Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1882, Page 3

ee et INGERSOLL Eis Arguments and His Methods Otiomar Hebren Rothacker, in Tribune, Denver, Cot. Mr. Ingersoll is a creat phrase maker. He has many musical mannerisms. The element im his lectures which tend most te make them Wisely read ie the exqnisite fucue on domestic love whieh he ts constantly playing. His arga- ments are uet new, nor is the basis of his de- etumstory uubeticf a foundation recently built. Voltaire sneered before him; Velaey philoso phized before nim; Tom Paine raifed and de- nounced before him. They were hard, logical, analytical and He covers the hardness verte. He adkis ontalista, ed with bin. ho lores to spiritual Beauty and beats His infidelity # a Lilith Fein. piety with pretty nid a pap or destroying it re baye been many an- jority of th have ect. far he has held the Christian world. hte. An analyt- f his om shows that it pillars, ‘The cont radietions of the Old Testament as coalained j wl-The rapine and murder enjoined upon s6cen peope of Ged in certain p 3 of Test qment. eoatimentatism whieh eharges that tions are destroyed and slavery tions of the Bible. 1 be pillars of sand but for etupidity of the men whe ply to him. As long as it ined that the Bible, from Genesis to pyetations, inspired werd of God, that tiese whe e its various books were the ed amannensea ef the Almighty, and - ia all the centuries from its first de- livery to the present time there have been her the anti-orthodox will have an ¢ which will strike every reasoning mind. The m the theory of inspiration is wel, and the histori portion of the ded as history, sa! at opinion whieh belonz 3 ‘ations of time, Christianity will from wile it eaunot be of the deliveranee is in a Arnold: very same werk, eurrent »fraitful and profowmd new truth, re eorrective.” hy should 9 this theory of ped in BR is ol of the of Jewisn victor B it. The of the the ereatic wl conquests utterances by a dim das to who should t hand of heaven, the men who slept din his agony ia the som- lent silence of Geilixemane, » deserted Him at the cress, and le: ‘y wrote, with need not be called in- posed to it. It ts of mare. en have given as God’s utterances tho eld charge, which has trav- 8 and lodzed in InereotPs teaches polygamy and tkurder, on is consulted. and these pass. aces in the Ol! Testament ave accepted as the utterances of men only, the eharze falla in- round, gad Christianity is ina . heory of inspiration may be fouad iz the life of Christ. cae s born in ficigpe his entire ministry st the formalism. the cere- ings ¢ Interpretations ries, who tauzht Testament wien those of his kind. unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, for ye pay tithe of mint, anise and id have omitted the wei ic aw —jnstiee, merey and ildelity. Blind aat You are, straining at gnats and cunels.” The doctrine of the divin- + ity of Christ and the doctrine of the inspiration ef the Bible are by no mearisidentical It is not becessary to believe one to believe the other. Indeed, tue latter belief is almost sutiicient to dextroy the former. What He did not teach, it i# not necessary for His fuilowers to teach. Whe s conceded there will be an end ef zerinz by loud debaters. The muek- cease to pick over contradictions, aud holt a fresh one up in triumph whenever it is discov . The men who keep their eyes eo ¢losely upon a detail that they miss the general whole will be less notorious than now. Con- tradietions will take their proper places as er- Fors of man, and trygth will take its proj "piace ss one of the “ ed pulse heats the Di- vine Al.” The veeiferous dvclaimers who pass from platform to platform a3 prosecuting attor- Beya, with @ case azainst the Abmigirty, will turn to other ebay asm and ehristianity will stand upon a rock lastead of the quicksand it seems to have chosen for a battle ground. Then the Insects upon the rosebush will not make one ‘inveigh against tie roses. Mr. tncersolf’s second great Position is that ity teaches murder and polycamy and ys the family relations. It does nothing @f the kind. If it did murder and polygamy 6uld be as Common in America to-day as day- int for Curistianity is stronger here than ever was in Judea. The Curistia hich was preached me 6doctrines «of y without Levitical hair splitting. y Exrene simplicity without Essene asceticism. It fs broad, aud free and tender. i cleaniiness thrilled with the divinity. Tne utterances of fanat! The blood stains of conqrest eannot soll it. Tt is a srand spiritnal poem Instead of a doubtfal exronolozy. What is outside Is fragmentary,and