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MURDERED Bf IMMIS.;
Scotch-Indian Family, Accused Of
Witchcraft, Put to Death.
SHOT DOWN IN NIGHT ATTACK.
lembevg of the AIcTaviah Family Sliot
as They Encapetl From Their Burniug
Hoihc?Only One Person K?capeilFamily
Suppose*! to liave Caused an
Outbreak of Scurvy.
Victoria, B. C. (Special). ? Word lias
5oea received bv the department of Indian
MTnirs aud by the police authorities of
fresh trouble, which is very serious in its
haracter, among the Indians of Upper
Giard, probably two-thirds of whom are
still resisting the inroads of civilization.
Naturally the progressive one-third of the
aatlve population are subjected to considarable
persecution, and it is said in adtrloes
just received, brought by way of
Dense Lake, by special messenger to Indian
Agent Todd. tDat this has culminated
!n the murder of seven members of a
Scotch Indian half-breed family of the
iaioo of McTavish.
The story as related by the special messenger
and mail bearer E. T. Pope, who is
now iu Victoria, indicates thnt the original i
murder may have been followed by.-the !
killing of Stewart, an indian ffiTfeaniat, j
and two coiTMi-uii^ag^piltc^d from Luke j
murderers.
&iu. the McTavish family adopted many j
- ?i.? '...af/vma 14nd hoiiefs of the whites,
Ul IUO
<tie enmity of their neighbors became intense.
With the comiug of an epldomic of
scurvy last fall, the Indians were ripe for
aerious mischief. Two old women,
prompted undoubtedly by the revengeful
medlclae men of the tribe, seized the opportunity
to start the cry that the sickness
and death had been brought about by
witchcraft, a term that nover falls to cross
the terror of Indians of the northern wilds.
A council was held, the fact being kept
secret from the McTavishes, and It was
agreed that there had b?en no scurvy before
white men came to the camp. The
fact was emphasized that the MoTavlahes
followbd the ways of the whites, and thereupon
they wete convicted and a night attack
on them wa9 planned for their destruction.
Setting Are to the McTavish
dwelling, the savages shot their victims as
they escaped. Only one of the family of
eight succeeded in reaching the shelter of
the forest and ultimately theCasca trading
camps store of Lake Town. Mr. Pbpe is
manager of the store. <
Constable Stewart, with two men, started
out at once under the guidance of the sole
.. _? ?i.. k?nlaoa 'nmllv Jn Arrnqt the
survivor ui tuo iiaj/?o? ?
murderers and the trio had uot yet returned
w!??u Mr. Pope left his home, Commissioner
Porter of Telegraph Creek was
then preparing to send, an effective posse
to solve the mystery and take energetic action
in the case.
GERMANY TO RUSH HER NAVY. . <
By 190S Slie 1* to lt.ile the North Sea
and Beat America Twofold.
* Beilis (By Cable).?An American naval
officer now in Bnrlin, who enjoys exceptional
advantages for gathering information
regarding the German navy, asserts
that the German Government has made all
the preparations necessary to finish the
construction of the new warships by 1908,
Instead oi 1016, as the Naval Augmentation
bill seemingly provide?. ' .
In IMS the German navy, according to
thts officer, will have thirty-seven battleships,
varying from 11,000 to 13,000 tons,
, ' and thirty large and forty small armored
i cruisers, thus exceeding in fighting poweiv
the navy of Frauco. Before the end of 1905
I ?still according to the same informant?
j Germany will be mistress of the North Sea,
I and her fleet will beat the American more
than twofold.
TERRIBLE HEAT IN SOUTH AMERICA.
So Many Deaths That the Grave Digger!
r Go ou Strike, v--. '*.>&?
Boexos Atres (By Cable).?The terrible
beat continues. There were 287 sunstrokes
Monday and 1S7 Tuesday, The fatal oases
show a-dlmunition, but many bodies a??1
decomposing at the cemetery, owing to
the strike o( the grave diggers for higher
wages. The maize crops are scorched and
promise only a small yield.
i , f ' "' ij! v
Montevideo (By Cable).?Numerous sun-'
strokes have occurred here, many provfng
fatal. The maize crop Is alm03t totally
lost.
SPANISH PRISONERS REBEL
Overpower Their Filtpln6 Guard* and
Await the Arrival of American Troops.
. Manila (By Cable).?Thje Insurgents at
Nueva Caceres, on the east coast of Luzon,
.fearing nn attack, transferred 309 8panlsb
prisoners to Llbmnnan, fourteen miles.from
Nueva Caseres, In Camarlnes Province,
i When they arrived there the prisoners rebelled.
They armed themselves with sticks
and stones and fought and overpowered
their irnards. Then thoy built barricades
and are awaiting the arrival of the American
troops. i
Japueae Review of American Soldiers.
The event of the week at Yokohama,
Japan, was the arrival of the United States
transport Grant with the Forty-eighth
Beglment, United States Volunteers (colored),
on board. In consflqnenoe ot the'
;breaking out of the plague la Honolulu the
'Grant was obliged to put In At Yokohama
'lor coal. Permission having beeu?granted
by the authorities, a parade of the regiment
was held and a great crowd witnessed
the unusual spectacle of an-airmed body of
American soldiers landing upon the shores
t: .of Japan.
Charged With Note liaising.
City Detective John Morgan assisted
Detective Helan, of Washington, in arresting
George B. Stolles at Hamburg.;.
Peun., who is charged at Washington,
D. C., with raising a note from $500'tc
$5900 and also with otbur falsification* |
amounting to $112,000. He accompanied.
Detective" Helan to Washington without
resistance.
Oi>po*Stlon to the Canal Treaty.
There is much opposition in CongrL-33 to
the new Nicaraguan Canal treaty because
It does not permit the fortillcation of the
water-way by the United Sta:e3.
Sixty Girls lturned to Death.
The steamship Empress of China just arrived
at Vancouver, B. C., brings a report
from Nagoya, China, that sixty girls were
burned to death in u factory fire in thai
town. In a gunpowder factory at Sea
veyuents, Chlua. a pot of saltpeter wuj
upset and the building caught llrt>. A powder
magaziue close by exploded and 2X
I Chinese were killed.
t
General Otis to Come Home.
Major-General Otis will bo detached from
' duty in the Philippines and ordered bomi
as soon as the new commission arrives ii
Manila.
Minor Mention.
The press of the City of Mexico i3 fight
ing the increase of the liquor truffle in tUa;
j country.
