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Show OUT: OFTf-lF- , .:. o:;.;::.. ...n ..li at jo.. i had l.e !:.. .'.!.-- ...it a re li iv a 1 thi lit a cse, :n .O'.eft. later, of Binoke. r. and both the ::, s "That looks very nice and emancipated." k!J Ma. glancing round. "Now So! Now, shall '! on tt.is s ta Charos. just sit here and throw your arm carelessly over ij.e hack of the sofa. No, d n t st..p smok.ng. I like it. Clara, dear, put your feet upon the 'oalscuttie, and do try to look a little dissipated. I wish we could crown ourselves with flowers. There are gome DQYL& lettuces on the sideboard. Oh. dear, Jr This is a divided skirt." here he is! 1 hear his key." She beThen He js:lvv that it was indeed so gan to sing in her high, fresh voice a arranged, ami that his daughter was little snatch from a French song, with a ch.d m ;. s rt t' loose, extremely long swinging tra chorus. knickerbockers. The doctor had walk-- d home from "It will l.e si eonvcr.Wnt for ttiy the station in a peaceable and relentshe explained. ing frame of mind, feeling that, per-Iter fa! her shook his head sadlv. ips, lie had said too much In the morn"Y..ur neither would not l ave ing, that his daughters had for years b'K .l it. been models in ( very way, and that, if ('h.ra," said he .r a moment the eoiipiraoy was ona there had been any change of late, it the I II t ,,f e,.l!,.,:le Th..r w. was, as they said themselves, on account of their anxiety to follow his adsoicethlnj.- - in lhf. s. li:!. ikfs ,.f liis an in his r,;.;,. .,1 t,. her mother. vice and to imitate Mrs. to h.-- eyes, He could see cl, ally now that "ug!it th- - t nnd in :u:i!:..r instant she would have that aihie was unwise, and that a I., world peopled with Mrs. Westmacott him vi'h everywh.-thing coif, the lioof flew Would l. ! oe a happy or a soothing r open tin.1 on.-It was sister Ida :,n;e who was himself to into foe room. She .,,,. a short, biaiiu-ami he was erieved by the givv skirt, li!:.- that Mrs. W. o .yrieott. and tboiieo. (,;,( his hot words had she it i;., r;,eh hand and danced trouble.! and saddened his two girls. nl..,ut among the furniture. This fear, however, was soon dissi"I fee ,iii!e the Gaiety girl." she pated. As he entered his hall he heard cried. "How deli. .,!: it must he to be the voice of Ida uplifted in a rollicking upon the stag.-Ymi can't think how ditty, and a wry strong smell of torace this dress is. papa. One feels so bacco was borne to his nostrils. He fr,' in it. And isn't Clara charming?" threw open the dining-roodoor, and "Ho to y,nir room this instant and stood scene the which met aghast at iJKe u orrr- thundered the doctor. "I his eyes. call it highly improper, and no daughThe room was full of the blue ter of mine shall wear it." wreaths of smoke, and the lamp-lig"Papa! Improper! d Why, It is the shone through the thin haze upon exact model of Mrs. Westmacott's." bottles, plates, napkins, and a "I say It is Improper. And yours also, litter of oyster shells and cigarettes. Clara! Your conduct is really outraIda, flushed and excited, was reclining s geous. You drive me out of the house. upon a settee, a at her elI am going to my club In town. I have bow, and a cigarette between her finno comfort or peace of mind in my own gers, while Charles Westmacott sat behouse. I will stand It no longer. I may- side her, with his arm thrown over the be late head of the sofa, with the suggestion of I shall go to the British Medical meeting. But when I re- a caress. On the other side of the room, turn I shall hope to find that you have Clara was lounging in an shaken clear of yourself the wdth Harold seated beside her, both pernicious Influences which have resmoking, and both with beside them. The doctor stood speechcently made such an alteration in He seized his hat, slammed less in the doorway, staring at the Bacthe dining-roochanalian scene. door, and a few minutes later they heard the crash of the "Come In, papa! Do!" cried Ida. "Won't you have a glass of chambig front gate. "Victory. Clara, victory!" cried Ida, pagne?" still pirouetting around the furniture. "Pray excuse me," said her father, "Did you hear what he said? Pernicious coldly. "I feel that I am Intruding. I Influences! Don't you understand, did not know that you were entertainClara? Why do you sit there so pale ing. Perhaps you will kindly let me and glum? Why don't you get up and know when you have finished. You will dance?" find me In my study." He Ignored the "Oh, I shall be so glad when It is two young men completely, and, closover, Ida. I do hate to give him pain. ing the door, retired, deeply hurt and Surely he has learned now that