BUS LVE'SS C1ARDS.
NAPTON & NAPTON.
AT L'ORNEYS AT LAW,
Ofmce-Room 12, over Kleinschnldt & Bro's
store, tDer Lodge, Montana. 22-tf
J A. MILLER,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Office In tie Coleman & Lansing Block, Deer
Lodge, Montana.
S W. MINSUiALL,
PIIYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office Over Lansing': Store, Deer Lodge, Mont.
Office hours from 11 to 12 a. n.; 2 to 5 p. im.;
and from 7 to 8 p. m.
. S. CRANSON,
PIHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over William Coleman's Store, Deer
Lodge, Montana.
ARMS C& KhSKY'S
TONSORIAL PARLOR.
None but lirst-class work in their line. The
finest baths in the city.
4EO. S. MILLER,
NOTARY .PUBLIC.
Careful attention givenl to colnveyanlcing. Oflice
with N. J. Blelenberg & Co., Deer Lodge
. 11. T'ItPPET,
ATTORNEY AT LAW\\,
Ollico West.Side Court Sqluare, Deer Lodge, Mont.
Practices 11 all the courts of the State. Special
attentlon to Conlveyncling and Collections.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS, Mi. D.,
PIACTIIN i P5llYS 'IA:N AND Si l EON.
Prompt Attention at all Tinmes.
Office hours 9 to 10S;. i.; 12 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. In.
8-ti
BOTTLING WORKS.
VAN GUNE lY & MILLER.
Deer Lodge, Mont., having bonght and put in the
most aplDroved nmachineory for generating
Soda. Sarslparilla, Glinger Ale, Lemonade and
all Carborate Drinks, with experienced work
imen in charge, wie are irepared to furnish
them bottled or in charges for fountains,
promptly on notice, and as loiw as ainy house in
the State. Address orders to
VAN (TUNIDY & MILLER!, Deer Lodge, Mont.
CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES.
COLLEGE OF MONTANA.
Normal and Prol .ratory Courses. Special
Courses in Art, Music, Typewriting, Steno
graphy, Bookkeepling and School of Mines.
Department of Engineering and Chemistry,
including Mathematics, Surveying, Mechanical,
Civil and Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, lin
eralogy, Assaying, General, Analytical and Ap
plied Chemistry, BlowDipe Analysis, Etc. Open
to both sexes on equal terms.
For terms, etc., apptly to Rev. James Reid,
President. Deer Lodge Mollt.
LARABIE BROTIIERS & CO.,
-BANKERS
Deer Lodge, Montana. Do a General Banking
Business and Draw Exchantge on all tile lrin
cilpal cities of the world.
Careful Atteltiton givenl given to Collections,
and Remittances Prolmptly matte, New York
correspondent, Importers and Traders' National
Bank, New York City, N. Y.
S. E. LARABIE. C. X. LARRABEE. H. S. REED.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
HELENA, MONT.
Paid up Capital, $500,000). Surplus and Prolits,
$700,000.
Interest allowed on tillle deposits. General
banking business transacted. Safety deposit
boxes for rent.
DIRECTORS.
S. T. HAUS:R, President.
E. W. KNIGHT, Cashier.
T. H. KLEINSCHlIII)Tr, Assistant Cashier.
GEO. H. HILL, 2d Assistant Cashier.
GRANVILLE STUART, Stock-grower.
Hon. T. C. POWER, U. S. Senator.
J. C. CURTIN, Clarke, Courad & Curtin.
R. S. HAInILTON, Capitalist.
O. R. ALLEN, Mining and Stock-grower.
CHAS. K. WELLS, Merchant.
A. M. HOLTER, Pres. A. M. Holter Hardware Co.
ASSOCIATED BANKS.
Northwestern National Bank, Great Falls.
First National Bank, Missoula. First National
Bank, Butte.
THE THOMAS CRUSE
SAVINGS BA.NK,
HELENA,........MONTANA.
Incorporated under the laws of Montana.
PAID IN CAPITAL... ....................$100,000
THOMAS CaRUSE.......:................President.
FRA.K H. CRUSE................Vice President.
W. J. COOKE....... Secretary and Asst. Treasurer.
W. J. SWEENEY ....................... Treasurer.
tBOARDi OF TRUSTEES.
