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W ' A Miracle of By Kay Siannard Ba V ovr meu worked r |J R in I he Western vail $L V jtikfi from nothing, these ft J ago the Salt River Y mSk g nil a parched desert. flIP jP .dcujs and two or thr fl f the cactus crowded t It was a thousand 11 known. desolate, for t American Desert, which travelers r; jj To-day the Salt River Valley contain three cities, one. Pl.oenix, the capital electric car line, good hotels, churche xoended by trees, lawns, apd a wild acres of land round about are laid orchards or oranges, almonds, olives Thousands of cattle feed In the rich i tfsrfcs mi rwtrit he? unnumbered. R: does not exist anywhere in the worl Here one- way behold the startling -worth $1000 as aciv on one Ride of i other, both having the same soil, the fng water. Here, when a man build hi the eoR ami such the water that ri an that the wire of many old fences large trees. Here a fanner rarely comes In bearing rich silt and spread times cat two or throe or more croi then pasture them during the winrerapring The Century. Problems of 1 By Governor Odell, o: 0BOBLEMS of the mof us, which demand int In their solution. T1 to the demands of < Nation exacts tribute Slate calls for the en of greed. The capital of 1 with these {treat pro has been crafted before which all ol r to be n? Hmltatio to our power or , the iltpllslw <tt tin workL Wealth e gUH? to the simplicity of our Goven *H the* Is s religion that leaches th the gnshit product of onr country is l tWifhd. whose faith is in himself j [ Thi? foOTdsttoii of wealth Is labo ' its exidea* without labor would be r ?ty, therefore, being labor, it should b to excess at that which is given to its f Tboe are soiuc of the problems to ono present commercial developnie State. Bespeet for law cannot all be * ?%? k? nornji^lfxl in oonnuer th< I . Poww* that are prejudicial to the h< | any otf oar citizen, are sure to lower i | should hare other alms than this we f Scam principle* of Government and t * bare been fruitless. We must depend vartofov lawmakers and upon the p .tioD off the jrrohlejzs that confront us. ? JS? 4 Simplicity and Cardinal 1 By Mme. Adelina Pat * ^ j0/SSSS3^ O be healthy Is the nat jT | oat of ten, our punish IK I Every time we ar jj * I which we squander. || J I ac'ae or pneumonia, is 1| ? I vitality, and is theref r , H "w. ; I Therefore do not J The best plan to a tj'Hh frugality that si ^ Seep tight horn* in every twenty?fwfflatf the moms you work ami i thoat vb? think hey are well up iu vhat enlliation means. Even when i the world, I slep: with my windows ' zttrrer caught cold m that way. gramme serirTiflly into your list ^ rsme to recognize thnt there is neithe yon rvgasil ax ess.uilial la that line, j it all jam can. Complicated living breeds worry, a ami happ'uiess -li* one fiendish mic health and happii^s of mankind than JAake your home n pleasant place. Drink nothing but water *" milknever can drink loo much of it. On the other hand, remember tha % damage within jou; that wine, beer, them as jon wou'ii diluted vitriol. ^ X Cultivate Trus Yoi By Margaret Stowe. J bb^jmWO children were di6cus "JJ their respective schools. ^ ajaJiiSt tlie rules to do * V that at the school she att< My ntW were put on their honor ,t?o few parents and t an to children by trusting th I have never Known a school wfcer slrlrfiisns where those same rules wer< ethrr hand. It Is the exception to find 4*3. their honor where confidence and 1: It is so thro ;ghout i>ur lives. A eraajueion- Inspired ively we desire to ?me is ignite himself, quite true to his There is a lr.rge amount of distrus men and wonura. There are so mai sooJivcs of others.. with apparently uo It is far inor? disgraceful to distrt fh?no Oar mis'/rust only justifies the We cannot be too careful iu regan j>. Onr altitude end bearing toward tl jminger minds, whose training lies ij 1 wxanmky to theiu for good or evil. "Hie should strive to show nhildreu fifaJ ml more worth living when w ]?nqd7 toward alL B We should t-aeli them that right f< B'\ hrings out the right word an f1- The eanfidei.ee we have in the virt I Tt*J *? enlirrate trust in your fello jQQzsr creal-5 worth.?New York A R y "T " Irrigation. ker. *'"* niraeles. they have worked them her? eys. If ever something was created men have done it. Thirty-five years 'alley. Into which we had driven, was uninhabited save by a few lean luce hardy traders, whom the sand and lown close to the water of the river, files from the nearest railroad?an un biddiug land, a part of the Great aid would never support human life. ? n ,w,uiilattAn nf nvnr 9ii (Klil It fias of Arizona, having electric lights, an s. and other buildings, residences stirerness of flowers. More than 125,000 out in farms, highly cultivated, with , and figs, and grain and hay fields, meadows, and there are bees, chickens, icher soil than this once de?