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n ^ THE SOUilTY RECROD. i Pubiinhi'tl Every Thursday ? AT? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. LOi'lS .1 BUISTOW, Kditor and Proprietor. 1 Everything that Admiral Dewey does or says confirms his title tc glory. The total losses on both sides of the Spanish-American war were less than those of single battles 111 < jr civu i war. Several of the largest banks in Nebraska have notified their depositors that they must reduce their balances for the reason that the institutions have more money on hand than they know what to do with. Spatsli statesmen now have an opportunity to study the art of ruling such colonies as are left to them. Their method for four centuries lias been described as ignorant incapacity, tempered by cruelty. They may at last understand the wisdom of recognizing that subject races have some claims to consideration and. a few rights to be remembered. r -* e i . ;i]nrr?o _ine xrusitea ui scmai ?... New York state Warsaw being the latest example have passed ordinances forbidding children under fifteen years of age from "beiug on the streets, alleys or public places," after the hour of niue o'clock p. in. from April to October, or after eight o'clock for the other half of the year. It is made unlawful for parents or guardians to allow or permit children under their care to be on the streets during the prescribed hours, "unless there exists a reasonable necessity therefor." A fine "not exceeding S-o" is provided for parents who violate this section. The police are authorized to arrest and detain children found on tha streets at nicht. but not to itn- ! prison them. Their parents are to be notified, and are liable to a fine for not thereafter keeping their children within bounds. In her desire to bother American exporters Germany has outdone herself. It was all right for her to in ndemn the American cattle and American canned goods, because the spite of such condemnation was expended upon herself. Nobody believed her to be self-supplying in these commodities. But trichinic have been discovered once too often. The. r??nlt is no less a startlim: revela tion to the world than it must be a blow to iupate Teutonic pride. Trichina?, Berlin officials say, have been discovered in an American sausage. This is important it true.for it shows that Germany is not self-supplying even in sausages. The report of the British officials wijl probably be refuted from high authority. They will be told that there are no American sausages in Germany: hence trichina* could not have been found in them. Shoes made in the United States and imported into Germany have gained so much in favor in certain parts of Germany that official attempts have been made to create prejudice against tueir pnrcnase oy uermaii citizens. Consul-General Mason, at Frankfort, in a recent communication to the state department, sheds some light on the character of this opposition. He furnishes a translation of an article published iu a Leipsic paper, which reads in part as follows : "The Prussian minister of commerce and industry has addressed to the central committee of the Union of German Shoemakers' Guilds a summons to a systematic resistance to American competition in shoe prodvets. It is known,and the fact is here emphasized by the minister, that recently American shoes of the soAallail iob-lot or inferior nrades 'sohleudersorten' which are quite inferior to the solid German-made shoes, which possess a certain attractive elegance of form and finish have been imported with growing success into Germany. In order to effectually oppose this import the minister recommends to manufacturers, shoemakers' unions and shareholders interested m the shoe industry to obtain samples of such goods, and by cutting and separating the soles and uppers, which are made of paper and joined by long stitches of thread, expose and show the base quality of workmanship, and to bring these facts to the ' - - -e i.1 1 .U 1^,1 nOIlC'tj Ol iue press ami iuc jviiu?ic<j?o of their customers." The consul, however, advises that there is an opportunity to develop aud carry on a legitimate shoe export trade with Germany provided that it is conducted on a straightforward, intelligent, commercial basis. ' it *1 I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wanhineton Item*. General Miller, now in command at 3an Francisco, will command the reinforcements ordered to Manila. Latteries A and B of the California artillery will go with the expedit on. General Miller has made application