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FORT MILL TIMES.
VOL. XI. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2,1902. NO. 2
WOMAN'S BIG WORK
Bill Arp Addresses the Woman's
Home Mission Society.
HE GIVES HIS UNSTINTED PR4ISE
Tells of the Splendid Work and SelfSacrifice
of Women?His Address
Published in Full.
Atlanta Constitution.
Recently In Cartesville, Ga., the
Woman's Home Mission Society of the
north Georgia conference met. Among
those who made addresses were Bill
Arp. His talk was interesting throughout,
and is by request from many reproduced
in the Constitution in lieu of
his regular letter. It follows in full:
"^f our youth is happily spent, our
old ago will be crowned with pleasant
memories. How blessed are those "hildren
whose homes are happy, whose
parents are kind and loving, who are
not cursed with wealth nor pinched
with poverty. I believe that it is possible
for parents to make the home so
attractive that even the boys would
rather stay there in their leisure hours
than to seek the careless company of
those about town whose homes are not
happy. I don't know about David's
home, nor what he did in his youth, but
his prayer was on? of great anguish
when he said 'Visit not upon me the
fniriiiit iria i-%t mv vnn t Vi
"Hut I was ruminating about tho
state and condition of Methodism and
missions in the lonR ago, when I was
young and the most (f you were an unknown
quantity. When 1 was in my
teens and was Just noticing the girls
and wondering what they were mads
for, tho Methodist church was the only
church in our town??nd it had the
only graveyard. I was very familiar
with that graveyard, for I had to pass J
right hy it every night that I visited i
my sweetheart's home. I had a rival in
her affections, and one dark night he
saw a ghost and ran lome and I got
rid of him, though I vas accused of
being the ghost. Near there was the 1
church and there were ".he people, hut
where was the hell and where was the
steeple, for it had neitl or. It was an
old-fashioned unpainted building and
had small glass windows of 8 by 10
glass, and two doors in front, which
used to bo a peculiarity of Methodist
churches. It was said that one door was
t r* nl/o Ira tKo J *l? - *1
v??>, ... mo ikci ia tuiu me cjvucr
to turn them out. The Baptist churohfi3
of that day had hut one door, for
when once they got In thoy never got.
out. This old church contained on the
Sabbath nearly all the religion that
was In the town, and at night was the
trysting place of the old people who
lioved God and the young men and
maidens who loved one another. Notice
was given that meeting would hegin
at early candle-light. Candles! that
Rave what Milton calls a dim religious
light. Don't smile, my young friends,
for Shakespeare wrote by candle-llgnt
and says. 'How for that little candle
throws its beams, so shines a good
deed in a naughty world.' Everybody
was familiar with the amen corner and
had reverence for those who occupied
it. My wife and I still remember the
low, guttural amens of Brother Murphy,
the snap-short amens of Brother
Ivy. and the deep groanlngs of old
Father Norton in echo to the pleading
prayers of the preachers. Father Norton
was a very close and stingy man
and on one occation got to shouting
and clapped his hands and exclaimed,
'Thank God for giving us a religion
that has never cost me 2f> cents.' And
the preacher responded. 'And may the
Dord have mercy on your stingy soul.' ;
We remember, too. the good Sister
Tcnkins. who always had three or four
little children tagging after her, hesides
one at the breast, and how she I
always took them to church and spread |
them out on the long front bench and
took a basket of biscuit and fried
hicken to keep them quiet, and all the
space between the front bench and the
pulpit was their crawling ground, and
when they wanted water she reached
up to the pulpit and got it from the
preacher's pitcher.
"By and by a new preacher came who
was deaermined to purge the church of
its loose and languid members. At his
second service he had before him the
linolf r\T mnmhr,?1.1- 1 - ...
Uviuucioui|i uuu reaa OUl tne
roll and remarked that Homebody had
been adding to some of the names In
pencil with such capital letters as D.
