Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

CRIMINAL AGGRESSION. /■ . - President McKinley has undoubtedly been guilty of criminal aggression in bls assumption of war making power In the Philippines. In December, 1898, the President Instructed Gen. Otis to enter upon a war of conquest and subjugation. This was before the peace treaty with Spain was signed. Referring to this fact, Francis A. Brooks, a well-known Boston lawyer, •ays: “But the crowning offense of President McKinley in this matter is the use made by him of the treaty-making power as the means of acquiring from Spain dominion and control by the United States over the political condition of a remote people against their will, and by employing the army and navy to accomplish that end. We sui>pose that the treaty-making power was conferred on the President by the constitution in the interest of peace, and that it is a gross abuse and perversion of that power to employ or avail of it as an excuse for subjecting an unwilling people to the dominion of the United States, as Is now being done by the President." President McKinley has taken upon himself a fearful responsibility. A responsibility ungranted by the constitution and unapproved by the people. There would have been no war in the Philippines if McKinley had offered the same terms there which were granted to the Cubans. Upon McKinley’s conscience must rest the burden of causing the death of thousands of American soldiers and the expenditure of hundreds of millions of the people s money. x It is vain for the President to claim in his message to Congress that he has simply been engaged In maintaining the authority of our government. He has made war without authority, and Congress, with which body the war-mak-fng power rests, should recognize this fact and demand an accounting. But should Congress fail to do this, owing to the fact that it is now a creature of the Republican administration, the people will not fail to make such a demand and the result of the Presidential election of 1900 will be to deprive McKinley of any further power to usurp authority and to court criminal aggression.

Farmer* and the Trusts. Do the farmers realize that the Republican party proposes to keep the trusts in power? Realizing this, do they not also realize that they are taxed by the trusts much more heavily than by the Government, and that to vote the Republican ticket is to vote a continuance and an Increase of this tax? Take the matter of steel nails. Last year Itefore the trust was fully organized the farmer sold his wheat for 65 cents a bushel and bought a keg of nails, needed on the farm, for $1.65. How is It this year, when the Republican party Ims encouraged, fostered and protected tie nail trust? The farmer sells his wheat for 62 cents a bushel and pays $3.85 for a keg of nails. Somehow’ or another.this farmer has been cheated out of three bushels and a half of wheat. Who did it? The Republican party, wliich upholds the nail trust. Another illustration of just how these lovely Republican trusts work fa given by the Cincinnati Enquirer as follows: “The -workingman, earning $9 a week, who last year put a tin roof on his front porch, paid $2.45 for the box of tin, and had $6.55 left out of his week’s wages. This year when he put a trust tin roof on his back porch he had to pay $4-85 for (fie box of tin and had $4.15 left out of his week’s earnings. That man has no doubt discovered who stole the *2.40.” With these facts in view, what are the farmers and the workingmen going to do about the matter? It would seem the coitrse of wisdom for them to vote against the Republican party, W’hich is taxing them to the very limit of endurance. They know that they can hope for nothing but a continuance of this taxation as long as the Republican party remains in i>ower; Will they continue ttTald the oppressors and to place the yoke on their own necks?

< Dilemma of the Protectioniata. There are things working together for good in Our tariff system. We are pleading with the strongest for the the open-door policy. Can we justly prohibit trade at home which we demand abroad? We are seeking a world market for our manufactured product. Will our people submit to paying more for any of these products at home than they are sold for abroad? We are competing successfully with the socalled “pauper labor” of the world. Will we at home believe it is longer necessary to protect ourselves against it at home? We are aroused by the existence of trusts; we are determined to control or destroy them. Can we do either when, and so far as, they are protected by our tariff laws? We have for these many years paid bounties to all sorts of private enterprises, indirectly and in unknown amounts. This tax was paid by .the consumers In proportion to their necessities, and not in ratio to their ability. W,e Mite pow.asked to pay a bounty directly to ship owners out of the common treasury. Will the people stand it? The beneficiaries of the old system are grown bold, and.ask from the treasury as a riglU what they have before taken Indirectly from the-indl-vlduals. AH these things and mdre are driving the system of protection to

the wall. McKinley <fid not ewea ■watton it in his message. IVMertiMtsts are driven to a dHeiunxa from which they oauaot escape. The tcrritarial expansion has forced them tn it. Trade exptusiou would have done it anyway. They <-anaot advocate dtker expansion and hold to protection at home.—Milwaukee Journal.