' Yale has more than throe hundred ath
jlotes iu training for her teams for the sea
sou of 1930.
| Many Frenchmen now firmly beliovotha'
iGreat Britain andFranceare drifting slowly
but surely toward war.
I The Borough of Hopewell, Pcnu., hasn'1
lenough men to till all the offices, and i<
'wants to have its charter annulled.
I Brigadier-General Kobbe'd expedition ii
jthe Philippines has resulted iu the per
jmanent occupatton of nine towns by th?
American trooos.
BULLER AGAIN ADVANCES
His Army Succeeds in Recrossing
the Tugela River.
Attack* IJoer* at Two Points, Beinii
Checked at One Place. But Taking
a Hill at the Other. *
London (By Cable).?General Buller rocrossed
the Tugela River on Sloaduy morn- I
1 "~ Asfl/inlfa/1 fhu DrtJi* t\AciHnna r\n I
lug auu assauucu %.uk> UV '4. j
he north slcle. The British carried 9ev- |
eral positions, and :it last accounts were
still holding them.
A dispatch to the Standard from Spearman's
Camp says:
"The force under General Duller is again
advancing to the relief of Ladvsmith, and,
after two days of severe fighting, it may i
fairly be said to have made a good first
step on the road to the besieged town.
"The movement was begun at ail early
hour on Monday morning by way of Potgieter's
Drift. The Eleventh Brigade, forming
a part of the Fifth Division under General
WarreD, tnade a feint attack upon the
kopjes immediately on our front. The assault
was delivered at the outset under
eover of naval guns on Mount Alice, and .
subsequently uuder that of field batteries, j
"The infantry advanced steadily toward I
the Boer Intrenched position at fir&kfon- {
tein, and kept the enemy busily employed, i
While tbis diversion was ,being made the j
remainder of the Infantry told
attack, whj^|g*p^oTriR!*.ed_3tHiday night
jW"42r"irtWutAllce, moved along at the
foot of Zwart's Kop In the direction of our
right. jS&F
'A ponton bridge was thrown across the
Tugela by the engineers under the fire of
, enemy. The first battalion to move
across in the forenoon was the Durham
Light Infautry, of Geuoral Lyttleton's
brigade. They advauced against Vaal
Krantz, which lies on the most direct road
to Laiysmith, and after two hours' splendid
work they got within charging distance
of the Boers. -v- .
"The first of the lcopje3 was carried by
them at the point of tue bayonet with the
utmost gallantry., A.lmo3t simultaneously
the First Battalion. Rifle Brigade cleared
the seoond kopje,And, after moving across
the long ridge, the bivouacked on the spot.
"The feint attjpbk' at Potgieter's Drift,
haying served its pttrpose in preventing the
concentration^' the enemy at cue critical
point, the Eleventh Brigade fell back to
the river.,. . &
"In the ooorse of^the operation both the
Infantry and tlijj'.artillery Uud been subjected
to n severe ahelt^re.
"Yesterday (Tuesday?' at 4 In the afternoon,
the enemy, euctftr&ged doubtless by
their suoc&as at Sploz^ Sop, endeavored to
reoapture tue position taken by us at V nal
Krantz. They were be&jtjjn b*3fe, however,
"The aheJJLand majtfinare poured In by
ttie Boers has.bWaRevere, but
ourt,6MjB^tW>ly apeaklnn
fow prjaoSors laiSjjjyji rae of cbnrce.
utmoatatubbornfiesa. Tbe BrltlaMnahmuvrlng
and the Rooaracy of aim onfmp part
ot the British artillery during the' fl&htlui*
OS Monday wire beyond pnibe. There Is
not the slightest likelihood that the Boers
will auccee&Jri dislodging us f^om the positions
we.have,gained, and tbe prospects
ot the relief ol 'Ladysmith are decidedly
"op"[uU" :M- g
BOER STOag^/OF THE FIGHTING.
Beat till
gela. " The tro^nj She driver at the j
Poat aad:atM<iH^^H9r> the object of i
tract tot; materials and work necessary fori
^t%iSMM
CUB VBIBIgnunui ui buvu. vauai, tu ira pmiui
I for ob appropriated from time to time, nggg
to succeud In the aggregate $75,OCO,WjQt/?
provided tbat the compensation paid fttfj
the State of New York for its right <and
title shall be paid out of fees col- j
lected from vessels using the canal
after the Government hns purchased it,
and provided tbat compensation so paid
the State shall never in anv one year exceed
twenty-flve per cent, of the net amount
of such fees received during that period.
The bill went to committee onrallway^^yH
canals. v-~ "O-'*
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A LIVE MAN DEAD LEGALLY.
Georgia Court Decides That One Indifferent
to His Klglits Dies Presumptively.
Atlajcta, Ga. ^Special). ? Judge J. H
Lumpkin, of the Atlanta Circuit, has declded
that a^Wtjnaat f?r an estate who is
alive and Was^^eseut in the court is dead
legally, The J'fidge said:
"Plalntlfl te'sttfled that lie had been living
in Texas and did not know until 1390
of bis father's 4*mth or the division of the
estate; but .wnere 6ue leaves a State and
cuts Qff 411 /ooiflomunication with friends
and relatives be becomes, presumptively
at least,' dead Jo the world. I scarcely
think the statute of gelations will stop and
wait on blm yanjf more than the village of
Falling Wateg?|mMted*tho awakeuiog o'
Rip Van IWSQgwprthe wife of Enoch Arden
awaited hte^mtOru. Besldus be returned
In 189S and inflfy tfae facts or could have
known tb^^ftflly Ibut did notsuetill 13W."
Fell Dead In the Dentist'.'* Chair.
Ernest L. Partridge, of Charlton. Mass.
fell dead a fowv days ago from a dentist',
chair. H9 tojd Dr. Hitchcock lie wanted
thirteen teeth pulled. As the operation
was to be extensive, he was placed partiallj
under the Influence or ether. As tbeseventl'
tooth was uxtructed he tell buck dead.'
^ Military Strength of the Kopublic.
According to a communication sent to
Congress by Secretary Root on the militia
force of the United States, the total number
of men available for military duty, but
uuorganized, is 10,343,150, with an aggregate
organized strength ot 10G.339.
Early Spring Vogotabics l'rom Cuba.