D., which he supposed stood for doctor
of divinity, but learned latpr that it
stood for dram drinker, and there were
other letters, such as It. K., which stood
for barkeeper, and N. T. for nigger 1
trader, and H. R. for horse racer, and ;
there was G for gambler and nn F. for
fiddler. He raised a big rumpus over all
such as these and declared they should
all bo turned out and thev were. He reminded
me of old Simon Peter Richardson.
who. while stationed here, went
over to visit his old home on the Pecdee.
in South Carolina. When he returned
I asked him if he had a good
time, and he said yes he had a glorious
time in his old church?the church he
first joined and used to preach in. Oh.
said he, we had a glorious revival, the
best I ever experienced. Did you take
in many? snid I. 'Take in. take in; no
my friend, we never took in nary one;
but we turned seventeen out. thank the
lx>rd. Oh. it was a glorious revival."
CHURCH WORK THEN AND NOW.
"But I was ruminating about the difference
between now and then in
church work and missions and salaries
and church environments and the culture
of the preachers. There was old
Father Donally, with his wooden lev
who always came to our campmeetings
and attracted great crowds, who came
to hear him scare the sinners and scarify
the Christians and denounce the
fashions and follies of the day. I have
not forgotten his rebuke to a gay young j
couple who behaved unseemly during j
the sermon and the old man stopped |
and said. 'If that young m^n over thero |
with hair on his face and that young
woman with a green bonnet on her !
head and the devil's martingales ;
around her neck and his stirrups on !
her ears don't stop their giggling
while I am preaching God's message to |
sinners, I will pint 'em out to the con- |
gregation.' But we had a number of
?uu uoiaoio preachers in
those days. George Pierce, the bishop. 1
and old Lovic Pierco. his father, und
Judge Longstreet. the eloquent president
of Emory college, and Dr Means
and Walker Glenn and old brother
Parks used to attend our quarterly
meetings and our revivals. They were !
all great and good men and the people i
came from far and near to heur them, j
No more eloquent and gifted divines
have occupied the pulpits of Georgia j
from that day to this.
"Rut mission work was totally unknows
as an organized feature of
church work. The first we ever heard of j
was Introduced by some northern emis-, i
saries who came to this region to plant
Christianity among the Indians. Two
of them, whose names wore Worcester
and Butler, were suspects, and arrested
by order of Governor Gilmor and
placed In Jail in Lawrenceville. where
my father lived. It was believed that
these men, who were Massachusetts
yankees, were secretly trying to influence
the Indians to violate the treaty
and not to sell their lads to Georgia;
but this was never proven, and Governor
Gilmer turned them out on con- j
dition that they would go back to New |
England, and they went. I remember
the excitement that pervaded our I
townspeople during the event. John
Howard Payne, the author of 'Home. \
Sweet Home,' was another suspect. He,
too, was arrested and sent to Mllledgeville
a prisoner, but was soon released
and sent to Washington city with an
escort. Two years ago I received a let- j
tor from an old woman in Texas, who
said she wan born near CarterBvilla in !
1831, while her father, who was a Meth- ;
odlst preacher was teaching an Indian
mission school up the Ftowah river at
a place called Laughing Gal. which was I
the namo of an Indian chief. My old
partner. Judge Underwood, knew him
well, and said he was a good Indian. He i
got his feminine name according to Indian
custom, which was to name a new- j
born child for the first thing tlint the i
Indian doctor saw from the door of the
wigwam after thn ohiiri u.- -?? K,-vr?, >
8f>, when the doctor looked out and saw
an Indian maiden laughing, the little j
baby boy had to be named Laughing ;
Gal. Old man Harrison, who has been
living here for sixty-five years, Is familiar
with the name and the homo of
laughing Gal. The Cherokee Indlnns
took kindly to this missionary work.
John Roes and Major Ridge, who were 1
liulf-breeds, became converts, and
Ross1 son became a preacher, and so
did his grandson .and I and my
daughtr, Mrs. Aubrey, heard him j
preach at Little Hock about twenty
vears ago.
CHANGE WROUGHT RY WOMAN'S1
WORK.
"Rut you must pardon me. I did not
rorget that the object of this conference
was home mission work, but elo- |
quent men and cultured women who
have preceded nie have faithfully covered
that ground in every phase and
have left for me nothing but memories
that are only kin to it. There is. how- j
ever, no dividing line. Roth foreign
and domestic missions are founded in
Christian charity and Christian progress.
