Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1892, Page 12

FROM PORTLAND T0 FRISCH Humors of a Trip on the Pacific With Winds and Seas at Play. COLUMBIA RIVER AND THE CASCADES Most Enjoyable Rtoute to the Golden Gate— Tdlosyneracies of the Seasick—Avold To- baceo and the Papers That Are Too Fanny. Sax Fraxcisco, Cal, March 8.— [Speoiul Correspondence of T Bee.|—Whenever you make a pleasure trip out here, or busi- Toss isn’t too pressing on an errand hither, don't fwil to come by way of Portland and take in the voyage by steamer from that city down the coast and through the Golden Gate. It doesn’t take much more than two days longer and not only is the monotony of an all-rail ride through a dreary and deso- late country in Nevada avoided, but on the steamer I8 ‘grateful freedom and ozone un- limited and invaluable, ‘f'he Union Pacific railway in advertise- ments of its line to Portland advises passen- gers, and especially tourists, to leave the train at tho Dalles and go down the Columbia river by steamboat. 1 dido’t go that way because the ‘boats don’t run at this season on the upper Columbia, But it must be a grand trip, in- doed, if the railway company recommends one to take it in proference to gowng all the way through on the cars. Fhe railway line from the Dalles down to the Willawette river, on which Portland is situated, 15 the most picturesque mountain line in the whole country. This is a sweep- ing statement these days, but it is made after full opportunity enjoyed for comparison with all the “scenic’’ lines in the land. The train ou which I was a passenger was lato in arviving at the Dalles, where the flyor is due somewhere In the neigbornood of 5 o'clock in the morn- Ing. In this instance the delay was most conveniont. Tho best way to encourage eariy rising is for ono to once got a glimpse of the piteturesque Cascade mountains from the car windows and ever alter that in muk- ing the trip he will be willing to sacrifice his sleep for another view of the panorama un- folded. Those Cascade mountaius are rightly nameda, for from their loftiest neights and the outlaying battloments of the lesser slopes tumble down innumecrable ribbons of water that appear in the sunlight hike dolphins at play, wgnsu!purkllm{ foum and glistening, glinting spray is bowildering in its kaleide- scopic brilliuncy and beauty. Through nar- row gorges, beds of moss and wildernesses of brakes and fern the train is whirled, and al most continuously in sight of the Columbia. If the Rhine stands for the perfection of river beauty, the Columbia has as much right and title to the name in America as has the Hudson. You can read a guide book and swallow all the hyberpole description and not ve disappointed when you behold the re- alities of the Cascades. That railway ride or eighty miles is worth while takiug, even if you have to come inaroundabout way to reach this city. But there are othor advantages in comiug here part of the journey by steamer. As a rule the voyage on the Pacific is by no means tempestuous, even at the season of the year when the Atlantic and the great lakes are swept by gales ana waves are mountain bigh. Even should you have the luck I had in selecting & time when tho worst . storm in years made the Pacific a misnomer, there is no cause for alarm, for the steamers that ply between this city and Portland, and ordinarily make the voyage on schedyle time in fifuy-four nours, ure staunch gantbe. If they weron't this letter would Aot Tvo been written, forT. took passage on one of three boats that is considered infe- rior to its sister ships as to seaworthiness. It was reported rough outside the Colum- bia river bar when the steamer set out from Astoria, not far from the mouth of the river. 1f ono is inclined to seasickness there is a chance of wetting a dose of it in crossing the bar: Butasaruleit is over quickly, and, rouch as it is for the time being, it is & sort of vaccinatory experience, insuring immu nity from further ills for the rest of the trip. Thero was a big list of passengors, saloon and steerage, aboard. Those who were to cpunter the bar for the first time were ner- F\\ They promennded up and down the ecl 1u an excited sort of way and at a hur- ried paco, as if bent on gotting all the exer- cise they could and when they could. These talked with fellow passengers who had mado the trip vefore and solicited opinions as to whether seasickness would be his or her iot. A jolly little Irishman and bis wife leaned over the rail within u few feet of me. Sho was vory earnest and solicitous in_her que- ries as to what seasickness was like, what he shouid do, and would her hubby be good and kind and stay by and care for her. “Oh, yowll find out all about it