The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, April 25, 1906, Image 3

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fARTKIQUAKE Have LeftTair City Hopeles LOSS BEYOND COMPUTING Streeti of Ruined Cit; ce&ne o; Great Activity All Day Sunday by Plumbers. Electricians and La borers Engaged in Clearing Debris. . San Fram-isco. :'.Te ra e.-thquake that wrcd (th chy ! uta v-v-, htkn th e m; -s a k t4 e wat er1 wiorks :nd tartn' tine that burned I-I practicalily the e-ntirre ity. has h-rt ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~, a, tri fmsr n oaion I hat ea:iot yet b:: 'ully estimIed I is e!Xte' 1nd maginhil. Eugeetvk!s estimaitr !b1wab.-o 2,000 and the property los I melpt. suspte of attempt r th-e mim, wevc killed by Stel clerki wee rescued e wrect' the p~ostilce bmi- 'e were taken from lodgiing honite and 50 ght. greatest aLner semed Jile. blit Ihe promfpt re Vhol( ctlitrv have I food to relieve the rs of diiVress n ilm t day a Busy Day. 1Iot bCen for th tlant of Itars set up in I.e open air r San Fwrancico's lomeless ds were cam(Iped. one would Qd OC (soe itlnity in tinlding tIhe. peaetutil aociations of bath in thi ci y. Ekverywh(te lout the biurned I., xwell a- the :g section of the rity there (xreatest activity. Streets nl ileared of debris, laborers In- earn water pipes. sew vrs a gas miIlilS-. L'IO LId l. n eVery w her were sek'in lt ntangle the ,-fiorT ot' wV- i aet. San V-ra. isisw w;... inl :im "*r-t sa eo ie10 'Ir -;.' reenrain T unt Spectre of a-L:1Xnion hM. twc'n haibslied by i he mnazin ieelt re ,fins, oft the peoniI of 'aliforilla Iin Iaticabr.~h andt by the e:;urF' naaon m~ emrI t) the app'eal.s ha t wvent out Overwhelrted With Food. F'od byV the earI boal1 and boait loadi ttoured into Oaklan~l m~ole. th.at the -kiiledi labor in hanidline. of these sun plies. Grocers. butu-hers antd et-m iin :nen~ ICI have been.' r'equtestod to headliiing of foodstuffs in orer'l that he distribution at rte sourl(ces of stat tion9 established mtay. go0 on withott ub'ie to~ suss upon bred and eani m~tt stti ('nt irely, as t hey. had been .h1:ring P~ pevioull t1::y5 '' their try in eg;,riente, bmn vWert given ho) 'offeeP ad e(mn- 1: ent-(a - anId ('ee r:akf- and' ttrange2S h11.: colme inl pileri IT1J5Ip~ly ing~l sintherll ( alifornua 26 Miles Burned. & Th'. A el'ated -- erena I fis~n'la v elt d uI- enture area Sustains Defendant. Aknm. 0.. SpeeldI.- -The (ircuit tturt in theV oluser cases agaifli the MaIttual Life and the Newx York Life tir.su!ranice Companies 5tsslinedt the motions of the def'eant., to have the State ma:ke its petitio m01ore.tt definite Thfe hearling,~ were' 'ont linued and no0 <a(~EP' ji)inerl to tatke d1epositionls wa Southern Wholesale Grocers. Jackson:ville. Fla.. Special-The oen'Itionl of the Southern W~holesale Grocers' Associationl met here. Cap ain 'C. E. Giarner'. president oft the .iacksonville board of trade. repre anftingt Mayor Nodi lij and. F. Bow i, president ofthe Jac Iiksonv'ille ?vered address'es 1 of weome to which pon~r'sded.X Pridnn Hoo-se den~~ai1 I:sane Asylum Demolished. LOS Anzeles. Ci.. Special.-NeCws '-ve, the Southern l'acitie wires fromT Ni b ltirmis thet reCporlt that the in sane asylumii at Attnlews, was dimol 'shed. and~t further states that almost every .:.tone or brick building in San .!sI' w:1 Pithier badly; diamagedt or tr:wrecked. It is not1 knowvn "7 Ose. but evidently somec loss lhas Bwe Property to Get Insurance. S-, :' nburg. S. C .. Speia.-So - Sease has retcetived tlga Pl'jytVoler' GenCerall .Jontes ask - State at. the pre':llill.1y ;tar'lle. tof a negtro c'harizei hung of his stor'e. [The nu'a-1124 by a de(tectivje. who ha~s nu may negroe POred buirni K :r~ e'I l' d'er tat obtami AD FAM of Sari Francisco In s Ruins i- i l v Pi I 1 ,;t1(1117t l* A 1t - 4. bu r-,i nn e .i 1 ,!e. Th 1rnm 1 le u . :e trea 4'! ciw : reIm co ' - i t-d by th mvarkiz f a eyelotet i- I)6 de- and' comp?~ises the entiire 1 b'-ir'-. di'.trict and I large setion ht of the I'Ili r idec dlistrict. allI ot' which l. rtat'ed by c un tetent mn..nrance aut hc r ilils t iat the l -s will aggregate $.30).