it needs no additions. It is harmonious whole It is enay for Mr. Inzersoli to take a passace from the Oid Testament ordering the sack of a city, and then dwell pathetically — ot a babe being torn from 5 oe, I er and teader than on pening at the of loving mother, lisping with sleep-legged tongue the simple prayer which has been tanczht love, reticion ate so enwrap- identical. The ehild grows rinkles gather the beamed above him. He into the world. where there are ambi- disappointments aud reali- ife—tine world in whieh lie injustice eomes to him in tarn— hieb ehiidhood becomes a tender vague as the periume ef a gar- Silence of 8 summer night, and shard and metalic. And yet, the yeara may earry him on and away, lous and narrow pzths, the blessins of hae Is ever with him. Tue head Sim then has crown grav; the ulus and tired; the feet fi | Aan H message for love, whieh, In the ef a Galilean walked the strageling streets of Nazareth nine- teen centuries mer at it, but when the sneer comes not heip thinking ef the haun ing ery which eame from Al his death bed.‘ Poisoned Writings of the encyelopzdists, f early imbibed the sterile milk of tinplety. Haman pride, that god of insanity and“egotism, to prayer. How miserable are those men who have railed at that which can save a human soul. Iwas born in aeorraptage. I bave mach te aie Pardon, O Obrist, those who blas- pheme.” Beeanse there are bad artista, one can net condemn art. Because there are bad pects, one eannot condemn poetry. Because there are bad Christians, one cannot eondemn Christian- ity. There are dividing lines between false and | the seeming; and the onty reason which Mr. In- | gersoll boasts as the sof his doctrine is ne- of | coxeary to throw the distinction under the light ofscaicium. He holds reality responsible for He tatks of genuineness when ocvisy. It is true that men enter asa means of individual adyance- nat the church is. sometimes: to accept the one-tenth | asa tithe of that whieh was not honestly earned. It Is t that pretentious jfety can hold its own at tines agajast the purity which should overthrow it. Itis true that the mantle of the Just has covered injustiee, and that falachood | has been a noisy partner of truth. Yet all these / Go not alioy the pure me tal. They may deceive, but they do not change the order and make untrath trath. Those wio aftempt it are the victins. Those who suffer it | are worse if they are willing knaves; they are H to be pitied if they are pious dupes. ‘The shame } whieh Mr. In it talks ot in the ehurches, the wars of which he talks of in the history of the ehurches, have nothing to do with religion. A chareh is merely the expression of trath. If it is incompiete the truth is not hurt. It is not the less the trath. It is still the expression that is awkward. Because Raphael is copied by a fool is he the less Raphael? Becanse God is trayested by a man is He the less God? The arzument will not do. One must deal with realities, and not with their Imitations. We wust take things as they are, and not as ‘ey are represented to be. There has been bigotry in the ehureh, but there has been none in religion. There has been persecution in the chureh, but there has been none in retigion. Persecution Is bigotry armed and in action, and bigotry is the bastard of belief, but that which is beyond it—the great living truth—eannot be held responsible. It has not the bar sinister. They are separate, and be so held. Theeornful analysis of the Bcrip~ tures whic free thought In no fond of making cannot be applied in one case and ignored in another. To sustain a aystem of unbelief there must be a harmony of method. Justice cannot charge religion with the wrong-doings ef its pretended votaries. It must concede that in their wrong-doing they are doing that which is expressty forbidden, and therefore, no matter what their protestations may be, theyarearmueh the opponents of religion ‘as who openty avow infidelity. Indeed, they are worse than the latter, for thelr hypoerisy makes them sneak- be stealing a name to which they have no right. Té is not fair to talk of St. Bartholomew's aay In the discussion. It ia_not fair to take the ex- axserated traditions of the inquisition. It is hot fair to note tie record of blood of the middle aces. It is not fair to cite martyrdoms and im- prisonments As argumenis against the cruelty and shortsightedness of ambition and fanaticiam these are all effective. As arcuments against relicion they have no force. Doctrine has too often been made a scapezoat for conspiracies of state; the.ehureh has too often been made a of refu