MINERS ARE OFFERED AN ADVANGE
MAY BREAK STRIKE.
The National Executive of the Union is Ig-
nored in an Effort te Resume
Work at Collieries.
The following notice, bearing date
of Monday, has been posted in the vi-
cinity of all the collieries of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company in the anthracite region:
“Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company, October 1, 1900. his
company will pay an advance of 10 per
cent. on the wages of all men and boys
empioyed at its collieries. This ad-
vance takes effect at once.
(Signed) “R. C. Luther, Gen. Supt.”
Beneath this notice another was post-
ed which read as follows:
“Fellow Mine Workers — United
Mine Workers of America: Do not
pay any attention to this notice posted
by Mr. Luther, of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company, but
wait until you hear from President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers
of America, or until you have decided
by your own locals what is right for
you to do.
(Signed) “C. B. Potter.”
Mr. Potter is an officer in the dis-
trict branch of the United Mine Work-
ers of America. The regular Reading
Company advance for the last half of
September and the first half of October
had previously been fixed at 6 per cent.
above the $2.50 basis. The scale for
the proceeding 30 days was at the $2.50
basis. The advance of 10 per cent. of-
fered in the posted notice by the Read-
ing Company, is separate and distinct
from the natural scale increase, and
hence the total increase to the miners
would be 16 per cent.
HURT UNITED STATES TRADE.
War With China Causes Exports to Fall Off
$3,000,000 in One Month.
The war in China dealt a stunning
blow to the United States export trade
in the east during the month of August.
According to a report just issued by the
treasury bureau of statistics the trade
fell off nearly $3,000,000 during that
month. Another reason for the poor
showing is the fact that the merchants
of the Pacific coast refuse to make anv
statement of their trade with Hawaii
to the government officials, claiming
that the islands are now United States
territory and business with them does
not come under the jurisdiction of the
treasury department. Notwithstanding
these adverse conditions the report con-
tinues:
“Our exports to Asia and Oceanica
will show during the eight months end-
ing with August an increase of more
than 20 per cent. over those of the cor-
responding months last year. To Ja-
pan our exports during the eight months
ending with August amount to more
than $21,000,000 as against $12,000,000
in the corresponding months of last
year.
“To China, our exports in the seven
months ended with July up to which
time the disturbances had not seriousiy
affected the exports, showed an increase
over the corresponding months of 189
and 1898, to Hong Kong our exports
for the eight months amount to nearly
6,000,000, as against a trifle more than
$5,000,000 in the corresponding months
2 last year and to the Philippines, our
total exports for the eight months
amount to $1,826,000, against $391,850
in the corresponding months of last
year.”
CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEXAS.
Governor Sayers Has So Far Received $642, -
476—All Being Cared For.
Regarding the contributions for the
Galveston flood sufferers, Gov. Sayers
has made the following statement:
“The amount of money received by
me up to noon of Saturday, is $672,476.
This sum includes $3.802 that remained
of the fund contributed for the relief
of the Brazos valley sufferers last year.
It also includes all drafts and authoriza-
tions to draw and which are in transit
and are yet uncollected. This only em-
braces moneys and rentittances that have
been made to me directly and amounts
for which I have been authorized to
draw. During the present week I will
submit a full itemized statement of the
entire fund that has come into my hands,
giving the amount and source of each
contribution and the manner in which
the sum total has been expended and
distributed. Every portion of the
storm-stricken district is being provid-
ed for.”
BENT ON DISFRANCHISEMENT.
Second Attempt Before the Georgia Legis-
latur> Will be Made This Fall.
An effort will be made at the first
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The Fiji islands are taking steps to
federate with New Zealand.
Dowieties at Chicago still refuse to
stay away from Mansfield, O.
The Viola Coal Company of Mounds-
ville, W. Va., has been chartered.
Miners at Oak Hill, O., will strike
unless operators agree to pay the scale.
The Bank of the Republic of Rio
Janeiro has passed under government
control.
The Twelfth regiment, N. G. P., sta-
tioned at Shenandoah, Pa., has been or-
dered home.
Henry Werdman's grist mill, sawmill
and dwelling were burned at Allentown,
Pa.; loss $12,000.
In Idaho the Ontario and Burns stage
was held up by a lone highwayman and
robbed of the mails.
A pickpocket reaped a harvest from
a party of West Virginia Methodist
preachers on a train.
The steamer Alameda has sailed from
Sydney, N. S. W,, for San Francisco
with £800,000 in gold.
South Morgantown has declared for
annexation to Morgantown, W. Va., an
other suburbs will follow.
Because of lack of patronage
Dominion Government will close
Canadian canal at the Soo.
James Howard, convicted as a prin-
cipal in the murder of Governor Goe-
bel, has moved for a new trial.
Lorenzo Snow, president of the Mor-
mon church at Salt Lake City, has been
sued for non-support of his wife.
Judge Lacombe, of New York, has
appointed three receivers for the United
States Flour Milling Company.
The health of Secretary of State Hay
is so improved that he will be enabled
to resume his duties next week.
The Wisconsin State board of medi-
cal examiners will prosecute every doc-
tor of osteopathy in Milwaukee.
The price of anthracite coal in New
York has fallen $1 a ton in consequence
of reports of the strike settlement.
One hundred and four engravers of
the Dueber Watch Company, Canton,
-, are out, demanding higher wages.
~ The navy department has ordered an
inspection of the cruiser Baltimore.
She will probably be sent into dry dock.
Lieut. Hobson has applied to the navy
department for six months’ leave of ab-
sence, because of trouble with his eyes.
A hurricane at Ofiord, Ireland, Sep-
tember 20, drove fishing smacks ashore,
razed houses and killed several people.
A crusade against illegal hunting and
fishing has been started at Connellsville,
’a. Many warrants for arrest are out.
Lieutenant General Miles has issued
general order intended to improve
the moral and physical condition of the
army.
The Trinity river has reached 33 feet
Friday and many people were driven
from their homes. No loss of life is re-
ported.
Dr. Lazear, one of three medical
experts who went to Havana to study
vellow fever, died Wednesday of that
disease.
I.. E. McWhorter, of Parkersburg,
V. Va, has been appointed receiver of
the Montgomery Banking and Trust
Company.
Two hundred men employed by the
Page Boiler Company, Norwich, Conn.,
are out on strike because of a 10 per
cent. cnt.
Because of the employment of three
the
the
non-union men 1,000 cigarmakers at
Tampa, Fla, went out on strike
Wednesday.
