THAMES SONY SRM A GOSPEL MESSAGE. Subject: Christ Our Refuge — A Message of Comfort, Commending the Behav. ior of the Disciples to Those Who Are Burdened With Sorrow. {Copyright 1900.1] WasHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Talmage, in the following disc urse, which ne has sc for publication this week, gives a prescrip tion for all anxiety and worriment, and illustrates the divine sympathy for all who are in any kind of struggle. The tet is Matthew xiv, 12, “And His disciples went and told Je 2 An outrasreous assassination had just taken place. To appease a revengeful woman King Herod ordered the death of that noble, seli-sacrific.ng prophet, John the Baptist. The group of the d les were thrown into grief and dismay. y us. felt themselves utterly defenseless. There | was no authority to which they could ap peal, and yet grief must always find ex ression. If the 1 ear it, then the nized soul will ery it aloud to the winds and the woo willing to listen. There is a texicr thos and at the same time 1 able picture in the word “They went and tc Jesu understand all their grief. a diately soothed it. Our bur more than half so heavy to car shoulder is put under the other er them. Here Christ, His shadowed with group of discinle | violent skiliful brus palace some not so skillful hand of the ev and told Jesus. The old Goths and down upon Italy from rope, and they upset they broke down the = away everything that was tiful. So there is ever : history of all the so our race an troubles that sack and put highly prize. I' cleft into the mountains as shelter, and the foot of flee cannot bear us beyond the qu pursuit. g ny with | The arrows they Hut to the strin r dart until we fall pierced and unerring stunned. I feel that J bring to you a most appro- yriate message. I mean to bind up all your griefs into a bundle and fire with a spa from Ged prescription that cured the sorrc disciples will cure all your heartaches. 1 have read that hen Godtrey and Dh army marched out to capture Jerusal as they came over the hills, at the flash of the pinnacles of that beaut city, the army that had marched in lence lifted a shout that made the earth tremble. Oh, you soldi t marching .n toward hea ny them on [he ¢ to-day, e glam fre e God's mercy and God's sta h, vou migh be lifted into great rejoicing and that the prospect of its peace breaks vonr enraptured gaze you might raise one glad hosanna to the lord In the first place I commend the beh vior of those disciples to alli burde souls who are unpar € Tu a time in almost every he feels from some sour erring nature. The thought may not 1 such heft as to fell him. It may be like the flash in an evening cloud just afte a very hot summer day. One man to > rid of that impression will g another will stimulate hi spirits, and another man will dive deeper | in secularities. But some not get rid of these impr a man is poised upon a perfect unceilainty, a that the next momen foot ma he must do something nt to make self forget where he stands or else refuge. Some of you cro under : vou bite the dust when this n might rise crowned congue 1 s you have been by To relax the grip of rom your soul and pl your rinshac feet upon the golden throne Christ let t tortures of the bloody Him. With the beam of He will break down the door «f v geon. From the thorns of ths ow He will pick enough brow blaze wit tear on His wr is side, in every of laceration from shou in the grave shattering. death groan I hear 1lim cometh unto Me Iv “0h,” but you my wound you wound—namely, vou never known find a chronic disease an caustic burn it all ont? God comes to the ol long «been rankling ti grace, it is burned out of conviction, “the fle the flesh of abounded, gr: « mor With the ten thousand ung of your life. ao a 11 Je You will neve any other w broad invitatic will not always here si e aboundeth. vardonable sin rid of vour sin remember that h I extend to vou xtended. King Al fred, before pieces were in vented, used {to d day into three md the n on vax candles. By the time had burned to the socket eizht hours hac gone, and when the second candle kL burned to the socket another eight hou had gone, and when all the three candles were gone out then the day had passed. Oh, that some of us, instead eof calculatin our day 1d nights and y iy earthly timepi by the numbers « cies which are burning dc out, never to hahted, lect at |] be amid i “Our lamps have gone gut Again, _L-eomtiiend the diseinsles to all who are t heard men in mid life Y been led into temptation. If von have not felt temptatic t is because yo not t.ied to do r A man hopolec handcuffed, as long as he lies quiet] not test the power of tho « re rises up and with «d solves to snap th hopple then he | And there are men and twenty and thirty 3 and foot by evil habits felt the power of the ¢ have never tried to b easy to go on down wit with the wind lying on v¢ turn around and ti wind and the tid a different matic the current of at while we tw way, towarc heaven, oh, the oars! You You have one kine other, not one per >, gain, 1 coiamend t disciples to all those 1 > roan! to the slandered and per: cuted. When Herod put John to death, the disciples knew that their own heads v not safe. And ds you know that every 1 z Herod? There are persons in not wish you viry well. Yow are honeycomt: to them. Ti teeth they hiss at yo misint motives, and would be d to see you up- get. No man gets through life without having a pommeling. Some slander comes after you horned and husked and hoofed to gore and trample yo nd what are you to do? 1 tell you pla that all who serve Christ must suffer | It is the worst sign in the > be be able to say, © : in the world.” he Bible against speaks well the world and approves your an idler in the not doing your d served Christ. h been maltreated You ow i Whitefielc “them or try > of the 10 are invited men What did the 1 him? He mounteban Hall stood and sp spired man ever did of heaven? And Sabbath meanest y ut | | | | | | | | { | | plowed for { must be peopled re be no human ear to |? s and the | © waters. But ‘here was an ear that was | V9 pa | behind you, within you | threw her arms around her child with such | warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ | has s t power in heaven and on ea cal i J | You would say, “ | cost. T must get him out of that trouble.” t, | Do you think God is not so good a father | as: yon? | sound with the glad tiding | who may not take this counsel and may i remain unblessed. 