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STATE MBTIENTACTS' Secretary Hay Says the Flour Seizures Were Illegal. i WILL INSIST UPON OUR RIGHTS. Instructions Sent to Ambassador Choate | Keeardlnj; tlio Seizures ot American (iooilK? !\?r. liny Holds That Britain'* : Action Was Interlcronc? With tlie Tr;iUo of Tvro N out rill Nations. Washington', D. C. (Special).?The State Department has received by [cable from j Embassador Choate at London a statement [>f the facts be bad learned in connection I with the seizure by British warships of ! American goods on throe merchant vessels, the Beatrice, tha Mashona and the Maria. The goods comprised not only flour, but miscellaneous articles of common trade, and whilo they were pliipped for Lorenzo Marques in British and German ships, yet the contention of the officers hero is that they were not subject to seizuro. They could not raako representations on the subject nntil they possessed a knowledge of the facts, but us soon as Mr. Choate's statement was received instructions were sent to him by cable to iuform the British Government that the right of seizure in these cases were not admitted. Thl3 is the preliminary step usually taken in such negotiations. Next in order will be a report from the American consuIof MnmBoiitiiH nf T.nrnnzn Mnraues re ppoctlnc tho present condition of the goods Seized or detaiund and the damage sustained. Tho State Department is not yet fully informed on these points, although they will bo necessary to the further presentation of the case. It will be the duty of the consular agent at Lorenzo JIarque3 to ascertain and report those facts, and he Is now engaged in doing this under the original instructions of tho State Department. i While tho Department is acting, as it promised in the beginning, firmly to protect all American rights of trade, It is ] showing no unseemly haste in the presentation of the case. The instructions,to Mr. Choate were not a demand for the release of the goods, nor for Indemnity, |)Ut rather a precautionary notice to the British Government to save all the 'rights of the United States. It will bo sufficient to effect a settlement of the matter by negotiation, and the State Department has ^ not the slightest doubt that the British Government will make full amends to tho ownors of tbe goods when all the facts are * laid before it. f GERMANY FILES A PKOTEST. } (foreign Office Sends a Note to Great J Britain?Another Steamer Soiled. Beblin (By Cable).?The Foreign Office has sent a note to Oreat Britain protesting (gainst tne seizure of the German steamer Bundesrath, which was arrested by a pritlsh cruiser off the east ooast of Africa Da suspicion of carrying contraband of war. the note states the German view of the case. tka ttomhnpcflp ftnrrocn a nh Pn fr ctfifAct that the British have seized the Hamburg jtenmer Htfns Wagner near Delagoa Bay, unci that the owners ot the vessel hav? complained to the Foreign Office, A SURPLUS OF 52 1,000.000. Tlie Governments'* Finances For the First Half sf the Currant Fiscal Year. % "Washington, D. C. (Special).?The com? paratlve statement ot receipts and expen( | dltures of tbe Government shows tbat for V ? the first half of the current fWoal year c there was a surplus of $21,026,934,83 in receipts over disbursements. v The total funds received into the Treasary in December were $46,759,104, or more than $5,000,000 more than in December, 1898. The expenditures for tbe month amounted to $39,145,559. For the first six months of the fiscal year the receipts were $284,703,494 and the expenditures $263,766,560. The monthly circulation statement issued OAnfvAlUf r\ f tha Pn pron r? tr uhnwa that at the close of business December 30, 1899, th? totnl circulation ol National bank notes was $240,195,528, an increase for the year of $2,460,418 ana for the month of $2,435,275. Tbe circulation based on United States bonds amounted to $209,759,985, a decrease for tbe year of $4,256,002, aud an Increase for tbe month of $593,083. The circulation secured by lawful money was $36,435,538, (in increase for the year of $6,716,420, and for th? month of $1,837,192. ? PORTUGAL'S CORTES OPENS. Message From the Throne Fails to Mention the Transvaal. Lisbon (By Cable).?The Cort#3 was opened on Tuesday. The message from the Throne declared that the cordlalityjof Portugal's relations with the other powers was shown by the presence in theTagu? of fleets of France, Germany, and Great Britain. The Government, it continued, had caused itself to be represented at the Brussels and The Hague Conferences, the former to chcck tbe abuses of alcoholism in South Africa and the latter to reduce tbe frequency aud to minimize the horrors of war, and it was hoped that both humanitarian objects would be achieved. The remainder of the speech was confined to domestic alTairs, and no mention was made of Great Britain or the Transvaal. ONLY ONE OF THE CREW SAVED Eight Lives Lost in tlie Wreck of a Schooner on Cabot Island. St. JonN?, N. F. (Special).?During a severe hurricane the schooner Puritan wvs driven on Cabot Island ana completely wrecked. Of tbe crew of nino persons only one man was saved. Tbe sole survivor, though his arm was broken, contrived to get above the reach of the waves, remaining on a jutting pinnacle ot rock until the keeper of the liurlithows# and his assistants rescued hlan. Tbey lowered a man over the cliff with a spurorope by means of which the injured man was raisod to a place of safety. Six of the eight who perished were married men, nearly all with lurge families. Captain Carter was married only three days before sailing. muoiivaii uib iu vuuwi Eight hundred bogs were recently exported from tho United States to Havana, but six hundred died within three days. MiijorDavfssavs tlie animals died of cholera, and recommends that no more hogs J>e sent from the United States, as he considers that further importations would be dangerous to tho health of Hay.ina. British Consul to Become a Cltiznn. 