It is very mortified, to his room. A quarter of an unpleasant to spend's one's life with re- hour afterward he heard the door slam formers." and his two girls came to announce that "He has almost learned it. Clara. the guests were gone. Just one more little lesson. We must TO BK CONTINl'KD.) not risk all at this last moment." "What would you do. Ida? Oh, don't A SQUIRREL IN A CAR, do anything too dreadful. I feel that we have gone too far already." How a ltoston Girl Startled Some Dig"Oh, we can do it very nicely. You nified People Out of Their Reserve, see we are both engaged and that makes A girl got into an open electric-ca- r it very easy. Harold will do what you the other afternoon, stepped over the ask him, especially as you have told end man, past a fat woman with a him the reason why, and my Charles bundle and squeezed down in the "fifth will do It without even wanting to know and then the fun began, says the the reason. Now you know what Mrs. seat," Boston Herald. Snuggled beneath her Westmacott thinks about the reserve of cape was a little chipmunk, which the young ladies. Mere prudery, affectahad evidently rescued from lis wild, tion, and a relic of the dark ages of the girl life among woodland trees and wayside Zenana. Those were her words, were stonewalls, and was Intent on taming. they not?" A tiny chain had been fastened about "What then?" the creature's neck, and the girl "Well, now we must put It In prac- held pretty one end of it, while the captive took tice. We are reducing all her other on to her shoulder or over runs views to practice, and we must not various to see what was happening in her lap shirk this one." "But what would you do? Oh, don't this strange, noisy world, so unlike the look so wicked, Ida! You look like some peaceful country he had left. "Paevil little fairy, with your golden hair tience!" exclaimed the fat woman with the big bundle, "what's that?" and and dancing, mischevous eyes. I know edited crushing the end man that you are going to propose some- ag nst along, the rail. The passengers on the dreadful!" thing left of the girl stopped gazing Into the "We must give a little supper togutter, and also shrunk together as night." Master Chipmunk brandished his tall "We? A supper!" and peered at them from the friendly not? "Why Young gentlemen give shoulder. "Is that a monkey or a rat?" suppers. Why not young ladles?" Inquired a woman of her neighbor. "But whom shall we invite'.'"' "No!" with scorn, "it's a squirrel. Oh! Harold and of course." "Why, Charles, gracious, It's goln' to jump over here!" "And the Admiral and Mrs. Hay DenThen the girl cuddled the little beast ver?" under her chin and fondled It, as wicked "Oh, no. That would be very a dumb animal when they see We must keep up with the girls will their caresses nettle sensitive lookers-otimes, Clara." the fat woman sniffed hard and "But what can we give them for sup- the and end man stepped off on the running per?" board, and the passengers on the left "Oh, something with a nice, fast, rol- no longer contemplated the gutter, but flavor to it. Let licking, me see! Champagne, of course and signaled the conductor to stop, and in less than three minutes after the girl oysters. Oysters will do. In the novels and the chipmunk boarded that open all the naughty people take champagne car she had a cool end seat. any oysters. Besides, they won't need And It wasn't a game breezy of bluff, either. any cooking. How Is your pocket-moneClara?" Itu In Wr. "I have three pounds." It may be Interesting, In view of the "And I have one. Four pounds. I have recent war between China and Japan, no idea how much champagne costs. to show a few of the "tricks of th Have you?" trade" in other words, a few of the "Not the slightest." "How many oysters does a man eat?" peculiar strategems which have been successful from time to time in past "I can't Imagine." "I'll write and ask Charles. No, 1 years. The Americans once played a neat won't. I'll ask Jane. Ring for her, trick upon an Knglish fleet. The ships Clara. .She has been a cook, and is In question were threatening a part of sure to know." the American coast, when It was rure- -. Jane, on being fused to commit herself beyond the mored that a man had discovered a statement that it depended upon the combustible which could easily be to the fleet and Ignited, gentleman, and also upon the oysters, transmitted The united experience of the kitchen, and which would produce terrible rehowever, testiiied that three dozen was sults. Of course the information was conveyed to the British commander, a fair provision. "Then we shall have eight dozen al- and no doubt