NON § GERERRL IN FLIPNO HRW
RENEGADE REWARDED.
David Fagan, a Deserter of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry, Now Leads a Band
of Guerrillas.
David Fagin, a deserter from the
Twenty-fourth United States infantry,
who has been rewarded for his treason
by the post of general in the Filipino
army, at the head of 150 rebels, attack-
ed and captured a civilian launch near
Arayat. American soldiers, hearing the
firing, turned and recaptured the launch
and the barge loaded with merchandise
which it had been towing before they
could be looted.
Fagin has sworn especial enmity to-
wards his former comrades. Of the 20
men he captured a month ago seven
have returned. One was killed in a
fight, his body being horribly mutilated.
agin sends messages to his former
comrades, threatening them with ven-
geance if they become his prisoners.
It was Fagin's men who captured Lieut.
Frederick L. Alstaetter, who is still a
prisoner.
While scouting near Looc a detach-
ment-of the Twentieth and Twenty-
eighth regiments under Capt. Beigler
were attacked by 400 insurgents armed
with rifles under the command of a
white man whose nationality is not
known to t! Americans. The insur-
gents for the most part were intrenched
After an heroic fight Capt. Beigler
drove off the enemy, killing more than
75. The fight lasted for two hours
Capt. Beigler and three privates were
slightly wounded, and two of the Amer-
icans were killed.
A BRUTAL INSURGENT.
Rebel Captain Sentenced to Death for Fiend-
ish Treatment of Prisoners.
The rebel Captain Novicio has been
tried by a military commission at Baler,
Northern Luzon, charged with burying
alive a seaman named McDonald, of
Lieutenant Gilmore's Yorktown party.
Novicio was found guilty and sentenced
to death. The commission’s sentence is
now in the hands of General MacArthur
for approval. ;
Testimony was produced at the trial
showing that Novicio also caused the
death of Van Ville, another member of
Lieutenant Gilmore's party, by deliver-
ing him into the hands of the native
tribesmen known as Igorrotes, who, un-
der the pretext of going fishing, lured
Van Ville into the woods and murdered
him and two Spaniards, who were Van
Ville’s fellow-captives. The tribesmen
bound Van Ville, opened his veins and
sucked his blood until he was dead.
EXPLOSION TOO HEAVY.
Daring Attempt to Loot Bedford Counly
Treasurer’s Safe.
A daring attempt to rob the county
treasurer's office in the court house at
Bedford, Pa... was frustrated Friday
morning by the force of the explosion,
when the vault doors were blown off,
breaking the windows in the building.
The noise of the falling glass put the
thieves to flight. The entire town, al-
most, was awakened by the explosion,
but the robbers made good their escape.
The treasurer had just collected sev-
eral thousand dollars, but had fortunate-
ly deposited it in bank, and had the
burglars gained an entrance to the in-
ner vault they would only have secured
about $200. The commissioners have
offered a reward of $200 for the capture
of the guilty parties.
MUST FACE SERIOUS CHARGES.
Capt. Hall, Who Commanded Marines at
Pekin Accused of Cowardice.
Gen. Heywood, commandant of the
marine corps, has ordered an investiga-
tion of charges against Capt. Newt
Hall, of Texas, who commanded the
American marines within the beleag-
ured legation at Pekin. Minister Con-
ger preferred the case which practically
amounts to charging Hall with coward-
ice.
Minister Conger claims that Hall re-
fused an important strategic point in the
legation compound, and afterwards re-
fused to perform some routine defensi
duty on the ground that it was impossi-
ble to do so. A number of Russian sol-
diers performed the service successfully,
proving that Hall was wrong.
Transvaal is Annexed.
At Pretoria Friday the Transvaal
was proclaimed a part of the British em-
pire, with impressive ceremonies. The
royal standard was hoisted in the main
square of the city, the Grenadiers pre-
sented arms, massed bands played the
National anthem, Sir Alfred Milner read
the proclamation and 6,200 troops, rep-
resenting Great Britain and her colo-
nies, marched past.
Two hundred Boers unsuccessfully at-
tacked the garrison at Jacobsdal.” It
was defended by a detachment of the
Cape Town Highlanders, who had 14
killed and 20 wounded.
5 Will Open Negotiations.
Minister Conger has been authorized
to begin negotiations at once with the
Chinese envoys on the basis of the
points in the German and French notes,
upon which all the powers are agreed.
Upon these points where divergence of
views exist the governments will ne-
gotiate to reach a further understand-
ing. It has been decided that the min-
isters in Pekin shall conduct any ne-
gotiations that may be necessary with
the Chinese government in. place of
confiding these to commissions to be
sent out from each country to Pekin.
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Do Not Wish to Be Sold.
Intense adverse feeling has been ex-
cited at St. Thomas by the renewal of
the report that Denmark intends to sell
the Danish Antilles to the United
States. A meeting of the Colonial
council has been convoked at St. Croix
for the purpose of making a formal pro-
test.
The newspaper discuss the question,
declaring in bold type, “We do not
wish to be sold.” There is no desire,
much less enthusiasm, among the popu-
lation to belong to the United States.
Aiter An Immense Estate.
The Von Sitler German society, the
members of which claim they are heirs
to $60,000,000 supposed to be held up
L'y the German government, is holding
its annual convention in Harrisburg,
Pa., to devise a plan by which they may
secure possession cf this immense for-
tune. The convention opened with 2c0
descendents of Baron von Sitler of
Alsace-Loraiie, from Pennsylvania, Illi-
nois, Missouri and Maryland, present.
The society meets once a vear to talk
over its claim.
American Troops Leave Pekin.
The United States in-
fantry has departed from Pekin. The
date of the meeting of the foreign min-
isters with Prince Ching and Li Hung
Chang has not been definitely fixed.
Some of the ininisters have not yet re-
ceived instructions from their govern-
ments; two are absent from the capital
and one is ill
Fourteenth
Fought Sheriff's Posse.
A sheriff's posse in pursuit of five
prisoners who escaped from Doniphan
jail overtook the men near Dalton,
Ar A battle was fought and two
members of the posse were dangerously
wounded. Three of the prisoners were
wounded and one recaptured.
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LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Titus-
ville, Pa
prevailed in
A severe snow storm
Spain Wednesday.
Several Indian skeletons have been
unearthed near Sharon, Pa.
Joseph Chessor, a lumber _merchant,
was assassinated at Norton, Va.
Austria-Hungary has given her as-
sent to the Anglo-German agreement.
The total catch of seals in Bering sea
during the season just closed was 32,-
24/7.
The flooded mines at Hecla No. 2,
Westmoreland county, are again in op-
eration.