The Ward Line steamer Mexico, arrived
at Now York City from Havana, Cuba, with
a large consignment of fresh vegetables,
consisting of tomatoes, potatoes. Leans,
okra, egg plant and onions. These vegetables
are grown in Cuba, which appears
1.1.4 ?n?(.,or Hf*?.,nil.1.1 na i
to uo miiKiug ? uiu ?
producer of early spring vegetables.
Monthly Inspection in Havana.
, The Governor of Havana, Cuba, ba9 is
jsued orders for the monthly inspection o1
'all public schools, hospitals, asyluras, char
Itable institutions and prisons in the de
parttnent.
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THE PHILIPPINE REPORT.
Plan of Government is Recommended
For the Islands. .
NO WITHDRAWAL IS POSSIBLE,
The Provinces Should Be Taroed Into
Counties and a Large Measure of Qoin?
ltule Given the Towus?Men of In.
tejjrlty and Ability Needed to Teacfa
Cnir.PnlA
1118 nanvoi* oo??-*?w?v..
WAsnisoToy, D. C. (Special).?The President
hiis submitted to Congress the first
volume of the report of the Philippine
Commission. It is a volume of 264 pages,
including the appendix, and is signed by
Professor Schurmann, Admiral Dewey,
Colonel Denby and Professor Worcester.
The principal subject dealt with is the
plan of government proposed by the commission,
which includes a discussion of the
Spanish Government existing prior to the
war, the various reforms desired by the
Filipinos, and the Constitutions proposed
by them, together with the conclusions and
plans suggested by the commission.
The report covers many other matters
X'Oane&ted with the social administration
of the iiHandSr -faetoliibArft^rt3ttesr-<^v
cation, secular and religious orders, the
Chinese la the islands, the pabllo health,
currency, etc.. as well as the condition and
needs of the United States In the'Thilip*
pines from a naval and maritime stand*
point.
Tne second volume oI the report,-which
will not be ready for several weeks, will
contain a detailed description of the climate
and natural resources ot the islands.
The chief interest in the report nat.urally
eectres in the plan of Government pro
posed by the commission, 'xne commission
announces itself unqualifiedly In favor of .a
Government of the Philippines analogous
to that of a Territory of the United States,
with a Governor appointed by the President.
They say it is desirable that the inhabitants
of the archipelago should enjoy
a large measure of home rale. In local affairs,
the towns to enjoy substantially the
rights and privileges of to pros in a Terfl?"
tory.
. The provinces should be vested with substantially
the functions of a county, id $
Territory; thia system might be appli^ta to
Luzon and tj]Ei? yiscayan Islands at once,
and a beginning might be^ made on the
coast of Mindanao. The Sulu archipelago
calling for speolal arrangements with t^e
Saltan, the commission say, nee#rittot be
considered in tills connection* / v.:
The Filipinos could manage ta?tc own
towu nud county affairs thrortgjk their
own officers, who tbey could elect,-iirlth
no help from American officiate/ except
such us would bo involved la controlling
local government at Manila. Thesuffrag<?
should be restricted by edaoationad^Qf!
property qualifications or both. ( .V . '* '*
This system would uecessltate^jlMnMLt^
body of American officials of great Sfflli*
itv and integrity, and of patleqga and tact.;
la dealing with" other races, *^d ..oiogits
account the commission recSmmtad-xJaK^
they should be paid 4j?h.^lagies. The
commission say they ooold Ijo called, sto
visors or comtmssloneraf&nd that one>lfl|
200,000 natives would suffice. Afl
^Pwouid be the duty of,such conflH^
BTOTers to report upon thelt vworlc ,to';. tw
central Government at Manila.'Their main
function would be to advise town and
county councils in discharge of their duties,
and to watoh the collection of revenues
and Its expenditures. Our government ot
the Philippines, the commission Insists,
must be adapted to the Filipino.
The commission, while not undertaking
the difficulty of governing the Philippines,
is disposed to believe the task easier than
is generally sapposed. The Filipinos, they
say, are ot unusually promising material,
I possessing admirable personal and domestic
virtues and being naturally peaceful,docile,
I and deferential to constituted authority,
j The educated among them, though conI
3tltutlnga minority, tlieysay, are far more
j numerous than is generally supposed, and
i the commission bears scrong testimony to
j their high rahge of Intelligence and social
I refinements.
Those picked Filipinos would be of Infinite
value to the United States iu the
worlt of establishing and maintaining civil
j government throughout the archipelago.
HOME AND CHILDREN BURNED.
Four Little Ones Cremated at a Fire al
I Bourton vllle. '
Katonah, N. Y. (Special).?The house ot
I George Finnns, at Bourtonville, about four
miles west of this village, was destroyed
by fire and four of Finans's children were
'ijurned to deatb. Tbe children were JesImaged
Ave years; Jennie, aged four
I yeart; Warren, aged two years, aud Carrie,
ftged nln? months. The parents were away
from the house at the time.
U'lffhe supposition is that some of the elder
children, while playing with flro, started
kthe blaze, and that they were overcome bj
K&oko before tlioy realized their danger.
HHhlv a few charred bonus were found in
Kft ashes ot the building. Mrs. Flnans
lu badly burned by approaching tbe
Hnniing .Structure in her anxiety for Lei
SpnSH' ARMY FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
^' li the Largest Force England Hill
Krer Fat In the Field.
Loxdox (By Cable).?Mr. Wyndham's'remarkable
declaration (a<the House of Commons
that Great Britain will have in o
j fortnight 180,000 regulars in South Africa,
| 7000 Canadians and Australians and 20,000
South African volunteers is received with
wonderment. Of this total 213,000 troops,
with 452 guns, all are now there, with the
exception of about 18,000 that are afloat.
Beyond comparison, this is the largest
force Great Britain has ever put Into the
Held. At the end of the Crimeau War she
| had 8<?ra- ed together 8).000 mou. Welling
j con tic v uerioo uhu -j,uuu iuou.
TREASURY SURPLUS.
i Keceiptu Exceed Expendituro* For the
j Fiscal Year to Date About 8:50,000,000.
Washington", 1). C. (Special).?The surplus
of Government receipts over expenditures
for fcho current fiscal year increased
steadily during the month of January aud
is now about $30,000,000. T!ie January re!
:eipts were $48,01*2,164, the customs yielding
$22,094,278i1nternal revenues =>22,770,856
and miscellaneous sources $3,138,02!?.
i'lie expetfoltares for January amounted to
539,139,097.' f >, : '
White Fan Road Blockaded.
