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THE SAN FRANCISC B N s ns - EK SAN HRANGIGED DAL, SAEURDAR JANRRE 45 e e D L S FATHER YORKE ON H, W, BOWMAN The Chancellor’s Caustic Denunciation of the A. P. A, Man. “UNSPEAKABLEWRETCH” Declares There Is “No Argument for Him or His but the Lash.” SPIRITED REPLY TO WENDTE. Father Yorke Discusses at Length the Charges of Intolerance Against His Church. In reply to the last letter of H. W. Bow- man the Rev. Father Yorke writes as fol- low: January 24. To the Editor of th: Call—DEAR SIR: It is with the_greatest reluctance that I refer to a letter which appears in your columns this moratng. That Jetter is signed V. Bow- man. Bowman is a minister of the gospel and spokesman for the American Protective Asso- cation. Concerning him I stated some time ago that while I was prepared to answer argument with nt I wes not prepared to descend 10 ob- The American people are not yet 10 believe thet our institutions must be | ded with filth, I have paid no attention to the docu- ments which have appeared ove: i of H. W. Bowmsan. The few argu den away 1n them have been already used others, and in answerlng others I shall have an opportunity to notice all that is worth no- ticing. But noone can expect me to descend to the level of Bowman. My duty does not compel me to go down into the sewers. I would have continued to ignore him, but | his letter this morning is so foul that Iam | driven to pre I hed hoped that even the | A.P. A. realized the unspeakable infamy of | its slanders on the ters of the Catholic churcn. I hed hoped that this City would | never again be disgraced by such a manifesta- | tion of indecency. But the representatives of bigotry learn nothing and are impervious to | shame. Let Americans look on the following sen- | tence and learn what manner of men are they who attack us: ¢ ty in a bishop, priest or | lust under the guise | w0t trust mnyself to write about the au- | thor of such a cherge. Let it stand in itsshame | the condemnation of A. P. representative of the A. P. My duty is clear. There is only one course | e to pursue. Icannot even appear to be red in a controyersy with such au uu- | speakable wretch. 1 have been willing to ex- | plain the doctrines of mychurch and to de- iend her teachings, but if this controversy ts | 10 be made the means of slandering the best, | the purest, the noblest women ou God's earth, ism written by the then I stop it nere and now. name of H. W. Bowman shall never | g \der any provocation, pass my pen For him and for his there is no argument but | e lash. Yours truly, C. YORKE. gt A CHURCH AND STATE. Rev. Chancellor Yorke Continues His Reply to Rev. Dr. Wendte. The Rev. Father Yorke contributes the | following in answer to Dr. Charles W, | Wendte: Jenuary 24, 1896. To the Editor of the Call—DEAR SIR: cution was when the evidence of aided and abetted by the pol whom Dr. Wendie calls to vs. The disting: an ideas then, with his usual inconsist- b ith the persecu- 3 ¥ to denounce Wwho sanctioned persecution in the thir- RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. The story of man’s inhumanity to man is a Joug story and a sad one. No chapter thereof | i or sadder than that which tells of | on carried on in the name of religion. | for one would gladly leave that chapter closed, for I do mot think it helpful to the higher life to dwell overmuch on the barbarity of our ancestors. Still, the story of persecution 1s one of these things which will notdown, not openly tered and Hence it is better to face the truth at once fairly and squarely. We Cetholics have nothing to hide eitner in our doctrines orin our history. Especially in this question of persecution we need not jesr a comparison with other denominations. Iam glad, therefore, that Dr. Wendte’s argumenta- tive drag-net has brought up this matter. We might es well examine it DOW as at any other time, WHAT BELLARMINE SAID, 1 can make out Dr. Wendte's object cing the charge of persecution is 10 rove that the Catholic church is necessarily ntolerant, and that if we bad the power to- day we would re-establish the inquisition. He sums up our alleged doctrine in a quotation which he ascribes to Bellarmine: “Heretics when sirong are to be commended to God; | when weak, delivered to the executioner.” I then designated that alleged quotation as a ‘“‘moustrous sentiment,” and 1 repeat now that it in no way expresses the practice of Catholics or Catholic nations even in the most intolerant times. In the first }l]lte let me remark that there is no doctrine ol the Catholic religion which in- culcates the duty of {:emcuhun for conscience sake. Evidently Dr. Wendte hes searched high and low for such doctrines and all the pas- sages he has been able to produce are: (1) A sentiment attributed to Bellarmine. (2) An answer from Aquinas that heretics may be handed over to the civil power. (3) A sentence from Plus IX that the so- celled liverty of conscience should not be pro- claimed by law. DR, WENDTE'S TACTICS. Now, it Dr. Wendte were fair and anxious to do justice to Catholics, he would have first consulted our theologians who deal with these POilts before ACCUSIDE US Of & RATTOWNeSS un- worthy of our citizenship. He surely cannot be ignorent that we profess to be loyal to the constitution and to American idess. He surely is notunaware thet we declare that we are op- {Dsed heart and soul to persecution. If he pows anything about us he knows that we Frllle ourselves on being the pioneers of re- igious freedom on this continent. Therefore 1 say that if Dr. Wendte simply sought the truth about us he would not have condemned vs on such slender testimony. We have a right to ciaim belief for our words until our re proved te be worthless. ve & right to that credence which one man unhesitatingly gives to another until the Ilfe is made evident. But Dr. Wendte refuses 1o telieve our words. He goes to an encycli- cal, & Catholic commentary on which he bas never read. He goes to Bellarmine, & volume of whose writings he has never seen. He goes to the thirteenth century and to a paragraph out of Thomas Aquinas in order to show that cither we do not know the doctrines of our church or that we are lying abont them. Now I indignsntly deny that we are ignorant of Catiolic beliel. I assert that I know my re- ligion as well as Dr. Wendte knows his, and I assert, moreover, that there is not a dogma of that religion which inculcates the doctrine of persecution for conscience sake, Let me ask the fair-minded Americans who have been following this controversy who is the more l(kel{vlo know what is the Catholic teaching—Dr. Wendte or 1? In many cases I bave snown that he is entirely unacquainted with Catholic writers, and that he relies alto- gether on the publications of men whose hos- lity to the church was undisguised. Cer- y if 1 wish for information sbout the charécter of my neighbor I do not go to his enemy. Dr. Wendte, however, confines him- self entirely to our enemies, and from them he has learned all he knows about us. Hence I claim that his vie: must necessarily be dis- torted and that his descriptions of our tenets must always err from the truth. THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY. Indeed, Mr. Editor.if Dr. Wendte had re- membered thehistories be read at school he | toleration that many'E { to the reformation, took refuge in | many he might have heard of the tesiimony of | Lieutenant. | the might well have hesitated before charging us with intolerance. He might have remembered that the firstasylum for reiigions liben{ on this continent was founded by Catholice. He might have backward cast his éye and have scen the Quaker harried in New England and the Pur1- tan hunted in Virginia turning their gaze to that home of peace which Baltimore had buiit on the bauks of the Potomac. In that colony Catholics were supreme. The lord proprictor had beep given an absolute grant of the provine o manage it 43 his privais estate. He Ppossessed all legislative and executive powers, was free from taxation and weas bound by no sipulation or understanding to enforce tolera- tion, Yet this Catholic and the Jesunits who were with him not only did not persecute Prot- estants, but offered a home to men of allcreeds who would consent to live in harmony and agree to differ. 