The total of contributions for relief
f Galveston flood sufferers to date is
$1,140,368. :
Fire destroyed the business portion of
Dunavant, Kan. The losses are $50,000,
partially insured.
Two thousand recruits will be sent to
the army in the Philippines within the
next three weeks.
At St. Paul, Minn., fifty-two horses,
41 vehicles and a large livery barn were
destroyed by fire.
Frank Williams, a civil engineer, was
drowned while attempting to cross a
iver in Puerto Rico.
Carry Caldwell, a negress, killed her
three children and then committed sui-
cide at Charlotte, N.
The Shenango tin plate plant, of New
Castle, Pa., will resume operations in
full Tuesday morning.
The New Castle and Sharon (Pa.)
Street Railway Company, capital $150,-
000, has been chartered.
Johnnie Leach, a s5-year-old boy at
Franklin, Pa., fell into a tub of hot wat-
er and was scalded to death.
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, has ap-
proved the election bill passed at the
extra session of the Legislature.
A trustee of Beloit, Ill, college has
promised to give the institution $200,-
000 if another $150,000 is raised.
Seeds Brothers’ bank at Bridgeport,
Ind., was robbed of over $1,000 in cash
and a considerable sum in notes.
#Alexander McKenzie, a North Da-
kota absconder. has been captured with
$250,000 in gold in his possession.
William Killy, a tool dresser, was
killed by the explosion of a boiler at the
Wilson farm, near Washington, Pa.
Four persons were killed and three
injured in a Great Northern freight
wreck on the coast line near Seattle.
The Columbia Zinc and Lead Com-
pany, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been in-
corporated with a capital of $100,000.
The Hebrews of Palestine have pro-
jected a great university of Jewish
learning, to be located at Jerusalem.
Mrs. T. E. Carber, of Maytown, Pa,
died from lockjaw. Physicians were
unable to find any wound or scratch.
Patrick Rice, formerly one of the
greatest of Americanrace horse trainers,
committed suicide by taking laudanum.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com-
pany will erect an 18-inch finishing mill
at their Bessemer plant at Youngstown,
Ohio.
A big power plant is being established
at Massena, N. Y., which bids fair to
rival the famous Niagara Falls Supply
center.
At Falls Village, Conn. fire wiped
out the National bank, the postoffice,
the Methodist church and a store. Loss,
$30,000.
The Cariboo gold mine, of British
Columbia, has shipped to New York an
ingot weighing 753 pounds and valued
at $154,765.
Fourteen strikers at the Shenango
furnace, Sharpsville, Pa., have been en-
joined from trespassing and intimidat-
ing employes.
Consul McCook estimates that the
Klondike will yield from $15,000,000
to $20,000,000 of gold annually for many
vears to come.
Owing to the ravages of a mad dog,
cattle are being killed at Madison,
Westmoreland county, Pa., to prevent
an epidemic of rabies.
The State of Alabama claims a tract
of land a mile wide on the western bor-
der of Florida, and 100 miles of the
southern end of Florida.
The La Belle Company has just com-
pleted at Steubenville, O., the erection
of a continuous mill, which will be put
in operation in a few days.
Frank Rockefeller, of Cleveland, O.,
paid $5,050 for Columbus XVII,
vearling Hesiod bull, owned by Benton
Gabbert, of Dearborn, Mo.
The United States transport lawton
has arrived at Seattle with 500 stranded
miners brought from Cape Nome at the
expense of the Government.
It is rumored that ex-President Cleve-
land will be offered the presidency of
Washington and Lee university, vacat-
ed by William L. Wilson's death.
C. D. Snapp, confidential agent for
Caldwell & Smith, cotton brokers, of
Memphis, Tenn., has been arrested on
the charge of embezzling $32,000.
The miners employed by the Penn
Gas Coal Company at Irwin, Pa., will
erect a fountain as a memorial to their
late superintendent, John F. Wolf. ~
Chicago postoffice clerks have affil-
iated themselves with the Federation of
Labor, with the avowed purpose of
striving for an eight-hour workday.
It is reported the Laughlin Nail Com-
pany’s mill, at Martins Ferry, O., is to
Le remodeled into a wire nail plant to
be operated in opposition to the trust.
At Brushy Mountain, Tenn., Differ-
ences which led to a strike of 300 miners
employed. by the Crooked Fork Coal
& Coke Company have been adjusted.
The government has chartered the
British steamship Royalist, which it is
intended to operate as a United States
transport between Seattle and the Phil-
ippines.
James B. Dill, the eminent corpora-
tion lawyer, says adequate trust legis-
lation is possible only in Congress.
State laws cannot deal successfully with
the question.
With a laugh of scorn at a friend who
had questioned her bravery to commit
suicide, Miss Gertrude De Wade, of
Chicago, shot and probably fatally
wounded herself.
The will of Thomas Keating, the
horseman, has been filed in Oakland,
Cal., and disposes of an estate of about
$50,000. Keating leaves $50 for “any
widows that may turn up.”
. F. Redding, a prominent planter
of Madison county, Florida, was shot
»
and fatally wounded on his plantation
Tuesday night by a negro. A large
posse is pursuing the negro.
A total of $20,166,687 in gold dust and
bullion has been received at the assay
office at Seattle, Wash., during the year,
of which $3.173.320 came from Alaska
and $16.374,488 from the Klondike.
A mysterious epidemic has afflicted
the Indians along the Yukon river in
Alaska, 60 in 150 dying in two months.
Owing to inability to fish and hunt
they are now threatened with famine.
Four engineering corps have begun
laying out a railroad between Oren-
burg and Taschkend, Russia, for which
American locomotives have been order-
ed. The engineers will probably finish
the survey in IQ0O.
The sultan of Turkey has become
alarmed over the reported intention of
the powers to proclaim the complete
independence of Crete and intends to
send a fleet of decrepit cruisers into
Cretan waters as a hint that he will re-
sist such action.
Another feud has broken out in Clay
county, Ky., between the Philpots and
the deputy sheriffs under Sheriff Ben
White, headed by the friends of Felix
Davidson on the other side. In a fight
David Davidson and David Philpot
were killed. Several men were wound-
ed on both sides. 2 =
SOUTHERN CHINA NOW THREATENED
BOXERS GROW BOLD.
Chinese Authorities Indifferent to ihe Progress
of Rebeis—Two Thousand Villagers
Slainand the Town Burned.
Rebellion is.spreading along East
river and North river, in the province
of Kwang-Si, China. It is supposed to
te aimed at the overthrow of the Man-
chu dynasty, but the reports are so con-
tradictory that it is next to impossible
to form a lucid impression. In Canton
the Chinese officials are taking the in-
surrection so lightly that foreigners be-
lieve it will be very difficult to sup-
press.
