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rm , t i u 1 tn i i nun igJAfflAIUJl, h. DHU Wf Interesting Facts Abou J West Indian Kingston, Jamaica (Special).?As i part of the scheme to convert Kingston Harbor into a great n^al station ?- in view of the expected early building of the Nicaragua Caaal, the Admiralty has inst boucrht Greek Pond, at the western end of the town, where thte I best equipped dockyard in the British | dominions is to be constructed immediately. A naval authority says the inten% tion is to make Jamaica "another Gibraltar to command the canal and be a rallying point for the naval and military forces of the Anglo-American alliance, when, by dominating both oceans, it holds the political and commercial balance of power in the hol$ low of its hand." Jamaica, the chief island of the British West Indies, lies ninety miles aouthwept of Cuba, 600 east of Porto Bico and 700 northeast of San Juan or Greytown, the eastern end of the Nicaragua Canal. Kingston Harbor is a large landIaaWaJ nTTOi ] oKla ff\T- +.Vk A lftrfffiSt, 1VC&CU uaoiu, araitdwiu *v? v^w -0 ahips and capable of being impregnably fortified. I The island has a coast line of 500 miles, indented with many excellent * harbors. It is traversed by lofty mountains in all directions. If Jamaica ever entertained any real Lope of rehabilitating her industrial condition by political annexation to the United Staves, the aspiration has been finally quenched by the action of the imperial authorities. There was " a time when it seemed as though the 7 British Government was disposed to Abandon Jamaica as a naval station, concentrating- the military and naval forces in the West Indies at St. Jjucia. It was even mooted that the War 1 " Office was prepared to dispose of the imperial real estate interests at Port r ( 1 OBZXDIXG ARROWROOT AND CASAREEP. P,fV'.."r i Boyal to the municipality of Kingston. The decisive and obviously practicable plans of .the United States to secure a waterway across the Isthmus ' into the Pacifio have completely changed the policy of the British Government as to the strategic posi' tions in the Caribbean?supposing that the modifications indicated were ireally contemplated. One thing is \ certain: Great Britain Clever for a moment credited the bona fides of Count de Lesseps's Panama tide-level canal scheme, and after the collapse of the undertaking she apparently did make the precipitate mistake of contemplating the execution of certain strategic changes among her West Indian strongholds, which eliminated?or did not account for?the element of the Isthmian waterway. These plans were, however, suspended, in view of ; the movement in France to begin work again at Panama on a lock system. If executed that would klter the aspect of affairs. Meanwhile the American war with Spain occurred, one of the issues of which is tbe recognition of the necessity for a canal controlled by America, and the prob ability, amounting to a certainty, of its prompt construction. In either event, Jamaica becomes the key to the oanal in so far as actual strategy is concerned. Port Royal itself for some time past lias been the scene of busy operations in the direction of strengthening the old fortifications and extending new ones, which gives color to the present <v. assurances that it was never really the intention of the imperial authorities 4 to abandon the station. Fortifications of the most powerful modern type, equipped with all the recent developments in military defensive art, including electrical submarine mines, disap' pearing guns, etc., have been erected <laring the last year or two at all the salient vantage points commanding this, the safest and one of the largest . harbors in the world. As it stands, Port Royal itself is one of the strongest strategic points in the Empire. But this is not all. Additional naval . improvements are announced by the Admiralty on the lines suggested by ' * Admiral Colomb. The ohief point in this scheme is to establish a naval depot and dockyard , ' inside of Kingston Harbor, and distinct from and independent of Port Boyal, which is destined to be one of the qaost extensive and fully equipped in the British Empire, and worthy to command the Isthmian waterway when it shall have been completed. To this end Government engineers have been r ? BARRACKS AT NEWCASTLE, JAM, 1'- busily surveying the foreshores of the inner harbor for months past, boring '? - to considerable depths at all likely plioes to psoertain the geological conditions most favorable for laying the necessary foundations. It has now * jbeen announoed that a satisfactory ' tita tor t&a mronnnmd doidrT&rd haa * . * ^ . . I t Great Britain's Chief c Possession. (|p * c ! been Seated at a place known as g Greek Pond, to the westward of the o ; city, a short distance beyond the rail- o way terminus. The selection of the o site was, of course, necessarily dio- b tated by geological conditions. But, p I as it happens, none better, from a a I strategical point of view, could have s been selected. The position is unique ^ for defensive purposes in every re- h spect?even in the remote contin- h gency of an enemy landing on the fc o&tcoasts, marching on the capital, defeating the military forces and attacking the dock on the land side. More than this, the selection will i< r ? I V.