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. TIW Ku?. Dr. 3ohn Hnmpttnn* Draw* a Kauaa from a Chapter In the Life of Maaa Voter?He (lave Hiiaietf Unreaum^lj to Jee'ia -ChrUt. fyt Bjxjorlyn, N. Y. ? Dr. John Hump - eicwut, pastor of Emmanael Baptist Church, vyia.^ Sunday morning a sermon on " "Ttlie Life and Character of Simon Peter," ifcr special subject being '"Peter's Renun> ?.truaj^*' The text was from Luke v:8, t, ^ "When Simon Peter saw* it, he fell Ana* it Jeans' knees, saying. Depart from >ww- Sor I am a sinful man, 0 Lord. * * * Ami JniM said unto Simon, Fear not; Awn* bemceiorth thou shalt catch men. JbA whom they had brought their ships to jfiwi, they forsook all ana followed Him." &r. Hampstone said: _ fct v*av the- second decisive day in the '34ft of Simca Peter?a day oi destiny. 3fer??bn ayo in Juciea he had followed his irctfcer iato the presence of .fesus; lor the Ottt ftcy.be then saw and heard the Mes V Polar to con i rwi Iioj f TX* 'A C IP* decide. He became a disciple, .%ctk*ttk. In the interval, Peter has been iome el the time in company with his Mastier; trut much of it at his business, toiling mat truBicking; meditation his constant osmotZioo; to testify of the Christ to ?th?r#s jms hte met them in the contacts of the scsxxa& or the. market, his habit and his I No laggard, half-hearted disci yte ooali Peter be, we are sure. His zeal *mti natkosvtsm would lead him rather to 4V(srmk dae rqie of advocate: to urge wn. with bent and energy to accept the iSLesnti.vhn2up of Jesus, even before they www reabbr. There is an unwritten chapter ?t? IVacr'* life as only a disciple, wnich -wuJii be well worth the reading, if we fed it. 5*5 tor its perusal we shouid be A> &mpkxuvl than now we are to think thA neefua**-** in Christ's service is necessarily! VM&eettvi with ordination thereto as au exclusive calling. There could hardly be a ymtrr effective showing of what a mere can do for bis Master and his felfeat nun than this lost leaf of Peter's bio.weald furnish. If this were not sfae tsvee yoa may be sure Jesus never uwruU Sev*.- exiled I'cter this dav to the xrE^ arr us opportun.ties of the ministry'* ?- - Vi.v... <- ? tVii, u-?i(rhfi?r roennnsihilitii-s ai c/a? apostolate. For a* incipient eiivts had been precipi ftaHn) ?? the career of Testis as Messiah. His sejeetam at Naaareth was the cloud. no tbn a man'6 hand. that, nevertheless^ portended the iinal distant storm <i? hate uuto death, from which Bene twh\I be no escape for Him. RejrsAu! by "Ills own" after the flesh, it was 6m He was gathering "His own" after ^e XQarrt and preparing theui to be His j pi pi Hi \fejrs and interpreters. So He left . Saasrr-ck to take up His residence at Ca> peneoaaa, that He might be near the most avwaoursl and promising of the group of fts early disciples. What though these -wesae only a quartet of fishermen! The l&wuteaw out cs men saw. but with the inof ?*e who "knew what was in man. awl needed not that any should testify of KUfc" He knew the time had now come B separate unto Himself and the service of JKs kingdom the founders of His church. Rk eye ws even* precious possibility in tikwr nature. He discriminated them one 4xrm ojKothcr, appreciating the individuality **? arch, and vet discerning their conirfrogttl temperaments and qualifications. W*k Sfrm to feel was to act; wheu His had come He never deferred. 6s. the early morning, therefore. He be SnoA. Kimse11 to the hike's shore. There Be Eo?ad the multitudes already astir, fhe people were abroad, as the manner is in the East, with the break of day; taking ffeeanr, hasting on iheir errands, following each si* beat. But soon Jesus became toe aeastre ?