to have the troops which accompany him armed with the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. The Navy Dnpartment has ordered 400 sailors to be sent to Admiral Dewey's squadron at Manila. The men will be sent from San Francisco on a merchant steamer. The body of Captain Allyn Capron, of the First United States Artillery and father of the late Captain Allyn K. Capron, of the rough riders, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. General Miles aud other high officers of the army were present. The Wyandotte, at League Island, and the Dorothea, at Norfolk, have been placed out of commission. In consequence of the extortions prac ticed by merchants of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, the Navy Department will keep our warships away from that port. John T. Williams, United States Con>ul at Sierra Leone, reports to the State Department that the Governor of the colony has offered a reward of toO for information that will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the persons who murdered the American missionaries in the Ronietta district of Sierra Leone, on May 3 and 8, 1S98. The State Department has been notified that Mr, Arthur Owen Humphreys Owen has been made an honorary attache of the British Embassy ir Washington. It Is now expected that Mr. Hay will be installed as Secretary of State before the President's departure for the West in October. Surgeon-General Sternberg issued a statement on the responsibility in the medical department of the nrmy, in which he explained that ho was not to blame for the troubles in the Held and in camp. The Haytian Government has notified our Government that it has decided to permit the establishment of a weather signal station at Mole St. Nicolas and perhaps elsewhere in Hayti. Domestic. Private Shuteman, Fourth Tennessee, was shot and killed at Knoxville, Tenn., by a member of the provost guard while trying to escape arrest. Shuteman had committed a petty offense. It cannot be ascertained who fired the shot. Five men were injured on the new Government dam at Neville Island, near Corapolis, TenD., by the breaking of a large traveling crane. A huge block of stone fell forty-five feet among a group of workmen, but only live were hit. Neil Donnellon. twenty-two years old, only son of a millionaire real estate dealer in Brooklyn, N. Y., and a senior at Yale, committed suicide in his home by shooting himself. It has just been discovered by the authorities that a series of pugilistic bouts have been conducted among the convicts of the penitentiary, at Frankfort, Kv. These contests were conducted under the old administration under the Marquis of Queensbery rules. F. G. Posch and George Rauber, window cleaners, were killed by falling from a breaking scafTol.I ut the fourth story of a building in Jersey City, N. J. Frederick E. Caswell, of New York, assistant purser on the Fall River lino steamer rriseilla, was arrested at Newport, R. I., on a charge of stealing tickets. He confessed taking in all about $1000 worth of tickets. St. Patrick's Church at Audenried. Tenn., is slowly sinking into the coal mines, and will probably be abandoned. Gerhard G. Classen, a salesman living in in New York City, committed suicide in Hoboken, N. J., by throwing himself in front of an incoming train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. A deal was consummated in St. Louis, Mo., whereby the Brown Tobacco Company's plant became the property of the American Tobacco Company. The price paid was $1,250,000. A freight train was wrecked at a crossing near Lima, Ohio. Engineer John L. Fopp, Fireman Alexander Woerner and Head Brakeman Fatrick Moriarity, of Lima City, were on the engine and were killed. The locomotive went into the ditch and the men were buried under it. A number of cars piled up on the engine. Louis B. La Franier, a locomotive engineer who was hunting ,for work, climbed into a car at Solitt, III., fto return to Chicago. Three tramps lurking in the shadow of the car attacked him, and when he resisted shot him through the body and fled. He died from his wounds. George Bowman, of Bridgeport, Conn., was murdered last winter near Dawson, in the Klondike, during a terrible snowstorm by a companion named Johnston,of Springfield, Mass. George Scarborough, aged fifty, a farmer near Larabertville, N. J., fell from a peach tree a few days ago, breaking his nock and dying in a few minutes. William Dauphine while attending a theatre in New Orleans, La., a few nights ago, got into a violent fit of laughing over