5 fen who are unacquainted with the tenor of Lord Baltimore's grant insinuate that policy alone urged him to concede toleration. If he had confined his good will to Catholics and Episcopalians this theory might not lack veri similitude. But what” prevented Baltimore from persecuting the Puritans or the Quakers? The English Government showed them no mercy, why should he? Indeed the mare we study the circumstances of the times tha more we are convinced that it was solely 10 his own liberality and to the liberality of the Catholics who accompanied him that we owe the giori- ous example which Catholic Maryland be- queathed to posterity. This is still more certain when we remember that Baltimore, of his own volition, insisted on the voluntary sysiem in supporting churches. He might easily have endowed the church with large tracts of land or taxed the people for its support. These methods were familier 1o the other colonies; but Baltimore would have none of them. When asking for priests to accompany his expedition he frankly in- formed the ‘general of the Jesuits that he would offer no subvention. The Jesuits ac- cepted these terms, and can claim that they inaugurated on this continent the American system of voluntary support of the church. PROTESTANT TESTIMONY. Says Lecky in his “Rationalism in Europe,” vol. ii: “Hopitel and Lord Baltimore, the Catholic founder of Maryland, were the two first legislators who uniformly upheld religious liberty when in power; and Maryland con- tinued the solitary refuge for the oppressed of every Christian sect till the Puritans succeeded in subverting the Catholic rule, when they basely enacted the whole penal code against those who hed so nobly and so generously received them.” 7 Does Dr. Wendte forget the glorious. testi- | mony borne by the American historian, George | Bancrot rd Baltimore and his littie | colony of Maryland? Has he ever read that | ““Calvert deserves to be ranked among the most | wise and benevolent lawgivers of all ages; that he was the first to place the establishment of | opular institutions with the enjoyment of | Fiberty of conscience; that the assium of the Papisis was the spot where, in a remote corner | of the world, on the banks of rivers which, as | vet, had hardly been explored, the mild for- | bearance of a proprietary adopted reiigious freedom as the basis of the state; that there | the early star of religious liberty appeared as | the harbinger of day; that there the Roman tholics, who were persecuted by the laws of gland, were sure to find a peaceful asylum in the quiet harbors of the Chesaspeake; and that there, 100, Protestants were sheltered irom Protestant intolerance. TOLERATION IN IR ND. If Dr. Wendte knew the history of Ireland he might have been more careful in imputing intolerance to the Catholie church in America, which traces ils main siream back to the | Cathiolic chureh in Ireland. Whatever may be | said about the Catholics of gland or France | or Spain, the Catholics of Irish descent can | hold up thei ds to heaven and call the world to witness that they are free from | blood, During 200 years the Catholics were three times in the ascendency. Each period o1 power hac been prece by & period of | relentless Scrsecu(mn on the part Protes- tants. Did they retaliate? Let Protestants | answer Dr. Wendte. | Leland, a Protestant historian, writes of the reign of Mary when in London the victims of | Cranmer had _turned upon him and were met- ing unto him the same measure he had measured unto them, “Such was the spirit of glish families, iriends and and there enjoved their opinions without molesta. tion.” Tt is a matter of history that the Catholic merchants of Dublin rented and furnished seventy-four houses to shelter the fugitives from Bristol alone and not_only housed them, but provided for all their wants. After Mary's death these fugitives were returned to Eng- land ar the expense of their Catholic hos Lecky, who i a Protestant, says in his “Eng- land in the Eighteenth Centur, ‘“Among the Catholics, at least, religious intolerance has never been a prevailng vice. In spite of the feerful calamities of the Reformation it is a memorable fact that not asingle Protestant suffered for his religion in Ireland during all the period of the Marian persecutionsin Eng- | land. Cooke Taylor, another Protestant historian, says in the “History of the Civil War in Irc: t is but justice to this maligned body (the Irish Catholics) to add that on the three occa- sions of their obtaining the upperhand they never injured a single person in life or limb | for professing a religion aifierent from their own.” 1i Dr. Wendte had kept track of contempo- | rary history in Ireland as closely as he has kept track of contemporary history in Ger- Earl Spencer, who a few years ago was Lord I have had some experienee in Ireland. I have been there for over eight years,and I don’t know of any specific instance where there has been religious intolerance on the part of the Roman Catbolic against the Protes- tant fellow-countrymen. But religious intol- erance has been shown, and where? It has been shown in Ulster, where more than half opulation belong o the Protestant faith. 1 believe the Protestants have been the chief cause of keeping up the animosity. i CATHOLIC TOLERANCE. If Dr. Wendte had considered the history of | toleration better he might not have been so quick to accuse us of illiberality. He might | have read that in1549 Sigismund 11 prociaimed | in Catholic Poland that the sword should not settle religious differences and thet the toler- ance then decreed wes confirmed by the pacta | convents of 1572. He might have noted that | thers is nota Catholic country in Enrope which had not granted religious toleration years be- | fore the first Protestant country practiced it, | And thinking of all these things he might have been suspicious of thé auchorities which | led him to believe that persecution is part of | our creed, and he might have been more | charitable in interpreting the aetached para- | graphs which are brought to make us intoler- ant in spite of ourselves. IHOMAS AQUINAS Now, Mr. Editor, let me explain as briefly as possible the doctrinal attiiude of the church toward religious liberty. In the first place I will remark that Catholics believe that Christ founded & society to teach the truth which he revealed. This ‘truth is something definite, and no Catholic is at liberty to accept part of it and reject the rest. Those who do s0are | called heretics, from a Greek word mesning to | pick and choote. | Of course when a Catholic begins to exercise | this process on the dogmas of the faith he ren- | ders himself liable to excommunication. He | is & member of a society with certain rules and regulations, and as long as he does noi wish to observe these rules and regulations the so- ciety hasaright to expel him. Thisright 1s used by every Protestant church in the United States, and cannot ‘be denied to the Catholic church alone. Hence we see that the proper punishment prescribed for heresy by Catholic