>f their interest and attention. The tEwnr of Him was aireadv everywhere. To woe Ifim was to wish to hear Him. with an eojgy uucw*. that -would not be refused. Ac<? pniied by a continually enlarging aswwl He reached the place where the men Be i?s*ht were vashing and mending Beir rrtn after a night of unrewarded toil mm the Ida. The boats were drawn up on ttebea/H, in the midst. Entering the one Bat beJwnged to Simon Peter, He asked Ifim to "thrust out a little from the land" tht IV weight use the boat for a pulpit, ?scu which to address the crowd. It was JVUt He turned His first thought when IBr set the business of selecting His ft&ncre sn'raisters. Whatever pre-eminence m&S*rr*s\rxl belonged to Peter was ueterwe*x?ni by the Lord! Himself from the beChinia* He knew the qualifications for jnriFr.cHJp Chat were in him. lie knew *Jp? ewiir abatement of his fitness to be ?rst. Bsfc the elements that indicated his ip.it precedence outnumbered the weakwhich continually threatened his jfe'ijrrxry. So it was Peter's boat He elected Ota enter. It was around Peter's personality. c.ht#rfly. that He 'chose to nucleate the aiauidpetK of His calling of the four whom IMe- -weald now detach from their business, rAat SJhw might henceforth give all their Hace 2nd thought to Him and to Ills miscent Two distinct preparations He arranged fiw tSas issuance and acceptance of the call titSf tr. The first was a sermon from the w> the multitude. Alas! that the dis- I mjaytr tm anrecorded. What a lesson it wnM be as to what preaching is at its "best. Sitting in the shadow of his Master ?bav? watching now the Sneaker, row g&e .-vndifuee, Peter got his first introdueto the science and the art of public -'-Esrv-w^jar for religious ends. When, by xs*\ Ihy, }*e became himself a preacher, we 'totf bcr rare that his discourses reflect the Tvsnrs manner and copy His method. TKr jormoa finished, followed a miracle: ijtserix at symbol of the aim and end of "Launch out into the deep and Set vhnra the nets for a draught." was the ^wxcro-ytory word of Jesus to I'eter. when "Sees ?0?course was done. Then followed Snoa'9 characteristic exclamation (Peter esrprv to the uttermost): "Overseer, we love toiled all night and have taken nothMg; nrvertbeless at Thy word I will let rn the net." As f be should Ijave said: *iTTpi?a. Lord, art the one to command, I tio <?bry. 1 have not seen too much of Thv P??t and presen-e to refuse. But I have a?y own idea of thv uaelessness of such a "j^njcecdiaj; under the conditions. Experserrv m worth something. espn?ial!v in Miap." Over went the net., at last, and -is sscBse the fish as it was hauled. So wuy were the captives that both Peter's Wat sad John's, suddenly summoned to W?p. were filled almost to the sinking point. The effect upon Simon Peter was instanfeceoan and overpowering. As in a flash ?f thmocfit he saw. as he never had seen; 1 tie*, as he never had known, the difference between his Lord and himself. Over ajpunst the Master's divine power his own fke)p>K**T>egs and ignorance stood forth as a fcks.-h ?v"ot on a white surface. He who fctd Vr?t ,v'<t now assumed that air and I professional superiority, slight though it was; had hesitated to trust implicitly ?nd to follow without question or protest Ehr wisdom and the precept of br" Master ?? v. c, c? J:?,L:_? t_ .L~ ?Ml 1 TO Lit' lit ivt ui!)vi(;iv<4(iip. m iuc iww iiTiiji anguish of hit spirit, awad by Ae visiH first of his Lord, then of himmfBt. &e proposed to renounce nis peculiar oiyennuil relation to Jesus Christ. "I mm wot worthy that Thou shouldst stay in or I in Thy fellowship," exclaims thhi even as he chsns his Lord's knees: *% Mirth from me, O Lord, for I ant a *?man.** JSnt Aw is precisely the act of renunciaiftin tbat Christ will not let any disciple ?f Han make, though his infirmities be amy and his self-will assertively strong. Sekaaws that when, in some time of su- j sacexD* ilhimination. His disciple sees him- ! ^ ^ MPK overpow ipRJong. J?ut never yet did Jesus, "never-will He answer aecedingiy the despairing, desperate cry of a soul thus searched and scorched by the sense of the contrast between himself and his Lord. For He is come not to call the self-approving in their vain confidence, but sinners in their penitence and humility to a better knowledge of themselves and of Him. He who could see where the fishes swarmed in their multitude in the hidden deen knew also the innermost heart of His disciple, and saw under all his frailty the firmne<* ol his rocklike cbustancy and the fixity of his nascent faith. No man need expect Christ to leave him because he knows himself sinful. The moment when he is most painfully and abasing!)