The storms prevailing along the Skntr.
way route to Dawsont jKlondllce, have
stopped train a on thft^blte. Pass and
Yuion lna"
l.he preliminary enumeration the popu*
latlon of Cubajaid PoortoJSico., They give
uuoa 1,D/3,?4V, *oout .w.wvpiess *u;in lu
1887, and Pu?rfo. BlC0r.957,'679r as against
J 806,708 in 3897. ,
Newy Ul?*nm;4.
Handball is becoming quite a fad lu Sno
Francisco, Oal.
Japan has sent 200 toon of coal to Germany
to experiment in coking.
The bubonic plague Has Appeared' at
Noumea, New Caledonia Islands.
A large flsh pond will be built, off Bohoboth,
Del., to supply food ilsli for'New York
! City.
Coals and coffins are the most expensive
as well as the scarest necessities ia London
at present.
Tbe gold supply of the United States surpasses
that of any other country, accord<nfr
to Assistant Uuited States Treasurer
Uahlemuu
IDK. TAIMAQE'S SEEMON. I
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
|
Subject: A Warning Sounded?The Talent
of the Church of Christ la Undeveloped
and Itn Energy Dormant?
The Enemy Profit# by This.
[CopyrlRht 1900.]
Washington*, D. C.?In tbis discourse Dr.
Tftlmiige show9 how the cause of rl^ht
; eousness uag lose many ot us weapuu? a,uu
how they are to be recaptured and put into
effeotive operation; text, I. Samuel xifl.,
19-21: "Now there was no smith found
throughout ail the land ot Israel, (or the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make
them sworda or spears. But all the Israelites
went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man hi9 share, and his coulter,
and his ax, and his mattock. Yet they
had a file for the mattock, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and for the axes,
and to sharpen the goads."
What a galling subjugation for the Israelites!
The Philistines bad carried off all
the blacksmiths and torn down all the
blacksmiths' shops and abolkhed the blacksmiths'
trade In the land ?f Israel. The
Philistines would not even allow these parties
to work their valuable .mlnas ot brass
and Iron, nor might they make any swords
or spears. There were only two awords
left in all the land. Yea, these Philistines
went on until they had taken all the grindstones
from the.land of Israel, so that if an
'Israelitish farmer^ wanted to sharpen his
plow or his aje he had to go over to the
garrison ot the Philistines to get It done.
There waaonly one sharpening Instrument
'"lefTlT'tfiMaEtdKjW* that wtoaflle, the
farmers and mecnanU>g.-Mjjn? nothing to
vrhet up the coulter and Ufl.
pickax save a simple file. IntfUltty wf^
hindered and work practlcWly disgraced.
The great Idea of these Philistines was to
keep the Israelites disarmed, They might
get Iron qat of the hills to mako swords of,
but they would not hare anv iblaoksmlths
to weld this iron. If they got ih* iron
welded, they would have no grindstones
on whloh to bring the ixutmments of agrlculture
or the military mkpons up to an
Oil, you poor. weaponle& Israelites, reduced
to a file, how I pltyyoul Bat these
Philistines were nof fowT?to keep their
heel on the neck of G?d'0.wJ^areD. Jonntlian,
on his hands , and JbM&v climbs up
a great rock, beyond whichwere the PhiiistinM,
and ills armorbeaj^;,oiLhia hands
and k^ees, climbs nptBs mm^ Tpck, and
these two men*' with their.iw04wgrds, hew
to pieces the Philistines, foe LWd; throvr'lng
a great Uittdt upon
0Vlearn!^wV^P^hi8 surest that it is
dangerousfor;the?arch.of God to allow
its weapons to.^ar'ih the brads of its enemies.
Theao* Israelites might again and
atraln have'obtilned a supply of swords
S^it^Sftoo late foMhem to any retugging
along
1 "Where are-yfru going with those tbings?"
Iffh'eyidjr, .'fOb, we are golog, over to the
raanjtaoa..tft itho Phfltatlnar to get these
thjn/^abijrpeiied!" Isay, "j'You foolish
- menl^Wttjrdon't yoa sharpen them at
1^001 ' c*b," they say, "the black'smlt-hV
shops are all tern down, and we
ffcaye nothing left us bat a tile!"
So It Is In the churoh of Jesus Christ to:
'day. We are too willing to give up our
weapons to the enemy. The world boasts
that it has gobbled up the schools, and the
oolleges, and the arts, and the sciences,
and the literature, and the printing press.
Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to
get all our weapons in its band and then to
keep them. You know it is making this
boast all the time, and after awhile, when
tho great battle between sin and righteousdoss
has opened, if we do not look out we
will be as badly off as these Israelites,
without any swords to fight with and without
any sharpening instruments. I call
upon the superintendents of literary institutions
to see to it that the men who go into
the classrooms to stand beside the Leyden
jars, and the eleotrio batteries, and the
microscopes and telescopes, be children of
God, not Philistines.
The Tyndalleau thinkers of our times
are trying to get^ all the Intellectual
weapons in their own grnsp. We want
scientific Christians to capture the science,
and scholastic Christians to capture the
scholarship, and philosophic Christians to
capture philosophy, and lecturing Christians
to take bnck the lecturing platform.
! We want to *enu out against ooauunei huu
| Strauss and Renun a Theodore Chrlstlleb
f of Conn and against the Infidel solentists
of the day a God-worshiping Silliman and
Hitohcock and Agassiz. We want to capture
all the philosophical apparatus and
swing around the telescopes on the swivel
until through them wo can see the morning
star of the Redeemer, and with minerillogical
hammer discover the.Rock of
Ages, and umla the flora of all realms And
the Rose of Sharon and the Lilly of the
Valley. We want some one able to expound
the first chapter of Genesis, bring to
it.the geology and the astronomy of the
world, until, as Job suggested, "the stones
of the field shall be in league" with the
truth and the stars In their conrse shall
j fight against Sisera. Oh, church of God,
. go out and recapture these weapons! .
Let men of God go out and take possession
of the platform. Let any printing
presses that have been captured by the
enemy be recaptured for God, and the reporters,
aud the typesetters, and the editors,
and the publishers swear all allegiance
to tie Lord God of truth. Ah, my
friend, that day must come, and if the
great body of Christian men have not the
faith or courage or the consecration to do
it, then let some Jonathan on his busy
hands and on his praying knees climb up
I on the rock of hindrance and, in the name
I of the Lord God of Israel, slosh to pieoes
those literary Philistines. If these men
will not be converted to God, then they
must be overthrown.