TKo ln?o?h*nr nAQQAil in IUD pvi AUV J to convulsions and Dauphine died in the foyer of the theatre before an ambulance could arrive. The doctor gave a certificate of death from heart disease. The Philadelphia peace jubilee will be held on October 26 and 27. General Merriam, commando? of the Department of California, arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu on the steamer Australia. Chevalier M. Proskowitz, acting Chief Consul of Austria-Hungary at Chicago, was killed by falling under a car at Fort Wayne, Ind. The sloop yacht Emily was struck and sunk by a squall in the Narrows, and of the five men who wore on board two of them, Adolphus Cole and Gustave Morrean, both of Amesbury, Mass., wore drowned. The city of Tucson. Arizona, came near total destruction by lire a few days ago. Among the buildings dostroved were the old Padulvoioh building, the Western Union and Well-. Fargo offices, Kitt's dry goods store, Odd Fellows' Hall, and many offices. The loss is ?76,000. Foreign. Theodore Fontane, the.German poet and author, is dead, in his seventy-ninth year. King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent an autograph letter to the Czar urging the 1 ' oo tha mapfinnr. designation oi Drusscis ?o u.w*.MO place of the peace congress. Colonel Picquart caused a sensation at his trial before the Taris Correctional Tribunal by declaring, in effect, that if he should be found dead in prison his life would not have been taken by his own hand. The Rothschilds will loau Spain, it is reported, about >23.000,000 on the security of the Alraaden quicksilver mines when the treaty of peace shall have been signed. It is now estimated that eighty persons wero drowned by the recent storms in Southern Spain. Full reports of the damage wrought bv the recent hurricane at liarbadoos, West Indies, show 1C0 fatalities. Fifty thousand persons were made homeless and the damage is estimated at more than a million dotla The Japanese Government has replied to the Czar's circular proposing universal disarmament, expressing approval of the plan and promising to support it. A number of fishing boats were wrecked j in the Baltic Sea during stormy weather a 1 few days ago and twenty of the fishermen were orowned. T MANY HOW ENTOMBED Fatal Explosions of Coal Gas and Fire Damp Near Brownsville, Penn. EIGHT MEET SUDDEN DEATH. Six Scores in Peril They Ksrnped, fnjured and Nearly Choked l?y the Fire Damp Walked Four Miles Underground to Safety Wild scenes at the Mouth of the Shaft Loose Coal Causes Accident. Bkownsville, Penn. (Special). Seventy men were entombed Friday in the Empire Mine of Snow Jen, Gould Co., one fourth of a mile below town, as the result of an explosion of gas, followed by another explosion of fire damp. Of the number en" tombed, all escaped or were taken out by rescuing parties, except eight, who were killed outright, and three who were moro or less hurt. The list of the dead includes John Haiston, Salem Haiston, Robert Davidson, John Bennett, William Pritchar I. Henry Hagar, John Cartwright aud James Hull. The following were injured: George Baker, John Baker and Samuel Melntyrc. The explosion is said to have been caused by the loosening of a large block of coal which opened a pocket of gas. Immediately following the explosion of gas there was a second explosion of lire damp. There were seventy men at work in the mine at When tho mine was reached willing hands at once went to work. Everybody seemed to want to ?o into the mine. It was by sheer force that those in charge at the entry kept the crowd out. It was announced that there was a sufficient force of men inside to do rescuo work, but a weary and painful wait of hours took place. Just above the entrance to the mine there is an artificial plateau. From the edge of the pluteau a ftood view of the track lending to the mine could lie had. Here women wrinffinc Hiulr li finds in anouisli and weeping. The hundreds of people realized that they stood at the entrance of living tombs. It was several hours later that the tingle of the electric bell In the engine house announced that a train of coal ears was coming from within. The scene of the disaster is more than a mile from the entry. It took about ten minutes for the first load to reach the outside world. When the little train of cars emerged, a shudder was visible in the crowd. First there came two ears loaded with coal. Then three cars in each of which thero we:e two bodies. In one there were two brothers, side by side, John and Salem Haiston. In the others wore Robert Davidson