* conscious of his weakness and inferiority is the instant in His disciple's experience when Jesus is surest to turn encourager and restorer of His own. When we are determined to say the worst of ourselves He is busy making the l>est of us. When we think, such is our sense of unworthipess, that He and we must part company, then He is most resolved never to leave nor to forsake us. "Fear not." rings out His word of cheer. "This is tlie beginning of richer life and wider service. Henceforth thoti shall cafch men." For the knowledge of self and .tie distrust of self it arouses, and the knowl?i? r-i.-ui wish the confidence in ' j ruj;c wi w....-., _ ' Christ it awakens ? these are the first I shoots o: spiritual growth and the first ! foundation stones in the edifice of a dis| cipie's usefulness. Spiritual sensitiveness I is the condition of ministerial effectiveness. It is the man who knows he is not fit to minister whom Christ ean make so. Therefore, when the boats with their marvelous height of fish, had been brought to land, did Jesus ask of Peter and his partner that surrender of themselves to service, which involved the separating of themselves from every other interest and occupation to exclusive and continuous companionship with Christ, and to constant work for others, under His direction. Then and there, as one of four, did L^imon Peter make that supreme renuneia"ion, which, because it was made at his own command, and was the manifestation of faith, and the proof of love, the T.ord accepted, and forever after blessed: "They forsook all and followed Him." It was a sacrifice of "consecration which only those who hd^c doue the like arc tit or competent to judge. If we are ready to put ourselves in Peter's place, to face the indeterminate future as he faced it. that day: to think of the kind of interest in hi< bu<;ness a man of such energv must have had, and the enthusiasm for his occupation as fisherman which evidently, to the last, he felt; if we are observed"to note the latent evidences in the gospel storv that the busij a :~V-J ??u ,|MU. ness tutnerio imu uvuiiMiru .n... , pered, so that Peter and his associates dwelt in comtort, bordering on the edge, at least, of competence, estimated by the standards of that laud and age?then we shall know what a venture of faith and expression of confidence in his Lord Peter made when he left all for Christ, giving up the chance of future gains and binding himself to the sacrificial use of present possessions for the common good. It is frequently said, disparagingly, of Peter's renunciation of the world and its good. "It was a little all that he left." and Peter has been criticised, for himself, referring, at a later day, to the sacrifice he. with others, now maae?"a boat, a few nets, dirty and old. an occupation especially laborious and in some features of it repellant to men of ordinary refinement." was what he left, we are told,} Well! perhaps it was so; more likely \ was oMierwise. But whether the "'all" : ere little or much. Peter left it; left it instantly, utterly and without regret. He transferred himself in profoundest faith and liveliest gratitude to Jesus Christ and His service exclusively, forever. For Christ's sake, the. work's sake, the world's sake, he renounced his former life and ambitions, to give himself and all he had unreservedly to Jesus Christ. And Christ welcomed, applauded and has abundantly rewarded the sacrifice. It is a surrender not ast:c?l of every disciple, but in proportion as anv disciple approximates its spirit of faith and consecration, in that measure will he j realize his corapletest spiritual life. It is a sacrifice completer even than is asked of every disciple called to an exclusive ministry; but only to the degree that the minister of Christ can detach himself from the world, and its spirit of gain getting, will his largest spiritual power and widest influence be realized. Here stands Peter's - ? r? noble example 01 renunciation ioi vuii?3 sake, upon the pages of scripture, summoning us all. from our vain seeking for material good as the all of life; and from our disposition to kee>> what we have gdttci as exclusively as our own. Christ's d'sciples belong to Christ, and all they have is His: whether they are called to use it all in His more immediate service or not. Let every servant of Jesus beware of losing his life in the effort to save and cherish it. "For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lost his soul?" Surely the incentive