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VOL. XIV. MANNIN., .C..., WIDNESDAY, AAIRN''1 29., 189 STREETS OF A LIl. Dr. Talmage Contrasts Their Splendor and Woe. SHAMS AND PRETENSIONS. Unlike the Democratic Principle of the Gospel ofChrist. Temp tations for the 'Unwary. Work for Christians. In this discourse at Washington Sun day Dr. Talmage. who has lived the most of his life in cities, draws practi cal lessons from his own observation: text, Proverbs i, 2o:- Wisdom erieth uithout. She uttereth her voice in the .t reets. We are all ready to listen to the voices oi nature-the voices of the mountain, the voices of the sea, the voices of the storm, the voices of the .-Ear. As in some of the cathedrals in earope there is an organ at either end of the building, and the one instru incut responds musically to the other, e in the great cathedral of nature day responds to day. and night to uight. and flower to flower, and star to star in the great harmonies of the universe. The springtime is an evangelist in blos soms preaching of God's love. and the wiuter is a prophet-white bearded denouncing woe against our sins. We are all ready to listen to the voices of nature. But how few of us learn any thing from the voices of the noisy and dusty street. You go to your mechan ism, and to your work, and to your merchandise, and you come back again -and often with how different a heait you pass through the streets. Are there no things for us to learn from those pavements over which we pass? Are ttiere no tufts of truth growing up between these cobblestones, beaten with the feet of toil and pain and pleas ure, the slow tread of old age and the quick step of childhood? Aye, there are great harvests to be reaped, and now I thrust in the sickle because the harvest is ripe. "Wisdom crieth with .out. She uttereth her voice in the sitreits." In the first place the street impresses me with the fact that this life is a scene of toil and struggle. By 10 o'clock every day the city is jarring with wheels and shuffling with feet and humming with voices and covered with the breath of smoke-stacks and a-rush with traf ickers. Once in a while you find a mian going along with folded arms and with leisurely step, as though he had !othing to do, but, for the most part, -as you find men going down these .-treets on the way to business, there i- anxiety in their faces, as though ;hey had some errand which must be executed at the first possible moment. You are jt:stled by those who have bar g-ains to make and notes to sell. Up tis ladder with a bod of bricks, out Or this bank with a roll of bills, on this dray with a l.'ad of goods, diggaing a cellar, or shingling a roof, or shoeing a horse, or building a wall, or mending a watch, or binding a book. Industry, with her thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet. goes on singing her song of work, work, work, while the mills drum it and the steam whistles fife it. All this is not because men lve toil. Some one remarked, "Every wan is as lazy as he can afford to be. But is it because necessity with stern brow and with uplifted whip stands over you ready whenever you relax your toil to make your shoulders stiog with the lash. Can it be that paseing up and down these streets ou your way to work and business you do not learn anything of time world's toil and anxiety and strug ;N? Oh, how maniy drooping hearts. bow~ many eyes on the watch. how many ii.iles travelled, how many burdens car ried, how many losses suffered, how nany victories gained, how many de cats suffered, how many exasperations S dured --What losses, what hunger, Shat wretchedness, what pallor, what disease, what agony. what despair! S.,metimes I stopped at the cornir of the street as the multitudes went hither and you, and it has seemed to be a great pantomime, and as I looked upon it my h-art broke- This great tide of human life that goes down the street is a rapid tssed and turned aside and dashed ahead and driven back--beauti ful in its confusion and coufused in its beauty. In the carpeted aisles of the forest, in the woods from which the eternal shadow is never lifted, on the shore of the sea ever whose iron coast tosses the tangled foam sprinkling the cracked cliffs with a baptism of whirl wind and tempest, is the best jlace to study God, but in the rushing, swarm ing, raving street is the best place to study man. Going down to your place of business and coming home again I charge you to look about-see these signs of poverty. of wretchedness, of hungor, of sin, of bereavement-and as you go through the streets and come back throughl the streets, gather up in the arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all the losses. all the sufferings. all the bereavements of those whom you pass and present them in prayer before an all sympathetie God- In the great day of eternity there will be thousands of persons with whom you in this world never exchang ed one word who will rise up and call yu blessed, and there will be a thou sand fingers pointed at you in heaven. saying, "That is the man, that is the woman, who helped me when I was hun gry and sick and wandering and lost and heartbroken. That is the man. that is the woman-" And the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: "I was hungry, and ye fed me; I was naked, ana ye clothed me; was sick and in prison, and ye visited me. Inasmuch tn ye did it to these poor waifs of the streets. ye did it to me. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that all classes and conditions of society must commingle. We sonic times cultuie a wicked exclusiveness. Intellect despises ignorance. Refine ment will have nothing to do with boor ishness. Gloves hate the sunburned hand, and the high forehead desises the fiat head, and the trini Lfedgeo will have nothing to do with the wil copsewood, and ithens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. The astronoQ mer must come down from his starry - hr kul ti~8~ -' i fl11t'i " ~isi -ur~l brfc zi s e an chm seut come :nvoy fro hilaoratory, whezre he has b- sttudying analvsis and syn i i l undertand the nature of the Iis. I tlss God that all eae of eleaecm ledto n eet on Ohe trct. Te ilittering ecach weel:ctla n't the staven ,er's cart. Fir rbe(s run against the peddler's ack. l',bbut health meets wan eT'nes. I Iotytv confront's fraud. vry c o people melt every other cl1s :pudeice and modesty, p and itumility, purity and boastlines. lrankerics andi hypocrisy, meeting on the -;ame block. iu the saie street, in the same city. Oh, that is what Solonwm meant when he said: -'The rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the Maker of them all. I like ti.is democratic principle of the Yospel of de.sus Christ which recognizes the fact that we stand before God on one and the aine platform. Do not take on any airs, whatever position you have gained in society; you are nothing but man born of the same parent. re generated by the Same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down in the same dust. to get up in the snic resur rection. It is high tinie that we all ac knowledge not only the Fatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man. Acain, the -.treet impresses me with the fact that it is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to heaven. Infinite temptations springuon us from these places of pub lic concourse. Amid so much affluence how much 'temptation to covetousness and to be discontented with our hum ble lot! Amid so many opportunities for over reaching, what tempta tion to extortion' Amid so much dis play. what temptation to vanity! Amid so many aaloons of strong drink, what allurement to dissipation' In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street. how many iake quick and eternal shipwreek! If a man of-war comes back from a battle and is towed into the navv vard, we go down and look at the splintered spars and count the bullet holes and look with patriotic admira tion on the flag that floated in victory from the masthc-'. But that man is more of a curiosity who has gone through 30 years of the sharpshooting of buzin ss life and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the streets. Oh, how many have gone down under the pressure. leaving not so much as t' e patch of canvas to tell where they per ished! They never had any peace. Their dishonesties kept tolling in their ears. If I had an ax and could split open the beams of that fine house, per haps I would find in the very heart of it a skeleton. In his very best wine there is a smack of poor man's sweat. Oh. is it strange that when a man has devoured widow's houses he is disturb ed with indigestion? All the forces of nat-ire are against him The floods are ready to drown him and the earthquake to swallow himii and the fires to con sume him and the lightning te smite him. But the children of God are on every street, andI in the day when the crowns of heaven are distributed some of the brightest cf them will be given to those men who were faithiul to God and faithful to the souls of others amid the marts of business, proving them selves the heroes of the street. Mighty were their temptations, mighty was their deliverance, and mighty shall be their triumph. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what double dealing, what Jwo facedness! Do all people who wish you good morn ing really hope for you a happy day? Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning it? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as it pretends to know? Is there nott nmany a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant show twindow? Passing up and dmivn the streets to your busi ness and your work, are you not im pressed with the fact that society is hollow and that there arc subterfuges and pretensions? Oh,. how many there who swagger and strut and howfew peo ple who are natural and walk! While fops simperand fools chuckle and sim petons giggle, how few people are nat ural and laugh! Th'le courtesan and the libertine co down the street in beauti ul apparel. while within the heart there arc volcanoes of passion consum ing their life away. I say these things not to create in you inc red ality or mis antropy. nor do I forget there are thousands of people a grea: deal better Ithan they seem. but I do not think any man is trenared for the conflict of this ife until he knows this particular peril. Ehud comes pretending to pay his tax to King Eglon, and while he stands in font of the king stabs him through with a dagger until the haft went in after the blade. Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. Again the street impresses me with the 'fact that it is a great field for Chrstian charity. There are hunger and suifering and want and wretched nes in the country. but these evils conregate in our great cities. On every street crime rowls and drunkenness sacers and shiame winks and pauper ism thrusts out its hand asking for alms. Here want is most sjualid and hunger is most lean. A Christian man goineg along a street in New York saw a poor lad. and he stooped and said, "My bo, do you know hoa' to read and write?" The boy made no answer. The man asked the question twice and thrie, '-Can you read and write'" and then the boy answered with a tear plashing on the back of his hand. He said in defiance; "No. sir: I can't read nor write neither. God, sir. don't want me to read and write. D~idn't he take away 'ny father so long ago I never remember to have seen him, and have not I had to go along the streets to get something to fetch home to eat for the folks, an'd didn'tI. as soon as Icould carry a basket, have to go out and pick up cinders and neverhave no schooling, sir? God don't want me to read, sir. I cant read nor write neither." Oh. these por wanderers! They have no Ichance. Born in degradation, as they I et upfm thetair h'ands and knees to w"lk, the, tak their first step on the rodn to depai. Let us gro forth in th naniue of te Lord .Jeus Christ to recu them ' Let us niinisters not be afid of ts'il our blick clothes while we go down on that mission. While we aie tylue an elaborate knot in our ravat or while we arc in the study we might be saving a soul fron deah and hiding a multitude of sins. Oh. Christian laymen, go out on this woin. If you are not willing to go forth \ our self, then give of your means. and if you are too lazy to go and if you are ti stingy to help, then get out of the way% and hide yourself in the dens and caves of the earth, lest when Christ's chariot cmnes along the horses' hoofs traniple you into the mire. Beware lest the thousands of the destitute (if your city in the last great day, rise up and imse your stupidity and your negleet. Down to work! Lift them up! Oue cold winter's day, as a Christian man was going along the Battery in New York, he saw a little girl seated at the gate. shivering in the cold. le said to her. "My child, what do you sit there for this cold day?" "Oh." she replied, "I am waiting-I am waiting for somebody to come and take care of me." "Why," said the man, "what makes you think anybody will come and take enre of you?" "Oh." she said. "my mother died last week, and I was crying very much, and she said: ')on't ery, dear. Though I am gone and your father is gone, the Lord will send some body to take care of you.' My mother never told a lie. She said some one would come and take care of me, and I am waiting for them to come." Oh. yes, they are waiting for you. Men who have money, men who have influence, men of churches, men of great hearts, ather them in, gather them in. It is ot the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones should per ish. Lastly, the street impresses me with the fact that all the people are looking forward, I see expectancy written on al most every face I meet. Where you find a thousand people walking straight on, you only find one man stoppi.ng and looking back. The fact is, God :uade us all to look ahead, because we are i:. mortal. In this tramp of the multitude on the streets I hear the tramp of a great host marching and maching for eternity. Beyond the office, the store. the shop, the street, there is a world, populous and tremendous. Through God's grace, may you reach that blessed place. A great thro-ig fills those boule vards, and the streets are a-rush with the chariots of conquerors. The in habitants go up and down, but they never weep and they never toil. A river flows through- that city, with rounded and luxurious banks, and the trees, of life, laden with everlasting fruitage, bend their branches into the crystal. No plumed hearse rattles, over that pavement, for they are never sick. With immortal health glowing in every rein, they know how to die. Those towers of strength, those palaces of beauty, gleam in the light of a sun that never sets. Oh, heaven, beautiful heaven! Heaven, where our friends are! They take no census in that city, for it is inhabited by "a multitude which no man can number." Rank above ranks. Host above host. Gal lery above gallery sweeping all around the heavens. Thousands of thousands, millions of millions. Blessed are they who enter in through the gate into that city. Oh, start for it today! Through the blood of the great sacrifice of the Son of God take up your march to heav en. "The Spirit and the bride say. Come and whosoever will let him come and take the water of life freely." Join this great throng marching heavenw.ird. All the doors of invitation are open. "And I saw twelve gates, and the twelve gates were twelve pearls." BRYAN'S IDEAS. He Will Talk of the Party Policy in the Next Campaign. The Jefferson banquet of tihe Chica go Platform Democrats of New York will take place on the night of April 19. Col. W. J. Bryan has given positive assurances that he will be present. It is expected that he will make a notable speech stating the stand which he be lieves the Democratic party should take in the national campaign of next year. It is planned to have the labor unions take a vera prominent part in the din Eugene V. Brewster, who is manag ing the Bryan dinner, said: "Sonic confusion has arisen over the name of the dinner. It was decided at first not to call it a dinner of Chicago Platform' Democrats because of Gov. Pingree and others who are Republicans. We arranged that matter in committee all right, however, and sent the invitation in the name of the Chicago platform people. "We have such financial backing that we will be able to give a dollar dinner such as has never been held be fore Applications have come fri m places in Florida, from Daluth and from Bosson. I wired to the G rand Central palace as soon as I heard from Mr. Bryan Wednesday night and en gaged it. "Because of the confusion no invita t'ions were sent to anybody but Mr. Bryan. We have learned, however, from Gov. Pingree, Mr. Aitgeld and Chairman Jones that they would come any day after April 15." Richard Croker said: "I don't care to say anything about Mr. Bryan's let ter of declination. I am sorry he cnn not understand a