Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 April 1896 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, IIIDIANA. SMOTHERED IX BED. BROOKLYN FIRE BRINGS DEATH TO TEN. Unable to i:capc Half n Score of Italian llccuio "ins a Tenement I5uillin;j Die Like Hats in a Trap-Hold 3Iisroiiri Train Kobbcry. Suffocated by Smoke. Ten pi rsotis p'rish'l by suffocation in n r.r.k!yu tenement house Wedae-day. All nut tlt-at h ly suffocation. Tin bodies of some f them were badly burned. The lire starteei in the lower hallway of üc building, which is a four-story tenc-uu-nt. in I liinii street, aii'l before tin' sleeping truants could ! warned f their danger all escape was nit tl". The section f lh city w'li'iv this terrible lisaster "--urrd is n.-ar the water front. The majority of the residnfs am Italians of thepoorer clas aii'l they form the biggest (nl.uiy of their rai in Hrooklyn. The firemen suveded in ge-tting tin- lire tinker control after a short time. There were many exciting incidents. One man. sit Italian, whose name is unknown, jumped from a window in the third story am! eseapeil with only a few hums anl bruises. The family of Joseph Fstosito. living on the st ml lloor of the house. had a narrow es.ap" from Ieath. Whet: aroii 1 they found their way cut off ami the tlames were sweeping int their apartments. Fstosito lel .'lis wife ami three hihlren to the -orni'-e in front of the house an-1 guided tlmm along it to the building adjoining, from the roof uf wh: !i tliey were taken ly tirtmcii. SEED CONTRACTS AWARDED. Philadelphia and St. Paul Firms Will Supply Them. Secretary Morton has u the contract for lU.l'Jö.tMM) packets of vegetable se-eds. to he listributed to the public umler the recent act of Congn-ss. to I). I .a ad ret h N: Sons, of Philadelphia. The price iixed is S7t NM, tie eeils to he ilelivere! subject to gcrniiuativc test, umler a very carefully drawn contract, free of cost, at lhe department in Washington, ready for ma il i i; v. The contract for a million packets of Mower set ds was let to L. L. .May V: Co., of St. Paul. Minn., at half a cent jkt packet. I "tiller this new method of buying seels and compelling the sellers to put their own linn names upon the packet.it is believed by the Secretary that a better quality of seeds will be secured. Senator I'roctor. chairman of the Senate Committe on Agriculture, and Representative Wadsworth. chairman of the House Agricultural Committee, together with Dr. Dahney and Secretary Morton, constituted the lmard of awards. They agreed unanimously that the purchases alove indicated were the best umler all cina.mstances. winch could possibly be made. SUCCESSFUL WORK OF BANDITS. Three Masked Men Hold Up an Express Train Near Lebanon, Mo. Tht' east-bound cannonball train. No. . on the St. Louis and San Francisco liuilroal. was held up three miles east of Lebanon. Mo., at I :." Wednesday morning by three masked men. and the express safe blown open and robbed. The robbers loardel tin train ar Lebanon, and after Teaching the scene of the robbery held Up the engineer and fireman, stopped the 1rain, and with the engineer in frotit of them marched to the express car. The messenger re fu sei I to open and the d.Mir was blown open with dynamite, the safe racked and its contents removed. Several packages of valuable papers were found in the morning beside the track, and in some was money which had been overlooked in the hurry of departure. The passengers were not molested. The engine was detached and run by the robbers 1 Sleeper, where it was abandoned. A brakeman hurried back to the city and Start! Sheriff Jones and a posse on the track of lhe robbers. WILL SEND 570O0 TR0CP3. Grave Condition of Affairs in South Africa Stirs the English Government, Owing to the gravity of the situation in South Africa, tin- Hritish Government is taking steps to dispatch ö.ikmi troops to the Cape of Coo.l Hope as soon as possible, to le ready for any emergencies. The directors of lhe llritish Chartered Sout'it Afri-u Company have formally reipieded the Government to order the imnudiate dispatch of öm regular troops from Cape Town to Hiihiwavo. Chile's Proposals Acceptable. Proposals fi.r the settlement of the lioundary dispute received frcm the (Jv-mim-iit of Chile are likely to lie heccpted as far as regards arbitration with reference to letalis in determining lines of demarcation. The Mildster of Korean Affairs is drawing U a statement of the uhje't in full lor submission to tite lira Kilian ( 'a!inet. Seeks to tnjoin Ten Roads. At Denver, suit has been filed in the United States Circuit -Court J.y fhe Interstate Commerce Commission invoking the aid of the ltvv to enforce its ordert against ten Western railroads. It is jirojtosed t compel these eoiiiiuoti carriers to desist from discriminations in fremiti rates betwe- lon and nhort hauls. For Governor of Arizona. The President hi sent to tlie Seutte the nomination of Jlenjamin 4. Franklin, of A ri.ona. to be i Ior4rnor of Arizona. Negotiations with Braiil. Fniteil State Mi;iiitfr Thompson ja nrotiatinj; an extradition treaty between llrazil and the Fnitei States. Georgetown I Protected. The fort at the mouth of lhe Deiiiarara Kiver. whhi is intended to protect Ueorjretown, llritish lluiana, is eomtiderm1 ready for service, and two rapid-lire riins are in position behind a nuund of ha rd clay. Hippolyte' Successor Named. T. Sinmn Sam, foruierlj Minister of War for Hayti. has been elected President to succeed Hippolyte by the Senate ami Houe of Representatives. Perfect tran-

