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1 FC VOL. X. ADP QUOTES BEECHER Philosopher Quotes the Words of the Famous Preacher Tim HrtT UlCnurn / " rr ? Ut, wis i n LA IIICK LALStU II, 1 i ? i Sage of Bartow Has a Melting Collar I And Is Not at All Pleised With It? ' Some Remarks. j i The horrid, torrid weather reminds ( Die of what Henry Ward Beecher said | in his church one sweltering day in July. He took no text. He wiped the j perspiration from his h<*ow and look- ( lug solemnly at the large congregation, ( said: "It is hot today. It is damned hot. It is as hot as hell!" Everybody , was amazed and shocked until he added, "That is the language ! heard two young men use at the door of the | church as I passed them. My young friends, it is not as not as hell." Then in a low, earnest tone he pictured thu torments of hell and the certain fate of the wicked until atmosphere of the | rhurch seemed to be cool and pleasant j in comparison. The lilies ceased to j move their fans and everybody was , still and solemn as a funeral, it was something like Jonathan Edwurds at ( Northamuton when he rni hl? h?mru bo wrought up and alarmed that they groaned In fear and grasped the posts and braces to keep from sinking into hell, and another preacher in tLs pulpit begged Mr. Edwards to stop. "S;op Mr. Edwards: stop now and tell them of the mercy and love of God." What , wonderful power Is in the words of an eloquent, earnest man. Mr. Beecher was all of that?a gifted, eloquent man. 1 hoard hi.n preach twice before the war aud was profoundly impressed. I looked upon him as the Impersonation of the man of God. Later on. when he began his vindictive war upon tho south and said that Sharp's rilles weru better than Bibles for John Brown in Kansas and it was a crime to shoot at a slave-holder and miss him. I wonder at my infatuation with the man and exclaimed with Isaiah. "How are the mighty fallen." And at 111 later when Til ton charged him with alienating nn 1 seducing his wife aud it took two months to try the case and the jury i?Yi> ua.Yw u> niiiK?- up a vernici, wmcn virtually said. "'Hi' is not guilty, but he must not do so any more." 1 was mortified at my own weakness in becoming his idolater and resolved to worship rro man again while he lived. A groat nxait's character cannot be niado up until after he is dead. But 1 was ruminating how easy ix ij for a young man to say damn and damn It. I'll be damned and even to take the name of God In vain. Damn l? a more convenient and expressive word than dogon or dingnatlon or blamed and it shows a defiance of the devil and a self-conceit in the man who uses it But it Is a very handy expletive an.l when a young man gets In the habit of using It he rarely reforms, or knows that It Is not good manners, for he does not use it In the presence of ladiei or preachers or his parents. Nevertheless there are some good people who think damn it without saying it. I hoard a good story the other day on Colonel Livingston, our member of congress from the Atlanta district. Last summer he was sent over to West Virginia to speak and help the democrats in their canvass. He ventured into a pretty hot republican town and was haranging and electrifying a large audience, and while scarifying the republicans and this fighting administration a soft, half done Irish potato took him kerzip right between the eyes. It knocked off his spectacles and flattened into mush all over his classic counte nance, it surprised ami mocked ntm of course. Recovering his glasses lie wiped the sticky stuff from his face an i said with excited tone," My friends. ) have been?I have been a consistent? , a consistent member of the Presbyte , rinn church?the Presbyterian church 1 say for more than mot* than fifty years- yes. fifty odd years, ami have tried to live?tri"jl to live in harmony with aii men?with all men. but if the dirty, dostond. dadhlamed puppy whe threw that potato will stand v.p or raise ills right hand I'll be?I'll he dadb'aated if I don't stop speaking long enough fo come down and lick the hair an. bide off of him in two minul.es bv the clock." As nobody rose or rniiod a hand the colonel resumed his broken remarks. but declares that he never cam* ns near cursing since he joined the church. This thing of cursing Is of very ancient origin. SoreotimoR It was done by proxy, llalak. the kink of Moab. hireJ Balaam to curse Israel, anil some of u* veterans remember when we, too wanted to hire n cussin man to expend our wrath upon the yankeea. Petei cursed and swore when accused of b ?ing one of the desciples. It Is probable that he said "I'll be damned if I am." or perhaps worse. Soldiers and sailor? have in gll ages been profane?the very class that are in greatest* peril an.1 should have the greatest rovesance for their maker. Uncle Toby s.