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THE COUNTY RECORD. Published Every Thursday ?at? CINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, Y C. w. WOLFE, Editor itii(I Proprietor. A report from Georgetown, British Guiana, to the Commercial Museum calls attention to the anomalous fact that while the United States send mules and horses to that country, the harness is still supplied from Glasgow. As our workmen can certainly corn- ! pete with the Scotch artisans m this branch of industry there is no conceivable reason why British Guiana, which since we have acquired the Antilles is our neighbor, should not turn to this market not only for her harness but for all her industrial supplies. _______________ The Memphis Commercial Appeal 3ays: We are in the habit of thinking of Russia as a compact, powerful ua tion, able to crash auy other single ? on the face of the earth. On has the largest army, an J it ffimnu|Bem that just by mere force of SBn^Bm^^>he ought to prove irresis Bit when we consider that nmfflHg^Konsiderably more than 100 HaaHMBBwIBes -u Russia, and that more B9KRM|HB|^^^languages are spoken there, solidarity vanishes and we HHHfflESMB^Hments of weakness in an EHHfflHHHfflKBj^Donster. 8^^H0B|MfflH^^*.merican manufacturing specialty cf bugles aud has just received au St-nnniili frnvprnment IVNB%UV horns, to be constructed the American army bugles, gjjfflpeJ in "G," with a slide to number is regarded by ?s entirely too large for the H-it of the Spanish cavalry ^ s now in existence, but it is H| possible that the Spanish IHcers were so charmed by the Vom the Yankee horns that they Hng to seek to make the "G" W the national instrument and ips replace the guitar with it. th the launching of the battleIllinois the American navy is infc by the largest and most j Jul vessel in all its squadrons. | IBfi^Wew ship is larger by 1000 tons the victorious Oregon; when g^P armed she will be a more power^^fighter than the Oregon or the ^Etas, and with her complete equip Bnt in place she will pieseut to the Paritime nations a magnificent examBe qf American genius and skill in Bal construction. Here's hoping? Cpd believing, too?that the new batPeship may prove worthy of her sponsor State! May she never fire a gun without cause, nor ever cease nnng m until the enemy signals "Enough!" Admiral Walker's commission re. . ports that the Nicaragua Canal can be completed ior $125,000,000. The canal is to be 170 miles long, cf which about 100 is in Lake Nicaragua. The Erie Canal,is 025 miles long and cost $52,000,000 only with all improvements. The Suez Canal is ninety-two miles long and cost $102,000,000. Eut the Nicaragua Canal, 170 miles long, would save 10,000 miles iu the route from the Atlantic to tne racuic. it would have saved that to the Oregon on her trip to join the fleet, it would save that to her now on her trip with the Iowa to Manila. It is an important question whether ^ would not save its cost in a short time by shorteuiug thus the route for ships. We may see the day when it will be supremely important to concentrate our battleships on one sea coast and there will be no time in which to send them 10,000 miles around the Horn, observes the New York Commercial Advertiser. Agricultural fairs are amongst the most important factors in the developof an asrricultural country. There are those, how ever, that have small beginnings, and gradually keep on increasing in both size and importance, and their success and influence are lasting. There are others, again, that commence at the other end, with a great "flourish of trumpets," and they frequently keep on decreasing, and ultimately vanish for want of support. The successful agricultural fair with the small beginning is generally inaugurated by the agriculturist himself, and purely in the interests of agriculture; the other is usually gotten up by individuals of entirely different occupations, for an altogether ui:;e;>-nt object, hut with agriculture as a elop.":. Hence the true object of lue fair is defeated, and it becomes .m-ftine: for lack of support from those wbo aran make it a success the farmer and i lie stock raiser. i ' GREENWOOD COUNTY CITIZENS MEET. ( Resolutions Adopted Placing the Responsi bilitv of Pheonix Riot Upon the Tolberts. The people of Greenwood county as- ! * scmbled at Greenwood iu mass meeting, j ^ Collator Waller presiding over the ! meeting:, and presented the following i q resolutions which were unanimously