to such sacrifices is not wanting in the light of Peter's subsequent career. On that later day, when the rich young ruler had gone away sorrowing because he had great possessions, and was therefore unwilling to make the renunciation, which, in his case, Jesus had asked to save him from the cancer of avarice, which was eating out his life, Simon Peter, after the Lord had discoursed a little on the deceitfulness and hindrance of riches i unduly loved, said. "Lo, we have left our own c.ud followed Thee." Whereupon i Jesus replied, "Verily I say unto you, . there is no man that hath left house, or j wife, or brethren, or parents, or children, j for the kingdom of Clod's sake, who shall i not receive manifold more in this time. , and i.i the world to coine eternal life." 1 And has not that promise been abundant- j Iv fulfilled in Peter's case? One think* ! not so much of the eternal distinction that j bus come to him in the veneration of mal- [ tudes who think of him as the foremost ' apostle of the church; nor of a memorial j to his name so magnificent as that which j rears its lofty, graceful dome to the Ro- j man sky, but of the unfolded fulness of his spiritual life as registered in his epistles; ! of the influence he has exerted upon men from the Pentecost onward: of that peculiar effluence of help and cheer which he j ever has exhaled through his individual j need for painful discipline and his equally i triumphant realization of a purified and j ennobled character, grown strong and lux- j uriant out of the very soil of its many in- j firmities. Surely the renunciation of Simon Peter was not in vain, either for himself or for the world. What that little life of his might have remained to be, or deteriorated to become, in its narrow Syrian round, if he had refused the call of Christ, who can adequately say? But the imagined contrast between what he would then have been and what he now is suffices to move us to the swift acceptance of every proposal Christ makes to us, and tbo sneedv answer to every call of His for ourselves end our service, at whatever present cost that answer must be given. Seeing Christ. When Simeon went into the Temple and saw the infant Christ he said, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy sen-ant depart in peace." What was his reason? "For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." Aye, that is it. To see Jesus is to see God's salvation, and to see God's salvation is to be ready to die, and to be ready to djc is to be fit to live.?Rev. W. Y. Fullerton. .Illuminate From ITlthtn. Carve the face from within, not dress it from without, lies the robing room, the scuipt^H^Mkshop. For whoever would be lai^^^^Biination must begin in the soul; the fr^Bcatches the giow only from that aide.?VWC. Gaanett, To REDUCE HIS PAV | After General Miles For Accepting a State Office HOUSE DEMOCRATS RESENTFUL Mr. Hull, In Charge of the Army Appropriation Bill, Creates a Stir by Offering an Amendment That Higher Retiring Officers Shall Not Receive Full Pay When Assigned to State Militia Duty. ? j Washington, Special.?The appoint- , ment of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles as inspector general of the j State of Massachusetts overshadowed all other questions in the Qiscussion of , the army appropriation bill in the ! J House of Representatives. The debate had proceeded leisurely until Mr. Hull, in charge of the bill, offered an amend- ,, ment providing that retired officers above the grade of major should not , receive the full pay of tneir grade when assigned to duty with the militia of the several States. Several members de- j dared that the amendment was direct- r ed especially at General Miles, but Mr. i, Hull ^asisted that he had no such " thg^nt in mind, and argued that the be (t results were obtained from officers c of the lower grades. He asserted that e net until the law was passed allowing * increased pay for officers assigned to j' the militia did retired officers of the !f higher grades apply for the appointments. He said it was such increased pay and not patriotism which prompt- : ed them, and he characterized their | f conduct as unseemly. The statement ; c reused Mr. Cochran, of New York, who j 1 declared that it was simply penalizing f superior officers to the advantage and r profit of inferior officers. After a live- j ly debate the amendment was . adopt- r ed. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, was outspoken in the statement that the real motive behind the amendment wa3 an attack on General Nelson A. Miles, inspector general of Massachusetts, "who is extremely persona non grata in high circles in the Republican party." It was. he said, no new thing for the r Republican party to slight the heroes of the nation and push its favorites to : the front. 1 Student Hangs Himself. Asheville, N. C., Special.?Oscar A. Whitaker, of Paragon, Ind., aged 17 t years, and a student of Bingham School f committed suicide in VIvtoria by hang- I himself with a half-inch cotton rope 1 to a small white oak tree. The only r reason assigned by those who knew the a boy and by Col. Bingham is that he < was homesick. Some time after six * o'clock this morning several small negro children while going toward the Southern Railway tracks from the town of Victoria saw an object hanging to a j tree in the woods surrounding Victoria j Inn, and about 200 yards from that t place. The children became frightened t and going to the home of J. R. Nichols, 1 a short distance from the place, in- 1 formed that gentleman of the find. Mr. * Nichols, In company with a boy named * Earl Hollingsworth, who had also ? heard the screams of the children and ? had followed them, went to the scene of the hanging. On reaching the place Mr. Nichols saw that the object was ? that of a man and telling the Hollingsworth boy to remain near by, went to , the Glenn Rock Hotel and notified . Sheriff Reed. Sheriff Reed hastened to , the scene and immediately took official charge of the case. He cut the rope ^ and ascertaining that the man was dead, searching the pockets for all ef- . fects, and sending a messenger to a nearby telephone, summoned Hare, ? Bard and Company to take charge of t the remains. Reaching the city with t the corpse, the sheiff notified Coroner Hemphill, at Arden, and that officer ! arrived shortly after 12 o'clock and held , an inauest. v News of the Day. Advices from Mexico say that the Guanacevi Tunnci Company has been otganized for the purpose of constructing a tunnel through a mountain a diotance o' 10,000 feet in the Guanacevi 1 mining district of Mexico. The esti- i J mated cost of the tunnel is $4,000,000 1 J gold. Over 200 known veins of gold, sil- j ' vcr and copper will be tapped. The tun- 1 t el will be 2,200 leet below the surface j j at one point. \ | : Excellent authorities agree that in a thunder storm the middle of a room is , much the safest nlace in a house, says ; an exchange. A carpeted floor or one * covered b a heavy thick rug Is better : ' tc stand on than bare wood. It is well j ! tc keep away from chimneys and out | j cI cellars fn the open air tall trees are ' ( dangero V person sheltered under a ' low tre shrub thirty or forty f' from a ;e lofty tree is qui1 II light. ? strikes in the ! mediate vicinity will hit the tree as a rule. wit. few exceptions.. Water is a , very goo., conductor, and it i3 well to , avoid the bank3 of streams in a violent thunder storm < Number of the Prisoners. Washington, Special.?The Japanese legation received the following cablegram from the Foreign Office at Tokio under date of today: "General I Nogi on Sunday reports that the de- ' livery of Russian prisoners were 878 officers and 23,491 men, whereof 441 i officers and 229 orderlies gave parole j so far. General Smirnoff, General Fock, General Gorbalvosky and Admiral Willmann preferred to be sent to Japan as prisoners of war. CAROLINA AFFAIRS Occurrence^ of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. Middling! Galveston, easy 7.00 New Orleans, quiet 6% Mobile, easy .6% Savannah, quiet 7.00 Baltimore, quiet 7Vi New York, quiet 7.10 Boston, quiet 7.15 Charlotte Cotton Market. Those figures represent prices paid to wagons: Middling Tinges C to U'/i Stains 5 to 594 Hampton Monument Commission. At the meeting of the Hampton Monument commission yesterday resolutions were passed expressing the sorrow of the members of tlie commission in account of the death of Col. C. S. MrCall of Marlboro, chairman of the commission. Mr. Mclver Williamson of [iarlington was present