Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1894, Page 14

14 ee A THOUSAND COMING| The Annual Convention of St. An- drew's Brotherhood. ‘AN ORGANIZATION OF YOUNG MEN Sts Unique Missionary Work in the Episcopal Church. @O MEET IN OCTOBER N THE 11TH DAY of October next the ninth annual conven- tion of the Brother- <> hood of St. Andrew will assemble in the city of Washington, to continue its ses sions and delibera- ¥_ ‘tions for four days. This determination was reached with enthusiasm at the convention - held in fPetroit tm September last. Here, then, Will the thousand delegates from the north nd west come to meet the five or more bundred from the south, and together find, | it ts hoped, the traditional Washington Oc- tober. ‘The Brotherhood of St. Andrew ts an or- jeer im the Protestant Episcopal Church in ‘the United States, comprising mainly lay [members of that body. When it started, [ten years ago, in Chicago it began in a Young men’s Bible class, under the leader- ‘ship of a young banker of that city. It (was aggressive from the start, but grew 4m the most natural way. Perhaps it would ‘Rot have started at all had not its founders James L. Houghtaling. [Bettevea the need for aggressive work most imperative. From the start the order had ‘to go against many very prevalent habits of life and thought. And yet the move- ‘ment has gone steadily on, growing in size and gaining in wisdom and strength until this day. On St. Andrew's day, in the year 1883, (the twelve young men belonging to this Bible class in Chicago agreed that their work must be widened and increased if Mheir zeal and faith were to grow. They pledged themselves then and there to pray @aily for the spread of Christ's kingdom among young men, and to make an earnest ‘effort each week to bring at least one young man within the hearing of the Gos- pel of Jesus Christ. On this pledge as a basis these young ™men—clerks, lawyers, physicians, mechan- {ics—went to work, precisely as every Chi- jeago man has learned to set about his ‘work. They did not call all men brethren, ut each called every other man his brother. Elbow to elbow and shoulder to > Where they wrought there they taught. They wore a button, and when asked questions about its significance they explained. In a brief time their work be- gan to be heard of. The parish church be- gan to fill up with men. From time to time these young men joined others of like heart to themselves, and continued to work. Because they were zealous was no reason why they should abandon tact. They stirred their brother men more and more. They did not stop with promises to come to church; for’they soon found men prom- ised easily and performed badly; they went and got them and brought them. They Went out of their way to do their fellow One member couldn't get his man any other means than by going to his ing house, taking board there, and after weeks of effort, brought him in jumph to sit with him his pew in ehurch. Neighboring parishes, learning of the wemarkable results atter ling this effort, be- Gan to inquire why thy might not also go aud do likewise. So, naturally, similar or- ganizations § multiplied—first in Chicago, then outside, in ever widening circles, until now the individual chapters have increased, one to a parish, within the Protestant Epls- copal Church in the United States, to the mumber of over eleven hundred and fifty, comprising a ‘total membership of over twelve thousand pledged men. ‘The Aruual Conventions. In the history of the brotherhood, as will be readily seen, the annual convention or Yearly gathering of the officers and dele- Gates soon sprang into great significance. The first one, small in numbers, was held fn Chicago In 1886. Succeeding this, an- mual conventions have been held, in the or- der named, in the following cities: Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Bouts, Boston. Detroit. Each of these con- Yentions has represented the special results bf the previous year’s work and thought throuzhout the order, and has been largely @eterminative of its future development. A brief summary of the history ot these con- ventions—that in Boston in 1892 bringing together for a four days’ a: mb'y quite one thousand delegates—would show step by step how the brotherhood has grown and to what stature it has come. One of the no. table features of these conventions, bring- ing together men of one faith, but of vary- Ing practice, from all parts of the country, from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Florida, has been that they have been to a remarkable degree wholly free from all tee ce fens Bott been schools of Bs ttlet spinion or doctrine. > “°F ™Premacy of Spreading to Other Lands. ‘The brotherhood organization has leaped @eross that tmaginary line which extends @long the northern boundary of our country, nd, by a concordat with the Church of England tn Canada, has granted charters to 449 chapters, representing 149 parishes in Canada, and comprising nearly 2,000 active, Zealous members. A full delegation of these Sominion workers are expected in Washinz- ton next October. ‘The order has taken root im Scotiand and also in Australia, a