'Philip H. Btirrougb, who has Lean British Consul in Kausas City, Mo., for nearly six years', has resigned and has decided to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. Prominent People. _ Senator Hauna is reputed to be worth 50,000,000. President Hadley once hejd the running record of Yale. LI Hung Chang has been appointed Acting Viceroy of Canton. Count Lao Tolstoi is now pronounced by bis medical advisers fully restored to hij Oidinary health. Sir Thomas Lipton has been unanimously plected rear - commodore of the ltoyal Ulster Yacht Club. Tho committee having charge of th? fund for the relief of the family of the lat? jltijor General Henry W. Lawton will enieavor to raise 550.000. ' iijrVft' ii .. ? M~ i*' i if viT?rv% n SA7EDBYBBEECHES BUOY Thrilling Rescue of the Crew of the Schooner Hitchcock. COULD NOT LAUNCH LIFE BOAT. rh? Schooner I'an Aground in n Ranch Sra-Lit'* Line Fouled at First?Beach Patrolmen Made a Gallant Fight For Hours?The Crew Safely Pulled to Shore?Nine Sailors Itcscued. Eastport, L. I. (Special).?One of the most thrilling rescues of a shipwrecked orew ever witnessed on the Long Island coast was effected here when nine men were brought ashore over and through :lie waves la tue Drseanes uauy iru w mo stranded schooner S. P. Hitchcock. She is loaded with lumber. RESCCIXO SnirWBECKED SAII.OB3 IN THE BREECHES BUOY. The vessel was discovered aground by Bench Patrolmen Griflln and Tuttle. Signals for assistance wera displayed, and the orew of the Moriches Life-Saving Station answered them, informing the crew of the vessel that efforts would b? made to take them off. There was a very rough sea on, and the life-savers decided that to launch the surf boat would only place themselvesin great peril. The crew ran out the other life-savin? apparatus, and before daylight shot a life line out to the vessel. The second one reached her, and then the crew of the Hitchcock began to haul In the line. At Its end was the hoavy line which operates the breeches buoy. Despite the simplicity of the gear and the printed directions which accompany the wnip itne ana caoie, (us uiow u; iuo Hitchcock managed to foul it. The breeches buoy had been rigged when the crew of the Hitchcock was still hauling on the line and the apparatus had been anchored, but It was Impossible to use th? buoy owing to the fouling aboard the ship. The crews from the Moriches, Forge River, and Patuuck stations arrived at daylight to aid. The crews waited for the ship's crew to clear the lines, but they did nothing. At 8 o'clock Captain Seaman of the East Morichej crew signaled to clear -the lines. The signal was answered as understood and man were seen to go to the lines, but It was 9 o'clock before the Une3 were In working order. The Hitchcock had meanwhile driven in further, and a readjustment of the anchor nnd shore line was needful. A few minutes after ten o'clock the breeohes buoy reached the ship on its first trip. The first man to enter the breeches took the trip through the water as the ship rolled toward the 9bore just as ho reached the line. The second man's deparcure was better planned, and he rode ashore without getting wet. The rest had varied fortunes until the ninth man was safe. Captain Sorensen then entered the breeches, bringing his papers and instruments. He also landed safely. As fast as the men wera landed they were taken to the station and jared for. 1TQUNG WOMAN PREVENTS A WRECK. She DUcovers a Burning Railroad Bridge Just lit Time. New York Citt (Speolnl).?The brldg* 3ver the East Chester road on the subur ban line of the New Huven Railroad in The Bronx caught Are, it is supposed from | i spark dropped by a passing locomotive, ind was burned. Mabel Fields, the eighteen-year-old JauKhtor of Tax Commissioner August C. Fields, discovered the tire a9 she was on the way to a church entertainment and ran down the track neirly half a mile to West Chester, ^here she uotifled the station agent. ?He ran back to the bridge, arriving just In time to flag a heavy freight train which was running about thirty mile? an hour. Several passenger trains arrived later and Iheir craws fought the lire till a wrecking irew arrived from the Harlem River yards. Twenty-two Sailors Drown, ^London- (By Cable).?A dispatch from dristol announces that the British steamer Borghese, of Glasgow, foundered of? Cap* Finisterre in a hurricane. Twenty-two oi the crew were drowned. Thp survivors nine la number, have just arrived iu Bristol. FOURTEEN SOLDIERS INSANETheir Minds Unbalanced While Campaigning in the Philippines. San Francisco (Special).?The folio wins soldiers, declared to be iasane, have been sent to Washington, D. C., from the Presidio Military Reservation: Sergeant Thomas F. Collins, Company G, Sixth Infantry; Sergeant Owen H. Wissman, Hospital Corps; Privates Thomas F Barry, Hospital Corps; Artou Earber, Company E, Fourth Infuntry; Michael Gallagher, Company C, Twenty-third Infantryi George M. Barton. Troop C, Fourth Cavalry; Walter A. O'Neill, Battery F, Sixtt Artillery; Louis Ford, Company L, Fourth Infantry; Emerick Mulner, Company B, Sixth Inlantry; David E. Young, Com pan j A, Seventeenth Infantry; Frank Thayer, Company I, Seventeenth Infantry; Georgo W. Decker, Company E, Eighteenth Infautry; Joseph Hoffman, Company E, Twentysecond lnfautry; George J. Nixon, Company I, Twelfth Infantry. Nearly all of these mon lost their minds as a result of campaigning in the Philip nines. Boy Murderer Handed. Edward C'ressinger, agednineteon years, was hanged at Sunbury, Penn., for tho murder of sixteen-year-old Daisy Smith, daughter of a farmer at Boyles Itun, lowoi Augusta iuwusui[>. ^ressiuger wus 1111 youngest murderer hauled iu the State. The crime was committed on August 10 18'JS, and was the result of joalousy. Governor McLaurln N amcd For Senator Governor McLaurin was Dominated by the joint caucus of the Legislature at Jacksou, Miss., for tbe term In the United States Seriate, beginning March, 1901. Ho received 118)$ votes of a possible 179. Representative Allen was put iu nomination, but most of his friends refused to vote. Monument to a Cuban Patriot., General Maximo Gomez h&3 laid at San Pedro, Cuba, oa the spot where Gensral Uaceo was killed, the foundntion stona ot a monumeut that will be erected in memory of the dead patriot. 