teaching is expulsion or éxcommunication. Now in the middle ages the civil law took cognizanee of the cases of those who hed been expelled trom the church ior heresy. I do not defend this provision of the civil law. I have never yet seen a Catholic author who did. It was introduced first by the Roman Emperors and was carried out in spite of the protests of the church. At the end of the fourth century the Spaniard Prescellean, who had been ex- communicated for teaching heretical doctrine and practicing aets of licentiousness, appealed to the Emperor. He met with the unexpected answer of & sentence of death. Against this sentence 8t. Ambrose of Milan and £t. Martin of Tours lifted up their voices and to them be- longs the glory of having ended the persecu- tion. For centuries we hear no more of such pun- ishments. The church was atpeace, occupied in the splendid work of christianizing and civilizing the wild Teutonie tribes, of mitigat- ing the savagery of invading hordes, of provid- qu teaching for the young and })l‘lcflcing in solitary wastes the hard labogsof pioneers of industry. The first modern law decreeing death a8 a penalty for heresy was promulgated by the Emperor Frederick 1I, who, strange to sl{. 1s & particular friend of Mr. John & Hit- tell, and ildpltled by Dr, Wendte because he ‘WaS Oppose l:! the wicked Popes. 1n 1220 | this monarch declared that he would use the sword received by him from God against the enemies of the faith, and he ordered thatall heretics in Lombardy should be burned or de- El’lv(:d of their tongues. In 1231, publishing is constitution for the kingdom of Sicily, the same Frederick placed heresy “‘among other public crimes, and ranked it as more grievous than high treason,” Those wno imagine that these laws were inspired by the church will do well to remem- ber that this Frederick II through all his reign | was in a chronic state of excommunication. Perhl'pl there was no emperor during the middle ages less amenable 1o Papal authority than this same Frederick. - Now, let us bear in mind that it was after this law that St. Thomas wrote. He was him- seli a subject of Sicily, and naturally the question arose what was to be done with heretics. ‘4 The church alone had the power to excom- municate them, and many thought that the church should not use this power now that tne law seized on them at once and put them to death. If Dr. Wendte had not confined him- self to the two paragraphs he paraded betore the public, but had read the introduction to these paragraphs in the light of history, he would Lave understood whet St. Thomas ’ | sely taught. That teaching was his private opin- jon and is in no sense a dogma of the church. It comes to this that aithough the civil power will put heretics to death on excommunica- tion the church must not refrain from exeorm- municating that reason, He does not the church com- mands heretics to be put to desth; he does not say that the church should put them to death, but he believes that their extirpation by the civil power should not be a reason why the ch‘urch should refrain from excommunicating them. Another point which Dr. Wendte does not touch upon but which history might teach him is that heresy during the middle ages was always associated with rebellion or licentious- ness. 1 do not think that he would care to be identified with some of the peculiar fanaties | who flourished in those days. Let us now turn back a few pages and see what St. Thomas thinks of those whose heresy was not a new reyolt against the constifuted authori- ties, but an inheritance from their parents. In the tenth question Aquinas discusses the cases of Jews and infidels who were then in & small mivority in Christendom. He lays down the teaching that the children of Jews and of other non-Christians should not be baptized against the will of their parents be- cause such action is opposed to matural jus- tice. He teaches tnat Jews and other non-Chris- tians should not be forced to embrace the faith, end be asseris without any ambignity that these sectaries sbould have full liberty to worship God as their fathers before them Surely this teaching does not look like the al leged quotation from Bellarmine, ‘“When heretics are stmn{lhey are to be commended to God, when weak to the executioner.” Surely, it is not fair to draw from this the ion that Bt. Thomas was a bloodthirsty inquisitor, going around seeking whom he might devour, He lived in an age when social conditions and civil Jaws were far different from what they are now. He spoke for those times not for ours, and let us remember that in this matter the ehurch always stood for mercy. The states which were most under her influence were precisely the states where per- secution was the least felt. THE PRESENT DOCTRINE. But Dr. Wendte produces Gregory XVI and Plus IX to prove that religious liberty is jorbidden by the chureh. Now let me say right here that Dr. Wendte has not taken the trouble to find out what these Popes meant by religious liberty. He might have become a little suspicious when hLe saw this liberty characterized as “‘so called.” There is liberty and liberty. There is a religious liberty con- demned by the United States and preeisely the same religious liverty is condemned by the Pope. Every constitution which grants free- dom of worship limits that freedom. There are certain acts which are always exccpted from the protection of the law. Doctrines which eventuate in licentiousness or which injure the peace and dignity of the state are not tolerated. Within the past few years all the preachers in America sanctioned Teligious persecution in the case of the Mormons be- eause of polygamy. When, therefore, the Pope condemns the so- called liberty of conscience he condemns it in | the sense that e; man has a right to set forth the plea of conscience in defeuse of all his acts. No State in the wide world would accept such a plea. Are we to blame the Pope for plainly saying so? PROTESTANT PERSECUTION. In conclusion let me remind Dr. Wendte that neither he nor any Protestant should speak too londly of religious liberty. Says Hallam, the eminent historian: Persecution Reformed churches, man’s zeal for their cause in proportion as his read- ing becomes mere extensive.—(Constit. Hist., vol. i, chap. iL.) them for say that s the deadly original sin of the | which cools every honest | n’s ideas are indorsed by Lecky, who, after speaking of the persecution of herotics by Catholics, writes: But what shall we say of a church that was but a ing of vesterday, a church that had &s yet no service t0 sbow. 10 claims upon the gratitude of mankind, a church that was by profession the creature ' of private judgment, and was | in reality generated by the intrigues of a corrupt courl, which, nevertheless, suppress v force worship that'muititudes: deemed nece: ¥ to their salvation, and by all her organs and all her energies persecuted those who clung > the reigion Of their fathers? What shall we say of a religion which comprised at ost but @ fourth part of the Christfan m world and which the first explosion of pri- judgment had shivered into countless sects, N ed by the spirit sects asserted its s with the same confidence and | ating virulence [defending ion and aggres- Mr. Lee the church which was vener- ith the homage of more thaniwelve cen- perse t shall we s; v of men who, in the name of cluged their land wita blood, Ty first principles of patrio in strangers to thelr assistance [just | yled “international order” of the A. | g in British Orangemen to help » American ingtitutions], and openly 1 the disasters of Their country, and who, ned their object, imme- | 1 ism. St P. A thiem - rejoict diately est us tyranny &s sbsolute | as y had subverted? % & & 1 Nothing can b+ more erroneous than to represent | [Pro 1t] persecution [of Catholics} as merely | a weapon which was employed in a moment of nflict, or as an ontburst of natural Indigna- | ou, or as the unreasoning observance of old tradition.. Persecution among the | riy Protestants was a distinct and definite doc- digested into elaborate treatises and enforced ag t the most inoffensive es against the most | formidable secte. It was the doctrine of the palmiest days of Protestantism. 