Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 26, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 April 1889 — Page 2

J THE COURIER. BY H. J. FELTUS. BLGOMINGTON, INDIANA

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KING SOLOMON'S MINES. BT H. RIDER HAGGARD,

Ths French Senate has voted itself power to act as a Supreme Court of Juetice in all matters of vital import to the republic. This act is unconstitutional, and cannot long remain unch alien ged. But is is expected to last long enough to

enable the Senate to convict Boulanger of pn offense not recognized in any penal code. The only, tangible charge against this bete noir of ministers is thathe monopolizes popularity, and mates a prime minister's life anything bat a happy one, Thk jBritisb. Postmaster General's re-

port contains a reference to tne large sums mailed by emigrants to the United States to the parentsand relatives left at homo, last year alone poetoffice ordere

of this kind were cashed toihe extent of $5,250,000. exceeding the total of any previous year. The feeling which prompts such remittances is to be commended, but the "practice of saying money in one country and mailing it to another to be spent is considerably more - to the advantage of the latter than the

e former. limaJmmmmmmtm

Br the treaty forced upon Japan by European Powers in 1808 the power to impose custom duties and to exercise jurisdiction over foreigners was taken away; The Mikado has retali ated very quietly by giving exceptionally favorable terms to American merchants, which he manages to do without a direct violation of the treaty. This unexpected outcome of a policy of intense Bslffishness has resulted in killing European trade with Japan, and now there is talk of a mutual agreement to annul the treaty.

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Matok Chapin, of Brooklyn, philoso-

phises on the subject of light in the message that he has sent to the Board of Aldermen. He holds that the proper lighting of the streets at night is advantageous to public morality, tends to prevent crime and otherwise promotes the welfare of the community. Deeds of darkness are perpetrated by those who hate the light, whether it be solar, gaseous, or electric. He says that a well-lighted city offers fewer hiding places for wrongdc era than an ill-lighted city, and needs fewer policemen. He illustrates his argnment by facts from the history of Brooklyn, where regions once prone to lawlessness have undergone regeneration since they were properly lighted, and he is desirous that the nets in the case should be known in the great city of which he is : Mayor. We believe that Myor Chapin's philosophy of light is sounds and that the experience of Brooklyn is in accord with that of other cities. Lawlessness and crime have decreased in London and Paris since the adoption of gaslight in illuminating their streets and squares. The change thus brought about in both of them within a century has been very groat, and has often furnished a theme for philosophers. K.J Y. Sun.

FRIiDDT'S TLO TABLE.

of His EadeiLTor to Save Two

V 1 Hoorm a Day by System. My little nephew ran across, somewhere, a paragraph which said that any5. body could save at least two hours of waste time a day by running on a time table. Freddy brought-the chapter to me and asked what it meant. I told him. I advised him to make out a time table for himself and try running on it for a few days. He said he guessed he would. In a day or, two he submitted the following to me: &45 to J-GeitW up. , 7 to 7:30 Bathand gettin' reddy for

brekfus. ' w .y 7:30to Srekfuag 8 to 8:30 Prair. 8:20 to 8:30 Hard study. " 8:90-Stsrt Jfor skool. ' ft Get there (a teller must have some fun in life.) v. y . - 9 to 10:30 Study and recite. lC:30to 10:45 Keses (oat to be longer) lft45 to 13-tudy and resits. . .... ". ... : p. , r"' " 12 to lkiR Gofn' Jer lunch. 115 to 12:30-Eatin' ifc 12t30 to l-81oos' of things. Playin' ballmosry. 1 to S SkooJ agen. Tuffest part of the day. s" 8 Skool over. Fun begins. 3 to 6 Base baD. Bisickle ridin'. Gom? to walk (sum times with a airl).

Slidin' and skatin in winter. Hvin' memDer against thine own time

Jnte. rJOthenn' the dog. Peanuts. Goin'te ride with pa. Shoppin' with ma (wen I don't kno it beforehand). Kandy. In bad weather readin'. Sloos ef other things. f fl to 1-7 Dinner grate time fer me). , 7 to to 7:30 Ifothin' ranch. Don't feel like it 7:30 to 8 Pa gets dun with paper, an' reads sunthin alowd. '-. 8 8ei I must begin to study. - v

to 8:lo Kickin' against it' 8:16 to ftloVtadyi

to bed

&36Windin'

Waterbury and gettin'

' 9:15

watch. 0:35 to ft46Undressm' into bed.

8:45 till morain, Grate big times with dreems, but a feller can't stop to enjoy them much. Wonder wy dreems can' hang on more haw reel things?

P. 8. Ware do thoa' too extry cumin?

'ours

He Got the Appoint men t, A bright youth, undergoing examination, a few days since, for admission to one of the .Government departments, found himself confronted- with tne : question: " ' "What is the distance from the earth to the sun?9' Not having the exact nam-

Der of miles with ium, ne wrote in re- , Ply: , , ! am unable to state accurately, but don't believe the sun is near enough to interfere with proper performance of x my. duties if I get this clerkship." . Oadities pftne Langutge. .

Waibington Post Our French friend who comes in and sits on the corner of our desk and reads our exchanges says he cannot get the hang of the English language. "Look atzis," he says. ''Hereis one story about a boy. It says: 'His mother kissed him and he kissed her back? What for he kiss her back. And here is one sentence worse and worse; 'He went fishing and his mother whipped him on his return.' My, My! . 2at is ;ach a -.funny, ian-

CHAPTER XIV. CoNTiNtjEB. THIBATTLE. . .. At this moment the Buffaloes began to march past our position on the road to Loo, and as they did So a message was brought to us from Ignosi requesting Infadoos, Sir Henry, and myself to join him. Accordingly, orders having been issued to the remaining ninety men ot the Grays to employ themselves in collecting the wounded, we joined Iimosi. who informed us that he was

pressing on to Loo to complete the victory by capturing Twala, if that should be possible. Before we had gone far we suddenly discovered the figure of Good sitting on an ant-heap about one hundred paces from- us. Close beside him was the body of a Kakuana. "He must be wounded," said Sir

Henry, anxiously, as neniade trie remark an untoward thing happened The dead body of the Kukuana soldier, or rather what had appeared to be his dead body, suddenly sprung up, knocaed Good head over heels off the ant-heap and began to spear him. We rushed forward in terror, and as we drew near we saw the brawny warrior making dig after die at the prostrate Good, who at

each prod jerked all his limbs into the air. Seeing us coming the Kukuana cave one finai most vicious dig,

and with a shout of "Take

that. wisard" bolted off.