-N/ mMlm CULTIVATION OF SUGA prove a boon to the city of Kingston p :? A ~4-? ' Tn tlio flraf. rilaop it, C Ill IWU ItJajJCtl/3. JU p.*. , ? will do away with a mischievous ma- ii larial swamp, and in the next conduce a to the extension of the city westward. j< The negotiations for the purchase u of the requisite land having been com- ti pleted, it is expected that the work of I construction will be begun early in c 1899, thus solving in a measure for o some time to come the labor problem, it for it is said that the works will entail ii the expenditure of over $1,250,000 a on local labor alone. What a good ' and timely thing this will be for the c island only those can realize who are * acquainted with its present condition b of general industrial depression and social unrest. o The aborignal inhabitants of Ja- d maica, the Caribs, practice a few of the aboriginal arts, hewing out great canoes, from the gigantic forest trees, after the manner of their ancestors, making waterproof baskets from canes and rushes, lining them with wild plantain leaves, and maDy other little things from the bark and roots of trees and shrubs. They labor on the sugar plantations for the white proprietors, go fishing in their, dncouts alone the coast, be- ? ing expert fishermen and sailors, and } greatly in request in the "sugar seaboi?," when the lighters and droghers have to be loaded in the tremendous snrf. In their hillside gardens grow coffee, cassava, arrow root, maize, \ sweet potatoos, yams, r plaintains, { bananas, the various fruits of the > tropics, pineapples, oranges, sweet ) and sour sops, sapadillas, etc., bat i their chief cultivation is the cassava : - II zMmm f carib' girl. c [ p and arrow root. The cassava ujay have been brought by their aucestors 61 from South Africa, but it is apparent- c' ly indigenous to the We3t Indies, a having been found in use by the na- 8 tives by their first discovers. It has 0 almost as mauy uses as the cocoa ^ palm, which waves above all the hut3 " along the coast, and the Caribs make 11 it available in a variety of forms. The Carib, by the way, was the invenfnr r>f t.h? r*.n.anrefir?. which forms ^ the blbis of the famous "West Indian * pepper pot, that concoction sought by c all gourmets iu the tropics. The * juice is evaporated until all the poi- E sonous quality is driven out, when 8 it becomes an antiseptic capable of r preserving meats of every kind for a a long period. This is placed in a big e jar or earthen pot, and into it are ^ thrown odds and ends of meat from 1 time to time, which the juioe of the I manioc preserves and to which it im- * 1 n-.a C < =E? ? e f 1 i z?r ^ e Jp> -S ycJV ^ ?> 1 MCA. 4000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA. t j parts a peculiar and agreeable flavor, e In Jamaica the chief cultivation of the Caribs is the arrow root, which reaches perfection there on the slop- c incr hillsides overlooking the Atlantic 1 O W and Caribbean waters. They grate t the tubers on a big wheel, driven by t . v-atar at hand novar. and ihair LiiUa a ? -h />: ;' r. ... L. , .. l:-.' , oot mills may be found in ever; avine and water course on the wind rard side of the island. The Caril ype is that of a strong, well-shapet ndividual, with robust body, smal lands and feet, pleasant countenance omewhat flat nose, high cheek bones oarse black hair, and a complexioi ather yellow than red or copper olored. It is probably the lightes a tint of any of our aborigines, beinf i clearer yellow bronze almost, and ii ertain individuals approaching "olt' ;old." The men are said to plucl ut whatever vestige they may hav< f a beard or mustache, but the hau f the girls and women is long, glossj lack and abundant. They take greal mde in their coiffures, and almosl ny time flome maiden lady may b< een seated on a rock in midstream rith sunlit water sparkling arounc er and tree ferns interlaced overbad, intent on arranging her shininf resses. Queen Victoria's Crown. Queen Victoria's crown, or, to giv< : its full name and style, "The Im lR CANE, JAMAICA erial State Crown of Her Majesty Jueen Victoria," was specially mad< a the year of the Queen's accession nd as it contains so many of th< jwels of the older historic crowns, i lay fairly claim to be the representa ive emblem of English sovereignty n sheer costliness, if not in magnifi ence of design, it is unrivaled by an^ ther diadem in Europe. Its weigh ? exactly 39 ounces, 5 pwt., troy, anc ;s value has been varioualy estiinatec t from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. The body of the crown consists of s rimson velvet cap lined with the fines! hite silk and finished with an ermine order. There is on the crown a grand total f upward 01 tnree tnousana one auu red jewels, Moreover, unlike manj tfPEEIAL CROWN OF HER BRITAXXIC MAJESTY VICTORIA. luropean crowns, the stones are reallj recions stones and not glass imitaons. The Koh-i-Noor, the mosl orld-famous of all diamonds, is not, 3 many people suppose, set in the Inglish crown. It is sometimes wore y her Majesty in a bracelet and oc ther State occasions as a brooch. ' A Desperatfl Marauder. A French