Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 23, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 1 January 1902 — Page 7

THE BATTLE OF LIFE Jlow the End of the Struggle May Be Brightened. aieuon Which May Be Learned from Boasting of Benbadad, the King of Syria—-Humanity Encouraged. Washington, Dec. 29. While this discourse of Dr. Talmage jrebukes arrogance, it encourages huxnanity and shows how the evening of life may be brightened. The text is 1 JLings, 20:11: “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he putteth it off.” Harness is the obsolete word for aranor. It means harness for the man, mot harness for the beast; harness for battle, not harness for the plow. The mncient armor consisted of helmet for the head, breastplate and shield for the .heart, greaves for the feet. The text .makes a comparison between a man enlisting for some war and a veteran .returning, the one putting pn the armor and the other putting it off. Benhadad, the king of Syria,, thought ie could easily overcome the king of .Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure •of the victory that he spread an antebellum banquet. With 32 kings he was celebrating what they were going to do. There werOit, all 33 kings at the carousal, and their condition is described in the Bible not as convivial or stimulated exaltation, but drunk. Their and bannered pavilions were surrounded by high-mettled horses, neighing and champing, and hitched to chariots such a9 kings rode in. Benhadad sends officers to the king of Israel demanding the surrender of the city, saying: “Thou shalt deliver me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy -children,” and afterward sends other officers, saying that the palace of the .ilng will be searched and everything Benhadad wants he will take without asking. Then the king of Israel called a council of war and word is sent back to Benhadad that his unreasonable demand will be resisted. Then Benhadad isends another message to the king of Israel, a message full of arrogance and bravado, practically saying: “We will -destroy you utterly. I will grind Samaria into the dust, but there will not be dust enough to make a handful for •each one of my troops.” Then the king -of Israel replied to Benhadad, practically saying: “Let me see you do what you say.- You royal braggart, you might better have postponed your banquet until after the battle instead of spreading it before the battle. You huzza too soon. ‘Let not him that gird■*th on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.’ ” An avalanche of courage and righteousness, the Israelitish army came -down on Benhadad and his host. It was a hand to hand fight, each Israelite liewing down a Syrian. Benhadad, on horseback, gets away with some of the cavalry, but is only saved for a worse ■defeat, in which 100,000 Syrian infantry were slaughtered in one day. Now we see the sarcasm and the epigrammatic power of the message of my text sent by the king of Israel to Benhadad: ■“Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” All up and down history we see such too early boasting. Soult, the marshal -of France, was so certain that he would conquer that he had a proclamation printed announcing himself king of Portugal and had a grand feast prepared for four o’clock that afternoon, but before that hour he tied in ignominious defeat, and Wellington of the conquering host sat down at four o’clock at the very banquet the marshal of France had ordered for himself. •Charles V. invaded France and was so sure of conquest that he requested Paul Jovius, the historian, to gather together a large amount of paper on which to write the story of his many victories, but disease and famine seized 'upon his troopers and he letreated in •dismay. So Benhadad’s behavior has ? been copied in all ages of the world. It will be my object, among other lesions, to show that he who puts off the armor, having finished the battle, sis more to be congratulated than he who begins. First, I find encouragement in this subject for the aged who have got 'through the work and struggle of •earthly life. My venerable friends, if .you had at 25 years of age full appreciation of what you would have to go through in the thirties and the forties and the fifties of your lifetime you would have been appalled. Fortunately the bereavements, the temptations, the persecutions, the hardships, were curtained from your sight. With more or less fortitude you passed through the crisis of pain and sadness and disappointment and fatigue and still live to recount the Divine help that sustained you. At 20 or 30 years of your age at the tap of the drum you put on the harness. Now, at 60 or 70 or 80, you are peacefully putting it off. You would not want to try the battle of life over again. So many of just your „ temperament and with as good a starting and as fine a parentage and seemingly with as much equipoise of ter as you had have made complete shipwreck that you would not want again to run the risks. Thoungh you can look back and see many mistakes, the next time you might make worse mistakes. Instead of being depressed over the fact that you are being counted out or omitted in the great undertakings of the church and the world, rejoice that you have a.right to hang up your helmet and sheathe your swOrd and free your hands from the gantlets and your feet from the boots of mail. At the soldiers’ home in the suburb* of this city I often admire the peaceful and contented looks of the venerable heroes as they sit under the trees

