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0W Mizzkook's Straia;em fe i '* - By DHMilt CAILAND. America, such as were isI I sued ten years ago. one will - L\AJ find an extensive region 14 at>oul TUe ueau waters or the Peace River, across which is printed the word, "Unex ploretl/' * It is a tract as large as the State of Maine, walled rouud to the south by that transverse range of the Rockies 1 hi which the Fraser River rises; ami the scene of this narrative is the valley of a small tributary now known as McDougaTa Creek. Along the creek for a distance df sovA oral miles there are grassy plats of * alluvial meadows of such fertility and tpuch sylvan her.uty that in the summer of ISM one Itoscoe Mcitougal was tempted to settle here, having it in wind to keep cattle ami sheep, i.ofiy era"* sheltered the valley on tlie west aide: and against the almost perpendicular face of one of these MeDougal f. . oonstri: -ted a eonifortahle sli.m-k of . pine logs and "splits." and adjoining it tMriX a log shed for the three cows, which one by one he led up here from I BIT *i. - ?* I......,.,. or ft V . **C liiiliiidi Jiu uitauvii. ***%?? mites lower down the river. -' . To this remote spot, duriug the sunij ^"rncx of lSbo. he brought his wife and two little boys. Donald cad James, ^ aged ten and eight. Potatoes and tur|n Blph are said to have grown well here. k" ami McDougal might perhaps have made a home for himself and family r ami done well. But he seeius to have lacked the patience to work and wait: and during the season of 1S07. having sdv , heard glowing accounts of the gold *. found in the Klondike region, he grew dfcocuteuted, and left his family. lie ?? cannot be said to have deserted them. Cor he left them a good stock of flour in tacks. and other supplies; the cows. ?f&; afforded milk and butter in abundance. Yet it was little less than foolJundy to leave a woman and two boys at such a distance from human aid and companionship. They appear, liowever, to have passed the following winjh.? tcr without accident or trouble, but in j ^ ? all that time did not see a human bc* #n?> except an Iudian squaw, who came | ^fcrasionally to beg. But in April calamity fell on them. Mrs. McDougal suffered a serious injury while attempting to lead one of the t*nvs. Inflammation ensued, from whim she died on the fourth night after, without medical aid. and attend' ?1 only by the boys and the squaw, who chanced to come to them. The *rief and terror of the poor lads knew bo bounds. - The squaw, a saturnine, hideous old - ^ 4 ^TT**tnvf? tank' nn hoi* wifli thiMii. I'erbaps tlie dying mother had asked Iter to do so. She cooked their food after a manner, but was very wasteful and dirty. At times,' however, she went cC to snare ptarmigan and bares, and <xnee fetched home a beaver, the 'tail of which she cooked with curious ; ' cerepionies and devoured with much .gusto. Her name was Mi/.zkook?at least, 4bnt was what little Jimmy and Donald called her. Sometimes she slept over ;i day or two and would not get up to prepare food. When she had cooked, she gorged herself, then slept again. The Lids learned to make a kind cf flour pone for themselves, e- . ; ' which they ate iu milk; duilng these Ibng periods of slumber. After this fashion they lived through <ihe summer, the boys hoping every -day that .their father -would come - hack." Donald got out the scythe and - pnt a little hay in the rneaHow. "They also planted a patch of potatoes. "Their cows now gave but little milk; but as the seasop advanced they gathered berries. * /^either Indians nor wild beasts had troubled them thus far, in summer or ?. v winter; but one day In September of that autumn they heard their three cows and their calves bawling in a frightful manner at a distance up the meadow, and on running to learn the cause of the eommotion, beheld a tor> cible spectacle. An enormous animal, the like of which they liad nev^r seen, had killed one of the cows, and was carrying It .away to the woods. The calf followed after, belatiug pitifully. The other two cows stood at a distance, bellowing loudly. To Donald and Jimmy the huge animal seemed to be white, or nearly so. It was probably a "silver-tip" grizzly bear. It seemed to them to be larger than any one of the cows, and its strength must have been prodigious, for it carried the body of the cow, a large one, with apparent ease. The fear inspired in Jimmy and Donald by this savage incursion cannot be easily described. Awestruck, tlicy 4 4tared at tile white monster, then ran back to the shack to call old Mizzkook. The latter, rousing from licr slumbers i>t repletiou. issued forth. :.nd on seeing the great tracks of the bear in the black loazn of the meadow, was at no loss to