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r l#MMMM TWO OF THI ? QUEEREST | ^ EVER CC A few weeks ago there was launched from the yards of the Columbian Iron Works, of Baltimore, the Argonaut, a queer looking submarine craft, which rrnaa nn xchoola HIta ft n'dcnn. - - -0 _ This vessel, which is the invention j of a Baltimorean, Sitnon Lake, is, as far as intentions and appearance are eonoerned, unique. It is intended for commercial work, including the exf; ploration of the bottom of rivers, lakes,bays and even seas, for treasureseeking and other purposes of a kindred character. The vessel presents a curious appearance. The cigar-shaped hull has two big iron wheels attached to it near the bow. These wheels are about as large as an ordinary cartwheel, and are of solid metal. The edges of the wheels are corrugated and cogged like those of a cogwheel. A smaller wheel of a similar character is attached to the boat at the stern. The wheels are intended to enable the vessel to run along over the bottoms of rivers aud other bodies of water, the propeller of the vessel supplying the necessary motive pDwer. The boat will be so arp ranged that the divers can come in and vgo out of the vessel while she is on ^ -the bottoms of rivers. "" Tlie Argonaut, says the JNew iotk Journal, is thirty-six feet long and nine feet in diameter,built of steel and strongly ribbed, to resist the -water pressure. She is propelled along the bottom by an electric motor taking current from a powerful storage battery. A strong electric searchlight is located in the bow, capable of lighting up a pathway in front of the craft as she moves along the bed of the ocean. ill Lenses are also arranged to project a ' beam of light to either side of the boat, so that objects may be seen in tbe vicinity of the vessel as she passes along. Her speed is estimated to be about eight miles an hour on the surface and about five'miles on the bottom. She will have an electric storage capacity for a run of about 2000 miles. The orew will oonsist of a captain, an engineer and four divers. It is claimed that one man can handle her if necessary. t When not engaged in saving valuables from wrecks along the coast, she is to run on the surface of the sea with her string of barges like a tugboat and her tow. She is also to sink herself and barges to the bottom of the coast and run over the hard sands as if she were a locomotive with a train of cars. The inventor of the craft proposes to look for some of the 2000 vessels sank and the 8100,000,000 lost annually at sea. The boat may also be used in laying foundations for piers, lighthouses, bridges, docks, breakwaters, etc. She may also make journeys among beds of coral and sponge for business purposes, or to take down scientific and pleasure parties for an inside Tiew of old Neptune. The boat is to be able to descend to a depth of 300 feet or more, and is to be sunk or raised at the will of the operator, The Argonaut will make her trial trip , in the Chesapeake Bay during the next few weeks. Probably the first vessel that the inventor will at L tempt to find is the New Era which wi.viweat down off Asbury Park, N. J., in F 1862, with 200 passengers and a large [ amount of specie aboard. Another queer craft which electricity has made possible, and which Inventor Knapp, who constructed it, believes will revolutionize the speed of ocean travel, was recently launched at Toronto. It is called the roller boat and is certainly a novelty, though not exactly the first of its kind. Owing to the strange nature of the craft a large crowd gathered to seethe mass of steel drop, or rather roll, iuto the water. No doubt many of them expected to see the boat disappear out ol sight below the waves, but in this ther were disaDDointfed. Preoaratorv to the launching the huge bulk of cylindrical steel rested on stocks about ten feet back from the edge of the slip, and in order to launch her slides, well greased with soft soap, were built from the stocks to the edge of the water. When all was ready planks were removed until "the cylinder was held by but a single support, and at a given signal this was knocked away. Slowly the cylinder started down the soapy incline, and then, moving a little faster, it leaped into the water with a great splash. The waves it caused leaped high on the opposite side of the k slip and the crowd there was very freely sprinkled. Over and over the Jg craft rolled until she touched the opV^ftosite side of the slip, and when all was quiet on the water it was seen that she drew but a little over two feet of water. The craft jast launched is but a trial ship. Mr. Knapp's ideal for passenger service would be about 150 feet in diameter and nearly 800feet long, with engines that would make 600 revolu' tions a minute. The trial boat is only - -v V'.,* ' v? .