- a 00.000,0 and on this vast aiouti of prope rty the insurttanlce companlieis ear- t iel alir xinnatcly 717>.000,000 in The Homeless Gared For. \li mnr 'f tempi1)orary shelters l have bee de' ivised for the 1outsanids of le. familiez. so that now compartively few arO eompelled to seep wit hout some kind of shelter. The health of the people is better tha n was at first expected. . An interesting iten fron the Goi den Gate Park distrit Sundayv was the report of the birth of eighteen babes. Thtese cases have received pomifpt andl culicient attention and thie imothers and children removed11 te the various materiity hospitals. Already Consult Architetcts. San Francisco. Special.-Manty of the most substaitial business nen anl property owiers of San Francis co already are in consultationi with the architeets. It is understood that .ames 1). Phelan will be one of the iirst to rebuild on Market street. His plans call for a tine structure at Market and O'Farre! streets. Prae ile:llv cv -rv bank in Sani Franiciseio will be rebuilt. All of these ilsit 1iion a4 has Easter connections and miny of thema are affiliated with for eign banks. Owing to the great pros l)rity oi Santi Frainiseo. the local in it u ions almoc!'st witloit exceptiol ive Iarge deposits to their credit in New Yo.k and Euiropeani capitans. 1Th is t ne will bie available at once a11d after the strain of the moment las been relievecd building operations nx ill bel-in. P. W. Lilienthai. presi c dent of the ,A.nglo-California bank, :ad: "Now is the time for every man to pu h i. Shouider to t he wheel to bild up 1: new Cty. There is -oin to he a new ity and I an goi g to Io all I ean to make i the greatest c it la th. world. It will inean work iad lot- of it. but the people of San F rniscio are equal to the task.' Strain Causing Insanity. blc e tan of the last few days is be ining 1') tell oni t he pedlple. fTe ectiton' hias c.omte ande~ sus.pense over mi1(ing reaives and friends is eaus inn" ill'ess and in somte eases mnsan tf At Centrai avetnue and Oak s reet a n an became intstine antd at tempted to kill his wife with a elever. He had to be a1rrested to prevent him from injut.tlrintz himttel f and fam oi -. Million More From Congress. Washintgten. Special.-\An addition at aPproiattion i t ot (cie m'd~iion dol lars for thi suffie rers ofi Sian Franetis e anid min-r California cities was thet d isticti:.- teaiture of the leuyisat on enacted t' the IH'une. A mtessane frmth Ii' rt-idlettd let er fromf ci -e fr lt et cion ot th le commtit-fl 1 aeoni apprpria~tionst in r'epurtott ani miount ofI lederali aid toc two mtillions i lan taringu~ a genera n1 nqui 'v a stol I he mxanner in which the mtontey wonld ht epeld thte resolutin passed ~ wihu ieate. Telegraphic Briefs The athraeite mint:e operatocrs made public their rely to the reques5t of t he miners for arbitrat io n. stating that their attitude~ was in nto wise< ehtaged. bitt iavuiding a point blankr tejetiotn of arbitration. Ifed the str eets. oj Wiidbcr. Pat., atndt the town wxas unit. The spec i grm jury which is to investiaate the i mrile lyncihin~g at Sprigtield. Mo. was conivened and ctarged by tihe 'ourt. Thei Corn on Pletas Court at ('in iiinti dlecided thei State Senate had no authority to investigate p)ublic of [iee. int1 Haiiu' country'.. The Uit cl Staits -DI istrtiet 'ourtt of *'m.as C'i it '. hlo. dentied the plea ofi imutyt tiled by railro ads a'cns ed of viohaitng the Elkins lawx. Cvtoni M cMichaiel. ex-pVst matst er of Piiiad ilphin. andi well kntownt in hat cit. died suddleet.x- . gedi (i The Initerniatilonal exeenive boardl ditnnlis authorized thle WVest Vir~ 'tini 'minen~I toegoltitie ont the bi Thei t rial ci ( ongressmtani E. Spent a-. Blackburn,. of North Carolina. ont chir-s of ;ra't icing before G overnl mem 'li depann ts atnid rneeiing ees i-refor b)egan 1 t Greenttsborto. N. C. i-uett Halnxey, of Wilinttotn. 1I). . - undte - arrest at Newp '-rt News Near-by Cities Share Fate. Sta Francisco, Sp eciat.-Repot fro eities neatr San Francisco showv that the (lestruct ion wats genertal. Santa Rosa. (6 a e m iteirthi. is in latmes and thle dlamatre is over a mil ion dollars. The loss cof life is ntc knwn At N apa fmtny butiling w er shtnored ad thle loss wiii ant nto $300t.0t00. No los~ cfit is~] pre'1luca. .\t \Vellejo' the damageti~ wasi b txxin.~ -tpison~t' wxinu that suf - 1,009,000 FOR RELI ppropriation For Suffering an; Homeless in California Cities i Made by Joint Resolution. W : hheN . S !