f, adopted. i h In pursuance of a call for a publio h meeiinsr of the citizen* of Greenwood A couuty to assemble at the court house, ; e to take in consideration tko lato tin- j ioituuate occurreuees which have sud- | n denly arisen within our couutv, wo the , 0 citizens of said county, representing | every section of the same, in mass ^ meeting assembled, do hereby express 1 our ea-uost regrets for the conditions i ? which have prevailed in the neighbor- i c ho ><1 of t'hooaix and the occurrences i q which led to it. We assert that the i responsibility therefor rests solely up- 1 f on John It. Tolbei t, II. llhett Tolbert j <1 and K. L. Henderson, whose incendi-, <1 ary teachings and iEllueDccs|culmir.ated in the murder of J. I. Hthoridge at 11 i'hoeaix, on the morning of the day of ; the general election, and the shooting ^ from ambush of the two white men on ! ,] the evening of thesamo day, returning , b ou their way home. These acts of p murderous highwuy assaults, induced t feelings of retaliation, the result cf winch, however, aro greatly oxaggerat- h o/i Vrtiv ?Viot tlm ?Tr>itAin?nt has sub- I sided, and all armed bauds bare dis- t I persed, we urge all good citizens, j J white and colored, to go to their homes, | [' and we pledge ourselves for their safe- j t ty and protection in thefutl enjoyment j c of their.rights, the discharge of their lawful pursuits, We assure the color- a e<i people they have nothing to fear if n they are orderly and law abiding citi- 1.* zeus. t; Kesolved, That we hereby endorse the resolutions of the Phoenix mass : meeting as well as the assurrances giv- i en by the sheriff and other officials of j u the court that the property of the ! t< Tolberts when under reputable man- j <*' agement in their abscence will be pro- c tected. The following was read at the meet- ^ ing: At a meeting of the citizens of * Ninety-Six and community at that place, it was resoived that the citizens ; c' cooperate with the good citizens of j ttreenwood county in their efforts to I ji restore order and put down lawless- f< uoss in the county. That we believe ; rr that tho Tolberts have a right to send I agents into our county for the protec- \ 11 tiou of tbeir property, and that we as | ^ conservative and law abiding citizens J will protect them on such mi*3:ou. j (Signed) II. F. FfLLCit, Chairman, ^ J auks II. iioixiEKs. Secretary | V| * ' 81 WEALTH OF SAWDUST. d I a; T w A Ton of It Worth as Much as a Ton of Hold j Quartz. | D Victor L. Em >rson. the ILilt'.inorc w Inventor who is now iu Ottawa, is: said to have discovered a process for Tj carbonizing sawdust and extracting tt the by-products. A long series of t y experimeuts in one of the largest saw- j mills of th Dominion has just been . C concJuded and the Ottawa papers say d that they surpass all expectations, ' even those of the sanguine inventor, i K The experitn -nts are said to have! proved that "the ~?0 tons or more of 91 sawdust and refuse that these mills *! have boon throwing away daily for; m years should suddenly b < discovered to he worth $30 a ton?in oilier words.,iD equal in value to the highest grade of 1 gold quartz?is enough to make the w average man catch his hreatli with In surprise and produce in the cynic a smile." Mr. Emerson went to Canada several months ago upon invittion of the 1* owners of the Edwards' sawmills ^ there, who had learned of his sup- 0f posed discovery. The sawmill p>ople, had been ordered by the Government S"< to discontinue emptying sawdust into the Ottawa River, and they secured a delay of the enforcement of the order ( to allow experiments to be made on a ' sf iarg. scale ny .Mr. i-.nierson. iu una- r wa the result which the experiments ^ have produced has hcen received with oj the great st interest. The industrial; C< effects in the luinher region of that,*r part of Canada is predicted to he one) of dazzling possibilities, and it is said that in addition to the central plant, j tii er eted at large cost for the experi- jj* nients just concluded a numher of ! auxiliary industries are likely to com-J th meuee operation in Ottawa, including w irou and steel smelting works, white ^ lead manufactori s, printers' ink man- j ufactories. and acetylene gas or ealci-1 w uiu itirniui1 hui k>. l ium iuc u>uiv- oi gen gas given off by the sawdust dur-! P' iuir the carlhini/.ing process ft is said that tlie whole pity can be furnish <11 with light and heat at 10 cents n I y, thousand feet. The capitalists