TALM AGE'S S Ell 11 ON.

THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD AS NOT ABUSING IT. Rev. Dr. Talmagc Discusses Good ond Uad Hrcreutions-Thc Force of Music Outdoor Sports-Foundations for Soul ltuildiiiK-Tlic Last Hour. Social Diversions. In Lis sermon Sunday lr. Talmage discussed a subject of universal interest viz., 'Our Social ltecreations." His text was chosen from I. Corinthians vii., ,"1: "They that use this world as not abusing it." Judges xvi.. JÖ: "And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for Samson, that he may make us sjort." There were Jt.tNM people assembled in the temple of Daon. They had come to make sport of eyeless Samson. They were all ready for the entertainment. They began to clap and pound, impatient for the amusement to be-in, and they crh d, "Fetch him out, fetch him out!" Yonder I see the blind old jiiant roming. led by the hand of a child into the very midst of the temple. At his lirst appearance there foes tip a shout of laughter ami derision. The blind old fdatit pretends he is tired, and wants to rest himself au'.tinst the pillars of the house. So he says to the lad Who leads him, "Show in.' where the main pillars are!" The lad does so. Theti the strong man puts his ri.ht hand on one pillar and his left hand on another, and, with the miirhtiest push that mortal ever made, throws himself forward until the whole hoiw conies down in thunderous crash, -rinding the audience like jrrapes in a wine press. "And so it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for Samson, that he may make us siHirt. Ami they railed for Samson out of the prison house, and he made them sport." In other words, there are amusements that are destructive, and briu down disaster and death upon the heads of those who practice them. While they lauj;h and cheer, they die. The 0.0X who perished that day in Ca.a are as nothing compared to the tens of thousands who have been destroyM by sinful amusements. Lawful Pleasures. Hut my first text implies that there is a lawful use of the world as well as an unlawful abuse of it. and the difference between the man Christian at.d the man unChristian is that in the former case the man masters the world, while in the hitter case the world masters him. For whom did Cod make this rand and beautiful world V For whom this wonderful expenditure of color, this gracefulness of line, this mosaic of the .'round, this fresco of the sky. this "lowing fruitage of orchard and vineyard, this full orchestra of the tempest, in which the tree branehes Üute. and the winds trumpet, and the thunders drum, and all the splendors of earth and sky mine clash ins their cymbals? For whom did (Jod spring the arched bridge of colors resting upon buttresses of broken storm cloud V For whom did he gather the upholstery of lire around the windows of the sett inj: suuV For all men, but more especially for his own dear children. If you build a larpje mansion and spread a great feast after it to celebrate the completion of the structure, d,i you allow strangers to come in and occupy the place, while you thrust your own children in the kitchen, or the barn, or the fields? Oh, no! You say, "1 am very jzlatl to see strangers in my mansion, but my own sons and daughters shall have the lirst riht there." Now, (iod has built this grand mansion of a world, and he has spread a glorious feast in it, and while those who are strangers to his grace may come in I think that Cod especially intends to give the advantage to his own children those who are the sons ami daughters of the Lord Almighty, those who through gracv ran look up and say, "Abba, Father." Yot -annot make me believe that (!od gives more advantages to the world than he gives to the church bought by his own blood. If, therefore, people of the world have looked with dolorous sympathy upon those who make profession of religion and have said, "Those new converts are going down into privation and into hardship; w hy did they not tarry a little longer in the world and have some of its enjoyments and amusements and recrer.tions ' I saj- to such men of the world, "You are grearfy mistaken," and before I get through I will show that those people who stay out of the kingdom of (Jod have the hardships and self denials, while those who come in have the joys and satisfactions. In the name of the King of heaven and earth. I serve a writ of ejectment upon all the sinful and iollutod w ho ha vo squatted on the domain of earthly pleasure as though it belonged to them, while I claim, in behalf of the good and the pure and the true, the eternal