soon snough,”’ was tho brutal reply she got for all her clinging, dependent faith and manner. You would bave pitied that woman as 1 did. The man had made the trip repeatedly ; vever once seasick, His wife was ill and be was taking her down to San Diego to get away from Portland rains and dampness after & surpical operation. The husband thought itsmart, presumably, and wanted to show his superiority and ability to withstand what was to other people a_terror. But the woman got even. Husband and wife went to their stateroom on the upper deck when the word was passed for the deck to bo cleared. They make you lock yourself in when the bar is reached. Boforé a standing order was -dosted o koep all passengers behind close: doors they used to get soaked to the skin and not long ago several persons were bruised and even maimed by a sea that broke over them, Whether the rail- lory of the little Irishman was continued in the stateroom I have no means of knowing. But It couidn’t have been for long. As soon as the steamer began to stick her nose through the breakers the husband took sick. 5o did his wife, but she got over it all right wheu the bar was passed in safoty—only the work of half an hour at tbe longest. The husband, though, had a four days’ siege of it, for the storm caused the capiain to steer out to sea, and the voyage was prolonged three days beyond the schedule time. During his si8kness the little Milesiun’s language was of the strongest variety. He wasn't scared or afraid to die; in fact, he was afraid he wouldn't die. The doctor who recom- mended the sea voyage for the wifo was damued, tho ship caught it, t00; no mercy was_shown the captain, everything and everybody would bave been cursed, no doubt, had not the victim of mal de mer been occupied a considerable portion of the time with that deathly nause; One of these exhibitiol me about in this way, The steward,learning that thesick mun was lmproving, and realizing that an empty stomaceh required to be administered to, for not a morsel of food or bit of nutriment had been taken for three days, picked out some cholce things on the dinner bill and repaired to the stuteroom. The food was a torment in the sight of the convalescing msn; his stomach rebelled at the suggestion of work to do. Take |t pway, do!” implored the passen- [ Try to ent some of i was the advice of th ‘“Rake it away,’ Was an entreaty. “Now come, make an_ effort to eat, you nee lznmblnx," persisted toe steward, “Take it awa This tiwe the tone was one of command. “Won't you try just a littler’ e take it away or 1'll —" rush was made for the bowl and It is wonderful lLiow sensitive a seasick rson can become, I bad an experience that ught me how careful one must be on ship- board in rough weather. Tobacco smoke is nauseating to most folks when seasick, Kor that reason the pleasure of an after-dinner pigar couldn’t be enjoyed in the stateroom, my roommate was deathly sick. So the oklnrsmm had tobe chosen, for it blew 40 outside and the steamer rolled horribly, making it impossible to promenade the deck. For some reason the comfort of smokers is not looked after very closely. The apart- ment reserved for them, as & rule, is clear &ft on the upper leck and right over the pro- lor, ery turn of the sorew jostles and shakss up an occupant of the smoking room. Oa this special ocoasion I was tossed About like & cork 1n & heavy sea. At length by taking s seat card table that was fastened down, and braciug my feet, & fairly secure tion was maiutained, Ibad the room 10 myself for awhile, Somebody @ in later, No notice was taken because an absoruing interest in mo upeol-léy 5 it will do you good," teward, 4 Then & right number of & fu v On b) mmfl,yaw\:::.lnfi'w in 16 B encouraged and careloss of wind or tide I made no attempt to check my risibilities. A muttering came from a corner of the room. Something resembling curses was heard but no attention paid to them. Suddenly there shot by me a body that, wheu it brought up against the wall on the opposite side, 1 saw bore resemblance to a man. derby hat was jammed down over iwhat was probably the head of a human being. but 80 great had been the concussion from tho abrupt checking of the flight of this comet that no features were discernible, The hat was asort of cap or mask to the figure and rested on the man’s shoulders, 8o hard had it been driven down by the force of the shock. ““T'o iaugh at such a sight would have been pardonable, but I dida’t laugh, for there had been so much misery exhivited that even the ludicrous innidents of the victims of sickness had earned pity. Swearing became more pronounced and it was easy to tell that the man, who had resumed his former scat or beon distributed in the same