behind w the inventor do not want to print the !if? I SI market with the products tints easily C( and oh aply ohtaine<l. They will not risk destroying the market price of the product and by-products by allowing the secret process to be freely used. A number of large coiupanl s j' using the products which Mr. Emer- a son has rueeeeded in extracting from o the sawdust at a nominal cost have been awaiting the result and are ?J ready to purchase all the supply of m those products that can bo furnished. Mr. Emerson is a native of Caro- p line county. Md.. and a sou of the late Captain Robrt R. Emerson, one p of the foremost and most wealthy cit- ^ izens of the county, and a nephew of y the late John II. Emerson, the founder of the Denton T'pion. and one of the Ii ill.lll n ui u:?- << uiiii.ir.i<.u .. ,. Morning News. For a nuiul?er of 1 ycjus Mr. Emerson lias resided in ri Baltimore. About six years ago he si inv nted a lumber dry kiln, which has revolutionized the process of drying green lumber, and is in tise in all the larger sawmills and lumber p establishments of the country. lie has plac <1 several other paying inven- C tions pertaining to machinery and 31 chemistry on the market. ~ ? s All Right. Captain?"That new recruit seems to enjoy army rations." Lieutenant? 'I "Yes, he said it is such a change from 8 his wife's cooking."?New York EvenIne Journal. r I X THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Waehlnirton Itnni, The State Department demanded the e* radition of James Temple, who is held in lexico for murder, said to have been com* iltted within the 1' iited States. Senor Quesadv *.110 has represented the luban Junta for- ?me time, has received insrmation that the Cuban Assembly, which as superseded the insurgent government, as confirmed him as representative of the .ssembly in Washington, and ho is now exrcising his functions here. The War Department ordered ten regi leius ui lie-uiiirs iu prepare lor sotuco i mtside of the United Stutes. A bill to provide funds for extraordinary rmv and navy expenses after January i rill be presented to Congress in December, | Captain Joseph B. Foraker, Assistant Ldjutant-General. lias been bonorablv dis- j harged, bis services being? no longer reuired. He was appointed from Ohio. The United Stat-vs Supreme Court afIrmcd the judgment of the lower court and j lenied a writ of habeas corpus to John An- j !er-on, convicted and sentenced to be inn-red after a trial in Norfolk, Va., for the aurder of the mate of the Olive Pecker. Abial Frost, aged fifty-five, for fourteen ears bookkeeper at the Riggs House, com- i litted suicide by jumping off the Aqtieluct Bridge into the Potomac River. His ' ead was crushed by striking on the stone iers. The cause of the suicida is supposed i obe ill-health. Curtis Hoyt Dickens,of New Hampshire as been appointed a chaplain in the navy, j The torpedo boat Morris, built by the | < lerresholTs, has been finally accepted by t j be Navy Department. Orders were issued I y the Navy Department for the final deep ] ea trial of the gunboat Princeton. The rial will take place outside the Virginia i apes. I The Post O/R-e Department discovered ' nd interdicted a scheme to avoid the pay- ' lent of about one hundred thousand dol- ' trs in war taxes on bids for mail con- j facts. i Domestic. < Charles s. cross, rresiuent or tne first ational BaDk of Empora, Kau., commit- 1 !d suicide shortly after the bank had been i losod by order of the Comptroller of the 1 urrency. < Passed Assistant Engineer F. H. Conant, 1 nite I States Navy, died of pneumonia at ' 3e Navy Academy, Knnapolis, Md. Death ] mm just as the funeral procession of ] ientenant Dxvsei was starting from the 1 hapel. E. Sherlan I. a jockey, had the mount on ed Monk, in a race at Nashville, Tenn., a j nv days ago. fn attempting to pull his louat up and get out the way of a horse rossing him he was run into by two other orses. He I Monk went down, with Shermd underneath, and the unfortunate icky was trampled to death. < Frivate Welsh, of Light Battery F, Sec- I nd Artillery, was shot and instantly killed y a bartender named lrby, at West'Huntsiile, Ala. Welsh rode horseback into the iloou after being warned by lrby not to a so. As he was attempting to come in gain It by shot him. lrby is in jail charged ith murder. Former United States Sonator Fred T. ubois. of Idaho, will wel Miss EJuaC. 