1 cannot help asking {000 men and burst into tears. | ment, when every one supposed he would | be in the greatest exultation, he broke > | Our age is but the falling of A. Montgomery, two of | most prominent Democrats, have an- , | nounced their intention of support- ing the Republican ticket this year. They stuck to the party, hoping it would purge itself of Populism, but now realize that the present Democrat- ic managers are bent on going to | the extremes. The exits of the Dem- | ocratic party are going to be busy , places this year. All who live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. 2 And 1 set it down as the very worst sign in all your Christian experience if you are any of vou at peace with all the world. The religion of Christ is war. challenge to ‘the world, the flesh and the devil,” and if vou will buckle on the whole armor of God you will find a great host disputing your path between this and heaven . Again, I commend the behavier of the disciples to all the bereaved. How many in garb of mourning! How many emblems of sorrow you behold everywhere! God has His own way of taking apar’ a fam- ilv. We must get out of the way for com ing generations We must get off the sti that others mav come on. and for reason there is a long procession reach ing 1 all the time into the valley of shadows. This emigration from time into eternity is so vast an enterprise tha: we cannot understand it. Every hour we hea we clang of the sepulchral gate The sod must be broken. The ground must be resurrectic » harvest. Eternity The dust must press om t 1s | evehds It is appointed unto all men once to die.” This emigration from time into eternity keeps three-fourths of the ilies of the earth in desolation. The rent with farewells, and the black of death rumble through street. The body of the child that sided so closely to the mother’s heart away in the cold and the darkness | The laughter freezes to the girl's lip, and the rose scatters. The bov in the harvest ield of Shunem says. “My head. my | head!” and they « ary him home to die on f his mother. Widowhood stands woe struck into the pal- Orphanace eries in vain and mother. Oh. the grave is With teeth of stone it clutches for Between the closing gates of the | sepulecher our hearts are mangled and | erushec But Christ 1s always near -before you, No mother ever own toward vou. Close at hand, nearer than the staff upor which you lean, nearer than the cup vou put to vour lip, nearer than the handker hief with which you wipe away your tears, preach Him an ever present, all sympa | thhizing, compassionate Jesus. How can > | you stay away one moment from Him with | your griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus. It is often that frieads have no power to relieve us. They would very much like to do it, but they cannot disentangle our finances, they cannot cure our sickness and raise our dead, but glory be to God : went has all arth. and at om all He will balk our calamities and at st the right time, in the presence of an hat He to whom the discipl applauding earth and a resounding heaven, will raise our dead. He is mightier than | Herod. He is switter than the storm. He | is grander than the sea. He is vaster than | eternity. And every sword of God's om- of the | nipotence will leap from its scabbard and | the resources of infinity be exhausted rath- er than that God's child shall not be de- ered when he eries to Him for rescuo. Suppose your child was in trouble. How much would you endure to get him out? don’t care what it will Seeing you are in trouble and having all power. wiil He not stretch out His arm and deliver you? He will. He is mighty to save. He can level the mount- ain and divide the sea, and can extinguish the fire and save the soul. Not dim of eve. not weak of arm, not feeble of re- sources, but with all eternity and the uni- verse at His feet. Go and tell Jesus. Will are wet with the night e, ye who cannot look up, ve arts are dried with the breath of sirocco, in the name of the religion of Jesus Christ, which lifts every burden and | wipes away every tear and delivers every i captive and lightens every darkness, I im plore you now go and te!l Jesus. ittle child went with her father, a sea captain, to sea, and when the first storm came the little child was very much frightened, and in the night rushed out of the cabin and said, “Where is father, where is father?’ Then they told her, ‘Father is on deck guiding the vessel and watching the storm.” The little child im- | mediately returned to her berth and said, ‘It’s all right, for father's on deck.” O ye who are tossed and driven in this world, up by the mountains and down by | the valleys and at your wits’ ends, T want | vou to know the Lord God is guiding the ship. Your Father is on deck. He will bring vou through the darkness into the ‘ | harbor. Trust in the Lord. Go and tell Jesus. If you go to Him for pardon and sym all is well. Everything will bright and joy will come to the heart, and will depart. your sins will be for- and your toot will touch the up path, and the shining messengers that report above what is done here will tell it until the great arches of God re- if now with of soul you contrition and full trustfulne | will only go and tell Jesus. 