locality, was fast growing sick. A suggestion was von- tured that the smoking room was a place on a rough sea. *'Is this bad wben you don't feel enquired the ailing pussenger. “Natural that it should be; right over the scrow. Worst place on the boat.” No word of comment was made. The door flow open und the stranger was fairly hurled Across the narrow deck passage, up agaiost the steamer rail and then thrown back again as the boat lurched and rolled. “Novor mind closing the door,” 1 calied out. An oath came back in wind blowa tatters, Such an exhibition of temper was quite in- explicable. Two days later [ thought recognized 1n the clothing of a mau on deck that of the figure that had shared the smoking room with me. An at- tompt was wmade o open conversation with mm. Gruffly the advances were repelled. By a little tact, though, the ice was broken finaily. Do you know you came mighty near get- ting thumped the other day " This was nows to me. How I escaped was A matter of moment. **1 don’t think it's a bit smart to laugh at a follow whon he's scasick. as you did,” said the man, This charge was rosented so far as tho personul reference wont. That did not sat- isfy the man who hud been sick. ““Yes, you did,” he declared. *‘Anaifl had had the strength then either you or I would have been licked.” Of course the charge was unfounded, and after much persuasion the man explaned. It appears the appreciation of the jokes in that funny paper I exhibited led this mau to imagine that 1 was eloating over his misfor tuno or making fun at bis misery. Who wouldnt be mad?! After the stranger had beon assured that jokes and not Lie had ex- cited my laughter he seemed somowhat om varrassed “Let me give you a piece of advice,” he re- marked. *“I'he” next time you are on a steamer where people are seasick dout read a fuuny papor.” Verb. sap. well” NEW BOOKS AND PERIODICALS In the series of papers now appearing in the Korum on “Authors’ Complaiuts and Publister’s Profits,” Mr. Charles Burr Todd contributes a most interesung articie in the Murch number under the titie ot *'I'he Case of the American Author.” After somo ref- erences to Mr. George H, Putnam’s article in the September Forum, Mr. Burr pays the following eloguent tribute to the work of the author: *It is conceded among civilized peo- plo that its literature is the glory of a nation, a test of its civilization. Tennyson takes this view of it in ‘The Princess,’ where the term ‘bookless wilds' 1s use to designate a barbarous country. If this be so, authors, as the creators of a nation’s literature, arc intimately connected with the honor and glory of the nation itself; and those who wrong them or in any way limit their produc- tive power are enemios of the nation, and much more culpable than the physician who oppresses his patient with unconscionable bills, or the lawyer who demands of his clieut an extortionate fee.” Joseph Hopkins Twitchell has given to tho world in the ‘‘Makers of America’ series, an excellent biography of *John Winthrop, first governorof the Massachusetts colony,” who was so generally identified with the public occurreuces anu events of his day in Massa- chusetts that there are few of them of which any skoteh of his career does not require at least a mention. In this little volume we have the story of the life of & man,the narra- tive of whose eventful career could not be otherwise thau interesting, but clothed in the graceful language of the blographer of John Winthrop it becomes as fascinating as a novel, To lovers of American early history this volume will be hailed with delight ana the searcher after historical facts will come across much valuable aata not easily found elsewhere. It would make a peculia ting preseut for a boy, as there are heroic lessons to be learned * from a perusal of its pages, Publishea by Dodd, Mead & Co.’ and 755 Broadway The new cover of Current Literature rep- resents in silhouette Columbus’ boat with its bellying sails and fiuttering bouuers, a re- minder to all of the yenr we should be cole- brating. 1t was designed by George Whar- ton Edwaras, one of the cloverest decorative artists of tho'day, and appears ficst ou tho March number, - Changes are also noted in the general arrangement of matter, there being more original writing, more space de- voted to books and extracts from curront numbers of all the great maguzinos, English, French and American, It gives a survey of the literary field which is excellently writ- ten. Something of a novelty will be found in the new bool lists, - These give tho latest books issued by the various publishers and all the more prominent of them are accom- panied by a brief synopsis of the coutents, The publishers of the Electrical Raview issued a decennial edition on February 20, which surpasses in literary excellence an typographical veauty any provious numbers of this weekly publication. 