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LOUIS J. BB1STOW, Ed. & Prop'r^
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i ;British Reserves Called Out and Troops'
Hurrying to Chakdara.
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I' .15,000 NATIVES UNDER ARMS.
Trlbevme a Sending Forward Fresh Forces
Continually to Attack the Hated Englllh
i Intuited Queen Victoria?A Lucknow
Mohammedan Sent to Prl*on For
a Year? Feara For Garrison at Chakdara
Snrr.A, British India (By Cable).?In oonsequence
of the rapid spread of the revolt
In India, from 12,000 to 15,000 natives now
being under arms, the British Government
has ordered the reserve brigade to assemble
under the command of Colonel Wode.
house. The British regiments will await
vents at Rawalpindi and the native regi.
Bents at Mardan. The staff wU remain for
the present at Nowshera.
General Blood, with every available man,
has started for the relief of Fort Chakdara
The garrison baa been notified of his indention
by heliograph. Heavy fighting Is
fctoected at Amandara.
[ Tort Chakdara Is strong enough to resist
pay attack and had a good supply of am
fcnunitlon. The only fear is that toe gar-T
Boson may beoome exhausted by constant I
rTb? tribesmen are sending forward fresh
belays continually. The reconnoiterlng
otomn found the enemy In great force,
$. | [blocking the road to Chakdara.
, I In tbe fighting a hundred of the enemy
5,?\ nrere killed. The British lose is given as
g, V [fourteen wounded, Including Captain Bald"
Mb, severely wounded, and Lieutenant
JrThe enemy followed up the retiring ooljsmn
and attacked the camp in a half-heartled
manner, being easily repulsed by the
& (garrison. Colonel Beia, with large reinforoements,
has reached Camp Malakand.
jReinJoroements, with abundant supplies of
E$y" ammunition, also arrived at DargaL The
anarch was forced and rapid. Nineteen
88k jWkha died from sunstroke on the way.
f&yf 1 Msulvl Sldayat Bagoul, recently arrested
? v jat Lucknow on charge of Insulting Queen
JYIetoria and the British Government at a
{meeting of Mohammedans called to congratulate
the 8ultan on his victories over Greeoe,
Maulvi telling the assembly that "but for
By ikbe Saltan's forbearance the old woman's
ribs would have been broken years ago,"
has been sentenced to a year's imprison>
ment. The Government offered to accept.
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nurecras iot ma guou ixmaviur iu um w imprisonment,
bat heooald not produce them.
HUNDREDS SAW HIM KILLED.
A Wire rwftiim lUli Sweitj-Hw Feet
!>? m Bicycle.
"PtotMM Arian," twenty-eight year*
oM, a wire performer, while riding a bicycle
on a wire at Wheel's Bldgewood Park,
Queen* County, Mew York, rell to the
ground and received injuries from which he
died a few mtnutse later. The unfortunate
WantailaeTentjr-five feet, and his fall was
witnessed by nearly 9009 men women
gad children. "Axiom" was to hare given
nightly exhibitions for a week. His first
puforaanoe wassneoeesful. His fatal feat
. gas attempted daring the annual plcnlo of
Ihe Hcaslan Yolksfest at the park. At 9
m. the sseemMsge gathered about the
grounds 1* the park to witness the perilous
ride. Tlw wire is charged with electricity
npolled from the trolley linee.
. When "Alton" mounted the wire from a
email platform built about the top o' the
bole all eyes were upon him. Small incanpeeceai
lights were so arranged about his
,clothing and the wheel that they Illuminated
m soon as the electrical current was
touched. "/Won" was to ride 100 yards.
Be had gone about quarter of the distance
when he was seen to topple off the wheel,
mad both man and bicycle fell to the
ground. A scream went up from the women
jaad children as they saw "Arion'e" descent
jto death. I
! An examination showed that three ribs
pad the right leg were broken, and he sustained
internal injuries. "Irion's" right1
pame was Frank Donahue, and his home
was in Fort Wayne, Ind. He leaves a widow
and a three-year-old child.
? THE CROWING SOU I M.
llpWt of Industrie* IMsbltobed Durin*
tJfc? Imu'i Second Quarter.