comprehend what had happened. Nrrsijuoam! Xeciquoom!" she muttered. hi some exeltcineut. and bade the Loys drive the cows to the shed ami shut thc:u up. X'or would sue permit them to be turned out the next day. but assisted the boys to cut aud fetch ury grass and water trcm the creek for them. The l,n.1 Tint fwvm Nothing further 'was sect: of the boar f> a week or more, and they turn oil ??1 ,tha. cows again when the silveru_ Smado a second descent on Acm, Killing and carrying oft' another cow. Attalf. too. was disabled: and the foray <was made so near the shack that the toys saw the bear approach and heard its terrific roar as it rushed upon the s LWe herd. So frightened, so filled with horror ?ras little Jimmy that he shrieked and Tan to hide himself in the farthest corner of the slidck. Old Mizzkool: came forth, and stood mumbltog. rolling her ?,~ cjrs, grunting strange execrations. Donald, who was old fcoough to think . of. defeudiug their property, longed for a gun; buttbfy ha Anothing in tho ' way of weapons saTc a m?U scythe and a duller sx. y For another week they were not I molested?while the bear found the 11 cow sufficient for his wauts. Then tt oue night they were waked by the mournful lowing of the cow and the calves, and looking out. they saw the I" huge pal" specter of a beast standing at the door of the shed. The grizzly had come for more beef. But the log walls and door appeared to puzzle the animal. It ran to and for. LEI swinging its head, snorting and snufting. ai<J presently caiue to the shack door. One blow of the bear's lingo paw Ma would have crushed it. The boys cowered in their bed. shiv- . .1 eriug with fear, but the rquaw kindled P a fire, and as soon as brands were blazing, she threw one out at the lit- ,, tie window on that side. The bear snorted aiul retired to a distauee.where "?? it stood for a time, as if in astonish- bus mem. then came round near the row wh< shod train. Immediately tno cow ro- mo sinuod her plaintive lowing. imp The bear stood up and pawed the aft< walls of the shod, and would probably sor, have torn the structure down, but the rnos souaw, opening the sliaok door. throw hist brands at him.. The huso boast wont j\ away, but returned toward morning, out and but for tlie squaw's firebrands u0 would have secured the cow. At suft- mli rise it shuttled away up the meadows. j\lt Not once during that long night had t0 the boys closed their eyes: but thev Was now fell asleep, and were only awak^J jC(| enod several hours later by the sound of blows. The cow and one of the jaw calves were in the shack. The squaw fro] was wielding the ax at the shed: and ^j,e on going out iherc Donald asal Jimmy .)re, scjireely recognized her!" jast From a grunting, apathetic old cren- ?p ture, she appeared transformed in!<? tj,ei a gleaming-eyed fury. They were sjai afraid of her. she looked so wild and wor dashed to and for with such agility. gj She had chopped at the rafters of the * jj shed rcof at both ends, where tliey moi rested 0:1 the log walls of the shed. m but supi>ortod them by two props nr.derueath. as she worked she sang V* some sort of savage chant over and | over, ending it every time with an el* j dritcli whoop. tn>( The lads were wholly at a lo-s to know what had come over her. what slio was doing in such a mood. She ai?peared entirely forgetful of their ^ food, nor could little Jimmy inda.co ^ her to turn lier attention to cookery. During the afternoon she set both ~j> youngsters fetching stones from the . cot I toot of Ibc era irs a few vard* a war. , , ~~ * " " * ico and those she piled on the roof of the , shed. In a word, the squaw was set- 1 ting a bear trap-probably after the . . manner of her tribe. The task had P roused her from her overfed apathy. ce:'' She drove the lads to and fro with arnsfuls of stones, and fetclied large o.trs herself, till a weight of several ions cei" had been piled on the split* of the shed roof. ccn' The squaw had left the lame cajf in ^ the shed, tied at the far end of it. and ccnl would not allow Donald to lead it out; I' but the other calf was with the cow 90 ] iu the shed. At suusct she set the door L of the siietl ajar, and the boys, now font | began better to comprehend her strut- -*1 I a gem. ? > cent For if the bear entered at the door -v,l of the shed to seize the calf at the far I cent end. he would have to pass between | X the two props, the bases ?