter days, Accept from one whose tot in life is lowly ‘This spray of honest praise! Eccene J. Hart. The following autograph Ietter from Gen. Garfleld was received by the author of the above lines, in acknowledgment of a manuscript copy ‘of them: Menton, O., Oct. 30,1890.—My Drar Sir: In acknowledying the receipt of the autograph e3 which you so kindly sent, permit me to express my appreciation of, and thanks for, your gencrous words of confidence and en- usiasm. Very truly yours, tan aes J. A. GARFIELD. . Mr. Eugene J. Halt, Chicazo, Ti. <<< $$ The Electric Light in Lighthouses. A scheme bas been lately prepared by the French Lighthouse Admimstration for gradual- ly substituting the electric hebt in all tighhouses of importance in place of tbo ofl-!atnps at pres- ent in use. The first experiments with the electric Iht for const-lighting purposes were side at Blackwall in 1857, by order of the Triu!- House and under the direction and super- ¥ision of Farraday. So Satisfactory were tho results obtained that in 1861 an electric light was Foreland, and established on the South ¥ fn IN another was placed in position at Dungeness. France quickly followed the example thus set. and afier a loor series of experiments had been carried out, in 1863 an electric lamp was set up in one of the two towerson Cape La Heve. The first lizht wasfoundto answer so well that two years afterward the electric light was nisu placed in the second of the La Heve lighthouses, while similar lights bare since been set up in the Hghthouses on Cape Griznez, in the Planicr Lighthouse, near Marseilles, and tn the Palmyre Lighthouse at the estuary of the Gironde. In England an electric light was established onthe Lizard in 1808; in Russia a similar light was laced in the lishthouse at Odessa in 188; while In 63an electric lamp was.set up in the Port Said Lighthouse. Z a ‘The Postmaster at Neenah, Wis., who accord- to the Post-Office autnorities was delin- ont in filing his report for the last quarter, . “T thought. saya it-was forwarded July. L we; SS. Hippolytus and Cas- - THE THIRD COMET OF 1881. © x Dudbe saint Atta sk Mesres Alzaid BUSSE AMbatars, Ae. Zorma if jgasd N Nag tm THE NEW COMET. e Its Apparent Path Among the Stars During August. A Word About Mathematical Overreach- ings—What Comets Are Made Of The comet which suddenly flashed into our. view on the morning of June 2 has nearly Ieftus, It has gone from the gaze of the u . though still visible a little below the “euards” in Ursa minor, if one looks sharp- ly for it with the naked eye. It is nearly time for the comet enthusiast to “ off with the old love and on with the new.” The one discovered July 15, by Schwberle, is now in such a position among the stars that it is above our horizon, in the northwest, after sundown, and isso much nearer to us than when first seen that it would be easily “picked up” ifthe moon were absent. In the latter part of the coming week the moon will not rise till after dark, and the-comet may then be easily seen. It will not, how- ever, be at any timeso bright as the one now fading out from our view. As an aid to those who may wish to find it, we present the accompanying map of its apparent course among the stars during the present month. Only the places of the more prominent stars areshownon the diagram. On the upper right are the two head stars in Gemini, known as Castor and Pollux. The Great Bear occupies the top of the map, the well- known" Dipper” bemg in the left part of the figure. South from the Bear is Leo, the “Sickle” part of which is also.a well-known group. To the right from Leo are the Bee- hive Nebula, and its companion stars, the <Aselli; while on the left of Leo are the stars in the head and girdleof Virgo. The curved line represents the apparent path of the comet, its course being from richt to left. ‘The comet entered Iast Wednesday upon the region embraced by the map. ‘To-nightit will be north from Castor. A week hence it will nearly midway between Theta and. 2, the last-named star being in the fore- paws of the Bear.. On the Isth the comet will be due-south from the well-known “pointers” in the Dipper. On the 2d it will be south from Deneb on the 25th south from Gamma Virginis; and Sept. + nearly south from Arcturus, the last- star being outside the limits of our diagram. ‘fhe comet will cross the equator about Sept. 2, and thence pass, nearly due southward, outof sight. It will be brightest about Aug. 20, being then nearest to the earth. This comet was first seen near the place in which the June comet made its début before