con- ordat having been signed between the Brotherhood in the United States and that Batiratea in each of these countries. Dis- guished English prelates have made over- ures for the organization in England of chapters of the brotherhood upon lines iden- tical with those tn operation tn this country @f its birth and remarkable growth. But wherefore the name, St What this is the name of the tutelary saint of Scotland is well known to thos familiar with the “land o” cakes” and the Scottish University and the St. Andrew's Societ Whe brotherhood goes further back for ‘ts Bame. Earlier than all other historians, the Andrew? |postle writes: “One of the two which heard John speak, im and followed was Andrew, Simo: Peter's broth cwn . first findeth his cwn brother Simon, ith unto him,‘We have found the M. * * © And he bi him to Jesus."—St. John, 1, 40-41 7OUSMt Aims and Methods. “The brotherhood,” said one of the active Members of the organization in this Dis- @ict to a Star repor its membership ands high personal character, but in its work simple methods. Although it has had & wonderful experience and a great increase fm membership, its netion ts plainly rot yet accomplished d hath raised it up, Without doubt, in these latter years of the Blosing century, reat work in de- veloping a husiasm for the gpread of C kingdom among young men. It is by the intensity of this spirit ong the men of their great unanimity andj THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. every-Cay acquaintance that the brother. hood is to be measured and its work justi- fied. The autaor of The New Era.telis his readers of the merchant, in one of our great commercial cities, who, on being asked one day by a business acquaintance about his place of worship on Sunday, replied, that although he had lived in the city of his adoption for eighteen years, he had never before been asked such a question! Eight- een years in trade, in one city, in one place, but no one of all his brothers to ask one word as to the harassed man’s eternal welfare! The brotherhood seeks to stimu- late a noble discontent with the causes which underlie such possibility. The organ- ization has done something to clear the way | for a more rapid advance in the future up- on these lines. Men have been led to see that their citzenship in the kingdom of God is a relation which imposes actual and con- Stant duties. Brotherhood men, having rec- ognized these obligations, are striving man- fully to discharge them. Men who have ad- vanced thus far are, it {s fair to believe, on the road to more aggressive and more ef- fective service. And it is the man who stands next to him, in the office, in the shop, in the store, in the bank, in the mar- ket, his neighbor on the street—the man he knows—who is his brother; not the man | in wickedness and barbarism. | touch the man you know, How easy to the man who | tried knows, on the contrary, how hard it | 4s, for how high must be his standard who bove the dust and | carries it each day smoke of daily conflict In the District. In each of eighteen parishes of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia is an organized chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Each chapter is independent of every other, receiving its charter, at the request of the rector of the parish, from the general governing body, | called the council, comprising twenty-five | members elected by the annual convention of the entire brotherhood. The relation ex- | isting between the parochial clergy and the brotherhood may be defined as follows: Under the constitution of the order no chapter can be formed in any parish or mission without the written approval of the rector or the minister in charge. No chap- ter can continue to exist without that con- tinuing approval. If it be withdrawn, the council will withdraw the charter of the chapter. The status of the organization in the church may be defined by an extract from the report of the committee to the general convention, held in Baltimore in October, t wherein, after referring to certain other organizations of the the committee goes on to say: church, general work of marvelous power, is the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. It seems but yesterday since the general convention had the privilege of joining the celebration of its first anniversary, in the year 1886, at Chicago. Today it has spread throughout the whole country, and found its way also into our mission fields. Its recent conven- tion in Boston has been a joy and an en- couragement to all our people, and the members of the general convention, as the representatives of the church, cannot fail to render it their grateful thanks, and to, ask for it in the future the abundance of God's blessing, as it has had it so largely | in the past. “Its work {s for young men-—the bone and sinew of the church, and its work is for the church at large—through the power of consecrated Christian manhood. “The rule of prayer and the rule of service! How they lie at the foundation of all our work for God! May God give to all these young men the earnest desire faithfully to observe these rules, and ‘grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same, through Jesus Christ, our Lo wee The bishops of the church are looking to the brotherhood as an agency of power. The president of the general council of the brotherhood is James L. Houghteling of Chicago, who has held this position since 1888 by the unenimous consent of the order. Messrs. C. Harry Davis of Phila- delphia and Silas MacBee of Sewanee, Tenn., are first and second vice presidents, respectively. John W. Wood of New York is general secretary, and John P. Faure, also of New York, is treasurer. Herman K. Viele of St. Paul's parish of this city is the representative of the District of Co- lumbia upon the general council of twenty- five. The Local Council. On the institution of the first four chap- ters in the District, viz. those of Emman- uel parish, Anacostia, St. Paul's parish, Epiphany parish and Ascension perish, Washington, in 1889, an organization en- titled the Local Council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew for the District of Columbia was effected, comprising two delegates from each chapter. These four chapters are now increa: to eighteen, and the original eight delegates now number thirty-six. This local council meets monthly to discuss work, hear reports, concert plans and in a general way act in advisory relations to the constituent chapters making up Its entity. Upon this council devolves mainly the preparation for the coming annual conven- tion. The members of the brotherhood throughout the entire community, however, have been active during the past winter and the work is well in hand. They feel sure that, when the day arr in which the | brothers wearing the button shall descend upon Washington in full cohorts, the prepa- rations wiil be complete. The gentlemen comprising the executive committee of the local organization are P. B. Pierce, chairman, president local coun- ell; Barnabas Bryan, vice president, local council; Herman K. Viele, chairman finance committee; G. Berkeley Griffith, chairman committee on music; William D. Cabell, ctairman reception committee; Albion K. Parris, chairman hotel committee; Henry C. Parkman, chairman committee on press; J. Holdsworth Gordon, chairman committee on transportation; Clarence E. Dawson, chairman committee on printing; E. Maury Posey, secretary. —_——_ “OR BY GOSH PLL WALK.” Thought the Elevator W Ran On the Nickel-in-the-Slot Principle. From the Chicagé Herald. A few years ago an old gentleman giving the age of eighty-two years, a typical rep- resentative of what is commonly called the “hay seed,” entered the mayor’s office and desired a license for the sale of a patert medicine. He represented that he had come here from Maine and had had poor luck in selling his wares. He was informed that it would cost $1 to secure the license, and he began at once to prey upon the charitable inclinations of the mayor to induce him to give the license for nothing. In this he was successful, and after securing the coveted plece of paper, which permitted him to seil his medicines, he started to leave. He had ridden to the mayor’s office in the elevator, and has he started to go out, he thought he would ride down again. It so happened that at the time the ele- vator was at the top floor. How to call it down was a conundrum which the old gen- tleman seemed unable to solve. In the midst of his perplexities, an official of the city hall happened along and the old farm- er appealed to him how to bring “that air machine down.” The official told him that the only way the machine could be brought down would be to drop a nickel in the siot, at the same time pointing to the keyhole of the door to the grating which surrounds the elevator as the place where the nickel should be dropped. The old gentleman gazed in won- der at the slot for a minute, and then r marked: “Well, to tell the truth, stran I don't happen to have the nickel about m clothes about this time. Now, I am a pur old man and I can’t walk down them stairs, would you mind putting the nickel in for me “Well,” said the official, “I will try and help you out,” and with that he handed the old man a nickel to put in the siot. The stranger tried his best to force the nickel into the keyhole, but being unsuccessful, the official kindly volunteered to do ft for him, and with the pretense of putting a nickel in the slot he slyly touched the call bell and in a minute the elevator came down. To the elevator boy the official r marked: ‘‘He’s all right,” and the elevator boy remarked, catching on to the joke: didn’t see my nickel fall into the box and I don't know whether I can let this man ride down or not, but if you say he is all right, I will let him go down.” fe With that the old gentleman stepped int and As the elevator descended. reached the floor the elevator bey remarked: “Now you are down, it will cost you just five cents to get out.” ‘This was the last straw which broke old man’s heart. “Weil, by gosh,” said he, “I might better have walked. I am in a worse fix than I was before. Say, young feller, I haven't got a nickel about me: now, won't you kindly let me out and trust me for the sum?’ Seeing tears standing in the old man’s . he opened the door and allowed the old man to get out. As he left the elevator he took occasion to say: “Young fellow, of this scrape, but it has been a good les- son for me. Hereafter, when I want to ride in these pesky machines I will either have the price or, by gosh, I'll walk.” It goes to the seat of the palm, Salvation Ol, | who lives away off in some distant country, | | knows you! The brotherhood man who has | * * * And working with them, in a/ Yl pay you that nickel for letting me out | FROM HONOLULU Liliuokalani’s Responsibility for the Present Condition of Things, SOME FACTS IN HER HISTORY |How She Sought to Exalt the Royal Prerogatives. FATE OF HER MINISTER | Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, March 26, 1894, | Mot inaccurately observed that the Hawaii- an report of the Senate committee made fa- vorable mention of nearly everybody con- cerned except one individual—the woman, | tn accordance with the example of Father Adam. It cannot be denied that the wo- man was the principal cause of the Hawaii- an revolution which abrogated the mon- archy. Yet, while Liliuokalani must bear the chief responsibility, many other persons participated in her acts and encouraged her | in them, She was the leader and chief in- | stigator of the movement to overturn the | liberal constitution and proclaim one which would make the Kanaka monarch practi- vally absolute. Yet there was a considera- | ble number of natives and half whites who | were urging her to do this thing. They were bitter toward the whites, who occu- pied nearly all the higher offices of state, men of Kanaka blood being almost without exception quite incompetent for high public offite. This ts evident from the fact that none of them have ever risen to any highly responsible position in private business. Superior to Her Partisans. Whatever the well-known moral defects of the queen, she was morally superior to the average of her partisans, even of the white men about her. With those people the substitution of autocratic for liberal government was mainly a question of be- ing of the ins, and not the outs—and, not | least, a question of boodle. With the queen herself it was a sort of religion to possess royal supremacy—to rule as well as to reign. She was fanatical in her blind determina- | Uon to seize what she deemed the natural and divinely ordained rights of the mon- a All Hawaiian tradition is surcharged with extreme views of the sacred and abso- lute power of the alli or chief. These prin- ciples were very dear to Liliuokalani, ail the more that she had not been born to the purple, but had drifted up into what her youth had no hope of. Up to the introduc- tion of Christianity a king was a most sa- cred being. No person's shadow must fall upon him on pain of death. He was ap- proached with the profoundest prostrations. Older residents here tell with what awe the common people used to look on their chiefs. There are old white people here today who still themselves retain a species of religious | @We toward Kanaka royalty. They learned it in tender years, when kings and queens in Honolulu were really very sacred beings. An Englishman may understand this curi- ous mental attitude—this sort of religious sentiment of abject loyalty to a monarch, pre ga to an American it may seem idi- otic, A Lower Breed of Chiefs. Lilluokalani in her childhood always felt in that way toward the stately royal princes of those days. It was a religion with her to render them a species of wor- ship. When her family came to the throne In 1874 the natives did not concede their royal sacredness. They were of a lower breed of chiefs. They were not thithi (awe- compassed) and kapukapu (consecrate'l), like the Kamehamehas, who had forty recorded generations of Kings behind them. Kalakaua was only a third-rate chief, bare- ly able to reckon back perhaps to some remote royal ancestor, with many a ple- beian strain intervening. His grandfather, Kamanawa, had been publicly executed in 1841 for poisoning his wife. His real father was a mulatto cobbler, John Blos- som. All the more was Kalakaua emulous of enjoying the full worshipfuiness of his predecessors. He diligently made himself great. He went abroad and dined with President Grant, and Washington for the first time welcomed a crowned head. One old darkey of practiced discernment’ scru- tinized his majesty on Pennsylvania ave- nue, and in great enthusiasm at such ex- altation to one of his kind joyfully ex- claimed, “Foh God, he’s a nigger!” Evi- dently with a like feeling, an eminent col- ored clergyman of Philadelphia lately pub- lished in ‘The Independent his earnest ad- hesion to the cause of Lilluokalani, who shares the same illustrious paternity as her brother. In 1881 Kalakaua, hav- That was in 1 ing suffered a bad set-back to his dignity in the Moreno fiasco, started out to re- trick his royal glory in a voyage around the world. It was a great success. This first royal globe-circler was gone nine months, during which he had been the favored guest of the Emperor of Japan, the King of Siam and the Maharajah of Johore, from all which celestial beings he gained enlarged conceptions of