Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 21, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 5 July 1899 — Page 2

TO GOSSIP IS A SIN. Dr. Talmage Denounces the Practice of Whispering of Evil. -ts Clum> It- Astoog Ihe World’* •at VUlalaies—More Harmful Than Oft* Slander—A Destroyer of Good Name*. (Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch.) Washington, July 9. M tfrif <fisd<xK*3 Dr. jteorously arraigns one of the grentevm that have cursed the world and urges generous interpretation of the characters of others; text, Homans 1:29, “Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity —whisperers.” Paul was here calling the long roll of the world’s villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called because they generally speak undervoice and in a confidential way, their hand to the side of their mouth acting as a funnel to keep the preciouß information from wandering into the wrong ear. They speak softly not because they have lack of lung force or because they are overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, but because they. want to escape the consequences of defamation. If no one hears but the person whispered unto, and the offender be arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, for whisperers are always first-cluss liars! Some people whisper because they are hoarse from a cold or because they wish to convey some useful information without disturbing others, but the creatures photographed by the apostle in my text give muffled utterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibilant Eound as the letter “s” drops from the tongue Into the listening ear, the brief hiss of the Berpent as it projects its venom. - Whisperers are masculine and feminine, with a tendency to majority on the side of those who are called ‘‘the loyds of creation.” Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashier are heard in ull countingroonis as well as in sewing societies and at meetings of directors und managers. They 'are foes of society, responsible for miseries innumerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and to-day 1 hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. From the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles I conclude that he must have suffered somewhat from them. Ilis personal presence was very defective, and that made him perhaps the target of their ridicule, and besides that he was a bachelor, persisting in his celibacy down Into the sixties —indeed, afl the way through —and, some having failed in their connubial designs upon him* the little missionary was put under the raking fire of these whisperers. He was no doubt a rare morsel for their scandalization, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, and lie lays hold of these, miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down in . my text among the scoundrelly and tlie murderous. “Envy, murder, debate, deeeit, malignity —whisperers." The law of libel makes quick and •tout grip of open slander. If I should in a plain way, calling you by name, charge you with fraud or thtift or murder or tinoleanlinesH, to-morrow morning I might have peremptory documents served on me, and 1 would have to'pay in dollars and cents for the damage I had done your character, lint these crea|uj-eB spoken of in my text •re so small that they escape the fine tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. This district attorney cannot find them, flie sheriff cannot find,tlmm. the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy, and they start on another. You cannot by the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Teh Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They arc to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of abont 1,000 or 2,000 people where everybody knows everybody, but they also are to be found in large quantities in all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look into the basement windows ut tlio tables of their -neighbors and can tell • just what"theyiinve morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people can see with a door wide open. They can hear conversation on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything. Bom* morning a wife descends into the street, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three of four weeks. “I guess that husband and wife don’t live happily together. 1 wonder if he hasn’t been abusing her? It’s outrageous! lie ought to be disciplined. lie ought to be brought up before the church. I’ll go right over to nyr neighbor’s and I'll let them know •bout this matter." Khe rv.shes in all out of breath to a neighbor’* Wise und •ays: “Oh, Mrs. Allcar, have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, caiuivdown off vl e step* in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, it’s just as 1 expected. I saw him the other afternoon vety smiling •“d very gracious to someone who ■miles back, and i thought then I would just go up to him and tel} hj.pi he lisd better go home and look after ins wife and family, who probably at that very time were upstairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear, do have your husband go over and put an end to this

