THE AMERICAN, THE AMERICAN OUK COKKISroNDKNTS. Ml .! K ... t. tV -t I !! -ii Sr l a . tb ... ! I IfcM I a vM'l tf.M ft! I . . . yr t, tttt tMw a KmVl hiii ' la Uwiwiw ll V1' tl i -r l.r-4 t t t-.-ta ..-. ii l I tY U ! Vnl tat 1 H t n 4 t w t M hl Watt Hfl'M wart" tti n at Hmt I UN ! mm ot l"l twMMnt't. ! .- I hiM. kit 4 it. fA thai h tt? rf,w lt itmik ! f -f l. U i-vrtata falbs I itw It tjr no t-H- tat IVit la How " Afala qtHM frw th. ! tilth! "W Ht'l amtt IVWt lrtipih at ! i.viintiii trt FMhlu. froM lhi yrr S an la rtrrUwl ffH th twrrtlt-al. Mwrt. alraH rliXupMllttr aad twnlthi awlhti!f rail 1 1 uniritnN. it: Bt. II W atlwvtMhttlhi Hicr Irtlhi" K.himm anil Acta XXVIII. irm that IVlr smM not litvr Utxtnxl la ltmi Ix-f.iw A. KM li'N lul iiHm4 tbr m i i-liiiir" Now, Mr. fwvl. I think m liavw faMonmt your ittli loon fclwng ami It U floating tli toward lite wialr, mul hin tltn lien I of a tropical pun ahtnwi Mm It tbirt a III Ih nothln Irft Iml IIik w Ym n mi Old tn. lld I MItMIMI If I WIT t COIItK l lloinf mid H,intt to jiinvn t jruu tho t ponlilon In whli ti you. ltli your t hun h. nuntllmt. I would not Ik nn.H-oiwful lniMn ln your iyi lliHt you might yourtruf urroumlliii!. Vou nr nn old iuhii. with mi oldchttivli. mid ynu him to op pUylnt bllnd-mm'-lMiir, mid 1 do not niidntnml why more who urn plnyliiK you do not yi'tl "Hot." No, Ptir yin not blxhou Hi Honi for twcnty-flvo your. Howimnn Hpontlo lo the Jew. If you wlxli to HnIi for nioiinUlii trout you muni not go t th Imy, hihI IVtvr kmw what kind of Bli 1m wn trying to cwtch. An my quotation Ima uggHtid. If IV(r had boen hUhop of Homo, at leant John, who lived totlimindof the Hratohrlatlan cuntury, or aome of the wrltmof the Now ToMiummt would have wild aoim-thlng alumt It. The United HtatOMhaM lein nottd for Invonfeira of a (wrtalnolaxa, but I think the divoUw of the Vatican library are alwinotod for a per tain t'liiiwof InventloiiH. and tholr liivi'iilloiin have btHn many Iicchuho tlicro him been a great clKiuand forthi-m In order to place the ltoman ralhollo church In mich a faNo por tion aNMhe Ih at the prtMnl I line. Now, Mr. il'eccl, you ahutild atlnilre the truth wherever you ace It. If you Mie that I'elf-r wan not a IiIhIiop of Home, or tlt-Ht pope, If you plcBNO make Mrraiigemeiita to have the church you repiimnt change that tenet. H mlghtcHUNU ihetroulile and e.vpeime of con veiling an ecumenical council. It might cmiNO nomc IiciiUhI i1Iw'uhnIoiii. It inlglit caumt ihmiMiiiHlN of the hooka of your Hunch lo be .wcii'lhh'HH! hut If It In the ti ntli why would It not he piactlciililcl1 t)f coiirae It la Infenvd a church Im acckluH trulh, When t'lirlHt wa before I'llale mid prior to lilacon dwiiiiiltiK('lirlNt,l'llnteoNked,"WlmtlNtriithr" and now I wIhIi you lo atop a moment, hi' fore you tlnldli your life upon earth. Domicilii! my atttlnmenta In reference ( Ihe upoalle I'emr and atk, "What la truth t" m)if Jia"'l, let me aay, ' An "Inventor" showed one duy, To a lady down your way. I'oter'a akull, when young and gay, How could 1'eter, tell I pray, Have been bluhopy Would he atray Hack to earth and for you at ay? If hn did, why then portray To thin lady, old and gray, All the power that there lay In thin akullT Another, aye. Yea, Mr. Peed, a lady In Italy waa ahown two akullaot the aKMtl Peter, one when he waa a boy and one when be waa old, If he died when he waa a boy bow could ha have been pope for twenty-five yearn? And If thin two akull bunlneaa la a fame and your follow ers toll It to deceive, why would they not tell the 1'eter schema and let all who were foollah enough believe It and yearly send In their "Peter's pence." We will meet again In a few days and nee If we cannot prove more fully tho devotion of your followers lo your "Inventors." Yours respectfully, . Ai.rph. KomTiik Amkhicani Pro Arls tt Loci. Oh bigot ry, bigotry, who ran eiplaln Thy noiu uiHiti jMiti man, thgugh a thousand Though reason Iwlahors and pummels thy bead Thou 1 1 vent, exhaling the stench of the dead! Where Home can dictate The laws for a state, Its bigoted creed to extend. It gains the control Of man, body and soul, And loaves bltn a serf In the end. Hoe blntory's "Dark Ages," Macaulay's late pagen, Kox, Draper, and martyrdoms, read, And note with what gall This church controls all. Where atatutos are