1t was taught by those who are just steemed the greatest of its leaders (L Rat:onalism 1n Europe, vol. ii. pp. 57-61). And now to close. Let me call Dr. Wendte's atiention to the fact that the persecution of | Catholics by Protestants lasted longer and was far more bloody then the persecution of | Protestants by Catholics. Dr. Wendte's school makes much of Bloody Mary, forgetting taat she persecuted only for folir years, while | izabeth persceuted for forty. “They speak | much of the revocation of the edict of Nante: ay nothing of the broken treaty of Li k. 1y denounce the Inquisition, but they never let it be known that the Court of Hign Commission Is responsible for far more death sentences. They have one set of weights and measures for Cathelics, another for them- In this letter I do not ask for any favors, but simply that we be judged by the seme rule s others. When it comes down to facts in the past we have nothing to ar from a comparison, and if we are ques ned as to to-day let our deeds agnk for us. Yours, truly, P. C. YORKE. 5 CLrTi A s REV. E. B. PAYNE’S VIEWS. He Avolds All Semblance of Either Prejudice or Pas- sion. In the course of the sermon preacbed by Rev. Edward B. Payne of the Berkeley Unitarian church on the Yorke-Ross con- troversy he said: The controversy to which I direct attention | hes been in progress for nearly two months, It is far from my purpose to enter into the contention itseli. “I'shall content myself with 1sn attempt to draw therefrom certein general essons. The first of these lessons emphasizes the utter uselessness of such disputations asre- gards the conversion of the disputants them- selves. The probabilily is that there has not Deen in this case and will not be & single con- vert from the ranks of one party to the ranks of the other party. Neither will there be any radical modification of the mental attitudes previously assumed. In the present case we may remind ourselves that the early disputants were so sure of their assumed positions that they were willing to risk money upon them, reminding one of Byron’s lines: For most men (till by losing rendered sager), ‘Wil back their own opinions by a wager. Those who followed risk, perhaps, only their reputations as thinkers on the correctiiess of their positions, but they entered the forum with deciared tenets and a manifest determin- ation 1o defend them to the utmost. In the end neither side will acknowledge itself de- | feated, and probably both sides will enjoy the | consciousness of victory. | It may be added, however, that in the light | of these probable results there is a certain use- fulness of controversy. It has an appreciable | party value. It strengthens the contestants. t does not convert them, it does not modify radically their attitudes, but it confirms each side in its own position. It points our their unsuspected weakuesses for correction and teaches them expertness and agiiity in attack and defense. Undoubtedly the present con- testanis all regard themselves as now_the most redoubtable warriors, better prepared for future onsiaughts in the endless war of ideas. The second lesson coucerns the entire lack ot mutual confidence between the parties to thig dispute. There is evidently a determined and uncompromising distrust between Catho- lic and Protestant. It is & aistrust which easily passes into contempt. An interesting feature of the present case is the fact that most of the controversialists have come .into the arena with protestations of regard for their antegonists, bug aiter a few thrusts given and received this is forgotten and there appears a tendency to epithet, insinuation and sugges- tion, or direct accusation of evasion, subter- fuge, intellectual dishonesty, or even, erhiaps, of misrepresentation and faisification, he newspaper columns have had little daubs of mud all over them. The arguments have been liberally sandwiched with invective, There has been very spiteful talk. It would seem that these men do not preserve the con- sciousness of brotherhcod in the great uni- versal church, but rather feel themselves to be deadly foes meeting on the battlements, All this is due, doubtless, to theinfluence of some centuries of eclesiastical and religious story. For many. generations that story has been marked by uncompromising prejudice and bitter enmity between the two great church Ear:les. The Catholic reconnoitering from his illtop, the Protestant surveying the field from | held b Ing the progress of men as they try to reach | bis eminence, has each seen in_ the opposing camp only an army gathered by Batan anc emanating from the gates of hell to prevail if Rpssible against: the true church of Christ. hey could'not see in ench other any sincerity, any loyalty to the truth, but only the signs o a diabolical determination to destroy the holy institution established by the sacrifice and martyrdom of the Nazarene. Theéy have not listened to the “Peuce on earth, good will to men,” but to the spirit of rage and the promptings 'of passion. Sosince the days of Luther it has been war—war to the death Or to vietory. 5 There is nothing more fierce than ecclesiasti- cal hatred and religious passion, and the ex- istence of these between great churches makes distrust and contempt easy and natural when individuals of the opposing hosts meet in the ways. To be sure, these recent antagonists have been ready to'admit that in the ranks of their opponents there are many individuel instances of integrity, benevolence and saint- liness, but they regard these as beingin spite of the general tendency and dominant spirit of each church, and they are readily disposed toseize on the firsy opportunity to trace dis- honesty and falsity in the methods of a par- ticular opponent.” Hence the epithet, the insinuation, the accusation and all the mud. Trickery and villainy are what they expect, and they redily suppose themselves to have discovered the evidence of it. This opens the way for a third instructive lesson, viz.: That the reader, invited to occupy now this standpoint and now that is impressed by the alleged hopeless unreliability of the authorities cited in the argument, or at least of the manner in whicn these citations are bandled by the disputants. 1 believe not a single writer in the list has escaped charges of uniairness and misrepresentation. The mass of evidence presented on either side is over- whelming and the reader is ready to be con- vinced by the last letter he peruses, until he finds next day what a mighty counterstroke is Eiven to break the force of the authoritiey rou[rm into the arena. It is uniformly al- leged by either side with regard to the cita- u_u)xlxs produced by the other side that they are either: 1, Utterly partisan and grossly unfair. 2. That they are conscienceless forgeries. 3. That the disputants have garbled and manipulated them for & purpose. 