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THE NEED OF FAITH. Julia Ward Howe Discusses Relig ious Education. Deplore* That So Many Young Per sona Are Growing Up in Ignor ance of the History and Contenta of the Bible. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the famous author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," though now 83 years old, still takes an active part in religious life. Not long ago she made an address from, a Boston pulpit and to a recent issue of the Christian Register (Bos ton, Unitarian) she contributes a char acteristic paper on "The Religious Edu cation of the Young." She writes: "We Americans of the nineteenth century have passed through a period of strange revolutions, of metamor ph oses akin to those of the earthquake and volcano in the world of physical phenomena. At the beginning of the last century the old order of things as regards religion was only here and there partially abrogated. Its grip was still firm upon the average of our people, by whom religion was held to consist in a certain very unnatural way of thinking and feeling. Those who stood aloof from this were classed either as opposed to religion or with out it. "Yet the time had come for the breaking of these fetters—the time for a simple and childlike Christianity to take the place of doctrines only le&s cruel than those of heathendom. With in the little space of my 83 years the fight has been fought, the victory won, and the undivine deity of ven geance and hate displaced by a divine of heart-thrilling love and majesty." May it not be, continues Mrs. Howe, that we have grown overconfident in the progress that has been made? "1 grieve to see," she says, "that in some families-attendance at church is held to be of no importance. I grieve still more to find many of our youth grow ing up in ignorance of the history and contents of our Bible." She says fur ther: "I know, and I suppose that others do, that within the period of doubt and JULIA WARD HOWE. At 82 Sbe I* Still' Interested in the Problems of the Day.) struggle some carefully educated fam ilies have been brought up without the habit of prayer, without knowledge of the Scriptures, without the custom of public worship. When the great trials of life shall overtake the young people thus trained, when even prosperity may bring with it a weariness and dis taste for life itself, where will these our dear ones seek comfort and spirit ual guidance?" In the religious 1 raining of young people, adds Mrs. Howe, there should be no place for much that still passes in the name of religion—for "the re ligion of correct and set phrases, of familiar talk on themes which should be held too sacred for words, of ter rific images of future punishment and inane visions of future reward." Our aim should rather be, she thinks, to present the "cardjnal points" of re ligion. She concludes: "Faith, hope and love are to-day as essential to the well-being of the hu man soul as they were when Paul com mended them in his famous chapter. We can present these great themes to day freed from the clouds which once obscured them. Aspiration and serv ice, faith in the love of God and in the Tight of every human being to the good-will of all—these doctrines do not mutilate, but complete the man as God intended him to be. It is said that the great Napoleon, hearing"one day the sound of a mass-bell as he rode through some remote village, sudden ly exclaimed: 'We must bring back the church.' It should need no Napoleon to suggest to us the deep necessity of religious institutions. Onlj*. in. any reconstruction of them, let us profit by what past ages have taught us, and make our church a temple toward which the hearts of all nations may turn with longing. Let us lift the ten der lambs of our households over the rough debris- of all that has been de molished, and set their feet in the green pastures and beside the still wa ters of which David was the prophet, hut of which t.he dear Christ is the true shepherd." Lainrioaa Coantry Home. A costly log cabin, built of spruce logs, is being erected on Warren's island, on the coast of Maine. It will have 22 rooms, and one of them, on the ground floor, has a brick and gran ite fireplace, with a marble mantel 12 feet in length. The entire cost of the structure will be $75,000. The original projector, Wm. H. Folwell, of Phila delphia, died before the completion of this luxurious njral home, and now his •on superintends thework. The Population of Asia. It is estimated that more than half the people in the world dwell in Asia. THE MODERN ELIJAH. John Alexander Dowie as a Man and as Autocrat of the Christian Church la Zlon, "John Alexander Dowie: The Proph« et and his Profits" is the title of a pa per by John Swain, in the Century, which is described in a subtitle as Study at First Hand of a Modern Eli jah." The character of Dowie's rule may be