Gooa did not move and we concluded

that our poor comrade was done for. Sadlv we cme toward him, and were

indeed astonished to find him pale and

faint indeed, but with a serene smile upon his f ace, and hiB eyeglass still fixed n his eye , "Capital armor thi3," he murmured,

on catching sight oi our faces bending

overturn. 'Mow eold ne must nave

been!" and then he fainted. On exami

nation we discovered that he had been

seriously wounded in the leg by a tolla

in tne course 01 tne pursuit, due tnai me chain armor had prevented his last as sailant's spear from doing anything more than bruise him badly. I t was a

merciful escape. As nothing could be done for him at the momen t he was placed on one of the wicker shields used for the wounded, and carried along with us. . ... . . On arriving before one of the gates of Loo . we found one of our regiment s watching it in obedience to orders received from Ignosi. The remaining regiments were in the same way watching the other exits to the town. The officer in command of this regiment coming up saluted Ignosi as king, and informed , him that Twala's army had taften refuge in the town, whither Twala himself had also escaped, but that he thought that they were thoroughly demoralized, and would surrender. Thereupon Ignosi, after taking counsel with us, sent forward heralds to each gate ordering the dvfendeis to open, , and promising en his royal word life and forgiveness to every soldier who laid down his arms. The message was not without its effect. Presently, amid the shouts and cheers of the Buffaloes, the bridge was dropped across the fosse, and the gates upon the further side flung open. Taking due precautions against treachery, we marched on into the town. All along the road-ways stood dejected warriors, their heads drooping, and their shields and spears at their feet, who, as Ignosi passed, saluted him as king. On we marched, straight to Twala's kraal. When we reached the great space where a day or two previously, we bad seen the review and the witch hunt we found it deserted. No, not quite deserted for there, on the further side, in front of his hut, sat. Twala. with but one attendant Gagool.

. It was a melancholy sight to see him seated there, his battle-ax and shield by his side, his chin upon his mailed breast, with but one old crone for companion, and notwithstanding his cruelties and misdeeds, a pang of compassion shot through me as I saw him thus "fallen from his high estate." Not a soldier of all his armies, not a courtier put ot . the hundreds who had cringed round him, not even a solitary wife, remained to share his fate or halve the bitterness of his fall. Poor savage! he was learning the lesson that Fate teaches to most who live long enough, that the eyes ef mankind are blind to the discredited, and that he who is defenseless and fallen finds few friends and little mercy. Nor, indeed, in this case did he deserve any.

; riling through the kraal gate we marched straight across the open space to where the ex-king sa When within about fifty yards the regiment was halted, and accompanied only by a small guard we advanced toward im, Gagool reviling us bitterly as we came. As we drew near, Twala, for the first time, lifted up his plumed head, - and fixed his one eye. whicn seemed to flash with suppressed fury almost as brightly as the great diadem bound round his forehead, upon his successful rival Ignosi. "HaiVO king!" he said, with bitter mockery; "thou who hast eaten of my bread; and now by the aid of the wnite man's magic has reduced my regiments and defeated mine army, hail! what fate hast thou for me, O king?" . "The fate thou ga vest to my father, whose throne thou hast sat on these

many years!" was the stern answer.

"It is well. I will show thee

how to die, that thou mavest re-

See.

tne sun sinks in blood and he pointed

with his red battleax toward the fierv

orb now going down; "it is well that mv sun should sink with it. And now, Oh king, I am ready to die, but I crave the boon of the Kukuana royal house to die fighting. Thou canst not refuse it, or

even tnose cowards; wno fled to-day will

nom tnee snameav'

"It is granted. Choose with whom

thou wilt fight. Myself I can not fight with thee, for the king fights not except

m war. . Twala's somber eye mn up and down

our ranks, and I felt, as for a moment it

rested on myself, that the position had developed a new horror. What if he

chose to begin by fighting me? What

chance should I have against a desperate

savage six ieet nve nign, ana Droad m proportion? I might as well commit suicide at once. Hastily I made up my mind to decline the combat, even if I were hooted out of Kukuanalana as a consequence. It is, I think, better to be hooted than to be quartered with a vttleax. ,. Presently he'spoke. "Incubu, what sayest thou, shall we end what we began to-day, or shall I call thee -coward! white even to the

liver?" "Nay," interposed Ignosi, hastily; "thou shalt hot fight with Incubu." "Not if he is afraid," said Twala.: Unfortunately Sir Henry understood this remark, and the blood flamed up

into hie cheeks. "I will fight him," he said; "he shall see if I am afraid." . "For God's sake," I entreated, "don't risk your life against that of a desperate man. Anybody who saw you to-dav

will know that you are not a coward." "I will fight him," was the sullen answer. "No living man shall call me a coward. I am "ready now!" and he stepped forward and lifted his ax. I wrung my hands over this absurd piece of quioxtism; but if fe was determined on fighting, of oourst. I could not stop him.

"Fight not, my white brother." said

Ignosi, laying his hand affectionately on

tacd. H 1b allowed to choose a succession of antagonist, to be approved by the king, with whom ho flghtf, till one of .them kills him. "It is well, Incubu; thou art a brave man. It will be a good fight. Behold, Twala, the elephant is ready for thee." The ex-king lauahed savagely, and stepped forward and faced- Curtis. For a moment they stood thus, and tbe setting sun caught their stalwart frames and clothed them both in fire. They were a well matched pair. Then they began to circle round each other, their battleaxes raised. Suddenly Sir Henry sprung forward and struck a fearful blow at Twala, who stepped to one side. So heavy was the stroke that the striker half overbalanced himself, a circumstance of which his antagonist

took a prompt advantage. Circling his heavy 'battleax round his head, he brought it down With tremendous force.

