INGE CHING BS THE REGEN
continues to imp
STRONGLY PRO-FOREIGN.
It is Said He Would Return to Pekin if His
Safety Was Assured by Foreign
Ministers.
It is rumored at Shanghai that the
Japanese gained a great victory over the
Boxers and Chinese troops from Pei
Tsang and Ho Si Wu last Thursday at
Teh Chou. The story says that 1,500
Chinese were killed, including Prince
Tuan, and that all the Chinese were
driven back into Chi Li.
‘he Reform party, under Kang Yu
Wet, is said to be actively preparing for
rebellion. It is reported from Hankow
that 25 reformers have been executed,
their hearts being exposed. I
The Taku correspondent says that the
country around 1 and Pekin is ge- |
vastated, with the result that the Bo
ers are most unpop
3 Bos. |
g north from Shan |
returning hastily to |
attacked by the
ers, who were mo
Tung, are now
their ning
, Governor of the provir
Si, is reported to have invited the
eigners in the province to come to
pe
e of Shan |
He
protection. Fifty accepted the invita
tion, and all were massacred.
Fie powers have agreed
sition to withdraw
Pp a and two have announced «
tion to its adoption. Four pow
POSI-
he
finally declared that Li-Hung
acceptable to them as peace envoy for
China, two questicns not only Li-Hung
Chang’s credentials, but the power of
the Imperial Government to approve
his acts, and one wishes to know more
about the credentials he holds before it
is willing to treat thro him.
This sums up the s n. It could
hardly be more satisfactc viewad
from the American standpoint. An ac-
tive interchange of views took place
Thursday between the capit Eu
rope and Japan 1 Washi and
as a result it is likely that pre will
be applied to the two powers anxious
to remain in Pekin to induce them to
withdraw simultaneously with the evac-
uation by the other : S.
‘he powers who object to the Russian
proposition are Germany and Ttaly.
Those favoring it are the United States,
Great Britain, en an and Rus-
sia. The powers wh stion Li-
Hung-Chang’s credentials and the abil-
ity of the Imperial Government to en-
force the terms he mz nake are Ger-
many and Italy, whi 3 ce would
like to know more about the credentials
ions be ain. | g
n the Russian minister |
an unconfirmed |
or
1
at Pe 5d say: There
rumor that Prince ( g has been ap-
pointed regent, but afraid to return
to Pekin unless the fc n envoys will
guarantee his liberty. Ten dignitaries
remaining in Pekin have consequently,
C
situa-
return
resolved to petition the diplomats, in t
interest of an amelioration of the
tion, invite Prince Ching to
to Pekin and to give explanations.
It has been learned that the em press
Is going from Tyan-Fu, in the province
of Shan-Si, to which place she had fled
after her escape from Pekin, to Hsinan
Fu. Tyan-Fu i farther west than
Hsinan-Fu, indicating that she is mov-
ing still further away from the Chinese
capital.
It is stated that Prince Tuan’s
Tsut Sing, will be declared emperor un-
der the protection « Russia.
to
is
son,
BRITISH PRISONERS FREED.
The Boers Release Their Captives—Kruger |
Nearing Portuguese Territory.
The British prisoners at Noortge
dacht have been released by the Boers
and are marching to join Lord Roberts’
forces at Watervalhoven, near Machado-
dorp. President Kruger and his chief
officials are at Nelspruit, about 60 miles
from the Portuguese border and on the
railroad between Pretoria and Delagoa
ay.
that
cvening
cyclone
A visited Mafeking
Thursday
did more damage
than the seven months’ bombardment.
It blew down or unroofed nume
buildings and leveled the hospital, c
ing much suffering among the sick a
wounded. One person was killed and
two were injured. ly
General Buller's column arrived |
at Helvetia, where Gen. French and
General Pole-Carew are also encamped.
Both Waterfallboven and Watervalon-
der were found deserted, the Boers hav-
ing retreated with their guns in the di-
rection of Barberton. Commandant
General Botha has ordered burghers to
return their Mausers to the government
military commission until the latter is
able to issue: ammunition.
BATTLE WITH CANADIANS.
{ed his
| his
LATEST NEWS NOTES,
i>
The health of Secretary of State Hay
A new
DO,
am
stabbed
ef.
was
poc
Joseph Johns
electric
will be
3ryant, of
Sunday
"vler county,
Saturday.
Maj.
ington, Pa.,
tonviction.
a resu
nd
Twelve
8 0
Thursday,
100,000 1n
Haz lett,
bui
W. Va,
far
plant, to cost
Vindber, Pa.
5 Pa,
pick-
a female
mer of Inka,
hanged himself
the ex-banker of Wash
is prostrated by his second
1
it
now
ansvaal war.
men were
~d with being
e riot there.
mer Topeka,
brought
of the w
experts
arr
1
150
Id dust.
It is reported that the
an
S successes,
early end to
ested at Akron,
mplicated in the
Alaska,
and
from
passengers
ar has order-
1 roops minister at Pekin to
eave at once for Tien Tsin.
General Uribe, chief of the insurgent
forces in Colom! has surrendered to
at Churchuri.
Internal
$29,421
Two CS
warden's
Jackson,
; at
The
proved the
revenue
301, an incr
er the same month last
pe
Cheneyvill
confessed
Ww
Nicaraguan
aped convicts
1d a Oi aes in
posse
at Whit
e; La, T
the mur
lynche
plant of the Sheiby
rood Ci
ted after being idle for sever
receipts
Congress
commercial reciprocity tre
for July
of $1,400,-
AT.
were killed
a fight with a
le, Tenn.
homas J. Amos,
ler of Elamson
d by a mob.
Steel Tube
P: to be
al years.
has ap-
ease
esi
ty,
ty between Nicaragua and the United
States.
The estate of Collis P. Huntington,
who died ty at his summer home
in the Adirondacks, is valued at $69,-
650.000.
The Youngstown, O., Gas and Elec-
tric
New
£500,000.
Light Company has been sold to
York and Chicago capitalists for
A tornado which passed over the vil-
o
1d his
s wife.
two
of Wapella,
Man,
children
and badly
killed a farmer
hurt
In both houses of the Kentucky Leg-
islature many biils have been introduced
both to kill
or
tion law,
The Fairbanks Sc
ing and Kiefer Bros.
amend the Goebel elec-
ale £ompany build-
factory in New
Orleans were burned out, causing a loss
of $300,000.
The
000 in gold.
The
warpath
the
nu
in
yamas.
At T
Jowlin
cating toadstools for
and John
die.
Thomas
iged 22,
probably
1
preacher,
persons,
in the
General
accept
the
to tl
A
Yaqui river,
1
1¢
steamer Moana,
which sailed from Sydney, N. S. V
Francisco,
has on
lexico, ar
within
Green,
mt
Hart
nurde
er «
was hanged at Raleigh,
county
jail.
nominati
0.
