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23 DEVIL WORSHIPERS Pauline Pry’s Initiation Into Luci- fer’s Service. OCCULTISM AND FADS The Nervous Condition Necessary to Join the Ordes. RESULT OF THREE DEGREES —_+—_—_—_ o rou KNOW that we have devil worshipers in Wash- ington? Probably not. Then Usten. I have passed the novitiate of their order, and I am go- ing to tell you all about them. There are different degrees of the new religion,which has by no means progressed so far in Washington as in Paris, where it is a formal service of Lucifer, for which one Is fitted by succes- sive courses of hysteria that advance the adept from immorality to crime, and finally to insanity. The French devil worshipers have two churches, and an antl-pope, who is the visible representative of Lucifer upon earth. Their form of worship is a hideous parody of the mass of the Catholic Chuch,during which they consummate their profanity, offering the Host to a goat en- throned upon the altar. Every Friday at A Decadent Dream. 8 o'clock Lucifer is revealed, and in his honor a white mass is celebrated, called the reversed mass. The celebrant, a wo- man, wears a chasuble, with the cross turned upside down. ‘The gospel read in the mass is written in green ink, and signed by Lucifer. The alm of the new church is the ag- grandizement of woman and the dechristian- ization of the world. Their prophets prom- ise the overthrow of Christianity, which fs to be accomplished by the advent of Anti-Christ, who is to be a woman, born of the descendant of one of the present high priestesses. This high priestess shows revelations to the faithful written in flam- ing letters on her bare shoulders, and thus she has proclaimed the coming’ demoniac ‘Messiah: “The number of Adonai and Christ's popes is limit At the age of thirty-three I shall be the mother of a daughter, who at the age cf thirty-three will bring into the world another daughter, and this last will he the mother of Anti-Ch The latter is now living under the condition of a demon and woos me and calls me Holy Mother.” Tae police of Paris ha recently inter- fered with this devil worship, and one of the high priestesses has been converted from the error of her ways, and is writing an expose of the new religion. But the dia- bolists are not daunted nor are their ene- mies reassured. An orthodox religious Journal published in Paris affirms that the “devil worshipers already own India and China, and that in America and Eu- rope the supreme and definite struggle will be fought.” In London devil worship rests under a cloud, due to the fact that its high priest now languishes in prison, and the green carnation, the symbol of its greatness, is for the present permitted to wither where it grows. In other words, the new devil is so Ww out of repute in London. How- ever, Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley A Devil Worshiper. still hold their own, and that the mission- ‘y work they carry on among the regen- erate and reasonable beings of the world is a success, the number of their imita- tors testify. In New York—well, what could one hope for devil worship in New York with Dr. Parkhurst and Teddy Roosevelt not ex- tinct? Still, they do very well. The dia- bolists have no place or form of worship in New York, but they have an official organ, openly dedicated to promoting knowledge of black art, and openly avowing as its policy the development of the devil wher- ever found in human nature and in human Telations. You will not see copies of this journal scattered on book counters, but if you happen to be on intimate terms with your bookseller he will unlock his safe and produce one, handling it gingerly, the wise and good man, for, truly, it is not to be touched without fear of fire and brimstone Spreading from its pages. I do not want you to think from this the pages are not respectable. Bless your in- nocent soul! How little you know of the new devil, who ts so subtle in nature and omnipotent in his resources; he is quite will- ing his devotees should be respectable, and he even encourages good morals and spirit- ual aspirations. You may be sure, were this not so I should never have had the oppor- tunity of making his acquaintance. Im General and Particular. But before I can hope to have you un- @erstand the truth of devil worship you THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. must reflect somewhat upon devils in gen- eral and in particular. I assume, of course, that being human, you have had sufficient experience to be not without knowledge on this subject, for while you, as everybody knows, have always suc- ceeded in holding your skirts aside from temptations, unfortunately oy neighbor has not, and you have thus had the oppor- tunity to inquire into the nature and de- sign of devils next door, or probably across the street. Besides, there is history—your Bible lessons, especially; these have not left you without the ability to perceive that there has been an evolution in the devil as in man. There was the very old devil who pestered poor Job, the same whose Power and methods Moses implied in the wall of the Ten Commandments raised against his empire. This devil was sim- Ple, coarse, brutal, easily detected and comparatively easy to avoid. He required of iis devotees hideous images, patricide, murder, lust, theft—services aguinst which pure human nature itself revolts, and he asked no pound for his taberhacles and altars save that outside the bounds of so- efal