* .. . CRAFT ? INSTRUCTED. ig twenty-two feet in diameter and IOC feel long, and tapers to fifteen feet, so that each end is kept well out of the water. As it is a passenger boat it will be the strangest ever floated. The passengers will be on a platform on the inside, swinging from the shaft, with the wheels of the engine gravitating against the inside of the cylinder. The paddles which will propel the ship will be fastened in rows on tne outside of the cylinder.?New York Journal. American Pioducti In England. United States Consul Lathrop, at Bristol, in a report to the State Department, gives some information concerning United States products in England. He says the United States, Canada and Denmark supply England with bacon. The United States enjoys more than half the trade, sending, in 1896, 1,751,518 hundred weights of 112 pounds. During the first six months of 1897 there wis a large increase in the shipments from this country, amounting to 1,830,162 hundred weights. The report notes that there is a scarcity of pigs in England and in Denmark, and says the United States and Canada are expected to keep up the increased shipments. Leather is a product which has made an appreciable advance in England. The colored leathers of Chicago and Milwaukee have been more largely sold, xne goat ana sueep leather from Philadelphia and Pennsylvania districts have also found an enlarged market, almost entirely at the expense of the German and French manufacturers. There has also been //er an improvement in fancy leathers, from Newark, N. J.1 COUNT TOLSTOI. Sketch of the Career ot the Great Russian Novelist and Social Keformer. Connt Lyof Nickolaivitch Tolstoi, the most prominent of the Russian novelists, is also a social reformer. His great ancestor was Peter Tolstoi, the friend of Peter the Great. The author of "Anna Karenina" is now nearly seventy. "Anna Karenina" is pronounced Tolstoi's masterpiece. Of Anna herself George Meredith says -i.- a one i? tuo iuuob pviivuiij ucpuicu iomale character ia all fiction. Tolstoi believes in the literalness of the -words of Jesus. He holds that the only rule of life is the precise living up to the maxims of the Sermon on the Mount. As a youth Tolstoi attended the University of Kazan, and at the age of twenty-three he entered the army and went with his brother to the Caucasus. He fought in the Crimean War, and at its close resigned his commission and devoted himself to literature. One of his earliest works, "War and Peace," is most appraised by Russians. It deals with the invasion of Russia by Napoleon. Since he brought out "Anna Karenina" in 1876 Tolstoi has given himself up to social problems, with the hope of supplying mankind with a better moral and religious philosophy than "vjW COUNT that which now obtsina in the world. "Kreutzer Sonata" appeared in 1890, presenting a certain theory of morals which so shocked some eminent Christians in America that it was "raided" by the authorities. In 1892 Count Tolstoi finished his autobiography, which, with his diaries, he deposited with the Rumyanzoff Museum. TRAVELINC IN A HOUSE ON WHEELS. A Family's Long and Novel Journey Acrofg the Continent. A house on wheels is on its way to N6W York City. While at Morrisville, ' /,// THE HOUSE N. Y., the owner, M. E. A. Laskey, said he had traveled from Port Angeles, Wash. A cyclometer attached to a wheel gave the distance covered as 6321 miles. The house is occupied by a man and wife and five children, two of whom were born on the road. The house is twelve feet long and six feet high and is entirely home-made. Inside are a folding table, a camp stove, a high chair, rocking chair, folding bed and other conveniences. The family left Port Angeles on March 22, 1894, and has been on tae road ever since. RIDING A SEA MONSTER. Florida Boys Have Fun With Huge Sea Turtles. Florida boys have one kind of exciting sport which the young folks of A STEED OF THE SEA. nsvrtharn lnnr^Q lrnrtw littlfl about. It consists in catcliing the huge sea turtles which frequent the bays along the Southern coasts of Florida. The turtles, from which is made the green turtle soup so familiar' to restaurant fare, are confined by the TOLSTOI. fishermen in huge pens or "turtlecrawls," consisting of fences extendi ing from the shore out into the water. ; When the fisherman wants a great tur tie for market one of the boys, whosa shiny brown body is stripped bare, stands in the prow of the boat as ft is pushed from the shore. He watches intently, and presently he sees one of the big turtles taking a nap on the deal white sand of the bottom. He dives quickly, and, swimming down from behind, seizes the turtle firmly by the shell. Of course the turtle wakes up and like a bucking broncho ON WHEELS. begins to dash and plunge wildly about, seeking to throw its plucky rider. Not succeeding in this, it darts quickly to the surface, where the boy gets his first breath. Then down again it goes tearing through the water and beating