Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 .V % I mi i i i f{A"nn>TT\nr xnci urjjiN JJUI I ~ ? I ij // ? &/>, ; ' ~ " 'U (Art's Tribute to Dewey. I * Tlanran in -Design and Vievctd ? <d 'SDitlj Side Openings. ^ l^?je!efeiojof?j0?e?ejefOK>K3?efe(ef?f^>'e}OK^ In the triumphal arch and colonnade "which is to bo erected at Madison Square for the Dewey celebration, New York City is to have a work which, in the opinion of the National Sculpture Society, will surpass anything that has before been realized for such a purpose in sculpture decoration. In general plan the arch will reBemble the Avcli of Titus. The Roman design is altered, however, to fit it for location at the intersection of four streets by having the main piers pierced on the east and west axis of the arch by smaller openings, as is done in the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. This leaves really four piers to the arcb, for the decoration of which a series of bas reliefs and groups is sugI gested, depioting the call to arms, the I battle, the return of the soldiers and Tl peace. At the sides of these groups f may be placed heroic figures of great " American naval officers. Secretary liong, at the request of the society, suggested for representation in those places the name of Paul Jones, Decatur, Hull, Perry, McDonough, Farragut, Porter and Cashing. Over the main entrance will be bas reliefs symbolizing > the commercial importance of New York. For the group surmounting the arch has been suggested a ship with a figure of Victory in the bow drawn by four sea-horses. The plaus include also a reviewing-stand which , shall be a part of the general scheme of decoration for Madison Square. It is planned to have it decorated with groups symbolic of Greater New York pnd the five boroughs, and with flags to make it contrast in color with the masonry and sculpture effects of the arch. The work on the part of the artists Which will be involved in carrying ^ i : ir i SOB _ DEWEY TRIUMPHA.L out these plans is offered to the city free of charge. At a meeting of the eociety called to consider the means of doing the work in the short time remaining, the roll was called for pledges of work and oo-operation, Every member who was present at the meeting pledged himself without reserve to the work. It is said that the artists in carrying out the plan will stive . to the city professional service i amounting in volae to 8150,000 or $200,000. Sources of Well-Known Proverbs. Nine persons out of ten attribute the well-kncwn expression, "Man proposes, but God disposes," to the Bible, but it was the Jgood Thomas a Kempis who said it in his "Imitation of Christ." Another often used expressio?i is "Comparisons are odious." This is properly, so far as English literature is concerned, attributed to Prt?bonno wTm flnnrialiAfl in tl>o middle of the fifteenth century, but but \vc find it in Cervantes, Marlowe, Hurton and Herbert, while Heywood has it among his proverbs. Shakespeare in his "Much Ado About Nothing" paraphrased it into "Comparisons are odorous," and in this form the saying has almost as much currency as in the original. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is generally thought to be a text from the Bible. And in substance it is, for King Solomon said, "He that spareth the rod 1--i-il. ? Km f it Jo tin UttWUlU Uig CUU) WUV *v AO 4VUUU AU Butler's "Hudibras" in the neater form in which it is usually quoted.? John Gilmer Speed, in the Woman's Some CowDanloa. ... . >R" TEA SALOOft fa Anna of the Sl?t?mrock'? Owner. Of course, it -wouldn't have beeu the thing for Sir Thomas Lipton, tea merchant, Cup challenger and recently appointed Baronet, to come over here on the Shamrock without a coatof-arms. He might as well arrive without a yachting cap. So he has had a coat-of-arms made, and, honestly, he deserves great credit for the democratic and unassuming way in which he has complied the emblem. For the crest he has designed two horny hands of labor, one bearing the flowers of the tea plant the other that of the coffee plant. These betoken his 1 jyyv sir thomas lipton's coat-of-arms. humble origin and his means of success in the world. Fidelity to his native country iuduces him to place upon the shield the Shamrock of Ireland, as well as the Thistle of Scotland, the country in which he made his first money. At the bottom of the shield is the horn of plenty, and his motto, "Labor Conquers All Things." It is truly a fitting autobiography in pictures. I >wm | I Bi| 1^* ^ ^ 'Sw^bbc' V > ARCH AND ARCADE. The Idea! Nearly every one thinks she can pick out a bridal couple, no matter how sensibly they may dress or how 4-Vhit" mot? qnnnoorl in nrotonrlinor M Ull