4. That erroneous inferences have been drawn from them, 5. That these errors and inaccuracies prove the disputants to be Jiars, or 6. Very incompetent scholars. S0 from dey to day these charges are hurléd back and forth, as if these gentlemen had adopted a desperate ecclesiastizal modification of the game of shuttlecock and battledore. Of one thing I have become very strongly convinced, viz., that the Roman Catholic com- munion has had before it & very severe and impracticable ideal, which it has siriven vainly to realize. It has undertaken to maintain an absolute uniformity of teaching, of spirit, of method and of aim through all the multiply- ing centuries and amid the shiiting course of human purpose, thought and deed. This it hasdeemed to be its duty and its aestiny in view of its alleged viceregency end repre- sentative commission as mouthpiece and referee for the will of the Almighty. But the task as nlrend{ defined has been prodigious and to my thinking impossible. And in my judgment the fact is—though I have no doubt that Father Yorke could elsflg produce a three-column artiele, bristling witl authorities, to undo this humble opinion—the fact is that the Roman Catholic church has succumbed to the necessity of a constant ac- commodation and readaptation of its policy to the changes wrought by history in human so- clety. Of course it would be impossible for any church, however powerful, 10 do exactly the same thing all the time, and in every land and among ali sorts and conditions of men. I dwell on this point pecause it may explain how the Catholic apologist may claim, for ex- anle, that the Roman church here in the United States is not out of harmony with American mstitutions. But now we come to ask, Is the Roman Cath- olic church in politics? Our neighbors of the A.P. A affirm that itis. And they mean, if I understand them aright, tbat the church is planning and plotting te secure all official positions for its adherents and through them and the popular vote to control at izst the leg- islation of the land and the administration of governmental affairs—all this In the interests of ultimate papal supremecy. I do not know how far known and accredifed facts justify the charge. But what I do know is that signs frequently appear in the horizon to show that all the churches, Protestent as well as Ceth- | olic, are to a greater or less extent in_ polities. I mark the fact that nearly every representa- tive assembly of the various and several de- nominations is quite in the habit of drafting its manifesto, petition or plea concerning some important public matier and dispatch- g the same to executive authorities and legislative bodies, municipal, State or Na- tional, 1o influence their action. So each great church has really the same identical consciousness that is attributed to the Papal church and believes that the whole earth, with all 1ts peopies and their temporal rulers, must te dominated eventualiy by the | glorious doctrine which it cherishes and the | | principies forwhich it stands as God's chosen | and favored witness and defender. I beiieve that we need sometaing in the na- ture of an eunlarged Monroe doctrine, which shall proclaim to all the religious zealots thag the heaven which is recognized only through their mystic vision xmllf not rule the world. Let us have home rule, make our own laws and determine our own destinies. Let all wise- minded men, all loyal patriots, stand as against sizstical pretension and presumption, Catholic or Protestant, and demand that the confy distracting questions of religion be from tangling the steps and harass- mlununs of the near practical problems of . Another great question and a sixth great les- son concerns the attitude of religious bodies toward education, There is only one clear, safe course for this yast interest, and that i§ the absolute and entire secularization of ell public education, JESS-STREET OUTRIGE Three Men Suspected of Being Involved in It Under Arrest, Peculiar Circumstances Connecting John McCrink With the Revolt- ing Cruelty to a Horse. John McCrink, Frank Figineer and Frank Hallisy, the former an ex-convict and the two latter vagrants with unen- viable reputations, were arrested last evening and detained at the Southern police station under suspicion of being implicated in the cruel butchery of a horse beionging to Expressman Thomas Har- kins of 48 Jessie street last Monday morning, 1t will be remembered that on the morn- ing on which the fiendish crime was com- mitted Harkins found tnat some one had mutilated one of his animals in a fearful manner. The unfortunate beast’s eyes had been nnfied out with a piece of iron pipe, its anks and hips had been cruelly cut and bruised, while even its tough hoofs had been broken and battered outof shape. Not content with their work, the wretches had tied a rope around the animal’s body and another around its neck, and then suspended it a few inches above the floor. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelt; t0 Animals was informed and the society’s special officer, George Delmar, in a few | hours succeeded in obtaining enough n- formation to justify him in arresting the three men who are now prisoners. The information at the special’s com- mand - particularly inted to McCrink who yesterday was discovered in the ya; in the rear of 153 Minna streef, where he had been stopping. He endeayored to pass through the house to the street, presumably to make his escape, but Officer Moriarity, who had been stationed so &s to command a view of the premises, headed him off. Moriarity was then joined by Officer Vidian and Mec- Crink was arrested. A charge of vagrancy was placed against him and will be allowed to stand until the officers have obtained more evidence. When questioned by the officers Me- Crink denied bhaving had any connection whatever with the crime. He was asked -what he was doing in the neighborhood of Harkins’ barn on the morning the animal was kilied, He answered that he had called at Harkins’ house for the purpose of procuring a hammer, which was given bim, but on being informed thata ham- mer covered with blood had been found in the barn he said that hedid not get the hammer, as it had been missed before he catled at the house. The other two pris- omers were arrested by Officers Ryan and Tuite, at the suggestion of Special Delmar. v SONE Mo Embonpoint does not mean absolute fatness; its significance exterids only to a moderate and agreeable fullness of figure, | | | | { | CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 189€ RESCUED A FAIR CLIENT, Attorney Frank Shea Is Con- sidered a Hero by His Friends. DR. HARDING'S BOARD BILL. How a Physician Attempted to En. force Payment From One of His Lodgers. Attorney Frank Shea is considered by his friends as a heroic champion of the fair and Dr. W. A. Harding of 500 Sutter street has decided never again to let rooms or furnish board for lonely females who desire the hospitality of his home. In fact, Dr. Harding looks upon the keeping of lodgers of the gentler sex as a dismazl failure, and the events which led him to this conclusion were told in Justice Groezinger’s court yesterday. As shown by the evidence, Miss M. A. Deering contracted with the medico to occupy apartments in the house to carry on her business as a dressmaker, at a monthly rental of §35, offering at the same time to grace the family table at $20 per menth, ; Both parties were apparently satisfied for some time, and until the dressmaker’s trade fell off and she failed to promptly liquidate her indebtedness to the doctor when it fell due on the first of the month. The lessee of the rooms remonstrated and demanded his aues, but Miss Deering could not pay and would not move, and her landlord was in a quandary. Finally Le hit upon an original plan. Instead of instituting a snit for unlawtul detainer and having her putout he quietly locked Miss Deering in her room and announced that he would