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f DOOOOCCOCOOCCCCOCOOOOCOOCO I WITHIN THE BOER LINES. | o 5 The Burghers in Camp and on p 3 the Field of Battle. ? ? TOUCHING RSLIGIO US CEREMONIES. ? jgogoooooogoocooooggooooqo AmUTVri It A a 1A n Ati AT* N\J -1 X1I?1 Vi uui uivtv v.traordinary in connection with the South African war 6 than the lack of news that ias come from the Boer side. Of the foreigners within the Boer rauks, the most picturesque and one of the ablest is Count de VilleboisMareuil, who won fame in the Foreign Lcffion, French Army, and who, it is *aid, threw up his commission and ^0 joined the Boers because ho was not ;iven the rank of Brigadier-General, w which he felt he deserved. | But it appears that it was uot personal ambition but genuine sympathy | % llliii k LAAGER, FORMED OF 1 for the Boer cause that influenced aim. Not only is Colonel Villebois% .Marenil a brilliant soldier, but a dis'.inguished.writer as well, and herewith are presented extracts from a etter contributed by him to La r - 1 -c D--!? Tt- m'lroo mnoh tVlftt Liioeriie, ui xmu. j.i ;s new concerning the Boers, from whose side little has been published. ^Colonel Villebois-Mareuil writes: "If you consider both men and things, here is a curbus mixture of ?ery ancient and modem methods. The concentration of troops was carried out by railway with the greatest jase and without a hitch, as with rained troops. "Land transport is assured by those passive, canvas-covered wagons,drawn jy sixteen pairs of oxen. Filled with jlaakcts and provisions f)r the longsst journey, they formed the only rehicle before the railway Was constructed. To-day they are on all the Satal routes, aud on the banks of the iwollen rivers when it is impossible o discover a ford. "In camp is a commissariat officer vho serves out provisions with .iberality to which our cootmissariaC / J I ^ f ; AJT A * ? v. 1 <.* 4 "bmndfoldf.d:" ax English officer CARRYING A MESSAGE TO THE BOERS. officers have not accustomed me. The meat is admirable. Bread for the army is baked in Glencoe by a Frenchman named St. Croix, some of it in the ovens left there by the British. If bread shooed run out there is Boer bisouit, which is softer, more palatable and far better than ours. "The Government still keeps the men supplied with tea, coffee, rice, potatoes and eondiments; it is your , universal provider,- {hia Government ?your tailor, outfitter, saddler, shoemaker, and all without the slightest ."tiss, without the bother of filling up forms. All you* want is a voucher from the field cornet, who is responsible to his own oonsoienoe for the reasonableness of theordem he signs. "With its marabout teat8^t8 kitchen in the open air, its Irisb stews, the Boer laager would give the'illuBion of an Algerian camp but for the enormous wagons, drawn up in line or in square; the multiplicity of animals and ijie silence and calm of the men. > V "Guard duty is taken in turns by ' successive groups all night long. The tent of the general,' the major or the ? . ' 1 : . ? < * -a . T-! ?;?r?T" GENERAL JOUBERT, WITH HIS ! (The General is seated In the centre. up at the side, is bis son, and the man in fr !' " field cornet serves as a club for any one wlio likes. The life of the chiefs is for me a mystery of physical and in . tellectual endurance in the midst ot L - this continuous invasion. "There are no Dunishments. no reo ompeuses, no altercations nor coercive measures, everything being done freely at stated hours as a duty. Though there is no restraint, there is never a reprehensible act. "The laagers have a commissariat department that works with admirably regularity in spite of the extreme strain that is put upon it. I "Vint oftov 111! tlia 1.1 a nnvn n A'wu ma^gio die CUiC 11J interesting for the spirit that animates them. An atmosphere of deep religious feeling pervades the camp, which commits everything to God?the fate of the Transvaal, the defense of its liberties, and the rights of its people against the aggressor. If you compliment a general he replies: 'God has permitted it.' The Beer, whose secret aspirations are thus encouraged, lifts eyes of faith to heaven. The pastors are among the men, living their life, present at their death, simple, like 4;he others, although treated with