IUV.J U1MJ MUVWVVV4 ?U V VVUV??U^ indifference; but certain ways of deciding were enumerated by a woman the other day. At the summer hotel she declared that the man and woman who sat nearest her at table were on their wedding tour, but the other woman didn't believe it. They didn't look at all bride and bridegroom-like to her. But the first woman had her proofs; for one thing, they talked on such general topics, and were so careful to keep the conversation well going alt the time, and in the nextplaoe, she overheard the bride telling her husband that she never ate pie. The idea! Wouldn't he know she never ate pie, and just how she liked her coffee, if they had been married long? ?New York Snn. ITus Not Alive nt tho Time. While passing Whitehall the other clay a stranger to London asked a policeman if he could poiut out the window throuqh which King Charles passed out to execution. The policeman asked: "Who was he?" "King i of Encland, of course/' was the an swer. "But when was that?" "Over two hundred years ago." "Ah, ah! that was long before my time, sir. I only entered the force in 1862," was the policeman's reply. "Sorry I can't tell you." The annual increase of population I in the Uojtgfl Steiw iB about 1,000,000. ' ' v;.'" v;;. , ~?.v r TAT ATTW VHP I? I ?n n JJ V V JL UJ.U.J irm^ \y I OOOOOQOOOOOOOO QGOOOCOOOOOC I NOVEL RIVAL TO 1 | THE LIQUOR SHOPS.f ooooocoocooococooocooooooc Tk i." - - 1 I. _ 1 ? 1U? ' iTUUiiciii ueip tu me puui, iuc ignorant, and tbe sinning, this is the watchword of the day. The latest evidence of its working in the East Side of New York is the establishment of a tea-saloon at 76 Allen street. The Chnrch Army is sponsor for the new undertaking, which is managed by Colonel H. H. Hadley, an enthusiastic worker in humanitarian affairs. Colonel Hadley has many sympathizers in his belief that hundreds of people drink beer because it is the drink most easily obtainable, and that if other liquids were as cheap and as easy to get, the consumption of intoxi^afinor Hi-inks wmiM Iia <rraftt.1v r?. ; " o j ~ duced. This is the experiment being tried at The Open Door, which is the name of the new temperance venture. The house taken for the mission was one of the worst homes of vice in the crowded neighborhood. It was used to conceal so many kinds of law-breaking that its frequenters had to be protected from visits of the police by a system of private alarms. In addition to this they had secret means of egress, so that escape was possible in case of a raid. Colonel Hadley secured a three years' .lease of this disreputable building, cleared it of its old tenants, freshly painted the diugy in LCi iui, auu ui wuguu a uuai^i 11*1 ugti us a moral transformation. The first floor of the building was altered from a bar of the loweat order, where crime and hatred were nursed, into the humanitarian substitute, the tea-saloon. The effect of a bar is still retained,but over the shining counter no more deleterious driuk than well-made tea ever passes. The equipments which rest on the counter as accessories to the drinks are bowls of sugar, pitchers of cream, and saucers of sliced lemon. Tea is served either hot 01 cold, to 6uit the desire of the patron, and it is also supplemented with a sandwich or a piece of pie or cake. The prices charged for these enjoyments range from one cent for plain tea to five cents for tea with solids, and the price is the same whether the beverage is hot or iced. As it is the custom in the neighborhood where the tea-saloon is established for families to use the "growler" for bringing drink from the saloou to the home, Colonel Hadleyhas tea on draught tc sell by the quart for outside consumption. He has even planned an improved can for carrying it, with a central compartment for tea and an outside one for ice, with faucets arranged foi drawing off either tea or ice water. In the back of the tea-saloon is arranged an assembly-ioom, where it is the custom to hold mission meetings every evening, consisting largely ol attractive music, and into these meet lUgS IUU pUUUUB WUUUCl 1U lUUCHMlUy numbers. Upstairs tbo house i3 divided into twelve rooms, all of which are furnished, and are rented to desirable applicants at one dollar a week. The tea-saloon is open from 6 a. m. to midnight; its patrons are increasing daily; and it is expected that it will be a formidable rival to the liquor saloon, and will prove the strongest weapon agalust alcoholism that philanthropy has ever wielded in defence of the weak and ignorant.?Harper's Bazar. Tlio ltost School. The best and cheapest school ol journalism is the country newspaper omce. xso one can become a banner or a broker or a merchant by attending a commercial college. No