CONVERTS SLEIN BY THOUSANDS.
BOXER HORRORS.
Thirst for Human Blood Spreading—Chinese
Capital Reeks With Carnage—Japan to
Have a Free Hand.
The correspondent at Shanghai, tele-
graphing under date of Thursday, 12:10
p. m., says he believes that when offi-
cial information comes regarding Pe-
king it may include news of the outrag-
ing of English women and the torture
of children. It may also be taken for
granted, he asserts, that all the foreign-
ers in Peking have been wiped out.
These are the whisperings ol startling
rumors in native quarters: and it must
not; b&forgotten that the telegraph lines,
oi Tr jhich alone the news can. come;
in the hands .
he native~ rumors, ate]
their source in a solid:lEsd
tive officials are believ 0 be prepar-
ing the way for the reception of news
of the greatest crime of the century.
Prince Tuan is preparing an ‘edict or-
dering the extermination of all foreign-
ers. This is probably intended to pre-
pare the public for the worst news.
Chinese cumulative reports, which are
generally believed, declare that all the
foreigners in Peking have been massa-
cred. The safety of all foreigners 1n
North China depends upon Japan's
prompt action. Japan has 70,000 troops
ready, but is prevented from sending
them to China by international jealous-
ies.
Telegrams dated Friday say: Recitals
of further horrors in Peking are gath-
ercd by corespondents at Shanghai from
Cliinese sources, especially of the
slaughter in the Chinese and Tartar city
of thousands of native Christians, so
that the capital reeks with carnage.
The ruthless thirst for blood is spread-
ing in all the northern provinces, and
wherever there are native Christians the
scenes enacted in the capital are repro-
duced in miniature.
From these stories nothing further
comes regarding the legation forces,
except a repetition that they are all
dead. The correspondents aver that if
the Chinese officials in Shanghai wished
to throw light on the goal state of af-
fairs in the capital they could do so, and,
therefore, the worst reports are accept-
ed as true.
Taku dispatches say an attack in great
force is expected at any moment. The
Chinese commaaders are awaiting the
arrival of more guns and reinforcements
beicre making an effort to retake the
city.
The Russian government announces
that it will give Japan a free hand to ap-
ply military force in China.
Telegrams dated Sunday say: Tien
Tsin is still hard pressed. A Chinese
force, numbering from 80,000 to 100,000
men, estimated by reconnoissance,
floods the country around Tien Tsin.
Communication between which ple ice
and Tagu is apparently possible by river
only.
A Che Foo dispatch says the Rus-
sians have landed 8,000 men at Taku,
and the Japanese I ave discharged ses
eral transports. The Japanese bushied
on to Tien Tsin, a in the subse-
quent attack upon the native city, in
which their commander was killed. Ten
more transports are engaged at Japan-
ese ports. With 10,000 British Indian
troops afloat and fresh Japanese contin-
gents, it is quite probable that the allies
will soon have 50,000 men ashore.
The disorders in the provinces appear
to be i increasing in Yiclenes, A Chinese
army is within 40 miles of New Chwang,
and the foreigners are preparing to
abandon their homes.
CIVIL OFFICIALS WANTED.
Philippine Commission Thinks Army Officers
Should be Replaced.
The American Philippine commission
is carefully studying the approaching
necessity for the substitution for army
officers performing civil functions of
civil service men and has asked the
Washington government to send exam-
iners to the Philippines to hold civil
service examinations there at the same
time as in the United States with the
idea of creating a Philippine civil ser-
vice board.
The commission is determined that
every precaution shall be taken to in-
sure honest, efficient civil service among
Filipinos and Americans. It is the gen-
eral opinion that circumstances there
require the appointment of the class of
men best able to withstand corrupt it
fluences and it is believed that no politi-
cal adventurers or their proteges will be
able to secure appointments in the ser-
vice.
A MICHIGAN CLOUDBURST.
Much Property Damaged but No Lives Are
Lost—Celery Crop Probably Ruined.
A cyclone accompanied by a cloud-
burst and hailstorm swept over Kala-
mazoo Saturday and a conservative esti-
mate places the damage resulting at
$100,000. In half an hour nearly six
inches of water felt-—completely inun-
dating the eity and doing untold damage
in t lowlands where the celery rais-
ing industry is carried on. The celery
crop may be completely ruined. Kala-
mazoo river is out of its banks, and is
washing out the crops along its source
and doing other damage. Specials
from other cities in Southwestern Mich-
igan report the storm general through-
out that section of the State and im-
mense damage done to crops and or-
chards.
Much Property Destroyed.
Saturday the southwestern part of
Winnebago county, Wis., was visited by
a destructive tornado. A number of
barns were wrecked. Lawrence Mor-
rissey, who sought refuge in a barn,
was hurled 100 feet and seriously injur-
ed. The loss of stock, horses and cattle
is estimated at many thousands of dol-
lars. John and Joseph Deyoe are mi
ing, their team being found some dis-
tance from the hayfields where they
were working.
A rain, hail and wind storm caused
thousands of dollars of damage to crops
ard property at Oshkosh. A circus tent
was blown down and one man seriously
hurt. Several barns were demolished,
a number of smokestacks blown down,
and a portion of the city hall cupola de-
stroyed.
Surplus Over $80,000,000.