for tainted reputations. Yet the ‘her Teaching is not chargeable with the ef- fects of the lower teaching. That which has been done in its name by men cannot be laid at its threshold. The quarrels of creeds, the fa- nat of forms, the a:sertiveness of sects, are all supplementary. They are finite additions to ene nm ‘that Ck r-Ingersoll says that Christ was a great man, a manly mau, a lover of freedom but no more. That He was enthusiastic, but not inspired. ‘That he was universal, but not divine. The po- sition admits of little argument. It is above the eackle of the present and the turmeil ef pet- ty reasonings. The divinity of Christ must rest upon belief. It is not a enbdject to be made the football of lag and con. The grand simplicity of the life He led, the pastoral beauty of His wanderings and teachings along the highways and through the by-ways of Galilee, the apien- did couraze with which He taught the truth that was to be the light of the world. in face of the death which was sure to come, the marvel- ous quality of His words which gave them ® universality which will reach to the end, of time, the sweet manliness, the exquisite justice, the broad generosity which marked His every step—all these may belong to earth and to wan, bat they have never been repeated in any life which has been lived since, nor were they known in any life which had been lived be fore Him. ‘He preserved the harmony to the last, against temporal and church power, and at the end ie was the joint sacrifice of beth. Only in His utterances in the last houreis there found anything for the quibblers to pick over, and these are His words in the garden. And what is there in them? When the stern, starless darkness hung over the olives of Gethsemane aud the disciples who could “not watch ene hour” were asleep, when the winds shuddered eerily through the shriuking leavea, when the Spirit of Dread stood like a_ sentinel between the time that had gone and the morrow that was to be an end yet @ beginning, when the God-tife that had been a poem of grace and fove and licht was wandering down the valley of shadow to the deeper blackness of a tragedy, is it strance that the SS of humanity, Who was both man and God, should have suilered like the one and endured ‘Tike the other. It is the aceented theory ef free thought that it was the fear of death, born of the human ia Him. which throuch the pathos of that wild ery—"Father, if it be possible, let this eup pass from me.” Yet is it not bagel) eprrenae that it was the profeund sorrow pity that His peonle were about to commit a great and cause- rime that foreed the words? Does not the latter prayer whieh eame from Hie whitening lips when. with unuterable love, He looked from his dimmed and dying eyes upon His wur- derers. and. a mediator in the death which was life, eried out—‘Father, forgive them, for they know net what do”. rt Mr. Ingersoll says that the life of Christ and the doctrines of Christ are situilar to the life of Buddha and the doctrines of Baddha. This has been said often enough before, but repetition does not maketi true. The statement. only proves a tack of analytical knowledge. There are resemblanees, but they are only surface. Buddha wasa prinee. He lived in the lanzaid Foxuriance of an Oriental court until he becare tired of life and all that pertained to it. He saw sickness and sorrow and death about him, and the belief that to exist was to suffer became a conviction. All was vanity and vexation. There- fore he abandoned his magnificence. deserted his wife. assumed the garb of a , bumiliated himself and went out into the world to search for the secret of happiness. For seven years he sat under a tree and meditated, and when the seven years were ended, he found hisanswer, and went abroad hing that happiness lay in utter annihilation, In a state of Nirvana, in which there was no thought. nor action, nor hope, nor fear, nor love, nor hate. His heaven is a voieeless void. His reward is a serene noth- ing. He believed tn doing good and he tanght his belief—but in this resemblance bezins and ends. His doctrine is adoctrine of skepticism, ‘@ weariness of life. a dread of action, a repaz- nance to responsibility, an appeal for extine- ticn. The parallel between Christ and Buddha is drawn by ignorance. What is “inr. hey She trying to ood results does expect to bring about? anity which Mr. Ingersoll gays is a ts the of morals. has that Its ICit be nothing more than this.it in fuenee alone is powerful enough to srowth desirable. whieb should call for respect. Jove’ stil suuda its | thanity, whee theag ‘Aivar