'titted.of Desinit, S. 1). Tie marriage Ml take place shortly after i n holidays. i Frank A. Mugowan, forr. *r Mayor of ronton, N. J., hr wife an 1 Mrs. R. II. / rynn were indicted in Cleveland, Ohio, for 1'e kidnapninc of little Elith BerylBaines, rs. Magowau's child. The Sternberg Hospital at Camp Thomas, hattanooga, Tenn., was closed a few ays ago. The .Medical Corps went to t avanah, 6a. The twenty-eight patients j t the hospital were sent to Fort Thomas, ( V- I Morris J. Lutz. forty-four years old, a j loemaker, of Reading, Penn., was shot id fatally wounded by his son, Harvey, i ghteen years old. The boy then com- r itted suicide by cutting his throat from j trtocar. He had the reputation of be- d g a desperate young fellow. t The dead body of Jay H. Adams, one o' ie prominent attorneys of Washington, as found near the Northern Pacific tracks the vicinity of Hope, Idaho, with the t :ull caved in. Mr. Adams fell from a movg train and struck on the rocks forty-five t below the track. Tho domestic cereal markets have been " lite steadily held notwithstanding the z ibsiuence of the war talk and less active j reign demand, pointing to the strength the statistical position of most grains. " Pierre Mall, Vice Consul for Belgium, in 5w York City, has just been honored by ^ s Majesty, the King of the Belgians, con- j rrlng upon him the Cross of Chevalior of ' ( e Order of Leopold. j ( "The Service Men of the Spanish War," I s Lexington, K>\, filed articles of incor rution with the Secretary of State as a aternal order. Colonel W. M. CaflTee, icond Missouri: Colonel G. W. Grinder, no Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana, and j )lonel It. W. Leonard, Twelfth New York, e among the incorporators. The Rev. Enoch Parks, a Free Methodist inister, shot and killed Jaspe- White, a iv laborer, at Taylorville, 111. A short | ne ago Farks warned White that if he d not cease his attentions to Mrs. Parks > would kill liira. White knocked at the >orof Parks's homo a few nights ago and e latter opened the door. Without 1 - * 1 ?L l.iillafo A tiro urniug im ( ui lutrc* uuuci.i iuiv *.**? llcr's body. Parks gave himself up to V a sheriff. t James Millirons, of Portsmouth, Ohio, us killed at a railroad crossing by a yard igiue a few days ago. The engine issed over him cutting off his head and * i? arm. He was to have been married in i? evening. Stanley Beekwith, aged twenty-three jars, was killed while hunting in the oods near Taunton, Mass. While stoop- 1 g over to pick up a rabbit which he had c lot his gun was discharged, and he re- r lived the charge in his head. t\ t Forelcn. Extensive military manoeuvres have been ' inducted near Kobe, Japan. The evolu- J ons were made iu the presence of the ' nporor and a number of foreign military * tiaches upon whom the Emperor cou- " onferred orders in honor of the occasion. The rebels attacked and looted the town j ' Kwei-Fu, In the Upper Y'ang-tse-Kiang alley, China, and burned the Catholic g lission there. c The Russian Minister of the Interior f rohibited the retail sale of the newspaper c ovoo Vremya owing to its infraction of ress law. Dr. Stephen II. Tvug, President of the innrican Chamber of Commerce at Paris, <)!a I ? fnro .iflvk nL?rt t M. NelidofT. the Russian Ambassador to ( la'y, will rf;>r > nt Russia in the inter- t .* t:oi)nI anti-Anarchist conference to bo t eld nt Rome. } M. Patontre, French Ambassador to Mad- f Id, Spain, lias been transferred to Con- I tantinople Turkey* ( - I Minor Mention. Under a new assessment law in Maryland araonnges are exempt from taxation. j Profits on dispensary sales in South Carolina for the quarter ended September [ L) were over ?20,000. Texas recently bought 7C00 acres to be i sed as a convict farm, where cotton ana j ugar-eane will bo grown. The president and four of the five proessors of the Imperial University of Tien'sin, China, are citizens of the United itates. 