Seamen De—anrr Shi* ftakeMiee, The action of the National Senmen'h Union, at the annual convention In Chicago, on Saturday, may cost the HannaPayne ship subsidy bill the votes of some members of Congress who had been won to its support on the supposition that it would be popular aaaon* the seamen, as well as among the interested ship owners and shipbuilders. One of the strongest claims made for the bin is that It will tend to build up the merchant marine of the United States, and so give employment to a great number of American seamen. Special efforts have been made to secure the support of the labor interests for the measure on that ground. That element of tho labor class most directly interested, the seamen, cannot be brought to look at it in this light. At the national convention a resolution was adopted severely condemning the scheme and declaring it “vicious, uncalled for, and of no benefit tn labor in this country.” President McKinley strongly recommended the principle of the bill in his recent message because It would bring “morn work and wages to our countrymen.” He will be ]»ained to learn that the class of “our countrymen” he supposed would be most particularly benefited with “more work and wages” emphatically deny bis proposition and reject his pet measure as "vicious."—Cleveland Plain Ltealer.

How “OpeuinK tire MiUs" Hm Worked.

McKinley hit upon a happy phrase three years ago. designed to keep tire attention of the voters away from his attitude on the silver question. It was to the effect that it would be better to open tire mills rather than to open the mints.

For a while after McKinley's electton the process of opening the mills went on- not due in any way to his edection, but because the United States was participating in the world-wide recovery from seven years of lean picking. As soon as i»ossible McKinley pushed tit rough Congress a Nil for higher tariff protection, the trusts sprung up in a night, and the process of shutting down the mills was begun and is in ope ration to this day. Scarce a day passes in which some trust does not shut down a few mills for the sake of limiting the output, creating an inadequate supply, and thus giving excuse for high prices and increasing prices. Consolidation of office forces, reduction of number of traveling men. economy In rents, reduction of advertising, and many other means have been employed by the trusts to make more money with less expense than foraatriy.—Hplena (Moot.) Independent.

“I’ll take Care of you. grandma"-ST Louis Post-Dispatch.

Polygtainou* Utah Office-HnMer*. A full disclosure will reveal that Mr. Roberts after all had sufficient reason to believe that his plural wives would not liar him from Congress. The State of Utah is full of polygamous officeholders ami President McKinley tea*, over the protest of citizens, selected polygamists for important Federal offices. All this was known to Roberts, and why should he alone be barred?— Denver Post.

Rigid Test tor Matrimony.

Both in the northern and western islands of Scotland the natives have tame peculiar customs unfamiliar to the dwellers of the mainland. One of these, known as the "marriage test.' ts practiced in the island of St. Kild*, where the population barely exceeds a hundred. The desire among the islanders to increase this number does not seem to be exceptionally strong, a»d every man before he is deemed suitable for a husband has to perform an evolution with no little bodily risk. The St. Kilda ns are. of course, adept rock climbers, and the aspirant for matrimony ts therefore subjected to the test -of balancing himself on one leg un a narrow ledge overhanging a precipice, bending his body at tbe. same.time to order tb'hbfd the foot of Ms other leg to the hands. If found lacking to courage the maiden withdraws her betrothal, and should the man faH over the ledge, It Is presumed that, to his ease, he *rffi be UisguaUheiL " 5