'he Electrical Reviow fs the first paper published in this country devoted exclusively to the science of electricity in all its varied branches, and it 1s evideut that the proprietors have spared no trouble or expense to fittingly celebrate the tenth anniversary of the birth of this ably conducted periodical. In this number ap- pears an interesting sketch of the history of the review and the progress made in the ap- plication of electricity within the past de- cade. 'I'he story of what, the science of elec- tricity has accomplished in the compara- tively short space of ten years makes almost as fascinating a narrative as a fairy tale. There are numerous finely execinted hand. some illustrations iuterspersed throughout this number, and taken as a whole it reflects Rreat credit on the enterprisiug publishers, The Business Woman’s Journal, a maga- zine devoted to the interests of all women, ospecially those engaged in active pursuits, is u well edited little periodical and one that merits liberal patronage at the hands of the women and girls of this country who are compelled to work for their living. 1% would be better, not only for the women, but inci- dentally for the sterner sex, if the former would take a more earnest view of their oc- cupation and watch out for their own inter- ests. They should see to it that they are not imposed upon by unprincipled and rapacio employers, while at tho time_ th should strive to acquire ness habits and to work in harmony with and not in op- position to their male co-workers, There is probably no publication that will afford the working women of this country, no matter twhat theirocoupition may be, more solid in- fformauon and useful instruction than the tBusiness Woman's Journal. Published by ithe Mary K. Seymour Publisbing company, 88 Park row, New York, A Bargain in Souls; an Impossible Story,” by Ernest de Lancey Pi , is & bright, origiual tale of & husband acd wife changing forms and work. The wife tried to elevate ber husband’s business (running & news- aner) 1o a high moral plane, and of course ost all the subscrivers, besides getting into all kinds of complications. There are some touches of real life in the story and some folishness. For instance, the character of, the wife would bave been just as interesting if sue had been endowed with & modicum of common sense, but then the *‘bargain’ would never have boen made, the story would have remained unwritten, aund she could never id at the end “I—I am so again, CAgo. *The Three Circuits; & Study of the Pri- mary Forces,” by r Fliok, contains an entirely new theory of world formation. Au explauation of the nature and cause of the northern and southers auror®, the zodiacal light, comets’ tails and many other obscure aod hitherto unexplained phenomens will be found lu this unique voflnm This work also contains an acourate descripilon of the THE manner in which solar hoat is produced by the rapid changes of presentation taking place in the molecules of our atmosphere. In this connection the shape of the molecules is given, and the peculiar movements by which the changes of presentation are effected aro clearly and minutely described, together with a photo-engravad iliustratinn of the solar and eartbly dynamo in action, Pub- lished by Taylor Flick, Washington, D. C. The Californian Illustrated Magazine for March shows marked improvement over its predecessors, Among the papers of special interest 18 one on a theory of “The Crater of Copernicus in the Moon,” by Prof. Holden of Lick obseriatory. Amnother charminely written article is~ “A Woman's Walk Through Bavaria and the first of a sories of papers on the ‘‘Nicaraugua C tain Merry, the consul from begun in this number. M. ( Fitch of the San Francisco Chronicle contributes an entortaining paper entitled “Climbing Mount Shasta,” and Rey. . J. Masters continues his series on *“Tho Chinese in America,” with a paper on the recent massacres of whites in China, This issue Is _iliustrated by bhoto- rraphs of paintings of the emperor, empress and prime minister of China made especially for the Californian. “'Rose and Ninette; a Story of Morals and Manners of the Dy is regarded by its author, Alphonso Daudet, it is said, as the supreme effort of his life. It deals with the question of divorce, ana as the author evi- dently feels deeply on tue subject he ti it powerfully. The translation, which isa vory oxcollont oue, is made vy Mrs. Mary J. Serrano. Published by the Cassell Pub- lishing company, Now York. The English !llustrated Magazine can bo classed among tho leading periodicals, al though itis