more can a college course in journalism fit you for cewspaper work. Theory is one thing; practice is another. If you aspire to enter the higher ranks, work on a country weekly as a starter. There is the best possible training for a young man who desires to become an accurate writer and a reporter of events. In the city one rarely if ever meets the people he writes about, and there are no consequences to be feared on that score. But in the country there is a personal accounting in store lor tne scrioe wuo garoies or errs iu statement of facts. This knowledge drills the habit of accuracy into one as nothing else will. A Sad Case. Dr. Chargem?"Your friend needs vigorous treatment; I never saw a man in such a state of mental depression. Can't you convince him thai the future holds some brightness fo: him?" Sympathetic Friend?"That is unfortunately impossible. He has drawn his salaiy for three weeks ahead and ^pentt^wouey.'-^rwMon's weeJuar. PAINTING FLACSTAFFS. Qoxr (lie Poles on City Skj-Scrapers Ar? Redecorated. The flagstaffs -which seem to be aE indispensable part of the moderi nffino Knilflinff nfffln extend t.n an ?t< j traordinary height above the street level. The tallest in the city are those which have been erected above the domes, at the top of the two tow< ers on the Broadway facade of the Park Row Building. The top of tke dome is 390 feet above the sidewalk, and the trucks of the flagstaffs, which WTVf 1.1 I HOW FLAQSTAFF3 ARE PAINTED. (The loft-hand flguro shows the weight carried by stirrup. The right-hand shows it carried on the chair.) are fifty-seven feet iu length, are aKaiiI fa a f a Knirn fhn (UCiCiUlO auuut TWU 1VUV UWWTV vuu street level. A few clays ago the foot passengers down Broadway and across the City Hall Park were watching with great interest the figure of a man who was I engaged in painting these lofty poles, I and the question naturally arose as to j how this perilous work was done. The i i answer will be found in the accom| ! panying engraving, which shows one i | of these aerial artists at work. His ' ! climbing apparatus is one of the very | simplest kind, aud consists of two t' short lengths of rope, each of which j is provided with a slip noose which , encircles the flagstaff. The upper ; I rope carries au ordinary "bo'suu's i : chair"?a plain piece of board which I . . i i.t,? | iorms a seat asinue ui wuiuu iuo I painter sits?and the lower rope ends | in a simple foot-stirrup. In climbing j the pole, the weight is first thrown on j the foot-stirrup, thereby releasing the ; | noose of the upper rope, which is then , slid up the pole. The weight is now 11 thrown on the seat and the stirrup ! noose being released of weight is drawn a few inches up the pole. By I thus throwing the weight alternately 1 on either rope and slacking the other, | the painter is enabled to climb to the I top of the pole. The painting is done : from the top downward; the order of | slipping the ropes being, of course, i now reversed. Underneath one end : r\t Hm coot io luiniT ilio nnint. nnf. and i a dab of putty for filling up cracks and j knot holes is stuck conveniently upon I the eame end of the seat. A ColoBnal Memorial. The most colossal monument on the | continent of Europe and second alone , in dimensions lo the Liberty Statue in ; New York is that of the famous Turull i bird recently erected on the summit | of the Banhida Mountain in County j Komorn, Hungary, in commemoration j of the Hungarian millennium, which | was celebrated with a stupendous > amount of patriotic enthusiasm in j 189G in all portions of the kingdom. I The site is well; chosen, seeing that ! the monument occupies the spot where Arpad slew Swatopluk, the , Slavic chieftain, on his invasion of tlio Hungary of to-day. It was mainly due to the exertions of the famous Magyar romancer, Jokai Mor, that the collection for the monument was started. This bird, fable has it, has i on /ir-ff onr/linnrTT nnrf in til A |Jlaj CU ?U OAtAUW* U*4iMk J v mmm ? ? ? destinies of the nation, so that the l poorest, moved to enthusiasm by the eloquence of the popular poet, con, tribnted the copper he could ill afford LARGEST MONUMENT IN EUROPE. (Erected In Banhlrla In commemoration ol Hungary's millennium.) to spare to the general fund. The conception of the mounnient is that oi the Magyar sculptor, Donath Gyula, , I the metals used being copper and iron. The height from the claw tc ' the tip of the wing is sixty-eighl feet, the outspread wings are forty: six feet long and the sword of Arpad. I which the monster bird holds in its j claws, measures forty feet. The Cemetery l'roblcm. ! Timro oro nr? less than fortv-ei2ht i cemeteries in New York City and its , ' vicinity, where lie buried the bones i ! of over -1,000,000 men, women and I children. Over 18,000 are buried I annually in Calvary, about 5000 in I | Potter's Field, 4500 in Greenwood, 8000 in Holy Cross, 7500 in the Lutheran, about 2000 "in Mount Olivet, about 1000 in Mo9t Holj ! Trinity, over 1800 in Woodlawn, about 1800 in Cypress Hills and nearly 4000 in the Evergreens. The . combined area of our cemeteries is j SC00 acres. The total acreage of oui parks is only GG00. By adopting thf orVlfc in. \Jl UICUAMvawu ?? v u*?q? - ? crease the park area, as well as improve the water supply.?Victo* 9autb? la tf jw York Press. ' " ?r#'. . FILIPINOS POT TO ROOT.' [\ MacArthur's Troops Foucht Five! j Hcurs Knee-Deep in Mud. 1 i A GENERAL ADVANCE ON REBELS, j i ! Aguinaldo's Army That Ilatl Harassed 1 San Fernando Put to Flight by Sud- j den Northward Movement of the Americans?Sharp .Skirmishes For Five ? Miles?American Loss Fight Dead. ' Manila (By Cable).?General MacArthur'3 forces, consisting of 4000 men, advanced Ave miles beyond San Fernando < and encountered and defeated a Flliploo ' force of 6000 men. The enemy retreated, leaving many dead and wounded. The J American loss is said to have been eight killed and twenty-six wounded. Th9 Americans covered the five miles In flve hours and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon | had advanced six miles along the railway, ' stretching out on each side of It for two allies and resting at night three miles from , Angeles, which will be made the northern ( base of operations instead of San Fernan- t io, where a garrison of 600 men has been left. Angeles is one of the richest towns north of Manila, and it will be a better 1 oase'than San Fernando. The Filipinos wers surprised, expecting ' the American forces to move against TIco. ' They followed their usual tactics of holding their trenches until they became too 1 warm and then retreating In disorder, t They are now falling back westward to- 1 ward Porlc. f The Twelfth and Seventeenth Regiments i bad the sharpest engagements. I The country our troops passed over Is covered with rice fields and bamboo thl:k- | ets, the hardest possible ground ror marcu- | Inc. The mud, in places, was knee deep, j The forces nt San Fernando which were Involved In the movement consisted of the Iowa regiment, the Seventeenth Regiment, ^ the Ninth Regiment, the Twelfth Regiment, J Bell's new Thirty-sixth Regiment, a bat- ' taliou of the Sixteenth Regiment, Troop E of the Fourth Cavalry and fifteen guns. The movement had been planned for ' some time, but was delayed by rains. J Finally two days of sunshine dried therlce lelds sufficiently to warrant the attempt. ' The attack was opened at 5 o'clock in ' the morning, a battery of the First Artll- < lory shelling Bacolor on the left. Simultaneously Bell's Thlrty-elxth Infantry struck Bucoior from the rear and drove the i rebels out. ] Armored cars, each with a alx-pounder md two Gatltng revolving cannon on 1 board, then moved out on the railroad track In the centre of our lines. Soon afterward these guns did sharp execution. ] ~ " tr -? ~ a .till on/1 n uanerv n 01 mo iuuu auuicij auu hundredmen of the Iowa regiment made j a feint towards Mexico, while the main body of troops, consisting of the Iowa j regiment, the Seventeenth Regiment and a battalion of the Twenty-second, under Genernl Wheaton, on the right, and the ' Ninth Regiment, Twelfth Regiment and ' Bell's Regiment, under General Liscum, on 1 the left, advanced steadily, pouring their 1 Are into the rebels and receiving a heavy 1 fire in return. < The rebels wore well protected by 1 trenches and seemed not to lack ammunition. Bat they were unable to withstnnd ] for any length of time the hall of shots out < artillery and Infantry poured In on them, i and retreated, leaving many dead and 1 wounded on the field. A dozen prisoners 1 were captured by our troops. The reports indicate that the Ninth In- ) fantry suffered most. The weather was . estrwmely hot nnd our troops suffered j wreatly. But there was no faltering. ] i liebelfi Oot 8100,000 in Specie. Manila (By Cable).?The steamer Sa- 1 turnus, of the Compania Marltlma, coa?t- 1 tng und?r the American flag, was discov- 1 arod by the United States gunboat Pam- ' panga beached at San Fernando, under { i the Insurgent trenches there. The steamer I was boarded by an armed boat's crew and ' the passengers were taken off. The cargo, 1 j consisting of general merchandise and I 8100,000 In specie, had been sacked by < : Aguinaldo's men. J ] LIVE WIRE KILLS FOUR FIREMEN. ! | Fatal Itegnlt of a Small Fire In OmahaElectric Light the Caase. Omaha, Neb. (8pecial).?Four firemen | ! iost their lives In a blaze on an upper floor j | of the Mercer Chemical Company building, ! it Eleventh and Harney streets. Tha flre ! itself was insignificant, the fatalities re] suiting from contact with a live wire. The dead firemen are: Joseph Adams, 1 ! lieutenant; George Benson, pipeman; Otto ' I Geiseke, tillerman; Charles Hopper, relief ( j driver. Goorge Farmer, a flreman, and j I Albert Livingston, of the chemical com- 1 I pany, also suffered severely from shook. 