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revived or reformed by majority votes? Would
the Church give itself bound hand and foot
into the keeping ofNan anchorless majority !?
Would it allow such authority to thrust out a
minister. as its own faith held, hereto to be
destined to the powers of darkness?
Prof Briggs argued technically, strenuously
and forcefully against the legitimacy of such a
trial as was proposed to be given him. He
asked if it was likely that this numerous body
of 500 delegates to the Assembly could be more
just than the Synod of New York was. DIR.
Briggs'S main anxiety seemed to be that he
would be misunderstood by his arraigners |;
that in their zeal they would decide in too
much haste. In conclusion, he said:
81 wish to make an explicit denial of the
charge that preached doctrines against the
fundamental doctrines of the Church. | affirm
that / believe the Holy Scriptures to be the
word of God. have affirmed my faith honestly
and uprightly every three years in making the
reafiirmstiOn of faith which was required of
me by the Union Theological Seminary
Il hold to the whole doctrine taught in the
first chapter of the Westminster Confession.
Anything / may have said that may conflict
with these statements was due to misinterpre-
tations, but / charge no one with SO misinter-
pretng me wilfully."
On Friday morning the final question as re-
garded the manner Of treatment of the Briggs
case was brought up. Itwass Shall the appeal
I. An extended argument followed. Many
members were for sending the case back TO the
Synod of New York. Others took the view
that they should confine themselves to abso-
lutely as to whether they Should consider the
appeal. During this discussion Prof. Briggs
attempted to speak when statements were
made by speakers that were manifestly unjust
to him, but Moderator Craig insisted that he
had no rights at this period in the proceedings,
and while there remained perfect good feel
ing between the Moderator aud the Professor,
the latter yielded to the Moderator's reasoning
and kept his peace thereafter.
The debate closed late in the afternoon, and
Judge Purnell of Baltimore, offered resolu-
tion to remand the case to the New York
Synod, which was defeated
The question then recurring on the resolu-
ton of the Judicial Committee that the appeal
be entertained. the ayes and noes were de-
manded, with the result that the ayes won, on
a vote of 400 to las.
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THE FASTEST CRUISER.
The New York on Her Trial Trip Develop
a Speed of 21 Knots.

The New York on hcr trial develops
Speed of III Knots.
The United States now has the fastest
cruiser of any nation on the face of the earth,
the fact being demonstrated by the New York
on her trial trip last Monday. The trial was
made off the coast of Massachusetts,, the entire
course being 4l.65 nautical miles, which was
steamed over twice. At s o'clock the start was
made and the first half of the course covered
at the rate of 20.S3 knots an hour, and on the
return speed of 2I.35 knots was reached,
making an average of 21.09 knots an hour.
On the first half the tide was against the YES
sell which somewhat retarded its course. The
New York is the most powerful cruiser in the
world, and coupled with her great speed makes
her the swiftest armored cruiser in existence
There has been great enthusiasm in England
over the performances of the cruisers Blake
and Blenheim, some claiming that the latter
had attained a speed Of % knots. In the first
place, these vessels are not armored, but simply
protected by four nine-inch plates over ma
chinery and boilers.
Even equal speed from them, therefore,
would be nothing remarkable against a vessel
carrying in addition to xinch protective
deck, fve-inch side belt and two turrets, each
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remarkably fine specimen was found not
so very long ago near Ncwberg, n. Y. and that
State has yielded several others The mann
moth was the more northern form, the best
known one being the great hairy mammoth
(ElephaS pTimigeHiusj. a species which roamed
in immense herds all over Europe, and ex-
tended, as / say, its migrations into North
America From excellent figures of skeletons
in my possession ! have made restoration Of
the head of this animal, and here present it as
one of the illustrations of this article.
In his most interesting occoUnt of this beast,
Leconte says: "The mammoth was over twice
the bulk and weight of the largest modern
species, and nearly One-third taller. II was
thickly covered with brownish 10OOl, and in
parts with long hair; and was therefore we'll
adapted TO endure cold" 1t may seem strange
that we should speak OF the hair and wool and
color of an extinct animal: but perfectly-pre-
served specimens have been found sealed in the
ice in Sibera-sO perfectly preserved that,
when first exposed, wolves and dogs OF the
present epoch fed on the flesh of this animal
belonging to an extinct fauna.
The whole skeleton, with portions Of the
skin, hair, wool, hoofs. and eyes of this ami
NAL, is now to be found in the Museum Of st.
Petersburg. The existence Of elephants so far
north does not indicate a warm climate, al
though the Champlain epoch was far less rgor-
Gus than the Glacial. These elephants were
covered with thick wool, as was also the rhi-
noceros Of Europe
The mastodon on. dmericdnus) referred To
above as having been found ia New York, was
even a still larger brute than the hairy man
moth just described. 1t was fully IL feet high
and % feet long including the enormous tusks
These latter were gently curved upward
throughout. but did not turn back ward as they
did in the hairy mammoth. This. the largest
of land mammals then living. ranged all Over
the southern portions of the United States a:
far south as the Gulf.
Notwithstanding the fact that these huge
mammoths Of the Quarternary times were the
largest of tho then-eXisting mammals, the other
representatives Of that fauna were not lacking
in ponderous proportions. There was beaver
five feet long; an enormous stag fully as large
as the celebrated extinct Irish elk; bison thai
measured 10 feet between the tips Of his horns
with corresponding bulk of body gigantic
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GETTYS BURG BATTLEFIELD
What the Government May Do to Stop Its
Defacement by the Railroad.

