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' ' *-V J'" ' W&W? " "V ' , ^ - ' t i }_ . John Y. McKane, a Remark; JOHN Y. Mc The death of John Y, McKane remo? ioal characters ever known to local politic in the County Antrim, Ireland, August 1( he was about four years old, when the 3V country and settled at Sheepshead Ba^ smoke or drink. He was a hearty, rugge blood in his veins, who did not kaow wha work or of political turmoil. As a boy he and went to the village school in winter. odd jobs until be was fourteen, when be 1 learned tbe building trade and laid tbe foi iness. McKane always did what be pleas 1893 McKane was in the height of his poi ing on a fight against the McLaughlin D< Justice of the Supreme Court. He made the registry lists of Coney Island. They telephone on October 30, 1893: "Mr. Gj ,to get along with me tbe easiest way to d of tbe fight McKane became a convict in became a Justice of the Supreme Court, "with rebate for good behavior, was shorte was released from prison April 30,1898. );' ~ OOOOQDOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOGOO |Terrible Effects of ? | Porto Rico's I^urricaije | * O0030000000000000000000000 P b( ' Poxce, Porto Rico.?Tbe hurricane, tc a a {a +Via liftvnn it wrono'hfc. szreat fi, as is the misery it caused, has accomplished in a day what would have taken diplomacy years to bring about. It has taught the natives that the 1 Americans are their real friends. The Americans, by their prompt and generous assistance, have wiped out all lingering prejudices. Porto Eico suffered more than any As regards the actual financial loss to the island occasioned by the hurricane, estimates vary. So far as I can figure it out the loss to the whole island will amount to about seventy-five million pesos, or more than $30,000,000. This amount covers damage to buildings and machinery, damage to warehouses and stores of coffee, tobacco and sugar; damage to this year's cane, coffee and fruit crops, including estimated loss on the next three years' other colony by the hurricane of August 9. Every district in the island has been devastated. Thousands of homes have been ruined, and crops upon which the whole population depended for subsistence have been * ' 1 i 3 - - j...: < .i i iaia wasie ueyoiiu roineve iui hi icaav ? three years. ^ j Porto Rico to-day is as barren as ik A HOUSE IN PONCE DEMOLISHED 3T THE tu i HURRICANE. es was Cuba at the close of ttie insurrec- m +i<-?n Tiara in Pnrtr* "Rif?n fiplfls fclint, ffl **V*W, *<U A V* HV wero once beautiful witli waving canes, hillsides but a few days ugo covered tr with the green coffee and banana trees el now present a bare and sorry view, co Homes that sheltered happy families vi have been washed away. The vil- tr lages are crowded with shelterless yc people. * ac i The homeless to-day number about cc one-third of the whole population of pi the island. to I have passed through every dis- m trict from the capital to Ponce, and te STREET IN ARECIBO. FORTO RTCO. Dl } HEIGHT OF WATER ( i ; " often ridden for miles without seeing a house left standing. Where the ti Louses withstood the wind the roofs I: yrere gone and furniture and clothing I Vera rained by ths rains. si ible Product of Politics, It KANE. es one of tbe most remarkable polits in New York State. He was born ), 1841. He lived in Ireland uutil [cKane family immigrated to this r, Long Island. JIcKune did not d, blue-eyed man with Scotch-Irish it it was to bec6me weary r>'tber of ) dug clairs on tlie beacli in umer He worked at gardening a...? uther vas apprenticed to a carpenter. He andation of bis wealth at this busied with the vote of Gravesend. In ver. William J. Gaynor, after carryjmocracy, became a candidate for a demand on McKane for a copy of were refused. He said over the lynor will find out that if he wants o is not to fight me." As a result Sing Sing, and William J. Gaynor McKane served his term, which, med to four and a half years. He It is the well-to-do who are, perhap a, > be the most pitied. Beautiful iciendas and powerful sugar factories ere laid as low as the native's shack, op; damage to live stock, and dam;e to railways and shipping. It does at cover the loss sustained by the ublio Works Department, which will a heavy; nor does it cover the loss > the island of capital that was condently expectad to seek investment 7\" *1'' *\\ Wr.ECKED CAFE IN PLAZA. ADJO jre this winter, and which may now 5 frightened away. The loss of growing crops is, be>nd question, the most serious item the island's list of misfortunes, verything has been more or less deroyed. What the hurricane left the 3ods carried away. The mango, ead fruit and avocate trees, upon iiich the natives depend to a great ;tent for subsistence, have been rept bare or broken down. Onlj < e most -sheltered banana groves are ; Ft standing. The coffee crop is holly ruiued, and all but the smallt of the trees have been destroyed, coffee plant takes five years to mare. The half ripe orange crop is on ] e ground. A few cane fields have caped, but with the factories de- 