1 The only artisan buried in Westminster 1 ibbey Is George Graham, the Instrument- 1 naker, who invented an Improved clock- J rork In the year 1700. ; SPAMAMTRATl Spanish Commissioners Reply to Out Demands For the Philippines. DO NOT YIELD THE ISLANDS. The Spaniards Say the Cession of the Philippines Is Beyond the Protocol? Fropoaes That a Neutral Person Decide the Sovereignty of the IslandsNo Hostilities Likely. Paris, Franco (By Cable).?Tho Spanish Commissioners at the joint session Wednesday afternoon presented a long document in answer to tho American argument which was submitted the previous week. The Spaniards, in their communication, reaffirmed tho position which they haveassnmedagainst the discussion hereof Spain's Philippine sovereignty. They insist that the words "shall determine the control' disposition and government of the Philippines" in Article 3 of the poaco protocol do not warrant any reference to Spain's with" drawal from the Philippines, except on her own terms, and therefore the Spaniards propose arbitration on the construction to no placed on the words "the control, die position and government. {'.11 signifying their willingness to subt thePhlllppine article of the protocol to a third party forconstruction, the Spanish Commissioners urged that, as there is obviously a diirerence of opinion regarding the phrase, "the control, disposition and government of the Philippines." powibly tne result of a misunderstanding, the Spaniards should no more be asked to surrender their view than the Americans to surrender theirs. The memorandum points out that a deadlock exists, which might be broken by arbitration on the contending views, to which the Spanish Commissioners are ^uite ready to submit. The latter declaro that they "have no idea of suggesting arbitration as to the main issue, which :ouches the national honor of both sides, jut they are willing to accept exterior aid :o clear the path of negotiation. THE SOUTH CAROLINA RIOTS. Federal Government Decide* to Investigate tlio Case of Postmaster Tolbert. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Government has decided to investigate the cirmmstances under which James W. Toljert, Assistant Postmaster at McCormick, South Carolina, wa3 compelled by the threats of an armed mob to abandon bis H9 I office and home. The matter has been ft B placed in the hunds of M ifd p United States Attorney V Latbrop with instruc tions to inquire into it < with a view to thepro_ ^seaution of any viola^l?ik'^^A?^fc'Rters Federal statutes in this or any j?? other cases growing iTSir \ B J out of the recent race lovEnxoit ellekbee, riots in that locality. of south cabolina. Asa preliminary step Mr. Tolbert sent a elegram to Governor Ellerbee, at Coltim>la, asking to know whether, as Governor if South Carolina, be can and will afford ilm protection in returning to his family ind office. Governor Ellerbee was verv brief and ion-committal in his reply. This was hla jessage: "If you return homo I will give rou all the protection in my power. I lon't think it prudent for you to return ill the excitement subsides." OUTLAW CANG WIPED OUT. I Hard Fight With Robbers In the Indian Territory. Wichita, Kan. (Special). Three dead ind four wounded Indian outlaws who obbed ?5000 from tbo Chelsea National 3ank at Chelsea, I. T., are the victims of i light in the street? of that town a few Iay3 ago, with deputy marshals. Two deputy marshals and one citizen vero seriously injured. The dead are: Jip Williams, j. Harry Williams and John Jourd, all outlaws. The wounded are: 3ook Still, outluw, shot through the right ihoulder; Sam Sixkiller, outlaw, shot in eg; Harry King, outlaw, both arms shot hrough; Red Bird, full-blood Creek Inlian, shot in breast, will die. Deputy Idarhals Hendrix and James wore both shot n the breast, and Will Parkor, a citizen, * V... A AAhav* KMI lot VaS UU in tue uriu uy a onaj uutiv>. The battle began "at daylight, when the rain came In, and waged for half an lour. The outlaws came into Chelsea ibout three o'oloek in the morning, ineDding to rob the bank beforo anyone was iwake and tlen hold up the passenger rain, which arrives at Cnelsea about dayight. Their plan to rob the bank suc:eeded, but when they rode over to stop he passenger train the outlaws were met >y a heavy lire from the police aboard the rain. MUST LEAVE AT ONCE. Spain's Request For Delay of Cuban Evacuation Positively Refused. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Govfrnment has renewed and strengthened its letermination that the Spanish evacuation >f Cuba and the American occupation shall lot be deferred beyond January 1 next, ["his conclusion has been communicated to he Spanish Government within the last ew days, in auswer to an urgent request hat the date of evacuation be put off bemuse of the large number of Spanish roops remaining on the island, who, it was epresented, could not be moved beforo rauuary 1. Not tieiDg a subject which could be reated by the coinmissions at Paris or at - ** ^ - it-- ^ iavana, tao request ui tue cpmu>u uui rnment was forwarded to Washington hrough the