based on Its creed, Hlnce Constantino's creed Was adopted the greed Of this Catholic organisation Has been to acquire By statute and lire Control of the way of salvation. ' The honest and pure, Though simple and poor, Who fall to respond to the bell. Are sent by the pope Without mercy or hope, To writhe In the torments of hell. Our fathers who fought Kor freedom of thought And honor our soil with their graves, Developed the birth Of a nation on earth That will not bo fotter'd like alaves. Thla country, thank heaven To mankind Is given Where Itome forms no part of the plan, Where youth may attend It's free schools, and defend Their brains from this bigoted clan. Unfurl then the glorious , Banner victorious, That represents free men abroad, And Mweur that no pope Mhall shadow our hope Hy crowding Itet wccn us and God. On An a, January 10, 1B Dox Box. nine maun After the Press. Fhamkkoht, N. Y.. Januarys. lftQa.P.niTnu Th AMEaiCAM-Dear Sir: As I was looking over a tow of the several papers at the Y. M. 0. A. rooms here In Frankfort. I dltu-nvereci an article In the Church Union of New York, Jcenil)erl5th, 1SS2. It is composed by Rev. -. .it t I t w l. . Site. 1 lt it S - ... 4 I" .. 4 ... I . .' '. ! ,4 t v i S . ' t -jVm ! , ..t. t t , t . vl.t . ... II., i (v, , .1 ,ll. t r t . -t . .. k II. t l II., .. I 'l ' IMM - " lllh " I'1"' t.,4 M . l.ll tt. W l , Vf ttt t.f .' N. l"llnt,M IKr tr' tt.nl ! twl til.Ml.M It.Kl 4 ,lr . k-4nv ! .mK mtt-m U t1twl wtWiii lt r wt li a.Hwal ni4 h 4ii' to ir xnt tt I." kl in In4 si -l.l!. HV Ike l'l. Msnt ! m-i tf tti1 twoinlnf ! I f er iiiii-l h any hm if ac suntv tnit IHi-y ssrin.t f.t a ff (min I'aiholl.- . Ihe tlr Ihwisht tllil liiiwiinmr thrlr IrnlM t If Ihey hl pMi.tii-4 iM l imi villi a aannwtln KrrMins mm miliig In all aim wi-rr IIm-iv lh hillrnat-ns of the aliole Honian t alhiillc Hischlne piirssloty and timf,--I,miI Hile that ttM llm-n will Slid ia.i' In yum column. In main tvivt fully your f i lend. I. A J i nan. Signi it Own Death Warrant. Only monre dotaila uf tins nsH iil ItiSi i( Hn' ounvcntUm tf Human I 'nth olio tvhlilhi!s havti lsin nllowi'il to tsHHittio pulilio, nml tlicro In a suspicion, evnn, that such mat tor wa jilvon ti the- pro was rather fur I'fToct than ruthful ivi'iuil. One rathor suipriHlnif piowi uf In- format Ion thus conveyed, is that tho public school nro honevforth to bo "toloniUul." We aro not vouching fur the truth of this ut all; in fact, wo lire, not prepared tflacoejit it aatliu imihUIoii of tho Uotuun Catliollo ehurch, for it does not agree with the policy of that church in any particular. If, howovor, tho reMirt Is correct, wo are of tho opinion that this alleged "toleration" will conalst merely in a change of methoda. The tight againHt the public schools will bo conducted in a leas ub llo manner, but no leas bitter a subtle and silent warfare, vaat.y more danger ous than the holder and open attacks indulged in hy ex-Judge Dunne and his faction. It wiih when tho Greeks bore gifts that they were most to lie feared, for then under guise of friendship, they struck their most deadly blow, and it is thus we must guard against such over tures ns the Catliollo church proposes to make towards our schools, There is need now for oven greater vigilance and preparation. Another noteworthy feature of this convention Is the proposition to estab lish a papal nuncio at Washington. A nuncio, or legato, Is simply an embass ador, representing tho pope, and through him tho Catholic church. The reception by our government of such a personage, would be a formal recogni tion of the temporal sovereignty of the pope, and would place him in diplomatic affairs upon a level with all other for eign powers. Need we say that this must never oomo to pass? Is there any reason why tho United States government should thus exalt and prefer any religious body, especially when there is a sus picion, and -in many quarters a well founded belief, that this institution is by no means friendly to our government? Why should tho Catholics be given this recognition above the Methodists, Presbyterians, or other equally numer ous sects? If tho Catholic church is, as it sometimes claims, only a religious organization, why does it crave for a civil position? These questions aro very easily ans wered. Wo need not answer