The governor of Hongkong has been
informed that 4,000 villagers in the
Samtochuok-Kwaishin district were at-
tacked by rebels at Pengkok. The vil-
lagers were defeated and 2,000 of them
killed. The rebels, who lost 400 killed,
burned two villages containing 3,000
houses. A force of 2,000 troops went
to the assistance of the villagers and en-
gaged the rebels on October 22. No
details of the result have been receiv-
ed,
Gen. Ho, with 2,000 troops, has re-
turned to Hongkong, having burned the
villages of Shanchautin and Malantad.
Chinese officials have placarded the
Shetom district, offering several hun-
dred dollars’ reward for the heads of
four foreigners who are supposed to de
leading the rebels. The rice crop has
failed in Kwang-Si province and rob-
bers are pillaging. Rebellion and fam-
ine there are certain.
BAYONET FOR STRIKERS.
Canadian Militia Charge Upon a Mob—Eight
Soldiers and Fifteen People Wounded.
Over a score wounded, one fatally, is
the result of a conflict between the mi-
Iitia and the striking mill hands at Val-
leyfield, province of Quebec. A couple
of hundred men employed by the Mon-
treal Cotton Company on the founda-
tions of a new mill went out on strike,
demanding an increase of 25 cents a
day in their pay. The company refus-
ed to deal with the union. The strikers
prevented the company from shipping
goods, and held up the company’s coal
pile. The local police were powerless.
Consequently a message was sent to
Montreal asking for military assistance.
Thursday evening the mob gathered
rear the Empire mill and began throw-
ing stones through the windows and
otherwise destroying property. The
troops charged the mob with fixed bay-
onets. They were driven back. Eight
of their number were wounded, two of
them seriously. The strikers had 15
men injured, one fatally.
FIRE BOSSES IN DEATH TRAP.
One Man Killed and Another Severely Burnt
by a Mine Gas Explosion.
By an explosion of gas in No. 3 Bar-
num shaft of the ennsylvania Coal
Company at Pittston Saturday one man
was killed and another fatally hurt.
John B. Clark and Matthew Edwards,
fire bosses, entered the mine to make
an inspection preparatory to the col-
liery resuming operations. They had
not been in the mine long until a heavy
explosion of gas occurred.
Rescuers went down the mine and
found Edwards trying to make his way
out. He was badly burned and will
die. The search continued for Clark,
but he could not be found until several
hours after the explosion. When the
rescuers reached him he was dead, his
body being badly mangled by the force
of the explosion. The mine was also
damaged considerably by the explosion.
REBEL CHIEFS ACTIVE.
They Are Carrying Everything Before Them
in Southern China.
Refugees from Hui-Chow say the
rebels are welcomed everywhere. They
take nothing without payment and are
treated as guests instead of as enemies.
Their leaders are supposed to number
ten, each commanding a separate band.
The leader operating in the Kow-
Lung hinterland is a mere stripling, but
is everywhere successful, e is report-
ed to have defeated a large body of
imperial troops, killing 100 of the Chi-
nese soldiers. The surnames of four of
the rebel chiefs are Fong, Ho, Ching
and Chan.
Will Revise the Tariff.
The Philippine commission has de-
cided to compile the revised Philippines
customs tariff from its own investiga-
tions, assisted by the report of the army
board. The result will be forwarded to
the United States for publication and
discussion among those interested in
foreign commerce. The details appear
to be satisfactory and the draft has been
approved by the secretary of war. The
commission will promulgate it here as
a law. The measure has taken on a new
and international commercial interest
and the course of the commission is
heartily commended here.
Max Muller Dies at Oxford.
Friedrich Maximilian Muller, com-
monly known as Max Muller, corpus
professor of comparative philology at
xford University, Sunday, aged 77
years. For half a century he had been
celebrated as a philologist, orientalist,
scholar and author. It was intended
from his birth, in 1823, that he should
be a scholar.
Friedrich Max Muller's title to rank
as one of the most distinguished phil-
ologists of the century is secured by a
long lifetime’s output of industrial re-
searches into the origin of languages.
Fortune in One Nugget.
The biggest nugget of gold ever re-
at the assay office has arrived
mining company in British Co-
lumbia, consigned to the New York
agents of the Bank of Montreal. It
contained a fraction over 753 pounds of
the yellow metal and is valued at $154,-
000. It came in a solid cone and stood
about two feet high. This cone was
wrapped in canvas and fitted into an
oblong box made of two-inch planks
and heavily beund with iron. It re-
quired four men to handle it.
ceived
from a
Chicago Church Wrecked.
An explosion of acetylene gas which
was to be used for a stereoptican enter-
tainment wrecked the interior of the
First Presbyterian Church at Austin, a
suburb of Chicago, Sunday night. The
operator, recently returned from mis-
sion work in India, lost his right hand
and sustained other injuries. One of
the tanks sprung a leak and the escaping
gas was exploded by the light of the
lantern.
Epidemic of Diptheria.
The epidemic of diphtheria which has
been raging in the village of Pavia,
Bedford county, Pa., for the past six
weeks is still on the increase, despite
the efforts of the citizens to stamp it
cut. Many children have died, and the
one physician of the town is overwork-
ed and cannot attend to all the sick.
Confederate Money for the Germans.
A band of American confidence men
has been successfully doing Berlin and
other German cities, passing off Con-
federate $10 bills, which have been read-
ily accepted at 40 marks each. The
police have received reports of scores
of victims. i
Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, the widow of
Senator Brice, of Chio, is ill in her
New York home. Her condition is
such as to cause grave fears as to her
recovery. -
GOLD M NERS STRIKE.
Object to Recent Orders and Three Hundred
Walk Out.
At Victor, Col., all miners employed
at the Independence gold mine, about
300 in number, have quit work. The
cause for their action is the personal
search plan that was begun at the mine
in order to stop the alleged pilfering of
ore. A meeting of miners was held at
which it was unanimously resolved that:
“After this date all men employed at
the Independence mine shall leave the
mine in the digging clothes.”
Several weeks ago, when the man-
agers of various mines in the district
announced that the miners must strip to
the skin in the presence of guards before
leaving the mines, the men at the In-
dependence, where the order was first
put in force, reached an agreement with
the management resulting in a modi-
fication of the rule to the extent that
all miners working under ground should
wear their underclothes and pass before
a detective when going off shift. The
resolution now adopted takes no cog-
nizance of the former agreement.
Claims are made by the men that other
grievances must be settled before they
will return to work.