lie was sadly disturbed In. At any rate, one day together," said Ida, jotting down all consequence. her requirements upon a sheet of pa- seviral barrels wi re sent In the direction of Cue vessels, followed by a man per. ".And two pints of champagne. And some brown bread and vinegar and with u complicated iirratigetnent In a pepper. That's all, I think. It is not boat, tin hearing their destination one so very diflicult to give a supper aft"r of them exploded, whereupon the fleet dipped anchor and departed in great all. Is it. Clara?" "I don't like It, Ida. It seems to haste. The Inventor had done his utmost, however, for the remaining barme to be so very Indelicate." "But it Is needed to clinch the mat- rels were harmless. It Is said that once when the French ter. No, there is no drawing back now. a descent on the coast of Wales Clara, or we shall ruin everything. made were held In check for some time Papa Is sure to come back by the 9 45. theyn rather peculiar stratagem. The He will reach the door at 10. We must by have everythlne ready for him. Now, women, who then generally wore long Just sit down at once, and ask Harold red cloaks, were collected and marched to come at S o'clock, and 1 shall do the among the hills In full view of the Invaders, and. as they kept appearing In same to Charles." The two Invitations were dispatched, different points, It save the Idea that there was a considerable number of roenivod end Harold was .ldi'TS at band. Tin." French n cotilidant, and he understood that this was some further develop- wre omowh.'it afraid of attacking, ment o the plot. As to Charles, he and. lis a sufficient force was soon collected to rep- -l them, they took to their was so vnistoin.-i- to feminine eccentricity. In the p. rson of his aunt, that ships in a hurry, In ntiother case a besieged City, short the oniy thing whle i could surpri-- e l.lni would he a rigid i bsr rvance of e'.l- - of provisions, was on the point of surIt Impossible r.K'ti". At o'o,k they loitered th rendering, ss they found outside for help. dining hall of No. 2, to find the mu.-le- r to convey a In Dies" slrails a youi g man volunof the house absent, a lamp, a snov, i loth, a pleasant little teered id puss the enemy and, If posfeast, and the two whom they wouel sible, obtain assistance. To do this he A th city with a bridle In his hand, have ehoye'i, as their companions merrier l.'"'' nov. r met, and the i.m. mid. mixing with the Invaders, asked If rang with their laughter and thir chat- any i.t.e of them had en his horse. In t!.,s way he g.,t tmocgii their ranks ter. a:.(i waf the mem of getting the city "It Is three mitiut." to tn." flelivei ed. Clara suddenly, glancing at the clock. A Moorish genual on one occasion "i;o.,d r:trioe' So It I'! Now for par milled his troops In a vry simple men-ii"- r. little tableau!" Ida pushed the . They were blnnltig to retreat, obtrusively forward, la the direction of the door, and scatter ..I when be sat down In n field, declaring that !. would there wait for death, see-- 0 oyster s) "Us over the doth. be wis forsaken by his troops. "Have you your lip. Charles?" s ".My pipr' Yee " They were s!iunted of their conduct, "Then p!eae tmoke It, Now d m t and. returning, ultimately gained the it. for you will victory. ColumV.fc I'r m. argue about It. but t.i . . ia i 1 A. CONAN la-l- a d.-a- r 1 JNTERNATmAL PDCf ClIAl'TEI; X. WoMfc.N UK J UK I I U d:iy t li. W.. i '.'.HI- t1 'VI n-- KF. I t' goto-- . a "1 -I r v ijiiift lol :i s j a i,r V i turn,-,- ! ord-rl- y tr.ir.s-f..r:- r...ui-l-o- A'ji b"--!- w.os ti snJ ; . : i y garden, lii.ov mac. into Midi 'i 'v " able ..no. Hp had never realized before how entirely liis daughters had shielded him from all the friction of life. Now ttiat they had nut only ceased to protect him, but had themselves become a source of trouble to him, he began to understand how great the blessing was which he had enjoyed, and to sigh for the happy days before his girls had come under the Influence of his neighbor. "You don't look happy," Mrs. Westmacott had remarked to him one morning. "You are pale and a little off color. You should come with me for a ten mile spin upon the tandem." "I am troubled about my girls." They were walking up and down in the garden. Prom time to time there sounded from the house behind them the long, sad wail of a French horn. "That is Ida," said he. "She has taken to practicing on that dreadful Instrument in the intervals of her chemistry. And Clara Is quite as bad. I declare it is getting quite unendurable." "Ah, Doctor, Doctor!" she cried, shaking her forefinger, with a gleam of her white teeth. "You must live up