3ut I am oppre 1 as 1 think of those what will be the destiny of these people. Xerxes looked off on his army. There were 2,000,000, perhaps the finest army ever mar- Xerxes rode along the lines, re- them, came back, and stood on igh point, looked off upon the 2,000,- t that mo 1 in | down in grief. They asked him why he the | | wept. Ah,” he said, “I weep at the thought that so soon all this host will be dead.” So I think of these vast popula- tions of immortal men and women and re- | alize the fact that soon the places which | know them now will know them no more, g once—whither, whither? Phere is a stirring idea which the poct put in very peculiar verse when he said: "Tis not for man to trifle; hfe is brief, nd sin is here; dropping tear. Not many lives, but only one have we— One, oaly one; How sacred should that on 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. life ever bo— aL narrow span! The King of Spain will visit Paris the guest of the French government. Major General O. O. Howard has cted president of the Congre- Home Missionary Society. Tung Fang, the Chinese minis- Washington, prefers the bicyclz othér means of getting about. $ Thomas Lipton has joined the Royal Cork Yacht Club and says he will challenge for the America’s Cup under its auspices. Fearing sination in Eastern Servia, King Alexandria has given up his proposed tour of conciliation throughout that country. Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay will nd the summer at their country ce on the shores of Lake Sunapee, ew Hampshire. Senator Wolcott has introduced a new fashion in dress His waistcoats, shirts, collars and ties are made of the samme maten and pattern. General Cronje and his wife appear to be conducted at St. Helena. The c > amuses himself by playing and his wife with laundry HERE: President McKinley ‘has accepted invitation to attend the reunion and banquet of the “Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac,” to be held in Chicago, August 27. General Roberts has made gements for himself in 5 e, and has several London ordered his town house to be ready for him on the first - of the month. Richard Yates, the Republican nomi- nee for governor of Illinois, 1s a man of considerable literary tastes, and for several years has been collecting a li- brary of rare books, until now he owns one of the best in that State. Licutcnant General Nelson A. Miles is the seventh officer of the army to hold that rank, his predecessors being , | Washi | Sherid ed now ber on, Scott, Grant, Sherman, ain and Schofield, the last nam- g on the retired list. Democrats For McKinley, Judge Allen B. Morse and Hen. R. Michigan's EXPANSION'S BENEFITS, SENATOR LODGE ON THE GROWTH OF OUR HAWAIIAN TRADE, Has Increased Threefold Within Five Years and Largely Since Annexation— Of More Value Than Our Business With Many European Nations. “One reason why I am an expan- sionist,” said Senator Lodge in Wash ington the other day, while discussing the possibilities of our trade with our island possessions, “is because I have watched the growth of our commerce with the Hawaiian Islands. “Five years ago, in 1895, the total Hawaiian trade with the United States amounted to only $11,500,000. Last year it reached $33,500,000, having increased almost taree-fold within five years, and most of this increase has occurred within the past eighteen months or so. “We may not think that a business of $33,500,000 amounts to very much | when our foreign trade is now run- | ning up into the billions, but compare our trade with the Hawaiian Islands, with their handful of people, with | some of the larger countries of | world, and it gives a better idea of the value of colonies to the United States which ship their products to us and buy their food, provisions and clothing from this country. “Let us begin with Europe. “Our trade with the Hawaiian Isl- ands is over 150 per cent. larger than our total trade with Austria-Hungary. “It is 75 per cent. larger than oux trade with Denmark. “It is 60 per cent. as large as our total trade with Italy. “It is nearly four times as large as our trade with Portugal. “It is over 130 per cent. larger than our total trade with Russia. “It is almost double our trade with Spain. “It is 125 per cent. greater than our trade with Sweden and Norway com- bined. “It is more than double our trade with Switzerland. “It is ten times as large as our trade | with Turkey. “It is nearly thirty times larger than | our trade with Greece. | “These comparisons are with the] thickly peopled countries of Europe. | Now we will take the American con- | tinent. “Hawaiian trade with the United | States is equal to 30 per cent. of our | trade with the whole Dominion of Canada. “It is nearly 150 per cent. greater than our trade with all the Central American States. trade with Mexico. “It is 50 per cent. larger than our trade with the British West Indies. “It is nearly five times as large as our trade with Porto Rico. “It is three times as large as our trade with the Danish, Dutch and French West Indies, with Hayti and | San Domingo included. “It is almost twice as large as our trade with Argentine. trade with Brazil, whence we import most of our coffee. than our trade with Chile. “It is nearly 400 per cent. larger than our trade with the United States of Colombia. “It is nearly fifteen times than our trade with Ecquador. “It is more than six times larger than our trade with British, Dutch and French Guiana. “It is ten times large: than our trade with Peru. larger with Uruguay. than our trade with Venezuela. “Now let us make solmg comparison with countries ucross the Pacific, and we find that our trade with Hawaii is within six million dollars of being as large as our trade with the Em- pire of China. “It is more than three times as large as our trade with Hong Kong. total trade with all the British. Duteh and Freucn East Indies, which send us such large supplies of sugar. “It 1s equal to 65 per cent. of our total trade with Japan. than our last year's de Philippines. “It is nearly twenty times larger than our trade with Asiatic Russia of the Austra with their five millions of people. trade with