-.vi? "Our army fwotc terribly In Finnaers." An I Uncle Toby hlmse.lf swore an oath when he found the sick soldier lying and dying at his gate. "He shall nr-t uie, by God," he said, and the accusing spirit flew up to heaven with the oath and blushed as he gave it in. The recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blottel it out forever." Tfcrt to b\autiro>. laeit ^? )RT F I it? Verily, charity hldeth a multitude >f sins. But this is enough on this subject. It 8 too hot to fvock in the garden and so I get in the shade of the vines on my verandah I and ruminate. Judge Griggs, our honored member of congress, tells that story on Colonel Livingston and he told another that will make the old nfen forget that it is I ,t. for they never "get too old to enjoy any story that has. a pretty woman in it. One of the last) cases brought before Lhe Judge was a young unsophisticated country boy who was charged with an assault upon a bonnie country girl In that he had caiught her at the spring and hugged and kissed her against her will. Her mother saw it from her p azaa and heard her scream and saw him run away to thV field where he was pi iwing. She was very indignant, and prosecuted him.s She was the witness md po whs the ^tirl. but the girl dirlent seem very Trdlcative. She satd he dldent hurt her but took her by surprise. She hall filled her bucket and was about to go back win n he caught hei and hugged her and kissed her right on her moif"o. The solicitor closed his rase. The young man was put up to makt his st&tenncnt. and all he said was that she looked so sweet and pretty, he couldent help It. and he d'.dcut believe tliat Miss Molly was very mad about It nohow, for she irent off singing of a hymn. '"'What hyme was she singing?" asked the Judgo. "1 don't know." he said. "What hyme were you singing. Miss Molly?" asked the Judge. She smiled and said It was "The Lord Will Provide." The Judge charged the Jury very mildly^ and told them that an assault Implied mallco, etc., but as the Jury couldneUt see where the malice came In, they, came back with this verdict: "We. the Jury, find tho defendant not guilty, as there was no malice or hate in it. and we recommend him to the mercy of the court." This story reminds me of Jo&n Riley's vcrdlr* in the Past case. Good old John Riley, the foreman of The Rome Courier's pressroom for years and years, and the foreman of the Jury in the case of the state against Rom Hup Pass for hog stealing. Pass had been suspected of killing Wallis Warren's shoats as they ran in the woods, and so Wallis laid for him and one evening about dusk, when he heard a rifle shot, he slipped up and caught Pass in the very act of putting the shoat In a suck. Wallis dldent go to the war and managed to save his stock. Pass went, and left his wife and three little children to the mercy of God and the community. When he returned he found there was nothing left to live on. and one of the children had died. Judge Wright volunteered to defend him, and introduced no evidence, but had the last speech. T will never forget the tender pathos of that speech ?his picture of a poor soldier returning home to find desolation and despair. He never alluded to tho evidence, but had the jury and the court in tears. Tho judge charged them as fairly as ho could, and they retired. In a brief time they came in with this verdict: "Whereas, the late, unhappy war reduced many of our brave soldieis and their families to waut,.