Jone S, a
er ey
for
i
Captain
board
Yaqui Indians, who are on the
re reported
a few miles of
, as a result of
Flora,
will
1shrooms
er, aged 14,
f a family of six
NC,
Maximo Gomez has declined
on offered him
by the National party to the constitu-
tional convention.
Agents representing one-third of the |
Fall River,
M:
mills
ass.,
have signed an
agreement for 11 1-9 per cent reduction
in wages on September 17.
Lymz 4 Hi
I
of klin,
tn by Harry Ross,
on |
THRTY KILLED AND MANY HURT.
RAILROAD HORROR.
An Atlantic City Special Dashes Into a Wild
Train—Scenes of Horror in the
Eight Wrecked Cars.
Thirteen persons killed and over 50
others injured is the appalling record
of a rear end collision between an ex-
cursion train milk train on the
Bethlehem branch the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad Sunday morning at
Hatfield, Pa., Phila-
delpl
The wrecked train consisted of 10 day
coaches and was the first section of a
large excursion made up of people from
Bethichem, Allentown and surrounding
towns to Atlantic City. This section
Union depot in Bethlehem at
m., exactly 35 minutes behind
k train.
/ the milk train drew up at the
milk platform af Hatfield, and in less
than two minutes the special excursion
and a
of
of
27 miles north
ieft the
6:05 a.
train, running at the rate of 33 miles an
hour, crashed into the rear of the milk
train. The locomotive ploughed through
the two passenger coq ches and crushed
them as if they were egg shells.
The excursion train was a picture of
indescribable horror. The locomotive
1s a mass of bent and broken iron and
mly held the bodics of its engineer
and fireman beneath its great weight.
Jehind the engine six of the ten cars
were also a mass of wreckage. The first
car was broken in twain, and the other
five cars were thrown on their sides,
completely demolished.
Nine persons were killed in the first
two cars and the others in the coaches
were badly maimed. As soon as the
crash came a terrible cry arose from the
smashed cars. Those who had not been
injured crawled or jumped from the cars
and went to the assistance of the injur-
ed. Many were pinned down by wreck-
age and had to be freed by the liberal
use of ax :
With three or four exceptions the
dead were killed instantly, the others
dying on their way to the hospitals. All
the injured were first taken to a shed at
the Hatfield station. The dead were
removed to a barn. Messengers were
nt to the ne st villag for physi-
ins, and a relief train was telegraphed
for from Bethlehem.
The coroner of Montgomery county
visited the wreck early and spent the
entire day at the scene. He at once di-
rected the removal of the dead to Lans-
dale, a short distance south of Hatfield.
He promises a rigorous investigation
into the horror.
RESCUE FOR STARVING MINERS.
| The Government Will Send a Transport fo
Cape Nome.
At the Cabinet meeting Friday it
was decided that the War Department
should send a transport to Cape Nome to
bring back such of the miners who are
penniless and liable to endanger the
public welfare there this winter by rea-
son of their destitute condition. Provi-
sions and clothing will be sent to the
Indians, who are said to be: destitute.
The transportation companies, it is
claimed, refuse to aid the unfortunates
at Cape Nome. The transport in order
to effect relief, must go at once. Gen-
eral Randle estimates that there are
1,000 persons at Cape Nome in danger
of starvation.
tchcock, ex-chief of police Information received from several of-
Pa., had an eye cut out|ficial and unofficial sources shows that
aged 16 years, | the Alaskan Indians along the coast
who struck him with a hoe.
At St,
Joseph,
Mich..
over $5,000 in
cash, stamps and postal cards was stolen
from
the
cracksmen.
Pe
stoffice
by professional
There is no clew.
Negroes claiming to have been in-
jured in the
have filed
the city
Postmaste
dered that
recent riots in
claims damages
amounting
r
all
for
to
General
messages
employes not of interest to the depart-
New
against
$260,000.
Smith has or-
by postoffice
ment be guaranteed with a deposit.
Col.
er of
1
skirts
of
Thomas J. Powers,
Banking
killed by falling from a train in the out-
Philadelphia
Pe
in
Commission-
nnsylvania,
Thursday night.
The woolen mill of McElhoes > Find-
ley, near
Indiana,
fire Saturday.
000, on which there is $7,000 insurance.
Secretary of State John Hay,
improving in health, recently overtaxed
and has suffered a
which has gr
strength
relapse,
friends.
At Belvider
Pa,
The
. N. 1,
was des 3
loss will reach $16,-
atly
who was
severe
alarmed his
Father Dynin has
had 50 of his ‘paris shioners arrested for
tearing
church,
place.
American Traders in Province on Mackenzie
Had a Bloody Encounter.
Telegrams from Winnipeg, Man., teil
of serious troubles in the Great Slave
Lake district, between American and
Canadian traders. Fifteen Americans, it
was charged, smuggled large quantities
of supplies in and were thus enabled to
undersell the Canadians. They also fur-
nished whisky to the Indians. |
Edmonton . traders, angry at losing |
their trade, sent a committee to notify
the Americans to retire. The latter de- |
clined and shooting followed. August |
Briese, of Seattle, was fatally wounds ed |
and several of his companions were
hurt. |
tcans. Finally the latter fled to the tim
ber. Mounted police have been sent to |
the |
scene.
Volunteers to be Recalled.
The war department is prep
bring home the
aring
21,000 volunteers from |
the Philippines whose terms of service |
will expire baween next November and
June, 1001. The homeward movement
will begin about the middle of Novem-
ber.
No orders have yet been iss
subject, but it will take practically all of |
the transport service at the command of
the department to omplish the re-
turn of the volunteer It is the inten
tion of the department to return the or-
ganizations in the same relative order as
they w the island, thu
equaliz y as possible
terms service |
A Union Pacific
held up by
passen
four men 60 n
Rawlins, Utah, at y o'clock Thurs- |
day night. The Pac express car was |
totally wrecked by 'namite. The |
company offic s is only |
$154, but they hay re
$1,000 each for the ro bbers.
An unconfirmed report
Denver that the Wyoming
1» reward of |
j over
The Indians joined in with the Ames- Br
{
10:1”
ted on the |
dow
which they erected at another
n
and carr
ying away his
In August the excess of expenditures
can coin.
Patrick Lally and
employed at the mine at Chiefton,
fell asleep on the
| nongalia,
train and
of the 1
ward the
ns
1s me
YW11
county
never
conve ns.
President
United M
thinks th
Pennsyl
Phill
he anthracite region of Penn-
¢ having great weight,
ers being only lukewarm to-
movement.
receipts by the Government
$s 143, due to the cost of the census
king and the redemption
P
railroa
killed.