not quite so largo nor 14 the sub- scription prico as bizh us some of the others The pictures are always woll executed wnd the reading matter carefully selected and of a most varied cl FIGURES WITHOUT FRILLS. The highest pric id for gold during the late war was $2.85, the quotation for July 16, 1864, It is interesting sciontist who likes to delve minute that a quart of milk ¢ as many as 600,000,000 bacteria. During the past four months than $7,000,000 in goid has been by to the United States from Aust Tt is estimated that at lea: of tho government’s paper money has been lost or destroyed. A camel of the largest has been known to drink from thirty to fifty eal- lons of water, and then travel without any move for twenty da Wars during the last thirty-theee years have cost 2,500,000 men and $3,000,- 000,000, It is a matter of record dollars were coined in 1504, yet only eight samples are known to exist, and those that are in good coudition are valued at $1,000 euch. Cork. if sunk 200 , will not rise, on ure of the water. According to statistics the breweries of the world consume yearly 4,000,600 tons of barley D tons of hops British breweries consume 56,000,000 tons of barley and 70,000 tons of sugar, The daily water supply of London i 175,149,188 gallons, of which about 90, 000,000 gallons are drawa from the River Thames, and « little over 85,000,000 from the River Lea and from vavious artesian wells, The average supply per capitu is .03 gallons, The first ingot of nickel steel for the manufacture of armor for the United States navy was cast in a mold weigh- ing fifty-six tons, Tho ingot weighed 90,000 pounds, This armor plate will be used on the Maine. In Japan about 18,000,000 acres of land are in cultivation and 41,000,000 people are supported from the products. In the United States a littla over 481,000,- 000 acres of land are uncultivated and most of it covered with forest: Solomon’s temple, as deseribad in the scriptures, would not be regarded as a very imposing structure in this day and age of the world. Itslongth was 107 fee! breadth, 36 feet, and it was 51 feet in height, with a pertico or veranda 36 fact long and 18 feet wide. Detroit shows no signs of *‘putting up the shutters’” and retiving from busi- ness. Her long-time 4 per cent bonds the other day sold like hot cakes for 7.13 per cent premium. This was ne two years interest for the entire issu S Getting with u Widow, In an aristocratic boarding house of Walnut Hill, says the Cincinnati En- quirer, lives a middie aged and well-to- do bachelor whose busin hubits k him down town until late at night. 1In the same house are many churming ladies, and among them a very pretty widow, who for purposes of designation may be called Mrs. Wilson. Saturday night they were merrily playing tricks about the house and finally invaded the room of the bachelor above mentioned. With one of the luminous cre yons now so common in the composition of which phosphorus forms a prominent part they drew upon the wall in large letters this exhortation: to learn from au into the Ay contain more feet deep in the oc account of the pr CONFESS THY SINS. Then they slipped into the next room as the bachelor entered the front door and listened with the aid of an open transom. When the bachelor entered his bed chamber it was dark and he at once caught the blazing warning on the wall; but he also heard whispering and gig- gling in the next room, and being of ready wit he at once dropped on his knees and broke forth: d *Good Lord, I confess all of my mani- fest sins, cflrflclnlly in that I kissed Mrs, Wilson in the parlor last evening and hugged several of the other ladies,” There was a crash as of falling chairs in the adjoining chamber and the sound of fleeing females, But thoy do say that the bachelor and Mrs. Wilson are soon to be warried. —_— Chlef Justice Fuller a Maine Boy, The name of Chief Justice Fuller having been spoken of in connection with the next presidential nominations —Maine has Blaine and Reed besides— public attention has been again directed to him, and stories regarding his boy- hood are now in order. ‘*‘Mell,” us he is called by the people of Oldtown, Me., says the Lewiston Journal, lived in that city as a schoolboy ten years, He was 4 terror inspelling schools and in the lyceum where debates were held, “Mell” took part often against grown folks, and out ot all of these discussions there grow & quarrel between a man now an ex- judge and the present chief justice, that has never healed. The ex-judge was a young school teacher then and *'Mell" was in the second class in the school. In the lyceum one night the boy defeated the teacher in debate and got some applause. Full of wrath the teacher sneeringly alluded to