special respect. " "Any man who has seen the Boers, ^ % L - 'HE WAGONS, HASTILY TNT BENCHED, W night after night, gathered in groups, some on horseback, others .on foot, punctual in all weathers, taking up their nightly stations, is constrained to bow before the superior power which can transform lives bo free as theirs and mould them to the needs of warlike discipline. "The rain is often heavy, night falls, but they presa stoioally forward without noticing it, and until the hour of dawn, crouching among, the rocks sp.BVlci: 1^" I'll" laa<^ 'alonj m slope, bi^witin the mire or drentftdd urthe flooded^ fields, they "No man who has seen them in battle, their eyes ever on tn'e alert, their deadly magazines rifles in their hand?, quick to change their position or to strengthen a weak point, inflexible, and yet at the same time generous, stopping their fire as soon as it has produced its effect, refusing to gnrsue after the enemy has been put to'flight ... . r.m t rr a T> T>T>I? A T." J? A SiT ' ADiU JSAArjc, ai The young man on the right, with hat turned out of hiiu is General Joubert's chaplain.) understand that they are a people apart, these extraordinary Boers? sure of their eye as of their nerve, of their resolution as of their endurance." Georee Lynch, artist of the Illus. '-'c'j&v. . trated London News in Natal, who was taken prisoner by the Boers, describes a hymn service in th^ Boer laager behind Lombard's Kop, from which the Trausvaal "Long Tom" daily bombards Ladyemith, as follows: "About fifteen men, mostly about thirty or forty years, were crowded into the tent, which was excessively hot. Two candles were stuck in bottles placed on empty cases; the men squatted around, two or three reading from the same hymnbook. They had.laid their pipes besides them and their rifles were atackod about the tentpole. They sang well in lusty, clear voices free MAnnl 1-nTAnff T1>A off/irtf TXT Q O li UUi UUV UADill tnau^, a. j-i ^ t lx Xs \. t. ?rt?w strikingly picturesque, the strongly marked, earnest faces in the candlelight thrown out against the dark background ot the shadows behind. Similar scenes were to be witnessed at each laager every evening, sometimes in three or four tents at the same time." A letter from Sir George White to General Schalk Burger was taken by - .i? ' . } t \ , i~ ? ITH THE STORES AND ANIMALS INSIDE. Lieutenant Orlebar, of the Nineteenth Snssars, during the siege of Ladysmith. He was accompanied by an orderly with a white flag, and when he leached the Boer outposts he was blindfolded aod conducted to the General, the orderly being left behind in charge of the*picket. His eyes were not uncovered again until he was inside the General's tent, which was sumptuously furnished, there even being a big bed in it. When General Burger's answer was ready, the Lieutenant was again bliudfolded and conducted back to tbe outposts. There are rufRans on both aides, but on the whole the war seems to have been conducted as humanely as war cac. British and Boer doctors and clergymen have combined to do all flint. nmf>nr?A n.nd relierion can to soften the hardships and mitigate the horrors of tattle. A Dutchman gives an interesting account of a visit he recently paid to the Boer camp. He made a short stay at the tent of General Joubert, who at the time was engaged with his secretary and the telegraph wires, while close at hand and under the same canvas his sturdy spouse was placidly peeling potatoes as if no fatal issues were hanging in the balance. The rites of hospitality were observed by the Commandant General ordering the native wench Eva, who has accompanied him and his good spouse through many a fierce campaign, to bring the national beverage, coffee. Monkey* and Music. The keepers ot the monkey house at the Zoological Gardens are disciples of Professor Garner in believing that monkeys have a rudimentary 'language, or at least a code of signals. One keeper declares that no matter what the monkeys are doing a pecuom oue of them will .tuber to the top of om their inherited pediments were rethe animals by a ausigians who vis rrge, around their cages shakmg 4 spesS'-^Sf^^tera' held np to their ^ amount: dl^ort in a give,a timfe ^compared'-w-ittt the Europeah:. t^toofc eleven otfolieB to oarrv the lnggage ot