1 oliehed these are only valuable for J dder. ] The wholesale, indiscriminate disibution of food is being stopped, se the whole population would beme pauperized. In all centres I sited rations are now being disibuted to the old aud infirm aud to >ung children. To all able-bodied ItiHo ia /-iffovod n-ni-lf At firqfc t.liis mrse of action caused some comaiut, but now tue plan is beginning work well, and the poor are all the ore independent, and better counted for it. JRING THE HURRICANE, SHOWING THE HOUSES. The first care of the military authorises has naturally been for the troops, a Ponce the $5000 granted by General (avis to the commander has been pent in cleaning up in and around the quarters. At every country station the troops are living under canvas. In most cases the barracks have been blown down. At Aibonito not onts wall of the whole barracks is left standing. The soldiers lost everything they had, and those in the hospital had a narrow escape with theii lives. The barracks collapsed during the first hour of the storm. Fifteen minutes after the walls had toppled in the men, who had even formed ranks outside in the pelting rain, had appointed a delegation to wait upon Captain Wheeler to ask permission to render assistance to the town. The captain joined bis men. Without a thought of their own loss, without thought ot any clanger, the whole troop crossed the swollen river between the barracks and tbe town, and were soon engaged in the work of rescue, dodging pieces of flying zinc or rushing into tumbling houses. On the night of the hurricane I was sleeping on my own plantotion in the district of Bayamon, about ten miles from the capital. At about half-past seven o'clock Tuesday night my capitaza, or head man, came to the dooi aud reported that the Government had sent out notice that a hurricane wa? approaching, via St. Thomas. Like many others, I did not give full credence" to the warning. At half-past five the winu was blowing thirty miles an hour. Daylight was long iu coming, for tiie sky was inky black. When dawn did come we could be sure the storm wa3 not far away, and everpth'.Dg movable was taken in. Tenants began to run to us for shelter and we took them in also. .iTHctr w-PSNCe ?rreK tm rioor At half-past seven o'clock the storm began in earnest, and in half an honr it was impossible to stand against the wind. We had braced and tied down the roof as best we could, but one single puff carried away all our stays. In half an hour our roof was gone and the rain pelting in. At ten o'clock the wind was blowing seventy-five miles an hour. Once we made a sortie, and rescued a woman and two children, but hardly had we got them inside when the house began to creak and groan, and we sought the open. Dodging flying branches of trees and stray bits of timber, we crawled along the / V - r.j' r- . " lis !A?wwpS?IB'l!i! INING CUSTOM HOUSE, TONCE. lee side of a penguin fence to a aback, sheltered behind a bill, It was half-past twelve before tho storm was over and we could venture forth. Oar house, we found, had not blown down entirely; but the wooden walls were slanted at an angle of thirty degrees. The roof was completely off and everything inside absolutely ruined by the water. It was two days before we could cross the river to get to market. Every peasant's hut for three miles around nroo dnwH Four hundred houses on the outskirts of Bayamon were piled up in the public road. The railroad running to San Juan bad been completely washed away. The highways were blocked with rubbish. It was two days before supplies of bread reached the town. In the interim the people lived on half ripe fruit. Flrct EnglUh Strain Vensel. Eightv-two year3 ago on August 13 appeared in au English paper an advertisement of the first steam vessel to carry passengers in European waters. It was the Comet, a little boat cf twenty-five tons burden, running on the Clyde Eiver, between Glasgow and Greenock. Its builder and engineer was James Bell, a specuI-L! I- _ .1; i 1 .1 IHUVO 1UU1V1UUUI, WUU ucvun? uiuiself to inventions, while his wife ran a hoarding house. Iu 1807 Fulton's Clermont had made its first trip on the Hudson. Just 100 years before Fulton the value of 6teara in navigation had been demonstrated by Deuys I'apiu iu a model steamboat on the Fulda, near Cassel, Germany. After taking a hundred year9 from the date of the lirst invention to put the idea into practical force it has taken but eighty years more to bring the total value of the steamboats of the world up to considerably more than a thousand millions of dollars. Million a Front Foot. A mortgage of $20,000,000 on a tiny town lot is rarely recorded iu real estate amials. The city of San Jose, Cal., has within her liowery limits a little patch of ground which has actually borne an incumbrance of the above named stupendous proportions. This infinitesimal speck of California's map has represented in money .