trouble! It’s simply outrageous that our neighborhood should be disturbed in this wy! It’s awful!" The fact is that one man or woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a-boil. It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisition Is that the woman iiave a small family or no family at all, because if she have a large family then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that she be single have no children at all, and then she can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all tbettime A ily makes a very poor whisperer. It is ustonisliing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know everything that happens. There are telephone apd telegraph wires reaching from thei ears to ail the houses in the neighborhood.. They have no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there is anew scandal in the newspapers they have no time to go abroad. On the day,when there are four or five columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case she stays at home and reads and reads and rends. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find tin\e to run out a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satan does not have to keep a very sharp lookout for Ills evil dominion in that neighborhood. He has let oat to her the whole contract. She gets husbands and wives into a quarrel and brothers and sisters into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock and the flock with the pastor, nnd she makes neighbors who before were kindly disposed toward each other oversuspicious and critical, so when one of the neighbors passes by in a carriage they hiss through their teeth and say: “Ah, we could ull keep carriages if we never paid our debts!” When two or three whisperers get together they sfir a caldron of trouble-, which makes me think of the three witches of “Macbeth” dancing aropnd a boiling caldron in a dark cave: oubl<\ double, toll and trouble, Fire buA and caldron bubble. Fillet or a fenny snake In Uie caldron boll and bake; JOyc of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat nnd tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting, Gizzard's leg nnd owlet’s wing For a charm of powerful trouble. Like a hell both boll and bubble. Double; double, boll and trouble, Fire, burn and caldron bubble, Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' muramy, maw und gulf Os the ravln’d salt sea shark: Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger’s chaudftm For the Ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toll und trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble; Cool it with a bubboon’s blood, Then the charm Is firm and good. > I would only change Shakespeare in this, that where he puts the word “witch” I should put the word “whisperer.” Ah, what a caldron! Did you ever get it taste of it? 1 have more respect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight with no home and no Clod —for she deceives no one as to what she is—than I have for these hags of respectable society \vho cover up their tiger claws with a tine shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin. The work of masculine whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose there ure hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. 1 will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result of some whisperer’s work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your hor.se and enrriuge because you liad no use for them, and the whisperer said: “Sold his horse und carriage because lie had to sell them. Tlic filet that lie sold his horse and carriage shows he is going down in business.” One of your friends gets embarrassed, ~flnd'you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: “I wonder if he can stand under all this pressure? I think he is going down. 1 think he will have to give up.” You borrow money out of a bank, nnd the director whispers outside about it, and after awhile the suspicion gets fairly started, and it leaps from one whisperer's lips to another whisperer’s lips until alj the people you owe want their money und wunt it right away, and the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and, though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your Liabilities, ordsh went everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much business men have suffered! Sometimes in the circles of clergymen we discuss why it is that a great many! merchants do not go to church. 1 will tell you why they do not go to church. l!y the time Saturday night comes they are worn out with the annoyances of business life. They have bad enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous system a-twiteli. 1 think among the worst of the whisperers ure those who gather up all the harsh things that have been said about you and bring them to you—all the things said ugainst you, or against your family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up. and they bring them to yon; they bring them to you in the very worst shape; they bring them to you without any of the extenuating circumstances, and after they have made your feelings all raw, very raw, they take this brine, this turpentine, this aquu fortis, and rub it, ill with a course towel, and rub it in until if sinks to the bone. They muke you" the pincushion in which they thrust all the sharp things they have ever heard alsmt you. “Now, don’t bring me into the scrape. Now, don't tell unvbody I told you. Let it be between you and me. Don’t Involve me in it ut all.” They (iggrayate you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder \\mi cannot iiing psalm tunes! They turn you on a spit before a hot fire and wonder