difference of opinion. As to the fact that he will go to the one dollar dinner-well, I hope he will help the cause of Democracy. The more big dinners there are in New York the better for the working people. The promoters of the Bryan dinner take it for granted that Gov. Pingree will be one of the guests. Ex-Senator Gor man, it is understood, will attend tile Croker banquet. A Remarkable Incident. A remarkable incident in connection with the Seventh Day Adventist con ference now in session at Battle Creek. Mich.. is being related. Among those in attendance is Elder F. H. Westphal. who has charge of their mission in Bue nos Ayres, South Americ a. He came from -Southhampton on the Hamburg Line because it was the cheapest, and met on board ship a Capt. Norman, re ported to be a several times millionaire The captain became interested in the Adventist faith and ca.ne to the meet ings here. As a climax he has given the munificent sum of S400,000(J. The Adventists believe that the coming of Elder Westphal when he could not really afford the expense and meetinig Captain Norman was an act of' Provi ON I~R~ESC'ALE. How Big Profits Are Made at Wholesale Farming. SOME BALANCE SHEETS Shoving the Receipts and Ex penses of Immense Wheat and Corn Farms in Iowa and Dakota. The following special article was pre pared by Mr. Frank Spearman for the Review of lleviews: We know what the railroads did last ycar: we know what the manufacturers did: we know what-the merchants did. In a year. then, like 18i8, when re cords in so many branches of American industry were smashed. what iid the American farmer do? Balance sheets are unhappily scarce among farmers: the fe% which are taken are hard to get at: for these reasons the one here ireenttd is of especial inter eSt. It is not from a paper farm: it is not a paper balance: wr i. it a paper faruier who umkes this showing. It is what no American review has ever be fore presented to its readers--an actual limpse at the books and workinis of a iodel American farm. This farm, lo cated in the State of Iowa, co'ntains 6.000 acres and its busine-ss is to pro duce corn. Look first at the investment and note that the land w-s not huight in an early day for a song, but within three years and -it the market price. Ix~sr~uxr--IoW. s-oRNt FARM Land-6.000 acres at $3) an acre .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. 1SO.000.00 Buildings ..............43.021.64 Stock.. ....... 17,701.21 achinery............ 17773.9 Total................425S.49-G.S73 The operation of this farm for 1S98 shows a net prfit of over 450.000. Putting out of the comparison patents and good-will, neither of which contrib uted to this result, what other line of business on an equal capitalization can make a better showing? EXPENSE ACCOUNT OF TIE IOWA FARM FOR THE YEAR 1898. Labor. .13912-96 House supplies .. 436S S Beef.... . .. . Taxes ......... 3 Sundries . .7.0.00 Freight ... . ..0.. Twine ......... 37.25 [Iay........ ...... 3 3 10 Insurance... .20000 Oil... .. -. .. .169.62 Repairs............ 112.80 Legal expense.. -1.05 Fuel.. 17.2 Total*------.. 4.3- -2, 7914.04 Less credlit by discouat$100 Les road tax........543.26 - 149.24 -Net expense of the Iowa farm for the twelve mnonths 200 bushels of 0 we .00 a 50 cnts- .--.--4--.0 00) uel.... bushel of .atsre Total............... ., 0.00 esuroa teaxpense... ...2 ,64 oftet expense differene bewee rn eqarm forie awored bynthesatta the00 bwher of eIw corn fa mals owns0a0 opselaot as e-thuadar weate fari heRed --- leyo Netbrof.. ............... 2.0,64.78 Aos ptiulary-va-able-ompai son3 ahiner of-the-Iowa-corn-farm als wnet-armin- he- ed-- ivr- vlle-o Sunri......... .. 4.1 Fuey........ .. NeOeil...... .. 2.9)S6 Less pens---- ..--- ,20.906 Net pofitsin l ..-$1.054.7 Forthewhet frm ..9 wat 7.7.ver netted Ilia.572.9.10 Tetw expense accounts . .s.ow0-ui Credts atbyS n boatrdimens.400r 0oth Netpris in 18 . .. 1.5.3 Fo h hat fr 189O wao pen ay.r Iage ye, tle vildo.o beine1b es per e andl.b the rice uavera arce.unt hasi produce farm itnirepairse The~ tnoiexpente paccnt under uren owui ierens InW owhimen te iems for thnire m aiero saon the weat Inr rDakot thae hiredrhe atualc editgin e s -praing and theeparnet accunt 'ise:~ aotwesatine aturallh isde ith emve o1 the cornt farm.Th Onthe o farm coal itemuirepar was, o notel, the tn presn onerhi beine. whiletose the etefams ofrequirsadcies on~t)O~I th wheat ot undtrea- ofr epatsn barnd keedsn the theafachnry.Twie intlly whe5 ariier itesne whfleatcfar. Tothe Iwit farm sedpplieree ownd te- twin iferencto. not that the corn5l the i inu f1t a whil t os the wheat farm , retui : r .o0 shels w iwhe ,wot in lo8 W .00 ASai itnEDkta. v 1 Aout Arl1mnu n ulesn ove25 eily.h fiese daaifernces t-orhrer withcde see four-hree andws and tine h1r!e ag - maw- n : uovrc for six weeks like an arni. sow ing zinall grain. l and planting corn. The min ute the inall grain is sown 31 corn ilanters e thrown behind the plows. andt in this work lies largcly the suc cess or failure of the crop. Note, fur for instance, the pains taken in scleet in-, the U corn. A perfecrt :.tand of corn is the first re quiite of a large vield. From a choice Piece of land pre'viously planted with selected seed about 2.00o bushels of the finest car, are taken. From these an expert selects G01) bushels. 