STUDENTS’ WILD CAPERS.
College Boys Take a Cow to Third Slory of
Girls’ Hall.
One hundred students from Mount
Union college at Alliance, O., robed in
white and closely masked, obtained en-
trance to the girls’ hall by breaking in
a window sash. President Riker's fam-
ily cow was then taken into the build-
ing, carried up to the third story aad
securely tethered. Then amid cheers
and songs the students made their way
to the college. They overpowered the
watchman and proceeded to upset the
stoves, overturn the college piano and
throw all movable furniture out the win-
dows.
The faculty were serenaded, after
which the white-robed figures made
their way down town and ended the de-
monstration with a war dance on the
public square. It is expected that any
action from the faculty as a result of the
demonstration will meet with concerted
resistance.
MONEY SCARCE IN SWEDEN.
Balance of Foreign Trade Against the Coun-
try—Crisis Threatened.
The extraordinary scarcity of money
which has been growing more acute for
a month is so seriously affecting com-
mercial circles as to threaten a crisis.
The balance of foreign trade continues
against Sweden, and the repeated con-
traction of gold loans abroad fails to
palliate the situation. Industries are
daily launched, but adequate capital is
not available and the newspapers are
filled with appeals from manufacturers
in desperate straits for money.
Rural people, attracted by the indus-
trial activity, are flocking to the towns
and, consequently, the demand for
houses is so great that rents have ad-
vanced 20 to 30 per cent. The civil ser-
vants have already been granted 20 per
cent. increase to meet the hard times
and it is expected the employers gen-
crally will have to follow suit.
SUICIDE WITH GOLD LEAF.
Two High Chinese Officials Dodge Punish-
ment for Inciting Boxer Outrages.
Two high Chinese officials, Kang Yi
and Yu Shien, whose punishment was
demanded by the powers for inciting
the Boxer outrages, have solved that
part of the Chinese question by com-
mitting suicide. This information has
een communicated to the state depart-
ment by Minister Wu. Governor Yu,
who enticed missionaries into his yamen
to be butchered, killed himself by the
aristocratic Chinese method of eating
gold leaf. Prince Tuan was driven from
the imperial court and was severely
censured.
Emperor Kwang-Hsu has commis-
sioned Prince Ching and Li ung
Chang to fix the penalties of those of-
fenders whom the powers have desig-
nated for punishment. The latest Chi-
nese decree announces that several
princes have already been punished,
EXPLOSION AT INDIAN HEAD.
Shock Felt Twenty Miles—Powder Magazine
Supposed to be Destroyed.
An explosion occurred at the Indian
Head proving grounds about 11 o'clock
Wednesday night. A flash of light visi-
ble some distance accompanied the ex-
plosion, which was followed by a fire.
The explosion shook the windows of
houses in Alexandria, 19 miles away.
There is no direct gommunication with
the proving grounds and details cannot
be had. The grounds are 25 miles
down the Potomac river from Washing-
ton, and the big guns and armor for the
battleships are tested there.
It is believed the powder magazines
and other buildings were destroyed. A
number of explosions followed at in-
tervals, illuminating the surrounding
country and the opposite bank of the
river.
GIVING AWAY HIS FORTUNE.
Rich Alaskan Chieftain Making Braves Happy.
Will Impoverish Himself.
The greatest potlatch given for many
years in Alaska, is now in progress at
Kulckwan, near Pyramid harbor.
George Klarfish, the richest Alaskan
chieftain, who made his money in trad-
ing, is giving away the savings of 20
years that his name may be handed
down as a generous chieftain. Two
thousand Indians are present. Feast-
ing, dancing and gaming make up the
program, which will last for a month.
Ten thousand dollars’ worth of blank-
ets, flour, tents, guns and hymn books
will be distributed. By the time the
feast is ended Chief Klarfish will be
penniless.
Will Send Christmas Presents Free.
Secretary of War Elihu Root has sent
out orders relative to the sending of
Christmas presents to American soldiers
in the Philippines. The name of the
command of each soldier must be plain-
ly marked on each box, and the box sent
to Columbia storage, Pier 22, Brooklyn,
so as to reach Brooklyn not later than
November 15, when the transports leave
New York for the Philippines. Provid-
ed the transportation charges are paid
to Brooklyn, the government will take
the packages from there free.
Tortured by Robbers.
Two burglars stabbed and slashed A.
G. Rubey, of Chicago, with a physi-
cian’s lancet, in an attempt to make him
tell where he had concealed his money.
For nearly half an hour the robbers tor-
tured the man. Failing to make him
tell the hiding place of his money, they
cut his tongue a number of times, until
Rubey cried out for mercy and revealed
the hiding place of $480 in paper, $80 in
gold and $300 in Illinois Steel checks.
The robbers then made their escape.
Boys’ Body Riddled.
While hunting near Concord, Pa,
Walker Symerman, aged 10 years, saw
a squirrel and called to his brother to
hand him the gun. While walkipg
backward with the weapon the lad fell.
The gun was discharged, the load of
shot riddling the entire upper portion
of Walker's body and killing him in-
stantly. Both eyes were torn out
Drops Dead While Speaking.
George W. Blake, of Ottawa, III,
Democratic candidate for member of
the Legislature from La Salle county,
dropped dead at Dana while making a
campaign speech. Heart disease is said
fo Be the cause.
THE BOERS ARE STIL BATTLING
RENEWED ACTIVITY.
They Now Have Fifteen Thousand Men in the
Field and Are G.ving the British
Much Trouble.
According to a dispatch from Cape
Town, a force of Boers attacked and
surrcunded a patrol of Cape police with
a convoy near Hoopstad, Orange river
colony, and a sharp fight ensued. The
police were compelled to abandon two
Maxims. Ultimately reinforced by the
Yeomanry, they succeeded in getting
away with the convoy; but they lost sev-
en killed, 11 wounded and 15 captured.
The colonials were outnumbered 10 :0
one, and the engagement lasted two
ours.
The Boers have 15000 men in the
field, nearly half of whom are in Orange
river colony. These are divided into
commandoes of some 300 each, but are
capable of combination for large opera-
tions.
Lord Roberts cables from Pretoria
that in the fight between Gen. Barton
and Gen. De Wet “the British losses
were heavier than at first reported. An
additional officer and 12 men were killed
and three officers and 25 men were
wounded. The Boers left 24 dead and
19 wounded on the field and 26° Boers
were taken prisoners. Three Boers
who held up their hands in token of sur-
render and then fired on the British
were court-martialed, convicted and
sentenced to death. I have confirmed
the sentence.”