actress, traveling ^aboul le country, had for use in one of her lays a lay figure, nkilfully put toether and dressed in a traveling suit, .t Marseilles it was left in the lug' aj?e room with other things. The ariosity of two of the railway em* _ l- - J1 .X AT -.Ui. loyes Deiag urouseu ai me oiguu ui they took off the covering and re^ olved to play a practical joke ontheii omrad-es. They placed the figure ir n armchair at the cashier's desk, anc hut the door. "When the employes n night service came, thty opeDec lie door, ajd were surprised to see s lau sitting before the cash-box. Thej mmediately closed and locked tht oor, and ran for assistance. A po iceman arrived, revolver in hand, be ieving, like the employes, thatheha<] o deal with a dangerous thief. H< ailed on the figure to surrender anci ollow him to the station. As it die iot obey the summons, the policemar hut the door and went in search ol enforcements to surround the place, ,nd thereby prevent the culprit fron scaping. The door was again opened he armed force entered, and it wai iot till they suddenly pounced on th< >oor lay robber that they discoverec he joke. 5wirt Retribution. There was a wicked leer in Mean lering Mike's eye as he saw the littl< ;irl coming out of the restaurant sid< loor, carrying a small tin pail. "The' idea!" he exclaimed to hi; loinrade, "of incouraging sich luxurie n de young." "It's our duty to stop it," was thi ejoindei-. Before the little girl could turn thi jorner the tramp loomed up before he tnd exclaimed: "I'm sorry, lady, but I couldn't sei re carryin' dat pail any furder. It' igin me gallantry." mi. - ?;-i \,r: 1. XUU IllliC gin UOIfllU IU iU.Hl. leized the backet and in a momeu lad the bottom of it pointed towan he blue sky. The effect was volcanic ?oam flew in all directions. His oni ijaculation solved the mystery: "Soap suds!" And when the restaurant proprieto same ont and desired to know wtr lis children could not blow soap bub >les without being interfered with he viotim of poetic justioe had not i ror<3 to saxWashimrton Star. s,'s-v -- --yypti? * y\ ARGENTINE'S LOCUST PLAGUE. | Many Believe Tliat the Country Can Kever ' ! Be Free From Them. 1: . ... Tlifl A rr*anfino PonnMlrt ifl BTlWonf. , -? V ? w i ! to droughts, and the crop rises and 1 falls according to the weather. The ! worst thing, however, that the far! mers have to contend with is the lo: cuBts. The pest that infests the Ari THE ARGENTINE LOCUST 'WHICH IESTROYS THE WHEAT CROP. i' gentine is fully as bad as the locust plague with which the Lord afflicted j Pharaoh. ! Many people believe that the situaj tion is such that the number of locusts ; will increase from year to year, and ; that the country can never be free from j them. They argue this from the loca! tion of the Argentine. It is, you i know, situated in the temperate zone, ! with a delightful climate and a fairly j good soil. Just above it lies Brazil, ! which is covered with tropical vegetai tion and vast areas of which will never ! be different from what they are now. i In this country it is claimed that the J locusts have their breeding grounds, i They are produced by the millions there every year, and as a swarm : thinks nothing of a flight of 500 miles | you can see that an army starting out from ther^ is a dangerous enemy. Thev sav that the locusts breed in | Brazil and annually start out for the soatli, eating up everything as they 7 go. It is hard to realize -what a terrible ' thing such an invasion is. The locusts 7 appear in great swarms, which often s darken the sun if they fly between , you and it. They light on every thing 3 green and begin eating. The branches t of the trees bend down with their - weight and you can hear the snapping of their jaws as they crunch the - leaves. They often eat the flesh from 7 the fruit, leaving the stones of the fc peaches hanging to the bare branches. I They will clean the crops from the I fields, eating the grain down to the ; ground. Sometimes they will take \ the green wheat from one side of the k road and pass by that on the other, ( and they sometimes fly on and on for days over rich fields to feed on those I beyond. The next swarm may eat I that which is left. r This pest of the locust has been sd great that' the Argentine Government has been spending large sums of money to get rid of them. Among other things, they have sent to the United States for Professor Lawrence Bruner, of the University of Nebraska, to investigate \ the subject and to give them advice, j The Argentine locusts look very much like grasshoppers. They are yery prolific, and the greatest damage \ is caused not by those which come in > swarms, but by the young locusts i which follow. As the locusts move over the country they lay their eggs in the ground. Each female locust | makes a hole in the ground and lays I about 100 eggs, and a month or so later these turn into 100 young locusts, who crawl out and begin their march - over the country. Their parents have pretty well cleaned up the crop. The babies start out to eat what has grown ' up in the meanwhile. They cannot fly far at first, and they crawl al,ong, eating up everything as they go. They ' cover the ground, crawl over the fences and sweep the country of