and John Dennett. William Pritchard and John Cartwright. James Ilall was in the Inst car. Wagons were in waiting, and the bodies were taken to undertaking dablishments. When the bodies were brot it up from the mines thev presented a gh;> ly appearance. Afterth'i first lot of bodies )i ibeenbrought | out the excitement and anxiety grew more I intense. It was announced that many men had come out oI the mine through an abandoned entry nearly three miles distant. This allayed the fears of many, and as fast as the men were accounted for to their friends and families rejoicings and congratulations followed, _ . Crushed Under Tons of CuaL "Wilkesbabre, Penn. (Special). Throe men lost their lives in No. 1 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke Friday. Five men were engaged in driving a heading on n plane some distance away from the main gangway when there was a Sllddep rush of coal down the plane, which fauglit the men. John Shannon, John Jones and George Morgan, who were working at the front, were crushed, their bodies being covered by tons of rock and coal. The other two men escaped with slight injuries. - ~ FATAL CRAIN DUST FLASH One Man Killed and Three Injured by a Sudden Explosion. New York City (Special).?Ono man was killed and three injured Friday afternoon by an explosion of grain dust in tho works of the Eastern Distilling Company, in the Blissville section of Long Island City. The explosion shattered one of the big buildings, and the muu killed was burled under it. The man killed was Patrick McCafferty, sixty years of age. The injured are James Moran, tlilrty-tlvo years old, a miller of Blissville; 15. Cobb, a* weigher, of Blissville, and John Granbar, a miller of Greonpoint. The explosion was one of those common in grain elevators. The accumulated dust, more explosive than gunpowder, took flro from some unexplained cause. Three sides of the building were blown *'?? 9 c/\ Ka/llw Homnivflrl that' UUL UUU IUO i.UUil UUUIj ui>iUl?hvU ...... before the work of looking for the body could be taken up it had to be pulled down. Moran and Granbar were standing near the building, and were burned by the flash of flame and struck by debris. Their injuries are not fatal. The loss is in theaelghborhood of 620,000. Train Wreck in Wisconsin. A train wreck occurred Friday night near White River, Wis. Harrison Fiflel was instantly killed, Walter Sharpie fatally injured, and Tomas Jefferson and two tramps miraculously escaped injury. All five were riding in a box car from Mellen to Ashland. The train broke in two, and in going down grade the two ends came together. The box car in which the men were riding was in front of the back part of the train, and it was entirely demolished. Johnson, Fiflold and Sharpie were all laboring Sieu residing at Eau Claire. Fifleld had a wife and three children. The other two men nre single. Mr. Cnrzon Created a Baron. The Hon. George N\ Curzon, until re cently Parliamentary secretary ior me Foreign Office of Great Britain, who is to succeed the Earl of Elgin as Viceroy of Iudia, has been elevated to the peerage as Baron Curzon of Kedleston. Many Insurance Companies Indicted. i Indictments were filed in the State Fiscal Court at Fraokfort, Ky., against sixty^one leading fire insurance compauies of tho United States for conspiracy. Their offence consists in uniting in an agreement fixing rates. The New Order of Ellznbclh. The Emperor of Austria has appointed Prtimr Tlfilleearde First Chancellor of the new order of Elizabeth, which was created In honor of the late Empress of Austria. Columbns's Remains Ordered to Spain. Captain-General Blanco has ordered that . the remains of Columbus, which are in the Cathedral at Havana, Cuba, be transported ! to Spain. Expelling Anarchists From Switzerland. The Swiss Government has ordered the expulsion from Switzerland of thirty-six Anarchists * \ COVERNOR VOORHEES'S NOMINATION New Jersey Republicans Meet in State Convention?Tlie Platform. Trenton, K". J. (Special).?Tho Republl can State Convention met here Thursday and nominated Foster M. Voorhees by acclamation as its candidate for Governor. n? President nf the f Senate has been acting as Governor since Governor John W. Griggs was chosen AttorneyGanerai. There was only one session of the convention, lasting about two hours. State Chairman Franklin Murphy called the convenoov. voohhees. tlon to order without a speech. He placed in nomination as Temporary Chairman Attorney-General John W Griggs. He made a speech to the convention in defense of the Administration