Fifty per cent. of the 5,000 coke ovens
in McDowell and Mercer counties, W.
Va., have been put out of blast within
the past week.
The postoffice at Bowling Green, Ky.,
was broken into Saturday night and rob-
bed of between $4,500 and $5000 in
money and stamps.
A rebellion against the government
of President Jiminez has begun at Moca,
Santo Domingo, and is led by the vice
president of the republic.
The Shenango furnace at Sharpsville,
Pa., has been closed on account of a
strike. Several employes were discharg-
ed and colored men substituted.
John Bosung. proprietor of a drug
store at Louisville, Ky., killed Miss
Grace Preston Thursday and commit-
ted suicide. Jealousy was the cause.
At Fond du lac, Wis, the Helmer
milling plant and elevator, containing
30,000 bushels of grain, have burned.
Loss, $65,000; insurance, about $335,000.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Com-
pany is about to make the experiment
of hauling Nova Scotia coal from St.
John, N. B, to Montreal and the West.
The quarterly statement of the com-
missioner of navigation shows that 308
sail vessels were built in the United
States for the quarter ending Septem-
ber 30. ——
Detective William L. Eoulks was shot
and instantly killed z¢ Cleveland, O.,
session of the Georgia Legislature,
which will be elected on the first
Wednesday in October and will assem-
ble on the fourth Wednesday in No-
vember, to submit a franchise amend-!
ment to the State constitution like tig
which has recently beti adopted in
North Carolina, _ The proposed amend-
ment Wak-Gitered in the last Legislature,
buf~though it was permitted to pass to
a third reading and all the time desired
for debate was allowed, it received only
three votes out of 175 in the popular]
branches of the general assembly,
where it originated. The author of the
measure, however, will be a member of
the new Legislature, and he has an-
nounced already that he will make an-
other effort to secure the submission
-
while trying ta fit a stop to a shooting
affray between union and non-union
molders,
. Gfews boring out the tunnel two miles
in length through the Cascade moun-
tains in Oregon have met from the east
and west. The tunnel will cost $3,-
000,000.
Congressman-at-large S. A. Daven-
port is framing a bill asking Congress
to appropriate $10,000 to raise the Ni-
agara, Commodore Perry's flagship, in
Erie bay.
The 11-year-old son of H. W. Barker,
of Thomas, W. Va., who was kidnapped
y gypsies from his home at Peoria,
Ill, six years ago, has just been restor.
ed to his father.
Fayette county (Pa.) auditors refuse
of his amendment.
Home Fired by a Child. |
“I set fire to the home because I did
not care to stay there any longer.”
This is the excuse pretty little Marga- |
ret May Kinley laughingly gives for |
placing the lives of the 20 inmates of
the Children’s home in Wilkinsburg, |
Pa, in jeopardy and the destruction of |
$10,000 worth of property. In the same!
calm manner this miniature degenerate |
tells how she tried to poison her play- I
mates by putting ammonia and carbon |
oil in their coffee. The maiden is now |
in jail with a charge of arson hanging |
over her, but she says she is not the!
least bit sorry.
Wounded by Burglars.
Charles A. Collier, one of the most |
prominent men in the South, was found |
Thursday lying at the foot of the stairs
to allow the bill of $2,100 for removal
of bodies from the old Connellsville
graveyard site of the proposed ar-
negie library.
The ingrain department of the Bige-
low Carpet Company at Lowell, Mass.
will shut down for two weeks, begin-
ning next Monday. About 500 hands
will be affected.
A Chinese squadron of 15 vessels is
now hovering off Shanghai and a naval
battle with the allied fleet is regarded
as imminent. The Boxer forces in the
vicinity of Shanghai are estimated at
130,000.
Hope Barnett and Edward Stanford
were killed at Port Tampa city, Fla,
Saturday night in a street duel growing
out of a political quarrel. Charles Bar.
ett, a brother of Hope, was seriously
wounded.
At Beatrice, Neb..
was fatally shot by Dr. W. Lee, one
in the back yard of his residence in At-|9f the most prominent physicians in the
lanta, Ga., with a bullet hole in his left |
side in the region of the heart.
tered but one word, “burglars,” and be-
came unconscious. His condition is re- !
garded as critical. |
Mr. Collier was a former mayor of
Atlanta, one of the 12 United ¢
commissioners to the Paris exposition
and a member of the Lafayette Monu-
ment association.
Two Dead From Exp'osion.
A blaze generated by the brisk appli- |
cation of gasoline to an article of cloth-
ing and communicated to a tub of the
liquid standing near partly wrecked and
burned a cleaning and dyeing establish-
ment at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday after-
noon, destroyed two lives and injured
others.
Would Wipe Out Foreigners.
The French consul at Shanghai cables
that, according to Chinese information,
the viceroys and governors have receiv-
ed an imperial secret decree instructing
them to hght the foreigners and destroy
them. Tung Fuh Sian. an ardent anti-
foreigner, has been appointed general
of the western and northern armies.
State. The shooting occurred during
He ut- | a quarrel over a bill which Lee claimed
Hurn owed him.
Sheriff May at Greensburg, Pa., Tues-
day, read John Sadler's death warrant
to him, but it had no more effect upon
him than the reading of the Declara-
tion of Independence would have upon
a Hottentot.
A recent operation for cataract per-
formed on the eyes of Judge James G.
Jenkins, of the United States circuit
court at Milwaukee, Wis., has been a
complete success, and the jurist’s sight
so long threatened is restored. 1
Hon. S. M. Parent has accepted the
premiership of Quebec province, to suc-
ceed the late premier, Marchand. Hon.
Thomas Duffy will be the provincial
treasurer and L. Gouin, M. P., of Mon-
treal, will succeed Mr. Duffy as the
commissioner of public works.
The plant of the Albion Lumber
Company, situated at Albion, Cal, was
destroyed by fire, together with 400,000
feet of lumber and 1,000 cords of tan-
bark. The dry kiln, store, hotel anc
several dwellings belonging to the com-
pany were also consumed. The loss is
between $125,000 and $150,000.
William J. Hurn |
W. F
LORD ROBERTS HAS BEEK PROMOTED
BULLER TO SUCCEED.
Victor of the South African War Becomes Com-
mander-in- Chief of the British Army.
Canadians Sail Homeward.
It is officially announced that Lord
Roberts has been appointed command-
er-in-chief of the British army, succeed-
ing Gen. Wolseley. Sunday was Lord
Roberts’ sixty-eighth birthday.