8300,000- Poitoftice Deficiency. Secretary Gage transmitted to Congress an estimate for deficiencies in the Postoffice Department amounting to about $300,000. Iucluded in the list is an item for $150,000 for experimental rural free delivery, $50,000 for railway postal clerks and $3000, for the representative of theDepartmeut to the celebration of the twenty-fifth, anniversary of the International Union, at Berne, Switzerland, Contraband Found ou the Bundeiratli. It is reported at Durban, Natal, that the captured German steamer Bundesrath had on board Ave big guns, fifty tons of shells and 180 trained artillerymen. CHICAGO CANAL OPENED. [ Water Finally Turned Into the Drain- ! age and Ship Channels WONDERFUL ENGINEERING FEAT. Opening of tlie Great Waterway Divided the East Front the West as Though it Were an Island?Gulf and Lakes are Now Connected?Entire Work Cost 533,000,000?Seven Years in Building. I Q.?What is the richest and most i powerful island in the world? A.?The island bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the west by the Mississippi River and on the north by the Great Lakes, tlje St. Lawrence River and tlje Chicago Draiijage Canal. Chicago (Special).?At 9 o'clock Tuesday morning water was turned into the $33,000,003 drainage canal and began to flow toward ;Lookport, where it will fall into the Desplaines River and thence flow into the Illinois and Mississippi Blvera. The collateral channel has been tor some time completed from the Chicago River to within fifteen feet of the main channel, and the fifteen foot wall of earth, with two sluice gates behind it, has been all that has kept the Chicago River and Lake Michigan out of the canal. Probably no public work ever has been undertaken by any other State or municl* pality which was designed to do so mucb Cor the navigable and commercial interests of the country as this canal. The requirement of the law, which compelled the construction of the rock sections to meet the demands of tho next generation, was wise, for It has laid the foundation of a mammoth ship oanal.conneotlng the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River and the Gulf, and saving the sanitary district [of Chicago aud the Federal Government the great expense that would be necessary in rock excavation and blasting under tho flowing water. The *# nnnfl f r\ fhft cfnclfi rAHllfrA* mont of disposing ol sewaRe, could have been constructed for $12,000,000. So the sanitary district has expended $21,000,000 Inthe direction of the great narigablo waterway. As an engineering triumph tho great interest in the canal lies in the fact that it disposes of the sewage of this city In a manner contrary to the laws oj nature and gravity. The canal, properly speaking', begins at the south branch Of the Ohicngo River at Robey street, and continues1' southward as an entirely artificial channel until It reaches the controlling works at Lockport, a distance of twenty-eight miles. A.t Lockport the ohannel widens to about 500 feet, into a basin, in which the large lake vessels can bo turned and maneuvred. The fall from the mouth of the Calcago river to the Lockport works?and bivff remembered that henceforth the Chicago Elver will flow upstream, as commonly understood ? is only seven feet, so that the flowtof water in rapidity and vol? nme through the Chicago River to tb? canal is controlled by the bear trap dam and controlling works at the Lookport terminus, the fall south of the controlling works being abrupt, and about forty feet In the next four miles. It is by means of these controlling works :hat the water was turned down to the ralley by the simple opening of the gates or valves, and it also is by means of the 2ontrolling work3 that the waters down :he valley can be turned off as suddenly in jase of emergencies. Tho'populur belief that the waters of the :anal having been once turned down the valley, the flow must bo unceasing and beI ?- J u ? ? !< ftBHATMiftno fr\y fho yuiiu uuuuita uuuliui 13 ciiuuwu,>, >v. ?. flow of tills great volume of 300,000 cubio feot a minute can lie stopped almost as easily as tbe simple turning of a faucet in the spigot of a barrol. The first work in this great enterprise <vos begun on "Shovel Day," Septomber 3, 1S92, on tbe rock cut fcelow Lemont, on the Hue between Cook and Will Counties, so Ihat a littlo over seven year3 have been consumed In the entire work, Involving an autlay of about '533,000,000. Over eighty per cent, of the entire work was done during the so-called panlo period, nnd owing to this fact tbe entire cost of construction was reduced about 88,000,000. Indeed, th? Hoard of Trustees and its engineers are uuanlmous in the belief that the work could not be duplicated under existing prices for both labor and material for less than $40,000,000. SLAVERY IN CUAM MUST CEASE. Proclamation Issued by Captain Leary, the American Governor. Manila (By Cable).?A naval officer who ba3 arrived here from Guam brings a projlamatloi Issued by Captain Leary, naval governor of that island, decreeing the absolute prohibition and total abolition of Bluvory or peonage, the order to take effect Februuj-y 22. The "prologue o/ the proclamation declares that the Spanish system of peonage, amounting to slavery, is a menace to popular liborty and a violation of the priviI ipcios ciinmntfiBfi bv th?. American const! tution. ^ Captain Leary also deported all the 8paniah priests, for reasons which were wufllclent forhim. CUBA'S CABINET SWORN IN. Uemburi Swear Allegiance to the Authorities of the United Stutei. Havana (By Cable).?The President ol the Supreme Court, Senor Mendoza, in tba Throne Room of the Paluce, administered the oath o( office to the members of the new Cabinet, with the exception oi Senor Villalon, the Secretary of Public Works, who was unuble to reach Hero iu time. The