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The morning call., 1891-08-30
RIncher,s Exnlanatinn.

In the Waterloo campaign Colonel Sir
Henry Hardings, K. c. B., was British Com
missioner with the Prussian Army. Toward
the close OF the battle of Ligny his left hand
was shattered by a round shot, but such was
his courage and resolution that. causing a
tourniquet TO be placed on his arm, he re-
mained at Blucher's side till the end of the
struggle. Taken to the nearest hut, his
hand was unskilIfully amputated and he lost
much blood. He was subsequently con-
veyed to Wavre, and quaint interview took
place next morning between him and the
gallant, warm old Marshal, the ac-
count OF which we give in Lord Hardings'
own words:
Next morning Blucher sent for me, call
ing ME Iieber Freund' and embracing me.
| perceived he smelt strongly of gin and
rhubarb. He said to me, 'Ich stinke ct
was; that he had been obliged to take
medicine. having been twice ridden over by
the cavalry, but he should be quite salts
fled If, in conjunction with the Duke, he
was able now to defeat his old enemy. |
was told there had been great discussion
that night in his rooms, and that Blucher
and GroIlenau had carried the day for re-
naming in communication with the En-
glish Army, but that Gneisenau had great
doubts whether they ought not to have
fallen back on Liege. The Athenaum.
The morning call., 1891-08-30
A PAINTING
OF COLUMBUS.
A Portrait. Supposed to Be Genuine, Of
the Great Explorer.
Washington Irving Was Convinced of Its Au-
thenticity-Its First Exhibition in Amer
lea at the Libby Prison War Museum

The recent opening in Chicago OF the
Libby Prison War Museum has been great
event, even for the great Worlds Fair city.
One of the most notable exhibits therein
contained is Sir Antonio Moro's portrait of
Columbus, exhibited for the first time in
America. According to the Herald the
painting was recently acquired by g. F.
Gunther and is life-sze half length por-
trait, which is said to have been painted by
Sir Antonio Moro from two miniatures of
Colum bus then in possession of the royal
family of Spain. 1t is also stated that these
miniatures are supposed to have been
painted from life. though no authority is
given for this conjecture.
Washington Irving says that 1t was taken
to England in 1880. where it remained in the
possession of one family until about the
middle of the present century. 1t was then
purchased by William Cribb of Covent Gar
The morning call., 1891-08-30
CASA GRANDE.
Ari5OnaS Great and Interesting Mysterious
Ruin,

Your correspondent has just completed an
examination of one of the most interesting
and mysterious ruins in the United States.
The Casa Grande, or great house, is nine
miles north of the town of Casa Grande, a
station on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
and is situated in the heart of the Arizona
desert. On this account, and the fact that
its existence is not widely known, very few
Americans have visited it. Yesterday
morning, after filling water bottles and load
ing burro with provisions to last us for
two days, your correspondent and five Pima
Indians left the town of Casa Grande for a
visit to the ruins.
The entire way is shifting bank Of sand,
with no vegetation. except greese-weed ana
the giant cactus. After a ride of an
hour and half we came to the immense
building. 1t seems to have crumbled much
from the effects of time, but the walls are
yet four stories in height and of a uniform
thickness of feet They are built of adobe
bricks. about four times the size Of those in
use to-day, and almost square. The foun-
dation is laid deep in the sand. The build
ing is 460X360 feet. On the inside one can
see the holes In the walls in which once
The morning call., 1891-08-30

rested the wooden supports of the floors.
These are all gone now, and the falling
walls have raised the level of the ground
in the immediate vicinity several feet
Throughout the country surrounding this
ruin there are what appears to be
mounds of earth. By digging into them one
can discover foundations, proving them to
have once been houses of a less durable
character than Casa Grande, and perhaps
hundr eds Of years ago they succumbed to
time. Several of these mounds were dug
into and stone axes and hammers, bone
avis and vessels of croekery, filled with
parched corn and beans in wonderful state
OF preservation, taken out. The evidence
is conclusive that this structure once stood
in the center of large city, and was tenn
pie or some other kind of public building.
Near the foot of the mound we came upon the
evidence of an old canal, and traced it to the
Gila River, distance Of forty miles. The
The morning call., 1891-08-30
The Infinite.

