WILL ATTEMPT T0 REGAIN PEKING
BOXERS MOBILIZED.
Force of Imperial Troops and Boxers Pre-
paring to Attack the Allies—Capital
Cleared of the Enemy.
Telegrams from Shanghai, dated
Tuesday, say: The flags of the allies
are now floating over the imperial pal-
ace. Street fighting, however, contin-
ues. The walls of the city were blown
vp with dynamite.
Considerable assistance in the cap-
ture of Peking was rendered by 4.000
armed native Christians. The legations
were enabled to hold out by purchasing
ammunition from the Chinese. The
foreign envoys are proceeding to Tien-
tsin.
The dowager empress fled from Pe-
king with treasure amounting to $50,-
000,000 taels. She is surrounded by Jap-
anese cavalry. If the Chinese govern-
ment is at Sinan-Fu there is no means
of getting at them, according to the
military men, without a prolonged
campaign and with a much larger army.
The State department Wednesday re-
ceived, through Consul Fowler, at
Che Foo, the following dispatch from
Minister Conger, dated at Pekin: “The
entire city, with the exception of the
imperial palace, is occupied by Japanese,
ussian, British, American and French.
It is being apportioned into districts for
police supervision. The Chinese army
fled. The imperial family and the court
have gone westward, probably to Si An
Fu, in the province of Shan Si. No rep-
resentatives of the Chinese government
are in sight in Pekin and the conditions
are chaotic. The palace is expected to
be taken immediately. Many mission-
aries have started for home, while oth-
ers remain in charge of the Christian
refugees, numbering about 1,000.
he first assurance reached in Wash-
ington, Friday, that the powerful Chi-
nese viceroys were disposed to accept
the new conditions of affairs in China
and would assist in the maintenance of
peace.
The information came in a dispatch
through diplomatic channels, and stated
that one of the foreign officers had re-
ceived a telegram from two of the most
powerful central viceroys. stating that
they intended to give their best efforts
to maintain quiet throughout the cenral
portions of China.
As this assurance came subsequent to
the capture of Peking, it is regarded as
a favorable sign of the disposition of the
viceroys whose authority in the interior
is very great. Their course has been
watched with much concern by officials,
for since Peking is in a chaotic condi-
tion the most influential authority in
the empire is that of the viceroys.
Sunday evening the Japancse Lega-
tion at Washingon gave out the follow-
ing telegram, dated Pekin, from Gen.
Yamaguchi, commander of the Japanese
forces:
“The capital is now entirely cleared of
the enemy. A cavalry regiment which
had been sent to Wan Shau Shan, where
the Empress Dowager's palace is locat-
ed, reports that the imperial family,who
had left Pekin, started, after a short rest
at Wan Shau Shan, for the west, and
were under the escort of Gen. Ma and
his troops, consisting of only about 500
horsemen and 20 carts. The Japanese
forces occupied the Treasury Depart- | ¢
ment, in which over 2,000,000 taels i in sil-
ver and a large quantity of rice were
found. Another dispatch dated Taku,
states that as the Chinese troops and
Boxers who had gathered at Nan Yuen
were about to attack the foreign forces
at Pekin Japanese and Russian cavalry
were expected to encounter them. The
dispatch further states that Chinese in-
fantry some 9,000 strong, with 15 guns,
are advancing northward from Shang
Jung to make a rear attack on the al-
1€S
The news of a possible rear attack
upon the comparatively small force of
the allies was not regarded as serious,
as the foreign forces are believed to be
abundantly able to take care of them-
selves against any force of Chinese like-
ly to be sent against them.
LIEUT. CORDUA SHOT.
Lord Roberts Confirms the Death Sentence
Passed by the Military Court.
A dispatch from Pretoria says that
Lieutenant Cordua, formerly of the
States artillery, was shot Friday after-
noon. Lord oberts confirmed the
death sentence of Cordua, who was con-
victed by a British military court of be-
ing a leader in the plot to abduct Rob-
erts and kill British officers.
r. Leyds and the Boer envoys have
sent from St. Petersburg to Lord Salis-
bury a strong protest against the latest
proclamation of Lord Roberts, main-
taining that they violate every sense of
right and all the principles of interna-
tional law.
Lord Roberts telegraphs as follows
from Pretoria, under date of Friday:
“Baden-Powell rescued 100 British
prisoners at Warm Baths August 22,
and captured 25 Boers and a German ar-
tillery officer. Buller’s casualties, August
21, were seven men killed and Capt. El-
lershaw and 21 men wounded and five
men missing. Kitchener, August 22, had
eight casuaities. While reconnoitering
in the Komati valley Rundlé€ found 140,-
000 rounds of ammunition buried. The
column pursuing. De Wet made won-
derful marches. Col. Mackinnon covered
224 miles in 14 days.”
Work of Safe Crackers.
At Bedford, Pa, the office of the
Everett furnace was broken into by
thieves, who forced the safe, getting
$100 in money and a lot of postage
stamps. In their hurry they overlooked
some bonds and several pay envelopes.
They had attempted to open another
safe in the office and had knocked off
the combination, when they were
frightened away.
The postoffice at Center Hall, Pa.
was entered by thieves and $150 in
stamps and $280 in money were stolen.
Only $160 of the cash was government
funds, the remainder belonging to indi-
viduals for whom Postmaster George
Boal was keeping it. The thieves es-
caped, leaving no clew.
Excitement at Alliance.
Excitement over the discovery of a
very strong vein of natural gas inside
the city limis of Alliance, O., Saturday,
continues. The well is located in a
small tract of timber near the city limits.
It shows a very strong pressure and the
noise of the ping gas can be heard
distinctly miles distant.
Another well will be sunk at once, in
the hope of finding an oil pocket, which
expert oil zon believe exists in that im-
mediate locality. A well sunk some 600
feet east of the gasser which also yield-
ed a small supply of gas will also be
tested at a greater depth. The wells as
well as all of the houses are owned by
local operators.
Spain Adopts New Time.
Vice Consul Reed at Madrid has jn-
formed the 22h department, at Wash-
ington, D. C., that by a decree time in
Spain is A to be counted from 1
to 24 hours, the order to go into effect
January 1, 1901,the day to begin at mid-
night. The interval between midnight
and 1 o'clock will be designated by a
cipher, and ge number of minutes
0:05, 0:39. The government officers,
telegraph, telephone, railroad, steam.
ship lines and all public offices are to
observe the new method.
as
Industrial Plants Destroyed.
A large crushing mill, owned by Con-
ressman Bowersock and others at
awrence, Kas., was swallowed
Wednesday night by an immense cave-
in, Thursday the Nightingale plant, |
cluding derrick, tramway and tanks was
also engulfed. The employes were at
dinner and no one was injured. The loss
is heavy.
ee
. order to
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
A Boer commando has blown up rail-
road tracks near Krugersdorp.