The announcement is hailed by the
Unionist party as a welcome pledge
that army re-organization will be car-
ried out in the most effective manner.
It was beginning to be recognized that
something was needed to give strength
to the Unionist campaign. According-
ly semi-official announcements are out
that George Wyndham, parliamentary
under secretary of state for war, in his
speech at Derby Monday evening, will
outline the government's scheme of
army reforms and the war office is ar-
ranging with Lord Roberts for the re-
turn of a large portion of the army in
South Africa.
The Canadian contingents, under Col.
Telletier, sailed Sunday on board the
transport Idaho. The people of Cape
own accorded them a splendid im-
promptu reception, the mayor voicing
the thanks of the city for their brilliant
services in the field.
A report comes from Komati Poort
that Mr. Kruger, in a letter to his wife,
announcing that he is going on a six
months’ holiday, said that after the cap-
ture of Machadadorp he knew the strug-
gle was hopeless and counseled moder-
ation, but that Mr. Steyn's “arbitrary
behavior” overruled his counsels.
EMISSARY FROM AGUINALDO.
The Rebel’s Former Secretary Comes to Tell
What the Filipinos Desire.
Saxto Lopez, formerly secretary and
confidant of Aguinaldo, arrived at New
York Sunday on the Campania. He is
said to have come here at the invitation
of Fiske Warren. He gave out this
statement:
“My object in visiting the United
States is not to interfere in American
politics, but solely to tell the American
people what the Filipinos desire in ref-
erence to the future government of our
country. It has been said that my
coming to America is in the interest
of certain persons and parties. We, as
Filipinos. know no parties in the United
States. ‘e have only one desire. To
seek justice for our country. Those
who desire to give us justice will no
doubt be glad to know the wants and
conditions of the Philippines. All we
want is peace with honor to both par-
ties, and I hope to be able to show that
the conditions of our country are such
as to fit us for the maintenance of that
independence.”
FILLIPPINOS ACTIVE.
Two Americans and Many Natives Killed in
Engagements Monday.
On Monday night vigorous insurgent
attacks were made upon the United
States outposts in the district 12 miles
south of Manila, the scene of the fight-
ing last October. It is estimated that
the rebels numbered 400. The Ameri-
cans dispersed the enemy, killing and
wounding 50.
A party of scouts belonging to the
Twenty-fifth infantry landed on the
island of Samar, the inhabitants and in-
surgents fleeing to the mountains. They
met with but slight resistance and burn-
ed a town.
It is reported that an American scout-
ing party encountered a body of insur-
gents in the province of Nueva Ecija,
two skirmishes ensuing, in which 12 of
the natives were killed. Similar brushes
have taken place near Indang and Si-
lang, in Cavite province, and near Iba
and Subig, in Zambales province, the
Americans having two killed and three
wounded.
ENGLISH ELECTIONS OVER.
Returns Show Great Victory for Government
Noy in Power.
The elections throughout Great Brit-
ain show a great conservative victory,
the liberals being almost snowed under
and lost to sight, their returns being
only three to the tory's five. It is a
distinct and emphatic endorsement of
the government now in power, and
Lord Salisbury, Mr. Balfour and Mr.
Chamberlain may regard their African
war and other extreme measures of the
past year as overwhelmingly sustained
by the English public.
t is possible that some of the weak-
er Members of the cabinet will be dis-
pensed with, but this is not likely to
happen until it gets far down beyond
Mr. Chamberlain's name. His waning
popularity at the time of Gen. Buller's
repeated defeats has long since been
forgotten and he is now known only as
one who added new territories to the
imperial government.
WITHDRAWAL FROM PEKIN.
Only an Ameriean Guard to Remain in the
Chinese Capital.
The United States government Tues-
day took the first step toward the =e-
demption of its pledge made to the Rus-
sian government August 28 by a cable
dispatch of instruction to Gen. Chaffee
to reduce the American forces in China
to the proportions of a legation guard.
This small force will not be included in
{any military operations which may be
conducted by the allied armies, and so
will not fall subject to the direction of
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee,
the commander-in-chief.
It is stated at the quartermaster’s de-
partment that there are enough trans-
ports available to bring off the force
which will come out of China. Three
ior four vessels will be at Taku by the
time the troops are ready to move.
Government Advances Silver.
Owing to the advance in the price
{ of silver Director of the Mint Roberts
| has increased the price to be paid by
{ the Government for silver purchased
{from 55 to 57 cents a standard ounce.
i The Government at present purchases
only such silver as is contained in gold
deposits from the Klondike, and other
gold-producing sections. Under the ex-
isting statute all silver in gold deposits
iis paid for at- the market price. The
I price has advanced steadily since 1896,
when it touched 47 cents for a standard
ounce. The new price went into effect
on Monday.
Great Sa'e of Stamps for Year.
The annual report of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Madden for the fis-
cal year ending June 30, 1900, soon to
be published, will show a largely-in-
creased use of the postal system. The
total number of postage stamps of all
kinds issued, including ordinary stamps,
postage-due stamps, stamped envelopes
and postal cards, reached the enormous
total of five and one-third billions, val-
ued at $08,000,000, an increase of over
400,000,000 stamps over the preceding
year.
An Immense Massacre.
A telegram from the convent of the
Holy Soul, in Shanghai, says that 43,-
oco Chinese Catholics have been massa-
cred in various parts of the empire.
Other dispatches state that Bishop Fan-
tosali was horribly tortured to death in
Yun Nan province and that Father
Quirine was killed at the same time.
George Marrifold, a
er at Berlin, Pa.,
he broke a rib.
hay fever suffer-
sneezed so hard that
| DIPTHERIA IS ALARMING.
Fifty-four Cases Reported in Altoona—-Dis-
ease is Raging in Blair and Bedford
Counties—Schools Closed.
The epidemic of diphtheria continues
to spread in Altoona, Pa., and unless
it is soon checked the death rate will
far exceed any previous year in the his-
tory of that city. To guard against the
spread of the disease the Millvile
schools have been closed, and it is
likely that the Fifth ward schools of the
city will close in a day or two. There
are now 54 cases of the disease known
to the local board of health, which is
using all its power to prevent a spread ot
the epidemic.
An epidemic of diphtheria has been
raging for the last week in the small
town of Pavia, Bedford county, Pa., z0
miles from Johnstown. Nine children
have so far died with the disease, and
more than twice that number are now
suffering from it, besides many grown
persons. The public schools have been
closed and a town board of health or-
ganized, and everything possible is be-
ing done by the citizens to combat the
disease.