witnesses of tht cflreinouy wer? Generals Wood and Chaffee, and Colonels Richards, Dudley aud Blact, all in full uniform. The oath was the ordlnnry ona administered to all Cuban officials tulcing office under the present authority, swear< In? allegiance, for the time beln^, to th? military authorities of the United States Negotiating a New Spanish Treaty. It is officially announced in Jludrid, Spain, tliat negotiations have been opened with tho United States for a new treaty of commerce, and that the United States Government has a^n'od to place Spanish trade upon an equal footing with that oi I America in the Philippines for a decade. Child Gets a S10.COO Verdict. A jury in the Circuit Court at Newark, N. J., brought in a verdict for $10,000 against the New Jersey Street Railway in favor of Ida H. Herlich, three years old, whose right hand was cut oil by a trolley car on July G last. Fell 600 Feet to Death. < Andrew Johnson was killed by falling GOO feet down a shaft in the Koarsarga miue, near Calumet, Mich. John Sinco, his partner, was arreBted, as he and Johnsou were heard quarreling just previous to the accident Signal Corps Men Wanted. Secretary of War Root will soon call on Congress for additional men for the Signal Corps to enable General Greely, the chief of this corps, to assume charge of the commercial cable business of the Philippine Islands with the ending of the war in tlia Philippines, when the various ports of trade of the islands will be opened and telegraph and cable communications between the various points will .be resumed. General ?>arl? Summoned llome. Governor-General Davis ba3 been summoned from Puerto Rico to give information whloh will aid Congress in establishing ajpermanent form of government for I the island. I ajt .1 . .. 'iiUitJL, .. PLAGI1B STBIiBS HABIU: Health Authorities Discover the Disease in the City. FRESH OUTBREAK IN HONOLULU. War Depnrtinent is Talcing AcMre Meas* ures to 1'reserve n Rigid Ouaranline in the Philippines?Two Deaths Hare Occurred ? Health Officials Are Not Alarmed?The Plague lu Honolulu. Manila (By Cable).?The health officers aave found a native with all the symptoms Df bubonic plague, in a bouse in the walUd :lty, where two suspicious deaths have sccurred. The patient has been Isolated, and every precaution has been taken t?j prevent n spread of the disease. Washinotox, D. C. (Special).?Secretary Root called Surgeon-General Wyman into consultation on the establishment of a quarantine system for the Philippine:. It was decided that the War Department should confide the maintenance of a quarantine system to the Marine Hospital lerrice. It happens fortunately that the Marine Elospttal service has already two quarantine plants in the Philippines,, while two of its surgeons are now on their way to Manila, so that little delay will be encountered in jeglnniugto draw a rigid quarantine line :n the islands. /;rSurgoon-General Wyman says the disease no longer creates the dread it once did because it has been demonstrated that it can be handled by modern 'soientiflo work. It has been Stamped out of Aiexahdria.Egypt, Kobbe, Japan and Vienna, Austria. The methods of fighting the disease are the same as used against smallpox?isolation,disinfection and sanitation. Thegreatest danger,is due tQits possible Introduction into new.localities through ambulant, or walking, cases which defy the surveillance of the authorities. One feature of the disease which Is gratifying to the authorities, in view of the possible outbreak'of an epldemle in the Philippines, 14'the fact'that Its history shows that It does not attack Europeans as readiiy ai natives. > * FRESH OUTBREAK IN HONOLULU. Plague Reappear* After an Interval of Thirteen Day*.' !<-i Sax Fbaxcisco rSpeoial).?After an interval of thirteen days; in which no cases were discovered,. bubonio plague has broken oat agcfcm. A ybung girl named Ethel Johnson^Hed on December 23, and an December 25. t*.o new oases were discovered among\t1ii?/Cblnese. The latter cases were found-ii|,,j>ppoait9 sections of the city, one at PjrtWk|T and the other at Palama. In the-djilffifitai the phyBicians the Prtiama case :T*;y?jKl6t; the most pronounced oases of'3ti*^W?jp? 'death that has ocourred since the outbreak,. > Until the qu anmtj^a'frtt?-at Honolulu sports sailing from :Im will stop at that pert. They will take more coal and go straight through to Manila, eaABflK . Guam if necessary., Washington, D. C. (Special).?Th?|frport roceivad by both the State Dep^Rf ' ment and ' by Surgeon-General Wvman from Honolulu oonflrms the dispatches as to thejexlstence of the plague. SurgeonGeneral Wyman does not feel apprehensive as to the possibility of the infection of San Francisco from HonoFUlu. New Plagu? District In Brazil. Rio Janeiro, Brazil (By Cable).?The bubonic plague has broken out in the city ind neighborhood of Sao Paulo. PROMOTION FOR ARMY OFFICERS. President Karnes Bates and Wheat?n to Be Slajor-Generals oi Volunteers. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The President sent to the Senate the following nominations of army officers for promotion: t%_t .1 ry 1 t r\ t)..?an k.i T*t?