<*rt valley d except in other once desert valleys, spectacle of orange groves in bearing i fence, and bare cactus desert ou the same opportunities, but only one havs his fence of cottonwood posts, such ic posts take root and grow into trees, is seen running through the centre of needs to use fertilizer, for the river s it over his fields: and he may soinc>s a year from his alfalfa fields, and -winter which is in reality a continual 0-Day* f New York. <t important character are ever before egrity of purpose and wisdom of action ic successes of arms have given way )ur commerce; the upbuilding of our from our citizenship. The duty, of the couragement of labor and the restraint the individual is inadequate to cope blems, nud a community of interests astacles are removed, and there seems to the influence we may exert upon ind its accumulation might prove daulment were it not that over and above e brotherhood of man. For. after nil. man?man self-reliant, courageous and and In his God. r, no matter what form it may take, both impossible and useless. All prope conceded equal rights with, but never creator. that the changed conditions incident nt have projected Into the affairs of ; ou one side. Greed should never pre- i ? honest intentions of our employes. ?alth. the morals or the well-being of the standard of our citizenship. If we would have fought in vain for repubbe sacrifices of our forefathers would upon a broad statesmanship upon the latriotism of a free people for the soluRegularity Laws of Health ural state, and disease is, in nine eases meut for some indiscretion, or excess, c ill it is part of our remaining youth Everv recovery, whether from head accomplished by a strenuous effort of ! ore a waste of our capital of life, let yourself be ill. ivoid illness is to live regularly, simply, tupid persons alone will deem painful ^ four. sleep in. Very few people, even anions i modern ideas, have any conception of : my voice was the only tiling I had in i wide open, summer and winter, and ' of social obligations. Have the pood ! r pleasure nor profit in most of what 1 and simplify your social life?simplify j nd worry is the main enemy of health j robe that does more to destroy the j any other. cheerful, but well within your means, i -especially drink lots of water. You j I t alcohol is poison which does untold ] coffee and tea are poisons, too. Shun & t in ir Fellow Men ;sing the strong and weak points mt One said that at her school It was thus and so. The other child replied ended there were no rules, the scholars eachers realize the necessity of setting em. .? tmiIoo roomlntMt th*? nrivilisres and re ? not constantly being broken. On the a school in which the children are put larmony do not reign, man who has any self-respect resents be trusted to do what is right, and no best impulses, when under suspicion, it in circulation among the majority of iy who are constantly suspecting the reason whatsoever. ist your friends than to be deceived by mistrust of others. 1 to our thoughts of others, nose around us is soon observed by the i our hands, and is copied. We stand by our example that life is more beaue act honestly, justly, mercifully and deling develops right thinking; the right d deed. tie of others is no slight evidence of our w men and the bare show of faith will merican. .c , .. v' . -. v . FAITH'S CONQUEST. DR. CHAPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON, God Is Our Help in Every Time ol Need? Strikingly Interesting Discourse. New York City.?The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman has furnished to the press a most striking and popular sermon which is intended for all those who would rise to better things. It is entitled "A Great Victory," and is preached from the texts: "As the hart p.inteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, 0 God." Psalm 42: 1. "Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance." Psalm 43: 5. The first verse is a lamentation in the wilderness, the second is a shout of rejoicing when victory is won. The territory stretching out from the wilderness in the one text to the presence of God in the. other is not oniv the story of the experience of David, but of the most of Christians. My message Inst week was to those who occasionally fall under juniper trees and want to die; here it is to all who would rise to better things. The Psalms are divided into five books, and the ancient Kabbins say in these five books in the Psalter we have the image of the five books of the law, or in other words a kind of a second pentateuc'n, the echo of the first. In the first God speaks and in the second the voice of the pcopie is heard. God presents Israel witii the law, ar.d grateful Israel responds with a shout o<" praise, 'lhe.