Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 17, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 August 1894 — Page 6

TOWN IN RUINS. Resistless Bweep of Forest Fires in N¢rthern Wisconsin. Pany Towns o' Down in the Path of the Flames—Rallway Bridges Burned— A Train Left in Ashes—Farmers Hemmed In. ' GREAT DESTRUCTION. AsELAND, Wis., July 30.—Forest firea &re producing great suffering and loss #hroughout this vicinity. On the Wis@onsin Central railroad it is impossible %o move trains: Phillips, the headguarters of the John R. Davis Lumber aompany, a manufacturing town of £.OOO people, is totally destroyed by #ire, and only a few buildings remain standing. Shores Crossing, a little village 8 weiles west of Ashland, was destroyed Friday afternoon; not a building remeains standing and the homeless famfiies were brought to Ashland. ' The zailroad bridges near there were de»iroyed and at 4 o'clock Friday aftermoon a fast Omaha freight and sixteen Jpoaded cars were: entirely burned. Mason, a small town south on %he Omaha line, caught fire at 2 @'clock. The White River Lumber sompany’s mill, with 40,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards, was destroyed, and at 8 o’clock the latest report reaeived here said the entire town was threatened. The Omaha bridge across the White river at Mason is burned. Railroad officials say the loss at Masdn is fully $1,000,000, with $250,#OO insurance. .

Trains Blocked by Fire.

The tannery and immense lumbering concern at Phillips are among the ruins, so that theloss will be apalling. ‘The Central passenger, which was due here from Milwakee Friday afternoon, ¢s at Chelsea unable to pass Phillips. The Omabha freight train destroyed mear Shores Crossing was loaded with wheat. A wrecking crew s now at work, but the engine will be the only part of the train-saved. The fire came upon Shores Crossing with terrible rapidity and residents there lost everything they possessed. Not a structure of any kind remains standing there. A dozen bridges on the Omaha line have been Durned and railroad men say it. will take two weeks to rebuild one destroyed at Mason. Much damage is done to timber, and logging interests throughout northern Wisconsin are suffering. Two bridges are reported to have been burned and the logging railroad of the Ashland Lumber company, together with two engines. The progress of the fire has not been retarded and it swept away the buildings of Camp 1 belonging to the same company Friday afternoeon.

Farmers Hemmed in by Flames.

Meprorp, Wis.,, July 80.—What is known as Powell’s mills, 8 miles west sf here, sent word early Iriday morn‘ng asking for assistance on account of forest fires. The hand engine was dispatched at once with teams and 100 men went to the rescue and arrived none too soon to save the mill residence for the time Being. Small farmers in the vicinity moved their families and what little they could gather on a wagon and came to the mill site. For two hours Friday afternoon 150 men, women and ¢hildren were confined on five acres of ground surrounded by a seething mass of flames and almost stifled by clouds of smoke. All commnication or means of escape was cut off. Live stock is lying by the side of the road burned to a crisp. Great fears are entertained for a dozen farmers who live northeast of Powell’s mills, whose one road of exit is surrounded by fivey, Word has been received here that six families between Chelsea and Rib Lake were burned out. The Wisconsin Central mail train which reached here six hours late is stopped here as a railroad bridge between here and Chelsea is burned.

HuNTiNgroN., Ind., July 30.—Prairie fires are raging fiercely between this city and Fort Wayne. For two or thime days they have been burning dver several thousand acres of wheat, oats and hay fields and stubble fields. Whdéle families in that section were out fighti@e fire.

COMMONWEALERS SEEK AID.

Abandoned by Their Generals, They Call } on Congress for Help.

W asHINGTON, Julv 28.—Large and indignant delegations from the industrial armies encamped about Washington applied at the roomn of the house committee on labor Thursday, not to wurge their bills but te plead for assistance. The ‘expected has happened(—tlieir=leatlers‘have deserted them and they seek congressional aid to return to the localities whence they came. Coxey’s men said that their leader had left them in the lurch. Kelly's men averred that their leader had drifted away several days ago and that they did not expect to see him again, while Frye's men said . their leader had 'probably abandoned them. The men who were brought from the Pacific coast by Kelly were particularly indignant and some expressed a fervid desire to tar and feather their general. Mr. Mctsann told them there was not the slightest chance of a government appropriation for their return and sent them to the local superintendent of gharities.

Fought with Swords.

?aris, July 28.—A duel between Depnties Clemencean and Deschanel was fought with swords at 10:80 a. m. Friday in a secluded spot at Boulogne-sur-Seine. Two rounds were fought, in the second of which Clemenceau pierced the right cheek of his antagsnist. The wound, though painful, is aot considered serious.

An Ex-Congressman Dead:

FvrroNviLLE, N. Y., July 28.—Exfongressman Thomas R. Horton, of this place, is dead, aged. 72. ' He served in congress from the Eighteenth district of New York from 1855 to 1857.

shipments of 84,000,000 in Gold.

