HEAD OF THE NAVY.
A PERSONAL FRIEND'S ESTIMATE OF I
SECRETARY JOHN D. LONG.
The Kind otm Man the Nation Has to Cope
With rossible Emergencies—He Standi
(lie Present Strain Well and Show* Ne
Disposition to Get Cattled.
There is no more safe, careful, pru
dent man connected with our govern
ment than John D. Long, writes a Bal
timore newspaper man who has known
htm since boyhood. He is a Republi
can in politics, but a patriot In senti
ment. All his life he has been a pro
moter of peace, a counsellor against
hastiness, a defender of whatsoever j
is right and jußt, but absolutely In- ;
flexible In the maintenance of jus- j
flee.
You might Imagine that the present
dtrain, incidental to the loss of the
Maine and the Incidental stress of pub- j
Uc opinion, would have a tendency to .
rattle a man occupying the position of
Secretary of the Navy. It might rattle
some men, but it will never rattle John
D. Long. Amid all this uproar and ex
citement, when hot-headed people are
striving to find some sort of excuse
to lay the responsibility for the wreck
ing of the vessel upon secret enemies;
when everybody Is perplexed and una
ble to understand why it should hap
pen that one of our vessels of war ie
blown u? immediately following the
retirement of Minister de Lome; when
gBCBBTARY LONU.
the feverish inclinations of belligerent
citizens are having their influence,
and people are becoming unreasonable
and prone to criticise our officials for
not doing this, or that, or something
else, Mr. Long is as calm and unmoved
as If nothing had happened, and is
pursuing his investigations according
to the strict custom prevailing in the
naval service, through and by which
the blame for the loss of the Maine will
be laid just where it belongs.
The American people can rest per
fectly secure in the conviction that no
influence can be brought to bear upon
John D. Long which can, for an in
stant, swerve him from his duty "to the
American people. If the Maine was
lost through an accident within her
self, that will be the report that the
Navy Department will issue. If it was
the fault of anybody he will be pun
ished. If It was due to outside treach
ery the people will be truly and plainly
told so.
John D. Long is the soul of honor,
one of those men who are so brave they
dare face the truth, dare speak, dare
live It. When he was an obscure
young man studying law he was up
right, fearless, guided by principle,
ambitious, but not inordinately so. He
aspired to shine in politics, but the
man doesn't live who ever had the te
merity to ask John Long his price.
In personal appearance Secretary
Long is short, chunky and rotund. In
frame he resembles the popular idea of
Napoleon more than President McKln
ley does. His head is phenomenally
large, his face broad, full, pleasant oi
expression, and he has a wonderfully
agreeable, persuasive, sympathetic
voice. His manner is that of a man
entirely master of himself, and no mat
ter how illustrious the company or how
distinguished the surroundings, Mr.
Long invariably holds up his end and
impresses everyone with unaffected
greatness.
When General Butler entertained
some desire to be renominated for the
Governorship of Massachusetts he said:
"There Is only one man in the State
I'm afraid of and he is Long. If be
wants it he can be elected hands
down."
It is extremely fortunate that such
a man is at the head of the Navy De
partment. Anybody can be Secretary
when all is quiet, and everything is
plain, easy sailing; but it takes a tried,
trustworthy and responsible mind to
exercise, without excitement, the offi
cial functions certain to lead to the
unknown, and which may lead to the
unexpected.
In this trying hour the people will
have a chance to judge and learn what
manner of man is at the head of that
branch of our service upon which great
reliance would have to be placed in any
critical time, and it will be foiind that
John D. Long will measure up to all
that is expected and required of him,
and will have a headful of brains and
a heartful of nerve to spare, for he is
one of the safest statesmen the admin
istrative branch of our government
contains.
The World's Larftsl Family,
Mrs. Sallie Hinton, of Turkey Foot
Precinct, Scott county, Ky., is prob
ably the head of the largest family in
the world. She is the mother of
twelve children, all alive and married.