Boers led the English into another
trap and killed 10 and wounded 46.
Three Hungarians were crushed to
death by a cave-in near Shoeshoe, Pa.
Pedro Calcedo has been appointed
Nicaraguan consul-general at Santiago
de Cuba.
A dozen people were injured by the
overturning of a trolley car at Chagrin
Falls, O.
The British government has bought
4,000 tons of American coal for the
British navy.
At Muncie, Ind.
ers have received
next Saturday.
A four weeks’ drought was broken in
Oklahoma by a soaking rain. Cotton
will be benefited.
Englishmen are beginning to learn of
great mismanagement of South African
affairs by their officers.
The land agent of the Union Pacific
railroad estimates thc damage from for-
est fires at $10,000,000.
The battleship Oregon has come out
of the dock at Kure, Japan, and will be
ready for sea in a week.
Western Union College, at Le Mars,
Towa, was burned Friday at a loss of
$40,000; insurance, $10,000
The reorganized Church of Latter
Day Saints is holdings its second annual
reunion at Kansas City, Mo.
A boulder falling upon a locomotive
near Connellsville, Pa., fatally crushed
Engineer Swarner in his cab.
The city of Pekin is being policed by
the allied troops, who have divided it
into districts for that purpose.
A great hailstorm in Rock county,
Wisconsin, is thought to have killed the
tobacco crop, valued at $500,00.
A block of business buildings were
burned at Punxsutawney, Pa. urs-
day, causing a loss of $100,000.
Exports from this country in July,
1900, amounted in value to $100,447,470,
against $94,926,170 in July, 18
At Raleigh, N. C.,, a monument to
the late United States Senator Z.
Vance was unveiled Wednesday.
Steamer Mariposa, from Sydney,
Australia, Friday arrived at San Fran-
cisco with over six million specie.
A tornado, accompanied by heavy rain
and fierce lightning, did considerable
damage at Milwaukee, Wis., Friday.
As the result of a quarrel William
Green killed his two nephews, Emmett
and Willie Green at Texarkana, Ark.
At Prairie du Chien, Wis., in a riot
started by members of a wild west show
exhibiting there four men were badly
hurt.
window glass work-
notice to go to work
Russia will replenish her treasury by
bonewing 300,000,060 rubles, or about
$23-,000,000 from United States capi-
talists,
The Runyan army, 120,000 strong, is
reported advancing on the last strong-
hold held by the Chinese rebels in Man-
churia.
Lightning destroyed Bethel Baptist
Church at Fairview, Ky., built as a me-
morial on the site of Jefferson Davis’
birth place.
An official dispatch from Korea says
1,000 rebels have attacked Song-Ching,
burning the government buildings lo-
cated there.
Two Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Company
workmen were fatally, and several oth-
ers badly, burned by an exploscion of
molten metal.
A farm hand near Canton, Pa., sus-
pected of robbing a widow, was strung
up four times by a masked mob, but re-
fused to confess.
A Bessemer railroad locomotive
plunged down an embankment near
Greenville, Pa, killing an engineer and
fatally injuring the fireman.
The United States transports Crook,
McPherson, Rawlins and Sedgwick,
having the 1,300 Cuban school teachers
on board, sailed for Havana.
The transport Strathgyle left San
Francisco Wednesday for China. She
carried 763 horses for the use of the
army operating in the Orient.
Russia has placed an order in Chicago
or 6,000,000 pounds of beef on the hoof
pe soldiers in China. It will take 5,000
head of cattle to fill the order.
The French Government has express-
ed its readiness to interchange opinions
with the powers regarding more strin-
gent measures against anarchists.
Gen. DeWet and other Boer generals
have threatened to kill Kitchener and
other English officers because of al-
leged vandalism and inhumanity.
The plant of the Maryland Telephone
Construction Company in Baltimore
was destroyed by a fire, the origin of
which is unknown. Loss $112,000.
The Mosquito coast delegates threaten
to appeal to the United States if Great
Jritain does not protect their country
from outrages by the Nicaraguans.
A massive iron furnace is to be built
at Rose Hill, Va., near Middlesboro,
Ky. Brown Bros., New York bankers,
are said to be interested in the enter-
prise.
Astoria, Ore., business men have se-
cured 6.500 acres of land at Knappa,
near Astoria. Experts have declared it
a very valuable coal and petroleum
field.
Judge White at Indiana, Pa., sen-
tenced to death Martin Fleming, who
murdered his nephew, but added that he
would recommend commutation of sen-
tence.
At San Francisco the Building Trades
Council, representing 28 trade organiza-
tions, has ordered a general boycott of
all the goods turned out by nine-hour
planing mills.
Sam Fields, a young negro, was shot
to death by a mob of white men Thurs-
day night near White Hall, Livingstone
parish. Fields attempted to assault a
white woman.
At Janesville, W a hail, rain and
wind storm caused a loss of more than
to standing leaf tobacco. Simi-
lar losses are Fepored near Kenosha
from high water
The official census figures show that
the population of Pittsburg, Pa., is
321,616, and that of Allegheny 120.806.
This is a gain of 82,099 for Pr
and 24,609 for Allegheny.
Maryland has been ravaged by ter-
rific electric, wind and rain storms, Sey-
cral lives have been lost, five or six per-
sons injured and the estimated aggre-
gate loss to property is about $75,000.
The Kentucky Oil and Pipe Line
Company, with headquarters at Somer-
set, has sold its pipe line, pumps,
tan and fixtures to the National Tow
sit Company of Oil City, Pa., for
000.
The American Window Glass Com-
pany has leased an immense amount of
territory in Indiana for gas drill pur-
poses. The Pittsburg corporation has
mn all 40,000 acres, and has expended
something like $100,000 for leases and
pipe line.
At Fort Worth, Tex., Gabe and Cic-
ero Copeland were instantly killed
Tuesday in a duel with John and Charles
Baker in Polk county. The men bat-
tled at 20 paces with rifles. Both the
Bakers were badly wounded and may
$75
I die.
W.C TU.
Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, president of the
Temperance temple trustees at ica-
go, denies the statement that the tem-
ple indebtedness is $2,400,000. She says:
“A slight fraction over $700,000, with
what has been ledged, will give us the
building en free from debt. The
sum of $65,000 more, however, must be
raised by the first of next January, in
secure Mr. Marshall Field's
conditional pledge of $100,000. We have
still ten years in which to raise the re-
mainder of the $700,000. The building
is well filled with tenants and shows a
balance upon the right side of the led-
ger.
Indebtedness.
T0 BEGONE A STRONG NAVAL BASE]
OUR PACIFIC GIBRALTAR.
The United States Will Fortily the Island of
GuamWith All the Panoply
of War.
The Navy Department has taken the
initial steps in the preparation for the
complete and comprehensive system of
fortifications and harbor improvements
by which it is intended to make the isl-
and of Guam a thoroughly protected
base for our naval vessels in the West-
ern Pacific.
The United States has but two sta-
tions on the line of travel across the
Pacific between San Francisco and Ma-
nila. One of these is Honolulu and the
other is Guam, 3,500 miles westward.
There is another stretch of over 1,600
miles west of Guam before Manila is
reached.
Southward from Guam we are flanked
for 2,500 miles by a chain of islands
containing 13 fine harbors, all of them
potential bases of hostile powers. Some
of them already are equipped and for-
fied. These harbors are included in the
Marshal and Caroline groups, while on
the north the Ladrones poss several
harbors, some of them as close as 10
miles to our possessions in Guam.
t has been determined to make Guam
a great naval base, thoroughly equipped
with supplies for our squadrons, and as
nearly impregnable as possible against
a hostile fleet. A mixed commission of
one army and two naval officers has
been assigned o the work of the prelim-
inary survey.
KILLED ELEVEN PEOPLE.
Two Australian Natives Relapse Into Savagery
and Reveled in Blood.
An outbreak of latent savagery in two
aboriginal blacks, who had lived for
years in close association with whites,
is reported from Sydney, N. W.
The outbreak resulted in Tie slaughter
of 11 persons.
At Breelong, in New South Wales,
the Mawbry family offended two natives
known as Governor and Underwood,
who in revenge broke into the Mawbry
house, armed with tomahawks and war
clubs. In the house were Mrs. Maw-
bry, her two dauaons, Grace and Hil-
da; her niece, Elsie Clark; Miss Kerse,
a school teacher, and three boys, Percy,
aged 13; George, 12, and Albert, o.
Of these, only the two youngest boys es-
caped by hiding.
After butchering these defenseless peo-
ple the blacks fled across the country to
the Queensland Mountains. At Gulong
they killed Alexander McKay and his
wife, Mrs. O’Brien and her young child
at Meruwa and Kerin Fitzpatrick, an
old man, at Mudgee. The mounted po-
lice were unable to effect their capture.
TWO ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Were Preparing to Loot an Ohio Bank When
Surprised by an Officer.
At 3 o'clock Sunday morning Marshal
seorge B. Parkinson captured two ap-
parently desperate and well-trained
bank robbers. W. C. Lyman detected
two men in front of the City Bank at
Kent, O. They were working at the
door. He called the marshal, who 1o-
cated the men in the rear of the bank.
They were spr eading out their tools
preparatory to going to work on the
rear door. He surprised the men and
they surrendered after a short struggle.
The names of the men are Edgar
Clearwater and Will Harrison, both of
Cleveland. The officers found in their
ssession a complete outfit of burglar’s
ncluding 11 modern electrical ap-
pliances for opening safes; also nitro-
glycerine and dynamite in large quanti-
ties. There was a large sum of money
in the bank, which had been placed
there following the Erie pay day. It 1s
thought a third man escaped.
RAILROADED TO PENITENTIARY.
Swift Justice Dealt to the Negro Criminal
at Akron, Ohio.
Justice was dealt out in double-quick
time in Akron, O., Friday, and Louis
Peck, whose assault on a 5-year-old girl
caused the riots of last Wednesday
night, is now in the state prison, at Co-
lumbus, sentenced to spend the remain-
der of his life at hard labor.
Peck was taken to Akron Friday af-
ternoon on a train leaving Cleveland,
where he has been confined since
Wednesday afternoon, at 1:40. While
the train was speeding toward Akron, a
special grand jury was empaneled and
an indictment found against Peck for
aon The train reached Akron at
3:13, and the prisoner was taken imme-
diately to the court house, under the
escort of a company of militia. Peck
pleaded guilty to the indictment, was
sentenced to life imprisonment and
taken from the court house again, all in
eight minutes.
WOUNDED FROM AMBUSH.
Three West Virginians Shot in Logan County
by Unknown Persons.
An epidemic of assassination has
broken out in Logan county, W. Va.
Friday Lewis Ellis was shot from afn-
bush while at work on his farm. The
bullet pierced his abdomen and he is in
a serious condition. In the evening Ira
Ellmer was shot at several times while
riding along the public highway on
Island creek. is horse was crippled
and a bullet pierced Ellmer's thigh.
Next morning in the same neighbor-
hood, Millar Stafford, a circuit rider,
was shot twice, but the chances are fa-
vorable for his recovery. He saw his
assailants, there being two of them.
They were strangers. The officials think
they have a clew. Much alarm is felt
in the Island creek neighborhood and
citizens fear to leave their homes.
Slew Five of His Family.
Theodore Wallatt, a farmer living
eight miles from Arlington, Minn, Mon-
day slaughtered his wife and four step-
children with a butcher knife. A fifth
child was so badly wounded he may not
recover. Wallart married a widow with
a family. The coupie recently a d,
and Mrs. Wallart had taken steps to sa-
cure a divorce. After committing the
crime Wallert set fire to the barns,
which were destroyed with their con-
tents. Wallart escaped, with a sheriff's
posse in pursuit.
Boy’s Eyes Blown Out.
The ambition of Robert
Franklin, Pa., aged 12 years, to be an oil
{ well shooter, has resulted in the loss &
his eyesight, besides being badly burned.
The boy had drilled a miniature oil well
which he decided to tor pedo in real
style. He filled a piece of gas pipe with
powder and after lighting a fuse at-
tempted to lower it into the hole. The
fuse burned sooner than he had expect-
ed and the powder ignited when only a
short distance from his face.
Huey, of
Population of United States.
The English Statistician Mulhall
makes an estimate of 76.200,000 of the
population of the United States this
year. The late Gen. Francis W. Walker
estimated it at about 75,000,000,and his
present successor, as president of the
Institute of Technology, Prof. Prichett,
made an estimate in 1891 that the 1900
figures would be 77.472,000. The actu-
ary of the Treasury Department ex-
pects the toal to reach 77,000,000.
Will Take a Novel Trip.
Henry R. Clowes has started from
Springdale, Pa., on a houseboat voy-
age down the Allegheny and Ohio riv-
ers and thence along the Mississippi to
the Gulf of Mexico, from where he will
return overland by wagon. The object
of Mr. Clowes’ trip is primarily one of
pleasure and he expects to be gone two
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San Francisco a point from which large
quantities of
sent forward to China.
The report comes from the
General at San Francisco, and gives a
number of details on the ¢
templated German shipments.
that German ships are already arriv
and that a commission of Ger-
Armin
mer lieutenant in the Hungarian army
the boundary
gua and Costa Rica, has just returned
from those countries on the completion
of his mission.
An interesting feature of Gen.
the
Government
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Saginaw 1
the congressional
nominated for
public utilities,
ces by
rage ra of sex.
Iso condemn the political policy of of-
enemies of the
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on the summit of a hill near
view Park,
and rolling
two trees which now
Japanese
Captain Thom, bound from Australia to
of the luckless liner 1
There were no casualties;
and vessel will probably prove
baggage
loss.
Peace Talk May Begin When China Exhibits
Some Government—No Autherity
Visible to Negotiate With.
Wu,
to be
The American reply is chiefly
terized by its firm tone
note is the I
down in the
July 3, and there is the
herence to the points enunciated at that
const
government,
negotiations.
Che government takes
that negotiations are impossible with a
rnment which cannot prevent hos-
s against the forces of the powers
which were sent to the Chinese capital
their envoys.
de on the troops of
governments,
lowed the occupation of Pekin and the
attacks in he viciniy of Tien
deemed that the Chinese government is
unwilling or
these hostilities and negotiations must
IT ed.
> under orders
Secretary
ailable
The decision
After a long conference at the White
House, the reply of the United States
to the application of Li Hung Chang
for the appointment of peace commis-
sioners has been completed and a copy
of the reply sent to the Chinese minis-
forwarded to Ear
charac
brevity.
attitude
note of
ad-
and its
>resident’s
American
strictest
The United States places itself in the
position of being ready
time to take up peace negotiations, but
present unsettled condition of ai-
fajrs in the empire, the lack of knowl-
edge as to who are the responsible rul-
and what
Chinese
that the time has not arrived for pursu-
at the proper
itutes the actual
it is made clear
the position
As long as attacks
this and
such as have fol-
Tain, it is
unable to prevent
CHAFFEE HAS ENOUGH TROOPS.
His 5,000 Deemed Sufficient for all Emer-
gencies—Others Ordered to Manila.
The War Department has issued the
following bulletin:
“The government has decided that,
unless required by future developments,
e to be sent to China.
Orders have accordingly been cabled to
Nagasaki for
troops of the
panies of the
Company E, battalion of engineers, to
proceed directly to Manila. Similar or-
ders will be given to the other troops
which are under orders for China, via
Nagasaki.”
This order will divert to Manila about
4,000 troops now at sea and
the Meade, with four
Third cavalry, four com-
Fifteenth infantry, and
3,000 more
to proceed to the
Root said that no
being sent to China,
because they were not needed. With the
arrival at Taku of the Hancock and the
carried, General Chaffee will
men, which is
nt for all present pur-
of the department
was based upon reports from General
Chaffee, which made it apparent that no
more troops were needed.
GERMANS AT FRISCO.
They Will Use That Port as a Base for
Supplies.
gations at V
is pre
hcers,
togethe
large
under Count Waldersee,
falling short of 50,000 men.
military
he states,
A report received by one of the for-
Nashington states
paring to make
supplies will be
Consul
tent of con-
He s
r with a represen-
tative of the Hamburg-American steam-
ship line, is there t
plans for forwarding supplies.
relate principally,
cavalry and other military uses and
breadstuffs for the army.
3ased on the foregoing report,
opinion is freely expressed by high dip-
lomatic officials here that Germany will
army to China to operate
after the
These
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SENSATIONAL ALLEGATION.
Benedict, o
translator of
s that he
f his shoes.
Benedict declares they
for two years,
in jail in Crown Point,
was half starved and reduced to eating
the soles of his shoes.
he was treated thus before he refused
to return to the employ of Lundin, for
worked as a translator.
One man has been arrested and has giv-
en bonds to appear before Justice Ke-
Others implicated will be arrested
in a few days.
he once
is the victim
men who had bound
him leaving him nothing to eat but the
and finally
Chicago Man’s Charge of Conspiracy—Com-
pelled to Eat Soles of His Shoes.
f Chicago, a for-
foreign languages,
of four
and imprisoned
followed him
placed him
where he
Ind.
He asserts that
No New Route for Canal.
Gen. P. Alexander, who was
ed by President Cleveland arbitrator in
dispute between
ork lay in th
not think
subject he wa
He believed tl
canal built,
Opposed to
Independent
in held its st
Wednesday,
dis
ited. Daniel
utions were
1xation, munic
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aid or encoura
Unite
Traction Car
people were
Street
s onl
miracle that
the commission
preparing a report would advise a new
would accede to
any terms made by the U nited States.
nomination for
appoint-
Nicara-
Alexan-
e fact that his la-
bors on the boundary questions resulted
in a close survey of the line of the pro-
posed Nicaraguan Canal.
He said that
now
While disclaiming definite knowledge
s inclined to think
that a proposition from the Nicaraguan
Government to ot
had already been
1at rather than not
the Nicaraguan
almost
Treason.
People’s party of
ate convention at
with a majority of
tricts in the state
Thompson was
governor.
adopted favoring
ipal ownership of
public
te and equal suf-
The resolutions
gement to open
d States.
Accident.
seriously injured
and many others were bruised and hurt
at midnight in one of the
most unusual tra ccidents that has
ever happened in Beaver Falls, Pa.
heavily loaded the Riverview
» leaped from the
Riv-
was completely overturned
ed from plunging
f 150 feet high by
hold it in mid:
all the passengers
on the car were not killed.
Vadincee Steam
steamer Aus
liner
er Wrecked.
Futami Maru,
Manila with a cargo of stores for the
American government, went aground
and broke in twain on the island of Min-
danao. The passengers and crew camp-
ed for six days on the island. They are
now being brought to Mz anila by ihe
the o
emaining an
but the cargo,
TH WORK OF A BIR BARBHROLS ENEHY
SAVAGE FILI FILIPINOS.
A Returned Soldier Tells of Atrocities Perpe-
trated Upon American So'diers—They
Mutilated the Dead Bodies.
Lieut. William Weaver, of the Thirty-
second United States Volunteers, who
resigned in the spring on account of ill-
ness, and has just returned to his home
at Emporia, Kan., from the Philippines,
tells of barbarities practiced by Filipinos
upon American soldiers. He said that
outside of the Macabebes, who were
friendly to the Americans, the Filipinos
are very cruel.
“Six men were killed at Dinalupi-
jahan,” said Lieut. Weaver, “and I do
not ‘think there was a man that had few-
er than 10 bullet holes in his body, in
the case of one American soldier, it
looked as though the muzzle of the re-
volver had been placed right in his eye
and fired; he was also stabbed in the
neck and breast with bayoneds. Here is
another sample of their cruelty: Harry
Easter, of Emporia, and MacDonald; of
Towa, two of my company, were killed
instantly. Harry Easter was shot in the
neck, and the other man was shot in
the back of the head. Only about 20
of the company were with them, and
they were attacked by about 250 Fili-
pinos.
“The Americans fought them an hour
and forty-five minutes. They had to
leave the dead, and when they came
back the rebels had stripped the boys
of all their clothes. They pulled up grass
and sticks and built a fire on their
breasts. We got to the boys before any-
thing further was done to them. We
got Easter and the other man away be-
fore they were burned.”
ANOTHER WAR BREWING.
King Charles of Roumania Will Recall His
Minister From Bulgaria.
Referring to the tension between
Roumania and Bulgaria, caused by the
demand of the Roumanian Government
for the arrest of Sarafow, president of
the revolutionary commitiee at Sofia,
the Bulgarian capital, the Vienna cor-
respondent says:
The Bulgarian reply to the note of
Roumania has been received at Bucha-
rest. It is couched in aggressive terms.
Bulgarian troops are being continually
moved to the frontier. The Macedonian
revolutionary committee has collected
1,000 volunteers, under the command of
Bulgarian regular officers and will raid
Roumanian territory. Three Roumanian
army corps are mobilizing. King
Charles, s reaking to his officers Sates
said: sentlemen, be ready for war; it
can happen at any moment: You will
prove yourselves worthy successors of
the heroes of 1877.” Addressing che
minister of foreign affairs, M. Lahovary,
he said: “Thus dc the angrateful Bul-
garians repay all the blood we shed for
them in 1877. The Roumanian minister
at Sofia vill be immediately recalled.”
PROSPERITY IN KLONDIKE.
Lafest Reports State That Dawson is Enjoy-
ing a Healthy Boom.
“Dawson appears to be starting on a
new era of prosperity,” says United
States Consul McCook in a report.
“Supplies are plentiful and mining ma-
chinery in large quantities is coming
into the city. Warehouses and wharves
are being built, a new steamship com-
pany has started to do business, a new
postoffice is in course of erection, and
estimates are now in for a new court
house, a new gold commissioner’s office
and an executive building for the com-
missioner of the Yukon territory. The
prices on vegetables and meats have
taken a drop from exorbitant to almost
normal, although this has not affected
the prices in the restaurants. he Ta-
nana mining district is becoming more
and more prominent. The country is
rich, but difficult of access. Mosquitoes
are very numerous and savage on the
trail, and some persons returning from
this district to Dawson City were so
badly bitten that the medical authorities
there mistook the bites for the marks of
the dreaded smallpox and detained
them.”
THIRTY -EIGHT DROWNED.
Storm on Alaskan Coast Does Enormous
Damage at Cape Nome.
Telegrams from Seattle, Wash., say:
Heavy loss of life and destruction of
property were caused by a storm at
Cape Nome. Twenty dead bodies were
washed ashore and taken to the morgue
for identification. Five dead bodies were
washed ashore at Topkuk, three miles
north of Nome, the mouth of Nome
river, and eight in front of Nome Camp,
three 12 miles below Bluff City, and two
below Topkuk.
Guy W. Stockstager,
directing a government relief expedi-
tion, has returned from York and re-
ports the natives dying by wholesale,
dozens of dead bodies lying around un-
buried. At Teller City, the sick nativ es
killed the medicine men of the tribe in
the vain hope that the act would ap-
pease the evil spirit. Thirteen deaths
were reported at Teller City in one day.
who has been
Famine Grows Worse.
The Committee of One Hundred on
India Famine Relief at New York, has
received a cable from William T. Fes,
United States Consul at Bombay, Chair-
man of the Americo-Indian Relief Com-
mittee, which reads:
“Famine distress appalling. Thousands
will die of starvation unless rescued.
Money is needed to buy both food and
blankets. The suffering from lack o
clothing is terrible. Cholera still active.
"he condition of destitute women and
deserted children specially pitiable.
Many boys and girls are in heartrend-
ing need.”
Pope Leo Concerned.
The pope has addressed a letter to the
cardinal-vicar in which he sets forth the
danger of the free propaganda of Pro:-
estantism in Italy, especially in Rome.
He observes that this propaganda is
permissible bv law, but goes on to show
how painful to him is the situation re
sulting from it, since he cannot oppose
the propaganda.
Leo recommends that the cardinal-
vicar strengthen the work of preserving
the faith, and he exhorts Catholics to
unite in an effort to minimize as far zs
possible the damage caused by secta-
rian propaganda.
Ohioans Admonished.
At a public meeting of Sherman, Tex.,
citizens, presided over by Judge R. R.
Hazelwood, resolutions were passed pro-
testing “against uncivilized conduct on
the part of citizens of our sister state of
Ohio,” and admonishing them “of the
pernicious example thus displayed mn
setting the laws of the land at defiance
in this age of civilization and land of
Christianity.”
Prof. Todd Retires.
Having reached the age limit, Prof.
HT. Todd. U. S. N. director of the
Nautical Almanac, retired from ac-
tive scientific work at the head of the
Naval Observatory, one of the most jm-
portant scientific posts under the gov-
ernment. The directorship of the Nau-
tical Almanac was assumed by Prof. S.
J. Brown, the astronomical director of
the observatory.
Will Kaiser Pay Ransoms?
The German papers are asking if
Emperor William intends, under the
circumstances, to keep his promise,
made several weeks ago, of paying 1,000
taels ransom money for each European
pet in Pekin. If so, the relief of
Pekin will cost the Kaiser over $1,000,-
QQ.
SIX ARE KILLED.
Night of Terror in Akron, Ohio—Terrible Car=
nage Results From Fruitless Effort
at Lynching a Negro.
At Akron O., the heart of the boasted
Western Reserve, a mob Wednesday
night sought the life of a negro prisoner
and in a conflict with the authorities
shed blood. Louis Peck, a colo
was put in jail on the charge of assa
ing the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Maas. 1e report that he
had confessed spread rapidly and in the
evening a mob gathered.
Not believing the statement of the
sheriff that Peck had been sent out of
the city, the crowd sent committees
through the city prison and the county
jail in search. This proving fruitless,
the mob gathered in front of the city
prison, where the m: yor tried to induce
them to disperse. Some one fired a
shot at the prison. Other shots followed
and for a few minutes there were terri-
ble scenes. Six persons are dead from
bullets and the number wounded may
reach 100.
At midnight mob rule reigned. Fires
have been started, the city prison is in
flames and the police department has
been penned up by the rioters and are
powerless. Hardware stores have been
looted for arms and ammunition, and
dynamite has been used by the mad-
dened crowds.
At 3:45 o'clock Thursday morning
appeals had been sent to Governor
Nash and to the police department of
Cleveland. Troops have been ordered
to hold themselves in readiness to
hasten to the scene of wild disorder.
Soldiers loaded down with ball
cartridges are camped on the corners
of the streets of Akron ready for any
emergency. A battalion of them lie on
their arms at the court house waiting,
as if in leash, for the long roll that will
summon them to quell riot. The police
force of the city, supplemented with 4o
special officers, is patrolling the streets
seeing that people do not cong foie in
groups that might menace the peace. As
darkness fell a dismal drizzle be on that
was more effective than the soldiers and
e police in keeping the streets clear.
HARMONY WITH SPAIN.
A New Trealy Re-Establishes the Relations
That Were Severed hy the Recent
War With United States.
Minister Storer, at Madrid, informs
the state department that a treaty of am-
ity, commerce and navigation and gen-
eral intercourse, has been signed pro-
visionally by the minister of Sais and
himself. This practically marks the last
step in the restoration of relations be-
tween Spain and the United .
he new treaty modernizes the rela-
tions between the two nations. Prior
to the declaration of war with Spe in, the
two governments were proceeding un-
der a treaty negotiated in the last cen-
tury. It was very cumbersome, one
provision relating to trade between the
United States and Florida as a colony
of Spain. Several efforts were made to
remedy the defects, but only one was
practically successful, the adoption of
the Cushing protocol. The last attempt
was made when Mr. Olney was secre-
-d relations
tary of state, but the stra
growing out of Cuban affairs caused
the effort to fail. Minister Storer ne-
gotiated with Deputy de Lome, former
Spanish minister to the United States,
and now under secretary of state, who
is thoroughly conversant with all the
conditions of trade likely to arise. The
instrument provides the usual facilities
for intercommunication, and probably
contains provisions which carry out
those relations growing out of the terri-
torial changes resulting from the war.
KILLED THREE PEOPLE.
A Missouri Doctor’s Last Day on Earth One
of Fearful Revenge.
Dr. Arrington, in Platte
near East Leavenworth, Monday shot
and killed James Wallace, a wealthy
farmer, in a quarrel over a line fence.
Arrington then went to the home of his
mother-in-law, the widow of William
Wallace, and shot her to death.
Arrington escaped in a wagon with
his young daughter, but was pursued by
Sheriff Dillingham and a posse he
murderer opened fire, fatally wounding
Sheriff Dillingham. As the sheriff fell
he shot Arrington through the heart.
Wallace and Arrington, who were
neighbors, had been enemies for some
time. Arrington arove Lis wife away
from their home Saturday night by
threatening to kiii her. She slept in a
cornfield and is still hiding.
CABLE FLASHES.
county, Mo.,
Eleven persons were killed and 23
injured by the derailment of a mail
train at Baripada, India.
The Moorish government has again
appealed to the powers for protection
against French aggression.
At Cawnpore twenty natives have
been sentenced to death for participa-
tion in recent plague riots.
Count von Goetzen has been pro-
moted to the rank of captain of the gen-
eral staff of the German army.
In Melbourne, Australia, fifteen thou-
sand women have signed a petition
against the female suffrage bill.
A collision occurred on the Caledo-
nian Underground Railway at Glasgow,
and 24 persons were seriously injured.
A magnificent statue of Apollo has
been found near Athens and it is be-
lieved to be work of the filth century
C.
ve
=
Prince Maximilian of Saxony has ac-
cepted the professorship of canonical
law at the University of Freyburg,
Switzerland.
The Mansion ho war fund Tues-
day passed the million-pound mark,
1 ng it the volunteer fund
ever raised in
Prof. Friedrich Wiihelm Nietzche, the
philosopher, died at Weimar Saturday of
apoplexy. Ie was born in 1844. He be-
came hopelessly insane in 1889.
Bresci, the assassin of King Hum-
bert, has asked for a postponement of
his trial at Rome until witnesses can
arrive from the United States.
A fatal landslide occurred at Cardez-
za. in the Italian Alps. Twenty houses
were destroyed and a number of persons
killed. Seven bodies have been recov-
ered.
At Berlin orders have been given to
increase the secret police in attendance
upon Emperor William during the Stet-
tin maneuvers from September 7 to Sep-
tember 13.
Thirty thousand coal miners at Car-
diff, Wales, have sir 1 the
manager of the Toff Tc
fused to meet the representative of a
labor union.
The sultan of Turkey has ordered a
sons to investigate the recent mas
sac of 200 Arme in the Sassun
at of Asiatic 1 vy, and has re-
lievd Ali Pasha of the command of Bit-
lis.
Advices from Colon, Colombia, re
port fighting near Carthagena, where
the rebels een holding out in the
\ g some voic 1 the gov-
ernment irom the new Conservative
party.
One of the buoys apparently thrown
out by Andree, the explorer, on his fatal
balloon expedition to the north pole,
was found July 27 off Grinjavik, Ice-
and sent to Stockholm for investi-
land,
gation.
The work of opening the tombs of the
ancient German emperors buried in the
Cathedral of Spires at Berlin is pro-
gressing. The first discovery made was
of the sarcop
11., surnamed
of Franconia, who died in 1030.
0 THARGES SIN SUNDRY SERMON
AN ELOQUENRT UENT DISCOURSE.
Subject: Children of a King—The Roval
House of Jesus, and the Sun, the
Moon, the Stars and All Nature Are
Tts Heritage — Cross Its Heraldic Sign.
[Copyright 1800.1
WasuINGgTON, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage who, during his journey
homeward has seen much of royal and im-
perial splendors, in passing through the
capitals of Europe, shows that there is no
higher dignity nor more illustrious station
than those wkich the Christian has as a
child of God; text, Judges viii, 18: “Each
one resembeld the children of a king.”
Zebah and Zalmunna had been off to
battle, and when they came back they
were asked what kind of people thev had
seen. The answ ered that the people had
a royal appearance; ‘each one resembled
the children of a king.” That description
of people is not extinct. There are still
many who have this avbpearance. Indeed,
they are the sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty. Though now in exile,
they shall yet come to their thrones.
There are family names that stand for
wealth, or patriotism, or intelligence. The
name of Wo ashington among us will al-
wavs reoresent patriotism. The family
of the Medici stood as the representative
of letters. The family of the Rothschilds
is significant of wealth, the loss of $40,-
000,000 in 1848 putting them to no incon-
enience, and within a few vears they
loaned Russia $12,000,000; Naples,
100.000; Austria, $40,000,000, and Eng:
land, $200,000,000, and the stroke of their
pen on the counting room desk shakes
everything from the Jrish Sea to the Dan-
ube. ‘They open their hand, and there is
war; they shut it and there is peace.
The Romanoffs of Russia, the Hohenzol-
lerns of Germany, the Bourbons of
France, the Stuarts and Guelphs of Great
Britain ave houses whose names are inter-
twined with the history of their respective
nations symbolic of imperial authority.
But I preach of a family more potential
more rich and more extensive—the royal
house of Jesus, of whom the whole family
in heaven and on earth is named. Je are
blood relations by the relationship of the
cross; all of us are the children of the
King.
First, I speak of our family name. When
we see a descendant of some one greatly
celebrated in the last century, we look at
him with profound inter To have had
conquerors, kings or princes in the ances-
tral line giv ustre to the family name.
In our line was a King and Conqueror.
The Star in the East with baton of light
woke up the eternal orchestra that made
music at His birth. From thence He
started forth to conquer all nations, not
by trampling them down, but by lifting
them up. St. John saw Him on a white
horse. When He returns He will not
bring the nations chained to His wheel or
in iron cages, but I hear the stroke of the
hoofs of the snow-white cavalcade that
brings them to the gates in triumph.
Our family name takes lustre from the
star that heralded Him, and the spear that
D reed Him, and the crown that was
Him. It gathers fragrance from the
eat se brought to His cradle, anc
the lilies that flung their swee tness into
His sermons, and the box of alabaster that
broke His feet. The Comforter at
Bethany. The Resurrector at Nain. The
supernatural Oculist at Bethsaida. The
Saviour of one world, and the chief joy of
another. The storm His frown. The sun-
light His smile. The spring morning His
breath. The earthquake the stamp of His
oot. The thunder the whisper of Hi
voice. The ocean a drop on the tip of His
finger. Heaven a sparkle on the bosom
of His love. Eternity the twinkling of
His eye. The universe the flying dust of
His chariot wheels. Able to heal a heart-
break or hush a tempest, or drown a
world, or flood immensity with His glory.
What other family name could ever boast
of such an illustrious personage?
Henceforth, swing out the coat of arms!
Great families wear their coat of arms on
the dress, or on the door of the coach, or
on the helmet when they go out to battle,
or on flags and ensigns. The heraldic
sign is sometimes a lion, or a dragon, or
an eagle. Our coat of arms worn right
over the heart hereafter shall be a cross,
a lamb standing under it, and a
dove flying over it. Grandest of all es
cutcheons! Most significant of all family
escutcheons! In every battle I must have
it blazing on my flag—the dove, the cr SS,
the lamb, and when I fall, wrap me in
that good old Christian flag, so that the
family coat of arms shall be right over
my breast, that all the world may see that
looked to the Dove of the Spirit and
clung to the Cross, and uy upon
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of the worl
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend,
On whom my hopes of life depend;
No! When I blush, be this my shame—
That I no more revere His name.
Next, I speak of the family sorrows. If
trouble come to one member of the family
all feel it. It is the custom, after the
body is lowered into the grave, for all the
relatives to come to the verge of the grave
and look down into it. First those near-
est the departed come, then those next of
kin, until they have ‘all looked into the
grave. So, when trouble and grief go
down through the heart of one member
of the family, they go down through
them all. The sadness of one is the sad-
ness ot a A company of persons join
hands around an electric battery; the
two persons at the ends of the line touch
the battery and all the circle feels the
shock. Thus, by reason of the filial, ma-
ternal and paternal relations of lifé, we
stand so close together that when trouble
sets its battery, all feel the thrill of dis-
tress. In the great Christian family the
sorrow of one ought to be the sorrow of
all. Is one persecuted? All are perse-
cuted. Does one suffer loss? We af suf-
fer loss. Is one bereaved? We are all be-
reave
Their streaming eyes together flow
Tor human guilt and mortal woe.
If you rejoice at another’s misfortune,
you are not one of the sheep, but one of
the goats, and the vulture of sin hath
alighted on your soul, and not the Dove
of the Spirit.
Next, I notice the family property. Af-
ter a man of large estate dies the Jelativ es
assemble to hear the will read. So much
of the property is willed to his sons, and
so much to his daughters, and so much to
benevolent societi Our Lord Jesus hath
died, and we are a sembled to-day to hear
the will read. He says, “My peace I give
unto you.” Through His apostle He say.
‘All things are yours.” What, everythin
“es, everything! This world and ni?
next! In distinguished families there are
old plopures hanging on the wall. They
are called the “heirlooms” of the estate.
fhey are very old, and have come down
from generation to generation. So I look
upon all the beauties of the natural world
1s the heirlooms of our royal family. The
morning breaks from the east. The mists
travel up, hull above hill, mountain above
mountain, until sky lost. The forests are
full of chirp, and buzz, and song. Tree’s
1 f and bird’s wing flutter with gladness.
Honeymakers in the log, and beak against
the bark, and squirrels chattering on the
rail, and the call of tke hawk out of a
clear sky make you feel glad.
The sun, which kindles conflagrations
among the castles of cloud and sets mina-
ret and dome aflame, stoops to paint the
lily white, and the buttercup yveilow, and
the forgetmenot blue. What can resist
the sun? Light for the voyager over the
deep! Light for the shepherd guarding
the flocks afield! Light for the poor who
have no lamps to Lurn! Light for the
downeast and the lowlv! Light for ach-
ing eyes and burning brain and wasted
captive! Light for the smooth brow of
childhood and for the dim vision of the
octogenarian! Light for queen’s coronet
and for sewing girl’s needle! Tet there be
light! Whose morning is this? My morn-
ing. Your morning. Our Father gave us
the picture and hung it on the sky in loops
of fire. It is the heirloom of our family.
And so the night. It is the full moon.
The mists from shore to shore gleam like
shattered mirrors, and the ocean under
her glance comes up with great tides,
panting upon the beach, mingling, as it
were, foam and fire. The poor man
blesses God for throwing such a cheap
licht through the broken window pane
into his cabin, and to the sick it seems a
light from the other shore which bounds
this great deep of human pain and woe.
Tf the sun seem like a song full and noured
from brazen instruments that fill heaven
and earth with great harmonies, the moon
is plaintive and mild, standing beneath
i throne of God, sending up her soft,
sweet voice of praise, while the stars listen
and the sea. No mother ever more sweet-
Iv guarded thesick eradle thanall night long
this pale watcher of the sky bends over the
weary, heartsick, slumbering earth. Whose
is this black framed. black tasseled pic-
ture of the nicht? Tt is the heirloom of
our family. Ours the grandeur of the
suring, the erystals of the snow, the coral
of the beach. the odors of the garden, the
harmonies of the air.
Jou cannot see a large estate
morning. You must take several walks
around it. The family property of this
in one
royal house of Jesus is so great that we
must tuke several waiks to get anv ided
$ be
of its extent. Let the first walk
around this earth. All these valleys, the
harvests that 1-ave in them. and the cat-
tle that pasture them—a!l these mount-
ains. and the nrecions things hidden be-
neath them, and the crown of lacier they
at the feet of the alpine hurricane—
all these lakes, these islands. these conti-
nents, are ours. In the second walk go
among the street lamps of heaven. and
see stretching off on everv side a wilder-
ness of worlds. For ns 1 he shine.
us they sane at a Saviour’s nativity.
us they will wheel intn line. and with
their flaming torches add to the splendor
of our triumph on the dav for which all
sther days were made. Tn the third walk,
go around the eternal city. As we come
near it, hark to the rush of its chariots
and the wedding peal of its great towers.
1 press with blistered feet over the desert
way. My eyes fail for their weeping. I
faint from listening for feet that will not
come, and the sound of voices that will
not speak. Speed on, oh day of reunion!
And then, Lord Jesus, be not angry with
me if after I have kissed Thy blessed feet,
I turn around to gather up the long lost
treasures of my heart. Oh! be not angry
with me. One look at Thee were heaven.