The probability amounts almost to a GER
tainty that star-strewn space is of measur-
able dimensions. For from innumerabe
stars imitless sum total of iadiations
should be derived, by which darkness
would be hanished from our skies and the
intense inaue," glowing with the mingled
beams of suns individually indistingush-
able, would bewlder our feeble senses with
its monotonous splendor This laying bare,
so to speak. of the empyrean would be the
simple and certain result of the continu-
ance, ad intintum. of any arr Iangement
OF sidereal objects comparable with that pre-
vailing in our neighborhood. Unless that is
TO say, light suffer some degree of enfeeble-
ment in space. If this be the ease, then our
reasonings are put to silence, and veil is
drawn impenetrable to scrutiny. But there
Is not a particle of evidence that any such
toll is exacted; contrary indications are
strong, and the assertion that its payment is
inevitable depends upon analogies which
may be wholly visionary. We are then, for
the present, entitled to disregard the prob
lematical effect of a more than dubious
cause. The sidereal system cannot accord
ingly be regarded as In any true sense in
fnite.-The System of the Stars: Agnes ii.
Clerke.
The morning call., 1891-08-30

pretentious ones. There Is no water,
parched desert. The present inhab-
itants. who are very intelligent
Indians, with many traditions, can tell
nothing of its origin, and l am led to think
that the people who erected it lived long
yet shows complete system OF irrigating
bitches, and with little labor they could br
reopened."
There are many ruins that this priest
never saw. Up in the highest peaks of tn,
Bradshaw Mountains the cliffs are actually
honegcOmbed with the caves cut out of thr
solid rock i'll which they dwelt Every Bit
of evidence tends to prove that their exist
ence was many ages ago. The Toltecs of
Mexico can trace their history to the tenth
century, and at that time they were apt
artisans in all kinds of metal.-PhGnix
(Ariz.) letter to st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The morning call., 1891-08-30
THE FRENCH SCHOOLS.
4 Sample Of The Non SGCtaTial Instruction
Given Therein.

a leading religious journal OF this country
gives the following extracts from the Man
ual of Unsectarian Instruction in daily use
in the elementary schools OF Paris, now con-
tIolled by the Government:
TeacheT-What Is God?
Child-We eaunOt tell.
1eacher-Do you acknowledge superior OF
controlling being?
Child-Nhy should we? Prove to US the ne.
ceSsity, and show him to us.
Teaches-It cannot be proved that such being
is Indispensable.
tBe matter.
The entire catechism is summed p in these
words; The term God has no Specification, 1t
means nothing al all"
This, says the journal referred to. is the
outcome of the French experiment in nom
sectarian, that Is, strictly non-religious edu-
cation. One must pity the children who are
brought up under such a system and the
State whose future citizens they are to be.
Yet many earnest Christian thinkers, il
adds, are ready to make our system of pub
lie education purely nou-religious and pre-
fer that their children shall take their
chances in secular schools
Our esteemed contemporary evidently
mistakes the motive of those who oppose the
Introduction of religious Instruction in our
public schools. The examples quoted from
the French manual are no more 'unsec-
tartan" than would be the teaching of Meth
odism or Judaism or Roman Catholicism,
for instance, in our schools. 1t is sectarian-
ism of the narrowest sort, embodyIng the
teachings of agnostism in the most emphatic
and sectarian manner, and is as calculated
10 preclude from children's minds all ideas
but those of agnostcs as effectualiy as the
most rigid sectarianlsm could instil in those
same minds the tenets of one religious sect
to the exclusion of all others. What is con-
templated by liberal Christian thinkers in
opposing religious teachings from our
religious instruction but the protection of
the children of Jews, Gentiles, Catholics and
nOnconformists, who are taxed to support
those schools, from teachings that may be
Objectionable to the faiths and creeds of
parents.
Suca instruction as Is quoted as sample
OF that given in the French schools cannot
possibly be called unsectarian. and, equally,
the spirit that prompts the rejection OF
purely religious teaching from our schools
cannot possibly be called irreigious.
The morning call., 1891-08-30

thirty. He had a majestic presence with
much dignity and at the same time affability
of Manner
The head of Moro's portrait is reddish
and untouched by gray, but the picture
otherwise answers to this description. 1t is
in an old and quantity carved frame, with
the arms of Columbus on top, with various
nautical and warike designs at the sides.
The reputation of Sir Antonio Nero was
exceedingly good, and study of his style
and an Investigation of the history of the
portrait incline critics to believe that the
Columbus is genuine.
Moro was called the best painter of his
times in the Netherlands, and this painting
is supposed to have been made for Marga-
ret. regent of the Netherlands, between
1543 and 1916.
The morning call., 1891-08-30
LOUISE MICHEL.
A Somber Meeting at Which a Woman
Was the Speaker.