The diphtheria epidemic continues to
spread at Altoona and the situation has
become alarming. Twelve new cases
were reported Thursday, making a total
of 76 cases reported to the health board
this week. Three deaths occurred as
the result of the disease. The Millville
and Ninth ward schools and churches
have been closed to prevent the disease
from spreading.
J. R. ADAMS SUICIDES.
Himself Friday by Shooting.
Josiah R. Adams, a prominent club-
man and lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa.,
committed suicide Friday in the Hotel
Flanders by blowing out his brains with
a revolver. He had given his wife no
intimation of such an intention and left
no note to show that the act was pre-
meditated. The couple had been living
at the hotel for some time.
Ir. Adams was about 52 years of age
and about a year ago the nominee of
the Republican party for judge of the
supreme court of ennsylvania. His
candidacy met with much opposition
within his party, led by one of the anti-
Quay Republican morning papers. He
finally resigned as a candidate and ex-
United States Senator John I. Mitchell,
of Tioga county, was named in his place
and elected.
He was a graduate of Princeton and
was admitted to the bar in 1874. He
was a member of the University, Art,
Clover and Philadelphia Yacht clubs.
He was recently commodore of the lat-
ter.
CHINA MADE A BLUNDER.
Appointment of Tuan Likely to Block the
Peace Parleys.
Apprehensions of delay in peace nego-
tiations with China, caused by the ap-
pointment of Prince Tuan, the Boxer
chief and father of the heir apparent to
the throne, as grand secretary to the
emperor, were strengthened, when the
tate department received from Sheng,
taotai of Shanghai, announcement that
the appointment had been made. Sheng
says nothing of the reported designation
of Tuan as president of the privy coun-
cil, but it is according to Chinese forms
for a prince of Tuan’s rank to fill both
posts simultaneously.
The State department has taken steps
through Minister Wu to impress upon
the Chinese government the undesirabil-
ity of the appointment of Prince Tuan
as grand secretary, and the painful im-
pression this appointment has created
throughout this country. The effect of
his appointment, if persisted in, might
be to retard any negotiations.
FE
CUBAN OFFICER MURDERED.
Deed Committed in a Santiago Cafe by a
Drunken Friend.
Wednesday evening shortly before
midnight, Col. Pavon, of the Cuban
army, was killed in the cafe Comercio,
at Santiago, by Octavio Mena, formerly
a clerk in the office of the captain of
the port.
Mena and one of his companions
were intoxicated and had been breaking
furniture. It was proposed that they
should practice revolver shooting at a
quarter of a dollar tossed into the air.
Col. Pavon intervened and a sharp con-
troversy ensued. This quickly develop-
ed into a furious quarrel and Mena,
snatching ihe revolver of one of his
party, shot Col. Pavon in the back o
the neck. The officer turned to face
his assailant and received two bullets in
the head, being instantly killed.
In civil life Pavon carried on the bus-
iness of a tobacco merchant at Holguin.
Mena is in jail and incommunicado.
MRS. HENROTIN HAS FAILED.
-
One Who Won Fame Telling Women How to
Succeed, Wrecked Financially.
Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, of Chicago,
former president of the National Feder
ation of Women’s Clubs, and now a
vice president of the organization, has
failed in business. She attracted atten-
tion for two years by her speeches and
pleas for “Women in Business.”
Mrs. Henrotin held that an up-to-date
woman was well qualified for conducting
business enterprises. When the routine
of the household became irksome all she
had to do was to go into business and
shine resplendently. Thousands of wo-
men all over the land applauded and
looked for business openings.
Mrs. Henrotin went into business.
Sad to say, the business has gone to
everlasting smash. She was a partner,
so the unsympathetic creditors say, in
the firm of Ulric G. Peters & Co., stock
brokers. Peters & Co. have failed, with
liabilities $73,244 and assets at $2,067.
James Howard to Hang.
The motion for a new trial in the case
of James Howard was overruled by
Judge Cantrill, and Howard has been
sentenced to hang December 7. It was
agreed that the attorneys should be al-
lowed to file their bill of exceptions in
the appeal to the court of appeals any
time between now and the third week
in October.
Howard did not weaken or appear agi-
tated when the solemn sentence of the
court consigning him to the gallows
was pronounced upon him, but in an-
jswer to the usual question of the court
iif he could show cause why sentence
should not be pronounced, he said in a
firm, clear voice: “I am innocent.”
Se
Burglars Loot a Bank.
Wolf Bros.” bank at Centerville, Mich.
was robbed Friday night of $10,000.
The thieves gained entrance to the
building by prying and springing the
double door apart with a large file, The
outer door to the vault was then blown
open and then the inner door to the
cash drawer, where about $10,000 was
stored.
The bank was insured in the Bankers
Mutual Casualty Company, of Des
Moines, Ia, for $10,000 against loss by
burglary or fire.
Race War Threatened.
Monday morning at 12:50 o'clock
Gov. McSweeney, at Columbia, S. C..
received a telegram from Mayor W. D.
Morgan, of Georgetown, appealing to
have the militia ordered out to sup-
press a threatened race riot. The gov-
ernor immediately wired Col. Spark-
man, of Georgetown, to have his caval-
ry troops hurried there. The trouble
was caused by a negro killing a white
man. Georgetown is on the coast and
the negroes outnumber the whites over-
whelmingly.
BOXER LEADERS WILL BE PUNISHED
PRINCE DEGRADED.
Tuan, the Boxer Leader, to be Tried by the
Highest Chinese Court—Opens
the Way for Peace.
Consul General Goodnow, at Shang-
hai, cables to the State department at
Washington that Sheng, director of
railroads and telegraphs, has handed
him a decree from the empress dowager
and the emperor, dated at Taig Nan,
ordering the degradation of four princes
and depriving Prince Tuan, leader of
the Boxers, of his salary and official
servants. Tuan is to be brought to
trial before the imperial clan court.
This court is t supreme judicial tri-
bunal of China, and is presided over by
Prince Li, with Prince Ching, friend of
the foreigners and co-peace envoy with
Li Hung Chang, as first vice president.