A carefully prepared tabulated report of
^hc Industrie* established in the Sonth for
the second quarter of this year has been
-fasued fry the Tradesman. These were: Agrit'l
* Calxurai works, S; breweries, 2; brick and
jUie works, 9; canning factories, 9; oom'
jpmsMS aad gins, 68; cotton and woolen I
' *, mills, it; development and Improvement |
companies, 7; distilleries, 1; electrio light J
companies, 69; floor and gristmills, 40; |
foundries and machine shops, 17; gas plants,
6; ioe factories, 9; mines and quarries, 28; |
natural gas and oil companies, 8; oil mills,
31; phosphate and fertilizer companies, 8; 1
tanneries, 3; water works, 50; wood work- I
lag plants, 18. Under the head of miscel- I
ra?..' laneousare Included rice mills, soap factories,
sugar mills and refineries, etc., 62,
making the total number of industries for
Rfra quarter 6(7.
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: Seven Killed by a Tornado.
* A tornado struck S&h Jose, 111. The
ihousc of A. C. McDowell, two and a half
miles north of San Jose, was destroyed. ,
jBeven persons were killed. They were; A.
O. McDowell and his grandson, the wife of
foul Brownlee and three Brownlee children,
and Miss Jessie Grove?, a neighbor,
(who was spending the evening with the
[family. The storm came directly from the
tn/trth and ntterlv daatroved the McDowell i
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Killed In > Newspaper Offlce.
H. B. Owens, foreman of The State newspaper,
of Colnmbia, 8. 0., met with a fear*
lol accident In the engine room, from the
affects of which he died next day. He
fWas slipping a pump belt on when his feet
k flew from under him, and he fell head-first
into the fire-foot flywheel of the engine.
iHis arm and head went through and were i
crushed. His neck was dislocated.
Heavy Fighting Cp the Nile.
, The Egyptian Intelligence Department
has received word of heavy tribal fighting j
* lup the Nile between the Dervishes and the }
Jaalins. The Dervishes, under one of the
rnerals of the Khalifa, defeated the Jaalin3
a pitched battle, and occupied Motemneh.
|j? n Tne losses on both sides were very large.
. The Jaalins are said to have lost two thou-<
sand killed.
Spouts.
Removable strainers for discharge
spouts in wash basins, etc., rest on a |
Uange in the pipe and can only be pull- j
jed out when the pipe becomes clogged
thy means of a knob placed in the cen- !
Iter of the plate.
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IN THE QUIET HOUES.
PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS.
Cease Complaining?No Journey Without
Obstacles?Prayer for Increase of Faith
?Live More Simply?Joy Tempered by
Jesus' Spirit-God Speaks Gently.
Mortal, cease thy sad complaining,
That the years of life are w?niug,
Few and fewer still remaining,
Whether losing wealth or gaining,
'Mid the flowing of life's river.
Thank the great and glorious Giver,
That one blessing leaves us never?
Love is ours, ana ours forever!
Though the tenderest ties be broken,
' 'L *L.\ laai fo nf.tt'ul 1 Ko onAlfon
XUUU^U LUU icub laivnui v/v opvavU|
Still we tnow by many a token,
When our hearts are worn and weary,
And the world looks dark and dreary,
There'9 a being grander, clearer.
There's a friendship, sweeter, dearer.
Each swift moment brings them nearer.
?Charles E. Lindsley, D. D., In N. Y. Observer.
>'o Journey Without Obstacles.
There is not a single person who reads
these lines who has not had some bitter
cups pressed to their lips. No journey to
the heavenly Canaan is trodden without
some Marahs on the road. The power and
the glory of Christ's grace is in sweetening
the draught. I have often sat down txside
a child of God who had in her hand a bitter
cup of trial, but the sweet breath of Jesus
has turned the bitterness into such a blessing
that she tastes the love of Jesus in ever}
drop. Grand old Richard Baxter, after
a life of constant suffering, exclaimed. "0
my God, I thank Thee for a bodily discipline
of eight and fifty years!" That noble
and consecrated layman. Harlan Page
of New York, during his last illness uttered
these triumphant words: "A bed of pain
is a precious place when we have the presence
of Christ. God does not send one unnecessary
affliction. Lord, I thank Tbsfe for
suffering. I deserve it; let me not comSlain
or dictate. I commit myself to Thee,
Saviour, and "jo Thy infinite lovel I stop
my mouth and lie low beside Thee." So did
victorious grace build up that blood-redeemed
soul faster than disease was pjllii g
down the trail tenement in which it dwelt.
And through the rents which coming death
was making, heaven's glory shone in with
a rapturous radiance. These were splendid
testimonies. I earnestly hope that In many
chambers of sickness or houses of sorrow,
they may be like the bough from that tree
which Moses plucked and cast into Marah,
making the waters of bitterness Bweet to
thirsty drinkers. God knows best.?Theodore
L. Cuyler, D. D.
Prayer for Increase of Faith.