-he lot.*i Vrniete l1) . I 44-Llo t .I) rh 1::landee !lnie i.; Sl el'nw n1d t ' i t . . :!cs(l Tl(n the' h-lrrie(i to lfe Selate ane tariel tile yitterioe'i y *I. Lt11V3Un' i 11m se.rc pw1x er I cioll-t*rat wlgtil [re wa; at tae1lit(i at (inve to tha ePaslre .e1id it was -lShed to 014 Eltte .1")1 1,1 ho C-P e id n '. s i inre al trine rel tliee r13Pesoien i c lete rtied o heiseat na. Horrible Facts The National House of Repre sentatives has voted usheOh relief of sufferers, to be expend ed under the direction of the Secretary of War. The San Francisco mint, con taining $300,000,000 in coin and bullion, was saved only after heroic efort. Building is the only structure of like size that remains standing in the city. Americans in London are to meet Soon for the purpose of subscribing to the releif fund which is now being collected to provide temporary quarters for the destitute. The total number of dead in all the California cities visited by the castastrophe will probably reach 3,000, and the improvished hospitals are unable to care for the injured. If food suplies do not arrive from outside within a few hours starvation will add many victims to the tlready horrible death list of the earthquake and flames. City of Santa Rosa destroyed: 10,000 homeless; not a business building left standing. General Funson, in a dispatch to the War Department says that 200,000 are without homes in San Francisco and too many tents and supplies cannot be sent. Firemen who go to San Fran cisco are returned to their homes being unable -;o render any assis tance on account of lack of water. The heads of many families are forced by officers and firemen to stand by and see their proper ty go up in flames, and often times loved or.es burned to death. Panic stricken residents of several cities are leaving in large numbers. New York Helps. New York. Special.-New Yor >ontaneously respo ndled to the al eal for help)SO set out on behalf I e suferers in the Cealifornia disa: n.More thani haltf a million dlollii as sub~scribed here. Mayuur M< 'lellan issued a proclamlationt al ointingl. a rep~resnta1.ive (commflit tee ( elief. liTe Pennisylvaia and Ei alroads and W\ells Far12(o Comnpn ret oiffered to ship sPphie *fre barge. The Westr Union41 Tel ra ph Company willI handile all vol it essages at tihe companII s expenls The big subscripti:on list was hem' by .John D). Hoeefeler wit hi ntrIution of $1 00.000. The I ni Railvar Investmient Compan. 0: M. Guggenheim 544;ns cont ribute 30.000: the Ca rnegie hero, fund an .P. Morgan & Co. $25.000. Help yrom Atlanta. Atlanta. Ga., Special.-A speci neeting of AtlartIa' city connell m1 w orized tihe apl 1roprialion11 ( of i.,. ir le relief of the sufferers by t.I hisaster at San Frnueiscot. TI lot was immtediately t,~rantsmtaI ty telegraph te MaIyior Schait z,1 e government appro1priation1 hi)C he frst to reaebi thle strieken ei; uthserition lists have been opene I tlt offiees of thle daily papers her' The Death List. C'hief of Poliec' Dian said that 2: VOn:d hily c~4oe theO number et' had. About 50 bodies have thus 1: (en found4. TherVe waJs cons3iderab) heeotig of ]ooters. hut -the offtende1 'saed with1 woundlsl. $50,000 For Relief Fund. New York, Special.-M. (;ngia Iimis Sons-.,eo4pper no~ rnlates. Thur ny mrningi~ wired s511.000~ tee an Ia ai'. (al.. bank with instruclt ions1 laeit at the dkirposal orI Gener News Items. lttobille triansporltat ion compan11t t is he4 intetioni of the compiianly ovie attomolbiles, whlich will totc hel it -mdl viclfi icto the benle The~~ fall of ashles inl Naples fre f oult \7esurvius was wVorse Frid: an at arty time siine the4 erupta Northern Educators Meet. 'di ammal' onv en~ltion here. It w n-, whr Presid41t Te \e. Hart lyi -r - hisnunl addeitl . Th um ie l:J!arLge and14 i:nelnde nun nut cn teductos ro vri W0RK Of FLAMES 11 Beautiful and Populous City Is Now a Desolate Waste STARVATION NOW TlREATENED Metropolis of the Pacifi Coast is Reduced to a Vast Waste of Smok ing Ruins-No Such Dcso.ticn Ever Before Seen on This Conti nent. Sani Franciscoe. Sp~eial --San1 Frncso"., dlarkest hourt hasI. fawne"d into1( :1 1aV !