This action is very satisfactory to the
United States government, which re-
gards it as a long step forward toward a
final settlement.
rinces Chwang and Yih, who are re-
ported to have been dismissed from
hereditary rank and all offices, were
prominent advisers of the throne and
have given anti-foreign advice. Sec-
ondary Prince Tsai Ying, also said to
have been degraded. and Duke Tsai
Lan, whose penalty for anti-foreign ac-
tion is now pending before the board
of war, are Tartar generals in command
of Manchu battalions. Grand Secretary
Kank Yi, said to have handed over to
a board of war for the fixing of pen-
alty, is a member of the privy council
and a virulent anti-foreigner. Chao
Chui Chen and Secondary Prince Tsai
Lien are conspicuous anti-foreign lead-
ers.
Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, ex-
presses his strong approval of Li Hung
Chang’s suggestion that the United
States act as mediator between China
and the powers.
AMERICA WILL INSIST
On the Death of Prince of the Blood and
Prominent Boxer Chiefs.
Deprivation of the yellow jacket or
imprisonment in the cases of General
Tung-Fu-Siang and Prince Tuan will,
it is authoritatively stated, not be ade-
quate punishment. While no statement
to that effect is to be had on the sub-
ject the general understanding is the
death penalty for Tuan, a Prince of the
blood, Yung-Lu, Tung-Fu-Siang and
Chuang will be exacted by the United
tates as well as the rest of the powers.
The only disagreement with sermany
on that point is as to when those men
shall be decapitated, before or after ne-
gotiations are formally resumed.
There was undisguised satisfaction at
the state department over the announce-
ment that Great Britain has answered
Germany in the same terms as the
United States. At the department it
was protested that no intimation as to
Great Britain's position had been re-
ceived before the press dispatches were
received. Britain’s answer instead of
showing America's isolation shows that
Germany is practically alone.
STUDENTS FIERCE FIGHT.
A Class Rush at the Western University Re-
sults in Broken Heads.
Broken heads, bruised faces, bloody
noses and ruined clothes figured in a
desperate battle between students at
the Western university, Allegheny, Pa,
Wednesday morning in the annual rush
of the freshman and sophomore classes.
Three students are confined to their
beds with serious injuries, and a num-
ber of others are nursing painful bruises.
The conflict was precipitated by the
sophomores’ successful attempt to tear
down the “’04” pennant, which the
freshmen raised before the regular ex-
ercises. The flag had been unfurled on
the pole above the university building
after the sophomores had gone to their
class room. At lunch the sophomores
saw the flag and several started to climb
the pole to tear it down. The fresh-
man class came out at this stage and
a fight among 100 students followed.
Prof. Daniel Carhart, dean of the uni-
versity, and Prof. A. Frost made a
futile effort to prevent trouble. The
battle lasted nearly an hour.
STRUCK A GREAT GUSHER.
Lewis County, W. Va., Produces a Well That
Flows 4,800 Barrels a Day.
The South Penn Oil Company has
made a tremendous strike in a new oil
well in Lewis county, W. Va. The well
is flowing at the rate of 200 barrels an
hour, or 4,800 barrels a day. The tanks
provided are too small to hold this
great flow and the oil is being allowed
to run into a « eek and is there dammed
up, with a view of pumping it out later.
Tuesday the well made a tremendous
spurt and increased its outflow to 230
barrels an hour or 6,000 barrels a day.
Unfortunately, there is no tankage for
this large volume of oil, and much of
it flows on the ground and is dammed
up.
Only about 1,000 barrels a day can he
handled by the two-inch pipe connected
with the two 250-barrel tanks at the
well, so that 5000 barrels flows on the
ground every 24 hours.
Slavery in a Georgia Convict Camp.
Charges have been filed with the pris-
on commission of Georgia by Solicitor
. W. Edmondson, of Brooks county,
against the McRee convict camp man-
agers in Lowndes county, Ga., in the
form of affidavits from prominent citi-
zens to the effect that the McRee
brothers have kidnaped innocent men
and women and made them work under
armed guards for an indefinite period.
It is charged that one practice of the
McRee camp has been to employ
“trappers” to arrest innocent negroes
passing through the county and without
the form of trial to imprison them and
put them to work.
Talk of Seitlement.
President Truesdale, of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railway, says,
referring to the meeting at J. P. Mor-
gan & Co.'s office:
“I was at the meeting Thursday and
at other previous meectings. I know of
no settlement having yet been made,
but it will do no harm now for me to
tell you that negotiations toward the
settling of the strike are actually under
way. They are being conducted by a
man who does not directly represent
either party to the difficulty.”
Deady Cil Can’s Work.
Mrs. William Sloan, of McDonald,
Pa., aged 18 years, is nearing death, and
her 12-year-old sister, Ida Hogan, is
dead as a result of lighting a fire with
kerosene. The child's screams were
heard by Mrs. Sloan, who ran to her as-
sistance, and in an instant the clothing
of both was on fire.
Murdered For His Money.
Charles F. Peck, of New York a
wealthy real estate dealer, was found
dead on the sidewalk in West Seven-
teenth street. A large sum of money
and a costly watch and chain were miss
ing, and there is no doubt that he was
murdered and robbed.
Prof. T. R. Bell, principal of the
West Alexandria (Pa.) schools, broke
both bones of his ankle in a football
game.
In the view of many of the best posted
politicians in the State, the attempt to
place Georgia in line with Mississippi,
Louisiana and the Carolinas will fail.
A lamp explosion killed Otto Hurst,
19 years old, at Fredericksburg, O.
PROGRAM OUTLINED.
Both the Kaiser and the Empress Dowager
Seem Eager for the Fray—A Secret
Edict Issued by Prince Tuan.
Telegrams from London, dated Tues-
day, say: News from China indicates
that events are rapidly drifting in the
direction of war between China and
Germany.
There is the best reason for believing
that Count von Waldersee, on arriving
at Taku, will present an ultimatum de-
manding the surrender of five leaders
of the anti-foreign uprising. After a
few hours’ grace he will formally de-
clare war, and, taking advantage of
Germany's position as a belligerent, will
proceed to seize everything available
with the German forces and fleet.
It is expected Germany will take the
Wu-Sung forts and Kiangan arsenal,
thus dominating Shanghai. It is also
believed she will attack the Kiang-Win
forts on the Yang-tse from the land and
endeavor to seize the Chinese fleet, in-
cluding the valuable new cruisers. Fail-
ing this, she will at least occupy all the
province of Kiang-Su north of the
Yang-tse-kiang.
The French will support Germany.
This is no rumor, but reliable informa-
tion, and will probably be confirmed at
the foreign office. Prompt action is
necessary to prevent a coup, which will
constitute a serious menace to British
interests.