Lord, increase our faith and make it the
supreme fact in our life; raise us above all
doubt and fear and cause us so to trust in
thee through him who is the Living One
and the Giver of Life as to be independent
of all that is without. Boot us and ground
us in thy love; may thy word dwell in us
richly, an answer to every temptation, a
solace to every sorrow, an inspiration to
every good deed and work. We live by
sight too much; we are victims of our own
senses, and we are led away by our own
foolish sagacitv. O that we might live
henceforth in Christ only, abiding in him
as the branches in the vine?then should we
bring forth much fruit.'and our father would
be glorifled.Give us such views of life as Jesus
takes from his cross and from his throne;
save us from all the fallacy of appearances,
and deliver us from the deceit of our own
senses. Take down the veil which separates
011 r Ronl from the inmost and ersential
beauty, and may we see things as they are,
and rest patiently in the Lord. Our p.aver
is in the name of him who is himself the
pledge that all good things shall be freely
given unto us. Amen.
Live Mora Simply.
"A simpler mode of life is the crying need
of the present day. Men and women are
wearing themselves out with elaborate and
unnecessary formalities and are the slaves
of foolish customs from which they get no
real enjoyment." We hear talk like this
on all sides, but of what use is the talk
unless it is followed by action? We are ail
agreed that we ought to live tuore simply,
but we are all afraid to make any change
ourselves. We do this and have that, not
because we wish but because other people
expect it of us, until it seems as though
we were ordering our households wholly in
accordance with the views of others, and
very likely of those wt o really care nothing
for lis. Why not have the cqurage of
our convictions and live in the way which
will yield the best results? Is it simply
because we are afraid of being thought
peculiar, or do we, after all, really love the
cords that bind us? It is always difficult to
know how far we may break away from
established customs without injuring our
influence, but, until we are ready to make
some change, it is hardly worth while to
talk.
Joy Tempered by Jesus' Spirit.
Sunshine has its uses in making our religion
what It should be?a thing of brightness.
There is danger of making it too
cold and gloomy. God did not intend it to
be thus. It is a difficult matter, at any rate,
to luduce men to accept religion: and if
they are left under their impression that,
when they unite with the church, th?y are
going into the sunless and gloomy region of
an arctic land, it will make it ali the mote
difficult to induce them to choose the better
part. Let joy. brightness, geniality, tempered
by the spirit of Jesus, characterize
our religion; and these persons will lay
hold of it with earnestness. Let us make
use of sunshine everywhere. Do cares
come, let us go at them with sunshiny
hearts; they will soon melt away under its
power. If afflictions come, nothing will so
brighten the sick-bed as sunshine. Is the
home darkened by the shadow of death,
sunshine will lighten it. and show us the
golden stairway up which our departed i
have gone. Sunshine, sunshine every- |
where?in the world, in the home, in the
church. There is ioy and brightness in
heaven; why should it be wanting here??
Christian Begister.
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God Speaks Gently.
We are always inspired but we incessantly j
stifle the inspiration. God doos not cease I
to speak, but the noise of the creatures I
without and of our passions within con
fuses us aud prevents our bearing, we
must silence every creature, including self,
that in the deep stillness of the soul we may ,
perceive the inefTable voice of tho Bride- '
groom. We must lend an attentive ear, for i
His voice is soft and still and is only heard !
of those who hear nothing else. Ah! how <
rare it is to find a soul still enough to hear I
God speak!?Fenelon.
Nature's Perfect Harmony.
We see God in nature, and our heart 1
drinks peace from sky aud land. AninefTa- (
hie Wauty se^ms spn-ad over the scene; and
we wisi not wuai io suy ior language cannot
utter it. There arc days which aro like
a concert ar oratorio, when earth, air. trees,
sunshine, blue sky, grass, are all in the
same happy mood, all in tune together, no 1
discord to" jar the full harmony.?James
Freeman Clarke. ]
As thou hast made thy world without.
Make thou more fair my world within: ,
Shine through its lingering clouds of doubt, J
Rebuke its haunting shapes of sin;
Fill, brief or long, ruy granted spaa
Of life with love to thee and man;
Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest;
But 'at my last days be ray best!
?J G. Whittier. _ ,
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. * M'KINLEY VISITS VERMONT.
Crs.ck Cavalry Troops at Fort Ethan Alias
Give a Parade.