everything " green. r . In a few weeks they grow wings and then fly onward to other feeding s grounds. No conception 3an be formed of the enormous numbers of these lo> custs. .In one year sixteen tons of ' eggs were destroyed in one place, i Billions of eggs are now being dug out of the ground and crushed, and to-day the Argentine farmers are fighting for their life with the locusts. The methods for exterminating them ' are many and costly. Thousands of J-tl 4. + ? till uuiiaia aie npcuv ctcij them. At the time of an invasion all the farmers must turn out and destroy them. They are caught in traps of ' corrugated iron. They are scooped up with scrapers and killed; poisons uOCuST 2y "//,/' '/ ' I/ "'////Xr'' >,/ 1 each C rtfs/M* ; LnruJT J\ V/.S ////r/'.Vtm'/ ; zsm&j: j are used, and the grass, plants and weeds are sometimes sprinkled 'Aritb arsenio, kerosene and creosote. They are caught in bags, driven into ditches and are killed in all sorts of ways. Nevertheless, in 1896 it is estimated 3 that $80,000,000 worth of wheat was 3 thus destroyed in two States of the Argentine. This impoverished the ^ farmers of those States, and the Na8 tional Government spent $10,000,000 that year in giving them seed wheat, e Iu the Weather Bureau. e The youthful prophet was plainly r mortified. He had just been appointed and his first prediction had B not been verified. 9 "The reason we didn't have that storm," he explained, earnestly? e "Husli!" interrupted his aged superior. "In this business we never * stop to apologize. Just guess again." ?Puck. e Each of the . thirty-two oities in Massachusetts has one or more publio r libraries, and only eighteen of the 321 f towns are not so supplied. , Two>2ndred thousand families, it i has been calculated, are living in London on $5 a week. vyv' v.DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: ''The Cradle of Jesua"?Lessons Drawn From tbe Miraculous escape of the Infant ChriHt From tlie Peril* That Encompassed Him. Text: "Herod will seek tbe young child to destroy Him."?Matthew 11.. 13. Tbe cradle of the infant Jesus had no rockers. lor it was not to be soothed by oscillating motion, as are the cradles of other princes. It had no embroidered pillow, for i he young head was not to have such luxurious comfort. Though a meteor, ordinarily the most erratic and seemingly ungovernable of all skyey appearances, had been sent to designate the place where that cradle stood, and a choir had been ^ent from the heavenly temple to serenade its illustrious occupant with an epic, yet the crndle was the target for all earthly and diabolical hostilities. Indeed, I give you as my opinion that it was the narrowest and most wonderful escape of the aares that the child was not slain before He had taken His first step or spoken His first word. Herod could not afford to have Him born. The Caesars could not afford to have Him born. The gigantic oppressions and abominations of the world could not afford to have Him born. Was there ever Elanned a more systematized or appalling ombardment in all the world than the bombardment of that cradle? The Herod who led the attack was treachery, vengeance and sensuality Impersonated. As a sort of pastime he slew Hyrcanus, the grandfather of his wife. Then he slew'Mariamme, his wife. Then he butchered her two sons, Alexander and Aristobulus. Then he slew Antlpater, his oldest son. Then he ordered burned alive forty people who had pulled down the eagle of his authority. He ordered the nobles who had attended upon his dying bed to be slain, so that there might be universal mourning after bis disease. From that same deathbed he ordered ttie slaughter of all the children in Betheiem under two yoars of age, feeling sure that If he massacred the entire Infantile population that would include the destruction of the child whose birthplace astronomy had pointed out with Its finger of light What were the slaughtered babes to him, and as many frenzied and bereft mothers? If he had been well enoughto leave his bed, he would have enjoyed seeing the mothers wilily struggling to keep their babes and holding them, so tightly that they could not^be separated until the sword took both llv^s at one stroke, and others, mother and child, hurled.frqm roofs of houses into the street, until that village of horseshoe shape on the Lillside became one great butcher shop. To have such a man, with associates just as cruel and an army at his command, attempting th9 life of the infant Jesus, does tbere seem any chance for His escape? Then that flight southward for so many miles, across deserts and amid bandits and wild beasts (my friend, tbe late missionary and scientist Dr. Lansing, who took the same journey, said it was enough to kill both the Madonna and tbe Child), and poor residence in Cairo. You know how difficult It is to take an ordinary child successfully through the disorders that are sura to assalllt even in comfortable homes and with all delicate ministries, and then think of the exposure of that famous babe in villages and lands where all sanitary laws were- put at defiance, His flrit hours on earth spent in a room without any doors, and ofttlmes swept by chilled night winds, then afterward riding many days under hot