* ofhop. Its time of over -whI(htingi disaster and eil ! has end( ed :n it fmlure is now ;! s'u.Ijee of - norac l.nidh-rationl. The fin- is practically Iunder coll troL. A clear sky over lie .lission distrilt. shows that the fire there has been extinguished. The spread of the fiamties toward the westeni additioi, the best pIt .of tile city reiaininig, has been ty1 e,4 and he only por tion of the eillagratioii that de mands1( tis f-i attenii,,in if the tiremen i- t1at exiendin-t froimi the Nlb 1Hll .et ion1 io-vi to the no0rt1hwestern part of the water front. The western addition dainer w:as averted at 2.,0 oclok saturday morilin )v the use of gun coton, dynamiw and two streanrz of water. The explosives Were handled by the chief gunner of the Mtre Islandi navy yard an1d his accmplishments proved him io be a master of his profession. Menace of ]Famine. Possibility of famine is already pre senting its hideous face. At best the city never carried more thaii threr days' supply of provisions and food, and now. with the wholesale districts and warehouses wiped out there is already a shortage of food. Prices were in most instances more than trebled. An Asociated Press man was obliged to pay 25 cents for a snall glass of mineral water in the Haves Valley district. The half of the eitv that has beei laid -waste aiid rot a drop of water is to be had there except hottled mineral water. President Sends Message. Washington. Special. - President Roosevelt manifested profoud inter est in the news of the earthquake at San 'raneisco. He sent tie following dispatch to AMayor Sshmitz: "I share with all our people the 1orror --'lt at the eastarelhe thlt has befIlen San Franci.e and the most ea:nest sympathy with your eit izens. If there is anything that the Federal _--overnmelit caii (10 -, aid -.ou it will be done." Hie al:so sent the following~ to Gov ernior Pardee: "It was dlilicult at first t) eredit lie news of the calamity t hat has be fellen Sani Franceisco. I fell the great cil ie conlicrn aiid svmpathy for' vou and tihe people not only of Sain Fran cisco but of California in this ter' k rible disaster. You will let me know it there is anyvthing that the nation t l* 4Wovernmen~t can do."' Pres.ident Roosevelt at night re ceivedl a telegram f. a Governor Par dee of Californiia, readling as follows: Ov in g to thle intervenition of tele ~raphic communiiication,. thle e'xtent. of the disast';er in San Fianeisco is iiot weldl kniowni here but no doubt the en lamiity is very serious. P ~eophe of Cal 1Or11 la)ppreciaite Viu 'Hi ro eillyt in cIuir and otfer of as5itanlce. State troops- doing patroil ditty and if Fed - mrl aissistalne is n~eedied will. callI on v ou. Respor.ses Universal. -With great unanitmity all the eit -ies of: the country, large and small. Sare coming to thei rescel eef the strick a en sectionl. Minit Almost Unscathed. 1The Inited States mint escaped al -. most unseathed en account of its isolated environiment and its peculiar ~fireproof const ruction, biut thle fore of sending power of the eathlquake could be seen in the cracked walls of the new postoffiee on Seventh andi~ Mission streets. aind grounid had sun1k df~or several feet. Marks Complete Ruin. \ll efforts to check the spread of the flames at Vatn Ncss avenue by' blowinig up a mile of buildings on the east side of.Van Ness avenue prov\ed fruitless. The tire has spread ac'ross he broad thor-oughifare and from present indiciat ions thle entire wvest erni addiltion, which contains the - homes of San Francisco's wealthiest class, is now dloomed. The destrue -tion of thec western addition of the 0city comnpletes the work of the ravag ling flames and mariks the devr.stationi of the entire city. A Veritable Hell. iSan Fra ncisco. Special .--Flee'ing inhaitan ea see from miles aroundic .the pillatr of lie towering skywvard. 0 |The crash of fallin': run and the r muntlied reports of e:xplodilngt dynia i mitet reach the ear ait irular inte vals. A disasteri that staggers5 com m1 p.rehnioniu. and in point of t(errO1 V :1nd( damagiie. tiuprceelted on ' in cia'st . ha:s noct yet reached its cuilmi Day of Uneven Struggle. Thursday ha.- been anlot her day of *-uee -strugtgle ofI man : nst a - .' i1reen t liit the constlg::, . heen. nea!:i'2 reced and that wh' u ay . awns th- rn ilh-ecm THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM!.tENTS Cit2 'APRIL 20 i. : - Ir.,ralt I t' tho Sower. .1a rt i V.. I .1- 10-own Teat. Lit:e viii.. t I!o- n. mor Y Verr- . -t.