President and Mrs. McKlnley, Vioe-Presi<
dent and Mrs. Hobart, Secretary and Mrs,
Alger, Secretary and Mrs. Porter, Mfsi
Prances Alger, "Fred" Alger, Mrs. Bailey,
Secretary Alger's daughter; Charles B,
Pike, Miss AJger's fiance, and Mr. and Mrs,
J. H. Flagg comprised the Presidential
Jarty, which left the Hotel Champlain,
luff Point, N. Y., on the steamer Maquam
for Burlington, Yt.
The party was met by Troop E, of the
m?.u /->_ 1? I? r.nf.ln n?%/SH Thfl
troop escorted the party to the residence
of Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon. When
passing in front of the armory of Company
M, V. 8. N. G., a. Presidential salute was
fired, and the President acknowledged it.
The first gun was fired at Fort Ethan Allen
at twenty-five minutes to 4 p. m., announcing
the arrival of the Commander-inChief.
The President and Secretary went to the reviewing
stand, and the four troops of cavalry
were drawn up in squadron front on the
parade ground. Lieutenant Tate and the
colored guard went to the commanding
officer's quarters, where they received the
colors of the regiment. Mrs. Bailey presenting
them. The cavalry then gave an exhaustive
drill. Captain D odd's Boyal
Riders, Troop F, gave an exhibition of
daring work.
The party returned to Burlington on the
steamer Vermont, being escorted to the
boat by Troops F and D. In addition to
the Presidential party, the guests at
luncheon at Colonel Cannon's home were
Governor Grout, Edward J. Phelps, Mayor
H. 8. Reck, General T. 8. Beok, former
Collector 8malley and C. Kennedy. Burlington
was plentifully decorated for the
occasion.
FOR FARMS IN ALASKA.
Secretary Wilson on the Possible Ynkon
Agriculture.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural Department,
has been in Chicago.'oonfening
with a number of people interested in Alaska.
He said: '"T?
"I am greatly interested in the development
of Alaska. With the aid of three ex
perienced men, who are'now in the Ynkon
country, the Department of Agriculture is
making extensive investigations with a view
of learning the value of the agricultural
resouroes of the principal valleys, and it is
certain an experimental farm will be established
within a year near the junction of
the Yukon and Tanano Elvers, or In some
other favorable location."
He pledged himself to work for the project,
and he said Congress would appropriate
at least 915,000 for the purpose, and
there seemed to be no obstacle to the trial
for the experiment next spring.
Secretary Wilson favors the plan of sending
a colony of practical farmers to the
Yukon Valley as soon as possible to establish
farms and supply the miners with
g.-aLn, meats and vegetables.
500 PERSONS KILLED.
Towns Destroyed In the Kraption of the
TOICSBO aa/VHi
Fire hundred reported killed up to July
1 is the record of the terrible outbreak of
the great volcano of Ifayon, on the Island
of Luzon, one of the Philippine group.
On the night of June 34 this volcano began
throwing up ashes and lava in Immense
quantities. Flames slot over 100
feet above the crater.
The next day fifty-six bodice were recovered
at a considerable distanoe from the
volcano, and the most recent despatches to
Hong Kong up to July 8 say that not less
than 500 were known to be killed.
It is possible, say the despatches, that
the loss of life will reach into the thousands.
On Julv 8 lava streams and ashes
reached the cities of Baeaea, Malipol and
Liboh, and their destruction was certain.
Fifteen smaller towns between these and
the volcano had been destroyed, and scores
of the agricultural population had been
overwhelmed while attempting to escape.
FOUR GIRLS DROWNED.
They Were Members of a Camping Party
and Sank Out of Sight While Wading. '
Two women and two little girls, daughters
of Drominent Keokuk (Iowa) people.
were drowned In the Skunk Hirer, near
Pack Wood. Three of them were daughters |
of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Pample and the
other a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Adams, of Ioka. Two of the Pamples were
young women and the other thirteen years 1
old. Bessie Adams, the other victim, was
sight years old.. 1
They were members of a large camping
party which had been onting on the banks
of the Skunk Hirer for several days. The
four girls went in wading at a place which 1
appeared to be shallow. The other women
of the party, who were sitting on the bank,
saw all four disappear suddenly, and by the |
time the men had been summoned they had
sunk for the last time. The four bodies
were recovered and the funeral was held at <
Bock Creek.
Killed a Boy In Church.