Thomas Cruse, I Frank B. ruse,
W. J. Cooke. John Fagan,
W. J. Sweeney.
Allows 4 per cent. interest on Savings Deposits,
compounded January and July.
Transacts a general banking business, draws
exchange on the principal cities of the United
States and Europe.
Sells money orders on all points in Europe.
First-class State, County, City and School bonds
and warrants bought and sold. Loans made on
real estate mortgageS at 10 per cent. Money for
deposits can be forwarded by drafts, checks,
money orders, postal notes, registered mail or
express.
Office hours from 10 a. m, to 4 p. m. Also on
S~turdayand Monday eveningsfrom7 to 8 o'clock.
be Rew ortbwest.
V\OL. 21, NO. 39. DEER LODGE, MONTANA, APRIL 8, 1893. WHOLE NO. 1039.
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POLIT.1.. I5 CHICAGO.
MORE EXCITING, IF POSSIBLE, THIS
YEAR THAN EVER.
The Most lMotley and Composite City In
the World-Rise of Carter Harrison.
His Competitor, S. WT. Allerton-Other
Candidates--.Inor Factions.
Chicago politics is always picturesque.
This year it is simply lurid. Fifty stali
wart policemen on the floor of one con
vention, 500 delegates howling like luna
tics and swearing in 13 different lhn
guages, Washington Hesing addressing
the roaring mass in pantomime, as it
were, and Carter Harrison smiling grimly
on his discomfited rival--suc was one,
only one, of the lurid scenes. The so
cialists and some other factions have can
didates, but few pay any attention to
them. The fight is between Carter Harri
son and Samuel Waters Allerton, the
latter nominated by tho independent and
labor nmen and indorsed by the Repub
licans.
In all the world there is not such an
other field for political chicanery, Chica
go being now the most variegated in
race of any city in the world, unless
Bombay v~!y be its equal. Only 30 per
cent of iu. vest population is strictly na
tive; 000,000 of its people are either for
eign born or the children of foreign
born. Twenty-four distinct nationalities
are represented, and about 40 languages
and dialects are spoken. It is said that
there is not a secretary in the city who
can read the list of a full convention and
pronounce every nalne correctly. And
of this tumultuous imass Carter Harrison
was long a leader and was four times
elected mayor.
CAIRTER H. HARRISON.
He was born in Fayette county. Ky.,
Feb. 25, 1825; was graduated from Yale
college in 1.840 and from the Lexington
(KFy.) law ..:lioul in 15801, lhaving meu
while traveled extensively in Europe; lo
cated in Chicago in 18.5, was elected to
congress in 1874 and became mayor the
first time in 1879. Re-elected in 1881 and
1883 by greatly increased majorities, he
was thought the man to beat Rich
ard J. Oglesby for governor in 1884, but
failed on it. His popularity suffered
greatly thereafter, for though again elect
ed mayor in 1885 his majority was but
200, and in 1891 he was beaten for the
nomlination.
nie was not used to defeat and lost his
tempnr. He reorganized his supporters
and ran as an independent candidate
againusl Major De Witt C. Cregier, whom
the Democrats had nominated for re
election. The result was that Hemp
stead W'ash l;rne, Republican, was elect,
ei. The f :'ither result was bitterness
and faction in the piarty. Now Mr. Har
rison is the regular Democratic candidate
again, and irc. Crcgier, Washington Hes
ing and all their followers have bolted.
This of itself would trouble Mr. Harri
son very little, but organized labor seems
to have bolted, too, and so the fight will
be desperate. The prize is well worth a
contest-the mayoralty of Chicago in this
Columbian exposition year.
Samnel Waters Allerton, on whom the
anti-Harrisonians have united, is em
phatically a Chicagoan. He has done
much to make the city, and the city in
turn has made him--a millionaire. He
was born May 26, 1829, at Amenia,
Dutchess county, N. Y., being of a noted
Revolutionary family and a descendant
of that Isaac Allerton who was one of
the pilgrims in the Mayflower, He
gained but a scanty education, worked
on the farm till maturity, then engaged
in farming and stock raising with such
success that in four years he had laid by
a surplus of $3,300 in cash.