My heart jumped into my mouth; 1

thought the affair was already finished. But no; with a quick upward movement of the left arm Sir Henry interposed his shield between himself and the ax, with

the result that its outer edce was shorn clean off, the ax falling on his left shonlder.but not heavily enough to do any serious damage. In . another second Sir Henry got in another blo w, which was also received by Twala upon his shield. Then followed blow upon blow which were, in turn, either received upon the

shield or avoided. The excitement grew intense; the regiment which was . X 1 A t L 1 .1 1 ..

watcmng tne encoumer JorguL jib uw ciDline. and. drawing near, shouted and

groaned at every stroke. Just at this time, too, Good, who had been laid upon the ground by me, recovered from his faint, and, sitting up perceived

what was going on. In an instant he

was up, and catching hold of my arm, hopped about from place to place on one leg, dragging me after him, yelling out encouragements to Sir Henry "Go it, old fellowl" he hallood. "That was a good one! Give it him amidships," and so on. ...... . iPresently Sir Henry, having caught a fresh stroke upon his shield, hit out with all his force. The stroke cut through Twala's shield and through the tough chain armor behind it, gashing

him in tne shoulder, Witn a yon 01 pain and fury Twala returned the stoke with interest,and, such Was his strength, shore right through the rhinoceros' hom handle of his antagonist's battle-ax, strengthened as it was with bands of steel, wounding Cuitis in the face. A cry of dismay ro3e from the Buffaloes as our hero's broad axhead ; fell. to the ground; and Twala, again raising his weapon, flew at him with a shout. I shut my eyes. When I opened them again, it was to see Sir Henry's shield lying on the ground, and Sir Henry himself with his great arms twined round Twala's middle. To and fro they swung, hugging each other like bears, straining with all their mighty muscles for dear life, and dearer honor. "With a supreme effort Twala swung the Englishman clean off his feet, and down they came together over and over on the lime paving Twala striking out at Curtis's head with the battle-ax, and Sir Henry trying to drive the t&lla he had drawn from Jiis belt through Twala's armor. It: was a mighty struggle, and an awfully thing to see, "Get his ax!" yelled Good; and perhaps our champion heard him. , At any rate, dropping, the tolla, he made a grab at the ax, which was fastened to Twala's wrist by a strip of buffalo hide, and still rolling over and over, they fought for itJike wild cats, drawing their breath in heavy gasps. Suddenly the hide string burst, and then, with a great effort, Sir Henry freed himself, the weapon remaining in his grasp. . Another secondhand he was up upon his feet, the red blood streaming

irom tne wouna m niB iace, ana so was Twala. Drawing the heavy tolla from

his belt, he staggered straight at Curtis and struck kim upon the breast. The

blow came home true and strong, but

wnoever it was maae tnat chain armor

understood his art, for it withstood the

steeu , Again x warn struck out with a

savage yell, and again the heaw knife

rebounded, and 8ir Henry went stagger

ing back. Once more Twala came on, and as he came our great Englishman

gatnerea mmseii togetner, ana, swing

ing the heavy ax round his head, hit at

him with all his force. There was a

shriek of excitement from a thousand throats, and, behold! Twala's head

seemed to spring from his shoulders

and then fell and came rolling and

bounding along the ground toward

ignosi, stopping just at nis ieet, n or a second the corp stood upright, the blood spouting in fountains from the

several arteries: then with a dull ciash it fell to the earth, and the gold torque from the neck went rolling away across

"Now is the good time, the time off

spoil, 'Mine are the cattld in the valleys the virgins in the kraals are mine also.

"The winter is overpast tne summer

is at handi

"Now shall Evil cove? tip her face and

prosperity shall bloom in the land like

a lily.

"Keioice, rejoice, my people! let all

the land rejoice in that; the tyranny is

trodden down, m that I am the king."

He paused, and out 01 the gathering

gloom there came back the deep reply

Xhou art the king." . Thus it was that my prophecy to tbe

herald came true, and within the fortyeight hours Twala's headless corpse

was stiffening at TwaUv's gate.

CHAPTER XV. GOOD FAJAJl SICK. After the fight was ended, Sir Henry aud Good were carried into Twala's hut, where I joined them. They were both utterly exhausted by exertion and loss of blood, and indeed, mv own condition was MUU 'better.! am very wiry,

and can stand more fatiaue titan most

men, brobab'Jy on account of my light weight and long training; but that night

I was fairly done up, and. aa is always

the case with me when exhausted, that old wound the lion gave me began to pain me. Also my head was aching violently from tho blow I had received in the morning, when I was knocked senseless. Altogethe', a more deplorable trio than we were that evening it would have been di fficuit to discover; and our only comfort lav in the reflec

tion that we were exceedingly fortunate to be there to feel miserable, instead of being stretched dead upon the plain, as so many thousands of brave men were that night, who had risen well and strong in tbe morning. Somehow, with the assistance of the beautiful Foulata, who, since we had been the means of saving her life, had constituted herself our handmaiden, and especially G ood's, we managed t get off tho chain shirts, which had certainly saved the lives of two of us that day, whim we found that the flesh underneath was terribly bruised, for though the steel in ks had prevented the weapon.8 from entering, they had not prevented them from bruising. Both Sir Henry and Good were a mass oi bruisres, and I was by no means free. As a remedy, Eloulata brought us some pounded green 1 eaves with an aromatic odor, which were ap plied as a plaster, gave us considerable relief. But though the bruises were painful, they did not give us suoh anxiety as Sir Henry's and Good's wounds. Good had a hole right through the fleshy part of his "beautiful white leg," from which he had lost a great deal of blood; and Sir Henry had a deep cut over the jaw, inflicted by Twala's battle-ax. Luckily Good was a very decent surgeon, and as soon as his small box of medicines was forthcoming, he, having thoroughly cleansed the wounds, managed to stitch up, first Sir Henry's and then his own pretty satisfactorily, con

sidering the imperfect light gi ven by the

primitive Jvukuana. lamp in the

Afterward he plentifully smeared the ! wcunds with somo antisepJic ointment,

of which there was a pot in

, . ,1, -1,1

dgx, ana we covered tnem wicn tne remains of a pocket-handkerchief which we possessed. : Meanwhile Foulata had prepared us

some 8tronairoth,for we were too weary I to eat. This we s wallewed, and then i

threw ourselves down on the piles of magnificent karosses, or fur-rugs" which were cattered about the dead king's great hut. By a very strange instance of the irony of fate, it was on Twala's own couch, and wrapped -in Twala's own particular kaross, that Sir Henry, the man who had slain him, slept that night. , I say slept but after that day's work sleep was indeed difficult To begin with, in very truth the air was full

"Hail, O king!" I said, rising.

"Yes, Macumazahn. King at last, hy

the grace of your three right hands,

?tas the ready answer.