French Embassy, which revived also and forwarded by cable the reusal of this Government to put off the late of assuming American control. Mot Death In a Quarry, W. S. Parker, aged flfty-flve, Superineudent of the Byxbee-Depayster Trap Company, and an Italian assistant wero he victims of a premature explosion at bo company's quarries at Ree l's Gap, iVallingford, Conn. Parker was formerly t member of the Parker, Wiilium3 & Dewlurst Stone Road Construction Company >f Bridgeport, and was a prominent Odd rellow. A widow survives him, Agulnaldo'a Warlike Attitude. A report from .uanna, lumppiuo 9lnnJs, states that Agulnaldo, tho insurgent leader, threatens to declare war ipon the United State3 troops in the Philppines in case this country takes the stands from Spain outright and fails to jive the natives their independence. Food Supply For Shaffer's Army. Commissary-General Eagan, in his rejort submitted to the Secretary of War^ SVashlogton, said that his department had ihipped to Cuba, with General Shafter's :orps, sufficient food to last 16,000 men [our month?- * -- i , BRAZIL'S NINTH ANNIVERSARY. j ' Celebrated With Unusual Kclat and l>r? Campos Salles Became President. [ Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (By Cable).?The | Republic of Brazil celebrated on Tuesday . the ninth anniversary of its birth. (Jpon j this occasion the most important of Brazil! inn holidays was observed with unusual 1 eclat, owini? to the fact that it was the day j of inauguration of Dr. Campos dalles as j President of the Republic. i : W/J\ S i v I h wn . % \ y&/- 'A /Ml 4M4 Jpp # V 7 - 4, i 7 vsfflP ;! I sv \^u*m :'M,a!m \ ' "j%zzr> DR. CAMPOS SALLES. (President of tho Republic of Brazil.) The inauguration ceremonies took place nt the President's palace. Besides Miuister Charles Paige Bryan, the United States was represented by the battleships Oregon and Iowa, which were ordered to stop at Bio de Janeiro on their trip to Manila and participate in the celebration. Each of tho warships fired a salute of twenty-one guns in honor of the Brazilian flag. There were big military processions, and all business was suspended. Although only nine years have elapsed since Emperor Dom Pedro was deposed. Dr. Salles will be the fourth President of Brazil, The term ofoiTlceis four years but revolution and death have caused vacancies, CARLIST3 READY TO RISE. Civil War Predicted tVlthin a Month After the Peace Treaty is Signet!. London (By Cable). Tho Madrid correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "A leading Carlist tells me ho will bo astonished if a formidable rising does not l occur in Snain within a month after the peuce treaty is signed. The Carlists have abundant suppling of money, and, my informant says, only something very big and unexpected can prevent a rising, "This appears to agree with the news that Don Carlos has succeeded iu raising an Important loan in London and in Paris, and that wealthy Cariist families are insuring their propertv against war risks. A prominent official at the Spanish War Office told me he was woli aware of the Cariist activity, but that the Government was even more ready than the Carlists. The bulk of the actual standing army of Spnin, he said, is now occupying Aragon, the Basquo Provinces, and North Catalonia. There is a larger number of troops under the colors thin the law authorises In ordinary times, the Government having decided that this is necessary to presorve internal order. During the last two months still according to my informant the Government has greatly increased its war material and has replaced most of the artillery and ammunition seat to the West Indies." TRACEDY AT NEW CANAAN, CONN. Laborer Committed Arson and Sulcid After Killing Ills Employer. New Canaan, Conn. (Special). Fred Hahman, a Germun farm laborer, aged forty-eight years, who had been employed by Mrs. Susan Anderson, on the outskirts of this village, is believed to have committed arson, suicide and murder. Indications lead to the belief that he murdered Mrs. Anderson recently, and to remove anv trace of his crime, set lire to the house and barn Tuesday morning and then hanged himself. The fire was noticed by C. Osborne, the nearest neighbor, who lived about a mile away. When going to the scene he discovered Hahman hanging from a tree in the orchard. Osborne hastened to town and notified the authorities. When Medical Examiner Dr. C. B. KCeler later viewed the remains, a letter was found on the