DETACHMENT by the Railroad.
The announcement that an electric railroad
would cross and cut up the battlefield of Get
tysburg has aroused the Indignation OF soldiers
all over the country. Maj George b. Davis
who was sent to Gettysburg by the Secretary of
War to examine and report upon the work Of
dissertation now in progress on the battlefield,
belongs to the Judge Advocates Corps, and is
one OF the ablest lawyers in the Army. He
served with the LIST Mass. Cav. during the war;
and was present with his regiment at the battle
of Gettysburg. Upon the termination of the
war he was sent to the Military Academy, and
graduated in 1871. After serving II years with
the 5th u. S. Cav. he was appointed in 1888
Major aud Judge Advocate by President Cleve-
land. Maj Davis entertaius the feeling about
Gettysburg that is common to all right-think-
ing men, and if there is any legal way by which
the railroad company can be summarily driven
from the battlefield he will find it and urge the
Secretary of War to apply it.
His report shows clearly that the operation
of the trolley company is serioss DETACHMENT
of the battle-ground at several important
points. The question arises as to whether the
War Department could not at least obtain an
injunction against the corporation to prevent
q continuance of the work of spOliation on the
simple ground that 1t wonld prevent the exc
cuton of the announced legislative policy of
the Government for the preservation and mark
ing of the military lines in their proper con-
dition. 1t would be for the courts then to de-
termine whether or not all injunction would
lie against this private corporation to>prevent
il from interfering with the plans of the
United States Government with respect to this
battlefield.
Secretary Lamont has appointed commits
sion to execute the law providing for the pres
ervation and marking of thelines of the battle.
field, but beyond that his plan of action is still
undetermined. lie has been advised. however,
that his course is very simple and that he has
full authority under the law to stop any fur.
ther work by the trolley company. He has
been advised that by notifying the Attorney
General that he is abont to carry out the pro-
visions of the act aud take charge of the bat
| tlefield, the Department fsJustce can proceed
| to condemn any property necessary, or rule
can be obtained upon the trolley company to
show cause why they should not vacate the
! premises.
| One thing at least is certain. If the trolley
| company is allowed to GO Oh with its work of
| destruction, levelng hills and filling up val
| legs, the great battlefield of Gettysburg will
| lose much of its identity and be hardly more
| than an ordinary graveyard, and the natural
| objects which now enable the visitor to get a
| clear idea of the scene OF the principal battle
| of the war Of the rebellion will have disap-
| peared forever from the face of the earth.
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A Marvellous Gun.