them here, for the response will naturally arise in tho minds of all who read them. This much we will say. The politi cal party, or its representatives, that allows such an innovation, or admits to any degree of special favor, the Catho lics or any church, practically signs its own death warrant. However careless and indifferent tho jieople of America may appear to bo, such a step would lw the signal for a political revolt that would bo more than a landslide it would bo an avalanche. Until tho opportunity to turn out such party would bo offered, however, much damage might bo done, and it would lw a wiser and much safer policy to prevent tha consumation of the plan now, than to encounter tho difficulties of destroying it later. The warning has gone forth. All may know what is threatened and each will have a duty to perform. Agitation is the best way to meet the crisis. Turn on the light, strongly and con' tinuously, that all may see, and thus create so powerful a public sentiment in advance, that thoso In power will not dare to disregard it. Thus America can be saved. Pittsburgh American. Linen Stationery. Every attorney should call on The American Publishing Company, 412-13-14 Sheely block, and order a supply of fine Bond Glazed Linen Sta tionery. It is the finest thing in the market, and does not cost more than ordinary linen paper. Telephone 911, and we will call and show you a sample Attention Jr. O. U. A. M. Columbia No. 3. will meet Tuesday night January 3d, and thereafter, at Patterson Hall, 17th and Farnatn. John Uudd, 305 North 6th Si., has a full line ot Ladies' and bent s Gold Watches. WIIYTIir.SK MSSALT IT i I'M t M MH Mil t0i . l-hamrll p t-M IS) Smi It ft, tt ! t tkv k wlliiM t Mm kmtit, li l tf fc!i ( )tHti.t lhal has Nsm fpfc-aKM aa m My aw4 !n gim .iii titi'mi Utt'Wia, Imt a litt) o.i.n.t.ati. Ih !.) t HiHst, t tlo'V. fcsli.fr a aU thai It wwthl t tftjr tn. i.l ful, qmt In t WiiWT4ttit4ev, If the Water vt the rB wrrs v.tbtWKn tltaa alt asthrj arw The ft41nwtn.it H.lsnaH.m was first mnreetntl to tnvm lf manr )rr agM hen ree4vln tny first In) In i4. IWal rhemlcal analvsi. lit fnitilem then lo t 4vh was the aaration of the taar diaa4vr4 In water hy nwi tlatlng them cm hy one in a a4i! con dition, fill rating away Ihe water from the first, then from this filtrate jm lp Itating Ihe fteentnl, and ao on until all were wejiarateil r acomntnl for. Ont in doina this there was on base that was always left to the laat on ao nuiintof the diftleultyof eoiubining it with any arid that would form a aolid comjHmnii a diflletilty ao great that iU preaeni waa determined hy a dilT,rent method. This tae is aixla, the predomi nating base of sea suit, where tt is eom bineii with hydrm-lilorlc ai'td. Not only ir, soda the most soluble of all the mineral bases, but the mineral aeid with which it is combined forms a remarkably solu ble aeries of aalta the chlorides. Thus the primary fact concerning the salinity of sea water is that it has selected from among the stable chemical elements the two which form tho most soluble com pounds. Among the earthy bases is one which is exceptionally soluble that is, magnesia and this stands next to soda in ita abundance in sea water. Modern research has shown that the ocean contains in solution nearly every element that exists upon the earth, and that these elements exist in the water in proportions nearly corresponding to the mean solubility of their various com pounds. Thus gold and silver and most of the other heavy metals exist there. Sonnenstadt found about fourteen grains of gold to the ton of seawater, or a dollar's worth in less than two tons. As tho oeetin covers all the lower valleys of the earth, it receives all the drainage from the whole of the exposed land. This drainage is the rainwater that has fallen upon this exposed surface, has flowed down its superficial h I opes or has sunk into porous land and descended underground. In either case the water must dissolve and curry with it any sol uble matter that it meets, tho quantity of solid matter which is thus appropri ated being proportionate to its solubility and the extent of its exposure to the solvent. Itain when it falls upon the earth is distilled water, nearly pure (its small impurities being what it obtains from tho uir). but river water when it