tropical sun, and part of many nigbts lest the aveDger overtake tbe fugitive before He could be hidden in another land. The sanhedrln also were affronted at the report of this mysterious arrival of a child that might upset all conventionalities and threaten the throne of the nation. "Shut the door and bolt it and double bar it against Him!" cried all political and ecclesiastical power. Christ on a retreat when only a few days of ace, with all the prlva nous ana narasuips aua buuenu^B ui ? treat! When the glad new3 camethat Herod was deud and the Madonna was packing up and taking her Child home, bad news also came that Arcbelaus, the son, had taken the throne?another crowned infamy. What chance tor the babe's life? Will not some short grave hold the wondrous Infant? ,'Tut Him to death!" was the order all ud and down Palestine and all up and down the desert between Bethlehem and Cairo. The cry was: "Here comes an iconoclast of all established order! Here comes an aspirant for the crown of Augustus! If found on the streets of Bethlemem, dash Him to death on the pavement! If found on a hill, hurl Him down the rocks! Away with Him!" But the babe got hoqie in safety and passed up from infancy to youth, and from youth to manhood, and from carpenter shop to Messiahship, and from Messiahsbip to enthronraent, until the mightiest name on earth is Jesus, and there is no mightier name in heaven. What I want to call your attention to is your narrow escape and mino and the world's narrow escape. Suppose that attempt on the young child's life bad been successful! Suppose that delegation ol wise men, who were to report to Herod immediately after they discovered the hard bed In the Bethlehem caravansary, bad obeyed orders and-reported! Suppose the beast carrying the Madonna and the Child in the flight had stumbled and flung to death its riders! Suppose Arebelaus bad got his hands on the babe that bis father had failed to find! Suppose that among the children dashed from the Bethlehem house tops or separated by sword of the enraged constabulary Jesus had perished! Still further remarking upon the narrow escape which you and I had and all the world had In that babe's escape, let me say that had that Herodle plot been successful the one instance of absolutely perfect character would never have been unfolded. The world bad enjoyed the lives of many splendid men before Christ came. It bad admired Its Plato among philosophers, its Mithridates among heroes, Its Herodotus among historians, its Phidias among sculptors, its Homer among poets, its ZEsop among fabulists, its JEscbylus among dramatists, Its Demosthenes among orators, its JEsculapius among physicians, yet among the contemporaries of those men there were two opinions, as now there are two opinions, concerning every remarkable man. There were plenty in those days who said of them, ' He cannot speak," or "He cannot sing," or "He cannot philosophize,", or "His military wns a mem n(?(?ldent. or "His chisel, bis pen, bis medical prescription, never deserved the applause Riven." But concerning this full grown Christ, whose life was launched three decades before that first Christmas, the moans of camels and the bleat of sheep and the low of cattle mingled with the babe's first cry, while clouds that night were resonant with music, and star pointing down whispered to star, "Look, there He is!" That Christ, hfter the detectives of Herod and Pilate and sanhedrin bad watched Him by day and watched Him by night, year after year, was reported innocent. It was found out that when He talked to the vagrant woman in the temple it was to tell her to "go and sin no more," and that if He spoke with the peuitent thief it was to promise him paradise within twenty-four hours, and that as He moved about'He dropped ease of pain upon the Invalid's pillow, or light upon the eye that lacked optic nerv, or put brend into the hands of the hungry, or took from the oriental hearse the dead young man and vitalized him and said to the widowed "TTnr? h? ir. alive and well." and sbe cried, "My boy, my boy!" and be responded. "Mother, mother!". And the sea, tossing too roughly some of His friends, by a word easier than a nurse's word to a petulant child He made It keep still. The very judge who for other reasonr allowed Hitn tobb put to death declared, "I And no fault in Him." Was there ever a life so thoroughly ransacked and hypercrlticised that turned out to be so perfect a life? Now, you can imagine what would have been the calamity to earth and heaven, what a bereavement to all history, what swindling not only of the human race, but or cherubim and seraphim and archangol, if because of Infernal incursion -upon the bed of that Bethlehem babe this life of divine and glorious manhood had never been lived? The Chrlstio parables would never have been uttered; the sermon on the mount, all adrip with benedictions, never preached; the golden rme, in picture frame of everlasting love, would never have been hung up for the universe to gaze upon and admire. Can you imagine what a scarification or th* world's literature would be tie re moval of all Christ ever did and eatd? It > (would tear down the most Important I ahaivaa Af rnnitur rnnvrMulAntl llhrgpg.l and of tbe Vatican library, and of British,' museum/and Berlin and Bonn and Vienna and Madrid and St. Petersburg libraries, and St. Paul's life wonld have been an impossibility, and his epistles would never ; have been written, and St. John, from the basaltic caverns of Patmos, would never have heard the seven trumpets or seen the heavenly walls with twelve layers of Ilium* Ined crystallization. 