Chinese officials report that Prince
Tuan has issued a secret edict in the
name of the emoress dowager to the
effect that the imperial court has decid-
ed to continue the war against the
powers at whatever cost. he edict
threatens that any official failing to sup-
port the Manchus willebe beheaded as
a traitor, his whole family executed and
the {ombs of his ancestors demolished.
t is reported from Chinese sources
that the dowager empress has issued a
secret edict commanding Li Hung
Chang to raise an army and recapture
Peking.
AGED FARMER MURDERED.
Wealthy Resident of Ohio Beaten to Death
and Robbed in His Yard.
One of the most horrible murders
that ever occured in Lawrence county,
O., was that of George Washington
Noble, on Buffalo Creek, three miles
from the Ohio river. Mr. Noble was
65 years of age and for many years had
lived alone at his pretty country home
on Buffalo creek. He was one of the
pioneer settlers of that section, and had
amassed quite a fortune.
Monday afternoon several little girls,
who chanced to be passing by the Noble
homestead, were horrified to see the
dead body of Mr. Noble in the yard
in the rear of his house. Mr. Noble's
skull was crushed and his left jaw bone
was broken. His body was badly bruis-
ed and a big gash was inflicted across
his left hand. Hogs, which had reach-
ed the body, had caten away the great-
er part of the face. By his side lay a
huge hickory club covered with blocd
intermingled with hair from the aged
man’s head.
Mr. Noble’s pockets were turned
wrong side out, his watch taken, and
also a rifle which had been in a room
of his residence. The house had also
been ransacked. The authorities of
Lawrence county are diligently at work
on the case, but no clew has yet devel-
oped. Mr. Noble was a member of
the Masonic lodge of South Point.
JIM HOWARD CONVICTED.
Verdict Unexpected—Jury Disagreed on Pen-
aly, but Finally Agreed.
James B. Howard, who has been on
trial for the past ten days at Frankfort,
Ky., charged with being a principal in
the assassination of William Goebel, has
been found guilty, the jury fixing his
punishment at death.
W. H. Culton, who is under indict-
ment as an accessory to the Goebel
murder, and who gave damaging evi-
dence against both Howard and Caleb
Powers, was released on bail and his
case was continued until the January
term. His bond was fixed at $10,000.
Jim Howard, as he is commonly
known in the mountains, was the lead-
er of the Howard-White faction in the
Baker-Howard feud in Clay county, in
which numerous lives were taken. He
had killed George Baker and was sus-
pected of the assassination of Tom
Baker, who was killed after the same
fashion as the Goebel murder, and How-
ard’s friends believe that these facts had
very much to do with the making of the
verdict sentencing him to the gallows.
The trial of Henry E. Youtsey, of
Newport, will be called next at George-
town, next Monday.
CABLE FLASHES.
At Hamburg fire has destroyed ware-
houses and lumber yards to the value
of more than 1,000,000 marks.
Marquis Yamagata has resigned the
premiership of Japan, and Marquis Ito
has been asked to construct a new cabi-
net.
Capt. Sidney O’Danne, a tutor of Em-
peror William during his boyhood, who
was arrested at the beginning of the
year for swindling, has been declared
insane.
Emperor William of Germany has
bestowed the order of the Red Eagle
on Maj. Gen. Stoessel, “commander of
the international forces at Taku and
Tien Tsin.”
Emperor William has conferred on
George G. Ward, of New York, vice
president of the Commercial Cable
Company, the order of the Crown of
the Second Class.
In honor of the mayoral banquet in
Paris, the minister of war has pardon-
ed all military prisoners, and it is prob-
able that the minister of marine will
take similar action in the case of naval
prisoners.
Teon Berd, a former United States
vice consul at Hamburg, was sentenced
to 15 months’ imprisonment for misap-
propriating 23.500 marks, part of an in-
heritance which he received for two
American women.
George J. Goschen, first lord of the
admiralty, will, in the event of the tri-
umph of the Salisbury-Chamberlain
coalition at the coming general election,
be continued in his present post after
having received a peerage.
During the beatification of Antoinez
Frassi, one of the first chiefs of the Or-
der of Oratorians, at St. Peter's cathe-
al, at Rome, Sunday, the pope ven-
erated the effigy of the new saint in the
presence of thousands.
Pennsylvania Republican leaders will
charge Postmaster General Smith be-
fore the President with disloyalty to his
party.
Ellis Glenn, the female robber and
male impersonator at Parkersburg, W.
Va., is free on bail after pleading not
guilty.
George Emig and C. R. O'Donnell
were seritenced at Atlantic City to two
months in jail for scalping railroad
tickets.
A storm at Cape Nome, Alaska, on
September 12 and 13, made 500 people
homeless, and many lives are believed
to have heen lost.
A general merchandise concern un-
der the romantic name of the Love &
Sunshine Company. of Johnstown, has
been chartered at Harrisburg.
A natural gas explosion at Greens-
burg wrecked the house of Amos
Brooks, throwing the family out of bed
and badly injuring Mr. Brooks,
The shops of the Iron Mountain rail-
road, at Baring Cross, Ark., were burn-
ed, causing a loss of $250,000, and
throwing 400 men out of employment.
TIES SON ROL
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
Bubject : Spread the Gospel—=Efforts of
the Churches Should Be Directed
Toward Saving Sinners—They Should
Get in Sympathy With Strangers.
[Copyright 1900.1
WasHINGTON. D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage points to fields of usefulness
that are not yet thoroughly cultivated,
and shows the need of more activity. The
text is Romans xv, 20, “Lest I should
build upon another man’s foundation.”
In laying out the plan of his missionary
tour Paul sought out towns and cities
which had not yet been preached to. Ile
goes to Corinth, a city famous for splen-
dor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the
priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready
to leap with both feet upon the Christian
religion. He feels he has especial work
to do, and he means to do it. What was
the result? The grandest life of usefulness
that a man ever lived. We modern Chris-
tian workers are not apt to imitate Paul.
We build on other people’s foundations.
we erect a church. we prefer to have it
filled with families all of whom have been
pious. Do we eather a Sabbath-school class,
we want good boys and girls, hair combed,
faces washed, planners attractive. So a
church in this day is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend
all their time in fishing in other people’s
ponds. and they throw the line into that
church pond and jerk out a Methodist.
and throw the line into another church
pond and bring out a Presbyterian. or
there is a religious row in some neighhor-
ing church. and a whole school of fish
swim off from that pond, and we take
them all in with one sweep of the net.