>« Coffee whs not kMto to t* Greek* or Roman*. ' ,

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. ■, a Tom* Giri Dai— Stolen Money— Bowen cu—lrmdotßhariin*His Di—cd WMb—Bnrglaa* U—ccoefnl -Th— Hfa—etf Jud—** Mercy. Mamie Galvin, an Elwood girl of 14. returned $369.49. stolen recently from Manager C. S. Creighton of the Elwood Radiator works. She refuses to teil how she came in passes—* of the money. The stolen rash constituted the week's pay roll of the radiator works. It was in a pockethook in Mr. Creighton’s over coat whfle he was eating dinner and was stolen during meal (sane, the thief having to go within 3 few feet of Mr. Creighton to secure it. Mamie Garin threw the pocketbook over the fence of Mr. Creighton's home and then ran away, but she was speedily overtaken. It is befieved she returned it at the instigation of the real thief. Finds Grant FteweU Guilty. At Rushville the jury returned a verdict holding Grant Powell guilty of shooting hfa Pussier wife. Mrs. Kuby Powell, with the intention of committing mansianghter. The penalty fixed by the indeterminate sentence law is from two to fourteen years at Michigan City prison. The shooting occurred Ang. 27 last after midnight. Concealed in the bushes, Powell fired into the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Veatch. wounding Mrs. Powell, William Searcy, a farm hand, and Mrs. Veateh. Mrs. Powell lost her left eye and Searcy his left arm as the result of the shooting. Powell and his. wife were divorced in June. He desired to remarry her ami was jealous of Searcy. Accept* Sentence to Friaon. William E. Miller, the Rushville in suranve agent and forger, has been giv en an indeterminate sentence in the Michigan City prison of from two to fourteen years. Miller has been in jail since his arrest in June. His ease was called for trial about a month ago. but the jury disagreed, ten jurors favoring conviction. Miller's defense was insanity. His severed trial was set. tai the has been so active in bringing to light facts eereerrning Miller's former career that he decide! to chance his case with Judge Morris. Burglars. Try to Rob a Safe. Rargiars atade an unsuccessful attempt to rob the safe of William Charpe. banker and grain buyer at New Paris. They used nitrotdyrerin and New off the outer door, but failed to get into the burglar proof vault, containing yi.tMMk The expbwaon aromed the citizens. and ten shots were exchanged with the robbers. who escaped. There were five num in the gang. The building was damaged $5»M> by the explosion, the front door and windows Iwing blown out.

Within Oar Bronera. ItiHuound fa trying to get tip a militia company. '/ ■ Rev. Matthew E. Campion, aged 55. is dead at Loeawqpon. Elkhart court has twenty-nine divorce cases on the docket.

Electric line may be bailt frvxu Evans ville to New Harmony. Hanford City has the biggest holiday trade in years. .Father William G. Behmidt. Manele, celebrated hfa silver jubilee. I nion bottle factory will be started at Eaton to buck the non-union plants. Maty Stearns. 8, Kokomo, was fatally burned by her dress catching fire from a grate. ■

John T. Thompson, fanner near Segpaaour. took pofevn for the Nnes and is dead.

Charles OHtivM. Anderson, disappointed in a love affair, drank laudanum. He won’t <fie.

William Platt. 25. Porter Countv farm hand, ssdd hfa employer's sheep, took the money and stopped. Residence of Horace Woodard, Knightstown, fa in ashes. Loss $1,699, with insurance. .

Rev. E. L. Sellers. Topeka. Kan., has accepted a call to the ptdpit of the Central Christian Church, Terre Hante. Henry Thomas and another miner were badly hurt in a dust explosion in the coni shaft of the Cayuga Press Brick Company.

Walter RlaeknMwv*. colored. Colnmbns, wiH s» to the pro for an indefinite term tor ■rarderowdy assaulting Stephen S. Whitesides Sept. IX Mouree llamhright. who has been doing Evansville as a Mississippi planter and physician, left the city after cashing a bogus SIW check. Jacob A. Fancher and Miss Minnie Itwifsgins. XoblesviUe, were- married in a store- window. They received a mahogany bedroom set tor attracting a crowd. A curfew law has been passe*! by the Amlereon City CtomctL Children of 15 years of age and under must net be found on the stieets after 9> o'clock of summer months and after 5 o'clock in winter months.