The surplus of receipts over expendi-
tures during the fiscal year which end-
ed Saturday will exceed $80,000,000, cr
twice the amount estimated by Secretary
Gage. In 1800 the surplus slightly ex-
ceeded $85,000,000 and decreased yeariv
until a deficit appeared at the end of the
fiscal year, June 30, 1894. A surplus
would have been shown last had
it not been for the war with Spain. The
deficit of $38,047,247, which appeared
June 30, 1800, was made during the last
three months of that year. During 18g9
the deficit was $89,111 the unusual
war expenses covering six months of the
period.
Wrote His Name on an Egg.
Several months ago Robert E. Blake-
more of Kennett, Mo., in a spirit of fun,
wrote his name on one of a lot of eggs
ready for shipment. He added that he
was young, single and wanted to marry.
A few weeks after he received a let-
ter from Miss Emma Nicklas, of Pitts-
burg, Pa., and accompanying was her
photograph. The correspondence was
continued, and Saturday Blakemore de-
parted for Pittsburg, where the marriage
will be consummated on his arrival.
It develops that China had been pre-
paring for months for a great war and
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Good crop reports received from west-
ern States.
The extreme heat caused seven deaths
at ‘Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday.
The grand jury of Cumberland, Md.,
has been recalled to investigate nine riot
cases.
The department of agriculture will
build a model road in Washington
county.
Mrs. John Burke was fatally injured
by a train at Piedmont, W. Va., losing
both legs.
The Seoul and Chemulpo railway in
Japan was completed and being oper: rated
Thursday.
The Turkish porte has promised to
pay the American indemnity of $100,-
000 in go days.
The Democratic National committee
re-elected all its old officers, including
Chairman Jones.
A Leadifig iron and steel manufacturers
confér-in New York to end the demor-
alization in prices.
Mrs. Ollie Rimmer, an inmate of the
Mercer county, Pa., almshouse, is starv-
ing herself to death.
The mine owners at Belle Island put
men to work Monday, the strike hav-
ing lasted one month.
Saturday five firemen were killed in a
Pittsburg, Pa., fire and nine others in-
jured; loss over £100,000.
Delegates to the National Education-
al Association are flocking into Charles-
ton, S. C., on every train.
The body of Paul Shapleigh, 17 years
old, who disappeared July 3, was found
near Lock Haven Sunday.
President McKinley and Gov. Roose-
velt met at Canton Friday. The crowd
was large and enthusiastic.
General Wade will not start to the
Rainy Lake region, in Minnesota, as the
Indians have become peaceful.
Thursday the Standard Oil works at
Bayonne, N. J., were damaged {rom
$1,000,000 to $2,000,000 by fire.
Friday lightning struck many houses
and played many pranks in Westmore-
land and Mercer counties, Pa.
Coal prices are advancing greatly all
over Europe and there is a big oppor-
tunity for the American product.
Four children instantly killed, three
atally injured and 18 more wounded by
exploding fireworks in Philadelphia.
Gov. Stone has respited Isaac Biriolo,
the Tioga county murdered, until July
12. His counsel has appealed the case.
James Ruth, the eighth victim of
Wednesda disaster at Parkersburg,
W. Va, died about 3:30 Friday morn-
ng.
Postmaster James Bell, of Gainesville,
F when found to be $1,400 short in
his accounts, was so abected that he
died.
The Butler county courthouse and
many other buildings at Butler, Pa,
were struck by lightning Thursday
night.
A human foot belonging to an un-
known victim of the Parkersburg explo-
sion, has been found in the middle of
a field.
Fire Wednesday morning partially
destroyed the Fostorial Glass Works at
Moundsville, W. Va., the loss being
$30,000.
David Hallen and Isaac Braumfine
were carried over a dam in the Schuyi-
kill near Philadelphia Sunday and were
drowned.
The tenth international convention oi
the Baptist Young People’s Union
meets in Cincinnati Thursday for a four
days’ cession,
louis Klopsch, recently from India,
says famine victims increase 25,000 ¢
day, and that 20,000 new cases of cholera
arc added weekly.
Henry Wade Rodgers, LL. D., late
president of Northwestern University,
succeeds [ Phelps, deceased, as law
instructor at Yale.
The police prevented Bowser, of Chi-
cago, Li trying to shoot the whirlpool
rapids at Niagara Falls in his 2o-foot
boat, the “Fool Killer.”
When John Farrell thought he had a
bear hypnotized in the New York Zoo
he thrust his hand into the animal's
cage and had it almost bitten off.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, in New York commis-
sioned 43 voung men and women as
captains, lieutenants and apostles.
The British chancellor of the ex-
chequer reports that, for the quarter
ending June 30, the revenues showed
a decrease of £ 1,203,144 compared with
1800.
In Washington it is believed that reg-
ulars being presumably sent to Manila
to relieve volunteer soldiers are in real-
ity going to convenient cable ports in
‘hina.
Failure to receive tidings from the
whaling fleet has caused great anxiety
in San Francisco and the revenue cutter
3ear is hastening to the whaling
grounds.
A Spaniard named Rivera, formerly
a Puerto Rico tax collector, was arrest-
ed at Havre on the steamship Olinde
Roderiguez on complaint of the United
States government.
The new Government battleship Ala-
bama and the Russian cruiser Variag
were not damaged in the fire in Cramps’
shipyards Sunday, and other work will
be but slightly delayed.
The Pope has excommunicated
Rene Villatte, at one time head of the
old Catholics of this country, for con-
secrating as Bishop an Italian ex-priest
known as Don Miraglia.
David and George Gregory, of Pyma-
tuning township, Mercer county, Pa,
were badly injured by the bursting of a
cannon which they had made from a
gas pipe to celebrate the Fourt
Emil Markenberg, an aeronaut, fell
500 feet from his balloon while making
a Fourth of July ascension at Santa An-
na, Cal, and was crushed to death in
the presence of thousands of people.