What is gained? Absolutely nothing for
the cause cf Christ. What strengthens an
army is new recruits. While courteous to
those coming from other flocks, we should
build our churches not out of other
churches, but out of the world, lest we
build on another man’s foundation.
The fact is this is a big world. When
in our schoolboy days we learned the dia-
meter and circumference of this planet we
did not learn half. Tt is the latitude and
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woe and sin that no figures
can caleulrte. This one spiritual conti-
nent of wrefchedness reaches across all
zones. and if I were called to give its geo-
graphical boundary I would sav it was
bounded on the north and south and east
and west Ly the great heart of God's sym-
pathy i love. Oh, it is a great world!
Since 6 o'clock this morning 60,800 persons
have been born. and all these multiplied
ponulations are to be reached by the gos-
pel. In Enxzland or in our Eastern Ameri-
can cities we are being much crowded,
and an acre of ground is of great value,
but in Western America 500 acres is a
small farm, and 20.000 acres is no unusual
possession. There is a vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room
more, not building on another man’s foun-
dation.
We need as churches to stop bombard-
mg the old iron-clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris-
tian assault. Alas for that church which
lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending
on one chandelier enough to light 500
souls to glory, and in one carved pillar
enough to have made : thousand men
“pillars in the house of our God forever,”
and doing iess good than many a log
cabin meeting-house with tallow candles
stuck in wooden sock and a minister
who has never seen a college and does
not know the difference between Greek
and Choctaw! We need as churches to
get into svmpathy with the great outside
world, and let them know that none are
so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that
they will not Le lcomed. “No.” says
some fastidious Christian; “I don't like to
be crowded in churck. Don’t put any one
in my pew.”
My brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a great multitude that no man can
number assembles, they will put fifty in
vour pew. What are the select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches com-
pared with the mightier millions outside
of them? Many of the churches are like
a hospital that shoul advertise that its
patients must have nothing more than
toothache or “run rounds,” hut no broken
heads, no ciushed ankles, mo fractured
thighs. Give us for treatment moderate
sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners
with a gloss on. Jt is as though a man
had a farm of 3000 acres and put all his
work on one acre. He may raise ever so
large cars of corn, ever so big heads of
wheat — he would remain poor. The
church of God has bestowed its-<hief care
on one acre, and has raised splendid men
women in that small inclosure, but the
field is the world. That means North
and South America. Lurope. Asin and
Afr and all the islands of the sea. It
is as though, after a great battle, there
were left 50.000 wounded and dying on the
field and three surgeons gave all their
time to three patients under their charge.
The major general comes in and says to
the doctors. “Come out here and look at
the nearly 50,000 dying for lack of surgi-
cal attendance.” 0.” say the three doc-
tors, standing there fanning their patients.
“we have three important cases here, and
we are attending to them. and when we
are not posidvely busy with their wounds
it takes all our {ime to keen the fies off.”
In thiz awful baitie of sin and SOrrow,
where millions have fallen on millions, do
not let us spend all our time in taking
care of a few people, and when the com-
mand comes. “Go into the world,” say
practically: “No, I cannot. 1 have here
f i ases, and I am busy keeping
There are multitudes to-
have never had any Christian
worker look them in the eye and with
earnestness in the accentuation say,
“Come!” or they would long ago have
been in the kingdom. My friends. reli-
gion is cither a sham or a great reality.
£ it be a sham. let us disband our
churches and Christian associations, If
it be a reality, then great populations are
on the way to the bar of God unfitted for
the ordeal. And what are we doing?
n order to reach the multitude of out-
siders we aust drop all technicalities out
of our religion. When we talk to people
about the hypostatic union and French
encyclopedianism and Erastinianism and
Complutensianism. we are impolite and as
little understood as it a physician should
talk to an ordinary patient about the per-
icardium and intercostal muscle and scor-
: £ -mptoms. [aay of us come out of
theological seminaries so loaded up
we qa” the st ten years to show
our people how much we know and the
next ten years to get our people to know
as much as we know, and at the end we
find that neither of us knows anything
as we ought to know. Here ave }
Pp
hundreds
of thousands of sinning, struggling and
dying people who need to realize just one
thing—that Jesus Christ came to save
them and will save them now. But we
got in o a profound and elaborate defini-
tion of -vhat justificrtion is. and after all
the work there are not. outside of the
learned professions, 10,000 people who can
tell what justification is. 1 will read you
the definitions: “Justifica 1on is purely a
forensic act, the act of a judge sitting in
the forum, in which the Supreme Ruler
and Judge, who is accountable to none,
and who alone knows the manner in which
the ends of His universal gove-uvment can
best be obtained, reckons that which was
done by the substitute in the same man-
ner as if it had been done by those who
believe in the substitute, and purely on
account of this gracious method of reclk-
oning grants them the full remission of
their sins.”
Now, what is justificatien? 1 will tell
you what Tustification is—when a sinner
elieves, God lets him off. One summer
in Connecticut IT went to a large factory,
and T saw over the doer written the
words, “No Admittance.” I entered and
saw over the next door “No Admittance.”
Of course I entered. TI got inside and
found it a pin factory. and they were
making pins. very serviceable, fine and
useful pins. So the spirit of exelusiveness
has practically written over the outside
door of manv a church. “No Admittance.”
And if the stranger enters he finds practi-
cally writt + over the second door. “Nn
Admittance.” while the minister stands
in pulpit hammering out his little
nice ies of belief, pounding ont the techni-
calities of religion. making pins.
In the most practical, common-sense
wav and laving aside the non-essentials
and the hard definitions of religion go out
on the God given mission, telling the neo-
ple what thev need and when and how
they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as vet has
been made to save that large class of per-
sons in our midst called skeptics. and he
who goes to work here will not be build-
ing upon another man’s foundation. There
is a large number of them. They are
afraid of ua and our churches, for the rea-
son we do not know how to treat them.
One of this class met Christ and heard
with what tenderness and pathos and
henuty and success Christ dealt with him:
“Thou shalt love the Tord thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thv mind, and with all’ thy
strength. This is the first and great
Jane es Bh
commandment, and the second is like unto | lain’s Pain Balm.
eee
as thyself. There is none other com:
mandment greater than these ™ And the
scribe said to Him, “Well. Master. Thou
hast said the truth. for there is one God,
and to love Him with all the heart, and
all the understanding. and all the soul,
and all the strength. is more than whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetlv He
said unto Him. “Thou art not far from
the kingdom of God.” So a skeptic wag
savel in one interview. But few Chris
tian people treat the skepuie in that way.