Barton afterwards scattered De Wet's
Boers near Frederickstaad, but 30
cavalrymen were ambushed by Boers
between Phillipolis and Springfontein
and only seven escaped.
FREETRADE ESSENTIAL.
Greater Organization for England Advocated
by Sir Hick-Beach.
The chancellor of the exchequer, Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, in the course of
an address before the Liverpool cham-
ber of commerce advocated closer com-
rmercial union between the different
countries of the empire and greater or-
ganization for the empire’s common in-
terests. He said, with regard to the
former, that it was impossible for Great
Britain to be other than a free-trade
country, and that he sympathized with
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Dominion pre-
mier, in his opinion that an imperial
zollverein was unobtainable without free
trade within the empire.
o far as imperial organization was
concerned he said he did not think there
was any immediate danger of war, and
he expressed a hope that the principles
of the Anglo-German agreement would
be universally accepted.
COLOR LINE IN CUBA.
It Is Being Drawn Very Closely,
Bilter Feeling.
Causing
Telegrams from Santiago de Cuba
say: The departure of provincial deie-
gates to participate in the progress of
the forthcoming constitutional conven-
tion at Havana caused an immense
demonstration. It is estimated that they
were escorted to the wharf by upwards
of 12,000 persons of whom nine-tenths
were colored people.
The political parties are drawing the
color line very closely and this is caus-
ing bitter feeling between the races.
The whites predict that the convention
will last a year, alleging that most oi the
delegates will prefer $300 a month to
the establishment of a Cuban republic.
All the local papers dramatically ex-
hort the delegates to fulfill their duty
and quietly expel the Americans from
the island.
BANK TELLER ABSCONDS.
New York First National Bank Robbed o
$700,000 by Trusted Official.
Charles L. Alvord, Jr., note teller of
the First National bank, New York, is
a fugitive and a defaulter to the extent
of $700,000. The announcement of the
defalcation, made Tuesday afternoon,
created the utmost excitement in the
financial district, but the well-known
stability of the First National and a
statement issued by the bank had a
quieting effect.
An official connected with the bank
said: “A proof that the bank is not
likely to suffer by the defalcation is that
its profits for the year ending Septem-
ber 1 were $1,350,600. The surplus is
‘ncreasing fast. The par value of the
stock is $100 a share, but it has brought
as high as $1,923 at auction. The boo
value of its stock is $3,105 per share,
and as high as $3,600 has been bid. The
percentage of increase to capital ac-
cording to its last year’s earnings is
270.12 per cent. It has for several years
paid annual dividends of 100 per cent.”
Negro Killed by His Own People.
Gloster Barnes, colored, was lynched
by a mob of his own people in Miss-
issippi Tuesday night. In a drunken
fury Barnes murdered his wife, stabbed
and badly wounded a negro who inter-
fered, and engaged in a rifle duel with
a white man who attempted to arrest
him.
He was caught by a posse after a
desperate fight, in which he was shot
through the thigh. In charge of two
colored deputies Barnes was started for
the county jail at Vicksburg. On the
road his escort was put to flight by a
big crowd of negroes who took the
raurderer into a thicket and shot him
to death.
Falls fo a Fearful Death.
Headless and stripped of every parti-
cle of clothing, the body of John Guer-
ro, an Italian miner, was picked up at
the bottom of the shaft of the Kennedy
mine at Suter Creek, Cal., killed by a
fall. Guerro was on the day shift and
two hours earlier in the evening he
jumped on the “skip” at the seventh lev-
el, in company with 10 other miners.
Guerro lost his balance and fell down
the shaft, a distance of 1,600 feet.
Refused to Quit Piece Work.
At Quebec, thirty shoe factories, em-
ploying 1,000 men, have shut down as
the result of difficulties between the
union and the manufacturers. The
trouble grew out of the refusal of a
union man to work for weekly wages
instead of piece work. He was dis-
charged and a non-union man engaged.
As a result all the men in the factory
went out. The manufacturers’ commit-
tee thereupon decided to shut down.
Oil Gusher on a Poor Farm.
A good well was brought in on the
Beaver county poor farm south of the
Ohio river at the mouth of Raccoon
creek three miles from Beaver, Pa. W.
C. Kelly, of Shannopin, put down the
well. The fact that he is leasing many
farms in the neighborhood would indi-
cate that he has a good paying well.
It is only a few miles from the famous
Morrow well, which in its time pro-
duced 5,000 barrels a day.
John Addison Porter Doomed.
John Addison Porter, formerly secre-
tary to President McKinley, lies dan-
gerously ill at his residence in Pomfret,
Conn., suffering from a disease which
must result in death. Recently a very
dangerous operation was performed.
Mr. Porter rallied from the shock and
is resting comfortable, but while his
death is not expected immediately, no
hopes are held out for his recovery.
The postoffices on wheels which the
postoffice authorities are to try in
Washington county, Pa., have arrived,
and are expected to be in operation
soon. = —
WILL END STRIKE.
President Mitchell Predicts That Monday Wii
Witness a Resumption—More Com-
panies Agree to the Increase.
At the national headquarters of the
United Mine Workers Tuesday the be-
lief was unanimous that the end of the
strike will come in a very short time.
As soon as all the operators signify
their willingness to pay the advance un-
til April, the national executive board
will be called in séssion to vote on end-
ing the contest.
President Mitchell’s statement in a
speech at Pottsville Tuesday that he
believed that the strike would be ended
hy next Monday if all the operators
posted notices guaranteeing the ad-
vance until April 1, was received here
with much pleasure by both sides. It is
believed that nothing will now inter-
yene to delay the ending of the con-
test.
The mineworkers’ strike has been de-
clared off by the United Mine Workers’
officials, so far as it affects all com-
panies which have complied with the
strikers’ demands. The strike will be
continued against the companies which
have not granted the terms offered by
the Scranton convention. The strikers
will return to work on Monday at the
Plses where the strike embargo is lift-
cd.
BOERS RELEASE PRIONERS,
Made a Successful Raid on Jagersfontein.
Aided by Townspeople.
Lord Roberts reports from Pretoria,
under date of Sunday, that the Boers
who attacked Jagersfontein succeeded
in releasing the Boer prisoners ifi the
town before they were repulsed. Their
loss was 20, including Commandant
Visser. The Boer sympathizers inside
the town assisted the Boers. Roberts
Sed er they will be heavily punished
or i,
Lord Methuen has arrived at Zee-
rust, in the western Transvaal, and re-
ports the loss of 6 men killed and 10
wounded. Gen. Knox reports that the
mounted infantry attacked 100 Boers
near Kroonstadt, driving them off and
inflicting considerable loss.