The Pacific Express Company's office at Ijagro was robbed of everything but the valuators in the safe the other night. Many packages of merchandise were taken. hut the loss cannot he approximated by Agent Todd. Rev. C. H. Wheeler of La Porte has accepted a call to the First Baptist t'hureh of Belvidere. HL Rev. George C. Moor of Itowmm Grove. HL. has been called to succeed Mr. Wheeler. Indictment in the case of the State against Howard Mowed, foreman in the Harwood A Bailey iron and brass bed company. Marion, tor discharging men beeawe they belonged to labor unions was quashed became of faulty construction and a decisirm of the appellate court on the similar course. V Ernest While. 12. Hartford City, died of lockjaw. South Bend Circuit Chart has thirtyfive divorce cases docketed. Gas wvfi with 310 pound* pressure was fitrwrk near Elwood, within Ifitt feet of aa abandoned'wett. ’ W. L. Gilmore. for sixteen years matfir ■nebanie of the Labe Shore Hue* - - -■» -■» tMOwwl h>« rwwmntoxycr of Pern, fitod there. He wa* a aftmfimate of Gem

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

International Bimetallism. The Government has arranged for the payment of a part of the national debt lit order to relieve the money atringency. The proposal to buy up, $50.000.(}(>0 of outstanding bonds, thus putting that much more money in circulation, If not a confession that under our present currency system (we will not say currency laws, as we have no law on the subject which any statesman is wise enough to define), indeed is it not a frank avowal that the commercial interests of this country are continually menaced for lack of sufficient funds wltfi which to do business? In other words, does it not vindicate the quantitative theory and those statesmen of broad and liberal views, including George Hoar, James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield and others, who so long and so tenaciously held out for bimetallism? The New York News does not at this period, it says, propose to discuss generally and elaborately the benefits of a double standard "without regard to the action of any other nation.” If there is anything in party platforms, however, or in the recent utterances of public men, including William McKinley himself, the strictly gold standard population of America consists of E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz, one of whom has just voluntarily retired from active participation in affairs, and the other of whom possesses a mind so kaleidoscopic that there is no telling where he will stand this time next year. If McKinley were sincere, if his party followers were in earnest in the pretension that it desires bimetallism under internafioual agreement, now is the time such an agreement could lie forced with comparatively little difficulty. During the fiscal year ending June 30 last our exports of manufactures were greater than our exports of breadstuffs. We advanced to the first rank as a manufacturing nation, competing with the "pauper-paid labor of Europe" and demonstrating that activity in trade depends not upon high tariffs but upon superiority of workmanship and the adaptability of goods to the uses of any people. This is hard on the Dingley law. to be sure, but the trade balance it gives us proves beyond question that we are masters of the situation when it comes to dictating a monetary standard.

And this is uot all. England is today in desperate straits for gold, was in desperate straits before the mines at Johannesburg were shut down. A usual source of supply amounting to $100,000.00 a year is cut off and the Bank of England has been for weeks laboring zealously in every possible way to start a gold movement from this side. But even that tremendous financial giant cannot overcome natural law. With exportations of American manufactures amounting to. sl,009.000 a day. and with the crop movement to Europe under way. the tendency of gold will be to not oqiy stay here, but to come here from other centers. ■ ..

A German statesman of front rank, as quoted by New York daily papers, said positively that unless the agrarian element of his country permitted a broader and more liberal policy of international trade, the Empire would have to abandon the gold standard. It is well known that European powers of less influence, like Austria. Italy. Spain the Netherlands, would welcome bimetallism if it were made general. France ami Russia are the only two nations in a position to hold out should a commission like that which Senator Wolcott headed In 1897 go abroad as a dictator of terms and not as a solicitor of alms.

If the Fifty-sixth ('ongress has the good of the people at heart, it will take advantage of the situation and bring all Europe to terms. The time was never as propitious liefore. and it may never be so propitious again.