suicide's person that would indicate that he had murdered Mrs. Anderson. The house and bnrn were totally destroyed. Mrs. Anderson was about fifty years of age and had more than a local reputation for her eccentric ways and quarrelsome disposition. It is believed the crime was the outcome of a quarrel over money niatfiT<j TTahmnn was married and had four children iu Germany. A TRAMP'S HORRIBLE CRIMEHe Killed a linker'# Assistant and Threw III* lJodr Into nti Oven. Loxdos (By Cable).?A sensational murder w.n3 committed in a North London bakery a few days ago. A homoless Polo namod Schneider, who had been granted a night's lodging in the bakehouse, murdered the baker's German assistant and threw him inside the oven. The baker, alarmed by the stench of tho burning body, descended to the bakehouse, and Schneider tried to murder him also, clubbing him on the head and stabhiaghlm in the chest. The shrieks of the baker brought the police to the spot and Schneider was overpowered. The bakehouse presented evidence of a frightful struggle having taken place there. It was splashed with blood and strewn with tufts of hair. The charred body of the baker's assistant was found in tho oven. His skull had been smashed with a hatchet. Cannot Save the Marin Teresa. Captain MoCalla, who was sent to try to save the Maria Teresa which weut ashore off Cat Island, in tiie West Indies, after examining the ship has cabled to the Navy Department at Washington, that in his opinion it will bo impossible to save the ship. Ontario's Lumber Output. It is expected that 5J0,000,000 feet of lumber will bo out from the Ontario crown lands this winter Strikers AVln at Vlrden, 111. The Chicago-Virden Coal Company, al Virden, 111., practically acceded to all th< demands of tho striking miners. The company agrees to pay the union scale of forty cents for hand work and thirty-three cents for machine work. Murdered by Mistake. Jesse, aged twenty-two years, son of Emslie Burton, of Georgia, was fatallyshol at Mitchell, Ind., by John Flora by mistake. A feud existed oetween Flora and A. B. Jones, of Mitchell, and Flora mistook young Barton for Jones. \ I ' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. "Some Time"?The Mightiest of All?God Want* Our Idle a Song?Piety Clean Through t lie Heart?A Prayer for Spir- ^ ituitl Help?I)o Something for God. Some time. wli<*n we shall say "Good night" at parting 'Twixt sun and sun, ' t And hand from hand-tie loosed, and Strang? "Tl tears starting, Leave hearts undone. It may be, ere the coming of the morning. The gates are drawn : and I?or thou?called to the King's adorning, In silence gone! Or thou?or I?and cold hands mutely crossing A sor.gless heart; And pallid blossoms in the hair's soft glossing Ann oraiaea pure. And th>>!i and then can sorrow's voices follow An opening sky? Burden the soul, risen like fleeting swaliow, Dear Heart or I? Nor cold, nor careless, let "Good-night" be spoken At dark's threshold; Longyears may number ere its seal be broken In sunrise gold; And eves to eyes a steadfast message carry, Perhaps life's last; The bidden soul for farewells may not tarry . Till night be past. Lest, haply, ere the coming of the morning, The gates are drawn; And I or thou called to the King's adorning. In silence gone! Louise Dunham Goldsberrv, in Western Christian Advocate. The Mightiest of A11. In the Cologne cathedral there is a rude image of oak bearing the marks of extreme age, representing a giant with a child upon bis shoulder. "Who is this?" I asked of the sacristan; and he answered, "This is Offero, the man in search of a master." Then he related the story: Offero would serve only the mightiest. He offered himseir to the greatt st of earthly kings, and served him well, until 0:1 a certain occasion in the banI quet hall, the name Satan was mentioned; wh'Teat the king turned pale and trembled. "Why art thou frightened, O king?" he asked. "Because this is the prince of darkness,and he is mightier than I." ThenOffero went in search of the prince of darkness and found him without difficulty. He entered his service, and all went well until, as they were journeying on the highway, they oame I to the cross-roads, where stood a crucifix. [ There Satan fell u-trombling and refused to | pass on. "Why art thou afraid?" asked Offero. "Because this is the Christ, who rules in heaven and suffered on the cross A>r men. and He is mightier than I." Then Offero went seeking for the Christ. A barefoot