IfAk'ain, I learn from this subject what a
large amount of the church's resources Is
actually hidden and buried and un'develI
oped. The Bible lutlmatos that that was a
| very rich laud, this laud of Israel. It
! says, "The stones aro iron, and out of tha
j hills thou shalt dig brass," and yet hun'
| dreds and thousands of dollars' worth of
j this metal was kept uuder the hills. Well,
j that is the difficulty with the church of
1 God at this day. Its talent is not develI
oped. If one-half of its energy could be
I brought out, it migut take ? he public in'
lqulties of the day by the throat and muke
I them bite the dust. If huipan eloquence
J were consecrated to the LordJesus Christ,
j It would In a few years perauadethe whole
I earth to surrender to God, There is
| enough undeveloped energy in this city to
I bring all the United States to Christ,
j enough of undeveloped Christian energy
In the United States to bring the whole
world to Christ, but It is buried under
strata of ludifference and uuder whole
mountains of sloth. Now, is it not time
for the mining to begin and the pickaxes
to plunge and for this burled metal to be
brought out and put into the furnaces aud
turned into howitzers and carbines for the
Lord's host?
The vast majority of Christians ia this
j day are useless. The roost of the Lord's
I battalion belong to there3erve corps. The
I most of the crew are asleep in the hammocks.
The most of the metal is under the
hills. Oil, is it not time for the church of
God to rouse up and understand that we
j want all the energies, all the talent and all
! the wealth enlisted for Christ's sake? I
I like the nickname that the ivigiisu soldiers
gave to Blucher, tlio commander,
'i'hey called hiiu "Old Forwards." Wo
have had enough retreats in the church of
Clirlst; let us have n glorious advance.
And I aay to you as the general salSSWben
bis troops were afriglited? rislug up in lite
stirrups, Li la hair flying In the wind, lie
lifted up liis.voice uutll 20,000 droops beard
Mm crying oat, "Forwafcd, tb? whole llnel"
We want all the Jaymen enlfeted. Miiilsters
are numerically too small. They do
the best they can. They are the most overworked
class on earth. Many of them die
of dyspepsia because they cannot get the
right kind of food to eat or, getting the
right kind, are so worried that they take it'
down in chunks. They die from consumption
coming from early and late exposure,
If a noveliost or a historian publishes
one book a your be is considered industrious.
But every f^K^'ul pastor ^ust
originate enough tho;^^t for three or Tour
volumes a year. .inters receive enough
oalls in a year fi<-/m men who have maps !
and medicines and lightning rods and ploi
turos to sell to exhaust their vitalltyB
They are bored with agents of all sorts.
Thev are set in drafts at funerals and
poisoned by the unventilated rooms of invalids
and waited upon by committees who
want addresses made until life becomes a
burden to bear. It is not hard study that ;
makes ministers look pale. It is the in- |
f?nity of interruptions and botherations to '
which they are subjected. Numerically too |
small! It is no more the work of the pulpit i
to convert and save the world than it is !
the work of the pew. It men go to ruin, j
there will la as much blood on your skirts ,
as on mine.
Let us quit this grand farce of trying j
to save the world by a few clergymen, I
and let all hands lay hold of the work. I
Give us in all our churches two or
three aroused and qualified men and
women to help. In most churches today
five or ten men are compelled to do t
all the work. A vast majority of churches j
are at their wits' end how to carry on a j
prayer meeting if the minister Is not there, j
when there ought to be enough pent up I
energy and religious force to make anuet- i
Ing go on with such power that the mln'ster
would never be missed. The church
stands working the pumps of a few
ministerial cisterns until the buckets
are dry and choked, while there are
thousands of fountains from which
might be dipped up the waters of eternal
life. Before you and I have the
sod pressing our eyelids we will under j
God decide whether our children shall grow
up amid the accursed surroundings of vice
and shame or come to an inheritance of
righteousness. Long, loud, bitter will be
the our&etbat ssorches our grave if, holdlng
within the church to-day enough men
and women to stive the city, we act the
coward or the drone. I wish I could put
enough moral explosives under the conventionalities
and majestic "stupidities of
the day to blow them to atoms and that
then-with 50.000 men and women from all
l|ta!nfHg?f|MgLpwing nothing but Christ
nrii tiller' ,{^0 werld to Him,
we might move upon Tnee^eWyTaw5?Wter4
For a little while heaven would not have
trumpets eaough to celebrate the victories. '
v Again, I learn from this subject that we
sometimes do well to takeadvuntageof the
World's grindstones. These Israelites were
reduced to a file, and so they went over to
the garrison of the Philistines to get their
axes and their goads and their plows
sharpened. Thd Bible distinctly states It ?
the text which I read at the beginning of
the service?that they had no other Instruments
now with whicn to do this work, and |
the Israelites did right when they went over I
to the Philistines to use their grindstones. I
My friends, is It not right for us to employ j
the world's grindstones? If there be art, j
if there be logic, If there be business faculty
on the other bide, let us go over and em
ploy It for Christ's sake. The fact is we j
fight with too dull Instruments. We haclc
and we maul when we ought to make a
cleau stroke. Let us go over among sharp
business men and among sharp literary
men and find out what their tact is and
transfer It to the cause of Christ. If they
Lave science and art it will do us good to
rub against it.
uln other words, let us employ the wor Id's
rgfIndstone3. We will listen to their music,
and we will wutch their acumen, and we
'#111 use their grindstones, and will borrow
their philosophical apparatus to make our
experlmonts, and we will borrow their
printing presses to publish our Bibles, and
we,will borrow their rail trains to carry
our Christian literature, and we will borrow
their ships to transport our missionaries.
That was what madn Paul such a master in
his day. He ncjt only got all the learning
he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward,
standing on Mars hill and In crowded
thoroughfare, quoted their poetry,.and
grasped their logic, and wielded their eloquence,
and employed their mythology until
Dlonyelus, the Areopaglte, learned In
the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went 1
down under his tremendous powers.
gTuat was what gave Thomas Chalmers !
his powor in his day. Ho conquered the I
world's astronomy and compelled it to ring
out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord
until, for the second time, the morning
stars sang together and all the sons of Ood
shouted for joy. That was what gave to
Jonathan Edwurds his influence In his day.
He conquered the world's metaphysics and
forced it into the service of God until not
only the old meeting house at Northamp*
tOD, Mass., but all Christendom, felt thrilled
by Ms Christian power. Well, now, my
friends, we all have tools of Christian
power. Do not let them lose their edges. !