inheritance which (Sod lias -ziven tlieiu. Hitherto Christian philanthropists, clerical and lay, have busied themselves chictly in detiouiming sinful recreations, but 1 feel we have no right to stand before men and women in whose hearts there is a desire for recreation amounting to jvsitive necessity, denouncing this and that and the other thing, when w do not propose to give them something better. (Sod helping me and with reference to my last account, I shall enter upon a sphere not usual in sermonizing, but a subject which 1 think oiiht to be presented at this time. 1 projtose now to lay before you some of the recreations which are not only innocent, but positively helpful and advantageous. Influence nf Music. Jn the lirst place, I commend, among indoor recreations, music Vocal and instrumental. Among the first things created was the bird, so that the earth might have music at the start. This world, which began with so sweet a serenade, is finally to be dcniolhhcd amidst the ringing bhit of the archangel's trumpet, so that as then- was music at the start, there shall be mush at the dose. While this heavenly nrt has often been dragged into the uses of superstition and dissipation, we nil know it may be the means nf high moral culture. Oh. it is a grand thing to have our children brought up amidst the omni of cultured voices and amidst the melody of musical instruments. There is in thi art an indescribable fascination for the household- Let all those familica who have the menu to afford it have llttte or harp or piano- or organ. Ah noon as the hat? I is large enough to compass the keys loach it how to pick out lhe melody. I't all our young men try this heavenly art uon their nature. Those who have gone into it fully have found in it illimitable recreation find amusement. Dark dayt, stormy nights, seasons of red

ness, business disasters, will do little towiiril il.nr:u!' the son! which can !'ll-

...... 1- r' - . lop oil over musical keys or soar in jubi- I lant lay. It will cure pain; it will rest fatigue; it will quell passion; it will revive health; it will reclaim dissipation; it will strengthen the immortal sjul. In the battle of Waterloo Wellington s.nv that the Highlanders were falling back. He said. "What is the matter there?" He was told that the band of music had ceased playiug, and he called up the pipers and ordered them to strike up an inspiriting air, and no sooner did they strike the air than the Highlanders were rallied and helped to win the day. (Hi. ye who have been routed in the conflicts of life, try, ly the force of music, to rally your scattered battalions. I atu glad to know that in our great cities there is hardly a night in which there are not concerts where, with the best musical instruments and the sweetest voices, people may lii.d entertainment. Patronize such entertainments when they are afforded you. Iluy season tickets if you can for the Phillmrmonil and the Handel and Haydn societies. Feel that the $1.. or $'J that you spend for the purMso of hearing an artist play or sing is a profitable investment. iA-t your academies of music roar with the acclamation of appreciative audiences assctubhtl at the concert or the oratorio. Physical Culture. Still further. I commend, as worthy of their support, the gym.iasium. This institution is gaining in favor every year, a- I I know of nothing more free from dissipation, or more calculated to recuperate the physical and mental energies. While there are a good many people who have employed this institution, there is a vast number who'are ignorant of its excelleiK'cs. There are men with cramped chests ;.nd weak sides and despondent spirits wl o through the gymnasium might be roused up to exuberance and exhilia ration of life. There are many Christian people desN)tident from year to year, who might, through suh an institution, be benefited in their spiritual relations. There are Christian people who seem to think that it is a good sign to be poorly; and because Kichard Uaxter ami Kobert Hall were invalid they think that by the same sickliness they may come to the same grandeur of character. 1 want to tell the Christian people of my congregation that Cod will hold you responsible for your invalidism if it is your fault, and when, through right exercises and prudence, you might be athletic and well. The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition upon the animal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while his blood will change its chemical proportions. It will become like unto the biood of the lion, or the tiger, or lhe beur. while his disposition will change, and become tierce and unrelenting. Tin body has a powerful effect upon the soul. Parlor (lames. Still further, I commend to you a large dass of parlor games and recreations. There is a way of making our homes a hundredfold more attractive than they are now. Those parents cannot expect to keep their children away from outside dissipations unless they make the domestic? circle brighter than anything they can find outside of it. Do not, then, sit in your home surly and unsympathetic and with a half condemnatory look because of th'i sportfulness of your children. Yon were young once yourself; let your children be young. lJecause your eyes are dim and your ankles are stiff, do not denounce sportfulness in those upon whose eyes there is the first luster, and in whose foot there is the bounding joy of robust health. 