. 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.
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SrORTIXG BRFTI'ITIES.
i The Dos ion Americans have signed
Piu'lio:' H'Rrlnn
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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.
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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.
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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.
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