There was a time when there
was no such organization as home mission
conference. When there was not
a parsonagein the State, and the itenerant
preachers were sheltered in any
house that was vacant and could lie
rented for a trifle?when their household
goods were moved from place to
place by a single team and the good
wife and little children were mixed up
with the load; when two or three hundred
dollars was considered a liberal
allowance for a year's support. But
woman's work has , wrought a wondrous
change over these conditions, and
almost every town ai^d village has pro- J
vided a comfortable home for the '
preacher's familv. Th? advance on ?Ms
line has been rapid and It has been
contagious. Ten years ago there was
not a preacher's permanent domicile ,
In Cartersville, but now every church
has a comfortable homo attached. Rut j
let me say Just here flat there Is yet
room for lmnroremenf J a ?- -
, > n uuuai1 IS IlOl
all of a home. It takes feh&dc trees and
flowers and fniits and green grass and
vinos to adorn and shade the veranda.
Even a few pretty pictures and a mlr- ,
ror would not come amiss, for such I
things cannot be safely moved. if
nothing better can be supplied, you I
might put a painted motto over tho ;
mantd. "God Bless Our Temporary ,
Home.' Our Cartersvllle Methodists
have built a nice, comfortable hous?\
but I have to furnish Brother Yarbrough
with Presbyterian strawberries,
and he feels constrained to pay. me
back in Methodist tomatoes. I promise
now to furnish every parsonage in
town with strawberries and raspberry
plants next fall If the flood ladles
wil! have them planted. I have noticed
that the children of preachers are as
fond of these things as other children,
and their wives and daughters aro as
fond of flowers. Yes. my friends, mis- ,
sion work, whether foreign or domestie,
is advancing all along the lines. !
Home missions are but a nursery for
those wider fields that take in all mankind.
The spirit of charity?love of
God and love to man?is tho founda- j
tion of all and there Is no boundary to
that, no conference limits, no Mason i
and Dixon lines. The good Samaritan I
did not stop to inquire where the sin-1
foror lived. Charity is the onl>V thing
upon which all mankind agree.jU'opc |
sayu: ft
I I
j " 'In faith and creed the world will I
disagree.
But all mankind unite on charity."
"And Wad8\vorth says:
" 'The charities that soothe and heal 1
and bless
Are scattered at the feet of man like
flowers.' "
MADAME DE ST A ED AND MISS
STONE.
"Charity is the essence of love, and
love is the fulfilling of the law. Charity.
like mercy, is not strained, but !
droppeth as the gentle dew from hoav- j
en upon the earth beneath. It is twice ;
blessed. 'It blesseth him that gives j
and him the ' " "
iiuiii receive.' Madame
do Stuel said. 'The only bank account
we will have in heaven will be what
we pave away in charity." Sometimes
we question the self-sacrifice of missionary
work in foreign lands, and the
recent case of Miss Stone has staggered
the faith of those who help unwillingly;
but the command of the Savior
after His resurrection is ever before
us: 'Go ye unto all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature."
Not long a go a lady said to mo. 'Welt
if we cannot convert them, we can
civilize them.' The gospel of a clean
shirt goes side by side with that of repentance.
Wherever the missionary
has gone, his or her message has been
addressed to the head as well as to the
heart. John Wesley said that cleanliness
was next thing to godliness. A
clean body and a comfortable home is
the beginning of religion. But neither
the abduction of Miss Stone nor the
personal sacrifices of thousands of others
for a moment stops or impedes the
work of the missionaries. It broadens
and lengthens as the years roll on. uplifting
the lives of the ignorant and
degraded in the dark places of the
earth. The twenty millions contributed
this last year to this cause proves
that the god of greed and selfishness
has qot assumed entire sway over this
iiuiiuu. mpse millions bring no return
In wealth to the donors, notiiine
but the reward of duty performed.
"Just think of It for a moment. Do
you know that we have eighteen thousand
missionaries in foreign lands? In
China. India, Turkey. Egypt, and Cape I
Colony, and theRe missionaries are reinforced
by eighty thousand native
preachers and teachers. They have j
churches In twenty-three thousand
towns and villages, with one and a half
million communicants and Christian
communities of over four million
oupils. These missionaries hnve over !
four million pupils under instruction.