to your principles you must give your daughters the same liberty as you advocate for other women." "Liberty, madam, certainly! But this approaches to license." "The same law for all. my friend." She tapped him reprovingly on the arm with her sunshade. "When you were twenty your father did not. I presume, object to your learning chemistry or playing a musical instrument. You would have thought it tyranny if he had." "But there is sucn a sudden change in them both." "Yes, I have noticed that they have been very enthusiastic lately in the cause of liberty. Of all my disciples I think that they promise to be the most devoted and consistent, which is the more natural since their father is one of our most trusted champions." The Doctor gave a twitch of Impatience. "I seem to have lost all authority," he cried. "No, no, my dear friend. They are a little exuberant at having broken the trammels of custom. That is all." "You cannot think what I have to put up with, madam. It has been a dreadful experience. Last night, I after had extinguished the candle in I my placed my foot upon smooth and hard, which something scuttled from under me. Imagine my horror! I lit the gas, and came upon a tortoise which Clara has thought fit to introduce into the house. I call it a filthy custom to have such pets." Mrs. Westmacott dropped him a little courtesy. "Thank you, sir," said she. "That is a nice little side hit at my poor Kliza." "I give you my word that I had forgotten about her," cried the Doctor, flushing. "One such pet may no doubt be endured, but two are more than 1 can bear. Ida has a monkey which lives on the curtain rod. It is a most dreadful creature. It will remain absolutely motionless until it sees that you have forgotten its presence, and then it will suddenly bound from picture to picture all round the walls, and bed-roo- n end by swinging down on the bell-rop- e and jumping on to the top of your head. At breakfast it stole a poached egg and daubed it all over the door handle. Ida calls these outrages amusing tricks." "Oh, all will come right," said the widow reassuringly. "And Clara is as bad, Clara who used to be so good and sweet, the very Image of her poor mother. She insists upon this preposterous scheme of being a pilot, and will talk of nothing but revolving lights and hidden rocks, and codes of signals, and nonsense of the kind." "Rut why preposterous?" asked his companion. "What nobler occupation can there be than that of stimulating commerce, and aiding the mariner to steer safely Into port? I should think your daughter admirably adapted for such duties." "Then I must beg to differ from you, madam." "Still, you are inconsistent." "Excuse me. madam, I do not see the matter In the same light. And I should be obliged to you If you would use your Influence with my daughter to dissuade Tier." "You ton." wish me to be inconsistent, "Then you refuse?" "I am afraid that I cannot interfere." The Doctor was very angry. "Very well, madam," said he. "In that case I can only say that I have the honor to wlh you a very good morning." He raised his broad straw hat and strode away up the gravel path, while the widow looked after him with twinkShe was surprised herself ling eyes. to find that she llkd the Doctor better the more masculine and agirr, sMve he Iwnmc. It was unreasonable and against all principle, and yet so It was ami no argument could n'.on the mat1 ter. Very lint and very angry, the Doctor Tetlrpd Into his room nnd sat down to rend his paper. I i a had retired, an 1 the ditant wiils . f the bugle showed that she was upstairs In her boudoir. Clara sat opposite to him with her Asperating charts and blue book. The Doctor g!:inod at her and hi" eyes remained fixed In astonishment upon tlii front of her skirt. "My dear Clara," he pried, "you have tarn your skirt!" ills daughter laughed and smoothfd out her frock. To his horror he .'aw of the chair where the the red p!u-dr-'ought to hBVe leer.. "It Is ali "What have y..ii torn!" he cried. done?" ",'Iy you kn.-- dear papa." said she. "what di - nlx?ut th- - mysteries of ladies' h.-- . . ...im-lin- ) - !.-l- j ! gold-toppe- wine-glas- arm-chai- r, wine-glass- I n, n-- ar ! l '." mei-s.iK- s- - j raeer-- a l i ; 1 john Wesley cii5 iJJijLt I ! Aisd if M accomplished 1 ? PARISH OF THE WORLD. 2i 111 John Wesley. liose bicentennial May 24, 17::. he came to the full be The irregularities alarmed the pre-- j formed a presbytery, and ordained . millions of Me'lij,!;rts recently lief in the new creed, which before lates of the day aud even the Kev. Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey was bore and bred in the had been as a sealed liok to him. Samuel characterized (he action of his as elders and Thomas Coke, LL. D. church of This revolutionized the whole char-inte- brother, John Wesiey, as "schismatic." "superintendent for ths church episcopal or of and method of ills ministry. Of But through it ail the mother stood Hngland, whoso ministry he entered God under our care in America." m early life. He never failed to inthe event Rev. llndi Price Huttiies enin his new movement and When the term bishop was afterclude her name ia his prayers and he wrote: "The nibieon was crossed. The joyed attendance at the infant Methward substituted for the superintenWos-c!ied in her full communion. Of odist church in the Foundry chapel, dent by the Methodist sweeping aside of ecclesiastical tradiEpiscopal the late Karrar ul Canter-ut- tions, the rejection of the apostolic when it withdrew from the Ketter lane church, he tenaciously opposed it, al"He loved the church succession, the ordination said: with his society. though he made no objection to the ,v!.ich hated hia. He saved the own hands of presbyters and bishops, John Wesky was summoned before designation Episcopal. hureh of Knglanj although at first the fii'.ai organization of a separate Kdmiind (libson, bislio;i of London, but Wesley was in his 82d year when he so angrily aj:t! (vniemptuoush re and fully equipped church, u.-rall alter a severe catechizing tho latter his act of "separation" was thus cono, ted him." lopicully involved iu what took place said: "You can read the acts and laws summated, much to the surprise and J, hn Wesley was born in the as well as 1. I determine nothing.' chagrin of Charles. that nijjht." on He died at Kpwoith. E;g., June 17. 17t3. Wesley siKoii organized a corps of Notw ith.star.dinn this, the bishop short- March 2, 1701. When ). S. was but S. the lit liters, went forth to proelatm the ly ls.so,,-,a pastoral letter, iu which he In four instances John Wesley bel of his faiu ois scnnon before i hatred tiie Methodists with boasting a:!.o of Buc'anp! as, ,.nl chamberlain came a lover before he made the misllic nr.lv.-if.it,o yuecn Anne, mv him a free of tK'.onl in "Hy grace in,, eiilhiisiasiu, and finally excluded take of marrying, at the age of 48, one in the fucms school of the :ce ye tlirouith iait!i"--th- e hey- - CharUs Wesley from the vicarage at who proved unworthy of bis affecmoc oi a'l his Mil's, ipieiit vuhtist I'.V. 'l.arterhousf iu Lou, ion. Islington. tion. on of 's eve, V'i:ile nt the Oh Mow Y, school, Aitaiii, in 17(1, the bishop summoned T.liss Betty Kirkham, sister of one d i! Mtiy, 171IJ, an &od(ln doslrc.Nod tho.listsa tee ():: all to i.is i s Wesley before hint, but when ho bad of his early Methodist friends, was his . f at bo said: M.mrC-W.-jthe Kiu.i.uo' aril some concluded liis examination, ii,', h f.viu annul) factory first love, and his correspondence with . " !. li the proprietor mo c,i to Woul-."If this be all you mean, publish it to her was of the most romantic nature, s'iiy ot.o'i s ho ,1 a "wau'li liiyht." ii U ice and "love both of which the world," an injunction which Wes- suited to the chivalrous fashion of the inul es.tnblohe.i the royal were suhseo.iio! it;v lnpraitu'd into unt- - ley gladly obeyed. This shat Lf:t,i foundry, twentyAfterward he corresponded in alarmed day. But field preaching ree years -!. Wesley re- vorsal Moth. ,!ist cu.,lom. "Watchlover style with Mrs. Pendarves, who, d he in another as a was the to regDiuit" Hrst established bishop, pastoral store.! and coiiverttl into the mother however, married a Belany, and then ular custom nt Kin.Liswood, Bee. .11, classed tin: Methodists with "deists, came his 111 fated affair with Miss Hop-keof Method'j. Smiily church of papists nnd other disturbers of the ist churches uicury continent. Al- 1710. in Georgia, into which he was The foundation of the first .MethodV.SeO person, kingdom of God." Wesley was de- drawn though it would by his guileless aud unsuspiIn was in and nounced otherwise world room" ist the adpamphlets crowded that "preaching it often became cious nature. disin a 12. a as restless deceiver, Jesuit To'., and was journment was iu tcSKary to the open laid in Bristol May But the broken courtship which afterward known as "the old room In guise and a dissenter, while his follielus, and in 177S Wesley completed the Horse fair." Wesley whs obliged lowers were called young quacks in brought him most pain was with Mrs. and opened, Nov. X the Wesley chapShe was a sailor's Grace Murray. el, on City rciad Umdon. This has to raise die funds and became the divinity, buffoons in religion, movers worker In the Newdevoted a widow, rabin