a representative . of Engineering from a bote! to a railway station, where one man and a handcart would have sufficed. This overplus of labor and infinitesimal coinage isjresponaible also for the terrible amount of .theft of small loose parts,, or even fixed parts, of the loose or fixed plant on the railways.?London Glo?e. Bnller's Friendship For ti.?. Krugera. It is recalled that General Sir Red ers Buller wa*, prior to the South African war, on terms of friendship with the Xruger family, and that they i were woat to exchange cards of gooi wishes eva)(y Christmas, their friendship datiug from twenty y^ars ago, when Buller had a regimen" under hir^mmand iathe war agaiaat the Ztflus. A HOUSE THAT IS UNIQUE. The Peculiar Architecture of an Oklahoma Man'* Dwelling. Charles Babcock, a Guthrie Alderman, is building the most remarkable house iu Oklahoma. Babcock's house is three stories high and as round as a silver doilar just from the mint. The I ODD HOUSE AT CfCTTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. upper stories are . each smaller in diameter than the, one below. On top of tbe third story* is a staff, crowned with a glittering ball. The lower floor is divided into three rooms; eacH resembling in shape a slice of pie. Along the wall of one room is anarrow stairway to the second story. One ofBabcook'6 troubles is to get bis furniture to fit. If his beds and tables and chairs, and sofas were j r 1 j ?,?? roumi as vumu aitaugu luantiuo iw less difficulty. * Babcock will complete his house by building a circular, porch around it. His home is in West Guthrie and com-. mands a ptetty view of the Cottonwood' Valley. Babcock drew his own .plans and is proud of his architectual production. He said, that lie built the house just to have one different from any other. :? /.V A King's Boyhood. >? Ludwig XL of Bavaria, the unfortunate crazy king, whose name is best known to Americans as that of the friend and -jttfcron -of < Richard - had a - -Blormy y o ut h , JHT-. V prophesy the misK| ^jfl fortunes of his WflI later years. In her account of the ro\ mance ?* kis ^e? Frances Gerard re^a'e9 t^ie8e characj teristic inoidents: ? ?ne 0CC?lB*0n f/\ XJL41AOO VKWW, AAA4J ' younger brother, ludwig n. had made himself of bavabia. au enormous snowball, and cried dut with pride to his brother: "Look, Ludwig, I have a snowball twice as big as your head!" At these words the crown i prince fell into a fury and tore the ball from the child, who burst into tears. The child's tutor came upon the sceno and apked what had happened. Otto sobbed out hia story. "Oh, your highness." said the tutor, "I can't allow this. Prinee Otto has a right to his own snowball; you mustn't take it from him." Ludwig turned upon his tutor, his eyes glancing darts cf indignation. "Uo you mean to ten me, ne saui, I "that I, the crown prince, have no | right to this snowball?" i After all, it was only a snowball; ; but later on the wise men of Bavaria I shook tteir heads and murtoured. A pleasauter ptory is told of the prince when, at eighteen, he received hia allowanoe, in coins fresh from the mint. The amount was what would now be called a pittance. The first use raude by the boy of his new wealth was to go to the court jeweler and order for his mother a locket which he had heard her admire. The jeweler inquired whether he should send the account to the castle, as usual. "No," repHed the crown prince, with an air of ineffable pride. "I have now my own allowance. Hero I ?nn wonf " 1.1 IUJ puioo. luuc nuai jvu A Water SpyclaHS. A marked improvement has been introduced by theEuglish in the form of the submarine spyglass used in Bermuda for viewing those wonderful flower gardens of coral and the other strange and beautiful things that lie beneath the waves which roll and tumble over its famous reefs. In the native form this instrument, commonly called the "water-glass," is simply a square funuel of wood, with a pane of glass closing the smaller end. This closed end is lowered iuto the water, the open top remaining above the surface, the object being to avoid the blur caused by the ripples. The improvement consists in exactly reversing this arrangement, bv leaving the small end of the box open and oloBing the other witn a mucu larger sheet of glass. If this becomes misted it /can be cleared merely by running a little water over it. 