All was, he said, going on well: tnd he

hoped to arrange a great feast, in two

weeks' time m order to show htmseu to the people. I asked him what he had settled to do with Gagool. "She is the evil genius of the land," he answered, "anof I shall kill her, and all the witch doctors with her! She has lived so long that none can remember when she wan not old. ar c! alwavs she

it is who has trained the witch hunters, and made the land evil in tho sight of the heavens above." , . "Yet she knows much," I replied; "it is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it." ..... "It is so," he, said, thoughtfully. "She, and she only, knows the secret of the Three Witches yonder, whither the great road runs, where the kings are buried, and the silent ones sit." , "Yes, and the diamonds are. Don't forget your promise, Igriosi; you must lead us to the mines, even if you have to spare Gagool's life to show the way." "I will not forget, Macumazahn, and I will think on what thou sayest." Continued next week.

THIS CENTURY. WHAT HAS BEEN BONE FOR THti CHURCH OP CHRIST.

And What WU1 Follow t ho Work of tho Faithful The World's Redemption Coming.

CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

"Of farewells to the dying And mourning for the dead.' From every direction came the sound of

Connersville is thriving. All Northern Indiana has the mumps. Otwell White Caps are threatening an outbreak. "Snarltown" is a well -named suburb of Michigan City. Shelby ville Prohibitionists have nominated a city ticket.

There are ..fifteen Anderson citizens who pose as detectives. The hail storm did considerable clamage north of Blufftou, Friday. John Hays' residence and barn at Austin, were burned. IjOSS, $3,000. Lightning destroyed the barn of C, Engleman, near Huntington, Friday. The champion hoop-pole cutter lives in Bartholomew county, near Brown. William Benson will be executed in the prison (South under tho new law. Lightning fatally injured Mrs. John Kiddle, near Valparaiso; Friday night. The Marion Excelsior Works were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Lobs, $8,000, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Sours, of Huntington county, have been married 50 years. The plant for the electric street railway at Elkhart is being placed in position. Repeated attempts have been made to burn the Monon bridge over Wea Creek, nea:r Corwin.

.Morris McDonald's flourim? mill at

Nuw Albany burned, Friday night. Loss $15,000. . The Huntington poultry men carried

on' the honors in the Fort Weyno

chicken show.

Frank DeWitt, Jr., and wife will confer a favor on the White Caps by va-

hut. 5 casing Shelby vi lie.

lEs-Governor Porter left Indianapolis,

Friday morning, on his journey to his

the little j new post of duty in Italy.

I The Huntington flax mill has shm i down, for which the jute and bagging

trust, it is said, is responsible.

A jury in the Federal Court at Indianapolis', Wednesday, acquitted William

Williams of charges olt election bnbery.

William Guntle, a H untington county

geaius, has nearly completed a machine which be claims will produce perpetual

motion.

Ir. J. W. Ellis, a Marion physician of

prominence, committed suicide, Tues

day, by ...snooting. JJesponaency is

attributed as the cause. Friday a little, daughter of George Sprinkle, of Huntington county, tripped and fell into an open fireplace and burned her hands to a crisp. Albert Woods, of Tipton county, indie ed for election bribery, was acquitted by the Federal jury Thursda.v, the

sons, and brothers had perished in the ! rendering a veraict wiuonc leaving

fight. No wonder that thejr wailed, for over twenty thousand men or nearly a third of the Kukuana army, had been destroyed in that awful straggle. It was

heart-rendering to lie and listen to their

their seats.

ttobert Lehman's barn, at Hanover,

was struck by lightning Friday night

consumea,

aid

together with four

horses, three cows, and implements and

cries for thoso who would never return; 1 pioduce. Loss, $2,000.

it made one realize the full ..horror of tbe it J. A. Duerr, of Ft. Wayne, ran irtsmalwork done that day to further man's am- splinter into his; finger several days ago. bition. Toward midnight, however, the t Inflammation, followed, which has exceasless crying of the women grew less t tended to his arm and he will have to

frequent, tin at length the silence was t undergo amputation at the shoulder.

only broken atintervalsof a few minutes by a long, piercing howl that came from

a hut in our immediate rear, and which I afterward discovered proceeded from

the pavement. As it did so Sir Henry, Gagool wailing for the dead King Twala,

Sir Henrv's arm: "thou hast foncht

enough, and it aught befell thee at his hands it would cut my heart in twain." "I will fight, Ignosi," was Sir Henry's answer. "It tea law amongst the Kukuanaa that no man of the royal blod can he put to death unless by hi owii consent, which is, howeverj never re

ove! powered by faintness and Ioes of

blood, fell heavily across it.

In a8econd he was lifted up. and

eager hands were pouring water on his face. Another minute, and the great

gray eyes opened wide. He was not dead.

Then Ijust as the sun sunk, stepping

to where Twala's head lay m the dust, unloosened the diamond" from the dead

brows, and banded it to Ignosi.

"Take it," I said, "lawful King of the

JlUKuan&s."

Ignosi bound the diadem upon his

orows, and then advancing placed his

foot u pon the broad chest of his head less foe and broke out into a cbant, or rather a paean of victory, so beautiful, and yet so utterly Eavags, that I despair

of being able to save an adequate idea of it. I once hard a scholar with a fine

voice read aloud from a Greek poet

called Homer, and I remember that the Bound of the rolling lines seemed to make my blood stand still. Jguosi's chant, uttered as it was in a language as beautiful and sonorous as the old Greek, produced exactly the same effect on me, although I was exhausted with toil and various emotions, "Now," he began, "now is our re bellion swallowed up in victory, and our evil-doing justified by strength, "In the moraine the oppressors rose dp and shook themselves; they bound on their plumes and made them read for war. . . "They rose up and grasped their spears; the soldiers called to the captains, 'Come, lead us and the captains cried to the king, 'Direct thou the battle.' "They rose up in their pride, twenty thousand men, and yet a twenty thousand. . "Their plumes covered tho earth as the plumes of a bird cover her neat; they .1 1. j.i ".

snooK ineir spears ana snoatea, yea. it 1 '1. 1 j, .1 ..

Lney nunea tneir spears into tne sun

light; they lusted for the battle and were

glad.

'They came up against me; their

strong ones came running swiftly to

crush me; they oried, 'Hal hat he is one

already dead.

inen ureal ne a 1 on tnem, ana mv

oreatn was as the breath 01 a storm, and

oi they were not.

"My lightnings pierced them; I licked

up their strength with the lightning of

my spears; 1 shook them to the earth

with the thunder of mv sbouting.

"They broke they scatteredthey

were gone as tne mists 01 me morning.

-ney are 100a ior tne crows ana the

foxes, and the place of battle is fat with

their blood.