of owner. In this way nearly all tho sedition and ringleaders the been many times renovated, but the was a skilful and castle orphanage present shell of tin building, the gal- chapels built in his early career were ble. housekeeper and nurse for the sick In answ er to the clergyman who forleries and rail art aii 0f Wesley's vested for a while. Afterward trusts who found refuge in Wesley's northin his parish, time, and the plaos, filled with me- were created and by his "deed of dec- bade his preaching ern home. She was of singular modcomIn laration" his the all interests these Wesley quoted Scriptural mentoes. Is still a Mecca for all lovand piety, a coworker with the esty inmand and closed with his famous buildings were transferred to his ers of Methodist history. words: "Whom shall 1 hear, then, God Wesleys, and readily accepted his ofIn 1720 Wesley left the Charter- corporated "conference." The Methodist classes and class or man? I look upon all the world as fer of marriage in 1748. house for Christ Church college, OxBut John Benuet, one of Wesley'a ford, taking with him a bchool ex- meetings were inaugurated in 1742, the my parish." Therefore, in 1742, he spent the year preachers, also fell in love with her, hibition prize of $200 a year, but he original purpose blending the raising never lost his veneration and love for of funds by contributions from mem- in extending his "parish," preaching and after the opposition of Charles with his In various places in London. Bristol, Wesley to her marriage bers with spiritual consolation, educahis first school. and other brother, Bennet married her. Wesley Wales, Newcastle-on-TynWesley was ordained deacon by tion and uplift. Wesley's first organizations, while places, but was refused the opportun- - did not meet her again until 1788, three Bishop John Potter of Oxford, Sept. and 1728. 1725, 19, priest Sept. 22, His first sermon was at South Leigh in Oxfordshire in. 1725. On his 23d birthday he was elected a fellow of Lincoln college. His fath' 'A 1 a 1 ' W. J A. VIA. tfik 9 er then had but $20 to keep Ids family until after the but he wrote in high spirits, "what will be my own I ft fate God knows, but wherever I am .CXlTW 4s-liI lb jr I u 'F'mu I'll., It HfTt i'kik H v my Jack is a fellow of Lincoln." Lincoln college, within whose walls Methodism was cradled, was founded in the fifteenth century by two bishops of Lincoln, in order to counteract heresies dangerous to the church, but John Wesley, the revolutionist, was connected with it more than a quarter of a century, and its name appeals on the title pages of all his works. lis became Greek lecturer, and from then to the close of liis life was a hard and wide student. Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, logic, ethics, natural philosophy, pometaphysics, etry and divinity entering into his weekly plan of study. In 1727, only 24 years old, he obtained ihe degree of master of arts. His f.n.cial Etrugglrs were over and by strict econrniy he was thenceforth able to help his fath er and his family. The name of Methodist was first bestowed upon Charles Wesley, John's older brother and Us friends, because of their strict confo-iiiitto the method of study presciii.ed by the university, but John Wesloy became the they partook largely of the character lty to assist the curate in his father's years before his death, but he remem father of Methodism, which ho gave of modern churches, were called soci- old church at Epworth. As the con- bered her with affection and grief all a new interpret it ioa in his English eties, and he did not then aspire to gregation came out, however, ho an- through his life. In 1751 ho married Mrs. Vazellle, dictionary, "One who lives accord- any other designation. The first was nounced that he would preach that ing to the method laid t'.tnvu In the formed in London In April, 173!). evening from his father's tomb In the widow of a London merchant. Wesley Bible." Before long, however, the Wesleys churchyard, the sight of which was so Insisted that her fortune should be John Wesley returned to Oxford as were excluded from the pulpits of the Inspiring that the people pressed him settled upon herself and her children, a tutor In 172!), and there found "The Anglican church, and by 1740 the to stny longer, and for eight days he and that he should not preach or travel Holy club," which had been s'.arted clergy excluded them and their con- occupied the same pulpit, consecrated less than before. As his Itinerant work Included thousands of miles on horseby his brother Charles two years be- verts from the Lord's table. The so- by the ashes of the dead rector. fore. He almost immediately became cieties grew it) number, and on Feb. To those services Methodism In Lin- back and countless sermons, she tired its leader, and so continued iimii 1733. 