he had Wakes Sever: foareenscn of a something bad which ts to changed. What is there bad in this epiritual assistant ef morality? The truth is that Mr. Ingersoli misuses words. He recruits languace which deseribes something noble and high and makes it eaptare a Falsiafiian company of illox’ cal statements and ragged and disconnected reasonings. Ne better instanee of this can be given than his leeture on the liberty of man, woman and cbild. He incorporates his sounding appeals for everybody's literty—which liberty, by the way, everybody has—in an assault on Christianity, and unthinking hpelland who hear it go away with the belief that, in some way or other, he has made a point against religion. althouvh they eannot indicate what the point is. He calls for social liberty as thouh there were social slavery, and leaves the impression that modern religion is destructive of the very admirable doctrines he advances on this subject when just the eontrary is the case. ‘This is utterly deceptive and unfair. One might as well quote the details of a Roman battle as an argament in an sttack on the existing methods of raising potatoes. There would beas much connection and logic in the latter as there are in Mr. Ingersoll’s rheterieal soda-water avout freedom. His words are the florid Boas ef the k, but the voice with whieh he strives to speak to the inner nature of =_ is as discordant as the voice of a pea- cock. ‘There is one effect, and one only, which he is producing—this is harm. He is the idol ef addle- pated young men who are deaf and dumb and daft in the world of thought; he is the gospeler of little who only remember, yet who Fhe pula words lata tac moaste sad thoy. pons le pata we ito thelr ino: ey. r fools, holding the theory that te be an fradel in evidence ef intellect, repeat them and statueize as advanced thinkers. He tells them te ‘pro- gress.” and they at once proceed to “progress ;” but he to show what they are to “‘pro- gress” to. His doctrine is strictly a doctrine of subtraction. He takes away, but he gives noth- ing for that which Istaken. He destroys, and then mounts upon a broken pillar und calle the ruia progress, and liberty, and reform, and many other finc names. But the ruin is still a rain in spite of his beautifal adoration of it and misuse of sounding substantives. And thie is his triumpb. These are his results. Claiming @ position as a leader in the worid of reason, hie vietories are only among those who have but the foggiest notions of what reason is, He is not a judge of Christianity. He is ite prose- eutor. With all his glittering phrases about womaaliness and motherlove. he has made mere bitter tears flow down the cheeks of mothers who have seen the sons they had taught the better lessen wander off under the eharm of our newer Pied Piper of Hamelin, than any other man in America. He sows his seed of words, and the crop is pain and unrest. And this, he saya, is reform and liberty. ife is the child of trath. That which Tives throuzh centuries and resist the atiacks of geu- erations of hostile intellect has in it the vitality of sathenticit: Tem pora mutantur et nos mu- tanur in iis. Things are plainer than they were and the world is growing reasonable. The coutraction which bigotry urged has sone out of fashion and the newer action of breadth is more in consonance with what was taught by the Nazarene. Thecenturies have outworn the places where he walked and talked. Fertility has gone from the fields of Galilee. The popu- lous viHages which once lined the shores of the Galilean Rea are ruined and desolate. The fish- ermen who stopped in their hauls to hear his words are faraway outlines. The long trains of pilgrims which toiled up the stcep sides of the Mount of Olives and found the first sweeping view of the Holy City, with {ts magnificent temple and glittering architecture, Teward enough for all the trials which had been endured, struggle no more along the pati which thelr feet had made. The gossips who gathered by the wayside and in the shops to chatter garrulousty of the int who called Himself the Me are fylded in the silences. The Roman soldiery who lounsed carelessly to the tribute provinces have gone back to the earth from whenee they came. The time and its teeming life forma picture vague and dis- tant. Past itevents have swept. New years have been born. crown old and died, and his- tory has added many chapters to the world’s story. Wars and woes have been thrown het- erogeneously into the lumber roem of the cen- turles, covered with dust and wrapped in the noiseless mantle of forgetfulness. Millions