1 When the fire had been brought under control the firemen set to work to lower i the big extension truok, on whloh they had 1 hflen working. Suddenly there was a t ! sputtering unci succe38lon~of flashes, such < as occur when a connection Is made with ( a live wire, carrying a high voltage ol i electrical current. The msn who were ] working at the crank lowering the ladder writhed In agony a moment and then fell ( to the pavement limp and apparently life- . less. In lowering the ladder it had come i In contact with a live electric light wire, ( carrying a current of 2000 voltSj. - . Hopper revive^ in. ft fQ.T minutes, and saying ho was all right" started to walk iway. He had gone only about fifty feet when he dropped dead. Oelseke showed ! signs of reviving, but when he had partially milled he sank hack and expired. I AN UNHAPPY WIFE'S CRIME. After Killing Her Husband and Child , She Ends Her Own Life. Canton, Ohio (Special).?Edward Eckinger, his wife and their three-yoar-old child were found dead in bed at men home, ft country hou9e six miles from 1 here. In the body of each near the heart was n wound inflicted by u shotgun. Frorr a brolcon glass arose tho odor of cnrbolic acid and the blistered condition of Mrs. Eckinger's mouth indicated that this agency had been employed to end the woman's career. That the ghastly work was done by the woman was apparent. Ecklnger was about twenty-Qve year; old, Mrs. Eckinger was twenty-three. The 1 daughter, Ruby, was between two and three years old. Eckinger was a farm laborer and coal miner. The domestic i relations of the couple wore never entlrelv happy. Like Winter In New Ilauipjhlre. The weather at Manchester, N. H., has i been growing steadily colder and Thursday the mercury was down almost to freezing. There are reports of white frost, ? thing unknown la central New Hampshire j In August. jjowcr lomporamro 13 tijissiI ed with damage to delicate crops. Two Youth* Struck by Lightning. At Clifton, Wis., lightning struck the I barn of Engelbert Jenly, destroying It and killing bis two sons. Vincent and Engol- | I l>ert, age sixteen and twenty-two, rcspec! tlvely. The Lnbor VTorlil. The fishing Industry of Maryland gives j imployment to 42,812 persons. , Car builders at Huntington, W. Va., havf 1 aoon granted a slight incroase In wages. The finest labor toraplo In tho world Is in J 1 ?arls. It was built In 1892 and cost th< 1 ; ilty about 3400,000. 1 Five hundred iron molders at Youngs- j :own, Ohio, have resolved an Increase In ' I ^age3 of twenty-flve cents a dny. '1 he productive capacity or moor-sivjaR j ; nachlnery at the present time is equal to u jand-worklng population of 400,000,000. Farm haDds aro very scarce In all por- ' tloas of Iowa, and there will be some dam- [ age to the cropsof thoStatelncoasequenco of that fact. - ? ? 1 . /-v.. / . , V.. .. v- . fHE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington The first published order issned by Sec? -t-a 1L. ni etary nooi ueuucs iuo uuuuua^^ v> Tort Gibbon, a military reservation set ipart by the President in July. It has been decided that Maryland's two itatues for Statuary Hall In the Capitol sba.Il be of Carrara marble and of heroic iize. The subjects aro to be Charles Car ollton and John Hanson, and It is anlounced that competitive designs ara to >e invited irom the best sculptors In New fork City. Baltimore and Boston. The itatues will be placed between those ol tlaine and Massachusetts. Mrs. Ellen Knight Bradford, a writer of <ome note, is dead. She was the wife of !tev. J. H. Bradford, and was sixty years )f age. United States Minister Conger reports to the State Department from Pekin that he has received official notice of the formal jpenlnc to foreicn trade of the Port of San Tuac, in the Province of Fukien. Free delivery postal service will be estabished at Cranford and East Orange, N. J.. October 1. Dorneatic. Edwin Heidler was hanged In the county all at Erie, Pann., for the killing 01 nis )rothor-in-law, Levi Krelder, on May 1, .896. Four men were injured, twenty-two cars vere burned, and two tramps were killed n a wreck In tunnel No. 4 on the ClnolnlatiSouthern Railroad near Louisville, Ky A gospel wagon In charge of Evangelist. ?. B. Benolt was stoned and driven from he streets at Millbury, Mass., by a nob. The wagon was badly damaged, >ut no one was hurt. In lieu of a suitable hall in Jackson the Democrats of Mississippi intend to hold Uelr coming State nominating convention n a big tent to be erected on the Capitol trounds. It will be shaded by elms and vnter oaks, and the natural slope of the illl will support the seats. William Henry Joline, a well-known lorseman of Long Branob, N. J., was sicked by one of his horses and so severely njured that he died almost instantly. Three aged men, once partners in buslle.aa. have iust died within sixty hours. Tohn Gray died at Columbia, 8. C.; J. R. Running bam at Abbyvllle. 