order. Then there came a new devil, and we have known him long by the name of Mephistopheles. He had progressed with human nature. He had no taste for blood, was contemptuous of mere crime, and ap- preciated the advantages of respectable so- ciety. He desired most the murder that men do in their hearts, and living like a gentleman among gentlemen, he was lord of hypocrisy and hate. Now he has fallen behind the times, and we have again a new devil, who again rises superior to the limitations of his predecessors. “Be Ge- cent,” he says to his disciples; “yea, more— be good; be honest; feed the hungry; clothe the naked; love your enemies, if you will— think of me.” That is all the new devil wants of humanity—the mind, and en- throned there in that part of a man least known and least under control the single mission of the devil, to deny, is operating at the very stronghold of human conscious- ness, denying the identity of form. Human conduct no longer interests -him. <All that pertains to it are approaches threugh which he has made his way, to the person, the life itself, of the enemy, and the hattle the new devil fights with humanity is rot for honor, nor a creed, but human reason. The harvest he seeks is not criminals nor sinners, but madmen. There! Of course it's not at all pretty for a woman to even speak of devils, and certainly not nice to speak seriously, as If she knew all about them. Moreover, it's presumptlous for her to speak with any- thing approaching authority on anything but the big sleeve question, or possibly the merits of her cook, her husband or the baby; nothing more. Still, what of that? I am past twenty-five and married. What is left for me to hope or fear? I will be presumptuous i? I pleas and you, Mrs. Grundy, cannot frighten me. Development of the New Devil. I might hesitate to lay down a law of the development of the new devil, if evidence were not forthcoming to prove it. For one thing, there is my own experience in the novitiate of devil worshipers, of which you shall hear presently. Then there is also within the range of your own observation every expression of the thought of the day to sustain me. You must realize that the fad of the times is iIncomprehensibility —the farthest possible departure from every reveaied law of natural relations, the most superhuman. denial of every established form. In ccn- duct, this is ego-worship—self-culture, self- development—individuality made a god. In religion, it 1s a breaking away from churches and a spiritual riot of the Imag- ination in mysticism. In literature, it is chap books and yellow books. In poetry it's pre-Raphaclites and purple cows. In music, it is Wagner and Yvette Guilbert. In art, it is posters. Whether you con- sider the new woman in bloomers or the grotesque lines of the new art; the vege- table virtue of the new saint, or the ab- normal vice of the new sinner; the “prose gone mad” of the new poet, or the apoth- eosis of brass horns and long, lean, black arms the new music has accomplished, it is all the same, the same blank contradic- tion of every accepted standard of human excellence, the same supreme denial of very form in which the human mind is ac- customed to express itself—in a word, it is the supremacy of the new devil. I have selected a few choice specimens of the new art to illustrate my point. A oe Mugegie Cline—A Decadent View. great many persons tell me they can see nothing in these things. That is because they have not been initiated in devil wor- ship, and now I am ready to tell you what this initiation fs. The Initiation. Nervous prostration—that is how I was Initiated. I overworked. You may accom- plish the same end by any preferred ex- cess. But to enter the order of devil wor- shipers you must first somehow acquire a nervous condition, which enables you to vi- brate with emotion at the sound of a fly walking across the ceiling, to perceive in broad daylight all sorts of dodging, dark things nobody else can see, ard in the night, above all things, not to sleep. In- somnia fs the second degree. This equips you to fairly start your record as a devil worshiper, and the particular oflice you will fill will depend altogether on your previously acquired habits and natural ten- dencies. If you are religious, you will be- gin t6 have visions and you will hear mys- terious voices calling you to impossible missions. Your spiritual discernment will increase in direct ratio with the number of nights you go without sleep, and if you don’t take to riding a bicycle or take a run to the seashore to brace up, in all probability you will found a new church. If, on the other hand, you have been worldly and decently vicious as the world goes, the second degree devil worship will introduce you to profound depravity aute impossible to describe or even hint. In any event you will write. A few make posters or illustrations for chap book and the yel- Jow book. But the majority write, or in- tend to write, which may amount to the same thing. Mailarme, one of the literary gods of the diabolists of Paris, acquired fame as a poet without having writien 1 Une. He is ‘discreet with his soul,” his admirers assert, and he himself has said that he could not understand how any one could let himself appear in print. Such a proceeding gave him the impression of “an indecency, an aberration, resembling that form of mental disease called exhibition- ism.” That last word is a key to demonlac thought, which may be summed up thus: Everything