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A Leaf From tlio Darkest
Pages of tlie History of
Darkest Africa.
:MISSIOMKIESABEBLAMED
For Turning a Eappy Kingdom Into
an Arena for Bloodshed.
CHRISTIANS BURKED TO DEATH
And Machine Guns Mercilessly Turned on
the Zealous Satires.
ENGLAND TO ABANDON TDD CODNTRI
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"When Speke told the world of Uganda
over 30 years ago, the Btory fascinated all
Intelligent reader. He had found on the
northern shore of the greatest lake in
.Africa a people numbering over 2,000,000,
"clothed from head to foot in native cloth,
with a King whose fathers bad Bat on the
throne he occupied when Queen Elizabeth
vai ruling England, with an organized
government that restricted the power of the
sovereign, with a class of powerful nobles
who ruled the provinces and composed the
royal Cabinet and a peasantry that was
happy and contented, thouch life was held
very cheap as in all barbarous communi
ties. "When Stanley saw Uganda 17 years ago
he went into raptures over the fair land and
perhaps described it as more beautiful than
It is. Here, he wrote, was the place 'for
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missionaries to sow, in fruitful soil, the
seeds of civilization that should spread
through Central Africa. His glowing
words fired the hearts of philanthropists.
Protestant teachers reached Uganda inl877,
and Catholic lathers two years later, to
sow, alas, the seeds of dissension as well as
of civilization.
'War Besnlts From Itelipious Rivalries.
There is no doubt that the past seven
years of civil war are the result of the
religious rivalries and political discords en
gendered by white men who went to
Uganda to take blessings and not curses
there. Englishmen and Frenchmen kindled
a fire that they have been unable to subdue.
In Uganda, Protestant and Catholic teach
ers not only befuddled the untutored
natives with their theological differences,
but divided into sects and factions a simple
people who had lived at peace with one au
other. The bitterness and hatred thus en
gendered have cost hundreds of lives. The
teachers themelves have been dismayed to
see their followers arrayed in hostile camps
which they could not control.
One day when Kinc Mtesa had the rival
teachers before him he said to them: "You
Protestants tell me that the Catholics make
idols and worship them, and that God is
displeased with such things; and you Cath
olics tell me that the Protestants long ago
deserted the true faith and are not among
God's people. Between you both I don't
know what to believe. Uganda did well
under her old religion and I think I can do
no better than to cling to the Gods ol my
lathers." He kept his word to the day of
his death, and it might have been better for
his people if they had followed his example.
Almost Destroyed a Catholic Church.
One day as a Protestant missionary
reached the town of Bufui on the edge of
Victoria Xyanza tbey saw over 30 natives
kneeling on the shore, waitins thejr turn to
be baptized by Father Bouchier, who in
three years had received bOO of their
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the Protestant missionary attended Sundar
service at a station of the Church of Eng
land. "All the preachiae," he wrote "was
against Father Bouchier of Bufui. He was
accused of making gods with his own
hands, of showing images of Christ's
mother with movable eyes, of deceiving the
people by pretending to work miracles.
These things were told in good faith no
donbt, but they were not true. Next morn
ing a partv ot the converted natives started
for Bufui to destroy Father Bouchier's
church, and God only knows what would
have happened if we had not persuaded the
Rev. Mr. Marson, the missionary in charge,
to overtake them and stop the expedi
tion." Here was a mob of barbarians, "con
verted" to the Christian iaith, convinced
that their lathers had died with sin, be
lieving every word their teachers uttered,
Infuriated with the thought that Arise white
teachers were leading their Iriends astray,
and that men of their own blood.con verts to
the Catholic faith were in league with the
Evil One. It is easy to imagine the feeling
of bitterness and hatred that deepened and
intensified as the proselytes grew in num
bers until it burst out in open flame. To
dav, there seems to be in Uganda only the
religion of the rifle.
Barnlns Christian Subjects to Death.