*nd poverty by reason of which 1hey were forced at times to wander In the woods for such game as they could find In order\to Ktn>p tuo woir rrom me noor ?nn meir little ones from stirv-ation; therefore, we. the jury, and the defendant not guilty. John Itlley. foreman." "Hy gracious!" aa/d Wallls, "they found Pass guilty and then pardoned hint." Judge Wright never lost a case where h" had the loat speech and a woman or a poor man was his client. Hut It is getting n little cooler now as the sun nears the horizon. I must stop :lnd turn the water loose on my garden. The city ha.<? no water meters yet. and I can steal water with impunity. hut as the nigger preacher said to his flock. "You mtjsont be catched steaJin' chickens?cotcbed. I say. ? Llill Arp ui Atlanta Constitution. Ne? CouItii? Station 8347,813. The Nuvy lucpartinvht, ac Washington, has uwarded to Augustus fctinui. or New York City, the coutruci lor establishing the ivaieustve coming statlou on Xarruguuseu May, t.i a cost of $347,Sid. No A in vim- nit* ii t s oa Mciiiorlitl Uhj, Tuo Charles Kusscll i'osv, .\o. .. cJ. A. it., of iiosiou, Mass., has s.utvjd a luoveuieut lor u new law to prov.de mat uo games or other amiiM-uicUis shall take place ou Memorial liny uiiweeu the hours of 'J u. in. and u p. m. Cl|5?rf^t? Victim's Boilj Turn# Black. Cigarettes found auother victim at Elgin, 111. Jauies Ylckers was fouud dead 1? bed, and the Coroner's Jury laid the cause to the CSciMlve use of the paper cigars. Soon after death the body of the victim turued black, and the doctors said it was from excess of "dcotlne in the system. I.jin-Illiik In North Carolina. D. D. J ouch, u negro preacher. who, it is alleged, attacked Mrs. Noah l?avis neir liU Grunge, N. C? was lynched: _ _ liauk Cashier Pardoned. President MeKinley has pardoned Charles W. Mursey, former cashier t.f the National Bank of Rutland, Vt? who was convicted last year of the misapplication of $100,000 of the funds of tin- bank and sentenced to seven years i in prison men t. Colombia Imposes an Ki port Duty. A dcctee has been issued by the Colombian Government imposing mi export duty on ull produce shipped from the isthmus. This includes bancocpanuts. Ivory nuts and wood MIL OUT MILL, S. C., WED imTuHrE J. Pierpont Morgan Presents $1,000,000 to Harvard. YALE'S BICENTENNIAL FUND President Hoillr.T Announce* Tlint the SVI.OOO.OOO, lte<|ulre<t For New Itu11 ?1 )nc?, lln* Il?>en Secured ? Amherst** President Proclaims Contribution* of S17C.OOO?Haunt. Olres Sr.o.ooo, Cambridge, Musk. ? President Eliot nnuonnced nt the Harvard nlumni dinner tlint John Pierpont Morgan had pi von more than $1,000,000 for the eree| tion of three of the five buildings planned for the Harvard medical 6eliool on land now held In trust for the university on Huntington avenue, in Boston. A few days ago I>r. Warren received a cable from Mr. Morgan in which he raid: "Referring to our conversation and plans submitted I am prepared to erect the central buildings and two side pavilions as a memorial to Junius Spencer Morgan, a native of Massachusetts. and for many years a merchant of Bostoo. You cun announce this." Junius Spencer Morguu wus the father of the donor. President Eliot called attention to the phrase, "plans submitted." which he said Included specifications, ami said that these called for un outlay of more than SLOOO.tXM). The present medical school, biological department. Is situated in one building oti Boylston street, next the Boston Public Library. The erection of the new buildings would, it is understood, involve disposing of this property, which is in a part of the city where values are very high. When the plan was published, some months ago. it was suggested that the land he taken for the Public Library, which Is already cramped for space. although only mmtii yours opened. Tlio new Morgan buildings, < n Huntington avenue, will include a hospital. Hitherto Harvard Medical School has had to depend wholly for practical clluics upon the public hospitals. New Haven, Conn.?At th? Yale alumni dinner it was announced that the S'J.otMUHM) tixed as the amount of the ld-ceutennlal fund, has all hoen pledged.