^f which she per had set on round sections of a pine log. 0 The props stood so near together that per the grizzly's body would displace them. Si causing the logs to roii outward. per As night drew 011 they rciired to the f shack, and remained quiet there, with- cent out light or tire. Toward midnight the cow began to cent low. The bear was coming. After a (Si: time they heard it snuffing near the door, and again a great fear fell on little Jimmy. But he dared not cry. Not long after this they heard u savage roar, acouipnuied by a clatter. A moment later there was a tremendous crash, followed by hoarse, awful out- v,eai cries and roars of distress. ^an Old Mizzkook ran out and danced 1 about the shed, singing and whooping fecP in savage glee. Her trap bad sprung. 1S P But Donald and Jimmy were thinking mpn of their poor lame calf. cent They dared not go near the shed. au 1 however, even after it had grown light *ov the next morning. The grizzly eontin- dea< ued its outcries at Intervals all that day and through the next night, moaning. groaning or roaring in anguish. It ^ must have died a horrible death under , that weight of stones. But the out- 0 erics were music in old Mizzkook's ?...s ears. She danced and snug in uubounded delight, nor when the bear Anally expired was she averse to feast- ^ . ing off its flesh. 1 Her stratagem had at least saved j, ' one cow for them: and in praise of her fidelity, such as it ^as. must lie said n that she remained (ffbre until McDougal's return in October, when he re- V, moved his boys to Juneau, Alaska. ^ They left old Mizzkook in possession . of the shack, and also of the cow and 0 calf.?Youth's Companion. oflT1 Thi Literary lgnor*nre of Girl*. tect The studeufs wore one roar and a ? half removed from their preparation on for entrance. Out of ISO. fifty-three Roy could not tell wheu Shako pea re lived, SQ1" although either the sixteenth or seven- S(lui teonth century would have been accept- can ed as correct. Two students placed ot t hiui in the twelfth century: four in fnm the fourteenth; twenty in the oigh- Nas tocnth and font in the nineteenth con- will tnry. Sixteen students did not attempt mar to assign him at all. One hundred and fourteen students did not know i:i what century Milton lived. He was \ assigned to the eleventh, fourteenth, llfteentb. sixteenth, eighteenth and c,!n nineteenth centuries. Fifty-four placed 0jr<] him in the eighteenth century, which the student, by the entrance require- jier ments, is obliged to know better than .. any other period. Eighty-seven did not attempt to assigu him to any century. 'n. One hundred and twenty-seven stu- j\ dents did not know who Samuel John- va/ son's biographer was. 108 not tfryiug C'A to assign a biographer, and twenty- * four assigning the biography variously, \ oj e with a bright idea to "Himself."? Jeannclte Marks, in the Critic. The Prince or Wales* Train. * The train that is to carry the Prince ast of Wales over the East Indian Rail- ?n 1 way is undergoing continual trials. If Stal the prince appears on scheduled time racc he will have, perhaps, the most per- *rac fectly appointed conveyance the world ^ool has ever seen. If he delays, the en- *eQ( gine and carriages stand a fair chance am of being worn out by' continual work I on trial trips.?Calcutta Railways. ^ ? t ;, ; . WOMAN HANGED ? First Female Legally Executed in Years SAL EFFORT FOR MRS. ROGERS % ry Rogers Left Her Husband Over Vo Years Ago?Afterwards Afecting Reconciliation at a Meeting lace Agreed Upon. Windsor, Vt., Special.?Mrs. Mary rers, the woman who murdered her band some 2 veal's ago and for mi so much has been done to have sentence of death changed to life risonment, was hanged Friday n'noon at 1:4(1 o'clock, at Wind \ crnioill. I Ills Vims mic *>i m< ?t celebrated cases in the criminal orv of this country. Irs. Rogers went to her death withany show of emotion. She made statement or confession. A short gious ceremony was held with her Delaney. just before the march the gallows. Before the signal ? given to spring the trap she nodhcr head that s!ie was ready. Ivery ingenious device, known to , was used to save Mary Rogers in the gibbet, and it was not until case was disposed of by the Same Court of tiie I'nited States late mouth that all hope was given of saving the woman's life. Had re been one mitigating circumice; had there been one spark of nanliness i:i Mary lingers, had she wn slight possibilities of lvgenoon. Governor C. .1. Bell, of Verlt. might have interfered. The *der was as brutal as that of Mrs rtha Place, who hacked her stcpjrhtcr to pieces because of jealousy, Brooklyn. (Jov. Roosevelt declined interfere and save her from elec>ntion in Mereh, 1S99. > Ginners' Association Report. 