The Sponsel Ordnance Co., Of Hartford,
Conn.,, manufacture a rapid firing gun which
has been adopted by the Government. The
weapon is six feet long and mounted on a
tripod, and is designed for use in secondary
batteries At first glance it looks like any other
small, rapid-fring gun, but the great difference
is in the breech- block, which carries all the
moving parts, the firing, cooking, she'll extract
ing. locking, and operating apparatus. Its
loading occupies but the fraction of a second.
and an expert gunner can fire from it 40 to as
shots per minute. Its superiority over other
weapons of its class is that the working parts
of the breech can be taken apart aud put to-
gethsr in slightly over minutes time. There
is not q screw in its makeup, and while other
guns have from 80 to 40 parts. it has but Is.
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THE BRIGGS CASE.
The General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church in Washing tongT Turned into a Judi
rio nurf

The General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church in Washing toni Turned into Judi
cial Court.
The fact that the Brigascase has been await
ing consideration ever since the first meeting
OF the General Assembly mas tinctured the
meetings of the Convention with a manifest
impatience and intoleranoes which has cropped
ont at unexpected and seemingly unwarrant-
able moments.
The famous case went before the Assembly
formally on Tuesday. limited time, to be
equally divided, was allowed a hearing TO both
sides-on the one side Dr. Briggs. and on the
other, the appellant. the Presbyt erian Church
in the United States.
After hearing from the members of the
Assembly, the Assembly as body voted upon
the resolution that the appeal from the decis-
ion and final Judgment of tho Presbytery of
New York, rendered Jan. 8, 1888. be entertained
by the General Assembly, and the case pro-
ceed to trial according to the provisions of the
Book of Discipline.
This was the plan presented in the majority
report upon the conduct of the case, and in
addition supplementary report from the Chair
man, who argued that it was apparent that the
Book of Discipline provides Enthusiastically for
this and evidently in view Of just such an
emergency, in thus granting the right OF direct
appeal to the General Assembly, as representa-.
tive of the entire Church.
Prof. Briggs, in his defense of the action of
the New York Presbytery in the case of the
prosecution against him, and in opposition to
the entertaining of the appeal from the judg-
ment of the Presbytery thereon, occupied over
four hours and half in three different sittings
of the court. He dwelt on the heresies of the
past of Savaronala Kramer and John Knox,
and passed on to a discussion of the fallibility
of majorities He urged that something more
than tradtionalsm voiced by the temporary
majority, should rule when it was sought to
correct error by the light of historical study.
1t made the reformation OF the Church inn
possible for when had Church ever been
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large tiger, with great jaws and claws. and
with the terrible weapons in his mouth hang
ing far out below his lower jaw, the enormous
CANNES for which the animal well deserves his
name. Likely it is that the northern forms OF
Smilodon had rather hairy coat, particularly
the types that survived he longest.
In my restoration of one of them, shown In
figure 4, / have shown this animal making his
way over rocky elevation in the direction OF
a pair of hairy mammoths, which are seen
resting themselves in the back ground.
The saber-tooth tigers no doubt often attack
ed these great, hairy monsters, and by leaping
upon their sides, stabbed through their tough
infcting mortal wounds; max
ing their attack in precisely the same man
ner as the Royal Bengal docs to day upon the
elephant in the jungle hunts of India.
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horses. and, finally, great tapirs and peccaries