30,000,000
Ie
eff
ips’
any other th
len,
Thornhill,
nong the t
was
of Puerto
atrick Hughey,
Md,
1d track at Mo-
W. Va., and.were run over by
rts to avert a}
many
1e mining properties of the General |
ociation of London have
to Nova Scotia Steel
Tr 00,000, the coal areas
1 extent.
ting from the storm of
ght in Manitoba, will run up |
White Wood,
Wis
Yambe rmen
P:
Penfield,
owned i
ace
a re, which
{ Tu mber.
reck Lumber Company's
ton, W. Va., burned
ut 10,000,000 or -
k lumber.
1 ly insured.
Company
and con-
io. Capital,
history, the
Although the
ars old, it has
an Democr
n robb a
have been captured by a posse under | that S10.000
United State al Tadsell, 10 miles | brought out.
from the scene of the I sl ve ne >
EC ee ny ar Ashland, O., two masked men
led 1 y ) we ed down the door to the home of
woundec Mary Leidigh and her daughter
= Arvilla, bound the women and robbed
Cuban Trade Increasing. house. The women attempted t>
A steady and material increase in the i sist and Mrs. Leidigh was knocked
: mn.
trade of Cuba is evidenced in a com- | ¢°W™
parative statement just made public The Cuban Libre, th
the division of
a
ms
every ything Americ:
in in
fairs, war department, wh onslaught ag
customs receipts at Cuban Wood and thr
first seven mon f le “until no
with the same p in Cuba to
statement shows
for the first seven m
ent year %
815 for
an increase of $1,
Ru in duties to
raise and some American
goods are taxed 50 per cent higher.
the
fi
1th
rst
ainst
n he
e 207 nent of
ade
Cuba, has
main-
an bayo-
in his fac-
mi / post
of Nome river
York
was
Elkhorn la
be dotted with ill-used Christian Endea-
from Cape Nome are in a serious situa-
tion. The miners, it is reported, have
gathered for their own use nearly ul
the driftwood which the Indians have
this winter fuel, and in some
the cabins of the Indians have been torn
by them.
In addition to
said that the grip, in a most
form, has broken out among the In-
dians and that altogether their case i
one which calls for immediate succor.
TWENTY | MILES OF CARS.
Santa Fe Railroad | Blockaded by Long Trains
Laden With Wheat.
The extensive yards of the Sante Fe
Railway Company in Argentine, Kan.
occupied with
cars of wheat, which it is impossible to
move. It was estimated that there were
20 miles of wheat cars there this morn-
ing 3.
The trouble is said to be due to the
inability of the Chicago division of the
road to handle the great inflow of wheat
from the various branch lines in Kansas.
The difficulty is not so much from a car
famine as it is due to the lack of mo-
tive power to keep the lines cleared.
All other roads in Kansas are unable
to handle the wheat offered. All the
elevators are full, and farmers are dump-
ing wheat in big piles on the ground
near the railroad stations.
are almost exclusively
Transport Sails for Manila.
The transport Logan sailed from San
Francisco Saturday afternoon for Ma-
via Nagasaki, with 1,638 enlisted
| nila,
een accustomed to depend upon for
stances
down by the miners and the wood used
these afflictions it is
virulent
15
[oie and 04 cabin passengers, including
officers. The Logan carries the head-
quarters band, First and Second bat-
; talions of the First regiment, Colonel
A. Harbach commanding, and the
IT wdquart band and Third battalion
of the Second infantry, under command
[oF Licutenant Colonel Augustus W.
1¢
| Corliss.
Among the passengers on the Logan
Major Koehker of the Thirty-
| seventh infantry and Major Bolton of
{the Twenty-fourth infantry. There are
1lso 11 acting assistant surgeons and
female nurses.
are
fare
Clever Capture of Olivier.
A Queenstown dispatch, dated Friday,
describes the dramatic capture of Gen:
eral Oliver during the Boer attack on
Winburg. Eight Queenstown volun-
teers sortied from the town and took
up a position in a donga through which
the road passed and behind the Boer
position.
As the Boers retired through the don-
ga in single file they were struck up one
by one and put under charge of a couple
of men out of Sight until the Colonials
had captured 28, including General Oli-
vier and his three
sons.
Await Money From Home.
20 g hristian Endeavors
ached York port from Eu-
on the North German Lloyd
r Aller are unable to proceed to
r homes by reason of lack of funds.
ither had any of the 420 any baggage
of the 4
they arrived, lacking even a
of linen. They tell harrowing
s of their experiences abroad.
report the continent of Europe to
vor tourists.
Akron Officials Threatened.
The Akron. O., city and county offi-
ci are deluged with anonymous let-
te threatening them with death if they
gitemps to m
rots.
ns have appealed to Judge J. A.
Kohler to call a special session of the
grand jury to inv igate the matter. A
of twelve has been placed
to prevent any
Sheriff Kelly or the
ke arrests for Wednesday
men
Fierce Storm in Manitoba.
Western M
have been sw
anitoba and the territories
by a storm which has
1 heavily damag d crops and 2 operty. A
nor of the late} child was killed Way YN. T,
is, colonel of |and many were injur tone and
y. €¢ com-{Virden. Crops are rally imaged.
ever stationed | Te phic communication has been
acut
AN APPEAL ISSUED.
Senor Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt Wants
the Present Military Government With-
drawn—Tyranny Alleged.
Speaking for and with the authority
of the people of Cuba, Senor Salvador
Cisneros y Batancourt, twice President
of the island republic, has issued in
New York an “appeal to the American
people” for immediate freedom for the
Cubans. The appeal is also prepared in
Spanish and is now on its way to Cuba,
where it will figure powerfully. Senor
Cisneros believes in the approaching
election of delegates to the constitution-
al convention.
The appeal in part says: “The people
of the United States must be informed
that the military authorities in Cuba
have been arbitrary in their proceed-
ings; that they have disregarded the
rights of the people of Cuba; that they
only too often act and have acted as
conquerors in a conquered land, rather
than representatives of a free people
helping those who had struggled for
freedom.
“The independence of the island and
the welfare—nay, the very existence of
its people—are gravely threatened to-
day, all of which has produced such gen-
eral alarm and just discontent. that it
has taken the constant effort of the
more sober minded and temperate lead-
ing Cubans to prevent an outbreak
which would repeat in Cuba the disas-
trous scenes we have witnessed in the
Philippine Islands.”
Senor Cisneros then goes on to give
some of the alleged facts on which the
charges are based. He claims misman-
agement in the custom house depart-
ment and favoritism shown Americans.
He says the military government has
made many errors in the management
of legal questions, and mentions blun-
Sir made at the last municipal election.