"Where are the mighty ones who rose

up m the mpr; ing? where are the proud

ones who tossed their plumes and cried.

iifm - .ii- i. t t

xuey oow meir neaas. out not in

sleep; they are stretched out, but not in sleep.

"They are forgotten; they have

gone into the blackness and shall not return: yea, others shall lead away their wives, and their children

shall remember them no more,

"And I 1! the king like an

have 1 found my eyrie. "Behold! far have I wandered in the night-time, yet have I returned to my little ones at the day-break. "Creep ye under the shadow of my wings, on people, and I will comfort ye, and ye shall not be dismayed

Alter that I got a little fitful sleen.

only to wake from time to time with a start, thinking that I was once more an actor in the terrible events of the last twenty-four hours. Now I seemed to see that warrior, whom my hand had sent to hie last account, charging at me on the mountain top; now I was once more in that glorious ring of Grays, which made its immortal stand aeainst ail Twala's regiments, upon the" little mound; and now again I saw Twala's plumed and gory head roll past my feet with gnashing teeth and glaring eve. At last, somehow or other, the night passed away; but when dawn broke I found that my companions had slept no better than myself. Good, indeed, was in a high fever, and very soon afterward began to grow light- headed, and also, to my alarm, to spit blood, the result no doubt of some internal injury inflicted by the desperate efforts of the Kukuana warrior on tbe pwrvious day to get his big spear through the chain armor. Sir Henry, however, seemed pretty fresh, notwithstanding his wound on the face, which made eating difficult and laughter an impossibility, though he was so sore and stiff that he could scarcely stir. About eight o'clock we had a visit from Infadoos, who seemed but little the worse tough old warrior that he was for his exertions on the previous day, though he informed us that he bad been np all night. He was delighted to

see us, though nauch grieved at Good's

conauaon, ana scoox

but r noticed that he addressed Sir?

Henry with a kind of reverence, as though he were something more than

man; ana indeed, as we afterward found out, the great Englishman was looked on throughout Ku kuanaland as a super

natural being. No man, the soldiers said, could have fought as he fought, or could, at the end of a day of such toil and bloodshed, have slain Twala, who.

in addition to being the king, was sup-

posea to oe the strongest warrior in Ku-

kuanaland, in single combat, sheering

through his bull neck at a stroke, in

deed, that stroke became proverbial in

Kukuanaland, and any extraordinary

blow or feat ot strength was thenceforth

known as "Incumrs blow,"

: Infadoos told us, also, that all Twala's

regiments had submitted to Ignosi, and

that like submissions were beginning to arrive from chiefs in the countr . Twa-

la'B death at. tho hands of Sir Henrv

had put an end to all further chance of

disturbance; for Bcragga had been his

only son, and theie was no rival claim

ant left alive.

1 remarked that ignosi had swum to

the throne through blood. The old

chief shrugged hia shoulders. "Yes," he answered; "bu!; the Kukuana people can only be kept cool by letting the

blood flow sometimes, Many were

killed indeed, but tho women were left.

and others would soon exow up to take

the places of the f ahen. After this the

land would btf quiet for awhile M

Afterward, in the course of tho morn

ing, we had a short visit from Ienosi, on

whose brows the xoyal diadem was now bound. As I contemplated him ad-

eagle vancing with kingly dignity,anNobsequi-

ous guard following his steps, 1 could not help recalling to mv mind' the tall

Zulu who had presented himself to na

at Durbansome few months back, apkihir

to be taken into our service, and reflect

ing on the strange revolutions of the

wheel of fortune

" The Abbott gas well in Grant county, owned by Peru parties, heretofore a dry well and a gusher, has turned out to be a wet well. The news is unpleasant to that territory, largely for the reason that it shows the field to.be a more or less uncertain one. Patents were issued "Wednesday to the following Indianians: Robert Foster, I cdianapolis, valve; Bamuel E. Harsh, Wabash, overdraw check-spreader; Resin Hosford, Lebanon, dredging bucket; Jcseph N. and N. "Lehman, Goshen, wxre fence. John Schnepp, a prominent and wealthy farmer living ten miles northeast of Columbus, WaBin the restaurant ol Hayes, in that city, and addressed an iiisulting remark to Mr. Haye;i' wife. Tiais was overheard by Hayes, who attacked Schnepp with a beer mallet, striking him over the head. It was not ti. ought the injury was serious and Sohnepp returned home. Tuesday morning a telegram wair received from Edinburg stating that he wau dying from the effects of the wound. Hayes has been arrested The Alamoine Natural Gas Company of Fort Wayne, whiich is headed by T'illiam Fleming, haa made a phenomen,' d discovery, of gas on its leased lands iii; Blackford county. Thursday two additional wells "blew in," one showing 8,000,000 cubic feet per dajr, find the other 16,000,000 cubic feet, with a prospect of greater development when the drill has penetrated a greater depth in

to Trenton rock. The company now

hits eight wells, with a. daily capacity of 3(K000.O00 cubic feet, and it is from this

source that Fort Way ne and other points

hands cordially; I wl he supplied.

The Muncie Natural Gas Company, was the first to secure a franchise," ana"

the restrictions required that the entire

cky should be piped and public build

ings should bo furnished free of charge. Q lite recently the Central Co-cperative G is Company was organized and pro

ceeded to operate under a special ordi

nance, but was enjoined by the Muncie

Company. The Circuit Court dissolved

tlie injunction and the effect is to throw

down the bars lor the new company or

for any other which may choose to operate. The effect will be to force the M uncie to lower its rates.

Reconciliation, Li ncoln Journal. . "Say, old man, why continue ..this coldness any longer? We haven't spoken to each other for two years, and because OJ? a trivial quarrel." "There is no reason why we shouldn't bo friends. Of couwe, you were the aggressor in the quarrel, but I ask no apology.. "Oh, you're wrong, You started the row, you remember.,:' "No, I didn't. You killed my dog

fiist ".

"Yes, but the hanged brute had been

killing my chickens."

"It never kilted one of them,"' "It killed at least a dozen, and I'd

shoot your other dog if it did that,"

"And I'd pound the top oiiyour head

off for doing it."

"You couldn't pound one side of it." "You're a liar." "You're another." "Come into the alloy here and we'll

hi ive it out, you hound."