New Yonrx, July. 30.—The firms of Lazard Freres and Heidelbach-Ickel-fheimer company will each ship $1,000,#OO gold on to-day’s steamer. LadenBurg, Thalman & Co. will ship $500,900. The prospects are that at least $4,000,000 will go. :

Result of a Lovers’ Quarrel.

CricaGo, July 28.— Miss - Blanche #lonroe, aged 18, lesiding at 1245 Jackson boulevard, comitted suicide Thursday night by taking carbolie aeid” I'he act was prompied by a quarrel with linrry Tower, to whom she Bad Leen enguged. . ‘

THE TARIFF IN THE SENATE.

The Conference Report on the Bill Debated.

On the 24th Senator Hill (dem., N. Y.) said that he agreed with Senator Gorman' that the democratic party was in the midst of a great crisis. The party after a long struggle had been intrusted with power. It had gone to work to redeem its pledges, the greatest of which was that looking to tariff reform. The house had fassed a bill which, aside from the income tax eature, had met with general approval. Asit passed the senate, however, it was not satisfactory and it violated the pledges of the party. Senator Hill said that the sentiments expressed in the president's letter were his sentiments. The president, he declared. violated no olause of the constitution when he sent that letter. He had the right to do it. No democrat on the floor could controvert the position taken by Mr. Cleveland. Placing a duty on coal and iron would violate the platform declarations of the party. The democrats of the country were in sympathy with Mr. Cleveland. The Wilson bill had been generallv indorsed all'over the country in respect to free raw materlals. The senate bill had been received everywhere with signs of disapproval. ~Senator Hill read from President Cleveland’s message of 1887 to prove that Senator Gorman had erred in saying that Mr. Cleveland had in th at message said nothing in favor of free raw materials. Neither could Mr. Cleveland be held responsible for the unofficial utterances of Secretary Carlisle, but, referring to the official utterances of the secretary of the treasury, he pointed out that until the present question arose both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle were consistent and in harmony: % Continuing. Senator Hill advanced a step toward Senator Gorman, and referring to the latter's speech on Monday said, with emphasis: *‘The senator revealed private conversations which had taken place between him and the president. What for? It was to place the president in a false position before the country. Ihave my grievance with the president. I owe him nothing. But I believe it my duty to now defend him and I shall do so.”

Commenting on Senator Gorman’s admission of having assured the sugar men before President Cleveland’s election that sugar would have a duty, he demanded by what right Senator Gorman had given that assurance, and he denied that the democratic party was bound to carry out such a promise, ‘even though tle sen%tor from Maryland never breaks his word.” ' "

In repeating Senator Gorman's declaration that an altered bill could not pass the senate, he recalled the fact that during the Sherman repeal fight Senator Gorman had declared that unconditional repeal was impossible. ‘“‘But it did pass,” he cried.

His defense of Mr. Cleveland was followed by a condemnation of the income tax in which Senator Hill again defined his future policy with regard to it. He said he wanted to defeat ‘‘the populistic income tax,” and added: “I shall resort to gvery honorable method by which it can be done.”

The senator ended cleverly and humorougly by turning the tables on- Senator Gorman for referring to him as lago. “I might liken this attack on our president,” he said, ‘‘to the great conspiracy of Rome. I would (pointing to Gortaan) call the distinguished senator from Maryland the lean and hungry Cassius.” Then, leaning toward Senator Gorman, he uttered in a stage whisper: ‘‘He thinks too much.”” He likened Senator Jones to honest Brutus and Senator Vest to Casca and Senator Harris to Martellus Cimber, and finished with:

“It is ‘the same plea as when they killed Ceesar, not that thev loved him less, but that they loved Reme more. And with these gentlemen it.is not that they love Cleveland less, but that they love their party and this bill better. ‘With Marc Antony I say: ‘Yet with all the private grievances they have, they are all wise and bonorable men.’ "’ Senator Caffery rose when Senator Hill sat down and offered Aan amendment, instructing the senate conferrees to insist on the insertion in the bill of a bounty of nine-tenths of a cent on sugar testing over ninety degrees and of eight-tenths of & cent between eighty and ninety degrees. This was an amendment prepared by Senator Jones (Ark.) for insertion in the bill, but it was never offered. In speaking to this amendment Senator Caffery warmly defended the president for the views expressed in his letter to Chairman Wilson. Senator Teller interrupted Senator Caffery to ask how he would act towards the bill if sugar were made free. . “Ihave always said ahd say now,’’ said the Louisiana senator, ‘‘that if free sugaris put in the bill I will not vote against it. I hope that is emphatic.” .

On the 26th Mr. Caffery resumed his speech, speaking principally as to the justice of the duty on sugar Mr Daniel (dem., Va.) also made a speech. '

Mr. Quay (rep, Pa.) gave notice of three amendments he should offer to the pending motien before the senate first to amend Mr. Vilas’ motion, that the senate recede from the one-eighth differential in the sugar scheduleso as to recede from the whole of the sugarschedule: the second to add to Mr. Gray’s motion that the senate insist on all of its amendments, that it recede from the sugar schedule; and the third to add to Mr. Gray's motion another motion, viz.: That it recede from the. differential in favor of the refiners.