at Washington. At the conclusion of Attorney-General Griggs's speech the Committee on Resolutions, through Its chairman. Senator Stokes, reported the platform, which contained this sentence: "And if, by the misconduct or incompetency of any officials, their health or their lives have been unnecessarily sacrificed or endangered, we feel assured that the President and his constitutional ad visors will make such investigations as win bring the offenders to justice regardless of past or present political affiliations." Upon motion of Chairman Murphy the sentence was stricken out. Governor Voorheos was nominated by Congressman Fowler, of the Eighth District. There was no opposition. Governor Voorhees made a short speech of acceptance in which he confined himself to State issues. The platform declared for sound money and in opposition to any proposition to debase the Natioual currency; endorsed the St. Louis platform and the general policy of President McKinloy and his administration. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE WAR. President McKinley Finstlly Secure* Men to Make Proposed Inquiry. Washington, D C. (Special). President McKinley has about decided that seven men will form the committee to investigate the War Department. He is having so much trouble in securing the services of good men that he has been forced to this conclusion. The following seven men have positively agreed to serve: General Grenville M. Dodge, Colonel James A. Sexton, Evan P. Howell, ex-Governor Woodbury of Vermont; General John M. Wilson, Chief of Engineers: Charles Denby and Thomas Livermore, of Boston. It Is probable that these seven will conduct the investigation, and that their number will not be increased. It will be noticed that the list contains only two of the names that were included in the original nine invitations sent out by the President. The President was mu"h surprised to receive word from Professor Gilmau, President of Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, that he had reconsidered his determination to serve on the committee and would be compelled to resign. President McKinley at once filled the vacancy by asking General John M. Wilson, the Chief of the Engineer Corps of the War Department, to take a place on the committee and securing his acceptance. Genoral Wilson is a Democrat, and was the array omcer in cunr^o ui >> uno nuuao mixtions during the Cleveland Administration. CHINA'S POLITICAL SEE-SAW. Opponents of the Sew Policy of Progress In the Ascendant. Pekin, China (By Cable).?An imperial edict just issued definitely announces that the Emperor of China has resigned his power to the Empress, (Dowager Empress), who has ordered the Ministers to deliver to her in future their official reports. The recent reformatory edicts probably caused the change. While the Emperor was subservient and a mere figurehead, the Dowager Empress permitted him to remain in peace. But so soon as he attempted to act on his own in itiative, his practical deposition was tne result. Kis principal adviser, Kwaug-Yumei, the Cantonese reformer, fled in spite of the vigorous attempts made to arrest him, and is said to have gone to Shanghai. The suddenness of the coup is said to bo due to the desire of the Dowager Empress to prevent the mission of the Marquis Ito from being successful. The Japanese statesman recently came to Pekiu with the object of tryiDg to bring about an alliance, offensive and defensive, between Japan and China. The new order of things undoubtedly will prejudice British Interests in China. Schooner Sunk With Logs of Life. The steamship Gloucester, of the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company, arrived at Boston, Friday from Baltimore and reported that she was in collision with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordon off Martha's Vineyard, and that nine of Jordan's crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved. They were brought on the Gloucester to Boston. The schooner while trying to cross the bow of the Gloucester, was cut down to the water's edge and rapidly filled. The schooner sunk in a few minutes before any of the nine men who were asleep below could reach the deck. ? t? K vr.11. T ./, Man Pittsbcbo, Penn. (Special).?Captain George J. Adams and Captain Charles Miller, his assistant, were instantly killed while conducting a llreworks display and reproduction of the Manila battle on Allegheny P.iver in front of the Exposition building Thursday night. The bomb exploded almost directly under the skiff in which the