'alias. Special.?The following is cotton report of the National Gins' Association eports scut us front the whole on belt, every postollioe represenindicatis a total crop of 9,15211,000 s. with S,4S(5,000 hales ginned up December 1. The crop thus fat :ed is 92.4 per ccuj., and 83 per t. has been sinned, lie reports by States is as follows: labama, 1,00*1,000 i; i.iiietl; 93 per : picked. rkaq^as, 420,000 ginned; SO per picked. eorjria, 1,394,000 sinned; 97 pc: picked. idian Territory, 242.000 ginned: >er cent picked. ouisiar.a, 344,000 ginned; 90 per picked. [ississippt, 820,000 sinned; 87 per picked. lissouri, 31.000 sinned; 90 per . picked. ortli Carolina. 301,000 sinned; 90 cent, pieked. klalioma. 234,000 sinned; 87 1-2 cent, picked. an til 'Carolina, 973,000 sinned; 98 cent picked. enncssee. 103,000 ginned: 89 per . picked. Texas. 1,978,000 sinned; 92 per picked, pied) N. . T. BLACKWKLL, Secretary. J. A. TAYLOR, President. Died of Lockjaw. 'ilmingtou, Special.?An eislil -old son of ('apt. and Mrs. W. A. ders died as the result of lockjaw, jwing a wound from a toy pistol ived Wednesday a week nso. It 1 1 - A ^ _ 1 J ?| .lnt. irobaDie mai me uoani m <um-iin view of other accidents rely from the same cause, will pass ordinance forbidding tho sale of pistols of the kind that carry the ily blank cartridge. Pat Crowe Acquitted. maha, Neb., Special.?Pat Crowe, has been on trial on a charge hooting, with intent to kill Officer ert Jackson, on September <>. was lilted. Crowe was-remanded to to await trial on the charge of iway robbery, in connection with kidnapping tive years ago of Eddie ahv, sou of E. A. Cudahy, a milaire. * To Reduce T aval Force. Washington, Sj^dcinl.?Reduction of American naval forces in Dominiwaters form a mnadron of pn>ed cruisers to a "mosquito fleet" ptnboats, has be-n determined up by the President. Reai Admira al B. Bradford, commanding tin ulron will be ordeied North, lli. idron will be relieved in Mouiinl waters by a squadron consisti.ithe cruiser Dixie, flagship and tin boats Yankee. Dubuque. Padueah liville and Scorpion. The Dixie cary a guard of several k^idicd ines. By Wire and Cabie. t Greensboro. X. C . Dr. Joseph P?. hows wns held for action of the ninal Court without hail on the rge of bavin* caused the death ol wife by administering unison to ice-President Kldridge <>f tlie Mi. Keservc Insurance Company tolo ivhat lie termed 4' hold-ups'' bv ons persons before the Armstrong m it tee. > Law Against Betting. ashville, Special.?On <hc fii>t dav his mouth the law enacted by the Legislature, prohibiting betting horse races run on tracks in this te, went into effect. Tuesday a t was run on liie Fair Grounds k at Shelbyvillo^L^v. on which ks were made, Ae ivas inled to test the parties tnging the lace by sheriff of the w*di pven a bearing af ^fbhelby- j r ' mid 5#j$M ' , -> t RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED Former Minister of War Sakharoff 1b Assassinated With a Revolver in the House of the Governor of Saratoff by a Woman Who Had Asked to See Him. T 1 r?_. i-i-l.l. TU? Cf t>/vt?r2 i.uiiuun, oy \ auir.? iuc m. * burg correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, in a disi>atch dated December 5, scut by way of Edytkuhnen, Prttssa, says: "Lieutenant General Sakharoff, former Minister of War, was assassinated. "The government had deputized General Sakharoff to visit the province of Saratoff, for the purpose of quellin^r the agrarian riots there. "A woman belonging to the socalled 'flying columns' of the revolutionary movement, called at the house of the Governor of SaratofT at noon and asked to see General Sakharoff. "She fired three revolver shots at the general, killing him on the sjx>t. "The tidings reached St. Peters1 burg. Count Witte charged Lieutenant General Kudiger, Minister of Waf. wit1* the task of breaking the news to Mr ?. Sakharoff. The event has created a profound impression in St. Petersburg, owing to feats that the revolutionists here will follow the the example thus set. "The spectre of a military distatorship, which has been ooming on the horizon, is slowly gaining consistency and sharpness of outline. "I am personally convinced that Count Witte's faith in the good sense and political taet of the Russian thinking classes, which recently was as linn as a rock, is gradually weakening, and with it his hopes for the Ant .if tin* lili,irtip< uromised in tiie Emperor's manifesto." Fearful Conditions Prevail. St. Ptersburg, Special.?Intense alarm prevails here. Communications with the outer world by telegraph ceased when the Finnish operators joined their Russian comrades. The embassies, legations and banks are hastily organizing courier services to both Finnish and German frontiers. The population is almost in a state nt panic, fearing that the railroads will stop running and thai the inhabitants therefore wi'l have no mode of flight in the event of the cataclysm, which they seem to fear is imminent. First Train to Krioxville. Nashville, Special.?A big crowd gathered at the Tennessee Central dojxd to see