She is the grandmother of fifty-seven
grandchildren and the great-grand
mother of twenty-two great-grand
children, all of whom live within a
few miles of her. All of her sons and
sons-in-law are Democrats. She is
seventy-one years old and an active
lady, does all her milking, cooking
.and other housework and enjoys the
very best of health.
EASTERN GIRLS GOING WEST
Agents In New York \V»itr«iei |
for ihe Pacific Slope.
A number of agents In New Yorlt I
are engaging girls to work as wait- t
resses in California and In Denver and
otber cities in the far West. It ap
pears that Eastern girls are more pop
ular than Western girls in restaurants
out there, and that the places that em
ploy girls from New York, and other
Eastern cities are rushed with busi
ness.
The employment of these girls began
last summer, when an agent hired fif
ty young women togo from New York
to Denver. He succeeded in getting
them all employment within twenty
four hours. This induced him to try
other cities, and he found there was
a demand for Eastern girls in the res
taurants of Western cities. He re
turned to New York, and now it is
said that an exodus of waitresses to the
West has set in. One New York res
taurant keeper who employs women
said:
"It seems odd that in California
they should want Eastern girls rather
than Western girls for waitresses; but
all the same if the present exodus goes
on it will soon be hard to get a good
looking waitress to stay in New York.
A number of them have left two of our
establishments to take employment
in a hotel at Coronado Beach, San
Diego. Cal., and to-day 1 learned that
four more had secured employment in
a hotel at Los Angeles. When one
goes others follow her example."
Knell of Ijondoii tandmnrks.
London is losing its old landmarks
at an alarming rate. In the neighbor
hood of Holborn the course of destrus
tion has beer, paralcularly noticeable
during the year gone past. The de
molition now in progress of a number
of ancient houses on the north side
of that thoroughfare will cover with
oblivion many a spot of historic in
terest. The clearance begins at Fur
nivai's Inn, and one may take a last
glimpse of the top set of chambers, in
which Charles Dickens wrote part of
the "Pickwick Papers." Therce the
labors of the "housebreaker" extend
to the famous "Old Hell," which has
already been razed to the ground.
Between these two points two other
licensed horses, pleasant with the fla
vor of by goue days, and more than
one building with an interesting his
tory, are doomed. Bidler's Hotel,
which is to be rebuilt and enlarged,
is a relic of the early days of the
Queen's reign, and the removal of the
preseni structure means the destruc
tion of the Horse and Groom at the
corner of Leather lane. This lioust
claims to have been licensed for clost
upon couple of hundred years,
but the buildings are probably
at least a century older, and
it is one of the quaintest hos
telries in London. Former asso
ciations of the house connect it with
the highwaymen who plied their call
ing on the Great North road, and Jon
athan Wild, the notorious thief-taker,
whose skeleton rests in the College
of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields,
hard by, was once a regular customer
at the tavern whose days are number
ed
iVople Are Queer.
"Well, pecple are queer."
It was Mr. Dodge Fenders, of No.
2010 Perambulator Avenue, Flatbush,
Borough of Brooklyn, Greater New-
York. U. S. A., who was speaking.
"As is well known, the Borough of
Brooklyn, which contributes about
1,000.000 of Greater New York's 3,500,-
000 inhabitants, is criss-crossed with
trolley lines. The first thing I get In
to in the morning is a trolley car, and
1 ride forty minutes with a fat man
standing on one of my feet and a sllin
man stepping on the other at two min
ute intervals. The last thing I get out
of at night is also a trolley car, and 1
have had therein another forty min
utes of trolley torture.
"When I was at my old home in
Bingtown last summer, father said he
was going to give me a grand treat.
I asked him what the treat was.
"'Never mind; it's something great.
Dodge,' he cried, enthusiastically.
Come on, my boy, come on; it'll be
i great!'
"'But what is it, paw?' I insisted.