_ Briguumr-ueuciui o. v, xiuidi iu ira jmjor-General of Volunteers; Brigadier-General Lloyd Wheaton, to be Major-General of Volunte#rs, by brevet. DKIOADIER-OENERAL LLOYD WHEATON. (Promoted to the rank of Major-Genera' of Volunteers.) To be Brigadier-Generals?Colonel S. B. M. Young, ijieiueDHnc-^oiuuei anum .uaf Arthur and Lieutenant-Colonel William Ludlow. Also a numher of other appointments and promotions in the regular and volunteer army. PRESIDENT CIVES A DINNER. Cabinet OHlcer* and Their Wives the (Jurats of Honor. Washisotos, D. C. (Special).?The first ol the formal dinners of the social season at the White House was given by Presldeifc and Mrs. McKiuley Wednesday, the members of the Cabinet aDd their wives being tho guests of honor. Invited to meet them were motnbers of the Senate and House, and a few other persons. The East Room and other public portions of the house were appropriately dacorated for the occasion. The .Murine Band furnished the music. The list of guests \r.i3 unusually large, covers being laid for over seventy persons. Ganboat Marietta IteporU to YFat6on. The Navy Department at Washington has been informed that the gunboat Marietta has arrived at Mauila. The Brooklyn, Now Orleans, Nashville and Newark all have reached the main floet, and the Marietta is the last of these additional ships sent to reinforce Rear-Admiral Watson to arrive nt the Asiatic station. Six Hundred Ktutian* Killed. Tho latest reports from Achalkalek, In the Government of TIflis, Ilussia, show that 600 Iive3 were lost during the enrtliquuke? -rhich visited that disUJct.a few days ago New?r Gleantttjfi. Coal is worth $125 a ton at Cap# Nome, Alaska The budget of the German Empire shows a deficit for the past year of $20,000,000. The Georgia Legislature Iihs voted to Jermlt the pructice of osteopathy in that tate. A traveling library service lias been instituted by the Illinois State farmers' Alliance. . Benewed reports of strained relations between Russia and Japan have reached Victoria, B. C. It took a bid of $55,000 to secure the 1! privilege of letting out seats for the Paris Exhibition of 190^ !i!5 NSU'S E.-iV0:.1IZED' Wailiineton Itema. Major Alexander Roeers, of the Sixth Cavalry, has at his own request been relieved from dnty as military attache at :he United States Embassy at Paris and ardered to join his regiment in this coanry. The Board of Naval Construction has . ecommendod that the auxiliary cruiser Badger, lately the Yamurl, be sold. It will ost not less than $250,000 to put the ship n condition for naval service. She is at Mare Island, Cal. The statement issued by the Director of :h? Mint shows tuat the total coinage for IS99 was $139,343,191, as follows: Gold, $111,344,220; silver $26,061,519; minor -I? SI QQ7 151 ;uius, i Captain F. A. Cook, who commanded the iruisur Brooklyn in the battle of Santiago, .old President McKinley be was responsible for the loop made by the Brooklyn,!or which Rear-Admiral Schley has been iriticised. A delegation of two Hawaiians, Robert SVilcox and Edgar Caypless, arrived in Washington to urge the appointment of a lew commission to visit Hawaii and to be jomposed of three Americans and three 3awaiians. They are opposed to the territorial form of government at present recommended for the Hawaiian Islands. ^ttorney-General Griggs decided that :be evidence taken by t be Interstate Commerce Commissidn relative to the classtfl ml ion of freights did not warrant legal neasures against the Official Classification Committee under the Anti-Trust law. General Otis, at Manila, cabled the War Department that First Lieutenant Edward Taylor, Twe.lftblpfantry, was run over by a train crossing the Agno River nearBauclsta, and died in a few hours. Inspector-General (Breckinridge has prepared the text of a bfll for the proposed increase of the Inspector-General's depart* ment. k The bill provides that the numbet of Inspectots-Generfl shall be increased *rom nineteen to twtyrty-flve officers. ' ' r {' Oar Adopted Island!. The op?nipg of the Philippine ports or Dagupan, San Fernando,Vigan, Laoagana Aparrl permits . the resumption of trade, bringing relief to communities greatly in leed of footstuffs. The Cuban Planters' Association has presented to General Wood at Havana a statement, In whioh occurs a request that the passage of lmtnigrajats to Cuba be paid by the Government provided the immigrants ire of a suitable kind, f A great quantity of counterfeit American fold coin is in circulation at Havana,Cuba. Life along the coasts of ,the provinces ol 3agayan and North and South Ilocos, P. I., s resuming normal conditions. The Imerican troops occupy the important owns and patrol the country roads. Six men of tb? signal corps were atacked at Talevera, near Tarlac, P. I., by :wo hundred insurgents, and four ar? maaiutf. Colonel Wessels'scavalry, while scouting n the vicinity of Trinidad, found evidence >f Filipino soldiers being In that vicinity, >nt It was impossible to bring about an engagement. increase in the garrison of Namac?acap, P. I., against a threatened insurf?nt nttack averted trouble. The Council of Honolulu. Hawaii, has appropriated 925,009 to fight the plague. Astven daya' quarantine has been estabUbed lor all vessels leaving the port. Domestic. The torpedo Soat Qoldsborough had a lecond builders' trial at Portland, Oregon. The machinery worked perfectly and In an tight-minute run she steamed at the rate >f thirty-two miles an hour against a twonlle current. By a vote of 17 to 2 th* City Council ol Terre Haute, Ind., passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the Boers and hoping that they would succeed in the wai with England. Two girls escaped from the State Indus:rial School for Girls at Trenton, N. J. The ;lrls made their escupe at midnight, but ' :hey were soon captured in the morning,* * ind tafcen back to the school. TrtVin A1 Hart bnnwn f-hrnilchnnl: thi jountry for bis skill Id the manufacture ol rlolins, died at bis home, Philadelphia, igad ninety-one. He was the first to dis;over that violins made of Amerioan woods irere superior in tone and quality to any tuch instruments of foreign woods. Four men were killed and several others njured by u boiler explosion one mile west if Ellzabethtown, Penn. They were employes of Keller <fc Gresson, railroad conractors. Fire completely gutted the buildings expanding from No. 21G to 222 Monroe street, SMdly damaged the building at Nos. 212 214 Monroo street, Chicago, caused a OSS aggregating about 81,000,000 and relulted in the injury of nine llremen, two if them seriously. Former Congressman Michael Griffin, lead of the State Tax Commission, died suddenly of apoplexy In his office at Eau Jlaire, Wis. John Hough, the? 9layer of Harry ChadTick, wa? sentenced to imprisonment for ife by Judge Ralph Wheeler, at -Middle- % own, Conn. vj?J Four men have been frozen to death In J louih Carolina within ten days, two whites . j ind two nogroes. * - a The