the entire continent of Af- rica. “As I said, the increase of our trade since its anne provement in our trade with Porto Rico and the Philippines. These colo- nies will absorb some of our surplus manufactures, and they will also draw upon this country for their provisions, products of the American farms.” Farm Values. It was under the last Democratic ad- his pound of wool for a pound and a ley administration his wool was worth more, while sugar was cheaper, and the pound of wool brings four pounds of sugar. A Matter of Interests, American legislators. | Democrats For McKinley. Judge Allen B. Morse and Hon. R. A. Montgomery, two of Michigan's most prominent Democrats, have an- nounced their intention of support- ing the Republican ticket this year. They stuck to the party, hoping it would purge itself of Populism, but now realize that the present Democrat- ic managers are bent on going to the extremes. The exits of the Dem- ceratic party are going to be busy places this year. Sending Eggs Abroad. Supplying our colonies with egg one of the benefits to farmers of the expansion policy. Last year we ex- ported 3,700,000 dozen ¢ as com- pared with only 151,000 dozen in 1895. Lay on, Oh, hen! 2 Southern Expo.ts. The export trade of the South for the past twelve months amounted to over $400,000,000, more than one-third of that of the entire country. These are figures which speak more eloquent- ly than the narrow Southern politi- cians who contribute so liberally to the I Congressional Record. ” “It is ten times larger than our trade “It is nearly half as large as our | “It is more than five times larger | | Will Exceed One Hundred Million Dol- -*It was larger last year by more | than three million dollars than our | with Hawaii has been very marked | ation by the United | States, and I look for equally rapid im- | | rels, against 107,401 barrels in 1 and to Hong Kong. 1,009,248 barrels. in the same ges and cars to £ 54, against in the corresponding months | of 189%; cotton cloth to China in the | same period, 156,830.: ministration and the last free trade | tariff that the farmer could exchange | half of sugar. But under the McKin- | ¢ 0d (7 7 7 2 D 7) 2D 2 7 7 7 7 7 EDWIN HURD CONGER, The trouble with the Boxers in China has attracted world wide attention, and will probably continne to do so. One of the most important figures in the attempts to control these Boxers and other thug societies sworn to exter- minate “foreign devils,” has been Edwin H. Conger, the United States miui seven years old, and was born in Knox county, III. in 1862. He immediately entered the army as a private, and was made a captain at nineteen. vice he was breveted a major. After the war he studied law and located at Galesburg, but in 1868 he removed to President Harrison appointed him United States minister to B same distinguished position. He was later, however, transferred to China, where he has been doing good work. Towa. TRANS-PACIFIO TREAD Will Exceed One Hundred Million Dole lars This Fiscal Year. Exports to Asia and Oceanica, in the fiscal year which ends June 30, will for the first time in our history exceed | £100,000,000. In no part of the world “It is 60 per cent. as large as our | has our export trade grown with such amazing rapidity, with the single ex: ception of Africa. In 1893 our total exports to all Asia and | amounted to only $27,421,831, so that in the fiscal year now about to end they will be about four times as great | as those of eight years earlier. Oceanica The growth in exports to Asia and Oceanica is chiefly in cotton, bread- stuffs, provisions and manufactures. | Exports of agricultural machinery to “It is almost half as large as our | British Australasia in the nine months | ending with March, 1900, were S699,- 323, against $349,550 in the correspond- “It is nearly 400 per cent. larger | ing months of 1898. Exports of flour | to China in the nine months ending with March, 1900, was 46,961 barrels, | against 14,616 barrels in the same | months of 1898; to Japan, 417.430 bar- rels, against 107,401 barrels in 18 | and to Hong Kong, 1,009,248 barr against 647.688 barrels in the same | months of 1808. Carriages and cars to Australia amounted to $412,254, against Is, 51,802 in the corresponding months cotton cloth to China in the yards, against Raw cotton ,990,676 yar 14 3 . “It is more than five times larger | exported to Japan amounted in the nine months ending with March, 1900, to 811,517,968, as against the same months of 18 hardware exported to A ica in the nine months ending with $£5.843,071 in Builders’ and Ocean- arch, 1900, wunted to $1,254,000, an increase of 50 per cent. over the same months of 1898; while boots and shoes sent to Asin and Oceanica in the nine months ending with March, 1900, | reached nearly onc million against a quarter of a million in the dollars, same months of 1898. TRANS-PACIFI0O TREAD lars This Fiscal Year. Exports to Asia and Oceanica, in the fiscal year which ends June 30, will “It was larger by four million dol- | for the first time in our history exceed lars than our trade with the whole | ian co. nies last year, | $100,000,000. amazing rapidity exports to all Asia and amounted to only as those of eight years earlier. The growth in exports to Asia and Oceanica is chiefly in cotton, bread- | stuffs, provisions and manufactures. 