He says that greater frauds than the
postoffice frauds will be unearthed.
COAL FAMINE THREATENS.
New Foundland and Germany Confronted
With a Serious Problem.
A coal famine now threatens the
colony of New Foundland. The estab-
lishment of a large smelting enterprise
at Sydney absorbs the greater part of
the Cape Breton output; and the failure
of Reid's mines leaves the colony with-
out any local product.
Sydney coal has advanced 30 per cent,
and there is probably not enough to
supply the winter's demand. Mr. Reid,
the railway contractor, is likely to be
most affected, his trains and steamers
absorbing fully a third of the entire co-
lonial coal import.
The coal famine in Germany has be-
come very serious and a number of
chambers of commerce have petitioned
the government for relief. The Prus-
sian Cabinet has resolved to grant a
modified railroad tariff for foreign coal
in order to facilitate the importation
of coal from England and the United
States. The Prussian Minister of Rail-
ways has laid an embargo on all the coal
mined in the State mines.
MASON-DIXON LINE.
Resurvey of that Historic Bounday Has Be-
gun—Granite Posts to Mark the Line.
The resurvey of the Mason and Dix-
on boundary line between Pennsylvania
and Maryland has begun under the di-
rection of a commission consisting of
of the survey; Dr. William _ Bullock
ty and State geologist of Maryland,
Major Brown, of Harrisburg.
Hudgins,
lake, is also identified with the work.
It is probable that large granite posts,
three feet in length, will be used
mark the boundary line.
inscription on the posts will be an
ed in the hard granite.
is made, may also be cut in each post.
Librarian Buchard, of the United
States Coast and Geological Survey,
preparing historical data dealing with
the Mason and Dixon line, which is to
be published by the government.
RICH GOLD STRIKES.
Late Discoveries Show That Nome Disiric
Teems With Wealth.
Late mining developments have been
of a satisfactory nature. No doubt now
remains of the genuineness of the
Kougrock strike; Harris and Quartz
creeks in that country are rich and the
former shows from 25 cents to $1.50 to
the pan. Oregon creek and its tribu-
tary, Hungry creek, have developed
richness.
On Hastings creek, cight miles cast
of Nome, prospectors have discovered
a gravel "bed 15 feet in thickness and
gulch way up into the hills. It is_be-
ieved that the next season H
creek will be the scene of most exten-
sive -operations in the country.
To Assert Negro Rights.
ed
tional Rights Association, has employ
ex-Attorney General A. B. Hillsbu
of Boston, Mass., and W. C. P. Breck-
inridge, of Lexington, Ky., as his coun-
sel in proceedings which will be insti-
tuted for the purpose of bringing be-
fore the Supreme Court of the United
States the question of the legality of
the constitutional amendments and legis-
lation of some of the Southern Sates to
disfranchise the negroes. The case is
likely to be started in a Massachusetts
court.
Mine Scales Blown Up.
The scales of the Potomac Coal Com-
pany at their Potomac mine near Bar-
ton, Allegany county, Md., were blown
up with dynamite at 8 o'clock Tuesday
night.
The Gorman and Caledonia miners
during the day held a meeting and ask-
ed for a checkweighman. They waited
on the Potomac miners and asked them
to join in the movement, but they con-
cluded not to ask for a checkweighman.
The explosion is regarded as a seque
to this incident. None of the Potomac
miners are blamed.
Bankers Will Form Combine.
A great bank ris)
formed in New York city.
first brought out by the announcement
that the controlling interest in the Ninth
National bank had been purchased by
a syndicate. According to trustworthy
reports, overtures ha been made to
thé presidents of the tional Citizens
bank, People’s bank, Pacific bank, Me-
chanics and Traders bank, and the East
River National bank, for an amalgama-
tion of all these institutions with the
Ninth. The combined capital of the
banks is $2,622,000
is being quietly
The fact we
Sweden Wants a Loan.
Albert H. Wiggin, vice president of
the National Park Bank, New York,
says he has been appr oached by repre-
sentatives of the Swedish Government
regarding the placing of a $10,000,000
loan in this country.
The proposed loan is in the form of
bonds bearing 4 per cent interest for
the first 10 years and 3% per cent for
another 10 years. It is ale lly stated
that the bonds will be offered at ¢8 and
accrued interest.
Richard Croker’s Plunge.
Richard Croker took the Bryan end
of the heaviest election bet that has
been recorded so far in this campaign,
when he wagered $20,000 Friday against
$50,000 with Louis W. Wormser, of Ne
York, that the Democratic national aoe
et would be elected.
Dr. Henry S. Prittchett, superintendent
Clarke, of the Johns Hopkins Universi-
and
Cc
of the coast survey steamcr
to
About the only
‘MY
on the Maryland side and a “P” on the
Pennsylvania side, which will be chisel-
A reference to
the authority under which the resurvey
is
of unknown breadth, extending from the
Giles S. Jackson, a negro lawyer of
Richmond, Va., acting for the Constitu-
a
KRUGER MOVES HIS HEADOURRTERS
PREPARING FOR FLIGHT.
The War Believed to be Nearly Finished.
Roberts Said to Have Issue Annex-
ation Proclamation.
It is reported in London that Lord
Roberts has issued a proclamation for-
mally annexing the Transvaal to the
British dominions. Gen. Christian De
Wet is reported to have appeared again
along the railway near Winburg road.
Pretoria dispatches say: Mr. Kruger
and Mr. Steyn have gone to Barberton.
It is believed they are preparing for
flight. The general opinion is that the
war is now very near the end; but,
should the Boers construct strongholds
in the bush, on the veldt, or elsewhere,
and begin a system of raids, the British
would require large supplies of horses.
Gen. Buller moved 14 miles north-
westward along the ydenburg road
and crossed the Crocodile river to Bad-
fontein. He found the Boers concen-
trating in the Crocodile mountains. A
force of Boers under Comm: andant
Theron broke through the British lit
and captured and burned a supply train
at Kilp River station, taking 35 prison-
ers. Brabant's horse proceeded thithe
recaptured all the prisoners and dros
the Boers into the hills. Col. Plumer
dispersed a small commando under
Commandant Pretorius, east of Pinaar
river, capturing 26 Boers, a number
of
wagons, and a quantity of cattle and 1i-
es,
THEIR ULTIMATUM.
Unless Anthracite Operators Agree to the
Scale a Great Strike is Imminent
With'n Ten Days.