-c two Psalms form the fi.'st division of the second bock. They are dedicated to the master musicians or the sons of llorah. They were las celebrated musicians and singers of tlie day; they were in David's time the keepers of the threshold of the tabernacle, rrtd still earlier in the time o; Moses they v.cre watchmen at the entrance of the cr.tr.p o." the Cevites; they were a part of that br.r.1 that ackn i.vlcdged David as leader rt Zi!:5?.g; they were warriors with l'acrs like lions, and who for speed were like gazelles on the mountains. Mr. i'purgcon says that although David is not mentioned as the author of these I psalms they must be his. for the truth is iil;e n::n. it nas tne enaracccr 01 nis style and the work or his experience in e\eiy letter. 1 had sooner question the r.uhorship of Kunyan's second part of the "Pilgrim's Progress" than to question David's right to these psalms. Whoever wrote them has given a name to the soul's deep iongin,t after (led and made a sigh a lr.e'odioas tiling. There are three divisions in the psalm, each closing with the refrain, "Why art thou cast down. 0 my soul?'' The whole psalm is the picture of a soul climbing (iodward. not without backward slips, but ciimbing nevertheless, until the sigh of the first text gives way to the shout of the second. Perhaps the singer during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan had seen some gentle creature With open mouth .and heaving Hanks eagerly seeking water in the dry river bed, and iie saw in this a picture of hims'/f. The whole psalm is like what we Jr.ve seen on some early spring day. when the sun was warm, the sky blue, the tree* ready to burst into bud and the birds were singing, but only for a day. then the c:ouds returned, the atmosphere was chilled, the birds are all stilled and the sun was under a cloud. Viewed in one way it is a psalm of gloom, in another way it is a psalm of glory. Streaks of brightness are ever flashing through the gloom. First there is a sigh as of a breaking heart, then comes a word i iM-- ,u? ??.? or nope iiK? ;i rainuuw spanning cue watu* fail: once again the contending enemies meet n.\ in verses 9 and 10, Hut finally above it all comes the refrain without a complaint. "I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenanee." There are certain expressions most striking in the psalm. Three times does David say "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" as though he were two men. The psalmist talks to himself. John Trapp says it is David chiding David out of the dumps. To senfch for the cause of sorrow is often the best surgery for grief. In verse 3 notice the words, "The Laird will command His loving kindness in the daytime." No day has ever dawned in which an heir of grace eouid be utterly forsaken, in the same verse we read "In the nicht His song shall be with me." Affliction may put out our light at time.-, but if it does not silence our song the light will come again. Verse 3. psalm 42. "Send out Thy light and truth." These are like angels to guide hint to the object of his affection?. hut fina'ly above all sounds the note of vietorv. "Hope thou in (Jod." This is iifcc fie* sinking of Paul and Silas, it lo'i-cx chains, shakes the prison walls and sets the prisoner free. Two graces mentioned in thi- psalm were u.-cd frequently by ( hr.'st. hone and faith. Faith tells as what Ckn-'l has done: hope tells us what He will do. and hope is like the sun .as tee journey toward it: our burden is cast hack of us. Faith may lnve many a ?tn:gp!c with fear, but it will conquer in the end. These two psalms are rea-iy ore; there is a constant unfolding of e::uerie"ee ami rising to a hither appreciation of (.'o.-I. nrd as faith ecouircs more strength yon will notice that not only David bur ourselves conic to think of _Gou in a different way and address Him in more endearinir icrms. There is no better illustration of this than these two p=a!ms. I. "0 God." Debarred from public worship Dav id is heart sick, lie is not seeking ea^c, he needs God. He is not after comfort, but like a traveler whose water bottle is empty and who tinds the well dry, so he must have God or he will faint. When it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls. "0 God," we hear hirn saying. It is as if he can scarcely breathe for th'rst. He does not know just what he is needing or just how God would reveal Himself to him, but he must have God. All unrest or thirst or outgoing of desire are but the reaching out of the soul after God. We shall be satisfied only when we find Him. II. "The Living God." My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. This is an advance upon the first expression, and this is Jehovah's name of power. Ancient Israel was accustomed to use it before every victory, since it is higher than "O God." Iu tlie first cry we naturally find it followed with a sbout of victory, "1 shall yet praise Him." Hunger and thirst are God's instruments to call us to Himc?lf When the nrodical was an hun gered he said. "I will arise." It is a picture of one who ha9 tried other things in the world, pleasure, wealth, honor and then cries out, "0 for the living God." But thirst is better than hunger; you may palliate hunger, but thirst is a perpetual appetite. The next best thing to being in the light of God's love is to be unhappy until you have it. lie is the living God because He has life in Himself and because He bestows that lite to others. II). '0 my God." Appropriation comes next, and once it i< taken it is never dropped. He says. "God of my life, and Goa my rock." There arc five Toys" in the forty-third psalm, "my cause," "my strength," "my joy." 