men were working. Captain Adams was a native of New Orleans, and had been engaged all summer at Atlantic (iity giving llreworks displays and exhibitions of deep sea diving, Rejected Suitor Ends Two Lives. Mrs. Ella L. Wilson was murdered Thursday in her well appointed home in Brooklyn, by James O'Neill, a railroad employe. One bullet ended her life. O'Neill then shot himself in the right temple and died almost instantly. James O'Neill hud been attentive to Mrs. Wilson for several months, and she was attempting to rid herself of him when he killed her. Ho was intensely jealous of her. Mrs..Wilson was a wealthy woman, while he was a poor man. England's Probable Gift to Germany. It is said England may cede Zanzibar to Germany In return for the latter's concessions regarding Delagoa Bay. General Lee to Go to Cuba. General Miles has completed and submitted to the War Department at Washington, for approval his plan for the reorganization of the volunteers. General Lee's army corps, the Seventh, will be designated to go to Cuba. Honors For General Kitchener. At a meeting of the Common Council of London at the Guildhall a few days ago it was resolved to confer the freedom of the city upon Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener, and also to present to him a sword of honor. CENERAL WOODFORD RESICNS. He Relinquishes His Diplomatic Post ai Minister to S^min. Wakuixc.tox, D. C. (Special).?Officers of tho Administration admit that General 6tewart I<. Woodford has tendered his resignation as United States Minister to Spain, but nre not able to give any reusoo for that notion other than that Genera) ?l ,n i i ? W K ij/.i^ '; 'life', i''X^ v ^vlSv OESERAL STEWART L. WOODFORD. Woodford practically relinquished his diplomatic post when he received his passports from the Madrid Government last April and has not been drawing any salary for more than two months. The tender ol the resignation means, of course, that General Woodford will not return to Madrid when diplomatic relations between the United States and Spain are resumed. General Woodford Explains. New York City (Special).?General Stewart L. Woodford said in reply to an inquiry about his resignation as Minister to Spain: "The statement printed that I have resigned as Minister to Spain is correct. With peace once made and the treaty signed, the work for which the President drafted me into the diplomatic service in June, 1897, will ihave been finished. I have held this place at pecuniary loss and to the neglect of my business. 1 was glad to do so as long as it seemed that I could render any public service which should overbalance my personal loss. But with the return of peace, which is now assured, I have feft free to resign." micc \a/immif nav/is RIIRIFn Her Body Laid Beside That of Ilcr Father in the Cemetery at Klchmond. Richmond, Va. (Special).?Tho funeral train bearing the body of Miss Winnie Davis arrived here Friday and was met at the station by Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, of which she was a member, and delegates from Ticket Camp. Colonel Archer Anderson, J. Taylor Ellison, Colonel E. L. Hobson and Dr. George Ross and their wives received Mrs. Davis nnd those of her immediate party who wero on the train. Tho body was escorted to St. Paul's Church, where it lay in state under the care of the guard of honor. The church was not open to the public, but delegations from many organizations wero admitted. The funeral services were conducted by tho Rev. Dr. Hartley Carmiehael and the Rev. Dr. Jloses D. Hoge. The public was not admitted to the church, but the big building was more than filled by representatives o? organizations from all over tho South aiid a great crowd filled the streets. The procession which accompanied. tUg body to the cemetery was two hours In forming and oxteudcd practically from the church to Hollywood, more than two miles away. ? *, .9 s Tho flags of the city were at half-mast and during the procession every church bell in the city was tolled. The procession was led by the Second Virgin!