deduced from the following paragraphs Divested of his mantle and other ac cessories, Dowie is, in fact, a Scotch man, a former minister of the Congre gational church, a faith-healer, and the general overseer of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion (John A. Dowie, owner and proprietor). Possess- *5 JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE. (General Qverseer of the Christian Cath olic Church In ing all the usual characteristics of the first three of these, and being the only example we have yet had of the fourth, he is susceptible of ready analysis and examination. He has a long head for business, a canniness that passes be lief, and a bump of acquisitiveness that recalls at once the fate of Mark Twain's three Glasgow Jew»s who could not get car fare fc© escape from Scotland. He has impiielt* unquestion ing faith in God, a te«3ency to believe that too large a share of this world's good things canndt coaie his own way, and another tendency Joward finding the hand of God in all that pleases him and the unconquerable fcrce of the adversary in all that does not. ^He has a piety that is not cant, and a sin cere goodness (when he is uncrossed) that wins the love of all who b?come intimate with him. As a faithhealer he has a power which, with the pres* ent slight understanding of such phe nomena, approaches the marvelous, and which,by virtue of hypnotism, tele pathy, or some subtle suggestion, actually does relieve great numbers from pain. As head of the Christian Catholic church in Zion (it is as gener al overseer that he is almost always referred to by his followers), he pos sesses the most autocratic power it is possible to wield in this republic, hav ing absolute spiritual and temporal sway over all who believe in him. In his city of Zion, which is the capital of the world to the "Dowieite®," he is supreme. Wherever an adult maje Dowieite is, there is a vote to be cast as Dowie directs. Wherever a dollar is in the pocket of a Dowieite, there is ten cents that belongs by right to Dowie, and 90 cents more thathecaii have if he really needs it, as he often does. Wherever the cross and crown of Zion are found, there no alcoholic bev erage or tobacco is used, no pork or oysters or drug is consumed, no card game played, no profanity is heard for these things Dowie. as general overseer, has tabooed. Moreover, he is plain John A. Dowie, citizen of IlJi nois, a very human man, and one well worth studying and knowing'. FIGHT AGAINST ODDS. Omaha Congreosmnn's Reelectloi Vigorously Opposed by Hit Lead ing Party Organ. Congressman David H. Mercer, whose sixth consecutive nomination by the republicans of his district has been unexpectedly,.bolted by the Omaha HON. DAVID H. MERCER. (Nebraska Congressman Who Is Being Fought by Editor Rosewater.) Bee, began his political career in 1892, and when he won his seat in the house of representatives after one of the live liest, most bitterly contested cam paigns in the history of Nebraska. It was said of him at that time that he had personally interviewed every voter and kissed every baby in his district. His service in Washington has been considered of great value both to his party and his state, successive speak ers of differing political faiths having shown their appreciation of his ability by appointing him to a place on many important committees. He is still be lieved by his friends and adherents to be a man marked for future signal honors from his countrymen. Where Soot Cornea From. A ton of soot results from the barn* ing of 100 tons of coal. MAKE PL AIED WELL Chicago Horseman Cleaned Up a Fortune on the Turf- Hi* Companion, John W. G-aitea, Also Waa a Heavy Winner Thla Sea son—Gambling Fever Ram pant Everywhere. Never in the history of the American turf has the gambling fever possessed the habitues of the race tracks so com pletely as it has this season, saysaspe cial from New York. Fortunes have on several occasions changed hands in less than a minute and a half. Men who started in the seasAn with small bets became intoxicated with early gains and subsequently developed into plung ers of the first water. Such is G. Langdon, who began with a small amount early in the season, and is now $40,000 richer. Of the old school of plungers, men who have fought the bookmakers for years, John A. Drake is easily first in point of winning, for he has secured $300,000 from the ring dur ing the short space of four months. John W. Gates, Drake's friend, is third on the list. Senator P. H. McCarren leads all the eastern plungers with $200,000 to his credit. Drake heads the list of winning plungers. From the time his colt Wyeth won the American Derby at Chicago he has had but few big losses in bets. His wor.st meeting financially was at Saratoga. At the Spa fortune sidetracked him for a time, and he lost a large amount—$100,000, well-in formed bqokmakers say. His horses were