why you are not absorbed in gratitude to them because they turn you on a spit. Peddlers of night shadel Peddlers of Canada thistle! Peddlers of nux vomica 1 Sometimes they get you in a corner where you cannot very well escape without being rude, and then they tey you about this one, and all about that one, and about the other pne, and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk talk. After awhile they go away, leaving the place looking like a barnyard after the foxssand the weasels have been around; here a wing, and there a claw, and yonder an eye, and there a crop. How they Bather than the defamtion of good names it seems to me it would be almost as honorable and useful if you just took a box of matches in your pocket and a razor in your hand and go through the streets afcd see bow many houses you can burn down and how many throats you can cut. That is not a much worse business. The destruction of a man’s name is worse than the destruction of liis life. A woman came in confessional to a priest and told him that she had been slandering her neighbors. The priest promised her absolution on condition of her performing a penance. He gave her a thistle top and said: "You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field.” She went and did so and came back. “Now,” said the priest, “gather up all those seeds.’” She said: “I can’t.” “Ah,” he said, “I know you can’t. Neither can you gather up the evil words yon spoke about your neighbors.” All good men and all good women have sometimes had detractors after them. John Wesley’s wife whispered about him, whispered all over England, kept on whispering about that good man—as good a man as ever lived —and kept on whispering until the connubial relation was dissolved. Jesus Christ had these whisperers after Him, and they charged Him with drinking too much and keeping bad company. “A wine bibber and the friend of publicans and sinners.” You take the best man that ever lived and put a detective on his track for ten years, watching where he goes and when he comes and with a determination to misconstrue everything and to think he goes here for a bad purpose und there for a bad purpose, with that determination of destroying him, at the end of the ten years he will be.held despicable in the sight of a great many people If it Is an outrageous thing to despoil it man’s character, how much worse is it to damage a. woman’s reputation? Y’et that evil grows from century to century, und it is all done by whispers. A suspicion is started. The next whisperer who gets hold of it states the suspicion as a proven fact, and many a good woman, as honorable as your Wife or your mother, has been whispered out of ull kindly associations, and whispered into the grave. Some people say there is no hell, but if jthere be no hell for such a despoiler of womanly character it is, high time that somei philanthropist build one! But fhereja such a place established, and What-tt time they will have when nil the whisperers get down there together rehearsing things! Everlasting carnival of mud. Were it not for the uncomfortable surroundings you might suppose they would be glad to get there. In that region where they are all bad what opportunities for exploitation by these whisperers. On earth, to despoil tlieir neighbors sometimes they had to lie about them, but down there they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors and tell the truth. Jubilee of whisperers. Semiheaven of scandal mongers stopping their gabble about their diaboticul neighbor# only long enough to go up to the iron gate nnd usk some newcomer from the earth: "What is the last gossip in the city on earth where we used to live?” Now, how are we to war against this iniquity which curses every community on earth? First, by refusing to listen to or believe a whisper. Every court of the land has for a law and all decent communities have for a law that yon must hold people innocent until they are proved guilty. There is only one person worse than the whisperer, and that is the man or woman who listens without protest. The trouble is, you hold the sack while they fill it. The receiver of the stolen goods is just as bad ns the thief. An ancient writer declares that a slanderer nnd a man who receives the slunder ought both to be hanged—the one by ths tongue nnd the other by the eur—and 1 agree with him. When you hear something bad about your neighbors, do not go all over and ask about it, whether it is true, and scatter it nnd spread it. You might ns well go to,* smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him all through the community, asking people if they rsaUy thought it a case of smallpox. That would he very had. for the patient and for all the neighbors. Do not retail slunders and whisperings. l)o not make yourself the inspector of warts, and the supervisor of carbuncles, und ths commissioner for streot gutters, and the holder of stakes for a dog fight. Can it be thnt you, an immortal man; that you, an Immortal woman, can find no better business than to become a gutter inspector? Beside that, at your family table allow no detraction. Teach your children to speak well of others. Show them th* differencc between a bee und a wasp—the one gathering honey, the other thrusting a sting. J}‘read of a family where they kept what they called “A Slander Book,” and when any slanderous,, words were uttered in the bouse about anybody or detraction uttered it was all put down in this book. The book was kept carefully. For the first few weeks there were a grsat many entries, but after awhile there were no entries at all. Detraction stopped in that household. It would he a good thing to have a slander book in all households. Heaven punishes the bad and prove* the best.—Drydea.