^ Volunteers, just home from Jacksonville. Then camo a long line of Confederate camps and Sons of Veterans, the bands playing funeral dirges. The hearse was drawn by four snow-white ponies, with bridle attendants, and in the rear, following as a special guard of honor, marchod 100 veterans from the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The procession closed with a double line of carriages. Among the honorary pallbearers were Governor J. Hoge Tyler, ex-Governor ,C. T. O'Farrell, General John B. Gordon, General FItzhugh Leo and General G. \Y. Custis Lee. The crowd of spectators filled the amphlthofvtrA fnrm?d hv th? hills surroundimr the burial plot. The grave isuearthatof Jefferson Davis. It was lined with Confederate flags and the head floral piece was a Confederate flag of large size niade of red, white s>nd blue immortelle?. MUST LEAVE CUBA AT ONCE. Further Delay in the Evacuation 1>t Spain Will Not Be Tolerated. Washington, D. C. (Special).?A very peremptory message of Instruction has been sent to the Cuban Military Commission, and by them made the basis of a note to the 8panlsh Commissioners. Tho authorities in Washington will not make public the terms of the note, but its 1 . mill ^uucrui teuur is umi tuo uuikuiukavu? ?tu not be satisifled wltli any further deiay la the evacuation of Cuba. It is to the effect that the terms of the protocol called for the immediate evacuation of Cuba, and that Spanish sovereignty must bo relinquished. The American Commissioners have been informed that the evacuation of Cuba cannot be delayed. Terriblo Storms In Formosa. Information has just reached Taco ma, Wash., that floods aad typhoons wrought great devastation along the eastern and northern shores of Formosa a few weeks ago. Five thousand buildings were destroyed and 10O persons were killed or injured around Taipeh, Formosa's capital. In Taipeh prefecture alone 2073 houses were destroyed and 003 badly damaged, while 140 bodies and 100 injured persons were recovered among ruined buildings. Japanese officials have undertaken extensive relief work, though hampered by attacks of Formosan rebels. In some valleys buildings and crops were entirely swept away. Spaniard* Shoot Rioter*. Outrages by natives are reported from Barros and Areclbo, Porto Rica. At the latter place the Spanish troops flred on the rioters, killing four and wounding eevet&l others before order was restored. Recommends Statehood For Arizona. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior Governor Murphy says the population of Arizona Is nearly If not quite 100,000 and recommends that the Territory be made a State. Winter Barracks In Cities. Fresldent McKtnley has ordered barracks butlt In the largest cities for the accommodation of the troops during the winter. General Garcia Returns to Santiago. General Garcia returned to Santiago, Cuba, and was honorably welcomed. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Companions Storms Are Healthy Undreamed of Glories A Prayer and Confession Itind All Hays Together Confessing to the Cord. let Prayer tio with thee everywhere To voi'-e for thee thy soul's desire, To Gi l faith grow and hopo.aspire, Amid the silences to speak Of joy when troubled, strength whet weak. For burdens shrink, mists disappear, , Flowers live, and skies are blue and clear, ^ Aud glory lights up care Through Prayer. Take Peace To keep when joys increase, mm vtm n ail uu i?> llilli'iuii ways. H?t gentle love will bless thy days; bite, where through leaves ami sunshir.# gleams. Will give thee rest by gentle streams, Will guide thee to the paths of light, Will sing sweet songs to thee at night, Will make all discords cease: Take Teaco. Let Trust Go wheresoc'er thou must, For Trust will teach thee how totraco The love upon thy brother's face; Trust will reveal to thee the best In shower and sun. in work or rest. When though art sad and fain to weep, Kind Trust will kiss thee into sleep. To keep thee wise and just Take Trust. Take Love, All dther friends above. For Love will change the darkest day To summer noon and flower-lllied way: And love does more than crowns of gold To gladden hearts of young and old. And whoso walks with Love beside, On lonely moor, by swelling tide. Finds earth like heaven above IHKeitOVe. ?Marianne Farninghnm,in Christian World. Storms Are Healthy. The sweetest sum mere breed the severest storms. The conditions that ripen the harvests create the tempest. The shock and jar of the thunder, the blaze aud sweep of the. lightning are the surest. sanitation. Midsummer storms purify the air oceans for all tiie seasons. We found a farmer singing on the roof where the lightning had plowed a furrow from ridge to eaves. "Oh, this is nothing," said lie, "it's worth a few shingles to have such pure air to live in!" His philosophy was as lino as his temper. A ride with Uoosevelt shakes out every trace of effeminacy aud reveals our truest heroes; Hobson's passage through New York to Washington is a tonic for cur manhood, a breath of health aud heroic spirit that is sent from heaven. The best ages of the world, the best hours of historv. are in touch with the periods of strugle. The fever of the child that is cutting its teeth and the surgical disruption that takes out a had one belong to a life that is sound at the core. Summer arbitrates long to keep the balance, and then breaks out with thunder and lightning to restore a perfect equilibrium. That is history. 