all out of form and lost repeated ly. As he always backed them when ever they appeared to have the slight est chance to win, he lost 85 per cent, of his wagers. At the Slieepshead Bay meeting Drake more than made up for his Sara toga losses. He cleaned up $150,000 on his colt Savable wiien he won the Futurity, and his friend, John W. Gates, won $100,000. Since that day he has won all his bete with the exception of the big wager JOHN A. DRAKE. (Wsstsrn Horseman Known as the King ef Turf Plungers.) he lost on Runnels, when Heao defeat ed him. With Runnels standing on his ledger at a loss of over $50,000, bets'and purchase money included, Drake placed enough money in the ring on Thursday of last week and in the out of-town poolrooms to win him out. When the colt galloped home a winner in front of Roxane toe had evened up the score against Runnels and had a profit to show. He won heavily during the Chicago meeting on his horses. This money, with the amounts won at Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend, placed him a net winner of $300,000 on the season. John W. Gates, unlike his friend and companion, Drake, won at Saratoga. He played Drake's horses when they first started, but soon realized that they were out of form, and bet his money subsequently on eastern horses. In this way he recovered his early losses and quit the famous watering place several thousand dollars richer than when he arrived there. He plunged on Savable in the Futurity, and, like Drake, won a fortune on the result. Senator P. H. McCarren has won more money this year than any other eastern plunger. He has picked the winners with great, frequency all sea son. Hardly a day passed without recording a profit for him on the day's speculation. He won many thousands •on his own horses, but the biggest win ning he made w-as on The Rival, at Sheepshead Bay, when John E. Mad den's colt defeated Articulate. In that race the senator won $40,000. There'* JVotflrlng like. Paper. Artificial teeth made of paper and "uppers" for boots and shoes of the same material are among the new uses to which paper is being put. The old saying. "There is nothing like leather," may some time be changed to "There's nothing like paper." At this very mo ment a substantial business firm in Bos ton is considering a proposition to take up the work of manufacturing paper hats. By and by a high hat, dress suit, and shoes rivaling patent leathers, all made of paper, may be considered quite the correct thing. The paper age may astonish the world to a greater degree than any that has preceded it. Ho Swearing by Telephone. It is a finable offense in St. Louis to swear through a telephone. Now, it is usual, when a man feels disposed to make the wire warm with blasphemous expressions, to just hang up the re ceiver and then give full play to his indignation. This avoids a fine, saves the wire, and the man at the other end does not know what is going on. GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH. Chief of Salvation Army Kow Visit ing the United States on Tour of Inspection. Gen. William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, has arrived from England. He will spend four months in this country and one in Canada, in specting the army and delivering ad* dresses. While here he will lessen con siderably the two countries' visible supply of tea and toast. Those who are intimately acquainted with the venerable general and his habits de clare that they know of no more in veterate tea drinker and toast eftter. T. P. O'Connor recently asked the gen* eral: "What is yotir chief weakness?" GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH. Chief of Salvation Army, Now Visiting the United States.) "Tea and toast," was the laconic re sponse. Gen. Booth acquired this habit in his early years, when, during the course of a day's work, he would take tea anil toast as a stimulant, for then, as now, he worked 14 and 16 hours a day. He has never been able to break the cus tom thus formed. "Perhaps 1 could," he once said to a friend, "but then I'd have to break the habit of working 14 hours each day and I don't expect to do this until 1 die." The general is 73 years old, but he shows no sign of breaking down. It is not an uncommon thing for him to keejf six secretaries busy taking let ters for an unbroken stretch of eight or ten hours.