The United Mine Workers’ Conven-
tion at Hazelton, Pa., adjourned Tues-
day evening. The miners will strike in
the anthracite region if concessions are
not granted within 10 days.
iat a strike of the anthracite miners
may have a disastrous effect on the bitu-
minous coal fields, is indicated in offi-
cial advices that the State representa-
tives of the United Mine Workers
Union have been conference with the
National officers, and that a decision
has been reached to strike in every bi-
tuminous field where the operators
make an effort to send coal into anthra-
cite fields in case of trouble. If the an-
thracite miners go out it will be the first
organized strike on their part and the
United Mine Workers’ Union is prepar-
ed to exhaust its treasury in support of
them. Several hundred thousand dol-
lars will be available at once, and the
national executive board has power 10
levy a weekly assessment on every
member at work. The first support
would come from the national head-
quarters and when that is exhausted the
executive board may call upon the State
unions. Illinois has nearly $200,000 in
the treasury.
ELECT OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR.
Veterans Unanimously Elect Major Leo Ras-
sieur Commander-in- Chief.
The Grand Army elected officers
Thursday. They are:
Commander-in-Chief, Leo Rassieur,
St. Tous.
Senior Vice Commander, E.
ken, Portland, Me
Junior Vice Commander, Frank Se
or Knoxville, Tenn.
geon General, John
Dr Q.
Chaplain-in-Chief,
San Quentin, Cal.
With the selection of the above offi-
cers and the choice of Denver for the
National Encampment of 1901 the thir-
ty- “fourth National Encampment practi-
cally
C. Milli-
Wilkins,
Rev. A. Drahms,
fame to a close.
er was no contest for the honor
of entertaining the Years in 1901,
Denver being apparently the unanimous
choice of the delegates
The following officers ‘were elected by
the Woman's Relief Corps for the ensu-
ing year: National President, Mrs. Mary
L. Carr, Longmont, Col.; National Se-
pio? r Vice President, Mrs. Belle M. Sat-
St. Louis, Mo.; National Junior
a Mrs. Abbie R. Flagg,
Battle Creek, Mich.; National Treasur-
er, Mrs. Sarah E. Phillips, Syracuse,
N.-Y
The New Chief Justice.
A commission was issued Monday by
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, to
Judge J. Brewster McCullom, of Mon¢-
rose, designating him as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy
created by the death of Justice Henry
Green. Justice McCullom is a Demo-
crat, and his commission runs until the
first Monday of January, 1910, when
Judge Dean, of Hollidaysburg, will he-
come Chief Justice.
The new Chief Justice was next to
Justice Green in seniority and under the
constitution the Governor is required to
promote him. He will appoint a Su-
preme Judge to fill the vacancy created
by these changes after his return from
the Grand Army encampment at Chi-
cago.
Where Wealth is Coined.
The monthly statement of the Direc-
tor of the Mints shows that during Au-
gust the total coinage at the United
States mints was $7,774.160, as follows:
Gold, $5.050,000; silv 7 $2,536,000; min-
or coi $188,160.
During August 12,706,000 coins of the
face value of $1,324,160 were the prod-
uct of the mint in Philadelphia, Pa.
Of this amount there were 6,104,000
coins in silver of a value of $1,136,000,
and 6.512,000 in the base metals, valued
at $188,100.
Fighting on the Danube.
Fighting as a result of the tension bhe-
tween the Roumanian and Bulgarian
governments, due to the demand of the
former for the suppression of the Mace-
donian revolutionary committee, a con-
flict took place Friday between Rouma-
nian and Bulgarian peasants at Vercio-
rova on the Rot of the
Danube. Two Bulg: were killed
nd many of both parties were
wounded.
Will Receive a Large Fee.
One of the handsomest fees ever paid
a gener. al pre actitioner for services in a
single case will be received by Dr. J. N.
McCormack, of Bowling Green, Ky.,
for his attendance upon William Goebel, |
after he was shot at Frankfort. Arthur
Goebel, brother of the dead governor,
and his deviseee under the will, has
placed a claim against the estate 6f Gov-
ernor Goebel for $10,000 for Dr. Mc-
Cormack’s services.-
Fatal Street Car Panic.
the result of a panic on an slacriss
at Silver Lake, Shon, O.,
cai an sul
urban resort, late Friday night, [iG
person was killed and three others in-
jured. The panic was caused by
burning out and flames burs
throtigh the car floor. The pass
became terrified and made a
rush to get off.
A William: ridge,
agent found an old
$75,000 in governme
a Iuse
fr
Y., real estate
box containing
bonds.
Ten square miles of forest reserve in
the San Gabriel reservation, Cal, have
already been swept by fire, and still the
flames are Sn the timber.
Special cable and telegraphic commu-
nications show that elevator wheat hold-
ings are picking up, but that the avail-
able supply till below standard.
A negro was lynched at Forrest, N.
C., for the murder of a white man nam-
ed Flack. Threats were also made to
lynch a negro woman who had taken
the gun to the murderer and a mob
went in search of her.
ge
>
"LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
Bressi Tried and Sentenced in One Day—-Pro- |
ceedings Brief, With no Mercy Shown.
Horrors of the Italian Prison.
The trial of Bressi, the Anarchist
who, July 29, shot and killed King |
Humbert, of Italy, at Monza, while His |
Majesty was returning from a gymnas- |
tic exhibition, resultc
being sentenced to liie imprisonment,
the limit of the Italian law.
Although Bressi escapes
fate will appear to most men far worse
than death. His first place of incarcer-
ation will be the “secret cell,” a cham-
ber about six feet long by three wide,
and half lighted. A few ‘inches above
the floor is a plank about half a yard
wide and slightly inclined, which serves
as a bed. The food is bread and water,
passed through a little window celica]
the ° ‘spy’ by the jailer, the door being |
always kept rigorously closed.
He will be condemned to absolute si-
lence. If he breaks the rule he is sub-
ject to other punishments, such as the
straight waistcoat, iron and straight bed.
If he attempts his life in any way he
will be put in the straight waistcoat,
and at night in a sort of sack in which
he cannot move.
When he has suffered the punishment
of the “secret cell” for a longer or short-
cr time, he will be removed to another
cell, where he must remain for 10 years.
Its size depends on the construction of
the prison. These ceils are lighted from
the corridor, and are generally about
two yards square. The bed is the usual
plank, and bread and water the food.
In winter a single blanket is allowed
at night. Silence is still enjoined, the
only concession is the door being open-
ed a few inches. The food is given only
once in 24 hours. If the prisoner is
sick. the doctor can have him removed
to the prison infirmary, where he is
kept in a separate cha umber. Prisoners
in solitary confinement may neither
read, write, smoke nor work. They are
condemned to absolute idleness and a
solute silence. Very few complete their
sentence; they either go mad or die.
THIRTY THOUSAND STRONG.
A Million People Witnessed the G. A. R. Vet-
erans Follow the Tattered, Starry Ban-
ners They Fought to Uphold.