public schools of Beading, Penn., aia-js o crowded that the Board has had to le?am private houses to accommodate the ovaftal low of pupils. , WGS Samuel Wall and AJbirt W, Barnes, bronT^ if Akron, Ohio, lie in the 3ame grave. The | nen had been lifelong ohums and business j Roth died on the same dav. I jnited so long la life, tbelr families da:ermlnerl not to separate them in death. S" | hey lie la the one grave. Vara Ism. A detachment of the West India Regt- 1 mont (colored) embarked at Kingston. Jamaica, to reinforce the Bermuda garrlIOD. The Queen of England has accepted the , services of twelve battalions of militia for j foreign stations. Seven of these are as- | signed to South Africa. The British sailing vessel Emily Lloyd i has been wrecked near CLe'rbourg. I The captain and twelve of her crew were drowned. The French steamer St. Jean i has been sunk near Brest. Seven of hei j crew were lost. A dispatch received at Rome from Mas- ' jowah says an Abyssinian army of 10,000 1 aien sent north to subdue the Tlgre rebels ' 3us reached that province, and that llts ' Makonnen, the Governor of Tlgre, has es- I :ablished his residence at Eudatnoenl. Denmark will not enter into negotia:ions for the salo of the Danish West Inlies to the United States until uu act shall Qave been passed by Congress enabling the [ purchase to be rnadd. Extra precautions have been adopted by I the military authorities at Dublin, Ire- I land. The constabulary has been fully i irmed. < The Chilean Government proposes to dt- 1 vote the surplus revenue, $1,200,000, to 1 public works. ' Deputies representing agricultural and 5 Industrial constituencies in France are op- ' postnjf:-the ratification of th* FrancoPrince Arenberg,recenUj^HMK>martialed I in German South \va ^ Th?^Greek Government will present a bill to. the Legislative Assembly providing, for the reorganization Of tjt? wtfolifarmy under command ot tha OrovirfePrince, ' It will be suggested that fc foreign- General? probably u German?baaskeji^Q reorganize The Indian Congiass ha?>daolared Its j dissatisfaction with the carfMcf measures 1 of the Government, alleging that these have the effect of depreciating the value ol [ the savings of the mayso?, virtually enhancing rents and.indebtedness and injur- 1 lously affecting manufactures. The Wagner Theatre nt Bnyreuth has been pronounced unsafe and its use next summer forbidden. The Italian Cabinet granted amnesty on New Year's Day to all persons accused of political offences. I 1 powerfully presented as by the Incident concerning a man falling ill in Paris just a'ter the death of Voltaire, when a professional nurse was called in, and sbe nsked, "Is the gentleman a Christian?" "Why do you ask that?" said the messenger. The " nurse replied, "I am the nurse who attend* ed Voltaire in his last illness, and for all the wealth of Europe I would never see Another infidel die." What discourse in itsmoral and spiritual effect could equai ov ^ tale like that? You might argue upon the fact that thosefallen are our brothers and sisters, bat V could we impress any one with such a troth DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: New Tear Thoughts?We Should Malce the Most of Our Itrlef Ltves? Infidelity the Source of Much WoeChrist's Matchless Stories. [Copyright, LouL. Klopsch. 1899.1 Washixotos, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage takes the opportunity of offering some very practical and useful suggestions; text, Psalms sc., 9, "Wo spend our years as a tale that Is told." The Israelites wore forty years In the wilderness, and during thirty-eight yea^s fit IhA fnrtv ~ 1 -?* * - -J ^wvuaur, lO it^UiUOU Ul IUUIU, and, I suppose, no other emigrants had a duller or more uninteresting time than they had. So they got to telling storiesstories concerning themselves or concerning others; stories about the brick kilns of Egypt, where thoy had toiled in slavery; stories about how the waters of the Red Sea piled upv into palisades at their crossing; story of the lantern hung in the heavens to pruide them by nifjht; story of ibises destroying the reptiles of the wilderness; stories of personal encounter. It must havo been an awful thing to have had nothing to do for thirty-eight years except to get lost every time they tried to escape from the wilderness. So they whiled away the time in story telling. Indeed, there were persons whose one business was to narrate Btories, and they were paid by such trlfliB as they could pick up from the surrounding listeners. To such instances our text mere when it says, "We spend our yearsw a tale that is told." At this "ifremendous passage from the year 1899aoihe year 1900 it will do us all good to dgmlder that our whole life is a story toHP-tlgood story or a bad story, a tragic Story or a mirthful story, a wise story or* foolish story, a clean story or a filthy stoty, a story of success or a story of failure. *?'Wo spend our years as a tale that is to&." In thdHlrst Dlace. I remark that avsrv persouis me la a very interesting story. My te* does not depreciate "a tale that is told." We have all of us been entertained by the sto^y.teller when snow bound in the rail train, or In the group a winter's night In the farmhouse, or gathered around a blazing hearth with some huntors at the mountain inn. Indeed, it Is a praiseworthy art to impersonate a good story welL If you doubt the practical and healthful and inspiring use of such a story, take down from the library Washington Irvlng's "Tales 01 a Traveler" or Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tftles." But as Interesting as any of these would , be the story of many un obscure life It the tale were as well toid. Why do we all Jike biographies and autobiographies? Bev cause they are stories of eminent hapum'* lives. But the story of the life of a b?pk-' woodsman, of a man who looks stupid$Of ] one about whom you never heard a word,;| must be just as thrilling on a small scaln as on a large scale is a life of a Cyras, pr fS Cesar, or u Pizarro, or a Mark Antonf, a