0 wise men of the) east! I am so glad vou did not report to the imperial scoundrel at Jerusalem where I the babe was, for the hounds would have soon torn to pieces the Lamb, and i am bo Kiao. mat uui omy uiu ?uu urtu^ the frankincense and the myrrh to the room In that caravansary, but that* you brought the gold which paid His traveling expenses and those of Joseph and ilary In that long and dangerous flight to Cairo, la Egypt, and paid their lodging and board there and paid their way back again. Well, enough to bring to the barn of the Saviour's; nativity the flowers, for they aromatized; , the dreadful atmosphero of the stable, but, J the gold was just then the most Important! < offering. So now the Lord accepts your' ] prayers, for they are the perfume of heaven,' , but He asks also for the gold which will pay the expense of taking Christ to all 1 nations. Still further romarking upon the narrow , escape which you and I and the world had . in the diversion of the persecutorsfrom the place of nativity, let me say that had that I Herodic raid upon the swaddling clothes. \ been successful the world would never have known the value of a righteous peace.' Much has been made of the faot that the world was at peace when Christ came. Yes. But what kind of peacs was it? It was a peace worse than war. It was the peace of a graveyard. The Roman eagles bad plucked out the world's eyesight and plunged their beaks through the heart of dead nations. It was a peace spoken of by a dying Indian ohieftain when a Christian home missionary said to him, "You have been a warrior, and Lave* been in many feuds, but you must be at peace with all your enemies in order to die aright." The dying chieftan replied: "That's easy enough. I am at peace with all my enemies. for I have killed all of them." ( That was tho style oC peace on earth when Christ came, but the spirit -of arbitration, which is to garland the tomb of this century and coronet the brow of 1 the coming century, is consequent upon the midnight anthem above Bethlehem, 1 two bars to that music, the first of di- ' vine asoriptlon and the second of earth- 1 ly pacification. "Glory to God and peace to men." In His manhood Christ ? pronounced the same doctrine, "Blessed < are the merciful." Before the Bethle- J hem star flashed its significance, the theory was: "Blessed is wholesale out- < throatery. Blessed are those who can 1 kill the most antagonists. Blessed are < those who can most skillfully wield the 1 battleax. Blessed are those who can < stab the deepest with spear or roll a 1 chariot wheel over the most wounded j or put his charger's hoof on the most ? dead." The entirely new theory of our Christ was blessing for cursing, prayer ' Al > - tion ??Atl i iur IUU3D w UU UCSpibOlUKJ Ui7? JVU, foundries to tarn spears into ' pruning I books, redbot furnaces to melt swords into molds shaped like plowshares. If gigantlo acerbities and worldwide tigerisms had, without any gospel oppositlon, gone on until now and been augmented by 1898 years of ferocity, by this time what would this world have been turned into? You ueed not remind me of the awful wars slnoq the opening of the year one of our Christian era; for If the earth has been again and again lacerated Into an Aoeldama through Improved weap. onry of death and more rapidity of flro, Prussian breechloader which in 18669tartled the nations with unprecedented liavoo eclipsed by oontrlvaooes that can sweep vaster nucibers to death by one volley 'and telegraphy adding to gunnery new facilities for slaughter by Instantly ordering armies to where they can do the most wholesale murder?I say if all this woe has < been wrought, how much worse would it have been if the Ghrlstly revelation had not been let down from heaven on five ranged ladder of musical scale and thore 1 had been no preaching of good will all up and down Christendom for nineteen centurlesl The Bethlehem manger has given the most potent suggestion of peace tho a world has ever received. The cavalry horses cannot eat out of that manger. I take another step forward In showing the narrow escape you and I had and the world had In the secretion of Christ's birthplace from tho Herodio detectives, and the dubs with which they would have dashed the babe's life out, when I say that without the life that began that night in Bethlehem the world would have had no Illumined deathbeds. -Before the time of Christ good people closed their earthly lives la peace, while depending upon the Christ to come, and there were antediluvian saints ana Assyrian saints and Egyptian saints and Grecian saints and Jerusalem saints long before the clouds above Bethlehem becamo a balcony filled with the best singers of a world where they all sing,but I cannot read that there was anythiDg more than a quieting guess that came to those before Christ deathbeds. Job said something bordering on the confident, but it was mixed up with a story of "skin worms" that would deatroy his body. Abraham and Jacob had a little light on the dying pillow, but compared with the after Christ deathbeds It * was nice toe aim lauow oaauje ox uiu ua* ? side the modern cluster of lights electric. 