"I'll go you, you Wear eyed pionkey,"

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text: Revelations xix., 4. He oaids The nineteenth century is departing. After it has taken a few more steps, if each year bo a step, it will be gone into

the eternities. In a shoit time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which fact makes the solemnest book outside the Bible the almanac, and the moBt tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth the clock. The last decade of this century upon wliich we shall soon enter w ill . be the grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come immediately, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it. That last ten years of the nineteenth ceatury, may we all live to

see them! Does any one eay that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages the divisions of time may have been arbitrary, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, no; next to the figure seven, ten is with God a favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten yearn in Caanan. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten and their Bockets ten. , In the

ancient temple were ten lavers, and ten candlestick, and ten tables, and a

molten sea of ten cubits. And the

commandments written on the granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins,

and ten men should lay hold of him that

was a Jew, and the. reward 01 the greatly faithful is they shall reign over ten cities, and in the effort to take the

census of the New Jerusalem the num

ber ten swings around the thousands, crying "ten thousand times ten thou

sand." So I come to look toward the

closing ten years of the nineteenth century with an intensity of interest I can hardly describe.

I have also noticed that the favorite

time in many of the centuries for reat

events was the closing fragment of: the

century. Is America to be discovered

it must be in the last decade of the

fifteenth century, namely 1492, Was

free constitutional government to be

well established in America, the last years of the eighteenth century must

achieve it. Were three cities to be sub

merged by one pitch of scori. Her

culaneum and Strabise and Pompeii in

the latter part of tho first century must

go under. The fourth century closed with the moat agitating ecclesiastical

war of history,, Urban the Sixth against Clement the Seventh. Alifred the Great

closes the ninth century and Edward Ironsides the eleventh century with

their resounding deeds. The sixteenth

century closed with the establishment of, religious independence in the United ... Netherlands. Ave, almost

every century has had its peroration of overflowing achievements. As the closing years of the centuries seem a favorite , time for great scenes of emancipation or disaster, and as the number ten seems , a favorite number in the Scriptures, written by divine, direction, and as we are soon to enter upon the last ten years of the nineteenth century, what does the world propose? What does the Church of Christ propose? What do the reformers propose? I know not; but now in the presence of this consecrated assembly I

propose that we make ready, get all our bat eries planted and all our plans well laid in what remains of this decade, and then in the last decade of the nineteenth century march up and take this round world for God.

Is it audacious for me to propose it?

Qh, no! A captive servant in the kitchen of Naaman told the Commander-in-Chief where he could get rid of the blotches of his awful leprosy, and his complexion became as fair as a babe's. And didn't Christ, in order to take the opthalmia out of the eyes of the blind man, use a mixture of spittle and dust?

And who showed Blucher a short cut for

his army so that, instead of taking the regular road by which he would have come up too late, he came up in time to save Waterloo and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad who, perhaps, could not write his own name? And so I, "who am less than the least of all saints," propose a short cut to victory, and am willing to be the expectoration 011 some blind eye, and! tell some of the Brigadier Generals of the Lord of hosts how this leprosied world may in the final decade of the nineteenth century have its flesh come again as the flesh of a little child. Is there anything in prophecy to hinder this speedy consummation? .No. Some one begins to quote from Daniel about "time, times and a half time," and takes from Revelation the seven trumpets, blowing them all at once in my ear. But with utmost raverence I take up all the prophecies and hold them toward , heaven and say, God never has and never will stop consecrated effort and holy determination and magnificent resolve,and that if the Church of God will rise up to its hill work it can make Daniel's time twenty years and his half time ten yearj Neither Isaiah, nor Ezekiel, nor Micah nor Malachi. nor Jeremiah, nor any of

the major or minor prophets will hinder

us a second. Suppose the Bible bad

announced tho millenium to begin 3889,

that would be no hmderance. An one

sense God never changes his mind, be

ing tne same yesteraay, to-aav ana lor-

ever. 5ut in another sense he does

change his mind, and times without

number every day, and that is when his

people pray. Didn t lie change His mind about Nineveh? By God's com

mand, Jonah, at the top of his voice, while standing on the steps of the merchants' exchange and the palatial

residences oi: that city, cried out, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall

be overthrown." Was it overthrown m

forty days? No. The people gave up

their sins and cried for mercy, ana though Jonah got mad because his

whole course of Bermons had been

spoiled and went into a disgraceful pouting, we have the record eo sublime I can not read it without feeling a nervous chili running through me. "God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them, and He did it not." God is a father, and some of us know what that means, and some time when wo .. had promised chastisement and the child deserved it, the little darling has put her arms around our neck and expresses such sorrow and such promises of doing better that her tears landed on the lips of our kiss, and we held her a half hour after on our knee and would as soon

think of slapping an angel in the face as of even striking her with the weight of

our little finger, uod is a father, and

while he has promised this world

scourgings, though they were for a thou

sand years or hve thousand years, he

would, if the world repented, substitute

benediction aud divine caress. God changed his mind about Sodom

six times, lie haa aetermmea on ics destruction. Abraham asked Him if He

would not spare it if fifty righteous people were found there; and, narrowing

lown the number, if forty people;, it

thirty people: if twenty people; if ten

people could be found there. And each of the six times the Lord answered yes, Ob, why didn't Abraham go on just two steps further and say if five be found there and it one be found there, for then ior tVe sake of Lot, it's one good citizen, t think Sodom would have been spared. Eitfht times does the Bible say that God renented when he had promised punishments aud withheld the stroke. Was it a slip of Paul's pen when he spoke of God's cutting short the work in righteousness? No, Paul's pen never slipped :

There is nothing in fine way of prophecy to hinder the crusades I hav& proposed

for the last decade, ol the nineteenth century..,,..- -. The whole trouble is that we put off the completion of the world's redemption to such long and indefinite distances. The old proverb that "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," might be changed a little and be made truthfully to say what is the Gospel business of all the ages is the Gospel business of this age. Wo are so constituted !hat we can not get much enthusiasm tbout something five hundred years from now or a. thousand years from now. We are fighting rft too Ion g a ran ge. That gun called a "S warn p Angel" was a nuisance. It shot six

miles but it hardly ever hit anything.