On the 26th Senator Quay withdrew the amendments he had offered the day before. Senator Vilas then reviewed the action of Senator Gorman in attacking the president upon. Monday characterizing.that attack as a personalassault upon the president and his character. The first charge was, he said, that of duplicity,. based upon Mr. Cleveland’'s letter expressing the hope #nat iron and coal should go on the the free list in the tariff bill. The second was that the executive had encroached upon the prerogatives of congress, and third that the president had traduced the senate. He thanked Senator Hill for his defense of the president. Never did that senator appear to Dbetter adyvantage nor more ably argue than when he presented his views to the senate on the matter of free coal and iron on Tuesday. . Senator Viias, reviewing the various tariff messages of the president, which he said embraced no novelty with reference to coal or iron not familiar to his party' friends, asked if the president could lay aside his views on tariff reform. There had been no direct testimony presented, he said, by Senator Gorman or his witnesrses that the president had acted with duplicity. The senator from .Arkansas (Jones), one of Senator Gorman’s witnesses, - had said that. he laid the 400 amendments to the tariff bill before the president, and now the president was accused of having agreed to all of them. How could the president agree to all of those detailed amendments? How many senators could give a detailed account of these amendments and their effect on the business of the country? The president had merely considered these things generally, devoting his attention and his remarks to the great principle involved in free coal and free iron. He (Vilas) -had asked the senator from Arkansas if the president 'had not expressed to him the hope that free coal and free iron would be the outcome of this great question, and the senator from Arkansas answered truly that on every occasion such was the fact. Who could say that there had been a lack of openness on the president’s part that this bill before its perfection would carry free coal and free iron ore. On this single statement of the senator from Arkansas he would be content tolet rest this charge of duplicity on the part of that great officerof the government. The president has not endeavored to infringe on the prerogatives of the senate and not with .qualins of duplicitv. but with the same open manker that has alwavs characterized him—he said to the chairman of the ways and means committee that he hoped that the result. might be accomplished in conference with reference to free coal and iron, as he had a perfect right to do. . Who would gainsay that the president had not as much right to give his views on this question as freely after his coinversation with the senator from Arkansas as he had hefore. Lie

Senater Vilas then quoted and ranged alongside of Mr. Cleveland's utterance the statement of Senator Gorman that .the senate bill could not pass if it did not have the hearty support of Mr, Cleveland. ‘‘At the very time when-the president was writing hig letter: to Mr. Wilson,"” Senator Vilas went on dramatfcally, “*the senator from Maryland and his coadjutors were appealing to Mr. Cleveland to induce nim to support them in an effort to qualify the enuctment of democratic principles instead of c¢rystalizing them into law. How utterly wanton is this cry of interference now; because he has seen fit to throw the weight of his influence with the house in favor of democratic principles, because he refused to stand with them, they muake his action a ground of complaint here and in horror cry out against ‘executive interference.'” | Senator Vilas referred to the fact that President Washington came to the same chamber acecompanied by his gecretary to urge in person the ratification of a treaty he had negoti=ated. President Jackson's eourse in making his views felt by congress was also referred to. Senator Vilas said he was content to leave to fair-minded men whether the presilent had waltonly encroached upon the rights of conJesy, The crharge was made that the senate had béen truduced. Extracts from the letter to

Mr. Wilson were read to show that the presi« dent’s purvese was not to traduce the senate, but. plainly to state his aspirations toward tariff reform. The president had stated that the abandonment of the great party principle would be perfidy and dishonor. No one who would quéstion such an abandonment of principle would be dishonorable. The shaft was not aimed at any senator. It was not a personal accusation. ; : Senator Vilas said the view of the senator from Maryland (Gorman) could mean only one thing. It was an effort to array democrats together in a spirit of resent?ent and thus carry out the comgromise of tariflf reform. The Wilson bill had passed amid gublic acclamation The people accepted it as the honest execution of a party and public pledge. When this rev-enue-reform measure redached the senate iron and coal were placed on the dutable list. Moreover it was debated week in and week out. The public was wearied at that debate and yet the senate could reached no result. It was at this %luncture that the senator from Arkansas (Jones) ad brought forward over 400 amendments. These were to ‘be the solution of the problem and were to bring the debate to a close. Still the discussion proceeded fifty-seven days Senator Vilas said he had recognized the necessity of yielding to these amendments. It was essential to have a revision of .the existing tariff quickly. It was essential, too, to reinforce a depleted treasury. In conclusion Senator Vilas eulogized the personal character and public integrity of Mr. Cleveland in the most glowing terms, declaring with dramatic fervor that the president of the United States, who had received so many evidences of the honor and respect of the American people. could not suffer from this unjustifiable attack of the Maryland senator. After somte genera{ remarks by Senator Stewart against the interference of the executive with the legislative branch of the government, Senator Hill's motion that the senate recede from its amendu}ents placing a duty of forty cents a ton on coal and iron ore was defeated. the vote standing 6 to 65. On the 27th Senator Washburne's motion that the senate recede from that portion of the sugar amendment placing a differential of oneeighth of a cent on sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard was lost on a tie vote. The resolution was then adopted to agree to a further conference. The chair appointed Senators Voorhees, Jones, Vest, Harris, Sherman, Allison and Aldrich.

AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING. The Bridegroom Cried “Stop! Stop!” and ) the Bride Fainted. Here is an old story of an interrupted wedding. The bridegroom was a working sawyer, the bride a young lady of corresponding rank and social station. They were married by license and it was in the evening, which may be noted by the curious. The officiating clergyman duly began the service. When he came to ,the words: *“To have and to hold,” the bridegroom suddenly cried out, as one in the extremity -of terror: ‘ i *“Stop! Stop! I meant it only to be for a fortnight!” The clergyman stared at him. “I meant it only for a fortnight,” repeated this deplorable person. The clergyman' closed his book, shook his head in sorrow rather than in anger, and departed for the vestry. The bride screeched and fell fainting into the bridesmaids’ arms. . It is pleasant to think that she did the proper thing at the right moment; in after life the recollection must have consoled her.

There were murmurs of gathering tempest among the male members of her family; the bridegroom swiftly marched down the aisle. and so into the black night. And there he is still; nor did the bride ever recover him; and according to the latest dispatches, now eighty-eight years old, she was still secreeching and fainting.—N. Y. Journal.

Lovers No More.

They were lovers, Mag and Jim, but last Sunday Mag forgot her promise and went down to Grand Island with somebody else. Jim, who lives around the towpath, somewhere in Black Rock, was too late to catch the boat. So he took his own little skiff and rowed all the way down the river to the landing place. It was not till the last boat was going home that Jim saw his Mag. She was going on board alone. This was Jim’s chance. When she had got a seat he took up a position beside her and delivered himself of the following in a Booth and Barrett style which delighted the other passengers: ‘‘You've done a nice thing by going around ‘with those cheap people, after telling me you was not-going down atall, and then I sneaks down and finds you with some other guy. You’ll feelsorry,” he got very tragic here, ‘‘when the Foresters’ picnic comes round and I won’t be there to take you. Many’s the time you’ll stand and the towpath and look for me and I won’t be there. Here, take this pin back. Now we are two.” And he pulled a brassy pin out of a mussy tie and gave it to the fickle one. —Buffalo Express. :

Gave Them a High Fall.

A well-known Philadelphian, who in his youth was given a little to sport, has a particular fine boy who is very spirited. At school he suffered very much up to a few months ago from bigger boys who abused and ‘‘pounded” Lim. Eujoining the lad to the strictest secrecy, the father employed a re tired pugilist, a little bit of a fellow, and had him give the boy lessons several times a week in boxing. At odd moments he practiced with the boy himself. Finally the lad, with that assurance and sense of prowess which comes under such eircumstances, wanted to belet loose, but the father held him back until he felt perfectly satisfied. Not long ago, just as the school was about to close, he told his son to go ahead. An opportunity soon presented itself, and, it would bg hard to describe the sensai:ion ‘that followed, when the young whipper-snap per who had been taking thumps for a year or two sailed in and laid out completely two of the biggest bullies and braggarts in the school.—Philadelphia Times.

Settled Amicably.

He leaned gracefully against thgq mantel. ‘“Yes,” he repeated, ‘I love your daughter.” The old man in'the easy chair regarded him keenly. ‘“‘Can you support a family?’ he asked, after a pause. The youth knit his brow. ‘That depends. How—" He looked at the father of his beloved straight in the eye—‘‘how many o! you are there?’ Presently they came to the terms of an amicable understanding.—Detroit News-Tribune. : Rédu“eing lés Force. 3 ~ BLOOMINGTON, 111,, July 26.—The Chicago & Alton people are letting their old trainmen go in large numbers on account of the part’ which the men took in the strike. It is believed that every man wko was at all prominent in the strilie will ultimately have to find work elsewhere. Some have been discharged who took no part whatever in the strike, but did not report for duty as usual. ' g ‘Hanged. St. Louis, July 28.—William Henry Harrison Duncan (colored) aged 27, was hanged in the hallyway connecting the jail and courthouse in Clayton, St. Louis county, Friday morning. He murdered Police Officer Brady on the night of October 6, 1890. He had been sentenced to death at seven different times, but each times influence was brought to bear on the court or governor, and a stay of execution granted.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. International Lesson for August 5, 1894— Baptism of Jesus—Mark 1: 1-11. [Specially Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.—Mark 1:11. TiME.—The baptism of Jesus was probably {n January, A. D. 27. The ministry of John the Baptist began in‘ the summer of A. D. 26, and continued till March, A. D. 28, when he was imprisoned by Herod. . PLACE.—The baptism of Jesus was doubtless at the fords of the Jordan, called Bethabara, five miles ,northeast of Jericho. The preaching of John the Baptist was in the wilderness of Judea—a wild, hilly, thinly inhabited region (not a desert) lying west of the Dead Sea and the lower Jordan. John's ministry extended as far north as Enon, near Salim, two-thirds of tlie way up the Jordan from the Dead sea. JESUS, at His baptism, was about thirty years pld. : i JOHN THE BAPTIST was six months older. RULERS.—Tiberius Cesar, emperor of Rome; John's preaching began in his thirteenth year as sole ruler; Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea (first year); Herod Antipas, of Galilee and Perea (thirtieth): Herod Philip, of Trachon{tis Idumea, and the northern regions beyond Jordan : :

JOHN TIIE BAPTIST.