At a colored church, four miles west of j
Svlacauga, Ala., a thirteen-year-old colored <
boy Was murdered. John Graham, a colored
man, returned to the neighborhood 1
after an absence of two years, much 1
changed in appearance. Daring services <
in the church the boy whispered to Gra- 1
ham; "You have been away so long that
you look like a toad frog." Graham drew <
i pistol and fired at the boy, killing him in- <
stantly. I
Whet.t Still Advancing.
September u heat made a new record on J
Ihe New York Produoe Exchange, reaching
eighty-six cents. The continued rise Is due ]
to the conviction that the United States t
must feed many millions In other coun
tries. Corn was" lower on bett er crop pros- ?
pects. i
Xanl Fete at Newport. I
Twenty thousand visitors saw the naval '
(cte at Newport, B. I. In the afternoon J
there was a parade of sailors and marines. <
in the evening beautifully Illuminated ,
boats wound around Ooat Island amid the ?
barking of cannon and the detonation of j
bombs. (
Senator Gorman May Retire.
It is said on high authority that United
States Senator Gorman, of Maryland, will 1
In a short time announce that he will not 1
be a candidate for ie-election, and that at i
the conclusion of his term he will retire 1
from politics. I
A Fierce Onslaught.
There are eighteen thousand applications
on file far the seventy-five positions 1
at the disposal of Congressional Librarian x'oung.
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No Postal Competition.
The Federal Government will not permit
competition with its postal business. The
Western Union Telegraph Company recent- *
[y established in Buffalo, N. Y., a local let- j
ter delivery at on 9 cent for each letter. ]
This meant a saving of one cent to the cus- j
tomers. The company received a peremp- )
tory order from Washington to abandon 1
that line of business.
New Coating For War Ships. ,
The Navy Department will Investigate
the product of the Utah mineral lands with t
reference to a new coating for the bottom >
of war ahigs. -i [
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FATAL FLOQnS Pf EUEOFB
Many Hundreds Drowned in Germany
and Austria.
ENORMOUS LOSS. OF PROPERTY.
The Dennbe Never Known to Be So Hlf'h
Before?A Port of Vienna Submerged
?Bodies of the Dead Floatlziff In the
Street, of Trantenan?Railroads Destroyed?Damage
Will Be Millions.
Bzblix, Germany (By Cable).?The re*
ports of the disastrous floods In Prussian
Silesia and Saxony received here have created
great consternation in Boriin, and
A V. ? A 4V/V ?aa?1a tn laa/SA ooof irtnfl f\t
DL1UW mat lUL' ptrupiO 1U Itu^o oovuvua VI.
tlwse territories are panic-stricken at the
appalling magnitude of the danger whioh
threatens them. The latest advices report
163 persona havo been drowned in 8Uesia
and Saxony, and that the damage to prop"
erty exceeded $3,000,000.
The King of Saxony, who was at the Pillnitz
Castle, was obliged to quit the place,
the waters having risen so high that the Inundation
of the castle was threatened.
Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor,
was to have returned to Berlin, but the stoppage
of railroad traffic by the floods prevented
his making the journey. The coal
mines at Bockau, Saxony, are flooded with
twelve metres of water.
The survivors of the floods in devastated
villages of Silesia and Saxony are suffering
untold misery. They are entirely destitute
of food and shelter. Princess Cqarlotte of
Saxe-tf elningen has issued an appeal for a
National subscription for the relief of the
sufferers.
Reports from many parts of the country
give the details of the great dam age done
by the floods. The valleys of the Elbe and
Oder Rivers have suffered terribly. Wash
ouis nave occurreu at rnauj piauos aiuu^
the Saxon Railway, and there was a complete
cessation of traffic on that line.
The Danube has overflowed its banks at
every point, doing Incalculable damage.
The town of Enns, at the junction of the
River Enns and the Danube, in UDper Austria,
is practically submerged. Upward of
200 houses are under water.
The bodies of twenty persons were recovered
at Trautenau, Bohemia, the river
Aupa having overflowed its banks and Inundated
a large part of the town. The
building occupied by the law courts at
Trautenau was undermined und its walls
collapsed. Three boxes containing 150,000
florins in money were stored in the building
and carried away by the flood.
The gates closing the entrance to the
Donau Canal, which traverses Vienna,
Austria, and which is really a branoh of
cne Danube, are submerged, a thing that
has never occurred before. There are several
feet of water in the lower parts of the
Jity.
The great floodgates whioh held baok
Lake Grundlsee gave way and an enormous
volume of water rushed into the gorge below,
flooding the town of Aussee. The
break occurred at a late hour, arid most of
the Inhabitants of the town were asleep.