It did its chiof deBtJdctive work when it

bur6tand killed those who were setting

it off. Short; range is the effective kind

of work, whether it be for worldly or

religious purpose. Some man witn ms eyes half shut drones out to me the Bible quotation: "A thousand years are as one day;" that is, ten centuries

are not Jons: for the Lord, jsut

whv do you not quote (ne previous sen

tence, which says that one day is with

the Lord as a thousand yearsf ,. mat is, he could do the work of ten , centuries

in twenty-four honrs. The migntiest

obstacle to Clhristian work is the impres

sion that tbe world's evangelization is

a way off. A nd we take the telescope and look on and on through centuries until

we see two obiechr. near each other and'

we strain otur vision and guess what they

are and we call gret.t conventions to

guess what thev are, and we get down our heaviest theological works and bal

ance our telescope on the lid and look and look and finally conclude that they are two beasts that we see, and the one has hair and the other has wool, and we guess it must be the lion and the lamb lying down together. In that great cradle of postponment and somnolence we rock the church as though it were an impatient child and say, "Hush, my dear, don't beimpatientl Don't get excited by. revivals! Don't cry I Your Father's com ing! Don't get uneasy! He will be here1 in two or three or ten or twenty thousand years." And we act as though we thought that when Macaulay's, famous New Sealander in the far distance is seated on a . broken arch of London Bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's hi 9 grandchild might break in and jolt his pencil by asking him if he thought the millenium would ever appear. Men and women cf the entemal God! Sons and daughters of the Lord Almiehtv! We may have it start in the

decade that is soon to commence, and it

will be done if we can persuade the people between no w and then to get ready

for the work. What makes me think it can be done. First, because God is ready, dy. He need no longer persuasion to do his work, for if Ho is not willing that any should perish, He is not willing that any of the people of the next decade shall perish; and the whole Bible is a chime of bells ringing out "Come, come, come," and you need not eo round the earth to find out how much He wants the World to come, but just to walk around one stripped and bare and. leafless tree with two branches, not arched, but horizontal. But He is waiting, as He e aid He- would, for the cooperation of the church. When we are

ready God is ready. And He certainly has all the weaponry ready to capture this world for the trutb, all the weapons of kindness or devastation. On the one hand the Gospel and sunshine and power to orchardize and gar denize the earth, and fountains swinging in rainbow and Ohatsworthian verdure and aromas poured c ut of the vials of heaven, while, on the other hand, he has the weaponry of devastation, thunderbolt and conflagration and forces planetary, solar, lunar, skelter or meteoric, that with joose rein thrown on the neck for a seeoud would leave constellations and galaxies so many split and shivered wheels on nhe boulevards of heaven.

And that God is on our side. All on our

side." Blessed be His glorious name! Blessed was the hour when through

Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace

with Him!"

If you continue to ask me why I think that the world can be. saved in the final

decade of the nineteenth century I re

ply because it is net. a great undertaking, .... 11 1 : - 1 i-

considering tne nnmoer 01 worKors uia& Will go at it. if enco persuaded it can be done. We have sifted the five hundred million of workers down to four hundred million and three hundred million and two hundred million and one hundred million and to fifty million. I went to w ork to cipher out how many souls that number could bring to God in ten yearn if ;each one brought a soul every year, and if each soul so brought should bring another each succeeding year. I found out, aided by a professor in mathematics, that we did not need anything like such a number of workers enlisted. You see it is simply a question of mathematics and in geometrical progression. Another reason why I Know it can be done is that we may divide the. work up among the denominations. , God does not ask any one denomination to do the work or any dosn denominations. The work can be divided and is being divided up, not geograjmically but according to the temperaments of the human family. Wecfinnot say to one denomination, you take Persia, and another, you take China, and another. you take India; because there are all styles of temper

aments in all nations. ; And some de

nominations are especially adapted to

work with people of sanguine temper

ament, or phlegmatic temperament,, or

choleric ttimneTament, or bilious tem

perament: or nervous temperament, . or

lymphatic temperament. The Episco

pal Church will do its most effective work with those who by taste prefer the

stately and ritualistic. The Methodist Church wall do its best work among the emotional and demonstrative. The Presbyterian Church will do Ub best work among those who like strong doctrine and the staeiy service softened by the emotional. So each denomination will have certain kinds of people whom it will especially affect. 00 Jet the work be divided up. There are the seven hundred and fifty thousand Christians of the Presbyterian Church, north, and other hundreds of thousands

in the Presbyterian Church south, and.

all foreign Presby ten ans, more especially Scotch, English and Irish,, making, I guess, about two million Presby teriansi the Methodist Church is stilt larger; the Church of England, on both sides the sea. still larger, and many other denominations as much, if. not move, consecrated than any I have mentioned. Divide up the world's , evangelization among these denominations after they are persuaded it can be, done bef6re th3 nineteenth century is dead and the last Hcttentot,the last Turk, the last Japanese, the last American, the last European, the last Asiatic, the last African will see the sal vation of God before he sees the opening gates of the twentieth century : Again, I feel the whole world can be

saved in the time specified, because we

have all manner of machinery requisite It is not as thouch we had to build the

printing presses. Tbey are all built and running day and night, those printing religious papers (925 of those religious papers in this country;, those printing religious tracts and those printing religious books. : And thousands of printing presses now in the service oi the devil could be brought and Bet to work in the service of God. Why was the

printincr press invented? To turn out

bi 1 l-headi? an d circu lars of patent medicines, and tell the news which in 1 hrce weeks w;ill be of no importance? From thd old-timo Franklin printing press on np to the Lord Stanhope's press and the Washington press and the Victory press to Hoe's perfecting print

mgpress that machine has been., improving for its best work and its final

work, namely, the, publication of the

glad udin 28 of great joy which shall be to ail people. We have the presses, or

can have t hem before the first of Janu

ary, when the new decade is to begin, to put a Bible in the hand of every son

and if such petson can not read we can

nave a colporteur, an ovaugenst or missionary to read it to him or her.

I .