Martin Hulen, of Aspen, Col.; T. B.
Gedine, of San Francisco, and’ James
Crawford, of Benson, Ariz, have clear-
ed up $200,000 in gold dust in the new
placer old field in Lower California.
Kaiser Wilhelm is reported to have
been in a terrible rage over the killing
of the German minister at Pekin and
to have threatened to take such a re-
venge as the world has never seen.
Reports say the town of Steamboat
Rock, Towa, was destroyed by a cyclone
and deluge of water Friday night dur-
ing a remarkably severe Storm which
raged all through that section of the
State.
A quarrel between Antonio Soso and
Jose Vasquez in the San Pedro valley,
Arizona, which resulted fatally for both.
has reulted in a feud between the cow-
are feared.
The Midland Steel Works at Muncie,
Ind., will resume work with 800 men
next Monday, and with the settlement
of the iron workers’ scale 2,000 other
men are expected to get work in the
three iron mills.
It is probable that within the next
month three regiments of United States
infantry—the First and Second and eith-
er the Fifth or Eig ill leave Cuba.
This will leave only two regiments of
infantry in the island.
Railway Wreck.
A crimped rail on the Pittsburg and
Western railroad was the cause of a
frightful wreck near Allison park, ten
and a half miles out from Pittsburg,
a., Saturday evening, which resulted
in the death of one man, perhaps fatal
injuries to another, the shaking up and
scaring nearly to death of 160 passengers
and heavy damage to the railroad com-
pany’s rolling stock.
Methodists of Chambersburg, Pa.,
have paid the last note of a $38,000 mort.
gag
ey id Leslie Marvin, a prominent
that her best fighting troops were long | young lawyer of Akron, 0., committed
ago ordered to take the field.
suicide in his office.
They were picked up by the Effie D.
and the Smith. None of the Corrigan
bodies have been recovered.
boys of the two men and serious results,
MANY KILLED INA STREET GAR.
GREAT TROLLEY DISASTER.
Car Jumps Into a Deep Ravine While Loaded
With Passengers—More Than Three-
score Injured.
Thirty-six men, women and children
were killed and 65 were injured—at
least nine fatally—in the wrecking of a
trolley on the outskirts of Tacoma,
Wash., Wednesday.
The excursionists—Io4 of them—
boarded a trolley car at Edison, a sub-
urb, at 8:30 o'clock. They
route to the city to view the civic parade.
The car bowled along at a good speed.
V
were en
Where the tracks turned from Delin
street the car suddenly lurched and left
the rails. The motorman was powerless
to check its speed. A gulch 120 feet
deep yawned below. Only a slight rail
o Lh ran along the edge of the preci-
pice. This was shattered like a
reed. Frantic screams filled the air as
the panic-stricken passengers were
borne to certain death.
Half way down the side of the gulch
projecting rocks stopped the car for a
moment. Such was the force of the im-
pact that its timbers were wrenched
apart anl those inside were crushed in-
to a mass. When the car struck the bot-
tom of the gulch only those in the cen-
ter of the car were alive.
The bodies of the dead are shockingly
mangled. Most of the injured were al-
most beyond recognition because of
frightful cuts about the head and body,
from which the blood ran in streams.
SIX PERSONS DROWNED.
Pleasure Yacht Wrecked on Lake Erie During
a Hurricane.
The pleasure yacht Idler, the property
of Capt. James Corrigan, one of the
most prominent vessel men along the
great lakes, was wrecked off Cleveland
harbor at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
When she went down in the hurricane
which passed over the city, she carried
with her six persons, the wife, three
daughters and the granchild of
owner, and the daughter of his brother,
John Corrigan.
(he crew of the yacht wer
The stories of the crew rescued from
the Idler and the crew of the boats
which rescued them do not agree. It is
claimed that the crew of the Idler made
no attempt to prepare for the storm un-
til it was upon them.
STREET CARS COLLIDE.
Mortorman Killed and Ton? Persons Hurt Near
Scranton, Pa.
Two open cars on the Scranton (Pa.)
Railway Company’s Duryea line col-
lided head on at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning at Old Forge, killing one and
injuring 11.
cars ran into the same block. Midway
between the switches is a deep hollow,
its sides forming a sharp angle.
structed the view of the opposite hollow.
The two cars plunged into the hollow
and met in the dip.
seat.
Business Done by Raiiways.
total single track mileage was 180.204,
an increase of 2.808 for the
mileage of all kinds of track was 252,
3064.
capital stock p
£m 0
weighed 050,763,583 tons. The railways’
increase for the year of $66,
and the number hurt was 44,620.
Havana's New Charter.
of Ha
1a will go into effect imme
powers of the recently elected offi
authority as to the widening,
can intervene in such matters.
tutional convention.
General Ricarte Captured.
scouts on Friday with 64 rifles
munition.”
Gen. Mac! Arthur and
following: “Gen. Ricar
nila.
Filipinos Are Enlisting.
Colonel Wilber E. Wilde
discharged.
squadron.
A Grave Situation.
been
even
erty, and not aggrandizement.”
Explosion From a Spark.
A collision between a spark from
cigarette and an open box of gunpowde
ed an explosion that nearly cost thre
Filipino, whose name is ‘unknown.
British Lost Over 3.000 Last Month
it is under
question heard on all sides. The meas
ure of the organized Boer resistance is
evidently no criterion of what the cost
will be to Great Britain in previous
rapidly as tre
can be perfecte
transports at
York will be employed in the work.