One may search the missionary records in
Tain for evidence of good feeling and kindly
co-operation between the rival bands of
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white teachers until the massacres of ISSo,
when Mtesa's son and successor, King
Mwanga, made war upon all the Christians
and common persecution drove them to
gether lor a while. Hatred of the whites
who were dividing his country into factions
in which ho had no share, and fears that
other whites were coming to subvert his
power and "eat up" Uganda, led Mwanga
to kill Bishop Hannington and burn scores
of his Christian subjects to death. A pic"""9
here shows one of the charred and black
ened frameworks upon which the victims
were slowly roasted- after their arms and
feet had been cut oft. The annals of mar
tyrdom show no heroism more sublime than
that or the poor converts ot Uganda who
died for their faith, when they might hare
purchased life by renouncing It; and it is
easy to see how, before and alter the perse
cutions, such spirits, full ot ignorant enthu
siasm, were filled with bitter hatred of those
who, they believed, had espoused a false
In 188T the Christians, still united by the
atrocities theKiug visited upon both sects,
succeeded in deposing him. Then two other
factions came to the front Klwewa,
another son of Mtesa, had no "oner been
put on the throne and divided the offices
among both Christian parties than the
Mohammedan Arabs and the heathen
"tt'aganda joined hands to reshape affairs
more to their liking.
PeaUi and Flight for Christians.
They turned Kiwewa out of power, placed
Kalema, another royal son. on the throne,
and killed many of the Christians who took
refuge, one and all, in Buddu, the touth.
western province ot Uganda, while all their
white teachers sknrried across the late to
wait on the southern shore for the storm to
blow over. Uganda was now undtr Mobam
medan control and the prospects of the
Christians were very dark. The poor fugi
tive Mwanea took refuge with a half dozen
of his 8,000 wives among the Cathouo
Fathers, outh of the lake, and was de
pendent upon them lor his daily bread.
The bloodthirsty tyrant was now a sup
pliant for charitv and friendship and in his
dire distress he became an alleged Chris
tian, and impressed the good fathers with
his sincerity as a Catholic while, at the
same time, he wrote to the Church of
England teachers: "I have given up my
former ways, and only wish now to follow
your advice." , . . .
Victory sides with that combatant in
cakoes.
Africa who has the most power and guns.
Tlie exiled Chiistians in Buddu were gradu
ally equipped with munitions bv Mr.
Stokes, a former missionary, who had gone
into trading on a large scale. In the fall of
1889 tbev were ready to take the field against
the Arabs and their heathen countrymen.
Mwanga was nominally a Christian. Both
factions hoped he would side with them or
at least give them a fair share of offices and
power, xney ueciueu 10 resiurc uuu iu uio
throne, and after hard fighting they suc
ceeded. The church militant triumphed
over the Arabs and heathen, and the white
teachers, who had watched the fighting from
islands near the northern shore, returned to
Mengo and Bubaga and rebuilt their ruined
churches.
The Old Hatred Breaks Out.
Even when huddled together In sore pov
erty and distress in distant Buddu, the fol
lowers of the Englishmen and of the French
Fathers could not forget that they regarded
one another as Anti-Christians, who could
league together only when a common
enemy tried to destroy them. In Buddu,
tbey were on the verge of open hostilities,
when a white man opportunely arrived and
persuaded them not to kill one another, .for
all were needed in the struggle to regain
Uganda. When they found themselves
again in power at Mengo and Bubaga all the
old hatred flamed afresh. Politics were in
extricably mixed up with religion. The
missionaries were powerless to quell the
fires of intolerance tbev hail kindled.
The Englishmen hailed with iov the dar
when an armed force from the coast arrived,
early last year under Captain Lugard, to
possess the country in the name of the
British East Africa Company. Lugard saw
the two parties rallying under different
flags. The Protestants cirried the British
flas. The Catholics sewed red crosses on
white cloth, and this emblem waved above
their assemblages. Mwanga had openly de
clared himself a Catholic Each party
clamored for the governorship of the
provinces, for seats in the cabinet,
for the thousand and one petty offices.
Mwanda dared not wholly ignore the
claims of the Protestants, but every office
of power and profit he could bestow upon
the Catholics was theirs. On the one side
were 25,000 professing Catholics who deemed
it their right, as the majority, to control af
fairs. On the other side were about 4,000
Protestants, a hopeless minority, but strong
in the garrison of Lugard's tort at Mengo,
and his Maxim guns and mitrailleuses. The
French Fathers, 24 in number, had eight
stations along or near the shores of the
great lake, while the five Protestant teach
ers had only three stations.