1chinery to British Australasia in the nine months March, 1900, were S609,- 00 in the correspond- thus increasing the demand for the | ing znonths of 15808 Exports of four | to China in the nine months ending with March, 1900, was 46,961 barrels, | against 14,616 barrels in the same als | city clocks do business. | specting watch would try to run | along with your public clocks. But | your clocks are no more uncertain, { Exports of agricultural ending with ano 323, against 9 months of 1898; to Japan, 417,430 be Ss: xn against 647,688 barrels months of 1898. Cr 77,990,676 yards in 1898. against shoes sent to Asia reached nearly one million aj same months of 1898. The Boor Envoys. Secretary Hay quickly n to the Boer envoys that the admini tration could do no more than it al- ready has done to br peal made to the representatives o the various nations at Pretoria, and was the only nation which did. act. As its offer of mediation was then courteously declined by England. no further opportunity is now afforded. Democratic Iraudsg. Democratic papers are making a great outcry about the Cuban postal frauds. But they forgot to point out that the record of defalcations of Gov- ernment funds shows stealings of $5.17 in every $1000 under Democratic ad- ministrations, as compared with only 46 cents in every $1000 under Repub- lican administrations. 0 77 74 “ 7 LA 7 50 {7} o PAT) GA EN Lk Zz 7/4 i, 7 \W \ fe | WORTH LITTLE. Are Contracts with Employers, Says This Man. “I wouldn't give a cent for a contract with an employer,” said an advertis- ing man. ‘Contracts are useless. If a man hires you for a certain sum to | io certain work, he pays you that sum because you are worth it to him and he'll keep you without a contract just 1s long as he will keep you with one. [f he agrees to pay vou more than you are worth he’ll find it out sooner or later and then your contract isn’t worth a fig. I know it shouldn't be 80, but it is so. I've got In mind now a case in which a New York merchant who boasts of forty yeers of business integrity figured. He employs a buyer fn one of his departments at a yearly salary and contracted with him for five years. This buyer was one of the best in the business. He worked along for about a year and then something hap- ; | get rid of In no part of the world has our export trade grown with such with the single ex- ception of Africa. In 1893 our total | Oceanica ,421,831, so that | in the fiscal year now about to end | they will be about four times as great yards, agains” | Raw cotton | exported to Japan amounted in the | nine months ending with March, 1900, to $11,517,968, The foreign shipping interests are | the same months of 1898S. represented at Washington by an ac- | hardware exported to Asia and Ocean- tive lobby. The American shipping | ica in the nine months ending with interests should be represented by the | March, 1900, amounted to $1.2 ,S43.071 in Builders’ 54,000, | an increase of 50 per cent. over the same months of 1898; while boots and and Oceanieca in the » with March, 1900, dollars, nst a quarter of a million in the ade it el r bout peace in South Africa. The United States Government acted premptly opportunity offered, throt when an the ap- | pened that made the merchant dissat- | isfied. Of course the buyer was under |a contract and the merchant could not him without violating it. | What did he do? Why he sent for this man and said to him: Mr. ——, you have done splendid work for us, and | we are more than satisfied. We feel | that you deserve some rewara and we { have determined to increase your sal- ary $1,000 a year.’ Well the buyer said | he was very grateful and all that and | went out and put in some of 1 best | licks. He got the increased salary for | two weeks and signed a receipt for it. Then the merchant sent for him and | said: ‘Mr. ——, we are mistaken in | our estimate of you and we have deter- | mined to let you go. We don’t need | you any longer.’ ‘Well, I don't want to stay where I'm not wanted,’ said the buyer, ‘but I've a contract, you know.’ | ‘Contract?’ said the merchant. “What | contract? Oh, no, you have no con- tract. You consented to the abroga- | tion of the contract two weeks ago. ‘Well, I don't think that’— the buyer | began. ‘It doesn’t make any difference what you think,’ said the merchant with forty years of business integrity, ‘you did abrogate it. We don’t need you any longer. Good day, sir.” New York Sun. VISITOR KICKS ON CLOCKS. Liars. know. | own accord. | trying to conform to the way your | no more untruthful than some men | have had dealings with in this town. However, I should not complain of the | ways and customs of your city folk, ! for I lived here five years a long time ago and made enough money to buy as good a farm as you will find in | Wisconsin.” “I did not suppose you had ever lived in a city a whole week observed the parted-his-hair-in-the-middle clerk. “No? Well, I have and they used to say I had the sharpest private detec- at a time in your life, tive agency that this town ever had seed.’ "—Chicago Chronicle. en A £ig Fee for One Word. William M. Evarts, one of the most honored men in the legal profession was paid a fee of $250,000 for giving a lagal opinion which is expressel in just one little word of three letters. “Yes” was the word, and the cpinion was rendered upon the request of a great corporation which had a difficul- ty on hand in ving millions and threatening the existence of the cor- porate body. The question was wholly one of the correct interpretation of the law, and when the regular attor- ney for the corporation put this vital- ly important question to the great law- yer, with the previous understanding that the interested parties would abide by his decision, win or lose, Mr. Ev- arts sat buried in thought for a min- ute, and then answered in one word, “Yes.” His bill for that one word was $250,000, and the corporation paid it without a murmur. His answer proved to be entirely correct. ter at Peking. He was educated at Lombard University, where he graduated razil, and President McKinley gave him the To Reopsn Rich Geli and Copper Mines. chinery is not far from Most of the machinery (about $40,000,- 000 worth) is on the Witwatersrand. British syndicate a concession to work the gold deposits on his majesty’s pri- vate cstate in the Nertchinsk region in Siberia. Overtures by French and Ger- man applicants for this concession have been repeatedly refused. dustry (on akin to that of quartz mining. est carrier of coal in the State of Penn- sylvnia, and its traffic reports for last vear show a total of coal of