1 thank (Jod that in our drawing rooms and in our parlors there are innumerable games and sports which have utt upon them the least taint of iniquity. Light up all your homes with innocent hilarities. Do not sit down with the rheumatism, wondering how children can go on so. Itather thank (Jod that their hearts are so light, and their laughter i so lire, and tlo-ir cheeks are so ruddy, :l;i-J that their expectations are so radiant. The night will conic soon enough, and the heartbreak, and the pang, and the desolationit will come soon enough for the dear children. Hut when the storm actually clouds the sky it vill be time enough for you to haul out your reef tackles. Carry, then, into your homes not only the innocent sports and games which are the inventions of our own day. but the games which comedown with the s;ort fulness of all the past agi's chess and charades and tableaux ami battledore and calisthenics and lawn tennis, and all those amusements which the young people of our homes know so well how to contriveThen there will be the parlor social!; i s groups of people assembled in your homes, with wit and mimicry and joviality, lilliii'g the room with joy from door to mantel, and from the carpet to lhe ceiling. Oh. is there any exhilaration like a score of genial souls in one room, each one adding a contribution of his own individual merriment to the aggregation of general hilarity V Suppose you want to go abroad in the city, then you will find the panorama. ai:l the art gallery, and the exquisite collections of pictures. You will find the museum and the Historical Society rooms full of rare curiosities, and scores of places which can stand plainly the test of what is right and wrong in amusements. You w ill tiud the lecturing hall which lias been houonil by the names of Agassi, in natural history, Doremus in chemistry, Hoynton in geology, Mitchell in astronomy. John H. Cough in moral reform, and scores and hundred of men who have poured their wit and genius and ingenuity through that particular channel upon the hearts and consciences and imaginations of men, setting this country fifty years farther in advance than it would have been without the lecture platform. I rejoice in the popularization of outdoor sKrts. 1 hail the roquet ground, and the fisherman's rod. and the sportsman's gun. In out ilies life is so unhealthy and unnatural that when the census taker represents a rity as having pKi.iKKl inhabitants there are only L'iK.KH, since it takes at least two men 1o amount to one man, so depleting and unnerving and exhausting is this metropolitan life. We want more fresh air. more sunlight, more of the abandon of lield sports. I cry out for it in behalf of the church of Cod as well as in behalf of secular interests. I wish that our ponds ami our rivers and our capitoline grounds might be all aquake with the heel and the shout of the swift skaler. I wish that when the warm weather conies the graceful oar might dip the stream, and the evening tide be resonant with boatman's song, the bright prow splitting the crystalline billow. We hall have the' smooth and grassy lawn, and we will call out the people of all J occupations and profeaiions and ask them

to join in the ballplayer's t port. You win come back from these outdoor exercises and recreations with strnigth in your arm und color in your cheek and a tlash in your eye and courage in your heart. In this great battle that is opening against the kingdom of darkness, we want not only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm and stout lungs and mighty muscle. I bless (Jod that there are so many recreations that have not on thcin any taint of iniquity recreations in which we may engage for the strengthening of the body, for the clearing of the intellect, for the illumination of the soul. There is still another f irm of recreation which I commend to you. and that is the pleas-ore of doing good. I have seen young men, weak and cross and sour and repelling it: their disposition, who, by one heavenly touch, have wakened up and become hlcsKcd and buoyant, the ground under their feet and the sky over their