reaches the ocean contains measurable qnantities of dissolved mineral and veg etable tnntter. Thoso small contribu tions are ever pouring in and ever accu mulating. This continual addition of dissolved mineral salts without any cor responding abstraction by evaporation has been going on ever since the surface of the earth consisted of land and water. An examination of the compositloil of other bodies of water which, like the ocean, receive rivers and rivulets and have no other outlet than that afforded by evaporatk n, confirms this view. All of these are more or less saline, many of them more so than the ocean itself. On the great tableland of Asia, "the roof of the world, there is a multitude of small lakes which receive the waters of rivers and rivulets of that region and have no outlet to the ocean. On a map they ap pear like bags, with a string attachod, the bag being the lake and the string the river. All these lakes are saline, many of them excessively so, simply because they are ever receiving river water of light salinity and ever giving off vapor which has no salinity at all. There is no wash through these lakes, as in the great American lakes or those of Constance, Geneva, etc. Tha sea of Aral and the Caspian are lakes without any other outlet than evaporation, and they are saline accord ingly. The Dead sea, which receives the Jordan at one end and a multitude of minor rivers and rivulets at the other end and sides, is a noted example of ex treme salinity. It is, as everybody knows, a sea or lake of brine. The to tal area of land training into the great ocean does not exceed one-fourth of its. own area, while the Dead sea receives the drainage and soluble matter of an area above twenty times greater than its own, and thus it fulfills the demand of tha above stated theory by having far greater aalii ty than has the great ocean. According to this viow the salinity of the ocean must be steadily though very lowly increasing, and there must be lowly proceeding a corresponding adap tation of evolution among the inhabit ants, both animal and vogetable. The tudy of this subject and the effect which the increasing nlinity of the past must have had upon the progressive modifications of organic life displayed by fossils is, I think, worthy of more at tention than it has hitherto received from paleontologists. W. Mattien Wil liams in Science. Her Point of View. A charming lady of the old school, who is a member of one of tho historical fam ilies of Massachusetts, says that she never goes by a statue of her most distinguished kinsman without wishing it did not stand there in the sun and in the storms. "Other people like statues." she says, "but I do not. 1 don't like to see my cousin rained on, and I always feel it when the snow falls." Boston Tran script. We may render the words of one lan guage literally into those of another and yet lose the very spirit of the whole, but there are cases of what may be called "sympathetic translation." tvae4 Vi W . i tniv lw tH tV4it?ra blli IS lit) nr t.t t -l.g at ti h 4 (Ml lt, fnt ,4.!i bi mm a tiTl t.t W Ihe ijiiM tr m1 a t wtiatt r4a f ll w a f tnl uf . f smtH, w h l.ts t sitle ,rtt th a tt-it lr.rtt tVt4,4 ttlull .n t.- KI i -.U. iht tmi-llr W tw tin rili rwnt"l al w aw ti,.t, l ! 4!itMtMi hati!.! Ihe ..mnl it la ..Ui an. mi l lhal lie h I mfctim U.i-rw wit), w'nM BHt!ethutt'r His il- M. wan an In ttan h lived n4 far awav in lb rru?, ewl wi Had )ruttitnp. t, make f r lam or li g . -t hit. V In paytnwit f r mull wan hhh he had mvhad I w o j r l'f II ewnel wrf 1 1) willing l.i fulfill hi contract, ami wrntt trf lie vii reminded of II wiU im- to Ixmmi hand Ihe Itrtt da."; toil he tM-ver aprd, T1h twrvham waa reairirig' htshounw, and avrding lo Ihe runtoiit of Ihe coun try had laken Ihe law Into his own hands. An hour after lie left ns h re lumed, calling out triumphantly, "Well, I have tny man, you aee." Hi Uaao was unrolled. One end was tied to hi saddle; the other was fastened about the wriata of an Indian. I shall never forget the captive's impassive fm-e. His strong ftatnrea, framed in long locks of hair, expnsol neither anger nor as tonlshmenl only philosophical submis sion to fate. The next day at daw n I saw him cheerfully at work with the air of a man who was glad to py his debts. Curiously