his oppo- nent as a ‘‘tow-headed stripling of a boy.” Fuller retorted by saying if his only fault consisted in being a boy, he thought *‘some time he should be as big @ man as the teacher thought himself to be, and that would be great indeed,” ——————— A foreign watchmaker bas patented a de- vice by which an bour or two before a clogk runs down the word “wind’ will appear sb a0 openiug lu Lhe dial OMAHA DAILY BEE: ATURDAY, MARCH THE METHODIST CONFERENCE Questions of Vital Importance to Come Be- foro the Meeting. INTEREST MANIFESTED IN THE FAR EAST Returns of the Wo ored Ch Unity and © on the Admission of ds of the Col- ‘hich Tmperil Harmony, New York Times, March 6. The great deliberative, legislative and executive bedy of the Methodist Episcopul churchy known as the general conference, will hold its next quadren- nial meeting this year in Omaha. The sessions will occupy the entire month of May, and for soveral reasons they prom- iso to be fraught with most notable re- sults, Methodists ave looking forward to the general conference with graat in- torest. At least two guestions are bound to come up, the settlement of which may cause the birth of new denominntions, A largo number of other questions ure likely to cause undue excitoment, as upon them may be reflected the influ- enco of the greater questions, without any reforence whatever to the merit or demerit of the lesser. Many of the an- nual conferences have instructed their delegates to the general conference how to vote on the question of admitting women to the conferences, and, whethe favorably or unfavorably, to cast their votes on every other question, no matter how remote, ncasrdingly. Therefore, n delegata in favor of the admission of women will not vote for any man op- posed to their admission, no matter what office he may be put up for. The general conference will be a very large body. Tt will be made up of six ministerial and two lay delegates from each of the 111 annual conferences, It will be presided over in tura by the six teen residont bishops of tha d nominu- tion. Theannu:lconferencesare divided into two ciasses, called the fall and spring conferences, from the season of the your in which their moectings are held. The majority of those confer- ences have alrendy e'ected their dele- gatos. Those of the e re now mbling, and much attention is being cted to them in the hope of discov- ering indications as to what course they are likely to pursue on the great ques- tions of the hour. st and the west were directly guinst each other in the pre votes that the genoral confer- 1888, which met in this city, ted shouid bo taken on the woman question in 1890 and 1591, the west vot- ing largely in favor of admnittit and the euast on the other delegates thut the western conferences ' known to be aimost all , while in many instanc : st any possibitity of cor version by the eloquent orators of the other side in the conference, special in- struction has been given to vote for the admission of women as lay delegates, In the case of the Cincinnati conference, a delegate who hns b nstructed that way is a pronounved **snti-woman’ man. Will the east adopt the same tactics? is a question often usked in Methodist circies. Here in New York and Brook- lyn, where the foes of women are the most bitter and most numerous, the pre- vailing seutiment is that the deleg will not be hampered in any such way There is no likelthood that any but anti. woman men, however, will got a place- onthe New York Eist comference. Rumor mong the constituen- cies concerned witl mention of the men who to be elected or whose n.um L'b2 pr ted. In this city Chaplain C. C. McCabe,eorrespond- ing secretary of the Miss provainently spoken of. He is an’ un- compromising auti-vomin man. Rev. Dr. M. D'C. Crawlord, corresponding secretary of the (€ Church and Exten- sion and Missionary society, is also m tioned. Heis also a dccidedly ar woman man. Others by whom the York conforence may be repre are: Rev. Dr. Jumes M. King, secr tary of the National Leugue for the Pro- tection of America Innstitutions; Rev. Dr. J. R. Day,pastor of Calvary church, Rev. Dr. A. J. Palmer, presiding elder of the New York district; Rev. G. H. Grogory of Trinity church, Poughkeep- sie; Rov. Charles W. M rd, pastor of the Washington Squire chureh; Rev. J. F. Belcher of Kingston, and Rev. Drs, J. H. Miley and G. R. Crooks, at Drew theolog! N.J. Every one of thesem record as opposing the women. From the New York east conference only “‘anti-woman” mon are expected to be sent to the genoral conference. The Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of this city, is wsure to go. Soarve Rev. Dr. George P, Mains, pastor of the New York Avenue chureh, Brooklyn. and Presiding