We want no rusty blades in this fight. We >.
want no coulter that cannot rip up the
glebe. We want-no axe that cannot fell
the trees. We want no goad that oannot
start the lazy team. Let us get the very
best grindstones we can find, though they
be in possession of the Philistines, compelling
them to turn the crank while we beat
down with all our might on the swift revolving
wueel until all our energies and
faculties shall be brought up to a bright, !
keen, sharp, glittering edge.
Again, my subject teaohe3 us on what
a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts
a can. Yes, these Philistines shut up the
mines, and then they took the spears and
the swords; then they took the blacksmiths;
then they took the grindstones, and they
took everything but a file. Oh, that is the
way sin works! It grabs everything. It j
begins with robbery and ends with rob.
bery. It despoils this faculty and that
faculty and keeps on until the whole nature
is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it
generally thickens his tongue. Was he flue ;
in personal appearance, it mars his visage, j
Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell '
him out. Was he Influential, it destroys |
his popularity. Was he placid and genial j
and loving, it makes mm splenetic ana |
cross, and so utterly Is be ohanged that i
you can see he is sarcastio and rasping and |
that tlie Philistines have left him nothing {
but a file.
."Ob, ;tuo way of the transgressar Is |
hard!" The cup Is bitter. His night is !
dark. His pangs are deep. Hl3 end Is ter
rifle. Philistine iniquity says to that man, '
"Now, surrender to me, and I will give you j
all you want?music for the dance, swift I
steeds tor the race, imperial oouch to j
slumber on, and you shall be refreshed !
with the rarest fruits in baskets of golden
filigree." He lies. Tbo music turns out j
to be a groan. The fruits burst tbe rind I
with rank poison. The filigree is mt>de up !
of twisted reptiles. The couch is a grave.'1
Small allowance of rest, small allowance j
of peace, small allowance of comfort, j
Cola, bard, rough?nothing but a file. 80 1
It wus with Voltaire, the most applauded ;
man of his day.
Seized with hemorrhage of tho lungs In
Paris, where ho had gone to be crowned as
the idol of all France.he sends a messenger j
to get a priest, that he may, be 'reconciled
to the cburcli before he dies. A great tor- |
ror falls upon him. Philistine iniquity had
promised him all the world's garlands, but |
iu tlve jast hour of his life, when he needed
a solacing, sent tearing across ms cuu< i
science and bts nerve a file, a tile. So it j
wa9 with Lord Byron. His uncleanness Id ;
Eugland only surpassed by bis uncleanness
In Veniofe; tben going cn to the end
bis brilliant misery at Mlssolonghl, fretting
at bis nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself,
fretting at the world, fretting at God, And
be who gave the world "(Jhllde Harold"
and "Sardanapaius" and "The Prisoner ol
Chillon" and "The Siege of Corinth" reduced
to nothing but a file. Ob, sin has
a great facility for making promises, but
It ha9 just as great facility for breaking
tbetu!
I learn from this subject wbat a sad thing
it is when tbe cburch of God loses its I
motall Those Philistines saw that if they
could only get all the metallicjOeapona !
out of tbe bands of tbe Israelito^ll would
bo well, and therefore they took rneswords
and tbe spears. They did not want tbena
to have a single metallic weapoD. Wheu
the metal of the Israelites was irone, their
strength was gone. This is the trouble
with tbe church of God to-day. It is surrendering
its courage. It has not enough j
metal. I
6h, i3 it not high time that we awake
out of sleep? Church oI God, lift up youi j
lioailut the oocblng victory! The Philistines j
will go down, audthe Israelites will go up. I
We are on the winning side. I thiulc just
now the King's horse* are being hooked up |
to the chariot, and when He does ride down I
i the aky there will be such a hosannu
| among His friends aud such a wailing
among His enemies as will make the earth
tremble aud the heaveu sing. I see now
[ the plumes of the Lord's cavalrymon
| to?slng iu tLe air. The archangel before
the throne has already burnished
his trumpet, and then he will put its golden
lips to his own, and he will blow the
loBg, loud blast that will make all the uations
free. Clap your hands, all ye people!
Hark! I hear the falling thrones and
the dashing down of demoltsned Iniquities.
"Halleluiah, the Lord God omnipotent
relgnethl Halleluiah, the kingdoms ot
this world are become the kingdoms of out
Lord Jesus Chrlatl"
Mother'* Ralny|Da|MH^^^H>^H
ii Ism on?Re
diance?Taking Life
Prayer for At-oiie-ment,
Sometimes there's a rainy day; an
We lay off a spell, we men.
Pa talks politicks and reads the papers,
And w-f boys putter'round and cut up oapers, 1
Au' whittle, even down to little brother.
But dunno as I can recollect a rainy df.y for
mother.
Seems as if she worked harderthenthan any
other day,
Trying to keep things straight and put away,
Stirrin' up the Are so it won't seem dreary,
Cookin' up 9omothing extra then, makln'
tilings more cheery;
Pickin' up pa's slippers, or something or
another.
1 Uu,'. believe there ever was a rainy day for
mother
But then she don't complain. Just keeps
workin' on.
Sometimes she has a pleasant word, sometimes
a bit of song,
And lots of times I fancy she has a tired
look "
An' then I'd feel lots better if she's rest or
read a book.
An' then I wipe the dishes, or do something
or another,
Ah' wish with all my heart there was a rainy
day tor mother.
?Florence A. Hayes, in Zion's Herald.
The Difficulty of Submission.
'*he term conversion as it is commonly ^
usei^jQigggg. almost remission. It meanuJ^
^tuTningahou!^reve!9?iJ ^W^^ou^fhe
abandonment of one's purposa^or life
hlthorto, or of one's neglect to have a positive
purpose, and the substitution of a distinct,
earnest, controlling intent to serve
Ood by loving and imitating Jesus Christ .
To speak of the conversion of any one is tc
be understood to mean that a radical and
permanent change has taken place in
him, and that henceforth the supreme
object of his life is loyal obedience
to Ood. Wherein, then, lies the difficulty
of conversion? Why is it not natural
and easy, when one is convinced, as all are
convinced at times, of sinfulness and need
of redemption? It lies in the ingrained
hostility of the human heart toward th?
commands 01 uqq wnicu can lor enure ?uuordination
of self and for consecration to
Him and His service. There are person!
whose lives are so worthy that conversion ?
when it occurs produces little apparent
change in their daily conduct. Yet thej
would be as ready as any to testify to the
difficulty experienced in submitting them
selves to the will of God.