us, aud is now not far from the place where | | sailing-master discharged tho mate, and then Coggia'’s comet seemed to hangin space for several days together, in 1874. ‘These coin- cidences do not, however, prove identit: ‘The positions are not the same with respect to the sun. Even if the earth be at the same point in her orbit on the two sions, the tact of seeing two comets in line with a given star does not prove that they are one and the same; while if the earth be not at the same point in her orbit the ap- parent identity of position isa pretty good reason for beltoving that the two are distinct object The three comets here referred to are certainly not one and the same. ‘The identification of at least one of them with a comet observed several years previously is unfortunately hampered by what we may call the computer’s mania, which leads him .to calculate results to a much greater nicety than is. warranted by the conditions of the problem. Itis a grand thing to be able to compute the orbit of a comet from three ob- servations; but it is a still higher attainment tu be able to tell how nearly such a compu- tation can be depended on. Indeed, tha lat- ter belongs to the highest branch of mathe matical reasoning, as it is also especially mod- ern; and possibly requires the greatest amnount of courage as well as discrimination. It is tar from being impossible that the comet of last June is the same that appeared in 1807, as the latest nay prove to be one that ap- of this year, though numer- ous, can scarcely be said to haveadded much to our knowledge, except as the reported ob- y show how easy it is for prac- ticed observers and computers to obtain un- trustworthy results both in observation and in computation. ‘The comets have been observed by the aid of the spectroscope; but that in- strument has told us nothing more than what we knew previously,—that the gaseous en- is probably some form of a hydrocar- Ileus proper may be more called a . and the taila veritable gaseous append: ‘Che indisputable fact that each particle in the tail moves in obedi- ence to the Jaw of attraction of gravitation effectually disposes of the non-mathemutical theories of reflection by the ether, refraction through the coma, ete. If we can conceive a multitude of pebbles ‘ated by spit comparable with these between the atoms of terrestrial masses, while all move as a unit mass around the sun, we shall probably have as good an idea of the nucleus of the comet as could be conveyed by severat hours of description. Similarly, if we can conceive thata volume of smoke puffed out froma locomotive is expanded -so as to make it oc- eupy a space a thousand inillions times greater, without an increase inthe quantity of matter, we shall probably have as good an idea ofthe tail of the comet as is at present attainable. LE REVEILLON, The sky is laced with fitful red: ‘The circling mists and shadows flee; ‘The dawn is ristpy trom tho sca, Like a white lady from her bed. And jagged brazen arrows falt ‘Aubwart tho feathers of the night, Anda long wave of yellow light i Breaks silently on tower and bull. Anil, spreading wide across the wold. Wakes into tight some tluttering bird, «And all the chestnut-tops are strred, And all the branches strenked with goid, —Uscar Wilde (Postctuuaite, Cod-Fishing. Sturdetio. ‘We have been out on the briny deep after Ssh, and the Haickeye distinzuisne! itself as usually. ‘The Jester caught the urst fish. And it was tne only tish of that kind taken all day We tt out after codfish, It is a pleasant fisn to eb. Cittchmg codfish ts like drawing water with a rope and bucket. It is avery gumey fish; after itis cured for the Western market. Limburger cheese isn’t much gamicr. it ki up & perennial. smell that grows stronger and more decideded as the yeurs creep slowly by, Lorena. When the soring time comes, gentle Annie, the old codfish that banjs on # nail away back in the aarkest corner of the cel- lar discounts the noisy onions piled up on we middle of the tloor, and then it doesn’t balf try. ‘The dryer ft yets the louder it grows. You must be blind if sou couldn't bear the favor of a two-year-old comtish. But when he ix new he Isquict, and you miss the old familiar bouquet. When you yo for codfish you must first get your herring, for bait, ‘We g#pproached a lone fisherman for this pur- pose, and besought him that he would lend us a few ‘berring. But be wasn't doing a discount business then, and said he bad only a few,—ob, euch # verry. very few. Well, coulda’t you let us have three or fou fort be shook bis head sadly, as-one whostould ay be only bad four or five. ‘nen we shouted and cried aloud and said unto the lone tishe rman: +Lobereis25 centa bat what ts that to you? a oko + Preeti Fite ‘ Crso Major o* #, Tart and ag North Avelton ernesers * A. ZEESE & CO.. ENG. CHICAGO. 1 Will you see us die for want of three small her- ri in ‘ And the lone fisherman dropped bis line und made a reach for that quarter even ns a drown- ing man reaches fora crowbar, and spake with great alacrity: m . yes, L have just about a quarter's worth.” And he guve us a peck, The sinker on the cod-line is a piece of lead about the size and shape of a corn-cob, and it Weighs as much as an old-fasbtoued family BRibte. You fish very close to the hottom,—five feet or so from it; and the only labor involved is hauling up that deep sea-soundtng apparatus at the end of your line. When you eatch n cod- fish, it doesn’t add to the weixht at atl. Ob, noz the cod helps you to pull that sinker up to the, surface, and that makes your load lighter. ‘That's the way you know when you bave a fish on. ‘That's just bow gamey the cod ts. YACHTS AND YACHTING. What the Chteago Vessols Are Doing—: Race of the: Idler and Viking—The Countess of Dufferin. ‘The Idler has zone into the dry-dock to be thoroughly overhauled ana painted, the painter + having arrived from New York to superinteady the work. The Viking Is being repainted from stem to+ stern ontside: her decks have been whitelended , and holystoned; her mahoguny work oiled and scraped, and she ig in Lact having a mitid sort of general overhauling. Mr. Thomas Msnning, of Manning's Yacht Agency, was in town for a day the past week om his way to Cqlorajlo. He has over 2x) yachts of: all § on his listt for Sale, among them such: well-known bouts tus the Wanderer, Kesolutes Alarm, Coltnubia, Madeleine, and many others. Mr. Bennett is huilding a steam yacht of 800? tons, and 216 feet over all, with a beam-of twen=: ty-six feet, and a draught of thirteen and atx tenths feet. That would indicate that the Poly: nin wilt be forsale in tho fali. she is very fast, drawing nine feet cight and-onc-balf inches om a length of 154 fect, ‘The Cora has a new suiling-master, who halls from Ogdensbure, ‘This stoop bas beens entirely rebuilt on starbourd side, spremls a4 new muinsall, and bas had ber mast cut down? five feet. These changes have grently im-+ proved her ny urauce, and she ought to be~ now an able, first-class sloop-yacht. ‘The basin presents quitea pretty sight after- noons, with the yachts at anchor, colors tying, awnings spread, and every iow and then oao breaking anchorage and yoing out for a sails ‘The Idler, Viking, Countess, Cora, Frolic, Ina, Hurry Burke, Peri, Oriel, und others bave their moorings in the inner tarbor. Capt. Cooley, of the Idler, had the high come pliment paid him of being’ invited to yo Eust and sail the yacht club Champlon agninst ther Euglish boat forthe cup. Mr. Fisher's sailing muster stands bigh asa racing Captain, as well: as u good sitilor and genial gentieman. The American Yacht List for 183i credits the Chicago Yacht Club with sixteen vessels in its squadron. Half of this number are, however, nothing but sailboats under thicty feet in length. ya sprint the * Harry Burke” figures as the: ‘Nany Rurke.” The Chieuo Club’ has now a good nucicus about which to form a live, active, and prosperous club. “ Some men in charge of yachts have curious ideas as to what constitutes ability to serve a8 “mate.” On one of the yachts in the hurbor the culled two of the forecastle bunds aft and sct them to drawing straws as to which should bo the mate. Under the circumstances, that mato will not Know more than his superior olticer. The owner of the Viking {3 un enthusiastic yachtsman, and even during the short time his boxt bas been in fresh water his generous hospitality bus given an impetus toyachting and encouraged many to turn thelr attention to this, tho noblest and most healthful of all outdoor sports. With un able boat, well bandled, Lake Michigan is no more dangerous than other large bodies of water. ‘The coming cruise of the Yacht Club Aug. “3 will depend upon the weather as to its length, If the weather is at all capricious the cruise will notextend beyond South Chicago. If the weather 13 fair tho boats will bly xo. further, Only the small yachts will take part in it, and it is not likely to prove of any general interest. It isditticutt to sce how it will stimus Into a love of yachting or aid in the growth and prosperity of the Club. An American yacht cannot change her samo ‘untess she bus been duly enrolled and licensed, and her owner must present a sworn certificate: that she ig an American registered veusel “ freo from debt,” etc. y yueht is required to have a license, which {§ given only to vessels “entitled to be enrolled ag American vessels,” and without such license, the vessel js Hable to, “seizure and forfeiture,” and it is the duty of the revenue officials to enforce that provision of the uct of 148. The New York Yacht Club has accepted the . cheilenge sent by Capt. Cuthbert to sail agains his boat for the Queen's Cup. A new vessel Is being built by the olticers of tho yacht club to compete with the Atlauta. The new sloop will: suil against some of the crack boats of the, present squadron, and if she beats them will be the cho-vn champion to defend the cap won by the America over twenty-five yearsago. [tisnot? xenerally known that the Idler and Madeleine sailed 2 match to decide which should compete with the Livonia. ‘The Madeleime won, and 1g ° probably to-day the fustest boat of her class fn ~ the world, ‘The Countess of Dufferin bas been bought by ‘Mr. Willian Borden for $5,000. Her new owncr js giving his boat 2 thorough overhuuling, and intends during the winter to bave her fitted up between decks. She needs it badly, for sbe bas never been fitted with appropriate joiner- work, and looks more like Dabing-schooner than & yacht. A Hberal expenditure of money wilh muke ber a baudsome boat. Alreudy she shows signs of Improvement with ber boats at the bouins, Hays tying, awnings set, and a regular crew-on board. She has no nume or port on her stern, and it secins a Httle singular that the fdter shoul have been fined for omitting to have ber port of entry painted on her stern and the Englist yacht be permitted to go *name~ less and unknown.” Why not give a handsome prize and have a muteh race between the schooners? ‘That would t worth see ‘The Idler {s knowa: ‘y fast. The Countess wus only beaten Y ininutes In racing for the Queen's Cup The Viking nox shown her ability to hold her own with the others ang perbaps do a little bet- ter. Have a course of fifty iniles in lenyth, une der working canvas only. ‘There is no disgrace in an honorable defeat. Such a race would ate tract many onlookers and give an additional im- petus to yachting. Not that every yacht should be a racer, or that racing is a necessity of yacht ownership. But when we bave such fine boats lt ig nutural to want to sce them once in a while on their mettle, and it is the casiest way to settle the disputed question 23 to which ts tho fastest. ‘The Viking returned about ten days ogo from a cruise of cighteen days around Muckinac and the upper end of the lake. Col. Loomis and wife ani two or three invited guests constituted the purty, uad all are Joud in thelr praises of the stiffuess of the boat And ber weatherly quall~ ues. Keturning nome, the Viking and the Idler had a race of about 22 miles, which was won by the Viking by about # quarter of u tole. The Idler claims to have started nine hours later, therefore to have won. The facts appear to be that the Viking left Mucxinac Suoday night and went Into Litue Traverse Day, coming out of the ay Monday morning about 2:1 ‘The Idler was sighted about five miles to windward. The wind was W.S. W., blowing strong. Both yachts hid thelr lower sails set. Standing out, The [ler crosaca the Viking’s stern, then tacked on weuther quarter. At 102. m. the yachts were close together, the Wiking carrying ber top~ sails, and both boata running about thirteen miles an hour with a heavy sea At noon the Idler came within speaking dis- tance aud passed the Viking close to windward. She was overbauled and paased again ut 2p. m, From that time the vessels alternated in leading, not betng over six lenwths apart, and carrying all their light cunvas. the Idler having brouat upandbentonher jibtopsail Both boats were running ten tniles an hour. The Idler, after Beldt lead foran hour, was tinally off Waukegan, and the two bouts came through the breakwater to weir anchorage, with Viking a good fourth of a mile ta the tend, Al- though the Viking left Mackinac nine hours. ahead of the Idler, the yachts ‘started together from off Little Traverse. The rua of 2% miles was made in tweuty-three hours. The Viking is developing more speed than she bas been, credited with possessing, altbourh It is said that. ~~ beth Mr. Sands and the owner of the Columbis, regarded her as uncommonty fast. $$$ Don't.physic, for it weukens and destroys, bub use Hep Bitters. that builds up,uol :