friar said to him, "If thou j wilt do good as thou hast opportunity, He will present Himself to thee." The 1 giant built himself a hut at the ford of ' a river, and devoted himself to helpful I deeds. One dark night he heard a voice J without calling, "Offero, come and carry me over!" He found a child awaiting him, lifted it upon his shoulders and, staff in j hand, he entered the ford. As he proceeded the winds blew fiercely and the waters nhnvii him- the burden on his shoul ders prow heavier and heavier until Jtr -? [ seemed to crush him. At length he reached the other shore, set down his burden, and lo! the Lord Christ stood before him, saying, "Inasmuch as thou hast done it unto one of these 'east, thou hast done it unto Mo." He hud found the Mightiest, and cheerfully devoted his life toHim.-D. J. Barrel I, P. P., in "The Golden Passional and Other Sermons." God Want* Our Life a Sony. There are many people living in the miJst of unattractive circumstances, amid hardships, toil and care, whoso daily life breathes out gentle music that blesses Others about them. They do n<> great services, but they crowd the hours with little ministries which fail like silver bell notes on weary hearts. They are faithful in all their commonplace duiies. They are patient under all manner of irritating experiences. They keep buppv and contented even in times of suffering and need, cheerful and trustj ing even in want. They live in quiet i harmony with the will of God, making no | jarring discords by insnbmission or wiifulj ness. God wants our life to be a soug. He * has written the music for us in His Word and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in life. The things we ought to do are the note* set upon the staff. After the music is written faultlessly, the 6iuger or the player must render it perfectly, or there will be discord. We all know how one untrue voice may mar oven the noblest musio by singing falsely. To make our life beautiful music we must be obedient ajid submissive.?J. It. Miller, D. D. I'iety Clean Through tho Heart. The mystery of annealing glass, that is, baking it so that the color may go clean through it, is now by some casualty ouite lost in England, if not in EuJ rope. .Break a ( i . o of glass painted | some four hundred year* since, una it will j be found as red in tin) miudie us in the [ outsides; tho color is not only on it, but j in it, and through it. Whereas, now all | art can perform is only to iix Uie red on j one side of ttie glass. 1 suspect a much ! more important mystery is much lost in our age the transmitting of piety | clean through the heart, that a man become I inside and outside alike. Oh, the sincerity of tho ancient patriarchs,inspired prophets, holy apostles, j hi it nl martyrs and pious fathers of the primitive etiurch, whereas oniv outside sanctity is too usual In our age. Happy tho man on whose monument that chapter of Asa (1 Jungs le: UJiuay be truly ! inscribed. *iiere liei.li .lie man whose heart was perfect with the Lord all his days. Heart perfect. O linest of wares! All his days, O the largest o? measures! Thomas Fuller. A Prayer for Spiritual Help. Almighty God, who alone gavest us the breath of life and alone canst keep alive in nf Iwtitr fl?wir?-a \r? h*w seech tbe? for thy com passion's sake to sanctify all our thoughts aud ndeavors that we may neither begin any action without a pure intention nor continue it wn bout thy blessing; and grant that, having the eyes of understanding purged to heboid things invisible and unseen, we mav in in-art be inspired with thy wisdom and in woik be upheld by thy strength, and in the end no accepted of thee as thy taithful seuu us, having done all things to thy glory, aud thereby to our endless peace. Atneu. Do Some liitig for God. v There Is not a spi .er hanging on the ' VI king's wad but bath it* 01 rand; there is not , a nettle that groweth in the corner of the churchyard but hum its purpose; there is not a single i iseoi iluti'?riug in the breeze butacconi.il neth some divine decree; and 1 will never nave it that God created any man, especially any V hristiao man, to be a blank, and to be a notion He made you for un end. Find out what that end is; find out your niche, and fill it. if it be ever so little, if it is ou.y to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, do something in this great battle for Go-i and truth. Spurgson. Life always tnkes on the character of its motives. J. G. Holland. / . ?