-T l e:1 :zit* fro I-M!rnt a1 aV rI Iret. flhrVou191 all the vw of *li. "Th1.' sd. Th'' ":. of' lie. Go nm1litu1e. Th" l'aiees had hc.nt laboring by b lase! va111lumies tn drve the prop' :nvy from .l1eUs., but they still tiinked *i.'tr 1Hii :as' much as ever. Ch'rist wiill b -. riied in spi te of :111 opposition: 11" vill b 1 followed. "A shin." .1'us ' t in a h04:1t whiehl had len prepari41 ftor Hlim. "In1 the sea." The lboat as- in the se. "On the land." Th1e muilitiltu1- stood onl tie shore. 2. "Taught-bly parables." A par ablh is inl allegorical relation or rep resentation oif soimething real in life or nature,' froml1 which a moral is drawn for instructiot. Christ's par able~s are a comnparison of spiritual thins with natural in order that the spiritual things may he better under stood. *In Hi s doctrine." That is, In His teachiug. ::. "Behold--a sower." The animated introduction gives plau5 ibility to the view that our Lord point ed to scone distant sower in sight seat. lering his seed. 4. "The way side." There are four kinds of ground men tioned. The first is the wayside where no plow had broken it up. 5. "Stony ground." Luke says. "up on a rock." The rocks of Palestine and Syria are mostly limestones. with many flat stretches, covered with an inch or so of soil. This is the second kind of -round. "Sprang up." A thin surface of soil above a shelf of rock is like a hotbed; the stone keeps the heat and stimulates the growth. Dur ing the rainy season in Palestine the growth would be rapid. G. "Withered away." Luke says "it lacked moist ure." The hot sun dried up the meist' ure and scorched the grain. 7. "Amoni thorns." The third kind of soil was good, and thcre was hope of a harvest, but the ground was filled with pernic ions seeds. Thorny shrubs and plants abound in Palestine. 8. "Good ground." The fourth kind of soil was rich and well prepared. "Some au. hundred." This represents the highesi degree of faithfulness. II. Why Christ taught in parab!c (vs. 9-12). 9. "Hath nars," etc. This usually follows :an important statement inti mating that he who has the discern ment to understand will find the deeper meaniig. 1f. "Wien--alone." Either this explanation to the disciples w'as made ]a rer. or lie withdrew a short dis tance from the multitudeso :s to be alone. Christ evid ently spoke further to the people on thik .einO lay. 11. "Unto 'you." To you. disciples. who inquire, and sec-k to know the truth: to you who are "within" in con trast to those who -.re "without." "T know the mystery." The true disciple has at knowlerdge of the "mystery of godliness"--the mystery of the atone' ment and the great plan of salvation, including repentance, faith. conversion. 12. "That seeing," etc. See Isa. 6:1). He (lid not spe-ak in parables because HeI did nlo. wish them to know the truth and Geo the light. but because they were in darkness and closed their eyes to the light. IIL. The pnrable of the sower ex plained (i's. 13-.20). 13.' "Know ye not." etc. Jes;us now proceeds to ar-~ swer the second question (see note on v. 10). 14. "The sower." Consider the sower, the .eed, the soil. J. Who ever preacheth the word of God to the pecople is rae sower: Jesus Christ. the apostles, every true minister of the gospel, all whose holy example illus tates and impresses gospel truths. "Soweth the word.'- 2. "The seed is the w, d of God" (Luke 2:11). The soil is the heart of man. The seed can not grow without soil; but the life is in the seed,. not in the soil. The re sults. however, dependl largely upon the kind of soil in which the seed is sown. 15. "By the way side." The four kinds ef soil r'epresep)t four classes of. individuals. Th'e wayside hearers are those who do not understand be cause they do not pay proper atten tion. Sin has hardened the heart. Evil habits, profanity, unclean thoughts have tramped it solid. "Word is sown." In each case the seed was good. "Have heard." All hear; God seaks to ev'ery person; all -might heed and become fruit-bearing Christians if they would. "Satan cometh." Mat .thex" says "the wicked one," and Luke says "the devil." 