heads breaking forth into music. "Oh." says some yorng man in the house today, "I should like that recreation above all cdhers. but I have not the means." My clear brother, iet us take an account of stock. You have a large estate, if you only realize it. Two ha mis, two feet. You will have, perhaps, during the next year at least .Sb for charitable contribution. You will have L.oo cheerful looks, if you want to employ them. You w ill have .".(MM) pleasant words, if you wan.'' to speak t h ni. Now, what an amount that is to start with! You go o;;r to-morrow morning, and you see a case of real destitution by the wayside. You give him 11 cents. The blind man hears the pennies rattle in his hat, and lie says: "Thank you, sir! (Jod bless you!" You pass clown the street, trying to lo.-k indifferent, but you feel from the very depth of your soul a profound satisfaction that you made that man happy. You go on still farther and find a poor boy with a wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on the curbstone. He fails in the attempt. You say: "Stand back, my lad. Let mo try." You puh it up on the curbstone for him and pass on. He wonders who that well-dressed man was that helped him. You clid a kindness to the boy, but you did a great joy to your own soul. You will not get over it all the week. On the street to-morrow morning you will see a sick man passing along. "Ah," you say, "what can I do to make this man happy? He certainly does not want money; lie is not poor, but he is sick." (Jive him one of those öiio cheerful looks that you have garnered up for the whole year. Ijook joy and hopefulness into his soul. It will thrill him through, ami there will be a reaction upon your own soul, doing a little farther on. you will come to the store of a friend who is embarrassed in business o. a tiers. You will go in and say: "What a line store you have! I think business will brighten up, and you will have more custom after awhile. I think there is coming a great prosperity to all the country. Cood morning." You pass out. You have helped that young man, and you have helped yourself. The Greatest Joy. Col. Car-liner, who sat with his elbow on a table spread with all extravagant via mis, looking off at a dog on the rug, saying, "How I would like to change places with him, I be the dog and he be Col. Cardiner." or those two Moravian missionaries who wanted to go into the lazaretto for the sake of attending the sick, and they were told: "If you go in thero you will never come out. We never allow any one to cotne out, for he would bring the contagion." Then they made their wills and went in, first to help the sick and then to die. Which was the happierCol. Cardiner or the Moravian missionaries dying for others? Was it all sacritiee when the missionaries wanted to bring the gospel to the negroes at the Itarbadoes and, being denied the privilege, sold themselves into slavery, standing side by side and lying side by side down in the very ditch of suffering, in order that they might bring those men up to life and Cod and heaven? Oh. there is a thrill in the joy of doing good! It is the most magnificent recreation to which a man ever put his hand, or his head, or his heart. Hut before closing I want to impress upon you that mere secular entertainments are not a tit foundation for your soul to build on. I was reading of a woman who had gone all the rounds of sinful amusement, and she came to die. She said, "I will die to-night at (5 o'clock." "Oh," they said. "I gm-ss not! You don't seem to be sick." "I shall die at 0 o'clock, and my soul will be lost. I know it will be lost. I have sinned away my day of grac e." The noon came. They desire! her to seek religious counsel. 'Ok." she said, "it is oX no use! Mv day is gone. I have been all the rounds of worldly pleasure, and it is too late. I .-hall die to-night at H o'clock." The day wore away, and it came to 4 o'clock and to o'clock, and she cried out at Ö o'clock, "Destroying spirits, you shall not have me yet! It is not t-it is not ;!" The moments went by, a ltd the shadows began to get her. and the lock struck t. and while it was striking her soul went. What hour Cod will call for us 1 do not know whether o'clock to-night, or ; o'clock this afternoon, or at 1 o'clock, or at this moment. Sitting where you are. falling forward, or dropping down, where will you go to? The last hour of our life will soon bo here, and from that hour we will review this day's proceedings. It will be a sol emn hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there will be a dart that, will strike through our soul sharper than the dagger with which Virginias slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities and rioting through which wo have passed will come ujon us. weird and skeleton as Meg Merrilles. Death, the crtd Shylock, will demand and take the remaining pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood, and ,ori our last opportunity fir repentance and our last chance for heaven the curtain will forever drop. .lames Kussell Lowell's Homo. There Is concern in Hoston about the future of .lames Itttssell Lowell's magnificent old homo in Cambridge, at the gateway of Mount Auburn Cemetery. The house Is the property of the poet's daughter, but the land adjoining it is in the hands of real estate agents, and the line estate will soon bo rut up into building lots unless the property Is rescued. Sagadahoc County, Maine, Is expecting to make about ?ö,(Kio out of prohibition shortly. Forty-eight Indictnientu for violations of the liquor law have been found in the county, and It is figured the linoa wJU uuiuunt to the sum named.