the foam with its flippers. But its rider never lets go for a moment, and presently the great turtle grows exhausted, and the boy, by lifting on the front end of the shell forces it to the boat, where it is quickly loaded aboard and taken away to market. It is great sf ort, and the boys enjoy it as much as our Western boys like a lively young pony to ride. SHOES FOR HUNTING-DOGS. Canvaa Covering to Prevent the Animal'* Feet From Getting Sore. They do many strange things in Ne| braska, but the latest and strangest is I putting shoes ou bird-dogs. Colonel Robert Coffin, a veteran sportsman of Randolph, is responsible for the innovation. Now hundreds of dogs in all parts of the State have been trained to wear shoes in the field while hunting grouse and prairie chicken. A little consideration will make clear * the practical advantages of having a hunter, that must travel dozens of miles over stuDuie or virgin prairie m HtJNTING-DOO WITH SHOES ON. I a day's pursuit of game shod with something more durable than what nature provided. Heretofore it has been almost impossible to hunt with the same dogs more than two consecutive days. Their feet would become i too sore. The way Colonel Coffin overcame this difficulty was to fit his dogs with canvas shoes that covered the ^feet closely and were tied snugly at the, ankles. Great difficulty was found in teaching the dogs to wear the shoes and hunt. Now all old huntsmen in Nebraska equip their hunters with j these canvas shoes. The Birds' Balance of Power. In a recent lecture Professor Wil- I men Stone, of Philadelphia,cited many facts to show that birds are nature's | great check on the excess of insects J and that they keep the balance be1 i i m twaen plants ana insect me. ?en thousand caterpillars, it has been estimated, could destroy every blade j of grass on an acre of cultivated ground. In thirty days from the time it is hatched an ordinary caterpillar increases 10,000 times in bulk, and the food it lives and grows on is vegetable. The insect population of a < single cherry tree infested with ap- i hides was calculated by a prominent entomologist at no less than 12,000,000! The bird population of cultivated country districts has been esti- j mated at from 700 to 1000 per square , mile. This is small compared with i the number of insects, yet as each < bird consumes hundreds of insects everj day the latter are prevented j from becoming the scourge they < would be but for their feathered en- ' emies.?Youth's Companion. The Pickpocket Got Hold of a Snake. 1 Ex-Representative Harvey Horner, ] of Sumner County, is a snake tamer and usually carries around with him in his pocket a live bull snake with i which he makes lots of fun. A pick- " pocket "touched" Horner at the circus at Wichita Monday and happened to get his hand into the pocket where the ijnake was kept. The shock made him scream and Horner held him un til the police arrived.?Kansas City Times. A Wonderful Bridge. In the Forth Bridge there is a horizontal pull of 10,000 tons on the chief spans, and a weight of 100,000 tons on their bases. Half a dozen British ironclads might be hung upon them without causing any undue strain. ' - , . -v>. - . -. . ; GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. 'Look Up, Not Down"?Must See Clirlil L'nveiled-The Defect* of Our Friendf ?A Prayer for Growth?Using: Without Abusing-The Eternal Life. Pour Tby Holy Spirit in ! Sweep away the bars of sin ! For the grace that comes from Thee Make us channels pure and free Unto those that nearest be ! ?John Worden. "Look Up, Not Down." It is told of a sage in the Talmud that he knew the stars of heaven better than the streets of his native town. That was better than knnwimr all about the streets and noth ing of the stnrs. A life without uplook is a low-level life. One of our attic philosophers, Charles M. Skinner, in his book on "Nature in a City Yard," says about skygazing : One thing you oannot deprive us of entirely when you put up your houses and factories and churches around us, and that is the sky. You may poison the air for us close to the earth with your smudge, gas, vapor.dust and evil cookery; but we can always look out from oui wells of brick and see the air away up where it is untaiu'ted?a 9heet of sapphire or turquoise,with pearl orsilver fretting;iridescent too, for their is a surprising amount of color in the clouds. The other day oire of the grandest mountain ranges above the world was revealed after the passage ol a hurrying mist. The Himalayas boast na such peaks as the afternoon sun fell upor when the fog tloor had been rafted off on a western wind. They reached for miles toward the zenith, and spread north and south for leagues on leagues. Their tops were dazzling white, and their sides were ruffled intc countless snowy bosses, softly edged with gray and mauve, while descending valleys and caverns, that would have