>WAAinAl? A mai?ina v?o i ,1 Qriotn fn ? cuiaci v vi Linl .iiuci ?ui |miu *v* the Philippine archipelago. And this San Jose lot, only a fairsize flower garden, according to the California notion as to gardens, measures 149G square feet, while the Philippene Islands comprise 11 i,000 square miles. ..? - "' "* ' " r /rf'-.-'v * FUNERAL BY TROLLEY CAR. | Custom Growing In Chicago, Largely Be- J cause of the Great Saving In Expense. Trolley car funerals threaten to sup plant the old style in Chicago. A sav ing of expense is oue of the chief argu ! ments in favor of the new plan. The INTERIOR OF CHICAGO TROLLEY FUNERAL CAE. I " ' nndertakers dislike to give up the liberal commicsions from livery establish- j ments tbey once enjoyed, but popular feeling is too strong to withstand. It costs but $11 for a motor car and a ; trailer, with an extra charge of $3 for every additional car needed. On the line of the Chicago Electric Traction Company, a special funeral car, the Virginia, is.provided. It is dark green in color. At each end is a vestibule, having a door in its front for the admission of the casket. In one of these vestibules the casket remains during the journey to the cemetery, screened from the rest of the car by heavy curtains. The car proper is richly furniehed, and accommodates twenty persons. The Calumet Company has no spesial funeral car, but the back is removed from the seat1 of an ordinary motor car and on this the casket is placed. On either side.of the casket the pall bearers take their places, while rela tives and friends occupy the remaining seats. On the Calumet line, which covers a wide stretch of territory, south of . Sixiy-third street, the number of trolley funerals sometimes reaches five a day. Arrangements with the undertakers in suburbs along the line are | made by the company. Apparatus For Home Atliletlca. In all well-appointed gymnasiums for both men and women, both heavy and light weight apparatus are to be had for those desiring either sort. But the apparatus most used in all gymnasiums is of very moderate weight. The clubs and dumbbells are of one or one and a half pounds each, and not exceeding two pounds. These are preferred in development work by both men and women. These are the best sizes if used properly, and no club or dumbbell exercise is woi th anvthincr unless it is correctly done, so that each movement "telle" on the proper muscle. A mere swinging around of clubs will accomplish nothing. It is said that the most powerful athletes have trained their bodies and developed their powers with apparatus no heavier than this. It is considered that heavy apparatus is apt to overstrain the muscles instead of hardening or strengthening them, and the best authorities say it should not be used. Tho correct movements of dumbbells are easily learned, nud much benefit can be got at home by the proper use of them. They can be bought very cheaply at any large athlelic outfitters.?Woman's Life. Allen'* Sense of Humor. No man in Congress has a keenei sense of humor than John Allen, ol Mississippi, who for various reasons has been much in the public eye during the past few months. Not long ago, in the midst of a very interesting onnocti n mfimhftl* fin the otner side I "I'VVVM, ~ I of the Chamber asked: "May I interrupt the gentleman ! from Mississippi for a moment?" "Is it for applause?" queried Mr. Allen. "The gentleman from Mississippi allows no interruptions exoept for applanse."?Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. , Sulci With the Coal. A new carmun was engaged at a coal j yard and he went off to deliver his I first load. He failed to return and a search was thereupon instituted. The missing man was found at the house where he had put the coal in the cellar and had taken up his quarters in the kitchen. The cook said she could not get him to leave, and the carman was asked what he meant by such conduct. "Why," he replied, "I thought ] was sold with the coal?I was weighed 'with it."?Tit-Bits. Flag* I'loat Side bv Side. In view of the present strained relations between Canada and the United States over the question of the Alaskan boundary, the accompanying photograph is interesting. It was taken at the extreme summit ot the White Pass, at the point where the boundary line between the possessions of Cauada and the United States is at ~Jk /fl I ?3*^ [gyiw^y DOUNDAKY LINE AT THE SUMMIT OF THE WHITE PASS. rresent fixed. On either side of the line is erccteil a tall staff. From one floats the Stars and Stripes ard from the other the Union Jack. The men j grouped arouud the flags are officers of the famous Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. t DH TALM AGE'S SERMON. IJ i: SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED J DIVINE. 'J t \ Subject: The Queens of Home?The Rights 3 of Woman Discussed?Her Dominion J is IIonie> and There She Should Might* g ly Kuie?Comforter of the Sick. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1999.1 C V-isniN'OTOj,', d. c.?In this discourse tho & opportunities of usefulness for women are r sot forth by Dr. Talmage, and tnany sym- 1 pathies are 9tirred and memories recalled. rThe text is Solomon's Songs, vi., 8. "There c are three-score queens." So Solomon by one stroke set forth the 1 imperialcuariiumrui auud uuimmu wum- nu. She Is not a slave, 110; a hireling, not 1 a subordinate, but a queen. In a former I sermon I showed you that crowu and courtly attendants and Imperial wardrobe were x not necessary to make a queen, but that t graces of the heart and life will give coro- * nation to any woman. I showed you at a some length that woman's position was c higher in the world than man's, and that, E although she had often been denied the > right of suffrage, she always did vote and 0 always would voto by her influence, and ? that her chief desire ought to be that sho 1 should have grace rightly to rule in the 1 dominion whli'h she lias already won. I * bognn an enumeration of some of her rights 9 and now I resume the subject. t In the first place, woman has the special 8 and the superlative right of blessing aud 0 comforting the sick. What land, wbnt " street, what house has not felt the smithies t of disease? Tens of thousandsjof sick beds! c What shall wo do with them? Shall man, s with his rongh hand and clumsy foot, go c stumbling around the sickroom, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate t the pains of the distressed patient? The c young man at collece may scoff at the idea * of being unner miuentu luuuoacea, uui iu * the first blast of typhoid fever on his cheek he says, "Where Is mother." It is an awful thing to be 111 away from home in a strange hotel, once in awhile men coming In to look at you, holding their liaml over their mouth tor fear they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bedl How loudly they talk! How you long for the ministries of home! I know one suoh who went away from one of the brightest of homes for several weeks' business absence at the west. A. telegram came at midnight that he was on his deathbed far away from home. By express train tLe wife and daughters wont westward, but they went too late. He feared not to die, but he was in an agony to lire until his family got there. He tried to bribe the doctor to make him live a little longer. He said, "I am willing to die, but not alone." But the pulses fluttered, tho eyes closed and the heart stopped. The express (rains met in the midnight, wife and daughters going westward, lifeless remains of husband aud father coming eastward. Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle! When we are sick, we want to be sick at home. When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at home. The room may be very humble, and the face3 that look Into ours may be very Elain, but who cares for that? Loving ands to bathe the temples. Loving voices A f Auln/? Una tn rnarf iu spea& k<juu cucoi juvfiu^s *v ?WUv. the comforting promises of Je9U3. In our Civil War meu cast the cannon, < men fashioned the musketry, men cried to the hosts, "Forwaril, march!" men hurled 1 their battalions on the sbarp edges of the t enemy, crylne, "Charge, charge!" but t womun scraped the lint, woman admluls- i tered the cordials, woman watched by the < dying couch, woman wrote the last raes- t sage to the home circle, woman wept at the solitary burial, attended by herself i and four men with a spade. We greoted < the generals home with brass bands and 3 triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the 1 Btory Is too good to be written anywhere 1 save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. t Brady, who came down among the 9lck in i the swamps of the Chickahominy; of Annie < Rcss in the copper shop hospital; of Mar- 1 guret Ereckinridge, who came to men who i had beeu for weeks with their wounds un- i dressed?some of them frozen to' the I ground, and when she turned them over thoie that had an arm loft waved it 1 and filled the air with their "hurrah!" 1 ?of Mrs. Hodge, who camo from Chi- 1 cago with blankets and with pll- i lows, until the men shouted: "Three i cheers for the Christian commission! < Ood bless the women at home!" then sit- ? ting down to take the last message: "Toll ' my wife not to fret at out me, but to meet : me in heaven; tell her to train up thoboya I whom wo have loved so well; tell her we ' sbnil meet again iu the good land; tell her < to bear ray loss like the Christian wife of a I Christian soldier," and of Mrs. Suelton, in- < to whose face the convalescent soldier 1 looked and 3aid, "Your grapes and cologne J cured me." And so it was also through all i of our war with Spain?women heroic on 1 the field, braving death and wounds to ' reach the fallen, watching by their fever cots in the West Indian hospitals or on the ! troopships or in our smitten home camps. I Men did tboir wor .< with shot and shell aud 1 carbine and howitzer; women did their ] work with socks and slippers and bandages I and warm drinks and Scripture texts and I gentle stroking of the hot temples and I stories of that land where they never have J any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded.and said, "On which side did you i fight?" "Women knelt down over the 1 wounded and said: "Where are you hurt?