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THE doom RECORD1 = klngstree7s. c. LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. <V Prop'r - . FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. The State Board Fixes the Regulations. At an adjourned meeting of the State Board of Education, held in Mr. Mayfield's office in Columbia last week, the following is the official report of the toeceedings: Members of the county board of education were appointed as follows: Berkeley County H. K. Jenkins. Georgetown County T. B. Bamby, A. J. Stokes. Hampton County John T. Morrison. Fairfield County W. S. Hall, Jr. and J. O. McCants. Aiken County J. Furman Barnes, Ellington. Sect ion 8 of the rules and regulations -were amended so as to read as follows: "Should a vacancy occur in the office of county superintendent of education it shall be filled by the chairman and secretary of the board, subject to its approval at its next meeting." Section 15 was amended so as to read i as follows: "There shall be but two grades of teachers' county certificates, a first grade and a second grade, the latter being divided into Class 'A' and Class'B."? Section 24 was amended so as to read k as follows: "No teacher shall be employed by a board of trustees who is related by consanguinity or affinity with. in the second degree to a member of the board of trustees or to a principal of a school without the written approval of i the county board of education, nor -v-" omnlni' a +.Anr>}ipr holdincr a WUU1 HUtJ VUiJTiV^ n _ certificate issued by a county board of f another county until the certificate has >?. been duly registered in the office of the county superintendent of education of I their own county." Section 11 was amended so as to read as follows: "All scholarships for the State institutions to be awarded during1 the year 1897 for the scholastic year vy 1897~'98, shall be awarded on competif tive examinations to be held on the second Friday in August, 1897, under t. the rules and regulations of the respective institutions. If for any reason the scholarships be not awarded, or aooepted, or the beueficiaries not attend, the scholarship fund to which they are entitled 6hall remain to the oreait of the county.!' The many propositions made to the * a1 i a# /iliorfa arvyl ootraior uie luruiouxu^ ui *.uv* Supplies were duly considered and resuited in the listing of Evans' aritht metical chart and the Franklin Pub* tithing Company's Language chart; permission was given to F. M. Sheridan ? to sell pertain other supplies. Jfcoh other important work was disPUMed by the board and referred to the propek oommittees with instruction to 1 report thereon at the next meeting of the board. Governor Ellerbe, as chairman of the & v board, made tee following report: 4'I beg to report that I have appointed r . standing committees as follows: "Committee on Bules and Regulations Julian Mitchell, A. R. Banks, W. K. Marchant, W. F. Clayton and p J. ? MoCain. U "Committee on Examinations and I Certificates H. T. Cook, J. L Mo { Cairn A. M. Bakin, and A. R. Ranks. 'i "Committee on Text-books and \ Courses of Study J. L McCain, H. T. I r Cook, W. N. Merchant and Julian p ISSea" "Oofrimittoe on School Supplies, CUlts, Maps, etc. A. B. Banks, A. X. Bankin, i. T. Cook and W. N. Marchant K 'Committee on Scholarships W. F. I Gprt^Tjuliih Mitchell and A. M. I TEACHER'S EXAMINATIONS V Wilt tMV ? UH/V UOVM w V Jane 25. The following circular letter has been issued by the Superintendent of Education. Columbia, S. C, May 19, 1897. lb County Superintendent of Education* Dear Sir: The next examination of npplioants by your board fpr teachers' eeontr certificates -rill be held on Friday, the 25th day of June next Please g^T# the proper notioe. I suggest that Vfia gire this notioe as early as practicable, and reapeat it as often as you II t#ill send you a printed copy of the rules and regulations just as soon as I can get them ready for distribution. The law requires your board to ap? point trustees for all the school districts an your county on the first Tuesday in July. I suggest that your board take 71 up this matter at your meeting on June 85, and get things in shape. I Where no changes are to be made, by resolution of your board, passed July tod, those in office may be permitted to hold over, under the law, untUtheir successors are appointed and qualified. A resolution of this kind would perhaps save you some trouble and expense. Shoula jour board afterwards so determine, jeu can appoint successors to any of the holdover members at any time and make the Be* appointments terminate on the first Tuesday in July, 1899. Send me the names and postoffice addresses of your trustees, if you have not already done so. If yon make afiv, please inform me of the changes id the 1i4nr|fter July 2, and whenever a change I will forward to you in a few days fbjr express) the necessary blanks for " trustees' annual reports. Please transrq.it them to the trustees. You will have to give some personal attention to the making up of these reports by the trustees. * When all of the trustees' reports are received by you, make up, by school districts, the enrollment and average attendance in each district and enter the same in your cash book, so as to preserve a record for easy ref rence. Yours truly, W. D. Mayfield, State Superintendent of Education. American Feet Are Small. American women will be gratified to learn that an experienced Parisian ealeswoman considers that after the women of Madrid, Peru and Chili they have the smallest feet of any nation In the world. The best shaped feet in Northern Europe are in Sweden. FOR AMERICANS IN CUBA. I The President Asks Congress for $50,- ; 000 for Relief of the Destitute. SENATE GRANTS THE REQUEST. The Upper Ilonse Passes a Joint Resolution Appropriating $50,000 for the Distressed Citizens of This CountryAction of the Honse Bailey, of Texas, OfTers a Belligerency Resolution. Washington*, D. C. (Special). President McKinley sent to Congress a message recommending an appropriation of not less than $50,090 for th9 relief of starving Ameri I cans in (juna. xnc senate promptly passea Mr. Grllinger's joint resolution appropriating $50,000 for the purpose. In the House Mr. Bailey objected to the resolution unless unanimous consent were given to an amendment recognizing Cuban belligerency. The resolution went over. The President's message is as follows: "To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States: "Official information from our Consuls in Cuba establishes the fact that a large number of American citizens in the island are in a state of destitution, suffering for want of food and medicines. This applies particularly to the rural districts of the central and eastern parts. "The agricultural classes have been forced from their farms into the nearest towns,' where they are without work or money. "The local authorities of the several towns, however kindly disposed, are unable to relieve tho needs of their own people, and are altogether powerless to help our citizens. "The latest report of Consul-General Lee estimates six to eight hundred are without means of support. I have assured him that | provision would bo made at once ?e relieve them. To that end I recommend that Congress make an appropriation of not less than $50,000 to be immediately available for use under the direction of the Secretary of State. "It is desirable that a part of the sum which may be appropriated by Congress should, in the discretion of the Secretary of State, also be used for the transportation of American citizens who, desiring to return to the United States, are without means to do so. William McKjslet. . "Executive Mansion, May 17, 1897." The sending of the President's message was preceded by a special Cabinet meeting, at which Senator Davis and Representative Hitt were present. As soon as the President's message had been read in the Senate, Mr. Davis of Min- I nesota, Chairman . of the Committee on Foreign Relations, favorably reported, with amendments, the resolution introduced by Mr. Gallinger, appropriating $50,000 for the relief of destitute citizens of the United States in Cuba. The resolution as amended,' is as follows: "Resolved, By the Senate and Mouse 01 Representatives of the United States In Congress assembled, that the sum of $50,000 be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money In the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the relief of destitute clti-1 zens of the United States in the Island of | Cuba, said money to be expended, at the: discretion and under the direction of the' President of the United States, in the pur-j chase and furnishing of food, olothlng and medicines to such citizens and for trans-' porting to the United States such of them: as so desire and who are without means to transport themselves." Mr. Davis asked tor immediate consldera-; tion of the resolution, and there was no ob-' lection. The only speech made was that of, Mr. Gallinger, who spoke briefly. The reso-' lution was then put on its passage, and \ without division it passed unanimously,| there being no response to the call for the. nays. It had taken exactly eighteen min-; utes for the reading of the message, the' presentation of the committee report, and| the brief speech and the final passage of the resolution. When the message had been read in the< House, Mr. Hitt, former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign affairs, at once in- j I tmrinoAd a hill for the aDDropriation of j 150,000 (or fuel and transportation (or the Cubans. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, objected to immediate consideration, unless an amendment embodying Senator Morgan's resolution (or recognition of the insurgents was added. Mr.i Dingley objected to the amendment, whereupon Mr. Bailey objected to the resolution, i and the Cuban question was sidetracked.! Advocates of the belligerency resolution believe that if it could be brought before the House it would be impossible for the leaders of the majority to nold their side together against it, and they propose to try to attach it to the relief resolution as an amendment. ~ THORNTON'S WOUND FATAL He Shot Himself Because Miss Smith Rejected His Suit. Preston Thornton, who shot himself in the parlor of Milton H. Smith's residenoe, in Louisville, Ky., died from the effects of the wound. His father and mother, from Lexington, were by his side when death came. Mr. Thornton was a member of one of the leading families of Lexington. Milton H. Smith is President of the Louisville and Nashville 'Railroad Company, and his only daughter, Nettie Belle Smith, had rejected young Thornton. Chapman in Jail. Elverton R. Chapman, the Sugar Trust witness who refused to answer a United States Senate committee's questions as to whether he had acted as a broker for any Senators in speculations in Sugar Trust, occupies a cell at the District Jail, Washington, and will continue therein for twenty-five days. Chapman surrendered himself to United States Marshal Wilson, in accordance with an understanding prewiAiialv Ed hem Pacha Takes Domokoi. The special correspondents with the Turkish forces in Thessaly say: "Edhem Pacha has moved on from point to point, and finally occupied Domokos. The Greeks have sustained a crushing"defeat." Bubonic Plague Increases. The bubonic plague is making fearful ravages in the Cutchmandvi district of India, where there have been 2000 deaths in a fortnight. Half the population has fled, 12,000 Men Working on Louisiana Levees. There are now more than 12,000 men at work on the Mississippi levees south of Red River putting them in condition. Minor Mention. A gold mine has Been discovered at West Milan, N. H. New York City now has rubber-tired patrol wagons. Spain's four per cent, bonds are selling at 59 cents on the dollar. Three towns of West Virginia have adopted the curfew ordinances. -. " ^SfSHHnflgKi 4 " -?> - -^ . . ' ;% ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. The Interstate Commerce'Commission fa n letter to the Committee on Interstate | Commerce, points out defects of the Poolfug bill, and requests that the powers of thv commission be defined. Ex-Postmaster Geneial Horatio King died at his residence in Washington in the eighty-sixth year of his age. The State National Bank, at Logansport' Ind., was closed by National Bank Examiner George B. Caldwell. The capital of the bank is 8200,000, surplus 855,000, and deposits by last report about 8350 000. The trouble * appears to have been caused by loans to J. F. Johnson, the President. Secretary Sherman sent a protest from the German Government against the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill to the Senate. The President sent to the Senate the fol lowing nominations: Joseph H. Gaines, to be Attorney of the United States, District of West Virginia; Myron H. McCord, to be Governor of Arizona, and Charles H. Akers, to be Secretary of Arizona Territory. The President nominated Justice William M. Morrow, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial Circuit; George Morgan Thomas, of Kentucky, to be Solicitor of Internal Revenue;. Frank H. Elbridgc to be Chief Engineer in tho Navy; Samuel G. Morse to be Agent for the Indians of the Neat Bay Agency. Many Republican leaders held a conference with Senator Piatt in regard to tho question of representation in the Greater New York. Domestic. The failure is reported of the First -National Bank of Orleans, Neb. Simon Banks, a wealthy farmer and shipowner at Southport. Conn., dropped dead just after discharging a shotgun at a cat. Mr. Banks was sixty-seven years old, and was a sufferer from h^art disease, James A. Marks, of Newark, N. shot and killed JohnSauerbrei, who conducted a delicatessen shop in Bayonne, N. J. Marks attempted to dispossess Sauerbrei illegally from the shop. George Louis Shav, of Baltimore, was arrested, charged with having aided George Barnard, the dead cashier of the Fort Stanwix National Banko! Rome, N. Y., to embezzle or misapproi riate $32,000 of the funds of the bank. Z The Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson was electMAnnrotrvf r\t fho Prochvfprifln AQSPITi My; the retiring Moderator, Dr. Withrow, preached the opening sermon. The Brooklyn Navy Yard band has applied for discharge from tho Government service because It has been ordered to accompany the Brooklyn to English waters during the Queen's jubilee. The Florida House of Representatives has adopted a resolution appointing exSenator Call State agent for the collecticn of an In^iari war claim of $750,030. Marquis Visconti Yenosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, suggests reprisals for American tariff duties. 'A new loan of $4,000,000 has been sano- , tioned by the Uruguayan Chamber. The armistice between Greece and Turkey has been fixed at seventeen days. A neutral zone is to be established between the armies. The terms of peace may be the result of long deliberation on the part of the powers. Jhere is in Japan of retaliatory measures against tho new American tariff. Five cannon, captured by General Scott from General Santa Anna during the Mexican war have been stolen from the Pnint rw Y t Militarv Academy grounds. 'Judge Chester, at Monticello, N. Y., declined to vacate the order granted May 11 with reference to changing the place of taking testimony In the proceedings against the alleged Coal Trust. He did grant an order, however, tending to delay the beginning of the investigation. At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has been struck at a depth of 600 feet In a well on the County Cour; House grounds. Mrs. L. C. Elliott, of Nashua, N. H., died of excessive bicycle riding, according to physicians. She sp snt much of her time on her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal m eningitis developed. By a fire in Jersey City, N. J., six houses were destroyed, e.even badly damaged, and seventy famllie* were rendered homeless. No lives weni lost. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Miss Fannie Riciardson, a recluse and miser, died in Taunton, Mass,, worth 150,000. No will has been found, and as far as is known she had r o relatives. The Pittsburg juiy returned a verdict of acquittal in the case of Lieutenant Edward, 8. Farrow, charged with conspiring tc defraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life As-1 sooiation of New1 York. The members of the United States Bimetallic Commission are in Paris waiting for the appointment of French delegate;! by President Faure before they proceed, to England. I Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced on May 25,1895, to two year3' imprisonment with hard labor, was released from Holloway (England) Prison. He :refused *5000 to write his prison experiences. He will do literary work in London under his own name. Superintendent of Streets Thomas P. Maloney, of Buffalo, N. Y., was convicted of attempting to bribe Superintendent of Police W. S. Bull by offering him iiOO to protect the Goelet Gambling Club last July. The Presbyterian Union Theological Seminary graduation exercises were held in Now York City, and Miss 3riggs, daughter of Professor C. A. Briggs. received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, being the flrst woman graduate of the seminary. A diver discovered that the leak in the big navy yard dock at Brooklyn is e iused by a ten-foot-square hole in the apron outside of the caisson. Much additional damaging evidence has been found against Adolph L. Luetgort.the rich sausage manufacturer, of Chicago, 111., who is accused of murdering his wife and burning her body. Phineas B. Sm th, a well-knowm citizen of Roxbury, Mass., died of heart t rouble resulting from o rerexertion in climbing a hill while riding a bicycle. He was fiftynine years of age and was a lawyer. Governor Black, of New York, has signed the General Tax Bate bill. The Stt.te tax rate for the year is 2.67 mills. The revenues from direct taxation r.re estimated at $12,003 792.92, and from indirect taxation at $10,043,7('3. The Illinois Battlefield Commission has decided to erect nine monuments each at Lookout Mountain and at the north end of "Mm thA Illinois reeiments which participated in these battles. In Now York City Helen Horsford, left an orphan by the death of her mother, j rieved constantly, and committed suicide by hanging. There was a $25,000 run on the Fnmingham Savings Bank at South Framingham, Mass. The Government Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was opened. George Bartholomew, an engineer for the Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyl, Penn., was blown to pieces by the explosion of a boiler. Bartholomew is supposed to have fallen asleep and on awakening found the boiler dry and turned on the water, thereby causing the explosion. His sister,when she ler.rned of her brother's death, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the burning boiler house. John Farrell was fined $5 for planting potatoes on Sunday at Nanuet, N. Y. The Holland, a small vessel owned by her inventor and d<signed for submarine warfare, was succtssfully launched at Elizabethport, N. a >"" !tc-a... "i v. v1 ' l * ^ CUBA'S DAY IN COMEggl The Morgan Belligerency Resolution j Passed by the Senate. HOUSE ADOPTS RELIEF BILL, i Heated Debate* In Itoth Chamber* In the Senate 10 Republican*, 18 Democrats and 4 Populist* Voted to Reeopnizf I . ... Cubansas Warring, and 13 uepuuiiram and ? Democrats Against the Measure, Washington, D..? C. (Special). The United Slates Senate passed, after an exciting debate, by a vote of 41 to 14, Mr. Morgan's resolution declaring that a state of war exists in Cuba, that the insurgents be accorded belligerent rights, and that this Government maintain strict neutrality between Spain and her revolted colony. The resolution is as follows: "Joint resolution declaring that a condition of public war exists in Cu ba, and that strict neutrality shall be maintained; "Resolved. That a condition of public war exists botwoen the Government of Spain and the Government proclaimed, and for some time maintained by force of arms, by the people of Cuba, and that the United States of America shall maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and. territory of the United States." Following is the detailed vote: Yeas Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Bate, Beriy, Butler, Carter. Chandler, Chilton. Clark, flow Pn^L-foll fbillnm Davis. Deboe. Foraker, GalHnger, Gorman. Hansbrougb, Harris, Kansas; Heitfelri, Jones, Kenney, Lindsay, McBride. Mantle, Mason, Mills, Morgan, Nelson, Pasco, Pettigrew, Tetts, Pritchard, Rawlins, Shoup, Stewart, Thurston, Tillman, Turner, Turpie, Walthall. Nays Messrs. Allison, Burrow1, Caffery, Fairbanks, Gear, Hale, H&nna, Hawley, Hoar, Spooner. Wellington, Wetmore, White, Wilson 14. The following pairs were announced, the first named Senator being in favor of the resolution and the second opposed to it: Faulkner with Elkins, Harris (Tenn.) with Morrill, McEnery with Piatt (New York), Daniel with Gray, Allen with Piatt (Conn.), Vest with Nelson, and Roach with Perkins. Murphy, of New York, was absent and unpaired. RELIEF RESOLUTION PASSED. Without ? Dissenting Voice the House Votes 950,000. Washington, D. C. (Special). After a long debate the House passed, without a dissenting vote, the resolution appropriattlng $50,000 for the relief of Americans in Cuba. The Democrats made an ineffectual effort to force consideration of therMorgan resolution for the recognition of the belligerency of the insurgents. They accused the Republicans of endeavoring to evade this issue. There was an Interesting passage when Mr. Livingston was declaring that the only sensible course for this Government to end the trouble was by recognizing the Cubans, and Mr. Hitt, the Republican Administration spokesman, interrupted him to ask: "Don't you thiuk it would be better for the President to use his authority to secure independence?" "I do," answered Mr. Livingston, "and now that I have answered your question, ???? mA When will the President do I thatr* Mr. Hitt hesitated, while the House listened intently, and Mr. Livingston pressed him for an answer. "I have no right to spealc by any authority," Mr. Hitt began, and, hesitating to word his answer rightly, finally continued: "I have reason to believe that the President is taking as active and effective steps as he can to secure the independence or Cuba, , and that fact, I am convinced, has reached Spanish headquarters, for the news reaches us to-day that the Minister who will probably be in power in thirty days has said that the Cuban war is utterly hopeless." The debate was clo6ed for the Democratic side by Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, who declared that two-thirds of the Republicans desired the resolution for recognition. Mr. Hull, of Iowa, and Mr. Brown, of Ohio, closed the debate for the Republicans. Then the resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote. FATHER KNEIPP DEAD. The Originator of the Water Cure Succumbs to Lung Trouble. Father Kneipp, well-known throughout the world through his water cure, is dead. He had been suffering for some days :!rom inflammation of the lungs and r<> m FATHER KXEIPP. (The famous water-curist and a group of royal patients.) ceived the last sacrament of the Church a week before bis death at Worishofen, Suabia. Subsequently, however, he rallied, and it was thonght early in the week that he would recover. His fad was that all diseases could be cured by walking bare-foot in the dewy grass. Mother and) Children Killed by a'Snake. Two children of Edward Driscoil, who lives on a little branch 01 state (Jreeic, near Pikeville, Ky., were bitten by a copperhead snake. Their cries attracted their mother, who tried to kill the snake, but was bitten herself. All three died within an hour. To Increase Spain's Army. Gene al de Azcarraga, the Spanish Minister of War, has introduced a bill into the Cortes providing for an increase of the army in Spain to 100,000 mer.. A semi-official declaration is issued to the effect that Spain will never agree to the sale of Cuba, nor to foreign mediation in j "a question which she regards as exclusively concerning herself." National Home for Liwyen. The Richmond (Va.) City Bar Associa- l tion proposes to purchase the house where ' Chief Justice Marshall lived, and make it a , National home for lawyers. ' FLORIDA'S NEW SENATOR. I Stephen It. Mallory Elected to Succcc.1 "Wilkinson Call. Stephen F.ussell Mallory, Floridi'3 new i representative in the Senate of the T"r.;ted States, to succeed Wilkinson Call, Ins had an adventurous and successful career. At ;the early ape of sixteen years h;> entered the Confederate service and, transferred to tue navy, scrvwu inruuKiiuui tu - i.ivii mor i as midshipman on the Florida, the rival of the Alabama, the world-famed privateer; STEPHEN E. MALLOEV. (Florida's Senator-elect, ana an araem advocate of free coinage.) At the close of the war he matriculated at the Georgetown Jesuit College, in the District of Columbia, and was graduated after a four years' classical course. In 1874 he removed to Fensacola, Fla., and engaged in the successful practice of the law. He represented tho Pensacola district in the State Legislature, and was then elected to the Fifty-second Congress. Senator Mallory is a typical Southerner, an outspoken Democrat, and will add strength to the silver wing, as ho is a bimetallism His election makes the Senate a tie. TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT. Elverton E. Chapman, the Wall Street Broker, the Contnmacloni Witnesa. Elverton E. Chapjnan, the New York broker, is one of the most talked of men in America to-day. Mr. Chapman is in contempt of the Senate committee appointed to investigate the scandal concerning United States Senators who were charged with speculating in sugar at the time the ELViaTOX X. CHAPMAN Wilson Tariff schedule was under consideration by the Senate. He refused flatly to answer the committee's questions as to whether Senators speculated In sugar at that time. He was tried, fotxnd guilty of oontempt and sentenced to thirty days in jail, ana is now serving his term in the District Jail at Washington. SENATOR EARLE IS DEAD. lie Pastes Awsf at Hit Home in Sonth Carolina. United States Senator Joseph E. Earle died of Bright's disease at his home in Greenville, 8. C., on Thursday. Joseph H. Earle, though opposed to Till-' man in State politics, stood for the new forces which overthrew the old Sonth' Carolina regime. He was practically chosen United States Senator in September of last year. Then Senatorial primaries were held throughout South Carolina and Earle carried the State by a majority of 10,000 over Governor Evans, who was actively championed by Tillman. Mr. Earle was formally elected Senator at the joint session of the two South Carolina houses on January 27, this year.. There was only one Bepublican in the General Assembly, Anderson, the sole colored man of the House. He voted for George W. Murray. All the other vptes in the two houses went for General Earle. : General Earle was thirty-nine years of age, married and a lawyer. His fellowcitiaens always spoke of him as the "fighting reformer." H0I30KEN LOSES NEARLY A "MILLION, Fire Destroys a Block and Makes Six Hundred Persons Homeless. The greatest fire in the history of Hoboken, N. J., raged all Thursday evening close to the river front and attracted thousands from all parts of New York City tp the North River piers to witness the spectacle, many going over the ferry to get a closer view. Tha block between Washington and Hudson streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth streets was destroyed. It consisted .of an immense storage warehouse and factory building and a row of fourtoen high class flat houses. The flying embers which filled the air carried the Are to the Hobokeif basins, half a mile north, and a number of canal boats moored there were destroyed. Before the great fire was under control not less than six hundred persons had been rendered homeless, fully a thousand thrown out of employment, and property valued at not far from a million dollars destroyed. New York anrl Railroad Franchises. Justice Beach, in Now York City, handed down a decision denying the injunctions asked to restrain the Eighth Avenue Railroad from changing .s motive power. In his opinion, the .T..stiee says, whatever option the city may mve: had "to purchaso the franchises Is outlawed. Tried to Wake His Head Mother. At Shreveport, La., Mrs. J. H. Clat&noff committed suicide by taking morphine after quarreling with her husband. She said he did not love her. She was good looking and twenty-three years old. Her three-year-old son found her dead, and putting his arms around her cried: "Wake up, mamma!" Fatal Gasoline Fzplosion. """** An explosion of gasoline in a St. Louis (Mo.) house caused the death of five per- , sons. Mrs. Mohr poured the fluid over the t wood in the stove to make the Are burn 1 [asiter. fl [ IN THE QUIET HOUES. ]. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE. WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. Love Will Perfect Sowing of Lljfht How Habit Grows-God's Presence Dwiredt?1,.. A Prayer-To Rebuke Sin Before tMK ' . Cross All Rewarding Love of Christ* V- *' 0 mighty Potter, to whose steadfast eyes < A thousand years lie open as one day. Thy patient hand set firm on life's grew ,'TL. wheel This heavy, shapeless clay. Rough and imperfect, yet it owns Thy 41 touch; Spare not. nor stay, the pressure of Thin* < handMake known Thy power; and, soon or late, ^ let love j Perfect what love hath planned. ' "'l L. H. Hammond, in Outlook. Sowing Light In Sorrow. God will not always be causing grief. He .% traverses the dull browu acres with HIS 1 plow, seaming the yielding earth that He .H may be able to cast in the precious grain. Believe that in days of sorrow He is sowing ? light for the righteous and gladness for the. upright in heart. Look forward to tho reaping. Anticipate the joy which,:* sot before you, and shall flood your heart with "fa minstrel notes when patience has had her perfect work. You will live to recognize ^sj the wisdom of God's choice for you. Yoa * will one day see that the thing yon wanted was only second best. You will be surprised to remember that you once nearly broke your heart and spilt the. wine of v? your "life for what would never have satisfied you if you had caught it, as the child the t butterfly or soap-bubble. You will meet again your belovod. You will have again' ' your love. Y'ou will become possessed of , depth of character, a breadth of sympathy. . fcj a fund of patience, an ability to understand r-7 and help others, which, as you lay them at , Christ's feet for Him to use. will make yoa ; Slad that you were afflicted. You will see rod's plan and purpose ; you will reap Hla K harvest: you wil! behold His face, and ba satisfied. Bev. F. B. Meyer. How Habit Grows and Strangle*. ' J Mr. Spurgeon says that he saw, while on m M visit to the gardens of Hampton Comt V j many trees almost entirely covred and ? well-nigh strangled by the huge coils of ivy. aVvAt?a fkam Ilka thn Vfl YV III CII Wt?ru HUUUU nu\j uw kucrn u?v .WW .png snakes about tbo unhappy Laocoon. There . 5 is no untwisting the foMs, they in their giant grip are fast Axed, and the rootlets of I the climbers are constantly sacking the life ;? of the trees. There was a day when the ivy was a tiny aspirant, only asking a little aid T in climbing; had it been denied, then the <. tree need not have become its victim, bob -?39| by degrees the humble weakling grew in >i strength and arrogance, and at last it assumed the mastery and became the destroyer. 