-the list of the new contributors. whose contributions make up the desired amount, is as follows: Omrge miss. SeOOO; Matthew Itordcn, Sluu.OOtt; James .1. Hill. $lOft.O<Mt; Frederick AY. Vnnderbllt. $loo.noo; the Mlsres Stokes. $GO,OUO; raised last week, $1:15,000. Amherst, Mass.?President Harris nnnouueed that .additional gifts amounting to $!)(HiO had been received for scholarships ami prizes, making the I total amount of gifts for the past year fclTG.OOO. Cleveland. Ohio.?At the commencement of Kenyan College, at Cambler. It was announced that Senator Ilanua u:.d made a donation of $.">0,000. MANY KILLED IN A WRECK. ! Italian Kmlgrantft on '1'rutn TIihI Wont I Through m Trestle in Imlluna. Peru. lad.?Sixteen persons were killed and about llfty were seriously injured In a wreck of Train ft. the i westbound Wabash limited, nine miles west of iliis city. The dent! are all ! Italian Immigrants en route to Colora, do. Many of the Injured undoubtedly will die. Two section of Train P. cue coming from Detroit and the other from Toledo. were consolidated in this city into a train of eleven ears, making up the tiler for its journey to St. Ixmis Having left here one hour I; to. the train was speeding westward at a high rate, when the engine plunged through a trestle which had been undermined by the recent heavy rains. The embankment on both sides of the trie, u distance of forty feet. Tit eulittlc stream dropped at a sharp angine plunged into the soft earth on the opposite bank and fell to the bottom. The express ear and the first chair car were telescoped. The emigrant ear. followed by two chair cars, went down on the left side of the trnck and j the llrst sleeper pitched forward upon | the mass of debris. The remaining cars also left their trucks, but were not badly damaged. It was in the emigrant and day conches that most of the deaths and injuries occurred. SAM0AN3 HAV? CONSUMPTION. Coininnndcr Tlllry Si?y? Civilization tVorlo to tlm Detriment of the Natlvm. Washington. 1>. C.?Commander Tilicy, the Naval Coventor of Samoa, was taken by Secretary Kong to lite Cabinet meeting and made an interesting statement 0:1 tiie conditions in Samoa. Ho pointed out the need of industrial ;.:ul agricultural institutions j there. In view oi the alarming extent of sickness, particularly among young children. It lias been suggested that American nurses would tind Samoa an exceptionally good field for their humane work. Commander Tllloy snys that in one respect civilization has worked to the detriment of the Samoans. While they lived without clothing they wor.? linrdv and fr,?i> from 1 nt since adopting clothing they get vet from rain, contract colds and a tui-iher have developed consumption, a disease not known before. m ); ? T >NESDAY, JULY 3, 19C IINOR EVEHTSOFTHEWEE) 1TA*HINOT?N ITEMS. Mm. McKlnley, with the President, took the flret carriage ride she had had In a long while. At the State Department a protocol was signed, which extends for one year the peudlng reciprocity treaty l>etween the United States aud Santo Doaiingo. While trying to save a yellow dog from drowning Georso It tVn?iitni?. ton, of Washington, was drowned. President MeKinley appointed I-'. IT. Hnwfcs. of Huntington. W. Vn., warden of the new Federal Prison at Atlanta. Ga. " There were U.l.riGS patents issued hy the Patent Office for the fiscal year just closed, breaking the record. The report that Secretary Hay was to resign Is denied. The President expects him to return to Washington in the fall. Secretary I.ong formally adopted designs for the medals to be awarded navy officers and men who fought in the West Indies. Hear-Admiral Sampson's profile Is on the medals. on: ATJOPTKD ISLANDS. Atauasio Taitano Peres was appointed to he the first postmaster of the island of Guum. All Cubans must he vaccinated, a Commission having been appointed for the purpose. Harold M. Pitt, Government contractor, was acquitted of the charge of improperly purchasing Government stores at Manila. In a tight with Insurgents In Sninar, 1*. 