'my soul." "my God." You m ver really appreciate God until you bc^in to apply Hint to your life, and He will be to vou just what you wish. He is like a locked casket filled with jewels. You may have such a casket in your possession. Only the key unlocking it can reveal to vou the preciousness of your Iiossession. This possessive pronoun is the toy in this case, "ray Goa," and when once you have grasped it nothing can stand against you. David speaks of Jordan, the Hermonitcs and Mizar. At Jordan the water rolled back on the Iler &S Wa 'tV ;s.. .i.?:v?& nionites, the kings were defeated near I Mizar, the law was given, and lie ma i have meant to say difficulties as great : Jordan, enemies as strong as the king none of these things shall move me. He my God; or it may mean that since the places are farthest from the tabernac David is saying, "What if I am afar ol no trial can be too severe for me." 1 IV. "God of my life." This is further on i . the line of truth. You will notice thr the two preceding expressions are thus pi together. One who is learning of Goa like a child learning his alpnabet. H knows his letters, but who is there tha knows all the words into which the lettei may be shaped, and who has read all th books which they can make up. It is s with God. He is the God of mv life. VVha if I am forsaken, He is my Father; wha if I am comfortless, He is like my mother wh^ if I am cast down. He is my r< storer; what if I am hopeless and undoni He is my hope. ^ '"God my rock." David was a fugitiv and had little means of defense. He i continually pursued by his enemies, an since the country is full of mountains an caves of refuge are on every side of hir they become to him the picture of Got lie calls Him my rock. The names of Go ! are suited to every circumstance in life Yothir.g is more fitting for us than to ge I hold of this expression of David's. Yo will be temnted on every side, the enem : is too strong for you, but literally David' ! expression is, "God is my cliff." That is j He rises above the things of this world ! and He wants ITis children to understan j that wherever there is a heart big wit! i sorrow, wherever there is an eye fillet j with tears or a lip quivering with agon | His ear is wide open to all their eric' He marks down every necessity in Hi ! mcmorv; He will not forsake His own. VI. "God mr strength." This means m strength belongs to God, and I must us i it only lor His glory. He is taking note c j all that I do, and one day I shall be callei , or. u.nnimt G/vl micrht if He nleasei I -.w till nvvvu.iv. r I wrap Himself about with night as a pat j ment. He might dwell alone far abov this world, and look down with indiffe* 1 enec upon the doings of His creatures We might look un into the lieavens am behold the stars and sav. "I am nothin compared with these, and God does no care 'or me." hut not so. He notice every one of us. He knows our names has numbered the hairs of our head, am not a sparrow falls to the ground exeep beneath the gaze of His eye. Whateve we do or bear or suffer the eye of God i upon us. One of the most interesting nietures ii the Louvre is that of Christ with eyes si wonderful that walk whieh wav* you wil the gaze is upon you. and so God is thi God of my strength and one day I mus answer to Him for it. VII. "God; mv exceeding joy." This include all that has gone before, and it exceeds al others, first, in its nature, for it is no happiness, that deuends tinon cireum stances. It is joy of which David speak which may be ours, though the night i upon us and the burden is really too heav; for as to bear. It exceeds ail others in it duration, for it never ends. This can b said of no other experience, all others liavi their boundaries, but this is an illimitabli sta reaching beyond the bonds of time am lasting through eternity. "O God." thi I is a soul's crv. "the K* :ng God," no om else can satisfy A ''M> od." He is mine and nothing can separate me from Him ' God of my life."' Ho will be whatever 'on? to have Him be. "God my rock.' He is my defense in every time of need '"God my strength." AH that I have i His. "God. my exceeding joy." He is be yond all that the world can give, an' when that joy fills the soul earth i changed to heaven. Gave Up All For Christ. There is a most impressive story rclatec of the conversion of un old lady of seventj years, in a little town in Western Chin; through the instrumentality of a Bib!