1 I know Elijah went up In memorable man- I ner, but It was a terrible way to go?a > whirlwind of lire that must have been ( splendid to look at by those who stood on I the banks of the Jordan, cat it was a style of ascent that required more nerve than t you and I ever had, to be a placid oc- t cupant of a chariot drawn by such a 1 wild team. The triumphant deathbeds, ] hs far as I know, were the after Christ ( deathbeds. What a procession ot hosannas have marched through the dvlng room of the saints of the last nineteen centuries! What cavaloade of mounted halleluiahs j has galloped through the dying visions ot the last 2000 years save 100! Peaceful deathl^ds in the years B. C.l Triumphant deathbeds, for the most part, reserved for the $ years A. D.I Behold the deathbeds of the' ^ Wesleys, of the Doddrldges, of the Leigh Riehmonds, of the Edward Payaons; of c Vara, the converted heathen chieftain, ? crying in his last moments: "The canoe is c in the sea. The sails are spread. Sho is s ready for the gale. I have a good Pilot to f? guide me. My outside man and my Inside ] man differ. Let the one rot till the tram- c pet shall sound, but let my soul wing her way to the throne of Jesus." Of dying John Fletcher, who entered his pulpit to preach, though his doctors forbade him, and then descended to tho communion table, saying, "I am going to throw myself under tho wings of the cherubim before the mercy seat," thousands of people a few days after following him to the grave, singing: With heavenly weapons he has fought t The battles'of the Lord, E Finished his course and kept tho faith And gained the trrcat reward. t A REMARKABLE CASE. Milwaukee Physicians Curing a Girl's 9 Lone: Sleep by Hypnotism. M4ss Tony Broschelt, th9 young woman of Milwaukee, Wis., who sincc July last been lying at the homo of her father in what appeared to bo a trance, sat up for four hours a few days ago and spoke for the first time in five months. j The change followed esporimeats in . hypnotism made upon her by physicians of Milwaukee. Dr. Malcolm Violet diagnosed a the case as one of "auto-hypnotism," re- f suiting from hysteria. Tho doctors ex- 1 plain that "auto-hypnotism" is a condi- s tion of suspended will control brought on t by the Individual himsolf, eithor con- f sclously or uuconsclouslv, by auy of the i several ways in which hypnotic states are c produced. 1 Little by little she i3 now boint? brought f out of her peculiar condition, simply r through suggestions that she is to improve. The physician says h? has no doubt that she" will work out her own cure. So far she has spoken only a few words to her parents, and she cannot be s>een owing to her extreme weakness. I "The case Is a rare one, but modical his. I tnrv rfi^orci.i some similar ones." said Dr. j Violet. "It is aD aggravated form of hysI teria, and resembles in some ways a Inn?- ^ ' continued fit of the sulks, with the yuz* 3 zliug feature that the sulker cannot become good natured again at his own voll- . tion. It is not catalepsy, or the girl would 1 not respond to suggestions as she does." v American Money Loaned Abrp'ad. ' American money Interests are loaning abroad. ( I ' , t . . j. - 1 . ... Spaniards Surrendered the City to fhdFilipinos, Who Must Give It Up. THEIR FLAG TO BE TAKEN UUWPL' Cienferal Klof, Spanbh Cftutjaattder In th?l Wf%Tltaflk, Surrendered to tl>e Insurgent* % \ Before the Arrival of "Amorican Foreaa | ?President McKl.-Jey Orders General Otl? to Occnpy r j City. Washington, D. 0. (Special.)?General - ' Rloa, tbe Spanish commander, by Barrenierlng Hollo to the Philippine insurgents,. V 1.1 it. TT.UaJ . t-ArfJI as urougut uuw uuucu owuioa iuco wttli the problem of controlUng Agulnald? and his followers. The first offlolal news of the evacuation of Hollo by the Spaniards oame to the State '' I Department In a brief oable message front :->< J Singapore. It was sent by Spenaer Pratt, ' M the United States Consul-General there, . I and said: ' - ' / J&tM the Filipino's flao. - ,'U [President MoKlnley has ordered that It be replaced by Old Glory at Ilollo.) " IiTIMU OJ?K, O...I.I. a.J i. T> ' ' iivnv ia&oa at in, kj]mui3u ucu iu iwt* ^ ieo." The War Department was immediately nformed of this news. A few hours later:. : General Otis's message eame. It Is as fol-i "Manila, December 27.?Sent Colonel Vr:??? Potter on fast vessel to Hollo on. 3Ath tov jommunlcate with Spanish General Bioe^ ' -i/t Latter evacuated evening of 24th and; Potter thlrty-ilve hours late. Insurgents f " :ook possession of the city on the 26thind Potter found Aguinaldo's flag flylne. Dannot now report probable fesult. Will. lot hear from thera for four dayB, as tt?