held the nations of the earth, we revealed in slatj shadow. From a height of perhaps a thousand feet hung a long curtain of dark, which at its northern end was pulled aside on 1' on lmnufiiAiia h?ml Tfr. Villi C*0 11 Kf J ou iu*pnbuvu>l QlUii v umuui aw m*k the base of the mountain range, and seemed to be made of rain. Not until next day did we learn of the cyclone that had worked In that belt of dark, felling bouses and trees within five miles of us, and then bounding up and whistling away to sea. We lose much fine scenery because of our habit of looking down. We look down so much because that is where most of the dollars come from. Unit See Christ Unveiled. We must set Christ before us and live before Him with unveiled face. "We all with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror." Throw a napkin over a mirror, and it reflects nothing. Perfect beauty may stand before it, but the mirror gives no sign. And this is why, in a dispensation like ours, the Christian dispensation, with everything contrived to reflect Christ, to exhibit Christ, we so little see him. How is it that two men can sit at a communion table together, and the one be lifted to the seventh heaven and see the King in His beauty,while the other only envies his neighbor his Vision? Why is it that in the' same household two persons will piiss through identically the same domestic circumstances, the same events, from year to year, and the one see Christ everywhere. while the other srrows sullen, sour, indifferent? Why is it? Because the one wears a veil that prevents him from seeing Christ; the other lives with unveiled face. How was it that the Psalmist, in the changes of the season even, in the mountain, in the sea, in everything that he had to do, found God? How whs it that he knew that even though he made his be<j in hell be womld find God. Because he had an unveiled face : he was prepared to find tiOd. HOW is lc unit many 01 us cau cumo into church and be much more taken up with the presence of some friend than with the presence of Christ ? The same reason still; we wear a veil; we do not come with unveiled faces prepared to see Him?Marcus Dods, D. D., in "How to Become Like Christ." i The Defects of Our Friends. Most of our friends do not come up to our ideas of physical perfection. When you come to look critically at the face of your wife or your sister you do not find it difficult to suggest some trifling improvements, and the man to whom your soul cleaves in loyal friendship is a short, dumpy fellow, who never could by any possibility be mistaken for an Apollo. But you realize so perfectly that your wife's retrousse nose cannot be changed or your dumpy friend be elongated' that you are quite content to take them as they are. Indeed, their very imperfections commend themselves to you, and you would not have Mary or John different than they are if you could make them over. But strangely enough, this indifference to physical defects is often associated in our minds with a strange intolerance of imperfections of mind or disposition. Your friend takes narrow vitws and shows no interest in what Was* a 11 fo n rrc\ YrtlU ! 11*7.-5 uajuuu a uuiifcou ^ v?. | wife has a certain peculiarity of temper that sometimes puts her out of an angelic mood. Why should you not look at these variations in the same light as physi- I cal imperfections? It will be quite as difficult to change them. You remember the story of the man who set about forming his wife's mind. "With all thy faults I love thef still" is a pleasant song. A Prayer for Growth. Bring as, 0 God, out of our low esteem of life into the larger thought of thy desire and expectation for our souls. For this Christ died and rose. For this t' e years of our life upon the earth were given. Our confidence in thee is met and glorified by thy unmerited delight and confidence in us. Our hope and expectation for ourselves can never climb to the height of thy great purpose for our souls. Help us to rise to the thought of all that thou hast chosen to fulfill in us for thine own Rlory and delight, and may our thoughts ol thee hereafter be enriched by the remembrance of thy purpose. We take this for the motive of our day's endurance and ambition. We would live as becometb these In whom God is made manifest, through whom Christ works, by whom the Holy Spirit speaks, not in pride or vain glory, out in an numuicy ana irumui joy. While our hearts are bowed within us at the wonder of thy condescension, the glory of thy hcpe for us becomes our happiness. Fulfill in us thy purpose by all needful sorrow, loss and pain, but in the trial time hide not thy face far from us. Make us worthy to be crowned by the desire of thy great love and the glory of the eternal life with :hee. And for this hope and the comfort ol the peace wbieh passeth all understanding ive bring thee thanks through Jesus Christ jur Lord. Amen. Using