< woman. One market day. as she was sell ing her ware- she heard a Bible womai talking about a God who loved and ca'tec for people of every race and land. Becom ing much interested in this message thi old lady began attending the Sunday serv ices conducted by the missionaries, walk ing four miles each way in order to do it. At last she was converted to Christ, s step which meant much to her. for in itur rendering herself to ilie Master she musi give up her idol worship, which she real i/.ed fully would bring upon her persecu lion and hatred. After destroying all of her idolatrou: pictures on the walls and her many othei idols there yet remained in the centn room of her house it tablet to "Hfcavei and Earth," which she dared not touch for it belonged partly to a nephew whoa sim feared to oft end. One night she had a irondeful dream She thought she saw Jesus ( hrist comm* across the valley to her house, and shi cried out. "Saviour of the people, I am i sinner; come and cave me." But though He drew near Iter house it was only tt look sadly in and pass sorrowfully bv. Or awakening she could no;, forget her dream and every time she looked at the idola troiis tablet she felt tint perhaps this was keeping Jesus out of her house. So she determined, at whatever cost, to get rid of it. and accordingly wrote her nephew to that effect, and was given permissior <o do with it what she fed inclined. IJul this wtiS not all. So earnest was she ir the new faith that phe insisted that hci house be whitewashed throughout that th< Lord might not smell any trace of the in cense. Thus was born into the kingdom whal proved to be one of the most devout ol Christ's followers. A Safe Refuge. The day may be one of calamity. Darl clouds may be over us and a terrible storir about to break upon us. Where shall w< tind safety? The providenc? of God maj till us with alarm, and we may feel our selves left destitute and helpless. When may we hide ourselves from the impending evil? Or, while all is peace about us. whih others are rejoicing because of great good we are depressed in spirit, and in tht thought of ourselves see only sin ant judgment. How s'nnii we escape? Tht spirit of God has given us the answer: "God is our refuge; a help in trouble mosl readily to be found.'" fie is ai nanu am His ear is open to every cry of distress He is the Almighty. and within His lovinj care we are safe. He is the faithful, un changing One, and, therefore, will not for sake us. Hasten to the open door anc to the outstretched arms of Him whose love infolds you. and whose arm will guard from every harm.?United Presbyterian. Krrry Day's Blessing. All that Cod gives to us day by day is .is it were, a new creation. We never re ceived it before. It never was our neec until now. We may have received some thing like it before, bur that was not this ic.i .ould that have iilicd the place of this livery day's blessing are to each of us as I special miracle from the hands of the ever loving and the Almighty Cod, As Johr Ihinyan says, "Things that we receive al Cod's hand come to us as thing* from the minting house?though old in themselves vet new to us." What should we do if out Father failed to give us current coin of hit mint ingdayby day? -Sunday-School Times Divine anil Spiritual. Our Lord speaks of things divine anc spiritual just as if He were speaking o tilings human and material. When dangei has passed over joy arises, nay, ever greater joy thaTlif the danger had nevei been.?The RevTtt. J. O'Neill, R. C. { Brooklyn, N. Y. v V' / t iMfcv V' ) I it it Making Itoaris of Oil and Haqd. !* 1?-r ROM a California newspaper it I?/ we take the following inter's esting facts: e "(?" A ride over the streets east ,t of town which have been oiled will it | convince any one of the splendid re ^ suits produced from using on ns a roau ? maker. An Enterprise representative last evening enjoyed a drive over East Eighth street, Iowa avenue, Iudianapo? lis avenue and Blaine street, all of d which have been lately treated to a d j liberal application of oil. East Eighth n street bad a hard compact surfnce (j j when the oil was first put on. The dust >. at the sides was first sc iped towards : the centre and then one application of y oil spread over it. A thin layer of s ! coarse sand or fine gravel was then scattered over the oiled surface, and fj the road -was immediately available I, j for driving. This excellent combinad tion has produced a spougy, smooth ' j road, easy on a horse's feet, without a j particle of dust, and of first-class wearing qualities. All of the streets above mentioned y have been treated in the same way ex* cepi one strip which was so sandy as [j to need no surface coating of sand. To fi