23, 1743, John Wesley sent out the colnshire owes is organized churches, of accompanying him, while when she This movement was spiritual, humani- "general rules" in his own name, which in 1901 numbered more than remained at home she became almost a monomaniac with jealousy. tarian and scriptural. Its first and con- signed later by Charles Wesley also. 20.000 members. In 1745 Wesley added to his other stant work being tne study of the Bi- In these the society was defined as She seized her husband's papers and ble. Among Us members was George "a company of men having the form "Irregularities" the calling out of lay gave his letters to enemies or pubWhite-HeldShe who, until te was 15 years and seeking the power of godliness, preachers, and when this step was lished them In the newspapers. old, drew ale for customers at his united in order to pray together, to challenged he declared shut her husband and his brother up father's Inn in Gloucester. Ho was receive the word of exhortation, and to clergymen lay me under more difficul- In a room, and railed at them with converted in 1735,. in his 21st year, watch over one another In love, that ties than violence; often drove long distances to laymen." and at once became a member of the they may help each other to work out He begun, continued and ended his gee who was with her husband; asclub. the work not to destroy English saulted him with violent fury, and their salvation." The Wesleys, to whom Whltefield There was but one condition for ad- church, but to vitalize and spiritualize even In the presence of others tore his had become greatly attached, sailed mission "a desire to flee from the it. His societies were intended as hair. And yet his letters to her show for Georgia In October, 1735, and In wrath to come and to be saved from auxiliaries to the established church that he possessed the utmost tendertheir absence Whltefield set the world their sins." But to show fruits It was and ever subordinate to it. His sep- ness of affection. to talking by such preaching as had expected that all should evidence their aration from it grew little by little. When Wesley died, In 1791, there never before been heard in Kngland. desire "by doing no harm, by avoidAt all his conferences he opposed a were In England about 79,000 MethoHe often gave thirty sermons a month, ing evil In every kind, especially that schism, until the Independence of dist members and 312 ministers In cirnd the common K'ople, hearing him which was most generally practiced," America brought him face to face with cuits. In America and Canada there t'adly, thousands weio converted. Including "such diversions as cannot a new problem. The Methodists here were from 40,000 to 50,000. The Wesleys heard of him and ap- be used in the name of the Lord Je- were left without an ordained minisAt the (Ecumenical Methodist conpealed to him to come to America, sus." try capable of administering the sacra- ference in I iOndon In 1901, the followand he passed them on his Vv'catern Thus was laid the broad platform of ments. They looked to Wesley as ing figures were given to indicate the they extent of Methodism throughout the trip across the ocean as they w re re- the spirit and creed on which was to their father and asked what world: Ministers, 4S.334 ; local preachstand the great Methodist chtircb and should do. turning. In 17S4. ers, 104.78(1 ; churches, S9.0S7; memThe crisis was reached This was In 1738. On the arrival of Inspire Its fervent zeal, its social rif the Wesley brothers In tyigtand they per, (fl philanthropies and its splrliual ! Years before Wesley had been con bers. 7.(159.25: Sunday schools, vinced that in the primitive church teachers and officers, 861,292; were thrown iu, contact with certain character. 7,077.079; lint Wesley was finally driven, much bishops and presbyters had the right scholars, adherents, Moravian, who l.ept sihe the oil his desire, to make a distinct to ordain, nnd he now proceeded to exdoctrine of justification J( faith, an! It is asserted by Methodist authoriunder the influence of ne c.f (hem. Mparntion of his societies from the ercise that right, Influenced thereto Peter Bonier, John became convinced church of England. The brothers be- chiefly by the demands of his Ameri- ties that it Is the richest denominaof his wanl of that faith "whereby gan to administer the sacrament, and can followers, hut partly by Scripture, tion In the Vnited Staos In the owneralone we arc saved." Tliis was emthus full provision was made for the history and reason." ship of property; (hat Its conritmttons On Sept. 2. 