royal pre- rogative. India and Egypt he hastily tray- ersed, their native royalties being sadly shadowed by white ascendencies. In Italy, England and Austria he was received with distinguished honors, and found genial companionship with his royal nibs of Wales» whom he greatly admired. The Welcome to Kalnkaua, On his return his sister, Liliuokalant, as regent, was foremost in preparing fulsome welcome. Arches were hung over the streets and palace gates, with legends at- tributing to the returning king semi-divine titles of honor. The natives were any- thing but enthusiastic. When he landed but faint applause was heard. But at the palace it was the glorious Lani, or di- vine one, who was welcomed. In a little more than a year, the king held a coronation, with great parade and display. Gold and jeweled crowns of cost were prepared for the king and queen, and placed on their heads with immense pomp. What was especially significant to the natives, one of his ministers acted as a herald, ing loud proclamation of a series of titles, or attributes, as appertain- ing to Kalakaua, to which every native knew that he had no more claim than he had to being a white man. They were cer- tain titles of peculiar grades of sucred royal blood, such as Wahi, Pio, Aiwohi, Niaupio, ete. The highest of these titles means that the possessor has a concentrat- ed extract of highest-toned royal blood en- gendered by being the offspring of a royal brother and sister, each of the very high- est and purest strain. Those old-time chiefs paid great attention to sacred in- terbreeding, and begot princes of enormous bulk and stateliness, whose superhuman dignity struck awe even into white men and women. Kalakaua was himself a fairly bulky chief. Being king, he determined to be a kijg, and go the entire figure, and set up for all kinds of blue blood. Liliuokalani took part, nothing loth. But three old chief ladies, who had the genuine royal blood, kept aloof and took no part in the coronation, in order to manifest their con- tempt for his impious pretensions. As the «crowd came up street from the palace, Ber- nice Pauahi, Ruth Keelikolani and Dow- ager-Queen H£mma_ were seen sitting in a balcony in dignified scorn, They had the blue blood, and Kalakaua was a nobody. Exalt the Royal Prerogatives. All the more this intensified the Princess Lilluokalani’s religious worship of the roy- alty her family had attained. It became with her a fanatical aim to exalt and in- | erease the royal prerogatives. The revolu- tion of 1887, when a liberal constitution | was forced upon Kalakaua, took place dur- ing her absence in attendance on Queen Victoria’s jubilee in England. On her re- turn she expressed the strongest chagrin | and displeasure at her brother's weakness in surrendering bis prerogatives. From that time on she labored persistently to re- gain for the crown the nearly absolute | power which had been lost. Liliuokalani’s whole conception of monarchy was connect- ed with the possession of supreme power. Both in Col. Blount’s report and in tuat of Senator Morgan's committee appears the story of her desperate attempt, through Robert Wilcox in 188%, to seize the throne and restore the arbitrary constitution of 1sé4. She was largely the victim of a blind fanaticism for royal prerogative. Liliuokalani is by no means a really bad voman. In earlier life she meant weil and did well. Very few of the native chiefesses have on the whole lived more reputably. Of the contemporary chiefesses only Princess Panahi Bishop and Queen Emma _ have maintained such propriety of life as to enjoy In a recent editorial of The Star it was | the good social relations which she has done with white ladies. Mrs. Bishop was a wo- man of the noblest and purest character. As previously intimated, any close inquiry into the domestic life of Hawaiian ladies is unwise, and a Kindly tolerance must cover up weaknesses which do not amount to un- disguised scandal. This is not intended to apply to the upper class of half-white ladies, well married to white’ husbands, among whom are many of high culture and ex- emplary morals. Contaminated by the Court. Had Mrs. Dominis continued in private life, the better elements in her nature might have prevailed. Beyond question the vicious excesses of her brother's court contaminated her. Her frequent participation as a pleased witness of the unspeakable obscenities of the hula dances, which Kalakaua cultivated, could not fajl to corrupt her moral sense. Of late years her moral! decline was evinced in her active participation in idolatrous cere- monies which Kalakaua had made it his business to revive. She must be regarded as largely a victim of the poisoning forces of court life, which gradualiy heathentzed the previously civilized and refined lady. To any one familiar with the facts as to the sort of physical nature which Kanaka | Women inherit, and acquainted with the sur- roundings of the Hawaiian court, there is | nothing more pitlably and ludicrously ab- surd than the positiveness with which news- Paper correspondents, like the Nordhbdffs |and Palmers, or official investigators, like | Col. Blount, will embrace testimony