- ] wri>f n 1.*a < hfni? can I make for vou to eat? ( What makes you cry?" To-night while we men are sound asleep in our beds there will be a light In yondor loft; there will be groaning down thut dark alley; there will i bo cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep, aud women will watch. I Again, woman has a special right to 1 take caro of the poor. There nre linn- ] dreds and thousands of them all over the land. There Is a kind of work that men ' caunot do for the poor. Here eomts a ] group of little barefoot children to the I t door of the Dorca3 society. They need to I be clothed and provided for. Which of < these directors of banks would know how many yards It would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these mascu- i line hands could.fit a hat to that little i girl's head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and It falls like the fruit of a tree lu the east, which fruit comes down so heavily ; that it breaks the skull of the man who ' is trying to gather it. But worr.au glides * so softly into the house of destitution and ' finds out all the sorrows of the place and ' t.nto an nuietlv tbo donation on the table thnt all the family come out on the front steps as she departs, expecting that from under her shawl she will thrust out two 1 wings and go right up toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down, i Can you tell me why a Christian woman, going down among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian errand, never meets with any indignity? I stood iu the chapel of Helen Chalmers, tho daughter of tho celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in tho most abandoned part of the city of Edinhurg, and I said to ber as I looked around upon the fearful'surroundings'of that place, "Do vou come here nights to hold u service?" "Oh, yes!" she snld. "Can it be possible that you never meet with nn insult whiie i performing this Christian errand?" "Never," she said, "never." That young woman who has her father by her side, walking down the street, nrmed police at nach corner, Is not so well defended us that Chrictatn woman who goes forth ou gospel work Into the haunt* of iniquity, carrying the Dibles and bread. God with the red rli?lit arm of His wrath omnipotent would I tear to pieces any one who should offer in dignity to tier, Ho woum smice nun mm lightnings mid drown him with Roods und 3wallow him witii earthquakes, au.l >lr?'iin him with eternal iulignatlons. Some one sild: "I dislike very ir.ucli to see that Christian woman teaching those bad boys in the mission school. I am afraid to hive j her instruct them." "So," said another ( man. "J am afraid, too." Said the iirst. ' I am afraid they will use l ad language leforo they leave tho place." "Ah." said j tho other mini, "lam not afraid of that. ( What I am afraid of is that if any of those boys should use a bad word iu her presence tho other boys would tear him to pieces aud kill him ou tho spot." That woman is tho best sheltered who is sheltered by the Lord God Almightv, and you need never fear going anywhere where God tolls you to sr<?. ' It seems as if the Lord had ordained ' woman for a;i especial work in tho solid- ! tmirtii nf charities. Backed tip by barrels 1 i In which thero In no flour, ami by stoves ! iii which there ia uo lire, ami by wardrobes ia which tuere is 110 clothes, u woman is irresistible. Passiug on her errand,God says i tohor, "You go into that bank or store or I I shop and get tho money." blie goes In and i >-~v : v ' ' ..V- / ;et3 it. The man Is hard-fisted, but she 7 ;ets it. She could not lielp but get it. It 9 decreed from eternity she should get it. to need ot your turning your back and iretending you don't liear; yc? do hear. ?here is do need of your saying you aro legged to death. There is no need of your g 7USClDg your time, ami jgu luiyu* ?g wmi ubmit first as last. You liad bntt?r right ? ,way take down your checkbook, mark s he number of the check, fill up the blank, ? ign your name and hand it to her. Tiiore t i no need of wasting time. Thoss poor ? hlldren on the back street have been mngry long enough. That s!ck man oust have somo farina. That coasump- t ive must have something to ease his I ougli. I meet this delegatf of a relief so- c icty coming out of the storo of such n ' iard-flsted man, and I say, "Did you get P ho money?" "Of course," sho says, "I rot the monor; that's what I went in for. t .'he Lord told me to go in and get it, and t le never sends me on a fool's errand." r Again, I have to tell you that it is a C woman's specific right to comfort under ho stress of dire disaster. She is called he weaker vessel, but all profane as well ? is sacrod history attests that when the t risls comes sho is better prepared than nan to meet the emergency. How often . ou have seen a woman, who seemed to be , disciple of frivolity and indolence, under ine stroke of calamity changed to a hero- ? no. Oh, what a great mistake those busl- ' I aau man m#h ?rllf> n?vpp trtll tllflir hnsi- 3 less troubles to their, wives! There