Many of them had narrow escapes from
drowning.
Hallstadt Lake, in Upper Austria, has
overflowed, carrying a flood to Ischl, a
fashionable watering place. The Empress
la at Isohl, and bas Deen mucn aneciea uj
the distress caused by the floods.
A house in Marechenburg, whose foundations
had been undermined, collapsed, and
twenty persons were drowned. At Frelhelt
h house was carried away bodily by the
flood and seventeen persons perished.
The streets of Traatenau present a frightful
spectacle. Many oorpses can be seen
floating about the town. A cradle containing
a crying infant was discovered as it was
being carried away, and the child was rescued.
Many of the inhabitants oReichenborg
have lost their lives. The sp lendid publlo
grounds at Gmunden have been entirely destroyed.
The destruction of railroad embankments
and bridges has been enormous and unprecedented.
The Western Railway is the
worst sufferer. A large number of trains,
Including the Orient express, are blocked,
and it is impossible to say when trafflo can
be resumed.
The loss caused by the destruction of
mills and houses and the carrying awavoi
cattle and crops will be immense. The
total damage done will amount to many
millions of dollars.
LAYING SIEGE TO HAVANA.
Cuban Bands Rush In and Out of the
fUtv'a Suburbs.
An attempt made by the Spanish battalion
of San Quinttn to dislodge the Cubans
from their camps'among the hills of Man?gua,
some throe miles from the Havana
suburb of La Yivora, ended In the defeat of
the Spaniards. The insurgents, commanded
by Juan Delgado, occupied such advantageous
positions that the Spanish Are indieted
onto small losses upon them. The
Cubans had only two killed and very few
wounded, while the San Qu:mtln battalion
bad seventy killed and wounded. When
the foroes of San Qulntln saw that they
jould not attain their end thoy retreated to
the capital.
A military train coming to Havana with
:attleto provide meat for the capital, and
with horses for the Spanish army, was
reized by the insurgents bei;weon the stations
of Agn&cate and Baicoa. The cars
were burned, the horses wers taken by the
Cuban soldiers, and the cattle were sent )
to i:he Cuban stores.
Within sight of Jaruco, a f9w miles from
Havana, a Spanish column was defeated by
the Insurgents after several hours' fighting,
rhi Spaniards carried into the town sixty
3f their dead and ninety-two wounded,
imong whom were several officers.
One can hardly realize that it is possible
for the Cubans to do what they are now doing
near Havana. The insurg ents have been
ibJe to inflict all this evil upon the Spaniards
simply because tbey have received
some expeditions from trie United States
which safely landed in Havana provlnoe. t
rhey are now well provided with arms and I
in munition. Havana, practically, Is In a
)WW U1 OiC^u.
Li(htnln( PUjri on :| Town.
'iVo children were killed by lightning at
lobster City, Iowa, and the havoc that
lightning played within the city limits (or
almost an hour seems incredible. The violins
are Minnie Luppos, aged two, and
Carl Luppus, aged four.
American Contracts Capse Indignation.
English firms are indignant beoaose the
sontraets (or the traction plant o( the
London Central Railway have been given
to Americans.
Natives Detoatod In Gaxaland.
In a battle near Jhlmbatu, the capital o(
jraz&land, the Governor o( I'ortugueso East
Africa, Colonel Albuquerquo, with a small
Portuguese (orce, routed neven thousand
rebels. The Portuguese Ijssss were two
tilled and ten wounded. The natives lost
three hundred.
British Government Bnjs Onr Bails.
Lord Georg" Hamilton, L> reply to an Inquiry
in the Ho -."6 of Commons, said that
the Government bad bought 7708 tons of
talis from Amer. -a because the lowest
British hid was fci3;S75 lilgher than the
American. *****.
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Draws Comparison Between the Negroes
of Ante-BeUnm Times and Those of
the Present Generation.
I had not intended to write anything
more npon lynch law, but recent utterances
from the press and the pulpit
provoke me to say that the people of
Georgia do not deserve the condemnation
of friends or foes for their consent
to lynchings when the crime is
one that is nameless. Our people are
as humane and law-abiding today as
they were thirty, forty or fifty years
ago, and the records of the courts
prove it. In 1861 there were 216
white convicts in the penitentiary;
now there are but 196, and we have a
greater population. There is 50 per
cent less of felonies in Georgia than
in New York or Massachusetts, accord
mg to population. Of course, I mean
among the whites. Now set that down.