8. C., and Colonel G. McD. Miller In Mississippi: The Town Council of Montclair, N. J., ias passed an ordinance prohibiting the jse of firearms and toy pistols in the town. The action was Inspired by the number of 'atallties from lockjaw aue to toy pistol iccidents on last Fourth of July. The ordinance applies to the Fourth of July as (veil as to any other day. It was found that two mistakes had been made In the identification of bodies at Bar 3abor, Me. Mrs. O'Donohue was found to be alive, as was Miss Louisa Bartlett. The bodies mistaken for them havo been Identified as those of Mrs. Marjorle Mower, cf Wisconsin, and Miss Blanche Lewis, of Elaaden. On a charge of murdering their mother, Sllen 8eery, on July 2, John W. Seery and loseph E. 8'eery, of Dedham, Mass., were leld for the Grand Jury without ball. An unknown negro attempted an assault >n the six-year-old daughter of a Mr. Bowman, who lives nearJBlakely, Ga. The legro was captured and shot to death by i mob near the scene of the crime. There vasno doubt as to his identity. He was shatned to a tree and the mob poured bulets into him. The body of Miss Edwlna A. Pratt, a Sartford school-teacher living 1q Essex, 3onn., was found In her room at the Peterson House. She had committed suicide ivlth chloroform. No reason Is known for :he act. She was thirty-five years old. The news from Dawson, in the Klondike, Is not encouraging. Thousands of men ire idle, loafing on every street corner and in every saloon. The Government has al ready seat many Dao? to ineir iormer homes. Northeastern Colorado is the scene of a 9j?ht between sheep and cattle men. A few days ago four horsemen, carefully Jlsguised both as to their persons and their horses, rode into some large flocks of iheep which were being grazed along Two Mile Creek, about twenty-four miles from 3terling. They shot and killed 150 sheep md badly crippled twenty-flve more. Jack Holly, L. Priest and WlllBobo, prisjners in the Federal Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., assaulted with shovels P. Knlef, a guard, and after beating him jver the head and nesk, almost severing tils head from his body with their crude (veapons, they made their escape. A few minutes later Holly attempted to board a Fast moving Santa Fe train, but missed his foothold and was killed. Holly and tbe Jther two men were Indian Territory outiws. Foreign. The Volksraad, at Pretoria, South African Republic, amid much enthusiasm and acclamation, passed an amendment to the lonstltutlon empowering the Government In the event of war to call upon every Inhabitant, without distloctlon, to assist in the defence of the State. Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of 3tate for India, in Introducing the Indian budget la the House of Commons, London, said that the Government bad deliberately loncluded that a gold standard was required for India, and that temporarv failure of crop3 would not Interfere with the policy decided upon. The inhabitants of Great Comoro Island, aff the east coast of Atrlca, are In revolt igalnst the French authorities. The Police Commissary was assassinated and the Governer's residence was besieged. A gunboat was ordered to assist the island authorities iijrestorlng orden . . s-.-. .? The London Sun prin(s the reported engagement of Lady Randolph Churchill to Unnfflrmnt Rorwallis We3t. a brother of Princess Henry of Ple9S. It is 6tnted that Lady Randolph herself announced the engagement at Cowes. She Is twenty-five years older than the Lieutenant. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been nominated Justice of the Peace for Sunderlandshire. The Lord Advocate, replying to a question respecting the nomination in the House ol Commons, London, said that Mr. Carnegie would not be able to act unless he was naturalized a British citizen. Mr. Carnegie issued a statement saying that he has no intention of renouncing his American citizenship. The Provincial Court at San Juan, Porte Rico, has passed the death sentence upoc Henry James, an American, who, as the evidence brought out in his trial showed was guilty of murder in having flred into n crowd, killing a boy. The native newspapers protest against the execution of the sentence. Only one death sentence has occurred in Porto Rico in ten years. A dlaoatch receited at Berlin from Tokto says there is do truth la the report that the Japanese flag has been hoisted over Wake Island, northwest of the Mariannes. M. de Olers, the Russian Minister, has addressed a note to the Tsung-li-Yamen, Pekin, warning that body that the conclusion of an alliance with Japan would give great offence to Russia, and that the consequences to China would be most serious. Marshal Martinez Campos, President oi the Senate, Madrid, Spain, in an interview just published, foretold aMlni3torial crisis in November, adding that the Ministers o( War, Marine and Justice, General Polavieja, Admiral Gomez Imaz, and Senor Duran, respectively, would resign. In a fierce duel with sabre3, at Vienna, Herr Wolf, the notorious German Radical member of the Relchsrath, was badly wounded by Herr Krzekep, a German Liberal Deputy. There has beon a slight fall of rain in various parts of western India in the last fer flays. The monsoon Is current again, though cot strongly. Tho situation is somewhat improved. The western part of the town of Grodno, I ^.nvnrnmnnt nf thn Slinii! name, southwest of Vllna, Russia, Las be?n ilestroyed by flro. A temporary military hospital and numerous public and private buildings have been swept away. The Civil Governor, while presiding at a raeetlng of the Municipal Council ol Barcelona. Spain, announced that it was the Government'* intention to shortly con(JCvla the administrative decentralization 'lemanded by the Catalouian*. This is the first step in the direction of provincial autonomy. < -' . v.. ... .. i A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. .the drink evil made manifest IN MANY WAYS. Tli? C(He of Ketiben Wright?Dan gen Im the U*e of Alcohol Which Frofoaoi Atvruter Failed to Emphasize?Fal?? and Injudicious to Call It Food. Now, Reuben was a friend of mine, And stnuucher could not be, A man of heart?of muscle?mfnd, A manlier mnn one scarce could And Nor sure could wUh to see. Ilis farm was like a garden plat, & Tilled with such watchful care: His barus were filled from bay to roof His granaries held more than enough, Aud large his store and share. His good wife, all a wife could be, his children fair and bright, His home was like an Eden spot, and happy truly seemed the lot Of relghbor Reuben Wright. The tempter came?I know not who? . j A foe in friend's disguise? A drlnlt perhaps for old times' sake? An idle thought a thirst to slake? A flead In paradise? ~ I know not now who tempted him, Or what, cr why, or where; It may have been a thoughtless draugh. For joke or friendship idly, quaffed, Or cruel, hellish snare. '1 But 'twas a drink?one drink too muchl 0, for the gift to tell In time the ruin of one drinkl O, for the sight to see the brink Above a drunkard's hell! , ? One drink, and yet another one? The flood gates open wide, And hope and love, and good and trutb, Brave manhood's aim:, the dreams et youth, Drift out upea the tide. To-day wo burled Reuben Wright, The once true, faithful friend: A wreck of life?a bllghed name? A. memory shrouded with a shame? And this the drunkard's endl 'Tis only just a common case, This one of Reuben Wright? Bo common that we pass It by, Sorat with a tear, some laughinglyForgotten in a night. 'Twus but a drink?one thoughtless drink*. 0, for the gift to tell In time the ruin of one drink? 0, for the sight to see the brink That bounds a drunkard's heli. ?3. B. McJIanus, in Ram's Honu .*< Alcohol Not a Fooit. The recent experiments of Professor Atwater are of great interest to physiologists and chemists since they throw much light upon one of the doubtful questions of physiological chemistry or pharmachology, that of the metabolism of alcohol in' the body, writes H. F. Hewes, M. D.,to the New York Times. It is a mistake, however, to think, as some people apparently doij that the result of these experiments should change the teaching in the schools In regard to the use of alcohol from a hygienic point of "Iah- oaNaaIo fan/iVi thnh tha naa rtf ? IV >? JL UO OVUVVIO IVItV. U huuv ?uw uwv w* alcoholic liquors as a beverage is not justifiable under the laws of hygiene. The results of Professor At water's experiments do not contradict this teaching. These experiments merely show that the body can derive some energy from alcohol. This does not in itself entitle alcohol to be placed among the food substance3 In the fiygienic sense of ^he term, which is the sense in which the schools and the people in general use