comc3 v ome great loss to their store or some ot v heir companions in business play thsm a J ud trick, and they carry the burden all * ilone. He is asked in tho household again md again, "Wbat is the matter?" But he relieves it a sort of Christian duty to keep ill that trouble within his own.soul. Oh, ir, your first duty wa3 to tell your wife all j ibout It! CI I Again, I remark It is woman's right To 1 ?rlng to us the kingdom of heaven. It Is >asier for a woman to bo a Christian than I or a man. Wny? You say she is weaker, Jo. Her heart is more responsive to the j (leadings ot divine love. She is iu vast ? najorlty. Tho fact that she can more eas- t ly become a Christian I prove by the , tatement that three-fourth9 of the mem- j >ers of churches in all Christendom are vomen. So God appoints them to be the . ihief agencies for bringing this world back ' o God. I may stand hero and say the soul s Immortal. There is a man who will deny f t. I may stand here and say we are lost md undone without Christ. There is a man ' vho will contradict It. I may stand here i ind say there will be a judgment day after tjvhile. Yonder is some one who will dis- t mte it. But a Christian woman in a { Christian household, living in the faith and , he consistency of Chrl3t's gospel?nobody ian refute that. The greatest sermons are . lot preached on celebrated platforms; they ire preached with an audience of two or bree and in private home life. A consls- t ent, consecrated Christian service is an ' infinatrArnhle demonstration of God'3 ruth. A sailor came clipping down tho ratines one night, a3 though something had lappened, and the sailors cried, "What's he' matter?" He said, "My mother's >rayer haunts me like a ghost." Home nfluences, consecrated home influences, ire the mightiest of all Influences upon :be soul. There are men who have mainlined their Integrity not because tbey vere any better naturally than some other 3eople, but because there were home inluenoes. praying for them all the time. They got a good start. They were aunched on the world with the benodicions of a Christian mother. They may :rack Siberian snows, they may plunge in African jungles, they may flee to theearth's md?they cannot go so far and so fast but :he prayers will keep up with them. There are prayers for you to offor, there ire exhortations for you to give, there are samples for you to set, and I say now as Paul said to the Corinthian woman, "What cnovest thou but that thou shalt save thy inoKumH" a man was dvinor and he said 1 :o hia wife, "Rebecca, you wouldn't Jet ne have family prayers, you laughed 1 ibout nil that and you got me away Into ivorldllness, and now I'm going to die, and ray fate Is sealed, and you are tho cau9e of ny rulul" 0 woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband? I Are there not some of you who have kind* iy influences at home? Are there not some j ivho have wandered far away from God ivbo can remember the Christian influences in their early home? Do not despise those Influences, my brother. If you die without Christ, what will you do with your mothar's prayers, with your wife's importunities, ivlth your sister's entreaties? What will ' you do with the letters they used to write to you, with the memory of those days 1 ivhen they attended you'so kindly in times | Df sickness? Ob, if there be just one strand jl lioldlDg you from floating off from that dark I wou'd just like to take hold of that strand now and pull you to the beach! For the sake of your wife's God, for the Jake of your mother's God, for the sake of /our daughter's God, for the sake of your sister's God come this day and be saved. Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific rights of woman is, through the ffrace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. Oil, wtiat n multitude of women In heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, In heaven, Elizabeth Fry In heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth In heaven, the mother of Augu3tlne In heaven, the Countess of Huntington, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels, In heaven, while a great" many others who have never been heard of on earth or known but little have gone Into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no Are and one window (the glass broken out), and the aching side, nnd wornout eyes, to the "house of many mansions!" No more stitching until 12 o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work to show It was not dono quite right. Plenty of bread at Inst! Heaven for aching heads! 