upon millions of lives have walked hand in hand with sorrow and solice,out of the mystery into themys- tery acain. Kingdoms and crowns have risen fallen in the juggleries and jealousies of national rivalries, and the glory of one epoch has become the hopeless pride of eyes that lnoked back from another. Yet His doctrine still iives. The growth ef civilization isitagrowth. ‘The pro- gress of intellect is its progress. The seoifers may cry out at it. Ridald tonzues may turn the weapons of hate upon it. Hypocrisy may stab it under the fifth rib, while heresy buffets in the face. But it is eternal. Above the clamor of cant, above the desperate declama- tion of infidelity, above the tedious twaddle of formalism, above the quibbling trivialties of little brained pretenders—sounding clearly through the discordant ehorus—vibrates the last appeal which eame from the uncrowned and crucified king. and it is an appeal for them —Father, forgive them, for they kuew not what they do. THE BUFFALO GNAT. A Source of Great Annoyance—How.a Congregation Was Frightened into Obedicace. From the Arkansas State Gazette. Every man who has made the aequaintance of the buffale gnat has a just cause for loud griev- ance. Fer the past few days the people of this city have been annoyed almost beyond endar- ance by this malicious insect. Natural history it an iinperfeet biographical eketch of the butlalo fiir One writer alleges that he first made his‘appearanee in the city of Buffalo, but soon finding that he was unable to drill holes in the jaws of the inhabitants of that town, came south, where he bas met with success in business, Colored people who, as a rnie, eseape the rav- aces of the mosquito, are southdown mutton for the buffalo gnat. Last Sunday a Little Rock colored minister, after trying in vain to frighten sinners into religious obedience by glaring ple- tures of the terch flourished by Satan, suddenly exclaimed, rethren, the revised addition tells Bs that it has been deskivered that thar ain't ne hell. What I have s2id on this subject heretofore I'm now mor’n willing to take back. I quote: ‘Whuras the reeonstructors of this book has found that there aia’t no hell fire. be it resolved that the word hell be stricken out and the word hades be substituted. Reeent advices say that the place where the bad gouls go is thickly in- fested with a species of winged insects called the buffalo gnat. Hades in the Greek laneuage means gnat resort.’ Now, bruthren, you has a practical illustration already of what you are gwine to suffer lessen you mend your licks mighty sudden.” * Atter a short pause, fifteen well known sin- Ners arore, approached the mourners’ bench tee eterual allegiance to the colors of A justice of the pence yesterday asked ef a witness, “What is your name, sir?” “My name is Ni jel, but they call me Nat for short.” “ If your name fn Nat, peo in this court,” an: eu SOME OF UNCLE REMUS’ VIEWS. ‘The Preacher, the Bag of Mcal, and Subscription Papers. From the Atlanta Gonstituti-n. The Rev. Jeems Henry preaches to a large colored congregation in Atlatta, and he is not @uly respected by his owm race, but by the whites as well. He is energetic, peraistent and devout, and in the midst of it all, he manages to keep an eve on Uncle in'whose wellare he manifests interest. Unele Remus is many years older than the hev. Jeems Henry, and bis attitude toward tie preacher is one ef paternal respect. The old man, however, ie accustomed to listen te the lectures of his young friend with an air of listices and patient indiiference which, wien Unele Remus’ resticas aad flery dit ition is taken into consideration, is the next thing to dramatic art of a very hich order—if dramatic art lies anywhere in the neizhborhood of simulation. Recently the two met on a street corner. Brother Jeems Heary was,going forth upon a mission connected with his church, while Unele Reinus was gazing anxiously at the cloudy aktes. “Bless you, Brother Remus! Preacher by way ofsaiutation. on this mighty long time?” “Middlin’, Brer Jeems Henty—des middtin’. Tm eome'rs-"twix de house en de doctor- shop, yit T's glad fum my heart dat ‘taint no wuss. “That's what I tells em all, Brothé¥ Remus. They it to be thankful for what they've got. I hope soon to see you workin’ in the vine- yard, Brother Remus. harvest is waitin’, ‘an’ de labor few. “Dat 80, Brer Jeems Henry; I stan’s wid you @ar, sho. But de mo'est W'at er old cripple nigger lak me kin do dish yer Kinder wedder is ter set down en wait fer watermiliion time.” “All the same, Brother Remus, the Marster’s work is got to be done.” “TF ain’t ’sputin’ dat, Brer Jeems Henry, en I aln’t cwineter 'spute it—kaze w'en I sees you Peradin’ ‘roun’, en promernadin’ up en down wid yo’ stannin’ coller a stiekin’ up, en yo’ stove- pipe hat a ehinin’, en yo’ biack frock eoat a floppin’, den it seem like ter me I done mise my callin How is that, Brother Remus?” Hit's des dis away, Srer Jeems Henry. W’en my bag er meal run dry, en mylittlerasher er baeon disrepear fum de cubberd, whar I erie git Gay mo’, eeppin I sail out an’ scuilie a ui eas En vit, eft le stocpint ac *erds in yo’ shoes, Brer Jeems Henry, dey ain’ kin be much uv a ecufile.” of “How so, Brother Remus?” asked the Preacher with an uneasy smile. “‘Monst’us easy, Brer Jeems Henry, monst’us easy. I'd *tend’de speunce meetin,’ like ter- night, en let drap ‘er hint, en I'd ’ten’ de pr’ar meetin’, like day atter ter-morrer night, en let drap a ne'er hint. By ceeey de scheme ‘ad be plum ripe, en den rise apen rap de congre- gation ter erder, en line out *Ye livin’ mens, come view de greun’; en und’kivver er dat, I'd sen’ ’ronn’ de conterbution plate, en’ I boun’ you, de nex’ time folkk come wisitin’ "roun’ me, de’d be a bag er meal, en a rasher er bacon, en a {og er ‘lasses in de cubberd. Dat dey would, 0 a doin’ us both injustice when you talk in that style, Brother Remus,” said the preacher. “Ter de contraries er dat, Brer Jeems Henry,” responded Uncle Remus, ‘I ain't mix bofe us up in it. 1 des bin tellin’ yon "bout de Regie wat a no ‘count ole nigger name mus would er laid out, perwidin’ dat his streak er luck bad er bin de lenk en breadt’ er yone.” At this point, Brother Jeems Henry concluded te change the subject. “Well, I wish you'd come down to class-meet- in’ next Sunday, Brother Remus. A lady from Liberia is expected to make a little talk. She's at my house now, an’ you might come down and get aeqnainted with her.” “Bless yo’ soul, Brer Jeems Henry! my ‘omanin days ts done gone. I seen de time, en *tain't bin so mighty long ‘go, n’er, wen Pd des jn de chance ferter callon dish yer Jady, en it'd a done yo’ heart good fer ter see iin’ *roun’ ‘er blue pidjin ontop er de barn; but dat time done pas’. Aln’t dish yer lady.” continued the old man,—“ ain't dish yer lady got a ‘scription paper ‘long wid er 2” “I don’t know ff she atn't, Brother Remus,” replied Brother Jeems Henry, after a pause. “Ab-yi! dat w’at I think. ‘Bhe got a’scription paper, cn she hall fum some e’ciety ern’er. ‘wa: off yan’, w’at nobody ain't never year talk an, en she'll git up dar befor’ you all wid a bokay er coffee weeds and pepper pods, en she'll natally intrance you wid de nicen¢ss er country, en den, lo en beholes, bimeby she'll out wid dat "scription paper, en she'll ay gay dat bein’s how dem folks ‘cross dar gittin’ on mighty poly wid de coffee weeds en der pepper s hope and trus’ dat. eve’y body'll fling in sump'n ef “taint nuffin bata thrip; en der Brer Ras- tus’ slap his han’ ter his Jaw and raise de ebune, en de money’ll Jingle, en der nex town w’at de lady'll strak, she'll strak it. wid a bran new bon- net. No use to tell me, Brer Jeems Henry. I done been dar. I done bin seasoned wid um.” Brother Jeems Henry here consulted an im- mense silver wateb, while Untle Remus went on— : “No, Brer Jeems Henry; ef yeu see dat lady en she ax atter me by name, you up’n tell ’er I sent'er howdy, but don’t go no fudder: des take yo’ stan’ *pnn dat. Den ef shetake'n press de question, take off yo" hat en tell er dat wiles you wuz roamin’ roua’ you met up wid er old aiguer w't got mo’ gray ha'rs dan he Is money, aud dis ole nizcer he up’n "lowed, he did, dat ef ‘tain’t no fadder fuin de meetin’ house ter de ehieken-coop in dat _Liberious country dan w’: is in dish Nunited State er Georg: mt lot's er trouble all *roun’ de worrll. G en let "er go.” As the preacher, smiling in spite of himeelf, turned to zo forth upon his mission, he was fol- lowed by the sonorous yosce of Unele Remus: “Put my naine in yo’ pra’rs, Brer Jeems Henry!” ——__——_-¢-_____ Canals on the Planet Mars, The Rey. T. W. Webb, author of “Celestial Ovjects for Commen Telescopes,” writes thus te the London Times respecting Schiaparelli’s dis- covery of “canals” on the pianet Mars: It has long been known that the surface of the planet Mars is so mapped ont into brighter and darker portions as to suggest the idea of continents and oceans, and the analogy thus implied with the arrangements of our own giobe is strength- ened by the existence of brilliant white patches, as of now or ice, situate at or near the planet's poles of rotation, and varying tm extent with Its ehanzing seasons, as well