onough, when some time later another man wished to engage his services he declined the offer. He liked his employer and his work and had no desire to better his condition. Marcel Monnier. Daath to the Horses. It is a white and dreary plain. There is a line of straggling gum trees beside a feeble water course. Six wild horses broinbies, as they are called have been driven down, corralled and caught. They have fed on the leaves of the myall and stray bits of salt bush. After a time they are got within the traces. They are all young and they look not o bad. We start. They can scarcely be held in for the first few miles. Then they begin to soak in perspiration. An othor five miles and they look drawn about the flanks, and what we thought was flesh Is dripping from them. Another five, and the flesh has gone. The ribs show, the shoulders protrude. Look I A poler's heels are knocking against the whifhetree. It is twenty miles now. There is a gulp in your throat as you see a wreck stagger out of tho traces and stumble over the plain, head near the ground and death upon its back. There is no water in that direc tion, worn out creature. It comes upon you like a sudden blow. These horses are being driven to death. And why? Because it is cheaper to kill them on this Btage of thirty miles than to feed them with chaff at $250 a ton. And now another sways. Look at the throbbing sides, the quivering limbs. He falls. "Driver, for heaven's sake, can't yon see?" "I do: so holp me God, 1 do. But we've got to ,?ot there. I'll lot them out at another mile." And you are an Anglo-Saxon, and this is a Christian land. "Round the Com pass in Australia." Kft'ected a Compromise. In a certain Maine town lives a man who for many years has been engaged in the grocery business, but receiving a good offer he sold out to a younger man and retired to private life. But the rul ing passion was too strong to let him long be idle, so he commenced building a store on his land, which adjoined that of the Methodist church. For, a time everything went harmoniously and the new store neared a state of completion. But just at this point up came one of the trustees of the church and said. "Your store sets over on our land one foot and it will have to be moved." This rather staggered the prospective grocer, and he retired to ponder over the ques tion and study the deeds of his land and test the measurements. In doing this he discovered that the back of the church rested over on his ide of the line three feet. Armed with this new argument he said to the church owners, "If you will move your church three foot I will move my store ono." This view of the case was a new one to the church authorities, but recognizing its force they made all haste to effect a compromise. Lewiston Journal, Not the Weaker Sea. To refor to women as the weaker sex, a German scientist says, is surely a mis take, for they have always known how to preserve their dominion over the so called stronger sex. Men are indeed wo mon'a most obedient slaves. Solomon said his wives were bitterer than death, and surely there never was a greater slave to woman. Statistics show that seven wives survive every ten famous men. Ileloise survived the loss of her beloved Abelard twenty-two years, and similarly the wife of Washington, though she de clared she could never get over the death of her husband, outlived him thirty years. San Francisco Argonaut. nurled Wealth In France. In Normandy the English conquest in the Fifteenth century, followed by their ultimate expulsion, has given rise to many traditions of buried treasure, which the least sujierstitious attribute to tho English. Throughout France the Revolution, without doubt, gave occasion to many secret hoards, the owners of which may well have jieriHhed in the massacres and proscriptions of the Reign of Terror. All tho Year Hound. Ancient and Modern Fanhlons. Dr. Julien Chishohn says that there are engraved stones and monuments in the British museum which prove that the present fiishion, both in dress and head gear, is almost identical with that of the women of Bahylon at about the time of the flood. St. Louis Republic. RELIABILITY H t llHt'At l lin lf ru n Otitis at V pnimanlii' i i tl!iin In ni tly a h Jin nttil, r !nn i h futnliil. 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