SCENE IS TOUCHING. Affecting Meeting of Dreyfus and His Devoted Wife. It Occurs BaeaslfcJter llr I •t Rennes—The Date of the ITmmons Frenchman’* "Trial *> Fixed tor July 31. Bennes, France, July 3.—When Dreyfus had been placed in his cell SaturPciaon sent Mme. Dreyfus The flews of the arrival of her husband and she immediately went to the governor atld asked permission to see the prisoner. Leave being granted, the faithful wife entered the prison almost unobserved and was conducted to cell No. 830, accompanied by Mme. Havet. The meeting between the long-parted husband and wife can better be imagined than described. Naturally, it was most touching. Both Dreyfus and his wife were deeply affected. They remained longclasped in each other’s arms, tears and smiles intermingling with tender endearments. Mme. Dreyfus Weep*. Madame Dreyfus issued from the prison in a state of collapse. She found her husband much aged, with beard and hair whitened and body shrunken and stooped. She said Dreyfus knew nothing of the events of the past two years. The weeping wife acknowledged the courtesy with which she had been treated. The gendarme who was ordered to be present at the interview carried out instructions and kept at a discreet, distance. Thinks He Will He Acqaltted. Mine. Dreyfus had a third interview with her husband Sunday afternoon. She found him ifiuch better. He received her with smiles instead of teurs. Overdoses of quinine while on Devil’s island left him with a serious indigestion. He expresses himself convinced thaf lie will be acquitted. The prince of Monacre lias written Mme. Dreyfus a sympathetic letter, inviting her husband to sojourn at his chateau after- the acquittal, which, in the judgment of the prince is certain to be pronounced. Trial Last IJay of Jnly. Mme. Dreyfus desires to maintain an absolute retreat until after the trial, the date of which is definitely fixed for July 31. The faifiily have consulted physicians with a view to having Capt. Dreyfus examined to see if hejs physically able to endure the strain of a trial. If the slightest sign of danger of a collapse shows itself the authorities will allow the prisoner to enter the military hospital. Great Self-Control. Paris, July 3. —Capt. Coffiniers de Hordeck, commander of the French cruiser Sfax, which brought Capt. Dreyfus to France, says in an interview that he was struck by the immense power of self-control displayed by Capt. Dreyfus during the voyage. The prisoner’s attitude throughout was “one of irony nnd disdain.” He had been suffering severely from seasickness when he was transferred to the Sfax. but he wallfed w ith firm tread, and during the entire trip never showed a sign of weakness or nervousness. Capt. Dreyfus was ignorant of the fact that anew courtmartial awaited him nnd remained in ignorance during the first part of the voyage. When he was finally informed riot a muscle of his face moved. He merely said: “I have no ill will toward anybody. I shall be glad to reenter the army, which I have never ceased to love.” He did not allude to the subject again during the voyage. Most of the time hfl passed in reading.

France la Tranquil. Paris, .Inly 3. —As the outcome of the government’s prudence all France remains tranquil. Mme. Dreyfus has only' obtained permission to visit her husband thrice weekly for an hour, liis composure is the theme of all tongues. Hespeaks very little and seems to suffer a partial paralysis of speech, owing to liis long silence. Even on board the Sfax lie had to communicate with the officers by writing. He is credited on good authority with the following: “My condemnation and sentence were the symbol of nnti-Jewish odium. My judges were involuntarily deceived. May my undeserved expatriation put an end to all racial or religious feuds in the army nnd in that France which I have passionately loved and served. Guarded Like n Wild Ilraat. London, July 3.—The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at % Brest says: D.reyfus was guarded on board the Sfax like n wild beast. He was isolated like .a cholera-stricken patient. If the cruiser had foundered lie would have gone to his grave believing Jthtit Gen. l)e Boisdeffre was his courageous friend and champion, and altogether ignorant that such a man as t’ol. Piequart exists. Germany A*arnt. The Hague, July 3.—The German delegates at Saturday’s session of the drafting committee of the arbitration committee of ,the pence conference officially announced the assent of Germany to Sir Julian Pnuncefoto’s proposal of a permanent court of irbitratiou. "How’s the trout fishing up in that stream of yours?” asked the Detroit sportsman of the man from the northern part of the state. “Well.” came the answer, slowly, “I’ve made a rough calculation, and find that every trout caught there in the last five years has cost ten dollars. And I only figure one dollar a day for labor."—Detroit Free Press. Tommy—“ Say, pa, what do people want to take a vacation every summer for?” His Father—“To spend what money they have saved during the win-ter-”—OhioState Journal.