A determined attack was made by
the Boers on Fauresmith, west of Jag-
ersfontein. The Boers were repulsed.
The British lost two killed and six
wounded. Last week Gen. Barton
fought the Boers at Frederickstad, cap-
turing several positions. He lost two
killed and four wounded.
Lord Roberts reports that President
Kruger sailed for Europe Sunday.
Roberts adds: ‘He is to disembark at
Darspites and go thence direct to Hol-
and.
BEATEN BACK BY REBELS.
American Detachment Struck an Overwhelm.
ing Force of Filipinos.
Gen. MacArthur Friday cabled as fol-
lows from Manila: First Lieut. Febig-
er, with 40 men, Company H, Thirty-
third regiment, and Second Lieut. Gray-
son V. Heidt, with 60 men, Troop L,
Third cavalry, attacked insurgents 14
niiles east of Larvican, Ilocos province,
Luzon, and developed a strong position
cecupied by about 400 riflemen and 1,-
000 bolomen under command of Juan
Villamor, subordinate of Timos. A
desperate fight ensued, which was most
creditable to the force engaged. Under
heavy pressure of overwhelming num-
bers, our troops were compelled to re-
turn to Larvican, whicly was accom-
plished in a tactical, orderly manner.
Assistant Surgeon Bath and a civilian
teamster, captured early in the fight,
were released by Villamor. According
to their accounts, the insurgents were
much stronger than reported and their
loss by moderate estimate was over
150. Our loss was five killed, nine
wounded and four missing.
Umbrellas For Savages.
Nearly 20 Englishmen are now at
work on seven umbrellas for an Ashanti
chief and his faithful staff. There is
nothing under the sun a chief can wear,
not even excepting the cast-off silk hat
or a red-lined cavalry coat, so calculat-
ed to strike awe into the minds of re-
fractory natives and so imbue them with
a spirit of obedience as a “gingham.”
raders, when they want to obtain free
access to the country of one of the hos-
tile tribes, make presents of worn-out
clothing to the natives, or even a
“gamp” to a particularly obstinate and
pugnacious chief. A London syndicate
of Gold Coast traders has given the or-
der, and is paying for the umbrellas in
question, which will be given to bribe
the vain, dusky warriors.
When finished the umbrellas will be
gorgeous beyond the dream of the most
imaginative negro. For the chief the
present will be nearly 15 feet across,
quite a decent-sized tent. In fact, on
state occasions it will be so used. The
handle will then be stuck in the ground
and six slaves will act as tent-pegs. The
material from which it is being made is
silk, and the colors are to be “red,
white and blue!” Round the edge will
be a deep, rich fringe, and on the top
an elaborately-chased cap surmounted
by a British lion, rampant. For the
staff the umbrellas will be somewhat
smaller and less majestic.—London Ex-
press.
CABLE FLASHES.
Lord Wolseley on retiring from the
post of commander-in-chief, will take
an extended tour in Canada.
Influenza is epidemic at Hamburg,
One hundred and nine cases are report-
ed, many of which have proved fatal.
The Bavarian government has order-
ed the rebuilding of the tombs of the
ancient German emperors in the cathe-
dral of spires.
The French steamer Faidherhe was
sunk in collision with the steamer Mi-
tidja off the Spanish coast and 24 peo-
ple were drowned.
At Lima, Peru, there is a strong
movement on foot to establish, with
Peruvian capital, a line of steamships
to ply along the coast.
Baron von Richthofen, under secre-
tary of the foreign office, has been ap-
cointed to succeed Count von Buelow
as minister of foreign affairs.
A dispatch from Guayaquil says the
Ecuadoran congress has made arrange-
ments by which the country will pay
its entire foreign debt. .
Fifty persons were killed and many
others terribly scalded by a boiler ex-
plosion on board the steamer Eugenia,
running between Tomsk and Barnaul,
ussia.
Hon. Wm. P. Schreiner, the former
premier of Cape Colony, has resigned
his seat in parliament, owing to the per-
sistent opposition of the Extremists of
the Afrikanders.
The mutiny in Turkey among the Al-
banians is growing stronger. The in-
surgents announce that they desire full
autonomy under foreign princes, and
will be satisfied with nothing less,
Clara Barton is reported to be dan-
gerously ill from nervous prostration.
Five children near Cumberland, Md.,,
were poisoned by eating jimson weeds,
and one is dead.
A vessel having on board 100 passen-
gers was boarded by pirates 10 miles
below Canton, China. Several thou-
sand pounds in specie were taken.
D. O. Prisor, a wealthy cattle deal-
er, was held up at the point of a re-
volver in Millvale, Pa., Tuesday night,
by two highwaymen and robbed of $2,-
600.
Dawson advices say the smallpox
epidemic there is not of a serious na-
ture. When the steamer City of Seat
tle left the north there were only 30
cases in the Klondike metropolis, and
the hospital arrangements were excel-
lent.
I. THLHIGES SUNDAY SRAOL
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
Subject: The Golden Calf of Modern Idol-
atry — The Spirit of Greed Destroys
Those Who Are in Its Grasp — Money
Got Wrongfully Is a Carse.
[Copyright 1%0u.1
WasaixgToN, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of
greed destroys when it takes possession
of a man and that money got in wrong
ways is a curse; text, Exodus xxxii, 20,
“And he took the calf which they had
made and burnt i¢ in the fire and ground
it to powder and strewed it upon the
water and made the children of Israel
drink of it.” ;
People will have a god of some kind,
and they prefer one of their own making.
ere co ~ the Israelites, breaking off
their goldea earrings. the men as well as
the women, for in those times there was
masculine #s well as feminine decoration.
Where 1 they get these beautiful gold
earrings, coming up, as they did, from the
desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the
Egyntians when they left Egypt. These
earrings are piled up into a pyramid o
glittering beauty. ‘Any more earrings
to bring?’ says Aaron. None. Fire is
kindled, the earrings are melted and pour-
ed into a mold not of an eagle or a war
charger, but of a silly calf; the gold cools
down, the mold is taken away, and the
idol is set up on its four legs. Aun altar
is built in front of the shining calf. Then
the people throw up their arms and gy-
rate and shriek and dance vigerously and
worship
Moses has been six weeks on Mount
Sinai, and he comes back and hears the
howling and sees the lancing of these
golden calf fanatics, and he loses hi
tience, and he takes thc two plates of
stone on which were written the Ten Com-
mandments and flings them so hard
against a rock that they split all to pieces,
When a man gets angry, he is «pt to
break all the Ten Commandments. Moses
rushes in, and he takes this calf god and
throws it into a hot fire until it is melted
all out of shape and then pulverizes it—
not by the modern appliance of nitro mu-
riatic ac'd, but by the ancient appliance of
niter or by the old fashioned file. He stirs
for the people a most nauseating draft.