Charlemagne. i "<7jB If you got the confidence of that verjiw plain man just come out of the baokwoodafl and can induce him to give tho stirring ex^l periences of his life, he will tell you that si which will make yonr bloo.l curdle and J your hair stand on end; that night when <ffl panther disputed his pathway on the way* home; that landslide; when the mountains' seemed about to come down on bis cabin; that accident to bis household and no surgeon within fifteen miles; that long storm tbut shut them in aad the food was exhausted; tbnt contest at his doorway with bandits, who thought thero might be within something worth taking; tbat;deathbed, with no one but himself to count, tlftl'ipttering pulses. Oh, yes,,while "wo spend It is the story of a^lmml makes it Interestln^^jBo^jPoowe^^^a 1ocean of eternal will never termintfKsaSMBiWj^^CM keynote o? *n ant|BH|K8^nKjBB^p I never I big dinner, to whioh the 1 n sent in fictitious rogrets; that 1 herd answering the bleat of tl^ocflraep and all ibe rural neighbors that nlgtflfHHHjft ing him celebrate the fact that it was saflrajfifc the barnyard; that of the bad boy, redpa^H to the swines' trough, i?M?ted.iiome wffiEr such banqueting and jewcwHhgt it rtulSff is the older son with jealousyan'OisKruntpP; raont; that of the Pb.irlsao full*>f brrtgjrn-' docloandthe publican smitln?hisb{$ist; ' with a stroke that brought 'townljiiltaMr-' K ecs in commiseration; stories naiB&step- rosy, about paralysis, about ' about dropsy, about ophthalmia?storres that He so well told that they have-rolled down to the present and will roll down through the entire future. I heard. Daniel Baker, the wonderful I svangelist of his time, preach what I sup- I posed was a great sermon, but I remem- ' ber nothing of it except a story that he < told, and that, I judgo from the seeming ififect, may that afternoon have brought 1 hundreds into the kingdom of God. I I beard Trumau Osborne preach several ser- I mons, but I remember nothiug of what he i mid in public or private except a story i :bat be told, and that was, among other i hings, the means of ray salvation. The i lfelong work of John B. Gough, the great- i 3St temperance reformer of all time, was i ;be victory of anecdote, and who cau ever < target his story of Joel Straton touching i Jim on the shoulder or of Deacou Moses i 3rant at Hopkinson, or of the outcast J ivoman nicknamed "Hell Fire," but re- | leetred by the thought that she "was one i )f us?" D wight L. Moody, the evangelist < )t worldwide fame and usefulness, wbc re- < iently passed to his great reward on hlghr, t luring his valuable labors iu the pulpit i yielded the anecdote for God and heaven ! intil all nations have boeu moved Dy it. It you have hud experiences of pardon ind comfort and disentbrnilment, tall of t. Toll It in the most pointed and dranatlo way you cau manage, Tell It soon, ir you may sevor loll it at all. Ob, tbe tower of "tho talo that Is told!" An hour's lAacourse about tho fact that blasphemous behavior is sometimes punished in this 70rld would not impress us as much as the implo story that in a towa of New York itate attheclosoof the last century thirtyiz profane mea formed themselves into u lab, calling themselves "Society of tlio )ruids." They met regularly to deride nd damage Christianity. One night in heir awful meeting they burned a Bible nd administered the sacramcut to a dog. 'wo of them died that night. Within three ays three were drowndd. In live years nil bo thirty-six camo to a bad end. Bofore iistlces of tho peace it was sworn that two rero starved to death,seven were drowned, ight wero shot, live committed suicide, oven died on the g*llow3, one was frozen 9 death and threodied accidentally. Indents llko that, sworn to, would balk any roposed Irreverent and blasphemous beavior. In what way could tbe fact that lnfldel:y will n?t help any ou? well be so no wen na uy luc atuuo neur v icluuu x mm, ? London, whero men wpio digging a deep drain, and the shoring gave way and, a ;j great pile of earth fell upon the workmen. " A man stood therewith his hands in his pockets, looking at those who were trying i. to shovel away the earth from those who were burled, but when some one9ald to th? spectator, "Bill, your brother Is down there," then the spectator threw off hie coat and went to work with an agony ot earnestness to fetch up his brother. What course of argument could so well as that 3 incident set forth that when we toll for the salvation of a soul it is a brother whom we v| are trying to save? A second reading of mv te*.t reminds me I that life is not only a story told, but that It Is a brief story. A long narrative stretched out indefinitely loses its interest. 3 It is generally the story that takes only a ^ minute or half a minute to rehearse that V arreata the attention. And that gives ad- ? dltional interest to the story of our life. It ~j is a short story. Subtract from our life all 3 the hours of necessary sleep, all the boots of incapacity through fatigue or illness, aft | the hours ot ohildhood and youth before i we get fairly to work, and you have abbre- Ij viated the story of life so much that you t can appreclate the psalmist's remark when | he says, "Thou hast made my days as a hand's breadth," and cau appreciate the | MpUabiU t/<IUiCI3 DAlUCOntVU WMUlt uo vvim ( pares life to "a vapor iliat appeareth for a 1 little season and then vanishes away." It does not take long to tell all the *1 cissltudes of IKe?the gladness and the / griefs, the arrivals and the departures, ;! the successes and the failures, the victories aud the defeats, the ttps and the downs. '"I Tlio longer we live the shorter the years. j We hardly get over the bewildering fatigue 2 of selecting gifts for children and friends 3 and see that the presents get off in tirao to arrive on the appropriate day than we see another advancing group of holidays. Autumnal fruit so sharply chases the summer harvest, and the snow of the white blossoms of spring-timo come too soon after tho snows ot winter. It is a remark so often made tbat it fails to make any impression and* the platitude that calls forth no reply, "How rapidly time goos." Every century is a big wheel of years. which makes a hundred- revolutions and breaks down. Every year.is a big wheel ot months and makes twelve revolutions and then ceases. Geologists and theologians . go into elaborations of guesses as to bow tkjog the world will probably last; how ' Kfliff beforethe volcanic forces will explotfe Eor meteoric stroke demolish it, or the paid of ajong winter freeze out its popula- i Wfoi o.t the flres of a last conflagration 9pEB It. That is all very well, but so fai aS the present population of the earth i# wtiMjnjd Ithe world will last but a little ' >,? HBpit begin life with a cry and end nad the cry and the groan >~jfijniat, far apart. Life.. Job says, is like a 1Teaver's flbuttle^-ffr, a? 