'I hese ears are placed on racks in a building arranged especially for a seed house. Whatever the therniometer registers in Iowa. the temperature in that seed house never falls below freezing. All this - insures the highest germinating power in the seed, and that alone might, in case of cold. wet spring, save the entire profit of the season by pro ducine a iood stand. The planting must of necessity be done by machinery. and to secure the maximum yield three seed kernels must be dropped in each bill. [f five drop in, that bill is lost to the profit ac count. If only one. it is partially lost. -But perfect as American farming ma cheinry is. it does not leave the factory perfect enough to insure against irreg ular planting. Patiently and by a se ries of exhaustive tests the planter plates are so adjusted to the aize of the seed kernels for each year that they de posit an average of sixty-five kernelh to every twenty hills, and not more than four nor less than two in any one. So great are the precautions that before the seed is shelled the tips and butts of the seed ears are cut off to secure kernels of an even size. Even after this delicate adjustment of the best machinery in the world, forenen follow the 31 planters and at intervals open hills to count the seed deposits and make sure that each -ma chine is doing its work. In addition, a purse of $100 is split in eight prizes be tween the eight inen who do the best work and whose teams mark the straigh test rows. With such method is it any wonder that the crop on this farm aver aged 60 bushels per acre, against the average of $2 bushels as given Iowa by the gevernment report for 1898? After the seeding, the harrowing and it is done with extraordinary energy and concentration. One hundred and forty sections of four-foot harrows sweep the fields like a charge of caval ry. Every time they move a mile to gether 62 acres are covered. When the 3,800 acres of corn are up and ready 76 two-horse cultivators are put into it. The point in the first cul tivation one way and in tne second the other way, is to get as close as pos sible to the corn; but after the pains to place it there no plant must be left covered by a clod of earth. The field hand must un ,over it, and a foreman on horseback behind each twenty men is held responsible for his crew's work. In the third and final enltivation the earth is thrown up against the plant, the small weeds in - the hill being smothered and the large ones being pulled by hand. It will be of interest to merchants and to theological profes sors to learn that -it is not the weed in in the row, but the one in the hill, that mars the beauty of the balance sheet. The corn being now three feet high, the stalks prevent further cultivation. Into this field, ap)proximuating one mile in width and six miles in length, arc sent in October 75 wagons and men for the husking. This takes 60) days, and a row of cribs 10 feet wide and 16 feet high, half a mile long, ate required to hold the crop. In harvesting the small grain it is threshed directly from the shoek, sav ing the cost of stacking and rehand ing. Elevators provide against heating A further saving of 5 to 8 per cent over the operations of the small farmer is eifected in shipping to terminal points instead of selling to local grain-buyers. Future options may also be sold against the growing crop on market bulges at a season when the small farmer could not ordinarily deliver his crop. The soil is kept in a high state of fertility by a rotation of crops so ar ranged that each piei- of landl bears three crops of corn, next of wheat, in which e-over is sown. next one of' clo ver plowed under, then follow again the three crops of corn. The clover is simply a fertilizer, a portion only of' the first crop being cut for nay, and the remainder plowed un der to maintain the vitality of the soil. The large roots act as a subsoiler and the decomposing vegetable matter restores the nitrogen taken by the rain. In order that the maximum amount field work may be obtained, no 'chores' are required of the men other than the cleaning of their teams. These are fed bedded, and the barns cleaned by barn men. The results on this fhrm are therefore secured by paiustaking care and thorough methods. The auetion is often asked, what does it cost to produce a bushel of corn? On this farm. the size of 35 ordinary farms, with a 60-bushel crop the cost was 9 cents p'er bushel to the crib. For shelling, shipping and commissions add another cent, making i1) cents in all. It is evident. however, that had this farm been divided into 35 farms. with 35 cooks and 85 families. 85 douryards and waste lands, the expense of raisia.g a bushel of corn would have been ne-tr er' 16 to 1> cents. Ie xnyi eventt. the cost varies from yetiyear with the yield. Thme only ixdestimate which the farmer can give is the cost per acre for producing the crop. This remains alwvays practi e tifly the same and is, roughly speaking .4. 50 for small grairn and five dollars for corn. The 189S aereage of the corn farm was approxinmatelv as shown in the fol lowing brief table: Corn......................,00J Wheat. ............ ........200 Oats................ ...... 700 Roads and trees........ .. ..40 Some interest naturally attaches to the man behind the gun--the tman who in this instance. has demonstrated that nothing lays better than farming. While time element of foreign birth and of' foreign descent which has done so mu-h to develop the northwest is al mirable it w'ill still be a gratificationl to learn that this suecessful farmer is not of thmat element. but that he is p)urely and distinctly Anmerican. lHe comes fromm the straightest New Englanid stock and bears the tnme of one or' its most fmous families Iis ancestral kin dred were among the molders of the re public and represented their country at the courts of England, Russia, and France: sat in presidential cabinets, in conzerss. and more than once in the white house. The record almost spells the name. Less than 40 years of age. he never saw a dav's work on a farm until he bought one after he was 21. His suc cess rather indicates that there still are farmers born, and that the capital and energy put into manufacturing and merchandising, if applied today to farming. will yield equally good returns. ABDUCTED CHILD FOUND. An Interesting Sequel to a Crime Com mitted Last May. A startling sequel to the abduction of Gerald Lapiner, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lapiner, which occurred in Chicago May 30, 1898, developed at Panesville, 0., on Tuesday of last week, in the recovery and restoration of the child to his moth er, and the arrest of Mrs. Ann Inger soll and John C. Collins, who live about a mile west of Painesville, at whose place the child was found and where he had been kept since last June. On May 30 Gerald Lapiner was abduct ed by a mysterious woman from in front of his parent's home, 4835 Prairie ave nue, Chicago. The woman and child were traced for a short time and then all track of them was lost. A large reward was offered for the recovery of the child and although the Chicago police made every effort to bring the kidnappers to justice, nothing further could be learn ed. Two months ago a newspaper ac count of the abduction and the reward offered came under the notice of Mr. F. E. Ferris, and his sister, Miss 0. C. Ferris, neighbors of the Ingersolls. Mr. and Miss Ferris suspected that the lit tle boy who had been at the residence of Mrs. Ingersoll since last June might be the missing child, and they entered into correspondence with the Chicago police. Af ter about two months inves tigation and correspondence, it was de termined that the child was the miss ing Gerald Lapiner. Mrs. Lapinerwas not satisfied and arrived at Panesville Wednesday morning. She was met at the station by Deputy Sheriff A. T. May, who has been in charge of the case and was taken to the Ingersoll place, while Sheriff St. John went on ahead to prevent the escape of the ab ductors. Access to the house was gained through the rear door, and there, tied in a high chair, half dress ed, the boy was found. Both Mrs. In gersoll and Collins were placed under a-rest. Mrs. Ingersoll denies the charge of abduction and could not be in duced to say nothing about the case. Fatal College Haing. James T. Mount, the victim of the hazing at the ChicagoCollege of Dental Surgery. is dead. Friends and rela tives of Mount at Petersburg, Ind., his home, will begin at once to prosecute the students who are said to be responsi ble for his death. Mount was a rela tive of Governor Mount, of Indiana. When it was discovered that Mount had been injured seriouly by hazing last Wednesday, he was taken to the Presbyterian hospital for treatment. He had apparently recovered sufficient ly Thursday morning to justify the hospital authorities in allo.ring him to go to his home. On the way home ho become suddenly ill on the train and died before he reached his destination. Mounts death was due to internal in juries cansed by being "passed up" in the dental college amphitheatre and then "passed down" by his fellow stu dents. "'Passing" consists in pulling a student over the backs of the seats to the top tier and then down again. Mount. it is said, was thrown heavily to the floor when "passed down." Three in Mississippi. Three Negroes were lynched by a mob near Silver City in Yazo county, Miss.. last Saturday morning. After being shot to death, the bodies of the victims were weighted with bundles of cotton bale ties and thrown into the Yazo> river. The Negroes were Minor Wilson, C. C. Reed and Willis Boyd. They were the ringleaders of the Ne groes in a race encounter on the Mid night plantation early last week. They were arrested and taken to Yazoo City jail. The offence with which they were charged having been committed in Sarkey county, the Sharkey authori ties were notified. Last Friday even ing Deputy Constable Sylvester ar rived, and the prisoners were turned over to him. The constable boarded the steamer Rescue with the Negroes Saiurday morning and reached Silver City with them. The Negroes fell into thr hands of the mob near Silver City, were shot to death and thrown into the river. The feeling against these Ne groes had been vero bitte, on account of a disturbance at the Midnight planta tion last week, in which thep, with two other comrades, had fired sn two whites on the public roads, A horse belong ing to ooe of the white men was wound ed, but the men were not harmed. Starvation in Russia. The newspapers of St. Petersburg, Russia, published pitiable accounts of the so-called famine districts of Russia, especially Samara, in the eastern part of European Russia. The efforts of the Red Cross society have staved off the horrors of actual starvation, but the so ciety's funds are almost exhausted, and the dire distress, compelling the con sumption of all kinds of garbage, has produced an epidemic of terrible mor tality. with typhus, scurvy and other pestilential diseases. The peasants are compelled to sell everything, and are living in cold, damp and filthy cabins. Weakened by hunger, they fall ready victims of typhus and acute scurvy. Unless the government gives prompt aid, the provinces appear doomed to a repetition of the horrors of 1891 and 1892. __________ Fatal Ride to a Funeral. Five persons were injured, two prob ably fatally in a runaway during a fu neral at Evansville, Ind. Wednesday. The injured are: Mrs. daroline Frey ser. 60. right shoulder dislocated and internally injured. Mrs. Suan Smock. internally injured. Three others, un known. badly injured. The five persons were in a hack and the team became frightened at a street car. The hack