horses. and, finally, great tapirs and peccaries
in the marshy places.
But all this geological history, these extra
ordinary extinct fauna, the marvellous changes
in the physical topography of the surface of
the earth, all of it simply shades gradually
in the history of time into what we have be-
fore as to-day, where similar changes are al
most imperceptibly taking place. and that
under our very eyes.
Our larger mammals, birds, reptiles and
other classes are slowly but surely disappear
ing off the worlds stage, and it has now como
to be that the great factor in present-day ex-
termination is man himself, and before that
now dominant mammalian type nearly or quite
all other animals must eventually entirely dis
appear.
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said in reply that science is in possession of no
inconsiderable knowledge Of TfnOceTOs iHgens,
and it is of particularly interesting nature.
Fossil remains of a whole group of animals
more or less like our subject have been discov-
cred, and to it the name OF the DinOcerGta has
been attached. These gigantic beasts. any one
of which nearly equaled an elephant in size,
fourished in immense numbers in this country
a great many thousand years ago. Their re-
mains are now found in an ancient tropical
EOcene lake. basin. at present drained by the
Green River, the main tributary of the Col
orado, in Wyoming. That basin, during long
ages, slowly filed up with sediment, which
now, dried out for the most part, has a vertical
thickness of more than a mile. Originally il
was more than 100 miles in extent and is now
more than 5000 feet above the sea.
TiROcerOs had head four feet long, so the
reader can judge of the size Of the rest of the
brute. They have left no descendants. and ap-
parently their nearest living relatives are our
existing elephants.
By studying the skeleton of Tinoceros, and
through my knowledge of general vertebrate
anatomy, i have formed an opinion upon the
external appearance of one of those huge
Bocene monsters, and herewith submit az an
illustration to this article, my restoration of
3fBOcerOs ingeaS, and If the reader will COM
pare it with the skeleton ] ara inclined to be-
heVe that it cannot be very wide Of the mark.
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Returning TO the cases In the National Mu-
scum, we find in another one of them quite
number Of the fossil skulls of felines, and one
of the most interesting groups of animals that
hourished during the Miocene and early PHO
Gene times were the numerous kinds of cats and
tigers lFeIidSl.
Some Of these were small and much like ex-
listing wildcats We now find them. Still
Others were Of tigerine proportions and consti-
tuted the most formidable enemies Of many of
the pachyderms.
These animals ranged all over both North
and South America. aud the most extraordinary
type OF them all. the saber-toothed tiger
(SmitodOR), was undoubtedly also resident at
one time OF this country.
These tigers, for tigers they really were, won
their name from their enormously developed
canine teeth. These teeth were so large that
the animal was actually obliged to use them as
oaRgers, with the lower Jaw closed, and at all
tmeI was constantly in danger Of opening its
mouth too wide. in which event it might easily
become permanently pried open by its point
catching within the lower jaw, when the ami
MAJ could not possibly close it again.
j present a side-yiew figure OF a skull of one
OF these animals, exemplifyiDg this condition.
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The German Legation.

Emperor Williams Ministers will live Oh
Massachusetts, avenue terrace. The sum of
$25, 900 has bought for the German Empire
very desirable site just west of Thomas Circle,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets on
the north side of the avenue. The property
was bought from r. b. Ferguson, and another
piece of land in this city was given Is part
payment,
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Politics I'm Kansas.