* } sable 'communication. Spanish force*v + $$ lave evacuated all stations In southern' vV^ slands except Zamboanga, In Mindanao, )y ordars, as they say, from Madrid. Oris." President McKlnley and his advlseraT , -v; !ully realize the gravity of the situation,.' ' 'vljg )ut they have implicit confldenoe In Maior- ' , V: o General Otis and Admiral Dewey In tnetjH iblllty to do whatever is necessary nalntain the authority of tbe Unftodl ' -,; itates. By direction of the President in- _ <>. itructlons were sent on Wednesday to j General Otis giving him plenary i?wea|nj 1 leailng with the insurgents at Boilo, bat' , f it the same time telling him to take a very . 'jf lrm and positive stand and oocupy Ilollo' ylth Amerioan troops. ' , The force sent by General Otis to take t' i possession of the felty, whloh Is under the J iommand of General Marcus Miller., con-. ,>M lists of the Eighteenth Begular Infantry, Battery G, of the Sixth Begular Artillery* ' 1 4H and the Fifty-first Iowa Volunteers. It was B sarrled on three transports and convoyed )y the cruiser Baltimore and the gunboat Dallao. General Miller is regarded by the iVar Department officials as a very capablfe W jfflcer. H KENTUCKY MORMONS CO AjlMED* Chey Attend Religious Services Carrying Shotgunq?Efforts to Drive Them Oat Vancebubq, Ky. (Special).?The unusual} light of members of a religions organiza-j ion going to and from, their place of w<^rihip armed with snotguns to protecfrthem lelves against so-called "Wbltecaps" wa* witnessed in the Pleasant HUl neighbor-1 '?' ' > lood of the county a fow days ago. It Is in;' his region that the Mormons have gained*; itrong foothold by their missionary work,; : lererat of the best citizens of the village laving been converts to the Mormon be* lef. At a considerable expense the band) ' j lad built a church, which was about to be, iedloated a few weeks ago, when.a flpebaff} ipplied the toroh to it, and it was deitroyed. Since then some of the elderaj iave been beatea and other assaults have >eeu committed on the Mormons by alacred Whltecana. / The'Monnons say they knew who burned; / fl heir church, which was the only one otY , belr faith.la the State, but they say th?jr( \ rill not prosecute them, wishing'to avoid; / urther trouble. Several farmers: have ( m >nly recently been ordained as eldertfin.the \ ihuroh. Elders Charles Hauck and J. T. \ ?ubble have received notice through ths \ nails that if they did not quit giving shel- \ er to and aiding the "Mormons from Jtah" who had been stopping with these nen for several days they would be , rereiy dealt with. - The Mormons say they lo not want to have any trouble, but will _ " >rotect themselves from violence. ^!Si Preparations are being made for the ?a-, * Ire membership of the local church to go >$ o Utah and settle permanently. L N. barker of Pleasant Hill neighborhood and SlderBlackburne have left for Salt L&ktt 3ity to prepare for the exodus. ' \ , ' TO PAY THE CUBAN SOLDIERS. LduiinUtratlon Will Recommend That Congress Vote to Advance the Money. Washington, D. 0. <Speolal).?The sag- /i rrn<fA.4 MAi I IUUI iuu uuuou uiuico yay IUC . m Hers of the Cuban Army of liberation on. londltion that they lay down their arms B ind disperse will be warmly indorse^ * ~'lfl lommunlcatlon which-Secretary Alger wilt 1H ond to Congress. The decision of the. JB Secretary, which has the approval of the '# President, was reached only after'carefal , 'tH lonslderation of the problem presented by 1 he presence in Cuba during its occupation J >y United States troops of large banfa of v v Cubans, whose real work had ended with he signing of the peace protocol, but who * leclino to lay down their arms. . \ The plan which Secretary Alger will ecoi'mend is that Congress appropriate inough money to pay every Cuban soldier J4 )100, the amount appropriated being--4teM ;harged against the revenues of the island, is a lean by the United States. The reoomaendation that authorization be given to ' iay the army of liberation out of theJnited States Treasury will be madeao bat the amount neoessary may be immect- J . ately available. Otherwise, the War De-? I. lartment could discharge the Cubans from. ervlce only as the proportion of Cuban . evenues to be used for the payment bo-"" a wo uins imprisoned tor nurjiary. Emily Marlfitt, aged eighteen .years, and iaima Tuttle, sixteen years old, of Morrisown, N. J., began terms of imprisonment ^Hj , few days ago. They were arraigned be- ^H| ore Judge Vreeland on charges of bargary, and when asked to plead both on- . wered that they were guilty, and thea I hey began to laugh. Henry Mar'att. ather of Emily, accused tLem of breaking; J nto his meat store and rilling the casoj J [rawer. Judge Vreeland sentenced th?, Puttie girl to the State Industrial School', or Girls and Emily Marlatt to tbreo; nonths in the Morris County Jali. . j The Labor World. flfl flnmnnaitnrfl 1n the Frenflh nnttnnft? >rlntery work' fourteen hours a day. Grape pickers in the vineyards of Porta? |fl ;al are paid about twenty-one cents a day. The National Garment Workers' Union. ' ssued 3,000,000 of Its labels during the past The cigarmakers of this country are said H o spend 130,000 a year In advertising tba tnlon label. V The boxmakers and sawers of Ohleago I lave unionised all box factories In the citjr ind vicinity. M British trade anions hare started a fight m Arms that prist the Blfele and refa^ to* >oy anlca wages. II iiVjMiriftiftlMI liitlliI M