John the Baptist Preparing the Way for Christ.—Vs. 4-8. Studying these verses in connection with the description of John’s work as given in Matthew and Luke, we note several ways in which John prepared the way for the work of Jesus Christ. - First. John called' the attention of the people to the fact that the new kingdom of God was at hand. His preaching would set them;to searching the Scriptures and watching the signs of the times (Matt. 3:2). e

Sccond. He led the people to deep conviltion of sin, and thus made the people feel the need of a Saviour. Third. He awakened a general interest among the masses, There was a wide extended ferment qf thought and feeling and hope, and this was a great and necessary preparation for the reception of Christ. :To come to a people without thought of or interest in religious tiiixigs is like sowing good seed on the frdzen ground of winter or the sands of Sahara.

What Drew the Crowds?—(l) The wonderful influence which men of thought exercise over men of action. The two are necessary to each other. (2) It was a ministry of terror. Fear has a peculiar fascination. You could not go among the dullest set and preach graphically and terribly of hell fire ;without insuring a large audience. (3) Men felt he was real. Reality is the secret of all success. He spoke as men .speak when they are in earnest.—F. W. Robertson. (4) A consciousness of sin and need, and the hope that here was help and salvation. (5) There was a general expeeticn, such as drew the wise men from the east, that the time of the Messiah sust be near. Thus their personal needs, their patriotism, their interest in the welfare of their country awakened an interest which prepared their minds to consider the claims of 'the Gqspel; just as now, in our country, te<onnecting of moral questions with political interests causes multitudes to think about and to discuss the great moral questions of the day, and thus becomesone of the greatest of our educating forces. - : . Fourth. Large numbers were brought to repentance, and so prepared to believe in Jesus. ‘‘And were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan” (the R. V. removes the ‘‘all” and places it before ‘‘they of Jerusalem.”) The place (five miles northeast of Jericho) was known as Bethabara, ‘‘the House of the Ford.” Fords do not change in a river like the Jordan; roads are never altered in the east, and this must always have been, as it is now, the place of passage from Jericho to Gilead. Here probably the Israelites first crossed into Canaan (Tristam’s Land of Israel); and- twice afterward was it miraculously opened by Elijah and Elisha (2 Kings, 2:8, 14). “‘Confessing their sins:” The very act of baptism was a confession of sins and a promise of lepentance, but doubtless they also, as Alford says, made ‘‘a particular and individual confession;” not, however, made privately to John, but before the people. No one truly repents who does- not also confess—to God the sins against God, to man the sins against man, ever also making restitution as far as possible. ‘ Fifth. John’s appearance asa prophet aided him in his preparatory work. He was a Nazarite from his birth; his hair was uncut, his beard unshaven, and he lived a life of the strictest self-denial.

Sixth. John preached Christ to the people. 7. “And preached:” Johh did much more than baptize; he warned, and entreated, and persuaded men to repentance, and proclaimed the coming Christ. “There cometh one mightier than I:” He called attention away from himself, who was but a man, to the Divine Saviour, who was able to save them from their sins, who could wield all' influences and conquer all enemies. ‘‘The latchet of whose shoes:” or rather, sandals. ‘“‘Latchet,” a ward now obsolete, was the‘‘thong” or ‘‘lace” with which shoes or sandals were fastened.—Plumptre. “I am not worthy to unloose:” It was the business of the }owest servants to bind on, to loose, and carry about their masters’ sandals. The general sense is: ‘I amnotworthy to perform for him the humblest offices.”—Mimpriss. John’s humility is as marvelous as his greatness.—{(lover.. ' PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. The unrepentant heart, the cold church, the masses of men, are like a wilderness, with many beautiful things therein, but full of obstacles to the coming and the reign of Christ. Bold, earnest preachers, condemning sin, awakening the conscience, fearless in declaring the truth, will draw many to hear them. even into a wildernaas

THE LAND WE LOVE.

DRUNKENNESS is a crime in Minnesotu. THE average farm mortgage in America is for $959. . THe largest park in the world is the Yellowstone. Its area is 3,575 acres. THeE most densely settled state is Rhode Island, the second is Massachusetts. Al . : IN twenty states there are prohibite ory laws against selling tobacco to minors. ¢ Tue total acreage of the United States exclusive of Alaska is 1,900,000,000. . : S THERE are eleven American cities that spread over more territory than Paris, while Berlin is exceeded in area by seventeen of our cities. - TuEg parent of the “old Glory” of today may be said to be the *‘Grand Union Tlag” which was hoisted January 2, 1776, the day which gave being to the fearless American army. = Tur world’s wheat crop for this year is estimated at four hundred and fortyseven million bushels: 7 Tue sails of Chinese junks are shaped like the wings.of an insect: =~

OUT OF JAIL. . Debs and his Companions Decide to Ao~ cept Bail. . ‘ CHICAGO, July 26.—When court met: for the morning session Judge Wooda rendered a decision holding that, under the information filed in the contempt preceedings -against Debs, Howard, Keliher and Rogers, of the American Railway union, the defendants must answer to the court for the crime of interfering with interstate commerce and with the United States mails and formally overruling ‘the motion of the defense to quash the informations against them for contempt. :

Judge Grosscup then announced that he had taken no part in the decisions on the motigns to quash, and he announced further that he would take no further part in the contempt proceedings for the reason that the defendants are under indictment in the United States district court over which he presides, and the same questions of law will be raised under the indictments. ~ v Further action in the case was disco?itinued until September 5. Debs and the other defendants, after consulting with their attorneys, decided to abandon their policy of remaining in jail under the charge of contempt, and give bail. : Debs and Howard were already under $lO,OOO bail each, under the first indictment for conspiracy. Since then five other indictments have been returned against them and Keliher and Rogers. In these cases the bail was reduced to $l,OOO from $3,000 in each case, and it was also cut down from 83,000 to $l,OOO in each of the two contempt cases. So that the new bail entered in all the ecases was $7,000 for each man.

It is thought Debs and his associates will endeavor to plead a comspiracy among railroad managers against organized labor. ; CHicAaGo, July 26.—Twelve hundred militiamen, comprising the Third brigade, Illinois national ‘guard, have been ordered to leave the city. WasHINGTON, July 26.—The president has appointed John D. Kernan, of New York, and .Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria, 111., to act with Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright on the presidential commission to investigate the Chicago strike. Mr. Kernan is a well known lawyer in Utica, N. Y., and a son of ex-United States Senator Kernan. He has been a particular and thorough student of labor questiops, and has written several important contributions to literature on this subject. He wuas chosen because of his undoubted thorough understanding of the subject and his well known sympathy with the laboring classes. Nicholas E. Worthington is now a judge of the Illinois circuit court. He represented the Peoria district in congress abouteight yearsago. - CHicAago, July 28.0— Whether the American Railway union should declare its strike at an end or whether it should be continued along an altered plan of operations are questions which will be considered at a delegate convention of the order to assemble at Uhlick's hall Thursday, August 2. The call for the convention was formulated at the meeting at the Revere house Thursday morning of the American Railway uwion directory—its first session since the arrest of the officers of the organization. . President Debs said the delegates would not come from all the 500 subordinate unions, but only from unions at points which have been directly affected by the strike. ,

In the meantime the strike will be in force, but it is said that nothing will be done looking to its spread, and it is probable that those who are left in-charge of matters at this end will issue no orders to those who are out until the delegates have decided on some plan of action. President Debs left for Terie Haute Thursday afternoon. :

ANOTHER CABLE LAID. Record Broken in Laying the Largest One Across the Atlantic. HeArT's CoNTENT, N. F., July 80.— The final splice of the Anglo-American Telegraph company’s new cable was made at 11 a. m., Greenwich time, and the laying of the largest cable across the Atlantic was then successfully completed. The time taken in laying this cable was the shortest on record. The expedition left Heart’s Content July 15, in the afternoon, and the Irish shore end was laid in less than two days, the total time taken being inside of two weeks. A noteworthy coincidence is the fact that the final splice was made on the anniversary of the day on which the first successful cable was landed at Heart's Content in 1866, ‘twenty-eight years ago, and net only on the same date, but on the same day of the week.

GEN. PLEASANTON DIES. He Passes Away at His Home in Phila- : delphia. PHILADELPHIA, July 28.—Gen. Augustus J. Pleasanton, kuown as *‘Blue Glass” ' Pleasanton, died Thursday night. He was a brother of Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, the famous soldier. lAugustus J. Pleasanton was born in Washington eighty-six years ago and graduated from the United States military academy in 1826. He enlisted in the: Pennsylvania militia andl at the ogtbreak of the c¢ivil war was made commander 6f the home guard of Philadelphia. He was the originator ¢f the theory that the sun’'s rays when passed through blue glass were particularly stimulating, not only to vegetation but to the health and growth of animals.] L o

BLEW HER BRAINS OUT.

Grief for Her Children Causes Mrs. Wel= lington to Kill Herself. DENVER, July 28.—Mrs. Ella Welling ton, aged 31 years, committed suicide by blowing her brains out. After separating from her husband in Omaha three years ago, she opened a house on Market street in this city, which became a famous regort for men about town. The furnishings cost $50,000, and Mrs. Wellington ; had $380,000 worth of diamonds. Her suicide is attributed to melancholy, caused by separation frém her children, who are¢ being educated in Boston., ; Killed by the Heat. New Yorxk, July 28.—7TF. 8. Wright, of Chicago, the general attorney of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifie railroad, was prostrated by the heat Thursday night and removed to the New York hospital, where he died. He was the son of Judge Wright, of Des Moines. o Victims of Explosions. . WoosTER, 0., July 28.— By the explosion of a traction engine, which went through a bridge near Reedsburg, Henry Garnes was instantly killed. In a similar accident near Lodl Thursday George Hart was killed.

: ANSWERED. = Give us this day our daily bread,” : In humble trust we pray; g . Then do not idly fold our hands! : And with assurance say: ; ® Ag ravens in the olden time i The hungry prophet fed, S So we shall have our wants supplied; - - For God will give us bread.” - Oh no! not so the answer comes, : ; ' God never willed it so; : The earth must first receive the seed Before the grain can grow; i Then, watered by the rainof heaven = And nurtured by the sun, i The blade springs up; and in that blade - - The answer 18 begun. When harvest comes, the ripened grain In golden sheaves is bound; Then gathered in, and threshed and cleaned, And in the mills is ground. i - By busy hands, in myriad homes, ; ~ The fresh, brown loaves are made; This is the “bread’” and this the ‘‘day” For which, long since, we prayed. —Mrs. M. A. Heller, in N, Y, Independent. f | TWO CENTURIES OLD. Story of a Turtle Which Died Recently en _the Island of Ceylon.

There died a few days ago at Colombo, in Ceylon, a famous resident who had reached the very great age of at least two hundred -years. The figure is put at two hundred, because nobody knowns exactly what it is. He himself was never heard to say a word about it, or indeed about anything else, but during the whole of his long life contented himself with a wild hiss now and then at people and things that did not suit him. This was a rare example of total abstinence, because he heard three or four languages spoken nearly every day of hislife. There is, first, the language of the natives of Ceylon, who are kinsmen of the Malays. Then there are the many Dutch, who live at Colombo because their ancestors once ruled in the island for a ceptury or more. Finally there are the English, ‘who now own Ceylon and pretty nearly everything in it, including all that is left of this oldest resident. He wasalready old when the English took Ceylon from the Dutch in 1796, and he has ever since been a sort of pensioner on the Brisish government. . His silence of two hundred years was not the only curious thing about this aged resident of Colombo. (His skeleton was on the outside. It was stuffed soon after his death, and is now one of the principal attractions in the museum of the city where he was so well known. '

As you have already guessed, this old fellow was a turtle, and his portrait appears above. He seems to have been conscious all along of the dignity of his name, which was Zestudo elephan~ tooxss, the second half of it being given in honor of the fact that he was an elephant among turtles. His immediate family is very small—so small that few of his relatives survive him, and it is thought these will die out in a comparative short time, Even now the family lives in only one spot on the'globe —Aldabraisland, north of Madagascar. Formerly there were a great many of these Testudos, and trading vessels in the Indian ocean used to lay in a stock of them in order that the crew might be sure of having fresh meat should scurvy break out on board. The turtle that has just died was one of the largest of his family, and his shell was four and a half feet long, but when his head and tail were unfolded from his shell he was fully six feet long. It was said that he ivas sent from Java as a present to a Dutch gov-

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Not long ago the British government concluded to use for a dock the park in ‘which the old fellow had lived fora century, and it was decided to remove him to another park a mile away from the shore. He was carried to his new residence, but he was evidently homesick, and after a short illness he died. This is a pity, because people had begun to think he would live forever. The age of turtles is an interesting problem. Some people have a mania for turning every turtle they see upon its back and carving their initials and the date on its under side. The writer once knew of a turtle which crawled about wearing this inscription: ‘'Pontins Pilate, 3 B. C.” That seemed a very remarkable turtls, until scmebody called attention to the fact that time was not reckoned “B. C.” until long after it ceased to be ‘'B. C.” Probably the unfortunate turtle is still wearing that lie on his belly, for it takes a turtle almost as long as a tree to outgrow a gash from a knife.~—Harper's Young People. ) : -

Bird’s Nest Among Rlbbons.

One of the queerest places for a bird’s nest was discovered at Chicago recently. Between two carved roses at the top of o marble column in the millinery department of a large store a cozy nest is being built. Tiny threads of sillk and cotton are gathered by the tiny housebuilders from the floors and crumbs picked up from places where ladies have nibbled cakes and bonbons. The birds dart hare and there, seemingly as happy among laces and. ribbons and artificial flowers as are their mates in fleld and forest, being notone whit abashed by the throngs of shoppers coming and going constantly. = Identified.. - Van P-lt—You wouldn't marry the ‘best man living, would you? ; Miss Sears—Um—now, really, this is sosudden.—N. Y. World ¢ =

e hSa THE TINY CHUPAROSA. Smallest Creature Which Ever Eat to Be : : Photographed. In years of wandering through the remoter corners of the southwest, my camera and I have jolted over hundreds of thousands of miles, on trains, engines, hand-cars; in sulkies, buckboards, farm wagons and clumsy care retas;~on mules, on horses, on burros, on foot. | ' .We have ‘‘caught” the savage dances of half-known Indians with living rattlesnakes in their hands and mouths; the crucifixion of a fanatic, and the inconceivable self-tortures of his flagellant brethren; witches and bewitched; and a thousand other remarkable sighte. .~ After all this, thke smallest and prettiest object on which we ever focussed our joint attention came to us only the other day. .o i We had been revelling for the twelfth time in the wonders of high-perched Azoma, the strangest little city in the world, amid. whose peerless cliffs one never wearies of picture-making. Coming down ‘to )its daughter pueblo of Laguna, I was passing the evening in one of the rare oases of New Mexico, trying to talk Queres to a deep-eyed two-year-old Laguna maiden.