Llder C. Wing of Stamford, Coon, Others mentioned are Rev. Dr. George Reed, president of Dickinson college, Carlisle, Penn.; Rev. Dr. J. Oramel Peck, secre- tary of the Missionary society, Brooklyn, and Presiding Elder John W, Beach of Middletown, Conn. Almost hatf a contury has passed since the followers of John Wesley in Amori- ca divided upon the slavery question in- to two parts, which have never been reconciled, The next most important isis came less than a generation ago, when the laity demanded and received at the hunds of the clergy and were ad- mitted to representation in the general confarence. Since then the development of the church has been remarkable, and many find the cause of it in the wider and wider sphoere of activity that the church hus allowed to its women mem- bers. i Five women succeeded in getting elected as delegatas from as many con- ferences to the general conference of 1888. They were Miss Frances E, Wil- lard of the Rock River conference, Awmanda G. Rippey of the Kansas confer- ence, Mary G, Hind of the Minnesota conference, Angie F. Newman of the Nebraska conference, and Lizzie D. Van Kirk of the Pittsburg conference. They were elected under the interpretation of the term ‘‘lay,”as including both men and women, butthe general conference was not ready to let them take their soats, The decision t@exclude the women was not reached until an animated and very general discussion had taken pluc When it was figally decided to pbar out the women, it was also resolved that the question as 'to their eligibility should be weferred to the en- tire church. Mhe months of Octo- ber ana November. 1800, were desigoated as the time when every mom- ber of the chureh over 21 years of age, without distinetion of sex, should vote on the question, . As the result would only be taken us indicating the senti- ment of the church, it was further agreed that all nunual conferenves 1892—TWELV should also pass judgment in like man- ner on the matter in 1891, the provision being that, if three-fourths of their number favored the aamission of women, then the general conference of 1892 would take it up, while fourteen, n ma- jority of the quorum of its members, should be sufficient to settle the ques- tion, A representative anti-woman vote in the onst was cast by a New York Bast conference, In the Brooklyn district of this conference there are seventy-cight churches, seventy-two of which took the vote. In the New York Iast district there seventy churches, fifty- n of which took the vote. In the ow York district there uare seventy- four churches, sixty-eight of whith took the vote. The Now Haven district has hity-one churches, soventy-one of which took the vote. The s which failed to vote were in © umong the smallest in the nce, The result of the vote was for admitting women and 3,919 nst the proposs Sufficient interest was not taken in the tion in all purts of the country to ng out w thoroughly representative A great many churches tined sther from passing on it while ral conferences failed to report what on, if any, they had taken, It is in- toresting, however, to note that the re- ,000 votes in fuvor of the women to 109,033 against, the majority bieng 73,248, Tho total vote cast was onl 314, out of 1,531,624 members v ad, On the basis that the member- «hip of the entive chureh was 2,500,000 it was estimated that at least 700,008 would be entitled to vote under the con- dition of being 21 yeurs of ago or over. Applying the same proportion to the mombership of the districts above men- tioned, it will be seen that the vote brought out was very small. The leader of the advocates of the ad- mission of women is Miss [rances K. Wiilurd of the Woman’s Christiam Tem- perance union. The opposition 1s led by the Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley of the Christian Advocate, The other question referred as likely to cause another split in the chureh is one which the colored mem- hers of the denominalion have heen agi- tating for some time. They want rep- resentation of a kind different from that ich the womi argue that their to see wshi the groat so to are demanding. They numbers entitle them s and similar offices in eties of the church. Thay are that one of their number ought to be honored with an election to iscopacy. There is no likelihood rappeal will bo favorably an- swered by the conference, nnd there is, therefore. danger that they wiil with- daraw fr the church, and either go into ono of the muany Methodist denomi- nations for coloved people, where they will not be in such a subordinate posi- tion as now. or form anew church for themsel v nce that ave to tuke up is that coneerning the episcopucy. 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