was completely demolished and the fu neral --ocsin wa stoped an hour. OUR BOYS COMING HOME. Senator Tillman's Party Visits the Second Regiment in Cuba. A letter from Cuba to The State un der date of March 1) says the Second Regiment had received orders to return to the United States and be mustered out of service. The correspondent says: The place the Carolina boys will be mustered out depends on whether they leave here on a transport or a Ward Liner: if on the former Savannah will be the place. the Ward Liners on ly running to Charleston. The sol diers would be taken by rail from Charleston to Augusta. This latter is a circuitous route, but it may be to pay Charleston a little toll. The Louisia na regiment is expected to get away to morrow, while the First Texas is next on the list. South and North Carolina and Virginia soldiers are to follow in the order named. It is the wish of the men that they strike a transport. They do not know anything about Augusta, but the mem ory of Savannah is sufficiently pleasant to make them wish to go there without taking chances elsewhere. Col. Jones has tried to get his command taken to Columbia to be mustered out, getting Senator Tillman to cable to the war de partment from here, but the senator had little expectation of having his re quest complied with. The news of the order to move was received in camp without a ripple of excitement. There was no demonstration and the usual routine of the morning was carried out. Later in the day, they had an opportu nity to cheer and used their lungs free ly. Senator Tillman's congressional party, with the ladies, reached Habana yesterday morning. The South Caro linians were the senator and Congress men Norton and Latimer with their families. They were met by ex-Gov ernor John Gary Evans, who is officiat ing in Habana as something on the or der of a police recorder, and taken to a hotel. Later in the day Col. Jones, who, in the absence of the ranking colonel and brigadier general, is acting brigadier gegeral, drove to the city and brought the members of congress to camp. Here a stand had been erected and there was speechmaking, the con gressman from Illinois receiving the most liberal applause of the day when he referred to the closer -relations brought about between the north and south by this war. We are brigaded with two Illinois regiments, and the westerners think there are none like South Carolinians. An event of the day was the presen tation by Senator Tillman of a sword-to Maj. Julius J..Wagener. This sword was said to have been the property of a Spanish colonel. The previous even ing one of the handsomest swords in the brigade was, at evening parade, presented by Col. Thompson-to Capt. John L. Perrin, Co. M. The sword was purchased by Capt. Perrin's company, who are devoted to an officer who has in many ways endeared himself to them, at the same time commanding the re spect and friendship of his brother offi cers. Friday night a meeting of the offi cers of the army corps was held in the Y. M. C. A. tent of the Fourth Illinois to organize an association of the Sev enth army corps. Capts. Sirrine and Gonzales and Lieut. Cox were sent to represent the South Carolina regiment. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was elected per panent chairman by acclamation and a dozen colonels sent to notify him. Gecn. Douglas of Virginia was first called to the chair. A formidable committee was appointed to draft a constitution and -is to report to an adjourned meet ing to be held Tuesday night. The chief question to decide will be as to whether the association is to be open to enlisted men or to officers only. It is probable the privates will come in. The health of the men has improved very much in the past week. For a few days there was an epidemic of fe vers and the morning reports began to look as they did last fall at Jackson ville. But th2 attacks were light and many men are now returning to duty. There are no serious eases in the hos pitals. The -wives of officers in this regiment will leave hero this week and many of the other "army ladies" are flying northward. ONCE MOREINTUE sTATEs. The latest news from the Second Regiment is to the effect that the whole regiment has sailed from Cuba and by this time are safely landed once more on American soil. In a few weeks the boys will come marching home. About Those Brick. In speaking of Senator Tillman's ar rival in Columbia from his trip to Cuba the Columbia State says the Senator was looking rather tired and not comn municative. He was waiting for the train to come so that he could ask the secretary of war to send the Second regiment to Columbia. However the newspaper man could not refrain from asking: "Senator, have you been keeping in touch with the penitentiary investiga tion?" "No, I havent seen the papers much lately," he replied. "Well, I suppose you have heard about that carload of brick they say you got?" "Yes, I have heard something about it, but I will have to wait until I get home before I can tell you whether or not I have paid for them. I must look through my papers. This thing hap pened four or five years ago. I never could get Neal to sead me bills for any thing. As for hams, I didn't get any. I didn't need them. I had hams of my own." Left them Destitute. The twenty-seven colored families numbering 104 persons in all, who are stranded in Jersey City after having come from the west to go to Liberia, as is alleged, under a contract with the International MIigration society, were notified Wednesday by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that they would have to leave the railroad ears in which they have remained since their