An Ohio paper has recently investigated
the record of that nameless crime
for the past ten years in that state and
gives the figures which show 321 cases,
and the negro criminals outnumber
the whites six to one in proportion
to population. In Georgia they outnumber
the whites sixty to one and it
is because of our scattered and unprotected
population in the rural districts.
Before the war that crime was
unknown and almost unheard of in the
south. I never heard of a case in
north Georgia. In 1852 I had occasion
to visit Cedar Bluff in Alabama and
my companion, Judge Underwood,
stopped the horse to show me a pile
of stones that was heaped up arouud
a dead and blasted tree. "Those
stones," said he, <(mark the place
where a negro brute was burned two
years ago and also mark the place
where he committed the crime and
then murdered his victim." That
was the only case that came to my
knowledge. During the war, when- in
hundreds of families the only protectors
of women and children were
negroes, net a deed of violence or a
betrayal of trust was heard of from
the Potomac to the Bio Grande; and
General Henry K. Jackson eloquently
said of them, "they deserve a monument
that would reach the stars."
How is it now? Nearly 3,000 colored
convicts in the chaingangs and less
than 200 whites, and the nameless
crime is committed by negroes somewhere
every day in the year. What is
the cause of this alarming degeneracy
of the negro? I heard a preacher sa^
the other day that lynching for this
crime or any other was the evidence of
a depraved and lawless publio sentiment.
He is mistaken. It is rather
the evidence of minds charged,perhaps
overcharged, with lave and respect for
wives and daughters, and no man who
has neither is a fit juror to try the
case. He is incapable of understanding
or appreciating the common peril
that, like a shadow, hangs over the
farmer's home, be it ever so humble.
Parental love is nearly all that these
neonle have to crive to their chil
dren and they give that and cherish
them and will defend them as a
tigress defends her whelps. What
is the majesty of the law worth to a
man whose child has fallen victim to a
brute? What is it to his neighbor who
all these years has been from time
to time apprehending a similar visitation?
What does a young man, whether
preacher or editor or lawyer, know
about it? Jean Ingelow (God bless
her sweet memory!) makes the old
fisherman to say: "I feel for mariners
of stormy nights and feel for wives
that watch ashore." Who knows the
perils of the deep like fishermen?
Some of those learned judges and lawyers
and preachers of Atlanta have
given vent to language that is bitter
and malignant against lynchings for
any crime, but it is to be noted that
they have long lived in call of the police
by night and by day, and within
brick walls and with neighbors at
hand on every side. What can they
know of the peril of the farmer whose
wife visits a neighbor, or whose children
have to go a mile away to school?
Perhaps some inquiring mind will
ask what do I know about it? Twenty
years ago I moved from the city to the
country and farmed there for ten
years, and all that time the apprehension
grew stronger and stronger, for
there were negroes all around me on
the farms, and more negroes not far
away working in the mines. I never
expressed my fears, not even to my
wife; but when our boys all left the
farm for other avocations, and I had to
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be away most 01 me ume, iuj *u? uccame
alarmed, and I immediately left
the farm and moved to town for security.
So did every neighbor that I
had, and our school was broken np
and the whole settlement abandoned
and turned over to negro tenants.
The sohoolhouse was a mile away, and
I used to look with parental eagerness
for the first appearance of the children's
hats as they rose into view over
the distant hill. Until then I never
realized the common peril that environs
the country people. I have a poor opinion
of opinions unless they come from
those who are competent to judge.
"Great men are not always wise,"
saith the scriptures. The nearer the
press is to the people, the country
people, the more ready it is to apologize,
or even to justify, the speedy execution
of this class of criminals. The
preachers and the press may fulminate
and the governor proclajjn, but I caa,
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not help rejoicing at every oaptOflfr '.; '<
and execution. The law's delay has
nothing to do with it. It is the spon- -;
taneoas outburst of emotions long felt
and long smothered, and those emotions
are based upon love?love for ?
home and wife and children, love and '
respect for the wives and daughters of j
the neighbors. Lynching negroes for m
this crime is no evidence of lawlessness
among our people. The crime
stands out by itself as an atroo- L.
ity for which no law is adequate and v
no remedy has yet been found. Why
it should be on the increase in defiance
of lynchings we cannot tell. It
may be that since the war northern .
philanthropy, supplemented by southern
office-seekers, have so exalted his
consequence and his desire for social
equality that his fear of punishment
has b'ien allayed. But certain it is 4
that the race has not yet been greatly
intimidated by lynchings, and thejjr
are considered martyrs by most of their
preachers and teachers and editors.
blow many more outrages tnere woma
be if lynchings should stop we cut
only conjecture. Bishop Turner proposed
a day of fasting and prayer for
the deliverance of his people from . J
these horrible lynching but not ft
word about the outrages that provokethem.