j make the road permanent another ap^ plication of oil will be necessary before i the winter rains commence in oraer t. ; that the water may be shed toward the I sides and not permeate to the ground ? I underneath. Colton avenue, one of the t : 3 j most traveled streets in the city or '. ! county, has been treated to a liberal I supply of oil, and is now one of the v j best roads in this part of the country, s One of the results of oiling the roads will be to make one side of the street * | oiled as suitable for dwelling houses 1 as the other. There is absolutely no c dust to arise from an oiled street and t \ houses and trees are greatly benefited j thereby. Some orchardists are contems plating having the roads around their I ; orchards oiled to keep the dust from ' j the trees, one orange grower having 3 already given instructions to have the * j work done as soon as some streets in : Highgrove, where the oiler is now p working, are completed, e j Every one who cares for good roads j unites in saying, "Let the good work s I go on," and may the next year see e many more roads in Riverside County i '? oiled than it has been possible to take j care of during the present season. f I Special Roads For Automobiles. One outgrowth of the use of automo1 biles on the public roads of England, * with the obvious disadvantages of' ; their speeding, is the proposal to build a special highway for motor cars. The j proposition is for a roau wnn Droaa, smooth wooden pavements to extend . the full length of the island by such a ( route as motor tourists would prefer. It Is also proposed to have side paths 1 for cyclists. This would be an expensive undertaking, and only partially successful in freeing the ordinary roacfo I from the dreaded machines. But It is 1 clear that something will have to be 1 done for the protection of the public. , Automobiles traveling the common | roads also used by horse carriages, at | the terrible rate of from forty to sixty ] miles an hour, are nearly as intolerable < as would be the locomotives from the j steam roads doing the same thing. The ' common use of highways by vehicles j * ? ?- ? ' 4 | Having sucu uiucreui mit-a ui ^ I will, in time, be condemned. Tbe risks ] | are too great. Either a way will be i ' discovered for restricting the speed of | the machines, or special roads for them > will need to be provided. The trolley 1 i cars are a sufficiently perilous ncquisi tion to the highways, but they keep on , llsoir iron tracks, and drivers of slow1 ; or carriages can keep out of their way. 1 ' But the automobile driver claims the ' J | , whole road.?Boston Herald. , t What They Co*t. How much bad roads cost and how i 1 much good roads increase valuations and enrich the people is shown in these 1 : few statements that are given out by authoritative persons. New Jersey, 1 perhaps, is the best example of good ! road work. In ten years it has expend- , : ed $2,500,000 on its roads. The in- , i creased valuation of its property in i ; that period of time is $27,500,000, with- j . out increasing the tax rate. Th6 averi age cost of transportation from the [ farms to the nearest market or railroad over bad roads is not less than twenty; five cents per mile, on good roads about | one-third of this, or eight cents per ,f mile. It is estimated that one-half of t the farm products of Pennsylvania, , amounting to 3,250,000 tons annually, ; are hauled five miles. Assuming that . a two-horse team makes two trips a day. the cost of hauling on clay roads 1 | would be. at $1.25 a load, $5,703,750, ! i whereas, if the same tonnaee was car ried over macadam the cost would be ?1,077,500 less, or $3,720,250. This difference is enough to build a good mac' ndam road across the entire Keystone I State. 1 Suffolk County. Long Island, is con? sldeving the bonding of the county for I $200,000 to build thirty-seven miles of - road. This will cost a taxpayer $75, 1 on $5000 assessed valuation in ten 5 years, and, according to precedents, , the value of property would increase anywhere from ten to thirty per cent i Rocket-Like Mine Backets. At some of the deepest borings in I the world, for example?those in the ^ copper country bordering on Lake 1 Superior?buckets of ore are now r hoisted to the surface from the deplh ? of a mile at the rate of sixty miles an bony. < ' t t " I ?" it."i' -A MOB'S EXECUTION Two Handed After Having Been Put on Trial TAKEN FROM COURT AND STRUNG UP After Trial, Conviction and Sentence Mob Takes Two Negroes From the voun anu nangs inem. Hempstead, Tex^, Special.?After ljeing tried with legal term and procee'dure for criminal assault and murder, and given the death penalty in each case, Jim Wesley and Reddick Barton, negroes, were late Tuesday afternoon taken from the authorities and lynched in the public square by an infuriated mob. The district judge asked the Governor for troops to accompany