But this.brings me to the adjoining ' thought namelv. We have the money:;

to do the work. I mean tho fifty ntifef .1 :. lions of Christians have it. Aye, !h$r two million seven hundred and . fifty- . four thousand Christians have it, and , the dam which is beainning to leak wihV ; soon break, and there will be rushing,: floods of IiTjndreds and millions and bill v H'." ' ions of dollara in holy contribution J when you persuade the wealthy men of vir tue kingdom of God that the speedy ; conversion of the world is a possibilir, . and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Dan let , and St. John will nofcjstand in the way of it, but help it on. ;I have no eym -thv with this bomlWdmont of rich v;C

mn. We would each one be worUi r

$5,000,000 if wo could, an(i br;, hard per-

suasion might perhaps bo financed xn - s , -f take $10,000,000. Almost e vet y paper T ; v take tells us of some wealth v nan who -hag endowed a college or built a cfenrch ora hospital or a free tbrarjrj , , and that thing is going to multipiy until u the treasury of ail: our denowinaV ion a and rarlonniatory organizations wih1 be f overwhelmed with munificence- if W can nersuflde our men of wealth tbiC 1 J-

the world's evangelization is poasiblef

and that they may live to seeity their own eves, ----

Again, I think that the world's evanr gelization can be achieved in the .time specified because we have, already the theological ihstitotiona necesaary few 'f ' work, . J .y-,; , .. " ? V '-. & v-& -:f

Let us take what remains oi this decade to tret ready for the final decade of

the nineteenth- century. You and 14$ may pot live to see. that "decade; or mvjt;;. i not liVe torsee its elpse, but that ahattnot hinder me form, declaring the mag- ' nificent possibility. I confess that thei j

mistaae 01 my iiienas oeen, nov inas i; -v , . Aid rAfc wnrlr harrl fnr T fvmld tint, hawii-i;. .

wors ed harder and lived, as Ood knoww 5 ; and my family knowbut tbat I: haj t - :v; i not worked under the realization : thaj , yj-4r the salvation of this world was a near-by ,?

posBibihty. But whether we se iti tne.. beginning or the closing of that decade 1 is of no importance, if only that 4tecad i can get the coronation, and then all de-' ? cades shall kneel before this enthrowed decade, and even tho gray-grown ce ! mrlAt will cast their crowns before it

and it will be the most honored decade $ between the time when tbe morning;. stars Bang together as the libretto ei: worlds was opened and the time when the mighty angt robed in cloud andi V;s garlanded" in rain 0 w, shall with one , foot on the sea and tne other: foot on: the land swear by Him that liveth for- .... ever and ever that time shall be no longTi Alleluia! Amen? : U . Kwi

The State Department -confirm rtortthat there is an agreement

tween Germany and the United

that matters at Samoa shall remain atetu a no nendinsr the conference

Berlin. The British ovexninent- wiUJ doubtless1 agree to this also." ' The J United States stcanierX Alert, .no1r."a Honolulu, is to be ordered to Samoa anL4 one small German vessel will also bef sent there, as will probably the Engliaht steamer Calliope. No others .will; sent to these waters by any of the thrr e r powers until the conclusion ofhecoii! ference. ;.,,.), Ex-Senator Saunderai Russell Ham- i son's father-in-law, is mentioned f or a ? place in the Utah Commissions He wants to be Collector of the Internal; Revenue for the' Nebraska District, bn the place is desired by 1 he delegation fovra somebody else. An effort is therefore;being made. it is said-io have him accept a Utah Commissionewhip, . which i worth $5,000 a yean As it would necea1

sitate a residence in Utah there is somen " v; doubt as to whether he ,iU aexioaaly ' . . consider the offer. Vr:v ' 5 There are now on file in the Poetoffice Department a large number of applicar tions for appointment as Poetoffice In spectors. These applications are nbi?-

being returned to the senders, with tne , information that all appotvl menta to' this service must be made after exanain- ? ation and certification by the Unitedi States Civrl Service Commission. The names and add resses of thhse applicants haye been sent to the clertr of the com' mission, who will . notify them when and where examinations will be heldf Commissioner of Pensions "Tannsr Thursday, issued an order holshng. that . "whenever n pensioner is disabled 1st. hand or, foot in a degree entitling him toy 4 per month, under the act of. MarcK 3, 1S83, such pensioner shall, py reasobi

01 luab ia:bt oe , eutiwen w suvy vis? $30 per month, under the act of Angl . 188G." This order will favorably AnTec the oensionaof some six or eight bun-" ; dred pensioners, disabled veterans1 & -.oUV. the late war.. Secretary Blaine says it is not Iruf- Vj as reported, that this administration -would refuse to appoint anr bne; aa; minister or consul to a foreign country -in which he was bprn This will lefeV a number o! German-born American: J citizen Who are applying for cnsnlaeai" : in Germany- . ; K- J' " 'V. ... ' 'V'Vti-v' Secretary Halford says that ., thei President has made no arrangements to leave Washington before the 26tli ( ol:5' V

this month, when he goes to New Yorik? to attend ' the centennial celebration.

The President has declined a number of :

The Question of a reduction of nosi

age from two cents to one cent is beia v. considered at the Postoffice Department x and it is thought quite likely that Mfes ff Wanamaker till , recommend T suchf r change in his first reports s" ? f Eb Henderson, of Indian, Tuesday retired from the position olf' Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenug-saia was succeeded by George Wlso" ; Hon. Samuel J. Randall haa been ricv f in bed at Washington ever since Con-. ' gress adjourned. His trouble is asevere'

attack of gout. v ..... ; Judge Allen G. Thur man. the

Roman;" called on the!

xnursaay. Wm. P. Hepburn, of Iowa, has been"

appointed solicitor of the TreMurjfi' h i ?

il.

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4i:

"Old"

Two hours before the Samoan cc. t

missioners sailed from New York, Mon-

day, a special -messenger from, the StaWT

Department at Washington handediI William Walter Phelps a large enve

nearine several craaL reu seam, il con-

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Their

tained the official instructions

were auarded carefully, but neverthe-i

less an accurate abstract haa been ohtained. Secretary Blaine has in the main followed out the policy of exSec'-' -retarv Baard. The commissioners have no light task, before them. They will insist upon the autonomy of the native government - They will resist ait T

attempts to hold Americans iaposg; eible for the disturbances onr tfie. islands; They will endeavor. lighten, as much, as possible. --iubj b arden that may oe placed upon the'l Siimoans They will demand eqaal resentation in the local government ol the islands in the event that any foreiam

influence is permitted to share in it. and

finally they will insist upon the restor- ,4 f ation of-the status quof No one caiai predict the lencth of the conference.- &

Sessions will be held from time to timei :. and it is not ex pected that the commis- ' " sinners, if successful in their missions will return to this country for ;Beveyaj , months. The commission is amply provided with funds; the entire appropriav4 lion of $500,00 made by Congress to-'-settle the Samoan troubles being . availV I v : able ior their expenses'. Ex-wnsulf General Sewall accompanies the com' mission as a disbursing' offlceV. HisJ

commissioners in case it ie desired to in -

troduce evidence in rebuttal of the tea?: f

Apia, and other German

it is understood, will be

J tho commission., r

4 -

:4I

officials whoj

- - " ' w -fei Mft&aaBMtoM