1.. Eicutenaut Edward E. Dowues, First Infantry, was killed. The Navy Department will order an investigation of the trouble between Commander Sehroeder, the Governor of Guar.), and his men. There were four bubonic plague deaths at Honolulu, Hawaii, from May 20 to Juno l>. The volcano Kilaucn, in Hawaii, is showing sigus of renewed activity. DOMKSTIC. Tlio United .States Crnnd Jury, atj Helena, Mont., reported 102 indict-, ments against land grabbers in the State. Two guards, brothers named Xesbitt, of Baton Itouge, at the State convict eaiup. near New Orleans, La., were killed by a third guard. (teronimo, the famous Apache chief, arrived at the Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y. He is Vi-der guard. Seven tobacco rchaudilng liouses and thirty-two small residences at Maytield. Iv,v.. were burned. Loss, $200,000; partially insured. Wholesale grocers of Saginaw Mich., formed a trust capitalized at ;<S.t)(K).(MM?. 1 ?r. William S. Wyman v.*as elected President of the University of Alabama. Stephen Clark, a gambler, of Poplar Bluff. Mo., killed Pearl Clark, while in a jealous rage and then fatally stab1?ed himself. Lightning killed Robert C..ke and his son. at Piedmont, Ala., and William liuss and two sons, at Lincoluton, N. U. Jes-ie Morrison, of Eldorado, Kan., was found guilty of manslaughter in' the second degree for killing Mrs, Oiive Castle, bride of licr old sweetheart. Mlackinnilcrs who demanded S."iOrtOf | from \Y. ('. Carson, a Kansas farmer, j set lire l<> his house, and his wife was ialally burned. General Homes arrived at Tampa, Pin., and said lie was glad to lie on Ameriean soil, for he felt that lie was among friends. San Praueiseo 13 now in Rise the ninth oily of the Union, and according to tli? last census has a population cif 342,782 souls. Three boys, nil under eleven years 1 r?hl, were drowned below the dam of the Ward's Paper Company, at Grand iCapids. Mich. Ilmuct r.liss. at Mount Clemens. Mieli.. eoufessed t<> killing Ins father, hut "aid it was accident1. Oil was struck at Cusack's weii. No. |( i, at J a mestown, Tenu., a: a depth of li7."? feet. The south IkiuiuI cannon hall train tvns wrecked near B.ebe, Ark., hut no one was killed. I Excessive hen. killed W. It. Itradford. of I'tlea. N. Y.. who was riding ou u train in Missouri. FOREIGN*. Ihtndits seized four walled cities ' Dear Mukden, Manehuria. King Edward Issued a proclamation ( nnuouneing that ids coronation will take place next June, the date not being fixed. Russian negotiations with China regarding .Manchuria will not. be reipeued. Charles Lily White, American citizen, unvoted in Welliiurion. land, on charge of oeing Arthur ii.iuh, a murm rcr, was released. Twelve eases of bubonic plague and four deaths occurred at Oporto, Portugal. 1 Tin? Peruvian Government signed a ' contract for the construction of a floating pier and bonded stores at Iquitos. Austria sent Count Gilbert lichenwart von Gerlachsteln at Minister to Mexico. A Paris correspondent who talked with Agoucillo previous to his depa?ture for lloug Kong, quoted the ell.plno as saying the struggle 'a the Phil- 1 ippines is far from over. V-.kiLi % ' *.v * '** J IME! OUR CLIMATE NO BARRIER United States to Beat the World on Products of the Soil. WORK OF SECRETARY WILSON Ilcncl of Aprimltiiral Deparlinrnt Snjr. Wc 'Will Soon Compete With All Conntrlcn In Their Own Special Crop*?Will Grow Hotter T??l?nooo Than Ctiha ami Make Hotter Macaroni Than Italy. Washington, 1). C.?American ingenuity is to overcome tlic laws of climate anil put the United States aliead of all other countries iti their own natural specialties. At least Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has so told President MeKinley ami his iuet. Secretary Wilson told of the experiments which are to accomplish won dors for tlu> United States in the matter of products of the soil and the manufacture of those products. In the matter of tobacco we are soon be independent of Cuba as to quality, and the Italian macaroni enter will have to import his favorite dish from tile United States if lie wants the best. "This country now sells S30.000.0QO worth of tobacco and buys Sirt.OOO.OdO worth of high priced varieties," said Secretary Wilson. "Now. our department is teaching Americans how to ) produce these high-priced varieties. We took the medal at I'aris for Sumatra wrnpi?ors. which have been costing us So.Oon.iMtii per year. We have been paying SS.ooo.oimi per year for filler tobacco. mostly