In 1856 he went to Chicago in the cat
tle trade. In 1860 he married, and in
1866, in conjunction with John B. Sher
man, he established the Union stock
yards. These now rank among the won
ders of the world, and Mr. Allerton is
pre-eminently a stockyard king. Hisin
terests in the yards of Pittsburg, Jersey
City and elsewhere are great, but Chicago
is the scene of his greatest operatione.
His success in dealing with organized
labor, especially his conciliatory action
during the strikes, made him the favor
ite among the laborers in the convention.
Politically lie is a Republican.
OUR OOMMISSIONER TO HAWAIi.
NSomething of the Career and Characterls
ties uof Jquaes li. ilaount.
The appointment of ex-Congressman
James H. Blount as special commissioner
for Hawaii and his hurried departure
have aroused a vast amount of discussion
and conjecture. While the precise ob
ject of his mission is debated, a good deal
of interest is aroused in the personal
character and history of Mr. Blount.
He represented the Sixth district of
Georgia in 10 consecutive congresses, and
under such peculiar and varying circum
stances as to make his career a sort of
congressional political romance. He was
first elected in 1872 and served continu
ously until March 4, 1893, when he re
tired voluntarily.
Mr. Blount was born in Georgia Sept.
12, 1837. and during the civil war fought
bravely on the Confederate side, but
when the matter was fought to a finish
he devoted all his energies to healing
the breaches of war, and the restored
union has no stronger defender than he.
He is stoutly built and broad shouldered,
with blue eyes, thick hair, now rather
gray, and a smoothly shaven face. His
method of speaking is rather slow and
deliberative-indeod 't the start he seems
heavy if not dull-but as he goes on he
becomes more animated, and his sen
tences contain a rude and pure elo
quence.
It is known that he first suggested to
President Cleveland the plan of sending
some one to investigate the condition of
the islands. and it is believed that he was
selected because his temperament is that
of a judge rather than an advocate. At
first view one would take him for a man
swayed very little indeed by sentiment,
and yet it is a fact that he is most popu
lar among the most enthusiastic and
sentimental if north lGeorgians. At his
home in Macon and in the adjacent re
gion lie is extremely popular, yet his men
tal makeup is that of a judge, of a man
quite slow and deliberate in arriving at
conclusions.
WILL PROFESSOR LANGLEY FLY?
He Thinks He Hasi Solved the Grealt Prob
Icll aInd Will Soon Test It.
Another flying machine is announced.
Again we are told that the problem of
ages is solved, and that we may soon ex
pect to hear that
the first practical
test is successful.
In this there is
nothing new, for
we read the same
announcement at
least once every
year, but this
particular ma
chine is COnl
structed at tho
Smithsonian in
stitution, and its :
inventor is Pro
fessor Samuel PROFESSOR LANGLEY.
Pierpont Langley, who has devoted many
years of study to the subject. So there
really is some ground for hope of its suc
cess.
The general plan is that indicated by
Roger Bacon, who in the thirteenth cen
tury wrote this: "There may be some
flying instrument so made that a man
sitting in the middle of it and turning a
crank to put in motion some artificial
wings may., beat the air like a bird and
fly." In truth, however, the man in
Professor Langley's plan is only to di
rect the motor force, which is a very vol
atile hydrocarbon, and the method of
preparing it is as yet a secret. The
whole machine, says the professor,
weighs but 40 pounds, as the strong ribs
and beams are made of a fine alloy of
aluminium and steel, and the four boilers
are of very finely hammered copper and
weigh but seven pounds each.
The name of the inventor, however,
carries more weight than any possible
description of the machine or demonstra
tion of its practicability. Professor
Langley was born Aug. 22, 1834, in Rox
bury, Mass., anti irst became noted in
1865 as assistant in the Harvard observa
tory. He was soon called to the chair of
mathematics in the United States Naval
academy at Annapolis, and in 1877 was
appointed assistant secretary of the
Smithsonian institution. On the death
of Professor Baird he became full seore
tary.