* It was while dictating to a secretary that Gen. Booth got his idea of the present name of the movement of which he is the head. At first he called it the Christian Mission. One day, as he was dictating a circular on the Christian Mission's work, he said: "The Christian Mission is a volunteer army," and wrote "salvation" above it. "The Salvation Army will be our new name," he exclaimed. Gen. Booth attributes his ability to wear out his secretaries and assistants largely to traits whifch enable him to put aside care at an instant's notice and to see the humor that lies in all things. DAVID E. THOMPSON. New Minister to Braal'l.Is One of the Leading Republican Politicians of Nebraska. David E. Thompson, of Lincoln, Neb., nominated by the president to be min ister to Brazil, has been prominent in Nebraska politics for six years. He began life as a brakeman on the Bur lington & Missouri River railroad, was promoted into the mechanical depart ment, and finally became a progressive railroad man. He is interested now largely in real estate. One of his lat est enterprises is the establishment in Lincoln of an evening newspaper. He was one of the leading figures in the triangular senatorial contest among Meiklejohn, Thompson* and Dietrich, which resulted in the elec tion of Dietrich, the present senator. DAVID E. THOMPSON. (Appointed Minister to Brazil, to Succettf Col. C. P. Bryan. It is understood that the senator is the principal sponsor of Mr. Thomp son in his diplomatic aspiration. The compensation of the post to which he is appointed is $12,000 per annum, and while in recent years it has not been the scene of any particular diplomatic episodes, it is believed that, owing to the pending dispute between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru over the territory of Acre, and the necessity in the near future of a rearrangement of tariff arrangements between Brazil and the United States, Mr. Thompson's -post will offer considerable opportunities for personal distinction. Prom Tree to Newspaper. In two hours and 25 minutes a grow ing tree in Elsenthal, Austria, was con verted into newspsfpers. At 7:35 a.m., the tree was sawed down at 9:34 the wood, having been stripped of the bark, was turned into pulp and made Into pa per at 10 o'clock the paper was ed and sold on the print' streets. TOWER IS PROMOTED Chosen to Succeed White as Am bassador to Germany. (a Taken from St. Petersburg, Where He Has Been Stationed for lev* •ral Years Appointment Pleases Germans. President Roosevelt has choseu Charlemagne Tower, ambassador io Russia, to succeed Mr. White as am bassador to Germany. Notifications of this decision and that Mr. White's letters of recall had been issued by the state department have reached the foreign office at Berlin. Mr. Tower brings to his new of fice great wealth, a valuable library and a mind well stocked with the fruits of years spent in historical research. He is the son of one of the leading business men of Penn sylvania, and inherited a fortune of about $10,000,000, which he has in creased by wise transactions. The new ambassador was born in Phila delphia April 17, 1S48, and is the eighth in descent from John Tower, who came to this country from Eng land in 1637. Mr. Tower had the ad vantages of the public schools in his preliminary education, and then went to a military academy at New ITaven, Conn. Thence he went to Phillips academy at Exeter, N. H., and graduated from Harvard in 1872. For several years after leaving Harvard Mr. Tower traveled exten sively and gratified his desire to be a student of history, languages and literature. At one time he was the intimate of the distinguished Ger man writer, Herr lleribert Uau. While Gen. Daniel Sickles was United States minister to the court of Spain Mr. Tower became an attache of the legation at Madrid for the purpose of making a study of diplomacy. In 1876 the young Pliiladelphian traversed the Iloly Land on horse back and added greatly to his store of knowledge of Biblical times. Re turning to Philadelphia he read law in the office of the late William CHARLEMAGNE TOWER. (New American Ambassador to the Ssat of the German Empire.) Henry Rawle and was admitted to the bar in 1S78. It was largely owing to Mr. Tower's energy that the great iron deposits of northern Minnesota were developed. He took the presidency of theDuluth & Iron Range Uaihvay company in 1S82, and for five years was one of Minne sota's leading citizens. Returning to Philadelphia in 1887. he became vice president of the Finance company, was soon made president, and remained in tha.t office until 1891, when he was elected to leave active business for his pursuits in literature. His most not able production was the book, "The Marquis de Lafayette and the Ameri can Revolution." Mr. Tower is a re gent of the Univer-ity of Pennsylvania, and was president of its department of archaeology and paleontology, and he is a member of a number of scientific societies. He married Miss Helen Smith at Oakland. Cal., in 1538, and lias three sons. Lafayette college recently conferred on Mr Tower the degree of LL Although a highly-cultured man the embassador has "roughed it" in the mines of this country and is a practical engineer and chemist. He is pre eminently a student and never has sought 1 he glare of the society calcium. All efforts to get him interested in of fice-holding in Pennsylvania becluse of his sterling worth, his prominence in