the first Illinois Central and Southern trains leave. This first Illinois Central train left at S.Oo o'clock. It will run regularly between Nashville and Princeton, Ky. At 0.40 o'clock the first Southern train left going on to Kuoxville, Instead of stopping at llarrimun as heretofore. The American Express company also entered Nashville along with the Illinois Central railroad. It is expected that by December 10, through services in both directions will he inaugurated, as well*as a great improvement in the local service. Architects Win. Columbia. S. C., Special.?A mistrial was ordered in fhe ^celebrated $200,00(1 suit of the State aaginst Architect Frank P. Milburn and Contractors Mellvain, Unkefcr & Company for alleged faulty and fraudulent completion of the State capital. The jury had been out since 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. It cannot be said with eeraintv how 1 - ' l 1 .1! ,L. tlJC jury stood, oiu memocrs 01 uic panel say that the vote stood throughout eight for a verdict against the defendants of $65,000, three for a verdict for the defense and one willing to compromise on a small verdict against I the defendants. Lawyer Patrick Pleads. I New York, Special.?After making a final personal plea to the court in his own behalf, Albert T. Patrick, the | lawyer convicted of the murder of I William Marsh Rice, was sentenced j to die in the electric chair iu the week beginning January 22, next. Sentence was pronounced by Justice Rogers in the criminal branch of the State Supreme Court. Notice was given at once that an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States on a writ of error will be taken. The applica| tion for the writ, it is said, will act as a stay of execution. Capt. Jones Gets 18 Years. Norfolk, Special.?After having been out over ten hours the jury in the trial of Captain Edward W. Jones Seventy-first Virginia Regiment, charged with the murder of Maude Cameron Robinson, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree at I 11.19 o'clock fixing the jjenalty at IS years in the penitentiary. A motion was made for a new trial. Rumored Depew Has Resigned. New York, Special.?A rumor has gained circulation tl at Chauneey M. Depcw had resigned l'rom the United j States Senate. When questioned conj eerning the rumor, the Senator said. . "I am tired of making denials of unI pleasant questions, and am resolved not to talk further to newspapers. I will deny nothing nor will I allirm anything. I have learned a lesson from the past." L Receiver for Railroads. .. Cincinnatti, Special.?An application for the appointment of a receiver for ':he Cincinnatti, Hamilton & Dayton Railway and the Pere Marquette Ruilroad was filed in the United States Circuit Court here by Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., circuit Judge Lqrton immediately began hearing the application and appointed Attoney General Judson Harmon as receiver for both roc.ds. Insolvency is admit|te' \ A . .. V TAX ON DISPENSARY! South Carolina Institution Will i Not Be Exempt U.S. SUPREME COURT'S OPINION I Pretense That the Institution is Con- j ducted as a Branch of the Police Power of the State is But Thinly Digguised, Says the Court in Afirming the Action of the Court of Claims on Petition for Recovery of $20,000 Paid Since 1893. t t Washington. Special. ? The Su- c premo Court of the United Slates de- c cided that the national government f may properly tax the State liquor dispensaries of South Carolina. The op- * inion was delivered by Justice Brewer s in the ease of the State of South " Carolina vs. the United S.'ates. This * action was instituted by the' State of 0 South Carolina to recover $20,000 s paid to the revenue ollicers of the national government on account of 1 the sale of liquors by the State and f county dispensaries under the dispell- 1 sary law. The State took the ]>osi- Cc tion that as the dispensaries sold . liquors without prout they should not 11 be taxed by the government, but the 0 tax has been collected since 1893. a This i* said to have been the first c case in which the State unites in one ! undertaking the exercise of its police h power together with the prosecution of a commercial business, Ulic Court * of Claims dismissed the petition on ? the ground that the exercise of police power was but thinly disguised, hold- c ing that the real purpose was money making and this decision was affirmed. 0 ti COUNTING VOTES AS CAST. " Upon Argument by Alton B. Parker Justice Amend Rules That He is Estopped Prom Questionening Va- t lidity of Any Ballots Counted by s Election Inspectors, arid Recount a ' Begins. 