the uX groes here from the jail at Houston, where they were safe. At the request of a large number of citizens of Hempstead. who signed a written promise to aid the authorities in preventing any mob law. it is said Judge Thompson countermanded his request and the troops did not accompany the negroes. Barton was first tried. He pleaded guilty of criminal assault and then to the murder of Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged 63, Sunday, October 12. The juries in each case, on which were several negroes. promptly returned verdicta assessing the death penalty. During the afternoon Wesley wa6 put on trial. He pleaded guilty to both charges, and while the second "trial was going on a mob broke into the court house and attempted to take him, learning the sheriff had asked for troop3. The mob was dispersed and the trial proceeded, the State putting through its testimony hnrripfiiv in corroboration of the pleas of guilty. Both juries assessed the death penalty. The officers of the court sat about the room awaiting the coming of the troops, when there was a movement on the part of several men in the room, the sheriff was overpowered and Wesley was taken possession of by the mob and hurried away. Another portion of the mob attacked the jail and Barton ' was surrendered to them without a struggle. The two prisoners were hustled to the public sware and there executed by hanging. Neither of them had been sentenced, and District Judge Thompson had positively refused to permit them to waive the thirty days of grace allowed them by law. It was the general desire that they die quickly. They are hanging tonight to the arm of a telephone pole, where only last month a negro mnrderer had been strung up by a mob. The town is quiet. Sheriff Lipscomb was badly hurt about the back by the rough treatment of the mob. Dbring the first rush a shot was accidejitly fired and Sheriff Sparks, of Lee county, was wounded in the stomach, though not seriously hurt. The Governor was Informed of the lynching, but has yet bad nothing to say. .Mark Twain Want* Fuel. Washington, Special.?The following letter was received at the Treasury Department Tuesday: "New York City, Oct. 3. , 'To the Honorable, the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. D.: "Sir: Prices fo rthe customary kinds of winter fuel having reached in altitude which puts them out of the reach of literary persons in straight?ned circumstances, I desire to place with you the following order: Fdrtyflve tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnaace, gold 7 per cents. 1864 preferred 12 tons ?arly greenbacks, range size, suitable for coeking; eight barrels seasoned lo and 50 cent postal currency, vintige of 1866, eligible for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient dis- j T, 1 I _ 1 ? patch at my nouse in xuwiuaic ??. , lowest rates for spot cash and send bill to. Your obliged servant, ' "MARK TWAIN. "Who will be very grateful and will rote right." Burned to Death In Chicago Fire. Chicago. Special.?By a fire which broke out shortly before midnight in the plant of the Glucose Sugar Refinery, situated at Taylor street and Chicago river, that factory was almost entirely destroyed and it is said that 29 men lost their lives. The number of dead has not been established as yet. but it is known that the men were in the building, and all were working on the seventh floor. The flames spread bo rapidy that a man who was working on the third floor bad barely time to escape with his life, and it is not thought by the employes of the concern or by the firemen that those in the upper story could have avoided death. At midnight two bodies had been taken from the ruins, but the fire was burning so rapidly that It was impossible to make further search. Denies Killing Relatives. Syracuse, N. Y., Special.?Maud Kiehl, the 18-year-old widow, who is in jail at Corteland. under suspicion of causing the death of her brotherin-law, Adam Kiehl. by strichnine talked of the case today for the first time. She denied the charge, declared Bhe was in love with her husband and cared nothing for Adam, and that she liked lis brother, Henry, much better. The attorney then made her stop talk "? mp Kohl's mother arrived at ills. ??.. Corteland with the former's 18-months- ' old baby, which the mother will be permitted to keep with her in jail. Coroner Santce reported that he found Adam Kiehl's death due to strychnine administered in tea by Mrs. Maud Death of Prominent Tennesseean. Dresden, Tenn., Special.?Emerson Etherridge died after a lingering illness. Mr. Etherridge had a long and . honorable career. He was elected to Congress as a Whig in 1853 and again two years later. He served as clerk of the House from 1861 to 1863. He then returned to Tennessee, where he further distinguished himself in State affairs. He was the last Whig member of tha House. i - . C. i-M 9 ' \ '