is something else, and what- | ever is as it is is wrong. The rest is noth. ing, and everything you don’t know must be put in words. If there are no words in the dictionary, make them. If you can’t make words, try posters. Like everybody else living at the end of the century, I number a great many devil worshipers among my friends. Indeed, I think I know only one person who is differ- ent. I would not have you understand any circle of very respectable acquaintances are conscious devil worshipers. Dear no! They call themselves critics—art critics, music eritices—the most of them. They include also a variety of misunderstood souls, and not a few embryonic seers, who, by the up- lifting influence of a vegetable diet and oriental Hterature, expect great things of themselves in the near future. They other- wise live perfectly correct lives, so that I never guessed their real character until six weeks’ training in nervous prostration brought me en rapport with them, and en- abled me to accumulate experience, which afterward, upon regaining my health, has suas it possible for me thus te tell all about em. From the Official Organ. In any case of suspected devil worship I may give you the following as a certain test. It is taken from the official organ of devil worship in this country. Any one, who, upon reading it, understands it, should cer- tainly try malt with his meals, and join a sSymnasium. He hasamade great headway in the service of Lu#er, This Is entitled ‘Frustrate:” “I am the seed called desire. I am he; am she. We walk, we swim, we totter an blend. Through the ages I He embryonic in me; I am surated by Fate into the Now. On pulsing terraces, under a moon blood- red, I dreamed of the mighty confluence. About me were my kinsfolk. Full of dumb pain we pleasured our centuries with an- ticipation. Every monad has his day. One by one, the septillions and millions, the quintillions and billions disintegrated from the central parent mass and floated into formal life. At last, after vague alarms, with overwhelming torrents of rubilant fires, I was summoned. I hastened to my love, to that other monad, the only one in the vast basin of the cosmos that must unite with me. I tarried not, and throbbei as I ran in the race. The moments were The Suicide. precious; a second meant aeons, and crash- ing into the light, I furiously sought for her, for the one. Alas! We turned the sharp corners of the possible, and were lost to each other forever. Of what avail my travail? Of what avail my countless, cruel preparations? Oh, chance! Oh, fate! I am one of the accursed, silent multitude of the frustrate!” When I was able to comprehend and en- joy the inner meaning of this, I kad not slept for four successive nights. I then stopped eating meat, consulted an as- trologer to have my lucky day, and bought a bonnet that mide me look hideous, but which I wore conscientiously, becausa it was my astral cvior. The Astral Color. It is very necessary to know your astral color. A great deal depends upon it in devil worship. Color being one register of the vibrations of the ether, and your soul being another, to have perfect harmony in your general make-up, the vibrations of your dry goods and millinery must accord with the motion of your soul. In sther words, as I said, you must know your astral color and wear it, though, in consequence, the only man on earth you love turns to another woman, who lives in open violation of every astral principle. At this stage I began to lose flesh ter- ribly, having joined a Society for the En- couragement of the Study of M. ¢ Num- bers. It is part of devil worship to Join so- cieties, Why this is so Lombroso is bru- tally frank in explaining, by means of a diagram showing the common source of fin de siecle, intellectual clubs, the bands in which criminals habitually unite, and the foil a deux familiar among lunatics in which the most pronounced lunatic com- pletely forces his insane ideas on a com- panion. Studying mystic numbers I came into possession of the kn ledge that the uni- verse is riding on the seventh wave of its existence, and that so far as human life is concerned, this amounts to a tidal wave of destruction. Worse still, of more imme- diate interest to me, I found that the num- ber five, which is the number of sacred expiation, so enters into the number of my shoe, the date of my birth and various other combinations of my life, as to argue that I am sooner or later to be offered up a sacrifice to fate. Development of Occult Powers. ‘The more flesh and less sleep I got the More my occult powers developed until I discovered that I was able to communi- cate telepathically with my cook. This was of immense practical as well as psychical importance. For instance, if after getting to bed at night, I recollected having or- dered muffins for breakfast and recollected furthermore that muffins are bad for the complexion, by the aid of a Hindu move- ment, which it would be instant death for me to reveal to an incredulous put I impressed the change of menu I desired upon the cook's mind, so that when I would descend to breakfast the next morn- ing I would find health bread Instead of muffins on the table. To be sure, the ccok frequently explained such phenomena, ing she had forgotten to order eggs the d before and so could not make moflins. Hovever, this had no weight with my opinion of the character of my relation with her, nor did it enter into the judgment of the Society for Psychical Researc