that the scandals about such a person are unfounded. Any one who knows native life and char- acter knows that the probabilities are all and overwhelmingly the other way, and this jis in great mitigation of the fault. If the | ex-queen could be charged with no other | than this in a native woman excusable | frailty, the reputable people of Honolulu would have continued to be deaf to scandals, | and to ask no questions so long as a veil j of decency covered what might be wrong. It was her open championing of lotteries and opium rings, and her throwing herself bodily upon the support of the party of vice | and heathenism, that ended the paticnce of | reputable society with her. What they would have done it is hard to say, had she | gone no farther. Her simultaneous proceed- jing to proclaim an arbitrary constitution and dissolve her government left our people no choice but to create a new government, as they did. Cowardice of the Ministers. An inspection of Senator Morgan’s re- port, since the above was written, shows its severest condemnation to have been that of the queen’s ministers for their | cowardice and treachery, The queen her- | sel€ charged some of them with such con- duct in her written statement to Mr. | Blount, and there seems ample ground for it. What seems first to have made Peter- | son and Colburn take fright was the at- | titude of Thurston and his white colleagues jin the legislature, in absenting themselves from the ceremonies of prorogation. They well knew the great determination and ability of those men. When they found the queen angrily and fanatically bent on |her purpose to destroy the constitution, these ministers of hers fell into @ panic and gave everything away to her enemies. In fact, there was nothing else for them |to do except to jump the precipice with their mistress and all smash together. It should be said, in justice to her premier, Sam Parker, that he behaved | more like a man, and stood by her the best jhe could, althovgh he insisted that she must abandon her destructive plan. Parker never tampered Ike his colleagues with the other party. Whatever his faults and lack of business capacity, he is chivalrous and brave, with a genuine portion of the manly nature of the old chieftains. Parker is ina tight place in his pecuniary affairs. He owns a princely estate on the slopes of Mt. Kea, probably worth double the quarter million of mortgages he has tangled hit self up in by poker and reckless extrav gance. The financial depression attending the revolution and the simultaneous de- cline of sugar profits have put him at the mercy of his creditors, and he hardly knows how to find coin for daily needs. He has an interesting family—two tall daughters, educated for a couple of years in England, besides other children—all accustomed to profuse expenditure. The only thing to be done is to retire with them to the country house at Mana, where they can ride about the country, and he can play head cowboy among the myriads of more than halt-wild cattle. He is an adept as a paniola, having learned to ride before he learned to walk, probably. The sooner an- nexation comes, the better for Sam Parker, as it will double the value of his estates, and put him on his feet again. His whole income now will scarcely meet his annual interest. Sam Parker's Herds, Pantola js the native pronunciation of Es- pasnol, or Spaniard. On Vancouver's sec- ond visit to Hawail in 1793, he presented King Kamehameha with a bull and a cow. They were turned loose on Mt. Kea, and a strict tabu placed on them. In twenty-five years their progeny had so multiplied that when the missionaries arrived in 1820, the interior of the island was swarming ‘with herds of wild cattle. Vaqueros with horses had already been imported from Mexico to handle the wild creatures. Being Spaniards, paniola was at once adopted as the name of a@ horseman skilled with the lasso. Most of the surviving descendants of these wild herds are now Sam Parker's. He has large stocks of imported breeds, and grades up the cattle in his great paddocks—but on the mountain they are the same long-horn- ed, wild creatures as ever, only the calves are captured and altered, so that there few ferocious bulls as formerly. The Ka- nakas speedily became adepts as paniolas. It is a calling precisely suited to the Ha- watian nature. Anciently, he delighted to ride swiftly on the tront of the combing wall of a breaker, or dive under and stab & mighty shark. Now he takes a keener zest in urging a half-wild pony after racing herds and singling out horns and hoofs for the unerring cast of his lariat. ‘The difference between the wild herds of California, Mexico and Hawaii and the do- mestic English breeds of Australia is well marked by the well-known difference of the Mexican and the Australian saddles, both strongly made. The Australian drives his cattle with a whip. They are tame, of tame breeds, even if running on open country. He needs no lasso to handle them, and his saddle has no high pommel. The Mexican saddle has a massive pom- mel and heavy cinching, so that when the larlat draws, the horse, throwing himself back, holds’ the captured beef with his