They have ninety-four universities and
colleges, and so|e of them are world- .
renowned and rank well with out own. |
The best endowed of these colleges are
at Constantinople, Beirut, Pekin, !
r^gypt and Cape Colony. Then there are I
over one thousand secondary schools
for training in the arts and industries, '
and also one hundred and twenty-two j
kindergarten schools. The most grati- !
fylug and significant fact is that moro 1
and rejoice, for It is a pitiful fact that
girls. The colleges have over two I
thousand of them, and in .the common
schools they constitute more than half
the number of pupils. Just think of it ,
and rejoice, for it is a pitful fact that i
for centuries in these benighted lands
women has been under the ban, and j
young girls were slaves to man's domi- .
nation, convenience and passion.
What a beautiful and glorious picture
she now has of the freedom and elevation
of her sex, and it has all come i
through the work of missionaries, anil !
Is worth a million times more than it j
has ever cost.
WOMAN'S GREAT WORK.
"The freedom anil elevation of wo- 1
man is the most glorious and heavenly i
work of the past century, and ii still (
goes on, not only in foreign lands, but
heijp at home. Woman is now at the j
head of every charitable work. Who j
else is educating our children in the j
public schools? Who is foremost in i
the church, the Sabbath school, the
Epworth League and the aid societies'.'
who is in almost exclusive charge of
this conference? Fifty years ago she
had no voice in these things and they
were considered beyond her sphere and
St. Paul was quoted against her evry
time, she presumed to talk In meeting
or speak very loud at home. The Savior
did not so speak to the wonyin of
Samaria, nor condemn the one the
Jews wished to stone because it was
the Mosaic law. 'Neither do I condemn
thee. Go and sin no more,' was tho
most beautful sermon on forgveness
that was ever preached. But the halt
cannot be now told you n relaton to
our mssonary work. Thnk of the 159
publshng houses that last year sent out
10.800,000 volumes. Thnk of the 456
dfferont translatons of the Bble nto
foregn tongues. Thnk of the department
of medicine that goes side by
sidel with the mission work in every
land. We have now 379 hospitals and
783 dispensaries or drug stores and
during last year 6,500,000 cases were
ucaieu. inure are. sixiy-sevea niedl- ;
cal schoc.ls and training schools for j
nurses, with 650 pupils, male and fe- ;
male. There are 247 orphanages and ;
asylums, over one hundred homes for
lepers, thirty for tho mute and blind
and 156 for the insane and the slaves
to opium. Is it not amazing, the extent
of this work? Can we stop it?
Can we imptde it? Shall we neglect it?
If it be of man it will come to naurht. I
but if it bo of God we connot overthrow
it. and if we oppose or neglect
it it will be like fighting against God.
"My Christian friends, 1 thank you
for the privilege of making these farewell
remarks. When your presiding
officer wrote to me a kind letter, in- !
viting me to participate in these exer
rises. I was surprised and pleased, for
it was another sign of that growing '
fellowship which is now pervading all
Christian denominations. The bitter- j
ness of sectarianism is passing away.!
1 heard a gentleman say the other day; 1
'I am a Lutheran, and prefer that
church to any other, for I was raised
up in it. but when I travel and find no
Lutheran church in the. town or vil- j
I
lage where the Sabbath catches mo 1
always find a welcome and feel at home
in any Christian church. Love of God
and love of man covers all creeds and
all forms of worship.'
"That is the spirit of universal
brothorhood. Hove is stronger than
creeds or kindred or country. Especially
the love of woman. David's
highest tribute to Jonathan was that
his love of women. Ruth, the Moabitess.
was not an Israelite, but she j
left her home and her native land to I
live with her husband's mother because |
she loved her. How often do we see |
\fnthrwlic* ?? ???
v ui in-aujicriaii women
choosing their mates outside of their
church and joining the church of the'r
husbands. They do not stop to consult j
the creed, but change their church as j
willingly as they change their name j
and 1 have known them to do that
two or three times. Brother Sam j
Jones is not ashamed to tell how he |
found his wife in a Baptist duck pond, i
and I make no secret of telling how I j
found mine in that same old Methodist j
church I have described to you?not up ,
in the 'Amen' comer among the saints, j
nor afar back among the sinners, but
about midway, where the angels congregate.