Repudiation. Naturally enough the New York Board of Trade wants Congress to establish the gold standard. Wall street is the center of the money power in this country and what Wall street wants is a monopoly. Now. what is proposed? Simply that the_sls6o.ooo,Q(X) worth of national obligations lie made payable in gold. This is repudiation of the contract made with the people that these obligations should be paid in coin. To this the faith of the government is plighted. But Wall street wants the contract broken, wants the payment made in gold, wants the people to shoulder an extra burden, wants to fatten on the labor of the masses. And what Wall street wants the. Republican party is bound to supply. Repudiation is an ugly word, but McKinley and his Intckers will not balk at it. Perhaps they will not pass gold legislation. Perhaps the Republican politicians are shrewd enough to see that such action would result in McKinley's rejection by the people at the polls Tn 1900. but repudiation is what the Republicans advocate and it is what they will perpetrate it McKinley is re-eleeted.

For this reason, if for no other, Mcr Kinley should be defeated. The pledge of this government should not be broken. It should be made to keep faith with the people.

Russian battle songs are written, in minor keys, and instead of being brilliantly martial are sad, telling of the soldier s fate. 4 .... If we fasten our attention on what •wtotarte. totteer than on what we lack, a very little wealth Is sufficient —F. Johnson.

DWIGHT L. MOODY DEAD.

The Famous Evangelist Expiree at His Home in Northfield, Mass. Dwight L. Moody died at his home in East Northfield, Mass., at nodh Friday. The end came suddenly, though the great evangelist had been ailing for some time. A few weeks ago he was compelled to give up his work in Kansas City, Mq., and go to his home. At that time he recovered somewhat and his physician for a time had hopes of his complete recovery.

Dwight L. Moody, the greatest of revivalist, was born at Northfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1837. He received but little education, and, if reports are true, was averse to study. When Mr. Moody was 17 years old he left the farm at Northfield and became a clerk in a shoe store in Boston. His father died when he was 4 years old. Moody was one of nine children, and the mother had a hard struggle to keep the family together. From Boston Mr. Mpody went to Chicago in 18511, clerking again in a shoe store. Here he displayed the practical energy for which he had been noted all his life long.

Mr. Moody's first missionary work was done in Chicago, where he commenced his famous North Market Hall Mission school, now developed into Moody institute. It was in a tough district. The old hall was used on Saturday nights for danees. After the crowds left Mr. Moody and one or two of his associates would spend the early hours of Sunday morning in cleaning up the sawdust and filth and putting the room in order for Christian work. This thing was kept up for six years. Then Mr. Moody rented a saloon that would accommodate about 200 persons. He boarded up the side windows and furnished it with unpainted pine board seats. It was a dismal, unventilated place, and during service it was necessary to have policemen guard the door and building.

Besides Moody institute in Chicago, two well-endowed educational institutions have grown up at Northfield, Mass., under Mr. Moody’s fostering care, the one for girls, other, Mount Hermon school, for young men. The Mount Hermon School for Summer Workers was established in 1880. There Mr. Moody spent his summers with his family. One of his sons is the editor of a church paper and the other is a boy yet at school studying for the Congregational ministry. He has two daughters, both of whom are married. His wife was Miss Emma C. Revell of Chicago. Mr. Mpody was as well known and respected in England as in America.

THE DEAD OF THE MAINE.