0 New York. Special.?The recount ot ballots in ti'c ballot boxes used in c New York's mayoralty election eon- f test was ordered to be begun Friday by Justice Amend in the Supreme |( Court. |j The original order to open these five n boxes was granted a few days ago. |( Jutsice Amend, in ordering the recount n to begin, modified his original ordei so as to limit the canvassing to tin v candidates for mayor, eomj)trollei a and president of the board ~ alder- p, men. and also to eliminate from the |, recount the void and protested ballots. ri Counsel for W. K. Hearst, Mayor |, MeClellan and Assistantc Corporation p Counsel Butts engaged in a heated ar- fj gumrent before the boxes were opened, fi Alton B. Parker, for Mayor McCIel an, and Mr. Butts contended that the a court had .110 right to make a re-can- b vass of the votes or to reconsider tin h result, but could compel the election a inspectors correctly to state the result a tfcey reached on election night. "Von mean, then," said Austin G. Fox, for Mr. Hearst, "that you do not want the true votg ascertained, find ? that if a vote for Hearst has been u counted for MeClellan you don't want e, it known?" . y "I mean," retorted Mr. Butts, j, "that 1 want the true vote ascertain- t] cd according to law." y "And how may that be done?" in- f. quired JUr. rox. f; "By quo warranto proceedings," ^ was the rcplv. a "And such proceedings can only be fj undertaken after January," comment- 0, cd Mr. Fox. "I see." t( Mr. Parker disclosed.that the court ^ had no right to throw out any ballot t| which had been counted by the elec- f] tion inspectors. Justice Amend ruled c. that lie is estopped from questioning t, the validity of the ballot? and they t] must be counted as cast. The first ballot box was then opened by inspectors in the court room and the recount was begun, with the rep- A fesentatives of the newspapers occu- j w pying the seats intended for jury- tl men. v* The openeing of four ballot boxes tl and the recounting of the ballots was o finished Saturday nignt before Judge p Amend. The net results was a gain T of seventeen votes iu the four dis- p tricts for Hearst, and of these being tl gained in three districts. Henry M. Younge, of counsel for Mr. Hearst, said: "The results thus far have shown that the inspectors miscoufited the s' split ballots, to the gain of McClel- >' Ian and the loss of Mr. Hearst. If it ^ turns out in other districts as it has ' in those examined Mr. Heart is elected on the recount." " tl Mexico's Vice President. Mexico City, Special.?Vice Presi- P dent Corral continues gravely ill with w typhus fever. His physicians hope ? for the best and rely on his great u vitality. There is much public an'- t( iety regarding his condition. " Sultan's Proposals Not Accepted. London, By Cable.?A dispatch from Paris states that it is reported^ \ in Vwnrli 'mv.irmiicnt pivr-lp^ f'mi tVin powers, after examining the latest Turkish proposa'*, decided that they v are unsatisfactory and therefore the international fleet will not bo order- ' ed home. It is stated that unless the * Sultan completely backs down before j Monday the Islands of Lemnos and w Imbros will be seiezed. Perkins to Qnit N. Y. Life. New York, Special.?The Evening 1 Post says: 11 George W. Perkins, of o the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., will e retire from the vice-prcsidency of the C New York Life Insurance Compony, n snd from the chairmanship of its G finance committee, at the?eomin<f elect- i, ion next April. A friend of Mr. Per- w kins declared that this step has been taken at the suggestion of Mr. Morgan himself, and that the decision would n he 'formally announced very soon." ? ' V. , Strong Efforts to Bring Order Out of Chaos * RUSSIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZING 'resent Conditions Are Unbearable and Sympathy For the Poorly Paid Post and Telegraph Employes is Turning Into Indignation. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Alhough there appears to be no foundaion for the prevailing fears that an utbreak is imminent, the population ontinues in a state of anxious sus>ense. The garrison has now been re-enorced bv 42 battalions of infantry. 