whole strength by the elastic hide cord wound around the pommel, Our herders here depend on the lariat, but in driving use the cruel whip, which will bite a button hole out of an animal's hide fifteen feet away. t It may well be sipposed that the droves of beepees—Kanaka for beeves—do not arrive at the market in very fine condition. Then there is the voyage by sea, with its severe handling. “But that is another story.” KAMEHAMEHA. ————-+ee Cable From Canada to A’ From the New York Evening Post. A distinct advance has been made toward the realization of the project for connecting Canada and the Australian colonies by a tralia, telegraph wire under the Pacific. The inter- colonial postal conference, after a long ¢is- cussion, has adopted the notion of the pres- ident, Mr. J. G. Ward, recommending the governments of different colonies to consider the propriety of the agreement with the other countries concerned for the guarantee of financial assistance to any company un- dertaking to lay the Pacific cable on suitable terms. It is proposed that Interest at 4 per cent shall be guaranteed for a term of years upon a capital not exceeding £1,800,000, pro- vided that the company undertakes to charge not more than 3 shillings per word for ordinary business, 2 shillings per word for government dispatches, and 18 pence per word for press messages between Great Britain and the colonies. Though all the Australian colonies are not equally interest- ed in the matter, it is said to be certain that all of thom will give substantial aid to the enterprise as soon as it has been put in a practical shape. a os The “Coming Man.” From the Beacon. A pair of very chubby legs Incased in scarlet hose; r of little stubby boots, With rather doubtful toes; A little kilt, a little coat, Cut as a mother can And lo! before us stands in state, ‘The future's “coming man.” yes, perchance, will read the stars reh their unknown ways; the human heart and soul Will open to their gaze; Perchance their keen and flashing glance Will be a nation’s light. Those eyes that now a On some “big fello ‘Those hands—those little, busy bands— So sticky, small and brown; ‘Those hands, whose only mission seems To puil ali order down— Who knows what bidden strength may be Concealed within thelr grasp? Though now "tis but a taffy stick In sturdy hold they clasp. Ab, blessings on those little hands, Whose work is yet undone! And blessings on ‘those little feet, Yhose race is yet unrun! And blessings onthe little brain, t has not learned to plan! Whate'er the future hold in sto: God bless the ‘coming man!’* wistful bent kite. CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH | The Handsome Edifice of a Young But Active Organization. Dedicatory Services to Be Held To- Morrow in the Completed Portion of the New Building. What promises to be a very interesting event in the history of Christ Lutheran Church takes place tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, when the dedicatory services will be held in the completed portion of the new church edifice, which the congre- gation is now buildi.< at the corner of New Jersey avenue an! Morgan street. The services will be in charge of Rev. ‘Wm. Dallmann of Baltimore, Md., who will preach the dedicatory sermon. An octet choir, under the direction of Prof. Rup- precht, will render an appropriate musical Program in addition to the regular order of the Common Service. C. C. Mohart. In the evening at 7:30 Rev. H. B. Hemmeter, also of Baltimore, will preach. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, of the old mother church, services being h in the afternoon or evening. They or- ganized with four members who withdrew from Trinity Church. The congregation | now numbers thirty communicant mem-! bers, with bright prospects for a steady in- crease. The Rev. Chas. C. Morhart was called as pastor and installed in September, 1892. He | is a native of Gallipolis, Ohio, and a grad-! of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. nd his congregation belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Confer- ence of North America, the largest body of Lutherans in the United States. The affairs of the congregation are gov- erned by a vestry, consisting of Messrs. John A. Hirth, Bernard E. Emmert and Wm. H. Germann, trustees, and W. Chas. Heitmuller, George C. Voneiff and Wm. Wetzel, deacons, with the pastor ex- officio president. The growing congregation and the crowd- ed condition of affairs at Trinity Church made it necessary for Christ Church to look for a home elsewhere. Shortly after the old Hoover square, owned by the Kib- bey estate, was put on the market the congregation secured the lot on the corner of New Jersey avenue and Morgan street, fronting fifty-seven feet on New Jersey avenue and 112 feet on Morgan street, where the erection of the handsome edifice they contemplate building has already been begtin and a portion is completed and ready for occupancy. The auditorium is fifty feet by eighty feet, with a seating capacity of about 800. The lecture and Sunday school rooms will be in the basement. The pastoral resi- dence, containing twelve rooms, will com- rrunicate