Without Abusing. What we all want is inward rest,?rest of aenrt and brain; the calm, strong, self-con;ained, self-denying character which needs 10 stimulants, for it has no fits of depression: which needs no narcotics, for it has no lite >f excitement; which needs no ascetic reitraint, for it is strong enough to use God's ;ifts without abusing them; the character, n a word, which is truly temperate, not in 1 noK UDU iuou mereiy, uui m an uwnw, :boughts and notions.?Kingsley. The eternal life, the life of faith, is simply he life of the higher vision. Faith is an atitude?a mirror set at the right angle? lenry Drummond. Some people spend their time looking over ather than overlooking the faults of others. -Examiner. Shooting Sea Galls. Long Islanders have developed as an Industry the shooting of sea gulls. The birdj are dissected, and the skins sent to New York for the trimming of hats. The gulls are reported to be plentiful and bring from six to twelve cents apiece. One hunter re? oentiy maae sn.su iu one auv. Crop Worth More than Land. President Alfred Coolidge, of the Second National Bank of Colfax, Wash., has raised an Immense quantyy of wheat this season and 90ld It at a rate equalling $34.20 an aore, while the land itself could not have been sold at any time these past three yeara at f 10 an aore. ' '' '.'. ' * *$&? ?? THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT9 FOR NOVEMBER 14. Lesson Text: "Paol's Ministry in Rome," Acts xxvlll., 17-31?Golden Text: Romans i., 16? Commentary on the Day's Lesson bv the Kev. D. M. Stearns. 17. "After three days Paul oalled the chief of the Jews together." The expressslon "three days" is so suggestive of resurrection that one cannot fail to think of it who hafc anything of the spirit of Paul, who had as one of his heart utterances "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection" (Phil. 111., 10). At his conversion he was three days without siuht, and then Ananias came to him. sent of God. Probably he gave himself to prayer these three days in Rome that he might be fully Id the Lord's hands as His messenger to accomplish His pleasure, and now the principal Jews of the city have come together to hear what he has to say. 18. "There was no cause of death in me." fet here he is in Rome a prisoner by the will of God. 80 there was no cause in Christ why He sh6uld be hated (John xv., J!5) or crucified, yet by the will of God He suffered the just for the unjust. To be willing to endure hardship for the good of others is Christlike, for He loved us and pave Himself for us, leaving His home in glory for over thirty-three years and suf-fering all the humiliation consequent upon His being the slnner'9 substitute, that we trho accept Him might not only be saved, but share His glory. 19. "Not that J had aught to acouse my Nation of." -Although It was through his own people that he was now a prisoner, yet he would not accuse them, but rather Eee the hand of God in it all and continue 0 love and pray for his poor, blinded people. See his heart for them in Rom. ix., 3, and x., 1, "I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren." "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved." And It ivas his custom always as here In Rome to seek the Jews first, k 20. "For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain." By comparing chapters xxiii., 6; xxiv., 15; xxvi., 6, 7, it is evident that the hope which Paul meant was associated with resurreotion, the resurrection of Christ and then of His people. The resurrection spoken of In Dan. xll., 1-3, and inHos. vi., 2, and elsewhere?very fully in Ezek. xxxvll., where it is said that they shall be one nation in their own land under one king, never to be divided or scat-1 tered any more. 21. 22. "As concerning this sect we know that everywhere It is spoken against." They had heard nothing evil of Paul, but they had heard the followers of this Jesus Christ spoken against. Simeon said to His mother that He would be for a sign spoken against f^uke 11., 34), and It is written, "All that will live godly In Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (II. Tim. ill., 12). The oarnal mind is enmity against God, and the wisdom of this world knows not God. 23. "He expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets from morning till evening." Haying appointed him a day, they nam a to him to his lodcln?. and thus he talked to them.. The beginning, middle and end of his talk was Jesus and His resurrection, looking tp the kingdom yet to be established with Israel as a righteous nation at the center, Jesus, the 8on of David, as their King, and all nations blessed throngh them, their King acknowledged by all as King of kings and Lord of lords. 24. "And some believed the things which were spoken and some believed not." 80 it has been and will always be In this age. Paul never expected that all would believe him, but he labored that he might by all means save some (Bom. xl., 14; I. Cor. lx., 22). Our Lord taught us that some seed will fall by the wayside, some on stony soil, some amonR thorns and some on good ground; that the tares will grow with the wheat until the harvest and that the kingdom will oome at harvest time. 25-27. "And when they agreed not among themselves they departed after that Paul had spoken one word." That one word was a quotation from Isa. vi., 9, 10, and Is also found in Math. xlil.. 14.15: John xll.. 40:' Rom. xi.,8. Isaiah having seen HIb glory and having heard the question, "whom shall I send and who will go for us?" replied, "Here'am I, send me." Then he was told that the' people to whom he was sent would not all receive his message. Jeremiah and Ezeltlel were also told the same thing (the reoord is In Jer. 1., and in Ezek. 11. and ill.). It Is the one business of the Lord's messenger to deliver the Lord's message faithfully, diminishing not a word, and trust the Lord to see to the results. 3ee Hag. 1., 13; Jer. xxiii., 28; xxvi., 2. We are not to think out the passage any more than the prophets did or our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Both He and they spake only the words commanded them by God (John xii., 49; Jer. i., 6, 7; Ex. iv., 12), and we must not think to do otherwise. 28, 29. "To the Jew first was his way always; then, when rejected by them, turn to the gentiles, sure that somehow the Lord shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied. Since He shall not fail nor be discouraged (Isa. xlli., 4), there is no room for any servant of His ever to be discouraged. . We must remember His word to Moses and to Joshua to put off their shoes, which, if I understand it, signified that the 1 T Aw/1>a fhaln, I wuia noo kuo uv&u a (auu.uvw vmvuh* , 80. "And Paul dwelt two whole yeara In | his own hired house and received all that j came in unto him." During that time he probably wrote the epistles to the Ephe| sians, the Pbillppians, the Colosslans and tome others. When people oame to him, he would be ever ready to welcome them and talk with them of Him of whom hi* heart was so full. 31. "Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no man forbidding him." Thus this book of the Acts begins and ends with the kingdom, for we read in chapter i., 8, that during the forty days between the resurrection and ascension our Lord, when He appeared from time to time, spoke of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. The time will come when the kingdoms of this world shall have become the kingdom of oui Lord and of His Christ, when all kings shall fall down before Him and all nations-serve Him (Rev. xi? 15;.Ps. lxxli., 11). What can we do to hasten it? First let Him suve us freely by His graoe, then let Him as our Lord use us as He will and where He will moi,o wim irnntrn to ntJiers that thev. y\j uiaho AAIIU ?? ? r # too, may receive Him and help complete His body and hasten the time of His return to bring the kingdom and restore all things of which the prophets have spoken; ?Lesson Helper. COT MORTGAGE WITH A GUN. A ^Kansas Farmer Forced a Caahier to Take Hla Gold. Frederick Brown, a Butler County farmer. went to the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank at Eldorado, Kan., and told tho oashier he wanted to pay off a $1500 mortgage on his farm. The oashier looked up the mortgage and discovered that it drew nine per cent. Interest and was not due until next February. Nine per cent.is a much higher rate than the bank Is able to loan money at now and the cashier concluded to refuse the payment. In the meantime Mr. Brown had deposited $1500 in gold on the oounter. "We oan't accept payment before this mortgage is due," said the oashier, as he shovedthe money baok. Mr. Brown had brought along a big gun fna* nf hotnrr hoiii 11 n on the road and he polled out the weapon, pointed It at the oash'ier and said: ' Give me that mortgage." The cashier complied and took the money, while Brown started home with his paper. A Profitable "Sell." For a joke a Bath (Me.) grocer sent word to a business competitor that the masterof a Government vessel, who had come to town, wanted to see him. The recipient of the message called on the Captain and, to the surprise not les9 of himself than of tho loners, came away iriiu a oraer ior goods. An Army of Fishermen. It Is estimated that more than seventyflve thousand fishermen go out of New York every Sunday, and that they spend on an average of $2 each on the suort. r The Globe Coact Line. The entire ooast line of the globfe la sa 14 to be about 186,000 miles. , ' v. v'' . ' - 1 - .. .. SPAIN'S LOFTY ANSWER. -Q She li Doing All She Can to End th4 Cuban War. The note prepared by Senor Gallon, Minister or foreign Anairs m me new Sagasta Cabinet, In reply to the note re* oently presented to the Duke of TetuanJ the then Foreign Minister, by . General ? .ij Woodford, tlie American Minister,' deolarei that Spain has done all In her power to end the war In Cuba, proof of whleh Is given In PBAXXDES 8A0ABTA, SPAIIf'S P BE MIKE. (Under the Leadership of the Distinguished . i Liberal 8tatesmaa the Spanish Nation.has decided to accept the Mediation of the . United State3j the great sacrifices she has made, the nam* ber of troops sent to the island, and now the granting ojt wide reforms, whloh are tally described. It deolares that the Government cannot '<%$& admit the pretension of any foreign nfctlon * f-M to interfere in Spanish affairs, and complains of the number of filibustering expeditions to Caba from the United States, whloh, it deolares, are the chief cause of the continuation of the war. It then pro- '{ Tag oeeds to express the hope that respect for Jnternation right In America will be better ' $% enforced in the future. The note Is described as being mild in tone but energetic. In fact, it shows the resolution of the new Government to enforce respect for Spanish rights. Instructions have been sent to Senor do Lome, .the Spanish Minister at Washington, . which inolude a warning that Spain will naa hop rfcrhfc trt HAsrnti AmftHniin uhlnfl If .more filibustering expeditions starts (or , \ ':?tp? Cuba. Seuor Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, the Span- . 2XM tsh statesman and leader of the Liberal party, who has formed a new Cabinet for ,'$yH Spain, was born in 1827. He is an engineer . by profession, and was elected from Zamora In 1851 to the Constituent Cortes. NANSEN IN NEW YORK. Ihe Famous Explorer is Here on a Lecturing To nr. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who has made his aame known throughout the world by his ./sya explorations in the Arctio Circle, arrived ' \?3 Bt New York from England. He was ac- j,1 oompanled by his private secretary. A JS delegation of Norwegians and Swedes, two hundred and fifty In number, went down the harbor to welcome Dr. Nansen to these DB. FBIDTJOF KA.1C9TX. Dr. Nansen is a man of striking personal ' *? appearanoe. He is powerfully built, mow than six feet In height, with the fair, ruddy complexion of the Scandinavians. His yellow nair was cut olose to his massive, well shaped head, and brushed straight back from a full, rounded forehead. His eyes .- ?3 are blue and deep-set, and have an expres* slon of great earnestness. The lines of his face aocentuate this expression, and when. SJfsH looking at him one eannot fail to be im- -h pressed with the great mental and physical vigor of the man. He is only tnlrty-slx years old, but he seems to be even younger. His oostume was likewise striking. It consisted of what he called a hunting suit, with dark, close-flttlng jacket and trousers. He is here on a lecturing tour. UTES KILLED IN* COLORADO. * An (5?m? Warden Wilcox and a 'i Fight Followed. Game Warden WUcox tried to arrest . ' some Utes on Snake River, flye miles from .. 'J Lily Park In Colorado. They resisted and fire on the Wilcox party. Lily Park has been the scene of most of the game depredations of the Utes ever since the "Ute war" of ten years ago. The trouble commenced when the White River, Uncompahgre, Uintah Utes began pouring over the line from Utah on their annual fall hunt. The White River Utes . : J are exceptionally ugly, and have been apparently anxious to pick trouble with parties of whites. -iSsSI Game Warden Wiloox with a small party started out to warn the Indians that the game laws must be observed. The Game Warden was resisted and finally fired upon by the Indians. Then a serious encounter ./ t .-h - * ? .iJTot followed, to wnica a nuiuoor ui iuuiuu were killed or wounded. Game Wardw Wilcox's party also suffered severely. Spanish Soldier* Mutiny. A despatch from Santander, Spain, sayt . y'j an incipient mutiny was aroused there by some soldiers who had been ordered to em* bark for the island of Cuba, refusing to go on board the transports. Although tne men were eventually compelled to obey orders, the occurrence has had a bad effect. w Death For Bad Etiquette. The newspapers of Paris publish a tele* gram from Saragossa, Spain, declaring that , the King of Siam, who has been visiting Spain and Portugal, has condemned a member of his suite to be executed for a breach of etiquette committed at Lisbon. 4 M Important Tax Question Settled. The Supreme Court at Knoxvllle, Tenn., in the case of Dunn vs. Dunn, in which the question of priority of tax lien over mortgage lien was involved, has decided infavoi of the tax lien. The question involves the collection of large sums in back taxes due to the State. . fp Gold Hunters Die of Plague. With starvation and plague taking five lives a day, and daily discoveries of gold only mooking their desperation, the picture of Dawson City drawn by Klondike!* who ha^e reached victoria, British Colum Ma, Is pitiable^, ::? ...... <1 . . ?