which, at the suggestion of i and advanced devil worshipers, I forward- ed a record of my telepathic experiences. In thus frankly revealing my own con- nection ard the connection of influential persons with devil worship, I must beg you to bear in mind that all I relate is included in the first three degrees, and that there are 112 degrees to be taken before one at- tains the nervous condition in which the whole order—the very fact of creation is so distorted that he deliberately adores the principles of negation which enters into human life, personified in a myth of Luci- A Passing Fancy. fer. To compass these exalted degrees it requires repeated attacks of prostration, gradually leading to practices a great deal more serious than eating vegetables, tele- pathy, or collecting posters. The Third Degree. The third and last degree I took was Par- acelsus. As you doubtless know, Paracel- sus is supreme authority on magic, black and white. You surely would be surprised to learn how many are the persons about you that are familiar with both the teach- ings and the practices of Paracelsus. I could-name more than a few myself, in- cluding persons attached to fashionable churches in the capacity of pillars; also a couple of veritable black witches, who practice Paracelsus in a blind alley, so far removed from earth that a man who has served less than two terms in a peniten- tilary would scorn to be found dead there. These latter, I truly believe, have taken the full 112 degrees of devil worship. On the payment of five dollars one will bind your bitterest enemy with a telling curse, which the other for five dollars makes a specialty of removing. They practice their art according to the very letter of Paracelsus’ lore. To accom- pet the desire of hate, the one makes an image of wax, representing the person to be injured. Then a nail is driven into some part of the body of the image, and by the sorcery of an evil will and malicious thought, a corresponding part of the body of the hated one will be infirmed. Or to secure the affection of an indifferent heart, the witch makes a wax image of the desired one, and, melting the image by the heat of a light, presto, Cupid is to the res- “cue, Whether he will or no. Mind, I don’t Know this to be possible from having seen it done. I only know that Paracelsus thus prescribes the manner, and I have the as- surance of a good woman that in this al- ley of Washington the wisdom of Paracel- sus is thus made manifest. I was barely under way in the teachings of Paracelsus when the cook got married, and pending the selection and establish- ment of her successor I was plunged in the depths of domesticity, otherwise known as the kitchen. There my intellect fell to’con- sidering the sorcery of starting fires and other occult problems involved in making ready three meals a day, the result being that Lucifer and his devotees lost me, and now to any one to begin to talk mysti- cism or try to engage my interest in pos- ter exhibits, anything of that sort, I say promptly, ‘(Get thee behind me, Satan.” I know their master, if they don’t them- selves, and you may know him, too, here- after, upon the word of honor. of PAULINE PRY. 4 QUEER CHICAGO FUNCTION. tS Half the Trite kh is Black and the Oth¢ if is White. From the Chicago Record. re ‘While learned mif are discussing the “race problem” the {X Society of Ohicago at one jump, solves it. How well the members of this:society have done their work was apparent Saturday night in Central Hall, 224 5: eet and Wabash ave- nue, wkere the Ladieg! Court gave its third annual grand masquerade ball. About 300 colored men attended the ball with their white wives, and ohe' white man with his colored wife. Therg were also a number of colored wcmen in attendance without hus- bands of any kind. They looked with en- vious eyes at their more fortunate white sisters. a In point of fact it required all the tact and diplomatic skill: of the committee to prevent a race war of amazons on an oc- casion which was got up for the express purpose of showing to the world how easy the trick of mixing white and black blood was done. It might have gone better with the colcred women present if, in the lan- guage of one of their number, “the com- mitteemen had provided them with white men as escorts when they found out they could not furnish them with husbands. At this juncture Floor Manager George Johnson interposed his authority and an- nounce “Partners for the first grand march.” This proved to be an inspired speech, and for a time covered the trou- bled waters with a thin coat of oil. Mr. Johnson led the march in person. When the orchestra of nine. pieces and a trom- bone caught up the familiar strains of “Tho Fatal Wedding” the floor manager went sweeping down the hall, holding on his arm Mrs. Scott, a comely while wo- man of flashing black eyes and distinguish- ed mien, who was attired as a lady of the time of Queen Elizabeth. They were fol- lowed by Mr. aud Mrs. George Williams, Mrs. Williams appearing as a ‘Tyrolean maid. Behind them came a jolly pair of bloomer girls—Gladys Wilson and Allie Campbell. Then the line strung out with bright-colored costumes of every descrip- tion, while the skillful Mr. Johnson led the party through all kinds of intricate fig- ures with an case and grace which moved one of his colored women admirers, who thought herself too good to walk in a maren with any kind of “white trash,” to exclaim: “Ain’t he a peach?” Many persons, both whites and