as by occasional dif- ferences in outline or coloring, whieh may well be explained by the supposition of a vaporous atmosphere. In the autumn of 1877 and spring of 1878, a Bamber of minute. straight, or dusky bands were deteeted by hi, traversing and subdividing the ealcant suisinones in va- rious directions. These have been called from their aspect “canals,” though, of course, their scale entitles them rather to the appellation of straits, or very long, narrow arms of the sea. A few ot these had been previously seen by varions observers, but to the Italian astrenomer be- jonged the credit of developing and delineat- ing them as arystem. At theensning return of the planet in 1878-'80, they were again detected and drawn by him, with very little difference. But during course of last January and Feb- ruary he has been so fortunate as to perecive the duplication of these dark streake by the ad- dition of paralla) lines of similar eharacter and length in no fewer than twenty instances, cov- ering the eauatorial region with a.strange and mysterious network, to which there is nothing even remotely an: 1 on the earth, and whieh leads us at onee to sce how premature have been our conclusions in this respect, and how far we still are from any adequate concep- tion of the real constitution even of our nearest neighbor but one in the solar system. eee Tie RELATIONS oF Senvantswith employers are ona very democratic footing in Spain. We had an admirable butler at Madrid who used to exclaimed the ‘How you come THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MA jal, they were really buried alive, for minutes In a closed coffin weuld be su! kill a healthy let alone one feeble to rmake any motion. Still, it is well to remember that if a sick perso Kkely tedie the quickest way to basten the final shuffling off of the mortal coil is to lay him on his back in a coftin er any ether place and put ice under or around him. To lie flat upon the back, with the head on the same level as the body, is an experience that no healthy person can long endure without frightful sensations, andto any one exhausted by disease the po- sition offers a positive prospect of early decease. When a body ina coffin shows signs of Iffethere is littic trouble and norisk in removing it, layin it en its side upon a bed and gently agitating the chest and abdomen as is done in the case of a person who has been drowned. The opinion of a physician is generally satisfactory evidence of death, but when there is any doubt it Is siraple idiocy to leave a body in a coffin, particularly if natural warmth is being antagonized by ice. pees ate ete ‘The Three Cold Bays of April. R. H. Proctor in Knowledge. Few weather phenomena in this country are more remarkable, and seem at present less easily explained, than the so-called “borrowing days.” as they are calied, between the 10th and 14th of April, when usually the temperature falls con- siderably below that due to the time of year. The cold at this time is, at any rate. sufficiently marked—iirst, to have attracted long since gen- eral attention; and, secondly, to affect ina very obvious manner the average temperature for these days during the last elzhty years. We tind these three cold days of April, which before the change of style were the first three days of the month, thus deseribed in doggerel lines in the North of England: “March borrows from April - Three duys, and they are {I1; T be first of them is wan and weet, ‘the s-cond it ts shaw and slect, The third of them ts a peel-a-bane, nd freezes the wee bird's neb tae stane.” The following lines are given in the “Glossary ef Scotch Words and Phrases”; ‘Said March to April, Gie me three boggs Upon yon hill; And in the space Of days three TH find a way to ger wem die. ‘The first a bitter blast did blaw, The second it was sleet aud smiw, ‘The third 16 cam sae full a freeze The birds’ nebs they stack to the trees; But when the days was past and gane ‘The three putr hoggs cam birpiin hamey" This is manifestly an imperfect version of the lines in the poem called the “Complayat of Beotland,” where the reference te the borrowing ofthree April days Is much clearer (in the above account Mareh borrows hogs, not days): March said to Aperill see three hogs upon a hilt; But lend year first three days to me, And Pil be bound to gar them <iee. The first it shall be Wind ana weet, ‘The next it shell be shaw and sivet, ‘The third it shall be sic a freeze, Shall gar the birds stick to the trees, But when the bore wed days were three sity bers eam hirplin liam This is, I believe, the oldest version