'The whole thingis about two feet in length. ?New York World. Judging h Dog. There are only a few men who are capable of awarding the prizes at the . annual bench shows because so few have made a study of the pointsabout a dog which must be taken into consideration. Tlie following diagram THE TECHNICAL POINTS OF A DOO. illustrates the features that competent judges exiflilnc in order to determine the blue-ribbon winner: A?Nasal bone. H?Elbow. B?Stop. MBT? Pasteras. i C?Ooetpnt. I?Knee. Brlnket. f joint. >f?-K?Hock. ! r?Top of ahoulders. b?Feu t tier. Q?For*'""r?. / b I POPULAR SCIENCE. During an influenza epidemic in the North of England, the curious fact has been noted that only the men working in very high temperatures have escaped infection. A calendar month varies from twenty-eight to thirty-one days. A uicuu lunar montn is twenty-nine uays, twelve hours, forty-four minutes, two seconds and a small fraction. A solar year, or the transition from one vernal aqtiinoxto another, consists of 365.24244 solar days, or 365 days, five hours, corty-eight minutes and 49.580 sec3nds. A Julian year is 365 days, a Gregorian year is 365.2425 days. Every fourth year or leap year ha3 366 days. William A. Eddy, at Bayonna, N. T., recently made some interesting rests with a kite, his object being to make an electrical test of a snow )torm. A six-foot single plane kite was used, and it was attached to a steel wire. The brush discharge could be plainly heard followed by a oneinch spark. The electrical activity with tne kite at so moderate an altitude was the greatest that had ever oeen experienced, the effect being ..about th^ same as if a thunderstorm .had been near. kl ?V.: *"" * ?? | It haa usually been assumed that l ihe atoms of which all matter consists I ire indivisible, bat Professor J. J. Thomson, of the Royal Society of j;;Great Britain, thinks that he has ' "ound evidence of the divisibility of itoms. Experiments . with cathode rays indicate, he says, that the stream jf electrified particles projected from [she negative plate consists of corpus)Ies torn from the atoms composing ;he eleotrode, and not of the whole, j itoms themselves. These corpuscles ire very small portions of the'atoms Tom which they come; At the recent scientific conference it-Munich, Professor Chan exhibited ;he results of the German Deep-Saa Expedition. Some of the fish found it a depth of about 10,000 feet resem; :>led, he said, the fossil species iu the feooks of the Mesozoic era, when the birth's atmosphere was dense with larbon. These tisn, in many cases, i a&d special means of collecting light. 3ome possessed enormous eyes, occupying nearly the whole side of the lead, and some veere sapplied with ;elescopic organs. Others carried their light on their heads in a manner umilar to that of the glow-woim. Professor James E. Keeler, Director' 3f the Lick Obserratory, reports that! ;he CJrossley reflecting telesoope of -.hat institution has made about seventy photographs of nebulse during the past fear, showing many now features from which highly interesting conclusions aiay be drawn. On nearly every pho;ographic plate exposed, from one to - Vinnn fonn/J UAbUQU UQTT iauuutu^ U(?>W VWVM ?nd Professor Keeler estimates that ;he number of nebulae in the sky within reach of the Crossley telescope nay be as great as 120,000, How the imagination is stimulated by. such a picture of the heavens, sprinkled over with, half-visible, misty specks, more lelicate than thistle-down in appearince, yet capable by condensation of forming worlds and suns?the filmy ^mbroyos of future stars! Sparceou Helped by an Echo. No orator erefr less neoded the aids >f art than the great London preachir, (Jharles H. Spurgeon,' and none iver used them less; but when nature aelped him, not only in himself, but outside of himself, he welcomed tho jffect, as he had a right to do. One striking instance of a sermon rein forced in this way is related by a clergyman of the Church of England, the Rev. D. A. Doudney. Mr. Spurgeon was holding outdoor neetings in the county of ftants opposite the Isle of Wight, and one afternoon he preached to a great throng }f people in a beautiful valley near the market town of Havant. His ktext was from the fifty-first Psalm. "Theu will I teaoh transgressors thy way," and the sermon was a Gospel invitation. The air was still, and a cloudless sun was sinking as be approached the end of his discourse, while the attentive hearers caught every \v?