or go in and out the fine abode that our government has appropriately provided, for them. They are not longing for other Chapultepecs. They do not want to undertake another South Mountain. Jheir foot does not ache to get into the stirrup of the cavalryman. They are not longing for the hardtack of the soldiers’ breakfast along the Chickahominy. They have no desire for another ride in the ambulance to the field hospital. When the Spanish war broke out they sometimes wondered if their rheumatic knee would allow them to keep step in a march, and if their sight was good enough to see an advancing foeman, and if their ear was alert enough to hear the command “Charge!” But for the most part they are glad that there is no more war for them. So let all of the aged in peace with God, through the blessed Christ, cultivate contentment and thank the Lord their Sedan has been fought and the war is over. “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” There are old farmers who cannot do one more day’s work. What harvests they raised in 1870! They knew the rotation of crops as well as they knew the rotations of the seasons. Under what blistering suns they swung the scythe and the cradle! Through what deep snows they drew the logs or cut out their way to the foddering of the cattle! What droughts, what freshets, what insectile invasion, they remember! To clothe and feed and educate the household they went through toils and self-sacrifices that the world knew but little about. Best, aged man! Let the boys do the shoveling and thrashing and cutting and sweating. You have put the harness off. and do not try to put it on again. Then there are aged physicians. What tragedies of pain and accident they have witnessed! How much suffering they have assuaged! How many brave battles they have fougjit with lancet and cataclysm! How many fevers they cooled! How many broken bones they set! How many paroxysms they quieted! How many anxious days they passed when they knew that human lives depended upon their skill and fidelity! They drove back death from many a cradle. Instead of becoming hardened at the sight of suffering their sympathies deepened, as with aged Dr. Valentine Mott when, standing before his students in clinical department and a ehild was about to be operated upon in surgery, he said: “Gentlemen, here * are surgeons who will do this work as well as I can, and you will excuse me if 1 leave the room, for as I get older I cannot composedly witness pain as once I could, especially the suffering of little children.” God comfort and bless the old doctors, allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and eclectic, and make them willing to be out of practice! Before long they will hear the benediction of Him who said: “I was sick, and ye visited Me.” Again, I learn from Benhadad’s behavior the unwisdom of boasting of what one is going to do. Two messages had he sent to the king of Israel, both messages full of insolence and braggadocio. With brimming beaker in hand he istalking with the royal group about what he will do with the spoils of the victory he is going to achieve that afternoon. He takes it for granted that Samaria will surrender. He gives command for the capture of some of the inhabitants of Samaria w'ho are approaching, saying: “Whether they be come out for peace take them alive, or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.” But behold the fugitive king in frightened retreat before sundown! Better not tell boastingly what you are going to do. Wait until it is done. You do well to lay our your plans, but there are so many mistakes and disappointments in life that you may not be able to carry out your plans, and there is no need of invoking the world’s derision and caricature. Napoleon was so sure of conquering England, Scotland and Ireland that he had a medal struck celebrating the conquest, which he never made. On that medal was represented his.own crowned head. Dr. Pendleton and Mr. Saunders were talking in the time of persecution under Queen Mary. Saunders was trembling and afraid, but Pendleton said: “What! Man, there is much more cause for me to fear than you. You are small, and I have’ a large bodily frame, but you will see the last piece of this flesh consumed to ashes before I ever forsake Jesus Christ and His truth, which I have professed.” Not long after Saunders, the faint hearted, gave up his life for Christ’s sake, while Pendleton, who had talked so big, played coward and gave up religion when the test came. Wilberforce did not tell what he was going to do with the slave trade, but how much he accomplished is suggested by Lord Brougham’s remark concerning Wilberforce after his decease: “He went to Heaven with 800,000 broken fetters in his hand.” Someone, trying to dissuade Napoleon from his invasion of Russia, said: “Man proposes, but God disposes.” But you remember Moscow, and 95,000 corpses in the snowbanks. The only kind of boasting that prospers was that of Paul, who cried out: “I glory in the cross of Christ!” And that of John Newton, who declared: “I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be, but, bj the grace of God, I am not what I v as. Do not boast of your moral strength. One of the most brilliant men,of the nineteenth century, having temporarily reformed from inebriacy, stood on the ‘platform of Broadway tabernacle, New York, and said: “Were this great globe one crystallite and I were offered the possession of it if I would drink one glass of brandy I would refuse with scorn, and I want no religion to help

me.” But that same man died at Poughkeepsie a drunken pauper. Better underrate than overrate ourselves.