Instead of takinz hold of him- with the
gentle hand of love we are ant to take
him with the pinchers of ecclesiasticism.
You would not be go rough on that mag
if yon knew how he lost his faith in Chris
tianity. 1 have known men skeptical from
the fact that they grew in in houses where
religion ° «3 overdone. Sunday was the
most awful day in the week. They had
religion driven into them with a trip ham-
mer: they were surfeited with prayer
meetings; they were stuffed and choked
with catechisms: they were often told
that they were the worst bovs the parents
ever knew because they liked to ride down
hill better than to rcad Bunyan’s “Pil
rim’s Progress.”
g ners father and mother talked of
religion they drew down the corners of
their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If
any cne thing will send a boy or girl to
ruin sooner than another that is it. If
had such a father and mother I fear 1
should have been an infidel. s
The first word that caildren learn is
generally papa or mamma. think the
first word I ever uttered was “‘whv.” 1
know what it is to have a hundred mid-
nights pour their darkness into one hour,
Oh, skepticism is a dark land! ‘There
are men who would give a thousand
worlds, if they possessed them, to get
back to the placid faith of their fathers
and mothers, and it is our place to help
them, and we may help them. never
through their heads, but always through
their hearts.
These skeptics, when brought to Jesus,
will be mightily effective, far more so than
those who never examined the evidences
of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers wag
once a skeptic, Robert Hall a skeptic,
Robert Newton a skeptic. Christian Evans
a skeptic. But when once with strong
hand they took hold of the chariot of the
gospel they rolled it on with what mo-
mentum! -
Tf I address such men and women to-day
I throw out no scoff. TI implead them by
the memory of the good old days when at
their mother’s knee they said, ‘low I
lay me down to sleep,” and by those days
and nights of scarlet fever in which she
watched you, giving you the medicine in
just the right time, and turning your pil-
low when it was hot, and with hands that
many years ago turned to dnst soothed
away your vain and with voice that you
will never hear again, unless you join her
in the better country, told you to never
mind, for you would icel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked sc pale and talked so slowly, catch-
iy her breath between the words, and you
felt
an awful loneliness coming over your
soul—by all that I beg you to come back
and take the same religion. -
It was good enough for her; it is good
enough for you. Nay, I have a better plan
than that. I plead by all the wounds and
tears and blood and groans and agonies
and death throes of the Son of God, who
approaches you this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whinped
ack and saying, “Come unto Me all ye
who are weary and heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.”
Again, tnere is a field of usefulness but
little touched, occupied by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na-
tions, like those of North American and
England and Scotland — that is, in the
colder climates—are devastated by alco-
holism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth. In southern countries, like
Arabia and’ Spain, the blood is se warm
they are not tempted to fiery hquids. The
great Roman armies never drank any-
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants is
most mighty and millions succumb. When
a man’s habits go wrong, the church drops
him, the social circle drops him, good in-
fluences drop him—we all drop him. Of
all the men who get off the track but few
even get on again.
Destitute children of the street offer a
field of work comparatively unoccupied.
The uncared for chi‘dren are in the ma-
jority in most of our cities. When they
grow up, if unreformed, they will outvote
your children, and they will govern your
childrea.
The whisky ring will batch out other
whisky rings, and grog shops will kill
with their horrid stench public sobriety
unless the church of God rises up with out-
stretched arms and nfolds this dying pop-
ulation in her bosom.
Public schools cannot do it. Art galler-
ies cannot do it. Blackwell’s Island can-
not do it. Almshouses ~annot no it.
Jails cannot do it. Church oi God, wake
up to your magnificent mission! You can
do it! Get somewhere, somehow to work!
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot in the stirrup, while the
American cavalry mount by putting their
left foot into tie stirrup. 1 do not care
how you mount your war charger if vou
only get into this battle for God and get
there soon, right stirrup or left stirrup
or no stirrup at all. The unoccupied fields
are all around us, and why should we
build on another man’s foundation? I
have heard of what was called the ‘“thun-
dering legion.” It was in 179 a part of the
Roman army to which some Christians
belonged, and their prayers, it was said,
were answered by thunder and lightning
and hail and tempest which overthrew
an invading army and saved the empire.
And T would to God that our ehurches
might be so mighty in prayer and work
that they would become a thundering le-
gion before which the forces of sin might
be routed and the gates ot hell might
tremble. Launch the gospel ship for an-
other voyage. feave aw-y now, lads’
Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail!
Come, O heavenly wind, :nd fill the can-
vas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety.
Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward.
Jesus on the shore will welcome us inte
arbor.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Andrew Carnegie has promised
Greenock, Scotland, $25,000 for a Ji-
brary.
The oldest of the colonial representa-
‘ives in London is Lord Strathcoma, of
Canada.
Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the
Merrimac is on duty at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
John Sherman, former secretary of
state, has returned to Washington to
spend his declining days.
The Duke and Duchess of York will
visit Australia next vear to open the
first parliament of the Federation.
President Toubet of France, is inter-
ested in autographs and has one of
he best private collections in that coun-
TV.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has of
late years been evincing interest in
athletics with which he was of old lit-
tle credited.
General Stewart N. Woodford, form-
er minister to Spain, was married to
Miss Isabel Hanson, his private sec-
retary, at New York city.
Justin McCarthy, novelist, historian
and statesman, announces his retire-
ment from parliamentary life on account
of failing health.
he new king of Italy proposes to
give his valnable collection of rare
old coins to one of the State museums.
He says that if he kept it he would
give to its improvement time which
his present duties will not allow him
to snare.
Abner Robbins, the leading capitalist
of Eastern Oregon, is one of the most
eccentric of the American millionaires.
e lives alone in a lonely hut, prefe:s
humble fare and will not accept a pass
on his own railroad.
Gerhart Hauptmann, the German
dramatist, does not have to depend
on his pen for a living. His work
pays him very well, but he inherited one
fortune and his wife brought him anoth-
er. Most of his investments are in real
estate.
Ireland is the paradise for fishermen
who are not millionaires. Tickets for
fishing cost less than half what they do
in England. Hotel expenses are cheap-
er. A three weeks’ fishing holiday in
Ireland can be done on about £10.
Dallas, Texas, has floated a‘loan of
$150,000 at 4 per cent. interest, the low-
est rate ever obtained by any Southern
city of the second class.
For sprains, sweiiings and lameness
there is nothing so good as Chamber-
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