At Chicago for nearly four hours and
a half Tuesday the thinning ranks of the
Grand Army of the Republic passed in
review before their leaders and before
probably 1,000,000 spectators, packed in
almost solid masses along the four
miles of the line of parade. It marked
the climax of the thirty-fourth annual
encampment of the association of vet-
erans who filled the pages of history
with deeds of heroism during the civil
war, and was, according to Commander
in Chief Shaw, the greatest parade since
that day in Washington when the hun-
dreds of thousands of veterans, the most
powerful army on earth, marched in re-
view to their final disbandment.
Probably 30.000 veterans took part in
the parade. For exactly four hours and
twenty minutes, most of the time with
ranks almost perfectly aligned, but oc-
casionally faltering under the burdens
of years, they filed past the reviewing
stand on Michigan avenue, saluting as
fies marched by General Nelson A.
Miles, Commander in Chief Shaw, Gen.
Daniel I. Sickles and the Spanish’ Min-
ister, Duke d’'Arcos
Pythian Lodge Flourishing.
Supreme Chancellor Thomas G. Sam-
ple presided over the meeting of the
Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at
Detroit, Mich., Tuesday. In his address
Colonel Sample said the condition of
the order, with but few exceptions, is
flourishing, and the personnel is better
than ever before, because the decree
scems to have gone forth from the sub-
ordinate lodges that quality, not quan-
tity, is what is desired.
On December 31, 1808, the reports
showed a membership of 470,798. The
returns received to December 31, 1899.
show a total membership of 401,672
Ve have to-day a membership of 508,-
500, with 15 grand domains yet to hear
from, a net gain for the two years of
37,809.
Young Boy Suicides.
Because his step-mother made him
mind the babies from early in the morn-
ing till late at night Harry F. Burgess,
aged 12, of Winsted, Conn., committed
suicide Mand: iy by drowning. He had
often threatened to kill himself. Early
in the morning young Burgess stole
from his home. Not until the babies
needed attention did Mrs. Burgess dis-
cover his absence. About 7 o'clock the
little fellow clothes, neatly folded,
were found in a basket on the shore of
Still river. The gates at the dam were
opened and when the water had gone
down 20 feet the missing boy's body was
found.
CABLE FLASHES.
There is a typhoid fever epidemic in
: : A p
Paris, resulting from impure water.
President Loubet will give
to all the mayors in France,
000, September 22,
a banquet
some 15,-
Denmark has declared a quarantine
against all vessels arriving at Danish
ports from Glasgow.
The Peruvian President is still with-
out a Cabinet. The one appointed Tues-
day night resigned next day.
A collision occurred on the Caledo-
nian Underground Railway at Glasgow,
and 24 persons were seriously injured.
A group of American financiers, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Moscow,
has acquired the Moscow-Archangel
railway.
About 50,000 striking miners have re-
sumed work at Cardiff, Wales, the Taff
Railway Company having acceded to
their demands.
The autumn maneuvers of the German
army will be attended this year for the
first time by a representative of the
rench army.
Italy has protested against Germa-
iny’'s new meat law on the ground that
11it contravenes the Italian-German com-
mercial treaty.
Owing to the Philippine troubles Ma-
nila hemp has risen 50 per cent. German
companies will start Manila hemp cul-
ture in German East Africa.
Another death, supposed to be due to
bubonic plague, occurred at Glasgow,
Scotland, Sunday. Ninety-three cases
of the disease are now under observ
tion.
Owing to absence of rains, the rice
crop in Nanking, China, is a failure and
silk weaving is almost at a standstill,
20,000 looms being idle. Maintenance
of order is difficult.
Giuseppe, Tomazo, a Venetian who
is believed to have been an accomplice
of Luigi Lucheni in the 1ssination
of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, has
been arrested at Budapest.
as
The Prussian academy of science has
received from the Smithsonian Institu-
tion an elaborate engrossed address of
congratulations upon the recent occnr-
rence of the academy’s bi-centenary.
Th r father, mother and
hild, who have been certified to be
fi from bubonic plague, have
een placed under the care of the medi-
cal authorities at Glasgow, Scotland.
Germany's Porto Rican imports for
1899 amounted to 12,000,000 marks,
an
increase of 400,000 marks upon the pre-
vious year. The exports totaled rg
000 marks, an increase of 00,000
marks.
Political parti held meet-
ings Tuesday, at which several members
were stoned and a dispatch was drafted
making precipitate demands upon the
| United States.
in the regicide '
death, his,
OR. TALMAGES SUNDAY SERKUY
| A GOSPEL MESSAGE
|
Subject: The Garden of the King—Christ
the Founder and Gardener—The Flow-
ers and Fruits of Religious Devotion
«The Beauty of light Living.
[Copyright 1%00, 1
WASHINGTON, D. C.—This sermon Dr.
Talmage sends "from a halting place in
his journey through the valleys of Switz-
erland. It seems to have been prepared
amid the bloom gal aroma of a garden
Filme The te is Song of Solo-
#on v, 1, “I am come I my garden.”
The "Bible is a great poem. We have in
jt faultless rhythm and bold imagery and
startling anthithesis and rapturous lyric
and sweet pastoral and instructive narra-
tive and devotional psalm; thoughts ex-
pressed in style more solemn than that
| of Montgomery, more bold than that
of Milton, more terrible than that of
Dante, more natural than that of Words-
worth, more impassioned than that of
Pollok, more tender than that of Cowper,
more weird than that of S penser. 113
great poem brings all the gems of the
earth into its coronet, and it weaves the
flames of judgment into its garlands and
ours eternal harmonies in its rhythm.
verything this book touches it makes
beautiful, from the plain stones of the
summer ‘thrashing floor to the daughters
of Nahor filling the troughs for the cam-
els; from the fish pools of Ileshbon up to
e psalmist praising God with diapason
of storm and whirlwind, and Job's im-
agery of Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades.
My text leads us into a scene of sum-
mer redolence. The world has had a
great many beautiful gardens. Charle-
magne added to the glory of his reign by
decreeing that they be established all
through the realm—deciding even the
names of the flowers to be planted there.
Henry IV., at Montpelier, established
gardens of bewitching beauty and luxu-
riance, gathering into them Alpine, Py-
renean and French plants. One of the
sweetest spots on earth was the garden of
Shenstone, the poet. His writings have
ade but little impression on the world,
ut his garden, “The ILeasowes,” will be
mmortal. To the natural advantages of
that place was brought the perfection of
art. rbor and terrace and slope and
rustic temple and reservoir and urn and
fountain here had their crowning. Oak
and yew and hazel put forth their richest
foliage. There was no life more diligent,
no soul more ingenious than that of
Shenstone, and all that diligence and ge-
nius he brought to the adornment of that
one treasured spot. He gave £300 for it;
he sold it for £17,000. And yet I am to
to you to-day of a richer garden than
an have and It is the garden
spoken of in my text, the frden of the
urch, which belongs to Christ, for my
text says so. He bought it, He panted 54
He owns it, and He shall have it.
Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbots:
ford, ruined his fortune, and now, in tha
crimson flowers of those gardens, you can
almost think or imagine that you see the
blood of that old man’s broken hea rt.
The payment of the last £100,000 saeri-
ficed him. But I have to tell you that
Christ’s love and Christ's death were the
outlay of thia beautiful garden of the
hurch, of which my text speaks. Oh,
ow
many gps and tears and pangs and
agonies! me, ye women who saw
Him oil Tell me, ye executioners who
lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me,
thou sun that didst hide! ye rocks that
fell! “Christ loved the church and gave
Himself for it.” If the garden of the
church belongs to Christ, certainly He
has a right to walk in it. Come, then,
O blessed Jesus, to-day; walk up and
down these aisles, and Pluck what Thou
wilt of sweetness for Thyself!
The church, in my text, is appronriately
compared to a garden, because it is
place of choice flowers, of select fruits
and of therosn fp,
That would a strange garden in
which there ar no flowers. If nowhere
else, they would be along the borders or
at the gateway. The homeliest taste will
digtate something, if it be only the old-
fashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffodil,
ut if there be larger means, then you
will find the Mexican cactus and blazing
azalea and clustering oleander. Well,
now, Christ comes to His Garden, and Te
lants there some of the brightest spirits
that ever flowered upon the world. Some
of them are violets, inconspicuous, but
sweet as heaven. You have to search and
find them. You do not see them very of-
ten, Qurtony, but you find where they
have been bv the brightened face of the
invalid and the sprig of geranium on the
stand and the new window curtains keep-
ing out the glow of the sunlight. They
=
creeping swiftly along amid the thorns
end briers of life, giving kiss for sting,
and many a man who has had in his way
some great black rock of trouble has
found that they have covered it all over
with flowery jasmine running in and out
amid the crevices
These flowers in Christ’ s garden are not
like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but
wherever darkness ers over a soul that
needs to be comforted, there they. stand,
night blooming cereuses. But in Christ's
garden there are plants that may be bet-
ter compared to the Mexican cactus—
thorns without, loveliness within; men
with sharp points of character. They
wound almost every one that touches
them, 1ue, are hard to handle.
Pronosnes them nothing but thorns, Yer
Christ loves them notwithstanding all
their sharpnesses. Many a man has had
a very hard ground to cultivate, and it
has only been through severe trial Le has
raised even the smallest scrap of grace.
A very harsh minister was talking to a
very placid elder, and the placid elder
eaid to the harsh minister: “Doctor, I do
avish you would control your temper.”
“Ab,” said the minister to the elder, “I
control more temper in five minutes than
vou do in five years.” It is harder for
some men to do right than for other men
to do right. The grace that would ele-
vate you to the seventh heaven might not
keep your brother from knocking a man
down. I had a friend who came to me
and said, “I dare not join the church.” I
said, “Why?” “Oh,” he said, “I Tl
such a at temper. Yesterday morn-
ing I was crossing very early at the Jersey
City ferry, and 1 saw a milkman pour a
large quantity of water into the milk can,
and I said to him: ‘I think that will do,
and he insulted me and I knocked 2%
down. Do you think I cught to join the
church?’ Nevertheless that very same
man, who was so harsh in his behavior,
loved Christ, and could not speak of sa-
cred things without te of emotion and
affection. Thorns without, sweetness
within—the best Sy of Mexican
cactus I ever saw.
There are others planted in C
garden who are always radiant,
impressive—more like the roses of deep
hue that we occasionally find, called
“giants of battle;” the Martin Luthers,
St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wycliffes, Lati.
mers and Samuel Rutherfords. What in
other men is a spark in them is a confla-
gration. When ‘they reat, they sweat
great drops of blood. When they
their prayer takes fire. When they
it is a Pentecost. When they fight,
Thermopylac. When they die, a
martyrdom. You find a great many roses
in the gens, but only a few “giants of
battle.” , C
more of N= i I
“Why don’t you have in the world more
Humboldts and Wellingtons?” God gives
to some ten‘tilents, to others one.
Again, the church may be appropriately
compared to a garden, because 1t is a
place of friits. That would be a strange
garden which had in it no berries, no
ums or peaches Or apricots. ‘ihe conrser
Fruits are planted in the orchard or the§
are set out on the sunny hillside, but the
choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So
in the world outside the church Christ
has planted a great many beautiful things
—patience, charity, generosity, integrity,
but He intends the choicest fruits to be
in the garden, and if they are not there,
then shame on the church.
eligion is not a mere flowering senti-
mentality. Yt is a practical, life giving,
healthful fruit-——not posies, but apples.
Oh,” says somebody. “I
on’t see what
the garden of the church has yielded.”
Where did your asylums come from, and
your hospitals, and your institutions of
mercy? Christ planted everv ome of
them. He planted them in His garden.
When Christ gave sight to Bartimeus, Ie
laid the cornerstone of every blind asy-
lum that has ever been built. When
Christ soothed the demoniac of Galilee
He laid the cornerstone of every lunatic
asylum that has ever been established.
hen Christ said to the sick man. “Take
up thy bed and walk,” He laid the cor-
nerstone of every hospital the world has
ever seen. When Christ said. “I was in
prison, and ye visited Me,” He laid the
cornerstone of every prison reform
{ation that has ever been organized.
he church of Christ is a glorious garden,
and it is full of fruit. I know there is
ee poor fruit in it. I know there are
some weeds that ought to be thrown over
the fence. I know there are some crab-
apple trees that ought to be cut down. I
know there are some wild grapes that
ought to be uprooted. But are you going
a880-
are, perhaps, more like the ranunculus,
ry
estroy the whole ren because of
ff] e stroy th) ou will find wo
eaten leaves in Fontainebleau and insec
that sting in the fairy groves of the
Champs Elysees. You do not tear do
and destroy the whole garden becau:
there are a few specimens of gnarled fruit,
I admit there are men and women
the church who ought not to be there,
but let us be frank and admit the fact
that there are hundreds and thousands of
glorious Christian men and women holy}
blessed: useful, consecrated and triump!
nt. There is no grander collection in all
To earth than the collection of Christians,
There are Christian men in every church
whose religion is not a matter of psalm
singing and churchgoing. To-morro
morning that religion will keep them st
as consistent and consecrated in their
worldly occupation as it ever kept thent
at the communion table. There are wom-
en with us to-day of a higher type of
character than Mary of Bethany. They
not only sit at the feet of Christ, but they
go out into the kitchen to help Martha
in her work, that she may sit there too.