Men do not change their
churches to please their wives for they j
still maintain their rightful lordship as I
me noaa or the family. But for love a
woman will change nut only her
church but her name. The love of woman
has no parallel. It extinguishes
nil fear. The apostleB shrank from I
danger and hid themselves, and one be- |
trayed and another denied his Ixird
grave.
and master, but woman was last at His
"Then we bid you God-speed in your
noble work, you members of this mission.
It Paul had respect for the Jews
because unto them was committed th?
oracles of God, how much more shall
we haev respect for the Christian women
of this land who are planting
those oracles at home and abroad.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS|1
- o conscrrato your
I 1 money act as God's I
JL steward.
alities are the
.. uuaiucsa is ii curse wnon he
is too busy to stop to do good.
BRITISH CAPTURE_F|VE GUNS.
Tlin lteatilt of u Combined Movrintnt
AKulimt (Seuernl Delarey.
London.?Reports of tin* result of j
the combined movement of Hritish colunius
against General Delarey enable
General Kitclieuer to announce the i
capture of l.'Jo prisoners, three fifteen- i
pounders, two pompons and quantities
of stock, wagons, etc. Delarey sue- i
cessfully evaded General Kitcliener*s !
cordon at the offset.
Killed While Handling Kxpltifiivofi.
While loading nitro-glycerine into Jii.? I
wagon at I'MnUlay, Ohio, John Durau
was blown to atoms.
Aaka Not*! Injunction.
Government by injunction has assumed
a new terror. A Newark (N.
J.), girl has made application to restrain
a young man who she says
promised to marry her from marrying
another girl. '
realities.
-^Ion want hands ,
M niorc than hadThe
American character is moro
than the Constitution.
It is hard to find a truth without an
error in its shadow.
The word needs kindnes of heart !
more than keenness of head.
When men give God their manhood
as well as their names the church will
not lack for means.
The worst cowardice is that of the
man who does wrong for fear of being
called a coward.
A man's religion must he bankrupt
when he can only pay the Lord fonv
days on the year.
It is not enough to make good promises
to God, we must make our promises
good.
The divine in the Christian is the
best demonstration of the divinity of
Christ.
A man is not thirsting for knowledge
just because he asks curious questions.
Ixiok out for the honesty of the man
who talks a great deal about his
honor.
Even an awkward deed is better than !
the most eloquent dream.
Tiie attempt to be a good fellow has
?ij.ii n*u many a Rood man.
God has no interest in the church
that has no interest in the poor.
The supreme things are seen with the
soul instead of with the senses.
Men who are all for the outside are
frequently not at all for the inside.
Tho value of a man's opinion on a
subject depends on what it costs him |
to live up to them.
He who is quick to promise is often
slow to perform.
When Christ is the alphabet life he- i
comes God's literature.
It takes a life-time to learn to read
God's hook of Providence.
The possessions of great means often
produces great meanness.
A truly great name was never bought
at the price of a good one.
Usually the little things are the last
we are willing to leave to God.
It is never safe to waste the day of j
life since tho night falls without warning.
A man'e Knn!?A?/. ' ~ -
TO SIFT BRIBLRY CHARGES
Committee to Investigate Purchase
of Danish West Indies.
GREAT SENSATION IN THE HOUSE
Minority l.rndi>r Rlrlinrilaon Introduce*
the Clinrcrn in the Form of a Kmolntlon?Corrupt
Font nicl? to Kztcut of
S,"iOO,()(H? Willi Concrroiupi mid Other
l'eranna Allrcnl?Tim Committer.
Cienfuegos and Santiago at $3000 each. .
lie recommends abandoning tlio six
other consulates maintained in Cuba '
during Spanish domination, tlio inter- ;
csts represented not beiug large. The j
message concludes:
"The commercial and political conditions
in Cuba while under the Spanish
crown afford little basis for estimating
the local development of intercourse
with this country under the influence
of the new relations which have been
created by the achievement ol' Cuban
Independence, and which are to be
broadened an 1 strengthened in every
proper way by conventional pacts with
the Cubans and by wise and beneficent i
legislation aiming to stimulate the ;
commerce between the two countries '
If the great task we accepted in lS'JS i
is to be fittingly accomplished."