Tlie Immediate Cause of the War.
This was, the position when on January 24
last the long threatened war broke out
Each side BtiU says that the other was to
blame. It is believed by the most careful
and impartial observers that the responsi
bility rests, not upon the natives, hut upon
the handful of whites in the country. It
was four months after long reports of the
fresh outburst had reached Europe from the
French Fathers before one word of explana
tion came from Lugard and his Protestant
friends. The fact is that the Catholics had
the Kintr, the Government, the great ma
jority of the nobles and the governing class.
The Protestants were strong only in muni
tions of war supplied by the British and
stored in the Mengo Fort.
To this party, overwhelmed by a hostile
majority, the situation was becoming in
tolerable. They were ready to seize any pre
text to overthrow the existing order of things
trusting that the Lord of battles would give
the victory to the heaviest guns. A fight
between two chiefs of the rival factions re
sulted in killing the Protestant. Lugard
demanded the cnief s slaver, but Mwanea
refused to give him up, because, he said,
the man bad killed his adversary in self
defense. Thereupon Lugard "felt it his
duty to appeal to arms for the maintenance
ot justice." In the bloody days that fol
lowed the Catholics fought hard but, for the
mosPpart, tbey bad only spears to oppose
to guns. Hundreds of them were killed.
Scores of them perished in the lake when
the fortunes of war went against them.
The Tables Completely Turned. .
They could not win against Lugard's
machine guns, and thousands ot them took
refuge with' King Mwanga on the Sesse
Islands, whence they and ail other Catholics
were finally banished to Buddu where they
are living to-day. Every Catholic mission
was destroyed and the French Fathers took
refuge with the Germans at Bukoba.
It is a remarkable spectacle. Twenty-five
thousand of the Christian converts of
Uganda have been driven from their homes
bv the superior force of British arms. The
King has been converted again. He has
become "a good Protestant," and is once
more on the throne, upheld there by "the
same guns that banished hi in.
Now that the bigotry, rivalries and blun
dering of white uicu bare laid low the most
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promising native State in Africa, there is
talk of abandoning the country, just when
the maddened natives, eager to flv at one
another's throats, need nothing but the
withdrawal of the British power to com
plete' their own destruction. No wonder
the best men in England protest against
such a step. There ia little likelihood that
the British Government will evacuate
Uganda. "What it has done is to warn the
East African Company that after Maroh 31
next it will not continue the subsidy witb-
out which, the company savs. it cannot re
main in the country. The company is ad
mittedly incompetent to govern Uganda;
but there Is as yet no reason to believe that
Great Britain, after claiming sovereign
rights over Uganda, will now abandon the.
country whose recent history, shaped by the
whites who hare lived there, is the most
disgraceful scandal that has come out of
Africa, Cybus a Adams.
TOTAL ABSTIAERCS BOTES.
St. Jortt's, of Thirty-third street, Is once
more a reality.
Columbus night or the Father Matusw was
a literary success.
Tine next meetine of the nnlon will be
held at Dnquesne Hall.
It Is encouraging to see St. Patrick's rep
resented once more at the union meetings.
St. Luke's, of Mansfield, has secured the
Notional Convention of tbe Diocesan
Union.
The union meeting at St. Bridget's last
Sunday was attended by all the local so
cieties. St. Luke's, of Mansfield, m preparing to
build a newiall. It.already has a complete
gymnaswiri?
The SacriM Heart will have a literary pro
gramme ne'Jt Sunday. It will aim to be the
banner society.
All delegates are expected to come to the
next union meeting prepared to vote on the
field day question.
The Sisters of Heroy at DuBols, Fa., are
using the temperance tracts for reading les
sons in the more advanced classes.
Watches, Jewelry, fine diamonds, emer
alds, rubies, sapphires, turquoise, opals, eta,
in all tbe latest combinations. We set all
our own goods and save you J obbers' profits.
Call and examine the stock and prices at 11.
G. Cohen's, 86 Fifth avenue.
Stylish Suitings,
Trouserings and overcoatings to order on
short notice at Pitcairn's, 4M Wood streofc.