>rd. Apparently they had not noticed, carried along as they were by the sweep of his powerful voice, that the valley was the home of echoes. Mr. Spurgeon had discovered the fact. At the close of his last appeal, raising his voice, he called to the congregation:; "All things arereadj! Come! 'The spirit and the bride say come!' and nature herself acoenta the heavenly invitation again and again. Come! Come! Come!" * t-.? 11.. j .i Xiie ecnoea took up me wuru, uuu from sice to side the breathless assembly heard the repeated call, "Come! Come! Come!" till it sank to a whisper in the distance. The narrator describes the effeot as "like an electric shock." It was ae if the preacher's eloquent peroration nad wakened supernal voices. We have no written record of the Truits of the meeting, but there was a solemnity in the aptness of its close ihat lifted it above mere dramatic artifice or any of the devices employed ;o trick.?Youth's Companion. The Adaptability of Our Kodlea. Dr. Carl Schlatter, of Vienna, whc not long ago snowed tnat tne siomacc was a superfluous organ by removing that of a woman, who lived, and go) along perfectly well without one, has cast further doubts ou the use of oui internal machinery. He recently re moved si* feet of the small intestiuc from au ftalian who bad been stabbe.1 in a brawl. That intestine is believec to play au important part in absorbing food into the system. The Italian, however, gained in veiglit after th< operation. t?;e eight months after leav ing the hospital reported that he hat lost a few pounds, could not digest the solid food he had been accustomed j to, and didn't feel like working : though he was in pretty good lieu!tL-. j The Lancet admits that Dr. Selilat ter's operation shows that a third 01 the intestine may be dispensed witb, but is astonished at the wonderful powers of adaptation of the human body. - j Two-thirds of the surface of New Zealand is suitable for agriculture and grazing, and the total area under crops is 11.000.000 ncrea jGOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.' PSECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Hip Two Monks?The Peril rejecting' Christ ? The Ble??edne** of Consecrs- j tion?Keflectinc the Divine Light?The llible i? God'* Word. I A worthy monk, as ancient legends say, Planted, with care, a tender tree one day, j j Thinking with joy how it would grow anon, j i And yield him profit from the fruit thereon, j Pleased with bis task, upon th? spot he j bowed, I Ami to himself with piou3 pride he v.owed: j Now I will prav. each day, and Ood wIlJ f I give I Whate'er I ask to make the sapling live." | And to bis credit be it written now. Not even once did he forget his vow; But morn ;iud eve ho came to view the tree, I Ami asked what he saw its need3 to be. He prayed for rain, and gentle showers foil; He prayed for sun, and sunshine camo as well; And when he asked for dew, there came the dew; For winds to blow, th?n grateful breezes blew. For storm to strengthen, or for heat or cold, Whate'er he craved not once did God with, hold; And yet in vain the selfish plan he tried, For all his pravers, the sapling drooped and died. j Another monk bis tree had planted too, And day by day jts spreading branches grew Above the way, to shelter as thoy pass God's weary children going up to mas3; And travelers oft. aside their burdens laid, !3ut there and rented in its peaceful shade. One day they met among the shadows there, Just as the convent bell had called to prayer. "Now tell me, brother John." the first monk said. "Why your tree thrives, while mine, alas, U | dead V I pruned it well and tended it with care, ! \nd twice each day I Xold its needs in j prayer." / The other monk in meekness bowed his J head, While with a sweet humility ho said : "My simple mind could not presume to r know" * Just what wad best to make^sapling grow And so I put It in God's care, .and left the rest 'To Him who made the tree, and knows tbie best. -? I never asked for sun or rain