not allow her to depart until the $55 due was forthecoming. She was not made to go hungry, her meals being sent to ber regularly, but no callers were permitted to see her. Not having the time to watch Miss Deering himself the doctor hired a man named Burns to do the work for him and the guard was stationed at the door during the day to preventcommunication with the outside world. This went on for several days until Miss Deering managed to get wcrg to Attorney Shea, a friend, asking him to rescue her | from her captivity. The attorney did not stand on ceremony when he called at the house and demanded admission. Burns demurred, but was seized by the attorney and tossed to one side, while the lawyer dashed upstairs and before he could be prevented had bundled Miss Deering out of the house. The suit was begun against the doctor for the return oi the wearing apparel which Miss Deering bad lef: in the house and for damages for the forcible detention. The Sheriff got the clothing and turned it over to the fair plaintiff, but when it came to a question of damages she was not so fortunate. Justice Groezinger decided that Dr. Harding was perfectly justified in keeping the clothes, as Miss Deerin was in arrears for board and lodging, an gave judgment for the defendant. Denies That He Kissed Her. Mrs. Anita Eggert says that she is not sning Charles Shrakkart for breach of promise, and denies that the defendant ever kissed her, em- braced ner or took any undue liberties what- ever. According to the statement of her uncle, Augustus Kallner, she was never alone with him, end his opportunities for lovemaking were extremely limited. ————— Another Drydock Suit. James J. Cousins brought suit in the United States District Court yesterday against the California Drydock Company to recover dam- ages, placed at 50,000, for alleged infringe- ment of his patent for using water in balanc- ing a floating drydack. The Garbage Contracts. Judge Seawell has dissolved the temporary injunction issued at the instance of Henry M. Gove and designed to prevent the City from awarding any contracts for the disposing of garbage. Gove claims to be assignee of the lowest bidder. ———— ‘Will Go Over the Mayo: Veto. The Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors decided yesterday to recommend that the ordinance locating a new olice station on Washington street, near Polk, passed by the board, notwithstanding the Mayor's veto. I R People’s Home Bank. A meeting of the directors of the People's Home Savings Bank was held yesterday, and the resignation of Director R.S. Fry accepted. To fill the vaceney in the board Eugene M. Freeman, & well-known pilot, was chosen. BATTLE OF THE HORSES. Cavalry Chargers Lined in Formal Array Against a Free Herd. Just at sundown, and while we were at supper, a drove of wild horses numbering eighty-eight suddenly emerged from Thatcher’s Pass and deployed on the level ground of the valley. They emerged from the pass in single file, led by a spotted stallion whose mane reached almost to his knees, and whose tail touched the ground when he was at rest. Of the remainder of the herd about thirty were fine animals. Three or four were recognized as cavalry horses which had been abandoned on the march, and twice that number had collar marks to prove that they had stampeded from some immigrant train. ‘When clear of the pass they formed in line and advanced upon us to within a quarter of a mile, We had seventy-five horses at the lariat-pins, ana for half an hour we had all we could do to prevent a stampede. Every animal seemed enraged at the sizht of tue free herd, and the cap- tain’s Kentucky stallion acted as if pos- sessed by a fiend. * At last we drove the free herd down the valley, but our horses continued very rest- less all night. At dawn the wild horses again appeared a mile below us, and, on the instant, every animal in camp stam- peded. They broke through the free herd in a solid wedge. Then the two herds turned facing each other at a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, Then we witnessed something which only a cavalryman will credit. Our horses fell into double line and dressed to the right as perfectly as if a trooper had occu- pied each saddle, and, while we looked, the lines lnddenly moved forward on a charge. When they swept past us the alignment was absolutely perfect, with the captain’s horse on the right, and lead- in% by about twenty feet. he line of wild horses bentand wavered, but did ngt break until strack. It was like ntriklnf a drumbead with a sledge-ham- mer. believe that fully forty horses went down under the shock, but all except four were speedily on their feet again. From this on it was a melee, the whole drove circling round, and each horse biting and kicking and dis- aluying such ferocity as to aston- h us. The mob fought past us down the valley and back, and right in front of the camp the climax came. The battle had been raginfi half an hour, when the spotted stallion hobbled out of iton three legs and bleeding from hali a dozen wounds, and that seemed to take the pluck out of his followers. Some ran ngthe val- ley and some down, but of the eighty-eight only fifty-seven gov away. ‘When the hottest of it was over we dashed in and secured a horse here and there, and in this manner we finally got hold of the last one, which was the cap- tain’s. Of the seventy-five only.five had escaped scot free. Every one of the others had been bitten and kicked, and twelve of them were so crippled as _to be worthless. “ There were seven dead and thirty-six crippied horses on that battlefield when hostilities ceased, anda of the fiffy-seven wild horses which made their escape many were iimping badly.—A Cavalry Officer, in Detroit Free Pre: . OONCERNING AMBERGRIS. An Old Whaleman Gives Some Facts About It. The origin of the valuable substance known as ambergris, without which my lady’s perfumery would be sadly lacking nowadays, has been the subject of much controversy, and many accounts have been written concerning it that so far are wide of the mark. A story that has been ex- tensively covied recently regarding the discovery of a vast quantity of the stuff in the interior of a dead whale ascribed the accumulation of tbe ambergris to the fact that the whale was suffering from appen- dicitis, caused by swallowing a devil-fish, whose parrot-like biil the whale had found it impossible to digest. Tuis story has inspired an old whaleman to write the following to the New York Recorder regarding his knowledge of the subject: Ambergris is a secretion found only in a diseased sperm whale. It will only float on the surface of the water for a very short time, when it wiil go into solu- tion and sink. Itis only secured when the whale is being cleared of its blubber, or the fatty coating from which we pro- cure the oil. When this fatty coating is removed the ambergris will roll out upon the surface of the water or from the whale when stranded and dead upon some shore. b In appearance it is a dark gray, sticky substance, and very vile smelling in its crude state, but when dry it is almost colorless. Itis very rarely found, and is used in the manufacturing of the best perfumes and perfumed soaps. Not as 2 perfume in itself, for, as stated above, it 18 almost odorless, but it has the power of retaining and increasing the odor of the essential oils that are used in the manu- facturing of perfumes, and the skill of man tas never discovered a substitute for it. It is also used by the idol worshipers of | Cbina, India and Africa asincense to their gods, chiefly on account of its great value. There are several grades of this ingredi- ent. The light gray is the most valuable, bringing at the present time $40 per ounce, and others of darker grades from $5 to $15 per ounce. The cause of ambergris accumulating in a whale is constipation, or indigestion.of the squid upon which the sperm whale lives. "The squid, as we whalemen call them, are more commonly known as the devil-fish. They are armed with a sharp- pointed beak like that of a parrot, which no doubt irritates the intestines and causes a disease like constipation, The whale dies in great agony. Of course we cannot tell the exact cause, as during the 250 years that America has been engaged in the whale fishery, no surgical operation has been performed on a whale. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS An Epitome of Sermons of the Week Throughout the Land. Foliowing is a summary of the principal sermons recently delivered in the United States and Canada by the leading clergy- men, priests, prelates, religious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the full text has been eare- fully read and abbreviated : ATONEMENT. The essence of the atonement is a fathomless plan worthy of a loving God, whereby he is able to forgive his peniient creatures and do no injustice.—Rev. F. W. Luce, Methodist, Davenport, Ia. FUTURE PUNISHMENT. It matters not whether there is an extraneous torment in the future life or not. The suffer- ing of the unrepentant soul for sin will be in- finite and terrible.—Rev. E. H. Dornflasher, Lutheran, Springfield, Ohio. PERSECUTED CATHOLICS. The history of the Catholic church from the beginning of the Christian era down to the present time shows that she has been perse- cuted the same as the Savior was.—Rev. E. J. Melley, Catholic, Scranton, Pa. SELFISHNESS, Selfishness is the worm that eats the divine life out of the heart of man. Selnishness is the glant that batties with Christ for the sounls of men.—Rev. C. S. Sargent, Congregationslist, St. Louis, Mo. HEAVEN. The Seriptures teach us that heaven is a con- dition rather than a locality. Heaven is Dbrought to us before we go to heaven. Apart from this there can b2 no heaven.—Rev. K. A. Sawyer, Springfield, Mass. LABOR STRIKES, Ido not believe in strikes. Itis not the way to settle difficulties between employer and em- ploye. A strike does harm (o both parties, and then it gives a chance to lawless people to do evil.—Rev. J. W. Sullivan, Baptist, Philadel- phis, Pa. HAPPINESS. The true secret of happiness is giving what costs us something—what we sacrifice some- thing for. It makes no difference as to the value of the gift—it is giving with love in_the heart which makes the true recompense.—Rev. Joseph Rennie, Presbyterian, Covington, Ky. THE FIRST MAN, The first man of whom science has any knowledge was a dull-witted, eerthy-minded creature, intent \l?on something to eat or kill, blind to beauty in flowers or sublimity in landscape, with small power of sentiment or feith.—Rev. George A. Thayer, Unitarian, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. INTELLIGENCE. The glory of God is intelligence, but not the kind of 1nle?1i¥ence that comes merely of scholastio training. A man may be worldly wise and yet a fool for seying there is no God. Intelligence is gricfi(homl and not anything of ihe earth earthy.—George Teasdale, Mormon, Selt Lake City, Utah. CAPITAL AND LABOR. With passion on the one side and capital on the other, with a Nation in danger of being cut in twain by these battles between the upper and lower classes, the only way to settle these quarrels is by the intervention of law and jus- tice.~Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn, N. Y. THEOLOGIANS. You have not made & man a lawyer when ou have furnished him with license and code. ou cannot make a physician out of a box of pills and a_case of instruments. Neither can you make ministers of Christ with ecclesiasti- cal ritnal and vestments.—Rev. Mr. Vance, Nashville, Tenn. POWER OF THE CHURCH. The saloons exist to-day by permission of the Christian church, and every other evil lives because Christian people tolerate it. The church of to-day, would she but use her power, would mold putblic sentiment, would outline State and Natjonal legislation and control the business in the marts of trade.—Rey. J, F. Hartman, Lutheran, Altoona, Pa. 18 SIN ATTRACTIVE. Itis a mistake to say that sin is repulsive and unattractive. The truthis there are thou- sands of naughty things that the unregenerate thinks are nice. Sin is often ettractive and enticing, else fewer people would be sinners, Too often men are in sinful ways because the: like the ways of sin.—Rev. C. B. Mitchell, Kansas City. NAPOLEON AND LINCOLN. For some purpose or other the magazines have given us a great deal of Napoleon. They have now started us on Abraham Lincoln. That is more cheerful. They would not do that unless the people were found to he more with mercy and justice than with force—hea ati\éleu.—nev. \zh Reed, Independent, Denve'r,, UNITY. The peoples of the earth are coming closer and closer togetber. The standards of eiiigmy. ship and character are universally rising. We are coming 10 & common tongue, or else to & common understanding of all tongues. The elements of religion are coming to be recog- flfizgd.a:r ‘t‘lmx“r::a‘i hd |gealwsld religious e dying out.—Rev. 8, i tarian, Lynn, Mass. el CIRCUMSPECTION. To walk circumspect is to walk with hy andeyesopen. Legs and head and “e:.d.l:‘p_ heart ali at work examining the ing the present and scanning the looking back only, but lookin, up and dow™ avd back and ijorward—looking all around: That is what circumspection is.—Rev. B, B- Rogers, Baptist, Springtield, 111, MUNICTPAL GOVERNMENT, ‘The cbief end of the existence of a city cor- t, searchd uture. Not o afford protection to verson anq poraton e o other words, the chief end of 4 city is to maintain righteousness and to pu Gown wickedness. Some people think the belongs to councils and the countryman thin it belongs to the policeman with his brass b Lo e " Mowry, Presbyterian, Ches. ter, Pa. 3 GROVER v:1.1':v:x.nr;7;r ; en dragged from his place as g slflgsglfin%cownw Efe level of the political Jeeches that surround him. By one breath ot Himouth he threw millions of the people’s money in the maclstrom of financial ruin; in another breath he piteously invokes his Con- ress to avert the crash he bas called down fpon onr heads.—Rev. H. E. Cotton, Hagers- town, Md. THE PRESS. = i ss of to-day is exercising & tremen. d{?:l);e Eifm. It arreigns ))Ollllcllhply.i,u‘ Straightens out corrorations.unearths crime and discusses strategic points in statesman- ship. It even collars irate theological dis. putangs. It opens a larger mission for the cnurch b; dissem(nnunq Sunday ”“"}ghl! through the week. It is lifting up the whole Itis itself a liberal education.—Rey. WG] Temple, Congregationalist, Seattle, Wash., < CANT. The talk that comes from mouths of people who look wise but are not is nothing. Al man may be A communicant, may be regular hl:n prayer, and be n\-crY bad man. I hate this cant that passes itsclf in the name of piety; the disposition to do things on Sunday ana never ;gink of them again until the next Sun- —Rey. John Leal, Episcopalian, Rochester, LUCK AND PLUCK. re is no such thing as luck. Luck is pl?;lc‘li,e Luck is a‘foolish doctrine of fate; it is the silliness of superstition; it is the cynicism of fools, incompetents and failures. You ne\'{l: hear a real sensibie man talking about nu:l 5 he knows the philosophy of succass too well; he knows the meaning of patience and pains- king care, of energy and economy.—Rev. J. G. Rust, Baptist, Nashville, Conz. EDUCATION. No country is saved by a muititude of books or schoothouses. A man is in danger of being roasted alive who at this time of day will care 10 utter a heresy, but it needs to be uttered. Knowledge is power, indeed; and so is dyn: mite, but you neea to be careful as to the han to which you intrust it. And education needs to be sanctified by religion to make it safe.— Rev. P. S. Henson, Baptist, Chicago, IlL. TURKEY. 1f ever there was & putrefying carcass in the shape of a nation, it is the so-callea Turkish Government, over which 1 hope, at this mo- ment, hover the eagles of God's avenging judgments: not that I mean to be merciless to the individual man, black-hearted and brutal as he may be, but_the instinct of humanity does seem to call for the wipingoutof the very name of Turkey from the register of na- tions.—Rev. N. C. Fetter, Baptist, Doyles. town, Pa. SOCIAL PURITY. In all the past society has demanded purity on the part of woman. A woman’s crown is her purity. If she loses this crown it is almost an_impossibility to reinstate her in society. But society has been so constituted that & man could be vicious in conduct and depraved in life, ana yei find an entrance to good socfety. It 16 high time that society should demand the same purity of & man as is demanded of & woman.—Rev. F. A. Scofield, Methodist, New Haven, Conn. IMPERFECTION. No person’s faith or love or reverence is per- fect. “The trembling fears and hopes and anx- ieties of life have not trembled {o their final poise and rest. No man's work is done. A sense of imperfection still lingers in all noble, earnest souls. There s imperfection in our judgments, a want of charity; there isa lack of seli-control, a want of patience, a lack of steadiness of purpose which destroys our iden. tity; a want of deliberation. We act first and then think. Wedo things too rapidly.—Rev. E. L. Rexford, Universalist, Columbus, Ohio. BUDDHISM. Buddhism had no personal god. Buddha himself, as the representation of perfect in- telligence, came o be worshiped by Buddhists, 1 Buddhism recognized God atall it was an impersonsl god. No religion can continue for very long without a personal god. Buddhism has almost entirely disappeared, being swal- lowed up by the oider Bra miuism‘nd other forms of Hindooism. Buddhism ®eognized human misery, but not human sin. Buddhism made no attempt at the redemption of society. In all these respects Christianity supplieS what Buddhism lacked. No system of morality ever can be greatly effective which does not rest npon divine sanction.—Rev. S. P. Sprecher, Presbyterian, Cleveland, Ohio. FAITH AND DOUBT. Faith is the natural attitude toward truth and our fellow-men. Doubt is begstten of ex- perience. Trusting God is notstranger than trusting our dearest friend. Faith is the root. Itisnot believing a set of propositions about God that_makes the Christian, but it is believing in God himself. Faith in God is trusting him, just &s you would trust a surgeon with your life, only in a higher degree. When one believes in the things in the Bible, when one trusts his life and eternity in God's hands, then is faith true. The objeci of faith is not a doctrine or creed, but believing.—Rev. Dr. Me~ Clintock, Presbyterian, Burlingame, Iowa. THE PREACHER INCAPACITATED. The preacher is incapacitated for the practi- cal work of the world by reason of the mental attitude which his position requires. He h accepled as his supreme guidean authority which, however reliable it may be, is not the commonly accepied one among men. His mental processes are peculiar. His message has been given to him to declare Without any discretiongry powers. By the exacting con- ditions of his vocation he is ailenated from the life of the world. He represents the other world. He is esteemed for his goodness and pitied for his lack of common, every-day sense. He could not be a Constable here, but he mAI be a candidate for Mayor of Paradise.—Rev. J. E. Roberts, Unitarian, Kansas City, Mo. SPEECH, The mystery of speech is very great. Toseta thought afloat on & breath is greater tham launching a ship on the sea. To coin a feeling and give it wingsto fly on a word framed by the lips is asif you mined and minted gold and breathed into the image & spark of your own soul’s life by & single act of will, Itis the wonder of God’s creating man out of the dust of the ground when you utter, not the cry of a besst, but a thought that breathes, & word that burns. Speech is the mystery of life, the deeper mystery of the life of the soul. Speech isa creation greater then that of man himselfem Rev. R. A, Sawyer, Springfield, Mass, THE PACE THAT KILLS. Fast Work and Fast Eatlng Make Three Score Years aud Ten a Ripe Old Age These Days. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The American people live too fast, eat too fast and drink too fast. This has brought upon many of usa train of nervous and stomsch disorders that are very difficult to manage, Investigation and chemical analysis to m— cover such comgounds as will help those suf- fering from such ills has resulted in the dis- covery of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which has taken very high rank as a specific remedy. H. P, Owens, a traveling man, 30 years of age, who is well known in this community and generally liked because he is a bright, ener- getic young fellow, resides with his mother at 35 Central avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been the victim of dyspepsia, which teok the form of continuous constipation, and, strangely enough, his mother suffered from the same trouble, Mr. Owens testified to the merits of Pink Pills in & most enthusiastic way, and said to the Enquirer reporter: *I am glad to say anything I can for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills because they did me great good and othe;‘reopla ought to know of their virtues es & medicine in stomach troubles, It was some time ago when I felt a heavy feeling in my stomach and I grew very constipated, 1 did not consult & doctor, but heving heard of the Pink Pills I bought & box of them. 1In two or three days the heavy feeling in my stomach disappeared and my.bowels were regular. I did not have to use more than a box of them before I was well. Since that time I have only occasicnally been troubled with constipation, and I never get worried because 1 know just what to do. Mother was also troubied with indigestion and the Pink Pills d1d the same for her they did for me—cured her; didn’t they, m%tger’.‘" 1ed = Vhen appealed to Mrs. Owen: rered “That is right. -l Teodioine, 10 oAy o ine e o grest 3 & an lasting in its results.” ok Ui Mr. Owens continued: “I believe that these gflll are also good for nervousness. When I od my stomach trouble I was aiso quite Dervous, and_that disappeared with the dys. Pepsll The Pink Pills are ail that is claimed or them. You can make any use of this testi. m;){fll;l :)hlt “i:' see fit.” - P. Owens has occupied several posit: of trust in tbis city. ngu fora fimp:ln,:::- ploye of the Commercial-Gazette, Heo will go on the road in & few days for a prominent business house here. Mrs. Owens is quite ms enthusiastic as her son about the P!r& Pills, and her host of lady friends can verify hey foud opinion of this wonderful remed l{ they cel disposed to do so at any time. ere the testimony is so general and unanimons as to the exceilencies of Pink Pills as the Enquirer :105; {3‘%"%" 0 fie Ehmooé' certainly good rea- elieve all the the safe and simple remedy, £ ho—about Dr. Wil nk Pills for Pale People con< 1lliams’ tain all the elements neces life and richness to the hlo;:x.ant?eufng a:m tered erves. They may be had of al! dr 1ggis g{ng\(r:ecz by muslc;rom the Dr. wmluu'm ompany, enectad; . box, or six boitles for §2 5oy " " °F S0C e