Was the Speaker.
A somber meeting is going on. 1t has
nothing to do with the laundresses; but as
the chief speaker is a woman. it deserves
to be mentioned on this w0man's day.
Here wagon is drawn up in the deep
shade, and as background are draped
three flags of dull red hue. A white tab
let close by bears the inscription, Do not
forget Chicago" with list of names re-
corded rs martyrs-the names of those who
were executed for throwing dynamite bombs
among the police Of Chicago. So that this
rendezvous has something of an interua-
tional character. The audience, too, is of
the same description: German, French,
Belgian. Swiss. with a sprinkling of stolid,
uneXplosive English.
''We, the Anarchists of London" begins
speaker, who mentions comrade this and
eomrade the other, and whose panacea for
social ills seems to be strike of everybody
against everything No one cares to object;
The morning call., 1891-08-30

but the remedy is too mild, so the shrugs
and muttered remarks seem to intimate, TO
be making fuss about. But presently a
really interesting figure appears-a woman,
tall and gaunt, in scanty black drapery,
with the face of a sibyl gone into ears,
but with eyes that burn with inextinguish-
able fire. Here is one who is thoroughly in
earnest, anyhow. Emotion quivers on her
tongue and passes like a wave to the very
ends of her long, sinewy fingers. She speaks
IN French, with the resonant accent of old
Gaul, and her voice quivers as if under the
burden of the inert souls whom she strives
to stir-in vain. This might be the shade
of one OF the old revolutionary women who
marched SO proudly TO the scaffold. This
woman would march as proudly, too. that
way. for she is Louise Michel. But a
cynical age declines to offer her the final
martyrdom.
"Myi what have we here?" cries Liz,
who rusheS tempestuously from one scene
to another. French, is it? Lori | amt
going to jine for learning Frenchw and
away she goes to seek some other banner
under which to enlist.-All the Y ear Round
The morning call., 1891-08-30

Neuralgia in the face has been cured by
applying mustard plaster to the elbow
For neuralgia in the head apply the plaster
to the back of the neck The reason for
this is that mustard is said to touch the
nerves the moment it begins TO draw or
burn, and to be OF the most use must be ap-
piled to the nerve centers or directly over
the place where it will touch the affected
nerve most quickly.
The morning call., 1891-08-30

I"General James Wadsworth the largest indi-
vidual landowner In the State OF New YORK. His
land comprised the greater portion of the famous
Geneses Valley. He man of spotless reputa-
ton and distinguished ability, and was especially
noted for his kind and humane treatment of his
tenants Eyictons among them unknown.
For long time after his death the fences along the
highway separating his estates, for a distance OF
thirty miles or more, were painted In mourning.l
The morning call., 1891-08-30
swallows or pigeons..

For some time past swallows have been
trained successfully to do the work of
been training these birds at Roubaix, be.
lieyes that in case of war they would be ten
times more useful than pigeons, as he finds
them to he more intelligent; they also fly
at higher altitude. and are able to obtain
their food while on the wing. In recent
experiment, fifteen of these birds were
given absolute freedom, when they flew in
different directions. and in about twenty
minutes came back and perched on their
trainers hand.-Chamb bers' Journal
The morning call., 1891-08-30

Frogs, toads and serpeDts never take food
but that which they are satisfied Is alive
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-02
Mr.. BIaine's Canadian negotiations.