blacks, were present to see the effect of the ming- ling of the races. Only black men danced with white women. The colored men who wore spectacles stood around watching the dancers and discussing the race problem. There was some jealousy manifest in their remarks, but on the whole they agreed that the society was helping the cause of the colored man. .it 1s said that there are in Chicago fully 800 married couples in which the husband and the wife are of different races. In the Majority of cases the husband fs black, while the wife is white, although there are many cases where the man is white and the woman a nezri The Manasseh Society alone numbers 150 of these couples, The Ladies’ Court, which had charge of the dence Saturday nigat, represents the uppertendom of this cias The white women n men are cailed “Mar derived from that of at which flourished in a pa Biblical times. The M. have been a people whose men went out- side of their own tribe for their wives, and whose women did the same when they de- sired husbands. arried to colored The name !s of mixed blood of Palestine in anassehs ire said to They Entered as Privates and Won Rank and Name. mm tke Chicago Times-Herald. “I had five soldier visitors within an hour the other day. Three of them were present at one time. 1 knew them all in July, 1851; was with them tor four years. Before we left camp cne of the five was a capizin, the other four were privates, young fellews. When the war ended the captain was a brigadier general, one of the privates was a Neutenant colonel, and had been weunded Six times; another was a brevet major, and had been twice woand- ed: another was a cat und been In twenty battles without receivlug a scratch, though there were*Siye bullet holes in his clothes after Grayéity Run. was a lieutenant, wounded at Getty: purg. All of these mén“have’ been heard from in civil life. One has served eight years in Congress, the lieutenant is gov one of the national homes, hi veterans under his charge; the major is a leading merchant, and has served as in- ternal revenue collector; the lieutenant col- onel, with a purse full of buflets that had plowed through his flesh, has held various positions of honor and responsibility. They all volunteered as soon as the government would accept them in 1861. F DISCOVERED BY MRS. OLNEY. How Correspondence Abroad Was Much Freilitated. From the Chicago Chronicle, Mrs. Olney, wife of the Secreiary of State, recently put her Yankee wits to work and evolved an invention which has been a revelation to the Post Office De- partment. That institution never under- stood the fuil value of the special deliv- ery stamp until its powers were developed by down-east wit. Mrs. Olney’s discovery may prove of value to other people who find themselves face to face with the situ- ation which roused that lady’s shrewdness. She had a daughter living abroad. Let- ters frem her were wiways received just too late to be answered by return steamer of the same date. After purzling over it some time, Mrs. Olney, who was living in Boston at the time, queried the post office authorities as to whether a special deliv- ery stamp placed on a letter mailed in a foreign cquntry would be delivered any quicker for it on this side. The answer finally came that unicss the special deliv- ery stamp was can: d before it landed here it ovght to be delivered as any other letter similarly stamped. Accordingly one of the United Staies special delivery stamps was placed on the next letter mail- ed in’ Germany to Mrs. Olney. Under it in German was the direction, is stamp is not to be canceled in German: The scheme worked perfectly. The let- ter arrives anead of the time of previous ones and an answer was sent back by steamer sailing the same day. Many let- ters have since been sent in the same man- ner rnd the special stamp always does its work as desired. -——__+e+_____ BATHS AT THE CITY'S EXPENSE. An Experiment That is Being Given . a Test in Boston. From the Boston Evening Transcript. There was an increase of almost 50 per cent Wednesday in the number of men and boys who took advantage of the chance newly offered of having a good hot bath at the city’s expense. The chance was first offered on Monday;: at the Charleshank gymnasium, and on that day twenty-six free baths were given.*On Tuesday thirty-six persons enjoyed the ‘privileges of the bath room. It looks asf a E000 many more baths would be takem in a day as soon as the mass of people hear,about the opportunity. The first person to call for a hath was a man seventy-five years old. With the eight sprays, five shower¥ and the needle bath, with which the hath:toom Is fitted, the'doc- tor says that about 200 baths a day can be given, with hot water enough for all. For more than that the hot water supply would probably run short, @8 the boiler heats orly about 350 gallons at’# time. One of the best features of the baths is that they will be open on Saturday evenings three hours beyond the usual closing time, 6 o'clock; and will be open on Sundays from 7 in the morning until noon. That will give a large number of workingmen a chance to profit by the new arrangement. Every bather has about everything done for his comfort that he could expect, for, beside being furnished with a clean towel and a locker in which to hang his clothes, he has a comfortably heated room in which to dress. —___—_+e+______ Photography and Art. From Lordon Tid-Bits. One day while Milllais was engaged in painting his famous picture, “Chill