Mischievous boys, it is supposed, tam-
pered with the switch signals and both
A
curve 100 feet up the northerly hill ob-
The northbound car with five passen-
gers aboard telescoped the other which
had on 62 passengers and ploughed
through its front as far as the third
The interstate commerce commission
reports that in the year ending June 30,
1899, 16 railroads were placed in re-
ceivers’ hands and 39 removed. The | purpose of hearing the
ar. Total
Railroads in 1809 employed 028.024
persons or an increase of 54,366. The
amount of railway capital outstanding
was $11,033.954.808. The amount of
ng no dividends was
500,181. The number of passen-
carried was 523.176.508. The freight
gross carnings were $I, 313, 310,618, an
84.407.
The number of persons killed was 7,123,
Telegrams from Havana, dated Sun-
day, say: The new charter of the city
ly after its publication, this week. The
ials
are greatly increased. They are given
grading
and cleaning of streets, put in charge
of water supply and given supervision
of the sanitary arrangements. Neither
the central nor provincial government
Gen. Wood will probably pay a short
visit to the Urfted States, leaving on
Saturday, to ii with Secretary of
War Root regs arding the coming consti-
The following cable, dated Manila,
was received at the war department
Monday: “Gen. Aquino, a prominent
leader of the insurgent forces, surrend-
ered unconditionally to First Lient.
Jom 1. O Connell with Macabebe
1d am-
» cables the
i of the |
threatened uprising in Marly during
this year, recently very active, was cap- |
tured Sunday by native police between |
Paco and Stana. The event is import-
ant in its reation to conditions in Ma-
y
The war department has been inform-
ed of the organization of a squadron
of Philippine cavalry by Lieutenant
Forty-third
infantry, U. S. V., consisting of four
troops of native scouts,” having a maxi-
mum of 120 men to a troop, engaged to
serve until June 30, 1901, unless sooner
The barracks at Caloocan have been
designated as the rendezvous of the
Secretary John D. Long, shortly after
his arrival at his home at Bingham,
Mass., from Washington, in speaking of
the situation in China, said: “The sita-
ation is a very grave one. There has
news from there, and
§ that we got from
Kempff came by runners. The purpose
of the American government is to pro-
tect American lives and Amer ican prop-
-
said the government would not send
auy more warships to China at present.
in the tent of the Pawnee Bill's Wild
West show at Canton, O., Sunday, caus-
men their lives. They were ones r
Sweigert, a cowboy, a rider named
Moore, and a colored man, a native
General Jamont, inspector general of
the French army and vice president of
the superior council of war, resigned on
account of the changes made in the gen-
4 eral staff by Minister of War Andre.
WAR’S TERRIBLE RECORD.
Release Prisoners.
While the news from China continues
events in
amounted to over 3,000, including 1,200
deaths, it will be realized that the later |
chapters of the war, though compara- |
tively unheralded, have been terribly
grim.
“When is it going to end?” is the]
Ves,
Unless Lord Roberts is planning some
move of which the news is carefully
kept secr
many wea
ahead of the British forces.
t, it seems there is to be
ry weeks of guerrilla fighting
The officer commanding at Lady-
smith reports that 200 British prisoners,
members of the Yoemanry, the Derb
shire regiment and the militia, have
been put over the Natal border by the
Boers, who evidently found the prison-
ers too much of a tax on their resources.
No officers were with the prisoners.
ARMY TO BE INCREASED.
More Than Six Thousand Regulars Ordered
{o the Far East.
The military force of the United
States in China will probably be in-
creased to 11,000 men. As a result of
a thorough consideration of the subject
by the secretary of war, Lieutenant
General Miles and Adjutant “General
Corbin, orders were i
department Saturday afternoon for the
dispatch of 6,254 regular troops to the
Philippines, with a view to their utiliza-
tion in China in case it is found neces-
sary to divert them to that country.
These troops are intended primarily to
relieve the volunteers in the Philippines,
and will only be diverted to China in
the event that circumstances demand it.
ued by the war
The force is made up of two bat-
talions each of the Fifteenth, Second,
the | Fifth and Eig
rons each of the First and Ninth cavalry,
one squadron of the Third cavalry and
a company of engineers.
ghth infantry, two squad-
These troops will be
1sportation
and the e
1 Francisco and New
ANOTHER WEEK CF BLOODSHED.
Americans Lost Eieven Killed and Sixteen
Wounded—Many Insurgents Kil'ed.
The past week's scouting in Luzon
resulted in 11 Americans being killed
and 16 wounded. One hundred and
sixty Filipinos were killed during the
week and eight Americans who had
been prisorers in the hands of the rebels
were surrendered and 100 rifles were
turned over to the United States offi
e enemy ambushed a wagon t
Delta of the Rio Grande.
In the Antigua province of Panay a
running fight of three hours’ duration
resulted in the killing or wounding of
70 of the enemy. There were no casu-
altics among the Americ: ns.
The insurgents are slowly accepting
the amnesty provisions. In some in-
stances the Americans are suspending
operations in order to give the rebels an
opportunity to take advantage of the
decree.
Co!. Pettit Acquitted.
The court-martial convened for the
charges against
Pettit, of the Thirty-first
volunteer infantry, who was accused
of violating the 62nd article of war ir
angements with President
Medill, of Zamboango, for the c apture | N
Col. James S
making ar
of Juan Ramos, who was afterward
transferred to Medill and killed, has |
brought in a verdict of acquittal.