3fou and brethren, let us sing in the furrows of the storm. Let us breath? easier and better for the battle.?11. A. 8., in N. Y. Evangelist. I'ml reamed of Glories. The sun shines.and we see the things that are near us?all the little things that llit in the air or creep beside our feet. The sun sets,and then lirst we see the unnumbered stars of l.aofan eunnftnn? ts\ flta cun itu fliinliiTht' r?r burning with independent glory through ' all the unfathomable space. May it not be so with life and death? Life sets; its insect greatnesses cease to buzz about us; its s insect littlenesses cease to sting. We' lose sight even of this vault of light and blue whi' h is above our heads; but. lo! fr5m underlhe shadow of death the heavens above us seem to burst open to their depths and we sec not one sun. but systems, and constellations, and gallaxies. white with the confluent lustre of suns numberless in multitude and indistinguishable from their distance. May not death first reveal to us. as night first reveals to us. the undreamed of glories, the possibilities hitherto inconceivable, which erowd the universe of God? And through all that universe our Father reigns God, who is in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. Canon Farrar. A Prayer and Confession. Behold we confess, 0 Lord! in thee we live, in thee we move and have our being; all our sufllcleney proceeds from thee and fir success depends upon thy favor. Others may tell us the way we should go, but thou alone canst enable us to walk in it. Others may instruct us in the paths of virtue, but even they must be taught by thee ; and so all at last is resolved into thee. O, may all self-presumption die in us and our whole confidence live only in thee, and may even our frailties make us more strong and our being nothing teach us to be humble; so shall thy power.O God. be magnified in our weakness and thy mercy triumph in the relief of our miseries. Thou art my saviour; whom then shall I fear? Thou art my protector; of whom shall I be afraid? Let thy mercy guide me it; paths of righteousness and knit my heart unto thee, that neither life nor death,principalities nor powers may ever be able to separate me from thee. Amen. Rind All I>ay<< Together. Yesterday is no mausoleum of dead deeds, no storehouse of munnnies. Memory is a grauary holding seed for tomorrow's sowing ; memory is an armory holding weapons for tomorrow's battles : memory is a rnedicine-ehest with balms for tomorrow's hurts; memory is a library with wisdom for tomorrow's emergency. Yesterday holds tho full store of today's civilization; contaius our tools, conveniences, knowledge; contains our batileilelds and victories; above all gives us Bethlehem and Calvary. But alone man's yesterday is impotent: his tomorrow insufficient. The true man hinds all his days together with an earnest, intense. passionate purpose. His yesterdays, todays ami tomorrows march together, one solid column, animated by one thought, constrained by one conspiracy of desire, energizing toward one holy auJ helpful purpose ?to serve mau and love God.?Newell Dwight Hillis, in "The Investment of In Iiueuce. Confessing to the Lord. Some few half hours we spend in prayer, and many whole days in idleness and vanity. Sometimes we bestow a little on the poor and often throw more away on our passions. Thus we confess to thee, O Lord our God. who perfectly seest every corner of our hearts, not that thou mayest know us, but that we may know ourselves and thou mayest cure us. Cure us. O thou great physician of our souls, of all our sinful distempers; cure us of this anguish of intermitting piety and fix it in an even and constant holiness. O, make us use religion as our regular diet, and not only as a single medicine in a pressing necessity. So shall our souls be endued with . a perfect health. L 0 the rest and peace that the chambers of God's high house will yield to its inhabitants in another world! Here they will rest from their labors, rest upon their beds, rest with God, rest from sin, temptation and all sorrow. John Banyan. Resignation is putting God between one'g self and one's grief. Madame Swetchine. i