But it is curious and somewhat
amusing to read the different counts in $
this general bill of indictment against j
the people who resort to violence.
Some assert vehemently that there is ,'j
a defect in the law's machinery, and ^
some say not One preacher says that
98 per cent of those indited escape.
One more would come square up to
Judge Dooly's estimate when he said: *31
"Gentlemen of the jury, I charge yoa
that the ninety-nine guilty ones have
already escaped." One learned lawyer A-*<
says that Ryder would certainly have *y
been tried and convicted in September,
and doubtless been speedily executed.
Another says he would have
been sent to the asylum as a lunatic. ':">j
Judge Bleckley says the law needs no
reforming?that it is right now. lhe
Bar association have resolved that it .
does need reforming. One preacher . ^
quotes scripture that says "The
land must not be defiled with blood,"
but does not give the context that
says "innocent blood," and the fur- <*4
ther context that says "Deliver him
unto the hand of the avenger of blood ^
that he may die, and thine eyes shall -w
not pity him." Life for life, hand for
hand, etc. "Let them stone him with
stones," etc. It seems like a burlesqua
for any preacher to go to the old Mosiao v*fci
law for a text against summary pun- ,'
ishment of heinouq crimes. ,Tha
avenger of blood was on the warpath
all the time and even the man who unwittingly
killed his neighbor, not hat- -'f
ing him before hand, had to fiy for hia
life to the city of refuge lest the aven- k J.
ger of blood overtake him, and being v
hot shall slay him. Tes, being hot
shall slay him. Those avengers of blood '
must have been blood-thirsty fellows " V|S
indeed. It was an awful code of law, -( 'J
du* me cnuuren 01 xsraei were an ?wfult
race to deal with. I wonder what $?
the boys of this generation would
say to a law like this: "If ,
a man have a stubborn and rebellions
son who will hot obey the
voice of his father or his mother, then
shall his father lay hold on him and g
bring him to the elders and say, this,
our son, will not obey our voice. And - ja
all the men of the city shall stone - |S
with stones that he die. And Israel
shall hear and fear?" What a horrible , ^
death was that! And yet it was a common
and a frequent punishment. If ftS
I was a preacher I wouldn't go to the
Old Testament for a text against lynch- 'rsfl
ing. I wouldn't even qnote Cain, '
whom the Lord marked, for it seems r
very certain that if the Lord had nofc M
interfered the people would have
lynched him. Josephus says that the
Lord protected him because of his A
offering and because he entreated and
said: "Is my sin too great to be forgiven?"
To my mind the sum of the whole
matter is that neither the law's delay
nor its uncertainty has anything to do
with the impulses and emotions that \;
control men when they pursue and 1}
overtake and identify and execute a
negro for his crime against helpless - A
innocence. Every parent and bus
band And brother in the neighborhood
immediately becomes an avenger of
blood. If the brute has already been
caught by the officers of the law and
securely placed in prison, then let him
stay there and meet his doom accord- f
ing to la^f. I would not take any ?
prisoner ^way from an honest and
faithful sheriff-?unless, perhaps, the
victim ^as one of my family, nor even ?
then unless it could be done without
shedding the blood of officers or.
inenas. - ?_
For all other crimes the laws we'
have are good enough for all good citi- i
Zeus, and I feel no great concern for
the bad. I suppose that at least half w.
the lawyers carry concealed weaponv 1
but they don't carry them for m?r 138L
Certain it is I want no advice on thift .j-j
subject from press or pulpit, fro? frjl
judges or lawyers, and especially from
young unmarried men or those who
live in rock-built cities. I had rather
hear and heed the voice of the women
of this southern land, the mothers and j
daughters who alone are the victims &
when peril comes, if it comes at' all.What
do they say??Bmi. Akp in Atlanta
Constitution.
A Sanitary Register.
Paris is making a sanitary record of Wm
every building in the city. Since the
ginning, in March, 1894. 35,000 houses
have be?*n described and it is expected,
that the register will be completed by;
1900. It contains for each house a de- '
scription of the drains, cesspools and. - /J
wells and of the plumbing; a record of . /\
whatever deaths from contagious d%
ease have occurred in it, and of ail disinfections
and analyses of water, diet ;
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