Our goods and our prices
are tie "open sesame' to
the hearts and the pocket
BOOKS OF THE PURCHASING,
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Where ChrUttau Wert Burned to Death.
CARPETS.
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Such a stock, such colorings, such a variety, such an as
sortment; such prices. Multiply by three the strong points
of any other carpet stock in town and you get some idea
of what we are showing.
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5,000 YARDS
Of extra heavy Oilcloth, of a quality never sold in the
regular way under 40c a. yard, will be sold this week at
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CASH OR CREDIT.
BOTH ONE AND TWO YARDS WIDE.
Our grand fall showing
exceeds our expectations
and ldxewise the expecta
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Bemarkable Power of the Jesuits
and Their Ups and Downs.
FBIDAY IS KOT AN UNLUCKY DAY.
The Custom of Burying the Dead With
the Heads to the Westward.
WEBSTER'S TEIBUTE TO JOHN JAI
The recent election of a new General of
the Company of Jesus makes the question
"Who and what are the Jesuits ?" timely.)
In brief, Jesuit is the name commonly
given to a member of the Company of
Jesus, a missionary order of the Boman
Catholic Church. The order has been of
tremendous power, and its influence to-day
in the Boman churoh,is far greater than the
number of its members would seem to war
rant The Company of Jesus was founded
by Don Ignatius de Loyola, a Spaniard, who
was converted while recovering from a
wound received in battle. Converted In
1521, he studied for .several years, and in
1534 began to collect young men about him.
In 1537 he gave the name "Company of
Jesus" to his little band of followers. They
offered themselves to the Pope as a special
militia in 1538, but were not recognized by
the Pope until 1640, when the bull Beglminl
militantis ecclesiie was issued, confirming the
company.
The company was' made up on military
lines; its chief was a General; absolute obe
dience was required ot every member.
Loyola was the first General, chosen In
164L The company has always been inde
pendent of the Pope, yielding to him only
when it chose, and has opposed and been
opposed by him on many occasions. Al
ways, however, it has come out ahead.
When Loyola died in 1556 the company had
45 professed fathers, 2,000 members and 100
houses.
But the company has not always had
smooth sailing; it was expelled from Portu
gal in 1759, and from France in 1767; they
were expelled from Spain in the same year,
and later from Naples and Parma, and fin
ally, in 1773, Pope Clement XIV, in the
bull dominnes ao redemptor suppressed the
society. This bull gave is the reasons for
the suppression the Jesuits' defiance of
their own constitution which forbade them
to enter into politics; their quarrels with
local bishops and priests not Jesuits: their
conformity to heathen religious usages in
tbe East," and gave other reasons. The
society at the time of its suppression had
22,589 members, of whom 11,295 were
priests and 41 provinces. The suppression
did not last very long; the society moved
into non-Catholic countries, and existed in
Bussia and Prussia, until Pius VII revoked
the decree of suppression in 1814. Since
then they have been driven out of one
country o"rlv to return a few years later.
Now, however, they are supposed to con
trol the Pope, whose brother, the late Car
dinal Pecci, was a Jesuit, and the various
colleges ot the Holy See. The company is
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divided into aix grade novjeevwho "
be 14 years olds scholastics, Wjeare of age;
temporal coadjutors, 24; spiritual coadju
tors, 81 to 33; professed of the three tows,
poverty, chastity and obedience; professed
of the four vows the fourth being that or Ira
pliclt submission to the Pope, 45 years old.
It is an unsettled question if there is not a
seventh grade, of lay members, "Jesuits ot
the short robe." ,
Obedience in all things to the orders ot
his superior is the Jesuit's rule of lite. I
ought not to"be my own, but His who cre
ated me," wrote Loyola In his "Spiritual
Exercises," the elementary manual 'or the
novice, "and his, tooby whose means God
governs me, yielding myself to be moulded
in his hand like so much wax. I
ought to be like a corpse, which has neither
will nor understanding, or like a wjall
crucifix which is turned about at the will or
him that holds it,or like a staff in the hands
of an old man.who uses it as may best assist
or please him."
Of whom was it said, "When tire ermine
or thejudlolal robe fell on him it touched
nothing less spotless than Itself?"
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Of John Jay; in a little different lorm,
however. ""When the spotless ermine of
the Judicial robe fell on John Jay it touched
nothing less spotless than itself," were the
words uttered by Daniel "Webster at a
dinner in New York in 183L John Jay
was born in New York In 1745; was a mem
ber of the first two Continental Congresses
and of the Constitutional Convention of
New York; was President ol Congress In
1778-79; Chief Justice of New York State,
and MinUter to Spain in 1780. He re
turned in 1784; was Foreign Secretary of
the Confederation from 1784 to 1789, when,
on the adoption of the Constitution, he be
came the first Chief Justice of tbe United
States. In 1794 he went as Minister to
Great Britain and there made what Is
known in this country as "Jay's Treaty.
He was Governor ot New York from 1796
to 1801; from that time until his death in
May, 1829, he remained In private Hie.
Does history bear out the popular super,
stltion as to Friday being an nnluclty davt
W. G. K.
This question.was probably suggested by
the fact that Pittsburg celebrated Colum
bus Day on a Friday. The day has cer
tainly a very fortunate side in the history
of this country, especially so far as Colum
bus is concerned. The explorer may have
properly arranged some of his dates to show
his contempt for the existing superstition,
but however that may be, it is certain he
sailed away from Palos on his first voyage
on a Friday; on a Friday he discovered
land; arrived home again on a Friday;
reached his paniola on his second voyage
on that day, started for his home again on
Friday, and discovered the mainland of
this continent on a Friday during his third
voyage. St Augnstine, the oldest town in
this country, was also founded on a Friday.
On the same day the Mayflower made the
barborof Provincetown and on Friday,
December 22, 1620, made tbe final landing
at Plymouth Koclc
George Washington was also born on that
day, as were also those great statesmen of
this century, Gladstone, Bismarck andDis
raeli. Eaphael, the great painter, was
born and died on Friday, and both were
Good Friday at that Sir Isaao Newton,
Martin Luther, George Stephenson, Fahren
heit and the great Charles the Bold were all
born on Friday. On Friday, April 8, 1646,
A GREAT MOVEMENT
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FURNITURE
Is now poine1 on at
our
store. An unprecedented
movement even for us, and
we're always busy at this
season of the year.
Customers are moving in
and out with such rapidity
and taking so much furniture
with them that only a con
stant supply of new stock
keeps the store from being
cleaned out
We like this, for it keeps the stock fresh and bright and
this is appreciated by our numerous patrons.
If you want to know how wonderfully far a little money
, will go in making home attractive and inviting, come and
examine our fall stock.
The inspection will surprise you into a purchase.
REMEMBER THIS:
If you want aaything to brighten up your homes you
need not wait until you have all the money it takes to get
what you want before making the purchase.
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Enables you to act at once and get the use of the goods -while
paying for them. Neither are you asked an im
mense advance, in price on this. account
The credit business as conducted by us is legitimate,
honorable, business like and respectable. Multitudes find
it a great convenience.
Don't waste any time in trying to beat our terms or our
prices. Those wo have tried it say it cannot be done.
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FOE ?
the first known newspaper advertisement
was published in the Imperial Intelligencer in
England, and on Friday, November 28,
1814, the London Tana, the first newspaper
ever printed by steam, was issued. On a
Friday the Savannah, the first steam vessel
that ever crossed the Atlantic, sailed
from Savannah, Ga,, and the famous Great
Eastern left the Irish coast with the first
Atlantic cable, and reached this country on
the same day of the week.
Surely from the above list of very un
lucky Fridays, enough argument could be
made against the day's unlucky signifi
cance. Why are people burled with their heads
to the west, and what is the origin of the
custom? C. D. Ii.
The origin of the custom is unknown;
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from ages back, races" In all parts of the
world have buried their dead with their
heads to the west; not invariably, how
ever, but with great uniformity. Probably
the remote origin lies in the belief of an
Immortality and a resurrection, typified by
the return of the sun every morning. The
dead are buried so that when the time comes
they may face the sun which will wake
them. The first pastor of the church at
Easthampton, N. Y., it may be remarked,
directed that he be burie'd with his head to
the east, so that at the resurrection he might
face his congregation; but so general is tbe
custom of burying with the head to the west
that this direction is noted as an instance ot
me minister a eccentricity.