1 Heaven for broken hearts! Heaven for anguish bitten frames! No more sitting until midnight for the corning of staggering 9teps! No more rough blows across the temple! No more sharp, keen, bitter curses. trill hnrn no rest In this OUUIO VI JVU uti> world. It will be toil and struggle rind Buffering all the way up. Yon will have I to stund at' your door fighting back the wolf with your own hand red with carnage. But God has a crown for you. I want yen to realize this morning that fTo is now making it, and whenever you weep a tenr He sets another gem in that crown, whenever you have a pang of body or soul He puts unother gem in that crown, until after awhile la all^. the tiara there will be no room for an' other splendor, and God will say to His ongel, "The crown is done; let her up that she may wear it." And as the Lord of righteousness puts tho crown upon your brow, angel will cry to angel, "Who i3 3be?" and Christ will say: "I will tell you who she is. She is the one that camo up out of great tribulation and had her robe washed and made white in tho blood of the Lamb." And then God will spread a banquet, and He will invite nil the principalities of heaven to sit at the feast, and the tables will blush with tho best clusters i from the vineyards of God and crimson with the twelve manner of fruits from i the Tree of Lite, and waters from the I fountains of the rocs win uasu nuui mu i golden tankards, and tho old harpers of ] heaven will sit there, making music with tbelr harps, and Christ will point you out, amid the celebrities o:! heaven, saying, "Slio suffered with Me on earth; now we , are goincr to glorified together." And the banqueters, no loflgerableto hold their peace, will break forth with congratula- . tion, "Hail! hail!" And there will be J handwritings on the wall?not such as j struck the Babylonian noblemen with hor* 1 ror, but fire-tipped fingers, writing in 1 blazing capitals of light and love, "God hath wiped uway all tears from all faces!" I 1 Tlie Endeavorer* in Englnnd. In England the Baptists load in numbers ' in tho Christian Endeavor Society; iu Aus- 1 tralia, the Methodist*; in Canada, the 1 ' Methodists; in tho United States, the 1 Presbyterians. Great Britain has over 5000 societies; Australia, 2000; India, 434; CKiina, 14S; Africa, 136; Mexico, 108: West Indies, 103; Germauy, 101; Madagascar, 93; Japan, 73, and Spain, 30. IinptlsiDH In Preabyterinti Clittrclie*, The number of baptisms last year iu the L'reshyteriau (Juuren were iewer in oumwc i than for som<? year.*. There wore 17.GS2 : ulult baptisms to 21,571 the preceding year, I mil 24,998 infant baptisms to 27,763 the J >-ear previous. A Twentieth Century Fund. The Methodist aad Presbyterian 'ihuroliea of Canada each p'oposo to raise 41,000,000 to commemorate the opening of the asv? ; century _ .... ... I HE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wuhlncton Itama. Th* value of tue principal articles of dojeatic export for the month of August war * M 53,1)25,488. Compared with the sams loath. last year the value of breadfltuffa Sa rnVfted in August shows an increase of 5 671.023. provisions an increase of $2,? 31,275, mineral oils an inorease of $1,554,02, while cotton shows a decrease of $89,. GeoerAl Miles has received reports on tht rials of high explosives made at Sandy look. The tests showed that projectile* ,.'<53 ontainlng high explosives can be throws rlth enough force to penetrate armo* State Senator Emery, of Pennsylvania, estlfled before the Industrial Commissloo hat rebates granted by the railroads wer? - 33 esponsible for the power cf the Standard )11 Company. Secretary Gage has decided in the cast f Appraiser Waiieman, of New York City, '? v?B bat he Is to be continued In office, bar um ue ue nsiteu iu sepuritie uiuianu uvui ; ifflclal relations with the Tariff League. ?he President has approved. An order for the organization of two olored regiments was issued from the Var Department. All of the company oflers are colored men who served in the par with Spain, either as regulars or as riSj olunteers. The regiments will be desiglated the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Tolunteer Infantry. Our Adopted Iitanris. General Ludlow has suggested to th? Lmerlcan officers in the Department of lavana the advisability of learning Span* * tfjj Traces of gold have been found in tho 'rovlnce of Puerto Principe, Cuba. William Owen Smith, who is to represent lawall at Washington during the coming iession of Congress, was born in Hawaii ibout fifty years ago, and bas for many , rears been one of the most prominent and nfiuential men in the islands. v The duty on Porto Btcan cofTee going to 3uba has been modified as a relief measure. The city of Keuvitas, Cuba, Is suffering rom a water famine, there being no water n the place except that which Is brought rom a distance. The river water is sold it the rate of fifteen cents for four gallons. The health statistics of Havana for the nonth of August, which have just been ssued, show that during the month there we eleven deaths fro*u yellow fever. The Mayor of lams has disappeared. Ho s supposed to have joined the insurgents. A rebel band north of Manila was rooted jy a body of American troops under Gapaln Buttler, of the Third Infantry. '21 Domestic. Paul Roehrlcht was shot and Instantly tilled In North Plalnfleld, N..J., by Mrs. Peter Flngerhuth, whom he was about to svlct# em Captaia N. Mayo Dyer, who commanded he cruiser Baltimore at the Battle of Hanlla Bay, was feted in Baltimore. Mayor ilalster presented to the