'J1 mailLi my text, a siury uuicn- ^ ryuHjffcnd laughed at and gone and dlsanother story as a "talo that is jflKort as tlmo Is it Is long enough it weVHEly employ it. The trouble is we * wasuKfo much tlmo we cannot catch up. SotaMgus have been chasing time we lost at ffljfiy years of age, or thirty years ot -V? e#CppjBorty years of age, and if w lived we could never overtake it. JpBejpfi; a poor apprentice, every morning 'JaB&seiJ a certain store ns tbe church clock BHk sIx, at the moment when the merMntooli down ins shutters, each ot |HH&Bayiog "Good morning, 31^" %nd -J grapfirtf else. What was Joseph's surprise j| ftd' tlnd that the merchant had suddenly * ifi?4?nd loft him Ills store aud business. f ThatJftnot tbe only instance where a man / Huflus: made a tortuuo by punctuality. The i Time flies away fast, c . .*5 Th^jfrile wo ever remember, ^ Thf&3iw with the next December. fe'A thlrd rfikdltig of my text reminds me HUit Jifeis notptonly a story told, but -J ktened to.* There is nothing more flf wfip'toMy#no than to tell a story ijjfl wrnmpeople dm' atteodiag. They may S9 ^HHWriog o^wome other subject, ot toflljp^i^oocu^fed.^ Oue cannot tell a. soli^^^no' eucli thine as beintr alone. 3 Gch&Hlatetui; and the air is full of spiritual 385 ^^ Renccs, all listening, and tile world "? illffifc?to the Story of our life, some hoping 9 fibe successful, others hoping it will ; "dfl i talic about public life and private ] ll%jimt there is no private lire. Tho story mm * however insignificant It ma} pto be, will win the applause or bias ., <H f|Bp!wit:multltude tbat no man can sum* fl As a "tale that is told" among ad- I antagonists, celestials or pander BBgaca, tho universe is full of Ustealns: HElis well as of gleaming eyes. If HjUc'or do the right tblnp, that is known, ZEtSL aay ordothe wrong thing, that is gffrn. I suppose the population ot tba pKllgencea In tbe nir is more numerous M ?l|n.tne population of intelligences on.the 'Im earth. Oh, that the story of our 11 fe might rM bftfltfor such an audience In such an au- <jB (iirorluml God grant that wisdom and 'iffl Melity and earnestness and trntb may j33 3 characterize the "tale tbat is told." | '.' Through medical science tho world's- l>|| longevity may be creatly Improved in the J future, as It has beou iu the past, but lt'..f 3 would hot be well for the people to live tob , - jj long. Some of thom would, through their Skill at acquisitiveness,' gather too much, IB ahd some multimlllloualros would become J uiwiMUfvu<79 auu liiuiyuuuc.-', auu auuiC U would-atter awhile pocket a hemisphere. V? So. Death is useful in its financial llniitalions, and then nil have enough sorrows and annoyances n&d sufferings by tho timo they' become nonagenarians or centenarians to make it desirable to quit. Besides that, It would not be fair so louj? to Keep so ' many good old people out of heaven. So It Is well nrranged that those who stand by the deathbed of tho uineteeuth centuga^JV will not bo called to stand by the deathbed of the twentieth century. Ob, crowd this last year with prayers, ' with hosaunas, with kind words, with helpfulness. Make the peroral ion of the cen? ' Lury the climax of Chrlsllike deeds. Close up the ranks of God, nnd during this re- . maining twolve montlis charge mightily iKainst the host of Abaddon. Have no . -"^j reserve corps. Lot swiftest gospel cavalry gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll, aud mightiest evangelistic batteries thunier on the scene. Let ministers of the :] gospel quit all controversy with each .< other aud in solid phalanx march out 9 Cor the world's disenthrallment. Let ^9 printing presses, secular aud religious, ,39 make combined movemeut to instruct aud , '9 smancipate the world. On all the hills let S there be Elijahs praying for "a great rain," . <19 nnd on every contested Held Joshuas to Jj Bee that final victory is gained before the " sun goes down, and e*ery mountain be- ^ a some a transfiguration, muI every Galilee 7- fl i walking place of Him who can hush a '-9 tempest. Let us be jealous of every month, of every week, of every day that passes without somethlug significant and glorious wrought for God and this sin *21 sursed world. Let our churches be . wj thronged with devout assemblages. Let 1 the chorals be more like urand marches 'i than requiems. Let tho comlug year see I ihe last wound of Transvaal aud ruiUppiue _ | 3onfllet, nnd the earth quake witli the I grounding nrms of the last regiment ever :o be marshaled, and the furnaces of tho foundries blaze with tlie (Ires tbat shall $ ;uru the last swords Into plowshares. Ami may all those whose lives shall go >ut In this last year of u century, as many vill, meet la the heavenly world those who u the morning and noonday of this hunired years toiled and suiTored for the vorld's salvation to tell them how much nis becu aceomplislitd for the glory of Jim whoso march through all the coming centuries the Scriptures describe as going orth "conquering and to cououer." Oh, ' he contrast between that uplifted spec-. acle of eternal triumph In the presence o? lod and the Lamb and these earthly MB cenes, where "we sunad oar years as a tale ^H| hat Is told " _ M