or frost, I only praved: 'Give what it needetb most.'" ?A. A. Bragdon, in Zion's Herald. r . The I ?rll of Rejecting Christ. In otdinary'lffn we feel more keenly the J smiling, courteous dismissal of one who waves us aside, refusing to pay us any heed, than the criticism of him who disagrees with and condemns us. It may be that the heart of Christ it) more sorely grieved by neglect even to listen to His appeal, on the part of those who are well disposed toward', all goodness but will not trouble 'themselves to, think seriously enough about' their relation fo Him tc apprehend 1t, than even by the open ill will of avowed enefaies. The peril Of rejecting, Chrijl without actual, intent is very real in oar .time. In the days of out grandfathers, when people lived more quietly, when life was simpler, and when i religion was relatively more prominent, it 1 was less difficult than now to fix attention on the affairs-of .tho soul. It wa3 less easy to be misled into the belief that to be well disposed towardkoodness was to be good. He who points ouf,.the-real, radical differ- j ence, ana insists npon .ft kindly but firmly, > does a real service'in suQh^a period as that ) through which we are n6w passing. The BlesiedneM of Contecrntion. It used to be trne that public opinion hindered muny from becoming Christian", and temporarily'tnd locally It still hinders some. But, generally speaking, tbe world has learned ta appro ye of Christianity outwardly. bowevar it may inwardly object to becoming Cbristlik& The day has long passed when Christianity was unpopular in the early sense. It Is felt to be respectable and becoming to be a Christian. He who is 'hindered from becoming converted becaqse he is afraid of what people may , say. is, ? poor creature. He need not f?ar that h'e.will go unbelped. Christian frleiofds vWIL encourage and support him. Best of &U, within his heart the aid of the ?o]y Spirit witi bo-given him. If be who is face to face wittriputy in the matter of conversion could for a moment occupy tbe position of a Christian of experij ence. and could look beck upon the interval since his conversion, he would have a revelation in an instant of what blessedness I there is in Christian conseoration. and what i a terrible mistake it is to deny or neglcct I the diitv ol enlisting as i follower of Christ, i .. , , , ' ' J Reflecting the Divine Light. Lathe British art exhibit at the Columbiao exposition there was a remarkable picture | of a blacksmith's shop. . All the homely details?the smoky walls and rafters, the lurking shadow?, the. forma and faces ol the men showing in the ball-lights? I were pourtrayed with singular fidelity. Bui the greatest artistic triumph appeared in the I marvelous reflection, upon a boy's face, of light from an unstea forge. The rudd> glow, illuminating tb^ sturdy figure and honest features of the rugged fellow bu.*y with his work, was simply wonderful. No need to picture the red flames of the forge beyond: their existenoe was distinctly evident. The bright reflection proved their presence and their power. So it is always. A vivid reflection is invincible proof of light somewhere. While hands are busy with oommon work, lives may shine with ra- ) diant reflection, and the quiet life muv be illumined if the worker will keep near tc ! the Divine source. 1 Tl e Bible Is God's Word. Hf znaKtSi U ivrriuio iuisiu&n wuu ivifjcu that ih? Bible is God's word today as trulv sa it ever was. Theories of interpreta" tioD, and even of inspitatfon, differ. JVit the great fact that the Bible is God'* message to men?given for their spiritual guidance and uplifting, to tell them o! their only lledeemer and to help them a.nothing else can toward their salvation? abides. Throughout all Christian history the Bible haa served the spiritual needs ol men successfully. And whatever, changes may occur in the future, there is not th? slightest reason for supposing that its spiritual sufficiency will fail to be recognized. ! Distrust of the Bibie should not be allowed to binder any oue from giving himself tc Christ. | If we saw ,i man standing by the shorf j and dinging gold coins aud diamonds in the I sea we wouid say ho must be insane. Yet many young people Ting into the world's dark waters coins and g^ms of time?days, weeks, months, years. Weshould not waste a moment. God" wants all our life, from infancy to the last hour. We rob Him when [ we delay becoming a Christian. Let us surrender ourselves to Christ now, today, and begin to livo for Him. in Him, with Him and to Him. Then wo shall make 1200 truly a beautiful year.?Wollsprias. Tim I'aith, Christ with rne. >\an m" ki* the pc r^l and hardest life luaiiaous, joyous, glorious.?Waylnnd Hoyt. I! art lily arithmetic ?ays,"fiivr: aail want." Heavenly arithmetic ?ay.