There is a woman who has a drunken hus
band, who has exhibited more faith and
patience and courage than Ridley in the
fire. He was consumed in twenty mi
utes. Hers has been a twenty years
martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has
been fifteen years on his back, unable to
feed himself, yet calm and peaceful ag
though he lay on one of the green ban
of heaven, watching the oarsmen dip theif
paddles in the crystal river!
I have not told you of the better tre
in this garden and of the better fruit. It
was planted just outside Jerusalem a
good while ago. When that tree was
lanted, it was so split and bruised and
arked men said nothing would ever grow
upon it, but no sooner had that tree been
pla anted than it budded and blossomed
and fruited, and the soldiers’ spears were
only the clubs that struck down that
fruit, and it fell into the lap of the nas
tions, and the men Dogd to pick it up and
eat it, and they found in it an antidote
all thirst, to all poison, to all sin, to al
death, the smallest cluster larger than
the famous one of Eshcol, which two men
carried on a staff between them. If the
one apple in Eden killed the race, this
one cluster of merty shall restore,
Again, the oes in my text is appro
priately’ called pricn because it is
thoroughly irri Be No fgeded could
prosper long without plenty of water. 4
t has seemed as if Jesus Christ tool
the best. From many of your househol
the best one is gone. You know that she
was too good for this world, She was the
gentlest in her ways, the deepest in her
affection, and when at last the sickness
came you had no faith in medicines. You
knew that the hour of parting had come,
and when, through the rich grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered thal
treasure you said: “Lord 1
is the best we have. Take it.
worthy.” The others in the household
may have been of grosser mold. She was
of the finest.
The heaven of your little ones will not
be fairly begun until you get there. All
the kindnesses shown them by fmm mor
tals will not make them forget you. Therg
they are, the radiant throngs that wen
out from your homes. I throw a kiss td
the sweet darlings. They are all well now
in the palace. The crippled child has a
sound foot now. A little lame She Te
“Ma, will I be lame in heaven? 0, my
darlin , you won't be lame in helen”
A little sick child says, Ei will I >
sick in heaven?” “No, dear,
won’t be sick in heaven,” = little b Tod
child says, “Ma, will I be blind in heav:
2 No, my ’ dear, you won’t be blin
- nea They are all well there.
notice that the fine gardens some:
times have high fences around them, and
I cannot get in. It is so with a king's
garden. The only glimpse you ever get of
such a garden is when the king Tides out
in his splendid carriage.
It is not so with this rie, thls
King’s garden. I throw wide open the
gate and tell you all to come in. 9
monopoly in religion. Whosoever willy
may. Choose now Bian a desert and
a garden. Many you have tried the
garden of this wi Lil delight. You have
found it has been a chagrin. So it was
with Thzodore Hook. He made all thé
world laugh. He makes us laugh now
when we read his poems, but he could
not make his own heart laugh. While in
the midst of his festivities he confronted
a ooking glass, and he saw himself and
said The ere, that is true,
as i am, done up in body,
purse.” So it was of Shenstone, of whose
garden I told you at the beginning of m;
sermon. e sat down amid those Torey
and said: “I have lost my road to hap.
piness. I am angry and envious and
frantic and despise everything around me
just as it becomes a madman to
O ye weary souls, come into Christ's
gar@en to-day and pluck a little hearts.
ease! Christ is the only rest and the only
pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you
not think your chance has almost come
You men and women who have been waits
ing vear after year for some good oppor‘
tunity in which to accept Ser but
have postponed it five, ten, twenty, thirty
yvears—do you not feel as if now your hour
of vation had come? man, what
grudge hast thou against thy poor soul
that thou wilt not let it be saved?
Some years ago a vessel struck cn the
"hey had only one lifeboat. In
lifeboat the passengers and crew
were getting ashore. "he vessel had
foundered and was sinking deeper and
deeper, and that one boat could not take
the passengers very swiftly. A little gir}
stood on the deck waiting for her turn.
to get into the boat. The boat came and
went, came and went, but her iurn did
not seem to come. After awhile she could
wait no longer, and she leaped en the
taffrail and then sprang into the sea, cry-
ing to the boatman: “Save me next! “Save
me nex Oh, how many have gone
ashore into God’s mercy, and yet you are
clinging to the wreck of sin. Others have
accepted the pardon of Christ, but you
are in peril. Why not this moment make
a rush for your immortal rescue, cryin
until Jesus shall hear you and heaven an
earth ring with the cry: “Save me next!
Save me next!” Now is the day of salvae
tion! Now! N
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Paul Gustave Cluserett, a
noted French adventurer, died in Paris.
Ira D. Sankey sailed from New York
city for an evangelistic campaign in
England and Ireland.
Frederick Wilhelm Nietzsche, the
German philosopher, died at Weimar,
after 11 years of hopeless insanity.
Congressman Charles H. Boutelle, of
Maine, is rapidly recovering his health
at a sanitarium at Waverly, Mass.
Dr. Washington Gladden, preacher,
writer and lecturer, refuses to accept
pay for his services as an Alderman of
Columbus, O.
Mr. Balfour recently made a speech
at the opening of a Charity bazaar at
Dundee, and devoted the whole of his
remarks to the praise of golf.
Sir George White, of Ladysmith
fame, now Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of Gibraltar, will be promoted
to the rank of General in October next.
In receiving some Americans the oth-
er day King Oscar of Sweden and Nor-
way said: “lI welcome you as Ameri-
cans, and, therefore fellow monarchs.”
President Eliot, of Harvard, may pay
a visit to Havana in the early fall. He
has become deeply interested in the
question of Cuban education, through
the visit of the Cuban teachers Re Har-
varc
Second Assistant Secretary of State
Ader: was born a deaf mute; but learned
the use of the organ of speech by arti-
ficial methods and mastered the art of
lip reading. Later in life his sense of
henving was partially restored,
Lord Roberts never learned the art
of dictating his own dispatches, and
always has to write them out with his
own hand. His writing is, moreover,
so very bad that it can be read only by
his aid, to whose lot it consequently
falls to “translate” the orders into chare
acters more readily decipherable.
Where Mosquitoes Are Thick.
“We have to fight mosquitoes all
night,” said one of the Washington
night policemen at the white house.
“This is the worst place in town for
them. There is no opportunity to take
a nap around kere. The big mosquitoes
would drive a hole in you before you
could get your eyes half closed. The
electric light on the front porch is the
main attraction that draws them to
the building. They swarm around the
light and occasionally fly in the front
door when it is opened for some one to
snter. The residence portion of ths
house is thoroughly protected with the
best fly screens, but despite these a
good many of the pestiferous insects
get in to make trouble. Once in, thay
hunt places to begin propagating.”
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