WYOMING MURDERER LYNCHED.
M?kI<p(I Men HungeS Woodward, Whoa*
Sentence Had Keen Stayed.
Casper, Wyo. ? Charles Francis
Woodward, the condemned murderer
of Sheriff William C. Kicker, was
hanged by twenty-iour masked men.
Woodward's sentence had just been
stayed by a Supreme Court writ. The
leaders demanded the jail keys of the
Sheriff. He ..-fused to give them up,
and they secured sledges and hammers
and heat down t!io jail door. A rope
was quickly thrown around Woodward's
ucck, ard he was roughly
dragged from the building.
11 < wns taken to the scaffold which
had been erected for his legal execution.
Some one pushed him onto the
trap, hut he gave a leap before the
trap could be sprung and fell frou the
gallows, hanging himself.
PEACOCK FAMILY RETURN HOME.
lleri'tlTon Wnrn ?n Uio Trait and Acron.
paniorl Them to tin* llouae.
Pitlshuig, Pa. Alexander 11. Pea- 1
cuek returned f oiu New York Lily
with iiis family, lie had a private car j
attached to tiie train. The train contained
quite a squad of detectives.
These scrutinized every one who got
on and off at stopping places.
The Peacock family alighted at the
East Liberty Station. Seven carriages
lined up to receive the Peacock family,
and as the train stopped the detectives
formed a sort of screen around them.
The detectives entered the vehicles,
and with two carriages of armed men
ia front and two in the rear, the Peacock
family were driven to their hoiue.
Washington, n. c.?The House without
a dissenting vote decided to investigate
the charges made by Captain !
Walter Christinas that, while proniot- |
ing the sale of the Danish West Indies
to this country, he had made corrupt
contracts to the extent of ?,">00,000
with members of Congress and other
persons. The charge was made in an
alleged report to the Danish Government
by Captain Christmas in 1900,
and was publicly noticed in the spring
of that year.
The investigation was ordered l?y
the adoption of a resolution offered by
the minority under Mr. Richardson. An
attempt was made to dissuade the
House from adopting the resolution by
pointing out that Captain Christmas
was by his own confession a ras ;nl,
and that there was not the slightest
likelihood that there was any substance
to his charges. The Democrats, however,
insisted the charges ought to lie
investigated, and the Republicans, as
a matter of political strategy, were
forced to assent to the demand. Mr.
Cannon wanted the matter to go over
for a day so that the members of the
House might be better informed as to
the alleged grounds f<Jr the investigation.
but the Democrats had so much
to say about prompt vindication of
the honor of the country that Mr.
Cannon was not able to hold his party
in line.
.Messrs. Dnlzell, I lilt. Cousins, Me- I
Call. Ilichardsou, Dinsmore and Cow- I
lierd were appointed as the Committee
of Investigation. The general feeling
is that with the appointment of the
committee the incident practically
was closed. There does not appear to
1h> the slightest reason for believing
that Captain Christmas told the truth
when he said, as alleged, that he had
contrnet&l to pay half a million dollars
in bribes to members of Congress and
other prominent citizens of the United
States, including managers of newspapers
and press associations. t . .
SPECIAL CUBAN MESSACE. ^
rrolilmt Auk* leu to Kntakllsh
Diplomatic Delation*.
Washington, D. C.?President Roosevelt
sent a special message to Congress
asking for legislation for the appointment
of 11 Minister to Cuba at a
salary of $10,000; a tlrst and second
Secretary of Legation at $2000 and
$ir?oo respectively; a Cousul-tJenerul i
at Havana at .SaOOO and Consul* at
? :? "fc, 1 * *. <
H. CLAY EVANS RESIGNS
?
Retiremont to Take Place at tbf
President's Pleasure.
' 5 5a
Mr. Koonevelt Will Mot Let HI** G? '
Until Some Higher foot 1* An'J*
ble For Him.
Washington. D. C.?H. Clay Evans,
Commissioner of Pensions, lias tentiered
Ills resignation to the President.
! Tli following letter, together with
Pi.il' IIICUI, WIH 11U1UC
lle ut tlie White House:
"To the President:
"Fo some titue L have been consid|
ering the question of resigning. It will
soon l?e live years siuee I assumed the
duties of tliis otliee, and 1 now have the
honor of tendering you my resignation
as Commissioner of Pensions, and will
thank you to accept the same at as
early a date as may suit your convenience.
"Thanking you for your kindly consideration.
and with assurances of my
best wishes, 1 am very respectfully,
"11. FLAY 10VANS."
The statement appended to the letter
is as follows:
"Mr. Evans, some months ago, verbally
expressed his desire to resien. ami
finally put it in writing on March
ir>. The President, however, has told
him that he will have to remain as
Commissioner, in the tlrst place, until
ills successor has been determined
upon, and. in the second place, until
there is some position to tender him
which the President will regard as a
promotion, and as a fitting reward for
ids excellent services in the department."
Well informed persons pronounce as
ridiculous the story that tlie President
asked Mr. Evans to resign, and that
the request was based on a report of
the I'ensiou Committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic. It Is denied
point blank that the President ever
intimated to Mr. Evans that lie would
like to have his resignation. The
President is said to entertain a high
opinion of the Evans administration of
tlie Pension Cilice.
The President continues to hear of
new candidates for the Evans place.
If UMIu crJ fnn - ' *
...... uui mill, us MJOU JIS UU!
place is vacant the President will bo
asked to fill It by the advancement of
.1. L. Davenport, the present Deputy
Commissioner. At another time, when
there was talk of the early retirement
of Mr. Evnns, Senator (Jalllnger suggested
to President McKiuley that he
should make Mr. Davenport Commissioner.
Another candidate mentioned
Is Frank I/. Campbell, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior. Judge Campbell
is a veteran of the Civil War. with
an enviable army record, and it is said
his appointment to succeed Mr. Evnns
would be entirely satisfactory to tho
Grand Army of the Republic.
SHORTEST SESSION SINCE 1794.
therr Warn 1827 Itllln Introduced In tb?
Senate; 1273 In the Assembly.
Albany, N. Y.?The State Legislature
this year has held the shortest
session since 171H. It has been remarkable
for the number of bills
which were passed in the closing days.
In the Assembly 1N27 bills were introduced,
and in the Senate 12711, and
a large proportion have been favorably
acted upon.
The most important bills passed are
the following affecting the State at
large:
The Rogers bill abolishing the boards
of managers of the State hospitals for
tho insane, and vesting their power in
the State Lunacy Commission.
The Ellsworth bill placing the charitable
institutions of the Ktnti. mwlof
I lie Inspection of a tlscnl supervisor.
The Krum hill tuxiug foreign corporations.
The Wcckes and Senate Judiciary
Committee hills for the suppression of
anarchy.
The Davis hill reducing the time
and expense of receiverships.
The Fowler hill increasing the free
school fund for the especial aid of rural
districts.
The Krum hill eularging the list and
scope of securities of savings hanks.
The Mills amendment to the Constitution,
the itogers and Braekett hills,
for the relief of the congested conditions
existiug In the courts of New
York and Kings Counties.
The Slater liability bill.
ASSASSIN'S WEAPONS IN MUSEUM
Czolgofu'* Kevolvpr ?nit Handkerchief
Given to f I iNterlcul Society,
Buffalo, N. Y.?The revolver, cartridges
and handkerchief which were
used hy Czolgoaz in assassinating President
McKlnley, have been given to the
ltuffalo Historical Society.
District Attorney l'enney hesitated
for some time as to whether it would
not Ih' better to send the important
historical relics to Washington, hut
finally determined on Buffalo. In accepting
the relics the Historical Society
lIl'OTll i Sf f 1 til (fllni'il /......tf.?ll..
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SHIP SUNK BY A WHALE.
TIio Anol?>i?t Knrk Knttilaen nt I.nut Knil*
Her Currer.
New Bedford, Mass. Word was rereived
here by the agents of t ho whaling
bark Kathleen that she had been
sunk at sea by a whale. Cnptin Tlioiuas
11. Jenkins cables from l'ernambuco,
Brazil, that three of the four boats
had arrived at that place. The missing
boat contained nine men. The captain's
wife and the officers wore among
those who got to land safely.
The Kathleen was value at $1'\000.
She was built lu 1814. llor gross ton-,
nage was 20?. ,