Reflecting the Divine Radiance.
In the British art exhibit at the Cclumbiac
exposition there was a remarkable picturt
of a blacksmith's shop. All the homely details?the
smoky walls and rafters, the lurking
shadows, the forms and faces of tht
men showing in the half-lights?were por- '
trayed with singular lldelity. But the greatest
artistic triumph alppeared in the mar
vellous reflection, upon a boy's face, o:
light from nn unseen forge. The ruddj
glow, illuminating the sturdy figure and
honest features of the rugged fellow busj
with his work, was simply wonderful. Nc
need to picture the red flames of the forg<
beyond; their existence was distinctly evident.
The bright reflection proved theii
presence and their power. 80 it Is always
A vivid reflection is invincible proof of lighi
somewhere. While hands are busy with
common work, the face may shine witl
radiant reflection of liarht divine, and th?
quiet life may be illuminated, if the workei
will keep near to the Unseen Source.?Julia
H. Johnston, in "Bright Threads."
Taking Life as It Comes.
TVe do not know when or where the wavt
of (rouble is to sweep up against us as t
great roller suddenly heaves up out of i
tranquil sea; but just because of such awful
surprises we build in cloudless days where
the flood can never "reach us, high up upoc
the rock. That is the message of Jesus tc
many a life which wants to bear of othei
things, ks the disciples wanted to know o!
that which Jesus did not reveal. Many a !
mystery of life and death is undisclosed by
Him, many a problem which distracts the
mind is left unanswered; but along the way
He opens moves forever the hope and peace \
of man. Not knowing whither we are going
we take our life and duty just as they como
and across all the uncertainties of joy and
trouble, and achievements and regret, and
life aod death, that may await ua, the voice
of Jesus calls, "I am the way!"?F. G. Peabody,
D. D., in Afternoons in the College
Chapel.
A Prayer for At-ono-ment.
. 0 blessed Father, we thank and praise
thee for all the mercies thou hast poured today
on us and on all men, and the love that
has averted so much evil from us all. Forgive
us, for thy dear Son Jesu3 Christ's sake
for all the evil we have done or the good we
have- omitted to do. Keep us this nigh)
from artl.works of darkness, and whether wo
wake or sleep let our thoughts and deeds be
iu accordance with thy holy will. Preserve
us from all dangers and terrors of the
night; from iestle9s watching and sorrowful
thoughts; from unnecessary or fretful cares
and imaginary fears; from sickness and
from violent or painful death. Let U9 wake
tomorrow renewed in strength and cheerfu.
spirits; may we arise with holy thoughts and
j o forth to live to thine honor,to the service
< f our fellowmen and the comfort and joy o;
i ar own households. Amen.
Letting God Break the Rreari.
' That is just It," said the old lady. "Bt
little children. Live in little bits, and be
content. Don't wi9h or worry for a bij>
Eiece of anything. The big piece is thf
ord'9. Take the bread as He breaks it tc
you. Remember the bigness?and the multi
plying?is all in His heart and yours. Even
crumb signifies the whole loaf. Don't crowd
and struggle among things or against otnei
people. Come in, nearer, out of the scram
hie, close to the Giver, where there,is plentj
of room. Come out of the wilderness, into
the home. And then be patient with the
rest till they come in. Till they realize. I
mean, that they are in. Tuat th<> Lord's
house is in the midst and ail around."?Mra
A, D. T. Whitney, in "Square Tegs."
Trusting Ood'i Arithmetic.
There is subtraction as well as addition
in God's arithmetic. God is always adding
new gifts and blessings?we cannot foot up
the columns, they are so long. But sometimes
He takes from our list of pleasant
things. This gives us pain?we are not
always willing to have Him do this. But it
our faith were simpler, we should know that
God's subtractions are as much part of the
working out of the great sum of love and
wisdom as are His additions.?VVoll3pring.
Christ Died Tor Our Sins.
"Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures." That sentence sums up the
whole Bible. The four gospels teach us that
Christ died,and the rest of the New Testament
that he died for ou r sins. And the Scriptu res?
i. e., the Old Testament?were in some mysterious
fashion, by type, by allegory, by '
ethical and spiritual teaching, desifjued to I
prepare the human race for the truth which ]
in the New Testament was revealed, that J
Christ died for our sius.
Many persons seem to think that they are ]
to enter into the misery of the Lord when ,
hoy become Christians, instead of the joy
if the Lord.?Mr. Moodv
j
To ben roiiace ocmnps m duuk iuiui.
The PsstoCflce Department at Washing- !
ton, D. C., has perfected a.plun to sell post- '
age stumps In book form. It Is proposed to '
offer for sale two-cent stamps fn books of 1
twelve stamps at a cost of twenty-five 1
cents each. The books will be of a size '
convenient to slip Into the vest packet, 1
with wax paper between the stamps, and
with tho division of mail matter into
classes, the rutes of postage and other
kindred Information printed on the out- '
side. The Department expects the snlus tc
leturu a not annual profit of $200,000. \
The Country'* Poultry Supply,
There are in the United .States 375,000,006'
chlokens and 40,000,000 othor fowls such
ns ducks, geese and turkeys.
lng v1
to receive
opens Hla
o r
evidentm9"nnit?jesu3
"3ynngogue."^^Hfl^^^B^^^H|
was in after the IhI^^HH^HH^HH
tivlty. They could only be ereo^^^B^flfiD
ten men in easy oircuinstances (cal^^Bw^^^H
of ease") could be found to attena^^Hg^^H
? ? *?... ^ - a
xue people sac wiiu tuoir iact? iuwui^bm
the temple; thete were "chief seats" fo^^^Hj
the elders, and the women sat by themselves,
"Sabbath day." We should, on
the Sabbath day, always avoid work, conversation
and reading unfit for the Lord'a
day, and give ourselves to spiritual exerolses.
This was His custom. . If He needed
the moans of grace surely we do. "Stood
up." They stood .tp jread'the Scriptures.
but sat down to'teacj^-pfjawhole congregation
stood durlnjf'tbB^eadlSfiW"'^?^
17, "EsafaaJA?Greek form of Isaiah. ' w*~>
"The boolff' Th? roli. The 8crlptures
were wrltftn 0n parchment, with two rollera,
ao as they were read, one was
rolj^on aQ(j the other rolled off. ReadIcg
the Scriptures should always be a part
of divine worship. "It was written."?Isa.