all kinds of about 33.000,000 tous. of importance is the shows a total of all kinds of about 14,- 000,000 tons; while the amount sent out by water down the Ohio during last year amounted to something like 10,- 006.000 tons. county, North Carolina, will receive an- other impetus by the reopening of the gold and copper mines at Gold Hill This property was first opened for de- velopment in 1842, and was for many years a r- ations are said to be under way for ac- He Calls All Public Timepieces Public “A public clock is a public liar, at least in Chicago,” said a countryman to the hotel! clerk yesterday. “By com- paring the clock across the street with | the clock in the store on the next | block, where I went to make some pur- | chases, I arrived at the hotel door | fifteen minutes before I started from | the store, and, according to your clock, it took me twelve minutes to walk aross the rotunda to your desk.” “How | does your watch compare with our | clock?” asked the clerk. “IT don’t It stopped awhile ago of its Got disgusted, I guess, No self-re- And, say, Mr. Clerk, the next time I come to town you needn't bother to tell the house watchman to see that none of the boys ‘work that old hay- $35,083,529. 237,409 pour In 1899 we exported 254,987,154 pounds. Mr. Conger is fifty- For bravery in ser- MINES AND MINERS. Germany to Celebrate the Anniversary of First Mining Operations. The value of Transvaal mining ma- $47,000,000. The czar is said to have granted to a Until the discovery of deposits of lime in the Calico mountains borax had | heen a product of the marsh and of methods the simplest, admitting no im- provement in An entirely new era opened with the discove 1 mechanical appliances. vy of borate of lime in stratified formation. Thenceforward the in- was transformed into a proposi- The Pennsylvania railroad is the larg- The next road Reading, which The mineral development of Rowan the worl FEATORE STATE KEHS CORDERSED PENSIONS GRANTED. Vargest Deed Ever Recorded in Greene Coun- ty—Taking Up Thirteen Miles of Pipe Line — Other Notes. Pensions granted last week: —Lewis F. McCroy, California, $10; Henry Chase, West Alexander, $10; Robert A. McDonald, Homestead, $12: John Ja- coby, Indiana, $10; George Stailey, Everett, $24: Abraham Irvin, Coalport, $10; Jacop Gwinner, Steclton, “$12; James Black, Canonsburg, $10; Robert Q. Warneck, Larimer, $10: Frederick Yockey, Kittanning, $3; William Put- nam, Stoney Forks, $8; Charles Mec- Mannis, Blairsville, $10; Chill W. Haz- ard Monongahela, $50; Joseph E. Sho- mo, Manorville, $12; Joseph Royer, Philipsburg, $8; James Kenyean, Ve- rona, $8; John D. Neff, Lindsey, $8; Clark Rannells, Oakdale, $6; Matthew McClure, Duquesne, $6; Frederick Des- senberger, New Cumberland, $8; Peter Hartz, Carncgie, $10; Andrew J. Boll- man, Freeport, $8; George Ulsh, Lewis- town, $8; John Gleason, dead, Califor- nia, $4: William H. Rhodes, Martins- burg, $10; William R. Wilkins, Coal Center, $8; John Tate, Bellefonte, $10; John Yoder, Lewistown, $30; Solomon W. Fry, Bellefonte, $10; Madison A. Timblin, Penfield, $3; Henry Schnel- burg, Indiana, $12. The largest deed ever recorded in Greene county has been filed in the pro- thonotary's office at Waynesburg. It covers 62 tracts of coal land situated in Dunkard, Whiteley and Cumberland townships, in the eastern end of the ty, and the deed is from Joseph E. to J. V. Thompson and others of Uniontown. The consideration is $170,077.50, and $170.50 worth of reve- nue stamps was required for the deed. It will take 15 days to place it on ths deed book: it will occupy 65 pages and the recorder's fees will be $40. While fishing in the Ohio river the | 11-year-old son of W. H. Breitenstein fell in the river. His father, sitting near, plunged into the water after the boy. Neither could swim. Two hours later their bodies were found a few rods below the point where they disap- peared. Mr. Breitenstein was 42 years of age. and had been a resident of Econ- omy since he was 12 years old. He came direct from Germany. Work has been commenced taking up the old pipe line of the Philadelphia Gas Company between Murrysville and East Liberty. The entire line will be taken up and shipped to the Elizabeth gas field near Washington, Pa. The line 1s 13 miles long. Mr. Murryman, of the Philadelphia Company, is looking alter the work. The contract price for the job is $286,000 and it will require at least seven months to complete the work. The Gordon Coal and Coke Company is being organized under a charter to be applied for at Harrisburg, to operate mines and coke ovens near Rimerton, large producer of gold. Preps: tive operations, including the erection of considerable machinery. The German emperor has commanded the celebration of the 7ooth anniversary of the first mining operations in Ger- many. These were begun in the Harz mountains, the principal minerals being silver and copper. The emperor him- self will attend the celebrations. which will take place at Hettstedt, in Saxony, where the first mine is said to have been opened, and will also vicit Eisle- ben, a large copper mining center, where Martin Luther, whose father was a miner there, was born. James E. Roderick, chief of the State bureau of mines, has submitted to Gov. /. A. Stone a report of the mining operations in Pennsylvania for 1809. The report shows that bitnminous coal is mined in 28 counties in Pennsylvani: and anthracite in 10 counties, and in the 38 there was mined the aggregate of 127,101,167 tons. Of this 54,034,224 tons were produced from 366 mines in the anthracite region and 73,066,043 tons from 776 mines in the bituminous region. The average number of days worked in the mines of the anthracite region last year was about 120; the av- crage quantity produced per day was about 300,000 tons. The average num- ber of days worked in the bituminous mines were 296: the average daily pro- duction was 246,848 tons. Rev. Father Gendreut, of Dawson City, in the Klondike, rector