The acquittal, it is announced, re:
stored Col. Pettit to duty in his regi- | ¢
ment. It is understood that the wat
department has give
its unqualified ap-
provi 1. Col. Petti
a, no means
ceased to be worthy of record. When
the last month’s
casualties, from June 5 to Tuly 3,
rain
between Indang i Naic. The Third
infantry lost nine men while on an ex-
pedition to punish the Ladrones in the
's brother officers
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cavations and underground pas
ing, T am told, 280 miles. Far underground
there are chapels and halls of reception.
the columns, the altars and the pulpits of
Lo OR. TALMAGES SUNDAY SERMON.
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
| Subject: God’s Saving Grace—Religion is
an Active Principle Which Works
Constantly For the Welfare of Body
and Mind and Soul—Hope For Sinners.
[Copyright 1900.1
Ww ASHINGTON, 221 Talmage is
where he has
eply interested in Ye natural phe-
nomena and the quaint social life of that
fo!
=
| wonderful land. In this sermon he ar-
gues, contrary to the opinion of many,
that religion is an active principle which
works constantly for the welfare of body
and Salt is and aod His text is Luke xiv,
ox, >
among living creat-
s and doves and uni-
1d sheep and cattle; among trees,
amores and terebinths and pomegran-
s and almonds and apples; among jew-
pearls and puis and jacinths
oprases. hrist uses no stale
L a ns. The ilies that He plucks in
lis discourse are dewy fresh; the ravens
in His discourses are not stuffed specimens
of birds, but warm with life from wing tip
to wing tip; the fish He points to are not
dull about the gills, as though long cap-
tured; but a-squirm in the wet net just
brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In
my text, which is the peroration of one of
His sermons, He picks up a crystal and
holds it be fore His congregation as an illus-
tration of divine grace ‘n the heart when
a
e si what we all know by experiment,
“Salt is goo
I shall tre to carry out the Saviour” =
idea in this text and in the first place say
to you that arace is like salt in its beaut)
n Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex-
sages reach-
salt
to
When the king and the princes come
it these mines, the whole place is
illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls
and er
crystal columns. under the glare of the
torches and the Jamps. needs words of crys-
tal to describe it. But vou need not go so
far as that to find the beauty of salt. You
stal ceilings and crystal floors and
live in a land which produces millions of
bushels of it in a year, and you can take
the morning rail train and in a few hours
get to the salt mines and salt springs, and
i have this article morning, noon and
night on your table. Salt has all the
beauty of the snowflake and water foam.
with durability added. Tt is beautiful to
the naked eye, but under the glass vou see
the stars, and the diamonds. and the white
sien branches, and the splinters, and the
bridges of fire as the sun glints them.
There is more architectural skill in one of
these crystals of salt than human inge-
nuity has ever demonstrated in an Alham-
bra or St. Pet
It would ote all time. with an infringe
ment upon eternity. for an angel of God
to tell one-half the glories in a salt erv
al:
So with the grace of G od; it is perfectly
beautiful. T have seen it smooth out wrin-
es of care from the brow; I have seen it
make an aged man feel almost young
again: I have seen it lift the stooping
shoulders and put sparkle into the dull eve.
Solomon discovered its therapeuiie quali-
hen he said, “It is marrow to the
2? Jt helps to di the food and
to purify the blood and to calm the nnlses
and quiet the spleen. and instead of Tyn-
dall’s s prayer test of twenty vears ago. put-
t
ting a man in a philosophical hosnital to be
experimented upon by prayer. it keeps him
<0 well that he does not need to be praved
for as an invalid. I am sneaking now of a
healthy religcion—not of that morbid relig-
ion that sits for three hours on a grave-
«fone reading Hervey's ‘Meditations
Among the Tombs" —a religion that pros-
pers best in a bad state of the liver! T
speak of the religion that Christ preached.
I suppose, when that velizgion has con-
auered the world, that disease will be ban.
ished, and that a man 100 years of ace will
come in from business and sav, “I am
tired; T think it must be time for me to
0.” and without one physical pang heaven
will have him.
Jut the chief beauty of grace is in the
soul. Tt takes that which was hard and
cold and repulsive and makes it all over
again, It pours upon one’s nature what
d calls “the beauty of holiness.” IT
extirpates everything that is hateful anc
unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust
nd worldliness lurk about, they are
chained and have a very small sweep.
Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance
of a summer garden as He comes in say-
ing, “I am the Rose of Sharon,” and He
submerges it with the glory of a snring
morning, as He says, “I am the light.”
Oh, how much that grace did for the
three Johns! 1t took .John Bunyan. the
four) mouthed, and made him John Bun-
an, the immortal groper; it tek John
wton. the infidel sailor. and in the midst
the hurricane made him ery out, “Mv
Le s God, have mercy upon me!” Tt
| tock John Summerfield from a life of sin
|
and by the hand of a Christian maker o
tools led him into the pulnit that
| SEA still with the light of that Christian
| eloquence which charmed thousands to the
rejoice at the expected termination of |
the case.
Largest Mortgage Recorded.
Probably the largest mortgage in the
world was executed Saturday when the
Carnegie Company made a mortgage
to the United States Trust Company,
New York, as trustee. for the sum of
$160.000,000. Thi
11S mortgage
on all the prope
make up the great Carnegie Company
to secure the issue of $160.000,000 worth
zo year bonds, which
of fig: per cent.
» been negotiated abroad. A meet-
ing of the stockholders was held in IT
Orange, at which the
©
issue of the bonds.
Blown From Cannon.