In the midst of our chatter there came a curfous buzziag, and my little Indian friend began {o clap her hands at something which was whirring along the vigas of the roof. ’ * It was a humming bird—the tiny cAuparosa, which my aboriginal neighbors ‘declare has been nearer than any other creature to the sun. 'ln the mythical Contest of Wings, the turkey-buzzard flew higher that the eagle, but lost the race because the sly chuparosa had all the time been perched on the turkey‘buzzard’s head, and so had been higher than he! -

~ This little visitor, who had come by the open door into the light and laughter so late-dat night, wasa female of the ‘tiniest species of humming bird, not nearly so large asthe two first joints of my finger. Her exquisite brown plumage was almost as small as butter‘flies’ feathers; she was mottled under the throat, and iridescent with emerald on head and neck. i . Weary of beating her translucent wings against the walls, she alighted upon the top of a cupboard. I stole up ‘?—« S \ \ :W é ; ) R [ 27 }’h e ,\ |ot f //‘[ ’ifi ] { ~):’,' Ui b N \'?{{b\"\“\ S7y : : . {;,’:/"//47// NN L - ‘, Al ’///”"/’/,,/,,j“- {/ o) : : 5 '!’h‘v"‘"‘f‘::’ MY SMALLEST SITTER. and put my forefinger under her breast, lifting very gently. The ruse worked-+ in a moment she fluttered up lightly and perched upon my finger. ' . I walked carefully to the lamp at the ~-other end of the room, and there we all .stood looking at our tiny visitor, olr big faces within a foot of her. , She was perfectly self-possessed. Cocking her little head to one side, she returned our stare from an eye so tiny as to be barely visible, and kept her strange perch for more than a quarter of an hour before she decided to explore the room more fully. ~ We determined to take her picture. We got out the camera, marked a spot on the yeso-whitened wall and focussed. Then I gently caught la ckuparosu, who at once cheerfully resumed her perch on my finger. - ' - It was a contrast which. struck even the child—my squat, hard hand, rough ‘and rope-burned with the breaking of a-savage bronco, upholding that tiniest, tenderest and loveliest of all the feathered world. :

Here was a sitter whose head I could not clamp, and to whom I could not say: ‘‘Now look pleasant;” but never was artist more concerned than I about a pose. : : _ The flash-lamp refused to work, and we had to burn the magnesium powder on .a paper, with many struggles. There was strong probability that our puzzled sitter would fly away, or turn the back of her head to us, or in some other way spoil the desired effect. But just as the flash went off; she was watching us out of a corner of her eye, and the magic glass caught the very image we wished. ' _ln the morning I took our iittle guest out into a field breast-high with the puarple guaco. She poised an instant on my hand, and then flew off as blithely as if she had been all her life used to sitting for her photograph.—C. F. Lummis, in Youth’s Companion.

A German Pansy Story.

There 1s a charming little story well known in Germany, but with which American children are not so familiar. It is about the pretty pansy flower, and the tale is that the big petal was a bad stepmother who sat in the garden with her four children. She sat up very straight and proud on her green-seat, holding her own two children next to her and pushing the two stepchildren down, trying to get them out of sight. But presently ‘the sun shone out in the heavens, and it looked dotwn in the garden and slowly turned the pansy ‘around till the little, slighted children were at the top and the wicked stepmother was lowest of all. (That is what the sun does to the pansies.) And thus, say the Germans, who are a poetical and religious people, *“Heaven makes everything right in the end.” = . ‘ - . Accommodating. S - Jones— Hul-10, Handley, old boy! Haven't seen you for an age! Come along and have a drink. = - Total Stranger (turning round};—Unfortunately I'm not Handley,'but—er—(wistfully)—might I have his drink?— Buffalo Express. ‘ : ‘ How He Won Her. Miss Richgirl (of Chicago)—And so ‘you kissed the Blarney stone at the Columbian exposition? Ha! ha! It was nothing but a Chicago paving stone. - Mr. Smartchapp—So I heard at the time, but I thought perhaps you might have walked on it. : : _ Then she married him.—N.Y. Weekly. ) o Hard to Understand. : _“There’'s one thing about mae that I don’t understand,” said Tommy, thouglttfully, “‘and that's why it is that making marks on wall paper is such lots of fun and making 'em in copy books in school is such hard work.-’x':—-T.orQnto Mail, o