and became a ncmber of the commission by appointment ot the governor. The other memjers are: Senator Marshall and Rep esentatives E. Mitchell Seabrock. B. A. Morgan ana Altamont Moses. Senator Marshall was elected chairman of the ommission, an honor worthily bestowal because he has taken such deep lnerest In the enaction of the law and n the progress of the work of the ommission. To Urge Organization. Anderson, Special.?At the regular nonthly meeting of the Farmers' Eduational and Cooperative anion a resoution was unanimously adopted hedging the members of the union to educe their cotton acreage this year 15 per cent. It was decided also to c.ake the same reduction la the use of ommercial fertilizers. A committee of Ive was appointed to issue an address o the farmers of the State, urging borough organization along the lines >f the union in this county. Palmetto Items. The Union and Glenn Springsg raik oad has completed and opened to the >ublic the bridge made necessary by ts 26-foot cut on Virgin street, near ne old Presbyterian cemetary. The iridge is a very substantial structure tnd is' wide enough in the middle to illow too vehicles to pass while on ach side railed off is a pasagge way or'pedestrians, the outside being latice work so closely built that there j s no posibility for even a small child o fall throughg. The town street force j ias been doing some work to put the j pproaches cf the tridgge in better cob lition. This will be charged back o the railroad company. I Florida 8pecial Derailed. Wilmington, N. C., Special.?Train 'Jo. 37, known as the New York and Florida Special of the Atlantic Coast ?ine, on its initial trip from New York o St. AuguBtine, Florida, Inaugurating he tourist season, was wrecked this norning near HardeeviUe, S. C.. 32 nlles north of Savannah, the three ear coaches of the train made up of iolid Pullmans having been derailed md turned on one side by the track. rive pasengers, the Pullman conducor, electrician, four waiters, four 'OOKS. iwo porters sun tue uaw wu? i luctor, McCutcheon. Baggage Master j Jrist and the colored train porter were ilightly hurt, while Flagman Moseley | tVhite, of Salters, S. C., was seriously, jut not necessarily fatally, injured, headquarters of the system in this ity have have not yet been able to iccurately determine what caused the vreck. The three cars which left the rack were at the rear, the locomotive md three others having passed oTer vithout damage. The injured were ransferred to the intact section of he train and given necessary medical ittendanee at Savannah, arriving here only an hour and ten minutes ate. The remainder of the passengers vent through to their destination. Fall River Unions to Meet. Fall River. Mass., Special?The mem- 1 :ers of the different textile unions in j :he city will be asked to vote on the question of delegating the power of set- j iling the strike in the cotton' mills tere to the fifteen members of the tex- j :iie council. The call for this meet- | ug was issu?J and is said to be the I result of the efforts of Governor Doug- | ass to settle the strike, which has ; >ecn in progress for nearly six months. Stock Growers' Convention. Jacksonville. Fla., Special. ? The | Southern Stock Growers' convention | istened to a number of interesMjapcrs during the m^' oession. Four addresses we' ,*red at the ifternoon se**-' which the old )fflce?- ^^^fe-elected and the con-djonrned to meet in Tampa, ^ Feb. 1. Telegraphic Briefs. The American Public Health Asso- | nation . in session at Havana, discussed tuberculosis. More than 70,000 German coal miners are on a strike TVv?ih?nnff whn recent ly conferred with the Czar, said that early peace between Russia and Japan is likely. A statute of Lord Russel of Killowen formerly Chief Justice of England, was I'nveiled in Loudon. King Christian, of Denmark, nominated M. J. Christenscn, Mister of Public Instruction, to form a new cabinet. A bill has boeu introduced In congress authorizing the sale of unused burial lots in the Congressional cemetary. REVIEW* I The more Magazines Indispensable is The ** Indispensable,*' **The one maf: world under a field-jlass," "An current literature,"?'these are some people who read the Review of Reviews mote necessary is the Review of Reviews, 1 I is in