the business world and his high ideals were fruitless until he had taken up the lance in favor of municipal reforms in Philadelphia. Subsequently he ex pressed a desire tc enter the diplomatic service and was nominated for the post of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, lie is now rated as one of Philadel phia's richest men. Fox Farming in Alaska. Within the last 15 years the new industry of "fox-farming" has been developed in Alaska. It originated in the desire to preserve the valu able blue fox from extermination. The experiment was begun by plac ing 20 foxes on an unoccupied island. In the course of a few years some 30 islands were thus turned into fox ranches. It was found that the ani mals soon became sufficiently domes ticated to cease fearing their keep ers, and to assemble at feeding places. Eight hundred or a thou sand foxes are included in a ranch. At the proper age a certain number are killed for their pelts. The busi ness appears to pay very well, and it is suggested that other fuV-bear ing animals might be domesticated and propagated in a similar manner. CUr of Wonderfwl Growth. In Beaumont, Tex., 1,500 residences were built in the last 12 months. It has population of 30,000. EXPERIENCED DIPLOMAT. Jean Jalea Joss rand, Kewlf«At 'V, pointed Ambassador froaa France to VaMed States. M. Jeaa Jules Jusserand, who will succeed M. Cambon as ambassador to the United States, llviH be received with*, ,» open arms by Washington society. Ho is 48 years old, and half of his life hag been spent in diplomatic service. Throughout his career M. Jusserand has been a devoted admirer of America and American institutions. Mme. Jusserand is a eharming' American woman. She was before her*^ marriage Miss Richards, of Boston. The meeting with M. Jusserand took place some ten years ago in France and was spoken of aa an affair of lore on JEAN JULES JUSSERAND. (New Ambassador from France to ths United States.) first sight. The match was facilitated by the fa'ct that M. Jusserand speaks English fluently. He is thoroughly in formed on English and American his tory, and i-n his public speeches refers frequently to American enterprise and versatility. In literary circles here M. Jusserand occupies a prominent place. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1883, and nine years later was made an officer of the order. He is a voluminous writer. Among some of his noted works are "La Vie Nomade et les Routes d'Angleterre au XIV. Siecle," "Les Anglais au Moyen Age," "Le Roman Anglais," "Le Roman au Temps de Shakespeare" and "Le Theater en Angleterre depuis la Conquette jusqu'aux Predecesseurs Immediatsde Shakespeare." Jusserand entered the French diplomatic service in the London con sulate in 1878. From 18S7 to 1890 he was consul to the embassy in London, and since 1899 he has been minister to Denmark. MISS RUTH HANNA. She Will Soon Beeonte the Bride of Che Oldest Son of Ambassador McCormick. of Chicago. The announcement of the engage* mentof Miss liuth Hanna, daughter of Senator Marcus A. Hanna, to Joseph Medill McCormick, son of Robert Ale Cormick, of Chicago, recently appoint ed ambassador to Russia, was made the other day. The engagement is not only of interest to Cleveland and Chi cago society, where the two young peo ple have been reared, but to the lead* ing political and social circles of two continents. Ambassador and Mrs. Mc Cormick recently returned to America., Whether the visit means a vacation to the ambassador at the time of his change from the Austrian mission to that of Hussia or whether it means the wedding is soon to take place has not been announced in fact, the date for the wedding is not yet public. Misa Ilanna is well known in Chicago so- MIS3 RUTH HANNA. (Your.gest Daughter of Senator Marcus Har.na, of Ohio.) ciety. She has visited many of th« young society women here, but the greater portion of her time in Chicago always has been spent with her school friend. Miss Adelaide Hamilton, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Hamilton, o! Michigan avenue. To Chicago society folk the engagement did not come as a great matter of surprise. The exist ence of a betrothal, or at least the pos- and is on the Tribune staff. Women Itnle the Rooat. Woman's rights prevail in Abyssinia. There the wife is boss of the shanty. The house, with all its contents, be longs to her, and if the husband of* fends her she turns him ont antil he li fully repentant mad a«kes ameuda. f, sibility of one. has been hinted at be fore. Miss Hanna. whose coming-out party was an event in Washington so ciety two seasons ago, is a graduate of Farmington. She is a fine eques trienne and a lover of outdoor sport generally. Mr. McCormick, who i»the^\ namesake and grandson of the later. S Joseph Medill. of the Chicago Tribune, has adopted his grandfather's profes sion since his graduation froth Yale,*8^ -V .k'3 4 C, titer