the term food. If it did, such a violent poison as muscarine, the active principal of the poisonous plants of the mushroom family, would have to be classed with the foods, since it also is oxidized in the body with liberation of its contained energy. To class a substance among the foods we must know that the sum total effects of its use are beneficial to the body. Muscarine is not a food because its poisonous effects offset the benefit of the energy which it liberates. Alcohol has poisonous effects, as Professor Atwater himself admits. The question as to whether it can be considered <13 food depends upon whether its beneficial effects are greater than its poisonous effects. Professor Atwater's experiments do sot prove this. Until this is proved the burden of the proof is against those who would include afbobol In the list of food substances. For scientific experiment so fur, experiments upon large bodies of men in the ordinary conditions and violssltndes of life, In the armies, and in exploring expeditions where labor and exposure hare to be endured, Indicate that when the regular ' moderation" quantity of alcohol Is taken the harmful effects offset the beneficial ones, and that the drinker Is made less lit rather than more fit to work. And stronger still is the reason against ! speaking as Professor Atwater does of alcohol ns food In the same sense as sugar. ; For people generally will Interpret this to j mean that it is a food equally to be recomI mended with sugar and hyglenio foods. ! A,nd this, as Professor Atwater will agree, j is an entirely false idea and one calculated to do much harm. For while we get oar I energy from sugar without risk of polson| ing, to get energy from alcohol we run | great risk of poisoning, and to get any j amount such as would be necessary to supI port life in ordinary conditions, we mast j take enough alcohol to poison ourselves j seriously. (By poisoning is meant some j harmful effect upon the functions of the body). ? . J. Lie uoove uuugera tu iuo use ui oiinuui, 1 also the possibility of the formation of the I alcohol habit, make Its use as a beverage ! unjustifiable even if there were no other arguments against it. It is unfortunate that the alcohol quesI tlon has been brought up on this technlcnl ! ground. The quejtlgn of the hygienic I status of the usd of alcohol does not dei pend upon the technical question of the ! definitions of a food and of a poison. The ! controversy upon this point has produced I statements upon both sides which have given rise In the public mind to great misj conception of the truth. i Both sides in this technical controversy 1 will agree In regard to the main question, that children should be taught to look up( on alcoholic liquors as dangerous sub' stances, to be avoided from considerations ! of health and general welfare. And in the present light of our experl! ence and of scientific investigation, the ! school books must continue to exclude al i couoi irom cue nsi 01 auusmuucs urauaura as foods, and to teach the avoidance of this substance as a pood hygienic rule. Lecture in a Nutshell. "I floured out years ago," said a prosperous farmer, "that with very moderate drinking, I'd drink an acre of good land every year. So I quit." Here is a temperance lecture done up in a small parcel convenient for handling. The Crusade in Hrlef. If the saloon exists in your city, it is too close to your home. In Germany drink leads to 1G00 case3 of suicide a year, and supplies the insane asylums with 3000 victims. No nation of barbarians in all the annals of time ever had a law or custom as iniquitous as the liquor revenue system of the United States. A drunken debauch and an overturned I iamp_ causea a cour.agracion iu unwsou, the Klondike capital, destroying millions of dollars' worth of property. This is the second time within a few" weeks that a (jrunkwD frolic has laid i i ashes tnis city. By its internal revenue law the general Government conspires with the liquor traffic to plunder, pauperize and kill a hundred thousand of its citizens every year for a share of the gain. It is a noteworthy fact that, while the more boisterous lortn of intemperance in Englanl leads to private brutality and public disorder, the Continental svster of small dram drinking before meals in the shape of tonics and appetizers, leads to insanity. Dr. Itogers, of one of the leading life insurance companies of New York City, said, in speaking of hi* study of men engaged in the brewery business: "After forty, the n?.- ^ic.ia rnrv hir?h mid T ohonhiqav tliat at fifty-tlve or sixty years of .ice about tlireo browers may be expected to die where cne average Ddrson dies." i ' . - y. .i. rr- - i'-'-?trfiii