15 quadron of cavalry and 12 machine im batteries. The city is divided in0 four districts, under Generals Osar lT, Dubenski, Steiraa and Trodski, repectively. The government, it is reported, narowly frustrated a plot whereby a 1 ousand armed men had arranged to aid the State Treasury. One of the (inspirators, it is said, betrayed his (Hows, whereupon the leaders, knowing that their attack could be repulsd by the troops with great slaughter, baivjoned it. The existence of this onspiracy led to a report that marial law would be proclaimed, but this 5 autkoratively denied. The extension of the strike of the elegrapher^ tb the postal system is omplete and the paralysis of business > increasing the danger of a financial risis. The strike of the Moscow telephone perators, who cut the wires and tore ip the poles. Las severed the last leans of communication with the anient capital. ? The present conditions arc unbearble. Sympathy with the poorly paid ?st and telegraph employes is now urning into indignation against the trikers, and the public is supporting formaidable movement which has ecu started by all classes to throw If the j'okc of the revolutionaries. The government undoubtedly is cnouraging the organization of these orccs. The "Law and Order Party'" Dok the lead, and is now being fol>wed by the "Society of Strikereakers," but the most important lovement has been started under the ;adership of Father Gapon, the for* ler idol of the workmen, who since is residence abroad has become couinced that Russia is not prepared for rennhlir. nnrf is annealing to his old omrades to out loose from the revolt ionary agitators. The latter al eady charge that Father Gnpon lias een bought ami that lie is a traitor > the cause of the people. Father iapon, however, is sincere and his inuence undoubtedly is great. If this movement should grow an u effective split among the workmen e thereby created, it will prove o? liuieasurablc service to the goveunion t in tiding things over until the leeting of the Douma. Engine Smashes Street Car. Bristol. Va.. Special.?A switch enine of the Norfolk & Western Kailay colided with an east-bound street ur of the Bristol Belt Line Company n the State street crossing, demolishlg the car and seriously injuring iiree passengers. The injured are: liss Emma Campbell, cut about the nee; Clarence Reynolds, a nephew of !. J. Reynolds, the tobacconist, log adly crushed; James Bmcc. cut bout the face and head. There were ve other passengers on the car, who reaped injury. The accident is said > have been due to the approach of ivo engines from different directions, .e one coming from the South atracting the motorman's attention and ntciriir him tn ninvp llis'l'lir nil the rack unmindful of the engine from le north. Were Making Bombs. Geneva, Switzerland, By Cable.? . number of Russians were severely ounded by an explosion here while lev were preparing bombs in a priate residence. An investigation by ic authorities led to the discovery f a number of explosive, fraudulent assports and a secret printing press, wo of the men wounded in the exlosion were taken to a hospital but ie others succeeded in evading arrest. An Unexplained Tragedy. Harisburg, Pa., Special.?After looting Mrs. Mary Chatd, aged 42 ears in the neek with a revolver, bile on her way to a store near her ome, Roy C. McCurdy. aged 19 years atally shot himself. Mrs. Chard is lie wife of a freight conductor on lie Pennsylvania railroad, by which nrporation McCurdy was also cmloved. McCurdy was unconscious lien taken to the hospital and died ithont making a statement. The wolan was shot in the neek and was able i leave the hospital after she was iveu medical attention Died of Murderous Blow. New York, Special.-^Walter J. Jaris, of Charleston, S. C. died here rem a blow 011 the head. The police elieve that Jarvis was murdered. He as found alone and unconscious a eek ago. early in the morning, in his partinent, at 209 "West Twenty-First trcet. Jarvis never regained con[ ionsaess. Members ol" his family rom Charleston, were at his bedside hen the young man died. Sons of Veterans. Montgomery, Ala., Special.?Dr. 'liomast M. Owen, Commander in chief f the United States Sons of Confedrate Veterans, appointed Hugh Mcallam. of Jacksonville, Fla., a comlander of the division to succeed reorgc G. Mathews, who formerly ad the office. Another appointment as that of F. B. Hoof of Charlesawn, Vy Va., as commander of the Vest Vijpnia, division to succeed forun^fcvjandcr V. T. Churchman. THE "sm " *eW^% INTERNATIONAL L? FOR DECEA Subject: Preparation For Mai. III., 1-13?Golden V l-Metior* Vei eea, l-lO-t. on tba Daj'e Lemon. . I. The coming of the Messiab (*t'3)<j?w 1. "I." That, is. God. HMy messenger." The New Testament dearly shows that the messenger referred to here was John the Baptist. Our. MKH| bore witness to John (Luke 7:27). See ' also Matt 11:10; Mark 12, 3; Luke 1: 76. "Prepare the way before Me." That Is. before the Messiah. Messengers sent before the Eastern kings prepared the way for the chariots nnd armies of tneir monarchs. A "king's highway" had to be carried\JJl?OUgh the open land of the wilderut** leys filled up and hills leveled, winding* by-paths straightened, for the march of the great army. Interpreted In its spiritual application, the wilderness was the world lying in evil. John pretoared the way for Christ in a moral wiwerness by preachingrepentanceand showing the need of a Saviour. "The Lot, whom ye seek." The Messiah whom yk^ are expecting. "To His temple." Shan^^ soon be presented before the Lord in^| this temple.' He shall cleanse it from its defilement and fill it with His gtory. "Messenger of the covenant." He that comes to fulfill the great design in feference to the covenant made with Abraham, that in his seed all the families of the earth should be blessed. Christ was the "mediator of the new covenant" (Heb. 9:15) ?