Telegrams from Rotterdam say: “It
transpires that the recent mutiny at
Shinkakassa Fort, near Boma, on the
Congo, was due to the abominable
treatment of the soldiers’ wives by the
governor of the fort. who, whol the
women refused to do hard manual labor
without pay, had them stripped and]
down their
flogged till the blood r:
bodies.
“The mutineers are now all extermin-
ated. They were hunted down and shot
on sight, or lashed to the mouths of
cannon and blown to
before admiring Belg
dress, by order of the
1 0
Imports at Manila.
The division of customs and insula
affairs of the war d
atement S
he port of 1
se to the valu
was import ed id
with $100.0635 i1
silver coin, brix
for 1899 to $
merchandise
1 implemen
the woods. i
yy the pursu
oO
made
ties and securities ol
the different individual companies which
cution of the
mortgage was authorized and also the
pieces by platoons
£1
Tovernor,
Jesus whom He once despised. Ah, you
mav search all the earth over for anything
so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of
God! Go all through the deep mine pas-
sages of Wieliczka and amid the under:
ground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and
show me anything so transcendently beau-
tiful as this grace of God fashioned and
hung in eternal crystals.
in, grace is like salt in the fact that
a necessity of life. Man and beast
sh without salt. What are those paths
083 the western prairie? Why, they
were made there by deer and buffalo going
to and coming away from the salt “licks.”
’hemists and physicians all the w orld over
tell us that salt 1s a necessity of life. And
so with the grace of God; you must have it
or die. I mow a great many speak of it
18 a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder
strap adorning a soldier, or a light, froth-
dessert brought in after the greatest
art of the banquet of life is over, or a
ene to be taken after powders and
mustard plasters have failed to do their
work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity,
string of bells around a horse's neck while
he draws the load and in nowise helping
him to draw i So far from that I declare
the grace of God to be the first and the
last n itv. It is food we must take or
starve into an eternity of famine. It is
clothing, without which w» freeze to the
mast of infinite terror. 1t is the plank,
and the only plank, on which we can float
wreward. It is the ladder, and the only
, on which we can climb up into the
i It is a postive necessity for the
soul. You can tell very easily what the
effect would be if a person re fused to take
salt into the body. The energies would
fail, the lungs would struggle with the air,
slow fevers would crawl through the brain,
the heart would flutter, and the life would
be gone. Salt, a necessity for the life of
the body; the grace of God, a necessity
for the life of the soul!
Again, I re ale that grace is like salt in
abundance. God has strewn salt in vast
profusion all over the continents. Russia
seems built on a salt-cellar. 'Lhere is one
region in that country that turns out 90,000
tons of salt in a yea England and Russia
i
| and Italy have inexhaustible resources in
this respect. Norway and Sweden, white
with snow above, white with salt beneath.
Austria, yie ding 900,000 tons annually.
Nearly all the nations rich in it—rock salt,
sprihg salt, sea salt.
’h , the C
He uttered our tex
qr of the world, when
, knew it would become
there would be enough for all—for those
furthest gone in sin, for the murderer
standing on the drop of the gallows. It is
an ocean of mercy, and if Europe and
vessels : n- | more and more significunt as the shafts
sumption. | were sunk, and the springs were bared,
| and the pumps were Worked, and tne crys
duty collec | tals were gathered. So the grace of God is
| abundant. Tt is for all lands, for all ages,
| for all conditions. Tt Sym to undergirt
fae ie Te pardon for the worst sin, com-
2s A : Sarmers | sharpest suffering, brightest
Living seven miles | + thickest darkness.
west in order tol Around it the salt lakes of Saratov
avenge \ of the German ambas- | there are 10,000 men toiling day and night,
i attempted 1 nd yet they never exhaust the saline treas-
ures. And if the 1,600,000,000 of our race
1 ; should now ery out to God for His mercy
|
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search the pu
Eo! " Burglars.
Robbers openc
elry store of Pl
a
secured §
jewelry.
without
would lead to
Cuntent Sails Horewarl,
"he United Sta
ha has been
interests on the
at the Col ports
seven months, >d Sun
Juan for Ha ympton Roads
mus of
from
Kansas women hey
clubs.
dy begun to
organize McKinley clubs and Bryan
>| robe blood dyed and heaven impearled,
| and reaches it out to the worst wretch in
| all the earth and says: “Put that on! Weax
Asia, Africa, North and South America,
and all the islands of the sea went dowa
in it to-day they would have room enough
nd come up clean.
ian think that his case is too
tough a cae for God to act upon. Though
your sin may be deep and raging, let me
tell you that God’s grace is a bridge not
built on earthly piers. but suspended and
spanning the awful chasm of your gui
one end resting upon the rock of cterml
promises and the other on the foundations
of heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so in-
crusted with jewe that no one after him
ever dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus,
takes off the robe of His righteousn
it now! Wear it forever!”
Again, the grace of God is like salt in
the way we come at it. The salt on the
surface is almost always impure—tha!