To Be Brought Home from Havana and Interred in Arlington. The United States battleship Texas will bring home the bodies of the heroes of the ill-fated Maine from Havana. It is siting that this vessel should be selected for the task, as she is the only sister ship of the Maine on our navy list. Congress has made an appropriation of $10,000 for the removal of the bodies of the dead sailors to the land in whose service they sacrificed their lives. The great silent majority of those that met their death in Havana harbor when the Maine went to destruction have been left buried pretty much as they fell, facing the enemy. A few of the bodies of officers of rank have been brought back to the land of their birth. A total of 192 bodies were buried in 176 coffins, which tells the tale of those mutilated beyond all semblance of individuality. Of the 192 but 74 were actually or supposedly identified, the others being mere parts, or so badly injured as to be beyond recognition. Nineteen of the bodies were buried with imposing ceremonies on the 19th of February, 1898—four days after that fearful night—in the beautiful Colon cemetery. Afterward 148 others were buried in Havana. Twenty-five of the dead were carried to Key West and buried on the Government reservation, and it is likely that the bodies will remain there. Of the total 269 lost 68 are still missing and buried beneath the wreck of the ship in Havana harbor. The bodies are to be transferred to zinc-lined caskets, hermetically sealed, after which they will be boxed up in the usual way and marked with the identifying or part identifying record already on file. From the moment the bodies are received on board ship the ensign will be carried at half-mast, and will so continue till the last coffin has been transshipped at Norfolk. Owing to the deep draught of the Texas it would be impossible for her to bring the remains to Washington, and it will be necessary to transfer them to a large barge, or a couple of the big navy tugs.

RUINED BY MINING STOCK.

Globe National Bank of Boston Closed by Comptroller Dawe*. The strenuous efforts to save the Globe National Bank of Boston failed. Friday morning its doors were closed and Special Bank Examiner Daniel G. Wing, at the request of Comptroller Dawes, took charge of the company's affairs. The bank has deposits of over SB,<W.OOO, and its total liabilities are more than $lO,000,000. The bank officials say they do not think the depositors will lose a dollar, and that the bulk of the losses recently sustained by the bank will fall on the stockholders. It was the troubles of the Globe that caused the Squire and Broadway failures. The difficulties originated some time since, when Charles 11. Cole, then president, associated himself with T. A. Clark and W. A. Coolidge for the purpose of floating what is known as the. “Three C” group of mining stocks. Of this group United States Mining and United States Oil were the principal properties. On these stocks vast sum* were loaned, and early in the fall the crisis was reported when the bank examiner culled a halt. That official seriously questioned the value of the mining and other stock upon which heavy sums had been loaned, and for a time it looked as though he would take possession of the property as receiver at once.

Several days ago the clearing house* of Boston advanced $3,500,000 to assist the Globe bank in its difficulties, all but about $200,000 having been paid in cash before the close of business Thursday. The clearing house declined to lend further assistance. Comptroller .Dawes be* chme satisfied that the bank must in any Vvent close its doors very sAon, and it was seen that in order to protect oil the depositors the institution should be placed ip the hands of a temporary receiver before certain creditors should their funds at the expense of less fortunate creditors or depositors.