WAR TAX IS LEVIED.

INSURGENTS EXERCISE ONE FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT. President Cisncrc. s bxiusn Manifesto -Pritish in South Africa Find The nisei vet Without Adequate ?! unitioiit of War Seeds for Free Distribution. Estates Pay a War Tax. A manifesto signed by Salvador C;sicros. president of t!u insurgent Cuban Covernntent, has just readied the United States. In it Cistu-fos says theugar i-s.ates. which, in the eastern division of the island, have been permitted t grind, while .'.11 others in the west have, as he I savs. been iirevciitct!. do b.i sim'-iv because at the beginning of the w.tr arrangements were made between the propritors of said ostates and some of the Cuban leaders whereby the former, in consideration of a "war tax" paid into the Cuban treasury, were granted the privilege of grinding under the protection of those leaders. The m.miu-s'o also ays the insurgent armies have no; burned country dwellings except, when used by Spanish troops as forts or garrisons, and for tiie sake of the families. vle and children of :ion-coinbai an;s food is now allowed to enter low r.s and i-itie-i a' present held by the armies of Spain :i the payment of an imp irt duty. Ci-uer emphatically denies thai bandits or outlaws form any part of or have any connection with ;'. Cuban army, m.t i proclaims that, notwithstanding the course In in:; purr.id by Spain toward captured insurgent soldiers and political prb-oncrs. tic (.'..ban v Jo i rtitnt n i will not retaliate. MENACE TO BRITAIN. MiscarriEe of Jameson's Haid H-ss Resulted in C?riou5 Embarrassment in Africa. It i diilicult to obtain accurate information regarding the pro,;::vs of the rebellion of tin ttativi s of .Matabelelaiel. The ('ape Town authorities, naturally, art' withholding ail the information possible. It is not denied, however, that the situa iioii becomes darker every day. Advices received from lluluwayo how thai the work of placing that town in a state of defense has been completed so far as the means at hand permit. lut there is a lack of arms atd ammunition liiere with whb'h to supply the many seitlers who have gathered from utlying districts since the uprising commenced. These men. in many cases, have rilles. but they are of all kinds ami makes, and the stock of ammunition procurable for them is small. Consequently it has been found desirable to replace these weapons as far as possible with the Martini-Henry rilles served out to tiie police, the stoek of ammunition for the latter being fairly adequate. Hut the number of Martini-Henrys available is small, and it is now an open secret that nearly every good ritle procurable had been gathered up and smuggled into the Transvaal previous to the Jameson raid. Had matters at Johanneburg turned out as the manipulators of the expedition and uprising contem plated, things would have assumed a dif f erent aspect. Hut certain person there and elsewhere are now in the position of hunters caught in their own traps, with the additional mortification of the knowl edge that the Hoers have by the seizures made in the mines, etc.. of many thou sands of rilles. bayonets, revolvers and Maxim guns, completely turned the tables on the Hritish. The Honrs are aware of the predicament in which the Hritish tind themselves. CRISIS IS NEAR AT HAND. Government Troops and Insurgents Ars About to Meet in Cuba. Twenty-five thuusand insurgents, undei (Jen. Ma coo, are swarming over the prov inces of Havana and Pinar del Ki . destroying property, ripping up railways and tearing down telegraph lines. Fortylive thousand Spanish soldiers are in the same territory and more are coming. (Jen Ma ceo is in immediate command of rho center column of rebels, with about lUJ'N) inen. Cen. Masso is in the southern part of Havana Province with about m m men. and (Jen. Lacivt is hovering about the outskirts of Havana with