-, "Give aiM ?'row rk'ti." ? Sfiia u flier. RUSSIA'S DESIGNS^ CN INDIA. I*rei>ariuc to Strike a Blow at Eiislund'* Mupmuacy in ttie K;mt. Ia.iiralious are accumulating that Kussin te prcpari;:;? to strilce the iou^ cxpeutwl I blow at English supremacy in mma. ouc is mobilizing an army In Central Asia j nsiupj the Trans-Caspian ilaiirond. That I Kn^sia intends to seize Hernt is generally conceded. She Das puttied rise frontier ol j Turkestan nearly two hundred miles south ' * t!ie Mervo and nritain sixty miles of the I ?'oVeted city of W'*?t?*rn Afgh.-iuistau. Ones [ la possession of llerar, Itus-da wii! fortify it, connect it by rail vvitli the AskubaJ Hue, at ti?? Mervfi, and make it the great ba.-tti of supplier lor tue iuvaiion of British India THE KENTUCKY CONFLICT? Governor Taylor Pardons Officials Accused of Goebel's Murder. DECISION IN FAVOR OF BECKHAM. '' > v Kentucky's Republican Secretary of State and the Capital Policeman Forcibly Taken From a Train in Lexington-* lJccUhnm rorculnt; n State Militia? Judge Uphold* Democratic Contention. Fbankfobt, Ky. (Special).?According t? a stntoment made by Governor W. S. Tay' lor Sunday he lias granted a pardon to each of the persons for whom warrant* huve been issued charging them with being accessories to the assassination ofj&oebel.' In his statement, Governor Taylor charges the Democratic contestants for State offices with conspiracy to obtain control of the Government, declares . Goebel was assassinated by some person wh03e identity is unlcuown and oharges that a conspiracy* was formed to fasten "this heinous orlmei upon till or some of the State officers sleeted by;the people, the purport being; to obscure and cover tb?'political robbery %nd to terrorize in the Assembly aU opposition." He continues: * "In order to carry oat this foal consptr* acy.they procured an act appropriating; $100,000 ostensibly for the purpose of dej , tectlng the criminals, aod have employed a lawyer,whose course in the criminal proceedlngs was so odious as to cause a rlotj resulting in the destraotlon of the coarti house and the loss of over forty lives. | , "Following this an emplove of the 0!a? . -r. I 0111 nan JLjiiquiror tiro mauo autu4i?u9vuat^?i lag that Hon. Caleb Powers, Secretary oB State; his brother John Powers, a o&ptaltL of a company of State Militia; W. H, Culton, a clork ia the auditor's office; Hon.Charles Plalay, former Secretary of StateJ and Captain John W. Davis, polloetaaa oQ the State House grounds, conspired, .?ld6&l and Assisted in said assassination. .' i "For some cause, or without cause, our sourts, composed entirely of Democrat!?) fudges; have bqoome so partisan that It U| practically, If not absolutely, Impossible .'or any man not of their,persuasion to ob-1 ;a!n a fair trial. As organized the oourttt ire courts of conviction instead of oourta.1 of trial. ; "Under this state of affairs, belleviag :lxat eaph one of said persons is lnnocentj of any complicity In said crime, and fur-i ther believing that the enormous reward' will secure the conviction of those men, however lnnooent, I deem it my solemn 3uty to issue pardons to them, in ordetj that the political conspirators might not) 6e enabled to deprive them of their liberty) or their life. The guilty men should bet punished, but designing men controlling} che court should not be enabled to shedj theblood of lunocent men, and if it Is in^ ray power to prevent it, i piougo uiyaou m the name of God and humanity that It 3hall not be done." % ARREST OF REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS' forcibly Taken From a Train While At* tempting to Kscape. Lexihgtok, Ky. (Special).?Caleb Powers, Republican Secretary of 8tate, an&i John Davis, policeman of the State Capitol' in Frankfort, were