17. "Have no root." He did not count the cost (Luke 14:25-33). His emotions were touched, but his souJ was not deeply convinced of its right cousness. "Endure but for' a time.' While everything goes smoothly and they ar'e surrounded by good influ enees' 18. "Among thorns." The soil wau good. but was pr'eoe('upied. The thorny ground hearers go far'ther than either of those mentioned in the former in stances. They had root in themselves and were able to endure the tribula t ions. persecutions an ld temptations that camne upon them; but still they al lowed other things to cause them tc become uni'ruitful. 20. "G;oodl ground.' Good and lion est hearts. "Br'ing fortii fruit." Whc bring fort'a fruit to perfection? 1 Those who'-have heard and received the word. 2. Those who "keep it" (Luke 8:15); that is. obey the truth. 3. Those who have pure hearts (Acts 15:9) hearts made free from siln jRom., 6:22). 4. Thiose who bring forth fruit "with patienics" (Luke S:13j. Chalk Made His Mark. Edwin Chalk, a farmer living near Wakeeney, is entitled to a good bertth le~icr the Roosevelt administration. He is the father of nineteen childre: and has~ twenty-inei grandchildren. Moreover, he was a rough rider for twenty y-ears, having spent that mu'an ime en the ocean. For five years he was in the British navy. Whet Scivil wtar b'oke out he was or - Bri's n attXeship The Ocean, at ion'g Kong:. Hie esorted and ('nlist ed in thce Ameri:mn rnavy, takinga job on a United States gunb'oat the. in Hong Kong. After the war was over he became1tW a sailor on a merchnant he s e c:ne' to K:asas and4 s(.tic ::pon a farm. .G1 of his eY .:lruon bmt four still live ia ii,.si, antd most o! them have .good farms.--Kanlsas Ci> The mack c. 1a.eIe has Deel practical v :ine ir 'Nenrumdant tHiISI N MDA O NOTES 41 APRIL TWENTY-NINTH. Home M;ssions Among Foreigners in America.-Eph. 2:13-19. Whuoever thinks of any man '-far off' is not n :ar to Christ. Whate-r wall separates men whCther of intellcutual or social caste. nmoney or rank or fashion-is unchris tian. All separation is potenLial war. but Christ is the Prince of Peace. The Christian ideal is that of the household, and the larger the Chris tian, the larger is the family of his interests and affections. Suggestions. The American ideal Is incorporation -one body-each for all and all for each. like hands and feet and eyes. The only prosperity or foreign mis sions is home missions. Home mis sions are the fulcrum on which the lever of foreign missions moves. In helping the foreigners now in America we are probably merely re paying the help given to our own im migrant ancestors. I Our cities rule America and the for eigners rule the cities. New England is now made up of fif ty different nationalities. Every year about one million im migrants enter our country. Said an Italian in New York not long ago: "Americans are not a race; they are just a society of different races, and I have a right to join them too." Six Arabic newspapers are published in New York by Syrians. Our Foreign-Born Americans. It is a great mistake to class any body of foreign immigrants as "un desirable." Most of them have been oppressed for ages, but all have valu able qualities to contribute to our civilization. Few immigrants have any idea of free institutions. Recently a party of gypsies, detained at the immigrant station on Ellis Island. were frenzied with fear for their children, who had been removed to a hospital because they had measles. They had heard that the authorities would drown the children, and were only quieted when a deputation of mothers was allowed to go and see that all was well. EOTH [[AUOLE[[SS[ NS SUNDAY, APRIL 29. City Evangelization.-Deut. S. 10-1S; Ezek. 27. 28. Do we believe the city can be saved? Is the gospel really within reach of these thronging multitudes, not as a theory, but as a living fact? Can we hope to enthrone our Christ over all the busy life and work of tne town? Can its commerce be brought Into subjection to him? Can its social life be made Christian in spirit? Do we know what methods are needed to bring about the results that are re quired of us? Can we adapt ourselves to the infinite variety of conditions which exist in the cities? Have we the resources with which to meet the de mand for workers, and for money to carry on the works? Have we men and women who are fitted to do the work and willing to attempt it? Have we tne means with waich to support them? To every one of these questions the only possible Christian answer is,' ''Yes:" Other answer is confession of failure, not in the cities only, but everywhere. For we have preached Christ as the answer to the deepest human need; but the deepest human need to-day is found in New York and Chicago and Canton and Pekmng, and all the other centers where flumanity is massed in multitudes. 