But all these reunions are heaven encir-
cling heaven, heaven overtopping heaven,
heaven commingling with heaven!”
I was at Mount Vernon, and went into
the dining room in which our first Presi-
dent entertained the prominent men of
this and other lands. It was a very inter-
esting spot. But, oh, the banueting hall of
the family mansion of which I speak!
Spread the table, spread it wide; for a
great multitude are to sit at it. From
the tree by the river gather the twelve
manner of fruits for that table. Take the
clusters from the heavenly vineyards, and
press them into the golden tankards fof
that table. On baskets carry in the bread
of which, if a man eat, he shall never hun-
er. Take all the shot-torn flags of earth-
y conquest and entwine them : among the
arches. Let David come with his harp,
and Gabriel with his trumpet, and Miriam
with the timbrel, for the prodigals are at
home, and the captives are free, apd the
Father hath invited the mighty of heaven
and the redeemed of earth to come and
dine!
You ransacked the barn.
the brook. Y.
Yor waded into
ou thr i ihe orchard for
apples. and the neighboring woods for
nuts, and evervthing around * the old
homestead is of interest to you. I tell you
of the old homestead of eternity. n
Mv Father’s house are many mansions.”
When we talk of mansions we think of
Chatsworth and its park, nine miles in
circumference, and its conservatory that
astonishes -the world: its galleries of art,
that contain the trinmphs of Chantrey,
Canova and Thorwaldsen: of the kings
and the queens who have walked its state:
ly halls, or, flying over the heather, have
hunted the grouse. But all the dwelling
places of dukes and princes and queens ore
as nothing to the family mansion that if
already awaiting our arrival. The hand
of the Lord Jesus lifted the pillars and
swung the doors, ani planted the parks:
Angels walk there,
The
and the good of all
poorest man in that house is a
Hi
the tamest word he speaks
and the shortest life an eternity.
It took a Paxton to build for Cats
worth a covering for the wonderful flower
Victoria regia, five feet in diameter. Bul
our lily of the valley shall need no shelter
from the blast, and in the onen gardens of
Yod shall put forth its full bloom, and all
heaven shall come to look at it, and itd
aroma shall be as thouzh the cherubim
had swung before the throne a thousand
censors. I have not seen it yet. I am in
a foreign land. But my Father is waiting
for me to come home. I have brother
and sisters there. In the Bible I have let
ters from there, telling me what a fing
lace it is. It matters not much to még
whether I am rich or poor, or whether thg
world hates me or loves me, or whether 1
go by land or by sea, if only I may lift
my eyes at last on the family mansion,
is not a frail house, built in a month, soon
to crumble, but an old mansion, which ig
as firm as the day it was built. Its wall§
are covered with the ivy of many ages]
and the urns at the gateway are a-bloom
with the century plants of eternity. Thé
Queen of Sheba hath walked its hall,
Esther, and Marie Antoinette and Lady
Huntingdon and Cecil, and Jeremy Taylor;
and Samuel Rutherford and John Milton
and the widow who gave two mites, and
the poor men from the hospital—thesa
last {wo perhaps outshining all the kings
and queens of eternity. i
What clasping of hands! What embrace
ings! What coming together of lip 2 li
What tears of joy! You say, “I tho ip
there were no tears in heaven.” The
must be, for the Bible says that “God
shall wipe them away,” and if there werd
no tears there, how could He w ipe them
away? They cannot be tears of grief or
tears of disappointment. They must be
tears of gladness. Christ will come and
say: “What! Child of heaven, is it too
much for thee? Dost thou break
under the gladness of this reunion?
I will help thee.” And, with His one arm
around us and the other arm around our
loved ones, He shall hold us up in the
eternal jubilee.
While I speak some of vou with broken
hearts can hardly hold your peace. You
feel as if you would speak out and say:
“Oh, blessed day! speed on. Toward thee
The bell of heaven has struck 12. It {is
hich noon. We look off upon the chap-
lets which never fade. the eyes that never
weep. the temples that mever close, the
loved ones that never part, the procession
that never halts, the trees that never
wither, the walls that never can be ca
tured, the sun {hat never sets, until we
2an no longer raze, and we hide our eyes
and exclaim: “Ilye hath not seen. nor ear
heard. neither have entered into the heart
of man. the things which God hath pre-
pared for them that love Him!” As these
tides of glory rise we have to retreat and
hold fast lest we be swept off and drowned
in the emotions of gladness and thanksgiv-
ing and triumph.
Almost every family looks back to a
homestead — some country place where
vou grew up. You sat on the doorsill.
You heard the footsteps of the rain on
the garret roof. You swung on the gate.
Your Own Foundation.
It is told of a great English preacher
that when he was once approached with
propositions from two fields of pastoral
service, he declined one and accepted the
other, saying: “If go to one I shall
be somek gdy’s successor; but if 1 go to
the ote Wy hall be somebody's predeces-
sor. tpripys only repeating in sub-
stance thes, oy ciple of Paul, who longed
to build upon own foundations. And
the ambition is’ a noble one. The mod-
ern church is #ull of first-rate imitators.
They are willing to be set to work, and
they will do what they are told to do
with a commendable show of fidelity.
But something more is needed in the ac-
tivites of the church. If we were to
point out one of the gravest faults in the
whole matter of religious training of the
young it would be just here. They are
not trained to independent religious ac-
tion, and to the eager readiness to begin
and carry out definite lines of necess
Christian service in the church. Every
member of a church has some piece of
work to do which can be planned and
executed by him alone. Find and do
this thing. Be somebody's predecessor.
Every description of Christianity falls
short of the mark, because it is an ac-
count of personal relationship which ean-
not be put into words. It can only be
understood as it is experienced. Is it
not our best wisdom to rely too much on
our theories or exply wtions, but simply
to seek to present Christ to men, so that
they may be led to come to Him? Per-
sonal relationship to Him is the only
interpretation of Christianity that any
of us can really understand, All else is
about it; hut personal relationship to
Him is Christian life and experience.
Now when all nature is bursting into
bloom the child of (God is called to be-
hold and rejoice in the wonderful works
of God. Itis a good thing at this season
to lay aside your cares and perplexities
every day long enough to contemplate
the miracle of the resurrection of the
earth from the sleep of the winter. It
impresses lessons on the beauty of the
creation, of the power of life, and of
faith in the divine resources.
Blest Saviour, on my mind impress
The image of Thy mind,
To bear my brother's waywardness,
Long suffer and be kind.
¥ t when I think what patient care
‘My Lord extends to me,
Shall I not with my brother bear,
And that right lovingly ?
—J. A. Latrobe.
It is your duty not only to be gaod, but
to shine: ard of all the light which you
kindle on the face, joy will reach fur-
thest out to sea where troubled mariners
are seeking the shore.—H. W. Beecher.
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