aim; O.iioo cavalry. The other I.mki men are divided into small band of pillagers. The insurgents are Well equipped and have plenty of ammunition and are capable of giving the soldiers a warm reception. The activity noticeable about the palace of Cen. Weyler seems to bear out the idea that a crisis is near at hand. WILL PROTECT MISSIONARIES. Porte Furnishes Writtm Assurances to Further Relief Work. In consequence of the energetic representations of the Uritis'.i ambassador. Sir Philip Currie. and the I'nited States charge d'affaires. .lohn W. Kiddle, the Turkish porte has furnished written assurances that the missionaries in Anatolia will Hot be molested in the work of distributing relief, on condition that an Ottoman oliicial is permitted !o assisi in the distribution of the funds, etc Hughes Holds to His Office. At Phoenix. Ariz.. Secretary Hfu.v. under advice of the Interior Department, asked Cov. Hughes. r moved, to surrender his keys and records. He refused, saying his removal was void until the appointment of his successor is confirmed. Erooklyn Thieves IV .ike a Ra d. Hurglars visited the offices of the Metropolitan Insurance Company. Hrooklyn. Tuesday morning, forced open a small safe with dynamite and look from it Sl,rl I. Tiie Jefferson building is within a stone's throw of police headquarters. Join Reed Column. New Hampshire Republicans held their State convention at Concord and elected delegates to the national Keje.ibliean convention at St. Louis. I'nited States Senator William 12. Chandler presided. The convention endorsed the candidacy of Thomas H. Kecd. Snowfall in Colorado. Over eight imdies f snow fell throughout the greater part of Colorado Monday night. The snow was accompanied by a high wind. Curfew Must Rin& in Omaha. The Omaha City Coum il. by a vote ot L'5 t -1, passeI the curfew ordinance ver the Mnyor's veto, ami the law will go into effect at once. There was little sentiment ih'iuauditig it; in fact, strenuous opposition lias devolopeil since its original passage.

FORGOTTEN MONEY.

Accumulate- in Hanks and in Various Kiutlf of Investments. It is str.ted on good authority that a prominent Cleveland savit.gs bank has recently erected a line ofiioe buiMing entirely vul of "uncalled !"f I'tiieis"' of depositors. In ihe se days of compla::!! r. out hard times ;t is refreshing t le.iiL :t people in moderate eiroiKiistan -es v.im actually have money They dj not take the trouble to look after Not or.'y are there such people, but, u-'cordirtg to the managers of savings banks, sa'.ety deposit vaults, and Inalers ::i so t-.t itiis, tiie number of these- itt iinef t t people is legion. Them have been :nstniicos of wealthy ami (-ceiiric i. ti making accumulations of :iw!n y er large investments ami then : orgetting ;ill about them, but in th-1 n. ibnity -" cases the indifft re lice of negligence- -c shown by piple of small t!.- ..ns. When the Hoard of Trtblv T ::.l' I buihlitig deb; in ls. a 1 .::. issue c' 1 ..".I it u '( i was authorized. A largo part of th issue was in btmN in stoaT denominations, and as a i- ititt.tl icsr.it it litis be-cti widely di-TriVt'.Ml ;:t.(J ?imong stiu.U inv-tir. '11: origii.al issue included ."..Mm SI '" i :.!. pu sL'ÖU bonds. l.CCd Söciil bi,tl:i. utiii '.! M "Sl.Min bonds, till bearing " :cr i. inte rest. Tin- Hoard of Tri n ;;r-! Söt i.i a ii i n v-ur lor live ye-ir-. utt'.icg (luv. n the loan to 1. '.",:( ii. . ;u- n.l of each six in on; !; lh a .-, . i.ni -.: oil' and cancels the intcf-s- . upons preseüred. ami has in this v..v paM ;m a i out ss.mui mi t,, tat t; , ,- m! t -range from Ni'.