Cuban. Our experiments, we hope, will result in our producing both wrappers and fillers to meet ail our demands. "Heretofore. American-made macaroni has been considered inferior to the Imported, because we did not have suitable macaroni wheats. Experiments have corrected this, so that 1PO,(100 bushels of wheat will be grown this year, especially for the macaroni mills. In a few years we will make | all our macaroni." Secretary Wilson also told of export- j monts in rice culture, through researches in tl? Ear East, that will result soon in our producing all the rice we use, and that of the finest quality. To Organize it Forestry Ritrrvr. Washington. 1>. <\?Secretary Hitchcock announced after a Cabinet meeting that he is preparing to organize a forestry bureau in the Interior l>epartment. to carry out an extensive system of reforest ration, somewhat <>11 ti,.? .u.... ? . ... mm rnM llliy ]>urSUC<l II) C?Tluany. It was too early to go imo details. he said, but the President mal his colleagues were satisfied with the practicability of the scheme, and Impressed with the results which could he achieved in restoring the rapidly disappearing woodlands of the couu? try. A NEW YORK BANK FAILS. riif Seventh NuHoiiul I'mtblf to Meet Ot>llcutlonH sinil Controller's ltc(|iilrniiipnts. New York City.?The Seventh Xn.ional Rank has closed its tloors. Clearing House othelitis do not predict that it will resume business, its coutisel, however, hints that it may be reorganized. The bank received no comfort from the Clearing House, and its plight tame of Inability to settle a debit balance there of $04-1.108.03. and to meet the demands of its couutry correspondents and the requirements of the Controller of the Currency that cash be substituted for the $1,000,000 of Martina ltd & Co.'s paper. There was Clearing House authority for the statement that no weak spots have so far been detected in any other bank or financial institution. Officers r>f several concerns supposed 1 > he Identified with Seventh National interests said that the failure had not affected them. r?ltur<> of Marcpinml ? f'n. New York City.?The banking and brokerage house of Henry Marquaud iV: Co. has made a general assignment without preferences to Frank Sullivan Smith. The generally credited explanation of the failure was the inability of the firm to secure enough financial support to take up its $1.G00,000 paper at the Seventh National Bank. Assignee Smith at once put an accountnut i?t wnrb ti?o p 41 ...... ..u . .... imi/nn U1 I lit" linil. Ho said that ho ha<l no Idea yet as to the aocuruoy of the report in hanking circles. which placed the liabilities at SO,000,000, outside of $2.000,0<H>. believed to ho duo to Henry (J. Marriuaud, father of lleury Marquand. of the lirtn. lour 1'emoim Drowned. William K. Clarke, his two daughters, Mary B., aged twelve, uud Frances it., aged niue, and (jeorgc it. itryan, the ten-year-old sou of Green 1 try an, were drowned at Nov Berne, N. C. The party was out rowing opposite the water Works when the boat was swautped by the waves. Mr. Clarke had at different limes been State Senator, Representative, Deputy Collector of Customs and Postmaster of New Berne. Parker tiet* Five Year* iu Prison. Thomas O. Barker, who shot the I lev. Julm Keller iu Arlington, N. J., was sentenced to live years Imprisonment at hard labor. Collected by the War Tain. About $U00,000,(K Kl lias been collected iu the past two years by tua spec.ul , war taxes. w" ^r 'W n s. . = I NO. I?. STERNER SEX DOMINATES Population of Seven States by Sex; General Nativity and Color. Morfi Men Titan Women in Alaltntn^ IAIntUu. Arlsona, Arknimitx. California, Colorado tinil Connecticut. "Washington. D. C.?The Census Thireau has given out the first of a series of eleven bulletins giving the population by sex. general nativity and eolor by groups of States and Territories. The group just announced comprises. Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. | California. Colorado and Connecticut. In all these males constitute the larger percentage of the total population. In Alaska, which shows >Jie lore eat disproportion of the sexes, tlu? males are nearly three-quarters, or Tl'.T per cent., of the population; Arizona. r?S.