Notice also my text takes it for granted that you must put on the harness, else how can you take it off? Life is a battle —a 30 years’, a4O years’ or a 60. years’ war. Helmet you must'have, for the battleaxes of skepticism and agnositicism are aimed at your head. Every possible effort will brmade to make you think wrong. The young man who his head filled with wrong notions about God, about Christ, about the soul, about the great beyond, is already captured. Put on the helmet, the latchet well adjusted under the chin. Think right and you will act right. Yes, breastplate for the heart. That is the most important part to be defended. That decides what you love and what you hate, what you hope for and what you despise. That decides earthly happiness and eternal destiny. Keep the heart pure and the life will be pure. Have the heart corrupt and your actions will be corrupt. that all of us might have anew heart covered with a divinely wrought breastplate! Yes, greaves for the fe.et. So many dangerous roads are we compelled to walk. So many people tread on sharp prongs of temptation and go lame and limping all the rest of their days. Iron mailed shoes for the feet. Young man, see that you have on a complete armor. It looks bright now, and it seems as if you could march right on without opposition or attack, but be not deceived. There are hidden foes ready to halt you on your way. The same cup that Benhadad drank out of just before his defeat will be offered to effect your defeat. His intoxicated brain saw victory when there was nothing but rout and ruin. What work Benhadad’s cup made for Benhadad’s army! What shipwrecks on the sea, what disasters on the land, caused by inflaming liquids put upon the tongue to set seething the brain! How many kings of thought and influence, with crowns brighter than the one Benhadad wore, have by strong drink been put into flight as base as that in which Benhadad rode! “Give them to me," says the demon of inebriacy. “Give them to me; hand them down—the brightest legislators of the land. — I will thicken their tongue; I will bloat their cheeks; I will stagger their steps; I will damn their soul. Hand them down to me—the physician out of his laboratory, the attorney from the courtroom, the minister of the Gospel from the altars of God. Hand them down to me, the queens of the drawing-room, and I will disgrace their names and blast their homes and throw them down farther than Jezebel fell to the dogs that crunched her carcass.” We hold our breath in horror as once in awhile we hear of someone, either by accident or suicide, going over Niagara falls, but the tides, the depths, the awful surges of intemperance are every hour of the day rushing scores of immortals dawn into the unfathomed abysm. Suicides by the hundreds of thousands! Suicides by the million! Beware of the cup out of which Benhadad drank personal and national demolition.

I congratulate all those who are now in the thickest of life’s battle that the time is coming when the struggle will end and you will put the harness off, helmet and greaves and breastplate having fulfilled their mission. You cannot in one visit to London Tower see all. You mlist go again and again to that place which is associated with.the story of Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn and Walter Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. You will see the crowns of kings and queens, the robe worn by the Black Prince, and silver baptismal fonts from which royal infants were christened, and the block on which Lord Lovat was beheaded. But no part of London Tower will more interest you than the armory, in which is skillfully and impressively arranged a collection of all styles of armor worn between the thirteenth nnd eighteenth centuries, suggesting 500 years of conflict—cuirass and neck guard and chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle and mailed apron. You see just how from head to heel those oldtime warriors were defended against sharp weapons that would cut or thrust or bruise and allowing the in to come out of battle unhurt when otherwise they would have been slain. O ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, when the war of life is over and the victors rest in the soldiers’ home on the heavenly heights, perhaps there may be in the city of the sun a tower of spiritual armor such as incased the warriors for Christ in earthly combat. Some day we may be in that armory and hear the heroes talk of how they fought the good fight of faith and see them with the scars of wounds forever J> eale( l an<l l° ok at the weapons of offense and defense with which they became more than conquerors. In that tower of Heaven, as the weapons of the spiritual conflict are examined, St. Paul may point out to us the arm-or with which he advised the Ephesians to equip themselves and say: “That is the shield of faith. That is the helmet of salvation. That is the girdle of truth. That is the breastplate of righteousness. Those are the mailed shoes in which they were shod with the preparation of the Gospel.” There and then you may recount the contrast; between the day when you enlisted in Christian conflict and the day when you closed it in earthly farewell and heavenly salutation, and the text, which has so much meaning for us now, will have more meaning for us then: ’’Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” Advice to Yoons Men, The Old Beau was speaking: “Never ask for a kiss, my boy,” he said, “until you have taken it."—Puck.

THREE PROMINENT PERSON- • AGES PASS AWAY. Death of Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, Gov. Rogers, of Washington, and Capt. Leary, First American of Guam.

Camden, N. J., Dec. 28.—United States Senator William J. Sewell died at his home here at 9:30 a. m. Friday. He suffered from diabetes complicated with stomach and heart trouble. Senator Sewell’s illness had extended over a period of two years, but his condition was not considered serious until about a year ago. His constant attention to the duties devolving upon him in his official capacity resulted, in 1899, in a collapse. A trip to Europe was beneficial, and he soon recovered sufficiently to resume his duties. Toward the end of the last session of congress he developed a complication of diseases^

SENATOR WILLIAM J. SEWELL. and, acting on advice of his physicians, again visited varlousjjealth resorts in Europe. Upon his return, his condition showing no improvement, Senator Sewell went to Asheville, N. C., where he remained .4wo months. He returned to his home about four weeks ago, and for a few days a slight improvement in his condition was noted. Within the |>nst two weeks a succession of sinking spells greatly weakened him nnd compelled his physicians to abandon the hope of prolonging hts life, - When death came,the senator’s family gathered at his bedside. CLAIMED lIY DEATH. Washington’* Chief Executive Succumb* After a Short Illness, Olympia, Wash., Dec. 27. —Gov. John B. Rogers died at eight o'clock Thursday night. Gov. Rogers was taken sick Friday evening with a cold which developed into pneumonia. On-Sunday his condition was such ns to alarm his friends, but on Monday afternoon tlie governor was mucli better and it was thought the danger had been passed. Henry G. Mcßride, lientenant governor of Washington, who will become governor, came to this state from California in 1804. In California he ta light school and studied law prior to his removal to this state. He located first at La Connor, in Skagit county, where in 1885 he established a weekly newspaper, at the same time practicing his profession. In 1887 he removed to Mount Vernon county, where he now resides and practices law. In 1889 Mr. PRESIDENT WILL ACCEPT. Room-vi-It Kolllle* French mail That He Would fie Rivalled to Act a* President of Olympic (tames. Paris, Dec. 28. —Baron Goubejrtin, president of the Olympic games, has just received a personal letter from President Roosevelt in reply to the invitation sent to the latter asking hitn to become president of the Olympic games to be held in Chicago during the year 1904. Mr. Roosevelt says he will lay the whole matter before the cabinet, and that, so far as he himself is concerned, he takes the keenest interest in the undertaking, and will do his utmost to muke the meeting at Chicago as successful us the last one. held at Athens. AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED. In Deapernfe Encounter with Bolomen n Sergeant, a C'orpornl nnd Five Private* Meet Death. Manila, Dec. 28.—Capt. Schoeffel, with a detachment of 18 men of company E, Ninth infantry, at Dapday, Island of Samar, was attacked by a large force of bolomen. A severe hand-to-hand fight ensued, in which a .sergeant, a corporal and five privates were .killed. Capt. Schoeffel was wounded, but not dangerously. Five privates were dangerously and one slightly wounded. No property was lost. The enemy was finally repulsed with heavy loss. *. Fire in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 27. Thousands of bushels of grain were destroyed early this morning by the burning of the H. F. Mueller elevator at Fifty-fifth street and the Fort Wayne tracks. The" loss to stock, machinery and the building ia estimated at $200,000. Usmise to Wheat. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 28.—Oklahoma farmers say that the high dry winds of the past few days have done a greater damage to the winter wheat crop than all the cold wares combined. Wheat on the uplands has suffered. | greatly.- .

Mcßride was elected a superior judge, serving four years. In 1900 he was elected lieutenant governor as a republican. The death of Gov. Rogers will change the political complexion of state executive and all appointive officers, as Lieut. Gov. Mcßride is a republican. Gov. Rogers w v as elected as a populist on a fusion ticket in 1896, being at that time roundly denounced by republicans for His reform tendencies and so-called theories. Conservatism marked hia administration, with the result that he was reelected in November, 1900, by republican votes, he receiving a plurality of 1,000, although republicans were elected to all the other state offices by handsome pluralities. [John B. Rogers was barn In Brunswick, Me., September 4, 1838. From 1662-1866 ho was a drug clerk In Boston and (or the next four years was engaged In the drug business In Jackson, Mts. He taught school (or several years tn Illinois, and In 1876 moved to Wichita, Kan., where he wa editor of the Kansas Commoner. During his residence In Kansas Qov. Rogers became Farmers’ alliance organiser. In 1890 he removed to the state of Washington, where he was elected to the legislature. In 1896 he was elected governor on the fusion ticket and reelected In 1900. Gov. Rogers was the author of several works on political economy, among them “The Irrepressible Conflict," “Looking Forward” and “The Inalienable Bights of Man."} CAPT. LEARY DEAD. First Governor of Ganin Passes Away at Boston Hospital. V Washington, Dec. 28.—The navy department Friday morning received the following telegram from Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson, commanding the Boston navy yard, dated Friday: “Capt. Richard P. Leary, United States navy, died this morning al marine luispltal, Chelsea.” / ' Capt. Leary was tli.e first governor of Guam after that island came into the possession of the United States, Washington, Dec. 28. —Capt. Leary was held in high regard by his fellow sailors because of the nerve lie showed in the presence of two German warships in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, during the stirring times which wound up in the tremendous hurricane that wiped out the German and American navies in those waters, in 1881). Leary was in command of the little Adams, a third-rate vessel of antique type, and finding the Germans about to interfere forcibly in support of their own candidate for the Samoan chieftainship, he cleared ship for action, first placing himself in position to command either approach, and forbade any interference. He was not molested, and remained at his post until tln- American squadron, under Admiral Kimberly, arrived, when he was sent north in the Adams, Giiih escaping the great hurricane, lie was a unique figure as the first, naval governor of the island of Guam, which he ruled ns he, would his ship, breaking,up immorality by obliging the natives to marry; calling upon the men for a certain amount of • work every week, anil even prescribing j the minimum number of poultry which j should In- maintained in each family, j lie was appointed from Maryland and entered the naval service in 18(10. lie commanded the San Francisco during the West ltidiun campaign of t he Spanish war.

TWO BRITISH DEFEATS. Iloer* Under Gen. De Wet Nueeessf ully , Attack Col. Firman'* Camp— Casualties Probably Heavy. London, Die. 27. —The following dis- | patch has been received from Lord Kitchener, dated Johannesburg: “Gen. Hundle reports that the night of December 24 Col. Finnan’s camp at Zeefontein, consisting of three companies of yeomanry and two guns, wus successfully rushed byu strong commando under De Wet. It is feared the casualties were heavy. Two regiments of light horse are pursuing the Boers.” London, Dec. 28.—Details received here from South Africa of the urnbusending near Beglnderyn, Orange River colony, December 2, of 200 mounted infantry by 300 Boers .and 40 armed natives, led by Commandant Britz, show the British losses to have been ten killed and 15 wounded. The losses of the Boers are not known. Train Han* Away. Scranton, J*n„ Dee. 28.—Just before daybreak Friday morning an Ontario & Western coal train of 50 cars, drown by a 100-ton engine, ran away on the hill between l’reston Park and Starlight, wrecking the whole train and killing four of the hands. The killed are: Melvin Whitllng, engineer; Charles , Millard, fireman; Richard Build, head brakeman; Patrick Duffy, rear brakeinan. Ai! lived in Carbondale. * ' ( hanged Their Mind*. l’ana, 111., Dec. 28.—John F. KeUar, aged 80, the wealthiest resident of lloliand township, and Mrs. Sarah Canfield, aged 63, were to be married Friday, but. when they came before vhe minister they decided they were too | old. Mr. KeUar gave Mrs. Canfield ] SI,OOO cash, and they parted good friends. Youthful Skater* Drawned. Livonia, N. Y., Dec. 24.—Walter and Gerald Doble, aged IS and 15 year*, respectively, fell through an air hole in the Ice on Conesiu lake Friday and were droaraed.

SHAW'S IDEAS. I”, A ' - , * Jidclng from Pnblfe VtteraaMf !• tare Secretary of the Treaaury Favors aa Elastic Currency. Des Moines, la., Dele. 30.—Gov. Shaw, soon to become **m*etary of the treaa-. ury in the Roosevelt cabinet, ik for a a elastic currency, not necessarily that known aa “asset currency,” but something of the same sort, based, perhaps, on the paid-up capita! of the banka. The governor sees no danger in the proposed bank circulation based upon assets, except the one—public prejudice. This alone is enough to make the plan impracticable at present, but it is probable, necording to his views, that all popular opposition will pass away when It is realized that the projected system holds leas of peril to the depositor than the present one of hypothecating collateral in the hour of stress and when more circulation ia needed. These views of Gov. Shaw last public utterances on the subject, he referring to them when pressed for an interview to explain his position on the Important subject to be looked into by his department. A report that he had given ont an interview expressing at length hts ideas on many problems before the treasury department was denounced ns baseless by the future secretary, who seemed much annoyed that he should be suspected of such poor judgment as to dincuss the management of the bureau at this time. He insisted he would give out nothing new for publication, but referred to the fact that his views on asset currency were contained In an address some time ago before the Northwestern Nebrasku Bankers’ association. ~ Des Moines, In., Dec. 30.—Gov. Shaw on Sunday received a letter from President' Roosevelt bidding him to come to Washington at his conveni ienee, nnd the governor will leave for the seat of government on New j Yenr’s night over the Northwestern. I The president’s letter was brief, but | extremely cordial. Pleasure was exj pressed that the secretaryship had been so quickly and satisfactorily setj lied satisfactorily not only to himself. but to the entire country. Gov. Ktuny was informed that. Secretary Gage awaited his convenience, and I the president ventured the hope that | a conference of the outgoing arid incoming secretaries with himself I might not be long delayed. Gov. ' Shaw expects to reach Washington on Frida}' evening.

CHANGES HIS GIFT. Mr. ( tirnrirlr Offer*, In n New Form, 1p10,000,000 lor I'ropoKetl ,\utlonul School. Washington, Dee. 30. President Roosevelt lius received formal letter from Andrew Carnegie announcing that the -ift of $10,000,000 to Iniild up a post-graduate university ut Washington will be put in such shape that there cun be no possible quest lon us to Its acceptance. In offering ut rirst bonds of the steel trust, Mr. Carnegie's sole purpose was to first relieve the government of embarrassment in investing the money, and secondly, to produce more income Tor the new university than could possibly be done if the capital were all mink in government bonds, Which, ow ing to their high premium and low interest, pay less than any other security. Mr. Carnegie will therefore arrange to-offer that the government of the United Stales become trustee of a fund which will already be invested in interest paying securities. These securities will be of such u character as to be entirely unobjectionable. Mr. Carnrgir Miff at once arrange for the investment of the capital, and he will in nil probability select municipal, county and state nmirlties, which bear fairly good rates of interest. The president is entirely satisfied with the terms of the offer, which entirely eliminates all question of tlie government becoming a stockholder in the steel trust, The new arrangement by Mr. Carnegie Ik ns generous ns the first one, and he shown no pot- . aihie resentment as to the question which has arisen -regarding the propriety of the government accepting bonds of the steel trust. — * The president will submit the matter to congress with a recommendation which will not only be favorable to the acceptance of the gift, but which will make public recognition of the public spirit and generosity of Andrew Carnegie. Sl* Killed In t Mine. Hartshorn, I. TANARUS„ Dec. 30. —At shaft No. 1 of the McAlester Coal company here while the cage was asccmfing with eight men it Jumped its guidings about 100 feet from the bottom of the shaft. Six of the eight men were killed. They were caught between the cage and the buntings and their bodies dropped to the bottom of the shufL Seven Negroes Drowned. New Orleans, Dec, 30. —Seven negroes were drowned while attempting to cross the Mississippi river between the Hermitage plantation and Riverside, two mile* below Donaldsonyille. A strong gale capsized their boat. - * Lynched. Raleigh, N. C., Dec, 30.—While the governor was signing an order for a special court at Northampton to try Peter Mitchell, a negro, for assaulting Mrs. Lucinda Hill, a white woman, a telegram came saying that citizens took Mitchell from the jail at Jackson and lynched him. Another Bor render. Manila, Dec. 30.—Five insurgent officers and 175 men, with six cannon, 51 rifles and 17 shotguns, have sur--1 rendered to the American authorities on the Island of Cebu. It is now ba Ueved this island is pacifiad* _