Octo- ber,” among the reéds and rushes on the banks of the Tay, near Perth, a voice came from over the hedge “Man, did ye never try photography?” “No, never,” replied Millais, painting slowly. A pause. = “It's a hantle quicker,” said the voice. “Ye-es; I suppose £0.” Another pause. The final thrust was: “An’ it’s mair liker the place.” % PLANISPHERE ve "oe 4 x suk MARCH. SKIES IN MARCH Location of the Various Constella- tions in the Heavens. FORMS SUGGESTED BY THE ANCIENTS What May Be Seen on a Clear Night Above Our Heads. ABOUT THE PLANETS F THE FIFTY OR more constellations now above the hori- zon at 9 p.m., not more than eight or ten are notable for the grouping of their stars or are otherwise of interest to observ- ers with the naked eye. In the southwest is the great X-like fig- ure of Orion one of the most ancient and -svd prince of the constella- tions. In the east, midway between the horl- zon and the zenith, is Leo, the Lion, easy to locate by means of the “Sickle,” which ferms his bushy head and shoulders and in the handle of which is the bright star Reg- ulvs, known also as Cor Lecnis, the Lion’s Heart. At about the same altitude in the northeast is the Great Dipper, or the Plow, as our English cousins prefer to call this striking group of seven stars—the Septem- triones of the ancient Romans—which forms the tail and the hind quarters of the mys- terious Great Bear—the Ursa Major. Below and to the left of the Dipper may be traced the tortuous body of the Dragon—Draco— the head of which is now, at the hour ramed, on the horizon, its two flaming “Byes” just peering above it, but too low to be visible. In the northwest, at about half the altitude of the Dipper, is the W-shaped figure of Cassiopeia, the Lady in her Chair, now hanging head downward, a position Which, according to the ancient poets, she is compelled qoncumes to assume as a pun- ishment for her impious vanity, The region between Cassiopeia and Orion is occupied by a number of very interesting ccnstellations, though rone of them is mark- ed by any very striking arrangement of its stars. First comes Perseus, at about the Same altitude as Cassiopeia, swinging in his right hand, as he is depicted on the chart, the sword visible) with which he severed the Gorgon’s head, and carrying in his left band this fearful, snaky-locked head, in the forehead of which stands tne variable star Algol, the “Blinking Demon” of the Arabs. Beneath Perseus and partly below the horizon is Andromeda, the daughter of Cas- siopeia, whom Perseus rescued from the ferocious Sea Monster. To the left of An- dromeda and near the horizon, a little north of west, is Aries, the Ram, a constellation inconspicuous except for the pair of third- magnitude stars In the head and interesting chiefly as the leader of the twelve constel- lations of the zodiac. Between Aries and Orion comes Taurus, the Bull, the second of the zodiacal constellations. Guide to the Farmer. Taurus contains one star of the first mag- nitude, Aldebaran, sometimes called the “Bull's. * and the finest two naked-eye star clusters, the Hyades and Pleiades. As a constellation it is not a particularly strik- ing figure; yet ancientiy it was one of the Most useful of them all. Two thousand years ago # rose—that is to say, it made its first appearance above the herizon at day- break, about the Ist of April. It therefore served the husbandman as an excellent guide in laying out his spring's work. For this reason Taurus was said by Virgil to “open the year with his golden horns.” The tips of these horns—and very long horns they are—are marked by two stars, one of the second and one of the third magnitude, about midway between Capella and Betel- geuse, in the right shoulder of Orion. The Bull .sists, in fact, mainly of horns and face, the latter being formed by the V- shaped cluster—the Hyades—beside the star Aldebaran. Very likely this “face,” a rath- er suggestive object, is all there was orig- inally of the Bull. At any rate, although the chartmakers have depicted also shoul- ders and forelegs, no trace of these can be found in the actual skies. The Pleiades are in the Bull's shoulder, Midway between Orion and Cassiopeia and situated now above Taurus and Per- seus, is Auriga, the Wagoner.. This constel- lation is well provided with stars, contain- ing one of the first magnitude, Capella, the Goat, two of the second and quite a number of the third and fourth. Properly looked at, it is the most sensible of the constellations within the region above indicated; but it may be a question whether the chart mak- ers have looked at it “properly.” As repre- sented on the chart, the Wagoner is seated and holds in his hands the reins with which he guides invisible horses. In his lap he carries three kids, while the mother goat, represented by the star Capella, clam- bers upon his left shoulder. Capella marks this shoulder, and the star Beta, of the rec- ond magnitude, marks the right. His right foot rests on the tip of one of the Bull's horns. A star of the third magnitude, eignt or ten degrees northeast of Capella, marks his head, giving him an extraordinarily long neck. This is the chart’s way of deal- ing with the Wagoner. But since nobody now knows exactly how the stars of the several constellations were grouped origin- ally, it is not a heinous offense to attempt an improvement on the cl Interesting Constellations. We have ventured to group the stars of the Wagoner differently on the planisphere given herewith. We have turned his right shoulder into a head, and we submit to the reader whether we have not made a better man of him. Near Capella may be seen a very pretty little triangle of fourth magni- tude stars, which is, very likely, the orig- inal of the three Kids. About midway between Aldebaran and the “Sickle” and now very nearly overhead are the Twins (Gemini), Castor and Pollux. This constellation is amply supplied with stars, but no imagination can see among them the two youths found on the chart. We may be fairly certain that the original ‘Twins were the twin stars and nothing else. The constellation Gemini is the third of the zodiacal constellations. Leo, alre: pointed out, is the fifth. Between these two is Cancer, the Crab. It hardly need be said that, to whatever the consteilation owes its name, there is no figure of a crab to be discovered here. The most that we can find is a triangle of third-magnitude stars, of which the sides are about five de- grees in length, situated nearly midway be- tween the Twins and Regulus. The two stars which form the eastern side of this triangle were known anciently as the Asel- ii, or Asses. Between them may be seen a fleck of nebulous ight, which even an opera glass shows to be a star cluster. This is Praesepe, the Manger or Beehive—for either rendering of the name is admissible—one of the most beautiful of the telescopic clus- ters. At the present time the piaaet Jupiter js about eight degrees to the west of this cluster. On the other side of Leo—the eastern side —is Virgo, the Mciden, the sixth constella- tion of the zodiac. It is now only in part above the horizon, the star Spica, which merks the Wheat-Ear carried by the Maiden in her left hand, being still too low to be visible. The Planets. Mercury is now a morning star, rising over an hour before the sun. It may be looked for between east and southeast. It will be at its greatest elongation from the sun west on the 5th, and it should continue to be visible for a week or ten days fol- lowing that dute. Venus also is a morning star, two hours in advance of the sun. She may be seen ir. the early morning hours in the south- cast. Mars may also be seen in the southeast in the early morning forty minutes in ad- vance ef Venus. The planet is still too far away, however, to be a very conspicuous object for the naked eye. Jupiter continues to be one of the chief ornaments of the evening sky. He is now ar the boider of the constellation Can- cer, at about one-third of the distance from the Twins to the star Regulus. No one can mistake this magnificent object, which far outshines even the brilliant Sirus, for an ordinary star. Since Novem- ber 25 Jupiter has becn retrograding—mov- ing westward. He was in opposition to the sun, crossing the meridian at midnight and shining with his greatest splendor on Jan- uary 23. On the 24th of this month he Fill be stationary, and after that date his moven.ent will be direct, or toward the exst. These interesting movements of the planet can be observed with the naked eye, but in these days of cheap optical instruments no one should be content to observe Jupiter with the naked eye alone. A $% “spy glass,” if a good one, will show the planet as a belted disk and will reveal admirably the four moons, whose change of position from night to night is inter- esting to watch. Saturn now rises at about 11 p.m. Al- ready it is in a position to render it ex- ceedingly attractive to the possessor of a telescope. Although by no means so easy an object as Jupiter, still Saturn is quite within the reach of the amateur as- trenomer of moderate means. The rings are nuw open nearly to their widest and can be seen well with even a mail tele- scope. 5 Uranus is some twenty minutes to the east of Saturn, but it is hardly visible to the naked eye, and cannot be found easily without a chart. Neptune, of course, invisible to the naked eye, is in Taurus, between the bull's horns, as is shown on the planisphere. eget War is Growing Safer. From the Saturday Review. It is usual to compare the battles of the last century with the battles of today, and dilate upon the greater deadliness of the modern weapons and the modern results. But the facts are all the other way. At Fontenoy, for instance, one volley of the Coldstreams struck down 450 Frenchmen of the Regiment du Rol. Again, at the same battle, the Gardes du Corps had not much short of five hundred saddles emptied by a single volley, while the French guards were scattered by a point-blank volley from a British regiment at twenty paces that brought down 450 men. Here we have at Krugersdorp thousands of Boers in cover shooting for hours on two days at 600 Englishmen in the open and killing very few. —__+ e+ —____ As Wedding Assistants, From the New York Tunes. Married men as ushers are now so com- mon at weddings as to no longer excite comment. “Matron of honor,” too, is a new term that is scarcely new any more, so often is it heard and exemplified in the attendance at the altar of some close friend or relative of the bride, of a wo- man who has already been there as chief actor herself. At the wedding recently in Brooklyn of Miss Dike, her only sister, Mrs. Murray Boccock, was her first at- tendant, and nothing could have been more appropriute. Her place then, if ever, was by her sister's side, and the fact that she has been for two or three years entitled to write Mrs. before her name did not mar her right in youthful or charming appear- ance to the role of first bridesmaid. ——_-e+___ A Kiss Defined. From the Philadelpia Item. He—“What is a kiss, grammatically speaking?” She (with a blush and a pucker)—“It’s a conjunction—one of those things that can- not be declined.” S PR CURES SCROFULA, CURES CANCER, ECZEMA, TETTER. S) B BAILROADS. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. THROUGH THE GRANDEST SCENERY I AMEFRICA, 4LL TRAINS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED. ALG MEALS SERVED IN DINING CARS. STAs ‘TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. Schedule in effect November 47, 1695. 2:25 FM. DAILY—Circimati and St. Louis Pullinan, Cinclunati, Indianapolis Bt. Louts w: TAO PM, DAY FF V Limtted Sia trate for Cincinnat!. Pullman’ sle man sl Virginia i » Wed and Sat ‘Cm aosT aM Exeepr 1° SCNDAY—Via Ru ‘hmong F Lew a IN 1 ick Old Point and Norfolk. rail line. 2: P.M. DAILY—For lle, Charlottes qille, Staunton and for Wichmond, daily, Pe eee je * vel i gfices, 513 | "enn avenue, w H.W. FULLER, General Passenger sien PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of Gth and B streets. In effect Isnuary 6, 1996. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.—Pallmam ae Lae Bt. Louis, Cle ei and Tolede. ” Buttet iaeiot Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. . 3028 |. ASL LID Parlor Car to Harrisi P Cars, Hare Tishurg to Pittsburg. 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— Pullman Buffet Parlor Cer to Harrisburg. Sle Ing and Dining Cor: Toul, s, Harrisburg to St. me, Cincinnati, * outsville Chicago. a PM ‘ a See aoe ston i 7:10 P.M. SOUTH-WESTERN Sleeping and Dining Cars 108, OE Marcisburg to Cincinnait, 240 1M. PACIFIC EXPRESS,—Pullman Sleeps ing Car to Pittsbur # EXPRESS.- Pull St. Louls, and Sleep 7:50 AM. f Canandaigua, Rochester an@ Niagara Falls daily, except Sunday. 10:80 A.M. for Elmira and Renovo, daily, except day. “For Willinwsport daily, 8:40 1M. for Williamsport, Rochester, Boffa! Falls daily, except Saturday’, with Washington to Suspension’ Bridge via Erle, Cenantaigua, Rochester, B ra Tolls daily, Siceping Car Was ington to xe: = mira. FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE ST. 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” daity, tor Cai Itimere, +, 10:00 vining Mi, 215, 3:2! M. “For Villadel A.M. 1,‘ 340 (4:00 Limited), 4: 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10: it, 7:20, 9:00 A.M., 12:15 und 4:20 Is, ‘except Sunday. Sundays, Yo AMG ‘wast, Line. ial” for Jacke ; iorida sonville und St. Augustine, 10:41 Express fot, Michmond, Line, A.M., 3:46 1M. daily Au 8:40 POM. daily, aus et Ray ico, T2345 A.M. a: ccommodution for Quant 245 ALM. daily 225 PM. week days. Alexandria for Washington, 6:08, $:43, 9:10, 10:15, 10:38 A. 20, 9:10 and Je th and G st 3. BR. Woop, Passenger Agent. — SOUTLERN RAILWAY. @icdmont Air Line.) Schedule in effect January 6, 1696. AN tains arrive en nz Menastas for Stet sburg, duily, except Sauda, ang at Lynchburg with the Norfolk ard Western daily, S & , dally for Natural Bridge aud -M.—Dally—The UNITED STATES FAST MAL rhs Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York and Washington to Jacksonvilic, uniting at Clare lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Mull- mun Sleeper New Youk to New Orleans via Mout gemery, connecting at Atlanta with Pullman Sieep- er for Birmingham, Memphis and St. Louis. agit! FM. Local ‘for Strasburg, duly, except Sune 4: 1_P.M.—Daily—Lacal for Charlottesville. i Dails—New York and Florida Short Patimgn Compartment aud Observer a tion "Sleeping Poliman Dri Augt Augustine. P.M. Dail ny Coaches. and Hot Springs, Birmingham, New lanta ad ‘Montgomery. Washington to Athunta. Car Greensboro" to TRAINS BET! HILL ie: P.M. ¢: eas ¥ estibujed Day Couch Southern Railway Dining 4 Sunday, for Leesburg,” and 6: Herndon. Returning errive at AM. and 8:00 P.M. daily from Round Hill, 7:06 A.M. dails,except Sanday, from Herudon, ani 8:94 ton AM, 9:45 AM, 2:2 P.M. daily.” Manassas Division, Sunday, and 8:40 A.M. le. Sleeping Car reservation and information, at ‘ofices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania aver ue, ard ut Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Stas jon, UMN H. GREEN, General Superintendent. OULP. ‘Traffic Manager. W. A. LURK, General Passenger Agent. iT L. 8. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule iu effect December 1, 1895. Leave Washington from station corner of New Jersey avenue and C st, For Chicago and > Vestibuled Limited trains 11:30 a.m., 8:20 p.m. 2 For Cincitnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vestis xpress 12:01 night. buled Limited 3:45 ‘p. For Pittsburg and Chev Express daily 11-30 and 8:40 rinwest, a.m. an m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 For Winchester end way stations, *: Natural Bridge Chattanooga, “Memphis and plag Gare through. For Annapolis, 7:19 and 8:30 a.m., 12:15 and 4:28 p.m. Sundays, $:30 a. 32, oe For Frederick, 19:00, , °11:30 a.m., 21:15, 94:30, *5:30 p.m. For Hagerstown, 11:30 a.m. and *%: For Boyd ond way points, 21 For Gaithersburg and w 0, °3:20, °4 10:85, *1130 p.m. For ‘Washington ‘Junction and way points, 9:20 a. p.m. oa LUE Liki Fon NE a3 PHILADELPHIA. All trains Muminated with pintsch light. For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the East, week days (7:00 Di Car), 8:00 (10:00 a.m.’ Dining Car), 7 (12:36, Dining Car), 3-00 6:65, Dining SS on a (12:01 night t an. 00. 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