He takes this pulverized golden calf and
throws it in the only brook which is ac-
cessible, and the people are compelled to
drink of that brook or not drink at all.
But they did not drink all the glittering
stuff thrown on the surface. Some of i
flows on down the surfae: »f the brook to
the river and then flow= : fown the river
to the sea. and the akes it up’ and
bears it to the moutn v.% 1 the rivers, and
when the tides set back the remains ot
this golden calf are carried up into the
Potomac and the Hudson and the Thames
and the Clyde and the Tiber. And men
go out and they skim the glittering sur-
face, and they bring it ashore and they
make unother golden calf. and California
and Australia break off their golden car
rings to augment the pile, and m the fires
of financial excitement and stinggle all
these things are together. and
while we stand looking and wondering
what will come of it, lo, we find that the
golden calf of TIsraelitish worship has be-
come the golden cali of Iuropean and
American worship.
Pull aside this curtain, and you see the
golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not,
like other idols, made out of stocks or
stone, but it has an ear so sensitive that it
can hear the whispers on Wall street and
Third street and State street, and the
footfalls in the Bank of Iingland and the
flutter of a Frenchman's heart on the
bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can
see the rust on the farm of Michiga
wheat and the insect in the Maryland
peach orchard and the trampled grain un
der the hoof of the Russian war charger
It is so mighty that it swings any way ii
will the world’s shipping. It has its foot
on all the merchantmen and the steam:
ers. It started the American Civil Wa
and under God stopped it, and it decided
the Turko-Russian contest. One broke:
in September, 1869, in New York, shouted,
“One hundred and sixty for a million?”
and the whole continent shivered. The
golden calf of the text has. as far as Amer-
ica is concerned, its right front foot in
New York, its left front foot in Chicago,
its right back foot in Charleston, its left
back foot in New Orleans, and when it
shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this
is a mighty god—the golden calf of the
world’s worship!
But every god must have its temple, and
this golden calf of the text is no excep-
tion. Its temple is vaster than St. Pauls
Cathedral in England, and St. Peter's i
Italy, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards
and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the
Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and all
cathedrals put together. Its pillars arc
grooved and fluted with gold, and its
ribbed arches are hovering gold, and its
chandeliers are descending gold, and its
floors are tessellated gold, and its vaults
are crowded heaps of gold and its spires
and domes are soaring gold, and its organ
pines are resounding gold, and its pedals
are tramping gold, and its stops pulled out
are flashing gold, while, standing at the
head of the temple, as the presiding diety,
are the hoofs and shoulders and eyes and
ears and nostrils of the calf of gold.
Further, every god must have not only
its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and
this golden calf of the text is no exception
Its altar is not maae out of stone as other
altars, but out of counting room desks
and fireproof safes, and i+ 1s a broad, a
long, a high altar. The viclims sacrificed
on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams
and the Fisks and ten thousand other
people who are slain before this golden
alf.
What does this god care about the
groans and struggles of the victims before
it? With cold, metallic eye, it looks on
and yet lets them suffer. What an altar!
What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul!
The physical nealth of a great multitude
is flung on to this smcrificial altar. They
cannot sleep, and they take chloral and
morphine and intoxicants.
Some of them struggle in a nightmare of
stocks, and at o'clock in the morning
suddenly rise up shouting: “A thousand
shares of New York Central—one hun-
dred and eight and a half, take it!”—until
the whole family is affrighted, and the
speculators fall back on their pillows and
steep until they are awakened again by a
“corner” in Pacific Mail, or a sudden
“rise” of Rock Island.
Their nerves gone, their digestion gone.
their brain gone, they die. The gowned
ecclesiastic comes in and reads the funer-
al service, “Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord!” Mistake. They did not
“die in the Lord;” the golden calt kicked
them.
The trouble is, when the men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in the
text they not only sacrifice themselves,
but they sacrifice their families.
If a man by a wroag course is determ-
ined to go to perdition, 1 suppos: you
wilt have to let him go. But he puts his
wife and children in an equipage that is
the amazement of the avenues, and the
driver lashes the horses into two whirl
winds, and the spokes flash in the sun and
the golden headgear of tae harness gleams
until black calamity takes the hits of the
horses and stops them and shouts to the
luxuriant occupants of the equipage, “Get
out!” They get out. “they get down.
That husband and father flung his family
so hard they never got up. There was
the mark on them for life—the mark of a
split hoof—the death dealing hoot of the
golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice on one
occasion 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep.
But that was a tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude of men who are sae-
rificing themselves on this altar of the
golden calf and sacrificing their families
with them. The soldiers of General Have-
lock in India walked literally ankle deep
in the blood of “the house of massacre,”
where 200 white women and children had
been slain by the sepoys. But the blood
about this altar of the golden calf flows up
to the knec. flows up to the girdle. flows
to the shoulder, flows to the lip. Great
God of heaven and earth, have mercy on
those who immolate themselves on this
altar! The golden calf has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on, and
the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and
count their golden beads and cross them-
selves with the blood of their own sacri-
fice. The music rolls on nnder the arches.
t is made of clinking silver and clinking
gold and the rattling specie of the banks
and brokers’ shons and the voices of al
the exchanges. The soprano ot the wor-
ship is carried by the timid voices of men
who have just begun to speculate, while
the deep bass rolls out from those who for
ten years have been steeped in the seeth-
ing cauldron. Chorus of voices rejoicing
over what they have made; chorus of
voices wailing over what they have lost.
This temple of which I speak stands open
day and night. and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice.
new victims every moment on it. and
there are the kneeling devotees, and the
doxology of the worship rolls on, while
death stands with moldy an leton arm
beating time for the chorus—‘More, more,
more!”