meeting of the leading stalwart Democrats
of Kansas was held at Topeka, May "a. to
discuss the proposition that Senator Martin is
to make, looking to settlement of the fight
between the Fusionists and stalwart Democrats.
1t is understood that Senator Martin will re-
turn next week, and try to heal the breach.
The stalwarts say the President told him to fix
up the quarrel there before he asked for ap-
pointments. They decided that they would
continue the fight. and that under no circum-
stances would they compromise.
new secret political party has sprung up
in the State, known as the Society Of Propa-
gauda, which is to he an auxiliary TO the Al
lance. Only real farmers can get into it. 1t
is founded on the principles of the Peoples
Party, as stated in the Omaha platform. The
officers of the union are to be elected by the
Farmers Alliance. Only members of the Peo-
pies Party belong to it, but members Of any
other party, if they are farmers, are welcome
to its meetings.
The Populsts in Kansas and Nebraska pro-
pose to build railroad from Bismarck, n. D.,
to Galveston, Tex, SO that the farmers in the
wheat growing section of the country will not
be dependent on the bulls and bears OF the
Eastern markets. A convention composed of
delegates representing the two Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas Oklahoma, and Texas will be
held at Lincoln early in June, and at that
time the plan of building this line through the
great wheat growing belt of the country to the
gulf by the States named will be presented by
the Kansas delegation. The POpulists of Kan
sas. who are back of the movement, say it can
be demonstrated in the building of this line,
which is to be owned by the several States,
that the Government ownership of railroads is
the practical solution of the railroad problem.
The line, they say, would give the farmers Of
this region an opportunity to get their grain
and products to the foreign markets at great
reduction over the present rates, and establish
reciprocity of trade between this country
and South America of special ad vantage to the
agricultural classes. Already meetings have
been held in central and western Kansas favor
ing this enterprise.
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Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine will soon be mar
red again. The groom will be DIR. William T.
Bull, a well.known New York physician who
has been Mrs. Blaine's medical attendant for
several years. She is thoroughly well again
In fact, is looking the picture Of health.
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try. So extensive at the present writing is this
list that it becomes quite impracticable TO even
mention one half of them by name in an arti-
Gle such as we now propose to write. We de-
sire, however to call attention to few of these,
and they will be noted more particularly.
By those who have awaited themselves of the
opportunity, it will be remembered that stand
ing in large glass case by itself in the fossil
room of the National Museum is the plaster
restored skeleton of very large and remark
able-looking animal. Its label informs the OBJ
server that the specimen represents the skele-
ton of a TFaOceros iRgens. The illustration of
such skeleton, taken from photograph Sc
cured by the author, is herewith presented, and
renders any detailed description Of it unneces-
sary, even were il desirable.
What is far more interesting to the general
reader and student of natural science are an
swers to such quest ous as What was the hab-
fiat of those ponderOus creatures during the
times they lived and, Is it possible for ms to
form any idea as to what one OF them looked
like2 and similar interrogatOns. 1t may be
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SSILHUNTERS and the
scientific DISORDERS of fossil
animals have, within com
paratively recent times, shown
that a most extraordinary
host of animals of all kinds
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WANTED-ADDRESSES.

VITANTED-By George E Lemon, Washington, D.
w C.-The present p. o address Of James Smith,
Co. E, 33d Wis., recently Of tab. whose claim has been
allowed asst
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DESCRIPTION OF THE WATCH.


opened
The herald., 1893-10-28

masculine policy, and such a change he
regards as perilous to the welfare Of the
state. Women. being in the majority in
England, would hold the whip hand po-
litically. They could do as they pleased
if they had the suffrage They could
rule the state in their own way, and as
majorities have always insisted on exer-
cising the supreme power whenever it
has been within their reach Professor
Goldwin Smith assumes that the fem
inine majority in England would be no
exception to the rule. Having the op-
portunity to govern, they would i'm
prove it by governing after their own
pleasure. They would introduce dis
tinctively feminine policy as distin-
guished from the masculine policy Of the
past, fears and forecasts this serious pro-
fessor. He is afraid to be put at the
mercy of women.
Such possibility in this republic does
not frighten us, and apparently it does
not frighten The Catholic World SIM
liar evil prognostications were made as
to the consequence to society of the en-
largement of the ''sphere" of women.
The enlargement has come, but the
dreaded result has not followed. Wom-
en- are not "unsexed." They still WELD
the most gracious and wholesome and
elevating power in society, and if the
time comes, or when the time comes
that they are allowed to bring their in
fuence to bear directly on the state by
means of the suffrage, we have no fear
that they will misuse that influence.
AS The Catholic World says, "The
world is made up of men and women,
and whatever is best for the common in
terest Of both is the one great and per-
petual principle of human polity."
Women are no more the enemies of men
than are men Of women. One of the
women who discuss the subject in de-
partment which that magazine has
opened for its treatment by Catholic
feminine writers adds to this the sound
philosophy that there are no "distinct-
ly feminine as apart from human in
terests to be agitated for" For that
reason she does not want the suffrage
but for the same reason woman suffrage
cannot produce or promote conflict of
interest between men and women, be-
cause by the law of nature their in
terests are identical. The management
of the affairs of the state will remain
with those fittest to exercise the powers
and discharge the functions of govern
mant, whether they be men or women.
New York Sun.