with the vestry and robing rooins or sacristy. The entire front on both streets will be faced with Indiana limestone, rock face, laid in broken range. The trimmings around doors and windows will be of dressed stone. The entire cost of this improvement, including the ground, will be about $35,000. The building com- mittee consists of the pastor, Messrs. Wm. H. Germann, B. E. Emmert and George C. Vonelff. Mr. Wm. H. Germann has personally superintended the work. NEW PUBLICATIONS. A STANDARD DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Upon Original Plans Desizned to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statement, in the Light of the Most Recent Advapces tn and in the Readiest Fotm for lar Use, the Meaning. Orthography, Pro- nunciation and Etymology of all the Words and the Idiomatic Phrases in the h and Litera- by more than two hundred specialists and other scholars under the supervision of Isaac K. Funk, D.D.._taitor-in-chief: Francis + managi E. Bostwicl -D. John Denison Champlin, M.A.; Rossiter John- gon, Ph.D.. LL.D. Volume L “New York: Funk & Wagnaiis Company. 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The author contends that, after all, there is no Jewish question in the sense in which we speak of a labor question, or the eastern question, or the home rule ques- tion, and he then proceeds to show what the Jewish question really ts, dwelling par- ticularly upon “The Mission of the Jews,” and also considering “The Social Position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and Modern Times,” “Hebrew Societies,” “Money and the Jews,” and other interesting phases of the history, the influence, and the present difficulties of the most ancient of cultured people. In the closing chapter considerable space is devoted to the views expressed by Leroy-Beaulieu in his new book, “Israel Chez les Nations.” OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. By Richard Earding D: t of “The West From a Car “The Rulers of the “Van Bibber and Others,”” New York: Harper & Brothers. Lothrop. Illustrated. Washington: Woodwarde & Mr. Davis always writes well and espe cially when he is descriptive. 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Hlustrated ew York: Harper re. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. ageapaeias — Written for children and made doubly at- tractive by liberal illustration, Mr. Bon- ner’s history is one over which full-grown men and women could spend several profit- able hours. The Spain of Moorish days, the land of romance, and Spain since the cross ejected the crescent—two entirely dif- ferent countries—are depicted with admir- able fidelity and in the most readable style. oop srr SMA 4g EXPENSE: or, Never ere Any 3 By Ben N York: The Baker & Taylor Co. ae cass The latest addition to the great brary Produced by those who did the world’s fair and who were, in turn, done. A dull sub- ject, a minor happening, even the failure of anything to happen, afford Ben Holt op- portunities for clever persiflage. LOOKING FOR THB KING. A Sunday School Drama. Mrs. B. Peters. Llustrated. Brooklyn: W. C. Bryant & cao 2M Eminently suitable for presentation by one of those organizations of young people so common in connection with the religious societies of today. The author's object is praiseworthy and her effort cannot but be appreciated by those who are intent on teaching Biblical history. SOMETHING ABOUT RAILROADS. By Joseph Irving Henderson. Washington: Robert Beall Mr. Henderson believes that the railroads of the United States have suffered unjust- ly at the hands of thoughtless. legislators and in this pamphlet argues to that effect. THE BEDOUIN GIRL. By Mrs. S. J. Higsinson, author of “A Princess of Ja: “Java, the | Pearl of the East,” &c. New Yurk: J. Selwin Tait, & Sons. Washington: Wm. Ballantyne & | A most pleasing romance, in which is displayed desert life in its picturesque re- ality. "LISKETH. By Leslie Keith, author of “The ily strain, but the system expounded by Capt. Adam is one at once comfortabte and Chilcotes,””' “In Spite of Hi The Cassell Publishing Co. 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Morhart 1s pastor, |* punden. is the Second English branch of Trinity | the liver ts irregular in its aetion the com- German Lutheran Church, which was or- Plesion becomes pale and sallow, there is a sense of ganized in 1851. Rev. W. C. H. Leubkert is PPression after eating, bloating and biliousness. jthe pastor, and the church is located at | Back-aches, side-aches and headaches deprem the the corner of 4th and E streets northwest. Spirits, making the sufferer feel discouraged and The first branch was Grace Lutheran us It was to cure these disorders of the Church, situated at the corner of 18th and | system that Warner's Safe Cure wus specially @e- Gorcoran streets northwest, Rev. J. E. A. | signed. In the most trying cases this great remedy Doermann pastor. Ever since the organi-| never once fails to give prompt relict’ It by zation of Christ Church, on April 10, 1892, | lar everywhere, because if ie od the congregation has been worshiping in effective. 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