all the mod important monthlies < periodical literature that nowadays peop! with k is to read the Revicw.of Reviews, ing section, it has more original matter and the most timely and important articles pric Probably the mod useful section of all i ress cf the World," where public events ai crp!r:-''.l in every issae. Many a subscril worth more than the price of the magazin ckpiotiag current history in caricature, is Reviews coven five continents, and Men u? jpoblic Kfe, the members of Cor captains m iadoftry who most keep " up women all over America, bare decided in. iy Astor Place, _ SrORTIXG BRFTI'ITIES. i The Dos ion Americans have signed Piu'lio:' H'Rrlnn 0 William Spring won I'uo cross eonnj try run of the Pastime A. C. Automobile men arrived from Paris | for the show to bo held iu Now York City. The Georgic and the Ilazer L. wero winners in ice yacht races on the North and Shrewsbury rivers. Richard Croker'a horses have been barred by the British Jockey Club from training on Newmarket Heath. New York Athletic Club hockey players defeated the Brooklyn S. C. seven at the Clermont Rink by 0 goafs toft. The Georgic. tliird-elass pennant winj ner. finished third in au ice yacht race on the North Shrewsbury. The Tyro won. Pennsylvania loses the services of N. J. Cartmell, a crack sprinter. George Brooke has beeu appointed bead football conch. Mr. Edmund Randolph, N. Y. Y. C., has entered his bark rigjred auxiliary yacht, the Apache, for the German Emperor's Ocean Cup. W. Barry Owen, of Vineyard ETaxetr, Mass.. paid $1">00 for tifteen white Plymouth Rocks at the Poultry Show in Madison Square Garden, New York City. Included in the forty-nine entries to the famous Suburban Handicap-, to- be run iu June, are last year's winner. Her mis, and all the great racers of tli? country. Mrs. P. Champion '-on the Challenge ! Cup for the best cat in the show with her home bred Chinchilla Argent Silver In Madison Square Garden, New York City. , "Garry" nermann said the National Baseball Commission favors a series of | games in the spring.betweeu tlie Giants | and tbe Boston Americans tor the world's championship;. NEWS OF THE FAB EAST. The Japanese hope to an 7? some ?I the sunken warships at Fort Arthur. Admiral Rojestvensky's flagship was reported to have struck a rock and j foundered. It was reported in Tokio that It fs proposed shortly to float a fourth domestic war loan. Japanese are about to fortify Port Arthur, beginning the work as soon as the Russians leave Fress men received positive information that tlie Russian Bnltie fleet would i return to European waters. A report from General Xogi Indicated that about -FvOOft Russian prisoners were taken at Fort Arthur A third Russian squadron will Term the Baltic about the end of toe month to reinforce Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet. According to a special Tokio dispatch ftir> .T:in:iiiosr> af Port A'-thm- Pvnect to save niaiij' of the warships sunk by {lie Russians. f? en oral" ^qpssc!. in reports of December 28~mid 2b. told of the heavy losses of the garrison through 11-incli shells and scurvyflip annoiincpniont that tlenernl RtoesscT would be court-martialed for surrendering Port Arthur caused Intense indignation in Russia. All the fortifications ahont Port Arthur are now in fuit possession of Japan. Oyama informed Ivuropatkin that Tort Arthur had fallen. The Russian army below Mnkden | learned of the fail of Port Arthur I through inscriptions on kites, which the Japanese allowed to fall in their lines. Stoessel and half of his officers were to leave Dalny under parole for Russia by way of Japan. The other half, including three generals and one admiral. preferred to be prisoners of war. Fock said be would train his troops while in captivity. Grapes on a Grave. A somewhat curious and unique iight is to be seen in Chiswick (Eng.) cemetery- Bordering a large family grave on which three separate tombstones are placed is a grape vine grown several inches high, the stem . being thickly knotted and entwined. At present the vine is laden with 1 bunche3 cf sccdly-slzed grapes. Monthly \ REVIEWS there are, the more Review of Reviews ' A izine I fed I muit take," "The education in public affairs and ^^1 of the phrwsoae hears from noted . The more magazines there are, th-s because it brings together the best thaO sf the worli Such is the flood cf !e say that the only way to keep up Entirely over and above this review- ..? I illustrations than atcA magazines, and v ] ited in any monthly. ? Dr. Albert Shaw-'s ?hstralcd " Prog- ' foc2 issues are authoritatively and lucidly ^ . O ber writes, " Thi department alone is e." The unique cartoon department, another favorites. The Bcview ol 1 yet is Americaoj, Sat and focemott. , r igress, professional ne*. and the great with tne times,'** inCtH^art men arj it#it is "indspensoHe.