öo n th" SP" :: n! : SLÖ o!i the . I.i .hi i bonds, mu". ; pnyii.g; and eaiM-eliiig of ihoo ami 5 e- sup' r-vis-on of the interest a-"ini;,; i ' ante tg the chief duties jf A i st a i i t.tfy Wofthi;ig;i:i. The books k'pt by hi tu si o of matured interest up.naid So.ncn. Hoblers of two or bonds have never pres. -nie: est coupons, and hohlers (1f e have not realized ,,n a ::ri coupons. The lirst iu'etvbonds feil duo in Julv. l.", an itc t:i ; bc.rly of tin ,y in ::- m.v mere of tin ; r on ti.o ,'nc! t:ve coupons of that date have ti ". t b n presented for payment. S-m : id t!. bonds possibly are lost, but it: .. gein-ral way the existence of ,i gradually increasing fund of uncalled for interest is due to cnivlessnoss .-.nd iti litfc rei.ee of hohlers of the securities. This was proved in th" int-1 tin esof a year ago. when the ncd tor ready money stirred tip son:-' of th-' rar; h-ss hohlers of bonds to ma Ii. ' uii thetr forgotten coupons. The m cured internst account materially Ich : .-I last year, but is working back again t-j about its highest level. The litlictihies of keeping fie in;rest and coupon account am :ncr a I by the small and irregular -ienoiiitn-tions of the bomls and t'eir v.-ide distribution. Coupons are :e)t tuu-öi bigger than spe ial delivery stamps, and are not all presented on regular interest dates, but come dropping in between times. When canctded they am pnstctl into specially arranged iv ord books. Twenty-one tf these am us"d ami the vacant spaces on their patr"s Mliy with the amount of maturetl and unpaid interest. Nearly lüö.noi coupons h;:ve lx'on handled in the Hoard 1 Trade? office ami cnly one has b -'a lost, ami that after it had been catnahd. The small size of the coupons and the otineciuent minute lettering .ml dating lias made it possible for the I.'dders of some of the bonds t MMe'r intentionally or unintentionally overreach ti e association and several of !io local banks. Only two cupons of idvatc ej date have been paid at tin !;ird, one of which bears the date of l'.ejl. The banks hare not been so l'or'unute. or so particular, and have cash"d a large number on which they will have to v. air many years before realizing, and that without interest. Here possibly is an illustration of the ovcr-in-evieh'iioe law of compensation. The people whose eomnnMvml instinct is so poorly developed tli;C tl.cy neglect to collect their interest ami allow an uncalled-for surplus to pib up ire counterbalanced by the people who will discount the future by cutting off coupons dated as far ahead as I'fUl a ad w c rkIng them off on careless or tie is-sightcd bank cashiers. Napoleon's Viisr!iip ol ilo Pie.. In religion the l-2inprr' princ iple was that his subjects should l.atc tin Knglish because tby wer- hrrctbs. and the Tope Ixrausi' ho v.is ti fa in: tic. The ilealgu's" and ::: '!;. jh siciaus"' were anarchists, f,c tl: public order was endangered by the-ir teachings. The newspapers wer not only gnggeil. but metamorphose. --; the "French Citizen" int th "i-'n r h Courier." the "Journal of Debtites" into the 'Journal of the Umpire." Their columns wer lillel with laudations of the Emperor; Hear politi. :.l articles were virtually eomposel in th- Foreign office; and there was not a symptom if anything like the exist n v of patty feding. A luokhss journalist having been allowed to make statements concerning the luxury at court, lite offending paper was given to understand that the L'mporor would toierat; nothing contrary to bis interests. Century. A Hird AVIioko Hite Means Death. The only alleged venomous birl known is the lipir N'Dooh. or "Hird of Death." a native of New Cuiii.-a. It is the size of a pigeon, can only Uy a j few feet, and is easily caught. Its bite, ; it is said, causes excruciating pains. loss of sight, ami sometimes lockjaw. No person bitten by it, if is assorted, has recovered, and death ouios within a few hours. Control Over School Children. The courts of Missouri b' ido that :i teacher has control over a hihl frni the time of its returning, including the time to ami from schod. When a man falls, if ,);iv woman I not at the bottom of It, a dozen or women usually are.