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
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To very foundations of
Annual Meeting of Pennsylvania State Teach-
Asscciation—Boy Has a Close
- Call—Minor Happenings.
gy from under ihe ery roofs of
1 1
a evapors ar or it is in oe
mightily heated and the water evaporates,
2nd the salt gathers at the bottom of the
. The w vork 12 completed, and the for
Tave you ot been in enough troub le to
have that work go on? “Adam R. Honick, Sabeitond
ah coming oy the =
to that field and was
, Conemaugh, $8 lo ‘a Sioa,
that th he Hounds of tempia tion n, : Vomgtionn: 3. John Criton,
Wr held its annual meeting at
Williamsport last week.
of officers for the ensuing year resu ed
. z Speigel, Westmore-
hi 1 i arace of Gi
on
Tietrich, Jefferson coun-
Tr he great, wi ot of our was ste nding 0d i he HE upon a “pick-
te 204% our men of science that the
: > 2 in the BL arm ho side, ho
not dangerously it ured,
nificent. sweep ‘of the 0 scope
seen the morning star
ceived word | i om the secretar of agri-
that in a 1 thei ir eSperiments with Te hi Png x
pest ill be sent into Within gton coun-
within the next few weeks to build
a sa ample road according to the plans of
The road supervisors
of South Strabane tow nship ha we agreed
oe wi armth of the Sun of I
PEL that whic 1 ii it will Tiv e;
has I Hoe laim the tenden-
having a Sample road bist} in th: it town-
nd death, “the En of Christ te a
i abies 1 is one of great congr atulation
to hese who have within their sou
sa
building this sample road, which al be
rows of life: “and through the ng
a
township re maieral
" cstmorel: nd county,
said, is oe EH one of
v
and ro out you off from your
over heaps of the slain.
com posed ofl teavy crimson red Silk,
God opal will see vou Hid . !
, and is 13 feet 4 inches
center ‘of the ive field i is < painted a rat-
land in the attitude of
died years ago T lost
inprescd Je Shh wi
: bi: _— letgers is ag mot-
yi a
scenes thron, ch which Se a passed is in the
blown from tre yn of a man sitting
battle upon awhiich every hing. :
caused the Jama of Coie
gr
that the life i he nation
grove and near him si ot a man who
pungent pr of the Smoke Se
ly ov yore helm Krickaka,
son is coming up manly ;
continued until a ad vess
man fell into a swoon and
in hi alf an hour he died.
ne ont and twist
1
, while attempting to clean
an old ey ‘at Six Mile
The son first went down .into
the well and was overcome y
damp, and the father, realizing the dan-
ernor heoht | his arm doen on the hack
but after Rs we gai
not ovr ANE
afterward, but life was extinct.
Nols school Pond and the ritizens of
I stepped across a tend ealdie r
and vet tT dia not id to.
tle, so I a 20% down ‘on 1
. ent over gh, question of Loft fn new
and d. geographies in the schools of that tow
“ang She Ang wn and “outed, No change has been made for 2
board and some of the citizens think it
time something more modern was intro-
duced into the schoois there, i
ers think the old books good enough.
2 a fmssiag of the State Live Stock
r presided over by Gov.
ie was decided that
detained at any ri
as . i agents of the board
shall be returned to the owners Miho
the consent of State Veterinarian
the object being to prevent
We cannot ston for loss or
rs and loving Kiss we
Tore are hn foes to 5 col nquered, hoe
are other crowns to he won.
must bed up two or three wor
Both the output and shipment of Con-
Gk ville coke Heyeated last week.
r
€ active and 3.858 Sat e.
duction was Lil tons, a gain over the
e
Great Biter i impo. ted
hundreds (1,920,000.000) of ewes last vear
with ores of 13 previc
On the recommendation of Cones
Women and Drinking.
i : stow n, ha 1S been appointed toa clerk:
gaid a man of FH and ckpe
that the drinking of intoxicating lauord
is on the increase among women,
has ly been apps ht to a arid
to = women of the better cl:
on a recommendation of
sa Vz
causes ny be jo) ro T think Hore is
no one cause more answerable than the An J Fiplogion of Cyaan oeeiyfer
Vnis
American, reliceed only Ty a or ice
The dyna \mite had Le en a ed in
: a oon of carbonie- char ged water.
1
= oa stove for safe keeping and |
exploded when a fire was made to cook
1)
2p a very le re
It used to be that not one woms AT)
in ten thousand had the courage or the
k for whisky as a tipple;
deed, it was “considered vulgar, and a wo-
man, who might get under t
of wine and not think it a serious mat
ter, would shrink from pe a gms of
whisky in a public place.
but no Qeisen, was serionsly hurt.
e at his hotel in Bui-
von Deer in poor hes alth
Jojo an at Clition thi
Fi "and quite us aad ro as ey
wine that ever gave its evlor to 2s cup,
It is altogether in the azme, I think, for
even yet the omen won ’t ask Wy
At New Kensington a new bank, to
as the F irst Na ational B ank of
thing, “and they call for them as ea pi stock of $0,000.
“high ball is I cannot
ar ten SH on ve
was before the adv ent of SAE ‘
York St
gas ig
Willis J. Hulings is at the head
of a kk) for a reunion
Sixteenth Perisylv: nia volunteer re gi-
ment at Oil City during next September.
Antipathy to green paint tle da
horse to turn in a riot a
newly-colored patrol box.
trol wagons and a big
A piece of Queen's chocolate, no larg-
er than a threepenny bit, has been sold
horse’s gnawing at the alar
is a proud and peerless
record. It is a record of
cure, of constant cone
guest over obstinate lls
of women; ills that deal
out despair; suffering
that many women think
fs womzan’s natural heri=
tage; disorders and dis=
placements that drive eut
hopes
| Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound ;
cures these troubles of
women, and robs mens
struation orf ffs errors.
No woman need he with=
cut the safest and surest
advice, for Rirs. Pinkham
counsels women free of
charge. Her cddress is
Lynz, Blass:
® Can any woman afford
to fgnore the medicine and
tho advice that has cured
a niin women?