" 'lt's great, my boy; out of sight,'
he cried, grasping me by the arm.
i 'Come on, an' I'll give ye a jiminy
i crackin' long ride, 'way up to Beea
; winger's Corners, on the new trolley
j car line!' "
A Novclint with 4,000,000 Readers,
1 The most popular novelists are those
! who are least known to literary peo
j pie. Who has heard of Emma Jane
i Worboise, or of the late Mr. Smith,
jof "Family Herald" fame? And
, among French novelists Zola and
! Daudet and Ohnet we know, but very
! tew have heard of Reichebourg, whose
Jeath was announced yesterday. Yet
j Reichebourg—"the king of feuilleton-
I Ists," as he was called—had probably
1 more readers than any novelist alive
Dr dead, and made as much money by
one novel as any other novelist by
two. He wrote exclusively for the Pe
tit Journal. He had, it was calculat
ed, 4,000,000 readers for every story he
wrote, and be used to receive £4,00(1
for the serial rights alone.
124-Mile Cycle Path.
Cyclists are apparently regarded
. with especial favor in Austria. A path
i for their use has been laid down by
! the side of the high road all the waj
\ from Gratz to Trieste, a distance o:
124 miles. The path is said to be only
about a yard in width.
A Queer nit of Financiering.
A girl doesn't love every man she ie
j willing togo to a dollar and a halt
show with.—Atchia-jn Globe.
RELIGIOUS OPINION.
ANSWERED PRAYER.
Father, whose tenderness has wrapped
me round
In a great need, to what shall I com
pare
Strength theu hast sent in answer to
my prayer?
Not to the help some falling vine has 1
found,
That trailing liatlesß on the frozen j
ground
Clings suddenly to some high trellis
there,
Lifting itself once more into the air
With timid tendrils on the lattice
wound.
Rather to help the drooping plant hag
won.
That weary with the beating of the
rains
Peels quickening in its own responsive
veins
The sudden shining of a distant sun.
When from within the strength and
gladness are.
My soul knows that its help comet
from afar.
—Alice Wellington Rollins.
WHAT OF THE NEXT GENERATION
"The religious condition us it pre
sents itself to us is threatening, rather
than in a desperate or discouraging
condition," says the New York Chris
tian Intelligencer (Ref.). "The serious
question is. What of the next genera
tion? If men hold to religion and yet
forsake the church; if they try to serve
God, do justly, and practice mercy, and
yet use the appointed means ol
grace, and by example, if not precept,
teach iheir children to value lightly
the Sabbath, the sanctuary, and the
Institutions of religion, will not the
next generation depart still further
from the service of God and of duty
toward fellow-man? These are ques
tions which awaken solicitude. The
religious situation to-da.v demands
thought and study from many points
of view. It calls very possibly for the
readjusting of many ideas and meth
ods. It needs in the ministry the best
i the church can give of native ability,
thorough training, and intelligent, con
secrated piety. It needs on the part of
church members consistent living, god
ly lives, which alone will convince the
world of the worth of the church and
the religion it represents and promotes.
Observation and experience combine
with statistics to prove there is no rea
son for Christian workers to become
i discouraged, though there are enough
, symptoms of religious decline to de
mand earnest efforts and fervent pray
; ers that it may not become general or
: fatal."
I'he i'roblom of Current Neetla.
"Nor have we any idea in mind that
it is possible now to galvanize old re
vival machinery with new power," ob
serves the Central Christian Advocate
(Meth.)of St. Louis. "The men whofan
cy that what we need most is the ' old
time class-meeting,' and that the gen
eral use of 'the mourners' bench' would
revivify the church, have not yet be
gun to study the problem of our cur
j rent needs. What, we need is a spir
it of consecrated ingenuity, of zealous
inquiry, of holy zeal, which will devise
fresh methods of securing conversions;
modern revival helps and appliances
adapted to the spirit, and life of to-day.