henry hnrLDert IN Nortn American Review.
Canadian politics, like our own, are
rather cloudy just now, but the govern
ment at Ottawa is still in the hands of
public men committed to the policy of the
late premier. The negotiations as Wash
Ington will probably be conducted, as they
would have been had Sir John still lived,
by Sir Charles Upper, who was associated
with Mr.. Chamberlain in those fishery ne
gotiations" at Washington, in 1888, with
the results OF which both Democratic and
Republican men in this country have pro-
fessed at least a Platonic satisfaction, and
to whose thorough fairness and good will
towards the United States Mr.. Phelps, the
representative in London of President
Cleveland's government, bore emphatic
public witness at the "Fishmongers' "ban-
quet not long before his return to this
country. But whoever may conduct the
negotiations at Washington City, those
negotiations must iii public attention upon
the questian how far the official intromis-
sion of the parliamentary executive of
Great Britain in the commercial re-.
lations between the Union and the
Dominion Is an element of mischief, and
how far an element of good in the rela-
tiOns not only of Canada with the Unit ed
States, but of the Dominion and the
Union, respectively, with Great Britain.
This is cardinal question which seems to
me likely to be the most important out
come of Mr.. Blaine's Canadian negotia-
tiOns. If all of us do not soon begin to
consider it temperately and judiciously.
the time is not far off when it will get itself
considered perhaps neither temperate
ly nor Judiclously. EVERYBODY who
has followed, even in the most
cursory way, the history of
the interminable fishery questions, which
have been debated and discussed almost
to the fighting point between London and
Washington City during the last two gen.
eratlons, must be aware that the complica-
ton OF purely Canadian and American
with purely British issues has been.
throughout all these discussions and do.
bates permanent source of confusion and
irritation. Is the commercial be-
llgerency" of the present moment
between the Dominion and the
Union anything more than an
incident of the commercial belligereDcv'i
developed by our system of protection he.
tween the United States and the United
Kingdom? Doubtless it is made more
acute and therefore more costly to the
taxpayers, upon whom the burden of this
sort, as OF all sorts, of "beIiigereucy"
eventually falls. by the unwise ATTEMPT of
the Canadians TO seek prosperity throuoh
protection. Bat would not the prospect of
relief from 1t through some diplomatic
transaction 10 be brighter than it now ia
for such transaction TO be carried on ev.
ciusiyely between Ottawa and Washington
City. Is not the direct and, indeed, pri-
mary participation of the British FOREIGN
othce IN any such transaction between the
DOMINION and the Union likely 10 impede
rather than 10 further its success?
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Lowell Greater Than His Work.
Richard Henry Stoddard In North Americ
RaviaW

Richard Henry Stoddard In North American
Review.
To say that we are more Indebted IN
Lowell than to any of his famous peers i.
not to say that he was greater than thew.
but that his gifts were more numerous
than theirs-which is true. since to those
which were the inheritance of his genius
he added others from provinces that
he made tributary to it-and he
employed these gifts with a direct
ness, force, a knowledge, an adj
justment of means to ends, which
his contemporaries did not possess. and
which is rare among men Of letters.
poet, he was more than poet; critic. he
was more than critic; a thinker, he was
more than thinker; from beginning IN
end he was mana man in every fibre
and every feeling, right-minded. clear.
minded, strong-minded, honest. bono--
able, courageous, resolute. He was This
and more, for to this there was snne-'
added the something which nakes
the man the gentleman, and IT,
gentleman the man of the world
There was nothing provincial aboDt bi,1
NO American writer was ever better ana
Few were ever so well equipped for tha
profession TO which he devoted bi,rsaIs
Win such sincerity and fidelity. spob
slngleness Of purpose and such unusve--
Ing determination. He was a scbola =:
the best sense Of the word, possessed -
a thorough knowledge of FDnI;sn
literature and critically conxersaa.
with other literatures as well
classics of Greece and Rome .ns
the classics of Spain and Italy. Frano 49,
and Germany. A scholar, not a ne5nn'
ne mastered his learning, and it Ian pTIant;
him in the large horizons which !, sH dts
closed TO his spiritual vision. and ~ as
I!clty and dignity which it impaired ~ re- re-
style. Gentleman and scholar in All - ms MS
ne wrote, there is that in his writinD rvt siidt
declares greater intellect than il 9e "n1Gn
ne was more than his work. VIII, as
Work was some of Us may have foro C ms
IN measure, and others NAV nevars len
known except in a casual, frao,nerIttaaEVe
way, way But known or unknown, It is is ~a1I
mat We should understand il in =. wen
tlrety-a duty which Mr.. Lowell ZEN as en-,
easy. and pleasure which he rer lJ1ere9
rnT'Illlns' not long before his death 80
oo..ectlng complete edition of Gy
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-02
TEMPERANCE A GROWING CAUSE.

Sydney's History of English Social Life
in the Eighteenth Century, which has Just
been published, describes the incorporate
drinking of alchoholic liquors by all
classes of English society as something
clear beyond the experience of the present
day. Addison, Steele and Pulteney were
VIGOROUSLY addicted to the bottle. 1t is
averred by Mrs. Delany that Lord Boiling
broke, when in Office, sat up whole nights
drinking, and in the morning, having
bound a wet napkin around his forehead
and eyes, fastened W thout sleep to his Of
fetal business. About the time that the
American war drew to a close drunkenness
increased among members of Eng ish So
ciety in a remarkable degree. William
Pitt, Sheridan, Lord Eldon and Lord
Stowell could, and habitually did, each
empty six bottles at sitting. Nor was
society at all scandalized at this, seeing
that the heir apparent was setting an ex-
ample of chronic inebriety. At the Carl
ton house revels, over W hich the Prince of
Wales, afterward George w., presided, he
frequently drank wine to an excess that
tdI OiiiN bS Ntl iiltN btStltils CACuSAHS lIIIl-
self on the pretext that he was subject TO
nervous debility.
London ladies of fashion drank freely
of port. Burgundy, champagne and claret
at dinner, and not seldom of brandy, while
the common people drank enormously Of
gin. AS early, indeed, as the first
part of the reign of George I. gin
drinking had struck deep root
in English customs, and, as Mr.. Lecky
has pointed out, ''small as is the place
which the fact occupies in English history,
it was probable. if We consider all the con-
sequences that have flowed from it, the
most mOmentous event in the annals of
the eighteenth century" The habit of ex-
cessiye indulgence in gin kept on growing
till it eliminated in the passage Of a gin
act in 1896, which, however, produced no
effect. Thirteen years later it was COM
puted that there were within the bills of
mortality more than 1000 gin shops.
Fielding, the novelist, in a pamphlet dis
cussing the increase of crime, published
when the century had just completed half
its course, declared that gin consti-
tuted the chief sustenance of more than
10000 people in the capital alone.
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BLAyaTsKy.s SAD PLIGHT.
Now Wandering About the fieids IN
State of Distressing Nudity.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune
The late lamented Nine. BlavatsKy at
last has been heard from, prominent
theosophist in London having received
letter from the skies from the madam by
the Mahatma rapid transit route, set down
in choice Sanskrit. 1t appears from this
letter that the madam is in dire extremity,
having lost all her clothes on her way 10
Devachan, wherever that may be, ana IS
now wandering about the fields in state
of distressing nudity. Her condition IS
not as appalling as it might be were there
any other persons about, but the letter
states that 'her Kamarupa not being SUI
ficiently dense, she is unprotected from
the cold breezes of Akaza."
| there be any loyalty to the memory
Of Nine. Blavatsky left among her follow
ers, they viii get their heads together and
come TO her relief. The least that Mrs.
Besant and Colonel Olcott can dols to send
word to her through the Mahatmas not to
be discouraged. as help will came speedily.
The least that Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs.
Frank Leslie Celia Thaxter, Celia Logan
and others, who have espoused the occult
doctrines, can do is to club together and
buy the madam an outfit sufficient to pro-
tect her against the cold breezes of AkaZa,
and send IL by Colonel Olcott. who Is GO
ing to India and soon Will be upon the
Himalayas making arrangements with the
Mahatinas tor fresh campaign. The
colonel can send the package by them and
there will be no delay in the transmission.
II the Mahatmas can send letters from
ThibDet to Mrs. Besant and the colonel
in London, which travel with lightning
speed and drop upon the tables in their
apartments without even the neces-
sity OF going down to the mailbox for
them, they ought TO be able TO send a pack
age of Clothes and few punches of cigar
cites TO Akaza. If the package should be
too bulky for one Mahatma several of the
astral brethren might combine their pow
ers and send it through on their mystic
limited. The madam should not be al
lowed to blossom out in q new incarnation
in this distressing plight. Unless, there
fore, their respect for her has sunk into a
condition of Nirvana, her kamarupa will
be made sufficiently dense to withstand all
the cold waves that may blow in Akaza.
If not, then well may Nine. Blavatsky in
her new incarnation look back upon the
old one and plaintiyely inquire in Rip Van
Wrinkles words, "Are we so soon forgot
when we are gomez" Well may she curse
the fate which destined her to change from
her former comfortable incarnation into
that of a wandering Venus or Greek slave,
and sigh for the blessed oblivion Of Mir
yana.