GIVES HIS IMPRESSIONS. Prof. Schurman Return* to Hand* After * Tour of Philippi®**Manila Schools to Open. Manila, July 3.-Prof. J. G. Schurman, of the United States advisory coml mission for the Philippines, returned to Manila Sunday, frott iTfkree weeks tour of the southern islands, ne takes an entirely hopeful view of the general conditions there. The intelligen and substantial citizens desire an American protectorate. The masses are awaiting the settlement of the war in Spttmn bgfore*<iG&r*ag themselves. They are chiefly anxious to be undisturbed. The president of the town of Santo Nicolas, in the Bland of Cebu, said to Mr. Schurman: “We want peace; food and prosperity. W® do not wish to fight. We would be neutral.” The president of the commission thinks this declaration fairly expresses the sentiments of the people in southern islands of the archipelago. Many of the towns there are in the haifds of small bands of Tagalos, and the people fear to indorse American rule until they are certain that Aguinaldo must be beaten. Let them once be convinced of .this, and the allegiance of the southern islands, Mr. Schurman thinks, can be secured by diplomacy. The United States gunboat Bennington took Mr. Schurman to Mindanao and the islands of the Sulu and Visayan groups. He traveled through the island -of Negros with Col. Smith and a party of natives. Ip several of the principal towns he was tendered banquets, and he had an hour’s conference with the young sultan of Sulu, w-ho received him in the royal audience chamber, surrounded by a bodyguard of fierce-look-ing Moros. Mr. Schurman told the sultan that the United States had acquired the sovereignty of the Philippines from Spain, hut'had no wish to subjugate the population nor to interfere with their customs or religion. On the contrary, the great desire of the American government was to help the p’eople of the islands to develop tli'eir country. The sultan replied that he earnestly desired peace and was anxious to Continue the existing treaties. On the return voyage the president of the commission visited the town of Borneo, capital of British North Borneo, where he was cordially received by the British officials, who afforded him every facility in his study of the local gflvern went and the customs of the people. The 'population he found much like that of the southern Philippine islands. The government is at present in a rather elementary state, but a more complete organization is being developed as rapidly as is practicable.. To-day the public schools in Manila will open and it is expected that there will be 5,000 children in attendance. The teachers include Americans, Spaniards and Filipinos. One of the instructors is the widow of the Filipino patriot, Dr. Bizal, who prepared the statutes of the Philippine league, and who, when about to board a steamer at Barcelona in the autumn of 1896, was' arrested by the Spanish authorities and sent to Manila, where he was tried by court-martial on a charge of having organized, the uprising in the Philippines, sentenced to death and shot on December 29 of that year. After hr husband’s execution Mrs. Bizal, who is the stepdaughter of a retired HongKong gentleman, went to Tmus and was chosen captain of a eompaijy of insurgents. English will be taught in the schools one hour each day. The prescribed holidays include the 20 church days observed in Manila, Washington’s birthday and the Fourth of July.

ATTACK IN THE DARK. Filipinos Attempt to Surprise American Troops In the Trenches lint Arc Driven Duck. Manila, July 3. The rebels made a demonstration at San Fernando Friday evening. They took advantage of the darkness and rain to make a sally against tlie north line, seemingly only for the purpose of annoying the Americans, as they failed to push their attack. The American loss was cPpriyate of the Seventeenth regiment killed and four men wounded. The tiring began at ten o’clock and the rebels expended quantities of ammunition. All the troops hastened to the trenches in expectation of a general attack. The Seventeenth regiment, the Twelfth regiment and the lowa regiment participated in the engagement, but did not advance beyond the outposts. After an hour the Filipinos fired rockets, apparently as a signal to cease firing, but there were scattering shots all night long, which kept the Americans under arms. The enemy’s loss was not discoverable. but was apparently small. The’Americans were guided in their shooting only by the flashes of the rebel’s rifles. The United States transport Hancock sailed for home Saturday night w .Hi 740 men of the Nebraska regiment and 250 men of the Utah artillery. About 30 of the Nebraskans and 25 of the Utahs remain here, a majority of them reenlisting. The Nebraskan troops have been living on board the ship in the harbor awaiting the Utahs’ readiness for departure. The soldiers enjoyed transport life immensely after mon Ths,spent in the trenches. Chauucey Drpew was recently asked: How the deuce do you escape indigestion while attending so many public dinners?” The senator replied- “I neverdrink more than oneldnd of wine. I smoke only two cigars. I don’t eat sweets and I confine myself to the plain ' dishes and eat sparingly of those. My breakfast is a boiled egg, a glass of hot water, some dry toast and a cup of tea. 7 , r — A kind of paper is made from seaweed which is so transparent that it may be used instead of glass for windon*. .

MAYOR ASSASSINATED. Chief Executive of Muskegon, Mlefc Shot hr a Disappointed Oflleeaeeker. Muskegon, Mich., Jan. 30 Mayor James Balbiornie was assassinated at noon by J. W. Tayer, a disappointed of f Ape*seker- Tayer shot biornie while the latter was standing in the doorway of his store. The ball entered his left breast above the nipple. After the shooting Balbiornie turned and ran upstairs to his living rooms and dropped in the hall. He e.\ Wfid -p minutes later. lowed some carbolic acid and n )en turned the revolver upon himself and fired. The ball entered his left breast He died at one o’clock. Mayor .Balbiornie was thepioneer resident of this city, having lived here since 1865. He was born in Ontario, April 21 1838, and later lived in Ottawa. When he came to Muskegon he embarked in the furniture and undertaking business and had acquired a comfortable forttme. He was for three years a member of the board of public works, and in 1898 was elected mayor as a republican being reelected this spring. He was prominent in fraterpal organizations. Tayer has been a resident of this city for about 25 years. He leaves a wife, but no children. He was a member of Phil Kearney post, G. A. 8., having served in the civil war in company K, Thirty-eighth Ohio infantry. It was understood that he hadJb&eii suffering from a slight brain trouble, but he was not thought to be dangerous. WORK OF WOMEN. Session of the International Connell; of Women in’London—Mnny . In Attendance. London, June 28.—The International Council of Women, which assembled Monday in the Convocation ball of Church house, Westminster, is divided into five sections, or meetings, which were all crowded Tuesday. Great interest is taken in the political section, which discussed “the parliamentary enfranchisement of women,’’ the vice president of the council, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of the United States, presiding. > In the professional section, Mme. An-, toinette Stirling created some excite! ment by declaring, with much emotion, that she thought the speakers were too hard on the men, and adding that women only realized the full value of a husband when the latter was lost. London, June 29. —At Wednesday’s session of the international council oi wom£n, Mrs. Stanton Blatch read a paper on “Primary Education,” advocating* the use of manual works at erery step of education, but deprecatingftlie introduction of domestic occupations and trying to adapt trades to educational processes. Mrs. Miller advocated her well-known views on physical development through the reorganization of the food question. Help Is Needed. Milwaukee, June 30. —A Sentinel special from Hudson, Wis., says Chairman H. Ingram, of the New Bichmond relief committee, has issued an official circular to the public as the first fruits of their investigations. The circular States that a careful estimate shows the money loss from the tornado to he $750,000. Subscriptions thus far amount to only about 'sßo,ooo, a large portion of which has been spent in clearing away the debris and in lending temporary assistance to the people. There is great need of money and building material. An appeal is made for cash, which should be sent to the treasurer at Hudson, and building material to the relief committee at New Bichmond. . Met n Awful Fate. Providence, B. 1., June 29. —Sadie B. Mathewson, 26 years old, was mdrderecTby her alleged paramour, Samuel Bowens, &7 years old, at Foster, R. J., Tuesday. It is claimed that both were drunk and that Bowens drove the woman into the yard, knocked her down and split her head open with an ax, stabbed her twice in the breast with a carving knife, and then, pouring kerosene oil over her, set her on fire while she was still breathing. Her body was burned to a crisp. Bowens was arrested. Strike at Plns'ree’* Shop. Detroit, Mich., June 30. At noon” Thursday the employes of the turning and welt department in Pingree & Smith’s shoe factory went on strikeIt is expected that as soon as the unfinished work is finished the factory will shut down and that COO will be without work.. The union complains that the firm has violated the wage hill by piitting boys to work in place of men and has refused to agree to pay the current scale of sls per week pending a settlement of the grievance. Dies In London. London, June 28. Mrs. Ellen < • Johnson, superintendent of the Massachusetts Women’s Beformatory P r ‘ v on, died suddenly at the London residence of the bishop of Rochester,, I*l- - Edward Stuart Talbot, D. B* where she'was a guest- It is believed she expired from heart disease, resulting from excitement in reading *, paper at Tuesday’s meeting of the International council of women. The Pardon Cine Too Laf*-' Washington, June 30.—The president recently granted a pardon to tbarle* Littlebear, convicted in the Indian territory of horse-stealing and sentenetd to five years and two months in the Ohio penitentiary. The pardon, which "as issued on the ground that the prisoner was in the last stages of consumpt' oo, was received too late, as he dieel on the day before it was to-have gone ‘ D!l> effect. Milwaukee Man HonoredUtica, N. June 30.— Hamilton c*>r lege conferred the degree of LL.D. UP 0 ® Ephraim Mariner, of Milwaukee, "* s -