61:1-2.
18.' "Spirit is upon Me." This was
Riven Him at His baptism. "Hath anointed
Me." I have been set apart for this very
purpose. This is the drat great qualification
of a true preacher. "The Gospel."
Oood news contenting Himself, His mis- "i
sion, and the deliverance He brings. "To
the poor." This was the crowning proof
that Jesus was the Messiah. When John
sent asking regarding His Messlahship
His reply was, Tell John, the poor have
the Gospel preached unto them. The
troubles that afflict humanity and that are
to be abolished by Christ are described as
(1) poverty, (2) captivity, (3) blindness,
oppression, ins uospei reiiciies au
classes and all forma of suffering, disease
and spiritual tondago. Health, deliverance
slgbt and liberty are promised.
"The broken-hearted." Through a sense
'of their sins. See R. V. "The captives."
Those In bondage to sin, evil habits, or the
devil. "The blind." Spiritually blind. A
great light has now come, and the sight of
such may be recovered.
19. "Acceptable year of the Lord." A
reference to the year of Jubilee. Lev.
25: 8-17. This was the year when (1) Debts
and obligations were released. (2) All
Hebrew servants were set frea. (8) Each
resumed possession of his inheritance.
This was a type of gospel times. The
gennine jubilee year koos beyond the
go'frpel picture. The liberty proclaimed Is
son! liberty. )
20. "Closed the book." Boiled up the
hill. "To the minister.*'. ..Jtyie ruler of the
synagogue or his servant^ ."Sat down."
See on verse 16. This Indicated that He
was through rending and was now about
to teach. "Eyes fastened on Him."
Many things contributed to arrest their
attention. 1. The report of His teachings
5 1?1.1? ? ? V. i A l? AnA/l Arl
liua IUJgUlY WUfUS WUIUU uuu lucwu
Him. 2. The remarkable character of the
words Ho bad read. 3, Hl9 manner and
bearing. 4. The fact that they knew Him.
so well. 5. The unction of the Holy
Spirit upon Him. ?
21. "Fulfilled in your ears." These
words ftfe merely the subject of His discourse,
the whole of which, no doubt, was
Intended to convince them that He was the
Messiah of wbom these things were prophesied.
Christ's great theme was'always
Himself.* His demand Is not "Believe something
that I may tell you," but "Believe In
Me." ;
22. "Bear Him witness." Gave signs of
approbation. "Gracious words." This ,
passage and John 7: 46 give us some Idea
of the majesty and sweetness, which characterized
our Lord's utterances. Hi9 words
Jprnng from his heart. "Is not this '
Joseph's Son?" How caa 'it be possible
that the son of this obscure family?a carpenter
who has made furniture for our
houses, a man without education, without
rank or office?that He should be the Messiah,
the King of the Jews?
23. "Proverb." Or parable. Denoting
any kliid of figurative discourse. "Physician,
heaNthyself," That Is, they would
ask why He^dld not perform miracles In .
Wazaretn?at uome, instead or at uaper*
DHuin, The unbelief of its inhabitants hia-' ir
dered the exercise oTHis powers. The best
modern equivalent tv"Charlty begins atr **.
home;*' do something here. Work a miracle
and prove to us that "y^iare the Mes24.
"In His own country." Nop?5jh?i^
Is received in his owu country as he is else-^y
where; and it is Gcd'3 way to send His ^
messengers to strangers, as In the case of
Elijah and Ellsha, wbo were sent to be the
ministers of God's mercy to Gentiles. It Is
very difficult for any people to believe in
tbe greatness or power of one who has
grown up among them. This is the reason
He gives for declining to work miracles la
Nazareth.
25. "I tell you." He now proceeds to
show how Elijah and Ellsha, two of their
greatest prophets, had gone to the Gentiles
with their blessings, and that by divine
direction, while many In Israel were suffering
unnoticed. "In the days of Ellas."
See 1 Kings 17:1-9. "The neaven was shut
up." There were two rainy seasons, called
the early and latter rains. The first fell in
October, the latter in April. The first pre
parea tue groutm ior iuo accu, mo i?udl
ripened the harvest. As both of these
were withheld consequently there was a
great famine.
26. "Save unto Saropta." Greek form
for Zarepliatb. Elijah was not sent to the
widows of Israel but to a widow of Zarepbath?a
village on the east coast of the
Mediterranean, between Tyre and Sidon.
27. "Eliseus." Greek form for Elisha.
The meaning of these two versea is, God
dispenses His benefits when, where, and to
whom He pleases. No pcrsou cau complain,
because no person deserves any good
from His hand. Jesus might justly do the
r.irae in the displays of His grace. Thus
He showed that His blessings were intended
for the Gentiles as well as the Jews.
Nauman the Syrian." 2 Kings 5:1-11.
28. "Filled with wrath." They seem to
Lave drawn tbo conclusion that He considered
the Gentiles more precious than
the Jews, in tho sight of God, aud at once
the whole cougregatlou rose up in frenzied
fury to make away with Him.
29. "Iirow of the hill." Nazareth spreads
itself out upou the eastern faco ot a mountain
where there is a perpendicular wall of
rock from forty to fifty leet high.
30. "Passiug through." Hiscscape from
Ihera was no doubt miraculous. They desired
to see a miracle and here they had
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Coute From Val<le? to Eagle Will B?
Covered monthly.
Adviae3 from Dawson, Alaska, report
that United States Mull Carrier Holcomb
lias arrived at Eagle from Yaldes, completing
the first winter trip as carrier of
Government mail from the seat of the
fukon, h distance of 430 miles. Holcomb
said he bad a perilous trip. H? encountered
many hardships, and during the trip
ten of bis twelve horses died or had to be
killed. He had a working force of eleven
nen, who were employed constructing cabins
for mail stations, one for every twenty
miles.
Prom now on the Department hop?s to
;ive monthly mail service between Valdes
ind Eagle. One consignment of mail has
already come out over the new route. From
the coast terminus of the trail a telephone
line extends eeventv-five miles inland, aud
It is the iutentiou of tfie Government to extend
the line through the Yukon next summer.
Herring In Chicago Klvcr.
Since the water has been turned on in tbe
Drainage Canal schools of blue herring
and lake perch are now found in the clarified
wutor of the Ciilengo River.
A Renting P!*c? For Tramps.
Chicago is talking of establishing a lodt;lughouse
for trumps.