of the dogeerel. It belonzs to a time when the three cold days ef April really were the first three days of April. The other was modified to correspond with the new etyle, according to which the cold days fall in the rt of the month, and cannot be very well imagined to be borrowed by Mareh. it is worthy of observation how correctly com- mon observation has indicated the true position of these cold days, for in the temperature curve derived from three-quarters of a century of ac- eurate observation at Greenwieh the depression corresponds exactly with the days which before the change of style were the 1st, 2d and 3d of Apri oa A Chicago IdyL From the Chicago Tribune. “Must I really go. sweetheart?” “Yes,” replied Lillian McGuire. placing her shapely white hand in his, and looking into his face with a tender carnestness that showed the true womantiness of her nature, “it is better far better for both of us that we should part forever,” but as she spoke the hot tears of pain welled into her beautifal brown eyes— those eyes that had witched with their bright gian- ces and dreamy tenderness eo many men—and with a little sob of pain Lillian’s head was bowed upon George W. Simpson's shoulder in an eestaxy of grief. “Couldu’t you put @ ten-year limit on your DIN, darling?” asked the ea man, bending gently over the Mttle head that was’ pillowed so trustingly just under his left ear; “I certainly ouzht to have as good a chance as a China- man.” A low moanof pain and a convulsive shake of the little head was the only response. But George was not to be denied so easily. “Can T not have one hope?” he said, ‘‘one little nickel-plated, 10-cent hope?” Lilhan lifted her head and looked at him steadily. ‘*Perhaps,” she said, in cold, Baffin's Bay tones, “you would drop if a house fell on a, but { begin to doubt it. Know you till have it, that under no circumstances can I everaceept your proffered love, for I aa a packer’s daughter, and packers’ daughters come high”—this with a hauzhty- expression that lower-case type cannot convey. George W. Simpson saw at onee that thir proud beauty had been making a plaything of hislove. The revelation was a terrible one, but he bore it bravely. “Very well.” he sald, in husky, haven't-had- a-drink-fa-two-hours tones, ‘You have stamped with the iren heel of seorn upon the tender vio- letof my budding love, bat some day when your children—lttle winsome brats with sunn: smniles and an assortment of colic that will keep you up three nights every week—are climbing upon your knee until you are fn danger of be- eo:ing knee-sprang, you will perhaps remem- ber, with a tinge of sadness in the recollection, how you toyed with the love of a loval, trust” ing, Cook county heart and threw forever over @ youny and happy life the black pall of a dis- appointed hope and crushed ambition. I have seen the roses of my love wither and waste away until they He ehrivelled and blighted by the dusty roadside of Life, and you ean bet that I feel pretty touzh about it. Y have seen my beautiful aud stately Ship of Hope. with its tali, shapely mast and ‘tewering wings of suowy canvas, that sailed away so buoyantly aud bravely over the shimmering sea not man: months ago, come back to me a shapeless wrec! —the tapering spars that were so white and clean now jagzed and broken, and to them elinging the dark seaweeds, while of the sails that rivailed the clouds tn fleecy purity there remained only blackened shreds that flap dis- mally in the moaning wind, whose voice seems to sound the requiem and dead and buried love. I have got the boss wreck, and don't you forget it.” Lillian looked at him steadily for a moment. “Do you mean these words you have spoken, George?” she asked. “You can bet your life I do,” he answered in low, passionate tones. “‘And do you really love me so dearly?” “Well, | should gasp.” was the reply, @ pearly tear listening in George's off eye. “Then,” said Lillian, twining arms about his neck, will roost on your knee next Tues- day evening as usual. Papa would never for- give me if I let aman whe can talk like that go out of the family.” ROMPT ACTION P IN NEEDED WHEN CRAMPED, DON'T EXPERIMENT ON YOURSELVES. YOU NEED RELIEF AT ONCE! Get it, if possible, by using the * GENUINE FRED'K BROWN’S GINGER hen; since |. Vv. SMITH 18 = ri ‘ohPSa wean ali oaciaal alla OPENING. MRS. J. P. PALMER, RO. 1161 F STREET, ‘Between 1th und 22th Strects, Win Open on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26ru, ‘A Case of FRENCH BONNETS axp LONDON HATS. Ro Carts. 2% SPECIAL NOTICE! 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