** jB /IEWS COMPANY jp , New York J . UNCEE SAM'S FARM. I Illinois farm lands arc sollinj; at H higher prices. H Buckwheat exports for the eight months prior to September 1 amounted H to 2001 bushels. I The Philippine export of hemp fl?r the eleven months prior to June 1, a was 117,000 tons. jS Three hundred' anrT fifty-three -pedigrees of Shetland ponies were registered last yepr with tbe Secretary of the American Shetland Pony Club. 1 The rielrl of snrt'nir wheat is estf mated by the Department of AgriculI tare at 12.7 bushels, and the average quality at 73.7. against 5S.5 last year. j Missouri is now credited with the- > | greatest corn yield, estimated last year J ; at 313.000.000 husliels. Town Is a close i second, with .'100,000.000 bushels, and 1 Kansas and Nebraska follow. | The oats crop of Ontario till# year * amounts to 104.300.000f bushels this single province of Canada comparing favorably with the United States. which has a crop of 888,000,000. Exports of glucose- for the eight i months prior to September 1 amounted . to 0G.G30.073 pounds, against 103.439:G18 pounds during tlie corresponding months of the precedihg season. Exports of beans and peas for ihe " ^ eight months prior to- September 1, I 1904. amounted to 129.489 bushels. I against 138,469 bushels during the cor- I responding months of the preceding ' , , year. The Philippine import of l>enns and peas for the eleveu months prior to June 1. 1904, were 30,701 bushels, compared with 98.893 bushels during the corresponding period: of the preceding 1 year A writer in the Fiirm Journal says: "I have a full blood Hereford calf that weighed 120 pounds the day It was dropped, and on the day it was seventy-two days- old.' it weighed 333. pounds." t_ PROMINENT PEOPLE. Paul Kruger IbCt a- fortune of nearly-; 54,000,000. . / The husband' of Charlotte Bronte. Mr. Nichols, is still: living iu an Irish village. Mr. Roosevdt wiTT bo the second President elected while wearing a mustache. Cleveland: was the first. v. Mme. Catherine' Tefstoy is regarded> by many as the* most : eantiful young* woman now in the British metropolis. Editiond Duval",, who for nearly half a century has managed the Monte Do Pieto in Paris,. Is- about to reti:? frorj ~ his position. Governor Uanrham. of Texas, issued twenty-seven pardons as Chrstmas presents to the convicts in the various, prisons of th ;-SLate. Queen Akxamlra exhibited eight bantams at a. poultry show the other . day and received ten prizes for tlmm. from the-flattered judges. The body of the late former Presifdent of the Transvaal Republic. Paul" Kruger. lay in state in the Huguenot Memorial Building. Cape Town. Secretary John Hay, at the International Peace Congress, in Boston. Mass.. pledged the support of the Ad ministration for the avoidance of war. Seymour G. Gourlay. lately defeated for Parliament in Canada, distin- . guished himself while a member of that body for his hitter attack ou the United States. The Cincinnati (Ohio) Cnamber of Commerce has given William IX. Taft, of War. the rare honor of an unanimous election by its boa&d of dlrectors as an honorary life member. Premier Laurier is again in such poor health on account of his hard work in the recent political campaign that he has arranged to go to the Southern States to recuperate no til February, when Parliament will be called. ?........ ."write! Deer Sought Human Protection. One day recently a full grown doe chased by a dog sought protection by running up to the flagman's shauty at the Main street railroad crossing at Shcrborn, Mass., and stopped to rest within ten feet of Flagman J. E. Hoiden. Mr. Holden frightened the dog away, thus giving the deer a chance to , escape. f ? / ' , 'i / * V*: i