Some le are very much surprised at
the pe people in the Stock Ex-
change, New York. Indeed it is a scene
sometimes that paralyzes description and
is beyond the imagination of any one who
has never looked in. What snapping of
finger and thumb and wild gesticulation
and raving like hyenas, and stamping like
buffaloes, and swaying to and fro, and
jostling and running one upon another.
and deafening uproar. until the president
of the exchange strikes with his mallet
four or five times. cryihg, “Order, order!
and the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemoninm. What does it all
mean? I will tell you what it means. The
devotees of every heathen temple cut
themselves to pie s and yell and gyrate.
his vociferation ond gyration of the
Stock Exchange is ali appropriate. This
is the worship of the golden calf. -
But my text suggests that this worship
has to be broken up, as the behavior of
Moses on this oceasion indicated There
are those who say that this golden cali
spoken of in the text was hollow and
merely plated with gold. Otherwise
Moses could not have carried it. 1 do
not know ° t. But somehow, perhaps by
the assistance of his friends, he takes up
this golden calf, which is an infernal in-
sult to God and man, and throws it into
the fire, and it is melted. And then it
comes out and is cooled off, and by some
chemical appliance or by an old-fashioned
file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into
the brook, and as a punishment the people
are compelled to drink the nauseating
stuff. So you may depend upon it that
God will burn and ile will grind to pieces
the golden calf of modern idolatry, and lle
will compel the people in their agony to
drink it. If not before, it will be on the
last day. I know not where the. fire will
begin, whether at the Battery or Lom-
bard street, whether at Shoreditch or
West End, but it will be a very hot blaze.
All the Government securities of the Unit-
ed States and Great Britain will curl up
ia the first blast. All the money safes and
deposit vaults will melt under the #Arst
touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and
the shipping will be abandoned forever.
The melting gold in the hroker’s window
will burst througn the melted window
glass into the street. But the flying popu-
lace will not stop to scoop it up. The
ery of “Fire!” from the mountain will
be answered by the cry of “Fire!” in the
plain. The conflagration wiil burn out
from the continent toward the seca and
then burn in from the sea toward the
land. ew York and London, with one
cut of the red scythe of destruction, will
go down. Twenty-five thousand miles of
conflagration! The earth will wrap itself
round and round in shroud of flame and
lie down to perish. What then will become
of your golden calf? Who then so poor
as to worship it? Melted or between the
upper and nether millstones of falling
mountains ground to powder. Dagon
down, Moloch down, Juggernaut down,
golden calf down!
The judgments of God, like Moses in
the text, will rush in and break up this
worship, and I cay let the work go on
until every man shall learn to speak truth
with his neighbor, and those who make
engagements shall fell themselves bound
to keep them, and when a man who will
not repent of his business iniquity, but
goes on wishing to satiate his cannibal ap-
petite by devouring widows’ houses, shall,
by the law of the land, be compelled to
exchange the brownstone front for the
penitentiary. Let the golden calf perish!
ut if we have made this world our god
when we come to die we shall sell our idol
demolished. How much of this world
are you going to take with you into the
next? Will you have two pockets—one
in each side of your shroud?’ Will you
cushion your casket with bonds and mort-
ages and certificates of stock? Ah, no!
The ferryboat that crosses this Jordan
takes no baggage—mothing heavier than
an immaterial spirit.
"here are the men who tried War-
ren Hastings in Westminster hall? Where
are the pilgrim fathers who put out for
America? Where are the veterans who on
the Fourth of July, 1794, marched from
New York park to the Battery and fired
a salute and then marched back again?
And the Society of the Cincinnati, who
dined that afternoon at Tontine Coffee
House, on Wall street, and Grant Thor-
burn, who that afternoon waited fifteen
minutes at the foot of Maiden lane for the
Brooklyn ferryboat, then got in and was
rowed across by two men with oars, the
tide so strong that it was an hour and
ten minutes before they landed? Where
are the veterans that fired the salute,
and the men of the Cincinnati Society who
that afternoon drank to the patriotic
toast, and the oarsmen that rowed the
boat, and the people who were trans.
ported? Gone! Ob, this is a fleeting
world. 1t is a dying world. A man who
had wor 'iped it all his days in his dy-
ing moment describea himself when he
said, “Xool, fool, fool!”
When your parents have breathed their
last and the old, wrinkled and tremblin
hands can no more be put upon your hea
for a blessing, God will be to you a father
and mother both, giving you the defense
of the one and the comfort of the other.
For have we not Paul’s blessed hope that
as Jesus died and rose again, “Even so
them also which sleep in Jesus shall God
bring with Him?” And when your chil-
dren go away from you, the sweet darl-
ings, you will not kiss them and say good-
by forever, He only wants to hold them
for you a little while. He will give them
back to you again, and He will have them
all waiting for you at the gates of eternal
welcome. Oh, what a God He is! He will
allow you to come so close that you can
put your :.ms around His neck, while He
in response will put lis arms around your
neck, and all the windows of heaven will
be hoisted to let the redeemed look out
and see the spect -'- of a rejoicing Father
and a returned prodigal locked in that
glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the
olden calf, and tov: this day before Him
in whose presence we must all appear
when the world has turned to ashes.
When shriveling like a parched scroll,
I'he flaming heavens together roll,
When _ouder yet and yet more drea
Swell the high trump that wakes the
dead.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The death is announced of Zdenke
Fibich, the celebrated Bohemian com-
poser.
Lord Roberts has decided not to
ye a book on the war in South
Alrica.
Lord Salisbury is said to have taken
to ride
Hatfield.
Bret Harte is to
winter in Italy,
near Naples.
Sir Andrew Lusk, the oldest former
lord mayor of London, has just cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday.
Goveronr Rollins, of New Hamp-
a tricycle in the grounds of
spend the coming
and has rented a villa
shi ¢, 1s to be the guest of California
during his present trip through that
State.
A successful surgical operation has
been pe ormied upon Senator Cush-
{
man K. Davis, of Minnesota, for blood
cle
on retiring from the
comms r-i f
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make an extend:d
vyune Vanderbilt has leased
, the mast beautiful of New-
+ from Lorillard Spencer
: mmer of ror.
Henry James. the author, denies the
report that he intends to leave Eng-
anc estabiish his permanent resi-
ir: the United States.
2S or Platt. during the first month
in which he was a member of the Sen-
ate. received and answered 16,000 let-
ters. and even now he frequently gets
Af many as 25¢c a day.
t 1s announced that Lord Roseberry
Is about tc publish a volume entitled
Napoleon: The Last Phase,” a study
of the emperor during the closing
years of his life at St. Helena. 3
_ The Natal subscribers to a testimon-
tal to Major General Baden-Powell, in
recognition of his gallant defense | of
Mafeking, have decided to present him
with a-shield made of Transvaal sover-
cigns,
port's
for the s
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The annual drink bill of Britain is
£ 30,000,000 more than the total sum in
the Postoffice Savings Bank. Roughly
speaking, one-fourth of the amount cf
the national debt is spent every year by
the people in buying intoxicating
liquors.
The highest inhabited hut in the
Swiss Alps is at an altitude of 2,665
meters, on the Alpe de Lona, in Wallis.
Grain grows up to an altitude of 2,075
meters. In the Himalayas and in Thib-
to almost 5000 meters,
ei there are inhabitants at altitudes up
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