ToD RIVER MAN
Will Float a Flatboat Down the Treache
erous Yellowstone.
Livingston (Mont.) Correspondence
Chicago Inter Ocean: An attempt is
being made to navigate the Yellow-
stone River from this city to the Mis-
souri, and thence to St. Louis, with a
craft that will carry about 100 tons
of freight. Livingston may be said to
be at the head of even canoe naviga-
tion on the Yellowstone River, and
this is the first attempt in history to
navigate the stream with anything
approaching a boat. Many attempts
have been made in the past to float
down the river with skiffs, but they
have been uniformly unsuccessful, and
each summer adds to the list of vie-
tims claimed by the river from those
who have been foolhardy encugh to
make the trial. The Yellowstone joins
the Missouri at Fort Buford, about 600
miles northeast of this city, and for
about half the distance flows through
a succession of canyons, and at short
intervals below this city breaks into:
rapids extremely dangerous and diffi-
cult of navigation, even for a skiff.
An old Mississippi River flatboat~
man named H. C. Sharpless last win-
ter announced his intention of con-
structing a flatboat, loading it with
bones, petrified wood and other far
western curiosities, and, with the first
sign of high water in the spring, float-
ing down the river. He had had his
craft ready for the trip at her dock
at the foot of Lewis street, with a par-
tial cargo, amounting to perhaps 50
tons, for the last ten days, Waiting for
the snows in the mountains to make
their presence known in the river.
The looked-for flood having arrived,
the Saragossa, as he calls his vessel,
weighed anchor to-day and started om.
its 3,000 miles journey to St. Louis;
where Capt. Sharpless expects to dis~
pose of his cargo of bones, etc. If the
craft meets with no mishap it is ex-
pected to arrive in St. Louis some time-
this fall.
The Whistling Tree.
The musical or whistling tree is a
native of the West Indies, Nubia and
the Sudan. It possesses a peculiar-
shaped leaf and pods with a split or
broken edge. The wind passing:
through these causes the sound which:
glves to the tree the name of “whist-
ler.” In Barbados there is a valley
filled with trees of this character, and
when the trade winds blow across the
islands a constant moaning, deep-toned
whistle is heard from it. A species of;
acacia, which grows very abundantly
in the Sudan, is also called the whist-
line iree by the natives,
College Professors to Judge.
Of the hundred judges selected by
the New York University to decide on:
the names of great Americans who are:
to be commemorated in the Hall of:
Fame, a very large majority—nearlgs
all, in fact—are college professors.
Missouri has the largest permanent
school fund of any of the States
What Shall We fave For Dessert?
This question arises in the family daily. Let
us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious
and healthful dessert, Prepared in 2 min. No
boiling! no baking! Simply add a little hot
water & set to cool. Flavors: Lemon,Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
Last month’s import of gold into Eng-
lard from South Africa was only £10,-
000, against $8,737,000 in May, 1890.
Ladies Can Wear Shoes
One size smaller after usizg Allen's Foot-
Ease, a powder for the feet. T makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,
sweating, aching feet, ingrowing "nails,
corns and bunions. At all druggistsand shoo
stores, 25¢. Triul package I'REE by mail.
Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Loy, NL
St. Louis has the largest ree house,
the largest woodenware store and the
greatest hardware house in the world.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. Al)
druggists refund the money if i? fails to cure,
. W. GROVES signature is on each box. bc,
Among the clocks to be seen at the
Paris exposition is one of the year 1530,
which belongs to Henry III.
Jonhitior E. D. Loomis, ‘Detroit, Mich.,.
say “The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure is
SR sderrit. 5 Write him about it. Sold by
Drugglsts, 75c.
The South Afri in winter begins tos
wards the end of April and lasts until
September.
@
Carter’ 8 s Ink Is Us:
oy tho
Ereates railway systems of the United States.
‘hey would not useitif it wasn't the bes
More Strect cars are manufactured in
| St. Louis than at any other point in the
world.
Dyspepsia is the bane of the human 8yS-
tem. Protect yoursel! against its ravages
by the use of Beeman’s Pepsin Gum,
Nearly Go per cent. of all Russians
are unable to read or write.
Mrs. Winslow
teething, softens th
tion, allays pain.c
oothing Syrap forchildren
ums, reduces ATM fe
es wind colic. 25¢ a bottles
The population of Bloemfontein does
or did not exceed 8,000.
I JOHN W.NMORRIS,
Oc WwW ashington, D.C.
Succes: SR Prosecutes Claims,
Late Principal E: S. Pen sion Bureau.
35: rsia civil war, Cra & claims, atty since,
Amid
brilliant
cidents
in dttend
conventi
aiternoor
gathering
history o
hali was
galieries,
and reac
tion pray
Neel, af
“We are
tives of
nate eve
champio
stands hi
speak ni
thc in
metal, s
a Sr
monopol
but for f
money
ability o
for the m
mission
tates or
At thi
Mr. Bry
form an
read the
after whi
sang the
audience
plauding
ished th
‘Americ
mass of
words *
ing it th
it with
After
committ
dressed
Congres
Terness
manent
saia in
“The
moment
again
parts te
paign ar
1806. I
with in
sweepin
The c
sou’s sy
Ri hard
the Re
‘Whil
to repo
by Gov
ery, of
Maryla
speech,
and Juc
made tl
He sai
‘The
for a «
than to
ithe De
rolls hi
mortals
encircle
of all |
that uw
organi’
page of
distinct
stowed.
noble
quited,
and sti
charge:
skies a
than w
years :
ad sp
though
ily trac
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