of the Ro- man Catholic Mission in that town, has been presented with a rosary by his pa- rishioners, the beads of which are of Klondike gold nuggets united by a solid gold chain, and having a gold cross at- tached. The nuggets are very uneven and rough, and there are embedded in the gold little pieces of rock. Its actual | weight is about 235 ounces, and its value is estimated at $500. The rosary is now on its way to the Paris Exposition. An engineer employed by an Ameri- can company, who recently visited the Cerro del Mercado in Durango, says that the iron in sight on this mountain is sufficient to furnish all the smelters of England with ore for a period of 330 years. A Woman's Reason. A lady who was very much fatigued with the responsibilities of her home and family, yielded to the insistence of a friend and went away from home for a rest of three days, but at the end of that time, being still earnestly so- licited to stay, she telegraphed home: “Is every one well?” Her husband promptly replied: “Yes. Why?” She was in a household where late hours were the rule, so she sat up till mid- night, and then went to a telegraph station near-by, and sent this truly feminine message: ‘Because.” It was “collect” and it reached the gentleman at two a. m., and acted as a restraint upon future telegraphic witticisms op his part —Yout Companion, The Leader Among Copper Producers. There has recently been published in Germany an interesting book entitled “A Century of Copper,” which shows that the United States now furnishes more than half of all the copper used in the world. While the production has increased with great rapidity in other countrie per industry in the United States. In 1890 the total value of copper manufactured was only .in none has the cop- developed so rapidly as in 1899 it had increased to In 1830 we exported 20,- is to foreign countries. on the Allegheny Valiey railroad. The | men back of the company own a tract { of coal land three miles in length and two miles wide, having a frontage on | the river, as well as on the railroad. | The head offices of the company will be | in Pittsburg, and the capital will be | $300,000. Gas has been struck on the Wilhelu farm, in Menallen township, Fayette county, at a depth of 22 feet. At that depth a rock was encountered, which proved so hard that the drills were broken to pieces. The well already has 50 pounds pressure, and it is believed it will be a “hummer” if put down deeper. The product of the new well will be utilized at the Thompson glass works, which is being put in order for opera- Gen. James A. Beaver, chairman of the Center county soldiers’ monument and Curtin memorial committee reports that since the last meeting, held in April, soliciting committees have been placed in every election precinct in the county, who have gone to work raising the necessary funds. At present there is virtually a fund of close to $12,000, with promises and pledges for an addi- tional large amount. While chopping down a gigantic oak tree on the Cheat river along where the soldiers under Georger Washington trailed, going east and west, a hard sub- stance was encountered, and when the trunk was split open an old-time flint- lock musket was found imbedded near the heart of the tree. It is thought the gun was placed against the tree by a sol- dier and the wood grew around it. Five thousand acres of coal on the | east side of the Monongahela river, | above Elizabeth, have been sold to the | i Com -, the fuel depart- | ment of the new Union Steel Company, | of Pittsburg. The coal was owned by the Thompson-Barnes syndicate, ot Uniontown, and the price was $350,000. Ovens will be built for coking. A new rival to the kissing bug is do- ing a lively business at Pottsville. The insect resembles the kissing bee in form, but is only abont as large as a honey bee. A score of persons have been bit- ten within the past few days. The bite produces excessive itching and in- flammation. followed by a great swell- ing of the injured part. A tract of 4.000 acres of timber land near New Florence, Cambria county. has been sccured by the new firm of Pershing & Horrell, who will employ about 100 men in taking out logs, ties and bark. A large sawmill is nearly ready for operation. Tt is estimated that five years will be required to market all the inmber of this extensive tract. Hon. Lewis Emery, Jr. ‘has been nominated for Congress by the Indepen- dent Republicans of the Twenty-seventh district. He will oppose Joseph C. Sib- ley. Emery has already secured the nomination of the Democrats of the dis- trict. and the fusion, it is thought, will reannlt in a hitter contest A herd of 27 cattle on the farm of Joseph Elliott, in Jefferson township, Fayette county. took shelter from a storm under a big tree. A bolt of light- ning struck the tree and killed 11 of the finest of the herd. 5 The long established banking house of P. Bentel & Co., at Freedom, and the Freedom National bank, which was recently organized, have consolidated and the new organization will be known as the Freedom National bank. Dennis Crowley, a farmer of Vienna, near Sharon, has. received notice that by the death of a relative in England he inherits an estate worth $50,000. Crowley is poor and his farm is mortgaged. J ree Sixteen parks are maintained by the City of Mexico : ET TEER, A Radical Change in Marketing Methods as Applied to Sewing Machines. An original plan under which you can obtain easier terms an amous TWhite” Sewing Machine than : ever before offered. Write for our elegant H-T catalogue and detailed particulars. How we can save you money in the purchase of a high-grade sewing machine and the easy terms of payment we can offer, either direct from factory or through our regular authorized agents. - This is an oppor- tunity you cannot afford to pass. You know the White,” you know its manufacturers. Therefore, a detailed description of the machine and {ts construction is unnecessary. If you have an old machine to exchange we can offer most liberal terms. Write to-day. Address in full. WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, (Dep't A.) Cleveland, 0 tter value in the purchase of For Sale by Harry McCulloch, Elk Lick Pa. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Cincinnatis are using black bats. Forty-eight pitchers have been work- ed in the League this year. Pitcher Cogan has been relcased by the Chicago team to New York. Nine errorless games have been play= ed by the Brooklyns this season. Boston is playing the best all-round game just now of any of the Leagne teams. Chicago's new first baseman, Ganzell, is a splendid ficlder and very good batsman. 2 : Jerry Denny has released Mike Tier« nan from the Derby Club, of the Con- necticut League. Garvin, of Chicago, has a more var« jed assortment of curves than perhaps any other pitcher in the League. Three old League umpires—John W, Gaffney, Tom Connolly and W. J. Smith—are officiating in college games. The plan to restore the double um- pire system has been dropped by the magnates, because of the extra ex- pense. i The Cincinnati team is very weak in batting and almost any pitcher can keep its score down in a very low fig- nre. Flynn, of the Indianapolis team, has played in no less than four different positions so far this season and ‘his fielding average is over .Qoo. Crawford, the fine young outfielder of the Cincinnati team, hails from Wahoo, Neb.. and was a barber before he became a League ball player. Lajoie, of Philadelphia, will be laid up for a month, owing to a broken thumb, sustained in a fist fight with Flick, which Lajoie started over a trifle. 3oston critics say that “both the Cincinnati and Boston outfields are weak on ground balls, and none too strong in throwing or playing for the batsman.” “ > ‘RAILROAD PASSES Proves! the Ruin of This Once Prcspers ous Kansas Farmer. Wichita (Kan.) Cor. Chicago Inter Dcean: This is the true story of the undoing of a Kansas farmer, and his particular case has many a duplicate in the Sunflower state. Politics was his Nemesis, and his love for a rail- road pass led him into all the trouble. John Butternew was a prosperous Ger- amn farmer of the Third district. He had a fine farm, and it was well stocked with blooded cattle and good horses. He worked hard and prosper- ed. He had a pleasant home and some promising children. The neighbors pointed him out as a happy soul. That was ten years ago. In those days 8 tall man, flashily dressed, visited the town where Butternew lived. He wore diamonds and carried a pocketful of annual passes over the big railroads. The sight of thesa passes was Butter- new’s undoing, “Why should I not carry passes?’ Butternew asked him- self. “I could travel then and have a good time for nothing.” The politi- cian told the plain old farmer it was easy to be elected to office, and that passes would then come from all sides. So Butternew entered the race for congress and was elected. He forgot to count the cost in enemies and money, but he got the passes. Then he commenced to travel. He neglected the farm to see the sights in Chicago, simply because he could ride on the train free; he paid big hotel bills at Galveston and St. Paul, for the same reason, and he rode to Topeka twice a week, just to experience the sensa- tion of riding for nothing. Time sped by. The time for the renewal of the passes came around. Butternew liked the office, even if it was a losing thing financially, so he announced himself as a candidate for re-election. He got the nomination by a seratch. His op- ponent, a wealthy man, spent lots of money in the campaign, and Butter- new was forced to mortgage his homs to raise the cash to fight him with. The race was close, but Butternew was defeated, and his passes were taken up. By this time Butternew had the train-riding mania. He could not stay at home. Instead of.trying to retrieve his fallen fortunes he neglected busi- ness, and all the spare money he had was used in trying to get back in pol- itics. But his power was lost. For- tune was against him. Last week the sheriff sold his homestead under mort- gage foreclosure. - Butternew is a wan- derer, his family is destitute, and he still clings to political hope. A Glimpse at Lloyds. The general public, even in London {tself, needs to be told what Lloyds is, and so it will be better to state at the outset that it is the greatest center of the shipping interest all over the world and it is surprising that, unlike its near neighbor, the Stock Exchange, it is so little known. Mr. Frederick M. Kenward contributes to Harmsworth’s Magazine an exceedingly interesting article descriptive of the old institu- tion. Lloyds owes its name to its founder, a Mr. Edward Llpyd, the pro- prietor of a coffee house at Tower street, the earliest mention of which is about 1668. It was to this coffee house chat persons connected with shipping used regularly to resort; and Mr. Lloyd, who seems to have been a man of considerable enterprise, took care to collect all news and information he possibly could in connection with his customers’ business until his coffee- house gradually came to be looked upon as the headquarters of all mari- time business, and especially of ma- rine insurance. Tih oI Singhalese Chiidron. The Singhalese children are said to be more beautiful than those of any other race on the four continents, and some of the little girls, even of the very lowest caste, are irresistibly pretty as they run before you in the streets to beg; they cry out in the sweetest and most plaintive of voices, touching the stomachs to signify hun- ger in a way that would be awkward and vulgar in any other being, but in them it is so winsome that, before you know it, you sacrifice a rupee to the bad cause of encouraging them in beg- ging—knowing quite well that all they want is a good opportunity to pick your packet for more.—OQuting. 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