'i e world's cities must become like the city which John saw in his vision, or Christianity will fail, and with it civiaization will fall into hopeless ruin. Christ knew the city well during his human life Most of his work was done in the centers of population. In the week before the crucifixion he set a most striking example for his fol lowers-he went to the solitudes that he might gain strength, and then re turned to the city that he might spend it for others. Many of his followers do just the opposite thing; they go to the city that they may gain wealth, and then return, to pleasant country homes that they mnay spend it on them selves. Christ knew the city's selfishness, Its wickedness, its sorrows, its indiU ference, its hunger. Its avarice he scouraged; its sorrow he sought to heal; its hunger he fed; over its in difference he wept; and for its sin he died. Christ has no wholesale scheme to save the city. He is always seeking to save the individual, not the mass. And he begins with the individual heart, rather than any outward need. There are many ways of Improving people's condition in life, but there is only one way of saving them from sin. Christ's teaching Is followed least of a1l In the ctiy. His greatest ene mies are there at their strongest. For that reason his friends should be at their best in the city. The city Chris tian should be the most thoroughgo ing of all Christians because the tes timeny of his life is most urgently needed th'ro, and because he has the largest anr1 hrdeet field of service. )ine Banxrupt-s rrmn.. There is a lawyer by the name of Hoxie out in Hampton, Iowa, who is noted within a reasonably limited ter riory as a consummate wag. A few years ago a good old deacon in the Congregational church in that c'ity, who had held many public as welV as private offices of trust in the comn munity, found himself on the verge of financial ruin. In endeavoring te -ecoup and save himself from insolv ncy, he dragged a large number of his unsuspecting friends into the mael strom, and was finally compelled it resort to bankruptcy. Now we wil use Hoxie's own words in telling thE sequel: "The day was set for the~ decon's discharge in bankruptcy, an a lteie had got his decree, I wa ong home foi supper. when I heart te sou~ndl ci music. I lhmened. anc 'ow that it emanated from the Con gret'atil church. I was in a qua!: da'y. Th is was not Sunday. nor ye pryer. mee ting night.. I approache' and aeered through the door. Ther u:aunding. his face wreathed as wv! hen:i!he viin a copy of the hymn ieore his tace, and te was 4i:gir: hat old familiar hymn, 'Jesus piaid GOOD 0 e @ ROADS. A Waierfal m!Zhwar s-ytstem. j, 0s4. 11E mioni-y1 ,::;f:n r b o 1t 1b d : , w" o .:;ridirn he country from the Atlantic to the ~aciiic and fromo Canada to the Gulf 'ith the best of macadam highways. he money hus suandered in the ~astern anid Middle Staites aioUe wvould macadamize every higrhwaty in ;teneralI se in those sections. For the past 75 to 150 years. accord ng to the age of the town, it has been he practice every recurring spring to 'tix the roads." or work out the high ~vay tax." This means the throwingt nf of a shovelful of gravel, or worse ret, of loam, here and there, building n occaslona'. water-break or "thank o-marm." makingt a futile attempt in some cases and in some places to lean out the gutters, throwing out an ,fending cobblestone once in a while. The first smart summer shower un loes the half of this clumsy patch vork and the following winter or early pring completes its destruction. A certain New England town has for he past 100 yea''s appropriated an iverage of $5000 per year for this al eged maintenance of its highways, and Ms a rault its road are no better tan :hey were in the most remote memory >f its oldest inhabitant. Quite likely hey are no better than they were soon fter the town was first incorporated. & half million dollars practically wast d in one small town! This would inacadamize every necessary highway here. if permanent highway improve inent's ad been inaugurated at the thtset, the town's valuation and popu atlon would to-day have been doubled. To compute what this perniciously asteful practice has cost the farmer nd business ma in wear and tear Dvould be impossible. Its responsibility 'or wrecked vehicles, for crippled horses. for broken harness, is incal m-ulale. Little use to seek further the rationale for abandoned farms. It nay be readily found in a system that as produced the worst possible high vys at the highest possible cost. It is not thast the poverty of the armer has made the system a conse uence. but that the system has made the poverty of the farmer a conse uence. True. .ood roads associa ions, the automobile. the bicycle, road taking machinery. scientific road makers, and a somewhat awakened >ublic sentiment. have done something o cripple this recklessly wasteful patch ighway system. But it ought to be femalished root and branch. Let the motto hereafter he: Every hing for permanent highway improve ment; not one cent for patch wvork Let one piece of solid, smooth and per anent highway be contructed every year, and let the balance of the roads rest without a single penny of atch work expenditure. Where this sys tem of highway maintenance has pre ailed for so long the roads are bad, f course: but they cant be mue worse. Get the road roller, the rock rusher, the grader and the scraper; let the expense be divided among two r three towns if necessary. And be ot afraid of runn ng into debt to pur hase them. Debt acquired for such a purpose of economy and prosperity is an incentive, a stimulus. a gain, a blessing. It is laying up for a rainy day-for the time when there will be no necessity for so much expense to keep the highways in repair and for the time when whatever that expense may be. it will be borne easily and cheerfully by the prosperous farmer who is living under a rati'onal high way system. Those Bad 'Eoads. We have said a great deal in this department upon the havoc played by bad roads and what a decided advant age good roads would be to the far mer. We feel almost compelled to bring this matter up again after just finishing reading that in most parts of the West there is an exceedingly good market for corn, the demand com ing principally from the stockmen. It Is reputed that "in some places the farmers are able to get forty cents per bushel at bomne. Cars are becoming plentiful in sections where they were scarce. but there are still places where they are scarce, and bad country roads have been an obstacle to free market ing." "Sibortage of cars and bad roads the obstacle in free marketing." Isn't it really shameful? There is the far mer possessed of good crops, and the buyer practically standing ready to give him for his products any reason able figure that he may ask for them. and yet they are compelled to abbre inte their transactions on account of the transportation facilities. The renm edy for a shortage of ears the farmer has not yet so well in hand, and possi bly neither has the railroad- for the law of supply and demand cuts ani im portant figure in this matter; .but "the bad country roads" is a matter that lies right at the farmer's door and be knows just what the remedy is. It is up to him" to right this matter, and as soon as he does a v'ery important step towards advancement has been take-New York Witness. Babes in the 'Wood. It is not alone in our great Engiisht cities that children are to 'be fann4 who have never known the joys of a day in the country. There are-or were until a short time ago-two at least of them in Berlin. But at last good fortune chanced their way, and into the country they were taken. They were not at first favorably im pressed with what they saw, gazing about them with stolid disfavor. But in ime they came to where a flock of sheep were feeding in a field. Then. indeed, littl Mlax opened his eyes. "Look. 31oritz:" he cried excitedly, there are lots anrd lots of sheep with out whels:"-Lonldon Tribune. Mine Explosions in Wales Records covering a long series of years show that in the coal wines of WVales most of the fatal explosions have occurred (luring the extremes of summer and winter, while in sprinmg and fall such accidents have been in freuent.