Why is "Columbus Day" celebrated on
EXQUI5
In Parlor Suits we are making a splendid exhibit of fine
furniture, well made and upholstered in various degrees of
elegance from the cheapest worth the buying to the finest
made.
All the latest designs of the cabinet makers' art, all the
best finishes in the wood and the latest ideas in upholster
ing are embraced in the splendid assortment of furniture
for your best rooms.
MORE STYLES AND BETTER ONES THAN
ARE SHOWN ANYWHERE ELSE.
A PHIffl CHAIR
Is one worthy of the highest
human ambition; but only a
few can reach it We are
offering something as fine as
a Presidential Chair in our
new and well-assorted stock
of these goods. Every one
we show touches a point
away above the high-water
mark. Only a winner can
occupy a Presidential nair,
and you'll find our chairs presidential in this sense that you
are a winner if you buy one.
We've Chairs little and big of every kind, sort and
description.
Parlor Chairs, Dining Room Chairs, Library Chairs and
Kitchen Chairs.
Between $1 and $100 we can certainly suit all comers in
price. ,
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1 on Oct4
October 21, IniteaoVof, or as well as.
Because 'Columbus discovered land oif
tuinhrr 14. which bv the new style of sal
.culat'ne; days, months and years would be?
October 21. Uf course, as tne discovery
was made under the "old style," it if
proper to celebrate that event on October
14. But Chicago wished to celebrate the
discovery by dedicating the exhibition
buildings. However, New York City was;
to celebrate the actual discovery on Octoj
ber 14, under tbe auspices of the United
States Government, so Chicago, in orde
that there might be no collision, decided to)
dedicate the buildings or the 21st of thsj
month.
Who said "Let me make the songs of a nan
.. .miTMniiint who makes tho lAwaf
' W. Q. W.
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, a Scotch
writer, in a letter to the Earl of Eothes,'
wrote, "I know a very wise man that be1
lieved that if a man were permitted to maki
all the ballads, he need not care who should
make the laws of a nation." Fletcher was)
born in 1623, and was educated by Gilberi
Burnet, later bishop of Salisbury, one of
the wise men of his time. Fletcher was a
member of the Scottish Parliament, and
traveled extensively; so, though the "very
wise man" may have been Burnet, it is no
impossible that it was some other per'
son.
What States will vote at the election next
month under the "Australian ballot law?" ,
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No State will vote for the first time iro.4
der the Australian ballot law unless tha'
Baker ballot law be called an Australian.
ballot law; but all tbe States which have;
that law 34 in number will follow it at a
Presidental election for the first time. J
Massachusetts adopted the Australian baU,
lot in 1888, but used it for the first time at
the State election in the autumn of 1339. 1
The other 33 States have adopted the sy
tem since the last Presidental election.
Who were the commanders at Quebec De
cember 81, 1773T W.O.
The American commanders were General
Montgomery, Colonel Benedict Arnold )
and Colonel Morgan. The British forces '
were led by General Guy Carleton, Govew
nor of the Province of Quebec, and later i
1786 created Baron Dorchester. He was
Commander in Chief in America when tha
British surrendered at Yorktown, in 1781,
and evacuated New York on Noyember 25,
1783.
Do the Methodists outnumber any anil
every other seoe of Christians In the United
States. Ciistov.'-
No; they come second. The Roman Cath-.
olics come first with 6,250,045 members; the j
Methodists claim about, 4,930,000; the Bap
tists about 4,300,000. The figures for tha
Boman Catholics are those of the census or
1890: tbe others are those of the denomina
tional "year-book" for the present year.
What is the orisia 6f the phrase "the dla,
iS cast?" AL03ZO. 1
The phrase is very old, and comes of
course from the game of chance where the
players won or lost money by the turn oft
the die or dice. The Latin expression is f
alea jactata est, precisely the same as ours.
Plutarch, who died about 120 years after
Christ, describes Casar as using the phrase!
when he crossed the Bubieon. It is one of
1 u no "' -: - - -
I the proverbial expressions that have no
j certain oriBiu-
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