-l; California, 55.3, and Colorado. 54.7. There Is only a slight excess of males In Alabama and Arkansas, while In Connecticut the population is about evenly divided, the difference in favor of the males being only Ids in a total population in 1!HX) of 00S.42U. The foreign born element constitutes about one-fourth of the population of California and Connecticut; not quite one-fifth of Alaska and Arizona, ami a little more than one-sixth of Colorado's population. They constitute, however, less than one per cent, in Alabama. and a little over one per cent.. In Arkansas. In Colorado and Connecticut ninetyeight per cent, of the population is white; California, almost ninety-five per cent., the rest being mostly Chinese; In Arizona, the colored, who are principally Indians, constitute not quite one-fourth of the total population; while the colored clement In Arkansas, being almost wholly persons of negro descent, constitute twentyeight per cent, of the population. In Alabama the colored population is fort\-tive per cent., and is practically made up of persons of negro descent. Of the population enumerated lu Alaska, forty-eight per cent, are white, the large colored element comprising childly native ludiau tribes and a few thousand Chinese. Of 1he total population of Connecticut in foreign white persons constitute 2?',.i per cent, and native white persons of foreign percentage 31.1 per cent., these two elements combined representing very nearly three-fifths of the entire population of the State. These same two elements of the white population constitute more than ouelialf of the total population of California In ISltK). about two-fifths of that ol Colorado and Arizona, and ouo-tlfth of that of Alaska. The white population of Alabama and Arkansas is composed principally of native white persons of native parentage and tills element in 1900 constitutes 08.4 per cent, of the total population of Arkansas and 52.3 per cent, of that of Alabama. THE REV. JOSEPH COOK nr&n Woil-Known Writer nixl Lecturer Sue# cutnlm to llrlglit'D Disease. Whitehall, X. V.?The Ilov. .Tosepli Cook. of Ticonderopn. a prominent historical writer, died of Brlpht's disease, lie had for many years been widely. known as a clerpyman, author and leeturer. For more than twenty yeaiv ltcv. Mr. Cook was the principal of the "Boston Monday lectures." lie was born at Tieouderopa in 18i!S. NEW YORK BANK IN TROUBLE. Seventh National tV?? Eml>nrraSHfi<l l>\ a Shortage of Nearly 81,000,000. New York City.?The Seventh Xationai Bank was embarrassed by a slioriape (>f uearly $1,000,ti(K). President William II. Kimball resipned as a result of his bank's dillleultles. The ohicials of the bank, in n fee Rial statement, chared that the bank's troubles were caused by rumors circulated for stock jobbing purposes. But President Kimball's resignation was Accepted. K. It. Thomas was hastily elected President lu Mr. Kimball's a tead. It was said that a stock brokerage firm had been permitted to overdraw* its account to an amount close to Rl.UOO.OOO. The bank raised that amount iu a few hours and the Clearing House olhcially declared it "cleared." Humors about the condition of the Seventh National and other banks caused a decided slump In the stock market. Kulchlc of an Artilleryman. Joseph W. Ettinger, of the Nluth At tlllery, stationed at Jackson Barracks, i just below New Orleans, La., com- i mittcd suicide by shooting himself. II<? j was thirty-six years old. He served ' Lu the Philippines. ratal Artillery Accident In KneUnd. While artillery practice was iu progress on the Isle of Wight the breech of a twelve-pound ritle blew out, killing Captain A. Le M. Bray, of the Boyal Artillery, and one enlisted man and wounding eight other men. three ' ( f whom will die. Colonel A. J. Nixon, It. A., was slightly wounded by the explosion. Colombia's One tVamlitp. The steam yacht Numouna, formerly of New Yuri; City, and now brlnngin? to Colombia, le.t St. Thomas, 1 >. . 1., tor Colon, where she will be put into commission. Science 1.1 row trying to demor Wraf? that a man can get on without a stomach, hut it has not yet dosed ud any restaurants d