Professor Langley's work as assistant
and recorder durilng total eclipses is well
known to the reading public, and his sci
entific piapers are nmnerous and highly
regarded. He has made many experi
ments looking toward a practical flying
machine, and has succeeded in making a
few models i-which would rise in the air
and continue to float as long as the mo
tive power lasted. The great difficulty,
of comiiie, has been to secure materials
containing streogth and lightness, and
this he thiinlkes he has accomplished in the
alloy of steel and ahminiiumn. As amodel
for his machin lie he has taken the body
of the mackerel, and for the wings the
revolving fans of china silk. All we now
wait for is the practical test.
Chlorobrom For Seasickness.
In contradiction of Dr. Dutton's state
ment of his belief that in seasickness
drugs do perhaps more harm than good,
M. Charteris writes to The Lancet that
he has plenty of evidence showing that
chlorobrom is an efficient remedy in long
or short sea voyages.
Nature and Authors.
There is good materipal for an essay in
the analysis of the different manner in
which nature is approached by the au
thors, and some chronological develop
ments would be r pparent. The earlier
novelists, Mrs. htadcliffe and so on to
Walter Scott, created landscape as a
background for their people; there were
storms, sunsets, seas, caves, trees and
dark nights, but they fitted into the ex
igencies of the plot. Never did the moon
shine upon a murder, nor the storm beat
upon the happy lovera, when there could
be a first choice of weather. With
Wordsworth there came another school,
and nature was awarded some rights of
her own, but it was Mary Mitford who
first asked the reader himself to come out
among the roses or go driving along the
scented lanes. Everybody else had de
scribed.
Of course everything had to be taken
as it was, but she went abroad with us
in her English weather as though she
were a Quaker matron with her quilted
bonnet cover in her pocket, and there
fore when the rain came it had no com
punctions and she no disquietude. In
these days we investigate nature. We
are not content to see a bird fly into the
bushes, but we must beat in afterit, to
know what it is-whether it is at home
or merely passing through. The observ
ers are looking for material and would
as soon go afield without their bats as
without their notebooks. It is a great
gain for literature, but it throws re
sponsibility upon the people who are
supposed to know.-Poterson's Magazine.
Interest on the Sisseton Fund.
WASHINGTON, March 28.--Senator
Pettigrew called upon Secretary Hoke
Smith during the day, and made imme
diately available the appropriation of
$90,000, which is to pay the interest on
the Sisseton fund. The money is to be
paid without delay.
The quantity and quality of the Ar
gentine wheat crop of the present sea
son will surpass that of any previous
year.
If "We Only Could.
If we all had our lives to livoe over again
Hal hal if we had, but we haven't, you know
We'd all be such wonderful women and men
That life would be robbed of its worry and
woe.
As a matter of course the dull things we have
done,
Could we try once more, we would carefully
shun;
The skies would be bright to each sorrowing
one
If we all had our lives to live over again.
If we all had our lives to live over again-
Hal hal if we had, but we haven't, you know
We'd make it a vision of happiness then,
And fate would her kindliest favors bestow
If we could only run this fair, strange, myth
ical race
At some other time and in some other place!
Oh, couldn't we mlake earth a lovable place
If we all had our lives to live over again?
If we all had our lives to live over again
Hal hal if we had, but we haven't, you know
We'd carefully study the why and the when,
And make us a friend where we now.have a
foe.
But the edicts of nature we cannot reverse;
'Tis folly vain wishes to sadly rehearse,
And-we might make existence a thousand
times worse
If'we all had our lives to live over again.
ERICSSON'S LAST VESSEL.
The Destroyer, Which the A'ged Inventor
Designed, buhot Never Saw.
No certain limits can be fixed to the
progress which science will make in na
val warfare, as from year to year there
seems to be a pretty even race between
the builders of stronger ships and thain
ventors of more destructive and far
reaching projectiles. To vary the famous
old paradox, no sooner does one invent
an invincible steel, iron or tinclad than
another invents an irresistible shot or
torpedo.
Captain Ericsson had but just revolu
tionized naval warfare with his monitors
when he began the construction of a ves
sel to insure their destruction. He died
before completing his plans, but the
United States naval department was so
satisfied with his plans that it intrusted
their completion to Engineer V. F. Las
soe and others familiar with them. The
vessel built under their instruction is
now completed and is aptly named The
Destroyer.
She is 130 feet in ý ws 1' with a beam
or I roeet, draft of 10 feet and dis
placement of 250 tonls. Her bow and
stern are long and sharp, her upper deck
low, with no rail, and the protections
to her engines and boilers are of the best
and so arranged as to permit her to run
at the enemy head on. Eight feet under
water is the alleged dlcstroyer. It is of
steel, projects forward 27 feet 4 inches
in lengthl and weighs 1,525 pounds.
From 30 to 40 pounds of powder propel
the torpedo at a velocity of 548 feet 'per
second, and in the forward end of it.is
a charge weighinlg 800 pounds, which is
exploded by a percussion cap when it
strikes. A tube runs the entire length
of the vessel just above the keel, fixed
with water tight cap at the bow. Re
cent experiments show, the engineers re
port, that at a distance of 600 feet three
shots out of four would strike and de
stroy an enemy's vessel.
Courting Under Dillieulties.
They were courting under difficulties.
It was a room through which the mem
bers of the family were continually pass
ing to and fro.
"Dear Alice," he said, 'I can no long
er labor under this sus"-(the old
man appears)--"pension of banks is due
to the unwise policy"- (Old gent passes
on.) "I was going to say, my dear girl,
that I hope you will promise to be mine
and name an early day for the bonds"
(old woman comes in)-"' 'should never be
paid in gold alone." (Exit old girl.)
"Name the happy day when I may call
you my own, for I cannot believe that
you will think it pre"-(old man slides
in again)--"sumption cannot be too soon
accomplished." (The intruder retires.)
"I say I can't believe you are entirely in
different to me, but will soon grant me
the privilege of calling you wi"-(old
lady on deck)-"fe given the financial
question much study." (Old lady strides
off.)
"If you love me, just nod your head.
You, and, oh, one sweet kiss to. seal it
one sweet"-(prospective father-in-law)
"according to eminent divinesis a myth,
a superstition." (They were again left
alone.) The old folks conclude that Alice
is safe enough in the company of a young
man who can talk nothing but finance
and theology, and so relax their vigilance.
-London Tit-Bits.
A Surprise.
Tramp (as the door opens)-Now then,
old lady, yer got to help sue out. See?
Long Haired Bill (comuing out)-Yes, I
kinder see. Come again when you want
a helpin.-Truth.
LEFT THE SAFE UNLOCKED.
Thieves Get $20,000 Through a Cash
ier's Carelessuness.
MILAN. Mo., March 27.-Shortly after
noon thieves entered a rear window of
the Sullivan County bank of this place,
while the cashier had gone to dinner.
He lihad left the safe unlocked and th9
thieves got over $20,000 and made their
escape, leaving no clue.
IOCI-a
"PAINTS LIKE A MAN."
A Talented Niece of General Sherman Has
Achieved That Distinction.
To "paint like a man" has long been
thought the highest ambition of women
who devoted themselves to art. Neverthe
less the produc
tions of lady art
ists almost inva
riably have such
a distinctively
feminine quality
that art connois
, seurs can recog
nize them at a
glance. Rosa
Bonheur and
Elizabeth Butler
have been consid
ered the only ex
ceptions, but it
is now claimed
that with them
MRS. ALICE B. BARNARD. must be included
Mrs. Alice Bartley Barnard, who has
lately produced some dining room pieces,
so called, of extraordinary merit.
Mrs. Barnard is the daughter of ex
Governor Bartley of Ohio and a niece of
General Sherman. During the Grant
administration she was a social favorite
in Washington, and she has since studied
one year in Brussels under the celebrated
Capionic and four years in Paris under
the best still life masters of the day. All
her productions yet put on exhibition
are in still life, and she has made no at
tempt to follow the lead of Rosa Bon
heur. Her mother was not only possess
ed of great artistic talent, but was witty
and intellectual, quite up to the stand
ard of her family, the Shermans. She
was the sister of the general and senator.
Mrs. Barnard has been visiting in Col
orado, but will soon open a studio in
New York, where her best productions
are now on view. One of these repre
sents a basket of pomegranates spilled
upon straw. the other a cut of rare beef
flanked by vegetables and bottles of
wine. The subjects are so simple and
commonplace that they scarcely seem
fit material for art, but the rich delicacy
of the coloring, the boldness of touch
and solidity of the painting make them
remarkable. Simple a subject as a piece
of beef may seem, very few painters can
present it with a combination of beauty
and faithfulness.
It is in still life, too, that the feminine
quality of any artistic work is most read
ily detected, as the action of living things
tends to obscure the peculiarities of sex.
Mrs. Barnard is not only vigorous as a
painter, but in social life as well, and is
a charming woman, and her personality
seems to shine in some of her productions.
"PLAIN BILLY" M'ADOO.
The Ex-Congressman From New Jersey to
Assist the Naval Secretary .
William McAdoo, ho lia h beeii ap
pointed assistant secretary of the navy
by President Cleveland, has a very inter
esting history. He is a native of Ireland
and was educated in Jersey City, where
his parents located on their arrival in
this country while he was very young.
He studied law with ex-Congressman
Scudder and was admitted to the New
Jersey bar in 1874. He was counsel to
the Hudson county board of health for
many years and served one term in the
New Jersey legislature. HIe was elected
to the Fortv-eirhth concress in 1882.
when he was only 29 years old, and re
elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and
Fifty-first congresses, but was defeated
for another renomination by Congress
man McDonald.
In congress Mr. McAdoo achieved an
enviable reputation as an orator and a
ready debater, and the knowledge and
experience he gained as a member of the
house committee on naval affairs should
be of especial value to himself and the
navy department in his new position.
He is a man of somewhat peculiar ideas
and once introduced in the house a bill
for the abolition of diplomatic ministries
to foreign countries, claiming that our
consuls abroad could conduct the busi
ness of our foreign intercourse quite as
effectually as ministers, and that the
latter were unnecessary and even injuri
ous to the republic. He has also ex
pressed, through the medimnship of a
magazine article, some ideas on the sub
ject of reform in the methods of proce
dure in the house of representatives, ad
vising, among other things, the removal
of members' desks from the floor and the
compulsory recognition of members by
the speaker in the order of their rising
in debate.
Mr. McAdoo is a handsome, black eyed
man, with dark hair and mustache, slen
der in build mind not above the average
height. He was very popular among
the voters in his old district, and it was
said that his nickname of "Plain Billy"
became the watchword of his first cam
paign and carried him into office by a
big majority. When he first took his
seat, it was said that he was the young
est man who ever sat in the house of
representatives up to that time. After
his defeat by Congressman McDonald
Mr. McAdoo was admitted to the bar in
New York city, where he has since prac
ticed his profession and resided. There.
was considerable talk at the time of his
removal to the metropolis about his hav
ing a desire to represent a New York
district in the house, but nothing ever
came of it.
RACE HORSES PERISH.
Valuable Equines Cremated in a Fire
at Mason City. Ia.
MASON CITY, March 27.-The stable
containing Kirk Bros.' racing string
was burned to the ground during the
evening. In the stables were Storm,
2:08 1-4; Brown John, full brother to
Storm; Storm Bird, Red Clay and sev.
eral other valuable horses.
Storm was one of the most prom
ising horses on the turf. His speed
showed an increase from 2:23 as a 2
year-old to 2:08 1-4 as a 4-year-old. An
offer of $30,000 was refused but a few
days ago. The entire string was valued
at $100,000. The cause of the fire is not
known.
Charles de Lesseps, Baihut and Blon
din have been convicted in Paris of
bribery in connection with the Panama
canal. The other defendants were
acquitted.
TO TALK THEOLOGY.
GREAT RELIGIOUS PARLIAMENT TO
BE HELD IN CHICAGO.
Representatives of Judaism, Parsseelm,
- Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Shintoism
and All Forms of Christianity to Discuss
Vital Themes For Seventeen Days.
On the 11th of September next there
will convene in Chicago for a session of
17 days the most extraordinary religious
assemblage ever known. It will be a
conference or congress or convocation
without precedent on this, earth. It will
be, in short, a representative convention
of all the great religions, a convention
of men of all great races, and not only
of all the great religions; but of all the
important subdivisions of each.
C-
JINANJI J. MODl. H. DHARtAPALA.
BISHOP PARTERIA. BISHOP ARNETT.
At first view the assembling of such a
body, and still more its peaceful and or
derly session, would seem attended with
insurmountable difficulties. The labor
of even convening all Christians called
by one denominational name-as all
Methodists, all Baptists, or the like-is
immense. That of convening all Protes
tants in one representative body has
seemed beyond attainment, and that of
uniting all Christians, whether Greek,
Catholic or other, in one deliberative body
has been so great that it has never
been attempted and has been but doubt
fully suggested. But in the great Chi
cago conference will sit intelligent and
authorized representatives of all who be
lieve in a God and have formulated a
faith-Jew, Parsee and Mohammedan,
Brahmin, Buddhist and Christian.
Following the classification of Rev.
3- ~ --. _reem er :an wri.tlek..mos ,writers
have adivided the faiths of mankind intmi
10 great religions, but as the Coptic,
Armenian and many more are mere eth
nic sects-that is. sects composed of dis
tinct races rather than distinct faiths
the really great and distinct religions
may best be classed as six, and, accord
ing to late and very careful estimates by
the French academy and American Sta
tistical association, the estimates brought
down to 1892, they rank in numbers as
follows: Christians, 477,088,000; Con
fucianism and worship of ancestors, 256,
000,000: Hindooism, 190,000,000; Moham
medanism, 176,834,000; Buddhism. 148,
000,000; Judaism, 7,100,000.
Of course the so called uolvtheists. or
Ur course the so caten polytneists, or
gross idolaters (if there really is such a
being as an idol worshiper), the Fetich
ists. Voodooists, or snake worshipers,
and other degraded classes are omitted,
though they number at least 120,000,000.
The Parsees are also omitted, but, as I
think, wrongfully, as they have a most
distinct and clearly outlined and very
philosophical faith and are a people of
very high character and intelligence.
They number, however, less than 200,000
and are considered but a remnant of the
ancient Persians-therefore ethnic in re
ligion. It is a question also if the Shin
toists, numbering at least 14,000,000, and
the Taouists, numbering 43,000,000, as
well as all the Confucianists, should not
be added to the class labeled Buddhism,
giving it about 460,000,000 and making
it perhaps the leading division. However,
any classification is open to criticism.
As the world now is the Christians,
nominal and real, though less than a
third of the human race, comprise an
immense moiety of the material power
and intelligence, but if any man has an
idea that the other faiths will not be de
fended by men of extraordinary ability
and great scholarship the coming con
x. LAZARUS. RIGHT REV. J. KEANE.
ZITSUZEN ASHITSU. REV. G. T. CANDLIN.
ference will thoroughly undeceive him.
In the average of scholarship the Jews
in the convention will probably rank as
high as any, and their prominent advo
cates there will be Professor Moses Laz
arus of Berlin, Chief Rabbi Adler of
England and such Jewish scholars in the
United States as are yet to be chosen.
There will be many Buddhist scholars
from Japan and India. Chief among the
former will be Zitsuzen Ashitsu of. Omi,
who is noted for having read the com
plete classic course of Buddhist works at
the age of 18. At present he edits the
most widely circunlted Bnddhist journal:
Frop India will cdme it Dharmagps
general &iiereiiy of the Buiddha Gaya
Kaba Bud&ha aQoloet.and editor of the
society's journal in Calcutta. He will so
lect a number of assistants, including
some American Theosophists and othel
exponents of what is called Esoteriu
Buddhism.
The Mohammedans of India have se
lected their two greatest scholars to rep
resent theni-viz, Justice Ameer All of
the supreme court of Bombay and an
other whose name in English is not yet
announced. Orthodox Hindooism will
be represented )byNilkanth Vithal Shas
tri, and the so called pr6gressive branch,
founded by Baboo'Cheshiui Cliunder Sen,
by the eloquent Mozoomdar. From
Bombay also will come Mr. Jinanji
Jamshedji Modi, who took high honors
at the University of: Bombay, to present
the case of the Parsees or. Zoroastrians.
The old question.asa to, whther Judaism
or Parseeism.ia the older of the two re
ligions will doultless be argued anew,
but it is now con.ieed by the best Anglo
Indian scholars that Parseeism existed
at least in 1200 B. C.
It was a daring conception indeed
thbt of .calling such a convention and
inviting, men: of all, religions-and "its
success.was so doubtful that the Chris
tian ministers engaged said nothing of it
till their doubts were removed... The
committee of arringenients at Chicago
comprises such men asRev. John Henry
Barrow, chairman, Presbyterian; Right
Rev.. W. E. McLaren, Protestant Epis
copal;. Most Rev. P. A. ,Feehan, Roman
Catholic; Rabbi E. G. Hirsh, Jew, and
exponents of every other faith professed
in Chicago. In the advisory council and
among the consulting arid corresponding
projectors are Professor F. A. Hosmer,
Oahu college, Honolulu; Bishop Arnett
of the African Methodist. Episcopal
church; Professor Conrad von Orelli of
Basle, Switzerland; Right Rev. John J.
Keane, rector of the Catholic university
at Washington, and many others of
equal rank.
Dr. Barrow has been at work on the
matter for two years, during which he
has sent invitations to men of every sect
in the world and has received letters of
acceptance from about 1,500 persons. To
him more than any other man is due the
credit for such a remarkable gathering.
Professor A. P. Peabody of Harvard uni
versity, whose elegant and pleasing
works on Christianity are widely read,
has been active in furtherance of the
movement. In Europe the Rev. Ferdi
nand Cisar, the great theologian of the
reformed churches of Bohemia, has been
very active in securing representation of
eastern Europe, and the Rev. George T.
Candlin has been equally active for Asia.
He will bring to the conference a knowl
edge of the religious condition of China
at least equal to that of any man living.
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REV. F. CISAR. PROF. VON ORELL.
PROF. HOSMEp.. REV . . WASHBURNE.
At first view it seemed to some timid
souls that in such a conference there was
an unwise concession, as though Chris
tianity thus consented to have its claims
weighed on an equality with those of
the heathen. The best refutation of this
view is found in the fact that mission
aries in all heathen lands are most eager
for the conference and full of confidence
that their work will be advanced by
comparison and discussion. President
George Washburne. D. D., of Roberts
college, Constantinople, Bishop Parteria
of Sophia, Servia, and in fact all ti e
leading Christian Protestant workers in
the eastern countries urge this view
with great force. It must hbe admitted,
too, that all the other sects or denomina
tions or great religions are represented
by men equally confident, and the prob
abilities are that all will be somewhat
astonished, finding, too, that they agree
in many more things than they differ.
Of all the great political movements
of modern times the British conquest of
India had the most liberalizing effect on
the western mind. The two great
branches of the Aryan race, separated
nearly 4.000 years ago, were suddenly
brought into the most intimate relations,
and each learned with astonishment of
the long and devious road the other had
toiled over in its search for the unknown
God. As the Aryans of the west had
abandoned the classic and the Teutonic
mythologies for the pure monotheism of
the Jews, so the Aryans of the east, or
the more intellectual part of them, had
adopted a sort of modified monotheism
from other races. The great literature
of the Sanskrit tongue was opened to the
west, and now, so far as a merely human
wisdom can judge, there seems an even
chance that India will modify the belief
of the west before the west converts In
dia.
The most acute representatives of the
varied faiths will meet at Chicago and
discuss one theme each day, "The Per
sonality and Nature of God," "Man and
His Place in the Universe," "Religion,
or the Expression of Man's Relation to
God," "Unity and Diversity in Reli
gion," "Incarnation (Why the Universal
Idea?)," "Science a;d Religion," and thus
on to the-summary of all in "The Moral
Duties Taught In All Religions." On
each day a chosen representative of each
sect will present a summary of its claims
to acceptance. Truly a wonderful con
ception is this, and its realization will
make an epoch in the history of thought.
.T. H. BEAL..
Qualrantined at G'uaymas.
GUAYMAs, Mexico, March 28.-The
German bark Helena, from Hamburg,
among whose crew a case of cholera
soon developed after her arrival here
ten days ago, is still in quarantine. The
government authorities have taken
every precaution to prevent the disease
from spreading. It has developed in
the official investigation that the in
fected bark had not touched at Ham
burg for seven months, having been at
sea all that time.
The St. Paunl chamber of commerce
tabled the Phoanex Athletic club com
munication asking for moral support
to secure the Mitchell-Corbett fight.