> the "better covenant." established upoi*. "bettczr^ promises" (Heb. S:IM3: 10:1G;. "Yede- ^ light in." They looked forward to His coming with pleasure. II. The mission and work of the, ,l Messiah (vs. 2-6). 2. "Who may ' J abide." Who will be able to endure A the testing of character His coming^ will produce? They dlfl not-understand the meaning of what they desired; just as many desire and hope.^ for heaven without realizing what theyfl must do to gain heaven. "Like a ret^H liner's fire." John toe Baptist sahftflH "His fan is in His hand;" "He ahaB V baptize you with fire." In the refiner's ~ fire is placed the ore, a mixture of good metal with rock and other mater- j lals, and the fire (1) separates the metal' ' from the dross, and (2) thus purifies the metal, but does not destroy it; but 13) it consumes the dross, or so separates it that it cast oue side a* refuse. "Like fuller's soap" (R. V.) Soap such as we have was not known / to the Hebrews, till long after Joro-, J miah's time, but they used ash. Iy?. 8 3. "Shall sit." etc. There is an allu- . I sion here to the refiner sitting before J his fire with his eye on the metal. He I kept it in the fjirnace until JTMpiew 1 the dross to be completely retaovetfTitf I seeing his own image r&Iccted (ItomTVJ 8:291. "Sons of Levi;" The priettf^: Hod's ministers. "Purge." Cleanse, purify. "May offer." etc. A tinner ^ ...nnnt i?lr? n/u>ontflh(? aMnrfM tft fllHl cauui/t ?*?r The Lord loves righteousness: He accepts ofily a holy heart and life (Rom. . 12:1). 4. "Be pleasant." The spirit of praise, obedience and helpfulness are like sweet incense before the Lord. (Heb. 13:15. 10). 5. "To Judgment^. To decide on your case and contfftM^H you if guilty. "Swift witneiSC'^N' Jr.g suddenly dnd unexpectedly. BM sorcerers." Users of witchcraft B9| alliance with spirits of evil; t) ^Hji of amulets, charms, etc:, w' HHI really substitutes for religion. SKI those that oppress.". Jhe " B ways in favor of the poor B oppression. "And f^ir not .ue.*" IB was the foundation cf all their wlv IB ness. (I. "I change uot." God 1 Hflfl His covenants with His people. BjH III. Admonitions and pron blessings (vs. 7-12). 7. "From HH| days," etc. All through their ,W I they had been given to backsiii HHfl "Relurn unto Me." Tnere was si |^^B chance to repeut. "Wherein."- ' IB did r.ot know how far from God H^B were. S. "Will a man rob Gt IB Sacrilege is the highest of crimes. B^B the most guilty are those cl^imln, HBB be God's people. "Ye'have." T IN^9 evil is not only the guilt of priests, ^HB of the whole nation. "Tithes." - IB Dcut. 18:4. "Offerings." The IB fruits?not less than, one-slstfe1 B of the corn, wine and oil. ^^B 9. "Ye are cursed." WJ BBB and scarcity.* God had th? them for neglecting to bu HSfl pie (Hag. 1:10, 11); now, for BB taining tbe temple service. 10: HH - ? ? daIiv |H| "tiroes* j&AJkt? guou juuj uu?. *?t with Nebemiah (Xeb. 1 fl "Into the storehouse." The cimc DB which surrounded the temple on BS sides. "May be meat" B may be provision for the daily a B dees, and for the maintenance c4 fl priests and Levi tea. "Prove |H| Take God at His word. "Winder heaven." A poetical, pcoverbio B pression, signifying a great down B ing (Gen. 7:11; 2 Kings 7:2). fl B you out." "Empty out," as if IB meant that He would empty ftirtb 9fl vast reservoir of blessings. J BBfl 11. "Will rebuke." Prevcn4 fl fl coming. "The devourer." The ' fl the tanker-worms, the calerpliJ fl B nil other destructive insects fl[^B your sakes." Because of My you, and for th? sake of your BM^9 ity. The derourer bod been 9 cause of tbeir sins, bat stayed as a reward for tbeir retun^9HB duty. 12. "All nations." etc. So gflBH will be your prosperity and bappi^^^H ijiat; the fame thereof will ekten99fl| all nations, as In Solomon's time .< ^^^9 people do in truth livjyin a-tfeljgh I land, a land of green pastures ai 9 waters, of debf- companionship 9 delightful skies. Blessed are19 pie wbo render lovingly to/Got 9 9 things that are His own. "Pef4i9H some land.". Your country trill again 9 be known as the pleasaut land, as it 9 was formerly called. ? Ajnjuao u{ unsay X-ruajl? ' SU|[JBP Xui SSU|S j?i*>?s UIJS aioo|s uj uu; jo uiooiqi? 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