arrested here while attempting to esoape to the mountains. They wore guarded by a squad of soldiers -from.Frankfort and were ia uniform and carrioA t?uns. Goth are charged with being aooesiories to the assassination of, William; Goobol. i The men had been protected In tho State Capitol all day by Governor Taylor's sol-} diers, but about eight o'clock Saturday! evening they were hurried to the Chesa? peako and Ohio station a9 soldiers Had! took tho train for thi3 city. Word of their escape was quickly given in Frankforty , and officials here were asked to arrest* them, p. roward of $1590 being offered for ? ! their arrest. . fjtfy When the train reached this city a loaal compituy 01 iuiiiuAi wuiuu, is pi pv^sviuivu or the armory here, was drawn up at the Jtatlon. A squad of police searched the train aad found the men after much' trouble. They refused to submit to arrest, and a policeman struck Powers over the headl with his club, cuttlug it badly. One o( thai Taylor soldiers struck Lieutenant Peake: oror the hand with a gun, breaking his. fingers. The policemen then covered the* soldiers with their pistols, and tbe fugitives surrendered. They wore hurried to jail. DECISION FAVORS DEMOCRATS. , Jadse Field Holds that the Legislator* Is the Judge of Contests. Louisville, Ky. (Special-).?A | decision justaiulng the contention of tho Democrats; (hat the Legislature is the^trlbunal deslg-; aated by the Constitution for the determination of contests for the offices of Governor and, Lieutenant-Governor, has been handed down in the Circuit Court by Judge Field. The Republicans will apoeal tho case to the State Court of Appeals, and if the decision there is against them will try to get1 a hearing before the United States Supreme Court. Judge Fields reviews the history of the case, and declares the line of authority tot the effect that the courts cannot inquire' Into the motive* which induced tho actionl of the Legislature is unbroken, and mast be taken as the law. Beckham Calls For Troops. Fbisktobt, Ky.\ (Special).?The Qr.it move on tbe part of Governor Iieckliam's followers toward the formation of a Stato Guard under hlsatalulstratlon was taken* here Sunday. City Clerk Bon Marshall circulated a paper and enlisted the requisite numbor of men, who are to composo a new company. T^8 gunB for this company have been provided by cltlzons here, most of them being either needle guu? or Winchesters. ' Taylor's Right to Pardoti. Fbankfobt, Ky. (Speolal).?Iu connection with the pardons issued by Governor Taylor to Stute omcers ana oiucio uwvi. their arrest as suspeots a statement is made that it has been the jcustom for years and is legal for Governors to pardon mea in advance of trials. In so:ne cases pardons have been issued to save what were eepted as oases of useless expense. Pleads to Be Handed. Archibald Oorley, sentenced to serva twenty-flve years for a murder committed in Chicago, has acknowledged his guilt, und asks that he be hauged, not eent to prison. It is not likely that his peculiar plea will have any effect in changing Corley's sentence. Flood of Bid* For War Loan. There was a stream of applicants Saturday at the Bank of England in London for subscription forms to the new $150,000,000 war loan. Tho applications from the provinces alone aggregated thre?' times the amount of the issue. It is understood that the Araerioan subscriptions nlon* exceeded the amount, which is ex pectod to bo covorea tea or twenty times over. jjf Troops In Philippine* to Come Home. General Otis Jjas been ordered to begin ieudiug home tbose troops which have been in the Philippines two years. Cycling Notes. >4 Corning (N. I.) telegraph messenger boys are buying chalnless bicyole3. The professional racing season will begin about tig second weak kt April. Tho Prete? of Police of Paris has organized a coMgwf 240 bicycle policemen. The whjpimen of England aro taking to khaki clofl* for cycling oostnmos. but the fad is notTHWy to extend to this country. In the State of Hew York alone nearly. $200,000 have been eoltoolfd for the sidepath building, and much of it has already been expended. 1'ouriog gives promise of becoming mora* popular than ever in tho co;uincr seasoa,aud many ridors are planning to spenl; their summer vacations in this waz