17S4. Rev. John Wesley, are the largest nnd that its work In phasized by his experience with a societies, although many Methodists man under sentence of d ath, and tho continued to attend the communion of Thomas Coke and James Crefghton, philanthropy and higher education Is Influence of this was such that on the Anglican church. "presbyters of the church of England," the most extensive. lfn roe-o;- Jh t,o-pc- I sr,,; 1 7SS-H- I , serv-foast,- , thfc.-fd- t 1 m WJW ' W har-iA-s- VS ''NS' , V ojo,iV,. m w cooMlllMISlai'..';$S - - , "Soul-damnin- soul-savin- 81.-22- 8; GiBsnt'c Railroad Projected. M. Lie Ixibel, a distinguished French promoter. Is In New York endeavoring to enlist American capital In a scheme by which It will be possible to go from that city to Paris by rail In governfourteen days. Th '.n-sla- n ment, he Hays, has ahi-adgranted Sithrough neressary concession beria and Canada is giving the matter M. Be I xbol favoiable attention. claims to have $.",o.onO,lioO . already ys four times (bat promised, but amount will be necessary to lnuneh Materials this enterprise popularly. lor construction will nil be purchased la tie United Slates. The route is to be from Irkutsk via JoUoutsk, Last Cape. Behring strait, Prince of Wales cape to Yukon City. As a ferry across DehriiiR Mrnil Is linpracth able, the l promoter has planned to build a thirty nix miles long, to cost ton-no- ! t"t the great work he in his Parisian Capitalists. Not more thnn 2. ."oil persons In Pa-ilave a capital of as much as $2on.tino. and nearly oothlrd of thte are foreigners. s The Fight on Tuberculosis. Satire of William S. Gilbert Health Board President Iyederle of It is noticeable that spontaneous witticisms of William S. Gilbert, the New York is confident that the city noted librettist, are considerably less named w ill soon bo able to deal with amiable (ban (hose which appear In tuberculosis in a manner worthy of Its his work written for stage production. Importance. Ho expects that the $500,-rntwen n occasions he hn for the purpose will he Indeed, gulliy of cruelty, as when ho said to forth t omlng and that most gratifying Hamlet results will be shown. He would esBeerbohin "Your Tree: achieved the triumph of helng funny tablish a canltarlutn capable of treatwithout being vulgar." Someone wrote ing 500 patients outside the city, but to a London pnier hocently that reck- sui;ici;itiy near to permit of visits less chauffeurs rhonld be shot a::.'. by frii'toif. Ills Idea Is to have someMr. Gilbert, comment log on this lien, thing he'weon the pavilion system and suggests. In chatae'.fris.lcally sardonl? the rotifiv system, both of which he vein this I .. ttlon o men an arriisie-Ment- . has Men !u operation up the state. "You see. whui the chauT'iir School Days Per Capita. has been shot the ladng machine, StniUiios show that the average tearing along without a ruler, would amount of public schooling per capita be a clfficult thins lo stop." In this country is S'.ifj days. That Is, Weaver Is a Pedestrian. there would be y, days f'T each InJohn WhittbT, a Lowell weaver habitant If It were distributed around. walks twenty four mlb s day be- Fifty years a .o the average was 420 tween the factory and his home in days and at the beginning i f the nineLittleton. Between the daily Journeys teenth century it was but !2 days. on foot Wliittler spends ten boms be- The ration the ?ohoo!ehii.ion fore a loom in a suspender fac- of to 'ay twelve limes at ni'ieh school-Irns the ymmgi tors tfccivcl Ivi tory. He Is a small man, about forty years old. o Thieves A dal In High Society. tremendous half smothered scan- brewing in New York's exclusive set over the discovery that social highwaymen are beginning to appear on the golf links. The mystery as to the Identity of the persons who rifle clothes in the lockers has become a diverting pastime. It is a fact that In half a dozen of the most exclusive have been missing places players things of value and suspicion Invariably attaches to some member of the club. Not so very long nco a Very prominent young buck In New York social circles was actually caught In the act of stealing money from the dressing rooms. There was a great fuss, but family considerations prevented at) exposure In the press. I Making Magnificent Library. The largo collection of aid objects IlltisVitir.i: the Bible co:,;-..,,by Mr. S. Hiitinard Pratt lo the C r.l Library is Kill hell's by bis efforts. The libra-is .:ea ': becoming enriihoj by IhoI-.hand (iocuni, nt! j( IT-io- n 'iv, |