1 Just tbo same with the beginning or sin ; the least little act of disobedience, it may be a lie, then another, then something else, and they become alarmingly frequent, ana v each time a little more wicked, until they gain the mastery over us, and overwhelm us. and at last drag our souls down to heiL "Every man Is tempted when be is drawn * away of his own lusts, and enticed. -Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth 1 - Ja forth death.'-C. W. Bibb. A Prayer for God's Presence. 0 Lord. I have come into my closet an4J *'J| shut the door, that I may be alone with thee; j. for a little. 0 wilt thoa meet me and give '>g?; me a sweet sense of thy presence, and let me know thou art near to hear the petition*.jS bring thee. I thank thee for thy love, so rich \ , and abounding, which yearns over me unceasingly. I thank thee for the tender syisKA pathy,which reaches down to ail the varyingy Jai circumstances of my dally life, In l"||lliWT^W| needed help and peace. I thank thee thqf^^H thou dost understand the desires and long- .j ings of my heart before I have ventured to!^H express them In words, and that sometimaa *0 IOUU UUBl ftUBWOI WIUIO X vau. ^IVOW my home and in the conduct of my family U duties. Bless the dear children thou hasC f given me, and lead them In unerring wan -: ? of obedience and love,and hold them in right V paths. May they love thee and count toe* * 4 as their best friend and strive to please thee >, in all they do. day by day. So may our en- k tire household rejoice in thee,and find it supreme joy to follow thee in ways praise and service for Christ's sake. Amen. A Prayer for the Spirit. Most holy Qod! let not the largeness of our sins and errors make us forget the large- ? ness of thy mercy; our great need the greatness of thy supply. Teach us to trust la ,.y?| thy love. Help us when we seem to be or- ,ijB0 phans in this world that grinds on with suek :*> sternness of unbroken law. Comfort us It -iSS in the midst of the vastness of thy kingdom ^ wo cannot help thinking we are forgottsa; cm if our poor cry seems unable to pierca- ,fB through the rolling majesty of thy worlds. In the hours of our pain J and passion and sorrow, in our lonely ?.# and forsaken days, let the Good Shepherd .'JB come unto us, for he knoweth his sheep by name. Forgive our sins, and let the beauty of the*Lord our God be upon us; such beauty 4 as wo can bear, not the burning beauty of V thy brightness and thy maiesty, for we are | all too weak and feeble forthat, but the gea-;JD tie beauty of thy holiness and purity. Hearg?fl our prayers through thy dear Sou. JesoS Chil t. Amen. Rebuke Sin by Righteousness. * *: We may not all be called upon to speak; we ore all called upon to be. You con shine, dug and by shining show how dark the darkness is. The obligation is laid upon us all; the : commandment still comes to entry christian >' which was given to the old prophet, "Declare unto My people their transgression,and to the house of Ja-'ol'their sin." W.-can all ? rebuke sin by our righteousness, and by oar 'Ig, shining reveal the darkness to itself. Wedo not walk as ciiildn-n- f the light unless we keep ourselves from all connivance with wotks of da-kness, and by all means at out ??3? disposal reprove and convict them. "Come out from among them, and be ye separata, and touch no unclean thing.saith the Lord. Alexander Maclfjrcn, Dj j[). , Before the Cross. 0, what a lead of struggle and distress 1J5 Fails off before the eross! The feverish ; The wish that we were other than we are,; The sick regrets, the yearnings numberless, ' The thought, "This might have been,'^o apt to press On the reluctant touljeven past despair, Past sin itself, all. all Is turned to fair, aJWl Aye. to a scnemo ol ordered nappiness, 80 60on as we love God, or, ratlier, know 1 hat God loves us! ?C. 11. Townsend. , J| Christ's All Pervading Love. \ The love of Jesus Christ is to be ssen In 7? that warm affection for him whicn leads the > tf-C faithful to wish that his soul may become 1 almost a part of that of Christ, and that thfl '-J< jiving principle in the Lord may be repro- ra duced in himself, not in the way of an eater- ::7"3 nai image but as an inward and divine in- jel spiration. This love is omnipotent, uniting i the creature with the Creator. Man.in fact, "jp rises continually from humanity to something divine when he is animated by this love, which is the sweetest of affections. j penetrates the soul, and causes the faithful '? to walk on earth, rapt as it were in the Vga spirit.?Savonarola. We know not, verily, that which Is laid up Jaj 'or us. There are such beautiful things >ut by. In God's house and in God's time