Has the vital spirit of Methodism died
out—the spirit, that seeks to adapt
means to ends, that invents new meth
ods of reaching men, that is fertile and
quick in deviaing a new way to get
hold of the unconverted, when old
time methods seem to be obsolete?
i This inventive spirit will prompt men
who are In touch with Qod, and who
really want to help others into the
kingdom, In the search for the right
j means to be used. Instead of using
old-time machinery, why not, when
I that falls to produce the best results,
; search out new methods?"
How to Bear Crttletaoa.
We often hear of branches which this
one or that one would propose as an
addition to the curricula of our theo
logical seminaries, while there are oth
ers who think that theological courses
as arranged at the present day are too
diffusive, and that while seeking to
be broadly comprehensive, they lack
in intensity and depth. And now
"The Watchman" has suggested that
one of the things that a seminary
should teach its students is how to
bear criticism with patience and equa
nimity. A minister is sure to be criti
cised, and he is sure to need criticism
at times. No one, clergyman or layman,
has any reason to object to criticism
so long as it is fair and kindly. Per
haps a few paternal counsels on this
head from theological professors, who,
of course, are never themselves criti
cised. would be timely.
l'»iimlutl<>iiN «( (lii'lntinnit).
Scarcely anything in moral culture
has I; ten harder than to get out of
men's thoughts the principle of merit.
As rectitude has always implied the
control of the Inferior propensities, and
■ as this has commonly been enforced
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by law and encouraged In rewards,
morality has widely taken the shape of
obedience to external command; and
the man who has practised it has in
stinctively felt that his compliant
with law entitled him to approval and
to such compensation as should be rea
sonable.
The whole orthodox Chrlstiau sys
tem rests upon this principle of merit.
Salvation is a reward which, human
excellence being altogether insufficient
to earn it. is purchased for men by the
attributed merits of Christ: 1.e., of
God Himself.
The way to receive power is to give
nf all you have.
1 .Ministerial Standard.
The ministry as a divine calling in
recent years has been declining in pub
lic esteem," says the Congregational
ist of Boston. "For this decline min
isters antl churches are mainly respon
sible. They have determined the
standard of value, have decided what
qualities they want in a minister, and
what preparation is necessary to tit
him for his position. People generally
have accepted their standard. A gen
eration ago the ministry stood highest
among the learned professions. To
day it stands lowest. The Massachus
etts Bar Association would treat as ri
diculous an application for membership
with a degree of preparation iu law
which in theology would satisfy a Mas
sachusetts ministerial association.
Medical or dental associations would
prosecute men who assumed to prac
tise medicine or dentistry with no more
knowledge of their business than the
knowledge of theology which would
make a candidate acceptable to minis
terial associations."
Great Thoughts.
A man who does not know how to
| iearn from his mistakes turns the beat
i schoolmaster out of his life.—Henry
j Ward Beecher.
Activity is only beautiful when it
> is holy; that is to say, when it is spent
! in the service of that which passeth
j not away.—Amiel's Journal.
Moral energy grows with the obsta
! cles against which it is measured; and
the putting forth of moral energy as
the purpose of our Uvea is the highest
exemplification of humanity. When
we put forth the highest moral energy,
then we touch the stars of life.—Felix
Adler.
Everybody Called.
The gospel invitation is to all, with
out distinction of rank or wealth or
poverty. Even the most wicked may
be sharers alike with the purest. "Who
soever will, let him come." Richard
Baxter once said:-
"I am so thankful the gospel invita
tion says 'whosoever.' If it said 'Let
Richard Baxter come, and I will In no
wise cast him out, I should be afraid
there was another Richard Baxter In
the world, and it might mean him."
Tvy and Trn»t.
There are two little words in our
language which I always admired
try and trust. You know not what you
can or cannot effect until you try; and
If you make your trials In the exer
cise of trußt in God, mountains of im
aginary difficulties will be afforded
which you have never anticipated.—
Samuel Smiles.
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HAVING PURCHASED
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We sell at 1.60
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