Pulse of the Press

The Case of Roberts. Mr. Roberts would evidently rather a polygamist than a Congressman Omaha Bee. As a bone of contention in Congress Mr. Roberts will represent three ribs. Philadelphia Times. Roberts had better voluntarily get out of Congress unless he is willing to risk the corruption of his morals.— Courier-Journal. The wives of Brigham H. Roberts may as well pre]xre to give their husband sfl early and tender welcome home.—Kaaflfl City Star. fl The opponents of Brighamist Robraß probably considered their case as goefl as won when they got an’ Ohio man |fl fire the first gun.—Chicago Tinies-lIiS aid. Regardless of results, Congressßfijfl Roberts' adherents will always maihtnifl thut he is just as good a citizen and hufl band tts the Sultan of Sulu.- Milwatikefl Sentinel. , ■ Congressman insists that is more morality' in Salt Lake than :flfl Washington. In the interest of inoraSl ity. then. Mr. Roberts ought to be glifl of an opportunity to stay at home.—Sß I.ottis Glolie-Deniocrat. I Brigham IT. Rolierts showed himself fl skillful orator in the sjieech which delivered in his own behalf. The Hoaiig of Representatives, however, put oratorjl at a discount us compared with pubofl sentiment and statutory law. the vote.-B 302 to 30 against the Utah Congreflfl man telling a story just as clispient -jfl its own way as even a Demosthenß could have uttered. —Chicago News. I Mr. Roberts, representing the peculUHfl immorality of the Mormon system, as» the American people to receive him a(fl his wives, three in number, into fhta bosom of socity and treat the whoM Roberts combination as paragons of vfifl tuous living. This recognition of pNyn amy the Congress of the American Ptifl pie will not accorti Utah. —Minneapofifl Journal. , I The opposition to Rolierts has from thre beginning Iteen largely partisan. ~T|B evangelical churchmen that have engamfl in lite effort toward his expulsion frofil Congress have without doubt been iionoM and sincere, but the fight was institutefl in I’tali to gain partisan advantage anil the erusnde of the churches elsewherre lias followisl through ignorance of Hctijifl conditions in that State. Polygamy to fl dying* institution in Utah. The cryfrß evil of the State is not polygamy, tnfl church dict:;tioii in iwditics. Rolierts rim resents both evils. Denver Post. I ■ I Tributes to Moody. I Mr. Moisty probably had more frienfl than any other man in this New York Herald. <„ , I Mooily had immense force. The tire/fl ‘zeal that burned in him spread wanafl wherever he went, kindling cooler med to sympathetic action. Philadelphß North American. I There cannot by possibility lie any jufl and competent jmlgment concerning I >wight , L. Moody which does not ptfl nouitce him to have licctt a great manfl Boston Advertiser. I Mt. M body was not a man for wtojfl theological subtleties had any yhhrm. his <-oiivictions never halted. What ..fl believed he lielieved with heart and sofl - Boston Transcript. 31 A Christian hero has passed away. Tfl world is ]M>orer for bis going, but riefifl for his life, and thousands are blesaifl Go<l. and will bless him through all eted nity for the message which they head] from this man.- Philadelphia Ledger. I|| It was not unfitting that Dwight fl Mooily should pass to iiis long sleep, the world was ringing with the note al preparation for ttye Christmas festivnfl II is long and strenuous manhood toufl its be-all and its end-all in the Star fl Bethlehem.- New York Mail and Exl press. ■ »- , I Although lacking in scholastic culttfl and not remarkable for the graces of arifl tory. he touched the hearts Of the matofl and even wrought powerfully upon tire feelings of men' and women aceustotgfl io sitting unmoved under the ministifl lions of the most learned theologiairifl Washington Post. I t’chocs from English Press. 3 I British officers have purchased mules in Naples for South Africa. fll Mr. Sauer, one of the Cape ministejfl christened his hist child "Paul Krug<fl| The |m'o|>l<‘ of Durian >atig the Englhfl national anthem when the troofts wefl arriving. i S.vcral i.iiii'x uh I, nn i enilsirkof fl Naples ou the steamer Kaiser, bound ffl Natal, to join the Bofrs. have been isl rested by the Italian Government. The Rev. Arthur Robbins, chaplain fl the Qtusni and to the household tT<M>ps ; B Windsor, <les<<ril>ed Kruger, in a recreN .M-rinou. as a smni-.savnge who had "»pfl on us between his curses and his priijfl ers." ■. 'jesg-tj 3

Told in a Few Line

Rev, G**orge T. Purvis, Prineetp&tjH .1., will succeed the late Dr. John Hfil of the Fifth Avenue PresbytefM| Church, New York. -It is iinuoutH-ed that there farmers and seventeen mechanic* i» IM lower house of the Connecticut la*gijsfl tnre.d There are 252 members in *l|ml The Tree-Planting Association of N«M York City has planted about 1,709 tnfl since January. 18!©. along the rlffi| front and in the residence streets, | Richard Croker has agreed to pay forffi monument, to Im- erected in EvergffiH cemetery. New Yqrk, to the ntemary'M “Bill" Anthony, late of the battlefiß Maine, who committed suicide. 1 A French scientist has found kinds of mushroom afford a against the venom of snakes. The M of the mnshnxmt renders a mum- ag.-tinst the poison for a two. H The report of the director of th<* «ml| states that the various mint* offices in the country handled a greai||| amount of gold the past year before. Btix-ks iff gold S2tNM)»M»,tMH» in the yean am! norianw« to nearly a biilion doil«m The tion of gold is increasing at an cate throughout the world. I