Captain a magliflcent sword, the gift of the City Coun:il and the people of the city. Peter Bateman, a prospector, has been found dead on the Harqubala desert only :hree miles from water at Cullen's Wells, Lrizona. Death plainly bad been of thirst. So was fifty-five years old and a veteran .Ja >f the Civil War. A brother lives at Detroit, Mioh. ;J| Captain John S. Fair has enlisted at Harrlsburg, Pens., a full-blooded Americas ,23 Indian for the Forty-third Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry. He to Charley Naltway, of the Apache tribe, Through the influence of General Crook, Charley was sent East as a pupil at the . Carlisle Indian School. For several months - - S he bad been in the employ of the Cambria /Jo Iron Company at JohoBtown. By a rear-end oolllslon on the Delaware* 33 Lackawanna and Western Railroad near Kayaug, Peon., two men were killed, twc - "jS seriously injured and three bad narrow ? ? mi%? ova PflfvlrtV Mitllfln J escapes. xuc unuu ?? a , brakeman, of Scranton, leaves wife and two children, and Joseph Parry, of Nay&ug, brakeman, unmarried. Major Hasting, a brother of former Govsrnor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, was seat to prison at Philadelphia In default of .<S BIO,000 bail, on charges of forgery and false pretense. The Board of Health at Jacksonville, Fla., received official notification of thir :een cases of yellow fever at Mississippi Dlty, Miss., and at once established quarantine against that region. The naval collier Matteawan arrived at M Jan Francisco, Cul., from Norfolk, Va., irith nine men in her crew who were sailors )n the Spanish warship Almirante Oquen- - $8 lo, which was destroyed at Santiago by Sampson's flest. Tue sailors declare they will become American citizens, and say they never will return to Spain. Captain Richard Freeman and Nelson lUgulre, a sailor, the survivors of the "gjjaj wreck of the Canadian bnrge Lisgar, which went down in Lake Huron, arrived In Milwaukee, Mich., aboard the steamer Case. The roof of the cabin of the Lisgar * Boats about Lake Huron with tue body of the captain's wife and two snllors lashed to it. Tbe bodies of two other men are in Lake Huron. The Garden City Hotel, built in part by A. T. Stewart as a feature of bis soneme to *j establish an ideal p'ace of resldenoe on Long Island, was destroyed by fire. Los* AfiA , vya g^wu,vuu, At the State People's Party Convention at Philadelphia resolutions were adopted condemning the war in the Philippine*. ' ~if,7} The platform also indorses the nomination of the National Convention at Cincinnati last year. A State ticket was put in the Held. . While digging a will on Lookout Monn< tain, G. H. Jarnagln and others discovered gold quartz in large quantities about six miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. It gives evidence of being a rich vein. The discovery caused a great deal of excitement. Lin Jug, a Chinese leper, died in a hot -'V on Blackwell Island, New York City, In which he lived with another leper 'since 1897. Jug died from heart disease. Foreign. General Jimenez has arrived in 8anto Domingo's capital and has issused a manifesto declaring that he would not accopt the Presidency until elected by the people.. A new Ministry was formed in Venezuela. with Senor Calcauo as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tha RroTiifon ftnvernment has nrotested against the sale of the lands of The Daks of Saxe to the German Government. The Attorney-General of Spain has demanded that Admiral Montojo, who commanded the Spanish fleet at Manila, be llsmi33ed from the service. He agrees to :he exoneration of Major Sostoa, who com*' sanded the Cavlte arsenal at the time ol Dewey's victory. In view of the agitation by the Cnrlists and Autonomists in Biscay, which has assumed extensive proportions, the Spanish Government ha3 suspended the constitutional guarantees in that province. Anes Cabinet has been formed at Lima. Peru, with 8.enor Galvez as Premier and Minister of Foreign AfTalrs, and Senor'Be- * launde as Minister of Finance and Commerce. The Dowager Empres3 of China has asked that work begun by Euglish and American? I rv nvAvln/in r\ f h n on On the arrival of the bark Lamarksbire from Frauco at Glasgow the chief mate, Charles Black, of Montreal, was arrested on charge of shooting ana killing a colored seaman named Trott after a quarrel. Groceries bavo advanced ten to flfteeD per cent, at Johannesburg, South Africa, and supplies from the coast are anxiously awaited. The Korean Emperor has ordered a reform in dress, and has issued nu edict that longer sleeves must be worn with long coats. The New South Wales Cabinet resigned because of a vote of lack of confidence, r.nd Mr. Lyne, leader of the opposition, was summoned to form a Ministry. General Benjamin t. xracy, oeiore me Anslo-Venezuelan Boundary Arbitration Commission at Paris, took up his argument In behalf of the Venezuelan case, devoting the greater prrt of the first day tc a discussion of the International rules re? la'J::s 3 tlia rlrhis of dUrov-r. J