arriva! in Jersey City. It is claimed that the International M1igration society promised to send these people to Libe ra, and that they have failed to carry out their promise. MIost of them are dentte -and their condition is pitiable. A RACE WAR NIPPED Seven Arkansas Negroes Victims cf the Wrath of the Whites. AGITATORS WERE LYNCHHED The Whole Thing Started With the Lynching-of an Assassin, Who Was the Ring. leader. A dispath from Texarkana. Arkan sas, says a race war is is on in Little River county, and during the last 48 hours an indefinite number of Negroes have met their death at the hands of an infuriated white population. Seven are known to have been lynched, and the work is not yet done. The bodies of the victims of the mob's vengeance are hanging to the limbs of trees in various parts of the county, strung up wherever overtaken. The country is in a state of intense exsite ment. White men are collecting in mobs, heavily armed and determined. Negroes are fleeing for their lives, and the community is in an uproar. The exact number of Negroes who have been summarily dealt with or those who may yet fall into the hands of the mob be fore order is restored may never be known. Seven hiles have been found, and other victims are being hunted and will meet a similar fate when run to earth. The known dead to date are: Gen. Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses Jones, unknown man. Joe King and John Johnson were also taken in hand by mobs and whipped. They were afterwards turned loose and have disappeared. Little River county is in the extreme southwest corner of the State, bordered on the west by the Indian Territory and on the south by Texas. The Ne gro population is large, and has for a long time proved very troublesome to the whites. Frequent murders have occurred, and thefts and fights have become common affairsi One or two negroes have previously been severely dealt with when the peo ple found it necessary to take the law into their own hands, but -it was not until today that the trouble took on a serious aspect. It then developed that carefully laid plans had been made by a number of negroes to, precipitate a race war, and that many white men had been marked for victims.~ Itis learned that 23 negroes were implicated in this plot, and the whites are now bent on meting out summary punishment to the entire coterie of conspirators. Seven have been killed, and the work of wip ing out the entire list continues with out relaxation. All implicated in the plot are known, and parties of white men, varying in numbers from 25 to50, are scouring the country for them. Wherever one is found he is quickly strung up and his body perforated with bullets. The work of dispatching the first two or three was an easy matter. But the news soon spread among the negroes, who instead of making the re sistance and offering the battle that they had threatened, became panie stricked and began getting out of the community as quickly as possible. Two whose names were on the list of conspirators got a good start and suc ceeded in reaching the Texas State line before being captured. They' were swung up without ceremony. The trouble arose over the killing of James Stockton by Duekett. Just prior to the lynching of Daekett, the negroes had planned the inauguration of a race war. Duckett was the leader, and at his death the negroes let the matter out. The citizens became greatly en raged. Joe King and John Johnson were taken to the woods and whipped. Other ncgroes made threats, but noth ing occurred until yesterday, when the wholesale lynching began. In the gang that was'plotting for a race war there were 23 Negroes, and it is likely the entire number have been strung up in the thickets. It is known to a certainty that the seven ringleaders are doad. The negroes are fleeing from the district. Today three wagons full arrived at Texarkana, having crossed Red river at Index last midnight. Three Lives Crushed Oat. The bodies of three white miners now lie 125 feet under ground beneath great volume of water and tons of dirt and debris in a manganese mine nine miles from Cartersville, Ga., where they met death by being mashed and smother de by the great mass above where they were working caving in on them. The dead men are Frank McEver, a son of one of the lessees, and the Messrs. Chastain. McEver leaves a wife and ' two children. lie was '26 years of age. The mine is on the Canton road and is known as the Clumber Hill mine. It has recently been leased by Messrs. White & McEver and worked with a force of from three to five hands. It may take several days to recover the bodies of the men, as the water in the shaft is S0 feet deep and will have to be pumped out before other work to ward rescuing them can proceed. Four Lives Lost. In a fire Friday morning at Mrs. E. RI. Nolen's boarding house, 104 Court street, 31emphis, Ten., four lives were lost and six people were more or less seriously in~jured. At the time of the fire there were 21 people in the house. A fire from the gratd ignited the cum tains in the early part of the night, and the fire department succeeded in extin guishing the flames without damage. The guests retired at the usual hour. At an early hour Friday morning flames were seen issuing from the house, and the inmates rushed out in an effort to esca.pe. Lost on the River. A special to The Commercial-Appeal from Chattanooga says: Two raftsmen one named De';oney and the other un Iknown. lost their lives in the river 80 iles above MIemphis, Tuesday. They wr.with a flat of a million feet of logs, coming down the river, and their raft went to pieces on one of the swift shoals with which the upper rive: